facilities
a feast for the eyes
The Ecovillage, with its many water features, forests, outstanding landscapes and exceptional valley vistas is a veritable banquet of beauty for the senses. The built features have been designed to blend and harmonise with the existing landscapes and with charm and grace they achieve just that.
Picture the stone bridge crossing the main swale, the many exquisite ponds with their rock gabiens spilling water during a wet, the bubbling creek visible from the sitting platforms on the Ridgey Didge Bridge. The Village Green with it's picnic shack and open air amphitheatres offer a touch of paradise. Many of these features are constructed from recycled materials
Come for a visit to The Ecovillage - your eyes will enjoy the views.
old dairy recreation centre
The Old Dairy Recreation facilities are proving to be a well utilised community asset. Constructed around and utilising previous dairy buildings from bygone dairy farming days on site, the facilities include pools, community kitchen / dining, childrens playgrounds, a woodfired pizza oven, gym, spa pavillions and many other amenities.
The completed Village Hall, part of the facility was first used for the community's 2008 Australia Day Bash - a wonderful venue for the bush dance. The Ecovillage community frequently enjoy their Village Hall space for coffee mornings, birthday parties, workshops, meetings, movie nights and many other gatherings. The Village Hall includes a full commercial-sized kitchen, community dining area and smaller dining / meeting room.
Constructed from approximately 80% recycled materials, the building is aesthetically pleasing and built to be comfortable all year round. A plethora of windows and doors allow breezes to flow and clerestory louvres mean warm air escapes from the high ceiling areas. Beautiful rammed earth walls provide thermal mass for warmth and cooling through the year.
There are also practical items on the Old Dairy theme that become quirky and funky aesthetic features such as the 'fresian' wall, light fittings made from cream cans and milkshake cups.
The weekly calendar of events in the hall is hard to keep up with and includes (but is not limited to):-
• Monday: Joy of Singing workshops (1pm) and choir night (7.30pm)
• Tuesday: meditation evening (from 6pm)
• Wednesday: Tai Chi class (6pm) / Pilates class (7.30pm)
• Thursday: The Lemon Tarts Baking (morning)
• Friday: Northern Exposure or Movie night (6.30pm)
• Saturday: Zumba (10am)
• Reserved for community functions and / or reserved events
The 3 lane lap and recreational swimming pool is enjoyed by many Ecovillage residents. The amenities block with showers, change rooms and eco-friendly toilets is nearby.
Two tropical-styled thatched spa pavilions are utilised for yoga classes.
The Piadori cob pizza and tandoori oven means residents enjoy regular wood fired pizzas. The gym houses equipment for workouts and regular boxing classes are held. The childrens adventure playgrounds (3 for children of all age groups) are a hit amongst the kids.
village centre
Enjoy the Village Centre with its cafe / bakery, convenience store and other small scale commercial buildings. The accessible location of the practitioners rooms as well as serviced office areas ensure that residents needs are met as close to home as possible.
The tastefully designed Home Studios cater for small-scale commercial areas with studio apartments on an upper floor.
The Cafe / Bakery is the ultimate social hub of the village. A short stroll from any precinct within the Village, The Frolicking Frog will provide a meeting place for Valley residents, Village residents or visitors to The Ecovillage.
Landmatters have finalised design of the Cafe / Bakery Building and are now seeking Expressions of Interest for business operators. Phone Kerry at the Landmatters office on (07) 5598 7377 to register your interest.
the rrr centre
The Reduce Reuse and Recycle (RRR) Centre provides a central resource management area that will be a social centre for the community. Residents deliver their recyclables, organic matter and other refuse to the RRR Centre for sorting. There they will also find workshop areas, libraries (tool, toy, book etc) and many other useful community amenities.
The RRR building itself is an ex-Telstra industrial shed which is being given an architectural makeover with a 'recycling' theme.
The Recycling Centre, seen as the 'hub' of the village centre, will include workshops, the Caretaker Manager's office, the many community libraries the centralised waste facility and much activity.
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