This meticulously designed, adaptive and future-proof building is also the 3 IDEA winner for Community Services. Bates Smart associate director and proud project lead for the Refugee Resource Hub, Terry Mason says it was an illuminating encounter on her routine neighbourhood walk that encouraged Jill Garner of Garner Davis Architects to believe in the power of community services such as ASRC.
“Jill tells a compelling story about being out for a walk and coming across a person in distress, someone who had all but given up, yet they had heard that the ASRC was an organisation that could help people who arrive in Australia and have nothing,” says Mason.
The ASRC was founded in 2001 and is now Australia’s biggest human rights organisation delivering support to those seeking asylum.
Akin to a neighbourhood village,
