ACT ESA Outdoor Training Centre

  • Role: Architectural Assistant
    Architect: HBO+EMTB
    Client: ACT Emergency Services Agency
    Photography: Ben Wrigley
    Location: Ngunnawal Country, Hume, ACT, Australia
    Duration: 2009 - 2010

  • Shortlist, Public Architecture, Australian Institute of Architects ACT Architecture Awards 2012

Located on a greenfield site, the ACT ESA Outdoor Training Centre is a purpose-built facility dedicated to the training of its emergency services agencies (Fire Brigate, Ambulance, Roral Fire Services, and the SES).

This facility is made up of numerous elements that are formally restrained within an elemental design envelope.

Made out of pragmatic materials these elements include an adminstration and teaching building, vertical rescue tower, training building hot house, training house, provisions for storage, as well as a drill yard and stand down areas.