RFI - Attachment 3 - Proposal Plans Performing Arts Centre (2) · MCU23/0096

These projects include;
-   The Southport School – Annand Theatre
-   St. Hilda’s School – Granowski Building
-   St. Andrews Lutheran College – Ruth Butler Theatre & Senior Block
-   A.B. Paterson College – Centre for Positive Education, Leadership and Health
-   Saint Stephen’s College – Centre of Music Excellence
-   All Saints Anglican School – Nairn Theatre
-   Sheldon College – Sheldon Event Centre


We have worked closely with the College to scrutinise the typical brief of a Performing Arts building to create
the most efficient, flexible and minimal floor plate for a typically extremely specialised and rigid building
function. This is evident by using retractable seating and no raised stage on the First Floor to save on size
and height of a fixed auditorium. Every internal space has been examined to ensure their floor area and use
are essential to the overall function of the building to minimise the total floor area of the building as much as
possible.


In adjudication, it is considered the scale and floor area of the proposed building is modest in relation to
comparative and typical Performing Arts buildings within a college environment. Furthermore, additional
landscaping and external treatment has been included to visually hide the building from Walter Hay Drive
and Eumundi Noosa Road.




ISSUE _ BUILDING BULK
We advise the design of the building has been amended to comply with Acceptable Outcome AO18.2 of the
Communities Facilities Zone Code so no walls are greater that 30 metres in one plane. This is reflected on
the updated architectural package as part of this response to Noosa Council’s Information Request.


In response to Acceptable Outcome AO7.1 of the Noosaville Local Plan Code, as previously noted and
highlighted in Appendix A, due to the extremely specialised use and design brief associated with a state-of-
the-art college based performing arts building, it is necessary nor uncommon to locate all associated facilities
together in a singular building. Small separate buildings as suggested in the Information Request is deemed
unviable practically, functionally, and financially. To address this item, the design and external aesthetic of
the proposed building form has considered the future desired character of the area and been articulated to
represent multiple contrasting shells stacked adjacent and on top of one another. This is illustrated through
contrasting material palettes and construction methodology between the ground floor and first floor as well
as the western and eastern wings. The external texturing and treatments help break up the length of the
longitudinal facades to suggest an ideology of small separate buildings in a singular mass.


Furthermore, the building has been designed and sited to have the end facing Walter Hay Drive meaning
the longitudinal sides are generally internal to the existing campus and not externally visible. With the
assistance of existing buildings on campus, including the Sports Hall, along with existing and additional
landscaping, any suggestion of a large bulky building dominating the street, surrounding spaces, or existing
skyline is unfounded.


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