Storey Park Community Centre

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RESEARCH BACKGROUND The 'Storey Park' project is a design for the redevelopment of an existing park in in the northern region of Sydney, NSW. Hornsby Shire Council commissioned MODE, the firm where Ata was employed as Senior Landscape Planner, to design a multi-use community development, including a child care centre, community centre, public play area, public facilities and parking to service the needs of a growing neighbourhood and improve the quality of life of residents in the Hornsby area. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION Ata, as part of the project team who produced the work, was the lead designer and prepared the concept and detailed design drawings for this project. The primary intent was to create a sense of continuity between the development and its surrounding environment. To achieve this, design approaches were tailored to the existing landscape to create an area that both complemented the surrounds and highlighted the area's natural vistas and defined a playground destination for the local community. This work contributes to Ata's research interest in integration of architecture and surrounding context. This includes the development of adaptive methods in landscape design and documentation using modelling capabilities in CAD and GIS environments. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE The redevelopment of 'Story Park' is a significant work for the Hornsby Shire area. The quality of the work and its esteem is evidenced by being selected to develop the design through a competitive commissioning process, under the Hornsby Council requirements to publicly advertise for any project above $20K