Mona Site Projects

Museum of Old and New Art (Mona)

Inspiration

Landscape Architects are said to ‘create the opportunities for events to happen’. This maxim is clearly expressed at Mona. As Landscape Architects assisting the design team since 2013, Inspiring Place have risen to the challenge. We have readied the site’s multiple outdoor rooms to be used in as many ways as the curators might imagine. The landscape hosts numerous events and acts as a stage for daily life.

Outcomes

We’ve helped design a caravan park (unbuilt), prepared a heritage conservation analysis of the landscape of the site, prepared master plans and contract documentation for multiple stages of development (Pharos, Spectra, the Divine Comedy and the Keifer Pavilions) and undertaken design development for the landscape of the proposed Mona Hotel. The process has been been exciting and challenging -- exciting because it is not everyday you get to work with a world class art institution, challenging because of the complexity of the brief and the demand for exceptional results. To achieve these aims has required a rigorous analysis of the existing conditions, an extended and iterative process of design development, a high degree of collaboration with a large design team and close liaison with the builders through the construction of each project.

Recognition

Walk through the site on any day and you will find hundreds of people spread across the landscape enjoying the outside as well as the inside. What could be better recognition for one’s work!

Photography: Jordan Davis

Mona Site Projects