Location: Bernard Way Cable Beach WA

Services: Full Architectural Scope from Concept Design to Final Certificate at the end of Defects Liability Period

Principal: Nyamba Buru Yawuru

Value: Approx. $6.3mil Construction Value

Period of Engagement:

  • Feasibility/Business Case Stage: 2015-2017

  • Full Architectural Services Stage: 2017-2019

Consultant Team:

  • Landscape Design: Mud Map Studio

  • Structural and Civil Engineering: ACOR Broome

  • Electrical Engineering: Ashburner Francis Consulting Engineers

  • Mechanical Engineer: Ashburner Francis Consulting Engineers

  • Hydraulic Engineer: ACOR Broome

  • Energy Efficiency Consultant: Sustainability WA

  • Quantity Surveyor: QS Services

  • Building Surveyor: All West Building Approvals

Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa, meaning "a place to go for feeling", is the proposed development from Nyamba Buru Yawuru (NBY) as a place to honour and celebrate Yawuru people and culture, and a place for healing and reconciliation. Its purpose will be to create "mabu liyan ngarrungu" (good feeling for everyone). Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa will be like the head and heart of Yawuru. The proposed development will reach out to every aspect of Yawuru life that makes their liyan feel good, to Yawuru family and community, and to Yawuru country, culture, language and history.

The project is to the rear of Lot 3064 Bernard Way, directly behind the existing NBY office facility. The site is strategically positioned near where many Yawuru people live and is already established as the NBY operations headquarters.

The strength and success of the design is from the Workshops and Consultation with the Yawuru Community, NBY, User Groups, the Shire of Broome, Service Authorities and other Key Interest Parties. The Yawuru Community Reference Group was the major driver of the Master Planning Design Scheme to appropriately respond to the community desires and to Liyan values/principles of the project. This allowed Yawuru people to hold influence and ownership of the project.

As well as involving the community, the design methodology included the following ideas:

  • Responding to the "Broome Style" via expressed structures (influence from Japan as seen in early building works in Broome);

  • Environmentally Sustainable Design through allowing natural ventilation; and natural lighting whilst providing adequate shading;

  • Spaces that link the landscape with the built form; and

  • Opportunities for Yawuru people to tell their stories through the building, landscape and the "in-between spaces".

The primary design narrative of the Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa is that culture is never stagnant. Rather, culture is a dynamic, living, and resilient teacher. The Liyan-ngan Nyirrwa was seeded by Nyamba Buru Yawuru as a community project that included a community garden, a cafe, a workshop, a multi-purpose hall and a language centre. The roots of the project are set within an active pursuit by Yawuru to heal inter-generational trauma within their community. Now open to the public, people can soak up the shade that the canopy of this well-being (mabu liyan) project has to offer.

 

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