Birkenhead [inter]cultivation ai na kh

[INTER]CULTIVATION A HEALTHY INTERACTIVE AGRICULTURE EVOLUTION

MARCH7006 URBAN DESIGN REPORT

AMIR IZZAT | NUR AMIERA | KEVIN HIEW

Site Analysis Design Process Design Intention Precedents Studies

LIST OF CONTENTS

Proposal Visual Report Appendix Final Model

SITE ANALYSIS

1. Historic maps and urban patterns 2. Landmarks and notable features 3. Listed buildings and conservation areas 4. Streetscape local distinctiveness 5. Road and traffic networks 6. Pedestrian networks and permeability 7. Views and vistas 8. Functional structure / land use 9. Density and population concentrations 10.Edges and boundaries 11.Significant public functions/buildings 12.Events and activities 13.Parks and landscape 14.Topography

SITE ELEMENTS

TARGET AND AIMS

DESIGN PROCESS

CONCEPTS AND CHALLENGES

TARGETS & AIMS

- The North of Birkenhead are mainly working industries such as warehouses to office buildings with patches of old residential in between. And the activity and leisure are mainly shopping district such as Pyramids and tourist attraction such as the Transport Museum and the U-Boat Story.

- The working population lacks of places to break out as the fabric is condensed with industrial and private buildings. We proposed to introduce spread out anchor points in order to inject live into the city with spaces where economic exchange as well as informal spaces occur.

- Currently there are plenty of unhealthy social activity places such bars and pubs. Our strategy aims to reduce the crime rate caused by these sole amusement for the community. - Diverse of infrastructures that crosses the path of Birkenhead as well as a few relics. We proposed to activate the rest of the abandoned railway as a farming link to connect the communities as well as an opportunity to begin to pedestrianize Birkenhead.

CONCEPTS & CHALLENGES

DESIGN INTENTION

DESIGN IDEAS

DESIGN CHAIN

MASTERPLAN

STRATEGY DIAGRAM

PROPOSAL VISUAL

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PRECEDENT STUDIES

EXISTING PROJECTS

REPORT APPENDIX

DESIGN STRATEGY

The first is to activate the redundant infrastructures that are already embedded on the fabric of Birkenhead. By clearing the current state of old rail line; we intend to form a ‘green line’ for people therefore avoiding vehicles at all, creating a link all the way from the south for the residential areas all the way to the town centre and Birkenhead Park. Inviting a healthier way for people to travel to work, less usage of cars and therefore eliminating the need to accommodate vehicles in the town centre.

Second phase will be to gentrify existing fabrics as well as new developments to attract foreign investment into this deteriorating town. Also to provide the facilities such as education, healthcare and recreation into the 3 potential sites identified.

Unemployment – Employment & Support Allowance are a sort of benefit to people who cannot work as they claim to have problems such as musco-skeletal, injury or poisoning, mental illness and circulatory or respiratory dysfunction.

Crime Rate – Between September of 2014 up to August 2015, there are aplenty of cases of crimes in Birkenhead ranging from shoplifting, arson, anti-social behaviour, violence and sexual abuse. Due to low job opportunities for the unskilled labourers, people who claim benefits are funded to these petty crimes as well as other more desperate deprived people that commit a more serious crime that overall contribute to these alarming numbers of cases in a year.

Third phase will be the development of Wirral Water which is to create an international city waterfront destination and leisure and retail destination.

Birkenhead’s topography is conceived by the man-made infrastructures such as the Woodside rail line which are left disused since the early 1960s , as well as other artificial landscape such as the criss-cross flyovers that sets in between the town centre and the residential on the south.

Health – the availability of illegal drugs, as well as legal depressants such as alcohols and tobacco have not only seen as a norm these days, but it also indicates how well a place is organised to distinct from pleasure to abuse use of these illegal/legal highs. Almost half of the alcohol related crimes are repeated offenders.

Major infrastructure networks such as the vehicular toll that takes up a large chunk of space similar to the size of Hamilton Square to accommodate the network between Liverpool and Birkenhead which results in th town centre’s inactivity and only active as a stepping stone for travelling to Liverpool.

Unemployment – Employment & Support Allowance are a sort of benefit to people who cannot work as they claim to have problems such as musco-skeletal, injury or poisoning, mental illness and circulatory or respiratory dysfunction.

During peak hours, the toll lanes causes a heavy traffic, but during off-peak hours, it’s lanes seems excessive therefore our solution of encouraging more pedestrians travelling into central instead of vehicles by utilising the ‘Green Link‘ , the inactive tram line as well as the ferry terminal, travelling to work won’t be as tedious anymore.

Activating or reuse the existing redundant railway converting into a designated pedestrian route free from any means of vehicles thus creating a safer route for public to travel from one end to another. Along the secondary routes that connect the green link to the 3 potential sites identified. Usage of the sites will be based on the zoning boundary and the proximity of transport infrastructures available. And along the ‘green link’ we propose an interactive and healthier mode of transport (Draisine), cycle lane and pedestrian walkway whilst utilising the existing track to travel. Based on the primary route for cycle lanes, we proposed to have a proper cycle lane connecting the heart of Hamilton Square to Birkenhead Park, Ferry dock and the Wirral Waters development.

By creating the ‘green link’, we are encouraging a healthier way of travelling to work from home therefore, the second phase will be to identify and reduce the space required to accommodate the usage of cars in the town centre. And by preserving some of the Grade 1 listed buildings around Hamilton Square, as well as other significant buildings, we intend to provide facilities such as education, healthcare, and recreation to inject more interest for the locals as well as attracting foreign investment.

Reuse- Birkenhead’s significant building functions ranges from historical up to modern usage; from exhibiting relics to accommodating civil offices. Some of these buildings have been reconfigured to house different types of working industry. For example, Wirral Transport Museum’s original function used to be a stable to accommodate horses transporting goods, and in modern days, the building have been converted to store and exhibit trams that used to roam the streets in the 1960s.

Expansion- Woodside ferry terminal accommodates admission into the U-boat submarine.

Modern Blocks - such as education institutes, civil offices, and probation centre forms a fortress that are built in conventional brick or corrugated steel ‘warehouse’ buildings.

PLAN COST

FINAL MODEL

MASTERPLAN MODEL

[INTER]CULTIVATION A HEALTHY INTERACTIVE AGRICULTURE EVOLUTION

AMIR IZZAT | NUR AMIERA | KEVIN HIEW