The Bowden Centre is an award winning educational and multipurpose resource building at Mt Annan Botanic Garden, Sydney NSW.
The brief for the project was to provide a unique multi-function facility that demonstrates high standards of ecological sustainability within a very modest budget. This was achieved by:
- the careful siting of the building
- recycling the steel structure and aluminium windows from the earlier building
- use of low maintenance materials
- thermal management of the building via a ground-coupled, water based air conditioning system
- plywood clad, vertical wall openings (windoors) as alternatives to glazed windows
The thermal performance of the building presented a unique challenge more
