Leire Asensio Villoria Team
Radhika Goyal Divya Anikumar Menon Chi Nga Larissa Tse
UD Studio A
Faculty
A SEMESTER OF RESEARCH THROUGH STUDIO WORK
CONTENT
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
Urban Design Studio A
Research I. Urban Framework
II. Implementation
III. Detailed Design
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Context analysis
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Design strategies
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Scenarios
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Site analysis
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Structural plan
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Plan & axonometric
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Design analysis
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Perpectives
O.M. Ungers | Cornell University. AAP
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF DESIGN FACULTY STUDIO LEADERS Leire Asensio Villoria Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design
REVIEWERS David Mah, Senior Lecturer Justyna Karakiewicz, Associate Professor Alan Pert, Director, Melbourne School of Design Donald Bates, Chair of Architectural Design STUDENTS
MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF DESIGN Julie Willies, Dean Andrew Hutson, Deputy Dean Alan Pert, Director, Melbourne School of Design Donald Bates, Chair of Architectural Design Elek Pafka, Coordinator of the Master of Urban Design
Hei Tong Choi Yanjun Duan Radhika Goyal Antonio Huang Kamila Kaniski Mukul Kogje Divya Anikumar Menon Aneree Ajaykumar Parekh Mahasakthi Selvakumarasami Ying Shi Chi Nga Larissa Tse Hang Zhao Printed by MSD
SPECIAL THANKS We would like to thank the following individuals, for without their efforts this publication wold not have been possible: Alan Pert & Donald Bates
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
Urban Design Studio A
While the suburbs have become a familiar and prevalent model of urbanization, the drive to offer an alternative to the congestion and density of the city has historically been a valuable area of exploration for the design disciplines. The advent of a counter movement to the 19th century metropolis has encapsulated a broad spectrum of exemplary figures, theories and experiments in urbanism. Frederick Law Olmsted, Ebenezer Howard, Raymond Unwin, Frank Lloyd Wright, Reyner Banham, Robert Venturi with Denise Scott Brown, Marion Mahoney with Walter Burley Griffin, Ludwig Hilberseimer with Mies Van Der Rohe, the Hampstead Garden Suburb, Riverside, Broadacre City, Lafayette Park, Learning from Levittown, Los Angeles; The Architecture of Four Ecologies, Castlecraig and Eaglemont are just a few of these notable contributions to urbanism. The common motivations underpinning these projects could be seen to have been an impulse to offer a model for living environments that would enable lifestyles more closely related to the open spaces and gardens that had been absent within the metropolis. Today, notable experiments in suburban living persist with much of contemporary innovations in architectural, landscape and urban design often taking place in the city’s periphery or its suburbs. However, with a growing awareness of the limitations in extending the suburbs as a sustainable model for urbanization and the massive burdens it can impose on our infrastructure, social lives and health, much of this activity has centered around a wider professional and disciplinary mandate to address the tension between the enduring desire for “a house with a garden” against pressures for higher densities. This tension is an imminent concern for Melbourne, where its legacy of extensive suburbanization runs counter to challenges posed by the projections for steady
population growth as well as a transforming demographic. While higher density development and strategies of suburban renovation offers intelligent means for addressing these concerns forecasted for the city, inertia and entrenched cultural values invested in suburban ways of living can conflict with these larger planning ambitions. In this studio, you will be tasked with investigating how Melbourne’s proposed metropolitan centers of growth in its suburban extensions may densify intelligently. You will consider how these new centers may also enable this densification while also addressing a model for urbanization that is sensitive to concerns surrounding crucial aspects of sustainable development as well as enabling the cultivation of civic and ecologically enriched urban spaces or environments. The studio will engage with these sites in order to offer tangible design proposals that adopt a projective attitude towards addressing the opportunities offered by this apparent contradiction between an objective need for more compact forms of urban development with a persistent desire to conserve (or reclaim) the treasured qualities offered by suburban living.
Leire Asensio Villoria, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design
February 2020
Melbourne
URBAN FRAMEWORK
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
In 2031...
Box Hill
EASTERN REGION Population in 2013 1.05M Estimated growth 150-200K https://www.sro.vic.gov.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Map-of-greater-Melbourne-2018.jpg
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Box Hill City of Whitehorse
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Box Hill is a suburb 14km east of Melbourne’s CBD. It was part of Melbourne’s eastward expansion of the metropolis in the late 1950s. This place also had its own large history, its own municipality in the former City of Box Hill and its own suburbs. In recent years, Box Hill has become
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notable for its significant growth of Asian population. The numerous Asian restaurants and retailers in its shopping district have contributed to the visibility of this aspect of the suburb’s demographics since the 1990s. This makes Box Hill a major transportation hub in the eastern suburbs.
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ITY
OF WHITEHOR
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Existing Plan & Views
Weather Condition Annual Mean Temperature and Rainfall
BOX HILL HOSPITAL THAME
BOX HILL INSTITUTE
S ST
1
BOX HILL TOWN HALL
2 3
WHITE
HORSE
RD
ELGAR
RD
4
SURREY PARK 0
200
400m
Demographics Tram stop & line
Train stop & line
Study area
Population
Spoken languages
Employment growth Population by age group 01
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Source: https://www.whitehorse.vic.gov.au/sites/whitehorse.vic.gov.au/files/assets/documents/Box%20Hill%20MAC%20Analysis%20and%20Options%20Appendices. pdf; http://www.meteorology.com.au/local-climate-history/vic/box-hill
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Building Height
Lot Coverage
Topography
Landuse
Street Network
Source: City of Whitehorse 2018 (edited by author)
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A Activities
BOX HILL Ranking of Activities
Source: City of Whitehorse 2018 (edited by author)
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A Constraints
BOX HILL Opportunities
Source: City of Whitehorse 2018 (edited by author)
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Design Strategies
Step 1
Public pause point Public entry point
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Structure Plan
SCALE 1:5,000 @A4 0
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16
100
200m
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Axonometric
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Shadowing Summer 8am
Winter 8am
Summer 12noon
Winter 12noon
Summer 4pm
Winter 4pm
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Design Analysis
Ecological corridor
Green roofs
Green spaces
Land use
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Residential
Commercial/ business
Recreation
Retail (formal/ informal)
Showroom
Community centre
Gov. insitution
Existing
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Layering of Framework
Drainage Bridge
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Green corridor
Solar envelope and fans
Road network
Building height restrictions
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Detailed Sections
SCALE 1:2,000 @A4
Long Section
S
90.0
80.0 N SCALE 1:2,500 @A4
Z1 25
Z2
Z3 26
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Cross Sections AA’
BB’
SCALE 1:500 @A4
SCALE 1:500 @A4 BB’
AA’
80m Mixed-use building
NE
High street retail open space
93.5
Mixed-use building
93.5
SCALE 1:1,500 @A4
SW
Mixed-use building
NE
10m
40m
Footpath
Informal retail/ shared road
78.5
Footpath
Mixed-use building
79.0
SCALE 1:1,500 @A4
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10m
28
SW
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Existing Figured Ground
Proposed Figured Ground
BUILDING HEIGHT: HIGHEST.............................................................18m LOWEST...............................................................4m AVERAGE..............................................................8m
BUILDING HEIGHT: HIGHEST.............................................................53m LOWEST...............................................................4m AVERAGE.............................................................20m
DENSITY: POPULATION (2020)...............................................182,000 FLOOR AREA RATIO................................................,...2.5 COVERAGE............................................................36%
DENSITY: POPULATION (2041)...............................................250,000 FLOOR AREA RATIO....................................................4.2 COVERAGE............................................................28%
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100
200m
0
30
100
200m
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Block Matrix
Open Space Matrix Green space
Green space
Green roof
Green roof Building
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Zoning
ZO N
E
1
ZO N
E
2
ZO N
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E
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Z2
Detailed Zones
Z1
Z3
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Z2
Scenarios
Z1
Z3
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Zone 1 Scenario 1 - Recreational hub
This scenario has terracing steps surrounding a central performance stage with mobile recreational activities including outdoor ping pong and chesboard act. The various pattern or geometry bring active community engagement.
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Zone 1 Scenario 2 - City lounge
This scenario has outdoor tables and seatings integrated with playful mounds to give a relaxational experience to the neighbourhood. The bold red rubber material attracts people to the site and becomes a landmark.
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Zone 3 Scenario 1 - Informal retail
This scenario turns the shared road into an informal retail street. Overhanging decorations and temporary market stores fuse with proposed lawn and water bodies, acting as a transition with the Box Hill Gaden.
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Zone 3 Scenario 2 - Water park
This scenario turns the neighbourhood into urban forest filled with water. This improves site habitat and brings to environmental awareness by creating a new image of the city in an ecological way.
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Zone 1
Scenario Matrix
02 City lounge
01 Informal retail
02 Water park
Zone 3
01 Recreational hub
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Detailed Plan
Detailed Axonometric
SCALE 1:200 @A4
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Detailed Plan (with truss)
Detailed Axonometric (with truss)
SCALE 1:200 @A4
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Perspective 1
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Perspective 2
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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A
BOX HILL
Perspective 3
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