Date |
Title |
Publication |
Project |
|---|---|---|---|
14.06.10 |
SYDNEY'S OTHER HARBOUR IN LONDON |
Stella de Vulder
M 0412 341 013
Olivia Hyde
M 0420 959 347
As Sydney harbour loses its traditional functions of cargo, docklands and factories, Botany Bay has its edges dredged and engineered to take increasing activities, airport, shipping port, oil refinery and now a water desalination plant.
Most visitors today arriving in Sydney do so in Botany Bay – not in Sydney Harbour.
A proposition developed by BVN Architecture, that this ‘Other Harbour’ could use the catalyst of its pollution and industrial activity to generate a series of new experiences is about to go on exhibition in London as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
Included in the proposition is the notion of walking on water by developing a corniche, which is a series of broad floating pathways that serve the functional purpose of carrying run off from activities like the desalination plant beneath them, but enable an entirely new way of experiencing Botany Bay for Sydney residents.
The title of the exhibition is Emoh Ruo – Global Practices of Australian Architecture, it explores Australian architecture in three modes vernacular, built and speculative and is being presented by the Australian High Commission and organised by Architecture Media.
It opens in the Bridge Gallery, Westminster University School of Architecture, Marylebone Road, London on 18 June and after it closes on the 23 June it will be brought back to tour Australian cities.
Another feature of The Other Harbour display is a series of sculptural markers that respond to the peripatetic flows of the bay, and that are attached to the cornice or floating pathways, acting as guideposts across Botany Bay.
In an attempt to give Botany Bay back some of its wonderful grasses and reeds, that led Joseph Banks to name it ‘Botanical Bay’, it is also proposed to develop reed beds of hyper-accumulating plants to clean the run off.
And in an ultimate gesture at sustainability, the team from BVN Architecture, led by Practice Director Olivia Hyde propose that brine from the desalination plant be solar harvested for salt.
Most visitors today arriving in Sydney do so in Botany Bay – not in Sydney Harbour.
A proposition developed by BVN Architecture, that this ‘Other Harbour’ could use the catalyst of its pollution and industrial activity to generate a series of new experiences is about to go on exhibition in London as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
Included in the proposition is the notion of walking on water by developing a corniche, which is a series of broad floating pathways that serve the functional purpose of carrying run off from activities like the desalination plant beneath them, but enable an entirely new way of experiencing Botany Bay for Sydney residents.
The title of the exhibition is Emoh Ruo – Global Practices of Australian Architecture, it explores Australian architecture in three modes vernacular, built and speculative and is being presented by the Australian High Commission and organised by Architecture Media.
It opens in the Bridge Gallery, Westminster University School of Architecture, Marylebone Road, London on 18 June and after it closes on the 23 June it will be brought back to tour Australian cities.
Another feature of The Other Harbour display is a series of sculptural markers that respond to the peripatetic flows of the bay, and that are attached to the cornice or floating pathways, acting as guideposts across Botany Bay.
In an attempt to give Botany Bay back some of its wonderful grasses and reeds, that led Joseph Banks to name it ‘Botanical Bay’, it is also proposed to develop reed beds of hyper-accumulating plants to clean the run off.
And in an ultimate gesture at sustainability, the team from BVN Architecture, led by Practice Director Olivia Hyde propose that brine from the desalination plant be solar harvested for salt.
