New South Wales Projects & Sites
University of Sydney, Camperdown Public Domain
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Landscape Architect: Jeppe Aagaard Andersen + Tinka Sack +Turf Design Studio
Location: University of Sydney Campus
Introduction
Campus 2010 is part of an $800 million, 20-year commitment to renew, rebuild and enhance the University of Sydney’s campuses and provide pioneering teaching, learning and research facilities. With an investment of $250 million, Campus 2010 is the largest single capital development program ever undertaken at the University.
Six projects make up the program which provide flagship facilities for teaching, learning and research; reclaim the University campus for pedestrian traffic and incorporate the University more seamlessly into the local community. The developments incorporate sustainable design features, including energy efficient technologies, passive solar design, high performance thermal glass, state-of-the-art building management systems and water sensitive urban design.
The program comprised the following projects:
Camperdown Campus |
Darlington Campus |
Law School (completed 2009) |
Jane Foss Russell Building (completed 2008) |
School of Geosciences (completed 2008) |
School of Information Technologies (completed 2006) |
Public Domain Project (completed 2009) |
Public Domain Project (completed 2009) |
In 2003, as part of its commitment to quality the University embarked on an international design competition for four of these projects – the Law School, Camperdown Public Domain, Jane Foss Russell Building and the Darlington Public Domain.
This submission focuses on the Camperdown Public Domain by Jeppe Aagaard Andersen + Tinka Sack + Turf Design Studio - lead consultants responsible for managing and coordinating a large multi-disciplinary team of consultants from master planning through to construction.
The submission also incorporates the landscape and public domain of the Law project in which Jeppe Aagaard Andersen + Tinka Sack + Turf Design Studio were directly appointed by the University to collaborate as landscape architects with the FJMT project team.
Camperdown Public Domain & Faculty Of Law
Sydney University is Australia’s oldest. Its iconic landscape of Figs and Jacaranda and fine buildings by Barnet, Vernon and later, Wilkinson, Woolley and now Francis-Jones proudly inhabit the ridge; looking out to Victoria Park and the city and beyond. The fundamental task of our project was to plan a new layer of works; creating a public domain that respects what is there and adds new meaning, whilst providing for the day to day needs of the campus community.
The fundamental intent was to create an entirely new spirit in the centre of the Sydney University, opening the University to the city, Victoria Park and the local community by transforming a vehicular based campus into a vibrant pedestrian precinct.
The Camperdown Public Domain unifies an eclectic and complex University setting using a simple, functional structure generated from respect for the University’s rich cultural heritage.
The design gives new strength to an existing pedestrian corridor, linking the northern and southern campuses, a processional of banded granite paving under a bold alley of Sydney Red Gums. Robust details from quality materials will develop a rich patina becoming more beautiful over time: views towards the city are amplified and maintained; and universal access integral to the design.
Water and its management are a key component of the project – all surface water is harvested via granite drains, tree pits and rain gardens then stored below ground for reuse in irrigation. A simple basin made of granite and stainless steel, located at the main city entry also uses the recycled water in ‘a mirror to the sky’.
Time Schedule: design & documentation: three years, Construction: two years
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