SYDNEY: DARLING HARBOUR - Eveleigh Structured System Current Situation The site of the project is a transitional area between a city center carried by George Street and Harris Street to a more residential type of area in Chippendale and Redfern, connected by Regent Street as the main road. The current condition of Regent Street presents an ambiguity of character and the domination of motor vehicles results a lack of public life on the street. The area is also disconnected from the surrounding areas as a consequence of the railway corridor on the east side of Regent Street. Design Intent The principal vision is to utilize the abandoned goods line running along the project site as the central spine of the proposed development. The central spine will accommodate a combined route for a new light rail, pedestrians and bicycles. The implementation of a light rail route in the site creates the opportunity to develop a mixed-use development in the effort to reconnect the west area of the railway to the east side through Prince Alfred Park.
SYDNEY: DARLING HARBOUR - Eveleigh Structured System
THE BIG PICTURE of SYDNEY: KENT STREET & MARKET STREET
Kent Street is one way direction street that it connects between Chinatown, South Sydney CBD and Millers Point precinct, which it is one of few streets connecting Chinatown to Walsh Bay. The part of Kent street from Liverpool street to Druitt Street has four lines for vehicles, two driving way and two parking lines; after that, two driving ways, one parking lines and two cyclist ways were designed on Kent street start from Druitt Street.
THE BIG PICTURE of SYDNEY: KENT STREET & MARKET STREET
Market Street is located in the heart of the Sydney central business district shopping precinct. The two flagship David Jones department stores in Sydney are located in Market Street, diagonally across the Castlereagh Street intersection. Market Street provides the southern border of Pitt Street Mall and features such shopping centres as Centrepoint, the Queen Victoria Building and Sydney Central Plaza (which includes the Sydney flagship Myer department store). The State Theaters located between Pitt and George Street intersections.
THE NEW CHINATOWN: A PEDESTRIAN AND HERITAGE DISTRICT
Goals China Town as a fine grain walkable 24/7 precinct with a tenancy mix consisting of commercial, food and unique future office space. Protecting Heritage items, and retain zoning for fine grain, which contribute to more huÂŹman scale and diverse businesses that intensify livability in the precinct. Using TDR concept to protect heritage and businesses. Development Mechanism Fain Grain- Structures of short stature, special characteristics and are important to the Asian community, socially and economically. High Density- Buildings identified as heritage but have been developed and reached the limit of their development capacity. New Buildings- Existing buildings that will receive development rights transferred from the heritage buildings in Chinatown. Heritage- Heritage buildings listed on the NSW heritage list and those who are not regisÂŹtered but were identified as having an important characteristic and aesthetics and should be protected. Completion of Barangaroo, connecting the platform to Barangaroo.
THE NEW CHINATOWN: A PEDESTRIAN AND HERITAGE DISTRICT
HAMBURG BEYOND IBA: GEORGSWERDER ECO VILLAGE A more intense pattern of urban development is under consideration for the semi-rural district of Georgswerder in the northern sector of Wilhelmsburg in response to Hamburg’s housing needs and the relatively close location of Georgswerder to the inner city. Community consultation during the Hamburg IBA established strong support for urban consolidation in the district, which is principally in private land ownership. However, the high value landscape of woodland and water meadows requires a sensitive development approach. The key landscape elements identified in the study area are the water and vegetation systems. The defining element of the district is the Dove Elbe, a tributary of the Elbe cut off from the main river by the Wilhelmsburg dykes. A still backwater of great character, the Dove Elbe extends in a north-westerly direction for 18km through a protected biodiversity corridor termed the Wilhelmsburger-Doveelbe Achse in the metropolitan landscape plan of Hamburg. Beyond the Dove Elbe, the larger setting is a 700 year-old cultural landscape of long, narrow fields, which originally extended from thatched-roof farmhouses constructed along the high ground of the Jenerseitedeich, creating a distinctive linear village. A number of historic houses survive but the linear village has been infilled with low-density suburban houses in recent decades, which nevertheless reads as a heritage streetscape. The area is bounded on the east by the main autobahn connecting Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin, which is scheduled for road-widening by the Federal Government. A familyowned factory producing premium quality wheels and castors for industrial vehicles has operated in the rural setting next to the autobahn for 70 years, and exports its products worldwide.
HAMBURG BEYOND IBA: GEORGSWERDER ECO VILLAGE
HAMBURG BEYOND IBA: GEORGSWERDER ECO VILLAGE A recent attempt at higher density housing in the form of an energy efficient housing cluster on Kirchdorfer Strasse, the main north-south arterial route of the district has produced energy-efficient dwellings but with little sensitivity to the cultural landscape. The future program of urban consolidation demands a more considered urban design approach, which will accommodate an increase in population density but still retain the distinct character, uses and ecological functions of the Georgswerder landscape.
A large parcel of farmland known as the Bullert Meadows in Georgswerder East, held in single ownership, presents the opportunity for urban development Beyond IBA on a greenfields site, based on creative ways to integrate eco housing, agricultural production, water management and clean industry within an urban pattern respecting the cultural landscape, extending the Metrozone principle and Climate Change theme of the Hamburg IBA to the next phase of urban development in Wilhelmsburg.
HAMBURG BEYOND IBA: GEORGSWERDER ECO VILLAGE
HAMBURG BEYOND IBA: GEORGSWERDER ECO VILLAGE ISSUES The main issues identified in the study area are: The site has great potential as an attractive residential area, especially for families, with the abundance of green open space available in the area; The cultural landscape of water meadows drains to marshland with numerous manmade ditches forming field boundaries for land drainage and irrigation. Along with the bio-diversity corridor of the Dove Elbe, the area provides natural habitat for a large number of protected species. A sensitive approach to development is needed in order to retain these landscape features and functions; it must be acknowledged that the site is low-lying and flood-prone within the Wilhelmsburg dykes, creative solutions of water sensitive urban design are needed to work with the flooding profile of the area; The Jenerseitediech is a heritage streetscape which includes a number of historic thatched-roof farm houses. Sited on the high ground of the dyke, the historic farm houses began the linear pattern of the low-density settlement extending along the narrow roadway on top of the dyke, which is a distinctive characteristic of Wilhelmsburg’s rural villages; The traffic volumes and noise pollution of the autobahn, and the use of narrow rural roads as truck delivery routes are constraints to future residential development in the area; Public transport access to the site is currently poor as it is not directly located on the 154 bus route.
HAMBURG BEYOND IBA: Public Transport and New Buffer The Bullert Site has one public bus route for whole area, has poor of cycle lane and residential and industrial vehicles using one public street. It is not convenient and safe for people who are living the Bullert. Therefore, transportation system needs promoting, providing more bus stops for the residential, improve the cycle lane and pedestrian, creating or opening new access to separate between industrial and residential access. It also needs separate tracs and normal vehicles. Because of new trafiic and noise from high way, traffic and transport planning should fix the new bus stops and bus line, promote the cycle lane and pedestrian, create new access between industrial and residential access. In addition to traffic and transport planning, there is also noise problem which should be solved. Therefore, there is new buffer on high way and buffer on one side of factory.