WORK continues on the Orange Regional Museum with the concrete continuing to dry from recent major pours, and the formwork and internal scaffolding gradually being removed.
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Orange City Council’s services committee chair Ron Gander said visitors to the site were now able to see the interior space, which would eventually hold the new Orange Visitor Information Centre, a cafe and the museum’s exhibition areas.
He said the construction site had become a talking point.
“The Peisley and Byng Street corner is an intersection that hundreds of Orange drivers and residents pass every day, and the people I talk to are watching the new building emerge with much interest,” Cr Gander said.
“The shape of the sloping roof has already captured their imagination and they can’t wait for the turf to be rolled out.”
Cr Gander said it would be some time before grass would be seen on the roof.
“One of the next changes that passers-by will notice will be the laying of a water-proof membrane on the roof,” he said.
“Then it will be the pipes of the drainage and irrigation systems before the thick layer of soil is added.”
Cr Gander said with most of the scaffolding now gone, it was easier to see how big the building was going to be inside.
“The floor space of the open areas of the building, which includes the cafe, visitors centre and museum display area, is around 900 square metres,” he said.
“By comparison, the largest of the gallery’s display areas, the Alan Sisley room, is 360 square metres.
“At the rear of the building people might have noticed a hut-shaped structure on one end of the roof.
“This structure is the shaft of a lift which will let people in wheelchairs or the elderly get to the grassed roof of the building.”
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