Turrbal and Jagera
Queensland
Brisbane
Barrambin is a site of great significance for first-nations people. Barrambin Park Shelters is the first stage of works in a site-wide master plan to convert the Victoria Park golf course into 64 hectares of inner-city greenspace.
The new park shelter designs, developed in consultation with Blaklash and Fulcrum Agency (working closely with traditional custodians), consciously avoid references to colonial vernacular or Western architectural styles.
The new collection of relocatable picnic shelters and an amenities block will recede into the landscape as the new native plantings and larger re-wilding projects mature. The overall form and character are elemental and refined, consisting of the most basic fundaments of shelter, with the hardwood-lined soffit forming a tonally warm carapace that subtly enfolds the space below.
Barrambin Shelters and Amenities embodies a poetic intersection of landscape, architecture, and cultural sensitivity, creating spaces that hunker into their surroundings. Thoughtfully designed as places of rest, gathering, and reflection, these structures respond to their environment with a quiet and grounded presence. Through an approach rooted in material honesty and contextual responsiveness, the shelters offer a refined yet unobtrusive addition to the landscape. Their form and overt detailing celebrate simplicity while fostering a connection to place, echoing the rhythms of nature and the history of the land on which they are sprinkled across.
Stuart Vokes, Design Architect
Aaron Peters, Project Architect
Bornhorst + Ward, Structural Engineer
Urbis, Landscape Consultant
Blaklash, Indigenous Design Agency
Fulcrum Agency, Indigenous design consultancy