Portfolio - Urban Design & Planning - Adam Wojcik - July 2020

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2020 2020 ADAM Adam GERARD GerardWOJCIK Wojcik

About me

Adam Wojcik Profile

Urban planner & designer Lund, Sweden / Melbourne, Australia I am a young urban planner and designer who loves both urban and natural environments.

I am passionate about community development, sustainable transport and ecological restoration. I strive to make a meaningful and positive impact with my work, studies and activities.

I enjoy collaborating with others to share and develop new philosophies towards city life focusing on sustainability, liveability and social justice.

My dream city has more green space than roads.

Education

Master of Science in Architecture 2018 — Present Lund University Specialisation in Sustainable Urban Design Bachelor of Environments 2013 — 2016 University of Melbourne Specialisation in Urban Design & Planning

Employment

Strategic Planner at City of Casey March 2016 — July 2018 Project management, activity centre planning, planning scheme amendments, development & master planning, cultural management reports

Details

adam.wojcik.g@gmail.com +46 704 392 917 /in/adam-g-wojcik

Languages English Polish Italian

Certificates

Swedish for Immigrants January 2020 from Hvilan Sfi Lund

Swedish

Certificate of Engagement June 2017 from IAP2 Australasia

Key skills

Tools

Passions

Structure planning & urban design

Illustrator

Environment

Demographic analysis & research

Photoshop

Architecture

Community engagement

InDesign

Philosophy

Sustainable transport design

QGIS

Politics

Ecologically sensitive design

AutoCAD

Arts

Rhino

Music

Mapping & communication design

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Contents

Projects

1 Archipelago Ystad 4-11 2 Echoing Green 12-21 3 Harmonious Society 22-29 4 Eco-retrofit Suburbia 30-33 5 CycleSpace 34-39 6 Let’s Make A Park 40-45 7 A Place of Debate 46-49 8 Hampton Park Central 50-53 Ystad, Sweden

BarkĂĽkra, Sweden

Dujiangyan, China

Epping North, Australia

North Melbourne, Australia

Strathmore, Australia

Carlton, Australia

Hampton Park, Australia

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Archipelago Ystad

Archipelago Ystad 1 Ystad, Sweden

Inspired by Ystad’s built heritage, green links, walkable streets and a network of public spaces, this project proposes to extend these qualities to connect Ystad with the harbour, and ultimately inviting the sea to the city.

How do we reconnect Ystad with the sea?

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Archipelago Ystad

Context

Located in southern Sweden, Ystad’s harbour has historically separated the medieval town centre from the sea. With the future relocation of the old harbour, there is ample opportunity for reclaiming this brownfield site for a new urban development, with the ultimate goal of reconnecting Ystad with the sea.

Skåne SWEDEN

Copenhagen

Lund Malmö Ystad

Design site Public space Library & Community Precinct

Library & Community Precinct

Monastery

School

Monastery

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Stora Österga

Stora Österga

Town Hall

Town Hall Cathedral

School

Art Museum

Cathedral

Theatre

Public pool

Art Museum

Theatre

Public pool Train Station

Train Station Repurposed Warehouse

Repurposed Ferry Terminal Repurposed Ferry Terminal

Repurposed Silo

Existing civic nodes The project replicates existing patterns of Ystad’s public space network within the as the basis of a new urban structure for the harbour.

Proposed harbour nodes

Green Network Norra Promenaden

Green Junction + Wetland

Skåne Coastline

To San

Proposed biodiversity corridors

Ystad’s harbour provides opportunities to connect regionally signficant ecology and extend Ystad’s existing green links. Biodiversity corridors, embraced by built form, become living streets which allow residents and visitors can interact daily with urban ecology.

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Archipelago Ystad

Master Plan

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Archipelago Ystad

A new harbour town linking old and new, green & blue The proposed network of green corridors, diverse public spaces, quality built form aims to extend the medieval town centre and reconnect it with the sea.

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Archipelago Ystad

Principles and Strategies

Green & Blue

Sea-level rise Manage the impacts of climate change and rising sea levels

Integration Integrate water and greenery into the design of all public spaces

Interactivity Maximise opportunities to interact with flora, fauna, water and the sea

Biodiversity Establish biodiversity corridors to regional habitats, and design spaces for biodiversity

Locally Inspired Design built form inspired by Ystad’s town centre

Recycled heritage Recycle, enhance and celebrate high-quality industrial heritage in the harbour.

Housing diversity Design for housing diversity

Microclimate Be conscious of microclimate and viewlines

Overcome barriers Overcome the railway barrier and enhance pedestrian connections from city to harbour

Walkable Streets Create a safe, pleasant and walkable street network

Coastal Trail Complete the c oastal trail

Sustainable modes Prioritise pedestrians and cyclists over private motor vehicles throughout the city

Diverse Functions Identify appropriate locations for different functions

Street Life Create a public space network which supports a vibrant street life and diversity of experiences

Civic Nodes Create new civic and cultural destinations that complment and meet people’s needs

Generators Enhance the train station and ferry forecourt areas with a strong sense of arrival

Built Form

Access & Movement

Destinations & Placemaking

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Archipelago Ystad

intended to flood.

Wetland park visualisation Where biodiversity corridors meet,

Time aspect

During storm surges

Initial

Medieval Ystad

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Becoming the archipelago...

Instead of fighting rising sea levels with walls, let Ystad welcome water back. Designing for water as an essential aspect of public life supports a green city, connects public spaces, manages storm surges,

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minimises filling of land, and re-establishes a unique landscape that acts dynamically with sustainability at the fore. Over time, as storm surges and sea levels rise, the green corridors become increasingly permanently flooded, creating individual islands.

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Archipelago Ystad

Repurpo se Termina d Ferry l Buildin g/ Future C ommun ity Facility/ Neighbo urhood Centre

Detailed design

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Living Streets Ystad’s harbour provides opportunities to connect regionally signficant ecology and extend Ystad’s existing green links. Biodiversity corridors, embraced by built form, become living streets which allow residents and visitors can interact daily with urban ecology. This promotes active transport, and discourages vehicle use.

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Archipelago Ystad

Floodable spines The shaded blue areas indicate areas which can be flooded in the event of storm surges and rising sea levels.

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Echoing Green

Echoing Green 2 Ă„ngelholm, Sweden

Inspired by Ystad’s built heritage, green links, walkable streets and a network of public spaces, this project proposes to extend these qualities to connect Ystad with the harbour, and ultimately inviting the sea to the city.

Reinterpeting history, to reimagine how we live in connection with the environment.

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Echoing Green

Background

Located in north-western Skåne is the municipality of Ängelholm. As a growing city, it is becoming increasingly integrated into the larger Öresund region, with transport links to Copenhagen. In order to support its growing city, the municipality successfully advocated for the delivery of a new railway station in an outer area adjacent to an old village called Barkåkra. Accordingly, this largely rural area will soon be the site of future urban expansion.

Design site Ängelholm Municipality Helsingor

Landskrona

Copenhagen

Examining the issues of rural-urban conversion, sprawl, heritage, biodiversity and food security, I explores the layers of history and landscape to develop a sustainable project with a strong sense of place.

Historical site context

Skåne SWEDEN

Helsingborg

Lund Malmö

Barkåkra

Barkåkra Parish

Barkåkra Village

Barkåkra Village

Skjepparekroken

Skepparkroken Design site Design site

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Barkåkra

Barkåkra

Valhall Valhall Skepparkroken

Skepparkroken

Design site

1860

Agricultural changes over time The Swedish land reforms between 1750-1820 had a dramatic effect on the historical development of Barkåkra. The largest of these - the Storskiftet consolidated many smaller farms, and resulted in

Design site

1960

almost the entire settlement of Barkåkra vanishing.

I wanted to rediscover this lost village to find inspiration for a new built form which “echoes” this distant past.

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Echoing Green

Structural principles

Station anchor To Båstad To Göteborg

Main street nodes

Defined towns

Ecosystem services

Stone walls

Breathing spaces

Permeable blocks

Barkåkra

Björkhagen

To Vejbystrand

Valhall

Skepparkroken & Skälderviken To Ängelholm To Malmö To Copenhagen

Coastal views

Typology process

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Vårdträd Up to four separate houses form a central private courtyard. The buildings are oriented and sited to create the best microclimate. The communal space is used for food production and relaxation.

Communal plaza A group of vårträd courtyard houses are placed around a central plaza. These feature a greenhouse, an dining and entertaining area as well as extra spaces for communal food production.

Green coastal view Wide green corridors follow slopes and keep direct views to the coast.

Align with stone walls.

Slow-speed streets Perpendicular streets follow topography provide vehicular and cycling access

Echoing Green

Conceptual axonometric

old becomes new

Plaza network Build a network of small scale intimate spaces that are linked by walkways

Block by block Fill in the negative spaces of the public space network with 30x30m lots. These are filled with houses, private yards and communal courtyards.

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Echoing Green

Axonometric master plan

Barkåkra Train Station

New bus stop

Station Plaza

Preserved Cottages Main Street

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Echoing Green

Village Green

Recycled Food Market

Salamander Corridor Regional Cycling Corridor

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Green Corridors Salamander Pond

Plazas

Heritage stonewalls

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Detailed design

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Residential precinct Through a combination of retaining the heritage walls, green spines maintain strong public viewlines to the coast. Footpaths link to the train station and main street, creating a more permeable network that promotes active mobility and discourages private automobile use.

Echoing Green

Visualisation

Wetland corridors Salamanders are a protected species in this region, therefore careful design of spaces are needed to link populations across the landscape.

Sketch model

Sketch model Testing how the multi-family houeshold lots can be arranged to create a variety of private and communal yard spaces, with the ideal microclimate.

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Echoing Green

Model

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Residential precinct 1:200 model Once the sketch model was tested, I expanded it further to demonstrate the qualities of the inbetween spaces and public realm created by the housing.

Echoing Green

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Harmonious Society

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Harmonious Society Dujiangyan, China

In its socio-economic vision known as the “Harmonious Society”, China is beginning to acknowledge the increasing social conflicts and inequality emerging as a result of unchecked economic growth, and its dramatic pace of urbanisation. In response, the government expanded its development indicators beyond the economic to include environmental and social factors.

I hold an optimistic view of China’s developent, but one thing that dismays me is the lack of any encouragment of democracy - even on a local level.

I wanted to explore an alternative approach to China’s urbanisation - one in which individual citizens are included in the shaping of their neighbourhoods.

Although at times contrary to the ambitions of the CCP, I wish to find a model of urbanisation that can meet its demands while ensuring a robust, resilient and democratic social society.

What are the design conditions necessary to foster social capital and democracy?

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Harmonious Society

Idea exploration & discovery

how do we define

The first part of my project was to explore the different ways in which social capital and the democratic process manifest through an urbanism lens. Ultimately, my project seeks to find how urbanism can aplify these qualities that support robust democracy.

DEMOCRACY

UNIVERSAL ACCESSIBILITY

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION THE RIGHT TO PROTEST

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LOCAL DEMOCRACY + REPRESENT -ATION VIBRANT PUBLIC SPACES RULE OF LAW

SOCIAL + CIVIC CAPITAL

SOFT

COMMUNITY ANCHORS

HOUSING

FREE ELECTIONS

AFFORDABILITY

how can urbanisation fuel democracy?

1 2 3 Vision

Cities themselves facilitate coordinated public action

more people, closer together, with easier access to information

Citizens may increase their demand for democracy

as citizens increase their prosperity, they accrue more capital, knowledge & power

Cities develop civic capital enabling citizens to improve their situation themselves

cut out the government, solve your own problems with your friends

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COMPONENTS of CIVIC CAPITAL

engaged residents inclusive community leadership collaborative institutions embracing diversity & equity authentic communication culture of engagement shared vision & values

A new model of urban governance that promotes civic capital, places of encounter, and empowers locals to improve the conditions of their neighbourhoods.

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Harmonious Society

Sparsely settled ethnic minority areas are seeing increasing Han migration and settlement.

In this area alone, more than 100 linpan villages were demolished for urban expansion Design Site

Pre-2008 urban extent

Intensified movement & infrastructure between Chengdu & Dujiangyan

Expansion since 2008

To Chengdu

Regional Context

Dujiangyan’s peri-urban changes since 2008 Following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, the rate of urbanisation in the region dramatically accelerated.

Observing the trends of urbanisation can help us better understand the social conflicts that arise from urbanisation.

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Harmonious Society

Lot consolidation New villages constructed in non-local styles Urban Sprawl

Road widenings

Large scale nursery plantations

Linpan demolition

Large infrastructure projects Original local village style called “linpans�

Trends

Changes to the rural landscape of Sichuan This diagram shows a snapshot of the urban-rural interface and the changes occuring in the region. The dramatic urbanisation of Dujiangyan, Chengdu and surrounds has seen the traditional rural landscape heavily altered. These changes can give an insight into some of the social conflicts that may be arising.

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Harmonious Society

Principles Locally inspired typologies

Reuse Buildings

Local construction, design, & artists

Bike Friendly

Slow streets

Diverse & Affordable Housing

Redefining Chinese squares

INCLUSIVE FUNCTIONS & SERVICES

DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC SPACES

Road Diets

UNIVERSAL MOBILITY

HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT Urban water treatment

Diverse public spaces

Places of encounter

Local food production Diverse & Affordable Housing

Master Plan

Detailed design 1 Artisan precinct

Detailed design 2 Informal settlement upgrade precinct

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Access to biodiversity

Harmonious Society

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Artisan precinct The original long-form warehouse buildings are repurposed to encourage sustainable manufacturing, industries, crafts and art. Fine grain street frontages create an attractive pedestrianised public realm which celebrates individual studio spaces, while the back laneways align with courtyards for collaborative work.

Function

Collaborative courtyards Workshop spaces are organised to create increasing scales of idea-sharing and collaboration, while retaining the high amenity fine-grain street frontages characteristic of older Chinese urban settings.

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Harmonious Society

Model Site

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Informal settlement upgrade This precinct aims to maximise the retention of buildings whilst creating a collection of courtyard blocks in pedestrian friendly street network, linking intimate public spaces.

Building retention Retaining buildings allows people to reside in their own communities, and can minimise the community dislocation that commonly occurs when residents are forced to relocate for large scale urban projects.

Phasing

Phase 0 - Identify

Phase 1 - Legible

Phase 2 - Upgrade

Phase 3 - Integrate

Demolish dangerous buildings which are structurally unsound, or irreparably damaged by the earthquake.

Create a legible urban structure - establishing sightlines, courtyards and easier movement.

Minimise demolition.

An opportunity to reconfigure building footprints, encourage consoloidation and create mini plazas.

Use new buildings to reinforce the new urban structure whilst integrating the existing built form.

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Harmonious Society

Model

1:200 model This model aims to highlight how the qualities public space are amplified by the presence of ecological systems, and the voids of the built form. The old canals become a centrepiece of the plaza space.

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Suburban Eco-Retrofit

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Suburban Eco-Retrofit Epping North, Australia

Much of Australian cities are dominated by a low density housing with underperforming ecosystem services.

How can we improve the ecology of our already-built suburbs?

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This project was an attempt to see what measures could be used in an everyday Australian context to improve biodiversity.

Suburban Eco-Retrofit

Context

The subject site is located 20km north of the Melbourne CBD in a suburb called Epping North.

This area has a suburban context typical of much of Metropolitan Melbourne, dominated by low density housing and high network of roads.

Today, most of the land is used residentially, but approximately 5ha of the site’s public land is reserved for parklands along the Darebin Creek. Of the public space within the residential area, most is impervious area for vehicles, and the remainder are nature strips.

Prior to agricultural and urban development, this area was part of the grassy plains woodland ecosystem of the Victorian volcanic plain, dominated by grasslands and river red gum patches. Evidence of this can be seen through the very few remaining red gums scattered throughout the suburban matrix – however all on private property, and the basalt outcrops – rocky knolls, that exist in the parklands.

The topography of the entire site slopes gently eastward down to the creek, indicating the need for storm water management.

The interventions could only take place on public land, although I have included River Red Gums on private land for their important role as a keystone species in the landscape.

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Typical Australian Suburbia Predominantly low-rise detached housing in a dense network of vehicular streets.

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Suburban Eco-Retrofit

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Typical Australian Suburbia Predominantly low-rise detached housing in a dense network of vehicular streets. The public realm is disproportionately dedicated to vehicular movement, underutilised and lacking ecosystem services.

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Suburban Eco-Retrofit

Principles

Improve the water quality of the Darebin Creek using water sensitive urban design.

Restore the original plains grassy woodland ecological vegetation class where possible.

Reconnect the river red gum patches scattered throughout the suburb.

Minimise the edge effects of the suburban roads

Strategies

Reconstructing Native Grasslands Native grasslands are an endagered ecosystem in Victoria. By seeding the parkland with native grasses and sporadically burning these patches, the ecosystem can be restored.

Networking Water Sensitive Urban Design Stormewater is filtered as it flows to the creek through swales and retention basins. Sediment ponds, and artificial frog ponds link with shallow marshes and wetlands to slow water speed and improve ecology.

Restoring Woodland Diversity Intensifying the missing understorey by planting grasses, shrubs and wattles to promote biodiversity and provide extra ecological niches for different fauna and minimise the domination of single species.

Linking River Red Gums These keystone species are scattered throughout the suburban matrix. Focusing on establishing green links between these trees allows for easier faunal movements.

Reclaiming Road Space Through road closures, thinning, traffic calming and curvilinear design, we can reduce noise, pollution and impervious surfaces for additional space to treat stormwater and build habitat.

Establishing Grassland Boardwalk Raised boardwalks and signage can be used as an effective way of inviting & educating visitors of the environmental significance of the area. It also minimises damage to vegetation whilst activating the space.

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Cycle Space

Cycle Space 5 North Melbourne, Australia My agenda was to focus on making the space childfriendly. This was to counter rhetoric that the city was not safe for children to be independent.

I wanted children to not only ride their bicycles safely in the area, but to give them the confidence to venture out and explore their communities independently.

Imagine an urbanism that actively encourages independence, exploration and a sense-of-wonder

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Cycle Space

Background

Melbourne’s inner city is a place of dramatic demographic change. In the suburb of North Melbourne, located just 3km from the Central Business District, the fastest growing demographics are between the ages of 25-34, and 0-4.

One reason why families choose to leave the inner-city is a false perception that the city is unsafe to children. I believe that kids should be free to be independent, self discover and connect with nature, and one way to achieve this is through high quality, cycling infrastructure.

With more young families move into the area, my project aimed to encourage these families to remain in the area - rather than moving to the outer suburbs which commonly happens once families reach a certain age.

This project integrates water management and cycling to help encourage youth independence and mobility in an urban environment.

Context

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University and Medical Precinct

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North Melb Village

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Transport map & Lynch analysis Although seemingly well-connected by public transport, there exists a large gap in the cycling network; particularly in north-south movements. Our site has the potential to provide this missing link.

Tram Line Bus Route Cycling Lane Edge / Barrier

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Cycle Space

To create a child-friendly urban experience, which promotes fun, education and independence.

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Cycle Space

Vision

A child-friendly urban experience, which promotes fun, education and independence.

Principles Cycling Network Filling in the gaps in the cycling network and providing a clear and accessible north-south link through the site to the Central Business District.

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“The Self-Sustaining City”

Water resilience Water is embraced and celebrated. By collecting and directing rainwater flows throughout the gardenbeds, it becomes filtered for storage and reuse in dryer seasons.

Primary stormwater pipe (Carries unfiltered stormwater)

Secondary stormwater pipe (Carries filtered stormwater once it has passed through swales)

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Cycle Space

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Stormwater pipe

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Seating elements & stormwater piping

Stormwater pipe

Elegantly tucked into the seating elements are the stormwater management systems. The idea is that the systems which sustain the project’s resilience are still visible yet unobtrusive, and that children can witness the flows of water through the site.

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Stepped plaza & bridges

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The elevated areas of the site take advantage of the strong viewlines to the city centre, with sloped lawns facing the north to maximise solar exposure.

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Let’s Make A Park

community volunteer work

Let’s Make A Park 6 Strathmore, Australia

In late 2017, I started a community organisation with a friend with the aim of empowering young locals to get involved in shaping their neighbourhoods. This group became Let’s Make A Park and our first placemaking success took place in my home neighbourhood.

The project began as part of a placemaking bootcamp run

by CoDesign Studios, with our funding provided by the Myer Foundation.

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Let’s Make A Park

Mission & Vision

Let’s Make A Park is about creating decent quality public spaces which enable young people to thrive.

LMAP wants to create new green spaces with a strong focus on empowering young people and building community connections. Too often, young people have very few places where they can spend time in public without also having to spend money.

Most of the time the only spaces left for young people are unremarkable, unpleasant or undesirable.

Isabelle

Suhani

Daniella

A city that’s green where everyone connects with nature everyday.

A city where everyone can shape the design of cities.

A city which empowers young people to have real impact on their neighbourhood

Jess

Adam

Michael

Shobhit

... and many more volunteers!

Core project group Our team consists entirely of young people - aged 13 to 25. We also garnered additional volunteers, worked together with our local municipality and leaveraged community groups to realise the project.

Project Site

Our first site In the Melbourne suburb of Strathmore, a lone traffic island stands beside the local shops and train station. Hundreds of schoolkids and commuters walk past the site every day, and we wanted to build

upon this precious asset and turn it into a destination where people willingly spend time. When people pass through, we want them to be engaged and interested in nature, local history and the community.

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Let’s Make A Park

Engagement

Community outreach We conducted our own community engagement sessions. Although predominantly targeting local school students, everyone in the community was invited to participate.

Co-Designing

Place audits In our advocacy and activism, we had to show evidence to the municipality that the area needed improvements. We used a pedestrian count and desire line study to argue for a pedestrian crossing.

Design workshops Over a series of weekly meetings, young people developed a Master Plan for the site. This would continue to evolve as discussions with Council officers provided further input (and restrictions!)

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Let’s Make A Park

Site Plan

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Construction & Placemaking

Small Planter 0.8m x 0.8m

Little Free LIbrary

Pallet (Planted) 1.2m x 0.3m

Lawn area

Metal Planter 1.2m (with tree)

Garden Beds Shrubs and grasses

Gravel Paths with kerb ramps Potential Art Location

Power Pole

Basalt Boulders

Strathmore Station

Building workshops Young people designed and built the furniture in our park themselves.

Partnerships with other community groups provided guidance and support, giving young people hands-on skills to make a change in their community.

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Let’s Make A Park

Planting

Planting We selected indigenous native plants to fill our garden beds to help support the local ecology.

Many children participated in the planting, in order to build a sense of pride and connection with the site.

Mural

GROW mural A group of highschoolers were empowered to take the lead in designing and painting a mural, inspired by native flora. I coordinated the event and supplied the paint and food!

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Let’s Make A Park

Event planning

Launch event & street party Our street party showcased young local musical talent, artists, and businesses. It was an opportunity to meet with many skeptical people in our community, as well as demonstrate the viability of street closures.

built by young people, for all

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A Place of Debate

A Place Of Debate 7 Carlton, Australia

My task was to create a space of political and philosophical debate, and transform an existing town square in Melbourne.

I focused on creating a space that promotes environmental and social discourse, with the goal of inspiring and raising awareness of society’s relationship with nature.

Question the separation between human society and the environment

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I recreated landscapes of an immersive nature and symbols of politics and philosophy - questioning their place in a dichotomy between nature and humanity. Both environments are dramatically manipulated, and the central premise of the space is to question the dichotomies and supposed separation of humanity and the environment.

A Place of Debate

Background

Concept

Our brief was broad, specifying only that our project had to create a place of debate, and be a reconfiguration of an existing square in Melbourne. Beyond this we were free to interpret the brief however we wanted.

Anagoge

Debate

Pedagogy

Modes of debate & philosophy Exploring political and philosophical thought behind anagogic and pedagogic learning, as well as the public versus private experience in spaces.

The existing square I chose to upgrade was Argyle Square, in the inner city suburb of Carlton. My interests lie heavily in democracy and ecology, and this became a central idea in my project.

The Conch as a symbol and form

The conch is the central metaphor for democracy in William Golding’s 1954 novel - Lord of the Flies.

Reinterpreting classical symbols of power...

...in various states of decay

Master Plan

The ‘Atmostheatre’

The ‘Conch’ Ampitheatre

A two-sided square The existing square’s original form was one of contrasts. One side featured an urban plaza, and the other a more natural park environment. I retained this contrast as a central theme of my project - symbolising our perceived separations between human society and the environment.

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A Place of Debate

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The Conch Ampitheatre An urban hardstand space similar to a traditional ampitheatre. The conch spiral effect has the symbolic meaning that all people in this space are equal - literally sitting on the same level. Scattered are monuments associated with western civic society in various states of decay.

The conch ampitheatre also forms another analogy - a quarry. This depicts human extraction of materials. The hard surfaces in this half of the square is intended to juxtapose sharply with the soft, lush and immersive ‘atmostheatre’.

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A Place of Debate

The Atmostheatre

Anagoge Enclaves

Forest Forum

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Atmostheatre Featuring smaller enclaves to create intimate spaces intended for anagogic discussion and personal reflection, allowing users to sink into a densely vegetated space that inspires awe at the natural world.

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Hampton Park Central

professional work

Credit: Geoff Falk Illustration

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Hampton Park Central City of Casey, Australia

During my time as a strategic urban planner at the City of Casey, I coordinated the strategic plans intended to guide the revitalisation of Hampton Park Central - a town centre in suburban Melbourne.

Revitalising a town centre, by prioritising community needs first.

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I project managed both the Community Precinct Master Plan and Town Centre Development Plan. This was a team effort where I coordinated internal stakeholders - transport planners, urban designers, landscape designers and social planners; external consultants - WilliamRossArchitects, K2 Planning, Tract Architects, Institute for Sensible Transport; and engaged community stakeholders and major landowners.

Hampton Park Central

Context

Hampton Park Central is an important local retail and community destination which suffers from a lack of coordinated development between major landowners. This has resulted in a poor road network with no clear streets, a poor built form with many

blank walls, as well as vacant, underutilised and poor-quality outdoor spaces.

The presentation of the centre contributes to low perceptions of safety, affecting civic pride.

Somerville Road

River Gum Creek Reserve

Hallam R oad

S tuart Avenue

Woolworths

Hampton Park Central Community Precinct Kinder

garten

Arthur Wren Hall

Community House

Youth Info Centre Library

Enterprise Av en Orient P lace

Commerce Drive

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Fordholm Road Fordholm Reserve

Hampton Park Town Centre Council owns approximately 1.4ha of land within the Town Centre which hosts its community facilities.

These include a Library, Large Hall, Youth Centre, Community House and a Kindergarten.

Library and Youth Centre

Kindergarten +200m2

Meeting spaces Existing childcare space

80m2

Library 800m2

115m2

+115m

+115m2 180m

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Extra kinder room

Occasional care room

Large hall

Small meeting rooms

Community facility needs assessment

25m2

25m2

50m2

80m2

+50m2

500m2

80m2

+100m2

+70m

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Outdoor play spaces

Amenities

Community Admin CSO shared office space

+330m

2

+660m2

Business hub +80m2

Facility area requirements A social planning analysis identified major shortfalls in community infrastructure for the Hampton Park community. In collaborating with architects and social planners, we explore approaches to use spaces

+90m2 Community Kitchen

Restrooms

+440m2 Storage

more innovatively and efficiently. This led to a design that creates a shared office space for community service organisations that encourages collaboration between different service providers.

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Hampton Park Central

Vision

The Hampton Park Central Community Precinct is a vibrant, safe and inclusive place which supports and empowers a thriving community.

The precinct is sustainable, resilient and reflects the identity of Hampton Park, celebrating the community’s unique culture, history and wisdom.

Principles

Welcoming, safe and inclusive public spaces

Meeting our community needs

Connecting with nature

Revitalising the precinct

Master Plan Future Private Development

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Future Private Development

St Storm-water Garden

Anzac Memorial

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Potential future expansion area

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Multi-Level Community Hub

n Tree Protectio

Mixed Use

Car Park

Arthur Wren Hall Foyer

Children’s Play Space

» Council Kindergarten » Neighbourhood house Kindergarten (occasional care and after school care) » Maternal and child health center » Common areas

Early Year Services

Future Private Development

Play Zone

Comm erce D r

Waterplay

Plaza Play Space

Children’s Play Space

Art Mural and Green Wall

Stu ar t Ave

Youth Services

The Community Hub includes: » Meeting Rooms

Library Potential Library Expansion

» Hampton Park Community House » Activity Rooms

Existing Shops

Legend

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Plaza & Footpaths Lawn & Gardens Water Sensitive Urban Design Arrival Forecourt Internal walkway Main entrance metres 0

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Proposed Community Facility & Town Space Upgrades An integrated facility was developed to make use of existing facility spaces, as well as a new town square which celebrates the iconic River Red Gum tree. The site also allows the delivery of a Main Street to create a more legible and attractive movement through the town centre.

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Hampton Park Central

Development Plan

Environment

Built form

Create and maintain new biodiversity links and habitat connections between natural assets which integrate with built form and the public realm.

Deliver a variety of high quality private and public realm which are human-scaled, safe, comfortable, accessible, inclusive and legible.

Street Network

2m 1.5m 2.5m footpath landscape WSUD +dining +parking

3.5m drive lane

2.5m WSUD +tree

3.5m drive lane

2.5m Urban Creek

3m footpath

Community Precinct Town Square

Main Street 21m

Proposed new streets

In order to improve the legibility of the centre, a new “main street” was proposed to form the central focus of any of the private landowners’ redevelopment. The ambition was to daylight a major stormwater drain to become a new ‘urban creek’ which ran alongside this main street.

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