Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Nature and Science Precinct
Heritage consultancy services expertly guiding restoration
- Location
- Australia
- Client
- Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
Purcell assisted the Melbourne-based John Wardle architect team to fully integrate the buildings within Victoria’s Royal Botanic Gardens. We guided the project with our heritage consultancy expertise, helping to find sustainable solutions for the restoration.
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria has appointed John Wardle Architects to guide the development of the buildings within the new precinct, aiming to integrate buildings and landscape while focusing on place-making and public engagement.
Purcell is assisting the design team as heritage consultants to review the heritage places and provide strategic heritage consultancy advice to John Wardle Architects and the broader team. This will help to identity heritage opportunities, resolve interfaces and manage potential impacts of the overall development within the significance of the site.
Early through the design phase, Purcell undertook condition assessments of the identified eight heritage places and worked closely with JWA and consultant team to develop innovative, yet sensitive, opportunities for interventions within their historic setting.
— Senior Architect, Alistair Ravenscroft
Sensitive Restoration
During the design phase, Purcell are working closely with JWA and the consultant team to re-position this significant heritage environment and collection of buildings in a sensitive, meaningful and contemporary way.
Purcell's heritage consultancy team are identifying innovative, yet sensitive, opportunities for interventions within the historic setting and in testing these proposals for their relative heritage impact, bench-marked on comparable international sites.
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Client: John Wardle Architects
Listing Status: State Listed
