park Road TRANSIT ANALYSIS Kristen Fitzgerald 2005 1 Figure Ground Diagram 2 Figure Ground Diagram 3 Movement + Space Usage
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PUBLIC MOvEMENT
MINOR TRAFFIC
MODERATE TRAFFIC
PRIvATE ZONE WITH MINIMAL TRAFFIC
PARK RD RAILWAY CAR + PEDESTRIAN WALKING ZONE
4 Figure Ground + Existing Urban plan zoning CONSERvATION
LIGHT INDUSTRY
LOW-MED DENSITY
FUTURE INDUSTRY
RESIDENTIAL
PARK
HEALTH CARE
LOW DENSITY
EMERGING
GENERAL INDUSTRY
5 Method of Travel to work: bus + train use in the suburbs < 3% OF POPULATION
6 Method of Travel to work: bus use per suburb 3
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7% - 9%
11% - 13%
9% - 11%
7 Method of Travel to work: car use per suburb 40% - 47%
51% - 53%
47% - 49%
53% - 55%
49% - 51%
8 Method of Travel to work: train use per suburb <3%
5% - 7%
3% - 5%
9 Method of Travel to work: ride/walk per suburb 5
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5% - 7%
11% - 13%
7% - 9%
13% - 15%
10 Street axes through site PRIMARY STREET AXES SECONDARY STREET AXES
2005 park Road BUS ANALYSIS Tony Loong 2005 11 Bus Route
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BUS INTERCHANGE
DISTRICT BUS ROUTE
LOCAL BUS ROUTE
BUS STOP
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park Road RAIL ANALYSIS Katherin Khoo 2005 12 Rail lines CLEvELAND LINE BEENLEIGH / GOLD COAST LINE
park Road VIEW ANALYSIS prue Exelby 2005 9
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Designers understanding this evolutionary lineage have nature, alternatively with cultural history, as an under explored design territory to learn with. Our disposition to build cities, structures, and objects is, at a fundamental level, genetic—not very different from termites’ genetic disposition to build solar-oriented, naturally ventilating adobe megastructures. Genetic derivation ties our urbanism, architecture, and design together as biologically driven events stitching our cities securely into nature. Understanding a scenario such as this might alarm us into practicing environmentally conscious safebuilding while simultaneously illustrating needed safeguards preventing design from destroying the work and environments of other species. While the descent of industrialization, manufacturing, and materials leaves little trace of nature in today’s building and design industry, its evolutionary course, begun with stone tools, sticks, hides, and mud, nevertheless continues, if in a mostly repressed and unrecognized form. I think we can take a global look at the contemporary buildings of homeless people worldwide, or study the spontaneity of urban organisms from colonias and favelas to witness genetic building impulses manifested in constructed form. Architectural shelters built with indigenous environmental materials—collected cardboard, plastic, fabric, rope, adobe, metal and wood scraps—testifies to a universal, genetic disposition to build. Homeless and adaptive shelters demonstrate material and structural inventiveness evolving with minimal resources and tools for immediate environmental protection. For understanding this process and illuminating its biological workings—genetic impulses translating ideas into physical works—biologist Richard Dawkins’s book The Extended Phenotype is indispensable.3 Our Nature / Nature’s Nature Rajchman tells us: “What the young Deleuze found singular in Hume’s empiricism is then the idea that this self, this person, this possession [individual consciousness], is in fact not given. Indeed the self is only a
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