Project
Dairy Road, Building 7
Griffith, Canberra

Year
2022

Project Description

Engaged by Molonglo group to install a ‘potentially temporary’ garden which shifted the vibe on the site away from ‘Business Park’ towards ‘Rambling Native Garden’

12,000 native plants were installed: a combination of short lived, fast growing wattles to create atmosphere and effect, paired with many plants (including wildflowers, native shrubs and lilies) that were selected for their ability to be transplanted and reused in other areas of the site if the ‘temporary’ part of the brief become a reality. 



Structures

The steel structure over the boardwalk referenced the idea of scaffolding; noting the ‘under construction’ nature of the rest of the site. 

I designed an outdoor meeting room for tenants of building 7, and the broader public, to be able to find a sheltered and enclosed spot to sit in the garden. Complete with a solar powered pump in the corten steel pond.

An image of an outdoor seating areas surrounded by Native garden. Grevilleas, wattles and native grasses. in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct.
A large, fossil filled, limestone boulder nestled amongst large native grasses and wattles in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct.
A detail of the bluestone rocks used as a step to enter one of the seating areas in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct.
A detail from inside the outdoor meeting room in Autumn. Looking down on colour coded slate paving, a corten steel pond & a timber bench in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct.
Playfully, waste materials (concrete and brick) were reused on the side to form an organic shaped retaining wall rendered in a pink colour in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct. Autumn leaves fill the space.
Timber slats from Thor's hammer create a permeable screen for the outdoor meeting room at Building 7 in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct.
My steel scaffolding structure in context with native grasses and introduced boulder in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct.
A close up perspective of the boardwalk and steel scaffold structure installed along an desire line in the new garden in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct.
A distant perspective of the outdoor meeting roof, nestled deep within the native shrubs in the landscape in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct.
A closeup perspective of the bluestone step with the outdoor meeting room made of recycled hardwood from Thor's Hammer in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct.
A joinery detail from the outdoor meeting room installed by myself and my good friend Joel Douglas from Wooden. Tensioned steel cables installed in X formation brace the structure preventing it from rocking. Manchurian pears are seen in the backgroun
An early morning shot a car park island rewilded with Australian native plants and wildflowers in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct.
A late evening shot of the steel scaffolding with a steel scaffold structure seen in the background as part of the auction yards infrastructure in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct.
A limestone boulder detail with Austrostipa ramosissima, Acacia mearnsii & Brachyscome multifida surrounding it in Canberra's Dairy Road precinct by Molonglo Group.
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