Robina Town Centre

The expansion of Robina seeks to turn it from an inward looking shopping centre into an open and urban town centre. The creation of a new market aims to work with local artisans to shape a new destination that combines fresh food shopping, cooking, tasting, learning and eating. The new spaces are unified by an undulating timber-clad roof creating shaded apertures. A series of south-facing notches brings daylight inside with minimal solar gain. Standing seam zinc is used as an external skin.

Inside, the volume evokes a reversed nave, an impression reinforced by the regular ribs and strips of honey-coloured timber. The market hall sits between two large supermarkets and consists of 55 new traders include butchers, fishmongers, restaurants and a microbrewery, all of which are dedicated to celebrating local/regional produce, supplying the very best local products available. The market hall spills out onto a flowing, stepped landscaped area accessible from a new carpark, providing a water feature and lush planting. The new carpark facade is composed of laser-cut and folded metal panels, revealing swathes of colours and creating vivid variations in transparency and opacity as one moves along it.