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Pasadena Biodiversity Corridor
- Client: City of Mitcham
Scope: Concept Design and Documentation
Location: Kaurna / Pasadena, South Australia
Completed: 2022
Awards
AILA (SA) 2023 Landscape Architecture Award and Healthy Parks Healthy People (special mention)
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This is an important greening and cooling project that uses waste stormwater as a resource to sustainably water Sierra Nevada and Grant Jacobs Reserves in Pasadena which was identified as an urban hot spot.
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The project team designed a series of ephemeral swales and detention ponds with rock riffles. Sub surface slotted pipes divert some of the water to naturally irrigate tree planting.
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The result is an attractive green open space that significantly increase biodiversity through resilient species choices, reduces urban heat and provides nature play and meandering path networks.
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“…an example of recovery and regeneration of the natural environment that would create a vital pocket of biodiversity in metropolitan Adelaide.”
Professor Chris Daniels, Green Adelaide
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