The creation of the Headland Park provides an
unprecedented opportunity to reserve a space for a future use on
Sydney Harbour. This is a rare opportunity to create such a
unique space for our city.
Indicative artist's impression,
section diagram of the cultural space in the Headland
Park.
The Headland Park is an opportunity to create a
spatial and sensory sense of place, of a uniquely created
natural/urban/cultural landscape that is Sydney. It brings
buildings and landscape together to create a unique space for our
city.
Kiong Lee, of Johnson Pilton Walker, architects
for the cultural space, envisages it as an extension of the park
experience.
"Where the inside space is part of the
landscape outside and the parkland is as much part of the cultural
space as the inside. After all, the whole headland is an
extension of the city which itself is a cultural space," Mr Lee
said.
The inspiration for the cultural space has come
from the many sandstone foreshore platforms of Sydney's headlands
in the harbour. The construction of the cultural space
adjacent to the dramatic sandstone cliff-face will create a unique
space. People will experience a dramatic entry that leads
into a large space with natural light reflecting off the warm
sandstone wall from numerous skylights above.
Skylights and openings respond to the character
of the landscape, drawing it deep into the building, providing
natural light and ventilation to the space.
Cultural institutions grow and change over
time. Flexibility is the key to success for modern museums
and galleries, with constantly refreshed displays, requiring
installations to be varied to suit. The most famous example
of this approach is the Pompidou Centre which was built as a
flexible shell to adapt over its life to a variety of
uses.
Indicative artist's
impression.
The Barangaroo cultural space is capable of
providing a diversity of spaces to suit a wide range of exhibition
and performance, allowing multiple configurations, heights and
views, there are few limitations on how these spaces could be
used.
Barangaroo has an exciting opportunity of
developing a green architecture where building and landscape are
designed together. Around the world, new approaches to
integrating buildings and landscape are being explored from an
environmental and aesthetic perspective. Barangaroo creates a
unique building and park, extending this exploration with an
environmentally responsive approach to architecture in its
integration with nature.
Internationally renowned landscape architect
Peter Walker has described Barangaroo as ".... a unique setting
in Sydney and an unprecedented opportunity to reclaim the
industrial waterfront, reinterpreting the historic 1836 form as an
exemplary park for the 21st century. There
are not many projects in the world that aspire to such a high set
of goals."
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