Lake Illawarra Shared Use Masterplan

Prepared for Wollongong and Shoalhaven City Council, NSW, 2024

Sub-consultant: Esther Hermans, Studio26 Urban Design

About

Rhizome led the development of a shared path masterplan around Lake Illawarra (approx. 42 kilometres) and its two LGAs, the Wollongong City Council and Shellharbour City Council. This involved a place-based approach to understanding the lake system through a series of interlinked 1:100,000 and 1:40,000 mapping site analysis stages that revealed the potential of an interconnected and legible landscape-based experience around the entirety on the lake.

Packaged with a range of graphical explorations and mapping at finer scales, future alignment options capitalised also upon the surrounding communities and their recreational cultural needs in concert with hydrological, visual and ecological protection.

Further detailing at five specific activity nodes introduced the region to a new suite of recreational opportunities and a previously under-performing visitor experience and increased amenity.

The scope was also expanded to include a broad-brush interpretive and signage masterplan, inclusive of further consultation as series of directional, interpretive and management signage and colour and materials palettes.

Key skills

- Extensive infrastructure audit

- Development of masterplan, report through novel mapping and site analysis

- Community, LGA and stakeholder engagement

- Research, interpretation, materials and signage approach

- Report compilation

Link to report