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11 JUNE 2021 FRIDAY

MELBOURNE

7°C - 14°C

DIAGNOSING FEAR OPEN SPACES IN NORTH RICHMOND A N D P R O M O T I N G N E W T Y P E S O F S T R E E T S C A P E S 1.

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PRODUCED BY HUA-HUAN, FAN

RMIT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN MASTER OF LANDSCPAE ARCHITECTURE

TUTORS BRENT GREENE JEN LYNCH JESSICA STEWART

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CONTENTS ABSTRACT

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CLIENTS & SKATEHOLDERS

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INTRODUCTION

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BACKGROUND

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ACTUAL SAFETY & PERCEPTION OF SAFETY

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SAFETY RELATED NEWS & SAFE INJECTING ROOM

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CRIME INCIDENCE

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METHODOLOGY

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CPTED

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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AMERICAN CITIES

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YARRA OPEN SPACE STRATEGY

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NOTATION

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SITE OF STUDY

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SITE CONDITION

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FACEADES AND ROAD WIDTH

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CONCLUSION OF STREET SURVEY

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TESTING

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TESTINGS

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TESTING LOCATIONS

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PARTICIPATE

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ACTIVATE

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FRAME

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LIFT

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LIGHT 1

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LIGHT 2

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IMPLY

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ROOF

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HIGHLIGHT

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ACTIVATION

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COMPONENTS

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NORTH RICHMOND OVERALL PLAN

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TYPE 1

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TYPE 2

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TYPE 3

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TYPE 4

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REFLECTION

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REFERENCE

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ABSTRACT W

hen it comes to the perception of safety in terms of landscape architecture, most practices usually have been committed to preventing crime through design, such as the CPTED principle. In fact, there is apparent evidence and gap between the acutal safety and perception of safety. Scientific facts do not always indicate the experience of humans and the environment.

In the region of Melbourne metropolitan, North Richmond has a specific space complexity compared to other suburbs. It is worth mentioning that the only two safe injecting rooms in Australia and one locates in Richmond and this has made the future and living quality being doubt by people because one of the negative social outcomes is the perception of safety is somehow compromised by drug use.

Although there are gaps between actual safety and an individual’s perception, perceiving perception is somehow formed by space.

Landscape architecture creates spaces and provides different perceptions with them in public. In order to respond to this circumstance, this project-based on-site visit observation and mappings to comprehend the site. To be specific, this project is focusing on creating the flow of people’s movement and get potential unsafe places to get activated with coloring, vegetation, materials and infrastructure inventions.

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Establishing safe injecting rooms is a worldwide trend according to the benefits they contribute to the drug-related vulnerable groups. At the same time, it is hard to deny that there will be a more North Richmond-like society in the future.

Landscape architecture might not the only one can improve the perception of safety in this case, but this way of designing natural surveillance and activating spaces can help.

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CLIENTS & SKATEHOLDERS CLIENTS SKATEHOLDERS

CITY OF YARRA

DRUG CRISIS IMPROVEMENT

AUSTRALIA GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

GENTRIFICATION

LOCAL RESIDENTS

BUSINESS AREA

CRIME PREVENTION

SAFE INJECTING ROOM

ECONOMY

PROPERTY DEVELOPERS

DEVELOPMENT

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INTRODUCTION P

erception is the act of perceiving by means of the senses and it is intangible. Metric for measuring perception is possible and impossible at the same time because the perception people perceiving is significantly different depends on multiple complex factors, including the environment.

The fear and threat atmosphere in North Richmond has risen while the safe injecting room was established in 2018. Public overdoses and drug waste have been seen in different laneways and other public spaces. Moreover, the local authority claimed that the crime has grown since the safe injecting room opened.

In fact, the facility does help the patients and the number of overdose and addiction is generally dropped. However, the city does not serve a specific group. Crime and waste exaggerate the negative effect of the safe injecting room.

The features of the city create spaces and activities, especially in human-scaled. Places that are always dirty, damp and dark are not coincident. Surrounding and spatial features have already formed the way people use the space. North Richmond needs the innovation of environmental design.

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Life at the sharp end of Melbourne's drug debate

It's saved lives and for some people, such as drug users like Steve, the injecting room has been a godsend.

Others say the streets are less safe and are strewn with dirty needles, and worse.

RESEARCH QUESTION HOW LANDSCPAE ARCHITECTURE PROVIDE THE PERCEPTIONOF SAFET Y AND PUBLIC HEALTH WITH STREETSCAPE DESIGN IN NORTH RICHMOND. UN GOAL 3.5 Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol.

9.1 Develop qualit y, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all.

16.4 By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime.

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BACKGROUND

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ACTUAL SAFETY & PERCEPTION OF SAFETY

SAFETY RELATED NEWS & SAFE INJECTING ROOM

CRIME INCIDENT

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ACTUAL SAFETY & PERCEPTION OF SAFETY ACTUAL SAFETY AND PERCEPTION

EMOTONAL

23 INDICATORS

GSI

RATIONAL

ACCESSMENT

NATIONAL

HUMAN

ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

EXPERIENCE

SITE

PERCEPTION

IS SAFETY SAFE IN REALITY?

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ctual safety are made up accessment people set up with variety of indicators. Global safety index is a national scale accessment and indicators, such as political instability, number of internal and external conflicts and so on. On the other hand, perception of safety is more about indivisual's experience, where ther live and their backgrounds.

The greatest factor apart from actual safety and perseption of safety is that perception of safety is

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human-scaled concerned.

Melbourne has one of the safe injecting rooms in Australia. From the mapping on the next page, it shows most of the safe injecting roomsare in developed countries. The benefit these facilities bring to society is undeniable, but they can provide negative effects at the same time.

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GLOBAL SAFE INDEX AND SAFE INFECTING ROOMS

1.0 - 1.5 1.5 - 2.0

MELBOURNE

ESTABLISHED IN 2018

SAFE INJECTING ROOM

ESTABLISHED IN 2000

SYNDEY

AUSTRALIA

2.0 - 2.5 2.5 - 3.0

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INCIDENCE OF OVERDOSE CASES IN NORTH RICHMOND

SAFETY RELATED NEWS & SAFE INJECTING ROOM LIFE IN RICHMOND, L IVIN G NE A R A N INJECTING ROOM

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umbers of overdose cases happened in public space in North Richmond through the past two dacades and the problem has got more awful for the private properties. People have found syringes and waste on the footpaths, driveways, front yards, clothslines and the staircases in front of the unfenced properties. The result of this is that more and more property owners have erected high fences and electronic gates across properties.

"W E WANT OUR STEET BACK"

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usiness and residents were opposing the safe infecting room and asking the council to relocate the facility. the facility has a honeypot effect, attracting more drug users than before and from more suburbs. Moreover, poeple think the facility is too close to a primary school and dense residential housings.

Authorities and people came together to stop deaths in North Richmond from drug crisis. Uncertainly, we had a trail safe injecting room.

IMAGE RESOURSE: Daniel Piotrowski (2017), Welcome to Australia's most liveable city: Inside the heroin hellhole behind the trendy cafes - full of dealers, addicts openly shooting up and kids stepping over the bodies of dead drug users. <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4882542/North-Richmond-grips-heroin-crisis. html>

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CRIME INCIDENT EVIDENCING THE FEAR

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rom 2017 to 2020, upon most councils in Melbourne, City of Yarra always has the second place when it comes to crime index. Richmond has the highest figure of crime and most of them happened in streets and laneways.

CRIME INDEX

CITY OF YARRA

MELBOURNE

SUBURBS

19 20

LOCATION TYPES

20

20 3,954

FLAT

1,104

HOUSE

990

OTHER RATAIL

572

CAR PARKING

360

RICHMOND

3,594

COLLINGWOOD

2,083

FITZORY

1,893

ABBOTSFORD

1,286

FITZORY NORTH

933

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OFFENCE SUBGROUPS

18

20

STREET/ LANE

STEALING

1,492

PUBLIC SAFETY OFFENCE

1,151

OTHER THEFT

1,000

OTHER DECEPTION

669

CRIMINAL DAMAGE

631

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METHODOLOGY

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CPTED

THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES YARRA OPEN SPACE STRATEGY NOTATION

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CPTED

C CPTED Principle

PTED principles are the basic rules for preventing crime in landscape architecture design. The notion of CPTED is to change people's act by designning the environment. The aim is to reduce the crime incident and improve the quality of life. There are mainly five strategies, including natural survillance, natural access control, natural territorial reinforcement, maintainance and activity support.

ADEQUATE LIGHTING

AVOID ENTRAPMENT

USE OF ACTIVITY GENERATORS

ALLOW FOR CLEAR SIGHT LINES

REDUCE ISOLATIONS

PROVIDE SIGNS AND INFORMATION

MINIMISE ISOLATED ROUTES

PROMOTE LAND MIX USE

DESIGN FOR CRIME PREVENTION?

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eople with addiction seem to be the specific group in this project and this the where the problem is brought up. in fact, the drug problem is a sensitive issue and the legalization of drugs is always being questioned these years. CPTED in th-

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is position does not prevent the crime from happening but prevents potential drug use in public and improves how people reuse the desolate spaces.

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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES THE IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL SURVEILLANCE

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atural surveillance ensures law-abiding p e o p l e c a n d i s c o ve r i l l e g a l a c t i v i t i e s .

Criminal activities can be seen by others crime can be reduced by the observers intervening.

Observers in buildings can see what is going on on the street and defend against criminal behaviors.

People on the street could see if criminals conduct illegal things in and around buildings. Most of the

waste produced by people injecting themselves, in this case, does not recognize as a crime but still can stop them dump their waste in front of the public.

Once the general incidence of deliberate throwing waste and outdoor overdose cases is decreased, the fear and disgust in the community will decline at the same time.

"The trust of a city street is formed over time from many, many little public sidewalk contacts... Most of it is ostensibly trivial but the sum is not trivial at all." - Jane Jacob

Natural surveillence

Every indivilsual is an observer in the street.

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YARRA OPEN SPACE STRATEGY

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he Yarra Open Space Strategy 2020 gives an overall vision for the future provision, planning, and management of open space in Yarra to 2031. It considers the current challenges and growing population and inner-city life and how these can be addressed with an expanded and improved public open space a system that contributes to a more liveable and sustainable region in the future.

FOCUSING AREA

KEW

Open Space future plan of Yarra and open space catchment

MELBOURNE CBD

This project focuses in the area of west North Richmond where the safe injecting room facility located.

There are three open space decided to build in the focusing area, according to the open space strategy.

The aim of this area in the document clearly shows it needs high visibility and passive surveillence for the community.

COMMERCIAL AREA OPEN SPACE YARRA RIVER OPEN SPACE CATCHMENT COUNCIL PROPOSE AREA ON-GOING OPEN SPACE

500M

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NOTATION DRAWING PERCEPTION

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he techniques of notation from Rudolf Laban and Premjit Talwar provide a framework for drawing the perception within spaces. Both two notation techniques abstract the value and function of actual space. In this way of drawing, the plan

drawings produced by landscape architects can translate the space into feeling to some extance and easier for people to read and compare the perception through graphics.

EDGES

NOTATION TECHIQUES

PATHS

NODES

LANDMARKS

DISTRICTS

A BREAK IN CONTINUITY BETWEEN 3 PATHS

LOSS OF CONTACT

PATH TURNS RIGHT

IMAGE RESOURSE: Premjit Talwar (2012), Notation Systems in Architecture / Kevin Lynch (1965), The View From the Road

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SITE OF STUDY

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SITE CODITION

FACADES AND ROAD WIDTH

CONCLUDSION OF STREET SURVEY

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SITE CONDITON

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orth Richmond is mostly covered by residential area with different size of streets and laneways.

Safe infecting room is on Lennox Street with primary school, parking lots and five social housings around. Victoria street is the commercial center of this area.

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SHELLEY S

T.

VICTORIA

CHURCH ST .

LITHGOW S

WILLIAM S

NICHOLS

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PRIMARY SCHOOL

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BAKER ST.

TH ST.

LENNOX

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GARFIELD ST .

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YORK ST.

BUILDING

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SOMERSE

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ST. CHURCH

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THOMAS

ELLIS ST.

LENNOX

OPEN SPACE

ST.

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PRIVATE SPACE

AM ST.

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BUCKINGH

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BLOCK BOUNDARY

CHURCH

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FACADES AND ROAD WITDTH This is the most typical kind of streetscape in North Richmond. The windows and front yards of each property in this kind of density provide a level of safety.

GARFIELD STREET SECTION

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GARFIELD STREET

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NO NAME LANEWAY SECTION

People don't go through this kind of laneway very often. This type of lane is usually in the middle of two garages or solid walls with no windows. When you walk in a path like this, it feels likes isolated and compressed without any physical interaction and natural surveillance.

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NO NAME

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Victoria Street, one of the most crowded streets and commercial centers in North Richmond. First-floored storefronts and heavy traffic ensure the use of streets which relatively hard to feel unsafe.

VICTORIA STREET SECTION

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VICTORIA STREET

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LENNOX STREET SECTION

Open spaces like parks on one side of the street give people a wider and more comfortable visual experience while walking in the city. It also implies the public of gathering and activities, which means a good level of natural surveillance.

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LENNOX STREET

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CONCLUSION OF THIS STREETS SURVEY

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ST.

SHELLEY S

T.

VICTORIA

CHURCH ST .

LITHGOW S

WILLIAM S

NICHOLS

PRINCES ST.

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and becomes a problematic space. In addition, the establishment of a safe injecting room has impacted those laneways even worst. People find the waste of used Syringe. Sometimes they witness drug users overdose and faint in the laneway.

ELIZABETH

POTENTIAL UNSAFE AREA

ON ST.

ccording to the previous street survey and my site visit experience, spaces that are narrow and no visual accessibility are having more possibility to be dump by waste. This, in turn, forms a negative atmosphere in people's minds

ST.

ELIZABE

BAKER ST.

TH ST.

LENNOX

ST.

GARFIELD ST .

M PL. BORMHA

YORK ST.

BUILDING

KENT ST.

SOMERSE

T ST.

ST.

ST. CHURCH

ST.

THOMAS

ST. LENNOX

OPEN SPACE PRIVATE SPACE

ELLIS ST.

HIGHETT

UNSAFE FACADE

AM ST.

BELGIUM

LENNOX

ST.

EGAN ST.

BUCKINGH

AVE.

PEERS ST.

BLOCK BOUNDARY

CHURCH

ST.

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TESTING

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TESTINGS

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TESTING LOCATIONS

PARTICIPATE

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ACTIVATE

LIFT

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LIGHT 1

IMPLY

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ROOF

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FRAME

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LIGHT 2

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HIGHLIGHT

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TESTINGS ICONS

TESTINGS

ACTIVATE

FRAME

LIFT

LIGHT 1

LIGHT 2

IMPLY

ROOF

HIGHLIGHT

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TESTING LOCATIONS TESTING ISTES

SITE 1

SITE 2

SITE 3

SITE 4

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SITE 2

SITE 1

SITE 4

SITE 3

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PARTICIPATE - PLAN

PARTICIPATE

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BEFORE

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D I S A D V E N T A G E

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The laneway is secluded with walls and people rarely walk through it.

Community gardens and new amenities make the members of the neighborhood take care of the laneway space.

BEFORE

BUILDING ENTRANE INTERFACE BUILDING EDGE

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STREET EDGE

TOPOGRAPHY

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AMENITY

PEOPLE (ONE POINT PER PERSON)

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C C'

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street tree

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outdoor cafe

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The laneway is secluded with walls and people rarely walk through it.

Building offset areas transform the space n the middle of the laneway a small commercial hub.

BEFORE

BUILDING ENTRANE INTERFACE BUILDING EDGE

TOPOGRAPHY

V

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ACTIVATE - PERCEPTION

D I S A D V E N T A G E

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AMENITY

PEOPLE (ONE POINT PER PERSON)

STREET EDGE

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FRAME

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E E'

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FRAME - SECTIONS

BEFORE

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aluminum frame aluminum wall

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E'

aluminum frame outdoor cafe

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2M F

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D I S A D V E N T A G E

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The laneway is secluded with walls and people rarely walk through it.

New walls and frames create other use of space and diversity of space figures.

BEFORE

BUILDING ENTRANE INTERFACE BUILDING EDGE

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TOPOGRAPHY

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PEOPLE (ONE POINT PER PERSON)

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cafe

staircases and ramp

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Alleyway Activation

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The laneway is secluded with walls and people rarely walk through it.

The higher ground prompts people to enter and provides better visualization.

BEFORE

BUILDING ENTRANE INTERFACE BUILDING EDGE

TOPOGRAPHY

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LIFT - PERCEPTION

D I S A D V E N T A G E

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PEOPLE (ONE POINT PER PERSON)

STREET EDGE

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LIGHT 1

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LIGHT 1 - SECTIONS

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chair

light wire

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The laneway is secluded with walls and people rarely walk through it.

The lights create a brighter and more playful space in the laneway.

BEFORE

BUILDING ENTRANE INTERFACE BUILDING EDGE

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TOPOGRAPHY

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LIGHT 2 LIGHT 2 - PLAN

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brick-liked light

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The laneway is secluded with walls and people rarely walk through it.

The continuous LED screens display media and leading people the way with flashing screens like window shopping.

BEFORE

BUILDING ENTRANE INTERFACE BUILDING EDGE

TOPOGRAPHY

V

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LIGHT 2 - PERCEPTION

D I S A D V E N T A G E

AFTER

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PEOPLE (ONE POINT PER PERSON)

STREET EDGE

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IMPLY

J

J'

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IMPLY - SECTIONS

BEFORE

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iron bar

speed bump

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J'

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The starting point of the alleyway is not obvious in some points of view which makes it none priority to pedestrians.

Plantations and pave integration attract people to enter the alleyway.

BEFORE

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STREET EDGE

TOPOGRAPHY

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PEOPLE (ONE POINT PER PERSON)

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cafe

path

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The laneway is secluded with walls and people rarely walk through it.

The cafe and dinning area form a small commerial area to serve the sorrounding neighborhood.

BEFORE

AFTER

BUILDING ENTRANE INTERFACE BUILDING EDGE

TOPOGRAPHY

AMENITY

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PEOPLE (ONE POINT PER PERSON)

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Dark wall will make people feel the space become narrower than usual.

H I G H L I G H T Installing some white walls in the middle of dark walls will highlight the white walls and give a sense of landmark.

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White walls will amplify the space than usual.

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“The trust of a city street is formed over time from many, many little public sidewalk contacts... Most of it is ostensibly trivial but the sum is not trivial at all.”

- Jane Jacobs

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ACTIVATION

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COMPONENTS

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NORTH RICHMOND OVERALL PLAN

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COMPONENTS TOOL KITS FOR ALLEYWAYS

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rovide a more comprehensive detail. This technque also questions the author itself if any chance that each tool kit can combine or interact in order to create a new idea.

TOOL KITS

ifferent from the testing part, every single strategy on the testing site is developed into a series of tool kits. Tool kits play an important role in putting the design into real site condition and p-

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PARTICIPATE

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FRAME

LIFT

LIGHT1

LIGHT2

IMPLY

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NORTH RICHMOND OVERALL PLAN IMPLEMENT IN THE SITE

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map below shows the final development of the main four designs and they are prototypes to apply to the part of North Richmond streetscapes.

Type 5 (Pave) will not be shown as a single prototype because works of the other four types have included.

STREET TYPE STRATEGIES

LITHGOW

CHURCH ST .

ST.

n general, from the previous site survey, the unsafe laneway or alley are sorted into four types of conditions and one paving type. Due to these four types of streetscapes and their features, different design strategies take from tool kits have been integrated to face the real site conditions. The

VICTORIA

ST. ST.

LENNOX

ST.

SHELLEY S

T.

VICTORIA

GARFIELD ST .

BELGIUM

LENNOX

ST.

AVE.

CHURCH

ST.

SIMTH ST.

TYPE 1 TYPE 2 TYPE 3 TYPE 4

HIGHETT

ST.

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YPE 1 located in an alleyway with no name. The biggest change in this laneway is that number of frames are installed to create a tunnel-liked space for people to travel. In the middle of lane, a staircase allows people to stand on the platform (one of the frames) and enjoy another cityscape view. Below the platform, there is a public toilet.

Under the two sides of the platform, there are two open spaces formed by offsetting the original residential buildings and change the land use of these buildings into mixed-use. This will generate activities and people flow with the commercial zone. The color of the walls in the alleyway has changed in different depth to highlight the important area for visualization and travel experience. At night, the LED screens and light can guide and display all kinds of media.

ACTIVATE

FRAME

TYPE 2 TYPE 1

LIGHT2

TYPE 4

TYPE 5

TYPE 3

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HIGHLIGHT

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lights inlay on wall

cafe

sign

concrete made frame TYPE 1 - ISOMETRIC VIEW

platform

offset zone for new commercial area

restaurant

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TYPE 1 - SITE PICTURE

BEFORE

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TYPE 1 - PERSPECTIVE

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YPE 2 located in an alleyway with no name.

The laneway is designed into a solid platform that looks like a mountain from the section. On the two sides of the lane entrances, there are slopes that slightly increase the height with two staircases on two sides. Community gardens are installed in the lane. People from the neighborhood can grow their own plants in the gardens. At the peak of the platform, this space is designed into a tiny square to provide a place for a short stay. There are wired lights and decorations hanging in the sky. At night, the LED screens and light can guide and display all kinds of media.

LIFT

PARTICIPATE

TYPE 2 TYPE 1

LIGHT2

TYPE 4

TYPE 5

TYPE 3

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lights inlay on wall

LED screen

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community garden TYPE 2 - ISOMETRIC VIEW

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YPE 3 located at the intersection of Lennox Street and Little Butler Street. The aim of this design is to imply people to use the new streetscapes. New pavement is planned to integrate and link other designs together. The topography of the intersection is lift and transformed into a speed bump and with the same pavement style.

This will change the intersection into a city square.

A design more focuses on pedestrians rather than vehicles and implies people to use the new laneway at the same time. The color of the walls around the intercestion has changed in different depth to highlight the important area for visualization and travel experience. At night, the LED screens and light can guide and display all kinds of media.

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YPE 4 located at a path next to injecting room and car park building. The path is reconstructed with new pavement and roof structure. The roof structure is not completely cover and this allows sunlight to create diversification of shadow under the structure and changed over time. Furthermore, an outdoor cafe can open in the path space and serve. this will bring more people to come and mitigate the dark and dirty feeling before.

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lleyway Activation is a newspaper form document for analyzing personal safety issue and provides a way of thinking about personal safety perception in terms of landscape architecture.

Humanity, to be specific, behavior and perception is what I am interested in. This includes politics, psychology, and society. Alleyway Activation reflects upon the relationship between what I interested in and landscape architecture.

This project involves a relatively sensitive and controversial group and community of drug users. As the legalization of the drug is being mentioned and talked about over the world, a safe injecting room becomes an alternative savior to people having an addiction. But what is the external impact of this progressive facility has brought to the community, I questioned myself.

People feel fear and loath about it. This kind of perception of personal safety is not totally promised by the authority to some extent. it is more about the surroundings and environment.

Safety? What kind of safety? Are there any metric and authorized ways to measure "Safety"?

"Eyes on the street" theory from Jane Jacob If no, is safety more about perception? How does inspired me a lot. She gives me a new lens through perception be shown? observing the streets. "Street" is a plain and empty space to laymen. In fact, different kind of streets Safety has been count with multiple factors has contained specific spatial features which in a very scientific way. For instance, the Global influence to our perception of personal safety. safe index adds on 23 factors from domestic economic to International threats. Ironically, In this particular book, the potentially unsafe these factors do not represent the perception a spaces which produce negative perception human being perceives from a human scale. Not have been designed into a series of innovative even close. Most academic social experiments use streetscapes composed of tool kits. But this questionnaires and this is unilateral. This means o u t c o m e d o e s n ' t n o t o n l y a p p l y t o N o r t h there is no absolute way to metric perception Richmond, other areas where have serious because perception is very different for everyone. perception issues are favorable. The approaches can ensure the perception of low occupied spaces The gap between actual safety and perception or potential unsafe areas being ameliorated and of safety is significant. Landscape architecture has promote community gentrification integration. always deal with actual safety.Then, how about the perception of safety?

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REFERENCE BIBLOGRAGHY >National crime prevention council (2003), CPTED guidebook >City of Yarra (2020), Yarra Open Space Strategy >Jan Gehl (2011), Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space >Jane Jacob (1961), The Death And Life Of Great American Cities >Kevin Lynch (1965), The View From the Road >Donald Appleyard (1982), Livable Streets >David Nicholas Buck (2017), A Musicology For Landscpae

ARTICLES > Jewel Topfields (2019), Life at the sharp end of Melbourne's drug debate > Laura J. Loewen, Gary Daniel Steel, Peter Suedfeld (1993), Perceived safety from crime in the urban environment >Don T. Luymes. Ken Tamminga (1995), Integrating public safety and use into planning urban greenways >Chester Harvey, Lisa Aultman-Hall, Stephanie E. Hurley, Austin Troy (2015) Effects of skeletal streetscape design on perceived safety, >The Age, Rachel Eddie (2019), Police say Richmond crime has risen since safe injecting room opened >The Police Association Victoria, Herald Sun (2019), Police report rising crime, drug use around Richmond injecting room, union survey reveals >International Network of Drug Consumption Rooms (2015), What is a Drug Consumption Room (DCR)? >Maureen Corrigan (2016), 'Eyes On The Street' Details Jane Jacobs' Efforts To Put Cities First >Dora Houpis (2020), ‘My life in Richmond’, living near an injecting room >Premjit Talwar (2012), Notation Systems in Architecture >Eduardo Souza (2020), How Colors Change the Perception of Interior Spaces >Thao-Mi Bui, Sao Yang Hew, Nick Henderson, Miguel Ayala, Klinsmann Lee, Gabriel Chenkov-Shaw, Yun Zou (2019), Drugs in Australia. Is it a Problem? >Jason King (2010), Representing Motion >Robby Herbst (2015), City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America

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