AILA Victoria
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
2011 AILA Victoria Landscape Architecture Awards
Design Awards: Urban Design
Project: Clifton Hill Railway Project Landscape
Practice: Jeavons Landscape Architects
Client: Department of Transport
The Clifton Hill Rail Project began as a key transport initiative to duplicate the railway track between Clifton Hill and Westgarth Stations. The result of which was an opportunity to deliver a landscape that stitched together the Merri Creek environs, a new rail bridge, pedestrian and cyclist needs and the local community.
The result is a beautifully executed landscape which demonstrates the integral role that a landscape architect has in delivering a multi-dimensional project varying in scale, programs, stakeholders, and contexts.
This project demonstrated sensitivity to social, cultural and physical contexts through an extensive consultation process with the community and various authorities. It also demonstrated the role of the landscape architect from the broad strategic scale to the detail resolution. The project focused on improved accessibility and community linkages but goes beyond a cycle routes and footpaths and creates a public space in an area that is generally forgotten. This is further developed through the use and treatment of the space under the bridge as a ‘Park.’
The jury were also impressed with the relationship the landscape architect developed between the Department of Transport and Melbourne Water and the opportunities that have resulted. The realisation of the strategic ambitions was demonstrated not just at a master plan level but also at the delivery intimate details such as the reuse of rail tracks within the vegetation.
This project delivers on a technically challenging project that balanced a range of expectations through a skillfully delivered and well resolved design.
Photography: Andrew Lloyd (excluding composite photo)
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