Date: 2024
Location: Yuendumu, NT
Technical Skills:
Revit
Unreal Engine
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Indesign
The brief was to design a Cultural Centre in Yuendumu, Northern Territory that would house the reclaimed cultural artefacts of the Warlpiri First Nations People and the Yuendumu Doors. The design needed to incorporate a separate superstructure and consider the desert context as well as the cultural context of the Warlpiri People. A construction level documentation set was to be developed alongside atmospheric renders.
The concept for the project centred around the Ngurra- Kurlu - the five pillars of Warlpiri culture: land, lore, ceremony, language and family/kin, all given meaning and understanding through their connection to one another.
This has been expressed in plan, with 4 circular buildings, loosely representing the pillars of kin, language, lore and land all arranged around a central outdoor ceremony space. The connection has been emphasised through architectural features such as circular pathways and a singular roof superstructure. The centralised programming design is also ideal in a desert environment with placement of the building structures assisting in sheltering from the prevailing easterly winds.
