footscray community art centre
The Footscray Community Art Centre (FCAC) Precinct Plan was developed to assist in understanding the impact of significant local residential development and gentrification, along with a detailed review of the social, community and physical context of FCAC. It provided analysis and observations across four scales: the city (City of Maribyrnong); the community (Footscray); the building (FCAC) and the human (visitors, staff and all users and stakeholders). Twenty recommendations were identified to enhance the precinct of FCAC, as well as the immediate surrounds, to support resilient, creative communities. A significant focus of the study was to recognise the existing strengths and opportunities of the precinct and to maximise the benefits of the interventions into the current infrastructure. The recommendations built upon the projected future of FCAC’s neighbourhood, key program directions, community consultation findings, development of FCAC’s current operations and existing infrastructure, and demand for future, additional and dedicated creative industry space. Rather than taking the form of a single, overarching masterplan for FCAC, the recommendations comprise a flexible series of proposals that can be strategically coordinated and implemented by FCAC and government partners. They have been categorised into strategies which require improvements to the existing buildings or site, reconfiguration of the existing buildings, new infrastructure, or policy and programming.
Project Team: Andrew Simpson, Simona Falvo, Michelle Phillips, Andrew Devine, Melany Hayes, Dhanika Kumaheri, Declan Murphy
Completed: 2019 - ongoing