WAX Gets in the community spirit.

In collaboration with City of Burnside, WAX’s work for the design of the Chapel Street Community Garden has been recognised, collecting the Parks and Leisure Australia Integrated and Connected Communities state award. This award seeks to recognise innovative projects which deliver greater opportunities in leisure through the creation and strengthening of inclusive and connected communities. WAX gains a lot of satisfaction through such an award as we pride ourselves on delivering community driven projects and establishing supportive environments for community involvement.

Isy and Corey win Adelaide University Awards

Congratulations to Isabella James, WAX Graduate Landscape Architect, receiving Adelaide University’s Taylor Cullity Lethlean Landscape Architecture Prize. This prize is awarded to the student who has achieved the highest quality design in the final year of Master of Landscape Architecture.  

Congratulations also go to Corey Brown, WAX landscape architectural intern, for receiving the LYSAGHT Award for Outstanding Achievement.  This award recognises the student in the Bachelor of Architectural Design programme who has obtained the highest marks in the course 'Architecture Design Studio'.

Pop Up Place Making

The Pop up Place Making Project is designed to create places instantly.  WAX in conjunction with SPUD and the City of Charles Sturt have collaborated with the community, URPS and Natalie Fuller to explore the potential for place making within Inner West Precinct of the City.

The result is a series of reusable modified containers that can be dropped into position and deliver place activation, any time, any place.  The youth ‘hangout’ space can be left on the reserve over the school holidays and contains skate ramps, grinding rails and seating with the external skin of the container acting as a climbing wall.  Other containers such as the ‘potting shed’ can help create community gardens on a vacant piece of land, while the ‘exchange’ provides opportunities for pop up libraries and community spaces that meet immediate demands for services, events or other experiences.   

The project demonstrates how innovative responses to place making can create high performance facilities that Council or the community can have delivered to any location that requires immediate place activation.

Thunderbirds are go.............

Kadina Community Inspired for Action.

After six month of engagement, planning and design, WAX recently returned to Kadina to present the Kadina Town Centre Study. The presentation focused on the future potential of the town centre and how the town can transition from service centre to a regional destination of State significance. The proposed outcomes which include ‘shared use streets’, regional playspaces and mainstreet activation will deliver change and renewal within the town over the next 10 years. Detailed action plans which considered the need to create a liveable, connected, adaptive and resilient town centre were also presented. 

With overwhelming support from the community, the Town Centre Study has helped shift attitudes, from ‘parking’ to ‘people’, by highlighting opportunities that will make the Kadina town centre an active and vibrant place. With an enthused community and support from Council and the Chamber of Commerce, the realisation of the vision for the town centre can now begin.

Keep up to date with the project at https://www.facebook.com/KadinaTownCentre

Whyalla Special School Masterplan

WAX Design in collaboration with Whyalla Special School and Tectvs architects engaged the community in consultation in order to inform the brief for this landscape master plan.
The design incorporates an all accessible landscape for children of all physical and learning abilities, with colour, movement, interactive and contemplative play. Aspects of aboriginal culture as well as references to the rich historic nature of Whyalla are incorporated into the materials selection and design layout.
Environmental considerations of stormwater reuse extend to rain water tanks, overland swales and detention basins. A productive garden includes an orchard, bush foods and a sensory herb garden.
All new plantings are locally indigenous species, reinforcing the cultural context of the site.
The project is currently under construction.