UNSW Landscape Architecture

UNCAST

2012 Landscape Architecture Final Year Studio Never Stand Still

Faculty of Built Environment

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LUMINOCITY 19th November 2012 Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay, Hickson Road, Sydney

Tom Atkins Stephanie Bailey Sally Bryant Lucy Cashmore Johnny Derwent David Forward Marie-Claire Geach David Guy Scott Jackson Jon Kane Erinne Kay Harrison Lee Jacqueline Lee, Hiu Ling Jane Hwei Ying, Loh Luke Mason Peta Miskovich Sophia Molodysky Louise Mould Jonathon Murray Sarah Parbery Meredith Paterson Brigid Phelps Nicholas Pierson Natasha Polozenko Olivia Qian Scott Sidhom Andy Smith Stephen Smith Jacqueline Stevenson Eric Sturman Breana Tabone Wil Whitfeld Nick Zajko

Message from the Dean Uncast

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Message from the Dean

Message from Lend Lease

Acknowledgements

2012 Landscape Architecture Individual Projects

Supporters

Message from the 2012 Graduating Studio Convener

2012 Landscape Architecture Group Projects

Alumni Profile

3 This year has been busy at UNSW BE. We have continued the review and development of our curriculum including the introduction of two new interdisciplinary streams for first and third year bachelor degree programs and are introducing a new post professional degree program in urban policy and strategy. We have also added Design Research to our four funded research clusters (Emergent Digital Technologies, People and Places, Sustainable Design and Development and Urban Typologies). Finally, the CRC Low Carbon Living international research project led by our faculty commenced its work this year in collaboration with partners in industry and other universities.

I wish every graduate a successful and satisfying career. In many respects, our relationship is just beginning.

As you travel the world through your work you will meet many alumni and make special bonds of lasting value.

We look forward to your ongoing participation in the life of our university and the mutual benefits this brings.

Professor Alec Tzannes Dean UNSW Built Environment

Message from the Dean

I congratulate all the students who have completed their degree program and now become our alumni.

This catalogue conveys through selected study themes and projects from our final year studios something about the unique student experience offered at UNSW Built Environment along with the outstanding skills of our students and academic staff.

UNSW Built Environment has a developing reputation as a knowledge leader in the design, delivery and management of the C21st city and its elements.

Our research is directly relevant to the development of knowledge within built environment professions and underpins a process of continuous improvement to curriculum material. Embedded in the curriculum are core values centered on the thinking and practices required to deliver sustainable urban environments of deep cultural value. Design education in all of its many forms, including understanding evidence-based design processes is at the centre of all UNSW BE degree programs. This is complemented by the development of discipline knowledge with interdisciplinary design and research orientated projects aligned with advanced contemporary practices in industry.

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Supporters

BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND ITS 2012 GRADUATING STUDENTS THANK LUMINOCITY’S SUPPORTERS FOR THEIR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS. Lead Supporter

Major Supporters

Supporters

Built Environment Alumni

Event Partners

Landscape Architecture Supporters

Donors

Landscape Architecture trivia night and community fundraising donors

5 Throughout this event and graduating student exhibition, I encourage the thought leadership and vigorous debate that is required to deliver on the vision that LuminoCITY seeks to achieve.

Knowledge knows no boundaries and it is our universities and their students that provide a mechanism to allow communities to grow and prosper through improved solutions, products and services. Continued knowledge investment in our universities is vital to equip society to creatively respond to challenges that are impacting all our lives at an ever increasing rate.

Anticipating the thought provoking research and exhibitions of all the contributors, but in particular that of the graduating class, I would like to congratulate all participants who will undoubtedly assist in shaping the cities of tomorrow.

Lend Lease looks forward to the continued relationship with UNSW Built Environment and LuminoCITY to create new ideas that deliver our vision in delivering the best places.

Murray Coleman OAM Managing Director, Australia Project Management and Construction Lend Lease

Message from Lend Lease

Lend Lease is proud to continue its longtime relationship with UNSW Faculty of Built Environment through the sponsorship of LuminoCITY. In creating an event like this, the Faculty delivers a forum to challenge the boundaries of the modern landscape and allows our leaders of the future to showcase how 21st century communities can live sustainably and meet the demands of the modern world.

Lend Lease’s aspiration to be a sustainable organisation and an industry leader means we constantly search for ideas that will help us to deliver the improved social, environmental and economic performance of our businesses and of our industry more broadly.

In sponsoring LuminoCITY, we are supporting the Faculty of the Built Environment to achieve their vision to create a forum to imagine, test and debate ideas about the 21st century city.

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Message from the 2012 Graduating Studio Convener

Associate Professor Linda Corkery Program Director and 2012 Graduating Studio Convener

The exhibition, Uncast, and this accompanying catalogue celebrate the accomplishments of our students in the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program’s 2012 Graduating Studio.

Students in their fourth and final year have been engaged in a two-semester investigation of Sydney’s Woolloomooloo Basin, extending from Oxford Street on the south, Kings Cross on the east, Garden Island to the north and the Royal Botanic Gardens to the west. During Semester 1, Professor James Weirick and Brendan Randles introduced students to the complexities of working over, under and around major road and transport infrastructure that dissects Sydney’s inner city fabric—namely the Eastern Distributor and the rail viaduct that travels across the Woolloomooloo Basin.

The students’ initial planning and design investigations were undertaken as group projects during which they carried out detailed site analyses and applied their understanding of contemporary urban design theory to generate master plan proposals and detailed precinct plans in this neighbourhood. In Semester 2, the group projects provided the framework within which students selected a site, formulated design questions and project briefs for individual design investigations.

The second and final semester of Graduating Studio was convened by Associate Professor Linda Corkery, with Oculus Landscape Architects as our studio partner. Roger Jasprizza, Daniel Firn, Ben Nacard and Jessica Hodge joined us in studio each week, and students also had the opportunity to rotate through Oculus’s Newtown studio for additional tutorials. This was a unique tutoring arrangement for the BLArch Grad Studio and one that proved to work very well for everyone involved.

We also acknowledge the important contribution of Julie Lee, Director, Tract Consultants, the 2012 External Examiner. In that role, Julie reviewed each student’s project design report and met individually with them to discuss their project and assess their work.

7 The projects devised and undertaken by our students reflect the range of contemporary issues with which landscape architects engage in practice: remaking of Sydney’s urban landscapes, renaturing post-industrial sites for new public open space, revealing and restoring urban ecologies in the urban fabric, accommodating urban infill for residential and commercial activity, promoting urban agriculture and community gardens.

The graduation projects presented herein demonstrate the Landscape Architecture Program’s commitment to assist each student in developing individual creative capacity and technical acumen, determining an ethical stance on contemporary issues and, importantly, envisioning themselves as effective agents in the creation of built environments that enhance quality of life.

Congratulations to the 2012 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture graduands on their achievements and best wishes for continued success and a personally rewarding career in Landscape Architecture.

Oculus Landscape Architects (L-R) Ben Nacard, Jessica Hodge, Daniel Firn, Roger Jasprizza

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Professor Alec Tzannes Dean UNSW Built Environment

2012 Landscape Architecture Message from the Dean Group Projects

This year has seen UNSW Built Environment continue to develop as a leading source of knowledge focused on the design, management and construction of the 21st century city.

The aspiration of the faculty is to contribute, at the highest level of academic achievement, to the making of valued and sustainable built environments.

New research initiatives undertaken in the last twelve months build on the faculty’s strengths concentrating on themes that include sustainable design and development, urban typologies and emergent digital technologies. Each degree program integrates research outcomes to ensure our students are equipped with knowledge of relevance and intellectual skills to enable successful future careers in a global context. Design, including understanding evidence based design processes, is at the core of many degree programs at UNSW BE. Design is studied at every scale and in the context of achieving in the future, lower carbon industrial products, buildings and cities. Design of enduring cultural value also matters and underpins the intellectual rigor of the curriculum.

Student experiences involve interdisciplinary projects to enhance contemporary relevance and utilize the breadth of discipline

knowledge available at UNSW BE. This catalogue presents selected projects from our final year students.

It reflects the hard work and talents of all involved. On behalf of the faculty I congratulate all the students who have completed their degree program and now become our alumni.

We wish you every success in your chosen field of endeavor. In many respects, our relationship is just beginning as we look forward to your ongoing participation in the life of our university through the many events and activities that we undertake to support research and the future generations of built environment graduates.

We wish you every success in your chosen field of endeavor. In many respects, our relationship is just beginning as we look forward to your ongoing participation in the life of our university through the many events and activities that we undertake to support research and the future generations of built environment graduates.

We wish you every success in your chosen field of endeavor. In many respects, our relationship is just beginning as we look forward to your ongoing participation in the life of our university through the many events and activities that we undertake to support research and the future generations of built environment graduates. We wish you every success in your chosen field of endeavor.

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Woolloomooloo: New Basin City

Peta Miskovich Natasha Polozenko Eric Sturman Tim Rannaste

The redevelopment of Woolloomooloo aims to accommodate for a rise in the working and living population, through the incorporation of a wide variety of mixed residential and commercial housing blocks, as well as the creation of green space that utilises environmentally sensitive principles.

Woolloomooloo will be connected back into the larger urban scheme of Sydney through improved transport and green links, and will help establish Sydney as a Global City through the incorporation of a new international port terminal.

Large moves were instigated to facilitate the redevelopment of Woolloomooloo.

These moves included the integration of mixed housing developments along Forbes Street, the Bourke Street Bio-Swale, as well as luxury apartments on Garden Island to accommodate for increase in residents as

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Sydney population increases. New areas of Public Open Space have been created with Kuttabul Park on Garden Island Headland, vehicle reduction along Forbes Street, the connection and utilisation of pocket parks, public greenspace running through the proposed Bio-Village along Bourke Street and the linking of the Domain and the Royal Botanic Gardens through the proposed sinking of the Eastern Distributor. The Bourke Street Precinct will act as a Bio-Park that captures and treats stormwater and runoff from the surrounding streets and built form before being flushed out into Woolloomooloo Bay. Naval occupation was addressed through the relocation of the Fleet Based Precinct to the eastern side of Garden Island to continue naval occupation within Sydney Harbour.

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Bourke Street Precinct Cross Section Bourke Street Precinct Plan Bourke Street Precinct Site Masterplan Site Deconstruction Diagram

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Woolloomooloo_Re-linked

Marie-Claire Geach Meredith Paterson Scott Sidhom Nick Zajko

Woolloomooloo Re-Linked focuses on physically, visually and programmatically re-linking the Woolloomooloo basin to the city-east region and Sydney harbour.

Key moves include the introduction of two distinct spines (Urban Spine & Ecological Spine) linking the Oxford St ridge top with Woolloomooloo Bay, a new commercial district, improved transport links and an exciting new 24-hour public foreshore precinct at Garden Island.

Through partially sinking the Eastern Distributor motorway underground, the original street grid has been extended to stitch Woolloomooloo back together with the city east. New transport links include a railway station on the existing eastern suburbs rail line, new light rail through Woolloomooloo to the Garden Island Precinct with an international cruise terminal and marina at Garden Island.

The Urban Spine (Forbes St) becomes the central spine of urban

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activity linking together Taylors Square with William St and Woolloomooloo Bay providing retail and commercial frontages, programmable urban spaces, public transport and east-west connections.

Building on its low topographical location and existing hydrological characteristics, the Ecological Spine (Bourke St) integrates a green network with stormwater management together in a feathered greenway that stiches together Mrs Macquaries Chair with the Domain and lower basin.

The new commercial tower district is located adjacent to the proposed railway station connecting the fringe of the site with the CBD and Sydney’s global arc.

Woolloomooloo Re-linked accommodates 6781 new residents, 6286 new jobs and 79130sqm public open space in an integrated green, global and connected urban proposal for the Woolloomooloo basin.

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Light rail connections and wetland within Ecological Spine Strategic calculations and conversion of former graving dock 24hr mixed use precinct at Garden Island Strategic masterplan of Woolloomooloo basin East-west sections through lower basin

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Urban Recovery

Thomas Atkins David Guy Scott Jackson Wil Whitfeld

The City East currently has a dislocated public and private domain with a confused land use pattern. The site presents a fragmented mix of infrastructure and concentrations of building typologies, cultural facilities, transport links and recreation capacity.

The project was approached as a broad scale urban design and planning exercise, with a landscape architectural driven effort focusing on the finer grain. The Urban Recovery project was developed through extensive group work sessions, which focused on a process of utilising design as a medium for analysis, research and resolution.

The Urban Recovery project proposes a public domain strategy, which includes a series of urban design interventions focused on individual key precincts, with the aim to reconnect and heal the broken physical and ecological conditions of the site.

A series of objectives were set in direct response to the identified site issues, which were focused on:

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Increasing housing density for an additional 5000 people by proposing new medium density housing to replace the existing public housing.

Improve public transport links and options with a light-rail loop that connects the proposed CBD lightrail as per the Sydney 2030 plan.

Reconfigure Garden Island headland to former natural shape to create a visual dialogue with Mrs Macquarie Chair, and activate Garden Island with a cultural precinct.

Reconfigure street structure, housing and pocket parks to create a wider and more accessible green seam under the viaduct, improving surveillance.

Consolidate naval presence on Garden Island. Propose an extension of the public foreshore walk, reaching an OPT. Decentralise the focus of activity at Kings Cross with a new bridge over William Street, uniting Kings Cross with Darlinghurst.

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City East proposed building form and land use patterns Light rail and green link along existing Cahill Expressway infrastructure Woolloomooloo housing public park Woolloomooloo Basin Masterplan Design Investigation

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Woolloomooloo: A Permeable City

Sarah Parbery David Forward Breana Tabone Stephen Smith

Our design intent was to generate and initiate a more permeable inviting Woolloomooloo by defining stronger connections from Sydney’s CBD and surrounding suburbs. We achieved this by improving public transport, open space, pedestrian access and creating more destination points within the basin to entice greater Sydney.

Woolloomooloo has a severe lack of essence, its streetscapes are empty and foreboding yet receives its unique character from its historical built form. It is disconnected from the city as there is an inherent lack of pedestrian access and public transport systems linking back into the basin. Most apparent is the distinct disjunction of the iconic Woolloomooloo Bay Finger Wharf and the surrounding suburb.

However this provided us with a palette of opportunities to refigure Woolloomooloo as an urban landscape incorporating all of these deficits into our proposal.

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We activated Forbes Street by reintroducing vehicular access and ground level street front shops combined with live above residency to bring people back into the streetscape. To pull people down into the basin we proposed an extension to the viaduct, roofing it and creating a direct pedestrian and cycle route from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, down into the reactivated streetscapes.

To reconnect the wharf back to Woolloomooloo we diverted Cowper Wharf Road reinstating the historic tramline and established an open forecourt linking directly to the wharf. The forecourt was based on vistas, existing site lines and the reconfigured street grid of Woolloomooloo to pull the wharf back into the basin.

Establishing these fundamental moves we have successfully reconnected Woolloomooloo to the surrounding suburbs and Sydney’s CBD.

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Perspective of Forecourt Area Sectional perspective of the Viaduct Sectional perspective of the Viaduct Masterplan of Woolloomooloo Sections through site

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Breaking the barriers – reconnecting the basin

Stephanie Bailey Johnny Derwent Sophia Molodysky Louise Mould

The disconnection in Woolloomooloo and the disjunction between socio-cultural groups is overwhelming in the current physicality of the site. Through breakingdown physical barriers a foundation is provided for socio-cultural barriers to be overcome. Woolloomooloo is a multilayered site in terms of culture, built form and use. This design harnesses these strengths to create a village that can cater for a wide range of people and activities.

In order to reconnect the basin the existing barriers had to be broken.

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Sinking the Eastern Distributor Realigning the streets Rezoning the Garden Island

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Master plan Diagrams showing the existing barriers and intervention big moves Diagrams comparing current residence versus open Perspective showing Garden Island ‘Naval District’ waterfront Perspective showing Forbes Streets big move ‘The Plug’

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Bridging the Gap

Jonathon Murray Andrew Smith Luke Mason Jacqueline Stevenson

Semester one studio focused on developing a holistic understanding, and subsequent design approach for the city-east area of Sydney. Our project sought to facilitate the growth of this area through strategic mixed-use development, and increased connectivity. The design attempted to reconnect important, underutilised land back into the productive fabric of Sydney.

This involved developing green corridors and increased connectivity networks which would act as a catalyst for growth to accommodate the brief of ‘5000 new jobs, 5000 new residents, and 5000 m2 of public open space’. Of special consideration were the development of two primary growth sectors, aimed at implementing new public transport infrastructure, selfsustaining development, and catchment wide water sensitive urban design.

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The first proposal was located in the heart of Woolloomooloo, where our design was centred on the construction of a ‘clip on’ to run with the existing viaduct structure.

This proposal sought to resolve connectivity issues while stimulating new infrastructure that would lower spatial fragmentation within the suburb. The second growth sector was located on the north-eastern tip of Woolloomooloo bay. This proposal sought to provide high-end retail and residential properties in order to extend the global arc of Sydney. Both designs formed part of an integrated strategy to utilise important land within Sydney through sustainable practices.

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City East Masterplan Forbes St pedestrianised Garden Island foreshore Viaduct clip on and pedestrian plaza Garden Island precinct plan

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Reigniting Woolloomooloo

Jon Kane Harrison Lee Jane Loh Nicholas Pierson

For our group studio we were required to inject 5000 new jobs, dwellings, and square metres of open space into the Woolloomooloo Basin. To accommodate these changes, we proposed a new light rail system along Bourke Street towards Garden Island which would connect to the proposed George Street Light Rail Network.

Our design incorporates two major residential precincts: the Woolloomooloo Basin Precinct just south of the Finger Wharf, and the Hammerhead Point Precinct which has replaced part of the Navy land near Garden Island.

To increase the accessibility around our site, we proposed creating a series of new east/west connections throughout the Woolloomooloo Basin Precinct. This also helped to address some of the safety and traffic issues within the basin.

Another connection we wished to reestablish was between The Domain, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Art Gallery of NSW, and Woolloomooloo. In order to

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achieve this, we proposed sinking the Eastern Distributor and creating a new land bridge up towards the art gallery.

The major objective for our Hammerhead Point proposal was to allow for pedestrian access into Garden Island.

To accomplish this, we opened up the western foreshore along Hammerhead Point, and flooded the existing Graving Dock to create a new residential waterfront.

To incorporate the Hammerhead crane into our design, we connected its cable to a mound we formed, as if it was pulling up the ground plane. This effect was repeated throughout Hammerhead Point, creating a series of mounds, depressions, and cracks which act as bio-swales.

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Master Plan for Reigniting Woolloomooloo Axiomatic View of Woolloomooloo Basin Precinct Axiomatic View of Hammerhead Point Precinct Precinct Plan for Woolloomooloo Basin Precinct Plan for Hammerhead Point

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Professor Alec Tzannes Dean UNSW Built Environment

2012 Landscape Architecture Message from the Dean Individual Projects

This year has seen UNSW Built Environment continue to develop as a leading source of knowledge focused on the design, management and construction of the 21st century city.

The aspiration of the faculty is to contribute, at the highest level of academic achievement, to the making of valued and sustainable built environments.

New research initiatives undertaken in the last twelve months build on the faculty’s strengths concentrating on themes that include sustainable design and development, urban typologies and emergent digital technologies. Each degree program integrates research outcomes to ensure our students are equipped with knowledge of relevance and intellectual skills to enable successful future careers in a global context. Design, including understanding evidence based design processes, is at the core of many degree programs at UNSW BE. Design is studied at every scale and in the context of achieving in the future, lower carbon industrial products, buildings and cities. Design of enduring cultural value also matters and underpins the intellectual rigor of the curriculum.

Student experiences involve interdisciplinary projects to enhance contemporary relevance and utilize the breadth of discipline

knowledge available at UNSW BE. This catalogue presents selected projects from our final year students.

It reflects the hard work and talents of all involved. On behalf of the faculty I congratulate all the students who have completed their degree program and now become our alumni.

We wish you every success in your chosen field of endeavor. In many respects, our relationship is just beginning as we look forward to your ongoing participation in the life of our university through the many events and activities that we undertake to support research and the future generations of built environment graduates.

We wish you every success in your chosen field of endeavor. In many respects, our relationship is just beginning as we look forward to your ongoing participation in the life of our university through the many events and activities that we undertake to support research and the future generations of built environment graduates.

We wish you every success in your chosen field of endeavor. In many respects, our relationship is just beginning as we look forward to your ongoing participation in the life of our university through the many events and activities that we undertake to support research and the future generations of built environment graduates. We wish you every success in your chosen field of endeavor.

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The Artery

Tom Atkins

The site of the Woolloomooloo Basin is in a current state of social and physical disconnection. The topographic conditions of its surroundings as well as the severe juxtaposition of differing demographics within the site bring about a sense of conflict and imbalance within the area, and the resulting environment is one of hostility and separation.

The Artery seeks to provide a starting point or framework for the reconnection of the basin with its surroundings in both a physical and social sense. Using the existing form of the viaduct and the small voids or unused pockets of green space which are scattered beneath its canopy.

From this actively programmed spine,

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smaller threads of activity and identity work their way into the currently stagnant areas of the site, beginning to remove the sense of prohibition and as a result activating these areas, and providing a starting point for the repair of the current state of social disconnection within the site.

The Artery is a connection comprised of numerous key elements, which thrive as a result of their interaction and result in a dynamic and multi functional ecological connection which reunites the site with its surroundings, provides a framework for the repair of social disconnection and responds sensitively to the sites unique infrastructure and celebrates the fine and intricate grain of the existing urban form.

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Edge conditions perspective Interaction with a wetland edge Combination shelters for day and night Concept development Community centre perspective

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Gaining Ground

Stephanie Bailey

Dissected by transport infrastructure of the car and train, the urban landscape and bay in Woolloomoolooo have become isolated from the nearby CBD, Domain and The Royal Botanic Gardens. The biggest insult of these infrastructural elements is that it has left one of New South Wales most significant cultural institutions the Art Gallery of NSW [AGNSW] balancing awkwardly on the edge of one of Sydney’s busiest roads, the Eastern Distributor.

The existing landscape does not celebrate the cultural value of the AGNSW or its spectacular harbour location. For this reason I chose the surrounding landscape of the AGNSW for my project as the site holds huge potential for a dramatic gallery extension through the landscape connecting visitors from the

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AGNSW down to the waters edge.

My vision for this site is to transform the existing landscape into an equilibrium of artistry and practicality. The design will extend the exhibition space of the Art Gallery through a combination of outdoor and indoor spaces with unique characteristics to enhance art. The experience will be a dichotomy. Each moment will provide a decision, to ascend or descend, to move or to rest, to view or be viewed. Each experience will be contrasted with the next, providing end- less fascination and awe for the visitor. The design will further extend Sydney’s most significant landscapes the Domain and Botanic Gardens and allow their influence to be a catalyst of social change within Woolloomooloo.

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Aerial view of the proposed Sculpture Garden Section of the Sunken Garden and Epiphany Gallery Suspended Springs with glass bottomed pools Summer Highland exhibition space Sculpture Garden Master Plan

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Closing The Gaps

Sally Bryant

Relocating the Australian Royal Navy from Garden Island has created one of the last opportunities for a large-scale public domain on Sydney Harbour. The past occupation of the Australian Royal Navy has led Garden Island to become disconnected with Sydney. The vision for Garden Island is to close the gaps missing between Garden Island and CBD through new residential and transport infrastructure, green spaces, cultural and entertainment facilities. Garden Island will be a place of multiple spaces that are influenced through program types to attract people to the city east.

This new precinct will provide economic growth and financial sustainability through the use of contemporary programs and residential development.

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become an exciting framework that includes more dramatic public spaces, exciting evening entertainment and educational and cultural experiences.

The past industrial land uses have led to the disconnection of greenspace.

New vegetation communities of the Hawkesbury Sandstone Woodland Forest, Heath and Scrub Woodland and Sydney Mangrove Forest will be planted through out the site to reconnect people with the natural vegetation of the Sydney Basin and to increase biodiversity.

Garden Island will become a vibrant public domain of diverse users through its exciting framework of contemporary proÂŹgrams that represents Sydney and truly takes advantage of this unique location.

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Immanence

Lucy Cashmore

The aim of my design is to create a waterfront that encourages exploration and interaction with permanent and temporary art pieces, as well as to reflect the history of the existing site. The design however will concentrate mainly on interactive play, which will draw visitors from the Art Gallery of NSW along the waterfront to the opposite side of the bay to participate in a more informal interaction with art. My design will aim to continue the cultural ribbon that wraps around the Sydney Harbour Foreshore and will also break down the conceptual barrier between city and suburb in this process.

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To keep in notion with the previous use of the site, I have maintained aspects of the site to reflect it’s naval history, however tweaking them in a way that embodies a more artistic approach. An example of this is displayed with the main crane on the site enclosing a Eucalyptus tree in its main body, branches are extending out from its rusty aesthetic creating a visual contradiction. Material wise I have used a lot of concrete, highlighting the use of it for naval purposes as well as reflecting the manipulation of the natural landscape.

Throughout the site Eucalyptus trees will be seen as ‘exploding’ through the concrete, this will be an artistic approach of displaying the new regeneration of the landscape to a more naturalistic setting.

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Perspective: Hills Hoist Sculpture Garden Master Plan Perspective: Concrete Living Room Dusk Perspective: Concrete Living Room Whole Site Section

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William Street Green - Landscape as social infrastructure emergence of space

Johnny Derwent

“A city’s social infrastructure consists of public landscapes and their physical objects that contribute to community sustainability and growth. These are the basic physical and spatial landscapes installations that facilitate human use and action, while providing the foundation for the practices of everyday life” Walter Hood 2004 - Landscape as Social Infrastructure William Street Green attempts to break the linear movement of William Street to create a public space that is site specific for the behaviour setting. By naming it a green it can remove itself from regular open space typologies to create a hybridised site consisting of a square, garden, park

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and a street to harness the diverse nature of the area. With this hybridised landscape different unique areas are created to suit the users needs, such as to sit, view, hide, play, move, lift, skate, jump, drink, eat, meet, greet, sleep and interact.

William Street has a consistency of built form. By using landscape to act as a building, William Street Green becomes an entry away from the street through the “Building Landscape”. The outcome of this, is a series of different surfaces within the space. These surfaces allow the user to recognise the current site form with a new surface that will hopefully develop a view of ownership, acceptance, and to question other void space within the Basin.

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Section through lowered square Entrance into new urban square Spatial qualities of lowered square New view to the city East edge Master Plan William Street Green

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Transitional Triggers

David Forward

The life of a city comes from the public activity of its people. Any activity visible and accessible from the public domain adds to the character and vibrancy of the public realm. The atmosphere of these happenings varies in nature from suburb to suburb but all collectively contributes in creating and defining the character of a city. Sydney currently describes itself as ‘the city of villages’, an ideology of re- establishing local communities and town centres which are all linked to together make up the larger city of Sydney. However this ideology remains difficult to implement into the Woolloomooloo basin. Currently, the suburb is defined by its commercial foreshore, recognised through the distinctive Woolloomooloo wharf. Past the anterior of the foreshore, the heart of the Woolloomooloo basin remains an unnerving and deserted place,

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severed from its adjoining suburbs neither contributing to nor benefiting from greater Sydney. Transitional Triggers project acts as a catalyst in activating Woolloomooloo through a redeveloped town centre which serves as an access point to facilitate the use of the proposed viaduct parkland and act as a promoter in the community’s engagement with the Woolloomooloo basin. The revived city centre is designed to integrate into the local context and the viaduct, providing aesthetical and visually coherent access. It is also multifunctional in its use, plugging into supporting facilities and delivering a range of programmatic uses. In this way the Woolloomooloo viaduct acts a trigger in providing physical access while stimulating ongoing activity in the basin, attracting residents of both the local suburb and wider Sydney.

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Aerial Perspective Program Areas Courtyard Seating Courtyard and Public Artspace Masterplan

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Grey to Green

Marie-Claire Geach

Using green-infrastructure as a means of encouraging social interaction and re-activating dilapidated spaces.

Grey to Green proposes to convert underused greyspace including rooftops, laneways and carparks into an integrated system of connected greenspace, water treatment and built form.

Grey to Green uses a variety of green infrastructure interventions to transform underutilized spaces into functional places for social interaction. Additionally green infrastructure provides extensive ecological benefits; including the restoration of historic hydrological patterns, improving water quality, restoring habitat corridors, reducing urban heat island effect, and lowering green house emissions.

A series of connected rooftop gardens extend from the existing aerial pedestrian walkways of Lincoln Crescent rooftop garden and the Eastern Distributer pedestrian bridge. New rooftop gardens and

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pedestrian bridges connect to these existing structures to ecologically and physically reconnect Woolloomooloo to Sydney CBD. The site holds particular historic ecological significance as the location of the original shoreline (prior to fill) as well as the historic location of the Yurong Stream course and release point into Sydney harbor. The entire site acts as a de-constructed wetland treatment system that works in contrast to the existing traditional storm water engineering practices to create a system that treats water as a resource rather than a waste product.

Site programs and uses include passive recreational space, fine and casual dining, extensions to existing cycleway, rooftop restaurant and pool, moonlight cinema, markets and a new community sustainability centre. Through a variety of green infrastructure interventions Grey to Green will reactivate and reconnect Woolloomooloo to the Sydney CBD.

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3D perspective masterplan Perspective looking North West – urban water plaza Perspective looking South – constructed wetland and rooftop access Sections through water plaza and constructed wetlands Perspective looking North – pedestrian bridge and rooftop gardens

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Urban Forum: Redefining the Cultural Interface

David Guy

The State Library of NSW is located at a point of tension between the Sydney CBD, the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain parklands. It is a source of enormous knowledge and information; however the Cahill Expressway cuts through the landscape, inhibiting the aesthetic and functional potential of the site as a critical transitional threshold.

The Urban Recovery project attempts to return this fractured and vehicle dominant landscape back to the pedestrian realm though 3 key design moves. The first focuses on redirecting and tunnelling the Cahill Expressway on and off ramps.

The second establishes new physical connections between the RBG and Domain.

The third move is the development of a public square that extends from the Library over Shakespeare Place, providing an immediate venue for the information within the Library to reach a wider audience.

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The public square has historically been a venue for engaging and thoughtful discussion of topics of broad public importance. Facebook, Twitter and online forums are the mediums now used for this vital dialogue.

The design integrates the inherent qualities of a public square with modern infrastructure and technology. A public speaking plinth is located centrally between the Library and the exhibition and visitor centre. An interactive data screen encloses the plaza, to be utilised by the public to vote in polls, post questions, or to display co-ordinated national and international rallies and protests.

The square provides a platform for the engagement and expression of the public, presenting an opportunity for individual evolution and cultural redefinition.

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Urban Forum process and interaction Fig tree avenue with interactive in-ground data display Public speaking plinth and data display screen Cross sections through the square Detailed plan of the Urban Forum public square

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Eco-Osmosis

Scott Jackson

Industry has played a significant role in Sydney’s history. The eco-osmosis of Garden Island is a project that focuses on the reclamation of Garden Island from naval occupation back to public domain.

To ensure sustainability, climate change will be a key consideration in project’s design as over the next century sea levels are deemed to rise. This project takes a different approach to climate change, analogising the process of sea level rise to that of osmosis where the design integrates ways of adapting and evolving the site to rising sea level, thereby establishing new and unique spaces, while also forming a type of time dial for the rise in sea level.

Garden Island was viewed as a simple celled organism, the medium for osmosis to transpire, linking the industrial infrastructure

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and industrial design generators to the naturalization of Garden Island. The new plaza spaces encapsulate the nucleus of the cell, the functional section of the site.

Using the geometries of the site’s industrial crane the plaza’s design was generated through internal triangles, creating new spaces allowing for rising sea level over time. The new vegetation, mangroves and green space on site form the cytoplasm in the cell, sustaining the site’s ecology. Osmosis of this simple cell is the connection of developing new relationships on Garden Island, the programing and function of the plaza spaces to the new open space and naturalised areas. This project keeps the historic characteristics of the site while also introducing a strong new landscape character.

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Masterplan & Design Exploration Site Perspectives Detail Plan & Evolution of Site Over Time 3d Perspective

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Garden Island: ARTifact

Jon Kane

Garden Island has been occupied by the Navy and Industry for over a century.

With the relocation of the Naval forces to Brisbane, Garden Island has an opportunity to return to the public domain. The reunited Garden Island has the potential to become an exciting location for a new Arts and Cultural epicentre to accommodate the growing popularity of Arts and Cultural events around Sydney with the Worlds’ largest natural harbour as its backdrop.

Geographically Garden Island is the third of three prominent headlands East of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Of these three headlands sits the Sydney Opera house, which I have labeled the Arts and Cultural Headland and Mrs. Macquarie’s Chair, which has been labeled the Natural Headland.

Historically, Garden Island has been the third Industrial Headland of this trio.

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The three-force interaction has essentially formed my design for Garden Island. The initial rippling caused by the new Arts & Cultural entity formed the new radiating landform across the site. This new landform was then influenced by the ‘Pulling’ effect of the industrial epicentre, resulting in the new landform being pulled towards the Hammer Head Crane. This creates tension in the ground plane and cracks appear throughout the landform.

These voids are quickly filled with the emergence of the Natural element, which is radiating out from its last stronghold on the Northern tip of Garden Island. This element is also affected by the pulling effect of the Industrial epicentre allowing the resurgence of the Natural & Arts and Cultural element to enter the remaining industrial infrastructure providing a new life to the ageing elements and delivering a renewed balance between these elements.

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Urban Connexions

Erinne Kay

The vision of this proposal is to improve emotional attachment for the users of the site in order to encourage the stewardship of the land, community involvement and to improve well-being. It will also serve to create a more socially sustainable urban site where through the sense of identity, connection and attachment to the landscape the people of the area and beyond will try to protect and conserve the site for the future. It is hoped that this proposal will help to fix some of the social disconnections between different groups in the community.

Emotional attachment is important in any landscape environment but particularly in the urban environment. In the urban environment, there are many different types of users all with different needs and values. Because of this diversity, some users may feel like their local landscapes

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don’t meet their needs or pertain to their unique values hence causing emotional detachment to the landscape.

Emotional attachment is also important in the urban environment because ecological sustainability cannot always be achieved effectively due to the complexities of the urban environment including space limitations, diversity of users’ needs and the dominance of transport use. However, Social Sustainability can be achieved effectively through the means of emotional attachment therefore ensuring the sustainability of the urban environment for future generations to come. This process of emotional attachment to the landscape also encourages stewardship of the land, improves mental and physical well-being and helps to create a more connected community.

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Master Plan of the foreshore precinct Elevated pavilion at the end of Cove walk The Cove and Leaf-Shaped Community Garden The Street-Scape and one-way traffic loop system The Cove, Floating Reed Beds, The Island and Pavilion

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Weaving Bridges

Harrison Lee

My “weaving bridges” design was inspired by the analogy of ‘weaving tree roots’, breaking through barriers, creating ‘bridges’, seeking strength and support from the surrounding environment. Currently the Botanic Gardens and Domain gain little support from surrounding areas due to the Cahill Expressway restricting access and usability. It is a goal of my design to remedy this situation.

My design is planned according to pedestrian flow with the focal point being the proposed dual-level plaza situated north of the Art Gallery of NSW. The plaza incorporates some of the existing Cahill Expressway infrastructure extending from the gallery’s art precinct out into the public

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domain. There will be a number of art studios for hire as well as a new gallery/ function facility. Educational tours will be run and guest artists will conduct interactive programs to inspire new artists. Retail, cafes, restaurants, bars, and informal play spaces for children will also feature, providing something for everyone.

My proposal activates and unites the surrounding environment year round as it transforms between day and night. The design doesn’t only strengthen the connection between The Royal Botanic Gardens, The Domain, Woolloomooloo, and the CBD but brings people together in one of Sydney’s most unique and beautiful landscapes.

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‘Weaving Bridges’ Master Plan Detail Plan: Season Garden Sectional Perspective of Whole Site: Part A Sectional Perspective of While Site: Part B Frontal Elevation of Season Garden

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The Playful Spine Recreational Urban Promenade

Jacqueline Lee, Hiu Ling

This project I am going to focus in the area that is located along the foreshore in Woolloomooloo bay, to create a urban promenade with recreation for neighborhoods, tourists and pets.

The spine in human body supports the weight and to maintain it’s shape and posture, whereas, the playful spine supports the recreation of Woolloomooloo.

Designing the site to bring a better circulation, integration and enhancement to create a vibrant destination for the Sydneysiders and tourist within the area.

With the concept of ying yang, it is designing base on balancing hard-scape and soft-scape. The urban promenade would be to replace the missing link between the neighbourhood and the proposed international cruise ship terminal.

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Programmes in the site includes and not limited to an entrance plaza, where people can interact with natural water, an off leash dog park, a weekend outdoor market with food truck, viewing deck, BBQ and kids play area, and an international cruise terminal with the administration office towards the end of the site.

By introducing this new urban promenade, users can enjoy their weekend or the park can be use as daily basis with the running and bicycle tracks as well as the dog park. The urban promenade will be used by the neighbourhood and the tourist, water sensitive design is incorporate within the park, where the water gets recycle and reuse in watering the park with the bio swales design and water return to the nearby neighbourhood for non-drinking purpose after filtering.

I believe I will create a vibrant destination for the Sydneysiders and tourist within the area with this strategy.

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A. The concept of ying yang. balancing hard-scape and soft-scape.

B. Perspective showing the relationship of the Timber Decking with the existing wharf with the proposed design idea.

C. Cross-Section of the end of the terminal showing where the information center is right at the end.Perspective showing the relationship of the Timber Decking with the existing wharf with the proposed design idea.

D. Detail design plan of the entry of the parkland, where it is also a food truck market during the weekend.

E. Perspective showing the end of the parkland where the information center and the seating design on the timber decking.

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Agri-Street

Jane Hwei Ying, Loh

Agri-Street is a productive landscape where the purpose of food production, recreation and education are integrated into one street for the local community and the public. The place is designed to enhance the community garden practices in the urban area. The project site is located at the Forbes Street, section in between the Nicholson and Cathedral street. AgriStreet has divided into five main sections: Educational Garden, Community Garden, Rooftop Vegetable Garden, School’s Garden and Weekends Market. Stormwater management is applied to the Bio-Swale Garden and the Rooftop Vegetable Garden.

The stormwater is stored in underground tanks and use by the community garden for irrigation purpose. Community gardens are introduced into this place by providing

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different types of functions for the local residents and the public. In additional, weekends market is using food truck to operate helps to increase the usage of this place. The layout of the community gardens is based on the site analysis of the sun and shade . The longitudinal alignment of the planter in the middle of the street is because this space has receives longer hour of daily sunlight during summer and winter. The aesthetic value of the community gardens is designed by various heights of the planter boxes and they are suitable for different categories of users.

The unique element in this site is the trellis structure with rooftop vegetable garden.

This trellis is installed with transparent tanks that shows the basic installation of the bio-swale and rooftop garden system.

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Construction Drawing of School’s Garden & Children’s Playground Perspective View of Community Garden Perspective View of Trellis - Rooftop Vegetable Garden Section of Weekends Market Entrance Zones for Agri-Street

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Remedium

Luke Mason

Garden Island’s ‘Fleet Base Precinct’ presents a unique opportunity to transform one of Sydney’s iconic waterfront landscapes into a post industrial precinct that Celebrates its maritime & naval history. The site presents many challenges including how to reintroduce public domain to a landscape that has suffered physical and social exclusion for over 100 years.

Remedium is a reference to the dynamic nature of landscape, a medium that experiences constant uncertainty and change. As a result, landscape interventions must maintain a programmatic/ environmental balance in response to changes in state, history, environmental considerations and social requirements. It explores a framework that allows existing layers of character to coexist with new

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programmatic function while remaining adaptable to future uses. Remedium aims to ‘restore balance’ between new & existing elements on Garden Island while remaining sensitive to past uses, site relics, existing materials and historical planting. Remedium will shape, develop and interlink existing patterns by introducing materials and vegetation sensitive to those already on site.

Remedium is not to be seen as a ‘painting’ instead as a palimpsest, a collaboration between a landscape and maritime industry. It presents the opportunity to create a landscape character not defined by the picturesque landscape tradition that is found throughout many of Sydney’s historical parklands - but one that embraces its naval and industrial history.

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Site Masterplan Foreshore Promenade Paving Detail Site Sections Multi-use Square

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Voidscape

Peta Miskovich

“where there is nothing, everything is possible” (Rem Koolhaas) Voidscape is a response to the social shifts that have altered the physical makeup of the Woolloomooloo foreshore to create a new Urban Waterfront Park.

The selected site running along Cowper Wharf Road and extending to Victoria Street, Potts Point decommissions the Fleet Base Precinct located along the water’s edge (including the John Andrews Car Park) leaving a void on the shoreline of Sydney. Voidscape intends to transform this space and engage a large range of user groups from the CBD, Woolloomooloo and the Eastern Suburbs, bridging east/ west connections whilst also responding to its unique setting within Sydney Harbour.

Using modernist ideals derived from OMA’s Rem Koolhaas theories of the void and works such as Parc de la Vilette, systematic banding and programming are applied to the site. The programming was developed so that future changes and alternate programs could be absorbed into the urban waterfront, creating a vibrant every changing landscape that adapts to its time and never remains stagnant.

The site will engage with the waterfront to take advantage of the its unique setting, educating and delivering what can and would be an attractive addition to Sydney’s foreshores. In an area with some of the highest living densities in Sydney the sites evolution is critical to its success.

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Meta Evolution

Sophia Molodysky

Meta Evolution explores the possible outcomes of anticipating a performative second nature where the implemented ecological relationships, water management and microclimates become a part of engineering the future development of the site.

Meta Evolution establishes groundwork for applying various anticipated biological process in order to generate an urban environment with a range of vital spatial qualities, microclimates, storm water management, as well as the secondary benefits generated by ecological and social force available to all.

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Predetermining the future conditions, growth and uses of a landscape is inevitable. The specifics of environmental and social growth and interaction are impossible to predict in advance. Metaevolution suggests and implements a series of processes rather than determining a final resolved plan.

The design vision seeks to restore the lost balance between Garden Island, nature, man and Sydney harbour by implementing a wait-and-see strategy. In the future, Garden Island will evolve into an urban centre that celebrates the systematic relationships that have shaped it. This culturally and ecologically robust landscape will become an evolving iconic waterfront, attracting a diverse range of users who will come to interact at any time of the day.

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Adapted naval vessel bridge through developed estuaries Abstract hybrid evolution expression Key idea: educe abstract manipulated model Illustrative phase 3 2040 master plan Site character phasing

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Water inter/re action

Louise Mould

Woolloomooloo’s proximity to the harbour is one of its great strengths. While Sydney’s relationship to the harbour is always changing, there is an opportunity to redefine its edges, allowing improvement of people’s interaction with the water. Storm events are increasing, and the projected rise in sea levels is likely to have a serious impact on the area. This site provides a unique opportunity to demonstrate change by showing the rise in water levels and offers the ability for people to interact with them.

The current bleak aspect is dominated by a vast deck and asphalted areas.

The aim of this project is to change that circumstance, and to provide the opportunity for people to engage with the water in new ways. Learning from these experiences the designed landscape will react to the changing environmental conditions. It will embrace and celebrate that change, offering new opportunities to interact with.

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Masterplan Tides and projected rising sea level data Water interaction now Water interaction after sea level rise Changing site experience as water levels rise

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Connective Community

Jonathon Murray

Landscape Urbanism argues that landscape, rather than architecture, is more capable of organizing the city and enhancing the urban experience.

Landscape Urbanism describes “the ability to produce urban effects traditionally achieved through the construction of buildings simply through the organization of horizontal surfaces.” (Waldheim 2007, p. 37) The distinctive urban setting of Woolloomooloo makes it a unique place, thought it’s somewhat ‘disconnection’ from Sydney CBD and many social issues has brought about the demise within the center of Woolloomooloo. Connective community is a response to physical, social and cultural boundaries, this urban scheme seeks to break and mould these to create a new standard of inner-city connectivity and provide a unified sense of space and place for a growing diverse community.

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The experience of Woolloomooloo and its relationship with Sydney CBD and beyond through the use of connections and nodes in this project act as a precedent of how landscape is more effective for organising and enhancing the contemporary urban city.

The project uses the existing viaduct infrastructure as a catalyst to create linear public spaces within the existing urban fabric and establish a strong connection across the Woolloomooloo basin. The design seeks to integrate design principles of connectivity, diversity and community to form a central hub for the residents of Woolloomooloo as well as to create a point of interest for tourists and other Sydney residents. Connective Community - facilitating social and cultural diversity that will encourage a greater sense of community and a revitalised Woolloomooloo.

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Perspectives under and adjacent to viaduct Laneway integration perspective Paving into planting detail Site sections and furniture details Detail site plan

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The Agricultural Archive

Sarah Parbery

The concept for The Agricultural Archive spawned from the rich surrounding agricultural imprints left from our colonial and contemporary past, germinating the intertwining histories of Sydney’s agricultural past and its archival buildings.

The John Andrews Car Park is currently the Navy personnel car park located directly on Cowper Wharf Road, it forms a direct physical barrier between Woolloomooloo and Potts Point.

Behind its dominating façade sleeps a majestic sandstone escarpment whose dramatic rise is lost behind the car parks repetitive levels and walls.

To remedy these constraints I began exploring the site through abstract models which expanded my design process of the Agricultural Archive. Each model explored a defining factor of the design – ‘Agricultural

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Fields’ exposed the intimacies in contrasting scales, ‘Nature’s Flow’ revealed the importance of how the site must flow, ‘Voids’ made me appreciate the significance of the recycling of materials removed from the site and how they can further be used. Each model reflects not only the site qualities but also principles within agriculture, that is the varying scales, the flow of nature and recycling and reusing.

By reflecting on these histories The Agricultural Archive will bring a new form of agriculture to the city, intertwining into urban systems and adding a new chapter to the nation’s agricultural narrative.

This will in turn lead to the creation of a stronger connection between local producers and consumers, linking Potts Point and Woolloomooloo most intimately.

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Axonometric depicting spatial variations between the varying levels Perspectives and exploration through the three defined models Perspectives and exploration through the three defined models Masterplan and axonometric of the site Section – Access from Potts Point to Woolloomooloo

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Convergence An integrated social space for the Woolloomooloo community

Meredith Paterson

Open spaces promote a healthy urban environment and are increasingly important as densities rise. The Woolloomooloo basin is Australia’s most densely populated area and has nearby regional and small-scale parks but lacks its own community scale park. Located between the Potts Point escarpment and the grid of Woolloomooloo’s built fabric, the site consists of a poorly configured park and adjacent potential site that pays little regard to its landscape context. Grid alignments take priority over the landscape, with topography forced to conform to the built elements, resulting in disconnected and problematic spaces.

The existing park and adjoining site are ideal to create a more integrated and engaging social landscape within Woolloomooloo. Through the addition of a new western precinct the site links existing open spaces and enhances pedestrian and vehicular circulation.

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Through converging the topography and grid alignments, the proposal creates a safer and more engaging environment. Through implementing CPTED principles, activity generators and physical connections, the site has been reconnected and reactivated.

Through pulling, pushing and reforming the landscape, a more harmonious and engaging relationship between the grid alignments and topography is created.

The design enforces strong ties between the community and Plunkett Public School and encourages a communal sense of ownership and pride over the local park.

Convergence is a valuable new public open space that caters to the diverse local population, accommodates a wide range and scale of uses and promotes social interaction, benefiting the physical, social and psychological wellbeing of the Woolloomooloo community.

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Freestyle skatepark in Eastern Precinct youth zone Shareway and new street connections Freeform playground adjacent to Plunkett Public School Elevated northern terrace and detailed masterplan Sections facing east and west along Dowling St

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Edge Culture

Brigid Phelps

Edge Culture offers a landscape framework which improves urban connections while offering an innovative place for experiential reflection and complex programming. By re-envisioning the Captain Cook dry dock, naval programming is cleared and a new vertical park is to be situated in the dry dock void. This presents the opportunity for Garden Island to be inserted into the public open space framework of the city east. Naval programs become contained around the parks edges mixed with public venues. Promoting a mixed use precinct with the ability to stimulate economic and cultural development.

The vertical park will bury its programming beneath while activating the ground plan. Accessible from the precinct above, a series of terraces descend down the dry docks walls offers multiple layers of habitable space. The design within the dry dock offers a an experiential reflection of Sydney’s relationship with ‘The Edge’. This is five spaces which draw on coastal environments found along Sydney’s coast. The new park contains five main nodes each with overlapping functions creating a holistic space.

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Beneath The Green...

Hidden Landscapes Below Woolloomooloo

Nicholas Pierson

The site, sits under- used, under-developed & often over looked within the boundary of the Domain & adjacent to the Art Gallery of NSW & the Royal Botanical Gardens.

Beneath the grassed field lays the Navy oil tanks, built in the 1930’s to store oil for the Garden Island Naval base before being decommissioned in the 1960’s.

The oil tanks are now a hidden relic of our past interaction with the site.

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resources are reconnected in a way that they have not been for many years and in turn reconnected with Woolloomooloo.

The project becomes a blur of botanical garden, art & sculpture, & public park. The design acknowledges & celebrates our past involvement on the site through series of revelations. Natural process is brought to the forefront, being made highly visible and interactive via a series of water walls, rills & water channels that mimic natural process in artificial form. Overall, the project offers a view into other landscapes that would otherwise go unnoticed and unheeded.

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North – South Sectional Perspective Botanical Water Walk Perspective Botanical Water Walk Detail Light Well Perspective East – West Sectional Perspective

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Annexation

Natasha Polozenko

The next stage in the life of Fitzroy Gardens involves an annexation to incorporate the area of Lawrence Hargraves Reserve and Baroda Street in order to create a unified civic forum in the heart of Sydney’s urban landscape, which will collectively become known as “Fitzroy Gardens”.

The area of Fitzroy Gardens and Lawrence Hargraves reserve and the immediate surrounds enjoy the intrigue of a dramatic topographical landscape.

The study site is situated on a crest with topography on either side sloping down into Woolloomooloo basin and into Rushcutters Bay. This geographical situation of the study site has interestingly had major social and cultural implications.

The area exists as a buffer between the

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vastly distinct landscapes of Potts Point and Kings Cross, with its location within one or the other currently unclear.

The study area will maintain its character and charm as a public garden, as prescribed by its name, Fitzroy “Gardens”, however, will lean towards the functioning as a civic plaza. The site will act as a centralised meeting space, with provision for market use, food and wine festivals and outdoor cinemas, whilst the perimeter will be lined with cafes, restaurants, boutiques and specialty food stores. The landscape will reflect concepts of “Vitality, Sense, Access, Fit and Control” as established by Kevin Lynch’s framework describing “Good City Form”.

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Sectional elevations through site Perspective view of road crossing Perspective view of elevated walkway Site master plan Axonometric view of existing site

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Living Streetscape

Olivia Qian

My design focuses on transforming the existing streets into green streetscape contribute to Sydney’s network of open space. The design aims to achieve landscape quality of significant streetscape in the area with significant planting and grid form.

My design project begins with research question ‘How can existing streetscape be transformed to contribute to Sydney’s existing network of open space?’

I have chosen the site within Potts Point Neighborhood, because Potts Point has a strong street grid determined by the major north-south streets, Macleay Street and Victoria Street, marked by grand streetscapes and significant trees. Challis Avenue will strengthen as a neighborhood center and as a destination for unique streetscape and viewing opportunities.

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The site will encourage pedestrian movement, and slowing down the local residents and visitors for harbour view and being an activity node to meet others. In order to achieve those objectives, strategies used including firstly slow down traffic by providing only one way road. Secondly open up the view to the city by reduce barrier both visually and physically. Also widen and increase the footpath to increase pedestrian movement.

Therefore, my design can achieve a living streetscape that not only benefit for the local residents and visitors, but also contribute to Sydney’s existing network of open space.

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Master plan Perspective drawing for ESD Design Perspective drawing for tree planting Perspective drawing for Section drawing along Challis Avenue

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The Urban Spine Re-activating the heart of Woolloomooloo

Scott Sidhom

The Woolloomooloo basin is one of Australia’s most densely populated residential precincts, providing challenges for landscape architects with its confined and left over spaces. A streetscape can contribute to the physical and psychological wellbeing of its community and Forbes St in Woolloomooloo presents an opportunity to tackle the issues of social division and isolation occurring within the basin.

The proposal aims to celebrate Woolloomooloo’s rich history, integrate successful elements of nearby streets, utilize underused spaces, remove barriers and reconnect the basin. The intent is to promote a village atmosphere and strengthen the sense of community. The proposal considers how the buildings and landscape interact as one environment working in synergy, to maximize the engagement of the community with the streetscape.

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The Urban Spine, directly links the ridge to the bay and reconnects the basin through a multi-modal transport system that incorporates new street connections, a temporal shareway system, light rail, pedestrian and cycleway routes. Nicholson St intersects the spine as an east-west hinge linking the existing foreshore precinct with the new village centre, driving activity into the heart of Woolloomooloo.

Seven new activity zones engage the local community and enhance its social, cultural and physical dynamics. Through harmonizing the built and open space elements of the streetscape the identity of Woolloomooloo is strengthened.

The Urban Spine offers an exciting new streetscape that serves as a unified and valuable communal public space, reactivates the heart of Woolloomooloo and addresses the diverse needs of the local community whilst remaining flexible and adaptable.

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Central community plaza and northern village entrance ‘The Hinge’ detail plan ‘The Heart’ detail plan Sustainable transport connections and wellbeing centre Rooftop garden Sections through lower and middle Forbes St

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Echo-logy

Andy Smith

Our urban landscapes represent a tension between order and disorder, the organic and contrived, the familiar and the strange. Echo-logy studies these contradictions, illustrating an alternative to the traditional park, where the natural and artificial overlap to create unique and undetermined experiences.

The contemporary city has been influenced by the lucrative weight of capitalism, based off a structuralist model of design. Landscapes are created, and placed within the productive logic of a city.

The form of absence is rarely considered within this model, and only manifests itself as existing spaces and buildings become abandoned and obsolete.

Customarily, we try to reincorporate these places back into the constructive fabric of the city, and consequently the historical value of these places is often lost. The unique characteristics of these

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landscapes distinguish them from their urban context and in doing so offer an alternative to the current mode of design.

These places are defined by their lack of definition, and therefore are truly unique. Echo-logy attempts to explore these inimitable experiences possible on Garden Island, and use them to inform a design that challenges people’s perspectives.

Engaging this post-industrial site posed several obstacles that needed to be overcome to create a design sympathetic to the existing landscape. Attempting to design a space that could be used by the public without resulting in the intrinsic destruction of the site required several experiments with scale, materiality and spatial arrangement. Using existing industrial relics, Echo-logy retrofitted, integrated and shaped elements of Garden Island to accommodate a new program.

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Site masterplan Engaging industrial relics, and interpretive sculptural garden Insurgent ecology: Missile silo secret garden Adaptive reuse: Container park Detail design: Post-industrial headland park

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Thalassic Experience

Stephen Smith

Sydney has a natural setting on the harbour and its attractive inner areas provide a recreational destination for visitors to the city. With approximately $4.8 billion in tourism export is generated by Sydney each year. Sydney Harbour is the South Pacific’s most popular destination for cruise ships with approximately 150,000 visitors per year but unfortunately many of the cruise ships are getting to large for the current location of the cruise ship terminal.

The area of the Garden Island provides scope to direct some of the future city growth into the area. Central Sydney needs to maintain and grow its economic position as a global city in the 21st century and the Garden Island site therefore presents an opportunity to support the Sydney as a hub for tourism and growth.

The over arching principles for development of the site include:

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Achievement of an appropriate mix of uses on the site all aimed connect to the water; Creation of new harbour-side public open space and foreshore access; A new location for an international cruise ship terminal and hub for Sydney Tourism; Interpretation and expression of the site’s historical development;

The Western side of Garden Island area raises complex design challenges inherent in the redevelopment of reclaimed land once used exclusively for Navy and port-related activities and now proposed as new public open space, international terminal and new residential and commercial buildings while being environmentally sustainable and connecting people back to the water.

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A. Perspective view from the Pier towards the land B. Sections of the courtyard and Mangroves C. Master Plan

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Fulcrum

Jacqueline Stevenson

Fulcrum is a large scale development on the edge of Woolloomolloo’s north eastern peninsula which acts as a support or lever for a myriad of activities. The site surrounds the Graving Dock which is currently occupied by the Fleet Base East of the Australian Navy, creating a barrier between Garden Island and the mainland. Fulcrum is a post industrial site where a combination of waterfront leisure activities, residential and commercial land uses are supported.

Through transport interventions, landscape design and urban planning Fulcrum acts as a lever for a variety of activities that draw people into the Sydney Harbour and Graving Dock Foreshore. Fulcrum offers a high quality residential development of individually designed Australian terrace houses that overlook the Graving dock waterfront and Sydney Harbour.

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Amongst this residential development are passive and active open spaces that invite people to the waters edge through intricate landscape elements and high quality outdoor spaces for leisure, commercial and retail activity. The waterfront of the graving dock provides the residents and the public with a very unique main floating performance space, pontoon public swimming pools and restaurants. Fulcrum offers an intriguing retail experience along the waterfront with container shops characteristic of the post industrial materiality of the site essentially retaining a “sense of place’ within the site.

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Perspective | Container precinct Perspective | Floating Swimming Pool Perspective | Vertical Wall Landscape Masterplan Concept Sketch

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Re-Genesis: looking back to the future

Eric Sturman

The opportunity that has arisen by the sinking and redirecting of the Cahill expressway has allowed for the exciting introduction of a new green space connection from the city CBD to the isolated suburb of Woolloomooloo also providing an uninterrupted green link from the top of the Domain to the harbour through the Botanic gardens. The removal of the expressway and reduction of the land bridge connecting the Art Gallery and Mrs Macquarie’s Point will expose the large sandstone cuts created during the roads construction creating a canyon and providing an opportunity to highlight the sedimentary history Sydney.

By using the existing portal and tunnel at the eastern end of the site will allow for an amphitheatre structure and the tunnel will provide a new and expansive underground atrium.

The new green space will accommodate not only an expansion of the recreational space available to Domain park users, but will also incorporated pedestrian,

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bike paths and light rail links running west to east in a new lineal park.

The park displays environmental values by achieving earthworks and demolition balance of cut and fill and the reuse of materials on site for construction. The water on site and the surrounding areas will be passed through a wetland system and treated before being released into the harbour.

Programming will include an amphitheatre at the top of the park nestled into the portal of the Cahill expressway, a ribbon path system that curls through the site offering rest areas, tram stops and viewing platforms along its length.

The path system will highlight a new entry gate into the Botanic Gardens from the Domain, allowing the Botanic Gardens to be secured at night. The path ribbon will travel through the canyon at the bottom of the site allowing intimate access to the wetland plantings and systems.

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Site master plan Globe Amphitheatre cross section Gateway Wetlands long section Model photo Model render

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Reciprocal Acts

Breana Tabone

Is it possible to create a forecourt arena that delineates the significance of Woolloomooloo as Garden Cove and a working harbour, meets the needs of the local community and reconnects the iconic Finger Wharf back to Woolloomooloo?

Reciprocal Acts aims at ‘reconnect’ the iconic Finger Wharf to the surrounding suburb of Woolloomooloo, through a number of means. By considering historic, cultural and social needs of the community a forecourt arena at the base (or southern end) of the Finger Wharf is to be created to draw people from the surrounding Woolloomooloo Basin to a hub of activity whilst gaining better access to major facilities within the suburb and inner city regions of Sydney.

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In order to explain the design principles of this project it is appropriate to explore what is meant by a ‘forecourt arena’.

By definition a ‘forecourt’ is described as an open area in front of a large building, whilst an ‘arena’ is understood to be an area surrounded by seats for spectators, in which public events are held. So it is the aim of this project to create a public place or scene of activity which reflects on the historic, social and cultural needs of the local community.

Reciprocal Acts therefore makes reference to this idea of returning the land to the Woolloomooloo basin; its past as a working harbour, the original street layout and public transport networks are used to inform the design decisions made throughout this semester.

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Site Sections (Top; Active Arena, Bottom; Passive Precinct) Passive Precinct Active Arena Masterplan Commercial Precinct at southern end of site.

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Urban Stitch

Wil Whitfeld

As the cities grow and demand for space becomes an increasing problem, the implementation and rise of mass infrastructure during the post war period has left its trail of scarring and disconnection between suburbs and neighbourhoods.

The need to lead more sustainable lives is also as increasing as the earth’s natural resources diminish. Sustainable cities require not only efficient use of space but also an efficient public transport network and pedestrian friendly access.

The construction of the William St. overpass and recently the addition of the Cross City tunnel has resulted in a serious disconnect from Darlinghurst, Potts Point and Rushcutters Bay. Pedestrian access has been heavily impeded, small green spaces have been left producing dangerous pocket parks and a high pedestrian

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flow is forced through a topographical high point through one of Sydney’s most criminally active neighbourhoods.

‘Urban Stitch’ is a response to the visual and physical scarring produced by the William Street overpass. The project re-connect by stitching back together the pedestrian movement and space lost. Due to the areas’ high density and fine urban grain, the site provides new public open space and a new public building (either theatre or gallery) to give back to the community and create a new non-alcohol related attraction for the area. ‘Urban Stitch’ investigates : “How can a landscape response to infrastructure repair a dissected neighborhood revitalizing the local community?”

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View from eastern bridge Aerial Perspective Human movement through site Detail Design Site Master plan

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Via the Duct

Nick Zajko

Located within the heart of the Woolloomooloo Basin, Via the Duct is a social integration initiative aimed at assimilating the localised homeless community with the wider precinct populations through housing, employment opportunities and education. Major structure redevelopments made to the existing viaduct structure pave the way for a new circulation pattern, moving people through previously inaccessible spaces.

Streetscapes have been refurbished to now contain such things as lively, colourful Jacaranda avenue plantings, curb side bio-swales and a new cyclist pathways. A proposed light rail network has also been incorporated into the site, linking into the City of Sydney’s proposed light rail strategy, connecting commuters through the centre of the site, making for ease of circulation and way-finding. A series of new pocket parks and plazas opens up previously

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derelict and unused spaces, creating a vibrant, community orientated urban-scape.

New, landscape driven solutions to the issue of homeless street sleeping have been implemented in the form of small sleeping shelters, which are to be constructed in a designated city ‘camping park’. This camping park also provides passive recreation areas for its occupants through open greenspace, designated chess table areas and a fire pit and barbeque space. Connecting to this space is a productive community garden system, to be run by the homeless park occupants as a way of making an income and integrating these people back into the wider community. A new market space sits adjacent to these gardens, with opportunities to sell grown produce within this space, physically connecting the homeless community to the wider public.

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Master Site Aerial Perspective Construction Detail: ‘Urban Camper’ Homeless Sleeper Viaduct Transformation Section Viaduct Linear Train Plaza Montage Detail Site Plan

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Alumni Profile

“During my final year, I won an EDAW Summer Student Program in Colorado, USA and internship in London, UK. Over the past 12 years I worked for landscape architectural practices in both Sydney and Denmark. I opened my own practice, Elke Haege Landscape Architects, in 2009 and for the past four years I have been part of the executive committee for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture (AILA NSW) as well as being on the national advisory panel for education of landscape architecture. I am also a part-time lecturer at UNSW and have lectured in the Diploma of Arboriculture course at Ryde TAFE. I chose the landscape architecture program as it is very highly regarded and recognised in the industry. I entered the Flemings Nursery International Student Design competition in my 3rd and 4th year, becoming a finalist both times. This was very exciting as it involved being flown to The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Festival to construct my designs and be part of the festival. I was also awarded the UNSW High Achievers award in my final year at UNSW.

The social life at UNSW is also very vibrant. I was lucky enough to represent the uni in ski racing and was part of the Ski Committee for three years which involved organising social ski tours as well as helping to organise the ski racing teams. I also represented UNSW in basketball and took part in UNSW’s swimming training program.

Since graduating I have continued my professional development, studying horticulture and arboriculture at Ryde TAFE. Career achievements to date have included working on large scale master plans and public landscapes across Australia, Fiji, USA, Italy, UK, Denmark and China. Whilst at Context Landscape Design, I had the privilege to work on the award winning heritage landscape design of Babworth House in Darling Point, NSW. I was part of the award winning team who put together the Audley Master Plan and Conservation Management Plan for the Royal National Park. I also had the opportunity to work on the Urban Design Award winning development for Australand and Cox Richardson Architects at Greenway Views.

My advice to anyone considering studying landscape architecture would be to choose an industry and profession that you are passionate about so that it will be a fulfilling experience. Landscape architecture is not only about sympathetic design – it is about being good at communicating ideas, being creative and it is about understanding and respecting natural systems.”

Elke Haege BLArch 2001: Owner, Elke Haege Landscape Architects

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“I CHOSE THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM AS IT IS VERY HIGHLY REGARDED AND RECOGNISED IN THE INDUSTRY.”

Faculty of Built Environment The University of New South Wales Online be.unsw.edu.au Phone +61 2 9385 4799 Email fbe@unsw.edu.au