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Embracing community, relations, acceptance and engagement for the future

Relevance
Community focused design response
Collaborative briefing and engagement with community groups
Cost effective and exciting design that unites the community

This design promotes the sustainability of the Keilor East and Airport west communities. The building form embraces an existing Red gum, around which is formed a public plaza that beckons to the community in a gesture of engagement and welcome.

This design proposes a contemporary vision for the Church in the Community.
Large “windows to the world” showcase the activities within, opening up the building to be welcoming and engaging with its community.

A humble budget has been skilfully pushed to create a stunning community building. The use of one material gives the modest building a more significant stature befitting a public building.
Internally a range of flexible meeting spaces are arranged around a central gathering space, itself serviced by a gourmet kitchen.

Cars are discretely concealed to the rear of the building, from where another main entrance is found. In this way, this building has no back door, but several fronts on each side to promote engagement. The intention is to create a building that is a seamless part of its community; a building that people wish to interact with and be involved with. In doing so, the structure promotes the growth and connection of the congregation with their community.

Location Keilor, Victoria

Services Full Design, documentation and delivery.

Client Uniting Church in Australia, SYNOD of Victoria and Tasmania

Project Cost $1.6M

Photographer: John Best

Katz Architecture
Uniting Church Airport West
Uniting Church Airport West
Uniting Church Airport West
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About the
Professional

Katz Architecture is a people focused practice, motivated by the needs of our client and seeing these resolved in a functional and poetic response to each specific site.  Our simple desire is:

Enriching Spaces – Enriching lives

Founded on strong community experience, we desire to give back to communities through design and delivery. Under this mandate, Katz Architecture has grown to complete projects in a broad range of sectors including:

  • Civic and public
  • Education
  • Commercial
  • Interiors
  • Heritage and Repurposing
  • Residential
  • Industrial
  • Masterplanning

Katz Architecture embraces cutting edge technology and is running state of the art BIM (Building Information Modelling) systems on all projects. Such systems help us to design, illustrate, coordinate and deliver the highest level of professional service.

Our Approach

We start by looking forward.
We listen, collaborate, question and explore.
We examine detail, investigate opportunities and firm up solutions.
Our goal is to design spaces with value and purpose.

Create

Balancing budget with brief, we leverage our knowledge and understanding of our client’s objectives to design enriched buildings that deliver real value.

Experience

We’re there for our clients throughout the project journey, ensuring details are followed through from inception to delivery.