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Uni students have designs on Walkerville |
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 | |
The former Transport SA [1] site in suburban Walkerville has provided the inspiration for the University of Adelaide's best architectural students in 2008. For the past 12 months, final year Masters students from the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design [2] have worked on designs to reinvent this tall office building as an environmentally friendly precinct which incorporates a mix of uses. This Friday, 12 December they will reveal their ideas in an exhibition which opens at the Queen's Theatre in Currie Street at 6pm. Urban Design Professor Ian McDougall [3] says the students have produced a range of designs that explore issues of reuse and new ways of city life, which still meet commercial and real estate imperatives. "The Walkerville site is a location waiting for a vision," he says. "While some of the site is already being developed, sections are unresolved." Many of the student designs include a new village centre plan, combining community uses with medium density housing, apartments, and retail and office space. Examples include:
The exhibition also features projects from landscape architecture Masters students, who will reveal their designs to regenerate sites in regional South Australia that are suffering environmental stress, including Lake Alexandrina, Wallaroo and Dry Creek. "The students demonstrate how high-quality design can invigorate a community and its environment," Professor McDougall says. "With sections of our city becoming denser and being rejuvenated, these young designers show how it is possible to create a remarkable urban life." | |
Professor Ian McDougall Email: ian.mcdougall@adelaide.edu.au [4] Professor of Urban Design School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design University of Adelaide Business: +61 8 8313 4590 Mobile: 0414 426 623 Mr David Ellis Email: david.ellis@adelaide.edu.au [5] Website: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/ Deputy Director, Media and Corporate Relations External Relations The University of Adelaide Business: +61 8 8313 5414 Mobile: +61 (0)421 612 762 | ![]() Image by Jack Reynolds. Image by Vouch Lim. Image by Lydia Paton. |
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