Ewen Park Outdoor Learning Centre | Sam Crawford Architects

The Ewen Park Outdoor Learning Centre delivers a vibrant place for meeting, promotion of place, and environmental awareness.

Canterbury Bankstown Council’s brief required a simple yet dynamic shelter to provide the community of Hurlstone Park with a flexible use outdoor learning centre.

Referenced in the design is an appreciation of the history, hydrology, and ecology of the site; from strategic site planning initiatives through to the design details. Country centred design principles underpin the project.

The Outdoor Learning Centre is expressed as a pavilion with expansive roof that provides shelter to the central gathering space, as well as providing peripheral shade.

The playful edges of both the shelter and landscape afford flexibility in use, breadth of scope for inclusion of public art, and carefully integrate with adjacent developments in a manner that affords equitable use of the site and surrounds, with framed views and vistas of the Cooks River and park beyond.