Jasmax wins first Australian architecture award for Truganina Community Centre
We are proud to share that the Truganina Community Centre received a Public Architecture Award at the 2025 Victorian Architecture Awards, marking Jasmax’s first award win in Australia. The project has also been shortlisted for a National Architecture Award, further recognising its contribution to community-focused design.
The centre represents a new model for community hubs, developed in direct response to the local community’s aspirations for cultural literacy, competency and inclusivity. Open library lounges extend from a central spine, providing spaces for both programmed activities and unprogrammed gathering. These zones offer access to curated library collections and cultural programmes while embracing the diverse needs of a growing community.
The jury noted: “Located within a Growth Corridor in Melbourne’s west, Truganina Community Centre is an exemplary model of local infrastructure that has been deeply shaped by a robust process of consultation and the needs of its diverse community.
The Truganina Community Centre negotiates a complex programme and determinate floor area allowance to provide the public with new library spaces, a community kitchen, maternal health consultation rooms, internet and computer access, multi-purpose rooms and unprogrammed break-out spaces punctuated by access and views to a curated landscape design.
The centre is a well-detailed, sensitively scaled fine-grain civic node that is a stark contrast to the predominant coarse-grain urbanism of its surrounds. The design consciously challenges the formality of the Council building typology by employing a series of entry points, soft site edges and materiality to deinstitutionalise the form and create an out-reaching, welcoming architectural gesture.“
The Truganina Community Centre sets a new benchmark for inclusive community hubs that foster cultural cohesion, inclusion, and a strong sense of belonging. Learn more about the thinking behind new community centre models in this discussion with Jasmax Principal Jeff Gabriel.
Congratulations to our client, Wyndham City Council, and to our Melbourne studio on this significant and well-deserved achievement.