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The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects champion quality design for public spaces, stronger communities and greater environmental stewardship. The 2015 AILA SA Awards provides a fantastic opportunity to share the collective knowledge, ideas and actions of our profession with the South Australian public. The diversity of entries provides a valuable resource to engage with government and allied professionals, demonstrating the leading roles local landscape architects can play in the better planning, design and management of the natural and built environment.

Thank you to all who have entered across the 5 categories of Design, Planning, Land Management, Research and Communication and Urban Design, and congratulations on the quality of the entries. From the first State Awards held in 2000, the diversity of projects that are undertaken and the roles and responsibilities held by landscape architects continue to grow. The awards are a chance to celebrate individual success as well as to demonstrate our collective value as design leaders within South Australia.

A successful awards program would not be possible without the support of our event sponsors, the time and effort of the Jury led by Dr. Jo Russell-Clarke and the commitment of our AILA SA Awards Committee. Thank you to all who have contributed towards the success of the 2015 AILA SA Awards and the celebration of landscape architecture.

I encourage you to share the digital awards publication with clients and colleagues to help further the awareness and recognition of our profession and the valuable role landscape architects play in shaping the future of our state.

Ben WillsmoreAILA SA PRESIDENT

FROM THE PRESIDENT

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The jury thanks all entrants of this year’s awards for a challenging and enjoyable day reviewing strong, diverse projects. Once again South Australian practitioners have demonstrated the breadth of their involvement in the thoughtful design, delivery and management of significant and richly varied spaces throughout Adelaide and the state.

Projects in the design category range from major multi-million dollar state investments such as the Riverbank Pedestrian Bridge, to streetscapes, local parks and intimate special gardens. We were pleasantly surprised to note the number of play spaces, including the cheerful Hart’s Mill playground in Port Adelaide and play-focused community parks such as the Playford Alive Town Park, both by ASPECT Studios. The hugely popular Bonython Park Playspace and a carefully delivered, tiny-budget Sensory Garden for Suneden Special School are by WAX Design.

Urban design, planning and management categories included some of the most significant and innovative developments in South Australia and beyond, all realised while focusing on understanding and communicating the unique qualities of specific locations.

A noticeable trend in the entries was the growing interest in and sophistication of various modes of engagement, whether with fellow consultants, clients or increasingly diverse users. This bodes well for evolving the profession to help with the ever-shifting socio-environmental problems we tackle.

On behalf of the entrants and the profession, the jury is eager to acknowledge the assistance of all those involved in delivering better landscapes, in particular our clients. Congratulations to all entrants and especially to our winners whose projects help everyone appreciate the value both of our created spaces and also of an energetic profession dedicated to making them places of exceptional experiences.

Dr Jo Russell-ClarkeAILA SA JURY CHAIR

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JURY

SKY ALLENSky has ten years of diverse experience wearing various hats that contribute to urban policy, planning, design and projects. With a ‘bower bird’ approach, Sky has moved around, sticking her nose in and gathering a motley collection of experience, knowledge, and tough lessons. This has proved valuable for a ‘landscape type ’working to make a contribution to the strategic design and planning of our urban places. Sky is currently a Senior Urban Designer in Design Strategy at Adelaide City Council. Prior to this she held roles in state government with the Integrated Design Commission (IDC) and the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, as well as HASSELL and Brisbane City Council.

DANIEL BENNETTDaniel joined Adelaide City Council in 2014 and is Council’s City Design and Transport Strategy Program Manager. He leads three diverse teams across Transport Strategy, Design Strategy and Design Projects within the City Planning and Design Portfolio. Between 2011 and 2014, he was the Urban Design Leader for the HASSELL/Arup led Sydney Light Rail project, and recently completed the feasibility study for the Capital Metro project for the ACT Government (Canberra’s light rail). Daniel continues to research the value of design in large city shaping projects and is an experienced, multi-award winning registered landscape architect.

MATT DAVISMatt is a highly awarded architect and urban designer with a rare combination of experience in private practice, academia and government. Coupled with his key leadership roles shaping significant projects and urban strategies, this background has afforded Matt a unique perspective and capability. As a strategic thinker and compelling communicator, Matt’s strengths lie in client relations, stakeholder and consultative negotiations and workshops, and capacity for developing creative approaches to difficult problems.As Director of Davis + Davis Architects, Matt is currently leading the master plan for the redevelopment of Football Park at West Lakes.

JERRY DE GRYSEAn ideas man as well as landscape architect, Jerry de Gryse is co-founder and director of Inspiring Place. Jerry has practice experience that ranges in scale from square metres to thousands of square kilometres and in setting from the city centre to the wilderness. In his work, Jerry seeks out the essential values of a place to understand how these influence the physical form of the built environment and the personal experience of outdoor space. Jerry believes that exceptional public spaces are created where the needs of people for a vibrant setting are integrated with a community’s vision for its place and environmental sustainability principles.

JO RUSSELL-CLARKE (CHAIR)Dr. Jo Russell-Clarke is a registered landscape architect and Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Adelaide. A graduate of RMIT she worked in a variety of roles with Melbourne-based practices, also teaching at RMIT and the University of Melbourne, and contributing design commentary to local and national public media before moving to Adelaide. She is active in design conversations and eager to widen and deepen the discussion and engagement of everyone with issues that affect our diversely lived and built environments. Jo is a co-host of The PLAN radio show and a regular critic and contributor to design forums. She believes that the activity of designing can and should be as emancipatory as the built outcomes.

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DESIGN

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DESIGN AILA 2015 South Australian Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence

AWARD ofEXCELLENCE

Photography : Don BriceClient: Renewal SA

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Photography : Don BriceClient: Renewal SA

DESIGN AILA 2015 South Australian Landscape Architecture Award

ASPECT Studios with Mulloway Studio // Port Adelaide Renewal: Harts Mill SurroundsPort Adelaide has had many well-intentioned attempts at revitalisation in recent years, however it is the Harts Mill project that has accomplished real changes to the public domain, enlivening a once ‘dead’ precinct, providing new activity and respecting a critical piece of the Port’s industrial history.

The effective collaboration of landscape architect and architect is evident – from the well-crafted playspace details, the short term ‘place made’ elements (such as the large trees in the reused yellow industrial bins), through to the adaptive reuse of the Harts Mill building. The project is an exemplar in design, place shaping and successfully respecting the context of Port Adelaide.

This award recognises the collaborative results of the local community, landscape architect, architect and client to realise a dream of ‘bringing life to the Port’. The Jury applauds ASPECT Studios, Mulloway Studio and Renewal SA for their tenacity, attention to detail and visionary approach to starting a new journey for the Port.

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Photography : Sarah LongClient: Renewal SA


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ASPECT Studios // Playford Alive Town ParkAs the centre piece of a major renewal project within a community familiar with socio-economic challenges and sceptical of rhetoric delivering on outcomes, this project carried high expectations. The Playford Alive Town Park rose to the occasion delivering a high performing space that is clearly well patronised.

The client and project team are to be congratulated for their emphasis on community engagement, evident in the development of targeted consultation tools and techniques and in reporting back with the public Community Brief.

The Playford Alive Town Park stiches together nine distinct precincts to create attractors for all ages of this diverse community. High quality, robust, bespoke furniture elements more than meet the challenge of injecting colour and excitement, as demanded by the community tired of the lack of bright hues in the area’s typical open spaces.

The Jury agrees with the client’s view that ‘ASPECT Studios is to be congratulated for creating a high quality, hugely popular place which the community truly feels it owns and of which it is immensely proud.’

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Photography : Dan SchultzClient: Suneden Special School


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WAX Design // Suneden Sensory PlayspaceWith little money and a lot of imagination, WAX Design have created a laudable sensory play space crafted to the needs of students with intellectual and physical disabilities and their challenges with sensory processing. Working closely with the school community, WAX came to understand the requirements of the school’s special charges through an iterative process of engagement.

The team’s response was infectious, their enthusiasm garnering support from local community groups, a nearby primary school, the contractor, UniSA’s Occupational Health Department and the school’s family. The result is a small but potent play space that creatively used the materials at hand and mixed these with off the-shelf items. These re-imagined elements excite and stimulate the senses, creating a space that prompts adventure, learning and discovery by the students. The project has become the focus of assessment and review by international universities in Ecuador and the United States, and has featured in a number of research papers about low cost approaches to play by children with special needs.

The jury is pleased to award WAX Design for their ability to make something special within the tight constraints of the budget available and for their commitment to listen, learn and respond to the challenging needs of the children of Suneden Special School.

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Photography : OxigenClient: Land Development Agency


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Oxigen // Kingston ForeshoreOxigen has been involved in key aspects of the development of Canberra’s Kingston Foreshore for over four years. The crafting of early controls has guided delivery of a contemporary, urban, post-industrial landscape which marks an updating of the Garden-City aesthetic of earlier approaches to Canberra development and waterside projects in particular. The Kingston Foreshore masterplan led to detailed design, documentation, and superintendence of all components of the public realm by Oxigen, leading diverse teams of specialist consultants.

The area has been transformed from an early power generation and later waste dump site into a location featuring successful mixed-use development with a clear focus on encouraging public realm activation and enjoyment.

This award recognises the whole-of-project involvement of landscape architects in long-term, staged delivery of high-quality built outcomes.

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Photography : Peter BarnesClient: Department of Education and Child Development


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JPE Design Studio // Marryatville High SchoolThe development of a new Learning Centre on the edge of the Marryatville school campus, was the launching pad for a comprehensive, landscape-driven master plan whose early outcomes have revitalised and enriched the school complex and its community.

JPE landscape architects undertook a discerning review of the site dynamics and presented strong arguments for bold moves. The master plan successfully illustrated the potential for ‘in-between spaces’ to become as important to school culture as the larger scale buildings and formal sport facilities. The well-considered harnessing of level changes and playful suite of furniture elements supports a vibrant student culture enhancing the School’s focus on art and performance.

The master plan promises a future expansion of this network of linked, social, usable places, across the campus, where previously banal and disparate spaces underperformed. The JPE Design Studio landscape architects are to be congratulated on the outcomes to date, which have demonstrated a rigorous capacity to convey and deliver new campus opportunities to staff and students.

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City of Marion // Rajah Street ReserveRajah Street reserve has been upgraded in a unique partnership between the Rajah Street community, The Roger Rasheed Sports Foundation (RRSF) and the City of Marion. Children and families living in Oaklands Park are now benefiting from an overhaul of one of the community’s major reserves, thanks to the generosity of the RRSF and their own drive, spirit and community capacity building.

WAX Design in collaboration with Ric McConaghy // Bonython Park PlayspaceThe playspace has revitalised the western Park Lands, creating a much needed destination for the communities of the inner rim. The combination of play and nature has created a valued asset which is now considered an exemplar play destination in South Australia.WAX Design worked with council and designer Ric Mcconaghy to create a high quality playspace that enhanced the existing Park Lands setting and incorporated reclaimed items, propriety play equipment and natural elements into an exciting new play experience.

City of Salisbury with HASSELL // Salisbury Civic Square RedevelopmentThis redesign and redevelopment of the Salisbury Civic Square to create it as a desirable/ useable destination for the local community for all generations. This project was seen as seed capital upgrade for the rejuvenation of the Salisbury City Centre, and as a stimuli for the proposed renewed Salisbury City Centre.

DesignWELL Landscape Architects in collaboration with MyHome Garden // Mary Potter Hospice Healing GardenAs patients and families are facing end of life, access to nature be-comes increasingly important. DesignWELL worked closely with the Mary Potter Hospice and stakeholders to create an uplifting, contem-plative and supportive environment where patients, families and staff can deal with their grief but also celebrate life.

DESIGNCATEGORY ENTRIES

Roderick Glen Illustrations

Dan Schultz, Sweet Lime Photo

Blue Razoo Photography

Tara Graham-Cochrane

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Oxigen // St Peters Street PrecinctThe importance of streets and civic spaces to the function and image of the city cannot be underestimated. The city’s public realm provides the most visible representation of the health of the city, a place for communication and celebration of community attitudes and values. The St Peters Street Precinct is an exemplary project that signifies Norwood Payneham & St Peters Council’s commitment to delivering vibrant public realm projects that enhance the economic, environmental and social sustainability of the city.

ASPECT Studios // Klemzig Oval UpgradeWorking with the existing master plan prepared for the site, the landscape concept was driven by Council’s strategic direction to remove the existing trotting track from around the oval and re-level the surface for improved connectivity with the park’s passive recreation assets and surrounding street network.The design includes a newly established sports oval with integrated drainage and irrigation as well as a significant upgrade of the existing recreation and community areas surrounding the oval.

Outerspace Landscape Architects// Pipers Crest EstateA large housing development in Strathalbyn, Pipers Crest Estate has achieved a successful blend of urban and rural character to suit the promotion of the development as a lifestyle choice within commuting distance of Adelaide. Outerspace developed the master plan for the development, and then designed and documented the streetscapes, entry statements and the main Reserve.

Taylor Cullity Lethlean with TZG// Riverbank Pedestrian BridgeThe Riverbank Bridge provides a vital connection between the city and the recently redeveloped Adelaide Oval. The elegant arc form connects upgraded and activated destinations at each end of the bridge, including on the south landing a new expanded restaurant and Festival Centre offices, outdoor dining, a new civic-scale stairway to the riverfront and an interactive and playful water feature. On the north landing activated areas include a plaza, grassed amphitheatre, a walking and bike path and a dramatic belvedere where a water wall aerates and cleanses the water of the river.


Oxigen

Don Brice

Don Brice

John Gollings

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Taylor Cullity Lethlean with Woodhead Architects// Adelaide AirportThe new Adelaide Airport Landside Infrastructure Project is a dynamic, world class gateway to South Australia and the City of Adelaide. Like Adelaide’s extensive plains and open skies, this project is vast. Works consist of a new flexible plaza, a waterfeature, a multi-storey car-park and sculptural metal mesh facade, a porte cochere and drop off, pedestrian bridge, taxi zone and shelter, roads and associated hardy Australian native plantings.

JPE Design Studio // Adelaide High SchoolThe new Learning Centre at the State Heritage listed Adelaide High School is a transformative project. In association with significant new building works, the re-development also includes a student court-yard, rooftop plaza and new school frontage. Subtly nourishing the school’s culture through the sensitive integration of the new with the old has reached beyond a functional brief to respond to the heritage of the school and significance of the site. In addition, historic and contemporary education practices have been explored and expressed to create new ways of learning that challenge convention.


Lyndon Stacey

Sam Noonan

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PLANNING

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Image :City of UnleyPLANNING AILA 2015 South Australian Landscape Architecture Award

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City of Unley // The Living City - Open Space StrategyThe City of Unley includes many of Adelaide’s most intensely populated suburbs. Whilst the charm of its tree lined streets and heritage housing is highly desirable, the availability of quality public green space remains a challenge. The Strategy not only ensures continued access to quality streets and parks, addressing a number of emerging pressures including an aging population, smaller homes, more single occupant dwellings, younger families and shrinking maintenance budgets. It also provides a blueprint for the establishment of new green spaces, ensuring too that emergent trends in inner city living are examined and catered for.

Through an analytical and design-led approach, the Strategy outlines current community needs and aspirations recognising too the importance of streets as open space. The establishment of four broad ‘goals’ – Emerging, Living, Moving and Greening – creates a simplified framework for achievement of the Living City vision. Well written, easy to digest and to use as a strategic document, it engages residents, businesses and elected members alike.

The Jury applauds the City of Unley’s public sector Landscape Architects taking a lead role to rethink and reshape our cities through the use of visionary yet pragmatic and deliverable documents.

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Image : OxigenClient: Renewal SA

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Oxigen in association with Woods Bagot// Greater Riverbank Implementation PlanThe River Torrens looms large in the history of Adelaide and in the mindset of its people. Constantly subjected to pressure for development, the Riverbank lacked a strategic framework to tie the disparate elements of the area together into a world-class destination.

The Greater Riverbank Implementation Plan does just that. It illustrates a way of holistically understanding multiple projects across multiple sites tying these together through landscape and public realm interventions. The plan is grounded in a concise, thoroughly researched analysis of its Aboriginal past and its recent history, the current demographic of the community and the prevailing policy and planning frameworks affecting the area.

The hand of the Landscape Architect is evident throughout the Implementation Plan – concepts are clearly illustrated, the text concise and to the point and the rationale for decision-making cogent. The Plan demonstrates the powerful contributions landscape architects can make in urban planning projects. The Jury is pleased to award Oxigen for their work on this project and for their continuing contribution to civic life in Adelaide.

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WAX Design in association with URPS and Phillips / Pilkington ArchitectsCleland Wildlife Park Master PlanThrough WAX Design’s masterplan, Cleland Wildlife Park will become a new benchmark for the ‘unzoo’ movement in Australia. Over the years and in keeping with changing attitudes toward animals in captivity, Cleland has moved from displaying native animals to a conservation role. However, this has not been reflected in the park’s environment and infrastructure. The masterplan aims to break down the barriers between visitors, animals and the environment, creating new experiences and encounters that lead to a greater understanding of the natural

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AILA 2015 South Australian Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence

AWARD ofEXCELLENCE

Photography: John GollingsClient: Adelaide City Council

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Photography: John GollingsClient: Adelaide City Council

Taylor Cullity Lethlean with TZG// Victoria Square/TarntanyanggaThe Victoria Square masterplan was the first fully endorsed masterplan for the site in over forty years, and the implementation of Stage One marks a significant turning point in transformation of this key place in the city. The many difficulties facing delivery of such high-profile public realm proj-ects renders the achievements of this stage a credit both to the vision of the masterplan as well as to the careful documentation of the first Stage.

Key features include an ambitiously improved central roadway that enables anticipation of future potential road closure, including temporary activation as a public plaza, an amphitheatre space that has already hosted major events, infrastructure for pop-up and temporary occupation at all scales, planting and temporary but significant shelters designed to allow for future installation of the ex-tended arbours for the whole Square.

The Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga Urban Regeneration Project managed a highly collaborative approach throughout its long development, with the landscape architects maintaining a generous relationship with consultants and stakeholders.

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Photography : Don BriceClient: Adelaide City Council

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AILA 2015 South Australian Landscape Architecture Award

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AtoB Wayfinding with Adelaide City Council // Adelaide City and Park Lands Wayfinding Strategy and Pilot SIgnage ProjectsThe Adelaide City and Park Lands Wayfinding Strategy is a deceptively simple project where the elegance of the solution reveals little of the rigour of the process or its transformative impact.

The Strategy is a concise document that cogently articulates the strategic context and physical parameters of the City, guiding principles and project objectives, a suite of signage, and tactics for staged implementation. At its simplest, the strategy does what it should. It outlines ways of improving how people might move around the City and Park Lands. But in doing so, it assists in reinforcing connections and establishing relationships between people and places, influencing the way people use the City. The clarity of the high-level strategic approach is supported by the careful consideration given to implementation, with and elegant and consistent illustrated library of parts. Particular care has been paid to integrating signage with existing and future infrastructure to avoid additional clutter.

The Jury is pleased to award AtoB Wayfinding and Adelaide City Council for their collaborative efforts in a project that reinforces the value of good design at all scales in all places.

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Photography : OxigenClient: Renewal SA

URBAN DESIGN


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In considering the Tonsley project, the jury moved this entry, seeing more merit in its achievements as an urban design outcome than as a discrete design project.

The Tonsley project sees the transformation of the former Mitsubishi factory into a mixed-use neighbourhood focussed on advanced manufacturing and innovation. Both the ambition and scale of the project are significant, evident most visibly in the retention and adaptation of much of the 11-hectare roof of the former Main Assembly Building.

This was the key strategic urban design move of the Tonsley Masterplan, prepared by Oxigen and Woods Bagot. The clarity and effectiveness of this strategic move is now apparent as a series of public realm and landscape projects are realised in, under, and around the Main Assembly Building. These projects range in scale from bespoke furniture, discrete Plaza’s and ‘Forests’ , to site-wide infrastructure such as lighting and wayfinding. Oxigen’s influence is evident in the clarity of ideas, attention to detail, consistency and care in the execution of each of these projects.

The Jury believe that collectively these projects demonstrate the value of integrated design as a central element of major urban renewal projects. The Jury are pleased to award Oxigen for the exceptional contribution they have made to such a significant project.

Oxigen // Tonsley

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Image : HASSELLClient : City of Unley

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The KWR Master Plan project is a strong suite of work that establishes a positive direction for the evolution of one of Unley’s important village hearts. The project has benefited from leadership by landscape architects as both client, and chief consultant, working in a collegial partnership.

The employment of the inclusive ‘design hub’ early on, demonstrated an understanding that for this fiercely contested public domain, meaningful engagement was critical for the master plan’s suc-cess.

The master plan contained well-informed articulation of demographic and retail dynamics, adept-ly shifting from principles and smartly illustrated objectives, to pithy project outlines with scoped costs and clear prioritisation.

The Jury believes this project illustrates how skilled landscape architects can successfully weave urban design, planning, engagement, place prototyping and programming to positively drive the future of public places. The Jury are pleased to award HASSELL and The City of Unley for their suc-cessful collaboration on the King William Road Master Plan.

HASSELL+ CITY OF UNLEY // King William Road Masterplan

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CITY OF MARION// Hallett Cove Foreshore Master PlanHeron Way Reserve and Grand Central Reserve are identified as a key future regional open space areas within the City of Marion. The site is located adjacent to the Hallett Cove Conservation Park which has world geological significance glacial rock and is a picturesque section of coastline including approximately 500m of Coast Park. The master plan incorporates a commemorative space, water sensitive urban design, arts & cultural opportunities, enhanced picnic facilities, entrance statements and signage, and a significant play space

ASPECT Studios // Adelaide City Council Green Infrastructure GuidelinesThe Guidelines provides a blueprint for Council to implement best practice Green Infrastructure solutions throughout the city of Adelaide. As a direct tool to combat climate change and the increasing urban heat island effect, the guidelines propose key principles, strategies and solutions focusing on greening streets, improving the city’s urban forests, implementing WSUD solutions and the adoption of integrated planting solutions within buildings (Living Architecture).

WAX Design in collaboration with URPS and SPUD Inner West Precinct Place Making StrategyThe Inner West Precinct Place Making Strategy began as a response to the government’s redevelopment of Bowden and community concerns over the gentrification of their suburbs. Responding to these imperatives, the strategy offered a planning framework that promoted community activation across the precinct. The strategy grew from a standard urban design framework into a holistic approach that combined contextual assessment, public realm strategies, place management opportunities, social policy and design propositions.

Jensen Planning + Design // Commercial Road North RedevelopmentLed by Jensen Planning + Design, the design team produced “For Tender” drawings documenting a new “shared space” where vehicles travel slowly, one way along Commercial Road. The Northern-most section of the street will be closed to traffic during the day to create a community park, water play and events plaza. On completion, the space will be transformed from a car-dominated environment to one that enhances the pedestrian experience, has changing events and artworks, unique lighting and furniture, plentiful shade and shelter.

Outerspace Landscape Architects // Mount Barker Town PlazaThe project is a key site in the Mount Barker town centre, located in the heart of the retail precinct and connecting the main street (Gawler Street) with Druids Avenue, an important feeder road to the commercial precinct. Outerspace were engaged by the District Council of Mount Barker to prepare designs for, and assist Council in, the creation, and revitalisation of a key public space and streetscapes in the heart of the town centre of Mt Barker. The final design included an urban plaza featuring custom designed seating walls, screens and arbors and streetscape upgrades.

URBAN DESIGNCATEGORY ENTRIES

Roderick Glen Illustrations

ASPECT Studios

Dan Schulz

Jensen Planning and Design

Outerspace Landscape Architects

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Photography : Matt BaidaClient : Churchill Trust

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Matt Baida has pursued his interest in this topic with great determination, following on from early studies as part of his Masters of Landscape Architecture. With the support of a Churchill Travelling Fellowship, he has recently had the opportunity to visit mines around the world, meeting with a wide variety of people involved with their construction and interested in their post-mine potential. His work is keen to build a more recognised place and informed voice for design professionals in post-mining developments. It acknowledges broad overlap of reclamation goals and landscape architectural knowledge and skills, but also limited influence and involvement.

The research has so far been disseminated at three international conferences and resulted in ongoing conversations within the Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources and Energy (DMITRE), as well as Matt’s inclusion on a project team for a mine closure program in Sweden.

AILA is pleased to recognise and encourage Matt’s research and the engagement and exposure it brings to the profession in an arena of critical significance to Australia and great potential benefit for all.

MATT BAIDA // Healing Wounded Landscapes: The Role of Landscape Architects in Achieving Post-Mining Sustainability

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HILARY HAMNETT & ASSOCIATES // Cycling Futures: Skilling Landscape Architects and Urban Designers for Design of Bicycle Parking and NetworksWhile landscape architects possess the skills to improve participation in cycling, there is currently limited guidance to determine and provide appropriate end-of-trip cycling facilities. The chapter examined a range of existing cycling facility research and guidelines. General recommendations were compiled to assist landscape architects in promoting cycling in the Australian context.

RESEARCH & COMMUNICATIONCATEGORY ENTRIES

Hilary Hamnett

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CITY OF ONKAPARINGA // Frank Hilton Reserve Landfill RemediationFrank Hilton Reserve , a 2.2ha former landfill site that closed in the early 1980’s, was poorly capped with ongoing drainage issues, failing infrastructure and limited recreational facilities. An innovative, collaborative design solution was developed by Council’s project team resulting in a ‘fit for purpose’ design solution to landfill remediation. This created a high quality public place encompassing a coastal themed playspace, picnic facilities, barbecues, shelters, limestone walls, shade sails, fitness equipment and native planting. The project was designed and constructed by City of Onkaparinga staff and has produced an iconic reserve, overlooking the pristine coastline of Maslin Beach.

LAND MANAGEMENTCATEGORY ENTRIES

David Sievers

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2015 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MEDAL

Photography : John GollingsClient: DPTI & Adelaide Botanic Gardens

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Photography : John GollingsClient: DPTI & Adelaide Botanic Gardens

This rich project is an astonishing achievement within close proximity of a capital city. Working with a varied team of experts, TCL have developed a beautiful and thoroughly engaging space that is also a sophisticated educational experience and engineering triumph. The complex opportunities of the urban hydrology at this entrance point to the edge of the Botanic Gardens have been realised.

The design and delivery of the wetland has pushed the expected boundaries of physical engage-ment with a seasonally shifting environment, permitting close contact with water, vegetation and the creatures that come to inhabit this oasis. Accessible trails are complemented with elevated structures and a series of experiential interpretative installations and art.

Complex aspects of the work involved in realising the project included contaminated site soil reme-diation, seed collection and propagation of rare wetland plants, selection of suitable plants for the difficult riparian zones, incorporation of education facilities for all students levels that comply with SA Curriculum Standards, and delivery of water retention and reuse capacity that will see the ABG fully irrigated from the site within seven years.

In considering the breadth and depth of research involved, the jury was excited to realise how the project has delivered a unique environment for the City; a place of great and changing beauty that introduces citizens and visitors to the many delights of complex landscapes. The jury rewards the intelligence, sensitivity and care of the designers in creating this special place.

Taylor Cullity Lethlean with SKM // Adelaide Botanic Gardens Welands

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PRESIDENT’S AWARD

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PRESIDENT’S AWARD

Photography : Chris OatenPRESIDENTS AWARD


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Photography : Chris Oaten

City Design and Transport TeamAdelaide City Council // The 2015 AILA SA Presidents’ Award is presented to the City Design and Transport Team within the Adelaide City Council. The award is acknowledgment of ongoing commitment to key design principles and aspirations for the City, highlighted through a number of pivotal strategic documents and delivery of innovative projects. It acknowledges the endeavour of building strong relationships, linking to the profession of Landscape Architecture and an immense support for AILA.

The award seeks to motivate the team toward its full potential and encourages further development of design leadership and negotiation with State Government and counterparts in order to strive for the best possible outcomes.

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FUTURE LEADER AWARD

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SUSIE QUINTON - HASSELLSusie’s broad project experience demonstrates her ability to think across multiple project scales and types, establishing emergent leadership qualities for the profession in South Australia.

Susie has worked on a broad range of local and interstate projects including Adelaide’s Rundle Mall, Festival Centre and St Clair Wetlands, as well as several interstate projects including the Perth Stadium and the West Connex road project in NSW. The Rundle Mall redevelopment provided Susie with exposure to a highly complex urban project and she was a key member of the detailed design and documentation team.

At the opposite end of the spectrum Susie has supervised the on-site delivery of the St Clair development which included the installation of significant scale landscape works and wetland systems. For each of these projects, Susie worked as a team member within multidisciplinary teams and has proven to be a very effective collaborator and communicator.

Susie has also successfully contributed to AILA nationally by chairing a subcommittee of National Council, the 50 Year steering group celebrating AILA’s 50 year anniversary in 2016. This will enable a year-long celebration of the profession’s contribution to society.

She has clearly made her mark within a smaller office of HASSELL and across a wider practice, and has demonstrated a positive demeanour, enthusiasm and commitment to the profession’s values. Congratulations!

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ADELAIDE REVIEW PEOPLE’S CHOICE

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As patients and families are facing end of life, access to nature becomes increasingly important. DesignWELL worked closely with the Mary Potter Hospice and stakeholders to create an uplifting, contemplative and supportive environment where patients, families and staff can deal with their grief but also celebrate life.

An underutilised area between two buildings was transformed into this important healing garden. Following the principles of Biophilic Design the design offers spaces to prospect and find refuge, to engage the senses, to laugh and to link to community. Opportunities to chooses where and how one uses the garden were created through the variety of public and private spaces including sanctuary and reflection gardens, memorial garden, children’s nook, outdoor dining and a sustainable edible garden.

DesignWELL // Mary Potter Hospice Healing Garden

Photography : Tara Graham-CochraneADELAIDE REVIEW PEOPLE’S CHOICE

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

AILA SA Executive // Ben Willsmore PresidentSharon Mackay Vice PresidentJanelle Arbon TreasurerJo Russell-Clarke SecretaryTim ClarkKate Naumann Ying Qian Aleck Whitham Craig LoveringHeath Edwards Immediate Past Co-PresidentAmy Pfeiffer Kate Semmler LSA RepresentativeJanine Fong SAILA Fresh RepresentativeDaniel Bennett ` National CouncillorCarina Green Immediate Past Co-President

AILA SA Awards Committee //Craig Lovering Tim ClarkSusie QuintonLaura Johnson

Graphic Design //Susie Nicolai Studio Pinata [email protected]

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