The Lovegrove Sports Pavilion in Pinjarra is a new multi-purpose building for use by local sporting clubs and community groups in the Shire of Murray. The pavilion is located on the site of the old Pinjarra tennis courts and provides a new home for the Pinjarra Cricket and Hockey clubs.

The pavilion includes a function room, semi-commercial kitchen, bar, meeting room, two gender neutral change rooms, umpire's room, general toilets and storage. The colour palette for the building was designed to be a modern take on the colours and character of the heritage buildings located in the Pinjarra town centre being primarily red brick, red roof tiles and white cladding.

Early in the 1990s the Shire of Capel and the Gelorup VBB erected a $12,000 standard basic shed on Shire land to house their fire fighting vehicles and equipment. The shed was only accessible from one end so appliances had to be reverse parked. This remained in place until last year when funding was obtained for its replacement by a new facility designed to conform to current DFES guidelines.

The new 363m2 building comprises of an insulated and naturally ventilated 2 bay drive-through appliance shed suitable for new vehicles sizes, coupled to a framed, FC clad accessible building housing volunteer facilities and amenities which include a training room, communications room, office, individual tunic rooms adjacent to accessible toilets and showers, and a generous, fully capable kitchen serving into the training area as well as to an undercover outdoor area. Siteworks include a new driveway and new rear parking while upgrading street side parking.

Photographs by Kai Ridley

IN PROGRESS

H+H were engaged to undertake the design to relocate the Pitman & Walsh Memorial to a new location in Kalgoorlie. The memorial commemorates the tragic deaths of Sergeant Alexander Pitman and Inspector John Walsh, in April 1926.

A traversable loop through existing bushland reveals the story on a series of curated interpretive panels. Visitors are encouraged to walk the loop, passing a Field of Remembrance, planted with everlastings, commemorating Police who have fallen in the line of duty. At the end of the loop, custom shelters offer shaded seating.

The project involved collaboration with Norton Gold Fields, the WA Police Historical Society, and the families of Broadarrow Tommy and Cordi Sambo, two Aboriginal trackers who were instrumental in the discovery of the missing men. The Memorial offers authentic stories of the fateful event as well as insight into what life was like in Kalgoorlie during the heart of the Gold Rush era.

H+H Architects were engaged to create an accessible, light filled and inviting electorate office that improves street presence and staff security. With a restrained budget and narrow frontage, we focused on street appeal and creating an accessible public entry with flexible meeting room. The meeting room can be used and hired for public or staff use, having two door access off the reception and staff area.

An art mural featuring Wellington Dam under night sky highlights this window frontage and provides internal privacy. A custom designed, secure window display houses rotating memorabilia and local items with a new TV display screen providing local event updates. Full height partition glazing provides maximum natural light penetration from the front to back offices and provides passive visual surveillance throughout. A simple colour palette of creates a light and contemporary office space.

The Shire of Plantagenet undertook a feasibility study to assess the opportunities for significant refurbishments to the existing Mount Barker Pool site. Extensive community consultation, masterplanning and cost studies were carried out, and H+H Architects were engaged to provide a staged design for the site, with Stage 1 including new entry, changerooms, bathrooms, club room and associated amenities. The building is designed to be functional and durable, and provide a recreation facility for the growing community.

Future stages may include extensive upgrades to the pool plant systems, a new toddler pool, and potential extensions to the existing building with more community facilities.

As the first significant purpose-designed facility in Bush Heritage Australia's nearly 25 year history, the Michael Tichbon Field Station is a unique research facility located in the heart of the FitzStirling region. Users describe the place as a 'five-star bush camp', a complex of architect-designed sheds that were inspired by the modest old caravan that previously acted as the base of operations on this site.  The Field Station provides a base for scientists and researchers undertaking operations on the various Bush Heritage properties in the Stirling and Fitzgerald regions, and represents an expansion of their ongoing involvement with the Gondwana Link project.

The facility is entirely off-grid, with solar power backed by onsite storage and back-up generator, rainwater collection and storage, composting toilets and greywater leachate field. The buildings have been designed with prefabricated modular systems in mind, allowing for some off-site manufacture to address the relatively remote site location. The architecture takes many of its cues from the surrounding landscape, with the buildings located in a natural clearing allowing long views towards Monjebup Creek. The distinctive verandah columns were inspired by the multi-stemmed mallee form of the local Red Moort trees, forming a welcome canopy across the verandah's that front each of the building, whilst the dramatic beaked form of the central gable roof marks the location of the central gathering space and camp kitchen that forms the heart of the facility.  

The Juniper Beryl Grant community centre is the first stage of a large development in Lockyer in Albany by Juniper. The building is a flexible and contemporary facility with a Cafe, function space, offices, workshop, and space for various community events and activities. The feature curved timber ceiling in the function room provides exceptional acoustic qualities, along with adding warmth and visual interest to the space. Part of the client brief was to create a pedestrian promenade along the front of the building with a domestic scale feel, that will link into future projects on the site. The building features a number of sustainable design principles including skylights and water tanks, and low maintenance landscaping and materials. 

Photos by Lee Griffith Photography

This new Sporting facility was required to be a multi-purpose hub for the local community of the Shire of Broomehill Tambellup. It comprises of a semi-commercial Kitchen, Bar, Cool Room, Hall, Meeting Room, Office, Change Rooms, several outdoor seating areas and a Bowling Green.

The success of this project is derived from both it’s function and it’s form. The building is designed so that different user groups can occupy the the various internal and external spaces of the facility simultaneously. The building is orientated to the north and is characterised by skillion roof forms and a striking colour palatte. Internally the use of inlaid timber to the ceiling and front of the bar and subtle material and colour choices pair the building back to create a clean and contemporary appearance.

This project involved the alterations and additions to the existing sports club, to create a larger bar area, new kitchen, and new verandah to the existing building.

This new Day Care Centre is a bright and light-filled facility that will service the local community of Kojonup. Focusing on the northern orientation, highlight windows on the north facade capture the sunlight, and enhance the volume of the main play area.

The layout of the building ensures maximised supervision from each adjoining room into the expansive internal and external play spaces. 

With bold and vibrant colours, this new kid-friendly design will provide a fun and interesting learning environment for children. 

H+H Architects have been appointed by the Shire of Ravensthorpe to undertake the redevelopment of the Hopetoun Community Centre. The new building provides a flexible facility that can serve the whole community for a variety of uses.

The building features natural materials, is low maintenance, and uses best practice environmental design. 

The Cranbrook Recreation Facility provides an exciting and flexible focus for community activities within the Shire. The design addresses the changing requirements within rural communities. It balances the sporting needs with the social activities and underpins the resurgence of this small country town.

The Ticket Boxes provide a colourful focus for charter boat operations within the new Albany Marina. The design references the historic small commercial timber frame buildings which occupied the waterfront in the early 19th century. The vibrant colours are reminiscent of the Victorian beach huts or changing rooms.

The Plantagenet Shire Offices were designed as part of the revitalisation of the town centre, and provide an energy efficient community focus in Mount Barker.  Planning solutions separate the public and executive chambers from the daily operations of the Shire, as well as providing an Emergency Operations Centre for major events and bush fires. 

H+H Architects have been involved with a number of projects in the Tjuntjunjara remote community, including the planning for a new Home and Community Care Facility, and the design and documentation of several minor additions to existing facilities. 

The design incorporates a boardwalk stretching from the Museum's Residency Building over the water of the Amity Precinct and references the original water line. It is symbolic of the journey many migrants made when they disembarked in Albany with the boardwalk including timbers from the original Town Jetty. Coloured banding on the top of each wall provide a link to the funnel colours of the passenger steamship lines that were prevalent during the peak period of immigration through the Albany port.

The Albany Waterfront Interpretation project is focussed on the site of the former Albany Town Jetty and adjacent foreshore. The Jetty was demolished as part of the development. Our vision was to create a project with a strong community focus and ownership and one that utilised elements from the demolition of the old jetty.  To achieve this aim, in consultation with LandCorp we purposely set about assembling a team of mostly Great Southern consultants, artists and artisans that encompassed a wide range of creative skills.

The new Anglicare offices are situated adjacent to the historic St John’s Church and Rectory in the centre of Albany. The new building, designed within a very tight budget, blends modern environmental sustainability into the heritage precinct and replaces Anglicare's current cramped premises at the rear of York Street, Albany.  The building was completed in August 2010.