Munroe and Grace Pavilions - Sydney Showgrounds

Designed in anticipation of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, the RAS Livestock Pavilions represented a breakthrough in sustainable design, which attracted the RAIA National Award for Sustainable Design in 1999.

Through simple manipulation of geometry and elementary materials the buildings provide thermally induced ventilation, day-lighting and fire management merely through the shapes of the roof, with no more capital cost than a conventional industrial building.

Although designed to exhibit livestock, Scott Carver also adapted the buildings to serve as the Main Press Centre for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games wherein they transformed into a village within a giant day-lit studio.