Pasadena Community Centre, SA, 2025

The Pasadena Community Centre is a revitalisation of an existing Scout Hall (circa 1967) within the City of Mitcham. The project is a cornerstone in the council’s community development plans and is located adjoining a significant causeway reserve that links through the region along one of the city’s major storm water easements. Linking people and community along a green spine.

With Regenerative Design principles at its core the project scope includes retaining and restoration of the existing Scout Hall building fabric including the iconic precast concrete panels and port hole windows, jarrah floorboards to the main hall, reuse of open web steel roof trusses and renewal of dull blockwork store rooms to become open light activity rooms.

 The addition of the stand-alone restroom wing including dedicated changing places flanks the main hall and creates a timbered colonnade entrance for sheltered gathering and place for pause. This public interface softens and engages with community and is accompanied by endemic landscape design that integrates along the external walkways and external spaces

Reimagined roof forms allow for natural daylighting of spaces and operable door and window systems allow the building to breathe with cross ventilation throughout. Rainwater tanks capture and retain precious resources for use within and to community gardens. A PV array further contributes to considered operational energy use.