DESIGN
Project: East
Coast Interpretation Centre
Entrant: Inspiring Place in association with Susan
Small
Client: Parks & Wildlife Service Tasmania
This
project exhibits extreme site sensitivity and the deft hand of experience
resulting in an outstanding finished project. Inspiring Place provided
substantial in depth analysis of the site and comprehensive review
of future East Coast tourism markets. Consultation and intensive onsite
design workshops reveals the success of immersing a multidisciplinary
team into the site and supporting a strong consultative process. Collaboration
with Susan Small resulted in design development and documentation of
the project which positively guided the resulting architectural and
engineering design solutions.
The
resulting design and landscape has integrated site rehabilitation
and site development with an uncanny sense of placemaking.
Universal access
and heightened experiential opportunities to raise the
visitor’s
environmental consciousness is undeniable. This project
is a celebrated model for multidisciplinary teams to consider
for
future opportunities
and projects.
DESIGN
Project: Cape
Barren Island Multi–purpose Building Complex
Entrant: Inspiring Place in association with Maggie
Fooke
Client: Cape Barren Island Aboriginal Association Inc.
This
significant project reflects the value of an inclusive collaboration
process between the landscape architects Inspiring Place, landscape
artist Maggie Fooke and the client / community group. The built
project is impressive and richly detailed, expressing the landscape
and cultural values of Cape Barren Island through the innovative
use of local materials, and the graphic representation of locally
iconic images within key components of the design.
The
project has also achieved positive social and community benefits.
This included training for local unemployed Aboriginal people who
were involved in the artworks, landscape construction and planting
components. This involvement has fostered a sense of ownership
in the project, helped to improve the local skill base and ensured
that around half of the project funds were retained within the
Community.
PLANNING
Project: Franklin
Township Plan
Entrant: Inspiring Place
Client: Huon Valley Council
The
consultants were considerably challenged undertaking this project
- to create an integrated township ‘whole’ from an
unconnected, elongated ‘through road.’ They approached
the task with sensitivity for the community’s views, building
in a series of stakeholder consultations, thus ensuring that the
resultant Plan is an expression of the whole community’s ‘sense
of place’.
Important
linkages with the cultural heritage of the township and its environs
have been incorporated into the Plan. The consultants have re-aligned
the township’s focus away from the road to the upgraded and
redeveloped recreational and public open space areas fronting the
Huon River. The consultants’ ability to liaise with external
agencies to achieve desirable outcomes, eg traffic management,
was an important aspect of the acceptance of the Plan by the community
and client.
Another
notable element of the Plan is the creation of a new environmental
experience - the transformation of degraded, unsightly and inaccessible ‘wastelands’ at
either end of the township into wetland areas which incorporate
pedestrian access.
A
considered mix of visual representation techniques and graphic
media were employed throughout the consultation process. Sensitivity
for the client’s financial constraints in implementing the
Plan was taken into account by providing for a 'modular' and staged
approach.
This
Plan may serve as a model for many other Tasmanian country towns
faced with similar streetscape issues.
ENVIRONMENT
Project: McRobies
Gully Landscape and Revegetation Plan
Entrant: Hobart City Council, Tecton Projects
Client: Hobart City Council- Waste Engineering
Unit
This
project demonstrated clearly an interdisciplinary response to
a highly emotive and contentious site, Hobart Tip located on the
edge of the city and on the edge of Hobart’s majestic Mount
Wellington Range. The creative use of the firewalls linear planting
strips to gain height from the revegetation was well resolved.
This
project exhibits in depth planning and a willingness to undertake
experimental growing trials in order to achieve successful and
economical future planting outcomes. The final species selection
will be tried and proven and selected from local endemic species,
thus allowing tonal blending and visual amelioration of the site.
This project provides a refreshingly simple response to a difficult
task whilst engaging in sustainable practices.
