LAND2313 Landscape Studio 10
Graduating Project - Sydney Olympic Park Chuyao Huang z5083915
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SCOPE
TOPIC: A Pocket of Green among the Concrete RESEARCH QUESTION: How does the urban park space be designed to slow down busy city dwellers? Existing Condition1
Main commercial area in SOP
"I am designing an urban park in the heart of Central Precinct in SOP that addresses the issue of urban residents’ demand for future green public spaces, by means of create a characteristic local park with restored spaces."
2030 Vision Plan2
Vibrant, high density mixed use Town Centre
NTS
1. Sydney Olympic Park and surronds in 2016. 2. NSW Planning in 2030. Access to https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-nsw-government-wants-to-turn-sydney-olympic-park-into-a-massive-residential-development-2016-10
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SITE
EXISTING CONDITION
Existing Lot Boundaries + Green Open Space
Existing Condition1
Main commercial area in SOP
- lowrise, large floorplate commercial and industrial buildings - underutilized green open space
Site Photos2
1. Sydney Olympic Park and surronds in 2016. 2. Google Map.
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SITE
ISSUES in the FUTURE 1. Growth of the population
2. More and more high-rise buildings in dense down town
2030 Vision Plan1
Vibrant, high density mixed use Town Centre - strong commercial office and retail area - intensive residential buildings - new public urban park
3. Limitation of green space
Communication
Recreation
4. People's increasing demand in the future Leisure
View
1. NSW Planning in 2030. Access to https://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-nsw-government-wants-to-turn-sydney-olympic-park-into-a-massive-residential-development-2016-10
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK RESEARCH QUESTION: How does the urban park space be designed to slow down busy city dwellers?
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SITE ANALYSIS Public Open Spaces + Activities
Olympic Boulevard and Plaza
Jacaranda Square
Cathy Freeman Park
Stockroute Park
Station Square
Abattoir Garden
STRENGTH & WEAKNESS:
LEGEND:
Complete Infrastructures and activities - especially sports and recreation
Site Boundary Event Places Urban Places Urban Parks and Places
Open spaces with their features 1:8000 @A1
Local Parks
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SITE ANALYSIS Building Heights + Density
Crowded areas
STRENGTH & WEAKNESS:
LEGEND:
Dense population, high buildings, noisy
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SITE ANALYSIS Street Types (Existing)
Street Types (2030)
Town street Civic street Local street Park edge street
Local street
STRENGTH & WEAKNESS:
STRENGTH & WEAKNESS:
Low buildings 4-6 storeys
Extending place connections with new streets
Lack of access
Support efficient movement & access for vehicles, cyclist & pedestrians
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SITE ANALYSIS Transportation
Population Flow
10-15 min
5-10 min
LEGEND:
LEGEND:
Pedestrian
Crowd gathering place
Cycleways & On-road Cycle Lanes
Nodes
Shared Pedestrian/Cycleway
People flow
Public Urban Park Public Domain
STRENGTH & WEAKNESS: Complete public transport facilities, convenient transportation
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SITE ANALYSIS Central Precinct Land Uses Plan + Main Potential Users
MURRAY ROSE AVENUE
STATION DAWN FRASER AVENUE
NEW STREET
TREET NEW S
REET
Commuters
NEW STREET
TR NEW S EET
H RD SOUT
TREET NEW S
NEW STREET
Office workers
T NEW S
TREET NEW S
NEW STREET
A BOULEV OLYMPIC
TREET NEW S
AUSTRALIA AVENUE
PARK STREET
E VENU OTT A I L L E HERB
Visitors
TREET RVICE S NEW SE
Sellers & buyers
IVE
REET
NEW STREET
TREET NEW S
NEW ST
F
R EE D IGTR
LEGEND: Site Boundary
K SARAH DURAC
Families
AVENUE
Hotels and Serviced Community Public Domain Commercial Mixed Commercial, Residential, Hotels and Serviced Apartments Residential
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SITE ANALYSIS Users Proportion + Time-use based on ages STRENGTH & WEAKNESS: Main users: employees and office workers
WORKERS
RESIDENTS
VISITORS
0:00
6:00
8:00
10:00
12:00
14:00
16:00
18:00
20:00
22:00
CHILDREN
YOUNG PEOPLE
MIDDLE-AGED PEOPLE
ELDERLY PEOPLE 0:00
6:00
8:00
10:00
12:00
14:00
16:00
18:00
20:00
22:00
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SITE ANALYSIS Potential Activities + Spatial Demand of Users YOUNG PEOPLE
CHILDREN PROGRAMS
MON-FRI
SAT-SUN
MON-FRI
SAT-SUN
MIDDLE-AGED PEOPLE MON-FRI
SAT-SUN
ELDERLY PEOPLE MON-FRI
SAT-SUN
READING
STRENGTH & WEAKNESS: Different ages of people with different demands
STUDY TAKE A WALK TAKE A REST COMMUNICATION DISCUSSION RECREATION OUTDOOR EXERCISE
SOCIALISING
SPATIAL DEMAND
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES
COMMUNITY COMMUNICATION
OUTDOOR BUSINESS + MEETING
OUTDOOR READING + STUDY
MEDITATION
OUTDOOR EXERCISE CIRCUIT
VIEWING + REST AREA
RELAXING
PLAYGROUND
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OPPORTUNITIES & CONSTRAINS
OPPORTUNITIES • Adjacent to transportation facilities, convenient, large flow of people • Be given a distinctive landscape with memory points • Create layers of green spaces, more opportunity for people to contact with nature • A commercial center with lots of employees, providing a place for certain groups of people
CONSTRAINS • Large gatherings maybe noisy for residents or lead to road congestion • Adjacent to the streets, dense buildings, noisy environment, low quality of life • A variety of groups of people in the future, corresponding public facilities
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VISION It is a fully utilized public green space that achieves different uses within a limited area and is sustainable. People can recall history and look into the future through visiting the park. It not only meets the needs of future citizens for the park, but also retains the local characteristics of Sydney Olympic Park. It is also an inviting, inclusive and welcoming space for everyone to enter, adding fun and energy to the community. The park provides an opportunity to contact with nature for urban residents who live in a concrete hard landscape. Here, they can relieve the pressure of life and recover their mental and physical strength by relaxing and enjoying the scenery nearby.
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CONCEPT CONCENTRIC CIRCLE
Circle
Maze
Zone
Gathering
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PRINCIPLES
PRINCIPLE 1 Enhance the visual and non-visual connection between human and nature
PRINCIPLE 2 Strengthen the connection between people
BIOPHILIA
FUNCTIONALITY
PRINCIPLE 3 Deliver a sense of place - a place to review history
INDIGENOUS
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PRINCIPLES & OBJECTIVES P1. Enhance the visual and non-visual connection between human and nature
Visual and non-visual connection with nature can reduce stress and improve the mood, have a positive health impact
BIOPHILIA
OBJECTIVES:
• Vision: Different colours of plants go together, mainly purple, white and pink, making people comfortable and healing. • Smell + touch: The ornamental grass will be planted along the footpath. They are fragrant and easy to touch. • Taste + touch: Planting trees with edible fruits which people can picked and observed on the aerial walkway. • Hearing + touch: A shallow pond with a fountain is set up where people can step in and listen to the waves of water.
P2. Strengthen the connection between people
FUNCTIONALITY
Spaces with different functions bring people together and promote social interaction and community development
OBJECTIVES:
• Different forms of seats adapt to different social distances. • There are different ways to use the wall, you can sit, jump, as well as enjoy the frame view. • The combination of high and low plants forms a natural barrier, which creates communication environments and spaces with different feelings.
P3. Deliver a sense of place - create a place to review history
INDIGENOUS
The elements in the site awaken the historical memory of the Sydney Olympic Park and enhance the users' sense of local identity.
OBJECTIVES:
• Red bricks are used for making walls and structures. • Planting indigenous species can attract animals, increase the biodiversity of the park.
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DESIGN PROCESS CONCEPT: LEAF -Texture
-Implication: vitality and nature
Draft Plan Iterations
create tiny terrain
pebble foot massage?
meditation
Primary activity: Restored area enclosed with massive plants include a pool
semi-private space
look after dogs
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DESIGN PROCESS NEW CONCEPT: CONCENTRIC CIRCLE
Improve design integrity, more connection to the surroundings
- "focal point"
Nodes and routes
-gathering -having a rest
Line of sight
Gathering Programs
Arrangement
Visual Link + Distance Abattoir Garden
Stockroute Park
relatively wide space
"quiet" space
Draft detailed drawings and diagrams History of brickyard
wall market material: red brick
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DESIGN PROCESS Masterplan Iterations
picnic
walk a dog 65m
Model Making
10m pe
slo
pebble foot massage?
pergola shelters removable seats underneath
80m
playground
meditation
semi-private space grass steps
recreation (screen)
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PROCESS train station stadiums (visitors, new floating population)
new buildings large building volume (community people)
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MASTERPLAN
1:200 @A1 0
5
10
15
20 m
1
10 2
LEGEND: 1 Market Area
3 6 4
5
7
7
6 9
2
Tree Pool Sitting Area
3
Platform
4
Water Feature
5
Playground
6
Shelter
7
Aerial Walkway
8
Viewing Platform
9
Plaza
10
Pergola
11
Commercial Buildings
12
Shared-use Street Main Access
12
Aerial Walkway Access 9
Detailed Plan
8
11
8
10
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1:50 @A1 0
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DETAILED PLAN
1
2
5
3
4m
7
5
LEGEND: 1 Playground
1
2
5
2
Shelter
3
Viewing Platform
4
Aerial Walkway
5
Red Brick Wall
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Pathway
7
Fountain
8
Central Sunken Plaza
9
Ornamental Grass
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ANALYSIS TRANSPORTATION
1:200 @A1 0
5
10
15
20 m
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ANALYSIS
BIOPHILIA
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ANALYSIS FUNCTIONAL ZONES
1:200 @A1 0
5
10
15
20 m
Different colours of plants go together, mainly purple, white and pink, making people comfortable and healing.
Planting trees with edible fruits which people can picked and observed on the aerial walkway.
The ornamental grass will be planted along the footpath. They are fragrant and easy to touch.
A shallow pond with a fountain is set up where people can step in and listen to the waves of water.
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SECTION - Southeast to Northwest +40.0
Granite and quartz aggregates
Palladiana
Roman travertine paving flagstone texture
Eco Permeable Grass Concrete Paver
+26.0 +23.5 +21.5
+21.5
Foot Traffic
+21.5
+21.0
+20.7
Plaza
Path
Planting Area
Path
Planting Area
Path
Planting Area
Path
Planting Area
Path Planting Pond Area
Xanthostemon chrysanthus 'Fairhill Gold'
Kingsdale Poa
Tanika Lomandra
Pennisetum alopecuroides
Tanika Lomandra
Elaeocarpus reticulatus 'Prima Donna'
Gardenia psidioides 'Glennie River'
Peestripe Pennisetum
Poa labillardieri ‘Eskdale‘
Syzygium wilsonii
Syzygium australe 'Bush Christmas'
Acmena smithii 'Forest Flame'
Ficus carica ‘White Adriatic’
Harpullia pendula
Aesculus × Carnea
Backhousia citriodora
Plaza
Foot Traffic
Flindersia australis
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ANALYSIS
FUNCTIONALITY
Different forms of seats
Side by side (0.3-0.5m)
Keep a distance (>1m)
Free distance
Viewing
Sitting
Jumping
Different ways to use the wall
High and low plants create communication environments with different feelings
Circular plaza
Beside the water feature
Surrounded by plants
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ANALYSIS PROGRAMS
1:200 @A1 0
5
10
15
20 m
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ANALYSIS
INDIGENOUS World War II 1939 - 1945
HISTORY TIMELINE
Abattoirs in the 1960s.
1960 and 1970s The dumping site for much of Sydney’s household and industrial waste Homebush Bay had become a large tract of neglected land
Stock yards in the abattoirs1
1907
State Abattoir
1980s
The NSW Government established the State Abattoir on the Home Bush Estate
1988 The abattoirs closed
1993 Successful bid for the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
2000 Hosted the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The area became known as
State Brickworks remained 2 pits Home of the Green and Golden Bell Frog and a feature of the parklands
2001 SOPA was established
Today A vibrant specialist economic centre
Sydney Olympic Park
1911
State Brickworks The State Brickworks at Homebush was established by the NSW Government in 1911.
Brickpit1
Brick maker2
In an era when building houses required lots of bricks, mortar and asbestos, real estate flourished. The New South Wales Government established the state brick factory at Homebush in 1911. At some point in your life in Sydney, you may live in a brick house in Homebush.
1. Images: Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/29029178@N03/45654217855/in/photostream/ 2. Images: Retrieved from https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Brickpit_Ring_Walk 3. Brickpit | Past/Lives of the Near Future. Access to https://pastlivesofthenearfuture.com/tag/brickpit/
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MODLES - scale 1:100
Red Brick Walls + Viewing Platform
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MODLES - scale 1:100
Circular Shelter + Viewing Platform
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PERSPECTIVES
Attractive entries make people come in to find out what happend behind the walls and trees.
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PERSPECTIVES
Open plaza with less tree canopy
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PERSPECTIVES
Little plaza with recreational facilities
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PERSPECTIVES
A path extend to the middle of grass. Touch and observe the ornamental grass closely
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PERSPECTIVES
The red brick wall can be used as a seating area. Plants close behind people, easy to touch and smell.
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PERSPECTIVES
Central gathering plaza provide a shade area You feel like sitting in an nature place surrounded by various plants. Youn can sit down and listen to the sounds of nature. Chuyao Huang_Assessment 3_Graduating Project
AERIAL VIEW
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