Upper Plaza

UNEARTH ELEVATE & UNIFY SETTLING ROOTS FRUITION (HEIGHT) FOLIAGE (PERMABILITY) THE URBAN ECOSYSTEM

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The Orchard, Ryde Square adapts the symbiotic relationship to the scale of a city, with commuters, residents and workers, coexisting and cultivating one another. The Orchard sustains the community with its abundant fruit trees and civic initiatives. From cooking schools to the library, community gardens to wood workshops, everyone is invited to participate and grow with the precinct. The community sustains The Orchard through consumption and creation. Locally grown produce blossoms into markets and restaurants, craft from artist studios and workshops feed the boutiques and galleries, stories from our lives fill the theatres and plazas.

The changing of seasons

The urban orchard

A site that breathes

Unearthing Ryde

A beating heart

An Orchard is a community where mankind and mother nature coexist, each cultivating one another. Farmers seek sustenance and income. The trees seek farmers to harness their full potential. Both welcome the pitter-patter of rain, a dancing pleasure on the skin in the warm sunshine and crisp morning air. The orchard tree is a child’s playground, the flaking bark etched with tiny shoe prints. The orchards’ fruit provides nourishment and growth, a burst of sticky juices in cheeky mouths. The orchard tree’s golden leaves signal the end of a season, returning to the soil that feeds the flowers and animals.

The cosmos, community and culture are forged into a single cyclical identity – The Orchard. Built upon four pillars of sustainability, The Orchard nurtures the community through human, economic, social and environmental solutions. Sustaining humanity through childcare and education; sustaining economy through the cultivation and sale of local food and craft; sustaining society through safety and a dynamic ground plane advocating interaction; and sustaining environment through both architecture and urban design. The sleek towers incorporate double skin ventilated facades with integrated photovoltaics while public buildings advocate cross-laminated timber, stormwater and blackwater recycling, trigeneration, green roofs and walls to filter and enhance air quality. An expanded bicycle network promotes alternative modes of sustainable transport and enhances accessibility to the site.

The Orchard is unearthed from Ryde’s past and reimagined as a foundation for the future. The Orchard remembers and reimagines Maria Ann Smith’s trees of yesteryear, whilst moving beyond the Granny Smith apple to create a habitat that feeds all year round. It offers an inviting backdrop for pause and contemplation amidst the existing high speed infrastructure. In bridging over Devlin Street, The Orchard is knitted together with Top Ryde to create a site that advocates public ownership of the ground plane and is activated throughout the day and into the night.

Through its varied programme, The Orchard brings people of different backgrounds together, offering a place for celebration, education, creativity and innovation. A place to call home. The Orchard is a sustainable ecosystem that seeks to remind generations that it’s the earth that feeds us, and we in turn feed the world through culture and creation.

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water recycling & storagetrigeneration planttheatre back of housecarparking

including administration, council chambers, meeting spaces etc

hospitality & specialty shopsstart-up commercial

including library, art gallery and theatre

bicycle hub, timber and metal workshopcooking schoolchildcare

total= 237 units resident’s gym

50 Studio102 1 bedrooms70 2 bedrooms12 3 bedrooms 3 4 bedrooms

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BEHIND THE SCENES

CULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

1:1000 SITE PLAN1. Upper Plaza2. Garden Plaza3. Lower Plaza4. Rooftop Plaza5. Eat street6. Cooking school and restaurant7. Playground8. Temporary cinema screen9. Childcare

19. Commercial tower20. Civic Centre Council chamber Library Mayoral suite Meeting rooms Administration Supper room

10. BBQ zone11. Art gallery & bar (Southern Arcade)12. Artist studios13. Timber & metal workshop14. Primary orchard15. Community gardens16. Bicycle hub17. Theatre below18. Residential

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The Orchard seeks to enable around the clock activation to create an environment that is both fun and safe to occupy, for residents, workers and visitors alike. The expanded site programme will actively engage with Ryde’s greater community and attract visitors from across Sydney.

accessible rooftops and terracesnon-accessible plantedrooftops for air filtration and insulation

Whilst some accessible rooftops and terraces will be open to public access from the ground plane, others will be limited to workers and residents. However some green rooftops will be used primarily for insulation and air filtration, and these will not be accessible, with the exception of services personnel.

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SECTION 1:500 ROOFTOP ACCESSIBILITY

ACTIVATING RYDE’S TOWN CENTRE AROUND THE CLOCK

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HUMAN

• Childcare• Education cooking school library bicycle hub• Health & fitness

ECONOMIC

• Local produce & craft• Artist studios • Craft workshops• Boutique retail• Art gallery • Theatre• Cafes & restaurants

ENVIRONMENTAL

• Double skin ventilated façades

• Photovoltaics• Cross-laminated timber• Green roof and walls• Storm water and black water

recycling• Trigeneration• Bicycle network• Chilled beams• Community gardens

SOCIAL

• Culture & Arts• Safety• Creation & collaboration• Community engagement library workshops community gardens

The Orchard seeks to establish the City of Ryde and community of Sydney as world leaders in architectural and urban design excellence, iconic place-making and holistic sustainable initiatives. The proposal will target 6 Star Green Star through consideration of the four pillars of sustainability; environment, economics, humanity and society.

Acknowledging that sustainability is often applied only within the environmental realm, The Orchard educates community on the importance of childcare and education to sustain human life, the importance of local produce and craft to sustain economics, and the importance of dynamic, safe interaction to ensure a peaceful society.

Sustainability is a shared responsibility and shared benefit. The Orchard seeks to inspire the community to claim ownership of the site, to care for it, to grow with it and bring new generations into the cycle.

In winter, overshadowing of neighbouring residential buildings is limited to the early morning and late evening maintaining sunny outdoor spaces to be enjoyed by everyone.

In summer, overshadowing of neighbouring residences is minimal.

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9AM - 21 DECEMBER9AM - 21 JUNE

3PM - 21 DECEMBER3PM - 21 JUNE

THE FOUR PILLARS OF SUSTAINABILITY

WINTER SHADOW DIAGRAMS SUMMER SHADOW DIAGRAMS

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Malus domestica (Granny Smith) Citrus x limon

PLANTINGThe planting strategy across the site will use a combination of native species, turf and food producing plants. The orchard trees will be a variety of species from citrus and stone fruit varieties through to the locally created Granny Smith variety to ensure year-round fruit production. Whilst the majority of fruit-bearing trees will be primarily located on the upper plaza, they will also be used elsewhere in the site. Similarly community garden beds will also be distributed across the site to better engage with the community.

LOWER PLAZA

THEATRE ROOFTOP PLAZA

Banksia serrata Corymbia maculata

Dietes bicolor Doryanthes excelsa

Eucalyptus citriodora Lomandra longifolia

Melaleuca quinquenervia

Prunus blireana Westringia fruticosa

Pennisetum alopecuroides

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GARDEN PLAZA

SOUTHERN ARCADE

EAT STREET