Blacktown Westpoint Amenities

Tarkett iQ Granit flooring has played a prominent role in a colourful, nature-inspired design for new amenities at QIC Westpoint  shopping centre at Blacktown, Sydney. The project, which was recently awarded as the country’s “Best Bathroom 2019” by Total Facilities, typically features 100 square metres of hard-wearing Tarkett iQ Granit flooring in each of the parents’ rooms in the four-level shopping centre.

 Westpoint features major and specialty stores, supermarkets, and entertainment precincts – all of which experience heavy foot-traffic every day, until late. Appointed architects and interior designers, i2C, specialise in work ranging from urban design to smaller bespoke interior design projects and it was the latter it applied for the new Westpoint amenities. i2C project designer, Terri Anne Baisley, said the brief from client, QIC, was to create amenities to suit as wide a range of people as possible.

Colour is central to i2C’s design for the parents’ rooms, which achieves a playful yet calm, inviting atmosphere. “We wanted an inviting, open, natural-feeling space for the parents’ rooms, which we wanted everyone to feel really comfortable in,” said Ms Baisley. “Dads can sometimes feel uncomfortable in changing rooms so we wanted colours that everybody could relate to.”

The nature-inspired colour scheme sweeps across the parents’ room floors in a wide, arching pattern, abstracting a sense of forest, stream and sky. “We found that the greens were evocative of a shielded forest floor and the iQ Granit Medium Teal colour, was derivative of river and the sky,” she said. “The flooring colours also tie-in with the treelike structures that decorate the room with their trunks and canopies.” i2C had specified Tarkett iQ Granit flooring for other projects in the past and had positive experiences with it, so was already aware of its suitability for high-traffic areas.