WILL ANDERSON ARCHDES 701 Book 2:
The Great Masterplan
Three key strategies have been identified in initial readings of the site and of the opportunities it presents to the city. Green city approach – The first is concerned with the approach to the city by sea, which is a key symbolic moment in terms of the identity of the city. Currently the industrial activity of the port is the dominant image seen by visitors to the city, we envisage a green foreground in the form of a band of new parkland to frame the site. An integrated waterfront precinct – The waterfront of Auckland city is to be thought of as space for the development of an identity in the built environment, as the waterfront of the city is reclaimed from it’s industrial past, it is replace by responsible development. Engagement with the harbour, the water’s edge – A connection to water in a physical and visual sense is essential to our idea of an identity for Auckland, and the concept of a primal connection between people and water informs the development at a variety of scales.
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