Designed to be
integrated with the existing
Ari Burnu Cemetery, Centennial Pier aims to
connect the commemoration of the Gallipoli Campaign with
the sea, a crucial part of the average Allied soldiers life during the 9 month
campaign. By providing the means for boats to dock, it will enable those visiting Anzac
Cove to mimic the experience of the soldiers as they landed from the sea on the 25th
of April, 1915.
Centennial Pier also aims to broaden the experiences of those visiting Anzac Cove at
other times of the year, by providing opportunities for recreation that will draw local
residents and domestic tourists, providing further opportunities of interaction between
the peoples and promoting the ideals of peace through understanding that form the
basis of the Gallipoli Peace Park, in which the site is located.
Centennial Pier Broadening the Gallipoli ExperienceBy Alex Smith, John Campbell, Kieran Dove and Matthew Leen.
Site selection
Anzac cove and its surrounds are littered with
priority in site selection. Ari Burnu Point was chosen due to
its apparent lack of sensitive marine archaeological sites,
its exposed wartime position precluding the building of
piers.
To provide a viable alternative means of transport to road
vehicles, both to and from the site, the pier’s design also
needed to cater for a variety of ship and boat sizes, as
well as reach deep enough water, something that proved
challenging for the allied wharf builders. We established
that 7m deep water existed from approximately 50m
offshore of Ari Burnu.
Ari Burnu is also home to the graves of 253 Allied
servicemen as part of a Commonwealth War Graves
Cemetery, which contains a monument and headstones.
The cemetery was the former site of Anzac Day
Commemorations, before they were shifted to the North
Beach site. We decided that our design should take
this cemetery into account, as it provided a unique
opportunity to integrate our new memorial with an existing
one.
Introduction
As a result of previous research, we decided that our
design would be a structure that provides a transition
between the sea and land, but in a way that acts as
a natural extension of the land. This structure was to
provide opportunities for interaction between people
of the nations of the combatants of 1915, encouraging
understanding and working with the Gallipoli Peninsula
Peace Parks aims.
The resultant plan was for 3 Piers at the three major
Invasion Points to stimulate the use of tour boats to deliver
people to the sites, providing an alternative means of
transport to them, especially to Anzac Cove. We selected
the Anzac Cove Pier to design as model for how the others
could be approached.
Methodology
With our requirements established, we began to
investigate a method to generate its form. We decided
through to reach Anzac Cove, their transferral from large
ocean going liners, to smaller troopships and then to
comparatively tiny barges and invasion craft. From this we
decided our structure would consist of large forms at the
docking edge for practical reasons, these forms would
then be repeated multiple times, their size decreasing by
2/3 with each repetition.
We also felt we wanted to build something of its time,
something representative of the impact WWI had on the
intervening century. WWI spelled the end for the Ottoman
Empire, a nation that was soon broken up into individual
states with separate identities. The intervening 100 years
has also spelled the end for the British Empire, its former
territories having declared their independence from British
administration and rule. This concept of fragmentation
drove the form of the structure components, the large
Pier sections at the docking edge interlocking as one
form, which then became increasingly fragmented and
Rationale
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The Design
The resultant structure is a pier 80m long and 50m
wide, aligned along an Axis of the centre of the Ari
Burnu Cemetery Monument. At the piers end is a
series of 3 docking stages, each 350mm lower than
the last to cater for a variety of ship types and sizes
and their forms are also derived from visual connec-
tions to the monument and the concepts of frag-
mentation and interlocking.
A series of jetties and gangplank structures link the
landing stages to the land along a linear axis which
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of fragmentation and transition, their forms de-
creasing in size as well as becoming increasing
abstracted and fragmented from the series orig-
inal forms.
A transitional space between sea and land
Anzac Day: On this day all three docks
will be used, their large 1700m² of decking able to
accommodate incoming and outgoing passen-
gers, while they wait to board a boat or exit the
pier along its axis. This decking may also provide an
extra space to view or attend the services, should
numbers require it. The varied levels of docks also
provide for a range of boats, making docking easier
and faster for an unknown number of varied boat
types.
Tourism: For the rest of the year Centennial
Landing will be used by tour boat operators, espe-
cially during the summer months. These boats could
run on a schedule, dropping people off groups to
in the day to take them elsewhere. Tour boats may
also run in conjunction with the current van and bus
tours, forming one link in the tourists journey.
Local Recreation: It is hoped that the
Piers will be used by local residents and domestic
tourists as a recreational asset, the piers access to
deep water and its sheltered pool (up to w deep)
boating and swimming. By attracting Turkish people,
it is hoped that there may be more opportunities for
interaction between the everyday people of Turkey
and those of nations like New Zealand and Austral-
ia.
The landing stages and their surrounding
decks have an area of 1700m² and are
able to hold 5,100 people at a density of 3
people per square meter.
At the centre of the wharf structure lie two
sheltered areas of water, one relatively
shallow, 2.5m at its deepest, is intended to
provide opportunities for recreational uses
such as swimming. The other, at 4.5m deep
continues the forms established by our
method, however the jetty structure has
been reduced to piles, making an area of
exposed water. This pool and its row of piles
provide a balance in the structure to the
cemetery at the axis’s end, forming a me-
morial to those whose grave is the sea.
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Elevation: Main Axis
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