facilities
a feast for the eyes
The Ecovillage, with it's many water features, forests, outstanding landscapes and exceptional valley vistas is a veritable banquet of beauty for the senses. The built features have been designed to blend and harmonise with the existing landscapes and with charm and grace they achieve just that. Picture the stone bridge crossing the main swale, the many exquisite ponds with their rock gabiens spilling water during a wet, the bubbling creek visible from the sitting platforms on the Ridgey Didge Bridge. The Village Green with it's picnic shack and open air amphitheatres offer a touch of paradise. Many of these features are constructed from recycled materials
Come for a visit to The Ecovillage - your eyes will enjoy the views.
old dairy recreation centre
The Old Dairy Recreation facilities are proving to be a well utilised community asset. Constructed around and utilising previous dairy buildings from bygone dairy farming days on site, the facilities include pools, community kitchen / dining, childrens playgrounds, a woodfired pizza oven, gym, spa pavillions and many other amenities.
The completed Village Hall, part of the facility was used for the community's 2008 Australia Day Bash - a wonderful venue for the bush dance. The Village Hall is the first of the facilities finished and the community is already enjoying the use of this space for coffee mornings, birthday parties, workshops and other gatherings. The Village Hall includes a full commercial-sized kitchen, community dining area and smaller dining / meeting room.
Constructed from approximately 80% recycled materials, the building allows an enormous amount of cross ventilation and natural lighting. Many windows line external walls and clerestory louvred windows allow warm air to escape from ceiling areas. With beautiful rammed earth walls providing thermal mass there are also practical items on the Old Dairy theme that become quirky and funky aesthetic features such as the 'fresian' wall, light fittings made from cream cans and milkshake cups in keeping with the true 'dairy' theme.
The swimming pool construction is complete with the 3 lane lap and recreational pool ready for enjoyment by Ecovillage residents. The toilet block is complete with showers and eco-friendly toilets ready for use.
The two tropical-styled thatched spa pavilions are ready for resident yoga classes and loads of other activies.
The Piadori cob pizza and tandoori oven has been sculpted and now residents can enjoy wood fired pizzas. The gym is almost complete and the childrens adventure playgrounds are already being regularly visited.
village centre
Enjoy the Village Centre with its cafe / bakery, convenience store and other small scale commercial buildings. The accessible location of the practitioners rooms as well as serviced office areas ensure that residents needs are met as close to home as possible.
The tastefully designed Home Studios cater for small-scale commercial areas with studio apartments on an upper floor.
The Cafe / Bakery is the ultimate social hub of the village. A short stroll from any precinct within the Village, The Frolicking Frog will provide a meeting place for Valley residents, Village residents or visitors to The Ecovillage.
Landmatters have finalised design of the Cafe / Bakery Building and are now seeking Expressions of Interest for business operators. Phone Kerry at the Landmatters office on (07) 5598 7377 to register your interest.
the rrr centre
The Reduce Reuse and Recycle (RRR) Centre provides a central resource management area that will be a social centre for the community. Residents deliver their recyclables, organic matter and other refuse to the RRR Centre for sorting. There they will also find workshop areas, libraries (tool, toy, book etc) and many other useful community amenities.
The RRR building itself is an ex-Telstra industrial shed which is being given an architectural makeover with a 'recycling' theme.
The Recycling Centre, seen as the 'hub' of the village centre, will include workshops, the Caretaker Manager's office, the many community libraries the centralised waste facility and much activity.
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