CSIRO Black Mountain Master Plan
Acton, Australian Capital Territory
The CSIRO Black Mountain Campus is an important element in the built and natural fabric of Canberra. The Framework Plan provides the opportunity for excellence in research, collocation of industry and innovation, immersive lifelong learning experiences, and diversity and activity in the celebration of the public realm and built and natural heritage of the campus.
The CSIRO Campus Framework Plan portrays and supports a vision of the site in becoming a fusion of industry, commerce, world-leading research, and education, set within an unparalleled environment of recreation, activity, amenity, and accessibility. The Framework Plan sought to improve and realise place making, permeability, flexibility, variety, and connectivity across the campus.
Four key principles were identified to underpin and inform the Framework Plan:
– Celebrating the campus
– Reinforcing key pedestrian axes
– Providing a variety of landscape spaces
– Rationalising circulation and parking
The Master Plan proposes a concept that successfully responds to CSIRO Black Mountain’s key attributes, including scale, transport connections, the public domain, heritage, surrounding landscape, stakeholder requirements and interests, competing uses and community facilities. This comprehensive consideration of context has supported the Master Plan in making a substantial contribution to establishing the CSIRO campus within the landscape, reinforcing the site’s relationship with ANU and beyond.
