Intertidal Ecologies: Research and Exhibition Centre

This project seeks to reconcile the nature–culture divide embedded in intertidal landscapes, where hard coastal infrastructures reduce the shoreline to a fixed line. Situated in Farm Cove, the design’s program encourages deeper public understanding of intertidal ecologies through a research centre that studies and exhibits how marine-friendly concrete can support biodiversity. The surrounding landscape expands the land–sea threshold with stepped sandstone edges, rockpools, and wetlands that emphasise porosity and tidal exchange. Together, the architectural and landscape interventions demonstrate how designing with ecological processes can create environments that sustain both marine life and meaningful human engagement with the coastal edge.

Sbika Surendiran

Intertidal Ecologies: Research and Exhibition Centre