parrammatta river edge The Parramatta river edge proposal is
an urban strategy to integrate the city of Parrmatta to its river
edge origin. The location of the site in between the
Parramatta Park and the city edge, between the City and the riverside
theatres demands an intervention that fluidly connects the city
while creating a new engaging urban space. The city of Parramatta has turned its
back towards the river. The Riverside Theatres completely express
this negation, neither connected to the Parramatta River edge nor to
the Prince Alfred Park. plaza + pedestrian bridge + laneways
The project we propose is of a
multifunctional tower located above the Parramatta river, with a
three legged structure that physically connects the city with the
theatres and the future Art and culture precint.
The tower by opening its base allows
for Marsden street to flow towards the city and to connect the
theatres through a new pedestrian bridge to the core of the laneways
in the city, creating the attractor for further pedestrian flow.The operation creates a new landmark
that could potentially become part of the civic imagery of the city.
The tower will have an extraordinary relationship to the Parrmatta
River with a series of different views of the Australian landscape.
multifunctional tower
The tower contains the potential to
generate new activities like an art gallery in level +11, and
unconventional civic spaces like an elevated public plaza in level
+13. While commercially the lease of
office and residential spaces or a
boutique hotel from level +20 to +30 allows for the construction of
the civic and public spaces.
theatres between the park + riverWe propose to occupy the former Market
street and the parking spaces of the Riverside theatres in order to
generate a new parking space for theatres and tower. Also to erase
all the dysfunctional spaces that block the relationship of the
theatres to the river by placing them in the former patio.
Continuing the urban integration
examples of Sidney Opera House and Federation Square the proposal is
to create an urban plaza that connects the buildings while it
generates an underground functional connection of the activities. This creates new potential where new
activities can be generated in hte roof top of this new structure
that fluidly and gently connects the theatres to the city and creates
a civic space between Alfred Park and the River. Underneath the Lobby and restaurants
can be reorganized for a better relationship to the river. old and new terracesIn the core of the Lennox street
precint we propose to create a new landscape that slopes towards the
river in order to generate a series of new terraces that can be
permanentlly or temporally occupied. In the back of the Church street
commercial spaces new activities could emerge with a connection to
the landscape and new urban spaces.
The landscape can also be occupied
temporally with food, design or antique markets that bring new and
diverse activites to the river edge.