澳洲 Brisbane 市 Archerfield Wetlands 公园 | 环保与社区共享的设计典范

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Archerfield Wetlands is an ongoing project from our Brisbane office. It is a 150-hectare floodplainwetland located just 12km from Brisbane’s city centre. Constrained by regular flooding, contamination from past industrial uses and decades of neglect, Archerfield Wetlands is currently a degraded site. However, it still maintains significant ecological value.

Brisbane City Council has identified Archerfield Wetlands as one of the priority projects in the Oxley Creek Transformation Master Plan (more details in the below “project background” section), which establishes the vision to transform the long neglected area into a unique recreational destination and environmental asset.

The Precinct Plan delivered by our project team for Archerfield Wetlands has set a benchmark for the transformation of a highly constrained large-site, while achieving a considered balance between social, environment and economic outcomes. It is a significant achievement for us in the public realm sector. Despite the geographical and cultural differences, it has provided diversified perspectives for us in China on the designs of public space, areas of environmental significance, recreational and activity spaces, and more.

Below is an overview of the Precinct Plan and landscape concept we have developed for Archerfield Wetlands.

Present Context / Characteristics of the site: One of Brisbane’s largest floodplain wetland ecosystems. Archerfield Wetlands, located at the confluence of Hanleys, Blunder and Oxley Creeks, is one of Brisbane’s largest floodplain wetland ecosystems. Most of the parkland floods regularly.

One of the few areas within the parkland that remains immune to flooding – even a 100-year flood event – is the former waste water treatment plant. The flood immune land will be carefully planned to capture the opportunity to deliver built form outcomes within the parkland, while other facilities within low-lying areas must be designed to withstand and recover quickly from inundation and weather events.

A site of significant environmental and ecological value

Previously host to a wastewater treatment plant and meat works factory, Archerfield Wetlands is currently a complex and degraded site, constrained by regular flooding, contamination from past uses and decades of neglect. Despite this, the site still maintains significant ecological value.

The wetlands act both as a water storage basin during heavy rain to reduce flooding in other parts of the catchment and the Brisbane River, and a freshwater reservoir in times of drought. They’re also power house of nature, capable of cleansing water by filtering out pollutants and trapping sediment. Rehabilitating and enhancing the wetlands to redirect water flows and support natural cleansing systems offers the opportunity to reduce pollution and sediment flowing into Oxley Creek.

Despite the degraded condition of remnant vegetation, the site’s pockets of native vegetation have high ecological value both to local and regional ecosystems. Revegetating disturbed areas of the site, including waterways and wetlands, will improve essential habitat, reduce exotic animals and weeds and support easier fauna movement.

Strong community connection with the site

Archerfield Wetlands today is surrounded by residential communities and industrial precincts, including Archerfield Airport. Community groups and associations are very active with high rates of volunteering, demonstrating a deep connection with the location and a strong sense of community.

Developing Archerfield Wetlands as a regional parkland presents an opportunity to strengthen community ties by engaging individuals, groups and organisations in joint environmental action, cultural celebration and education.

Landscape Concept

Archerfield Wetlands represents a unique opportunity to set a benchmark for transforming a highly constrained large-scale site into an environmental asset and recreational destination.

The Precinct Plan has been carefully planned to achieve a considered balance between social, environmental and economic outcomes. Design outcomes were developed to respect areas of frequent inundation and environmental significance, while maximising the use of flood immune land to create areas for community use and activity.

Stakeholder and community engagement.Respecting the unique characteristics of the site, understanding the opportunities and constraints and responding to feedback from the community was an essential part of the precinct planning process.

A community stakeholder reference group was established to inform the development of the Precinct Plan, offering an effective forum to craft, test and refine ideas and strategies in a workshop setting. During the four-week community consultation and engagement program, more than 150 feedback responses were received that reflected a 90.3% level of agreement with the draft precinct plan prepared by Place Design Group’s dedicated strategic communications team. Vision for Archerfield Wetlands The landscape concept centres on developing a regional parkland that inspires people of all ages to connect with each other and nature, care for the environment and live a healthy, outdoor lifestyle.

Archerfield Wetlands Park

The decommissioned Inala Wastewater Treatment Plant site will be transformed into a major park gateway into the Oxley Creek corridor. Archerfield wetlands park will become a regional destination, featuring community meeting spaces, an adventure play space, youth hub, event lawn, amphitheatre and premises for the Oxley Creek Catchment Association.

Community-focused facilities will be located within the iconic Atrium, a flexible indoor-outdoor space featuring repurposed brick tanks and a large deck overlooking the wetlands.

A post-industrial themed playground will provide a visual link to the past and an imaginative setting for outdoor adventure play for all abilities and ages. A youth hub on the lower terrace will feature a multi-use games court, parkour, skating facilities and a sheltered hangout zone.

A short wetlands discovery boardwalk trail will provide an immersive and educational experience to illustrate the important role of the floodplain wetland ecosystem. An event lawn and amphitheatre will provide the setting for programmed community events and double as a large, open space for informal play, sport and relaxation. Blunder and Hanleys Outlook

Perched on a high point of the wetland’s northern edge, Blunder and Hanleys Outlook provides views across the wetlands fed by Hanleys and Blunder Creeks. A wetland boardwalk connects the outlook and the parkland’s residential edge.

Creekside Park

Existing local parks at Gleneagles Crescent and Alban Street will merge to become an expansive new local park which will reinforce the neighbourhood character and mostly cater for local users.

Wetland recreational trails

A network of trails will connect both parks and the outlook with The Greenway – a 20-kilometre central spine for moving through the Oxley Creek corridor. Varied trail lengths will feature public artwork and interpretive signage.

Restoration and enhancement activities

The landscape concept retains sixty-five percent of the site for conservation and vegetation management. Wetland enhancements and the designation of a sixty-hectare wetland conservation area will enhance the site’s biodiversity values, improve water quality, provide educational experiences and help ensure that parkland improvements do not worsen flooding impacts to neighbouring properties or the wider catchment. Natural creek systems will be restored through the decommissioning of a built channel and the redirection of its flow along the alignment of the pre-existing waterway. A three-kilometre long, twenty-metre wide riparian revegetation buffer will help to stabilise Oxley Creek’s banks and strengthen existing corridors for wildlife, and the existing and regionally important blue gum woodland will be encouraged to regenerate through weed management and new planting.

Moving forward

Following the release of the final Precinct Plan in October 2019 incorporated with community feedback, Archerfield Wetlands has entered the detailed planning, design and delivery of Stage one which is the Archerfield Wetlands Park. The delivery of the Archerfield Wetlands parkland will be undertaken in stages to allow for the natural evolution of the parkland, responding to changing demand and use.

Project Background

Oxley Creek Transformation is a 20-year vision put forward by the Brisbane City Council to revitalise the Oxley Creek corridor, a 20 km-long parkland extending from the Brisbane River to Larapinta, into a green lifestyle and leisure destination. Identified as one of the six priority projects for investment, Archerfield Wetlands will help steer public support of and engagement with subsequent projects as they unroll along the creek and in this sense provides leadership to achieving the Master Plan’s vision. Place Design Group also delivered the Warril Parkland, a nature-based adventure parkland which is also a priority project identified in the corridor. It has officially opened to the public in July.

Find out more about Archerfield Wetlands and Oxley Creek Transformation by accessing the below QR code.

Project: Archerfield Wetlands

Client: Oxley Creek Transformation

Location: Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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