Positioned as a central hub within the Korowa Anglican Girls’ School campus, the Wellbeing Centre signals a deliberate shift - beyond performance and fitness - toward a more holistic understanding of health, identity and connection. The building weaves together physical activity, social interaction, and emotional wellbeing across a suite of spaces: rooftop and indoor courts, dance and pilates studios, indoor pool, consulting suites, gym, café, and multipurpose zones.

Bound by the constraints of the tight suburban site and an inherited planning envelope, the centre navigates significant programmatic complexities while still connecting key destinations. Drawing from the existing Mid-Century-era built fabric of the surrounding campus, an orthogonal layout, and the arrangement of a ‘pavilion and path’ approach created a new cloistered space where landscape and built form are integrated.

To reduce the mass and scale of the volumes, materiality of the new forms balances the weight of robust elements amongst the more refined and lighter elements. A palette of terracotta, glazing and steel is used externally and internally, while warm tones are combined with incoming natural light to create a calm reset.  In an expression of well-being, sustainability is embedded throughout, with passive design initiatives of adaptive reuse, rainwater harvesting, solar control and natural ventilation. Expansive views to adjoining gardens from all internal spaces enhance well-being through biophilic principles, giving the new centre an identifiable character.