Jury citation:
Julia Reserve Youth Park is a wonderfully vibrant multi-generational park for the growing Oran Park community. It capitalizes on its key pedestrian and bicycle connections to the adjacent community centre, shopping centre, schools and residential areas. The jury loved the project’s positioning of active youth spaces at the centre of the community and its recognition of this demographic as an important part of the fabric of Oran Park. The design was commended for achieving a delicate balance not only between stakeholder demands, a wide variety of activities and user group needs, but also with the ecological conditions of the land. The sensitive integration of detention basins and rain gardens responds to the quality of stormwater entering Julia Creek further downstream and is celebrated as part of the design strategy. These multilayered narratives advocate for the foundations of landscape architecture as a profession that integrates social, economic and ecological perspectives.
Location: Oran Park (NSW)
Aboriginal Nation: Dharawal
