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CREEC Sustainable Retrofit Design Challenge

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The City of Canning partnered with Curtin University School of Built Environment to engage design students to participate in the CREEC Sustainable Retrofit Design Challenge over an academic semester (Semester 1, 2021).

Why does this project exist?

CREEC previously received financial support from the Department of Education, however external funding ceased in 2019 and consequently, the City needs to reinvent CREEC to address its long-term financial sustainability.

This brings with it many exciting opportunities to re-evaluate the purpose and regional influence of the Centre, aligning it with the City’s review of the Sustainability Policy and Learning City Strategy, and to increase the Centre’s activation by a variety of user groups.

As a result, the City of Canning is seeking to retrofit the Centre with a view to becoming a Regional Sustainability Hub; promoting best practice community and local government sustainability, circular economy and impact management practices, facilitating community learning across the varied sustainability disciplines, and enhancing the Centre’s broader community engagement potential.

What is the Vision for CREEC?

"The Canning River Eco Education Centre will be transformed from a small education and community centre into a regional sustainability learning hub, providing multi-purpose learning and event spaced for the City, the region and the wider community, and demonstrating best practice sustainable design."

What is the aim of this project?

This Design Challenge will help define the future of CREEC. The Challenge presents an opportunity for final year architecture students from Curtin University to undertake a creative re-imagining of CREEC as it moves into a cycle of renewal, to unlock its potential as a sustainability learning space of the future while further embedding its place within and linking it to the surrounding landscape. The Challenge sought ideas from talented architects to redefine the way the broader community interacts with CREEC and the variety of uses and opportunities it might hold for our community and our neighbouring local governments.

What we need from you?

As one of CREEC's main users of the Centre you have been invited to review the submissions from the design challenge and select your top 3 projects in order of preference. This will be used to determine the People's Choice Award.

Moving forward...

The City will be presenting 4 awards from the submissions:

  • Most Inspiring Design
  • Most Deliverable Design Award
  • Most Sustainable Design Award
  • The People's Choice Award

It is not the City's intention to use a project submitted as part of this challenge to redevelop CREEC but rather to inspire the City's redesign with the potential to incorporate elements from the submissions and/or collaborate with students.

The City of Canning partnered with Curtin University School of Built Environment to engage design students to participate in the CREEC Sustainable Retrofit Design Challenge over an academic semester (Semester 1, 2021).

Why does this project exist?

CREEC previously received financial support from the Department of Education, however external funding ceased in 2019 and consequently, the City needs to reinvent CREEC to address its long-term financial sustainability.

This brings with it many exciting opportunities to re-evaluate the purpose and regional influence of the Centre, aligning it with the City’s review of the Sustainability Policy and Learning City Strategy, and to increase the Centre’s activation by a variety of user groups.

As a result, the City of Canning is seeking to retrofit the Centre with a view to becoming a Regional Sustainability Hub; promoting best practice community and local government sustainability, circular economy and impact management practices, facilitating community learning across the varied sustainability disciplines, and enhancing the Centre’s broader community engagement potential.

What is the Vision for CREEC?

"The Canning River Eco Education Centre will be transformed from a small education and community centre into a regional sustainability learning hub, providing multi-purpose learning and event spaced for the City, the region and the wider community, and demonstrating best practice sustainable design."

What is the aim of this project?

This Design Challenge will help define the future of CREEC. The Challenge presents an opportunity for final year architecture students from Curtin University to undertake a creative re-imagining of CREEC as it moves into a cycle of renewal, to unlock its potential as a sustainability learning space of the future while further embedding its place within and linking it to the surrounding landscape. The Challenge sought ideas from talented architects to redefine the way the broader community interacts with CREEC and the variety of uses and opportunities it might hold for our community and our neighbouring local governments.

What we need from you?

As one of CREEC's main users of the Centre you have been invited to review the submissions from the design challenge and select your top 3 projects in order of preference. This will be used to determine the People's Choice Award.

Moving forward...

The City will be presenting 4 awards from the submissions:

  • Most Inspiring Design
  • Most Deliverable Design Award
  • Most Sustainable Design Award
  • The People's Choice Award

It is not the City's intention to use a project submitted as part of this challenge to redevelop CREEC but rather to inspire the City's redesign with the potential to incorporate elements from the submissions and/or collaborate with students.

  • CLOSED: This survey has concluded.

    People's Choice Award

    To determine the People's Choice Award please choose your top 3 projects and rank in them in order of preference.

    Please consider the following criteria when voting:

    • Sustainability (40%): An evaluation of the retrofit design set within its environmental and regional context and how well it incorporates features and systems that integrate and demonstrate proven high-performance sustainability interventions and creative approaches to space / site constraints and user requirements. Clear documentation showing the sustainability interventions, including materials application and circular economy / adaptive reuse principles.
    • Deliverability (30%): The degree to which the retrofit design is determined to be 'realistic and deliverable', from the City of Canning’s perspective. Clear documentation of the analyses used to demonstrate the performance of embedded sustainable technologies. Clear documentation to demonstrate the building design principles and best practice guidelines used in the retrofit design. 
    • Inspiration (30%): The degree to which the design inspires the viewer and clearly demonstrates the transformation from small, local school based education centre, to regional sustainability, circularity and impact management hub. Clear documentation showing the potential use of space for various user types and functions. Use of inspirational design to frame the development of the Centre as a 21st Century lifelong learning hub for inspiring students of all ages.


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