Green Wall - The Goods Line public art installation

The first of five public space improvement commissions chosen particularly for its excellence in highlighting the environmental effects of contemporary urbanism. We led the creative team and project to construction.

‘Concrete Jungle’ forms part of a larger initiative by UTS to demonstrate a commitment to environmental sustainability and to improve student and public experience of the public domain adjacent to their masterplan projects. As part of this initiative UTS ran a limited design competition calling for complimentary artworks to be applied to the master plan construction hoardings.

The design production team was lead by urban artists Tania Leimbach and Rully Zakaria under our guidance as lead consultant.  The Concrete Jungle hoarding project is a temporary, non-commercial installation that aims to activate the public space with high quality visual amenity, vertical gardens and thought provoking ideas. The content of the work is conceptually focused on cities, urbanism and sustainability and specifically looks at Sydney’s current urban condition and possible future trajectories for development.

“Concrete Jungle” takes up 110m of the existing site hoarding adjacent to the highly trafficked Ultimo Pedestrian Network. A number of proprietary “ecoVert” green wall modules were installed by Junglefy. The artwork will significantly improve visual amenity to this public space.

Project: Concrete Jungle - UTS public art hoarding installation
Type: Public art, art installation
Location: Ultimo, NSW
Client: University of Technology Sydney
Year: 2011
Services: SK, DD, CD and CN
Team: A DRAW project - Adam Russell, Nick Sargent
With: Junglefy, Serreo Smith and Concrete Jungle [Tania Leimbach, Rully Zakaria, Nick Sargent, Carli Leimbach]
Illustrations adapted from Mark Gerada’s work in “Greening Sydney” by Chris Johnson [2003]
Project code: 1010