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JANE IRWIN

“Design Parramatta is an exciting urban design project that harnessed the

‘complementarity’ of landscape architecture, architecture and art to shape

the future of Parramatta city centre. The project captures the City on the

brink of major change, and takes a whole of city, rather than project by

project approach, to urban design, to set up a coherent framework for urban

renewal.

Nineteen multi-disciplinary teams were engaged for 16 sites, with some

teams working together at the edges of their sites to coordinate outcomes.

It was a hothouse process of analysis and design, investigating place

physically and culturally as a basis for high level concepts. Teams shared

their exploratory work in a first workshop, and the ideas for sites in a second

workshop. All the projects were enriched by the workshops and design

panel feedback.

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects congratulates Design

Parramatta for initiating such a brave project. It engaged so many landscape

practices in a collaborative, creative way; it generated energy and excitement

about urban design, and will help to highlight the role of landscape

architecture in the making of cities.”

President, The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects NSW

“The Creative City idea advocates the need for a culture of creativity to be embedded within how the urban

stakeholders operate. It implies reassessing the regulations and incentives regime and moving towards a

more ‘creative bureaucracy’. Good governance is itself an asset that can generate potential and wealth.

By encouraging creativity and legitimizing the use of imagination within the public, private and community

spheres, the ideas bank of possibilities and potential solutions to any urban problem or opportunity will

be broadened.”

Pg xxii - Charles Landry – The Creative City, London 2012

PETER POULET

“Parramatta is on the cusp of an exciting and reinvigorated future. The

City has bravely engaged with its community and many creative people to

speculate creatively about its future. This has taken leadership, innovative

thinking and trust in our architects, landscape architects, artists, poets and

dreamers.

The Design Parramatta initiative highlights the understanding by Parramatta

City Council that our built environment can enhance our quality of life

and generate economic prosperity. The Design Parramatta initiative has

harnessed the creativity and innovation of many talented people and

has highlighted the potential our urban environment has in building and

celebrating our communities.

With this critical understanding Parramatta City Council has played a pivotal

and inspirational role. I commend Parramatta City Council for embarking on

this initiative and in taking the first steps toward a renewed and revitalised

public realm.”

MATTHEW PULLINGER

“Our greatest cities are each very different, but have at least

two things in common — strong leadership with the vision to

imagine a better future, and a constituency that understands

what that vision means and why it’s important.

The rest of city making, although often complex and

protracted, cannot exist without these two preconditions.

But it is also the part of city making where design becomes

the dominant factor. Design determines the quality of a

place, its amenity, attractiveness, efficiency and cohesion.

And it’s where great design makes a critically important

difference.

Design Parramatta demonstrates a deep appreciation for

each of these elements — a strong, community-based

vision for the future, and a collaborative, team-based design

process to give physical expression to this vision.

Landscape architects, architects and urban designers all

possess different perspectives, but share a skill set and

training in design that is quite unique. Harnessing this ‘design

thinking’ is a powerful way to imagine and communicate an

alternative future for the places we know and love.

While change can be a confronting process, cities have an

almost limitless capacity for accommodating renewal and

reinvention. The important point is that change can be good

or bad, it can be embraced or resisted, and quality of design

is usually the difference between one and the other.

The Australian Institute of Architects is very proud to lend its

support to Design Parramatta. It has been a powerful model

demonstrating the value of good design. It is also a great way

to communicate with a passionate, engaged community.

In this context, it is clear that Parramatta has not only a rich

heritage but also a very bright future.”

President, The Australian Institute of Architects, NSW

Introduction by Chief Executive Officer Dr Robert Lang

A joint project between Parramatta City Council and the NSW Government

Architect’s Office, Design Parramatta represents a considerable step forward

in the future development of Parramatta — and with the concentration of

residents, businesses and workers set to increase markedly over the coming

years — this is a significant project that has the potential to deliver a number

of positive community outcomes.

Comprising different groups of multi-disciplined talent, including urban

designers, architects, landscapers and artists, the Design Parramatta

participants have collaborated impressively to bring to life their collective

vision for the City’s spaces.

The results of this intensive project speak for themselves, as you will see over

the coming pages.

From a local level — taking into account the diversity of our community —

to the bigger picture and how Parramatta is poised to drive Greater Sydney’s

growth, Design Parramatta will transform how the City is seen and experienced.

The next 12-18 months are going to be an exciting period, no doubt

galvanised by the recent launch of the new City Identity, Parramatta: Future

Generation which captures the energy and positivity for Parramatta’s future.

Design Parramatta builds on our new identity and reflects Council’s

commitment to the delivery of future urban spaces that connect and interact

with both people and place.

From Parramatta Square, to the river foreshore, streets or lanes, we aim to increase

engagement with young entrepreneurs and new business owners, inviting

them to explore the possibilities of the area — and simultaneously, to provide

opportunities to urban designers, architects and artists to activate and renew the

City’s spaces, drawing on the following concepts as inspiration and facilitation.

Through initiatives like Design Parramatta, the City will strengthen its

growing position as a vibrant and inspired place for businesses, visitors,

residents and workers.

I’d like to congratulate everyone involved with this exciting initiative and look

forward to seeing many of these concepts brought to life over the coming years.

“Design Parramatta builds on our new identity and

reflects Council’s commitment to the delivery of

future urban spaces that connect and interact with

both people and place.”

Introduction by Lord Mayor Councillor John Chedid

I am proud to present to you this inspiring collection of designs from the

Parramatta City Council Design Parramatta initiative.

The 19 concepts laid out inside these pages provide a visual blue print of

the future of our city centre.

I congratulate the 65 participants who gave their talents, expertise and

energy to creating these concepts for Design Parramatta.

This project was about re-imagining our City, especially spaces that are

run down, underused, neglected and need rejuvenation.

Some of the places identified include the Church Street Mall and the

River foreshore.

Revitalising these areas will provide our residents, workers and visitors with

a better experience of the City.

Design Parramatta will complement the city building projects that Council

already has underway, such as Parramatta Square. It will also be used as a

blue print for Council to prioritise works and lobby the State and Federal

Governments for funding.

This project comes at an exciting time in Parramatta’s development and I

am excited that some these big ideas may soon become a reality.

Again, I offer my congratulations to everyone who took part, including the

Council team that has driven this project, and the participants.

The final Design Parramatta concepts can be viewed online at

www.designparramatta.com.au as well as an exhibition in 2013.

“This project comes at an exciting time in

Parramatta’s development and I am excited that

some these big ideas may soon become a reality.”

ContentsPART 1

PART 2

PART 4

PART 3

Projects 28

Introduction to Projects 31

Main Streets 32

George Street 34

Macquarie Street 40

Phillip Street 46

Parramatta City Ring Road 50

Public Spaces and Parks 56 River Square 58

Charles Street Square 64

Horwood Avenue Civic Link 70

Church Street Mall 76

Clay Cliff Creek Parklands 84

Smith and Station Street 90

Lanes 96 Freemason’s Arms Lane 98

Barrack Lane 108

Erby Place and Lane 13 112

Wenworth Avenue Car Park and Lanes 118

Batman Walk 124

Art and Experimental 126 Lonely Laneways 128

A Space for Urban Follies 130

Parranet 132

A Place in the Sun 134

About 12

About Design Parramatta 15 The Public Domain 16

The Importance Of Design In The Public Domain 16

City Foundations 17

A Designed Process 17

Building From Precedents 20

An Iterative Approach 20

Multi-disciplinary Collaboration 21

What Happened When - A Timeline Of Events 24

The Parramatta City Centre Public Domain Framework Plan 2012 148

Student Projects 136

PART 5 Credit 156Teams 158

References 162

PART 1 /

ABOUT

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PART 1 /

ABOUT

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Design Parramatta is a collaborative project to revision

Parramatta City Centre’s public domain. Undertaken by

Parramatta City Council in collaboration with the NSW

Government Architect’s Office, the project invited multi-

disciplinary design teams to participate in a six week

intensive design event. A total of 19 concept designs

for public spaces were created to form a conceptual

masterplan and provide a catalyst for transformation of

Parramatta city centre’s public spaces.

The 16 project sites

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About Design Parramatta

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”

Marcel Proust

Parramatta City Council has committed to a program of rapid

growth and change and recognises that an improved public domain

is vital to supporting the City Centre’s planned renewal and providing

the necessary amenity for attracting and retaining new residents and

employees who will drive the City Centre’s sustainable growth.

Design Parramatta captures a diverse ‘palette’ of creative input across

Parramatta City Centre’s public domain at a strategic moment in

time; creating a new vision for its streets, parks and public spaces. It

has increased design involvement in shaping and refining Parramatta

City Centre’s public spaces and introduces many architects,

landscape architects, artists and urban designers to Parramatta.

The Design Parramatta project provides the City Centre with;

• concept designs for 15 sites and four art projects

• an appreciation of the distinct identities that can be drawn from

the individual characteristics of each of the sites

• a rich palette of design approaches and elements

• a set of plans and images that describe each of the concepts and

can form the basis for community discussion and engagement

• a Public Domain Framework Plan to help shape the ongoing

development of Parramatta City Centre’s public domain.

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THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

The public domain, comprising streets, parks and public spaces is the shared,

social, cultural and democratic heart of the city. It forms the common access

point and provides shared amenity for all the city buildings, utilities and

institutions. An expanded and improved public domain is pivotal to a vibrant

and successful city.

Design Parramatta focuses on the public domain because of its pivotal role in

shaping the way people experience Parramatta’s city centre. The absence of

differentiation and individual character in its streets and public spaces, create

an overall lack of memorable image for Parramatta’s city centre.

THE IMPORTANCE OF DESIGN IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

The many benefits of high quality design for cities have been recognised

internationally. As cities become denser and more complex, the adoption of

a design framework becomes increasingly important to resolve competing

demands and ensure high quality, well integrated buildings, streets and public

spaces. Additionally as most public domain elements are built over time and

as a series of discrete projects, a strong framework or masterplan ensures

that sequentially developed elements create coherent and attractive streets,

spaces and places.

“Well designed and maintained public spaces should be at the heart of any community. They are the foundation for public interaction and social integration, and provide the sense of place essential to engender civic pride.”

Lord Richard Rogers

Pritzker Architect and Chairman Urban Task Force,

London 19981927 - Parramatta survey of

the town in 1822, compiled

by J.F. Campbell

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CITY FOUNDATIONS

Parramatta began life in 1788 as a planned settlement with a fine street

grid, excellent transport connections and many significant buildings and

institutions. The City of 2012 has a clear and legible street and block structure

due to its early Georgian street grid, riverside location and relatively flat terrain.

In recent times the Parramatta City Centre Local Environmental Plan 2007

and Development Control Plan 2007 have provided a solid framework for the

ongoing development of Parramatta’s buildings.

Design Parramatta builds upon a number of existing urban design resources

to generate a complementary framework for Parramatta’s public domain.

These include:

• the Parramatta Civic Improvement Plan 2007

• the Parramatta City Centre Lanes Strategy 2010

• the Parramatta Public Domain Guidelines

A DESIGNED PROCESS

Design methodology typically uses analysis, synthesis and an iterative process.

Recent research has highlighted the importance of creativity in creating new

approaches. This is particularly powerful when previously unrelated ways of

thinking or disciplines are brought together in new and novel relationships.

The iterative design process can be summarised as follows:

define > analysis > synthesis > review and feedback > concept

Two mapping series created

a shared foundation for the

Design Parramatta design

projects; the Urban Design

Analysis series and the City

Design Strategy Mapping

series. These seven images

are from the Analysis series.

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BUILDING FROM PRECEDENTS

Design Parramatta builds upon the methodology of a City of Sydney project

entitled Sydney Spaces that was undertaken in 1995. The latter project

initiative generated public domain concept designs for a variety of city

streets and spaces. The designs were sought simultaneously from a range

of designers in order to create a collective blueprint for urban renewal. The

outcome of this initiative was a diverse palette of concepts which were

compiled into a publication, further developed over time, and the majority of

which were ultimately built.

Design Parramatta utilised a similar approach borrowing a number of the

most successful elements of this precedent project. These were:

• the undertaking of a suite of strategically selected public domain projects to

inform the overall development of a city

• the adoption of an intensive program format to ensure focus and

engagement by parties

• the selection of a diverse range of designers to ensure a variety of design

input and approach

• the deliberate matching of designers to projects based on individual project

characteristics and design team strengths.

Design Parramatta distinguishes itself from Sydney Spaces by utilising

an iterative approach and promoting discourse and collaboration by all

parties across all projects. This approach allowed the project to evolve in

a responsive manner and ensured that the resulting framework would be

developed as a series of interrelated projects.

AN ITERATIVE APPROACH

Design Parramatta was deliberately programed to incorporate an iterative

approach. Key components of this included:

•ongoing engagement by the project team with a range of Council

stakeholders throughout the project

•opportunities for direct interaction between designers and Council

stakeholders through the intensive workshop format. Design presentations

were hosted as group events where design teams could view other team’s

work and received feedback from Council and a design panel.

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• a website set up to facilitate sharing of information and approaches served

as a tool for sharing public information about the project and provided a

design hub to generate discussion and professional collaboration between

the designers and project team.

•written feedback provided to design teams mid-way through the process

captured key points of overlap between projects and prompted specific

discussion between relevant teams.

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION

Design Parramatta supported a multi-disciplinary collaborative approach by:

• embedding collaboration within the project team and combining the

technical expertise and local experience of a number of teams within

Parramatta City Council with strategic input from the NSW Government

Architect’s Office

• undertaking a range of design projects simultaneously to allow projects to

be developed cognisant of nearby design project developments

• selecting a range of scaled projects to suit a range of experiences and

teams

• encouraging design work to be undertaken by multi-disciplinary teams from

different backgrounds and disciplines

• encouraging student engagement with the project through the University of

Sydney urban design studio

• creating a website and a film to facilitate engagement and collaboration

with the community in the next steps of the design and construction

process.

Workshops were held at Information and

Cultural Exchange Studios Parramatta.

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Workshop 33 September 2012

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Teamwork and collaboration have been identified as shortcuts to

increasing creativity and new approaches in many areas of human

endeavour. Recent research has shown that major developments

are more likely to occur when a new point of view or skill is

merged with an existing discipline.

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JUNE 2012

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Design Parramatta invited participants to become involved

in the project through an Expression of Interest process.

Key public and professional media were approached

and multi-disciplinary design teams were invited to form

specifically for the project and apply to participate.

Conceptual design and public domain experience were

listed as key criteria in the selection process. Teams were

selected for their demonstrated expertise in high quality

conceptual design and their ability and experience in public

domain projects.

What Happened When - A Timeline Of Events

MAY 2012

PROJECT ESTABLISHMENT

OVERALL PROJECT SCOPING

The Design Parramatta concept was defined and

scoped as a collaborative effort between Parramatta

City Council and the Government Architect’s Office. A

graphic design agency, Doppio, was also engaged to

assist in project communications.

The project scoping was limited to the concept design

stage only to ensure the first stage of the Design

Parramatta project would be delivered as a sketch plan.

The intention was to provide a wholistic outline for a

future city that would not be dominated by any single

style or project and could be used as the basis for

community consultation and the preparation of a whole

of city public domain framework plan.

INDIVIDUAL PROJECT SCOPING

Concise briefs were developed for each project

clarifying the project scope, program and key aspects

of the existing site and context. Each brief provided site

specific background information, a succinct project

objective, a listing of major constraints, directions to

key resources and a scaled plan. A collection of shared

resources were also collated and uploaded to the

project website.

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3O JULY 2012

THE DESIGN EVENT -

THE FIRST WORKSHOP

The first workshop was a half-day

event and served as an introductory

session to introduce the selected

design teams to the Design

Parramatta initiative. The Lord

Mayor of Parramatta welcomed

participants and the designers were

able to meet with the project team,

key stakeholders from Council

and intermingle with one another.

A synopsis of each of the project

briefs was on display and the

forum provided an opportunity for

participants to ask questions and

begin conversations.

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THE DESIGN EVENT -

THE INTERIM WORKSHOP

The interim workshop was held two

weeks into the process and was an

opportunity for designers to present

their first ideas on each of the 19 city

centre projects. The full-day workshop

was attended by a design panel and

was structured to allow projects with

similar themes to be presented in the

context of one another. Each team

presented site analysis drawings as

well as preliminary concept designs.

It was a forum for hypothesising,

testing ideas and receiving critical

feedback. The event included

participants from each of the

design teams, a range of Council

representatives and a distinguished

design panel.

A film crew was in attendance to

record the event and each of the

design teams received written

feedback in the following week.

3 SEPTEMBER 2012

THE DESIGN EVENT -

THE FINAL WORKSHOP

The final workshop was held at

the end of the design event and

was the culmination of the Design

Parramatta initiative to date. Similar

in format to the interim workshop

it was held as a full-day event with

the design panel and design teams

in attendance throughout the day.

Each design team was required to

present analysis drawings, conceptual

design drawings and 3D images of

their projects to enable others to

understand the design thinking that

led to a particular solution and how

the scheme may eventually appear.

The images also demonstrated

how the proposal would change

the existing site and facilitate future

communications with the Parramatta

community regarding the proposals

in order for them to make comment

and provide feedback to guide the

next steps.

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Exploration through scaled drawings, plans and models:

‘A picture tells a thousand words’

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FEEDBACK ON THE PROCESS

The workshop and group presentations were

one of the most successful elements of Design

Parramatta to date. Many participants expressed

enthusiasm, appreciation and delight at the

opportunity to present, review the work of other

designers, and to receive similar feedback of

their own. Similarly, Council staff expressed

appreciation at being able to see projects unfold

as works in progress. For many it was surprising

to witness the design process, the many changes

and iterations that can occur, and the huge

range of factors that are brought to bear on any

single city centre design project.

PART 2 /

PROJECTS

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PROJECTS

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Freemason’s Arms Lane

Barrack Lane

Erby Place and Lane 13

Wentworth Avenue Car Park & Lanes

Batman Walk

Blank Canvases

River Square

Charles Street Square

Horwood Avenue-Civic Link

Church Street Mall

Clay Cli­ Creek Parklands

Smith & Station Streets

George Street

Macquarie Street

Phillip Street

Parramatta City Ring Road: Victoria Road, O’Connell, Parkes and Harris Street

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Plan of Design Parramatta Project sites

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Introduction to Projects

“ ...the best way to predict the future is to design it”

Buckminster Fuller systems theorist, architect, engineer,

author, designer, inventor, and

futurist, 1895 – 1983

Design Parramatta incorporated 15 sites and 19 projects within the Parramatta

city centre. Each of the projects were either selected for their individual

importance or their ability to contribute in a temporary or permanent way

towards the City Centre’s program of urban renewal. As a group, the selected

sites reflect the complexity of the city centre and provided a canvas against

which teams of varying levels of experience could participate. This in turn

encouraged diverse designs reflecting the city’s scale and dynamism.

Based on type, scale and program, four main groups of projects developed.

•Main Streets

• Public Spaces and Parks

• Lanes

• Art and Experimental

During the design event, shared themes became apparent for the project

groupings;

• the Main Streets teams focused on augmenting the structure, access and

identity of the city centre

• the Public Spaces and Parks teams focused on public life in the city centre;

creating places for public events and celebrations; and improving its

amenity, especially through ‘mediating’ the environment and introducing

green elements

• the Lanes teams developed places suitable for local activation that could

provide individuation, vibrancy and dynamism in their immediate vicinity

and provide a more local counterpoint to the civic character created in the

larger projects

• the Art and Experimental teams were able to bring to light previously hidden

or less well-known sites in Parramatta’s city centre as well as creating

pockets of surprise and beauty. Freed from the constraint of creating an

enduring icon or place, these proposals could be current and immediate.

The Main Streets

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The Main Streets Projects are:

1. George Street

2. Macquarie Street

3. Phillip Street

4. Parramatta City Ring Road

Diagram of Main Streets

George Street, Macquarie Street and Phillip Street

are Parramatta’s three main east-west streets running

parallel to the river, with continuous views through

the entire city centre. These flat long streets

traverse the city centre’s core and connect to key

institutions and the Parramatta City Ring Road, the

City’s orbital loop.

While their form, size, location and importance give

them the potential to become major avenues, they

currently lack this appearance. The ring road has

been developed from seven existing streets to reduce

traffic congestion and divert unnecessary traffic

from Parramatta’s central core. Although it exists as

a concept, because it is not widely recognised, the

ring road is not as well used as envisaged. A common

issue for each of these streets and routes is that none

have a recognisable identity that distinguishes their

role within the city centre or contributes civic quality,

despite their importance to both the city centre wide

access and Parramatta’s identity.

The project briefs framed this issue in differing ways

to reflect each street’s existing and potential future

function in the larger network. For George Street the

opportunity was about harnessing the heritage value

and affirming the street’s role as the city centre’s ‘civic

spine. For Macquarie Street the perceived opportunity

was about designing the street to become an

important transport corridor, potentially with light

rail, linking to Parramatta’s Transport Interchange.

For Phillip Street the opportunity was defined as

highlighting the street’s potential for night-time

activation and as a connector of many important

city centre thresholds.

For Parramatta City Ring Road the opportunity was

defined as creating a unique, compelling and cohesive

identity for the route.

The teams’ shared approach for each of these

proposals centred on developing a rich analysis

that unearthed the fundamental qualities of the site,

leading to the formation of design principles for

the streets’ ongoing character and future city centre

function. The analyses of all four projects combine

to form an interesting narrative about Parramatta’s

development. Four routes of similar character

have been redefined to become more distinct

and recognisable, with each providing a unique

contributing character to Parramatta’s city centre.

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Parramatta 1793 - Fernando Brambila

George Street, Parramatta, is Australia’s first premeditated

street — its original grand and formal plan confidently

anticipating a vibrant future for Parramatta. Initially

planned and constructed to a width of 60m wide, George

Street was subsequently reduced to a more standard 25m

width. Today, the street contains many important civic,

government and heritage buildings.

George Street is located midway between the

Parramatta Transport Interchange and the

Parramatta River and Parramatta CBD’s principal east-

west spine. Commencing at the Tudor Gates entrance

to Parramatta Park, George Street crosses a range

of city centre areas including; the Justice Precinct;

Church Street retail and eateries; the future civic

link and the city centre office core, and terminates

at parklands at either end. Despite its historic

importance, in 2012 George Street’s significance is

not immediately recognisable and its character is

fragmented along its length.

George StreetHill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture and Turpin + Crawford Studio

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Plan 1792 Plan 1805 Plan 1813

George Street – Historic Character Buildings

George Street – Historic Character Buildings

George Street – Historic Character Buildings

George Street – Historic Character Buildings

1841 - Perth House 1885 - Tudor Gates1820-21 -Brislington 1823-29 - Harris Ford

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Parramatta 1793 - Fernando Brambila

Professor James Werrick

“Acknowledging the colonial mark is a generator of this project.”

The brief asked the team to revitalise George Street,

harness its heritage value and affirm its role as

Parramatta’s civic and commercial spine.

A major strength of the team’s approach was the

comprehensive and detailed analysis of the street’s

historic development. The analysis showed the

many important buildings along George Street that

have been setback to the original wider alignment

creating a series of small squares and forecourts.

The scheme suggests that all existing forecourts

and squares are retained and the built form between

them should be limited to four storey podiums,

with any new commercial towers set behind. The

street’s termination points would be reordered

commensurate with the street’s significance and

promote pedestrian priority at these parkland

connections. The new ‘double spatial order’ would

guide the built form, location of street trees,

landscape and art.

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Plan 1823

George Street – Historic Character Buildings

George Street – Historic Character Buildings George Street – Historic Character Buildings

George Street – Historic Character Buildings

1924-38 - Civic Arcade 1938 - Bank of NSW1930 - Roxy Theatre 1938 - Courthouse

George Street – Historic Character Buildings

Plan 2012

Synthesis

1793, Fernando Brambila

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Sheila hand drawn Plan

George Street will be reinstated as Parramatta’s pre-eminent street by emphasising its length, interpreting its original 60m width, celebrating its green ends and marking its symbolic cross axis.

George Street Proposal -

View East from Parramatta Park

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Sheila hand drawn Plan

The long-term design proposal would reinstate

the street’s grandeur and create an immediately

recognisable identity for both the street and

Parramatta’s city centre.

The project would be realised through an Urban

Design Strategy and an Urban Art Strategy.

The proposed Urban Design Strategy involves:

• a double spatial order

• a series of small publicly accessible squares and

forecourts

• changed podium heights and setbacks in the City

Centre Develoment Control Plan to define the

existing squares and forecourts and emphasise the

double spatial reading

• the elimination of requirements for awnings unless

part of heritage architecture to highlight civic and

commercial building elevations

• revitalisation of the individual squares by reducing

walls and level changes, shifting stairs and ramps back

from the edge of the 20m street reserve, to enable

these spaces to reconnect with the life of the street

• reviewing street tree planting along George Street

to concentrate in the squares and spaces beyond

the 20m street reserve to preserve the vista down

George Street

• deciduous planting in squares along the southern

side to allow for good sun access during winter.

Philip Thalis

“The CBD needs to gain a new understanding with George Street at its centre.”

Projects Ð Parramatta Park Threshold

Projects Ð Justice Precinct

Projects Ð Perth House

George Street Public Domain

Perth House

Justice Precinct

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Projects – River Park

Ghost heritage Parramatta’s First Wharf

George Street Public Domain

River Park

Plan

The Urban Art Strategy proposes a suite of site

specific projects to highlight and reveal the underlying

character of Parramatta’s first planned street through a

‘ghost heritage’ that would interpret:

• the lost ‘ghost heritage’ in green anchor parklands

framing either end of George Street

• the lost convict buildings along the former

extension to George Street inside the gates of

Parramatta Park

• the street’s lost original length formerly extending

into Parramatta Park

• the lost former colonial wharf to be reinstated

as a waterside viewing tower, platform or design

element activated by tide and water wash.

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Macquarie Street - Existing View

Macquarie Street is the southernmost of Parramatta city

centre’s three main avenues and has been identified as

a possible route for the proposed new light rail east-

west route which would connect between Epping/

Strathfield and Liverpool, via Sydney Olympic Park,

the University of Western Sydney, Parramatta and the

Westmead Biomedical precinct. Macquarie Street will

connect to Parramatta’s Transport Interchange via the

proposed public domain of Parramatta Square.

The brief asked the team to redesign Macquarie

Street as a key component of Parramatta’s transport

interchange, with a two-way light rail system and

platforms at Parramatta Square and Civic Link in the

heart of the city centre.

The team presented a highly compelling narrative

of the symbiotic relationship between transport

and Parramatta’s historical development and then

described the best way that the light rail could help

renew Parramatta’s city centre.

Six key periods mark points of change in the history of

Parramatta’s city centre.

1792 – Ferry• town at western extent of navigable Parramatta

River

• town serviced by water

• ferry docked to east of township

• George Street as first planned street

from ferry to Government House

• river an extension of the axis

• extension of grid to south.

1883 – Steam Train• arrival of rail makes Church Street the major north-

south route

• larger ferries unable to reach original wharf

• steam tram on George Street to new wharf at Duck

River from 1883

Macquarie StreetCox Richardson Architects and Planners, Oculus and Parsons Brinkerhoff

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Church Street c 1950

Church Street c 1950

• tram north to Baulkham Hills opened 1902 and

extended to Castle Hill in 1910

• major catchment to the north reinforces

importance of Church Street.

1920-50s – Car• private vehicles displace public transport

• trams removed by 1932 (Castle Hill) and George

Street (1943)

• Church Street as major north-south arterial

• congestion increases as Western Sydney grows

• main street retail on Church Street

• new vehicular river crossings.

1970s – Ring Road• function of streets and urban blocks altered to

accommodate cars

• traffic volumes on Church Street impact city

centre environment

• ring road formed to eliminate through traffic in

central Parramatta

• structured car parks built in the city centre

• pedestrianisation of Church Street at St. John’s

• one-way road system introduced.

2015 – Light Rail• light rail transport facilitates north-south

connectivity

• two-way light rail on Macquarie Street

• north-south light rail on Marsden Street

• relationship to transport interchange

• Pitt/Macquarie streets not part of ring road -

O’Connell Street two-way

• Church Street one-way south from George Street

• connect ‘park to park’ and break down block length

- new north-south links.

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Option 2 Side Platform

View of Macquarie Street looking east

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Option 2 Side Platform

Macquarie Street will drive the development of ‘large opportunity’ sites and become a tree-lined boulevard for light rail, cars and pedestrians with integrated platforms.

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Illustrative Public Domain Plan Space Types

Public Domain Plan - Space Types

A Public Domain for a Nationally Important CBD

Public Domain for a nationally important CBD

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A Public Domain for a Nationally Important CBD

Two-way Light Rail Option 2 Side Platform

ISSUES & OPPORTUNITIES – Straight alignment – Straight footpaths – Platforms integrated into the public

domain – Stopping zones up to 50m long - less

impact on public domain, tree planting etc – Footpath width on south side of

street 4.1m - 5.2m – Footpath width on north side of

street +/- 4m – One north drive accessed a�ected and

one southern driveway access a�ected by stop locations

Two-way light rail - Option 2 Side platform

Designs were based on the assumption that the

proposed system needed to be compatible with other

Sydney light rail systems. These are:

System Assumptions

• vehicle length 30m - 40m

• 280m - 320m distance between stops

• minimum stop widths - 2m [side footpath] - 2.8m

[single sided island]

• stop lengths 40m

• potential for lane sharing on intersections for

turning

• LRT priority at traffic lights

• overhead power supply or battery/hidden rail

through the city centre allows tree planting.

Route options and typical street sections were

prepared and compared with the preferred option

providing for the best integration of the platforms and

tracks within the street and allowing for a fine avenue

of new street tree planting to be implemented. It

would have:

• a two-way system on Macquarie Street with side

platforms on north and south pavements — traffic

one-way west or east in central lane

• lines located on east and west pavements to

maximise connectivity to pedestrian network

• a route joining George Street at Harris Street

intersection and passing along the edge of Robin

Thomas Reserve

• a north-south light rail route that may be relocated

to Marsden Street to protect Church Street amenity.

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Phillip StreetHASSELL

Phillip Street is the threshold between the grid of

Parramatta city centre and Parramatta River and links

many city centre destinations including the Justice

Precinct; the proposed new Riverbank Square, ‘eat

street’ north and nine connecting lanes. It is the

shortest and most northern of Parramatta’s three main

east-west avenues. It is uniquely positioned, with river

frontage at both ends of the street, and could form a

direct axis between Parramatta’s ferry wharf and the

southern end of (and potential entry to) Parramatta

Stadium. Currently Phillip Street has a scattered

pattern of functions and activity with many available

spaces for adaption and activation.

Phillip Street existing view

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Phillip Street is close to the activity of the city

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1. Phillip Street is close (but not connected) to the river Phillip Street is the dividing line between city and river

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2. Phillip Street is the dividing line between city and river

A STREET FLOODED WITH LANDSCAPE

A STREET FLOODED WITH LIGHT

Phillip Street can mediate the conditions of city and river3. Phillip Street can be visually extended to the water Phillip Street has a scattered pattern of functions and activity

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Eating and drinking

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4. Phillip Street can become an important social space

Phillip Street experiences: the big event

1_Arrive by ferry 2_Wait for buddies in Market Square 3_A couple of pre-match beers4_Parramatta Stadium (only a 5 minute walk!) 5_Celebratory drinks at the Streetside Bar6_Night market for kebabs7_Onward to Church Street...8_How did I get home again ...?

5. Phillip Street can amediate the conditions of city and river Phillip Street is close (but not connected) to the river

Parramatta Park/Stadium

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6. Two lines of subsurface infrastructure are introduced

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Design tactics Street-side parking is inhabited for night and weekend uses

The brief asked the team to design a high quality

street environment to highlight the various city

thresholds and embrace the street’s potential as a

night-time destination.

Two major strengths of the team’s approach were the

recognition of Parramatta city centre’s existing and

future community and the identification of the street’s

potential to be extended along its axis to connect to

the southern tip of Parramatta Stadium. This would

bring this popular and symbolic destination into real

connection with the city centre, public transport

and other key night-time destinations. The concept

proposal identified a loose structure to create a

special character and highlight the many recreational

destinations that can be reached from Phillip Street.

They illustrated this by mapping a range of imaginary

routes that a visitor could experience.

“Parramatta is a young area that is highly multicultural

leading to a demand for new urban amenities

and services that meet the needs of the diverse

population. A large portion of the population speaks

a language other than English and the majority of

businesses in Parramatta are small. We recognise the

entrepreneurial spirit that exists in Parramatta and we

are looking to harness and promote this in our design.”

HASSELL.

Two lines of subsurface infrastructure are introduced Phillip Street experiences: the daily journey home

Two lines of subsurface infrastructure are introduced

WATER SYSTEM(subsurface water collection system)

CIVIC SYSTEM(water, energy, gas, fibre, etc)

Phillip Street experiences: the daily journey home

1_Arrive by train 2_Drop by the gym 3_Pick up take-away dinner 4_Home

Phillip Street will become a new event promenade linking adjoining night-time and recreational uses with Parramatta Stadium and Charles Street Wharf.

End points are marked with larger elements

LIGHT SCULPTURE/ INFORMATION POST

WATER TREATMENT PARK

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Design tactics Street-side parking is inhabited for night and weekend uses

Design tactics

Streetside parking is inhabited for night and

weekend uses

The design detailing was conceived as an apparatus

for community activity. The proposal introduces

two lines of infrastructure. On the northern river

side, a subsurface water and drainage system would

support the landscape. On the southern city side

there would be a system of multifunction poles to

integrate energy, gas and most importantly light, and

become markers for different activities. The riverside

terminations would be marked by a larger sculptural

element and open space. The new infrastructure

would identify Phillip Street’s city/river threshold

character, with each side of the street reflecting their

adjacent and differing contexts. There would be mini

parks, reed beds and rain gardens. Green trellis would

be used to create shade, points of rest and to mitigate

flooding and heat island effects. Light poles could

support market structures for evening food stalls and

weekend markets, incorporating inbuilt projectors for

street cinemas and providing information screens,

community notice boards, phone charging points and

drinking fountains and other services.

HASSELL

“This design will establish Phillip Street as an event street. It will enable the community to actively shape the street and adapt it to their various requirements on a daily basis.”

Design tactics Setback zones become filled with landscape and sculpture

Setback zones become filled with

landscape and sculpture

Design tactics

End points are marked with larger elements

LIGHT SCULPTURE/ INFORMATION POST

WATER TREATMENT PARK

End points are marked with

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The Parramatta City Ring Road was planned to

reduce traffic congestion by diverting through

traffic away from the city centre. It comprises seven

existing streets; the Great Western Highway, Pitt

Street, O’Connell Street, Victoria Street, Macarthur

Street, Harris Street and Parkes Street. While the road

infrastructure exists, as do several planned design

changes to traffic lanes and signalling, to increase

capacity and efficiency, the ring road and its relation

to the city and surrounds has not been well articulated

to date.

The brief asked the team to create a unique, compelling

and cohesive identity for the Parramatta City Ring Road.

The team started from the assumption that the

road’s identity is interwoven with the city centre,

both spatially and from an image perspective.

They undertook extensive site analysis — including

mapping, photographs and documentation of

physical attributes — and asked community members

to describe Parramatta as a place, as well as to draw

its perimeter.

Parra Block is the name the team developed to

embrace all aspects of the project, including the

functional and physical and the changed perception

of the city centre.

Appropriately for a project with such a strong focus

on movement through space, sequence, image and

way finding, these analyses were edited together with

a drive around the road to create a film bringing the

whole experience together.

The analysis described several key elements:

• the ring road doesn’t correspond to the actual city

centre boundaries, either physically or perceptually

• the ring road, due to its width and heavy traffic

volumes could act as a barrier or could become

a gateway element into the city centre and a

connector between the city and surround rather

than a divider

• 28 streets and paths currently cross the ring road,

where people enter or leave the ‘block ‘

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• a large low-density neighbourhood exists inside the

ring road but outside Parramatta’s city centre, and

could become a new high-density neighbourhood

to enrich Parramatta and help develop the city,

namely the north bank.

• new citizens will help to strengthen and subtly

refine the city centre’s identity as it grows and

cultural programs will help to attract these citizens

to Parramatta.

The team extrapolated that in 20 years time the

combination of the ring road and the city centre’s

40km pedestrian amenity zone could greatly

reduce the percentage of vehicles in the city centre

compared to people walking, using public transport

and cycling which would further enliven Parramatta’s

cultural and street life and the city centre’s resilience.

Parra Block would be developed via a 20-year plan to

become a distinct place to live, work and create.

Its four main components are:

1. The City Centre project

2. The North Bank project

3. Pressure Point projects. A series of pressure

point projects providing improved connectivity are

necessary to deliver the vision; including bridges, river

buildings, cycle paths and pedestrian networks; which

integrate the 14 other curated city centre projects.

4. Software projects. Culture will be developed in

parallel with the physical projects over a 20-year

timeframe with small initial projects gathering creative

citizens via social media and public engagement to

larger and longer-term ambitions to develop major

cultural institutions.

“I think of a place where there are people from all over the world.”

“Very busy place, pretty much got everything.”

“I think of traffic and congestion.”

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as well as people crossing at the intersection of

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• a schematic approach to ‘fine grain densification’

of the proposed addition to the city centre in the

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The Public Space and Parks Projects are

5. River Square

6. Charles Street Square

7. Horwood Avenue-Civic Link

8. Church Street Mall

9. Clay Cliff Creek Parklands

10. Smith and Station Streets Greening

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Public Spaces and Parks

Like many Australian cities, Parramatta’s public life

has focused on its streets rather than its squares.

Recognising the need for larger spaces to house big

events and the importance of squares to foster the

planned and spontaneous social life and activities that

encourage people to gather, Parramatta is planning

for the creation of new public spaces as well as

substantially reworking and expanding existing spaces.

The sites are located in a north-south spine along the

centre of the city centre and several coincide with

one or more of the major streets projects.

The public space and parks projects share a theme

of change and represent most clearly Parramatta’s

aspirations for transformation. One of these sites,

River Square, does not currently exist as a public

space, and two sites, the Civic Link and Clay Cliff

Creek Parklands, involve considerable expansion

of the current space and complete renewal. While

the Church Street Mall, Charles Street Square and

Smith and Station Streets greening projects inhabit

existing spaces, major transformation of the space’s

appearance are proposed through transfiguring the

plan, decluttering the site and including elements

such as seating and stalls that will encourage people

to inhabit the space, rather than just passing through.

Three of the public space sites are streets with

reduced traffic roles to allow increased pedestrian

and social life. These are:

• Church Street Mall – which has been closed

(between Darcy and Macquarie streets) to traffic

since 1970

• Horwood Avenue – a partially existing street

that will be extended when a Council car park is

demolished to create a civic link extending from

Parramatta Transport Interchange through to the

river. Even though it will be as wide as a main street,

the avenue’s traffic role is limited to providing

access to buildings, affording spare capacity for a

series of small pedestrian pocket parks.

• Smith and Station Streets are currently major

traffic arteries with widened footpaths created by

generous building setbacks providing considerable

potential for a green overlay to enhance its current

function as a major bus route.

These three projects shared a common theme of

creating smaller spaces within a larger public area to

catalyse activation and create small havens of amenity

and comfort. The opportunity for Church Street Mall

was to propose options for an immediate short-term

makeover/clean up designed to improve the mall’s

appearance, and encourage events. The opportunity

for Horwood Avenue was to design a green spine

including water, landscape, and places to socialise

and relax. The opportunity for Smith and Station

Street Greening was to propose alternative green

solutions for footpath locations where street trees are

precluded due to services and other conditions.

Presented as a green ‘necklace’ of parks and places

along Clay Cliff Creek, this team’s proposal extended a

linear park model to link important parks surrounding

Parramatta’s city centre and form a four kilometre

continuous parkland walk with the potential to act

as a new ‘green lung’ for the city centre and foster

new recreational activities. This expanded green loop

would corresponded with the eastern section of the

ring road loop as well as the three main city streets

and also points to opportunities for a revitalised image

for Parramatta’s city centre.

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River Square, a new public space, is planned to

replace an existing Council car park.

The brief asked the team to design a concept for a

new riverfront square and terraced foreshore to the

river and parklands. The square, an urban character,

would have; capacity for everyday uses and well

as major events of up to 20,000 people, be able to

withstand flooding and designed on the assumption

that the ferry wharf remains at Charles Street.

The team noted that the river is presently barely

visible from adjoining streets due to the level

changes and width. They subtly expanded the brief

as about reconnecting with the river — physically

and symbolically — and transforming a vast space

at the edge into a meeting place at the heart,

allowing for gathering, meeting, quiet contemplation,

conversations and celebrations.

There were important functional requirements that

needed to be resolved:

• the six to eight metre change in levels between the

city centre and the water

• the requirement for a space that works well for

individuals, groups, and city centre and regional

events

• the creation of a thematic link to the Civic Link

• periodic flooding impacts.

The simple, pared back and restrained design

would provide an elegant and enduring space for

Parramatta’s city centre, that amplifies the river rather

Helen Lochhead

“... Parramatta needs to bring people back to the river ... This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to re-engage with the water in an evocative way….”

River SquareJAAA, Turf Design Studio, Roberts Day, Equatica and Electrolight

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a place that offers respite - to simply sit & chat......

A place that offers respite - to simply sit & chat

or accommodates a celebrating community........

or accomodates a celebrating community

than dominating or competing with it. The square

has a unique character and its scale would augment

Paramatta’s existing suite of public spaces

Four main elements are proposed.

The River Steps

The river steps are the spine of the square, a

continuous unifying link running the 250m length of

the square, and allowing access to the river edge at

any point. The general step structure is a 1600mm

wide by 450mm high terrace step. Walkway and

ramp access would be embedded within the steps,

providing seamless at grade access to the river edge.

The river walk widens out to a promenade at the base

of the river steps. Further modulation of the steps

would allow for widened platforms of grass and gravel

in which you can ‘nestle’ and find quiet, and the tree

canopy is integrated.

Steps are also proposed on the northern bank,

cascading down and visually linking the square across

the river.

The Green

A generous open grass green space would be at the

heart of the square. The grassy lawn gently orients

towards the river, overlooking the steps and terraces

and facing the wooded northern foreshore and the

sun’s warmth. The lawn would accommodate many

modes of use from weekday lunchtimes to events and

gatherings.

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Upper Plaza

The upper plaza flanked by cafes and bars would be

above the river flood level (at RL 6.4), and provide a

meandering progression through colonnades and

smaller spaces that open up at bends and junctions.

The Link

The river link would extend the Horwood Place axis

and draw you in. The Willow Grove heritage building

provides a fine anchor to this link and could be flanked

by still reflective water, echoing the river’s character.

Water would transition into ephemeral shallow

depressions in the main square overlooking the river

that would fill with rainfall and provide opportunities

River Square will be a grand square drawing people to the river, formed by elemental, grandly proportioned terraces, lawns and stairs.

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for engaging with the water. The marshalling of the

waters in lineal formations echoes the strength of the

business district — while the capacity for overflow and

ripple reflects the ephemeral modes of the river at the

River Square — drawing the curious through to the plaza.

At the centre of the link, a new public building made

of glass and with public and cultural uses is proposed

to replace the existing rear extension to Willow Grove.

Public Domain Driven Development

A masterplan with some suggested refinements is also

proposed — identifying some modification of building

footprints potentially with concessions for height

to maintain gross floor area which would enable an

extended river plaza.

The potential to integrate nodal spaces within the lane

network may also be possible.

Floods and Levels

• 1:20 flood level = 5.5

• 1:100 flood level = 6.0

• Minimum habitable level = 6.4

• River level generally = 1.15

• Drop from adjoining streets to river level = 7-8 metres

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The Charles Street Square site is the closest access

point to the river and parklands from Parramatta’s

main city centre area and at its lowest point is the

ferry wharf. The current space is cluttered, municipal

in character and acts as a visual barrier to the river.

The brief asked the team to redesign the northern

terminus of Charles Street and create a lively urban

square and series of terraces adjoining the wharf and

river parklands.

The team’s approach was based on detailed historical

and physical analysis of the site’s development.

They noted:

“Here saltwater meets fresh, and inland waters first

reach those of the tidal harbour. ….

Prior to European settlement, this place was a

gathering place for traders from across Australia.

Middens and stones attest to the power of this place

as a place of coming together ...

Governor Phillip’s plan for this part of Parramatta

included a riverfront square, Queen Square, and

survives somewhat in the current name for this area,’

Charles Street Square.

Its current use an as a ferry landing point is, in some

ways, a continuation of this earlier pattern.” Charles

Street Square team

The analysis led to their description of the site as

being a place in motion and to a design approach

centred on drawing the broader city grid and natural

setting into place and stripping back the unnecessary

clutter to reveal the site’s inherent potential, and

improve its function.

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“There is motion in the tides, … in ferry movements, in people arriving and departing, and in vehicles skirting the edge of the space ... These movements give this place an authentic life, but are not yet placed into a framework ...”

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“The development of the city centre, required a bold vision for projecting the city grid over the landscape to create a ‘clear urban framework’ …Our responsibility would be to respect the place’s past while giving its narrative meaning for the future. We envision a new name for this place that does not rely on a nearby street name, but supports its own complex identity ‘Water Square’. “

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‘There is nothing static in the quality of the site. There is an opportunity to reinforce its dynamism and make the invisible visible …. But it doesn’t want to be overdesigned ... It wants to be the ‘prelude’ and part of a new language in how the city centre meets the river….”

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“The design builds upon the city centre grid by

projecting street corridors north and south of the

river to define a greater square that also embraces the

river. New elements were then positioned to reinforce

this ‘conceptual’ square and to make a place that is

conducive to movement and resting.

Phillip Street is unique in Parramatta as it essentially

begins and ends at the river. As such it provides an

opportunity for connecting the city centre, physically

and metaphorically, back to the river.” Charles Street

Square team

Philip Street would be extended as an art walk, and a

metaphorical ‘landing pier’ toward the east that would

act as a marker (when seen from the river), allow for

a café overlooking the river and provide shelter for

arriving and departing passengers beneath. Its eastern

end could house a signature piece of art visible along

Phillip Street.

The Charles Street axis would continue down to

the water, (as it once did for cattle crossing), and be

marked by a landscape gesture. The other sides of

the square would be implied within bush and riverside

parkland across the river and art pieces would be

installed to inviting the public to discover the square.

The slope down to the river would be configured as

a ‘folded’ welcome terrace providing access as well

as a place for gathering; lunch sunshine, evening

performances, and promenade.

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The Horwood Avenue Civic link is a planned extension

of Horwood Place that would eventually connect

Parramatta’s two major public spaces, the River and

the transport interchange beyond.

The brief asked the team to design a green spine

including water, landscape, and places to socialise

and rest.

The team identified the site’s key elements as being;

passage and flow of people and cars; the existing

and evolving built form; and the creation of places

of collection and “pooling” of water, sunlight and

activity. They developed a narrative around three main

themes, flow, flux and collection, to integrate these

elements. The extensive site analysis also revealed

the importance of the section both longwise and

cross wise to understanding this site and revealing

and magnifying its unique characteristics. A long-term

vision as well as short-term interventions embracing

the reality of the ‘here and now’ have been proposed.

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“The design reveals the flow of water through the site.

Rain gardens are located at key areas of stormwater

collection and extend beyond the kerb edge and into

the public space, creating incidental garden ‘rooms’.”

Horwood Avenue team

The design is for a generous 10m wide linear

pedestrian footpath along the eastern side of the

street, providing ease of movement and social places.

At four locations, there would be groves of deciduous

trees extending the full width of the street, creating

pockets of sun and shade, protection and respite.

A rain garden ‘threshold’ would extend across the

avenue signalling the nearby river, where the street

slopes down to Phillip Street.

The rain gardens could be watered by stormwater

runoff from adjoining Council car park rooftops

collected through a tapestry of coloured pipes.

New lighting and paving would reinforce pedestrian

movement. The detailed design of materials and

elements such as inlet kerbs, facetted gutter

details and custom paving would make explicit the

concealed patterns of the stormwater flow and

collection.

Flux

Recognising that Horwood Avenue is a space in flux,

the design changes the proposed building envelopes

(to those currently proposed in the Development

Control Plan) to ensure maximise solar access can

reach the street during lunchtime hours.

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Closure of the southern vehicular entry to Horwood

Place car park is suggested in the short-term to

improve the exisiting pedestrian link through the car

park. This can be achieved without undue impact on

car park function, and would be a first step to creating

the busy pedestrian area lined with retail tenancies

envisaged in the long-term.

Collection and Pooling

The design provides many opportunities for gathering

and meeting. There would be seating and small

squares at the cross-locations of lanes and the

avenue. Seating would also be located beneath

tree groves. Garden beds and seating have been

sited and scaled to encourage incidental gathering

and meeting.

Two options for seating were developed in more detail

next to the blank western façade (facing Horwood

Place) of the Roxy Theatre. One, a low-key approach,

involves alternating planting with terraces and seating

facing the street. The second more dramatic and

theatrical solution creates a four metre high stepped

‘bleacher’ terrace facing north.

The terrace would connect to a second higher terrace,

(providing for future connection into the Roxy) and

create a public ‘stage’. Beneath the terraces would be a

small café/or bar with colourful lighting, creating a new

destination under the red neon sign of the Roxy Theatre.

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PARRAMAT TAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Existing Photos

Church Street Mall is the city centre’s most enduring

public space but currently lacks identity, civic

character and is perceived by some to be unsafe at

certain times of day. The long-term plan is for the mall

to become the first in a series of interlocking public

spaces running across Parramatta Square.

The brief asked the team to propose two different

options for an immediate short-term makeover/clean

up to improve the mall’s appearance, encourage

visitation, and events while the construction of

Parramatta Square unfolds over the next 10-15 years.

Church Street Mall is a valuable public space that has

been incrementally added to without a vision for its

role in the city centre’s public life. The space contains

some of Parramatta’s oldest civic buildings and

monuments, but they are aligned along the previous

street’s geometry resulting in a space more suited

to walking and moving through than gathering and

socialising.

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PARRAMAT TAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Existing Photos

PARRAMAT TAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Historical elements and the site

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Church Street Mall team

“Church Street Mall suffers the same fate as many Australian city centres; we need a pedestrian area, let’s close a street! This has not achieved a great public space for pedestrians, market stall holders, entertainers, and public art or Council maintenance staff ...”

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PARAMATTAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Concept 01

Layout

Legend

1. Market lanterns.2. Pavement artwork activity zone.3. Ephemeral water feature.4. Upgraded playground.5. Church gate.6. Seating edge.7. Flower beds.8. Cinema screen.9. Lighting.10. Future light rail.

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Proposal 1: The Public Room(s)

In this first option the dominance of the street

geometry is minimised and a new order that is more

like a public room is created from a series of smaller

spaces. The newly configured space integrates with

the St John’s Church garden and children’s playspace

area to create a legible whole that would be able to

accommodate a full range of current and future civic,

event and social functions.

Three different but related principal spaces

terminating the newly created Parramatta Square and

Church Street connection to Westfield are proposed.

• a paved market area runs north south

• an upgraded playground and water feature on axis

with the northern section of Church Street

• the gardens of St John’s and its forecourt.

The paved market area would reinforce the markets

as a major and recurrent event. It would be anchored

PARRAMAT TAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Concept Diagrams

Concept 01 Concept 02

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PARAMATTAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Concept 01

PARAMATTAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Concept 01

Layout

Legend

1. Market lanterns.2. Pavement artwork activity zone.3. Ephemeral water feature.4. Upgraded playground.5. Church gate.6. Seating edge.7. Flower beds.8. Cinema screen.9. Lighting.10. Future light rail.

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Concept 1 - Plan Concept 1

at its northern end by permanent iconic stalls

providing colour and shade and serving as ‘lanterns’

at night. New paving would incorporate public art.

The permanent market would be augmented with

temporary stalls as demand dictates. Performance and

cinema would take place at the southern end of the

market area. There would be places to sit and watch

the world go by. It is a place of activity and vibrancy

as people traverse it towards the station and southern

retail precinct. Should the light rail eventuate it could

also run through this space.

In contrast, the gardens of St John’s, including lawns

and beds, would continue to be a place of calm and

repose for conversation, reading and exercise.

Construction hoardings along the southern end of

Church Street would be enlivened with public art

projections and crazy mirrors to invigorate the mall in

the short-term.

Church Street Mall will become a lively public square and garden area providing a setting for heritage buildings and events and a front door to Parramatta Square.

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PARRAMAT TAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Concept 02

Layout

Proposal 2: The River Of Activity

This second option accepts the strong diagonal

street geometry of the mall and utilises it as an

organisational device to unify the surrounding

areas that symbolically and physically reconcile the

opposing forces of history and development. The

concept builds upon the ideas of Parramatta Square

as a meeting place and Parramatta as the meeting

place of salt and fresh water. It sees the river as a

conceptual spine with the ability to reconcile the

site’s disparate and sometimes opposing elements.

Historical buildings meet new development, farming

meets the civic space.

A unifying space would be created that could provide

all of the necessary functions of a multicultural civic

space. Utilising many of the same features as the

first concept, this option also delivers flexibility to

the space, allowing it to be reinvented, night and day

through the use of multifunction street furniture and

innovative lighting to highlight elements.

PARRAMAT TAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Concept Diagrams

Concept 01 Concept 02

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PARRAMAT TAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Concept 02

Layout

PARRAMAT TAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Concept 02

Flexibility/ modes

Concept 2 - Plan

PARRAMAT TAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Concept 02

The Story Civic Square = Meeting Place

Parramatta = Meeting place of salt and Fresh water

Agricultural History meets City

The Meeting point of Opposites

Historical Elements meet City Development

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PARRAMAT TAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Concept 01

Night Cinema

View of proposed screen

PARAMATTAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

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PARRAMAT TAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Concept 01

Night Cinema

Market as flexible street furniture

Night time view

PARAMATTAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Functional Brief - Concept Images

Market as flexible street furniture

PARRAMAT TAChurch Street Mall

TEAMLacoste + StevensonToko. Concept. DesignDaryl Jackson Robin DykeJMD DesignPamela Mei-Leng See

Concept 02

Smart Market

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Both concept designs envisage a more cohesive,

distinct place with an altered geometry and an

improved public domain.

Adjacent areas — including the grass and gardens

surrounding St John’s and the future Parramatta

Square — are embraced in both proposals.

A suite of common elements has also been designed

to accompany both schemes. The range includes

purpose-built stalls and street furniture elements

which will help to animate the public realm.

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Clay Cliff Creek Parklands is a proposal for several

new neighbourhood parks and the revitalisation of

Jubilee Park to form a much needed local recreational

focus in ‘Auto Alley’, along Church Street south of the

Transport Interchange.

The brief asked the team to develop a concept for

managing Clay Cliff Creek and designing adjoining

parks, both existing and proposed, to assist in

revitalising the Auto Alley area.

The team’s approach was complex and multi-layered.

The new parklands were designed to accommodate

intermittent flooding of Clay Cliff Creek, reduce the

‘heat island’ effect, create a recreational focus and

the potential for kitchen gardens while providing

urban habitat. They summarised their approach as

‘Urban by Nature,’ addressing the cross-dependencies

within the infrastructures of water management, food

production and heat islands.

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Cycle network showing proposed link

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and channel

High hydraulic hazard zone

Cycle network showing proposed link

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Context Plan

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Clay Cliff Parklands team

“The park attempts to address three major global challenges: food production, water management and heat island effects while at the same time providing exciting new local experiences.”

Clay Cliff Creek Parklands is a proposal for expanding and revitalising Jubilee Park to form a much needed local recreational focus in Auto Alley.

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Clay Cliff Parklands - Proposal at Jubilee Park

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Triglochin procerumWater Ribbons

Schoenoplectus validusRiver Club Rush

Philydrum lanuginosumWoolly Waterlily

Persicaria decipiensSlender Knotweed

Juncus usitatusCommon Rush

Gahnia clarkeiTall Sawsedge

Eleocharis sphacelata Tall Spike Rush

Eleocharis acutaCommon Spike Rush

Cyperus exaltatusUmbrella Sedge

Carex fascicularisTassel Sedge

Carex appressaTussock Sedge

Bolboschoenus fl uviatilisStream club rush

Bolboschoenus caldwelliiMarsh club rush

Baumea articulataJointed Twig Rush

Alisma plantago aquaticaWater Plantain

Melaleuca decoraWhite Feather Honey Myrtle

Melaleuca styphelioidesPrickly Leafed Paperbark

Casuarina glaucaSwamp She-Oak

Eucalyptus tereticornisForest Red Gum

Eucalyptus moluccanaGrey Box

Angophora fl oribundaRough Barked Apple

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The parks have been designed as a series of urban

wetlands, which are essentially green spaces, bound by

reeds reminiscent of a creek system. Tree-lined avenues

would define pedestrian and cycle access and create

a positive transition between the adjoining buildings

and parks. The existing stormwater channel must be

retained to accommodate flooding and a boardwalk

has been proposed to better integrate the channel with

the park. The boardwalk would include art and seating

and would float over the concrete channel and form a

main pedestrian spine through the parklands.

The revitalised parks would become part of a

sequence of existing parklands, including Parramatta

Park, Ollie Webb Reserve and the river banks, ringing

the city centre. These can be linked together to create

a four kilometre green ‘armature’ to assist with cooling

and civilising the city centre.

“The parkland loop would establish a new path for

pedestrians and cyclists and establish the city centre

of Parramatta as a greener, more habitable and better

… integrated with its natural surrounds.” Clay Cliff

Parklands team

This re-imagining of Clay Cliff Creek will contribute

to improving the quality of the the city centre’s

stormwater and the creek’s urban ecological role;

connect the inner city suburbs to the river; strengthen

the landscape experience for those approaching the

city centre; and offer the opportunity for a larger open

space network that would improve pedestrian and

cycle links through and around the city centre.

Clay Cliff Parklands - Plan

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Smith and Station Streets are strongly affected by

public transport and paved surfaces and hard building

surfaces, resulting in localised heating during summer

and excessive run-off during rainstorms.

The brief asked the team to propose green solutions

for footpath locations where street trees are

precluded due to underground pipes, driveways,

street furniture and services.

A major strength of the team’s approach was

the comprehensive analysis of the site’s historic

development. The analysis showed how ongoing

interventions had worked to obscure the city centre’s

original terrain.

The design proposal is composed of several elements

that could be built independently and join together to

create a previously unrecognised ‘green thread’. Some

elements would require major transformation, others

are more immediately achievable.

The major transformation proposed was to relocate

the bus interchange and allow the site to be

Smith and Station StreetNobbs Radford Architects and Carmichael Studios

_ SITE 15_SMITH + STATION STREET

CARMICHAEL STUDIOS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS_NOBBS RADFORD ARCHITECTS_SUZIE IDIENS

_ SITE 15_SMITH + STATION STREET

CARMICHAEL STUDIOS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS_NOBBS RADFORD ARCHITECTS_SUZIE IDIENS

#06 INTERNAL VIEWS + CHARACTER

• VIEWS ARE TRUNCATED + BROKEN

• PHYSICAL CHARACTER IS VARIED + LACKS CONTINUITY

• SEGMENTED BY TWISTS AND TURNS, RISES AND FALLS

CONCLUSION:

• MISSING BINDING THREAD

SITE 15_SMITH + STATION STREET. THE GREEN THREAD

CARMICHAEL STUDIOS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS_NOBBS RADFORD ARCHITECTS_SUZIE IDIENS

#01 THE DISCONNECT

• THE GREAT DIVIDE

• VIEWS ARE TRUNCATED + BROKEN

• NO VIEW FROM THE HILL

• PHYSICAL CHARACTER IS VARIED

• LACKS CONTINUITY

• SEGMENTED BY TWIST + TURN, RISE + FALL

• LANDSCAPE CLUTTERED

_ SITE 15_SMITH + STATION STREET

CARMICHAEL STUDIOS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS_NOBBS RADFORD ARCHITECTS_SUZIE IDIENS

#02 THE THREAD

• LIKE THE CITY AND IT’S OCCUPANTS THE SITE IS DIVERSE AND MIXED. FULL OF POTENTIALS

• SMITH + STATION CAN FORM THE BINDING THREAD ALONG WHICH VARIED COMPONENTS CAN FLOURISH

• SMITH + STATION CAN ACT AS A CENTRAL MOTHERBOARD

• THE MOTHERBOARD FORMS THE HOST THAT ALL DIVERSE COMPONENTS CAN CONNECT THEMSELVES TO

_ SITE 15_SMITH + STATION STREET

CARMICHAEL STUDIOS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS_NOBBS RADFORD ARCHITECTS_SUZIE IDIENS

#05 GREEN ENVY

• 01_ LACK OF GREEN SPACE IN CBD

• 02_ SMITH + STATION SITS CENTRALLY WITHIN CBD

• 03_ SMITH + STATION INTER-FACES WITH LANCER BARRACKS

• 04_ SMITH + STATION CAN FORM GREEN THREAD IN CBD

PARRAMATTA PARK

RIVER FORESHORE

HERITAGE COURTYARDWILLOW GROVE

RIVER FORESHORE

ROBIN THOMAS RESERVE

LANCER BARRACKSSMITH + STATION

CHURCH STREET

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#05 GREEN ENVY

• PARADISE LOST

• LACK OF GREEN SPACE IN CBD

• SMITH + STATION SITS CENTRALLY WITHIN CBD

• SMITH + STATION INTERFACES WITH LANCER BARRACKS

• SMITH + STATION CAN FORM GREEN THREAD IN CBD

• REMNANTS REMAIN

Smith and Station Streets team

“The site has become a disconnected, segmented, underutilised and cluttered environment lacking a commonly understood identity. It has untapped potential that needs to be recognised and revealed.”

Analysis - The DisconnectSite Context

Analysis - The ThreadAnalysis - Paradise found

transformed into a central new green park adjacent to

the station and opposite the Lancer Barracks — to be

known as the Hill. The proposal envisages the creation

of a stepped green wall and rain gardens along the

railway edge in Station Street — the Urban Wetland.

The small-scale interventions were for small pocket

arbours along Smith Street — described as the Hubbub.

transformed into a central new green park adjacent to

the station and opposite the Lancer Barracks — to be

known as the Hill. The proposal envisages the creation

arbours along Smith Street — described as the Hubbub.

smith & station street “greening “

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Smith and Station Street - Existing

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_ SITE 15_SMITH + STATION STREET

CARMICHAEL STUDIOS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS_NOBBS RADFORD ARCHITECTS_SUZIE IDIENS

#10 THE HILL

• REPLACE THE BUS + CAR

• URBAN VERANDAH. THE VIEW ACROSS THE PADDOCK. SANCTUARY.

• PEDESTRIANISED ACTIVATED PROMENADE.

• TILTING PLANES. PROSPECT. EVENT SPACES. AMENITY. STAGE. MEADOW. ART INSTALLATIONS. GATHERINGS

• BRIDGES ACROSS THE CREEK.

• INDIGENOUS PLANTING FAUNA HABITATS FRAME AND DEFINE

• GREEN THREAD. BLUE THREAD

• WIND + SOLAR POWERED

• ORCHARD COURTYARD AND MARKETS REPLACE CAR PARK.

• EXISTING BUILT FORM RETROFITTED.

• ACTIVATION NODES ADDED

• BARRACKS CONNECTED. GREEN HUB FORMED

The Hill

Best described as a place to provide relief from the

hectic urban rush, The Hill would connect with the

Lancer Barracks across the road. Lining the western

edge would be a floating ‘urban veranda’ allowing

visitors and workers to gather and gaze across the

street, north towards the river. Within the barracks,

‘Smiths Orchard’ and a market place are proposed

to replace the car park and establish a productive

forecourt.

The Hill - Morphology

The Hill - Proposed

The Hill - View looking South

The Hill - Existing

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_ SITE 15_SMITH + STATION STREET

CARMICHAEL STUDIOS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS_NOBBS RADFORD ARCHITECTS_SUZIE IDIENS

#10 THE HILL

• REPLACE THE BUS + CAR

• URBAN VERANDAH. THE VIEW ACROSS THE PADDOCK. SANCTUARY.

• PEDESTRIANISED ACTIVATED PROMENADE.

• TILTING PLANES. PROSPECT. EVENT SPACES. AMENITY. STAGE. MEADOW. ART INSTALLATIONS. GATHERINGS

• BRIDGES ACROSS THE CREEK.

• INDIGENOUS PLANTING FAUNA HABITATS FRAME AND DEFINE

• GREEN THREAD. BLUE THREAD

• WIND + SOLAR POWERED

• ORCHARD COURTYARD AND MARKETS REPLACE CAR PARK.

• EXISTING BUILT FORM RETROFITTED.

• ACTIVATION NODES ADDED

• BARRACKS CONNECTED. GREEN HUB FORMED

The Urban Wetland

The southern end of the site is the flood prone

section of Station Street bounded by the elevated rail

line. A new ‘folded’ wall is proposed to clad the rail

wall. The wall’s northern facets would transform in

response to changing light and climatic conditions.

The wall’s southern facets would be green walls that

could transform into an urban waterfall during rain

events. At the lowest point of the lowlands would be

an urban wetland incorporating rain gardens.

The Urban Wetland - Plan

The Urban Wetland -

View to Station Street Wall

_ SITE 15_SMITH + STATION STREET

CARMICHAEL STUDIOS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS_NOBBS RADFORD ARCHITECTS_SUZIE IDIENS

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LAWN/MEADOW - PERMEABLE SURFACE

SOFTSCAPE PLANTING - PERMEABLE SURFACE

RAIN GARDEN/BIO SWALE - WATER POLISHING ZONES

FLOATING DECK/BRIDGE - PERMEABLE GRAVEL UNDER

STORM WATER/RAIN WATER MOVEMENT

EDGE STORMWATER PICK UP

IN GROUND STORM WATER COLLECTOR/TANK

NOTE: - TREAT STORMWATER- REDUCE RUN OFF- REDUCE DOWN STREAM POLLUTANT DISCHARGE- WATER TO PLANTING ZONES

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LAWN/MEADOW - PERMEABLE SURFACE

SOFTSCAPE PLANTING - PERMEABLE SURFACE

RAIN GARDEN/BIO SWALE - WATER POLISHING ZONES

FLOATING DECK/BRIDGE - PERMEABLE GRAVEL UNDER

STORM WATER/RAIN WATER MOVEMENT

EDGE STORMWATER PICK UP

IN GROUND STORM WATER COLLECTOR/TANK

NOTE: - TREAT STORMWATER- REDUCE RUN OFF- REDUCE DOWN STREAM POLLUTANT DISCHARGE- WATER TO PLANTING ZONES

Smith and Station Streets

team

“ This natural hilltop, provides a natural vantage point that once offered prospect and sanctuary. Today it is divided, harsh and inaccessible.”

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_ SITE 15_SMITH + STATION STREET

CARMICHAEL STUDIOS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS_NOBBS RADFORD ARCHITECTS_SUZIE IDIENS

#23 HUBBUB

• RETAIL THERAPY. THE URBAN DESERT BLOOMS

• PEDESTRIAN REALM NURTURED. PERMEABILITY PROMOTED

• WI FI CONNECTED. OUT OF OFFICE MEETINGS.

• CANOPY. SHELTER

• ACTIVITY PODS IN INDIGENOUS RAIN GARDENS

• CAFE SPILL OUT. VENDORS

• WEEKEND MARKETS. COMMUNITY UNIQUENESS OF PLACE ENCOURAGED

The Hubbub

The Hubbub - Detail

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The Hubbub

The Hubbub proposed for Smith Street includes green

meeting places and wi-fi facilities under green shade

canopies within activity pods floating above roadside

rain gardens. By providing café spill out spaces,

vendor havens and market stalls and stages, a range of

spontaneous activation opportunities would become

available. Pedestrian and planting zones would be

separated to allow the urban desert to ‘bloom’.

The Green Thread

Pre-European plant communities that characterised

the Parramatta region including River-flat Forest,

Cumberland Plain Woodland, Shale/Sandstone

Transition Forest, Sydney Sandstone Ridge top

Woodland and Sydney Sandstone Gully Forest, would

be planted to create the green thread linking these

proposals. This would be complemented by the water

sensitive urban design ‘blue thread’.

“Our desire is to create a blue thread for Smith and

Station Streets by integrating a stormwater narrative

throughout the site. This is particularly poignant given

the sites’ geography and connection to Parramatta

River and its environs.” Smith and Station Streets team

The Hubbub 2

Smith and Station Streets will be civilised with seating, shade and rain gardens.

The Lanes

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The Lanes Projects are;

11. Freemasons’ Arms Lane

12. Barrack Lane

13. Erby Park and Lane 13

14. Wentworth Car Park and Lanes

15. Batman Walk

Diagram of Lanes Projects

The Lanes

Parramatta’s extensive lanes network will be

improved to increase ‘fine grain’ access and street

level activation. The lanes sites have previously been

identified in the Parramatta City Lanes Strategy as

being suitable for renewal and activation. Two of

these lanes, Barrack and Freemason’s Arms, are

older service type lanes mostly addressed by back

entrances and providing shared pedestrian and

vehicular access along the carriageway.

Wentworth, Erby and Batman Lanes are part of networks

that were created in the 20th century to provide access

to the decked car parks built in the city centre. Batman

Lane will eventually be incorporated into the extended

Horwood Avenue Civic Link. This project was for an

installation that could exist and enliven the lane in the

intervening years.

The opportunity for Freemason’s Arms Lane was to

design a temporary installation or event to allow the

adjacent property owners and public to see the lane as

an interesting destination instead of a car park, and to

encourage adjacent properties to address the lane. The

opportunity for Barrack Lane was to make it a popular

city centre destination, not just a through route.

The project approach for both teams was to identify

new activities along the way that could lead to ongoing

transformation. The proposed new activation had a

strong relationship to existing nearby building uses.

The Barrack Lane team took a long-term and

interventionist approach suggesting changes to the

adjoining buildings that would be possible to deliver

as these sites slowly became renewed as part of the

developing city centre. They saw the school as an

important contributor to lane activation.

The Freemason’s Arm’s Lane team approach was

based upon a clear mapping and analysis of site

opportunities and constraints. The latter identified

highly imaginative and practical small-scale

interventions that could occur almost immediately

and would gradually transform how people perceived

the lane and its appearance and role in Parramatta.

The opportunity for Erby Park and Lane 13 was to

provide a concept design for the park and adjoining

lane that creates a well-used leafy green and activated

haven in the city centre.

The opportunity for Wentworth Car Park Lanes was to

develop a concept for the lanes network and the car

park elevations that activates and enhances this part

of the city centre.

The opportunity for Batman Lane was to propose

a short-term makeover incorporating the proposed

adjacent bakery to enliven this area and create a fine

grain pocket square in the city centre.

The Wentworth Car Park and Erby Park and Lanes

teams all analysed the relationship between

these ‘hidden’ parts of the lanes network and the

mainstream city grid and considered opportunities

of this ‘second’ city for enriching Parramatta’s city

centre. A shared theme of these car park lanes

projects was to replan and repave the ground plane

to reduce space designed for vehicles to a minimum

and increase the available area for pedestrians and

more social uses. These projects also shared similar

proposals to incorporate a mix of uses into the car

park to encourage activation, especially on the roof,

through the installation of public stairs.

Batman Lane, the smallest of the lanes projects, was

also posited as a short-term installation and the team

used this brief to develop a proposal for a new seat

and pavement with a strong artistic element.

The five lanes projects combine to form many

approaches for realising the vibrancy of the city

centre’s lanes network. Together they show that the

‘lanes’ palette can be more localised and diverse than

the more traditional streets and spaces of the ‘first

city’ and can introduce a range of elements including;

public stairs over several floors; relocatable and

foldaway kiosks; pop-up activities and timesharing

of spaces and buildings to increase usage and micro

businesses that bring life to the city centre 24/7.

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Freemason’s Arms Lane is a service lane providing

back of house access to retail shops and restaurants

along Church Street. The back elevations of these

shopfronts provide a diminutive scale and fine grain

character to the lane. Despite its physical potential,

the lane is currently uninviting to pedestrians due

to a domination of parking, garbage collection and

servicing needs.

The brief asked the design team to create a

temporary installation or event which allowed

adjacent property owners and the general public

to see Freemason’s Arms Lane as an interesting

destination and address rather than a car park.

A major strength of the team’s approach was their

detailed study of the site, mappings and ‘bespoke’

response. The team mapped out the physical

Freemason’s Arms LaneHeide Axelsen, Hugo Moline, Adriano Pupilli

Freemason’s Arms Lane - Existing View

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“they all know where to park so we can’t get them”Parking Enforcement Officer

“it’s just a back door to the restaurant, just a place to get deliveries, to park and to put out the rubbish”Indian restaurant manager

“I don’t think I would use it for anything else”Indian restaurant manager

properties of the site as well as interviewing locals

to identify a set of transformative, albeit small-scale,

opportunities. The lack of “inexpensive entertainment

for young people” was clearly iterated within

community responses and became a critical driver

of this project. Interviews were also undertaken with

adjacent building owners in order for the design team

to discern temporal opportunities within existing day-

night rhythms of use.

The proposal is to develop a staged reinterpretation

of the lane through a series of mini projects and

events. A staircase theatre, legal street hawking,

a pop-up bar in a nook, and collectivised rubbish

were key aspects, with each option presenting

different opportunities within the scheme. Pivotal to

activation of the space is a program of focused and

sensitive curation that builds off existing Parramatta

city centre cultural events.

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CURRENT USES:ACCESS

CURRENT USES:ACCESS

CURRENT USES:TREES

CURRENT USES:VEGETATION

CURRENT USES:ALL CURRENT USES

CURRENT USES:ALL CURRENT USES

CURRENT USES:PARKING

CURRENT USES:PARKING

CURRENT USES:RUBBISH

CURRENT USES:RUBBISH

PROPOSED USES:TIDAL RYTHYMS

MON. TUE. WED. THU. FRI. SAT. SUN.

24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00

PROPOSED USES:VOIDS AS OPPORTUNITIESPROPOSED USES:OPPORTUNITIES EXPAND

PROPOSED USES:VOIDS AS OPPORTUNITIES

PROPOSED USES:VOIDS AS OPPORTUNITIES

PROPOSED USES:VOIDS AS OPPORTUNITIES

PROPOSED OCCUPATION:RUBBISH

GARBAGE COOPERATIVE RENTS ONE CAR SPACE FROM CROWN PROPERTY TO CREATE CENTRALISED, SECURE, WASTE DEPOT.

PROPOSED USES:LEGAL STREET HAWKING

Current Uses

Proposed Uses

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PROPOSED USES:TIDAL RYTHYMS

MON. TUE. WED. THU. FRI. SAT. SUN.

24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00 24.00

PROPOSED USES:VOIDS AS OPPORTUNITIESPROPOSED USES:OPPORTUNITIES EXPAND

PROPOSED USES:VOIDS AS OPPORTUNITIES

Voids as Opportunities - 3

Voids as Opportunities - 1

Voids as Opportunities - 2

Freemason’s Arms Lane team

“We see the lane as an estuary – it’s a place for the ‘little shrimp’ to grow up before they become the ‘king shrimp’ of Church Street.”

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FABRICATE & INSTALL STAIRCASE THEATRE, STABLES BAR, CARTS AND GATEWAYS

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR RESIDENCIES TO ACTIVATE STAIRCASE THEATRE, STABLES BAR, ART WALL, CINEMA

LAUNCH OCTOBER 2013

LAUNCH GARBAGE COLLECTIVE

INTRODUCE LANE TO EXISTING FESTIVALS FOR PROGRAMMING

INTEREST FOR RESIDENCIES TO FESTIVALS FOR PROGRAMMING

STRATEGY

INTRODUCE ‘SIDESHOW’ PLAN LOCAL BUSINESSES

CONNECTING INFREEMASONS ARMS LANETO ONGOING CULTURAL PROGRAMS

SYDNEY SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL

4 x 1100L

23 x 240L

INDIVIDUALISED RUBBISH(CURRENT APPROACH)

3 x 4500L

COLLECTIVISED RUBBISH(POTENTIAL APPROACH)

= 9920L of rubbish

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OFF-SITECULTURAL ACTIVATORS

INFORMATION & CULTURAL EXCHANGE

RIVERSIDE THEATRE

MARS HILL CAFE

PARRAMATTA ARTIST STUDIO

POP UP PARRAMATTA

FORM DANCE

MILKCRATETHEATRE

OPERA AUSTRALIA(Western Sydney Community Choirs)

9 LIVES PARKOUR

POWERHOUSE YOUTH THEATRE

MISSION AUSTRALIA(soup kitchen/entertainment)

+LOY KRATONG FESTIVAL

+PARRAMASALA

+SYDNEY FESTIVAL PARRAMATTA

SYDNEY SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL

+HERITAGE ROSE FESTIVAL

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Proposal - Section detail Proposal - Section detail

View of Proposal for the Theatre

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Freemason’s Arms Lane will undergo a staged reinterpretation to realise its unique potential as a fine grain public space through a series of micro projects and sensitively curated cultural events.

Freemason’s Arms Lane - Proposal

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Helen Lochhead

“This scheme reminds me of the kitchen at parties, where all the excitement happens out the back.”

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Barrack Lane is a busy pedestrian route located

between the Parramatta Transport Interchange and

George Street’s commercial zone. It is Parramatta’s

oldest existing lane and is a key route in the city

centre’s lanes network.

The brief asked designers to recognise Barrack

Lane’s historic significance and realise its potential

as a popular city centre destination, rather than a

pedestrian through route.

The team’s approach was to identify the opportunity

for a youth-focused public space offered by the

location of Arthur Phillip High School within the

lane. Introducing an element of fun into the laneway

— through the concept of urban play — builds off

this opportunity and is a key feature of the design.

Activation by the school is currently limited due to

their back-of-house utilisation of lane. The team

accordingly focused on a methodology for drawing

out this potential through a long-term plan for

engagement with the school. This relationship would

be the basis for the lane’s youth focus and would

assist in activating the lanes’ existing elements.

The project recognised the potential of Barrack

Lane to become more than just a lane and vehicular

servicing point, and developed strategies for the site

to transform into an interesting public space within

the city centre. The team presented a long-term

view of the lane’s development and included options

for five, 10 and 20 year scenarios. The long term

scenarios involved expensive land acquisition and

major redevelopment of nearby sites.

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The three key themes of the project were:

• Destination: Create a destination rather than a

thoroughfare through strengthening of the northern

and southern end points of the laneway, providing

art installations and cafés to provide anchors of

activity.

• History: Acknowledge the lane’s rich history by

revealing existing heritage items — including the

underground convict drain, cottages and convict

barrack’s wall to new audiences.

• Education: Develop the potential of the site as a

place for children and teenagers within the city

centre through community engagement with

Arthur Philip High School. Consider blurring the

boundary between the school and the laneway to

encourage interaction between the two.

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young people explore the outside world... They develop detailed knowledge, often intertwining their

own identity with that of the places they spend time in. This...relationship...provides an important foundation for seeing children

not merely as objects of adults’ care and protection, but rather as citizens with a

feeling of ownership and belonging with an active stake in a

locality.”

E Adams and S Ingham, ChangingPlaces: Children’s participation in environmental planning (London:Children’s Society, 1998); M Jans,‘Children as citizens: towards a contemporary notion of child participation’, Childhood 11 (2004).

0-5 YEARS: UNVEILING HERITAGE

“Excitement for the future should be anchored in the security of the past”

- Remove a percentage of carparks and replace with bike store and end of trip facilities

- Clusters of school demountables- Commence new Green Lane connection

- Aquire and remove college building and open up forecourt to heritage cottages

Lynch (1960) in G. Ashworth & J. Tunbridge, The Tourist-Historic City: Retrospect and Prospect of Managing the Heritage City (Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd, 2000)

5-10 YEARS: CREATING DESTINATION

“A continuously used public space with its many memories can help anchor one’s sense of

personal continuity in a rapidly changing world.”

- Demolish substation and activate gravel pit with urban playscape- Open first half of Green Lane

- Commence Community Garden

D.Francis & S.Hester, An Invitation to Ethnomethodology: Language, Society and Interaction (London: Sage Publications Ltd, 2004)

10 - 20 YEARS: COMMUNITY INTEGRATION

”By the building up of overlapping memories of individual and shared experience, a place

becomes sacred to a community.”

- Develop carpark site through PPP – lower level school and workshops with commercial above

- School consolidated along laneway edge- Redevelop sports grounds- Open up cross block links

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The Erby Place car park was built during the 1980s

with vehicular access from Horwood Avenue and a

set of narrow lanes running along its northern edge to

Phillip Street. The project site focused on an existing

pocket park fronting Phillip Street and Lane 13 which

wraps the west and southern edges of the car park.

Such pocket parks are rare in Parramatta’s city centre

and this one does not currently realise its potential

due to poor design and amenity and the absence of

activation.

The brief asked designers to provide a concept

design for Erby Place and Lane 13 which converted

the existing space into a well-utilised leafy green

activated haven within the city centre.

A major strength of the team’s approach was to

highlight the possibilities offered by an alternate

reading of the lanes network as a second-layer to the

city centre. This ‘second city’ could have a different

set of rules, ambitions and modes of activation to the

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first city of main streets and major public spaces.

The proposal for the project site begins to explore the

potential for Parramatta’s service spaces to become

more than sites for storing cars and garbage. It builds

on the Parramatta Lanes Strategy, improves the

pedestrian network, increases city centre parkland,

and provides new areas for activation.

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The main elements of the proposal are: a reduction in

car dominance, improvements to the appearance of

the lane, car park and park; and increased opportunities

for activation. This will be achieved by:

• a unifying permeable treatment across the lane and

park that increases the pedestrian area and recognises

the historic significance of the site as the original

location of Wycombe House, owned by the lane’s

namesake, GT Erby, who was a draper in the 1890s.

Erby Place and Lane 13 will become an animated pocket park and community hub.

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Rod Simpson,

“This design presents one of the most compelling narratives of Parramatta’s second city.”

• a new planted public stair which leads from the

park to the roof of the car park, integrating the two

areas and providing access to a rooftop event space

for markets and other community events.

• the installation of a modular amenities block with

a generous roof on the top level of the car park to

support the new community event space.

• a community engagement strategy proposed to

invite different people to use the roof. Planned

gatherings such as a rooftop farmers markets,

basketball games or car boot sales are also

proposed to encourage community investment

in the park.

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Erby Place and Lane 13 Team,

“How can a ‘second city’ coexist? It has a second set of rules, a second set of spaces — provides hints and clues which intervene, interact and ‘infect’ the first city.”

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Wentworth car park is a 1,000 vehicle parking facility

located in the southern portion of Parramatta’s city

centre. It is a Council owned asset which provides a

key service to commuters. The existing lanes network

at its perimeter connects northbound to the transport

interchange, east to the southern commercial office hub

and west to the Church Street eateries. Despite daily

pedestrian use, the Wentworth car park lanes network

is dominated by vehicular use and does not currently

present a desirable image.

The brief asked the design team to propose

improvements to the lanes’ network and car park

elevations to encourage pedestrians use and

reinvigorate this part of the city centre.

The design approach was to challenge the ‘urban

sameness’ that characterises much of Parramatta’s

public spaces and streets by drawing out a compelling

narrative from the existing ‘mosaic of subcultures’

within Parramatta city centre.

Wentworth Avenue Car Park and LanesBKK Architects, Glas Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, Electrolight & Renew Australia

• Poor sightlines through site• Lack of permeability• Poor wayfinding

• Poorly defined pedestrian paths• Dominant car use

• Back-of-house, service zones address lanes• Mixed uses, lack of identity and urban clarity

Wentworth Car Park Team

“Parramatta has many enticing qualities — an historic urban grid, heritage parklands and river frontage, yet it suffers from a lack of distinctiveness. To escape the urban sameness, the city needs to cultivate distinctive neighbourhoods with special places, diverse facilities, and delightful happenings.”

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Wentworth Car Park and Lanes will realise their potential as a ‘slow hub’ and multi-modal transport interchange lined with pedestrian activities and lively shopfronts.

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Layer 1: A shared ground plane

• Reconfigure traffic circulation for equity between cars, pedestrians and bikes. • Remove short term parking from car park periphery• Pedestrianise the East and part of the North lane• Provide dedicated cycle lanes with lane resurfacing to articulate ‘slow’ zones

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Network is a strategy for a ‘slow hub’ — a multi-

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transition from car, bus and train into the slower,

more experiential modes of walking and cycling. The

design limits the space required by vehicles in order

to free up parts of the lanes for pedestrian use and

improved activation. The north face of the car park and

the roof are identified as key locations for activation, to

draw people into and around the lanes network.

The design for Wentworth Car Park and Lane’s

Network is a strategy consisting of a several layers:

• Layer 1: A shared ground plane of consistent

surface which changes the priority of the site

away from cars towards ‘slow users’. This includes

reconfigured traffic circulation, prioritisation of

pedestrian movement and removal of short-term

parking within the lanes.

• Layer 2: An upgraded urban environment and

activated ground plane. This includes encouraging

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Layer 2: Activated ground level

• Provide incentives to encourage surrounding cafe & restaurant owners to spill into the lanes • Open up the ground & first levels of the North façade to provide additional programs - a Slow Hub theme• Provide more direct connections between the car park and the surrounding lanes

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“The ‘slow hub’ will make it easier and more enjoyable to move from the car into city life. It will welcome people into an unexpected and memorable urban experience.”

existing café and restaurant occupants to spill into

the laneways; sculptural intervention; and potential

vertical activation of parts of the northern facade, a

new external stair, and steps from the ground plane

into the basement of the car park connecting into a

multi-use facility for commuter cyclists.

• Layer 3: A highly visible, sculpturally iconic roof and

enticing roof activity. Strategies proposed include

a roof top bar, roof top cinema, pop up park, aerial

velodrome or play space.

• These three layers will be implemented over time

resulting in a gradual transformation of the area.

Gradually a strong identity will emerge assisting

to create a distinctive neighbourhood within the

city centre.

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Batman Walk has a sunny north-south orientation

and central location, making it an ideal lunchtime

retreat. It will eventually be widened and redeveloped

to create the Horwood Avenue Civic Link, however in

the meantime the lane has the potential to function as

a much needed pocket square within the city centre.

Council have negotiated to lease the Council owned

building to the east of the lane to an artisan baker in

order to activate the laneway and attract passersby.

The brief asked the design team to propose a short-

term renovation for the lane which incorporates the

proposed bakery, enlivens the space, and creates a

fine grain pocket square in the city centre.

The strength of the design approach was to recognise

the potential of an everyday element, such as public

seating, to become a fun and iconic element. The

team’s design built on existing seating precedents

Batman WalkAndrew Burns and Brook Andrew

Batman Walk Team

“Batman Walk presents the challenge of an apparently ordinary lane. The task is to create a work that will extend the cultural aspirations of the city by way of impact, presence and quality.”

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from around the world, together with explorations of

geometry and pattern. The seat serves a functional

purpose, acts as a drawcard and is used to transform

the lane into a popular destination.

The artistic seat element envelopes the lane and

attracts passersby through the use of strong visual

imagery. Bold use of monochromatic colour,

geometry and pattern are applied to the ground plane

and ‘folded’ over the solid perimeter edge seating.

The geometry of the bench’s form creates a variety

of spaces and seating options for café visitors. The

uniform material finish uses optical devices to change

in response to pedestrian motion and perspective.

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The short-term proposal for Batman Walk will use a compelling artwork/seat to attract passersby and define a lively pocket square.

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These four projects invited design teams to identify

a previously unrecognised site for an appropriate

installation, known as the Blank Canvas projects. The

opportunity defined by the brief was for designers

and artists to identify and propose a site specific

improvement and/or artwork for a blank wall or

group of blank walls that currently make a negative

contribution to the city centre.

Artists’ played an intrinsic role in most of the Design

Parramatta teams. For these projects in particular, the

artist’s role was paramount. These projects share an

exploratory and experimental theme but are all very

different in realisation. Some used the artistic input

to encompass the entire space while other projects

proposed a more traditional approach of a free

standing object. For several, a strong component of

interactivity between the use of work and passerby.

operated. These projects work with the senses through

light and dark, sound, sitting in the sun and/or colour

and recognise the possibilities the city centre offers

beyond work and home.

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The proposal is for a series of sculptural objects

placed within disused lanes that change in response

to human interaction.

The main design approach is to provide an artwork

which embodies and reflects the character and mood

of disused spaces within the city centre.

The design proposes a collection of sculptures to be

placed in lanes which share the same shape and form

but respond differently to each environment based

on how different objects are placed and interacted

with. Each sculpture is technologically hardwired and

consists of mirrored aluminium, light diffracting plastic

and LED lights. As people approach the sculpture –

either incidentally or deliberately – the object alters its

‘mood’, reflecting this with a combination of colour

and light.

Artworks for Lonely LanewaysStudio Damien Butler

ART WORKS LOCATIONS- Erby Place- Batman Lane- Wentworth Laneway- Wentworth Laneway- Batman Lane

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A proposal for a series of sculptures placed within quiet lanes that would respond to people passing by.

Studio Damien Butler

“Lonely spheres placed in laneways across Parramatta anxiously pulse their lights to express their loneliness ... not until people choose to enter the laneway and interact with the sphere do they change their state and respond to the attention given.”

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Service • Kitchen, toilet • Loading dock, bin enclosure • AC / plant

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which enhances the sensory experience of leftover

spaces and creates opportunities for new types

of activity.

The design approach is to develop a whole of city

strategy for approaching and improving small-scale,

forgotten spaces. The strength of the scheme was

its principle-based approach to spatial improvement

unencumbered by property boundaries.

The team developed a series of design interventions

that could be applied to enhance the sensory

experience of different types of space and which

provided a variety of platforms for different types of

activation. The interventions focused on the addition

of light, sound, landscape and urban furniture. The

strategy was tested on a number of demonstration

sites which included an alley opposite Bicentennial

Square, Macquarie Link, and an art playground.

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Site One, Unamed Alley, Opposite Bicentennial Square - Old Eyes / New Eyes

Site Three, Railway Embankment and Art Studios - Old Eyes / New Eyes

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“We believe that Parramatta’s creative culture is underestimated and hidden.”

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The design proposal is for an interconnected urban

artwork which utilises a network of screens of varying

size and location, and an accompanying smart

phone ‘app’ to provoke thought and activate negative

facades and spaces within the city centre.

The design approach is to propose an artistic

framework which collects data on different parts

of Parramatta (past and present) and redistributes

it based on a pre-formulated algorithm onto

four proposed elements. Multiple levels of public

engagement are proposed within the artwork which

changes with respect to colour, image and speed and

can be interacted with by movement, viewing, and an

element of public curating.

The four display elements are:

1. three large-scale billboard and LED/LCD screen

elements installed in key locations between the

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“Parranet is a project that explores how large scale, ‘flat’ artistic installations can activate the negative elevations of buildings in Parramatta’s city centre. Through the use of large colour surfaces coupled with historical and real time images activated by sensory technology, Parranet aims to transform parts of the city centre into an urban gallery by arousing cultural curiosity.”

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railway and the river. Each installation is equipped with

individual cameras and sensors which are networked

to a central database.

2. a central display node which acts as the network

control point for all installations. The node is a

sculptural element located within a publicly-accessible

area and will display the ‘network’ of the artwork in

real-time on a LED/LCD screen.

3. a series of six ‘pop-up’ or temporary short-term

screens located within secure, weather protected

environments such as shop fronts and arcades.

The screens are temporary in nature, can be easily

relocated and placed to encourage curiosity and

activation.

4. an ‘app’ (for smart phones, tablets or similar

devices) that provides a guide to the work, as well as

collecting data and illustrating the output.

An artwork proposal made of mounted screens, and an accompanying smart phone ‘app’, using colour and community generated images to animate blank facades and spaces within the city centre.

The design proposal is for a small-scale intervention

which celebrates the simple pleasure of sitting in

the sun.

The approach adopted by the design team was to

analyse the common small-scale components which

frequently combine to create great public space. This

thinking was applied to Parramatta’s city centre and it

was concluded that what was missing was a humble

design intervention to better facilitate the simple act

of sitting in the sun.

The proposal is for a strategy which identifies

public space opportunities and provides small-scale

design interventions to improve public amenity. The

strategy is demonstrated through the creation of a

sun-drenched pocket park, located midway along

a pedestrian thoroughfare between the transport

interchange, a coffee shop and the existing library.

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“We don’t want to be showy. We don’t want to make big promises for the future. We want to be kind, and speak how we like to be spoken to. We don’t want to be forced into participation. We don’t want to be forced to interact. We don’t want interaction to be novel or kitsch or overt, and we don’t want our interaction to blink or buzz. What we do want is interaction that is real and useful; dare we say functional.”

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A proposal for a small-scale intervention which celebrates the simple pleasure of sitting in the sun.

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Finding the Future in the Exisiting Urban Fabric

Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning University of Sydney

Rod Simpson

Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning

The University of Sydney

As part of the Design Parramatta process the urban design studio

at the University of Sydney has developed alternative designs for

Horwood Avenue; the civic link. This project was selected not only

because it may link the rail station to the river, but also because the

avenue is at the junction occupying a middle ground between the

concentration of large offices to the east and the highly modified

historic subdivision ‘grain’ around Church Street to the west.

With its ‘cranked’ alignment, modernist car parking structures, and

tendency to branch off to other smaller random spaces occupied

by small business ventures, it can also be seen as the location of

two distinct and misaligned urban processes; the planned and the

unplanned.

There is always a tension between top-down planning that

conceives of the city at a metropolitan scale and then attempts to

define a role, capacity and function for parts within it ‘Parramatta as

Sydney’s second CBD’, and the existing fabric of the place and the

patterns of activity that are constantly emerging from individuals’

actions, investments and entrepreneurship.

The Design Parramatta process, even at this early stage needs to

be recognised as a clear attempt to reconcile these tensions, and

to develop an approach and methodology that is able to mediate

between the macro and micro.

We are all too familiar with the excessive zeal of top-down planning

of the 1960’s that would have cut multi-lane motor-swathes through

the city and erased the Rocks, Woolloomooloo, Kings Cross and

much of North Sydney in the name of efficiency and renewal.

But although we have introduced and embedded heritage as a

consideration in response to these ravages, by identifying particular

items, curtilages or even physical patterns of urban form as being of

heritage significance, this is essentially a static, reactive, backward

looking approach based on an understandable sense of distrust.

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There is no question that heritage should be recognised and

preserved, but that is not enough: culture and urbanity are

dynamic and occupy places that mostly do not have any particular

heritage, high cultural or aesthetic value, but that does not mean

they are worthless, or that their potential should not be a principal

focus of planning and design.

We also forget that the resistance to the top-down approach was

also socially motivated, with the ‘green bans’ in the Rocks being

as much concerned with the retention of affordable housing and

defence of tenants as with heritage preservation. Authenticity

comes from places having many authors, not just physical

preservation.

Heritage alone does not provide the basis for discussing how we

want places to be in the future. To do that we need to look at the

qualities of place and the activities and seek out the potential of

the places. In other words, Design Parramatta in order to Imagine

Parramatta!

DESIGN PARRAMATTA AS AN INTERMEDIARY PROCESS

Although Design Parramatta duly acknowledges the City of

Sydney ‘City Spaces’ project as a precedent, it differs in a number

of important respects:

Parramatta’s city centre is smaller. This means that rather than

a scattering of projects that could improve the City of Sydney,

the combined Design Parramatta projects have the potential to

provide a comprehensive framework that is linked up.

Parramatta’s city centre is ‘grittier’. Sydney was already in pretty

good shape and the ‘City Spaces’ project could be seen as further

embellishment. We forget that the Rocks and Woolloomooloo

were also ‘gritty’ in the early 70’s, and it took imagination to

see their potential and the value of what was already there, and

perhaps as importantly, manage to keep some of the authenticity,

which is still a ‘tension’ in the Rocks.

Parramatta’s city centre is more open to intervention. This because

it is not as capitalised or built-up as Sydney was in the 1990’s. This

should mean that new connections and re-configuration of the

city centre could be made more easily and at lower cost than

Sydney, facilitated by the extensive publicly owned land in the

centre: the car parks and lanes.

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Parramatta’s city centre has lower density and more intimate scale

than Sydney and the potential for intriguing juxtapositions of scale,

age and building typologies should be recognised as a unique

potential, while not allowing any one type to dominate; there is

nothing inherently wrong with having two storeys next to 65 storeys.

Most importantly, the process suggests that it possible to use

urban design, the definition and formulation of ideas for the

public domain as a way of revealing, illuminating and articulating

the potential of what already exists in the city centre, (both fabric

and activities), in relation to major redevelopment proposals that

might be seen as ‘top-down’. Having articulated these values, the

challenges for designers then becomes how to reconcile these

different scales; how do large buildings come down to ground

and interact and mesh with surrounding activities?

FINAL COMMENT ON PROCESS

The innovation in the approach lies in the valuing of both what

exists and its potential using design as an exploratory, explanatory

and structuring process.

Major urban renewal projects often see existing fabric and

activities as a major impediments, both physical in terms of

development capacity, and in relation to ‘market perceptions’

that suggest places need to be ‘cleaned-up’ and re-branded. The

challenge and potential for Parramatta’s city centre may be to

question these assumptions, and develop new approaches that

are unique, specific and consequently; ‘world class’ urban design.

PROPOSITIONS

The idea that the ‘first city’ grid of rectilinear streets with consistent

street frontages, could be complemented and contrasted with a

‘second city’ of lanes and irregular diverse spaces that already exist

within the large street blocks emerged as a recurrent theme from

both the professional and student schemes.

The more detailed exploration of Horwood Avenue by the urban

design studio showed that this theme could be developed in a

number of ways.

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Sharp proposes the modification and adaptation

of existing structures en route to the river where

the articulation of landform into promontory and

embayment provides both vistas and containment.

Horwood Place/Avenue is a minor street in the

grid geometry and, the diagram above shows it in

relation to the ‘second city’ that exists in the mid-

blocks of the main city grid.

Working with the existing structures: modification

and adaptation may be the way forward.

Four blocks

1. Parramatta Square block: Public buildings set

in a sequence of a generous link to station under

buildings, commercial buildings focused to the east.

2. Roxy block: Horwood Place as a central unifying

space with minor spaces pooling off the place, a

temporal shared way.

3. Erby block: Horwood Place as a minor street,

linear pedestrian link to courtyards, sets up clear view

towards river

4. River block: Willow House as upper promontory

park with a terraced link to the lower riverside park,

cut in to create large lower park.

Horwood Place/AvenueDaniel Sharp

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Public domain as the venue for

individual and programed activity.

Mun takes advantage of the lack of preciousness about

what happens in the centre of the block to propose a

programed urban playground. Parramatta’s city centre

will be as busy on the weekends as midweek, while

office workers may also be drawn to the water park

midsummer.

Horwood Place/Urban PlaygroundJoanne Mun

Main Principles

1. Realign Horwood Link: a well-connected north-

south approach from transport interchange to the river

through pedestrian ways, shareways and service lanes.

2. Built forms to make way for Horwood Link:

subtracting/adding/multiplying/subdividing potential

new sites for future developments.

3. New spaces within each block: allocating new parks/

squares/urban spaces to encourage social activities.

4. Life on Street: creating opportunities to bring life

back onto the street with street furniture, intimate

parks, art installations, active retail frontages and

opportunity for events and fairs along Horwood Link.

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Harris’ proposal sees the Horwood Link as a

variegated spine changing in scale, enclosure

and character. These spaces a supplemented and

linked to smaller courts to the west.

Urban Parramatta contains inherent strengths

in both form and space. A range of buildings,

such as the Victorian Town Hall to the elegant

Modernist library to the contemporary glass

Deloitte tower, exhibit the historic urban layering.

These forms are embedded in a diverse network

of pedestrian connections and spaces that

the people of Parramatta know and inhabit.

Understanding these qualities of urban Parramatta,

organically grown over more than a century, and

carefully integrating contemporary interventions

will build on the existing richness and embody

the urban identity of Parramatta.

Horwood LinkMike Harris

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Zolghadr envisages a series of green mid-block oases;

residential, education and civic, providing verdant

respite from the hard surfaces of the main streets and

leading to an extensive intense river park, active day

and night.

Horwood LinkGhazal Zolghadr

Proposal Description

Parramatta’s city centre vision: To no longer be just

a combination of oversize parking buildings, blank

facades and back lanes. It will be an integrated

network of open spaces connected by walking and

cycling through green and active footpaths. A place

for people, with buildings that open out to the streets

and engage people. There will be cafés, outdoor

dining, shopping, entertainment, places where people

can linger, sit, have a coffee and connect.

The public realm will culminate at the river, linked

to the water with a focus on activities, sports, cafés,

restaurants and green space.

Parramatta’s city centre will be a safe, vibrant place for

cultural activities, street theatre, fine views and interesting

facades. It will be a lively, diverse and safe place for people

to move around in and create beautiful memories.

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McMaster sees the Horwood alignment as a high-

density pedestrian spine of commercial office

premises on both sides. Although there will be some

significant overshadowing of the spine itself, solar

access will be preserved in mid-block open spaces

by lower scale development to the west. In addition,

the shaded spine will be pleasant midsummer and

the idea is to have people moving through and using

the whole city centre; a realistic objective given the

relatively intimate scale.

Reinforce Church Street as the main pedestrian spine

• encourage movement between the civic core,

riverfront, theatre and station

• public domain is already of a high standard

• create a new civic core which interacts with the Church

Street spine and promote development of Horwood

Place as the commercial/mixed use city spine

• provision for high density

• create links with Church Street

• residential/mixed use function to waterfront

The common monotony of commercial office

precincts is avoided by the retention of heritage

buildings and the unexpected on the Horwood

alignment adjacent to other more intimate spaces as

well as the nearby active strip of Church Street.

Horwood AlignmentKrista McMaster

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Additional fine grain mid-block subdivisions The growth in population of residential and

workers should make the smaller lanes viable (left)

and reduce the concentration on Church Street

Whiteley argues the need for a doubling of active

frontage by utilising the inside of blocks —‘the soft

centre’ — as well as the need for a significant increase

in ways to move through and around the city centre

with the possible tripling of the total number of people

living and working in the centre.

The Soft CentreChristiane Whiteley

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Dr Robert LangChief Executive Officer

Parramatta City Council

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Parramatta City Centre Public Domain Framework Plan 2012

The Parramatta City Centre Public Domain Framework Plan 2012 is a

new plan that has been generated as a result of the Design Parramatta

initiative. It combines the Design Parramatta projects, with ongoing

public domain projects to provide a unified framework to guide the

renewal of the Parramatta city centre public domain for the next

16 years. Key elements of the plan include:

• incorporation of the proposals and strategies identified for the each

of the streets, lanes, public spaces and parks included in the Design

Parramatta initiative;

• activation projects for short term improvements and seasonal events

including new kiosks and shelters;

• continued upgrade of city streets including new pavement, street

furniture and street trees in accordance with the Parramatta Public

Domain Guidelines and the Parramatta Street Tree Masterplan;

• continued upgrade of city lanes as described in the Parramatta City

Centre Lanes Strategy and the Parramatta Public Domain Guidelines;

• continued integration of public art into public domain upgrades either as

individual commissioned elements and/or through embedding of the

artistic approach into design responses and detailing; and

• additional strategic projects including Parramatta Square, a future

civic space for the city centre; the upgrade of Church Street in

addition to Project 8, Church Street Mall, and the upgrade of the

entire City Foreshore Area.

Design Parramatta has provided a new focus for

Parramatta City’s program of urban renewal. The concept

designs generated present the City with the opportunity

to embark on 15 strategic public domain projects and

combined with existing strategies, further contribute

to revitalising the city centre as a whole. Together, the

proposed interventions have the potential to improve

both the physical fabric of the city centre and the ways

in which it can be used by the community.

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Parramatta Ring Road will become a distinct city

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Barrack Lane will be enlivened by urban play elements

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND ACTIVATION

Community use is central to improving Parramatta city centre’s public

domain. Activation can be encouraged in a variety of ways including both

short-term targeted events and longer term design improvements. While

a short-term event can be used either as a quick fix or to test different

approaches; design improvements generally focus on redressing the physical

barriers which inhibit activation. Often the two strategies are best used

together, with designers engaged to ameliorate spatial issues, which can then

be overlaid with targeted events.

Meaningful involvement and engagement of the local community is critical to

ensuring ongoing use of the city centre’s public domain. Many of the Design

Parramatta teams engaged with the local community and their findings

helped shape the designer’s response. The Parramatta Ring Road, Church

Street Mall, Clay Cliff Creek Parklands, Freemason’s Arms Lane, Wentworth

Carpark Lanes Network, Erby Park and Lane 13 and Phillip Street projects

each include proposals for further community engagement as part of design

development.

THE NEXT STEPS

Consultation

A rigorous consultation process would form the immediate next step for

further development of all the Design Parramatta projects. The concept

proposals for the individual sites have been well illustrated and modelled,

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providing an excellent platform for further engagement of Council

and the community. Additional mediums such as the Design

Parramatta website and the Design Parramatta film will also help

in broadcasting these ideas by increasing the ease with which

the community can engage with both project and the process of

revitalising the public spaces of their city centre.

Prioritisation Plan

Council will develop a 16 year plan to select and develop preferred

public domain projects from the Parramatta City Centre Public

Domain Framework Plan 2012 and apportion funding. The

prioritisation plan will run on four year cycles and be reviewed

every 4 years to align with Council’s Delivery Program.

Once a project has been scheduled for further work the following

steps are involved:

• consultation with the Community, Councillors and relevant

technical experts;

• design Development leading to an approved project plan;

• design Documentation resulting in detailed technical plans and

specifications;

• tendering of the works;

• construction; and

•ongoing management and maintenance of the places.

Consultation, design and technical expertise will be necessary

components of all these stages. The Parramatta Public Domain

Framework Plan 2012 will enable Council to undertake a

coordinated approach to the upgrade and revitalisation of the city

centre’s public domain in partnership with Government bodies,

the private sector and the community.

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TeamsTEAMS FIRM / ORGANISATION INDIVIDUALS

Project Team Parramatta City Council – Urban Design Unit Kati Westlake

Parramatta City Council – Place Services Steve Ellis

Parramatta City Council – Urban Design Unit Andrew Tam

Government Architect’s Office Callantha Brigham

Government Architect’s Office Helen Lochhead

Government Architect’s Office Marietta Buikema

Workshop Team Parramatta City Council – Urban Design Unit Penny Bowen

Parramatta City Council – Place Services Robyn Hobbs

Parramatta City Council – Place Services Angie Paravalos

Parramatta City Council – Place Services Anthony Budini

Parramatta City Council – Place Services Anthony Milward

Parramatta City Council – Place Services Bruce Mills

Parramatta City Council – Place Services Eleni McRae

Parramatta City Council – Place Services Geoff Weston

Parramatta City Council – Place Services Sandra DaSilva

Parramatta City Council – Place Services Neile Robinson

Parramatta City Council – Place Services Wendy Read

Workshop Panelists Parramatta City Council Kati Westlake

Government Architect’s Office Helen Lochhead

Government Architect’s Office Peter Poulet

University of New South Wales James Weirick

University of Sydney Rod Simpson

Graphic Design - website Doppio Sinead McDevitt

Doppio Ali Ozden

Film Crew Director / Producer Carli Leimbach

Camera Operator / Editor Shaun Dougherty

Editor Cris Balmaceda Errazuriz

Sound Eren ‘Pinky’ Sener

Sound Sam Ada

Project Control Group Parramatta City Council Sue Weatherley

Parramatta City Council Scott Gregg

Parramatta City Council Geoff King

Parramatta City Council David Gray

Parramatta City Council Richard Searle

Parramatta City Council Amitabha Choudhury

Parramatta City Council Peter Lichaa

Parramatta City Council Jim Stefan

Parramatta City Council Andy Ling

Parramatta City Council Mark Leotta

Parramatta City Council James Smallhorn

Parramatta City Council Kim Foskett

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TEAMS FIRM / ORGANISATION INDIVIDUALS

Parramatta City Council Adam Cook

Parramatta City Council Rebecca Grasso

Parramatta City Council Solaire Eggert

Parramatta City Council Vanessa Villa

Parramatta City Council Jennifer Concato

Parramatta City Council Helen Papathanasiou

Parramatta City Council Alison McDonagh

Parramatta City Council Michelle Desailly

Parramatta City Council Sophia Kouyoumdjian

Barrack Lane G.O.L.D. (Group of Like Minded Designers) Rebecca Caldwell

G.O.L.D. (Group of Like Minded Designers) Ash Every

G.O.L.D. (Group of Like Minded Designers) Regina Kaluzny

G.O.L.D. (Group of Like Minded Designers) Tersius Maass

G.O.L.D. (Group of Like Minded Designers) Phillip Nielsen

G.O.L.D. (Group of Like Minded Designers) Katie O’Brien

Batman Walk Andrew Burns Architect Andrew Burns

Artist Brook Andrew

Blank Canvas A Push Play Nuala Collins

Push Play Kelly Doley

Push Play Nadia Wagner

Push Play Charlotte Karlsson

Blank Canvas B Mulloway Studio Anthony Coupe

Mulloway Studio Esther Chew

Mulloway Studio James Baker

Artist Ernest Edmonds

Blank Canvas C Studio Damien Butler Damien Butler

Blank Canvas D Old Eyes / New Eyes Nikki Butlin

Old Eyes / New Eyes Asha Tsimeris

Old Eyes / New Eyes Patrick Stein

Old Eyes / New Eyes Louie Lester Yao

Old Eyes / New Eyes Janet Thomson

Old Eyes / New Eyes Ann Cleary

Old Eyes / New Eyes Robert Thorne

Charles Street Square Context Landscape Design Oi Choong

Zoe Spiegel Zoe Spiegel

CM+ Richard Nugent

Urban Art Projects Daniel Tobin

Heritage Advisor Craig Burton

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TEAMS FIRM / ORGANISATION INDIVIDUALS

Church Street Mall -

Short Term Project

JMD Design Anton James

Lacoste + Stevenson Architects Thierry Lacoste

Lacoste + Stevenson Architects David Stevenson

Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke Emma Howarth

Toko. Concept. Design. Michael Lugmayr

Toko. Concept. Design. Eva Dijkstra

Artist Pamela See

Clay Cliff Creek Parklands GAO Landscape Architecture Barbara Schaffer

GAO Landscape Architecture Luke Wistencroft

Parramatta City Council Landscape Architecture Kim Foskett

Parramatta City Council Landscape Architecture Adam Cook

Parramatta City Council Landscape Architecture Alastair Hickey

Parramatta City Council Landscape Architecture John Graham

Equatica Alexa McAuley

Lightwell Michael Hill

Erby Park and Lane 13 DRAW Adam Russell

DRAW Imogene Tudor

DRAW Edward Rosier

Tyrrellstudio Mark Tyrrell

Tyrrellstudio Dan Sharp

Dr Lee Stickells

Dr Zanny Begg

Freemason’s Arms Lane The Lot Adriano Pupilli

The Lot Heidi Axelsen

The Lot Hugo Moline

George Street Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects Philip Thalis

Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects Sheila Tawalo

Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects Alex Rink

Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture Jane Irwin

Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture Linden Crane

Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture Sam Westlake

Turpin + Crawford Studio Jennifer Turpin

Turpin + Crawford Studio Michaelie Crawford

Horwood Avenue

Civic Link

Gallagher Ridenour Urban & Landscape Projects Libby Gallagher

Gallagher Ridenour Urban & Landscape Projects Deena Ridenour

Gallagher Ridenour Urban & Landscape Projects Jane Nalder

Redshift Architecture & Art Angelo Konrsanos

Redshift Architecture & Art Michael Lewarne

Redshift Architecture & Art Wesley Grunsell

Equatica Richard McManus

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Macquarie Street Cox Richardson Architects and Planners John Richardson

Cox Richardson Architects and Planners Ian Connolly

Cox Richardson Architects and Planners Joe Rowling

Cox Richardson Architects and Planners Shirin Adorbehi

Oculus Roger Jasprizza

Oculus Simon Bond

Parsons Brinkerhoff Scott Ney

Parramatta City Ring Road TERROIR Gerard Reinmuth

TERROIR Scott Balmforth

TERROIR Teneil van Dyck

TERROIR Malina Brueckner

ASPECT Studios Sacha Coles

ASPECT Studios Orit Meylakh

u.lab, University of Technology Sydney Dr Joanne Jakovich

u.lab, University of Technology Sydney Dr Jochen Schweitzer

u.lab, University of Technology Sydney Vida Asrina

Richard Goodwin Pty Ltd Professor Richard Goodwin

Richard Goodwin Pty Ltd Samaneh Moafi

Phillip Street HASSELL Ken Maher

Matthew Pullinger

David Tickle

Sarah Meyer

Felicity Stewart

Anton Grimes

River Square Andersen Hunter Horne Jeppe Aagaard Andersen

Andersen Hunter Horne Mike Horne

Andersen Hunter Horne Adam Hunter

Roberts Day Stephen Moore

Equatica Alexa McAuley

Electrolight Don Salisbury

Smith and Station Streets

Greening

Nobbs Radford Architects Alison Nobbs

Nobbs Radford Architects Sean Radford

Nobbs Radford Architects Cecile Marguin

Carmichael Studios Rupert Carmichael

Artist Suzie Idiens

Wentworth Car Park BKK Architects Tim Black

BKK Architects George Huon

Glas Urban Design & Landscape Architecture Mark Gillingham

Renew Australia Marcus Westbury

Electrolight Paul Beale

Peter Emmett

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p18 Parramatta City Council

Photo from Design Parramatta Workshops p21-27 Parramatta City Council

Design Parramatta Plan p30 Parramatta City Council and Doppio Design

Main Streets Diagram p32 Parramatta City Council /Doppio Design/

Government Architetct’s Office

George Street Analysis and Proposal Images p33-39 George Street Project Team

Macquarie Street Analysis and Proposal Images p40-45 Macquarie Street Project Team

Phillip Street Analysis and Proposal Images p46-49 Phillip Street Project Team

Parramatta City Ring Road Analysis and Proposal Images p50-55 Parramatta City Ring Road Project Team

Public Space and Parks Projects Diagram p56 Parramatta City Council /Doppio Design/

Government Architect’s Office

River Square Analysis and Proposal Images p58-63 River Square Project Team

Charles Street Square Analysis and Proposal Images p64-69 Charles Street Project Team

Horwood Avenue Civic Link Analysis and Proposal Images p70-75 Horwood Avenue Civic Link Project Team

Church Street Mall

Analysis and Proposal Images

p76-83 Church Street Project Team

Clay Cliff Creek Parklands Analysis and Proposal Images p84-89 Clay Cliff Creek Parklands Project Team

Smith and Station Streets Analysis and Proposal Images p90-95 Smith and Station Streets Project Team

Lanes Projects Diagram p96 Parramatta City Council /Doppio Design/

Government Architect’s Office

Freemason’s Arms Lane p98-105 Freemason’s Arms Lane Project Team

Barrack Lane p106-109 Barrack Lane Project Team

Erby Place and Lane 13 p110-115 Erby Place and Lane 13 Project Team

Wentworth Car Park and Lanes p116-121 Wentworth Car Park and Lanes Project Team

Batman Walk p122-125 Batman Walk Project Team

Art and Experimental Projects Diagram p126 Parramatta City Council /Doppio Design/

Government Architect’s Office

Lonely Laneways p128 Lonely Laneways Project Team

A Space for Urban Follies p130 A Space for Urban Follies Project Team

Parra-net p132 Parra-net Project Team

A Place in the Sun p134 Push Play Project Team

Student Projects P138-147 University of Sydney Urban Design Studio

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Parramatta City Centre Public Domain Framework Plan 2012 p152-153 Parramatta City Council/Doppio Design/

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Parramatt’s Population p154 HASSELL

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