Mernda Regional Sports Precinct
Traditional Owner Engagement, Historical and Cultural Mapping
Greenshoot is currently working with Cox Architecture to provide Traditional Owner Engagement services to embed Indigenous culture and stories into their designs for the precinct.
Completion / 2025
Client / City of Whittlesea
Lead Architect / Cox Architecture
Traditional Owners / Wurundjeri
The Regional Sports Precinct in Mernda will help improve the quality of life among the region’s residents by providing a place where people of all backgrounds, ages and abilities can participate. Stage 2 of the project provides for four indoor multipurpose courts and up to eight outdoor netball courts. It also includes car parking, landscaping, wetlands development and the installation of associated supporting infrastructure at the site. Future stages will include aquatic and leisure facilities.
Our engagement with Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Traditional Owners has identified several design opportunities such as the wavy design of the canopy which is representative of a folded gum leaf. Materiality within the canopy represents the colours and textures of Country.
The entrance has site lines towards the two significant red gums in the landscape which will be protected during construction and incorporated into a central landscaped walkway that connects the two sports centers.
The Sports Precinct aims to provide significant health and wellbeing benefits to the broader community in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, providing services and access to a wide range of people of different age, abilities and backgrounds.