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MELBOURNE IN 1838, FROM THE YARRA YARRA, 2014, “Robert
1.0 Background Introduction and Context 1.1 1.1. 1 Elizabeth Street waterway Our attitude to risk and threat is reflected in our response of insuring ourselves against the possibilities of danger and harm. Consequently, our city and built environment is a mirror image of this behaviour. As natural disasters are becoming part of an everyday norm in Australia, can we redefine our perception and understanding of risk? Inclusion and not exclusion, can we now design to include risk? Elizabeth Street of the Melbourne City has been known to flood and whilst we may be unaware, the seemingly ‘normal’ street sits uncomfortably on top of a river that once flowed back into the Yarra. Unconcerned with the concealment of this natural waterway, the so called consistent built environment that we occupy has made every effort in keeping evidence of the flood and the river out of sight and out of mind. A disaster or rather, a maladaptation? Would it then be more appropriate in recognising the flood ascribed to the incongruent acclimation of our city to the river? This project seeks to challenge and reframe our existing ideologies built around risk and threats Figure 1- Beginning of Hoddle Grid and Elizabeth Street whilst questioning the consistency of our urban environment. To discover the unknown and to subvert what may be deemed as unapproachable to a more generous and responsive occupation of our urban fabric and streetscape. The architecture is therefore a guiding hand for us to embrace the unpleasant, the inconsistent and the ambiguous; in that we are able to find the child-like innocence in us to slow down and pause, to eventually find solace and beauty in the undiscovered ‘threat’ of the flood.
Williams Creek
e birth of Melbourne” , ABC NEWS
Figure 2- Elizabeth Street Waterway; Williams Creek
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1.1 Background and Context 1.1. 1 Elizabeth Street waterway
Figure 1- Beginning of Hoddle Grid and Elizabeth Street
Williams Creek
e birth of Melbourne” , ABC NEWS
Figure 2- Elizabeth Street Waterway; Williams Creek
Figure 1 : MELBOURNE IN 1838, FROM THE YARRA YARRA, 2014, “Robert Hoddle’s grid and the birth of Melbourne” , ABC NEWS
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1.1 Background and Context 1.1.2 Recorded floods in Melbourne
Figure 3- Page 22, City of Melbourne Flood Emergency Plan – A Sub-Plan of the MEMPlan
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.1 Climate Change Act 2017
Figure 4- Principle of Risk Management, Part 4- Policy obejctives and guiding principles , Climate Change Act 2017
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.2 Sun Corp Home and Contents Insurance
Figure 5- Page 29, Sun Corp Home and Contents Insurance Product Disclosure Statement
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.2 Sun Corp Home and Contents Insurance
Figure 6- Page 41, Sun Corp Home and Contents Insurance Product Disclosure Statement
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.2 Sun Corp Home and Contents Insurance
Figure 7- Page 46, Sun Corp Home and Contents Insurance Product Disclosure Statement
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.3 ABCB Standard : Construction of buildings in flood hazard areas
Figure 8- Page 7, ABCB Standard : Construction of buildings in flood hazard areas
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.3 ABCB Standard : Construction of buildings in flood hazard areas
Figure 8- Page 15, ABCB Standard : Construction of buildings in flood hazard areas
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.4 Victorian Floodplain Management Strategy
Figure 9- Flood mitigation infrastructure, Victorian Floodplain Management Strategy
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.5 Guidelines for Development in Flood Affected Areas
Figure 10- Page 7, Guidelines for Development in Flood Affected Areas
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.5 Guidelines for Development in Flood Affected Areas
Figure 11- Page 8, Guidelines for Development in Flood Affected Areas
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.5 Guidelines for Development in Flood Affected Areas
Figure 12- Page 47, Guidelines for Development in Flood Affected Areas
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.6 Water Act 1989
Figure 13- Page 515, Functions of Authorities, Guidelines for Development in Flood Affected Areas
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.6 Water Act 1989
Figure 14- Page 516, Guidelines for Development in Flood Affected Areas
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.6 Water Act 1989
Figure 15- Page 517, Guidelines for Development in Flood Affected Areas
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.6 Water Act 1989
Figure 16- Page 519, Guidelines for Development in Flood Affected Areas
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1.2 Current Framework, Planning Policy, Acts and Insurance 1.2.7 Current flooding infrastructure
Figure 17- Top: Detention Basin; Bottom: Retention Basin
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Proposal
2.1 Scope and General Overview 2.1.1 Elizabeth Street Floodplain Overlay
Figure 18 -Map of floodplain along Elizabeth Street
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2.1 Scope and General Overview 2.1.2 Elizabeth Street Floodplain Overlay and sites affected
242 La Trobe Street
211 Elizabeth Street 318 Little Collins Street
59 Elizabeth Street 276 Flinders Street
Figure 19 - Properties affected along floodplain area of Elizabeth Street
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.1 Elizabeth Sreet and Proposal of Interventions
242 La Trobe Street
211 Elizabeth Street
318 Little Collins Street
Elizabeth Street
59 Elizabeth Street
276 Flinders Street
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.1 Elizabeth Sreet and Proposal of Interventions Refer to pages 7 & 8 for compliance to ABCB Standard
318 Little Collins Street
Elizabeth Street
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.1.1 318 Little Collins Street “Reversing the Right of Way” Refer to pages 7 & 8 for compliance to ABCB Standard
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.1.1 318 Little Collins Street “Reversing the Right of Way” Refer to pages 7 & 8 for compliance to ABCB Standard
Openings and raised floor levels allow water to pass through freely but also initiate a blurring of urban thresholds and enclosures
Encouraging a slower occupation of boundaries as a hindrance of the flood
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.1.1 318 Little Collins Street “Reversing the Right of Way” Refer to pages 7 & 8 for compliance to ABCB Standard
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2 .2 276 Flinders Street “ Flood Safety Boat ”
Elizabeth Street
276 Flinders Street
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2 .2 276 Flinders Street “ Flood Safety Boat ”
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2 .2 276 Flinders Street “ Flood Safety Boat ”
Annex as an extension of the street and a safety vest from the flood
A vertical annexation situated opposite the Flinders Street Station
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2 .2 276 Flinders Street “ Flood Safety Boat ”
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2.3 59 Elizabeth Street “ The Flood Water Play ” Refer to pages 9 for referencing currnet Flood Mitigation Infrastructure
Elizabeth Street
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2.3 59 Elizabeth Street “ The Flood Water Play ” Refer to pages 9 for referencing currnet Flood Mitigation Infrastructure
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2.3 59 Elizabeth Street “ The Flood Water Play ” Refer to pages 9 for referencing currnet Flood Mitigation Infrastructure
Rejecting the idea of a defensive barrier against the water but instead welcoms the flood at its doorstep
An urban stage for the water and the flood
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2.3 59 Elizabeth Street “ The Flood Water Play ” Refer to pages 9 for referencing currnet Flood Mitigation Infrastructure
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2.2 Proposed Interventions Street’s Under 2.2.2.4 211 Elizabeth Street “ Elizabeth STreet’s Underthe theClock Clock””
211 Elizabeth Street
Elizabeth Street
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2.2 Proposed Interventions Street’s Under 2.2.2.4 211 Elizabeth Street “ Elizabeth STreet’s Underthe theClock Clock””
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2.2 Proposed Interventions Street’s Under 2.2.2.4 211 Elizabeth Street “ Elizabeth STreet’s Underthe theClock Clock””
Exposed pipes and drainage systems portraying the identity of the flood on Elizabeth Street
A civic monument and a reference to Melbourne Central’s Coops Tower
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2.2 Proposed Interventions Street’s Under 2.2.2.4 211 Elizabeth Street “ Elizabeth STreet’s Underthe theClock Clock””
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2.5 242 La Trobe Street “ Fun in the Flood ” Refer to pages 10-17 for reference to existing waterway management
242 La Trobe Street
Elizabeth Street
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2.5 242 La Trobe Street “ Fun in the Flood ” Refer to pages 10-17 for reference to existing waterway management
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2.5 242 La Trobe Street “ Fun in the Flood ” Refer to pages 10-17 for reference to existing waterway management
Building a social culture around the flood and hidden waterway
An urban oasis
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2.5 242 La Trobe Street “ Fun in the Flood ” Refer to pages 10-17 for reference to existing waterway management
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2.2 Proposed Interventions 2.2.2.6 Temporary Urban Intervention
Layering of ground markings to suggest unpredictable road closures and redirection of traffic during a flood event
A temporary occupation on asphalt
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