Bunurong Memorial Park

by BVN

Bunurong Memorial Park was designed to offer a memorable setting for a wide range of events.

Bunurong Memorial Park has been designed to be a leader in providing memorable settings for a wide range of events ranging from celebratory, reflective and commemorative occasions – making it a valuable community asset.

Architect designers from both Aspect Studios and BVN, designed Bunurong Memorial Park with a set of distinctive gardens, arranged as a connected suite of intimate and public spaces, bounds by the quietness of the building, which has been designed with transparent portals, which open directly to the garden setting.

Linked by an existing lake, this series of garden vistas and room have been re-imagined as the heart of a broader network, which will be included in future stages on the project.

The widest possible range of reflective and celebratory events, are supported through buildings at Bunurong Memorial Park, which include everything from chapels, function rooms, a café, florist and even a service centre.

A particularly characteristic part of Bunurong Memorial Park, is the pedestrian commemoration bridge, which connects the central gardens to the curvilinear outdoor chapel that opens directly to the lake.

Materials and detail throughout the Bunurong Memorial Park complex are identifiably Australian.

This was achieved with the use of distinctive native plants, combined with rusted steel landscape walls, red earth paths and berms, reflective water pools, and rammed earth walls.

The eucalyptus timber joinery, interior and exterior colours extend the repertoire of the buildings being ‘reverential’ backgrounds to the colour and energy of the gardens.

Buildings and spaces are designed to host occasions at Bunurong Memorial Park, where what is accepted, intrinsic and essential about life can be experienced with heightened awareness.

Photography by Robert Hammer & John Gollings.