MELBOURNE PARK PRECINCT
FULL MARKS FOR WINNING MELBOURNE PROJECT
With a perfect score of 100, the redevelopment of Melbourne Park Precinct, spearheaded by FCSI Associate Julian Ha, came top in the inaugural FCSI Asia Pacific Project Excellence
with just some minor adjustment due to site constraint,” he says. “This has allowed us to ensure that the best design flow for the kitchen could be achieved. The client acceptance to adopt our proposed sustainability too has made it easier for us to design a facility for a sustainable future.” The team became involved in this project
from the very early stages of master-planning and all the way through to completing the design and supervising the construction of the F&B outlets.
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The design included a new production kitchen to support all the satellite and receiving kitchens around Melbourne Park Precinct
he entry of FCSI Associate Julian Ha, director of MTD Hospitality Consulting, and his team was a major project with complex requirements and versatility at the core. This extensive project involved designing a new production kitchen to service and support all the satellite and receiving kitchens dotted around the Melbourne Park Precinct. This is a major sporting complex and the home to major events including the Australian Open tennis tournament. In addition, Ha and his team were tasked with designing the bulk F&B storage facility, a new function kitchen and a new Garden Square café and restaurant. Ha says that although projects such as this are vast and challenging, working on them is very satisfying. “We were given almost a free rein in dictating the shape and flow of the Central Production kitchen,
Adapting to circumstances Chief among the challenges faced by the design team was the fact that as a destination Melbourne Park has to cater to a versatile crowd and many different events. Though primarily a sporting venue, the park also hosts music and entertainment events regularly. The function areas also play host to exhibitions and corporate bookings, requiring kitchens and foodservice operation to be versatile and diverse. Ha says catering for the needs of three main
stakeholders – Development Victoria, Tennis Australia, and Melbourne & Olympic Park (MOP) – was central to the project. “The function kitchen during Australia Opens will need to be able to cater for three separate themed functions (with totally different types of meals) whereas during its year-round mode, it will need to be able to be consolidated to one large main function space,” explains Ha. “Similarly, the café kitchen will need to be able to be transformed into a high-end restaurant mode whereas during year-round mode, it will act as a café restaurant.”
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