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movement, and public realm. And, most importantly, it helped structure our thinking on how people will live, travel and interact and spend time in the neighbourhood. We found ourselves returning to the core idea that buildings and landscape should be in conversation with each other. That meant orienting towers to open up views to the river, softening thresholds between public and private space, and prioritising walking and cycling routes over car movement. As much as possible, we tried to create a rhythm between density and openness, activity and retreat. Nature as a community asset is a central role in this. We call this Wild Urbanism. Wild Urbanism draws upon the idea that natural systems should work with the grain of the city not through leaving spaces untamed, but having a clear plan for the integration of landscape into the public realm and development. In Red Bank, that has meant restoring riverbanks, supporting biodiversity through native planting, and incorporating water- sensitive design measures like rain gardens to manage surface water in more natural ways. There’s a pragmatism in this too, beyond considerations like
Biodiversity Net Gain, we know that access to green space has real implications for mental and physical health. Getting to that point meant bringing together disciplines that don’t always speak the same language – engineers, ecologists, planners, landscape architects. Nature-led design doesn’t slot in neatly at the end of a design process, it needs to be baked into the structure, or it gets compromised. Another layer has been thinking about how people connect not just to nature, but to one another. That’s something we’ve tried to refl ect in the design and delivery of community infrastructure and amenities at Red Bank, which are managed by our in-house residential operational brand, Found. The Clubhouse, for example, is designed as more than a gym or lounge, it’s a place where people can work, relax and meet. In dense developments, these kinds of communal anchors can play a quiet but important role in building identity and belonging. It is important to us that we have long term management responsibilities for these activities – keeping them integral to the place as ongoing amenity for the community over time. Of course, Red Bank is just one part of a much larger story.
Victoria North is set to deliver over 15,000 new homes across 390 acres. But what’s being tested here, through its fi rst phases, is a way of approaching regeneration that gives green infrastructure real weight, that brings climate thinking up front, and that acknowledges the role of place in shaping how people feel day to day. These are long-term projects with
moving parts and evolving pressures, but as we start to see new shoots – literally and fi guratively – along the Irk, it’s clear that the eff ort is more than worth it.
Regeneration, at its best is about
working with what’s already there and building on it. If Red Bank can show how that might work with nature as a partner, not just a backdrop, then I think we’re heading in the right direction.
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