Truganina Community Centre | Jasmax (Canvas Projects)

Situated in Melbourne’s western growth front, the Truganina Community Centre represents a new model for community hubs. The facility provides this fledgling community with informal access to books and programs, responding to this community’s expressed desire for cultural literacy, competency and inclusivity. The sequence of open library lounges annexing the central spine, facilitate programs and access to focused library collection, while also providing unprogrammed gathering spaces for this community, responding to the diversity of their individual needs but also connected to encourage their shared use.

Seeking balance between the physical and cultural context of this site, the building adopts the material language of the surrounding housing estate while embracing a formal language and material formatting that looks beyond the singular representation of the estate. The textiles of this diverse multicultural community echoed in format and patterning of wall, floor and ceiling finishes and celebrated in the integrated art commissions.