Jury comment
Victoria’s Desalination Plant is a project of formidable scale. Part water treatment infrastructure, part environmental restoration, it is in many ways a very large piece of worthy and valuable infrastructure.
The ultimate in land shaping, the design reflects the local coastal dune topography as it re-sculpts the landscape to hide the massive desalination plant. The designers have deftly managed to shield and focus views, folding the infrastructure into the landscape and wrapping it in a fresh skin of nature. They exhibit impressive skill in shaping the experience from both land and air.
Within a very large project structure, the landscape architects have created a new standard and proved that effective collaboration, design and execution deliver better environmental outcomes.
Credits
- Project
- Victorian Desalination Plant & Ecological Reserve
- Landscape architect
- ASPECT Studios
Australia
- Consultants
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Architect
Peckvonhartel, ARM Architecture
Ecology consultant Practical Ecology
Engineering services WSP Parsons Brinkerhoff, Beca
Green roof consultant FytoGreen Australia
- Site Details
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Site type
Urban
- Project Details
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Status
Built
Category Landscape / urban
Source
Award
Published online: 27 Oct 2016
Words:
National Landscape Architecture Awards Jury 2016
Images:
Aquasure
Issue
Landscape Architecture Australia, November 2016