INTEGRATING ARCHITECTURE & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LEADERSHIP

INTEGRATING ARCHITECTURE & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LEADERSHIP

Ashley Halliday Architects, Wax Design, the City of Port Adelaide Enfi eld, Kaurna Traditional Owners
and Yitpi Yartapuultiku Custodian Group

LOCATION
SA
Yarta Puulti (‘Sleeping Place’), Estuarine Mangrove River System, Port Adelaide,
South Australia, 34.51S 135.30E
Kaurna Yarta

Yitpi Yartapuultiku translates as ‘Soul of Port Adelaide’ in Kaurna and is located on Yarta Puulti (‘Sleeping Place’), Estuarine Mangrove River System, Port Adelaide. Yitpi Yartapuultiku is a place for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people to be immersed in and learn from Aboriginal culture. Landscape and architecture are sensitively curated under strong cultural direction to create a unique, cohesive, culturally safe place that respects, nurtures, and celebrates Country. Yitpi Yartapuultiku demonstrates what it means to be ‘On Country’ – a process vital to people’s cultural, spiritual, and physical wellbeing.

Architecture, Landscape, Munaintya (Kaurna Dreaming), and ecology are holistically interwoven, designed to spark curiosity, connect people with Nindi (all senses), to the spirit of the place, with each other, and with Country.

The site plan is a powerful planar representation of the deep listening, learning, and knowledge shared by the traditional owners and custodians and is the direct product of a highly participatory integrated design process. The design is infused with deep symbolic purpose and spiritual meaning.

participate.cityofpae.sa.gov.au/yitpiyartapuultiku

CLIENT
City of Port Adelaide Enfield
CULTURAL DIRECTION
Kaurna Traditional Owners and
Custodians


ARCHITECT/PROJECT LEAD
Ashley Halliday Architects


LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Wax Design


INTERPRETIVE DESIGN/WAYFINDING
Exhibition Studios
FILM MAKING
Living Stories


PROJECT MANAGER
Moto Projects


CULTURAL DESIGN FACILITATOR
Brave & Curious


DESIGN COLLABORATORS
PT Design, Lucid, RLB, Cirqa,
Wavelength, Golder, Succession
Ecology, Resonate, Eatscape, D
Squared, Buildsurv