Amey Daldy Park establishes the social and ecological foundation for Wynyard Quarter’s emerging residential community. Conceived as civic infrastructure rather than residual open space, the park provides a contemporary ‘backyard’ for a rapidly intensifying waterfront precinct - embedding landscape as the structuring logic for everyday life.

The design responds to the site’s industrial legacy, former seabed geology and the need to rebalance pedestrian and vehicular hierarchies. The project unifies park and street through a continuous building-to-building shared surface - a basalt ground plane that dissolves boundaries, prioritises people and creates a space you move through, not past.

This systemic intelligence is realised as sculpted topography that recalls the site’s underlying geology while accommodating recreation, events and informal gathering. Integrated low-impact design strategies connect to the adjacent Daldy Street Linear Park green infrastructure network, embedding stormwater management and ecological performance within the public realm. Essential infrastructure -  including a Watercare pump station - is wrapped within a sculptural cylindrical pavilion referencing the site’s tanks and silos, demonstrating how utility and memory can coexist as a unified spatial language.

The Park operates as neighbourhood commons, climate moderator and social condenser. It is both adaptable and robust -  capable of evolving with the community it supports - and stands as a key component in Wynyard Quarter’s landscape-led regeneration framework.