ASRC DANDENONG SERVICES HUB_
Project Information
CLIENT Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
- YEAR 2019-2022
- BUDGET Pro-Bono Services
- STATUS Constructed
- TYPE Community Services Facility
- LOCATION Dandenong, Victoria
- AWARDS Australian Design Review IDEA Award – Community Services – 2023
Credits Design Team
Architects and Project Leads
- Bates Smart & Garner Davis Architects
Consultants
Ratio (Planning Consultant)
- Architecture and Access (Access Consultant)
- Philip Chun (Building Surveyor)
- Irwin Consult (now WSP) (Structural, Civil & Services)
- WT Partners (Quantity Surveyor)
- Aglo (Lighting)
- Intrax Consulting Engineers (Land Surveyor)
- FPOV (Lighting/Audio Visual)
- GreenCap (Hazardous Materials)
- SCL (Specification Writers)
- Ash Keating (Artist)
- Cemintel (Construction Materials)
- Zoran Konjarski (Graphic Design)
Enlocus were engaged by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre to provide pro-bono landscape architectural services for their critical new, large-scale Dandenong Services Hub. The design reclaims approximately 50% of ...
Enlocus were engaged by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre to provide pro-bono landscape architectural services for their critical new, large-scale Dandenong Services Hub. The design reclaims approximately 50% of the existing carpark to construct a terraced outdoor social area. ‘The Garden’ enables the essential delivery of place-based holistic services and creates a gathering place which can accommodate activities and events. With the facility’s Food Bank in mind, an edible garden with herb varieties originating from locations as such as Syria has been developed, for incorporation in meals prepared by staff and volunteers. The key feature of the centre’s landscape design is its “story tree” – symbolic of community resilience, rejuvenation, rebirth, regeneration and identity. It also serves as a symbol of the growth of the ASRC since its inception in 2001, and its ongoing importance in providing vital services to those in need.