The healing amphitheatre weaves Indigenous garden beds throughout its stepped form, restoring local ecosystems while offering a calming, nature-immersed space for cultural gathering, reflection, storytelling, and community healing.
The Gadigal-facing façade features a permeable skin and operable shutters that open the building to light, air, and landscape, creating a dynamic, responsive connection with Country and community.
The Turpentine Forest yarning circles reintroduce endangered turpentine trees while offering a protected, peaceful gathering space that nurtures cultural exchange, community connection, and restorative engagement with the surrounding landscape.
The building is shaped by its surrounding landscape, with three key green spaces dissolving boundaries and removing hierarchy between built form and nature, creating a unified, interconnected environment grounded in Country.
The Maze Crescent South entrance welcomes visitors with an overarching, sun-diffusing roof that softens light and creates a comfortable, shaded threshold ideal for community gathering, meeting, and culturally grounded arrival.
The exhibition space layers skylights and a louvred roof to gently diffuse sunlight, creating a calm atmosphere that protects the artworks, allowing them to be displayed with clarity and care.