Felixstow Reserve featured in the Venice Biennale

Posted Thursday, 24 June

AIA InBetween 2021 THE AUSTRALIAN EXHIBIT FOR THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

By creative directors Tristan Wong and Jefa Greenaway

Working with the ASPECT STUDIOS team, Mulloway developed a suite of shelters and amenities for this popular 7.1 hectare community reserve located alongside the Karrawirri Parri River Torrens Linear Park. Felixstow Reserve development includes large areas of landscaping, wetland development, playing areas, interpretive experiential trails, a canoe scar tree, and cultural markers together with supporting facilities.

Mulloway collaborated in the conceptual framework and design strategy for the overall site, drawing on Kaurna and post-European Settlement histories.

Amongst various sized shelters and arbor structures for the site is a large pavilion facing the open community space. The main pavilion incorporates accessible toilet facilities and an open, roofed gathering space, and is able to facilitate a range of events.

Shelter designs are drawn from the early market gardens, the use of woven sticks and boxes. The composite steel and timber framed structure extends into a woven overhang that will support vines. The concrete floor and timber batten and board cladding are reminiscent of the area’s post-European agricultural and orchard use.

Images taken by Sweet Lime Photo