Paramount Recreation Club (PRC) in Sydney is a place for rooftop fitness, food, and drinks.
PRC is a pavilion; open rooms connected via smaller intimate spaces for physical, mental, and social wellbeing.
The space offers hotel guests, building occupants, and the community a place to workout, hangout, or both.
Multiple attempts by previous designers failed to achieve development approval for the site.
The success of the Herbert & Mason design is understood by the vision to create a unique recreation and social space.
They envisioned a space that contributed to the overall purpose of the building and its occupants.
Herbert & Mason sought to genuinely create a new model for spaces of wellbeing and social gathering – a purposeful place that embraces context, the working community, and local residents.
The Herbert & Mason design includes the addition of a new open air pavilion which can be used as either one large space or two medium and one small space (multifunction space) by the incorporation of operable walls and screens.
An existing workers cottage has been adapted to create the reception area, nutrition centre, and consultation rooms.
Washrooms/multiuse end of trip facilities are provided by the inclusion of a new crystalline glass enclosure to the west of the site with natural ventilation and green screens to create privacy.
The space operates as a new form of health club for the public and adjacent boutique hotel.
When not operating as a recreation club, the spaces are used as either function and event spaces, an open air market (on weekends), open air deck and steam room for hotel patrons, break out space for office workers (on lower floors) and open-air cinema in the evening.
The atmosphere is bright and light.
The space was conceived in shades of blue, white, and green to enhance the sense of being amidst the treetops and amongst the clouds.
Materials were detailed by Herbert & Mason to float or disappear.
Metalwork, loose furniture, umbrellas, and FFE were custom designed and made specific to the project to enhance this quality and maximise storage.
All furniture is removable and demountable to support the multi-functional use of the space.
Project Details
Completion Date – 2018
Building Levels – 1
Project Team
Architecture
Herbert & Mason
Photography
Tomas Friml
Tomas is a Melbourne-based commercial photographer specialising in architecture and interiors.
Terence Chin
Terence is a commercial photographer covering architecture, interiors, travel, and portrait photography.
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Design © 2020 Herbert & Mason. All Rights Reserved.| Images © 2020 Tomas Friml and Terence Chin. All Rights Reserved.
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