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Implementing the Better Placed policy for heritage buildings, sites and precinc

Implementing the Better Placed policy for heritage buildings, sites and precincts. BETTER PLACED DESIGN GUIDE FOR HERITAGE Issue no. 01 — 2018 Working draft – for comment Design objectives for NSW Seven objectives define the key considerations in the design of the built environment. Better fit contextual, local and of its place Better performance sustainable, adaptable and durable Better for community inclusive, connected and diverse Better for people safe, comfortable and liveable Better working functional, efficient and fit for purpose Better value creating and adding value Better look and feel engaging, inviting and attractive Working Draft – for Comment Government Architect’s foreword 4 Working Draft – for Comment Heritage is a living part of our contemporary life. The objects, buildings, stories, songs and rituals become a framework and reference upon which we build the future. Acknowledging our heritage can bring a richness to life; strengthening culture and our understanding of where we have all come from. The Design Guide for Heritage embraces the complexity of how we integrate and understand our present and our future with our living past. It demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of heritage significance and encourages an innovative, creative and sensitive design approach. In Australia we have a chequered past when it comes to respecting and integrating our history. Upon arrival, our colonial ancestors disregarded the rich living culture of the local Indigenous people and saw the country as a ‘blank slate’ on which to write a new chapter of their history. Despite this poor beginning, we are making progress in acknowledging our Indigenous cultural heritage; a shared post-contact history essential to our understanding of our future. Furthermore, we have made improvements in our understanding of historical significance. Acknowledging that colonial settlement has created a rich and varied heritage of its own, we now better understand the importance of spiritual places, industrial buildings and the value of contemporary, modernist and brutalist buildings. We have understood that an approach to heritage which keeps only the grandest of structures does not accurately represent our whole story and that we need to acknowledge and celebrate places for what occurred there rather than just architectural form. Many places are a reminder of the resourcefulness of our ancestors and yet other places represent and keep what was once commonplace but now is lost. The meaning we take from our heritage is varied and individual. It is incumbent on us to care, remember and renew it. To protect our past sensitively gives it power and meaning and enriches our present. This Design Guide seeks to support and educate those working with our built and cultural heritage, to encourage the very best responses to keeping these important places so that we can be told our own story and understand from that the potential of our future. Peter Poulet Government Architect “ The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — —William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun 5 Design Guide for Heritage / Foreword Working Draft – for Comment Heritage Council of NSW foreword The Heritage Council has been an influential publisher of heritage education material since the 1970s. Much has been done in that time, but it is now timely to reinforce existing material with renewed technical advice. This publication marks the beginning of a new phase in heritage reference material. It will provide innovative and robust guidance for our next generation of industry practitioners, heritage owners and communities alike. It will encourage all those who work with heritage to carefully and appropriately use good design to enable heritage significance to be protected, while enhancing the experience of heritage places for everyone. This publication provides the opportunity to work with the Government Architect NSW in collaboration and highlight how with enhanced design principles, the extraordinary heritage buildings, sites, places and precincts across metropolitan and regional NSW will continue to be protected for future generations. This initiative has highlighted the continued best practice management of heritage in the greater design framework. It is important for me to acknowledge that this publication builds on the outstanding advice that was captured in our past publications Design in Context: Guidelines for Infill Development in the Historic Environment and New Uses for Heritage Places: Guidelines for the Adaptation of Historic Buildings and Sites. These documents have undeniably shaped and served to guide our industry for more than the last 10 years. I sincerely hope that this new publication will continue to support heritage practice into the future, particularly given that NSW is experiencing a time of unprecedented development. By working with the Government Architect NSW, the Heritage Council of NSW endorses the Design Guide for Heritage. I firmly believe this publication will place heritage at the forefront of thinking, planning and designing for many years to come. Stephen Davies Chair, Heritage Council of NSW CONTENTS Working Draft – for Comment 6 7 Working Draft – for Comment Better design for heritage 14 2.1 What is heritage? 16 2.2 Good design for heritage 18 Better processes, better outcomes 18 The role of the designer 19 2.3 Better Placed objectives 20 2.4 Design processes for heritage 36 Explaining heritage 48 3.1 Heritage lists 50 3.2 What is significance and how is it assessed? 52 3.3 Heritage documents 53 3.4 Regulations and planning 54 Glossary 56 References 60 Credits 64 Introducing the Design Guide for Heritage 8 1.1 Why heritage matters 10 1.2 About this guide 12 Better Placed 12 The Burra Charter 12 1.3 How to use this guide 13 PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE Disclaimer While every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that this document is correct at the time of printing, the State of NSW, its agents and employees, disclaim any and all liability to any person in respect of anything or the consequences of anything done or omitted to be done in reliance or upon the whole or any part of this document. Copyright notice In keeping with the NSW Government’s commitment to encourage the availability of information, you are welcome to reproduce the material that appears in Design Guide for Heritage for personal, in-house or non-commercial use without formal permission or charge. All other rights are reserved. If you wish to reproduce, alter, store or transmit material appearing in Design Guide for Heritage for any other purpose, a request for formal permission should be directed to Government Architect NSW, L3, 320 Pitt St, Sydney, NSW 2000. Cover image: Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects, Photographer Brett Boardman. May 2018 © Crown Copyright 2018 NSW Government Government Architect NSW acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land and pays respect to Elders past, present and future. We honour Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to place, and their rich contribution to our society. To that end, all our work seeks to uphold the idea that if we care for Country, it will care for us. Working Draft – for Comment INTRODUCING PART THE DESIGN GUIDE Photograph © Adam.J.W.C. Working Draft – for Comment ONE FOR HERITAGE 10 Working Draft – for Comment 1.1 Why heritage matters Heritage places and precincts can have an enormous impact on the quality and experience of our built environments and the wellbeing of our communities. Shaped by their cultural, social, historical, political, economic and physical contexts, heritage places provide meaningful links to our past and have a significant role to play in the futures of our cities, towns and rural environments. The best way to conserve a heritage building, structure or site is to use it. This can take many forms. It could be a matter of sensitive adaptive reuse, conservation, enabling a return to an original use, or interventions to improve functionality in a contemporary world. It could involve small alterations and additions to existing built fabric, precise conservation works, new elements within heritage environments, or precinct-wide adaptation and interpretation. Design for heritage can vary enormously in scope, scale and aims, but all work has the potential to link the past to the present and to project into the future. Ensuring the ongoing life of our built heritage also brings wider benefits, including advantages in terms of social and environmental sustainability. All new work in heritage contexts should retain and enhance the heritage value of the place. Good design is essential to this, helping to ensure heritage environments make vital and ongoing contributions to contemporary society and culture. Each generation contributes to our ever- evolving built environments. We have shared responsibility to future generations to ensure that our work enriches, rather than diminishes, our environment. We need to understand the significance of heritage buildings, structures and sites, and respond in inventive and sensitive ways. Architects, designers and heritage consultants are crucial, with heritage work providing an opportunity for professional design teams to demonstrate their skills and creativity. “ Places of cultural significance enrich people’s lives, often providing a deep and inspirational sense of connection to community and landscape, to the past and to lived experiences. They uploads/Ingenierie_Lourd/ design-guide 3 .pdf