Vivacity Stage 2
Vivacity stage 2
Located on the border of the Sydney Olympic Park Town Centre and the Carter Street Precinct, Arcadia has collaborated with architecture firm BVN to design and deliver a landscape design for Stage 2 of 5 Vivacity for JQZ. The mixed use development comprises of 584 residential apartments over three towers, a commercial building and retail spaces. The landscape aims to cultivate a new neighbourhood heart that provides both a tropical and contemporary backyard for residents, and a neighbourhood destination that ensures a sense of place, community and home.
The makeup of this mixed-use development provided a unique opportunity to blend the traditional barriers of public and private space. The landscape design strikes a balance between these environs, allowing residents the perception of borrowing the surrounding public land as their own backyard, ensuring a sense of ownership and security.
With its proximity to Sydney Olympic Park, the Olympic Park train station, and a proposed stop and terminus for the proposed Parramatta Light Rail (Stage 2) on Uhrig Road, the design of through-site connections is essential, especially for times of high volume such as large events or peak hour travel.
Using a strategy to bring to life streets and building edges, Arcadia has designed a network of activated corridors with a mix of retail and public amenity. To ensure the success of the integrated retail within the development, strategic landscape nodes have been incorporated along the street frontages and public access-ways to assist in activation. These nodes are visually connected to increase passive surveillance and provide opportunities for commercial and pedestrian flow.
A former industrial estate, Sydney Olympic Park sits on the traditional lands of the Wann clan, known as the Wann-gal, who occupied Homebush Bay for more than 20,000 years. The landscape for the project will draw on the natural character and industrial past of Homebush Bay with reference to three key iconic components of the area: materiality, water systems and native vegetation. The landscape design has reinterpreted the past in a contemporary and evocative fashion fusing the industrial and natural history of the site to define an urban oasis for residents and users alike.
The landscape at Vivacity is established through a series of interconnected landscape rooms comprising of differing scale and use. It is these ‘rooms’ that provide the connection with nature that humans desire through the strategic use of quality materials and vegetation to create the ideal environmental ratio.
