Commonwealth Games Village
Royal Park, Melbourne, Australia
The former Royal Park Hospital complex was the site of the athletes’ village for the XVIII Commonwealth Games (Melbourne 2006). As well as refubishment work for the project, we developed conservation and management policies to guide the sympathetic adaptation of individual buildings and the redevelopment of the site as a whole.
The refubishment work focused on the former wards and nurses’ accommodation buildings, which is where the athletes lived. They consist of linked pavilions dating from the early 20th century. These were restored externally and adapted internally for immediate use. After the Games, they were further adapted and sold as apartments, as planned.
The project required the design and documentation of the temporary and the permanent works, each with quite specific accommodation requirements.
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Heritage data
constructed 1906-07
original architect S.E. Bindley, Public Works Department
victorian heritage register H 2062
photos : Lovell Chen
SELECTED REPORTS HELD
full list : see REPORTS INDEX
Former Royal Park Hospital: Commonwealth Games Village redevelopment: site development and adaptive re-use guidelines
Allom Lovell & Associates / MARCH 2004 : DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
Former Royal Park Hospital: Commonwealth Games Village redevelopment
Allom Lovell & Associates / MAY 2003 : REPORT
Former Royal Park Hospital: conservation policy and development guidelines
Michael Taylor, Michele Summerton / AUGUST 2001 : GUIDELINES
Former Royal Park Hospital: preliminary heritage assessment
Michael Taylor, Michele Summerton / JUNE 2000 : HERITAGE ASSESSMENT
