DESIGN CONCEPT STATEMENT

The Caroline Bay Development Plan integrates and weaves together a complex array of historical features, existing activities and environmental enhancements. This is achieved by creating key structural promenades that simplify the complexity of the site. They provide direct access from the city to the sea and along the beach. The promenades express the history of the site. They track timelines showing the movement of the beach and historical associations with the Bay. Visitors can experience this history along with the multitude of attractions at Caroline Bay from the promenades.

The key design considerations addressed in the Development Plan are:

• Providing greater access to and along the beachfront.
  
• Providing a safe clear circulation pattern.
• Telling the stories of the place.
• Maintaining open green space.
• Providing for a wider range of activities.
• Enhancing the Bay experience.
• Using planting to enhance sense of place, interest, shelter and wayfinding.
  

In essence, Caroline Bay can be imagined as a woven landscape - a complex site bound together through the simplicity and structure of a new circulation plan.