Ballast Point Park

Built: 2009

The restoration of Ballast Point to a new public harbour-side park, reveals and draws interest from the site's history by retaining the cliff faces where ballast was once quarried by the early settlers, as well as retaining the footprints of the storage drums which previously occupied the site. The restoration of the point included a decontamination of the old industrial facilities and the creation of new wetland areas to filter the site's stormwater before it enters the harbour. The park challenges the potential for using recycled materials to create high-end products and reduce the draw-down on new raw materials. Retaining walls were built from recycled site demolition materials, all concrete used was a recycled mix. All timbers, aggregate, soil and mulch are recycled. This composition of recycled materials is held together by an astute attention to detail which elevates it above the pragmatic to the unique.