Adelaide Aquatic Centre Development
JPE Design Studio, Warren and Mahoney and Karl Winda Telfer have worked in collaboration to design the new Adelaide Aquatic Centre Development. Responsive to its unique environment, the design expresses place and presence of Country. The new centre will create experiences both inside and out with a focus on health and wellbeing, connecting communities and sustainability. Responding to stakeholder and community feedback and an understanding of place, the design is a result of a multi-disciplinary design process with DIT, ORSR, key stakeholders and the design team.
The new Adelaide Aquatic Centre will provide a contemporary and multi-purpose community offering with a range of programmes and services including new landscaped surrounds, a café, water play areas, waterslides, a lagoon pool and fitness facilities. New pools will cater for rehabilitation, lap swimming, club sports, entry level diving, school carnivals and learning to swim.
Due for completion in the Summer of 2025/26, the all-electric building will have a reduced environmental footprint including timber structure and water sensitive urban design. The language and story of water is expressed as a cultural narrative in the building form and public realm including the water play experiences and choice of materials that connect us to place.
Set within the National Heritage listed Adelaide Park Lands, the new centre is a building in the ground, embedded in the landscape. Our integrated co-design approach has resulted in the rejuvenation of public realm and the ecology, with connectivity to existing pedestrian pathways and active transport.
From drought-tolerant planting to playful public realms, the design celebrates a deep connection between people and place, enhancing community amenity and resource.
