Uncovering Tributaries Conceptualising Positioning Responding
Mark Rodriguez 510981 ABPL 90176 Landscape Studio 2
Introduction: Terrain Vague and Site/Non-Site
Within the framework of terrain vague, the Bolte Bridge Site is disconnected from its context and outside the rhythms of the city. As a phenomenologically empty site, a designed intervention serves to reposition the site back into the framework of the city through careful conceptualising, positioning, and responding. Identification of local, adjacent terrain vague sites informs the present condition of the Bolte Bridge site. The warning of flooding at Moonee Ponds Creek Trail, for example, signals a local rhythm to be embraced and celebrated within the design. With the incorporation of these notions into the intervention, iterative testing challenges assumed outcomes at each stage of the design process. The result is a reconnected site identity that is nestled in the fabric of shifting rhythms.
Terrain Vague Site 1: 567 Collins Street
Terrain Vague Site 2: Below the Bolte Bridge
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Ponding at the Bolte Bridge Site
Flood Warning at Moonee Ponds Creek Trail
Ponding at the Bolte Bridge Site
Overflow Discharge at Moonee Ponds Creek Trail
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Conceptualising Investigating Site Void Intervention
Conceptualising - Investigating site.
Site is the framework on which a landscape designer constructs a dialog between landscape and the observer through design. It is the role of the landscape designer to analyze the observer’s perspective within the context of site and conceptualize a statement about landscape. Following the argument by Lynch, site is a subjective experience (92). The same forgotten plot of land under the Bolte Bridge reads differently to the longshoreman who previously called it his workplace, to the drifter who presently calls it his home, and to the Docklands tenant who in the future may call it his park. To a landscape designer site beckons analysis and design, to uncover its potentialities: spatial, historical, ecological, functional, typological, etc. In that engagement with the discourse on landscape, site becomes a tool to strengthen existing connections and highlight new ones. In relation to terrain vague, the Bolte Bridge site is disconnected from its historical and spatial context. That disconnect exists at the macro and micro scale, diminishing the site’s identity and its sense of place. How can we as designers reconnect the site within its context and uncover these hidden layers?
Moonee Ponds Creek Landscape (Riparian Typology)
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Construction Waste Landscape (Bermscape Typology)
Bolte Bridge Site
Yarra River Edge (Constructed Quay Typology)
Historical Fragment (Degradation)
Historical Fragment (Current Use)
Historical Fragment (Current Disuse)
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Conceptualising - Void Intervention
The Docklands site presents disconnected landscapes: the newly renovated Moonee Pond Creek waterfront, the native groundcover and wildflower meadow, the grassy bermscape of construction waste, and the aging quay. These distinct landscape typologies are spatially fractured from each other by fencing, the footpath, and the City Link Tollway / Bolte Bridge above. After considering these fractures, how can the landscape designer thoughtfully engage the observer and the larger site? How does one interpret this landscape of fragments? Our group saw value in each of these areas as a record of the site’s past events as well as its current function. Our response was to celebrate the history of the site by borrowing these snapshots into the past. With our void intervention we integrated Spens’s theory on contemporary landscape design, through layering of the site’s spatiotemporal context (10). We unified the disconnected site by re-purposing elements from the fractured landscapes. Within this montage of fragments we revealed the history of the site, addressed present conditions, and proposed new use and meaning. We encouraged the observer to open a dialog with landscape, to ask what the site was, what it means now, and what it could be.
Experimental Iteration: Composition of Fragments
A contrasting approach to integration could be further segregation. Taking an archeological - surgical approach, the intervention could be to continue to uncover the historical layers of the site, partially excavating the present layer to reveal the site’s past. The visual juxtaposition of aging quay and the construction waste bermscape could serve to highlight the site’s temporal layers. Using the site as a narrative, a landscape designer acts to engage the observer with landscape. Strategic analysis and design can reveal those connections and question the observer’s relationship to the immediate site as well as the broader landscape. Experimental Iterations: Weaving Riparian and Meadow Landscape
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Integration of Berm Landscape
Exposed Historical Layer: Existing Site
Integration of Meadow Landscape
Void Intervention
Process: Section Parti
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Positioning Investigating Site Void Intervention
Positioning: Walkscape
In contrast to Lynch’s argument for active analysis of the site, Careri’s Anti-walk encourages passive analysis, to allow for events to happen to the observer. With the anti-walk, the pedestrian becomes a baseline rhythm from which to measure the tempos of the natural and urban landscapes.[1] On our walk towards the Bolte Bridge site along Moonee Pond Creek, the pedestrian way acted as this baseline rhythm from which we experienced events from the riparian landscape and the constructed landscape. This was especially evident as the path wove closer to each layer, both horizontally and vertically. Certain moments on the path focused our attention towards the natural landscape (rushing water and bird calls) while others pointed to the constructed landscape (a roaring truck and a train crossing signal). As events oscillated between foreground and background, a dialog developed on the sense of place. Our understanding of site as more natural or more urban was shaped by these visual and auditory markers. The pedestrian circulation spine serves to encourage this tension between layers, across the observer. The path provided identity to the site. With this experiential memory of the larger context, we arrived at the terminus of our walk to a disjointed sense of place. The Bolte Bridge site is placeless, spatially disconnected from the dialog between the pedestrian baseline, the riparian landscape below, and the constructed landscape above; a disconnect from the city.[2]
Riparian Event
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Pedestrian Event
Vegetated Event
Vehicular Event
Anti-Walk along Moonee Ponds Creek (underlay source: Google Earth)
Anti-Walk Framework
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Positioning: Critique
Positioning this site within the experiential context of the anti-walk along Moonee Pond Creek would return a sense of place relative to the pedestrian observer. Through circulation I intend to construct a pedestrian experience, develop a relationship between the urban and natural landscape, and provide identity to the site. [3] By adjusting the pedestrian baseline rhythm through change in elevation (an increase in elevation could disconnect the pedestrian from the natural landscape below while reconnect the pedestrian to the constructed landscape above) and change in materials (cobble paving or increased slope could provide for moments of reflection) I aim to stitch these disparate layers together and repair the disjointed landscape. Notes: 1. While we set out with a loosely structured path – a beginning, an end, and a spine to meander around – our “deambulation” objective was based around the Lettrist’s view on urban space “as objective passional terrain” See p. 90 Careri,
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Spatial and Visual Layer Matrix
Francesco. Walkscapes : El Andar Como Práctica Estética = Walking as an AestheticPractice. Land & Scape Series: Barcelona : Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2002. Print. 2. In our experiences along Moonee Pond Creek, as evidence of the city’s rhythm, terrain vague becomes vital in reconnecting the site back to the city. “...through attention to continuity: not the continuity of the Planned, efficient, and legitimated city but of the flows, the energies, the rhythms established by the passing of time and the loss of limits.” See p. 123. Sola-Morales Rubio, Ignasi. Terrain Vague. In C. Davidson, Anyplace, MIT, 1995. Print.
User Interactive Digital and Analog Soundscape
3. Part of giving the site identity would involve taking an archeological approach to uncovering the existing, historical layers on site, elaborating on the void intervention. This multilayered approach was argued as part of a “quarternary set of objectives.” See p. 10. Spens, Michael. “Site/Non-Site Extending the Parameters in Contemporary Landscape.” Architectural Design 77 2 (2007): 6-11. Print.
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Responding Preliminary Iterations Concept Precedent Analysis Site Context Bolte Bridge Site Parti Precedents Design Overview Design Details Circulation Detail Iterations
Responding: Preliminary Iterations
Positioning this site within the experiential context of the anti-walk along Moonee Pond Creek would return a sense of place relative to the pedestrian observer. Through circulation I aim to weave the layers of topography, hydrology, and circulation to construct a pedestrian experience, develop a relationship between the urban and natural landscape, and provide identity to the site. By adjusting the pedestrian baseline rhythm through change in elevation and change in materials I aim to stitch these disparate layers together and repair the disjointed landscape. The varying scales are unified through the pedestrian, tactilely and visually. Through this application of the design principles at the Amsterdamse Bos – park as ecological machine – the Bolte Bridge site reconnects to the urban fabric and natural ecosystem. These preliminary iterations lack interaction with the immediate context and is out of scale with the site. Work within the site relative to the user experience in order to refine design principles.
Iteration 2: Weaving landscape typologies and circulation
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Iteration 1: Axial circulation in elevation with groundplane deformation
Iteration 3: Sequential deformation of typologies and circulation
Iteration 4A: Using the site as a rationalized floodplain for Moonee Ponds Creek
Iteration 4B: Addition of stormwater swale along central spine
Key Design Principles: • Mapping of Site Hydrology (storm, flood events, and tidal action)
• Revealing Historical Topography as a reference landscape, engineered Yarra River and its tributaries (vis a vis interventional ecology) • Experiential Memoryscape (positioning the site in the context of the Capial City Trail along Moonnee Ponds Creek)
Iteration 4C: Addition of circulation to develop an experiential memoryscape
These last few iterations begins to explore some of these key intents. While addressing the scale of the site, it needs to be grounding in historical context, spatial context, and more in-depth precedent analysis. This will help clarify the response to site, to the concepts of terrain vague, and to the position statements developed through the walkscape. Additionally, the user experience of these design moves is crucial to consider while developing this iteration scheme.
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Responding: Concept Precedent Analysis
Precedent: Amsterdamse Bos Conceived by van Eesteren and Mulder in the 1930s, the 935 hectare Amsterdamse Bos illustrates a shift in public park design away from the prevailing Picturesque style and in contrast to the established urban green spaces of Central Park in New York, the Parc des Buttes Chaumont in Paris, and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne and Sydney. As an exhibition of landscape construction techniques, the park highlights ecological processes and their effect on the generation of space. By treating the park as ecological machine, the site is positioned as another cog within the urban fabric. The designers set out to reestablish a continuous baseline ground plane and overlaid the topography with drainage systems in order to capitalize on the site’s hydrological challenges. In tandem with notions of forestry succession and public recreation, the employment of technique rather than design principle releases the park from aesthetic form. Circulation and sequence are not governed by the grand vista or the framed view: “the park is understood through the accumulation of reiterative experiences in time and space.” [1] This shift alters the pedestrian experience of site as unscripted ambulation. Critique of Precedent However, this lack of a scripted pedestrian sequence, muddled by the designed layer of woodland succession, blurs the strong initial design statement of van Eesteren and Mulder. The park remains hidden under these layers, overlooked unless uncovered by site analysis. [2] The implementation of a pedestrian baseline would serve to strengthen the circulation through the hydrologically-driven landform deformations. These ecological techniques would remain as highlights in the design, rather than receding to the background. The integration of visual and tactile scales such as the strategies of Lassus at the Gardens of Returns and the Quarries at Crazannes could reinforce the subject/object experiential quality of the Amsterdamse Bos. [3]
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Plan of Amsterdamse Bos, Amsterdam Source: Tate, A. Great City Parks, 2001, New York: Spon Press. p 169.
Notes: 1. See p.195. Berrizbeita, Anita. “The Amsterdam Bos: The Modern Public Park and the Construction of Collective Experience.” Recovering Landscape : Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture. Ed. Corner, James: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.
Cycle Route and Canal Source: Tate, A. Great City Parks. 2001, New York: Spon Press. p 177.
2. It could be an interesting prospect to reinterpret the park through de-ambulation techniques, See Careri, Francesco. Walkscapes : El Andar Como Práctica Estética = Walking as an Aesthetic Practice / Francesco Careri ; Land & Scape Series: Barcelona : Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2002. However I argue that the park should stand readily consumable in the context of landscape architecture design; interpretation should stand as experience rather than analysis. 3. Bann, Stephen. “Sensing the Stones: Bernard Lassus and the Ground of Landscape Design.” Landscape Design and the Experience of Motion. Ed. Conan, M. (2003): 53-74.
Site Section Source: Berrizbeita, A. ‘The Amsterdam Bos: The Modern Public Park and the Construction of Collective Experience.” in Recovering Landscape : Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, 1999, New York : Princeton Arch. Press. p 190.
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Responding: Site Context
Following the conceptualising and positioning exercises, the historical and spatial context emerged as a driving design principle. The Bolte Bridge site has been marked by large-scale engineering. In the mid to late 19th century, Moonee Ponds Creek was extended to the Yarra River, draining the wetland in the area while providing developable land area in West Melbourne. That adjustment continued as recent as 2002 with further straightening of the creek and the addition of a check dam at its terminus. With respect to this history, controlled flooding on-site in response to tidal levels at the Yarra River and Victoria Dept of Public Lands. “Geological Survey of Victoria�[map]. 1:126,720. Melbourne: Crown Lands Office. c1860. stormwater rhythms at Moonnee Ponds Creek would serve to celebrate the hydrological history of the site. This allowable flooding is already evident along Moonee Ponds Creek Trail. At points along the pedestrian path the elevation dips below usual water levels in part to accommodate overhead vehicular cross-circulation. Whereas that flooding is viewed as a hindrance, indicated by warning signs, it also provides opportunity to engage the user with the hydrological cycle. Simultaneously this serves to reconnect the trail with the larger site. Employing these techniques at the Bolte Bridge site would direct the same intent as well as connect the site as another node along the trail. 2002 Realignment of Moonee Ponds Creek. Source: Google Earth
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Terrain Vague: Flood Warning Sign at the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail
Vegetated Buffer and Riparian Landscape at the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail
Pedestrian-Vehicular Circulation Overlap at the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail
Pedestrian-Mass Transit Circulation Overlap at the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail
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Responding: Bolte Bridge Site
As distinct landscape typologies explored in the conceptualising exercise, the wharf, bermscape, and riparian landscape have opportunities to explore and celebrate. By highlighting these formal and conceptual features, the design is positioned as part of the context and not a foreign application on the site. This immediate physical site informs the design intervention and directs the user experience as well as test design decisions. The wharf edge provides a connection between the internal site and the Yarra River as well as directing views across Victoria Harbour. Remnants of the site’s history remain with the ship loading tracks, deformed through disuse along the groundplane. Additionally, flexible pontoon connections down the water afford opportunity to engage the user with the tidal rhythms. This continuous edge directs the user along the river, but remains disjointed at the intersection of Moonee Ponds Creek. As a node along the bike trail, this circulation could be strengthened with an unbroken connection around the site.
Existing Wharf Edge
The central grassy bermscape of construction waste under the highway serves as variation within the relatively flat groundplane across the site. There is opportunity to celebrate this change to direct cross circulation between the wharf and the creek landscapes. Additionally, berms could provide focused activity, unprogrammed recreation, and directed views. The Moonee Ponds Creek riparian landscape serves as a current terminus to the circulation along the bike trail, directing circulation south along its edge. The knuckle at the intersection of the Yarra is also opportunity to experience the differing rhythms of the creek and the river, governed by stormwater events and tidal action.
Wharf Edge Section Diagram
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Existing Bermscape and Overhead Corridor
Existing Dam and Riparian Landscape
Bermscape Section Diagram
Riparian Landscape Section Diagram
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Responding: Parti Precedents
Precedent research and analysis at this stage in the design process served to re-evaluate the design principles and re-focus the design intent. Within targeted areas of the parti, these precedents generated and tested ideas for the final design. A critical eview of these projects sought to determine what was successful and what was unsuccessful with regards to specific design decisions. For the tidal wetland, there were two concerns to test: the view across Victoria Harbour to the existing tower and the articulation of the wharf edge. At Xochimilico the raised planters established a rhythm at the water’s edge while also directing the view out across the wetland. Yet the spaces between the piers are left unprogrammed with minimal response to changing water levels, while the piers themselves are unoccupiable. Varying heights of the piers could begin to address revealing the site’s hydrological rhythms. At the central bermscape, the Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks serves as a useful precedent to examine the interaction between the groundplane and raised walkway With the strong overhead axiality and the ambulatory circulation at ground level, the berms serve to support the overhead walkway and reinforce casual circulation through the site. While maintenance concerns may dictate the need for a hardscape path through the site, that additional layer unnecessarily enforces a rigid circulation pattern.
Xochimilco Ecological Park. Grupo de Diseño Urbano. México City, México. 1993. Source: gdu.com.mx
MVVA’s Allegheny Waterfront design generated ideas about marking the hydrological rhythms at the Bolte Bridge site. Terraces set against the changing tides and stormwater-dictated levels could serve to reveal and hide circulation patterns through the site. Additionally as the water levels rise to each terrace, circulation along the edge is compressed to the next terrace. The uppermost terrace should be activated and programmed as it would remain uncovered in all but the most catastrophic hydrological event. Wharf Edge Plan Parti
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Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks. Herbert Bayer. Kent, WA. 1982. Source: John Hoge, 1982. kentwa.gov
Allegheny Waterfront. MVVA. Pittsburgh, PA. 2001. Source: Amidon, J. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Allegheny Riverfront Park. 2005, New York: Princeton Architectural Press. p 60 and 111.
Bermscape Plan Parti
Wetland Section Parti
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Responding: Design Overview
The final design is an evolved response to the notions of terrain vague, the historical context, the surrounding physical site, the analysis of precedents, and the rigorous testing through iterations. As three landscape typologies (tidal wetland, bermscape, and riparian wetland) the site is unified through circulation. The path from entry to edge and back again is the framework by which the user experiences the rhythms of the site: tidal, hydrological, pedestrian, vehicular, and ecological. The circulation through the site is compressed and expanded along with these rhythms and is responsive to the larger site. Additionally, this memoryscape provides identity to the site as a node along the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail towards the Melbourne city center and environs west.
Plan Parti
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Tidal Wetland
Aerial View South
Riparian Wetland
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Responding: Design Details
The tidal wetlands and riparian wetlands operate across and through the central bermscape, intersected by the central spine. The edge conditions reinforce views out while directing circulation along the edged and back into the site interior.
Tidal Wetland View
60M Tidal Wetland Tidal Wetland Section
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Bermscape and Circulation Spine View
90M Bermscape
Riparian Wetland View
50M Riparian Wetland Riparian Wetland Section
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Responding: Circulation
With the connection from Moonee Ponds Creek Trail, the circulation paths intersect with hydrological events through the site: the tidal wetland, the riparian wetland, the site interior stormwater path, and the Yarra River. These experiences help to inform the pedestrian of the larger hydrological cycle and celebrates the history of engineering the Yarra and its tributaries.
View of wharf edge from the Yarra River
Tidal Wetland Entry
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Tidal Wetland
Wharf Edge at Tidal Wetland
Circulation Spine Entry
Circulation Spine
Wharf Edge at Circulation Spine
Riparian Wetland Entry
Riparian Wetland
Wharf Edge at Riparian Wetland
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Responding: Detail Iterations
Continuing the use of preliminary iterative design as a mode of generating design decisions, these detail iterations server to retest those principles and refine the design at all scales. While the preliminary iterations lacked a careful study of the user experiences, this testing aims to refine that engagement with the site occupant. The outcomes not only expanded the design intents, but edited and clarified. At the tidal wetland, the edge condition across the wharf provided further opportunity to engage the user with the tidal rhythms of the Yarra River. Through exploring concepts of mapping and direct response to tidal levels, the final design move allows for the river itself to dictate the connection across the tidal wetland. The interaction a between edges of the wetland is governed by the incoming and outgoing tide. Circulation is brought back towards the site interior in order to objectify that process.
Tidal Wetland: Continuous Edge
Tidal Wetland: Tidal Markers
Tidal Wetland: Pontoon
Tidal Wetland: Tidal Action Event as Edge
The bermscape iterations worked to reinforce circulation through and across the central portion of the site. The berms direct the user in a unscripted circulation between the tidal wetland the riparian wetland. Elevating the central spine from the groundplane gives hierarchy to the site experience. The riparian wetland terminus echoes themes developed through the tidal wetland iterations. As a knuckle, that terminus provides connection between the two strips of wharf while allowing for a simultaneous experience of the hydrological rhythms of the Yarra Rver and Moonee Ponds Creek. In a rare storm event, that continuous circulation is disengaged to highlight that union of rhythms.
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Bermscape: Uninterrupted View
Bermscape: 3:1 Berms
Riparian Wetland: Terminus Set Back
Riparian Wetland: Terminus Flush
Bermscape: Elevated Central Spine Walkway
Bermscape: Lowered Edge
Riparian Wetland: Terminus Extended
Riparian Wetland: Yarra-Moonee Merge
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Conclusions Reflections Design Process
Conclusions: Reflections
Additional testing scenarios provide further reinforcement of the initial design intent. These post-iterations serve to encourage reflection on the design process as well as a chance to improve the intervention. Two scenarios were explored relative to the presented scheme. The first involves a catastrophic hydrological event, such as a 100-year flood. By increasing the height of the berms and increasing the elevation of the central spine, the design acknowledges another layer of the site’s hydrology. The berms could serve as flood markers and future evidence or expectation of such an event. The second scenario posits the design as a solution through landform manipulation only. This reduces the impact of taller site structures and unites the site under one groundplane. As a minimal intervention it blurs the distinction between the designed landscape typologies and offers a cohesive user experience across the site.
Riparian Wetland: Catastrophic Hydrological Event
Tidal Wetland: Catastrophic Hydrological Event
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Riparian Wetland
Riparian Wetland with applied cloth
Tidal Wetland
Tidal Wetland with applied cloth
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Conclusions: Design Process
Conceptualising-positioning-responding oscillates between a linear and non-linear design process. While each facet builds upon the previous, there is opportunity to review and retest, largely through iteration. Throughout the process these modes of examining site generated a set of tools to review assumed outcomes. Reflection on the void intervention questioned the notions of understanding a terrain vague site. In turn that led to exploration of the Bolte Bridge site context, and the anti-walk itself questioned its own exploration. Development of the design came with further testing of those assumptions against the historical context, spatial constraints, precedent research, and a periodic, iterative review. Additionally as a tool, Maya software forces designing through user experience rather than from a fixed plan and also facilitates quick experimentation and reflection. Looking ahead this iterative design process is ultimately a useful tool to kickstart a stalled design and generate new viewpoints for rigorous testing.
Design Notebook
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SITE
SPATIAL CONTEXT
HISTORICAL CONTEXT TERRAIN VAGUE
SKETCH PARTI DIAGRAMS
In contrast to Lynch's argument for active analysis of the site, Careri's Anti-walk encourages
passive analysis, to allow for events to happen to the observer. With the anti-walk, the pedestrian becomes a baseline rhythm from which to measure the tempos of the natural and urban landscapes.[1] On our walk towards the Bolte Bridge site along Moonee Pond Creek, the pedestrian way acted as this baseline rhythm from which we experienced events from the riparian landscape and the constructed landscape. This was especially evident as the path wove closer to each layer, both horizontally and vertically. Certain moments on the path focused our attention towards the natural landscape (rushing water and bird calls) while others pointed to the constructed landscape (a roaring truck and a train crossing signal). As events oscillated between foreground and background, a dialog developed on the sense of place. Our understanding of site as more natural or more urban was shaped by these visual and auditory markers. The pedestrian circulation spine serves to encourage this tension between layers, across the observer. The path provided identity to the site.
SITE
With this rich, experiential memory of the larger context, we arrived at the terminus of our walk to a disjointed sense of place. The Bolte Bridge site is placeless, spatially disconnected from the dialog between the pedestrian baseline, the riparian landscape below, and the constructed landscape above. As such the pedestrian is disconnected from the city.[2]
COMPUTER MODELLING
SITE
PRECEDENTS
Positioning this site within the experiential context of the anti-walk along Moonee Pond Creek would return a sense of place relative to the pedestrian observer. Through circulation I intend to construct a pedestrian experience, develop a relationship between the urban and natural landscape, and provide identity to the site. [3] By adjusting the pedestrian baseline rhythm through change in elevation (an increase in elevation could disconnect the pedestrian from the natural landscape below while reconnect the pedestrian to the constructed landscape above)and change in materials (cobble paving or increased slope could provide for moments of reflection) I aim to stitch these disparate layers together and repair the disjointed landscape.
READINGS
1. While we set out with a loosely structured path – a beginning, an end, and a spine to meander around – our objective from the “deambulation” was based around the Lettrist's view on urban space “as objective passional terrain” See p. 90 Careri, Francesco. Walkscapes : El Andar Como Práctica Estética = Walking as an Aesthetic Practice / Francesco Careri ; [Traducción Al Castellano Maurici Pla ; English Translation, Steve Piccolo, Paul Hammond]. Land & Scape Series: Barcelona : Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2002. Print.
ITERATIONS
2. Based on our experiences along Moonee Pond Creek, as evidence of the city's rhythm, the questions raised by “terrain vague” become vital in reconnecting the site back to the city. “...through attention to continuity: not the continuity of the Planned, efficient, and legitimated city but of the flows, the energies, the rhythms established by the passing of time and the loss of limits.” See p. 123. Sola-Morales Rubio, Ignasi. Terrain Vague. In C. Davidson, Anyplace, MIT, 1995. Print. 3. Part of giving the site identity would involve taking an archeological approach to uncovering the existing, historical layers on site, elaborating on what I attempted in the void intervention. This multilayered approach was argued as part of a “quarternary set of objectives”. See p. 10. Spens, Michael. "Site/Non-Site Extending the Parameters in Contemporary Landscape." Architectural Design 77 2 (2007): 6-11. Print.
Design Process Matrix Collage
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