Sunshine Coast Design Strategy
As the Sunshine Coast continues to grow, the changes taking place present challenges and opportunities for its future. The Design Strategy will guide design to best suit the Coasts character and climate. Without it the region risks an ad hoc approach to planning and design that could be costly — visually, environmentally, socially, culturally and economically.
The Design Strategy will be a helpful guide for development on the Sunshine Coast. It will promote design which reflects and respects what the community loves and values about our region.
Bligh Tanner’s Alan Hoban has been part of the ‘Brains Trust’ helping to guide the strategy and its design principles.
The design principles are:
- Work with the local climate
- Create places that respect and incorporate landscape
- Bring our culture, arts and heritage to life
- Capture and frame natural views and create vistas
- Strengthen and extend a network of environmental and green corridors linking places
- Be inspired by local and natural materials
- Make shady streets that put people first
- Create inclusive places that can be enjoyed by everyone
- Ensure places are resilient and ready for change
The design principles are described in this video, which features many of our key clients and collaborators, and ends with Alan Hoban talking about Principle 9
The Sunshine Coast Design Strategy has been recently endorsed by Council, with a book soon to follow. For further details on the strategy, visit here.
