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LP-202
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01. Main entrance points
02. Front of building pick up/
drop off zone
03. Main carpark area
04. Secondary carpark area
05. Temporary carpark area
06. Terraced seating
07. Open park area
08. Children’s playground
09. Children’s water
playground
10. Link path
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Renderings of the Taurama
Aquatic Centre.
01: Main entrance
02: Front of building pick-up
and drop-off
03: Main carpark
04 Second carpark
05: Temporary carpark
06: Terraced seating
07: Open park area
Taurama aquaTic
08: Children’s playground
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09: Children’s water
playGeneraL
arranGemenT
ground
10: Link path Developed Design Package
Scale 1:1000 @ A3
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LP-206
LP-205
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25m
21 May 2013
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The completed structure.
BIG, BOLD AND ROBUST charac-
terizes the landscaping for Papua
New Guinea’s Taurama Aquatic
Centre and Sir John Guise Stadium in Port Moresby. The sporting
facilities were redeveloped to international competition standards
for the 2015 Pacific Games.
Bespoke Landscape Architects
worked both closely and remotely
with Peddle Thorp Architects and
a core project team on the concept design, developing the design
and construction documentation
for the external areas of both sites.
“When we researched the flora
and fauna we found that Papua
New Guinea was quite often the
largest and brightest, for example
they have the largest species of
butterfly. So the big and the bold
came through on a lot of different
threads.
We were interested in that and
not afraid of using colour — reds,
oranges, yellows — in certain
areas and big stretches of planting — pink and white sub-tropical
blooms — long avenues and the
like,” says Lee Brazier, Bespoke
Landscape Architects.
“The environment is harsh, dry
and dusty with an overlay of lush
veg etation - great flowering tree
species, wildlife and the like. There
is huge potential to transform that
into something that’s not unlike
the resort type environments we
more commonly see in places like
Fiji and Samoa.”
Landscaping was not prominent
in other work he saw around the
area, however it was an important
and integral feature of this project. The brief stipulated that the
spaces work to create a successful
event and also provide long-term
facilities for the community. The
Aquatic Centre in particular is
both a recreational and competition facility.
“We considered how long term
moves that may not necessarily
be realized in the projects for the
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