City of Port Adelaide Enfield PORT ADELAIDE WATERFRONT June 2021 PUBLIC REALM GUIDELINES PROJECT Project Team Design Team Port Adelaide Enfield Council Traditional Owner Acknowledgment TCL Council Team We respectfully acknowledge the Karen Cummings Megan Lewis past, present and future Custodians of Janey Dolan Landscape Architecture / Urban Design Maggie Hine Yertabulti, the original Kaurna name 109 Grote St Carina Sidwell Adelaide SA 5000 Tony Kamenjarin given to the lands around the Port River. T. +61 8 8223 7533 Rodney Welch adelaide@tcl .net.au Mark Rooney We acknowledge the traditional Mulloway Architects Kaurna inhabitants deep and ongoing connection to this country, both spiritual and physical. Level 1-16 Peel Street Adelaide SA 5000 T. +61 8 8231 3131 [email protected] We commit to listen and learn, and find ways to respectively acknowledge this relationship to country, and translate this into design and ongoing custodianship. Report No: A2028 Port Adelaide Waterfront Public Realm Guidelines Rev Description Date By Checked Approved P1 Draft for Review 17.03.2021 DH/EP DS/AC DS P2 Minor amendments to P1 18.03.2021 DH DH DS P3 Final Draft Amendments 12.04.2021 DH/EP DS/AC DS P4 Council Amendments 26.05.2021 DH/EP DS/AC DS/AC P5 Final Issue 18.06.2021 DH DS DS Port Adelaide Waterfront Public Realm Guidelines Project | T C L | Mulloway 2 Contents Section 1.0 Introduction 3.0 Public Realm Guidelines 4.0 Site Interpretation Guidelines 1.1 Site Overview 3.1 A Bold Vision & Guiding Principles 4.1 Approach 1.2 Methodology 3.2 Waterfront Configurations & Interfaces 4.2 Themes & Stories 1.3 Policy Context 3.3 Waterfront Destinations 4.3 Site Interpretation 3.4 Water Access Opportunities 2.0 Port Adelaide Waterfront 3.5 Living Kaurna Appendix A - Catalyst Project Toolkit 2.1 The Port Adelaide Waterfront 3.6 Resilience A.1 Ambitions 2.2 Waterfront Public Realm Audit 3.7 Palettes - Promenade & Public Realm A.2 Achieving Change - Waterfront Developments - Materials A.3 Catalyst Project Typologies - Waterfront Promenade Conditions - Furniture A.3.1 Catalyst Projects - Priority - Waterfront Promenade Context A.3.2 Catalyst Projects - Schedule - Waterfront Promenade Context Linkages 2.3 Waterfront Public Realm Register 2.4 Waterfront Best Practice Port Adelaide Waterfront Public Realm Guidelines Project | T C L | Mulloway 3 Executive Summary Vision Site Themes & Guiding Principles Key Initiatives & Implementation The Port Adelaide Waterfront Public Realm Guidelines The guidelines were approached through six site themes and The recommendations and project proposals put forward sets out A Bold Vision: corresponding guiding principles, which highlight the Port as a part of this report were developed following a thorough Adelaide Waterfront’s key qualities and stories. These inform survey of the physical and strategic landscape of the Port. This the principles and, in turn, focus key initiatives for the inner revealed a series of projects and actions that were subsequently harbour’s future. They are: catalogued. These range in scale from smaller activations for an authentic world class and interventions designed to address immediate needs and waterfront that provides an opportunities, through to larger precinct based project master Linkages plans. immersive waterside experience, Living Narratives The recommendations contained within: is reflective of Port Adelaide’s Resilience • balance a respect for the traditional and continuing inhabitants of place - the Kaurna community, progressive identity, and builds on Authentic • extend Port Adelaide’s vitality and community agency within its rich culture and heritage Kaurna (of Country) the waterfront space, and • establish a framework for Council and developers that Destinations ensures future developments work together to realise the potential of the Port; as one of the world’s most authentic and engaging waterfronts. Together, the Vision and Guiding Principles outline a shared aspiration and set of commitments for the future Some recommendations will necessitate Council leading of the inner Port that: the process of instigating major public realm project redevelopments, in line with the vision and recommendations is Connected set out in this document, and according to Council’s own is Sustainable internal hierarchy of preference. Likewise, the sequence of land assets becoming available to Council, and existing project is Resilient commitments will have a bearing on the subsequent order is Experienced of development. Other recommendations will necessitate developer commitments or a shared undertaking between is of Place Council and developers delivering a shared outcome. This scenario capitalises on Council’s strengths in conceiving and is Accommodating ‘grounding’ projects that align with their strategic Visions and civic requirements. It also has the added benefit of reducing unknowns and risk for developers undertaking such activities, instead capitalising on their expertise in project delivery. Port Adelaide Waterfront Public Realm Guidelines Project | T C L | Mulloway 4 Linkages Living Narratives Resilience Authentic Kaurna (of Country) Destinations Site Themes is Connected is Sustainable is Resilient is Experienced is of Place is Accommodating A continuously connected Sustains and enlivens Create places that are bold, Is read implicitly, and Incorporates Kaurna approach Accommodates a diversity promenade, with a variety authentic connections to past, resilient and adaptable to experienced as a unique to, and knowledge of place of activities, communities of connections to, present and future. future conditions but cohesive Public realm into design thinking and interfaces Principles and from the water • Development of a cultural precinct • Build on existing places of • A Continuously connected and • Nodes and transitional zones along • Develop integrated solutions that • Allow the place to be read implicitly and centre that connects and congregation and focus identifiable waterfront promenade that the promenade define interpretive are responsive to current and future through retention of historic fabric, consolidates existing interpretation is unified and unique. frameworks and future outcomes. climatic conditions views and ongoing activation. • Provide linkages to and between and traditional storytelling for the • Support and encourage uses that key nodes along the waterfront • Clear and legible Urban Design • Dual-Language Kaurna/English • Identifies forward-looking urban Kaurna and local Community configurations that anticipate future signage and place naming development that mitigates flood risk are directed at the local community • Ensure destinations are able to host • Investigate formation of a Kaurna development and integrate existing through sea-level rise (over tourism focused) informal/recreational and formal/civic • Adopt, adapt and celebrate existing gateway experience to the Port estuary assets and site specific character. •Responding to community input events. elements and provide new ways of • Provide intertidal habitats and reed and link to Aboriginal Cultural Centre. • Core materials and public realm looking at them beds that improve river health and and support of public art projects and • Improve amenity and public • Reinstatement of indigenous elements implemented throughout, raise ecological awareness identification of nodes facilities, prioritising major and • Augmentation of existing Kaurna and endemic plant species where and supplemented with place specific • Waterfront design and interpretation shared cultural spaces storytelling frameworks and provision • Assist Deep understanding of the possible. palettes. of a Kaurna Cultural Heritage Precinct complexity of the place. that responds to the multifaceted • Provision of frameworks to guide • Provision of access to the water narratives of place • Encourage diverse use of the Port holistic designing with Country broadly. Including access for River, including the working port, • Interpretive strategies that are site- • Dual-Language Kaurna/English swimming, fishing, small and large recreation, conservation, learning and specific, nuanced and engaging signage and place naming watercraft, and views to the water, teaching key items and places of significance to be maintained and strengthened. Key Initiatives Key Port Adelaide Waterfront Public Realm Guidelines Project | T C L | Mulloway 5 SAHB 1911, State Library of South Australia zcm3340853a Port Adelaide Waterfront Public Realm Guidelines Project | T C L | Mulloway 6 1.0 Introduction This project begins with a recognition of The Port Adelaide Waterfront Public Realm project establishes This document outlines a series of aspirations drawn from an a cohesive Vision and set of site-specific Guidelines; initial period of observation and deep immersion in place, and the waterfront’s central importance to commitments that will guide future developments within the benchmarked against best practice and world class waterfront inner harbour. precedent. Each section frames future design interventions in the Port Adelaide identity. a language of place. It seeks to establish pragmatic and logical This project begins with a recognition of the waterfront’s central design guidelines that balance the aspirations with the realities importance to the Port Adelaide identity. of the site, and together establish the preconditions for the bold reconfiguration of the Port and subsequent destination In looking to preserve this significance, In looking to preserve this significance, a