Porous Ecologies Kimberley Hui

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Porous Ecologies ARC3002

Peter Charles K.Kiera.Hui. 26033720



Prologue “If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.” — Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 I don’t know what’s the best way to describe this semester, all I would really tell you is that it has been a mixture of vexing and stressful emotions that has turned my head space into a black hole. It’s quite terrifying really, yet it somehow managed to push me to achieve some sort of an outcome. In all honesty, I didn’t expect my semester to be like this. The sudden jump of designing individual buildings to understanding the systems of the urban landscape was definitely a challenge, yet it was also a stressful experience for me, especially what we constantly worked in different groups. Oddly enough, was my interest in urban design that provoked me to study architecture. Now that I’ve been given a taste of urbanism it has made me rethink my methods of design, approaches to design and the appreciation of working with various scales - for now I think I’m still quite afraid of accepting these factors but hopefully time and experience will change that. I can’t tell you precisely what I have learned from this semester. Though I will be able to tell you that it this studio has made me become more aware of who I was as a person and how much I have changed within these years of architecture. To start from a student walking into this field with no knowledge of who Frank Ghery or Le Corbusier was to now understanding that any small matter is big matter or that there is no actual definition to what architecture really is - it has been a humbling three years, and I am forever thankful for that.


Chapter I In which she realised that it program and space will be the defying factor The first two weeks was understanding the “void” and “volume”. At the start of the lesson we were given a system (waste) and strategy (Landscape Urbanism). I was given Decamping Detroit to study and see the effects of overlaying their strategies on top of the block of QV and consider the possible programs that would ignite from the overlay. It was from this I realise that Volume and Scale would be a challenge for me to understand throughout this semester.


254580 cubic meters not including airspace 3359903 cubic meters including airspace Basement- 107044 cubic meters Level 1- 19366 cubic meters Level 2- 12884 cubic meters Level 3- 87682 cubic meters Level 4- 27604 cubic meters Airspace- 3105323 cubic meters

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WASTE GROUP Tim, Kim, Noah, Darren, Nathan

Food Takeaway

Major Chains

Retail Apparel

Art

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Chapter II In which she realised that it was the mass and the space inbetween would defy who she really is The next part was understanding the 1:20 FAR. This was the toughest part considering that I was yet to understand what Landscape Urbanism was. Furthermore, we had to be in our system groups (waste in my case) and overlay strategies to make a waste system work. This was the hardest part yet due to the lack of properly understanding the amount of waste, and also not fully comprehending waste management.



Chapter III In which she understood that compromising will be a hard task The most complex task was understanding how each strategy had their own distinctive style, and trying to understand how to accommodate what was appropriate and fitting was challenging. To make things harder, it was understanding the various types of waste systems available and also how to take advantage of those.



Blocks outside the given territory

Phase 01

-Where Landfill is finished/ closed and in preparation for Reclamation Alloted boundary for landfill

Land reclaimation sorting, transfer facility Temporary Station for Landfill Managers

Logistics Distributions Centre

Phase 02 (20 years later)

- Reclamined land is slowly being vegetated and programmed Land slowly plotted for greenery

Phase 03 (5-10 years)

-Reclaimed land is now a green space that acts as a barrier between different programmed areas -New spaces for water tower and also a tram line Water tower and tram stop

Diagram of Reclamied Land Program Landscape Urbanism

Chapter IV In which combining systems was even more of a challenge Then came the drastic swap, where I was thrown into the Landscape Urbanism group... As we were doing individual types of systems we had to understand how it affects on different blocks. I decided to investigate landfill - bit off more than I could chew.


Landscape Urbanism Using Water and Mobility as Base Tertiary Layer 01

Landscape Urbanism Using Logistics and Waste as Base Tertiary Layer

Landscape Urbanism Using Water and Mobility as Base Tertiary Layer 02

Landscape Urbanism Using Logistics and Waste as Base Secondary Layer

High Rise Residential - 40 Stories Mid-Rise Residential - 15-20 Stories Low-Rise Residential - 3-6 Stories Commercial Building

Potential Development Areas

Roads

OfďŹ ce Areas

Parking

Retail & Public Space Residential Areas Logistics & Waste Roads

Green Spaces

Landscape Urbanism Using Logistics and Waste as Base Starting Layer

Landscape Urbanism Using Water and Mobility as Base Secondary Layer 01

Groundwater Pump

Landscape Urbanism Using Water and Mobility as Base Starting Layer

Landscape Urbanism Using Water and Mobility as Base Secondary Layer 02


Chapter V When Mid Semester Came Once again our groups have been reshuffled. I found myself working with Mat Urbanism Waste, New Urbanism Mobility and Metabolist Mobility. We had to devise a way to combine our strategies to make it a successful one, I learnt that scale can be greatly underestimated. There was also individual work, in this case, I explored a catalyst strategy and also understand how to manage waste storage. It was fun - however, at that point I was still trying to understand what I wanted to achieve for this studio.


Understanding waste as nodes Combining Waste Nodes and Mobility Network

Understanding mobility as nodes

Combining Waste Nodes and Mobility Nodes and Network

Understanding Waste as a network

Waste Movement within Underground Landfill Waste Delivery Route Recyclables Delivery Route Underground Waste Collection Area Rail for Recyclables Delivery

Understanding mobility as a network

Waste & Mobility Hybrid Structure Axonometric 1/1000 Approx.

Combining Waste Nodes and Mobility Nodes and Network combined with eliminationof space

Bus stop

Bus stop

Bus stop

Bus stop

Waste collection route

Carpark

Carpark Uber pick up

Uber pick up Main road

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Waste Movement within Underground Landfill Waste Delivery Route Rail for Recyclables Delivery

Waste & Mobility Hybrid Structure Plan 1/1000

Recycling Landfill waste

Storage

Exploration of centralising the system (On single block) Elevating the General Waste stations to provide smoother flow of traffic Also a centralised stop will minimise the number of permanence, allowing a more efficient waste flow Exploration of edge conditions yet still maintaining the centralised system (on super block)

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Waste Sorting and Mobility Hybrid Set Up


IN WHICH THEY REALISE THAT THEY HAVE TO TIP TOE THEIR WAY AROUND L.U., Waste & Water, 01, Kimberley Kiera Hui Abstract Working in conjunction with the stages of sewage systems, we focus on the placement of the outputs of the tertiary outputs of the sewage treatment - Biosolids. We willl take a single block that is scheduled to be demolished, from there, two buildings are selected to be replaced with tanks that would allow storage and aeration of Biosolids that could later be collected an redistributed for agriculture, building or landfill. The placement of the tanks will ultimately also dictate how people and buildings will fit within the space otherwise understand the possible connections that could arise from the introduction of these systems.

The Components - Single Block within four blocks - The selected block must be scheduled for demolishing - Must be placed on corner outer edge conditions to condition the possible odours that could arise from the tanks - A high rise building that is connected to the Biosolid tanks

Buildings Green Space

Area to be demolished Biosolids Tank


Machine Control Room at Ground Level Ventilation flow within the Biosolid Pits Biosolid Pits/Tanks with cover Lime Mud to control odour Biosolids

Internal Vent for Odour to pass Another Program (I.e. Retail, Commercial, Residential)

Biosolids Processing Space

External Access away from the tanks. Stairs & Elevator

Biosolids Storage and Aeration

Possible Green Spaces to serve as a barrier

Collection truck for Biosolids

Planning Placement Study (From Previous Landfill Studies)


IN WHICH THE COMPANIES REALISE THAT TO GET A PRIME LOCATION THEY NEED TO CREATE THE APPROPRIATE WASTE L.U., Waste, 02, Kimberley Kiera Hui Abstract In order to decide what type of program is to be distributed around the area, we propose that specific recycling stations needs to be placed in order to have a more efficient system in terms of waste recovery and redistribution of recycled items. In this case, selecting three empty blocks, a glass recovery and recycling facility will be built.

1. Introducting a glass recycling centre

The primary function of the center is to introduce programs that are the result of the inputs and outputs that comes from the cycle of glass being created, used and thrown away.

2. Later addition of programs that requires outputs from the centre

The Components The Recycling Process of Glass Broken Windows, Pyrex, Construction Glass

Waste (Recyclables)

Other Recycling Facilities Art Studios, Ceramics Schools/ Studios

Material Recovery Facility

Stain Glass, Construction Glass Glass

Paper

Plastics

Pyrex, Ovenware, Lightbulb Landfill

Glass Manufactoring Glass to be Recycled Brown

Green

Secondary Glass

Clear

3.The newly placed programs will catalyse other programs that either has the same inputs and outputs

Pavement Sandblasting Tiling Concrete

Crushed Melted

Limestone, Soda Ash, Additonal Sand

New Bottles

Winery

Jam

Drinks

Boxes Highlighted in Colour are Referred in the Second Page

4.An expansion of an ecology has reflects the life cycle of recycling glass/waste


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3. Interconnected inputs and outputs related to programs introduced in stages 1 & 2 could potentially be placed


Waste Sankey Diagram Building Waste

Incinerator Hazardous

Hard Waste

Incineration Energy

Electronic Waste Glass

Demolition Landfill

Plastic

Non-petruscible

Compaction

Treatment Plant

Shredding

Recycling

Heat Treatment

Cardboard

Petruscible

Reclaimed Land

Renewed Material Compost

Sewage

Garden Waste

Decomposition

Leachate

Compost Sediment

Type

Classification

Region

Process

Output

Industrial Buildings. Factories

Garden Waste General Waste

Paint

Domestic Hard Rubbish

Building Demolition

Bins

Scrap Timber/ Recycled Timber Planks Rubbish Bin Collectors

Expired/ Used Fire Extinguisher Tip Loading Trucks

Timber Yard

Industrial Waste

TV Hard Waste

Gas tank Green Waste

Cardboard

Electronic Electronic

Whelan The Wrecker

Port Philip Waste Depot Chemical Treatment Mulch Recycling Stations

To Landfill

Rubbish Truck Storage


Name: Cleanaway (Above), Tullamarine Landfill (Below) Address: 42 Market Rd, Brooklyn VIC 3012 Status: Closed Permanently Types of Waste Accepted: Non Protrusible (Above), Protrusible Waste (Below) Owner: Cleanaway (Private Company)

Brimbank The Green Centre 1 Stadium Dr, Keilor Park

Darebin Resource Recovery Centre 30 Kurnai Ave, Reservoir

Banyule Waste Recovery Centre Maribyrnong Moonee Valley Transfer Station 188 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds

Brunswick Waste Transfer

32 Kirkdale St, Brunswick East

Melbourne CityWide Waste Transfer Centre

City of Yarra

437 Dynon Road, Kensington

Sunshine Groupe Bio-Centre 125 Bunting Rd, Brooklyn

Cleanaway

174 Old Geelong Rd, Brooklyn

Visy Recyclers Glass

46-48 Dohertys Rd, Laverton North

Boroondara Transfer Station

Port Phillip Council Depot and Transfer Station

648 Riversdale Road, Camberwell

56-70 White and Boundary Streets, South Melbourne

Altona North

Stonnington Waste Transfer Station 32 Weir Street ,Malvern

Transfer Station Material Waste Recovery (Recycling) Landfill


Chapter VI In which she played the volume game Step back and study precedent cities (tied in with history). I studied areas around Tokyo and played wtih City Engine Codes. It was amusing and entertaining at the same time, especially when I attempted to overlay it onto Fisherman’s Bend.



Fragments of Fisherman’s Bend | Objects collected from Site A

Chapter VII Fragments of Fisherman’s Bend | Objects collected from Site B

In which she found that Fisherman’s Bend was... a ghost town Site analysis images



Chapter VIII In which she was thrown into another group This time we had to combine our strategies based on our patents that we proposed during Mid Semester Presentation. I was grouped with Water and Two Logistics. Somehow rather than using my Patent strategy I was tasked to understand soil and landfill.







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Waste Statistics (between 2009-2010)

5.7 million tonnes of waste was produced from the Australian Economy (Imports included) 31% of the waste was generated from the Construction Industry 37% of the waste generated from industries and household are masonry materials 24% of the waste generated from industries and household are organic waste 12% of the waste generated from industries and household are cardboard and paper

Avergage number of people per household

Amount of Rubbish Produced/ Person per week(1 bag = 1tonne)

Amount of Rubbish Produced/ Person per year(1 bag = 1tonne)

Amount of Rubbish Produced/ Household per year (1 bag = 1tonne)

Chapter VIII In which she realise the scale of landfill will be the death of her As the chapter title suggests... I was having a hard time understanding the processes of landfill. Primarily it was the scale and also knowing the limitations that was the big issue.


a. landfill could be dug down and be used for carpark

b. artificial ground could be used to “cap� the landfill using the gas produced from the landfill to provide electricity via the infrastructure built on top of artificial ground

c. landfill could potentially be reclaimed and be used as a public park otherwise a recreational space

d. be used as a solar panel station and allow electricity to be distributed around the area

Landfill at 30x30m


Buildings are taller as they radiate away from the landfill

Large area that could be reclaimed and used for property development Wider roads for Public park can be more truck access an option (depending on what surrounds it)

Landfill at 200x200m




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Chapter VIII In which she realise the scale of landfill will introduce all kinds of limitations The problem with landfill is that it can remove a huge chunk of profitable estate. So what are we suppose to do?



industrial waste to lay out the foundations of the landfill the process should take around 5-10 years - Followed by accepting of household/organic wastes - All wastes will be collected by the council of Port Phillip and the waste must be processed via the recovery facility (recovery facility may grow and expand)

a boundary for the landfill

- 1m heigh of fresh soil will be placed to separate waste from contaminating

the original soil of Fisherman’s Bend (Possibly soil remediation treatment

on site beforehand)

- Three entrances, one entrance designated for private cars

two other entrances for wide trucks

- placement of two recovery facilities near where the

truck entrances are

- South end to receive industrial waste (for

business in)

would most likely bring residential and commercial

- North End to receive residential waste (canal

industrial/ commercial and also construction waste)

An offset of 10m allows a wide road for possible programs while landfill is still in place.

allow a building of single storey infrastructure (i.e. pavilions, etc.)

otherwise even

division of zones that would allow various kinds of activities

there could be

- As the hill itself has different kinds of slopes and elevations,

begin vegetation/ regeneration process

mud and

- In the mean time, fresh soil will be placed on top of the lime

odour

lime mud will be covered in order to treat the landfill to prevent

- After the landfill has reached the capacities in different zones,

Stage 3: The Finishing

allow people to relax by the walled up park next to it

Otherwise in 10-20 years time, when odour is under control there would be placements of benches and small ammenities that would

- The landfill site will first only accept construction and

the area on that end is more likely to have

Stage 2: Treatment and Waste Dumping

- A wall of masonary bricks will be placed to secure

10-20 years

Stage 1: The placement

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Landfill for Construction Waste

50m2 Soil Collected from Construction

30m2 Construction Area

Stage 1: Boundary and Construction [0 years]

Soil Remediation During Construction Stage 2: Construction and filling of the Landfill [2-5 years]

Stage 3: Landfill Being Filled [5-10 years]

Stage 4: Filling of Landfill [10-15 years]

Area for Solar Panels? Stage 5: Breakdown and Remediation and Plandation [10-15 years]





Bar-Coding Fisherman’s Bend Nitsan Bartov, Kimberley Hui, Guy Kerem, Sam Zhao

Chapter VIIII

For our selected area within Zone 2 of Fisherman’s Bend, we decide to introduce an artificial canal from the Yarra River and also a highway extending from the West Gate Freeway. The implementation of these two infrastructure will cause certain tensions in not only the edges where they meet, but also in spaces that would foster new programs that benefits from these new additions. These newly created pressures are taken advantage of and are turned into new possible hybrid infrastructures and programs, bringing fourth new possibilities and perhaps an improved kind of ecology that could be replicated within Fisherman’s Bend.

The “Bar Code” Application

In which she realise that End of Semester is Happening Development of the Areas that can be replicated in Stages

Our proposed design was mainly about regeneration. What was helpful during the end of semester review was how each proposal had the challenge of understanding the scale and process over time. As many of our design were more schematic and process based, it was hard to make confident decisions on the formalised

The “Bar Code” Application

TIMBER

Through CityLink/West Gate

CONCRETE

Fisherman's Bend Concrete Factories

process. For me in particular, it was the struggle of knowing whether to present the formalised or non formalised work.

City Engine Trials

OMA Application Theory


Factories

IRON Through Port Philip/Yarra

Proposal 1// The Canal The introduction of Canals is not only used allow direct access of material deliveries to construction sites, but also to catalyst certain building typologies which provides economic benefits along the Canals, and semi-shared spaces in-between to encourage the development of a community

Proposal 2// The Landfill Within Bringing the landfill into the dense area aims to bring awareness of waste management within the everyday experience. The landfill is an overtime process that would provide potential programs for those who live and work around it. As the landfill would be reclaimed many years later, it could open up potentials for various kinds of activity.

25% DEMOLISHED

25% BUILT

Proposal 3// A Generation of Regeneration Containing construction processes within the block in order to ease pressure on streets and roads; and integrate construction with society and daily routine in a harmonious way.

75% DEMOLISHED

75% BUILT

Proposal 4// The Plug-in System The aims to transmit pressure created from the newly built main road to other force that can drive the block. In doing so, the pressure would be disposed by those attached program combination that would potentially establish various kinds of

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Understanding Progression

Section Scale: 1/500

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Waste, Fresh Soil, Waste, Lime Mud, Soil (Garden)

Stage 1// Soil

Waste, Fresh Soil, Waste, Lime Mud

Waste, Fresh Soil

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Dumping of Construction Waste

Soil Remediation

Soil from Fisherman’s Bend

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Solar Panel Field

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K.Kiera.Hui

Landfill Waste Fresh Soil Fill Port Melbourne Sands Coode Island Silt Fisherman’s Bend Silt

Cleanaway Transfer Station Brooklyn

Moray Street Gravel Tertiary Older Volcanic Werribee Formation

Melbourne Formation, Siltstone / Sandstone

Sunshine Groupe Bio-Centre Brooklyn (1927-1967) (1927-1967)

(1965-1991)

Altona North Landfill Site Altona North

Visy Recyclers Glass (1973 - Present)

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Soill Toxicity Study

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Study of Tokyo T Bay Progression ogression

Waste Recovery Centre Laverton North

Scale study of other landfill Scale: 1/2000 1/2

Landfill Studies





Bachelor Studio Review Response Name: Kimberley Kiera Hui Date of review: 29/08/2016 Studio: ARC3001 Your Studio instructor: Peter Charles Studio review attended: Martians – Tom Morgan I. Give a brief description of the studio/ projects you observed at the review (2-3 sentences): Martians explores various architects’ manifestos about utopia. Through the exploration of the manifestos coupled with theories of approach to utopia, each student presents a narrative that either reflects, abstracts or modifies the principles of utopia they have studied and create a possible harmonious master plan or system that could possibly be imposed on Planet Mars.

II. Provide a considered

reaction to the review you observed. (2-300 words) What did you learn from the review presentation(s)? Compare and contrast approaches to the theme with your current studio pursuits? What insights have you gained that might inform your studio pursuits? In comparison to my studio, the strategies and approaches that was displayed in Martians is to a certain extent shares certain principles otherwise theories that instigated our design process. What I thoroughly enjoyed during the presentations were how the students each provided a narrative that sets up an atmosphere for their approach while still maintaining a theoretical principle. In contrast to the design intentions between the studio, I find that Martians, despite being a strategic planning, they are more focused on the occupancy of people, whereas in our studio, we are more focused on the occupancy of systematic principles that would challenge how people occupy various spaces otherwise occupy around the systems that we have intercepted within the given area. However, both studios do require the consideration of planning at different scales in order to successfully articulate the potentials of their proposals. Furthermore, because Martians is about the settlement and the change over time in approaches to utopia, I liked how the project is a time based strategy – which is something that I am currently focusing on, thus allowing me to consider the diagrammatic representations that I need to focus on.


ARC3002, 2016 Peter Charles K.Kiera.Hui. 26033720


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