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Yasalazam
In 1837 Colonel William light designed the plan of Adelaide city, he chose a site next to the River Torrens and planned the city centre on a grid to the south of the river, he immediately recognized the importance of public parks and incorporated 5 large public squares and surrounded the entire city making a green-belt. Kaurna inhabited the entire Adelaide plains, and the area where are now accept as parklands was also an important place for pre-colonial habitation, ceremony and hunting.
Sadly from our perspective, even though the Parklands remain faithful to the original design, the connection with the river lands is somehow lost, the construction of buildings along North Terrace brings a difficult relationship between this boulevard and the River Torrens, many of which have a heritage and architectonic value. When land such as Parkland becomes freely available design can be lost by not valuing what is most loved.
The old RAH site is a great location in the heart of Adelaide, we think that it should be used for metropolitan and city scale activities that take advantage of the nearby uses of the space and reflect the importance of North Terrace Hub, it will be ideal to attract people to the old RAH site to learn more about Adelaide and its heritage.
The re-utilization of the old RAH site is an extraordinary opportunity to turn place into Parklands as it was the initial idea of Colonel William Light when he designed the plan for Adelaide. It is also an opportunity to gain more public spaces and in this way admire a taste of the old architecture of the site. Sense of place is lost with crowded buildings that don’t have a heritage value and must be removed.
This new open space should be a South Australian forest, a forest of primarily SA Blugum’s, a climate adaptive species choice for the future. Even though the environs of the old RAH are parks there is not a representative pre-colonial forest because they were harvested for there timber value in the past. This urban forest will be the connection between the buildings in North Terrace and the Botanic Garden. A new forest economy born from the inspiration of an old forest economy
The remaining part should have a diversity of public and private uses that attract local visitors and tourists. The expansive forest, cultural plazas and ‘natural theme’ based public art will become a 4th major activity generator to compliment the Botanic Garden, the Zoo and the new Hall of Exhibitions.
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