THE OASIS TOWNSVILLE

OONOONBA, TOWNSVILLE 2021

AIA AWARDS 2022

North Queensland Regional Commendation
North Queensland Regional Project of the Year
Queensland State Commendation

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Project completed in collaboration with phorm architecture + design

Approximately 500 people each year decommission from the Australian Defence Force and re-enter civilian life within Townsville. The ambition for The Oasis Townsville is to address the transitional ‘middle ground’, between a life in the Services and integration into the broader community, by providing facilities and affording connections to support programs and to one another; a home base for the Veteran Community.

The Oasis has been conceived as a porous Campus. The focus has been upon the creation of a low-stress environment, with latent capacity, to support a broad range of public and private interactions. The project draws upon the potency of the dry tropical landscape and interstitial spaces to provide impromptu opportunities to voice vulnerability.

Townsville is a Garrison City; the palimpsests of WWII and the military are found embedded throughout its fabric. Thearchitecture at The Oasis operates as an artifice which encodes this local knowledge.

Photography by Andrew Rankin