BIGGER PICTURE & PUBLIC SPACE
Troppo have provided master-planning for tourism and urban projects, including in framing design guidelines, in cities, regional centres and ‘out Bush’.
And we have been invited contributors to significant national & international master-planning design competitions/ bids, including for:
Darwin City Waterfront/ Laguna Village, Whitsundays/ Environmental Studies & University Forecourt, University of Tel Aviv, Israel (Winners)/ Urban Regeneration for ‘Living Steel’, Warsaw, Poland.
We have designed villages:
at North Beach for Becton, Byron Bay 2002-2008/ Darwin City Waterfront PPP bid for Macquarie Bank/ Leighton (with Edaw, HOK) 2005/ Laguna, Whitsundays, invited competition 2006/ North Hawks Nest to DA Masterplan (with Hassell), NSW 2006/ Aruma to DA, Walker Flat SA 2007/ Weddell New Town, Darwin NT (Winners) 2011-12.
...But, with properties passed on and opportunities lapsed, none are built!
Smaller redevelopment of public space has been effected, however, in Darwin and Adelaide. In these projects there is always integration of landscape, shade/ shelter, and rainwater. And we seek development of a ground plane to accommodate people easily coming together in formal and informal ways – and hope to be surprised by the spaces’ use in ways we could never have imagined.
State Square, Darwin for NTG 2018-19, carried out in association with TCL, is a current urban space master plan, moving to a Stage 1 implementation. Other public space master plans include Begg Park on the Tweed River, Murwillumbah, northern NSW (with TCL); and Rymill Park, Adelaide Parklands (again with TCL).
Interpretive and lighting design opportunities are sought in everything we do. And we engage with these specialists and artists from the very beginning, so that their magic becomes woven into the architecture.
Henley Square - SA, 2011
Weddell - NT, 2011-12
Darwin City Revitalisation Project - NT, 2011
St Mary's School - Darwin, NT 2010
Darwin Entertainment Centre - NT, 2006
Darwin City Waterfront - Competition Finalist, NT, 2004
North Beach, Byron Bay, NSW, 2003