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Bridges
Western
Australia,
Australia
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irrigation and serves an important
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community and cultural focus. The lake
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The design approach for The Bridges
was designed to be the central focal
was premised on creating a sustainable
point for the village which required
landscape with a balance of both 'soft'
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providing immediate appeal, through the
treatments was essentially kept simple
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hard elements, whilst also allowing for
in form. These comprised broad lawn
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it to develop over a period of time,
areas, detailed paving treatments and
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through the planting. An additional
a sparing use of shrubbery to soften the
benefit in this approach was the
harder edges and interfaces. Stabilised
reduced requirement for heavy
rammed earth retaining walls have been
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expenditure on mature plants.
used to emphasise the level changes
and thereby make a clear definition
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creation of a new lake. This lake was
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formed by excavating the site to expose
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the shallow ground water table. Spoil
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from this operation was used to fill in the
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residential allotments providing
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additional topographic variety and
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of important landscape elements, most notably the bridges - which inspired the name for the village. This lake is an example of the creative use of the physical constraints of the site. There was a need identified in the regional drainage plan for a stormwater retention basin within the village. The lake was thus designed to contribute to the management of stormwater quantity, quality and ground water level Type
Recreation
1,1999
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Blackwell & Associates Pty Ltd
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between private and public land.
the opportunity to introduce a number
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interest. The lake setting also provided
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The balance of the landscape
The sub-division was based around the
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approach had the advantage of
and 'hard' landscape elements. This
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