System Garden Rainforest Walk by SBLA Studio

Aboriginal Nation

Wurundjeri

Client

The University of Melbourne

Location

Parkville, Victoria

Jury comment

Providing access to a somewhat mysterious space within the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus, the System Garden Rainforest Walk uses a light touch and outstanding detailing to make the insertion into the landscape appear effortless. It solves complex site issues in a visually simple and economical way, with its site-responsive raised path of steel mesh, which makes this space more inviting and useable, improving definition and protection. It allows opportunities for myriad unusual plants to be seen up close, while keeping them free from the impact of human footsteps.

Entrant SBLA Studio Landscape architect SBLA Studio Builder SR Projects Photography Wade Trevean; Tajette O’Halloran