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St Catherine’s School has engaged Croxon Ramsay to building on the success of the Senior School projects and design and document a new Junior School Facility. The design has been governed by the requirement to construct a new building around the existing building while it remains in occupation. Extensive consultation has focused upon creating a new types of teaching spaces to allow the school to broaden it’s offerings and create a higher level of transparency and connection within.The new building will become a key part of the campus by completing St Catherine’s Walk (the main north south circulation path) and by creating a new entry focus to the north end of the campus. The works also include extensive landscaping to create a new internal courtyard, viewing terraces and undercroft external areas.

Croxon Ramsay were the lead Consultant on this project and provided full design, contract documentation and contract administration services. The Elstenwick Sports and Community Facility is a new sporting community facility for Bayside City Council. The building is designed to create a multi-purpose and flexible 2 storey sporting and community facility,  with gender neutral changerooms and suppport spaces on the ground floor and VAFA Administration and Community Rooms on the first floor. The key stakeholders were; Sport & Recreation Victoria, State Government, Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), AFL, AFL Victoria and Old Melbournians Football Club. Croxon Ramsay worked closely with Bayside City Council and the Key Stakeholders to ensure the needs of all parties were met.

Croxon Ramsay were the lead Consultant on this project and provided full design, contract documentation and contract administration services. The Banksia Reserve Sports and Community Facility is a new sporting community facility for Bayside City Council. The project addresses the need for the growth of sport within the area, to meet the requirements of the community and assisting in building a stronger, more cohesive and sustainable local sporting community. The project created an exciting opportunity to create a multi-purpose facility that houses football, cricket and tennis clubs and provide greater access for the community, with new social and meeting spaces and spectators areas. With the growing number of members and the existing pavilions not meeting the needs of the club and limiting participation, the new building includes changerooms, umpires rooms, first aid, kiosk and an upper level kitchen, social and meeting spaces. The new facility also resolves current issues with the existing buildings, including disjointed club facilities, undersized changerooms, limiting participation through inadequate DDA access and social and financial viability.

Croxon Ramsay have been working closely with Wyndham City Council on the strategies for the Enhanced Neighbourhood Hubs (ENH). The vision for the ENH is to  redevelop existing community centres in the municipality to create integrated community hubs, by bringing the services to the community. This includes Customer Service, Planning and Building Services, Kindergarten, Maternal and Child Health, Libraries and community programs.

Point Cook Community Centre is one of Wyndham’s busiest centres. The community is heavily invested in education and life long learning. The Centre was redeveloped to create expanded library services, new group and program spaces, maternal and child health and family services and integrated external spaces.

The project comprises a new 50 meter pool and Learn to Swim pool, with surrounding seating for spectators. In addition new spaces have been created for a weights gym, dance studio, classrooms and administration. There are new wet and dry change facilities to support these activities.

An important aspect was the integration of the new building with the existing buildings. Masterplanning was undertaken to ensure links and connections were created within the campus

Catherine works closely with clients throughout the design process from inception through to delivery. With an innate ability to match the complexities of Client requirements with design innovation, Catherine adds immense value to every project.
A strong interest in sustainable outcomes for the built environment is integral to Catherine’s practice of architecture and informs her design decisions. Catherine has been the design architect for numerous community and public buildings.

As a Senior Architect, Meena provides dedicated support to the Directors at Croxon Ramsay. She is the Project Architect for both Hume Global Learning Centre and Point Cook Enhanced Neighbourhood Hub projects.

Meena has over 10 years architectural experience in Melbourne ranging from community, educational and government projects to larger scale projects in the commercial realm.

Kim is a dedicated team member with good communication skills, with an eye for detail in project documentation and a philosophy of producing common sense outcomes using a pragmatic approach to design without loosing the ‘bigger picture ideas’ at the concept stage and throughout to construction.

Ilana is currently completing her Masters Degree in Architecture. She is an integral part of the team, assisting the Directors and Senior Staff with projects.

Saltwater Community Centre was written up in The Age over the weekend.  http://www.theage.com.au/business/property/community-centre-rises-from-the-point-cook-plains-20170329-gv9ljd.html