AUR A PEOPLE'S PLACE

The Aura Lagoon is the anchor for a civic life of adventure, discovery and excitement in the regional centre of Aura, Caloundra.

Together with CUSP, ARM Architecture has developed the masterplan that is to be an urban oasis that provides aquatic and recreational opportunities for all generations.

The masterplan is a decade long vision for a precinct that supports this growing community.

The Lagoon takes its design cues from the Caloundra coastline, with a series of ‘bays’ with associated ‘headlands’ and beaches that allow for varying experiences and group sizes.

The sense of water across the site, the generative patterns that are created, gives us a local vernacular which is unmistakable. The forms and geometries provide a formal language that can be applied to the smallest kiosk to largest civic building, to hotels, to retail and so on. For projects that are built now in this first stage or well into the future – the precinct has a unifying character.

Being part of the landscape introduces the Subtropical vernacular - building roof forms include large projected eaves, veranda and colonnaded spaces. They bring much needed shaded space and break out spaces for buildings, but also allow the landscape and vegetation to be brought underneath and through into interiors blurring the sense of outside and inside, whilst create a cooling micro climate around the architecture.

CLIENT Stockland

COMPLETION 2025

VALUE Undisclosed

LOCATION Caloundra West