Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation - BITA
Sugarmill Rd, Pinkenba Qld
The Immigration Transit Accommodation centre is a low security centre designed to provide “motel style” short term accommodation to persons with minor immigration and visa breaches.
The challenge was to deliver the facility on a low lying flood prone site within a stringent budget and short time frame. The accommodation was, also, required to meet exacting acoustic design parameters both eliminating external aircraft noise and inter-room separation. ESD initiatives are also employed including rainwater harvesting and low energy light fittings.
BITA provides 30 beds in double rooms in three separate 10 bed units. Some rooms are inter-leading pairs providing flexibility, accommodating families and extended families. Each unit has its own living area, with lounge, dining, TV, kitchenette and laundry facilities, allowing for discrete cultural separation. One unit is purpose designed to cater for persons with disability with undercover access from the central facilities building.
The residential scale, lack of hard security elements and soft
ambience provided by the external and internal colour palettes
and finishes give the centre a relaxed, non-institutional ‘feel’.
satisfaction for the completed facility and have commended the delivery team.
CLIENT: Department of Immigration & Citizenship
CONSTRUCTION COST: $5.3m
YEAR: 2006
KEY PERSONNEL: Paul Mathieson