MONTEREY LIFESTYLE COMMUNITY HUB

Webber Architects initially undertook the task of peer reviewing the DA-approved community building and associated recreational facilities for a new retirement option catering to individuals over 55 years old in Port Macquarie-Hastings’ Local Government area. The client’s objectives encompassed envisioning a versatile and adaptable community center, providing cost estimates for proposed works, gaining a market advantage, and executing the construction of the community building and facilities in a single stage for marketing and MHE (Manufactured Home Estate) sales purposes. 

Several opportunities were identified within the existing plan, including streamlining circulation areas for enhanced floor plate efficiency, repurposing or eliminating underutilized spaces like the reception area, refining the orientation of occupied spaces, reassessing functional zoning within the footprint, optimizing connections to outdoor recreation facilities, relocating the sporting pavilion for integration with the community club building, enhancing occupant amenities, providing play spaces for visiting grandchildren, accommodating larger events, implementing landscape terracing, ensuring outdoor covered spaces, improving building aesthetics, expanding the bowling green, enhancing entry security, incorporating bus bay access, integrating the gym with pool facilities, creating external access to pool amenities, and shifting the ambiance towards a more “homely” feel for resident comfort and ongoing marketing opportunities.