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Appendices draft Sullivans Cove Master Plan OFFICE OF THE STATE December 09 ARCHITECT Table of Contents Have Your Say All members of the community are invited Have Your Say i 11 » Franklin Wharf 18 Photographic Credits to have their say on the draft Sullivans Introduction 1 12 » City Hall 19 All photographs courtesy of the Sullivans Cove Cove Master Plan. Background 2 13 » Royal Hobart Hospital 20 Waterfront Authority except as noted below: Johnrey Humber: 14 » Wapping Corner 21 Settlement 3 • page 1, images 1 & 4 How to Respond • page 6, image 1. Setting 4 15 » Macquarie Wharf No 1 Shed 22 Further information about the draft Master Sean Fennessy: Spatial Types 6 16 » Macquarie Wharf No 2 Shed 23 Plan is available from the Department of Justice • page 1, image 2 website at www.justice.tas.gov.au. Sites and Spaces 7 17 » Art School Car Park 24 • page 5, image 3. Background 7 18 » Hobart Railyards 25 Olivia Dombrovskis: If you would like to make a submission on • page 1, image 5 the draft Master Plan, this can be done either 1 » Princes Wharf No 1 Shed 8 19 » Cenotaph 26 • page 5, image 2. electronically or in writing. 2 » Princes Wharf No 2 Shed 9 Reference Groups 27 Rachael Duncan - Fluid Photography: • page 1, image 3 • Electronic submissions can be lodged by 3 » Montpelier Retreat 10 References 28 • page 3, image 4 using the electronic form which is available • page 4, image 4. 4 » Salamanca Lawns & Parliament 11 Sites & Places 28 on the website at www.justice.tas.gov.au. Lawns Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office: General References 30 • page 2 • Hard copy submissions should be sent to 5 » Parliament Square 12 • page 8, image 2. the address below: 6 » Brooke Street Ferry Pier 13 Morris Nunn Associates: Draft Sullivans Cove Master Plan • page 8, image 1 (Princes Wharf No 1 Shed Redevelopment). 7 » Mawson Place & Surrounds 14 Office of the State Architect Jaws Architects: 8 » Franklin Square 15 Department of Justice • page 10, image 1 (Montperier Retreat approved development). GPO Box 825 9 » Macquarie and Connecting 16 HOBART TAS 7001 Streets Citta FJMT: • page 12, image 1 (Parliament Square Redevelopment). 10 » Tasmanian Museum and Art 17 All submissions, received no later than Gallery & Dunn Place SMTCJV Project (Hobart Railyards Urban Design Strategy): 12 March 2010, will be considered during the • page 26, image 1. finalisation of the Master Plan. i DECEMBER 09 draft SULLIVANS COVE MASTER PLAN - APPENDICES Sullivans Cove, March 2005 ii draft SULLIVANS COVE MASTER PLAN - APPENDICES DECEMBER 09 Introduction These appendices underpin the draft Sullivans Cove Master Plan. They contain background and contextual information, and represent a distillation of the existing accumulated knowledge and urban design studies conducted within the Cove. The appendices develop urban design principles for specific sites and public spaces, which complement and support the whole-of- Cove principles and directions developed in the draft Master Plan itself. 1 DECEMBER 09 draft SULLIVANS COVE MASTER PLAN - APPENDICES Background Settlement Sullivans Cove has experienced thousands of late 1800’s, exporting large quantities of whale years of continuous human settlement. The oil, apples, hops and timber. Hobart was at original inhabitants, the Mouheneenner people, the time, one of the great whaling ports of the were drawn by the availability of fresh water, world and as exports increased, infrastructure which in turn attracted the European colonists such as warehouses and piers rapidly grew. who also valued the deep sheltered harbour. The working class area adjacent to the Sullivans Cove, which is the site of the first waterfront, known as Wapping, was permanent European settlement in Tasmania, economically important to the city and was is one of the state’s most significant heritage a hub of industrial activity during the early places. 1800’s. Later, this area experienced a decline due to frequent flooding from the Hobart Hobart was established in 1804, making it the Rivulet and the construction of warehouses second oldest city in Australia. The old Hobart and wharves on the Salamanca side of the Town was built around the Hobart Rivulet, with Cove. Eventually the area became a slum, and a formal grid of streets imposed on undulating after a period of neglect was redeveloped as a land. At this time Elizabeth, Argyle and Davey residential neighbourhood in the 1990’s. Streets all terminated at Macquarie Street. The city centre was primarily contained within the Other areas of the Cove have also been Rivulet basin and the Macquarie ridge divided revitalised. As the volume of port traffic central Hobart from Sullivans Cove. The city declined, warehouses along Salamanca and streets were not extended beyond Macquarie Hunter Street were converted into artist Street until after extensive reclamation of the studios and galleries, and the Tasmanian foreshore. School of Art was constructed within the former IXL jam factory building. More recent Aerial view of Macquarie Street in the 1940’s. At just over 20 metres The original shoreline was progressively wide the street was generously proportioned compared to Hobart’s conversions include boutique retail outlets other innner city streets at the time. This allowed for broad footpaths, reclaimed in order to support the construction and a distinctive range of hotels, bars and street trees, public transport and urban gardens. of piers and the Wharf apron, and the port restaurants, while the former wheat silos have Image courtesy of the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office. experienced an industrial heyday during the been reinvented as apartments. 2 draft SULLIVANS COVE MASTER PLAN - APPENDICES DECEMBER 09 AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND Hobart AntaRctIca CHILE ARGENTINA Hobart Geographical Context Landform Planning Area Tasmania is the most southerly of the Australian states and lies 300 Hobart, in the State’s south, is Tasmania’s capital city. Sullivans Cove, as Sullivans Cove Planning Scheme 1997. kilometers to the south of the mainland across Bass Strait. reclaimed ground, is distinctively horizontal with the greater part of the city rising around and above it. 3 DECEMBER 09 draft SULLIVANS COVE MASTER PLAN - APPENDICES Setting The topography of the city of Hobart is Street. Beyond the ‘wall’ towards the city distinctive and dramatic. Sullivans Cove, which centre, taller more vertical buildings are lies between the Cenotaph and Battery Point arranged along the ridge lines. headlands, is its natural focus. Between the ‘wall’ and the Cenotaph headland An expansive plane of water is framed by the are the reclaimed Railyards and port. This area flat reclaimed Wharf apron, which is layered is flat like the ‘floor’ but is beyond the ‘wall’ over much of the original shoreline to form of the Cove. This ‘reclaimed headland’ is a the Cove ‘floor’. From this point a spectacular new part of the city’s urban structure, and the natural amphitheatre rises through the low relevant urban design parameters need to be slopes of the city centre, to the residential developed. suburbs in the foothills, reaching the steep heights and iconic vista of Mount Wellington. The public spaces that surround and connect buildings are equally important spatial The scale and organisation of buildings in the elements in the Cove. A figure ground analysis Cove reinforces this underlying landform and of the Cove reveals that the combined emphasises the Cove’s spatial relationship with footprint of the wharves, parks, streets and the city and surrounding landscape. courtyards greatly exceeds that of the built structures. Long, low sheds sit on the Wharf apron, aligned with the water’s edge. Building heights While there is an abundance of public space, then rise through an intermediary phase to its amenity is often poor. There is a lack of form the Cove ‘wall’. The ‘wall’ frames the facilities and infrastructure, while car parking reclaimed land, following the natural shoreline and traffic networks often make it difficult for on the Salamanca Place side of the Cove until pedestrians to safely navigate. Figure/Ground Analysis it reaches the Tasmanian Museum and Art Public open space, shown in black, is not in short supply in the Cove. Gallery and Dunn Place. The ‘wall’ continues The quality of this space, particularly for pedestrians, is often lacking beyond this point onto reclaimed land and is with many areas in the inner cove dominated by vehicle movement and car parking. formed by the buildings that address Hunter 4 draft SULLIVANS COVE MASTER PLAN - APPENDICES DECEMBER 09 Places of Archaeological Sensitivity in Sullivans Cove Places of Cultural Significance in Sullivans Cove Reproduced from the Sullivans Cove Planning Scheme 1997. Reproduced from the Sullivans Cove Planning Scheme 1997. 5 DECEMBER 09 draft SULLIVANS COVE MASTER PLAN - APPENDICES Spatial Types The Cove is the natural focus of the greater and is not considered in the Urban Design Hobart landscape. The Cove itself is composed Framework. The future change, from industrial of three spatial types: to a mix of uses, requires new urban design and planning parameters. Reclaimed Apron This area, referred to as the Cove ‘floor’, is a flat concrete platform that was constructed beyond the natural shoreline. This space is framed at its margin by the edge of the rising natural landform and a sequence of buildings primary from the 19th century which are referred to as the Cove ‘wall’. Natural Headland This area, which includes the Domain and Cenotaph, is elevated and vegetated. It is a focus for active and passive recreational pursuits and also contains the urban blocks to the north west. Reclaimed Headland This area is the space between the Reclaimed Apron and the Natural Headland. It is a large MAP KEY flat area, reclaimed from the river during the 20th Century for industrial use. The Reclaimed Headland is spatially ambiguous.