Common Senses

COMMON SENSES

Establishing greater connections with the water story of the bays through sensory connection

I would like to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the various lands on which you all work today and to any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people participating in this meeting. Particularly the Gadigal and Wangal people, the traditional owners of our site.

I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging and celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal peoples and their ongoing cultures and connections to the lands and waters of NSW.

Catchment Boundaries

Water Catchment Areas

Target: Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species

Target: By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution

Target: By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

DRIVING PRINCIPLES

SENSORY INTRODUCTION

“The formal properties of water remain constant in every context: it will FREEZE, THAW and EVAPORATE at the same temperature, precipitate under similar conditions, describe predictable patterns of flow in response to topographic forms,

and retains CONSISTENT VISUAL and AUDIAL CHARACTERISTICS in

its various forms”

Existing industry: Rejuvenate the local economy. This is a significant challenge to any construction. The current industry doesn’t provide necessary amenities for the site users. (+) (-)

Underground water network: existing network must be considered and designed around. Water already present on site creates opportunities to engage with water story (+) (-)

Silhouette of WBPS can be seen from almost everywhere on site (+)

Proposed metro station: Increases noise, decreases site lines to water, pollution increase connects the site to its greater context, brings users in and creates opportunity for connection on arrival (+) (-)

Proximity to water edge: Highly contaminated water, limited habitat potential. Provides aquatic habitat, water views, proximity increases connection (+) (-)

WBPS: cultural centre of the bays, can connect the water story to the site history (+)

FUNDAMENTAL ASSETS

Contamination: High levels of contamination in soil of surrounding area (+) (-)

A part of 12 metre deep harbour (+)

ABIDING EVENTS

What if urban program of the site was informed by a sensory-based landscape design, as expressed through the water story of the Bays?

Reconnect

Reestablish

PHASING PLAN

Remediation

CIRCULATION

Contaminants

HOW DOES PHYTOREMEDIATION WORK?

CIRCULATION

“The Glebe Island site comprises a hardstand concrete area which is VOID

OF VEGETATION

NOT considered to provide suitable habitat for diverse fauna populations”

FLOOD

SUNSET

FLOOD

SUNSET

INDICATIVE SPECIES LIST

FLOOD

INDICATIVE SPECIES

Pedestrian Friendly

Private and Public Vehicles

PEDESTRIAN ACCESS

FLOOD

SUNSET

DEPARTURE

‘WATER SHOULD NOT BE SOLD – WATER SHOULD

CURRENT

AND PROJECTED AVERAGE TIDES

2070

2090 AREA BELOW ANNUAL FLOOD LINE

2110 AREA BELOW ANNUAL FLOOD LINE