Pirrama Park
Pirrama Park is a transformative urban parkland project born from community action. ASPECT Studios has overseen its redevelopment from a fenced-off, post-industrial concrete slab into a rich and textured urban waterfront parkland.
The park restores a relationship between the city and the waterfront, while delivering unique waterside community facilities and innovative sustainable components including solar energy generation and far-reaching storm water initiatives. ASPECT Studios undertook the master planning and detailed design stages of the project with Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects and CAB Consulting.
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- TRADITIONAL OWNERS & ONGOING CUSTODIANS OF THE LAND The Gadigal of the Eora Nation
- Client City of Sydney Council
- Location Pyrmont, Sydney, Australia
- Year 2005 - 2010
At the project’s outset, ASPECT was presented flat and featureless base – a legacy of the site’s industrial past. The design response was to give flavour and structure to this blank slate by staging the park as a series of outdoor “rooms” connected by a complex web of paths. A waterfront promenade around the foreshore provides a water-oriented backbone to the park and, significant marine engineering at the harbour edge created a sheltered bay which reveals the former shoreline of the site.
Key to the park’s success was the creation of multiple recreation opportunities along the waterfront, offering an opportunity to step down and engage with the water. A new public square on the lip of the water, defined by the sandstone cliff on the curve of Pirrama Road, can accommodate a range of public uses including cultural events and performances, meetings, markets, and festivals.
The integrated site-specific play space has quickly become an attraction for both locals and district visitors alike. The water play elements, reclaimed sandstone, a breathtaking natural setting and the unifying qualities of ASPECT’s design have created a unique public asset for a growing inner city population.
- TEAM ASPECT Studios, Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, CAB Consulting, Ford Civil Contractors (construction project manager), Connell Wagner, Deuce Design, Ecological Engineering, Fiona Robbé Landscape Architects, Lighting Art + Science, The People for Places + Spaces, TLB Engineers, Warwick Donnelly
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AWARDS
2016 Green Flag Awards - Winner
2012 AILA National Awards - Design Award
2010 AILA NSW Awards - The Medal
2010 Australian National Architecture Awards - Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design - PHOTOGRAPHY Florian Groehn, Adrian Boddy
