ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE NORTH FACE WORKS

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ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE
NORTH FACE WORKS
Prepared for Adelaide Festival Centre
February 2015
Adelaide Festival Centre
North Face Works
Improving Amenity and Ensuring
Access during construction
North Face Proposed Works
During the construction phase of the Adelaide
Festival Centre car park and plaza, the southern
side of the building which contains all the current
patron entry points will be inaccessible.
Construction of the proposed SkyCity
redevelopment will further compromise access to
the Dunstan Playhouse via the southern side of the
Adelaide Festival Centre until at least 2017.
The proposed North Face works would enable
patron access into the Adelaide Festival Centre
through new entries on the northern side. The works
will also provide intuitive access along the north
face of the building to allow for pedestrian
movement around the Festival Centre site before
and after events at Adelaide Oval and allow for
pedestrian access to the railway station for people
who currently use Festival Drive.
As part of the work to resolve the access issues on
the northern face and providing wheelchair and
disability access to the Festival Centre, work will be
undertaken to improve the aesthetic amenity of the
North Face of the building.
These works would be non-regret spending and
would enhance the northern side of the Adelaide
Festival Centre and take advantage of the shift of
focus created by the Adelaide Oval Redevelopment
and the new Torrens River Footbridge. The work
would be in the same language as the works done on
the Dunstan Playhouse as part of the new Torrens
River Footbridge and would complete the new look
and feel delivered by the bridge project. The
proposed works would also add attractions that fit
with the Government’s broader “great park” vision
for the Riverbank.
The current North Face of the Adelaide Festival
Centre building is foreboding and inaccessible to
pedestrians from Elder Park or coming from the
North over the River Torrens Footbridge. There are
no entrance points to the Centre and the walk-ways
are confusing, counter intuitive and create traps for
pedestrians. The current inaccessibly is contrary to
the Adelaide Festival Centre’s philosophical
approach of maximising accessibility to the
performing arts.
Recent developments such as the redevelopment of
the Adelaide Oval and the construction of the
footbridge have brought greatly increased foot
traffic to the northern side of the Festival Centre
and have magnified the accessibility problems. The
Government’s focus on the redeveloping the River
bank will only increase this foot traffic.
Adelaide Festival Centre
North Face Works
01 02 03 04
Disability Access Pathway
Festival Theatre Entry
Dunstan Playhouse Entries
Festival Park
Upgrade of the Festival Centre northern
walkway and balustrade along the
Riverbank Precinct Central Path.
New entry to the Festival Theatre to enable
access via the riverbank frontage during
carpark construction activities.
New entries to the Dunstan Playhouse to
enable access via the riverbank frontage
during carpark construction activities.
Replacement of the amphitheatre to allow
equal access opportunities to the riverbank
form the central walkway with a integrated
play ground to encourage the public to stay,
move and interact for free, in the under
utilised riverbank space.
Lyrics
Banquet
Room
Entrance
Dunstan
Playhouse
Overview - Access and Attractions
Providing an access pathway along the northern face of the
Festival Centre that is usable for people in wheelchairs or parents
with prams is challenging due to the shifts in levels in the WestEast and North-South directions.
A further challenge is the current condition of the amphitheatre
which prevents it from being retrofitted to an alternative purpose.
The North Face proposal provides a minimalist solution to these
design challenges but takes advantage of the necessary design
elements to add some low cost attractions to area.
Space
Theatre
The challenges of the site have being resolved by a slightly inclined
East-West walkway along the northern perimeter of the Festival
Centre. The amphitheatre has been removed and incorporated into
the pathway. New entry points into both the Dunstan Playhouse
and the Festival Theatre have been created off this pathway.
The northern entry to the Festival Theatre requires the walkway to
be raised to enable equal opportunity access and levels
rationalised outside the Lyrics room. The new walkway spaces will
continue around the perimeter of the Lyrics function room enabling
a platform for the pop up dinning and café facilities to cater for
Elder Park crowds on special occasions. The raised platform will
also provide a solution to the current unsightly bin bay and storage
Festival
Theatre
area by enclosing it under the raised platform and screened from
view.
The access from the Riverbank to the East-West pathway is
achieved through a series of inclined pathways and stairs. The area
between these pathways is landscaped and the sloping nature of
the site has been utilised to include a number of playground
elements including slides that form part of a play area and music
garden to offer a space for people and families to enjoy the
riverbank, not just move through or past the space.
The Elder Park Café will be ameliorated to add to the offer in the
space.
Revision
Preliminary
Date
25 November 2014
Scale
1:350@A1
1:700@A3
Client
Adelaide Festival Centre
Project Name
Adelaide Festival Centre North
Face Works
Drawing
Masterplan
01 North Facade Balustrade &
Walk Of Fame
Elder Park
Riverbank Central
Pathway Connection
Lyrics
Banquet
Room
Entrance
Dunstan
Playhouse
Space
Theatre
Riverbank Central
Pathway Connection
North Facade Balustrade & Disability Access Pathway
The pathway will be enhanced with the inclusion of “stars” of
famous performers who have graced the stages of the venue. These
The “Disability Access Pathway” would provide a continuation of the “stars” will serve as a way-finding device.
West-East promenade to provide access to both the Dunstan
Playhouse and the Festival Centre from the northern side for
This work will also provide a long term completion of the
patrons coming from the east or the west, namely patrons parking
promenade running East-West in front of the Convention Centre.
in the closest available car park at the Convention Centre. The
pathway would also provide access for Adelaide Oval patrons and
Detailed design work on the look and feel of this walkway as well as
people who currently access the Railway Station from Festival
the rest of the North Face Redevelopment will be progressed in
Drive.
partnership with the architects of Plaza to ensure a consistent feel.
Festival
Theatre
02 Festival Theatre New River
Entry & Lyrics Upgrade
Riverbank Central
Pathway Connection
Lyrics
Festival
Theatre
Festival Theatre New River Entry &
Lyrics Upgrade
Access to the Festival Theatre would be provided off the
Disability Access Pathway from the northern Entry of the
Lyrics Room. This will require treatment of the Lyrics
Room so that it can continue to operate as a function
space.
Work on the Lyrics Room, particularly creating indoor/
outdoor space would greatly enhance the attractiveness
of the room for functions and would assist in the Adelaide
Festival Centre’s efforts to raise revenue through its
Banquet
Room
Entrance
catering and functions business.
Solving the interface between Elder Park and what can be
considered as the skirt of the Adelaide Festival Centre at
the north-eastern point would be achieved by a placing a
series of terraced steps up to the current Lyrics Function
Room. These steps could be used both as temporary food
and beverage outlets (pop ups) and provide tiered terrace
space for people to sit during events in Elder Park, such as
Carols by Candle Lights, the Moon Lantern Parade and
other events.
Due to the placement of these entrances they could only
serve as secondary entrances in the long term. They would
both be too cramped as long term primary entrances.
Improvements would be made to the current Banquet
Room Entrance to form a secondary access point to
facilitate movement of patrons in and out of the 2000 seat
Festival Theatre.
03 Dunstan Playhouse &
Space Theatre New Entries
Dunstan
Playhouse
Footbridge
Deck
Dunstan Playhouse & Space Theatre New Entries
Access would be provided off the “Disability Access Pathway” into
the Dunstan Playhouse by enhancing the door way just to the east
of the bridge landing. A second entry point near the Space Theatre
will allow access directly to the Space Theatre and will enable
better use of the Space Foyer.
Space
Theatre
04 Festival Park &
Integrated Playground
Dunstan
Playhouse
Festival Park & Playground
As part of work undertaken on the “Disability
Access Pathway”, the amphitheatre needs to be
removed because of its current degraded
condition. This removes a current eyesore whilst
providing a practical solution to access issues.
However, removing the amphitheatre removes the
mains access point between the plaza and the
Riverbank. This is resolved with the placement of
intuitive pathways and stairs that enable access to
the “Disability Access Pathway” and then onto the
Festival
Theatre
main plaza area. This resolves the disconnect
between the Riverbank and the Plaza.
In-between these pathways would include an arts
playground and a series of playful slides that make
use of the sloping site. This would increase the
range of attractions in the Riverbank “great park”,
improve a current eye sore that is highly visible to
users of the footbridge and provide a use for a
currently disfunctional part of the Adelaide
Festival Centre building.
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Kim Bowman - Sound Sculptures
ARTIST IMPRESSION OF FESTIVAL PARK
Revision
Preliminary
Date
18-November 2014
Scale
nts
Client
Adelaide Festival Centre
Project Name
Adelaide Festival Centre North
Face Works
Drawing
Artist Impression
Lyrics
Banquet
Room
Entrance
Festival
Theatre
Dunstan
Playhouse
ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE
NORTH FACADE WORKS
ARTISTIC MASTERPLAN
Revision
Preliminary
Date
25 November 2014
Scale
1:350@A1
1:700@A3
Client
Adelaide Festival Centre
Project Name
Adelaide Festival Centre North
Face Works
Drawing
Colour Masterplan
ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE
NORTH FACADE WORKS
DETAILED MASTERPLAN
Revision
Preliminary
Date
25 November 2014
Scale
1:350@A1
1:700@A3
Client
Adelaide Festival Centre
Project Name
Adelaide Festival Centre North
Face Works
Drawing
Detail Masterplan