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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