RIPLEY TOWN CENTRE


Circ Design are currently working on the placemaking and landscape strategy with Sekisui House for Ripley Town Centre Satoyama Way. Catherine’s role in the masterplanning and design of the future city spans a decade; from the early visioning and masterplanning at HASSELL to the town centre design, placemaking, park and lot design at Hatch RobertsDay to today’s work envisioning the centre’s staged expansion with placemaking at the forefront.

Ripley Town Centre is located at the heart of the Ripley Valley Priority Development Area (PDA) which it is estimated approximately 120,000 people will call home by 2031. This includes Ripley Town Centre, White Rock, Providence and other centres. Centrally positioned between the major centres of Ipswich and Springfield, Ripley will be served by a new rail network connecting the Valley to Ipswich, Springfield and Brisbane City - the Springfield to Ipswich Line. This will serve as a major multiplier not only for housing but employment and business within the region.

Our ongoing involvement has continued from Catherine’s early work working at HASSELL on the early PDA, guidelines and park design, later working at Hatch RobertsDay in the development of a detailed master plan and strategy document; to working on stage 2 of the retail centre and a complete revitalisation of stage 1 with Circ Design. Our current work spans visioning and placemaking, circular recycling, urban agriculture, art and way finding as well as landscape architecture, planting and a complete furniture package.

The underpinning design philosophy of Ripley Town Centre is the concept of ‘Satoyama’, or the ability to establish natural connections between the built environment and existing landforms.

Throughout the Town Centre, water and greenery permeates with the principle of Satoyama allowing for residents to live side by side with green streets linking the civic centre.

 

  • Work spanning a decade of urban design, town centre visioning, planning, placemaking, subdivision and lot design and retail activation at HASSELL, Hatch RobertsDay and at Circ Design

  • An ambitiously green centre with integration of density and built form outcomes

  • Production of comprehensive Place Vision

  • Detailed renders of site by Diorama for Hatch RobertsDay for Sekisui House - see https://ripleytowncentre.com.au for further imagery and information on the project.

  • For further information and news: https://www.shoppingcentrenews.com.au/shopping-centre-news/industry-news/sekisuis-1-5-billion-masterplan-vision-for-ripley-town-centre/

  • https://www.shoppingcentrenews.com.au/shopping-centre-news/industry-news/ripley-town-centre-declared-one-of-australias-most-sustainably-designed-buildings/

  • https://www.shoppingcentrenews.com.au/shopping-centre-news/design/considered-masterplan-design-ripley-town-centre-masterplan-redefining-smart-cities/

Sites

Ripley Town Centre, Ripley Valley PDA, Early guiding documents, Retail Centre staged expansion, Placemaking for Stages 1-2, Area 3 residential

When

2012 - today

Team

Catherine Simpson and Lori Dean working at Circ Design; at Hatch RobertsDay; Alexander Remmelt, Craig Christensen, Nico Rodriguez Novas-Plus, Mike Day, Yasaman Dehghan, at HASSELL (PDA and landscape guidelines); John Wright, Shaun Mets, John Kibble and many more. F