Prince Alfred Park and Pool Upgrade: A Public Open Space

Low Density, Neeson Murcutt Architects, Project, Repair, Sue Barnsley Design Landscape Architecture, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Active Public Spaces, Architecture&nature, Australia, City, Ecology, Greenery, Horizontal experience, Landscape, Park, Project, Public Space, Public space role, Relational space, Renovation, repair, Sustainability, Swimming Pool, Sydney, Territorial Approach, Topography, Urban ecology, Urban Paradigms, Urban planning, Urban realm, User’s experience

Photography: Linda Tegg and Brett Boardman

Excerpt from:
Australian Pavilion, 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2018 -- https://actar.com/product/repair/

Located at the edge of central Sydney, the project was part of the reinvigoration plan of an underutilised area of 7.5 hectares in Prince Alfred Park – it contributed to this by upgrading the public pool and addressing its relationship to the park and street. The overriding design principle preferences landscape over built form to activate and make public open space in all its interfaces, rather than to produce a building ‘in’ a park.