引领极光未来城市发展的公共空间纽带 | 巴林加城镇广场
Founded in 1952 Stockland is one of the largest diversified property groups in Australia who develop and manage a large portfolio of retail town centres, residential communities and retirement villages (stockland.com.au). The Baringa Town Square is a key community destination in the first stage of Stockland's future city, Aura, of 50,000 people. As the centre of activity for the initial development stage, the Town Square provides a glimpse into the future of Aura—City of Colour.
Originally a small civic square and a local linear park, Place Design Group (PDG) challenged the client and existing approvals regarding the aspiration for the space. To align with Aura's ‘urban promise’, Baringa Town Square needed to deliver significant public realm infrastructure for the young community to congregate and celebrate, prior to the ultimate Town Centre being built in 5-10 years. PDG’s redesign resulted in the approval changing with uses and activities significantly intensified to complement the context of a Main Street, Primary and High School, Local Shopping Centre, Community Hub and Conservation Zone.
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Through independent research, PDG found youth were not engaging in other developments and saw this as an opportunity to champion the idea of an integrated youth plaza featuring skateable infrastructure, bespoke seating pods equipped with acoustic speakers, parkour signage and custom ‘feasting’ tables to engage the entire community.
团队中的平面设计师通过3D渲染制作了白天和夜晚的可视化渲染来传达项目空间的多功能用途，帮助实现项目图景的成形。团队同时打造了一套延伸了现有设计语言的标识体系，作为滑板广场设计的最后组成部分。
The vision for the Town Square was assisted by 3D renders created by our in-house 3D Graphic Artist, producing both day time and night time visualisation renders to convey the multipurpose uses of the area. As a final component of the skate plaza, a signage suite which expands on the established design language of the Skate Plaza was also delivered.
The Civic Plaza is the front door of the Square with an informal raised seating/stage, a small tessellated roof as a landmark aligned with the axis of the Main Street, which will host performances and markets. The adjacent Main Street, which features a flush shared zone with matching concrete finishes to seamlessly integrate the Civic Plaza to the future Local Shopping Centre, can be closed for festivals and events to increase the pedestrian space 3-fold.
The Square’s heart is the Feasting Table and tessellated roof structure. The central location connects them to all parts of the Town Square and serve as a visual landmark. The table has a long communal arrangement but still accommodates separate groups, offering meeting opportunities for families, friends, and neighbours. Connecting all elements of the Square in its ‘embrace’, the large tessellated roof with distinctive colours is a deliberate contrast to the adjacent natural vegetation and subdued pavement colours to celebrate the City of Colour. A bespoke design the tessellated roof is a sculptural response to the practical challenges of shade and shelter.
Adjacent to a 70-hectare Melaleuca heathland conservation area, the design focused on allowing the environment to flow into the space, achieved through soft feathered edging of pavement and a boardwalk viewing platform overlooking the wetland. All water from the Square is treated in this wetland prior to flowing to the Pumicestone Passage.
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A large Celebration Lawn with a wetland backdrop can accommodate daily recreation activity as well as up to 1,000 people celebrations. The layout incorporates a temporary stage zone including power and communications connections.
A serious constraint in the design was a driveway access for school staff and community hub users splitting the site. The design incorporates safe crossing points with planting to restrict access where needed, different textures on the road surface for driver awareness, bollards and carefully placed signage and lighting.
Overall big patterns in large format concrete, connect across multiple urban spaces with the pattern changing orientation to promote pedestrian wayfinding. The pattern and texture intensify closer to the heathland zones where feathering is preferred.
Planting selections for the Square transition from the heathland palette beside the conservation zone to a sub-tropical palette beside the Main Street. A significant number of Meleleuca trees have been planted to reflect the Conservation Zone proximity.
A bespoke furniture range includes the Feasting table, Baringa Sign, benches, seats and bollards, signage and the ‘Sound Shells’. The sound shells are chill-out zones beside the Youth Plaza incorporating acoustic speakers, while the seats and benches have power for market stall installations and lighting for night time features.
Baringa Town Square is the first public realm on the Sunshine Coast to incorporate skateable public infrastructure. An integrated public realm destination with distinct conservation values, the Town Square showcases Stockland’s urban promise of a green, distinctive, healthy and happy place that engages the entire community through inclusive human-centric design.
The project was well received at the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) QLD awards in 2019, winning a Landscape Architecture Award for Urban Design. The jury commended the design focus on connectivity and the creation of a productive and social space.
项目考虑到了场地规划和城市设计的连通性、舒适性和易识别性，确保了周边道路和广场在住宅区域、商业中心，以及由许多小池塘形成的湿地和自然景观之间形成了清晰的联系。其结果是，城市的公共中心融入了一个更广阔的再生景观环境中，而不是被商业或城市建筑包围。
With the site planning and urban design considerations of connectivity, amenity and legibility, this project ensures the bordering road and the Square together form a legible link between the residential area and the commercial centre to the chain-of-ponds wetlands and natural retained landscapes. The outcome is that the town’s public hub is integrated into the wide, regenerated landscape setting, rather than enclosed in a commercial or built urban surrounds.
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