“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.
This design proposal is the first of five commissions awarded under the competition and was chosen particularly for its excellence in highlighting the environmental effects of contemporary urbanism. DRAW were responsible for leading the creative team and project to construction and will be doing so for the remaining four projects over the UTS Masterplan roll-out.
A number of proprietary “ecoVert” green wall modules by Junglefy.
The design production team was lead by urban artists Tania Leimbach and Rully Zakaria with DRAW in a head consultant role. 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. The artwork will significantly improve visual amenity to this public space.
Turning heads in an otherwise barren corner of Ultimo.
PROJECT: UTS Masterplan Hoardings Installations – Concrete Jungle.
PROGRAM: Construction hoarding urban artwork installation
LOCATION: Ultimo, NSW
YEAR: 2011
DRAW PEOPLE: 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]
CLIENT: UTS [University of Technology, Sydney]
