Bondi Village SOCIAL AGENCY- Resilient neighbourhood
ASSESSMENT 3 Ameya S. Thakur z5109338
Acknowledgement
Im grateful to the god to give me the opportunity to complete my M.Arch thesis successfully. Firstly, I would like to thank my tutors Mr. David Sanderson and Mr. Mark Szczerbicki for guiding and encouraging me throughout the course. I really enjoyed the discussions and valuable feedbacks from the tutors as they had a friendly approach. I also thank all the course conveyor and faculty members for their support and help. I’m thankful to my mother Mrs. Asawari S. Thakur for her constant wishes and prayers and my father Mr. Sharad P. Thakur for persistent support throughout the work. I’m really thankful to my wife Aditi Shrimal for helping me out with design and motivating me everytime. I would also like to extend my gratitude to the esteem institute University of New South Wales and my friends and well-wishers who had been helpful in motivating me.
Contents
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HYPOTHESIS ............................................................................................................06 THE WAYSIDE CHAPEL ...........................................................................................08 RESILIENCE ............................................................................................................12 SITE ANALYSIS ........................................................................................................20 THEMATICS .............................................................................................................32 ESSENTIALS .............................................................................................................44 PRECEDENT RESEARCH .........................................................................................60 KEY MOVES..............................................................................................................74 DESIGN DEVELOPMENT..........................................................................................84 VISUALIZATIONS .....................................................................................................98 CONSTRUCTION DETAILS ......................................................................................108 SITE DEVELOPMENT ..............................................................................................114 MODEL ...................................................................................................................118 REFERENCES............................................................................................................136
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Hypothesis
Wayside chapel is a noble organization which aims at reducing the difference between normal and vulnerable people. With a view to accomplish that goal, the organization runs several programs to help improve the life of people approaching Wayside. One such program is ‘Rooftop Gardening’ which has had a major effect on people’s lives and also resulted in an improvement of many. The idea is to elaborate and enhance this program through biophilic approach to improve the life in Bondi and foster resilience in the neighbourhood. Bondi Village consists of a community centre and vertical farms wherein different techniques of indoor and organic farming are carried out. This program will help foster the betterment of the society encouraging people to learn about the techniques to grow food and use these skills elsewhere and become self-efficient. The design follows an ‘Open Door’ concept with an inviting architecture to encourage interaction between different communities in the neighbourhood and to know Wayside better.
Research question How will a biophilic prototype foster resilience in the neighbourhood and improve the life in Bondi? #OpenDOOR
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The Wayside Chapel
About
The Wayside Chapel’s mission is creating community with no ‘us and them’. They do this by breaking down the barriers of judgement and providing a safe place where people from all walks of life are welcome. At Wayside, they live on the intersection between love and hate, the intersection between faith and no faith, between the haves and the have nots, the housed and the homeless, the sick and the well. They want to live on this intersection between love and hate, in a way that helps love prevail. It is a vision that is always before the organization, always out there, always calling us to be more. The door to the Wayside Chapel is open 7 days a week for all the neighbours regardless of their circumstances. Through opportunities to connect, they see moments of transformation can and do happen, and they move people towards health and healing. At Wayside, they see everyone as a person to be met, not a problem to be solved. The vision is ‘love over hate’.
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Values
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Love
Care
Support
Understand
Trust + Respect
Services
Activities
Community lunch
Rooftop Gardening
Community service centres
The atmosphere is friendly, as corporates, staff, volunteers and visitors sit side by side, and enjoy delicious food, festivities and prizes.
Helps to foster community, teach living skills, practice sustainability, engage with neighbours and beautify the space.
Assist with applications, referrals linking visitors to agencies for housing, health, legal and financial support. They also facilitate inreach clinics and service hubs.
Wayside youth
Aborginal program
Twilight bingo
Provides care coordination and an activity program for people aged 14-24.
Community are reconnected through culturally sensitive engagement and appropriate activities and programs. The community is supported through care coordination and advocacy leading to more positive journeys
Entertainment and fun for the people part of the wayside chapel. People enjoy the games playing together.
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Resilience
• Building Resilence • Resilience through biophilic approach • Human needs • Esteem needs
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Building resilience
Basic needs Resources
Food Water Warmth Dignity Acceptance
meet
People Discrimination Helps or Hinders access
Controls
Access
Build Capacity
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Assets
Disasters
Social
Fire
Human
Flood
Political
Earthquake
Financial
Stresses
Physical
Stresses
Natural
Desease
Others
Hate
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Build resilience
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Building resilience
living authentically
interacting co-operatively
Resilience at work
Managing stress
Finding your worth
maintaining perspective
Building network
Resilient workplaces experience more cohesion, less stress and tension as well as greater productivity. Resilience is usually defined as “the positive capacity to cope with stress or adversity”. Resilience in the workplace refers to an employee’s ability to cope with the various challenges of the modern workplace: learning new technology, organisational change, downsizing, mergers, increased workload, budget pressures or deadlines. With rapidly increasing organisational change, pressure and pace, workplace stress is becoming an inevitable part of working life and an area which all employees must become proficient in dealing with. Building resilience through proven and practical prevention and intervention skills is now recognised as a core competency in order to flourish in today’s complex work environment.
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Resilience through biophilic design
touch
sound
taste
smell
sight
Biophilic design is constructed on the premise that any good design-whether it be for cities, buildings, sites, regions, or homes-includes nature and natural elements. This simple concept is seen to increase resilience and other mental or physical health benefits in those who interact in that environment. To be clear, though, it’s not just about the design. Biophilic design also believes that residents need to be actively involved in experiencing nature and engaged in the restoring and maintenance of the nature that surrounds them. Humans have grown to adapt and co-evolve with nature and so we have an innate need to connect with nature and our environment. This affiliation with nature makes us much happier and healthier. Research backs this statement in many different areas. Research on building design shows us that there are strong positive relationships between natural daylight, fresh air and greenery with an increase in employee happiness and productivity. In a community aspect, neighborhoods with green qualities are associated with less stress and increased levels of mental and physical health. There are also lower rates of mortality in populations where green space is provided. In terms of mental health, nature is shown to invoke positive mood, increased cognitive performance, and enhance creativity. All these findings have caused a wave of interest in urban designers and architects when it comes to incorporating nature into their designs.
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Human needs
Self-actualization Esteem needs
Love and Belonging
Safety needs
Needs intensity
Physiological needs
Personal Development Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of
human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid. Maslow (1943, 1954) stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs and that some needs take precedence over others. Our most basic need is for physical survival, and this will be the first thing that motivates our behavior. Once that level is fulfilled the next level up is what motivates us, and so on.
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Esteem needs
The hierarchy consists various categories that human needs require to achieve. One of them is the esteem needs which will be elaborated in the research. Esteem needs are ego needs or status needs develop a concern with getting recognition, status, importance, and respect from others. All humans have a need to feel respected; this includes the need to have self-esteem and self-respect. Esteem presents the typical human desire to be accepted and valued by others. People often engage in a profession or hobby to gain recognition. These activities give the person a sense of contribution or value. Most people have a need for stable self-respect and self-esteem. Maslow noted two versions of esteem needs: a “lower” version and a “higher” version. The “lower” version of esteem is the need for respect from others. This may include a need for status, recognition, fame, prestige, and attention. The “higher” version manifests itself as the need for self-respect.
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Site Analysis
Bondi beach
Bondi Beach is a popular beach in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Bondi Beach is one of the most visited tourist sites in Australia and was added to the Australian National Heritage List in 2008. Bondi Beach is about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) long and receives many visitors throughout the year. Visitors never have to spend time wondering what to do at Bondi Beach. Whether dining at trendsetting restaurants and cafes; walking along the stunning clifftops between glistening white-sand beaches or shopping at the numerous fashion boutiques on Bondi streets, it has alot to offer to the public. Bondi also houses many recreational activities which gives alot of opportunites for tourists to come and enjoy.
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Location
Sydney
Sydney CBD
Bondi beach
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Wayside chapel
Bondi Beach is a popular beach located in Sydney, Australia suburb. The beach lies about four miles (seven kilometres) east of Sydney’s CBD, in the city’s Eastern suburbs. Neighboring areas include Bondi Junction, North Bondi and Bondi.
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Land zoning
The site is located on a Mixed-use zone. This encourages public spaces on the first two floors only and accommodation above this. This can tie in well with the program of Wayside Chapel, with cafĂŠ and public spaces, meeting places and community facilities.
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Building heights
The permitted height is upto 16m. According to Site analysis the buildings situated on Campbell Parade are upto 25m. This gives an opportunity to develop a design on multiple levels.
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Around the site
Extended pedestrian paths with bench and trees
Restaurant/ store/ streetside parking
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Street Furniture
Shopping hub
Urban Corridor with sculpture
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Key facilities
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1. Post Office 2. Pharmacy 3. Uniting Iluka Early Learning Bondi Beach 4. Wayside Community Centre 5. Police Station 6. Optometrist 7. Bondi Pavilion 8. Bondi SLSC 9. Bondi Markets
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Child Adult Elderly
Art & culture
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1. Coo-gee Aboriginal Art Gallery 2. Wayside Chapel 3. Nefesh Shul (Synagogue)
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4. Art Moment Gallery 5. Aquabumps Gallery 6. Gould St. Art Gallery 7. Bondi Pavilion 8. Bondi Markets
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Sports and Recreational
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1. Bondi Beach 2. Bondi Park 3. Bondi skate park 4. Fitness Centre 5. Yoga Studio 6. North bondi Outdoor Gym 7. Bondi beach playground 8. Bondi Public School playground
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The diagram shows the pedestrain movement near the Wayside Chapel. This shows how the Urban corridor near the Wayside Chapel is busy and can be used to develop a public space to carter to people there. 31
Thematics
• Home gardening in Australia • Economy • Population density • Accomodation • Council needs
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Home gardening in Australia
More than half of Australian households (52 per cent) are growing some food, either at home or a community garden. While food gardens require a financial investment to establish and maintain food production via the purchase of soils, seeds and other inputs, nearly all home and community gardeners (91 per cent) slightly agree or strongly agree that growing their own food saves them money, making domestic food production a substantial policy opportunity for those concerned with the cost of living. To explore policy options to encourage greater levels of home and community food gardening and consequently food security, it is important to understand those who currently grow their own food and
Motivations
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Health Promotion
Social Inclusion Benefits
Environmental Concern
Natural Connection
Knowledge
Creative Expression
Reasons to grow your own food To produce healthier food
To save money
To produce food that is tastier
71 %
62 %
I enjoy it
Gardening is good for the mind and the soul
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Benefits of food gardening
Age Saving money
Healthier food
Exercise
Enjoyment
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Home gardening in Australia
Benefits of home and community food gardening
Economic benefits 54 per cent of Australian food-gardening households strongly agree that growing their own food saves them money, while 37 per cent agreed slightly. Unsurprisingly, households who spend more time in their gardens (more than ten hours a month) are more likely to strongly agree it saves them money compared to those who spend less time on their garden. The results also suggest reaping a financial saving from growing your own food tends to increase the commitment to the practice, with gardeners who strongly agree that their food garden saves them money also more likely to indicate they intend to increase the physical space dedicated to growing food and time spent food gardening in the next year.
Health benefits Food gardens offer far more than potential economic value. There is substantial evidence pointing to the physical and mental health benefits associated with gardening of all kinds. Residential or community food production increased their intake of fresh produce in terms of volume, frequency and variety. Growing food at home also increases practical experience and exposure to fresh food in terms of cooking, preserving and understanding seasonality, which all have the potential to impact dietary habits positively.
Social benefits Home and community food gardening offer the opportunity to enhance social inclusion and civic participation, and transcend the individual impacts of physical and mental health improvements. Many of these benefits have been well documented in relation to community gardening – although there is growing evidence of home food gardening also opening the door to increased social participation.
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Barriers to home and community food gardening in Australia
Not enough / unsuitable space
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I wouldn’t know what to do
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Not enough time
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Buying food is easier
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Not interested
13 %
Barriers to participation in local food production are due to perceived lack of space, time and knowledge were the key reasons raised by people with a windowsill or a balcony assume that in order to grow food you need a lot of space.
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Economy BUSINESS ACTIVITIES AT BONDI BEACH The retail and commercial floorspace at Bondi Beach, Waverley LGA, is focused along Campbell Parade, where there is a concentration of tourist related uses.
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In terms of employment, accommodation and food services is the largest industry of employment and experienced significant growth between 2006 and 2011. The analysis demands for more retail,recreational and public spaces.
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Population density
Population density is a measure of how many people reside in a given area. It is calculated by dividing the population of a geographic region by its land area, usually measured in hectares or square kilometres.
In 2016, the population density in Waverley Council area was 72.26 per hectare. This figure was higher compared to Greater Sydney, which had a population density of 3.90 persons per hectare (the Greater Sydney however, does include very large areas of non-residential land). It is important to note that this varied across the Council area. Population density ranged from a low of 36.39 persons per hectare in Queens Park to a high of 116.21 persons per hectare in Bondi. According to the graph the population density at Bondi beach is considerably high (99.00 persons per hectare), which demands for more social housing.
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Accommodation
Accommodation is classified as dispersed local. Due to the large proportion of accommodation uses, there are a high proportion of non-retail uses within this centre. Which gives an idea about why there is a need for providing spaces for accomodation or social housing for tourist.
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Council needs
Waverly council Recreational needs • Affordable access to all types of recreation across Waverley area.
• Managing considerable visitation to the area and include flexible design so that it is possible to adapt to changing need.
• Forming partnerships with community groups, schools, clubs, government agencies and the private sector to facilitate the provision of recreational facilities.
Council’s 2005 strategic plan, Waverley The Community Vision states that Waverley is a place that: • Offers lifestyle choices for everyone through a variety of recreational, social, arts and cultural opportunities • Protects and enhances the natural environment for present and future generations. Shares open and green spaces.
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Waverly Communal Garden
Trees and gardens are valuable natural assets to the urban environment and provide many benefits to Waverley’s residents and the wider community. Public gardening is a fantastic way to get to know and work with your neighbours, grow your own organic produce and be in touch with the earth. The council has provided opportunities for the locals to get involved in community gardening in many areas. Located in Clementson Park, Bondi Junction, the Waverley Community Garden offers individual and group plots to local residents to grow their own organic produce. The garden hosts a number of environmental workshops such as organic gardening, composting and worm farming and bush tucker. A local Sustainability Street group have been working with Council on a trial edible garden in Waverley Park. In May 2011, the group installed four raised garden beds.
The council has also started a program called the shared gardening program to make your local small park or little patch of plants. A local Sustainability Street group have been working with Council on a trial edible garden in Waverley Park. In May 2011, the group installed four raised garden beds.
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Essentials
Brief development
• Horticulture therapy • Organizations • Farming Methods • Biophilic elements • Biophilic approach
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Horticultural Therapy
Healing garden
Enabling garden
Barrier Free garden
Accessible Garden
Therapeutic Horticulture
Horticultural therapy is a process in which plants and gardening activities are used to improve the body, mind and spirit of those people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. Horticultural therapy is currently being used in hospital, rehabilitation centres, disability services, aged care facilities and a range of community settings, including people’s homes and community gardens. The term Horticultural Therapy covers a wide variety of techniques and processes which use gardens and garden based activities to promote the physical, mental and social health of participants.
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Benefits Physical
• Exercise • Sensory Stimulation • Stress release
Psycological
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Accomplishment Confidence Diversion Biophilic hypothesis
Social
• Community • Sharing • Generations
Intellectual
• Observations • Experimenting • Creativity
The therapeutic benefits of being in a garden space is not limited to any particular group. Horticultural Therapy may be used to promote positive outcomes in individuals of any age, background or circumstance.
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Grow it Local
Resilience
Happiness
Network of growers
Social Community
Healthy
Sustainable
Grow it Local is a celebration of backyard, balcony, community and window-sill farmers. The concept was first brought to life in Bondi Beach during March, 2012 as an idea unite local growers & promote urban farming in a fun, social and super tasty way.
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OzHarvest
Happiness
Network of growers
Social Community
Healthy
OzHarvest is Australia’s leading food rescue organisation, collecting quality excess food from commercial outlets and delivering it directly to more than 1000 charities supporting people in need across the country. The concept of paddock to plate experiences extra food miles for the food precincts, making them not self suffi cient. The ideology of ‘Food Feet’ and not ‘Food Miles’ needs to be incorporated.
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Farming methods
AEROPONICS The principle of aeroponics is to grow plants suspended in a closed or semiclosed environment by spraying the plant’s dangling roots and lower stem with an atomized or sprayed, nutrient-rich water solution. The leaves and crown, extend above. The roots of the plant are separated by the plant support structure. Often, closed-cell foam is compressed around the lower stem and inserted into an opening in the aeroponic chamber, which decreases labor and expense; for larger plants, trellising is used to suspend the weight of vegetation and fruit.
COCOPONICS Dry coconut strands are very rich in nutrients. Cocoponics is a simple methodology of growing plants in coir. The plant seeds are embedded into the a pot of full of coir and is water everyday for its growth, Coco-ponics has gained popularity in recent years due to it’s high yields as well as being sourced from a renewable resourcecoconuts. The used coco fibre is easily disposed of after use by digging into your garden beds, it makes an excellent soil conditioner.
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HYDROPONICS Hydroponics is a subset of hydro culture, the method of growing plants without soil, using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent. Terrestrial plants may be grown with only their roots exposed to the mineral solution, or the roots may be supported by an inert medium, such as perlite or gravel. The nutrients in hydroponics can be from fish waste, duck manure, or normal nutrients.
AQUAPONICS Aquaponics refers to any system that combines conventional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as snails, fish, crayfish or prawns in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. In an aquaponic system, water from an aquaculture system is fed to a hydroponic system where the by-products are broken down by nitrifying bacteria initially into nitrites and subsequently into nitrates, which are utilized by the plants as nutrients, and the water is then recirculated back to the aquaculture system.
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Biophilic elements
IKEA DIY SPHERICAL GARDEN The spherical “Growroom” is a DIY garden structure intended to help people grow their own food much more locally in a beautiful and sustainable way. It is designed to support our everyday sense of well being in the cities by creating a small oasis or ‘pause’-architecture in our high-paced societal scenery, and enables people to connect with nature as we smell and taste the abundance of herbs and plants
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Farming elements
TRELLIS The A-frame “trellis” design was the first commercially successful hydroponic system to exhibit a vertical orientation. Varieties of this design consist of pipes configured either vertically or horizontally to form a triangular extrusion of its footprint, thus increasing the available growing surface without meaningfully reducing sunlight access. The primary advantage of the A-frame design is its simplicity, as it achieves a high degree of space effi ciency while utilizing technology that has been standard in the hydroponic industry for decades.
STACKED BEDS The design is merely a stacking of the standard in-line pipe beds that continue to be the system of choice for commercial hydroponic farms. Much like the ramifi cation of stratifying floors in a vertical farm, the design’s stacked configuration doesn’t allow sunlight to penetrate each layer, making artificial lighting a necessity. The best commercial example of the stacked bed approach is the design used by TerraSphere Systems, which has implemented systems with five tiers of growing surface within a 3 metre floor to ceiling height. 53
Biophilic approach
This design approach can be applied in various fields of development. It can be used in facilities such as office spaces hospitals, schools, universities, and other organizations. The use of biophilic designs for Wayside Chapel can have a great impact on not just the occupants, but also the entire area in the vicinity. Considering the lifestyle in today’s busy life, it is important to develop concepts that can reap greater benefits to the people of Wayside and the society. Increased stress levels, sleep deprivation, unhealthy workspaces can have a direct impact on the productivity from everyone. About 90% of a company’s operating costs account for salaries and benefits provided to the staff and thus small changes that ca n help lower these staff costs can in turn convert into major savings and profits for the organization. Absenteeism and presentism could be greatly reduced through inclusion of biophilic designs in bondi village. Biophilic is a fairly new concept and therefore many communities are not aware of it. In order to bring it into practice, an awareness must be raised highlighting its benefits to the workplace. Though it involves a great deal of initial investment, its long-term benefits will be of much greater value to the organisation.
Biophilic Designs mainly focuses on the implementation of these spaces into a static and concrete design: • Use of more natural light • Views that open into the nature • Use of natural materials • Inclusion of recuperative spaces • Aesthetic environment • Use of patterns and colours that are closely associated with nature • Better air quality and ventilation • Thermal comfort levels • Provide spaces that can help employees relax and focus • Improve the psychological and physiological effects of space
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DIRECT CONNECTION WITH NATURE The whole idea of biophilic design is to work towards developing a space that’s in contact with nature as much as possible. It can be a visual connection in the form of plants, non-visual connection that be felt by touch, sound or smell. Incorporating water features such as small ponds or fountains etc.
Visual connection
Non-Visual connectionSound, touch and smell
Non rhythmic – Heraclitan movement
Incorporating water features
Connection with natural systems- Seasons
Thermal and airflow variability
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Biophilic approach INDIRECT CONNECTION WITH NATURE- NATURAL ANALOGUES Human brain and the sensory receptors work in a way that can induce a feeling of liveliness or depression. Biophilic designs work on enhancing these sensory aspects in order to alleviate a feeling of happiness. As for example bright and significant colours in surroundings usually attract people’s attention and our brain is designed to associate a colour with a feeling. Aqua blue is the colour of calm as it reminds us of the water bodies and oceans. Similarly, yellow or orange is associated with energy and happiness, red with excitement and concentration and green with peace and creativity. Thus, including such associative colours in workspace can have a great impact on one’s mind and body. Natural analogues basically, aims at creating colourful and patterned designs which can be associated with a variety of different elements of the nature.
Biomorphic shapes and Forms
Natural analogues- sense of nature
Complexity and Order
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PROSPECT – ELEVATED AND ENTICING VIEWS THROUGH SPACES This involves providing raised and attractive view of the surrounding spaces and also the nature of workspace related to how much space is available per person and what kind of view the person is getting while working.
REFUGE- RESTORATIVE SPACES TO RETREAT INTO Biophilic design these days focuses greatly on providing recreational spaces that can help in restoring health and strength of its employees. As it provides a comfortable environment to work, employees have shown to have reduced stress, absenteeism and greater productivity. Also, it indicated a greater staff retention as compared to other work spaces.
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Biophilic approach QUALITY OF AIR Air quality has greatly been degraded over a decade due to increased pollution from vehicles and industries, forest fires, and other environmental factors. Continuous exposure to this has a direct impact on our health overtime. Thus, including work spaces such as lawns, hedges and avenues, terrace gardens that provide with natural pollution free air can greatly improve the well-being of an individual.
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IMPROVE ACCESS TO NATURAL LIGHT Natural light has a great effect on the circadian rhythm, and thus exposure to sunlight is important as it helps in the overall metabolism of the body. The secretion of an important pigment melatonin is affected by exposure of sunlight. Exposure to artificial light during bedtime affects the sleep cycle and also results in a suppression of melatonin production. Thus, exposure to natural light can reduce sleep deprivation, depression or stress levels and provide an active start to the morning.
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Precedent Research
• Vegetable Garden • Biophilia • Sustainable Technology • Social Housing • Marketplace • Timber Construction
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Vegetable garden
Pasona Headquaters Architect: Kono Designs Landscape Architect: Green Wise Co Function: Office Space Year Completed: 2010 Location: Tokyo, Japan cafes and restaurants • Nine storey office building that allows employees to grow and harvest their own food at work. • Building includes office areas, an auditorium, cafeterias, a rooftop garden and urban farming facilities. • Pasona employees are encouraged to maintain and harvest the crops and are supported by a team of agricultural specialists. • 20% of office area is dedicated to green space that houses over 200 species of plants, fruits, vegetables and rice. • All food is harvested, prepared and served on site in the cafe- making it the largest farm to table office scheme in Japan
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Biophilia
Wake Space Up Architect: Farming Architects Function: Office Space Year Completed: 2017 Location: Hà Noi, Vietnam • Hanoi has lot of balconies which are unused due to dust, noise and burglary problems of the urban area. Citizens hardly communicate - interact with the external environment, with surrounding neighborhood • The steel girder-tree system works as a new look for the house in order to create double space for the balcony area. • Maximum expansion of glass doors system into balcony takes advantage of the natural light–wind source to the building. Creating microclimate as well as minimizing the adverse effects of climate and surrounding environment by dint of the steel girder-tree system at balcony acting as a sun-proof barrier and a rain-proof structure.
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Sustainable technology
Sidewell Friends School The Precedent illustrates the method of treatment adopted by the school to treat waste water and storing of rainwater. The waste passes through a convoluted path through manmade wetlands which is abundant in flora. The water gets purified as bacteria is absorbed by plant and the water is filtrated by the soil. The clean water is then recycled and reused in flushing cisterns.
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Social housing
The Six Architect: Brooks and Scarpa Function: Low Cost housing Year Completed: 2017 Location: Los Angeles • Permanent Low cost housing and services for otherwise homeless veterans. • Emphasis on public spaces through the creation of large shared courtyards as well as roof terraces and gardens. • Private rooms are kept purposefully compact and oriented to social spaces to encourage social interaction in Public areas. • Have access to shared office facilities and recreation facilities as well as bike parking and public transport links.
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Marketplace
Markthal Rotterdam Architects: MVRDV Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands Project Year: 2014 • Markthal includes a huge market floor on the ground floor under an arch of apartments. Unique is not only its shape and size, but especially the way the different functions are combined. • The combination of an apartment building covering a fresh food market with food shops, restaurants, a supermarket and an underground parking is unprecedented. • After the refurbishment the outdoor market will be reconfigured, the market lanes will connect seamlessly to the entrances of Markthal, to allow the public to easily enter and exit the building and to create incentives between the two markets, indoor and outdoor. • Markthal is a building without a backside. All sides of the building are accessible or shop windows. The entire supply for the hall, the shops and restaurants is therefore located underground.
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Timber Construction
International House Sydney Architects: TZANNES Location: Barangaroo NSW 2000, Australia Architects in Charge: Alec Tzannes, Jonathan Evans Area: 7920.0 m2 Project Year: 2017 • Distinctive new element in the city, establishing a warm and welcoming connection between the new precinct of Barangaroo and the historic heart of the city. • The most striking aspect of International House Sydney is that six above ground levels are constructed entirely from engineered or cross laminated timber, including floors, columns, walls, roof, lift shafts, egress stairs and bracing bays, supported by a single ground retail level of conventional concrete structure. • The building explores a new form of beauty, one of unique and integral character, with outstanding green credentials. It expresses with aesthetic potency the fully exposed timber structure, stripped of additional layers of finishing materials.
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The site is located on a Mixed-use zone. The area can be used to develop public spaces like retail, cafe and restaurants. The site is also adjacent to the urban corridor on Roscoe street, where there are alot of public hanging out. This becomes preferable for the site to provide a public space that will compliment the urban corridor.
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The location of the site is suitable to develop a design that can achieve a height upto 25m due to the surrounding buildings located at Campbell Parade and Gould Street.
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Public plaza and sunlight
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The urban corridor is disconnected by the service road on Roscoe Street. Inorder to connect the street, a space is created by elevating the structure and forming a public plaza to make it more inviting for the people of Bondi.
Exploring forms in terms of Sun path. Recessed stepped gardens are created to receive maximum sun light for the vegetable garden. 77
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Providing a sculptural walk inorder to activate Gould street and attracting the public to click photos over Gould street and making Wayside more friendly.
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Biophilia
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Providing a biophilic touch and using biomorphic forms to the elevation and also replicate the biophilic module over the urban corridor that will offer a natural environment in the neighbourhood and will make the people of bondi fall in love with Wayside. The public plaza follows an open door policy where people of Bondi can visit, enjoy and relax and create a resilience in the neighbourhood.
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Accomodation
Affordable Collaborative Common Space Interaction Inclusive Community
CO-LIVING Sustainable
Social Aspects
Shared Amenities Multi- generational
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Common rooms
SCHEMATIC SECTION
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Garden terrace
Public plaza
Farming
Processing/ Storage Public plaza
Cafe and retail
SCHEMATIC SECTION
Productivity Biophilia Objectives in life
Experience
SELFSUSTAINING
Open-door philosophy
Farm to plate scheme Sustainable
Urban farming Training
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Design Development
Functions
VEGETABLE MARKET AND PRODUCTION AREA WAYSIDE COMMUNITY
PUBLIC PLAZA
VERTICAL CORE
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Levels and urban connection
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PUBLIC PLAZA
VERTICAL CORE
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VEGETABLE MARKET AND PRODUCTION AREA WAYSIDE COMMUNITY
PUBLIC PLAZA
VERTICAL CORE
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Plans
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Site plan
SITE PLAN
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Public plaza and retail
GROUND FLOOR SCALE 1:200
FIRST FLOOR SCALE 1:200
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Community Centre
SECOND FLOOR SCALE 1:200
THIRD FLOOR SCALE 1:200
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Farming
FOURTH FLOOR SCALE 1:200
FIFTH FLOOR SCALE 1:200
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Cannabis and organic farming
SEVENTH FLOOR SCALE 1:200
ROOFTOP TERRACE GARDEN SCALE 1:200
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Sections
ROOFTOP COMMUNITY GARDEN
VEG PRODUCTION LAB
WAYSIDE COMMUNITY HALL
WAYSIDE COMMUNITY HALL
ACTIVITY CENTRE
PUBLIC PLAZA
SERVICES
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Vegetation system
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Sustainable approach
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Visualizations
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Urban corridor
100
Public plaza
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Entrance lobby
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Community centre
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Community hall
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Rooftop community garden
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View from urban corridor
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View from Gould St.
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Timber Construction details
Timber properties (CLT) Speed, efficiency and Design Flexibility CLT panels are manufactured for specific applications and comes prefabricated complete with aready cut openings for windows, stairs, service chanels and ducts. These are shipped directly from the manufacturer to the job site, where they can be quicky and efficiently lifted into place. Thus the time required for construction is drastically reduced. Since the panels are designed for specific end use applications, they are often delivered and erected using on spot construction method, making it ideal for projects with limited on site storage capacity. The design flexibility of CLT goes as far as when field modifications needs to be done, it is possible to make the necessary changes after discussion with the engineer. The material can be used for an entire building or any combination of wall, floor/ceiling and roof applications. The elemnts of CLT can also be combined with other building materials to design a hybrid structure.
Fire Protection and Seismic Performance The thick cross sections of CLT proves to be considerably effective as they char slowly, unlike the steel which melt in the heat. As once this char has formed it protects wood from further degradation and it also offers increased compartmentalisation when used for interior walls. The dimensional stability and rigidity of CLT lends it an effective lateral load resisting system. As the construction involves a system of multiple, small connectors, CLT also offers good ductile nature and energy dissipation. Researchers have experimented and concluded the exceptionally well behaviour of CLT during seismic activity particularly in multi-story applications
Environmental Performance Carbon storage is an important aspect of wood structural components which stays in place for a longer period of time. A building made of wood initially has carbon negative while of steel or concrete is carbon intensive. Wood is natural and renewable and studies also show that it outperforms conventional materials in terms of embodied energy, air pollution and water pollution.
Thermal Performance and Energy efficiency The thermal conductivity of common structural wood is much less than the metals with which it is often combined for construction. The key measures of CLT’s thermal performance are U-value and R-value, both related to panel thickness. The thicker panels have lower U values and are better insulators. Since the material can be manufactured usin CNC equipments to precise particulars it results in better efficiency for the structure. As they are solid panels there is little potential for airflow through the material, resulting in an extremely airtight building envelope.
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Detail section
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FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL OF RAISED FLOOR
CROSS LAMINATED TIMBER FLOOR
GALVANISED ALUMINIUM CONNECTIONS FOR JOINTS LINEAR FLOOR JOIST
THERMAL AND SOUND INSULATION LAYER
PRECAST CONCRETE SLABS CONCRETE AND STEEL STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
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Column details
GALVANISED STEEL INSIDE TIMBER
CROSS LAMINATED TIMBER SUPPORT SYSTEM
GALVANISED ALLUMINIUM PLATE INSIDE TIMBER COLUMNS FOR STRENGTHENING
GALVANISED ALLUMINIUM BOLTED TO STEEL PLATE
STEEL PLATE BOLTED TO THE CONCRETE COLUMNS
DIVIDING THE SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR TIMBER TRANSITION
EXTENTION OF CONCRETE/ STEEL COLUMN
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Cross laminated timber (CLT)
Floor assembly details
Wall assemble details
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Site development
BONDI BEACH
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URBAN CORRIDOR
WAYSIDE BONDI VILLAGE
ANDREW’S HOUSE ACCOMODATION
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Accomodation
GROUND FLOOR
SCALE 1:100
FIRST FLOOR
SCALE 1:100
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SECTION
SCALE 1:100
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Model
Site model
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Option 1
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Option 2
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Final option
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Public plaza
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Entrance lobby
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Community centre
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Farm space
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Rooftop community garden
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