FINAL ANIMATION FRAMES

Animation Link: https://vimeo.com/442301589

The animation frame depicting the urban grassland landscape, with swaying movements, motions and activity timelapses of the use of newly implemented amenities within the Urban Grassland scheme.

However with this community garden comes with risk, and that is why only specific Indigenous plant species will be accounted for. The risk with standard community gardens regards direct food security and also can influence for decrease in farmer’s crop yielding and market sales. To avoid this issue, the scheme will have major prioritisation especially toward the Kangaroo Grass, which contributed to the flour and ‘bread’ dough making within the included bakeries.

Regarding the bakery, this was installed to allow for convenient access to bread-making facilities, to which the oven’s heat could potentially be used to heat the baths. Situated closely to the grassland, the bakery would make use of the grassland harvests, and within walking distance, reduce the amount of vehicle traffic within the area. This especially combats the ‘ruined by design’ trigger, as it directly causes the area to rely solely on natural growths to facilitate the energy source and also figuratively empower the area.

Citizens can engage with this area regularly, increasing the productivity and responding to the Urban Planning Scheme to insert active amenities to drive economic value to the area. The community may also work to propagate the agricultural produce through nearby gardening amenities. This can generate community pride and empowerment, encourage social interactions, education, recreation and providing equal opportunity for employment thus building the community and improving from its current state.

Additionally, existing vacant lots can be used as the bakery or recreational spaces, in which also directly addresses the planning scheme’s need to occupy empty buildings and generate value to the surrounding area.

As Kearney presents, community gardens have been shown to help improve social networking and organize capacity in communities especially for minority neighbourhoods or less busier environments. Coincidentally the Brunswick boundaries suit these conditions for encouraging a larger focus onto reintroduction of the Indigenous landscape in order to regrow and enhance the current state of community gardens. For the post-pandemic scenario, the scheme installs social distancing measures, spaces to which are defined by taller shrubs and trees, whilst surrounded by the native grassland.

Access is unlimited, however navigation is subtly controlled, in a way that promotes boundaries as a communally beneficial factor, to ultimately encourage sufficient distance in reducing the spread of disease. The amount of native grasses which could be planted on site was particularly insightful, as well as their nonconventional uses such as being able to convert to starch and sugars for food harvesting. In combination with being able to encourage social distancing-- especially convenient in the time of a pandemic or to separate ailing groups within a community-- the native plants may essentially prevail over manmade boundary structures such as fences, creating a more authentic experience to ‘bringing the Indigenous landscape to the urban city’.

For the bathing pools, previous knowledge about the kneipp technologies as well as implementing massage pumps, supported by the bath filters could potentially allow for hydrotherapy uses. This combined with the idea of integrating warm waters in a nature-focused environment was intended to provide a public gathering area of a comfortable temperature for those vulnerable to colds and prone to seemingly short-term ailments. However, some other possibilities that could have been portrayed, in hindsight, were perhaps incorporating small treatment rooms with a higher privacy factor, enabling ease of access to spaces for medical emergencies or treatment where necessary that is close to the bakery, grasslands and the pools. This would have been more focused on the convenience and reduction of use of transport toward the scheme.

Rough animation storyboard sketching and analysis of compositional images for drafting ideas, occurred with verbal discussion alongside group members Yukyee Chan and Yangfan Pan.

The intake of international schemes and ideas assisted in enhancement of our own ideas to further implement support systems into the Urban Grassland project which would be intended to increase the feasibility of the scheme further. Reflectively, listening to others allowed for exposure to different perceptions and understanding of the post-pandemic related triggers to which each university had to resolve. Improvements that could have been implemented was to resolve the issue of harvesting plantations on varying planes, to allow for a more abundant variety of native plants to be compacted within the vicinity, essentially maximising the use of surface area, existing on ground and also on existing buildings.

Colouring process sheets, in which was done wholly in Photoshop after drawing and defining the linework from previous sketches. The scheme was broken into 3 main parts (bakery, grasslands, waters/roof gardens); these parts were designated to each member and linework was produced. Initially the colouring was using a vibrant palette to emulate traditional Aboriginal paintings however this distracted and lost the quality of the linework, so the image was then changed to use a more desaturated and simplified scheme, with 3 main colour shades to depict the 3 main focal areas.

This is the resulting linework, without painting of the colours. From the left to right of the composition-- In the Grassland, we have details of animal habitats, social distancing and human amenities available. In the bakery, are details of the target user groups this landscape design will mostly benefit for. Towards the rooftop gardens are a futuristic depiction of largerscale harvesting technologies and finally to the right of the composition are the bathing pools accompanied by hydroponics. The pools have benefits for those who require hydrotherapy, as well as making use of the plants from the grassland for strainers/ filtering systems and for therapeutic purposes.