Melbourne University ~ South
Lawn
Overview
Landscape Architects:
Rayment & Associates (Ronald Rayment), Loder & Bayly, Bryce
Mortlock
Prior to the development of a 1970 Master Plan the university
had suffered from ad hoc planning and conflict between increasing
numbers of cars and students. The Master Plan determined
that the university grounds should consist of a series of outdoor
rooms of differing character with the common use of modular unit
paving. This would help unify the campuses disparate buildings.
The pedestrian precinct, South Lawn located in the heart of the
campus was designed by Rayment and Associates in association with
Loder and Bayley and Bryce Mortlock. This area is sited over
an underground carpark.
The space consists of lawn, broad
areas of paving for circulation, a water feature (designed to stop
pedestrians cutting across the grass) and deciduous trees. These
Platanus (London Plane trees) are sited over the carpark’s
structural columns.
The Landscape Architects created a restrained
yet elegant solution to this space based on modernist principles.
>> Link to article “The landscape of the University of Melbourne”
>> picture essay 2006
research prepared by Edwina
Richardson AAILA 2006
