PARKLANDS & URBAN PUBLIC REALM

KINGAROY CULTURAL PRECINCT

Retrofitting and renewal of degraded urban infrastructure in a regional country town, to create a vibrant community cultural precinct. 

Landscape Principles in Practice:

• Value Our Landscape:  Design responds to physical, social and cultural characteristics of the local landscape, employing innovative community design process techniques to reveal previously ignored landscape values.  These values were then used to inform and facilitate a place-making process which supports the ongoing evolution of local cultural and public life. 
• Protect – Enhance – Regenerate:  Design & development ethic based on revealing and enhancing existing landscape values in the context of changing economic and social conditions of a rural town. 
• Design with Respect: Conceptualising buildings and landscapes as an integrated system has led to a townscape-oriented design solution rather than more conventional building-as-monument, landscape-as-decoration outcomes.   This approach respects the multifunctional contribution of landscape and uses it to augment inherent value in urban design solutions, rather than simply viewing landscape as an add-on capital cost & maintenance liability.  
• Design for the Future:  Community-led urban design processes build social and economic resilience, enabling greater capacity for innovation & adaptation in response to changing social, economic and environmental conditions. 
• Embrace Responsive Design:  Project demonstrates new directions for landscape architecture in guiding community-based development of cultural facilities to regenerate public life. Through exploring possibilities for innovative retrofitting and redevelopment of the urban public realm it is possible to demonstrate cost-effective models for social and cultural improvement in regional and remote urban environments.

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