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Public Environment Urban Design Framework State Aquatic Centre Office of Major Projects and Infrastructure

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Public Environment Urban Design Framework

Project 23804 | File State Aquatic Centre - Urban Design Framework V3 7-9-10.doc 7 September 2010 | Revision 0 Aurecon Page i

Contents

1. Introduction 1

1.1 Project Background 1 1.2 Project Task 1

2. Urban Design Framework 2

2.1 Approach 2 2.2 Urban Design Principles 2 2.3 Project Opportunity Priorities 2 2.4 Project Opportunity Scope 4 Appendix A – Urban Design Principles


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1. Introduction 1.1 Project Background

Aurecon has been engaged by the Office of Major Projects and Infrastructure (OMPI) to provide advisory services for the delivery of the State Aquatic Centre and GP Plus Development Design and Construct (D&C) project for the State Government.

OMPI has been successful in an application to the State’s Places for People program to provide urban design enhancements to the public environment around the State Aquatic Centre and GP Plus Development precinct providing funding of $742,500 for the following types of initiatives:

• Enhanced urban design initiatives • Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) initiatives • Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) initiatives • Public art

The following stakeholders have been involved in developing this precinct enhancement program:

• OMPI (Steve Woodrow and Lisa Alexander) • Office for Recreation and Sport (ORS) (Jenny Hughes and Anthea Shem) • City of Marion (John Valentine and Marg Edgecombe) • Department of Health (DoH) (Alison King and Mark Nangle) • Places for People (Craig Grocke)

1.2 Project Task

Aurecon’s Urban Design + Place-Making team has been requested to work with the client and project stakeholders to undertake the following tasks:

• facilitate a stakeholder workshop to: – define and prioritise a series of project opportunities – scope the urban design framework within which the project opportunities are considered

• prepare an Urban Design Framework and Urban Design Principles to drive the project (this document)

• prepare a detail scope for each project opportunity • based on the current D&C urban design plan prepare a revised urban design concept that:

– incorporates each of the Places for People project opportunities – defines the scope of each opportunity that will be negotiated through the D&C contract and the

scope that will be implement through separate means.



2. Urban Design Framework 2.1 Approach

The following approach was employed to fulfil the project task:

• Design and facilitate a workshop to engage the project and precinct knowledge of the stakeholders in defining an agreed set of prioritised project opportunities

• Prepare the Urban Design Framework, Urban Design Principles and project opportunity scope and circulate for comment

• Prepare revised urban design concept and initiate delivery methodology through D&C Contract and other delivery mechanisms

2.2 Urban Design Principles

Based on the Stakeholder Workshop outcomes the following Urban Design Principles are proposed to guide the Places for People project opportunities:

1. Generate a destinational quality for the precinct with a clear sense of arrival

2. Facilitate major event access to and from the precinct

3. Create an active and safe public environment that provides areas of shelter and supports a range of community events

4. Connect facilities, transport and destinations with clear and safe wayfinding

5. Celebrate the cultural values and qualities of the precinct through public art

6. Incorporate sustainable outcomes in the public environment

A pictorial representation of the scope of each urban design principle is provided in Appendix A.

2.3 Project Opportunity Priorities

Project Code

Project Opportunity Description Stakeholder Priority

UD Principles Addressed

A Create an integrated community entry plaza linking the aquatic and health facilities to the Marion Cultural Centre

1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6

B Create a flexible community and major event space 3 2, 3, 5 and 6

C Create a dynamic facilities entry zone linked to strong precinct wayfinding

3 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6

D Provide an ‘arts branding skin’ for the car park lift structure 4 1, 4 and 5

E Create a branded ‘arts wall’ along the north east edge of the Aquatic Centre and around the outdoor leisure water facilities

2 1, 4 and 5

F Develop a branded arts corner (high level and pedestrian level)

3 1, 4 and 5



Project Code

Project Opportunity Description Stakeholder Priority

UD Principles Addressed

G Development opportunities for a Water Sensitive Urban Design landscape and water management zone

6 6

H Consider treatment of glass wall to Aquatic Centre (probably best integrated with Project Opportunity ‘E’)

5 1

I Improve pedestrian amenity and wayfinding at north east corner and address appearance of service yard fence

5 4

The following image depicts a diagrammatic location of each of the Project Opportunities



2.4 Project Opportunity Scope

‘Places for People’ Project Scope Project Code

Project Opportunity Description

Urban Design Initiatives

WSUD and ESD Initiatives

Public Art Initiatives

A Community entry plaza

• Integrated entry plaza linking across Warracowie Way at grade including redesign of Marion Cultural Centre entry

• Traffic separation with bollards and landscape structures

• Shaded seating areas

• Provide event infrastructure

• Primary wayfinding node

• Guided stormwater to landscape areas

• Solar panel public lighting

• Solar panel shade structures

• Permeable paving

• Water tolerant landscape

• Stand alone artwork opportunity using local cultural themes

• Integrated artwork within paving potentially including lighting and paving

• Artwork components within furniture and lighting

B Flexible major event space

• Integrate the northern half of the car park into the Aquatic Centre entry to create flexible event space

• Maintain an area for Outside Broadcast (OB) vans

• Create a landscaped edge to the Marion Medical Centre

• Provide event infrastructure




• Solar panel shade structures

• Integrated artwork within paving potentially including lighting and paving

• Artwork components within furniture and lighting



‘Places for People’ Project Scope

C Entry zone and precinct wayfinding

• Create an integrated wayfinding system through all public spaces based on visual clues, design features and

• Create an entry zone responding to crowd management and access




• Develop an integrated wayfinding artwork linking all public spaces and providing entry location cues

D Arts lift skin • Develop an applied surface to the external lift shaft to create a branded arrival marker and wayfinding ‘beacon’

• Potential integration of solar panel powered art lighting feature

• Provide an arts surface to to the car park lift shaft

E (also incorporating

H)

Branded ‘arts wall’ • Develop an ‘arts wall’ concept to create a security boundary (visual and physical) to the outdoor leisure facilities

• Potentially integrating solid and translucent components

• Link branding graphic from outdoor fence into Aquatic Centre glass wall (Project H)

• Potential to consider solar power lighting components

• Outdoor fence structure can be created as an arts wall

• Potential to theme artwork graphic on playful aquatic recreation

• Critical to link graphic response from fence component into the Aquatic Centre glass wall (project H)

F Branded arts corner • Reinforce vehicular arrival experience from Diagonal Road and the train station with a branded graphic at high level and pedestrian level.

• Potentially an applied surface incorporating Aquatic Centre signage

• Potential to consider solar power lighting components

• Potential for an integrated corner artwork



‘Places for People’ Project Scope

G WSUD landscape • Use the linear landscape strip along the Diagonal Road frontage for a water capture and re-use zone

• Create a landscape swale water capture zone for localised underground tank storage and reuse within landscape



• Create an ESD interpretative artwork within landscape possibly using solar powered lighting artwork

I Graphic treatment of service yard wall

• Reinforce pedestrian arrival experience with an arts based graphic

• Potential for solar powered lighting installation

• Potential for an applied artwork to surface of service yard fence (linked to project F)



Appendix A Urban Design Principles

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