Lomatia Park Clubhouse

Project Location

Springwood, NSW

Client

Blue Mountains City Council

Project Team

Jesse Mowbray, Christopher Roehrig, Jessica Freeman, Nicole Manley, Samantha Sun, Christina Sun, Maria Laprovitta, Irene Vidal Gudel, Ingrid Naude

Photography

Nimbus Architecture and Heritage

The Lomatia Park Clubhouse is a new community sporting facility designed to sit sensitively within the park and the broader Blue Mountains bushland setting. Extensive consultation with five key stakeholder groups shaped the final design, ensuring the clubhouse supports diverse community uses while strengthening the social character of the historic cricket ground at the heart of the site. Ecological outcomes and heritage interpretation underpin the design response. The clubhouse is composed of three distinct building forms linked by a shared roof plane and central breezeways, allowing the landscape to flow through the site. Transparency to the upper wall sections creates view corridors between the cricket grounds, surrounding bushland and adjacent Birdwood Gully, reinforcing ecological connections and celebrating the park’s layered history. At BMCC’s request, the existing dugouts have been carefully retained and relocated, preserving their heritage value and maintaining the familiar rhythms of community sport. The facility provides inclusive amenities, meeting spaces, changerooms, a kiosk and secure storage, supported by environmentally sustainable design principles including durable materials, natural daylight and ventilation, low energy fittings and resource harvesting. The project is currently under construction, nearing completion.