ACT ESA Outdoor Training Centre

Role: Architectural Assistant
Architect: HBO+EMTB
Client: ACT Emergency Services Agency
Photography: Ben Wrigley
Location: Ngunnawal Country, Hume, ACT, Australia
Duration: 2009 - 2010
Shortlist, Public Architecture, Australian Institute of Architects ACT Architecture Awards 2012

Located on a greenfield site, the ACT ESA Outdoor Training Centre is a purpose-built facility dedicated to the training of its emergency services agencies (Fire Brigate, Ambulance, Roral Fire Services, and the SES).

This facility is made up of numerous elements that are formally restrained within an elemental design envelope.

Made out of pragmatic materials these elements include an adminstration and teaching building, vertical rescue tower, training building hot house, training house, provisions for storage, as well as a drill yard and stand down areas.