FRAMING THE FIELD Exploring the formation and sequencing of walking trails in the Dandenong Ranges through the investigation of field. Thomas Collins 3377283
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DANDENONG RANGES ACCESS MAP DRIVING AND WALKING 1:30000
The Dandenong Ranges Field Guide
This guide explores the generation of a connected and cohesive walking trail network in the Dandenong Ranges through the exploration of generating and identifying fields. Three key and distinct scales are investigated, each with an outcome contributing to the network the regional scale, local scale and field scale, the network aims to connect the region through a series of points incorporating new and existing trails and sites along its length. ‘Walking is simultaneously an act of perception and creativity, of reading and writing the territory’ Careri, F 2002, Walkscapes, Editorial Gustavo Gilli, Barcelona, pp. 50.
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Dandenong Ranges location in Victoria
Roads
Existing Walking Trails
Towns
Train Line
Bus Stops
Carparks
Water
Forest
THREE SCALES OF EXPLORATION
REGIONAL SCALE Generating Fields To suggest the formation of the network
To surround
Layer LAYER
Join
JOIN
LAYER LAYER
LOCAL SCALE
JOIN JOIN Identifying Nodes LAYER To create the trail specific to its site
DIVIDE
To reveal
UNFOLD
OVERLAY
Layer LAYER LAYER
Divide DIVIDE DIVIDE
Intensify UNFOLD UNFOLD
Overlay OVERLAY OVERLAY
OVERLAY OVERLAY
SITE SCALE Framing Site
PUSH MERGE To form space capturing its unique and sometimes fleeting conditions
To frame
AMPLIFY
DISPLACE
Merge MERGE MERGE
Push
Amplify AMPLIFY AMPLIFY
Displace
PUSH PUSH
DISPLACE DISPLACE
Cool temperate Grassy forest lowlands Occurrence : common Endangered Species: Sooty Owl, dandenong freshwater amphipod
Swampy Riparian complex Occurrence : common Endangered Species: painted honey-eater
Cool temperate Grassy forest lowlands Occurrence : common Endangered Species: Sooty Owl, dandenong freshwater amphipod
Swampy Riparian woodland Occurrence : common Endangered Species: powerful owl, dwarf galaxias
YARRA RANGES LANDCARE
Swampy Riparian woodland Occurrence : common Endangered Species: powerful owl, dwarf galaxias Cool temperate Grassy forest sheltered/high altitude Occurrence : common Endangered Species: White-throated needletail, eastern pygmy possum
Community Driven - Hosts multiple local landcare and 'friends of' groups
Swampy Riparian woodland Occurrence : common Endangered Species: powerful owl, dwarf galaxias
Cool temperate Grassy forest sheltered/high altitude Occurrence : common Endangered Species: Sooty owl, brown tree creeper, eastern pygmy possum
Southern Dandenongs Landcare YARRAMonbulk RANGES LANDCARE Landcare
The Patch Landcare
Cool temperate Grassy forest sheltered/high altitude Occurrence : common Endangered Species: White-throated needletail, eastern pygmy possum
Community Driven Olnda Creek Landcare - Hosts multiple local landcare and 'friends of' groups Thompsons Road Area Community (TRAC) YARRA RANGES LANDCARE Southern Dandenongs Landcare - Local group led maintenance and working bees Community Driven Monbulk Landcareand support for volunteers - Community based involvement - Hosts multiple local landcare and 'friends of' groups - Lobby for funding and the allocation of resources to the project The Patch Landcare
Cool temperate Grassy forest sheltered/high altitude Occurrence common Cool temperate rainforest:Species: White-throated needletail, Occurrence :Endangered rare pygmy eastern possum Endangered Species: Broad toothed rat, greater glider
Swampy Riparian complex Occurrence : common Endangered Species: painted honey-eater
Cool temperate Grassy forest lowlands Occurrence : common Endangered Species: Sooty Owl, dandenong freshwater amphipod
Olnda Creek Landcare Proposing the project to Yarra Ranges Southern Dandenongs LandcareCouncil and Parks Victoria for approval and funding(TRAC) Thompsons Road Area Community Monbulk Landcare
Cool temperate Grassy forest lowlands Occurrence : common Endangered Species: brown tree creeper, dwarf galaxias
The Patch Landcare Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Broad toothed rat, greater glider
Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Chestnut-rumped heathwren, black wallaby, grey goshawk
- Local group ledRANGES maintenance and working bees YARRA COUNCIL Olnda Creek Landcare - Community based involvement and support for volunteers - Lobby for funding and the allocation resources to the project Thompsons Road AreaofCommunity (TRAC) Attracts State and Federal Funding Proposing the project to Yarra Ranges Council Owns group the existing proposed sites andland Parks Victoria forinfrastructure approval andfor funding -- Local ledand maintenance and working bees -- Community Maintains infrastructure including: roads, drainage and footpaths based involvement and support for volunteers Have an the growth of the tourism industry -- Lobby forinvested funding interest and the in allocation of resources to the project and the health of the local economy - Independent township groups generate interest for local issues YARRA RANGES COUNCIL - Promotes innovation, creativity and sustainability as key values Proposing the project to Yarra Ranges Council and principles and Parks Victoria for approval and funding
Cool temperate Grassy forest lowlands Occurrence : common Cool temperate rainforest Endangered Species: brown tree creeper, Occurrence : rare dwarf galaxias Endangered Species: Broad toothed rat, greater glider
Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Powerful owl, chestnut-rumped heathwren
Cool temperate Grassy forest lowlands Occurrence : common Endangered Species: brown tree creeper, dwarf galaxias Swampy Riparian woodland Occurrence : common Cool temperate rainforest Endangered Occurrence : rare Species: powerful owl, dwarfSpecies: galaxiasChestnut-rumped heathwren, Endangered black wallaby, grey goshawk
Attracts State and Federal Funding - Owns the land VICTORIA and existing infrastructure for proposed sites PARKS YARRA RANGESincluding: COUNCILroads, drainage and footpaths - Maintains infrastructure - Have an invested interest in the growth of the tourism industry and the health of the local economy Funded by State Government andinterest CouncilforRates - Independent township groups generate local issues Attracts State and Federal Funding - Promotes innovation, creativity and sustainability as key values Accountable to and residents principles --and Owns the land existing infrastructure for proposed sites
Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Powerful owl, chestnut-rumped heathwren Cool rainforest Cool temperate temperate rainforest Occurrence rare Occurrence ::Species: rare Endangered Chestnut-rumped heathwren, Endangered Species: Powerful Owl, black wallaby, grey goshawk greater glider, brown tree creeper, broad toothed rat, sherbrooke amphipod
Cool temperate rainforest Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Powerful owl, Endangered Powerful Cool Species: temperate Grassy owl, forest sheltered/high altitude chestnut-rumped heathwren white-throated needletail, greater glider, Occurrence : common eastern Endangered pygmy possum Species: White-throated needletail, eastern pygmy possum
Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Powerful Owl, greater glider, brown tree creeper, broad toothed rat, sherbrooke amphipod
Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Powerful owl, white-throated needletail, greater glider, eastern pygmy possum Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Powerful Owl, greater glider, brown tree creeper, broad toothed rat, sherbrooke amphipod
Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Powerful owl, white-throated needletail, greater glider, Cool eastern temperate rainforest pygmy possum Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Broad toothed rat, greater glider
Cool temperate Grassy forest lowlands Occurrence : common Endangered Species: brown tree creeper, dwarf galaxias
- Maintains infrastructure including: roads, drainage and footpaths - Have an invested interest in the growth of the tourism industry Community Aims and Focuses and the health of the local economy -Yarra Independent generate interest forislocal issues Ranges Council - groups Learning for Sustainability a school based program PARKStownship VICTORIA Community Driven -encouraging Promotes innovation, creativity and sustainability as key values - Hosts multiple local landcare and 'friends of' groups and principles students to learn of their ecological footprint and the environmental health of their community Funded by State Government and Council Rates YARRA RANGES LANDCARE
Southern Dandenongs Landcare Monbulk Landcare
Parks Victoria - Healthy Parks Healthy People program promoting the health benefits of -the Accountable to residents communities connection with nature and Victoria's parks PARKS VICTORIA Community Aims and Focuses
The Patch Landcare
FundedCouncil by State Government and Council Rates Yarra Ranges - Learning for Sustainability is a school based program encouraging - Accountable to residents Thompsons Road Area Community (TRAC)students to learn of their ecological footprint and the environmental health of their community Community Aims and Focuses Parks Victoria - Healthy Parks Healthy People program promoting the health benefits of Areas of Conservation the communities connection with nature and Victoria's Yarra Ranges Council - Learning for Sustainability is a parks school based program - Local group led maintenance and working bees encouraging - Community based involvement and support for volunteers students to learn of their ecological footprint and the environmental health of their - Lobby for funding and the allocation of resources to the project community Olnda Creek Landcare
Proposing the project to Yarra Ranges Council and Parks Victoria for approval and funding
Parks Victoria - Healthy Parks Healthy People program promoting the health benefits of the communities connection with nature and Victoria's parks
Areas of Conservation
YARRA RANGES COUNCIL
Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Chestnut-rumped heathwren, black wallaby, grey goshawk
Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Powerful owl, chestnut-rumped heathwren
Attracts State and Federal Funding - Owns the land and existing infrastructure for proposed sites - Maintains infrastructure including: roads, drainage and footpaths - Have an invested interest in the growth of the tourism industry and the health of the local economy - Independent township groups generate interest for local issues - Promotes innovation, creativity and sustainability as key values and principles
Areas of Conservation
PARKS VICTORIA
Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Powerful Owl, greater glider, brown tree creeper, broad toothed rat, sherbrooke amphipod
Cool temperate rainforest Occurrence : rare Endangered Species: Powerful owl, white-throated needletail, greater glider, eastern pygmy possum
Funded by State Government and Council Rates - Accountable to residents Caring for the Region Community Aims and Focuses
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Given the regions health based relies on the preservation of its delicate surroundings the client will prioritise areas of Yarra Ranges Council - Learning for Sustainability is a school program DANDENONG RANGES ACCESS MAP focus for its conservation. The research will be generated in order to indicate various ecological fields along the encouraging DRIVING AND WALKING networkand thatthe represent significant importance students to learn of their ecological footprint environmental health of their to the area. Yarra Ranges Landcare who are made up of several friends of and minor Landcare groups share the ambition to conserve and manage the local environment and its community sensitive ecosystems. They have extensive community links and participation and share a keen interest in the 1:30000 and future of their localthe environment. Parks Victoria - Healthy Parks Healthyhealth People program promoting health benefits of the communities connection with nature and Victoria's parks
Areas of Conservation
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Mt Evelyn
Healesville
Yarra Glen
Melbourne Airport
Montrose
Lilydale Ringwood
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Melbourne
3 Monbulk
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Emerald Dandenong
Chosen spatial exploration route.
Gembrook
Major roads
Major carparks
Rail link
Bus link
Kalorama Frankston
To Belgrave
Car Travel From Melbourne: 55 minutes Healesville: 51 minutes Geelong: 1 hour 50 minutes Frankston: 49 minutes
Silvan Reservoir Train Melbourne (express): 56 minutes Melbourne (stopping all stations): 1 hour 10 minutes
The Basin
Bus
Mt Dandenong
From Lilydale: 50 minutes Oakleigh: 1 hour 4 minutes Fountain Gate: 25 minutes Mt Dandenong: 26 minutes Gembrook: 37 minutes
Olinda
Sassafras
Ferny Creek
Sherbrooke Tremont
Existing walking trails
Kallista Accessing the Dandenong Ranges
DANDENONG 1:25000
RANGES ACCESS MAP DRIVING AND WALKING A conflict of program currently dictates the regions accessibility particularly favouring the driver, stemming from a friction DANDENONG RANGES ACCESS MAP DANDENONG RANGES ACCESS MAP between a societal favour of convenience for private transport and a lack of walking infrastructure, stacked against a DRIVING AND WALKING 1:30000 growing population and an ever increasing flow of tourists to the region. Often it is incredibly difficult to walk from one
DRIVING AND WALKING township or site to another without having walk along the side of a narrow, DANDENONG RANGES DANDENONG ACCESS MAPtoRANGES ACCESS MAPwinding road. These moments are not only 1:30000and dangerous intimidating but detract from the experience of being surrounded by lush rainforest which is the major DRIVING AND AND WALKING 1:30000 appeal forWALKING most visitorsDRIVING travelling to the region.
Upper Ferntree Gully
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1:30000
Upwey
Tecoma
Belgrave Legend LEGEND LEGEND
Selby
Roads
Existing Walking Trails
Towns
Towns LEGEND
Train Line
Bus Stops Bus Stops Roads
Carparks Carparks
Roads LEGEND
LEGEND Spatial awareness of surroundings of no footpath, roadside footpath and secluded trail.
Roads
Water Water
Towns Bus Stops
Existing Walking Trails
Towns
Train Line
Roads
Towns Bus Stops
Water
Existing Walking Trails
Existing Walking Trails Existing Walking Trails Forest Forest Train Line Train Line
Bus StopsCarparks
Train Line Carparks
Forest
Carparks
633m
633m 250m
Prevailing Prevailing Winds Winds
250m
Wind Interaction Wind Interaction
NE 20-30 km/hNE 20-30 km/h
200m
Layer
Towns
250m
628m
628m
420m
420m
200m
495m
370m
495m
Hydrology
Towns
370m
Towns 300m
Hydrology
250m
300m
370m
495m
520m
520m
Towns
Hydrology
Topography Topography 633m
Hydrology
633m
Orographic Orographic Effect Effect
370m
495m
Prevailing Winds 235m
Wind Interaction NE 20-30 km/h
NE 20-30 km/h
Prevailing Winds
Wind Interaction
235m
Upper Dacite Upper Dacite
580m
Upper Devonian Upper Devonian
633m
580m
Prevailing Winds
628m
628m
420m
Lower Devonian Lower Devonian Silurian Silurian
420m
633m
590m
Lower Dacite Lower Dacite
Wind Interaction Palaeozoic Deposits Palaeozoic Deposits
NE 20-30 km/h
Prevailing Winds
590m
NE 20-30 km/h
Middle Dacite Middle Dacite
Mudstones Sandstones Mudstones Sandstones
INTRUSIVE ROCKS INTRUSIVE ROCKS
Wind Interaction
Post Upper Post Upper Devonian Devonian
GranodioriteGranodiorite Porphyrite Porphyrite
300m
510m
628m
300m
510m
Contact Metamorphism Contact Metamorphism
420m 520m
628m
520m
420m
Topography
Forest Clearings Forest Clearings
Orographic Effect
Topography
Orographic Effect
Geology Geology
300m
488m
300m
488m 235m 520m
235m
520m
Topography Topography 580m
450m 525m
OrographicOrographic Effect
580m
Palaeozoic Deposits
450m
525m
500m
580m
510m
Middle Dacite
510m
Upper Devonian Lower Devonian Silurian
Palaeozoic Deposits
Intensify Intensify
590m
560m 488m
Granodiorite Porphyrite Contact Metamorphism
Lower Dacite
INTRUSIVE ROCKS
Lower Devonian Reveal Reveal Silurian Granodiorite
Mudstones Sandstones
Porphyrite
Forest Clearings
510m
590m
Post Upper Devonian
INTRUSIVE ROCKS
Contact Metamorphism
Middle Dacite
Mudstones Sandstones
Mudstones Sandstones
Granodiorite Post Upper Devonian Porphyrite
Upper Dacite
Lower Dacite
Palaeozoic Deposits
Lower Dacite
Mudstones Sandstones Lower Devonian Silurian
Post Upper Devonian
Upper Dacite Upper Devonian
Middle Dacite
Palaeozoic Deposits
INTRUSIVE ROCKS
590m
Upper Dacite
Middle Dacite Upper Devonian Lower Dacite
Lower Devonian Silurian
235m
590m
580m
Geology
INTRUSIVE ROCKS
Post Upper Contact Metamorphism Devonian
Forest Clearings
Geology
Granodiorite Porphyrite
488m
Contact Metamorphism
510m
Forest Clearings 400m
Upper Devonian
235m
500m
560m
Upper Dacite
Effect
Geology
488m
400m
Forest Clearings 400m
502m
488m
502m
450m
488m
488m
525m
450m
525m
500m
450m
502m
Geology
500m
Layer
525m
m
Intensify
Reveal
500m
430m 560m 502m
560m
Intensify
Walking Walking Trails Network Trails Network Layer Intensify
430m
Intensify Fields Fields
Conservation Conservation
Reveal
Reveal Atmosphere Atmosphere
Reveal
Peaks Peaks
450m
560m
525m 500m
400m
400m
400m 560m
488m
488m
360m
488m
360m
250m
430m
430m 400m
Reveal
Intensify
200m
Walking Trails Network
Fields
Walking Trails Network Fields Walking Trails Network
430m
Peaks
Atmosphere
Conservation
Fields
Conservation
Atmosphere Conservation
Towns
Atmosphere
To Peaks
Peaks
150m
150m
400m150m400m
488m
Towns
360m
360m
360m
400m
150m 205m
Walking Trails Network
370m
495m
205m
Overall Network
360m
430m
Hydrology
Observing the Region
360m
Fields
Conservation fields
Fields
Conservation
230m
Peak Fields
Towns
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DANDENONG RANGES ACCESS MAP DRIVING AND WALKING
Allen, S 1999, Field Conditions, Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, pp. 92.
400m
DANDENONG DANDENONG RANGES REGION FIELD MAP FIELD MAP Through mapping at the regional scale overall fields can be identified from the atmospheric, environmental and locally significant sites. RANGES Allowing theREGION trail to be understood as generated as 1:30000 an emergence of the field itself rather than an object sitting against it. Walking is a program for which the field can be framed as a spatial condition whilst also generating an accessible, 1:300001:30000 connected network.
230m 360m
360m
360m
Grid at 1000m Grid at 1000m
DANDENONG RANGES REGION FIELD MAP 1:30000
230m
205m
633m
240m
Peaks
Stan Allen refers to the field as any ‘formal or spatial matrix capable of unifying diverse elements while still respecting the identity of each’ 360m
205m 400m
240m
Atmospheric Fields
Atmosphere
Grid at 1000m
Prevailing Winds
400m
NE 20-30 km/h
Wind Interaction
240m
230m
DANDENONG RANGES REGION FIELD MAP DANDENONG RANGES REGION FIELD MAP 1:30000 1:30000
230m 360m
Grid at 1000m
628m
240m
Grid at 1000m
420m
240m 230m 300m
DANDENONG RANGES REGION FIELD MAP 1:30000
Kalorama
16.9 km from Upper Ferntree Gully Link to Atmospheric Trail
Kalorama
16.4 km from Belgrave Link to Peaks Trail Upper Ferntree Gully
Mt Evelyn
18.7 km from Belgrave
Mt Evelyn
Kalorama
633m 628m
495m
370m 502m
520m
Olinda
400m
525m
Upper Ferntree Gully
560m
488m
Sassafras
590m
420m
580m
480m
510m
Silvan Reservoir
Kallista
400m
How to Walk the Dandenongs
500m
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DANDENONG RANGES ACCESS MAP
Three mainDRIVING trail routes; eachWALKING with its own unique characteristics and destinations form the Dandenongs walking trail AND network. The peaks trail moves along the heighest points in the region, the atmospheric trail immerses the walker in the multiple and1:30000 varying conditions that form its many ecosystems whilst the conservation trail highlights the regions sensitive environments which host a diverse range of native flora and fauna.
Belgrave
360m
Atmospheric field
Conservation field
Town
Peak
View
Trail start
Camping
Toilets
Water
Picnic ground
Information
Trail intersection
Food
Shelter
Node Characteristics
-37.872107, 145.359476
Forest Clearing
Creek
-37.874800, 145.375419
-37.874631, 145.369958 -37.873742, 145.364304
-37.874640, 145.346643
-37.875691, 145.351101
-37.876199, 145.354888
-37.876596, 145.353590
-37.876596, 145.366557
-37.877215, 145.350028
-37.876621,
145.368767
-37.877710, 145.349427
-37.877854, 145.346654
Road
Habitat
Boundary/Property
View
-37.887214, 145.370217
-37.877951, 145.363253
-37.881470, 145.344562
-37.880454, 145.352244
-37.879675,
145.357329
-37.880818, 145.354786
-37.882277, 145.358857
-37.883886, 145.350864
-37.884047, 145.366945 -37.884087, 145.366879
-37.883091, 145.347155
-37.885774,
-37.885706, 145.366645
145.367868
-37.886969, 145.342681 -37.887325, 145.349065
-37.887214, 145.370217
The Conservation Trail
DANDENONG RANGES ACCESS MAP
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Spatial conditions such as tree height, density, wind and light conditions, smell and sound are DANDENONG RANGES ACCESS MAP only some elements which form the overall field but then start to suggest the intensities or DRIVING AND WALKING DRIVING AND WALKING abnormalities generating within it and allow the formation of the trail at the small scale.
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ECOLOGICAL VEGETATION CLASSES
DANDENONG RANGES FIELD STUDY 1:3000 at A0
100m
1km 500m
Grid at 100m intervals
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Open point
Forest Area
Concentrated point
Property/boundary
Blockage/barrier
Roads
HABITATS
WEATHER CONDITIONS
Threatened Species (500m radius) ECOLOGICAL VEGETATION CLASSES
Open point
EVC 29 EVC 30
Concentrated point
EVC 31 Blockage/barrier
Clearing
Hydrology
Clearing
Town (Kallista)
Contours (10m)
Town (Kallista)
EVC 45 EVC 721
Powerful Owl
Damp Forest
Forest Area
Wet Forest
Property/boundary
CoolRoads Temperate Rainforest Hydrology Shrubby Foothill Forest Contours (10m)
Fern Swamp
EVC 29
Damp Forest White-throated Needletail (Oct-May)
EVC 30
Greater Glider
EVC 31 EVC 45 EVC 721
Wet Forest
Cool Temperate Rainforest
HABITATS Common Species Native to the Area Threatened Species (500m radius)
Superb Lyrebird
Powerful Owl
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Superb Lyrebird
Grey Headed Flying Fox
Crimson Rosella
Echidna
Wombat
White-throated Needletail (Oct-May)
Jan
Common Species Native to the Area
Wallaby
Greater Glider
WEATHER CONDITIONS
Fog Density Feb
Mar
Apr May Fog Density Jan
Feb
12am
2am
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Wallaby
Grey Headed Flying Fox
Crimson Rosella
Echidna
4pm
4pm
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren
Chestnut-rumped Heathwren
Australian King Parrot Wombat
Australian King Parrot
Brown Tree Creeper
Brushtail Possum Brown Tree Creeper
Speckled Warbler Brushtail Possum
Speckled Warbler
Broad Toothed Rat
Broad Toothed Rat Sooty Owl
Sooty Owl Quail Painted Button
Average Painted Button Quail Yearly Rainfall
Eastern Pygmy Possum
Eastern Pygmy Possum
Shrubby Foothill Forest
Fern Swamp
Kookaburra
Kookaburra
Dwarf Galaxias
Prevailing Wind 1100 - 1200 mm
1000 - 1100 mm
Jun
Jul
Mar
4am
Apr
Prevailing Wind
NE 20-30 km/h
900 - 1000 mm
6am
12am
Aug
Sep
May
Jun
2am
4am
Jul
10am
6am
Oct Aug
Nov Sep
12pm 10am
Dec Oct
Nov
2pm
12pm
Dec
2pm
NE 20-30 km/h
Average Yearly Rainfall 1100 - 1200 mm
800 - 900 mm
1000 - 1100 mm
900 - 1000 mm
800 - 900 mm
Dwarf Galaxias
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Grass Trail 500mm width Clearing node
Dirt Trail 1000mm width Forest setting
BURNHAM BEECHES
Organic Trail 800mm width Forest setting
Grass Trail 400mm width Forest setting
Organic Trail 500mm width Forest setting
The Club Med project by EMF frames a rugged but naturally rich coastline through a series of nodes generated through a slow and subtle revealing of the natural site uncovered through the deconstruction of its previous form. Multiple pathways are formed through the sequencing of these points which generate a spatially choreographed landscape.
Timber Deck Trail 600mm width Creek node
Point Trail Open Creek node
Gravel Trail 1500mm width Town node
Track Two
Trail Conditions
3.2 km
Trail Profile - Conservation Trail
Distance of 3.2 km
Track 2
Kallista to Creek’s Landing Walking Trail
Duration of 1 hour 30 minutes at average walking speed
1.2 to 1.5 hours at normal walking speed
Gravel trail Soft edge
Timber decking
Medium edge Nodes: Forest clearing, water, some habitats, view
Nodes: Forest clearing, water, some habitats, view
3.2 km
Track Two
‘Context has been described less as a neutral backdrop than as the very infrastructure of existing authority’
One of the difficulties of incorporating infrastructural or designed elements into the landscape is understanding the context and setting in its surroundings. Identifying the node interfaces throughout the area helps develeop and respond to them with specific trail conditions.
Track 2
1.2 to 1.5 hours at normal walking speed
Hard edge Nodes: Water, habitats, view
DANDENONG RANGES ACCESS MAP DRIVING AND WALKING 1:30000
Dirt trail
Metal grate board walk
Hard edge Nodes: Water, habitats
Elevation 360m
340mSoft edge
400m
Nodes: Forest clearing, water, some habitats, view
Organic groundcover
Soft edge
490m
Nodes: Forest clearing, water, some habitats, view
460m Elevation 360m
340m
400m
490m
470m 460m
Conservation Trail
DANDENONG RANGES ACCESS MAP DRIVING AND WALKING Isenstadt, S 2005, Contested Contexts, Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies, Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, pp.174. 1:30000
Grass Trail
1:2500
470m
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Bird Watching Movement map
Regional heat map
White-throated Needletail Endangered
Powerful Owl Endangered
Crimson Rosella
Superb lyrebird
Ground Conditions dense scrub
thick tree fern
thick tree fern
thick dense treescrub fern
dense scrub ground cover
dense ground cover light ground cover
dense ground cover
thick tree fern light longground grass cover
light ground cover
long thick grass tree fern fern thick tree Thick tree
fern
short grass dense scrub long grass
short grass dense ground cover oragnic matter Organic Matter
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mud Light Ground Cover light light ground ground cover cover
water long long grass grass Water
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Conservation Status: Moderate - Sensitive Area Services: Camping opportunity, rest stop, viewing platform, water access
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Sequencing suggests that the events occur in succession so that the moments are more significant1:30000 the longer one walks or spends occupying the spaces including the approach to the space. Responding to its varying settings Creek’s Landing encourages native and social habitats, to encourage consideration for the local environment and frame its varying ecosystems in a more engaging way.
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‘Introduced artefacts and traces help to build the site’s experiential narrative’ Franch, M 2014, Marti Franch, Kerb 21: Uncharted Territories, Melbourne Books, Melbourne.
There is a spatial immensity to a forest which can be accounted for by the sheer size of its span and its impermeable nature aerially. The noise of a forest is also constant even on a calm day with its many programs occurring simultaneously. The design intervention at Creek’s Landing offers hikers an opportunity to camp in the Dandenong RANGES DANDENONG RANGES ACCESS MAP Ranges which is not currently possible. The form allows the user to view the programs taking placeDANDENONG in site through the ACCES DRIVING AND WALKING native planting which attracts bird life and sets the area apart from its surroundings through its colourful and fragrant DRIVING AND WALKING characteristics which change seasonally creating an altering spatial experience depending on the surrounding 1:30000 conditions. Moving up the stairs, the forest reveals itself in frame and sound. The surrounding forest is never out of 1:30000 view but the walk back up into its immensity reframes its significance.
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Framing the Field Exploring the formation and sequencing of walking trails in the Dandenong Ranges through the investigation of field. Page 3
The aim of the research is to investigate the formation of a cohesive walking trail network which connects the Dandenong Ranges through a series of points, or nodes. This will be undertaken through an exploration of the field as a malleable and multi scaled condition which can be redefined and framed through the interaction with these nodes. Walking is a program for which the field can be framed as a spatial condition whilst also generating an accessible, connected network. Examining unique environmental, spatial and social conditions through highlighting existing nodes and fields will suggest the formation of the trails and generate new points along the network. Walking is ‘simultaneously an act of perception and creativity, of reading and writing the territory’ making it a useful aesthetic tool, allowing humans to explore and redefine the meaning of a space by walking through it. It is the sequencing of a walk which ‘implies the transformation of the place and its meanings’ as its components or features are assembled through the progression of the walk. Choreographing the walk in such a way as to guide people away from areas which can never be accessed or into spaces that can change seasonally in one portion of the trail will offer a very different experience as to using markers to indicate a suggested direction, allowing an exploration of the space to reveal a particular path.
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Yarra Ranges Landcare who are made up of several friends of and minor Landcare groups share the ambition to conserve and manage the local environment and its sensitive ecosystems. They have extensive community links and participation and share a keen interest in the health and future of their local environment. Given the regions health relies on the preservation of its delicate surroundings the client will prioritise areas of focus for its conservation or regeneration. The research will be generated in order to indicate various ecological fields along the network that represent significant importance to the area which will require sensitive occupation or active engagement in order to highlight the importance of the unique systems working in its environment. These highlighted fields have an interesting interaction with Yarra Ranges Council and Parks Victoria who have an obligation to maintain existing infrastructure and parklands and outline facilitating tourism growth and the health of the local economy as key aims. By linking the existing trail network and providing a diverse and unique framing of the region through the various sites this proposal aims to suggest a viable option for the region. A conflict of program currently dictates the regions accessibility particularly favouring the driver, stemming from a friction between a societal favour of convenience for private transport and a lack of connected walking infrastructure, stacked against a growing population and an ever increasing flow of tourists to the region . This trending culture shift is significant for a region such as the Dandenong Ranges since major sites and towns are often only linked by roads. Furthermore, the region is only serviced by a single train line terminating in Belgrave, at the foot of the hills, and a sporadic bus line, that although services major towns, runs on an intermittent timetable. Often it is virtually impossible to walk from one township or site to another without having to walk along the side of a narrow, winding road. These moments are not only intimidating and dangerous but detract from the experience of being surrounded by lush rainforest which is the major appeal for most visitors travelling to the region.
Fig. 1 Stan Allen’s field conditions diagrams explored a series of fields in their unpredictable nature and their formation from a point or objects to fields.
Landscapes of Cohabitation - Doxiadis+ Generating a series of trails responding to a series of ecological and physical fields acting on site. The trails are designed for the conservation of the area and to frame its significant natural surroundings which was threatened by an increasing tourist influx and an outdated infrastructure which could not cope or restrict access or movement. Traditional techniques and methods of dry stone walls, terracing and the regeneration of native vegetation was able to form a trail network which still allows visitors to occupy the space and appreciate it whilst also doing so without destroying the landscape. Fig. 2 Simple interventions or small remaining features set up points which then dictate a trail throughout the Tudela-Culip project by EMF. The rusted rail frame divides the harsh environment but also suggests a route for someone to move through.
Stan Allen refers to the field as any ‘formal or spatial matrix capable of unifying diverse elements while still respecting the identity of each’ it is a material condition which arises from the link between the operations of its construction and generation. Its shape and overall form is insignificant, rather it is the ‘internal relationships of parts which determine the behaviour of the field’ which is the field condition . Through mapping at the regional scale overall fields can be identified from the atmospheric, environmental and locally significant sites. Mapping at the large scale; specificity of the figurative can be lost generating the field however a ‘pointed’ field ‘an abstract system [able] to carry meaning’ allows the trail to be understood as generated as an emergence of the field itself rather than an object sitting against it. Layering the many conditions and programs or ‘field operations’ taking place throughout the Dandenong Ranges can highlight intensities, and generate the trail through the interrogation of them. The network at a regional scale is generated by remapping the regions dynamic and constantly shifting fields formed by the overall forces. This is mainly an atmospheric study since these pressures influence the climate, vegetation concentration type and general occupation. Identified moments of conservation and significance outlined by the client Yarra Ranges Landcare and the can also be determined at this scale in relation to its respective setting and population centres. These conditions, or fields, can then begin to suggest where the trail system forms and joins. Two major field conditions arose from the mapping moments of sensitive ecology, and a shifting wind condition which can be link by forming a series of trails that move through the fields. Some of the specificity in the regions composition and spatial formation is lost at the regional scale, zooming in to a field scale a more specific understanding of EVC’s, fog and rain occurrences, habitats and their interaction with towns and property can be understood. Clearings can also identified at this scale and form a significant but unique existence in a forest setting. Intensities in the identified field, or nodes form from the overlaps seen in the study. These nodes then form the specific portions of the trail identified at the regional scale. Varying trail conditions respond to the node and immediate surroundings it is being formed in to best respond and harness the sites conditions. Nodes are not generated from the study of the field itself but by looking at the forces working between it and the figure. Spatial conditions such as tree height, density, wind and light conditions, smell and sound are only some of these elements which form the overall field but then start to suggest the intensities or abnormalities generating within it and allow for a refinement in the trails condition. Framing the field in a spatial capacity can be explored by revealing the unique conditions forming site. The Club Med project by EMF Landscape Architecture framed a rugged but naturally rich coastline through a series of processes which deconstructed and reclaimed the area . Nodes are generated through a slow and subtle revealing of the real site and its natural conditions forming a series of pathways. Introduced ‘artefacts and traces to help build the site’s experiential narrative’ may be formed from foreign material but these moments are not self-framing rather they enhance the features of site. The field is framed in various points throughout the site such as a portion of rusted fence is a node in its particular space. Formally it is a remnant of its deconstruction which will continue as the site surrounding revives ecologically whilst also generating a choreographed landscape through the thoughtful use of indicators or moments such as this . Being constantly surrounded by the same environment, such as a forest can reduce the significance of walking through it. A sudden change or alteration in the field can be significant in its reframing. Donald Judd uses physical form to displace meaning from the object onto the spatial field between the viewer and the artwork . The relationship is formed through an individual’s interaction when approaching artwork in the field which often then frames it retrospectively. However the work is primarily focused on the object instead of the field as the figure ground. The objects form can still be generated through the process of identifying intensities but these can be exaggerated formally diversifying the space physically. A specific forest clearing in Sherbrooke supporting a diverse range of habitats, would influence the generation of form by setting up an opportunity to view these programs taking place. Mapping this site, specific species movements and habitats can be recorded along with plant type and its reaction to wind and fog. The site is habitat to three endangered species and a creek runs nearby so the site has a significant conservational importance. The form is generated through the matrix using the techniques rise and divide. The approach to site is a walk along a narrow timber boardwalk which directly guides people through the space by creating a physical edge between the trail and the site. This leads to the platform which sits inset into the sloping topography and provides an opportunity for walkers to camp in the site, a unique opportunity since it there are no facilities in the region for people to currently camp and a lack of affordable accommodation . The form rises back into the clearing via a narrowing staircase which brings you back into the full view of the immensity that the rainforest possesses. A considered plating plan of native herbs and coloured shrubs incorporated into the longer grass species breaks the constant green surroundings and provides an attraction to the native birdlife. Exploring the sequencing of events and fields through the study of the Dandenong Ranges varying environments at multiple scales will indicate where the walking trail may form. The unfolding and framing of the region will occur through techniques of testing the field conditions at play throughout the region and where nodes could begin to link the diverse and multi-scaled fields working in the area. Walking will highlight areas of conservation; spaces which explore the unique conditions of site and link existing places of significance.
Fig. 7 OMA’s competition entry Ville Nouvelle Melun Senart investigated the remapping of a proposed development on the edge of Paris. A layering of ecological and social functions to suggests where new programs could take place.
Fig. 3 Donald Judd’s installation at the Chinati Centre of Contemporary Art,15 Untitled Works in Concrete, becomes part of a progressive journey across the property. The object frames the surrounding region of mountains and vast grasslands, but also frames the field it is generating around itself.
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Fig. 9 James Corner used compositional drawing techniques to construct Windmill Topography, which was representing geographical conditions and processes as well as suggesting the foundations of future work.
Fig. 4 The contrast of the black peat and the white snowy field forms a node which draws people into its field. Fig. 10 Perry Kulper also uses a compositional mapping technique which layers multiple layers of site conditions and conditions. He further adds speculative programs that accompany his design intent.
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Fig. 8 Arakawa and Gins use this diagram to explore how visual fields can affect your perception of a space. I am interested in exploring how to draw the spatial conditions of a field, this technique uses precise surfaces and lines of vision to speculate.
Fig. 5 James Turrell’s Stone Sky creates a field between the wall and the person approaching it which is then framing the conditions making up the site through the reflective surface of the water.
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Fig. 6 The wall which does not rise higher than eye level never blocks the walker from the spaces setting. The object intends to address the scale and materiality of the bog choerographing the walk and perception of the space.
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Fig. 1 – Stan Allen, 1985, Field Conditions Diagrams, viewed 26 April 2016, <https://archispeaking.net/2015/09/17/diagram-engaging-the-complexity-of-the-real/stan-allen-diagrams-of-field-conditions-1996-illustrator-interesting-way-todemonstrate-field-conditions/> Fig. 2 – EMF, 2010, Site photo Tudela-Culip (Club Med) restoration project, viewed 28 April 2016, <http://www.archdaily.com/375876/tudela-culip-restoration-project-emf/519a3b21b3fc4b5cf4000007-tudela-culip-restoration-project-emfimage> Fig. 3 - Donald Judd, 1980, 15 Untitled Works in Concrete, viewed 28 April 2016, < http://www.jhk1m.com/precedence.html> Fig. 4 – Andy Goldsworthy, 1980, Hole About Four Feet Across One Foot Deep Lined With Peat, viewed 28 April 2016, <http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/image/?tid=1980_037> Fig. 5 – James Turrell, 2007, Stone Sky, viewed 28 April 2016, <http://jamesturrell.com/work/stonesky/> Fig. 6 - Richard Serra, 1972, Land Shift, Viewed 31 May 2016, < http://www.eraarch.ca/2013/serras-shift-to-be-designated-under-heritage-act/> – Arakawa and Madeline Gins, 1991, Open Containing, viewed 28 April 2016, <http://rndrd.com/i/608> Fig. 7 – OMA, 1987, Ville Nouvelle Melun Senart competition entry, viewed 26 April 2016, <http://oma.eu/projects/ville-nouvelle-melun-senart> Fig. 8 – Arakawa and Madeline Gins, 1991, Open Containing, viewed 28 April 2016, <http://rndrd.com/i/608> Fig. 9 – James Corner, 1994, Windmill Topography, viewed 27 April 2016, <http://rndrd.com/i/864> Fig. 10 – Perry Kulper, 2011, Fast Twitch Section Study, Viewed 26 April 2016, <http://www.krobarch.com/images/winners/2011/entry2310.jpg> Fig. 11 - Peter Zumthor and Piet Oudolf, 2011, Serpentine Pavilion, Viewed 26 April 2016, < http://www.dezeen.com/2011/06/27/serpentine-gallery-pavilion-2011-by-peter-zumthor-2/>