Barangaroo Reserve - 9a Biennal 2016

Doug Findlay, Jay Swaintek, Peter Walker, David Walker

Named for an influential Aboriginal woman of colonial Sydney, Barangaroo is a globally-significant, 22-hectare waterfront renewal project that redefines the western edge of Sydney Harbor. In August 2015, Barangaroo Reserve was the first phase in the 3-district master plan to open. Barangaroo Reserve is the re-creation of a “Club Cape” headland that restores the visual geography of Sydney Harbor. Using industry-first technology, a concrete container port was reborn as a naturalistic park with more than 75,000 plantings native to the Sydney region. Guided by historical maps and paintings, the design of the headland includes a foreshore of 10,000 sandstone blocks excavated directly from the site. Walking and bicycle pathways separated by a low wall known as the “1836 Wall,” symbolically mark the original precolonial shoreline. Selected as Clinton Global Initiative and One Planet Living projects, Barangaroo Reserve kept the highest ecological goals always in sight. All existing materials were reused onsite and recycled to form the headland, including the caissons and asphalt from the container port. Hidden beneath the artificial headland, the Cutaway is a massive void formed through sandstone excavation operations to host art exhibits, performances, or a future Aboriginal Cultural Center. Barangaroo Reserve transforms a huge expanse of empty concrete into humane, usable space, marking the transformation of an industrial site into a modern reinvention of its more sustainable past.

Autors

Doug Findlay

PWP Landscape Architecture

Jay Swaintek

PWP Landscape Architecture

Peter Walker

PWP Landscape Architecture

David Walker

PWP Landscape Architecture

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