Project Summary

Architecture: Wood Marsh (Design) & Pop Architecture (Documentation & Delivery)
Landscape: Tract Landscape Architecture
Construction: North West Program Alliance
Photography: Peter Bennetts
Project Type: Infrastructure

Design Details

The design is guided by the idea of a “virtual landscape” – born out of a desire to provide a day 1 established landscape precinct despite impact on the existing ground plane of such an intense and substantial piece of engineering driven infrastructure. Curved walls clad in ceramic green and yellow tiles in four tones wrap the concourse beneath the viaduct. The colours and pattern emulate the ephemeral qualities of an adjacent landscape characterised by two contrasting eucalypt species —one smooth‑barked lemon scented gum, one dark and coarse iron bark.

Role Description

Keon Park Station is an unstaffed station on Melbourne’s Mernda Line and forms part of the Keon Parade Level Crossing Removal Project, commissioned by the Level Crossing Removal Project and delivered by the North West Program Alliance.

The project was delivered through a program alliance of the state government, contractors and engineers. Architects, landscape architects and other disciplines subconsult to the engineer.

It was the seventy‑seventh level crossing removal by this group, so budgets and timelines had naturally become reduced. The same can’t be said for the technical requirements which are significant and continued to shift and evolve. Considerations are expansive and include, safety and train driver sighting, wind-driven rain and construction staging enable continuous operation of the rails line.

This type of project demands close interdisciplinary collaboration to ensure technical, operational and environmental objectives remained intact throughout the project. In this project the collaboration extended to being inter-practice.

Wood Marsh invited Pop to collaborate with their team for the documentation and delivery phases. As a small practice we’re grateful for Wood Marsh’s investment in the collective capability and our opportunity to contribute to the urban design.

Keon Park Station is a modest yet uplifting piece of urban design. The project team has delivered a project that makes a meaningful contribution to the communities of Thomastown and Reservoir with its dramatically improved public transport experience and invigorated new landscape precinct

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