![]() ![]() “We know they’re important and valued by the community,” says Larkin. NSW’s tidal pools have been chronicled extensively from cultural and historical standpoints, but this is the first time they have been mapped using 3D modelling software. The project, which began as part of her master’s in architecture degree, was recognised this week with an alumni award for cultural contribution from the University of Sydney.Īn aerial image of the Blue Pool at Bermagui in New South Wales. She collated a vast amount of data, including lush photographs and online interactive 3D models, with the idea of providing a public resource to help communities and architects preserve existing pools or build new ones. Larkin surveyed 60 of NSW’s ocean and tidal pools, focusing on those facing the ocean to narrow the field down from more than 100. I think other states are seeing the benefits of them and saying, ‘well, maybe we can do this here’.” They’re so iconic and NSW has so many of them. “Maybe it’s Instagram – they’re such seductive things to photograph. “They’re probably more in the public eye than they’re ever been and I’m not sure what started that,” she says. She is thrilled by the resurgence of interest. The Sydney architect and artist Nicole Larkin has spent the past six years getting to know every inch of NSW’s tidal pools – from rock bed to saltwater surface – for an interactive online database she created called the Wild Edge.
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