WORKBOOK SEIDLER & THE CITY
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InDesign Basics Tuggeranong Town Centre 35°26‘ S Gu Jinglin
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Introduction
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Hand drawing
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Learing From Seidler
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Other Projects with Samiliar Seilder's Princicples
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Tuggeranong Town Centre, Canberra, Australia
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Baranduda Town Centre & Tuggeranong Town Centre
Tapiola Town Centre, Shopper's World &southeastern Massachusetts Campus
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Introduction Background Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.It is located on Australia's south-east coast along the Tasman Sea and surrounding one of the world's largest natural harbours. Residents are together known as "Sydneysiders" and constitute the most multicultural city in Australia and one of the most multicultural cities in the world.
History The 1840s marked the end of convict transportation to Sydney, which by this time had a population of 35,000.The municipal council of Sydney was incorporated in 1842 and became Australia's first city. Gold was discovered in the regions around the town in 1851 and with it came thousands of people seeking a new life. Sydney's population reached 200,000 by 1871. The Commonwealth of Australia was inaugurated on 1 January 1901 and Sydney, with a population of 481,000, became the capital of New South Wales.The Great Depression had a severe effect on Sydney's economy, as it did with most cities throughout the industrial world. For much of the 1930s up to one in three breadwinners was unemployed. Construction of the Harbour Bridge served to alleviate some of the effects of the economic downturn by employing 1,400 men between 1924 and 1932. The population continued to boom despite the Depression and reached 1 million in 1925.
source: http://bdon.org/cad/#sydney
Architecture Modern and International architecture came to Sydney from the 1940s. Since its completion in 1973 the city's Opera House has become a World Heritage Site and one of the world's most renowned pieces of Modern design. It was conceived by Jørn Utzon with contributions from Peter Hall, Lionel Todd, and David Littlemore. Utzon was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2003 for his work on the Opera House. Sydney's first tower was Culwulla Chambers on the corner of King Street and Castlereagh Street which topped out at 50 metres (160 feet). With the lifting of height restrictions in the 1960s there came a surge of high-rise construction. Acclaimed architects such as Jean Nouvel, Harry Seidler, Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano, Norman Foster, and Frank Gehry have each made their own contribution to the city's skyline. Important buildings in the CBD include Citigroup Centre, Aurora Place, Chifley Tower,the Reserve Bank building, Deutsche Bank Place, MLC Centre, and Capita Centre. The tallest structure is Sydney Tower, designed by Donald Crone and completed in 1981. Regulations limit new buildings to a height of 235 metres (771 feet) due to the proximity of Sydney Airport.
The World Map
Photograph by Eric Sierins, Max Dupain + Associates
Seidler's work shows a mix of influences from four great modern masters from whom he studied under or worked with: Walter Gropius, Marcell Breuer, (artist) Josef Albers and Oscar Niemeyer. Regarding Gropius -Seidler's designs upheld a Modernist design methodology, which he considered to be an amalgam of three elements: social use, technology and aesthetics.
Seidler always insisted that he had no fixed 'style', since these three elements were in constant flux, and so his work constantly evolved throughout his 57 years of designing in Australia.
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source: http://bdon.org/cad/#sydney
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copyright by Diliff A panoramic view of the Sydney skyline as viewed across Sydney Harbour from Kirribilli. Taken by myself with a Canon 5D and 100mm f/2.8 lens. This is an exposure blended image.
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Hand Drawing
Street View of Martin Place
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Figure Ground of Sydney CBD
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Hand Drawing
Street View of Pitt Street near Martin Place
Street View of Pitt Street near Hunter Street
Street View of Geogre Street
Street View of Bond Street
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Learning From Seidler
Baranduda Town Centre, 1975-1976
Seidler's principles of Baranduda Town Centre and Tuggeranong Town Centre:
Phtotgraph by Max Dupain Copyright Penelope Seidler Scanned by Polly Seidler from the Seidler Archive at Harry Seilder & Associates, Milson’s Point.
Building & Space: • The separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, without sacrifice to the needs of either. • Central area surrounded by several car- parks. • A deliberate mix of commercial, retail, recreational, and residential activities concentrated and induced in the centre. • Open central concourse is seen as the pivotal idea of the design. Landscape: • Existing natural landscape, topography, and mature vegetation in order to make as strong a contribution to the town centre design as the built form. • The use of landscaping as a screening and shading device emphasising vehicular and pedestrian movements as well as car- park areas.
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Learning From Seidler
Tuggeranong Town Centre Government Complex, 1974
Copyright Penelope Seidler Scanned by Polly Seidler from the Seidler Archive at Harry Seilder & Associates, Milson’s Point.
Analysis of Tuggeranong Town Centre
Photograph by Max Dupain Copyright Penelope Seidler Scanned by Polly Seidler from the Seidler Archive at Harry Seilder & Associates, Milson’s Point.
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Other Projects with samiliar Seidler's principles Tapiola Town Centre, Tapiola, Espoo, Finland, 1958-1970
Finland
Helsinki Region
Tapiola
Tapiolaor Hagalund(Swedish) is a district of Espoo on the south coast of Finland, and is one of the major urban centers of Espoo. The name Tapiolais derived from Tapio, who is the forest god of Finnish mythology.
Source: http://binged.it/1bzfti0
TapiolaSite Analysis _ Lea, DelpechGee Yong, Park
Benefits: A place close to the nature 1960’s buildings Viable problems: The future metro line : advantage or disadvantages Tapiola, an attractive or bored place ?
1943 1918 A fragment of the master plan forTopographical map greater Helsinki by the National Survey board By Eliel Saarinen
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1945 Disposition plan for Hagalund by Otto-livariMeurman
1956 General plan for Tapiola
1950-1960-1970 2003 The development of Tapiola decade 50-years old Tapiola and its environs by decade
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Other Projects with samiliar Seidler's principles Shoppers’ World,1951 & Southeastern University Campus, 1974-1971
It proves that the right plan and the right stores will pull buyers from an entire suburban region.
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Other Projects with samiliar Seidler's principles Southeastern Massachusetts Campus, USA Paul Rudolph’s Campus Architecture of the 1960’s
Source: http://prudolph.lib.umassd.edu/
Source: http://prudolph.lib.umassd.edu/
Source: http://prudolph.lib.umassd.edu/
Source: http://prudolph.lib.umassd.edu/
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Similarities: Group of buildings Central concourse – landscape & pedestrian area Surrounded by car parks & vehicular traffic Separation
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Tuggeranong Town Centre Project
Tuggeranong Town Centre Exising Conditions & Analysis
http://www.ledaholdings.com. au/index.php?com=com_ property&action=view&itemid=32
ANALYSIS Location The Tuggeranong Town Centre (Greenway) is located towards the far south western end of Canberra. It lies on the western side of Lake Tuggeranong. Tuggeranong Town Centre is not in the physical centre as the previous government was trying to expand Tuggeranong to the west of Lake Tuggeranong. Brindabella Mountains sitting on the southern and western side of Tuggeranong Town Centre provide a dramatic background and skyline to the Town Centre. Murrumbidgee River offers waterfront opportunity to the town. Photogragh by Graeme Bartlett Copyright Penelope Seidler
Land uses As the centre of this district, Tuggeranong provides employment, goods and services to the whole area. Therefore, the key land uses include: • The Tuggeranong Hyperdome is the largest shopping mall (approximately 70,000sqm). It contains several supermarkets, department stores and other large retailers; • Lake Tuggeranong College, includes the public library and lies on the lakes edge; • Tuggeranong town park has mainly recreational facilities, it has a formally landscaped park on the northern part of the centre which includes a skate park and swimming pool; It also has an oval and archery facilities on the western perimeter of the town centre and several significant areas of surface car parking and car park structure as well. • Australian Government (Centrelink) has proposed the construction of buildings towards the western side of the Tuggeranong town park
Site and Context Analysis Land Use Analysis
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Tuggeranong Town Centre Project
Tuggeranong Town Centre Exising Conditions & Analysis
Key Findings Analysis
Size The Tuggeranong town centre is approximately 1,233,204sqm; the area of the project is approximately 234,865sqm. The circumference of the project area is about 2,000 meters with the boundary along Athllon Drive to Pitman Street, Cowlishaw Street, Reed Street N to Athllon Drive, walking around there would take 25 minutes. Population In 2010, the residential population of Tuggeranong town centre and the whole Tuggeranong Valley was 1,360 and 89,200 respectively. The proposed population of the town centre will increase to approximately 4,000.
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Car Park Analysis
Transportation Analysis
ISSUES 1. There is an existing urban layout, which has been built with a grid structure. However, the central block was not divided competently, the existing block has a large area of buildings. 2. There are no residential buildings, this central area was zoned business and commercial use. 3. Due to limited accessibility the Tuggeranong Lake is ignored as residents cannot enjoy the lake view. There is also no access to close to the Murrumbidgee River and Brindabella Mountains. 4. There are few effective public spaces and no pedestrian connections in the town center. 5. Some existing buildings face towards the many surface car parks and they do not provide the public spaces for the people to use. 6. There are two main streets without a central optimal plan.
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Tuggeranong Town Centre Project
Tuggeranong Town Centre Mapping & Master Plan of Project OBJECTIVES 1. To connect the site to the mountains, lake, and river. 2. To make a centre more accessible to the broader surrounding area. 3. To regain its identity as a town centre 4. To maintain the vitality of streets and pedestrian precincts
Figure ground mapping of Tuggeranong town 1:20,000
Figure ground mapping of Tuggeranong town
Figure ground mapping of Tuggeranong town
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Master Plan
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Tuggeranong Town Centre Project
Tuggeranong Town Centre Section, Elevation & Strategies
A-A Section
South Elevation
North Elevation
STRATEGIES 1. A new main street and pedestrian roads are created in a central position to separate the large area of buildings. 2. There are 3 new high residential buildings in the central area to increase the diversity of land uses, and several low rise town houses are built in and around the town centre to increase the housing options and the number of people. 3. The proposed pedestrian roads are running through the whole central block linking the Anketell Street and Athllon Drive Roads, which provide access for residents from Murrumbidgee River and Brindabella Mountains to Tuggeranong Lake. 4. The created pedestrian roads and roadside retail buildings provide several different sizes of new public spaces, which are interesting and attractive, with beautiful landscape layout to promote the high quality of public open space. 5. We propose to turn the building direction towards the roads. The existing surface car parks have been replaced by car park structures to enlarge the car park area. Each car park structure has been designed with a roof garden to provide a well landscape view for people living in the near residential tower. 6. The existing main streets will be strengthened and maintained by adding street benches, planting trees, small gardens and street shops and restaurants to encourage viability, vitality and activity. The new pedestrian roads are across two main streets providing convenient and walkable access to lake and mountain. 7. Land use of the town centre provides employment, goods and services to the whole area, mixed use will be implemented to provide more opportunities for new retail business and residents. The town centre will include commercial mixed use 8. with community facilities, business offices with mixed use, retail use, residential use, car park structure, kindergarten, library and theatre. 9. New bus routes and stops will be proposed by creating new main streets and pedestrian roads, new bus stops are designed near the public open space, Residents can access the town centre.
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Tuggeranong Town Centre Project
Tuggeranong Town Centre Mapping & Master Plan of Project
Aerial view
Land Use
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URBAN RULES Skyline Wall Syndrome High-rises built around the same time tend to be similar in appearance and size. When they stand alongside one another, the effect is of a homogenous wall of buildings. It is a task of the planning authorities to adopt appropriate measures to counteract this tendency. Multi Function streets A street or district serves a variety of primary functions. • Short Blocks • Block lengths shall be short. • Quality of Street Views By virtue of their locations, topographies or buildings, certain streets possess special visual qualities. These stand under special protection. A quality of street view map specifies the view relationships and visual peculiarities that are to be protected. Shop Front Diversity A shopping street with small retail businesses cannot have a large shop whose frontage is longer than 3/2 times the average length of the neighbouring shops. Landmarks and Icons A building’s significance is determined by its contrast with the immediate vicinity and its lucidity of form. It lies within the powers of the city administration to encourage these distinctions to emerge more strongly in a given project, or instead to attenuate them. Such decisions are contingent upon the corresponding strategies of differentiation.
Transportation
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Street View
Open Space
Car Park
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