Jury comment
Great Ocean Road Coastal Trail Master Plan raises the bar for comprehensive masterplanning and design in one of Victoria’s most iconic stretches of landscape. Since its early collaboration with the Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation, the proposal has successfully navigated great complexities. It integrates past and present, and projects for future conditions, to deliver a carefully considered proposal based on thorough research, community analysis and stakeholder engagement. Its aim is to increase the area’s capacity to support a diversity of experiences and user abilities. The jury was impressed by the calibre of thinking and leadership demonstrated by the project, the high quality of its communication and its engaging treatment of content.
Great Ocean Road Coastal Trail Master Plan applies to Victoria and the land of the Gadubanud people of the Eastern Maar Nation.
Project credits
Design practice Tract First Nations cultural collaborators Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation Lead consultant and trail designer World Trail Flora-and-fauna, cultural heritage and planning consultant Biosis Geotechnical engineer Golder Structural and environmental engineer Bligh Tanner Quantity surveyor Zinc Cost Management Project partners Great Ocean Road Coast and Parks Authority, Parks Victoria and Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation Photographer DELWP, EMAC and Tract
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