Allan Border Oval Construction Update
Architect: Archer Office - Tomek Archer
Contractor: Reitsma Constructions Pty Ltd
Estimated construction completion: May 2024
Progress Photographs:
Progress completed this week:
- Completed sandblasting and sealing works to external concrete areas.
- Completed installation to toilet and shower partitions.
- Completed all painting works.
- Completed installation to timber ceiling battens.
- Completed cutting concrete for bottom tracks of sliding doors.
- Completed installation of pivot screen doors to the first floor.
- Completed installation of external timber veneer panels.
- On-going fit-off of electrical, hydraulic and mechanical trades.
- On-going installation of ground floor sliding door frames.
- On-going installation of internal joinery throughout.
- On-going installation of metalwork to changerooms.
- On-going installation of external light posts, bollards and tree up lights.
- On-going installation of tactiles and stair nosing.
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Tradition meets Innovation - Evolution of the Allan Border Pavilion
The new building consolidates multiple requirements into a single, shared community facility that addresses both the traditional built context and the technical requirements for a contemporary sporting venue. An analysis of historic and contemporary precedents showed that similar facilities were often served by two separate building types, being a grandstand and a club house respectively. The proposal combines these two sections into a hybrid type, unified beneath a singular roof.
The new building is the fourth pavilion on this site and references the pitched roof form of previous pavilions. In order to create a pitched roof, while meeting contemporary expectations for column-free views to the field, this innovative roof design is supported from the centre like an umbrella. Carefully coordinated gutters and downpipes collect the water around the roof perimeter and guide it back into rainwater tanks beneath the building, to be used for irrigation and flushing toilets.
In this way, a traditional presence is delivered through technical innovation, to create an open and inclusive communal umbrella for the park, beneath which all the various community functions play out.
- Tomek Archer
