Bonner Residential Estate, Canberra Australia
The ACT Government commissioned HBO+EMTB to design the new Canberra suburb of Bonner, located in the Gungahlin district at the northern edge of the city.
With an area of 260 hectares, Bonner is projected to accommodate six and a half thousand people in 2,300 detached dwellings and 350 medium density units. The site is currently pasturelands of variable topography and tree cover with magnificent southward views to Black Mountain, Mount Ainslie, the Parliamentary Triangle and the Brindabellas and more intimate views to the hills immediately to its north.
Masterplanning principles include the preservation of hilltops and gullies as public open space and the alignment of major roads with distant natural or man-made features to facilitate orientation and relate the development to its context. This strategy and the use of grid street patterns draw upon the successful planning legacy of early Canberra.
The masterplanning of the site also addresses major environmental issues, including the preservation of significant trees and ecologically important habitat areas, the rehabilitation and management of watercourses, planning for bushfire prevention and control and the inclusion of Water Sensitive Urban Design principles in the design. The project includes the development of place-specific housing prototypes incorporating state-of-the-art ESD strategies.
HBO+EMTB in association with Lee Andrews, Landscape Architect, won a commendation for Bonner in the 2005 NSW Australian Institute of Landscape Architects awards.
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