Acton Waterfront Lake Beach
A new sand beach and active travel network for central Canberra, better connecting people to the water.
Engaged by the City Renewal Authority, Place Logic was engaged to provide landscape architectural design services for the Acton Waterfront Lake Beach project. The design's focus is to physically connect the city to the water, enabling a variety of activities for different user groups.
The beach acts as a terminus to the new West Basin boardwalk and maintains a consistent material palette with these concurrent works, connecting seamlessly into active travel routes between the City and ANU (Australian National University).
The landscape upgrades introduce more public furniture, pathway lighting, and a lawn area for informal play, entertainment and quiet activities.
Our landscape team iteratively coordinated the design with contractor and engineering inputs, and with feedback from the NCA (National Capital Authority), and stakeholder groups such as Triathlon Australia.
Transitional levels and materials interfaces between water, sand, hard paths, and planted areas, including landscape treatment to varying speeds of pedestrian and cycling junctions, were honed from concept to construction.
We were able to retain 90% of the site's existing trees despite creation of a new beach and realignment of the path networks.
