SLABalogue 2 by RMIT SLAB

ALOGUE

SLAB

2 SPRING 2019

RMIT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WORK COMPILED BY RMIT SLAB

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THE ANALOGOUS CITY Led by Alice Lewis Acts of appropriation – where someone takes something for their own use, usually without permission - occur in the city all the time. The suburb of Brunswick, located in Melbourne’s inner north, is characterised by continual acts of appropriation as its inhabitants intervene in the opportunities presented by the suburbs to meet their own needs and desires. These acts are evident in the re-purposing of industrial warehouses into artist studios or creative spaces, and many small daily acts observed during site walks – from guerrilla gardening to storytelling along bike paths leading people on unusual journeys and giving the suburb its distinctive creative edge. Horizontally

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The recent naming of the ‘Brunswick Design District’ poses great opportunities for growth, while simultaneously bringing to light pressures caused by Melbourne’s rapidly growing urban population. In this design studio we question how the design of public space can maintain and provoke existing processes of everyday creative appropriation that may be hindered by the effects of the rising urban population. Responding to this challenge through drawing and 1:1 experimentation, we explore the opportunity for public space to be an invitation for the future occupants of Brunswick to actively contribute to particular traditions of creative acts of appropriation. -Alice Lewis Human

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WIND ANALYSIS ItSUN is not & new for urban designers to interest on topics like creating sense of community, feeling of safety and security, civic participation, feeling at home in public space etc.. From Jacinta Francisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s study on the role of public space, Svetlana Stanarevicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach to how to make a public space closer to young people, to IngeSUMMER Danielsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WIND discussion about the space, atmosphere and intimacy in contemporary Japan, landscape architects and urban designers committed to find the way to create the feeling that is closer to people internally in public space and even in buildings. Since the industrial economy was developed, the alienation feeling between people become more and more common. Therefore, finding a way to create sense of community and home becomes more and more crucial. The project is about creating privacy in public space. My first public social experiment in Brunswick was held on a long narrow unnamed street on Sydney Road. My purpose is to create a sense that makes people feel at home in that street. To explore the idea, I wanna ask a question not only to myself but also to other landscapers architects and urban designers: how to create a sense of privacy in public space.

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Through studying the elements from the site, I found out that the ratio of closed space of unit area has a positive correlation to the level of privacy. From there, we could speculate the combination of different type of spaces is almost endless. Therefore, if we provide the material that could construct a unit, there are hundreds of thousands of possibilities for people to create whatever type of space they want, WINTER WIND from the most private space to the most open space. -XiaoXuan Lin

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Death of Baldur the god of light, starting the events of Ragnarok

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-Daniel Brock

TALIA FITZGERALD From Studio AEKAFO

context Honiara is home to approximately 60,000 people, with 40% of the population living in informal settlements, and, 25% of those residing on state land. With a lack of government intervention and push for legalization of these dwellings, housing and population density have increased as a result. The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Survey legislative group attempts to legalise the occupation of public land as they have recognised that evicting the large numbers of people residing in these areas is neither amicalbe or practical. However, there is a push for government intervention purely due to the lack of safety in which these dwellings are built, particuarly in infill circumstances.

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All of these issues may slowly be deminished through the regulasation of future housing developments within these existing settlements. Can this be done with agroforestry, through processes of reforstation, permaculture and local food production? By using these methods as a form of preventation, these wicked problems could slowly be mitigated from these communities.

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Through understanding the relationship between rainfall and slope gradients, high risk areas have been located across the settlements. The flow analysis layer demonstrates where rainfall is most lively to fall and drain on site, increasing the likelyhood of producing landslides as a result. This demonstration has highlighted the areas which are posed to the highest risk of these natural disasters, allowing for a site for intervention to be chosen as a result.

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These factors of expansion are causing a myraid of wicked problems. Beginning with overcrowding, the expansion of housing is causing access to facilities to become increasingly harder, and with minimal fomalised entry points into site, evacuation routes are deminishing. These issues also lead to increased possibilities of diseases spreading within communities due to the lack of waste disposal facilities. The list goes on. All of these issues may slowly be deminished through the regulasation of future housing developments within these existing settlements. Can this be done with agroforestry, through processes of reforstation, permaculture and local food production? By using these methods as a form of preventation, these wicked problems could slowly be mitigated from these communities.

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SOUP! Led by Bridget Keane Port Phillip Bay is a confluence of material, ecological, social and economic forces. Conditions on and around the bay (dredging, wastewater management, invasive species) will be amplified in unpredictable ways as a result of climate change and increasing population growth. From nutrient spikes, sand drifts, to spider crab and algae colonies - this messy soup cannot be unmade, but it may be mediated. To consider the possible future of the bay, each member of the studio identified a key element (species/ship/sediment) that moved through the bay. Mapping these circulations connected relationships in the bay, linking scales from the micro (organism) to the macro (entire bay and its edges). Climate change is seen as a driver for interventions that begin to actively reform these relationships. Developing their own brief, studio members proposed alternate processes of dredging, boom and bust, land ownership and sovereignty, undersea gardening, tourism and fishing. -Bridget Keane

MAP MAKING -Alexandra Segal

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Fig11. SEASTAR LIFECYCLE MAPPING

This mapping explains the lifecycle of seastars through the dimansion of time and its related stages in different months.

-JiXuan (Solomon) Guo

Fig10. Potential Locations for " Prison"

This mapping is to show the potential sites of 'prisons' for seastars due to its narrow tolerence of changes of salinity.

-JiXuan (Solomon) Guo

DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE Led by Jock Gilbert & Dean Stewart The landscape of what we know as Birrarung (the Yarra River) has changed dramatically since colonisation through disruptions at the catchment scale and changes of course and widening at the site scale as well as vegetation removal, hard surfacing of urban spaces and diminishing water quality. The studio asks for attention to be paid to the underlying site conditions (at scale) in order to produce through juxtaposition a series of resurfacings or revelations of currently over-written narratives. Beginning with spatial mapping at a regional scale, the studio has identified and produced a typology of material and spatial ecologies through which to inform the development of criteria through which to test propositions produced through a series of staged juxtapositions. Collage has been employed as the dominant tool through which propositional ideas have been generated at the site scale and these been tested back through time to hermeneutic regional mappings. Design investigations have been carried out across three scales with realisable propositions presented back to stakeholders as a ‘live’ project at the conclusion of the studio. Down By The River Studio Project

THE SOUND OF WATER

-Jock Gilbert & Dean Stewart

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The Sound of Water project sees the existing Enterprise Park space redesigned to encourage a greater sense of explorations and adventure, whilst bringing forth many of the sites hidden relationships between land, history and the river. The project aims to set up a wide range of views within the site, encouraging the users to experience the space in a range of different ways whilst highlighting and educating the public on the cultural significance of this particular location.

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The plan of site eliminates the existing train lines from view as to display the designed spaces which occur below. The plan shows the site in its entirety and locates my three main design features (grass mounds, steps, and the basalt rock walk out). The three interventions all work towards creating a new sense of exploration and engagement within the existing space through designed views points through the site, drawing the public’s attention to the smaller details and historical facts which make Enterprize park a place of cultural significants.

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The main change in view is apparent on the rock walkout, as the design allows users to venture over the water, experiencing it at a much closer scale. The view from the end of the walkout allows people to look upstream towards Birrarung Marr and is intended for that purpose as suggested by the larger flat rocks located at this point.

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Existing Movement Diagram

Using vegetation and topography to manipulate movement within the space. This image shows the lines of site out over the river from the grass section. If users wish to look out over the river to Southbank then they will need to first find a location which allows them to do so. If a more secluded and shaded area is what users are looking for, they can find it by exploring the new site.

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Viewpoints from the steps provide a clear and open look out over the river and the rock walkout, maintaining an element of the open views which are currently present on site. The aim of project is not to remove any open views, rather to confine them, making them apparently only when searched for, and hence bringing about a sense of exploration and adventure.

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VELMURUGAN KESHAVI From Studio AEKAFO Aim: My research lies within the intersection of communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sanitation and the built environment in relation to public health, especially the provision of toilet accessibility for pregnant women and women having menstruation. My focus area will be Zone 19 as the population is very high but with very poor sanitation facilities. Zone 19 has very limited road access and waste is been disposed into river leading to water pollution. It is very difficult for them to bring procured building materials to site for construction. Drainage system is in open area. There is high risk of disease outbreak due to pollution from open drain and flood risk due to improper drainage. Communal toilets been shared among members, however, there is no proper sanitation waste disposal. There were a few government-maintained toilets, accessible to anyone with a fee of three Solomon dollars, however the ratio of toilets to household is very small. Series of systems to be set up including large sanitation system across Feraladoa. Concept: To design a proper sanitation system to ensure they are female-friendly and accessible to all users, not restricting the movement of women and girls, as well as older people and people with disabilities, and limits their ability to participate in public life. Achievement of universal access to sanitation, and emphasizes that to address in particular the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations requires special efforts. Female-friendly sanitation will be safe, private, accessible, affordable and well managed, cater for menstrual hygiene management and meet the needs of caregivers. -Velmurugan Keshavi

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Layout Plan of Zone 19

SECTION BB OF ZONE 19 SCALE 1: 10000

SECTION CC OF ZONE 19 SCALE 1: 10000

AXONOMETRIC OF ZONE 19 SCALE 1: 12000

LEGEND: PROPOSED LOCATION FOR SANITATION FACILITIES HOUSING OF FERALADOA PEOPLE WATER CATCHMENT AREAS

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WATER WATER EVERYWHERE Led by Anton James WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE asked students to investigate the potential for incorporating a biological wastewater treatment system into Queens Park, a part of the larger Centennial and Moore Park. The site is a highly used urban park in Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eastern Suburbs that once formed the upper reaches of an extensive freshwater wetland system. The studio ran in an intensive mode over a period of six days. Students spent a day walking the site and becoming familiarised with the physical landscape and the existing heritage water infrastructure connected with Centennial and Moore park.

Endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub

Students were asked to site 4 basketball courts and a water treatment system in the already highly programmed park where level ground is not available. The studio challenges included working in a rich heritage fabric, working with steep topography, understanding the potential and constraints of biological wastewater treatment, determining water requirements and allocation. -Anton James

-Ashleigh Newbury

Water is fast becoming a limited resource in Australia’s drying climate. Queens Park in Sydney’s southern suburbs poses a significant water resource thread for future water availability. The consumption and treatment of water is overdue for a rethink from traditional methods and predecessors. This project considers the existing active and passive zones of activity, aiming to enhance the forgotten passive zones with a series of water terraces, aqueducts and subterranean mini reservoirs for irrigation. The overarching intent is to allow water to drip back in and saturate the dry, dusty riverbeds that are still visible today, while incorporating basketball courts to improve recreational value. In researching the parks ecological, hydrological and social heritage in comparison to today’s timeline, it became apparent that four design principals would guide this project: 1. Greater Botany Catchment. Queens park was a fertile swampland, but with colonial settlement the swamps were drained, filled in, levelled and playing fields established. Favourably positioned at the start of a wetland network, this park can treat and replenish water to improve the greater botany catchments overall hydrological and ecosystem health. 2. Water Infrastructure. South Sydney has a history of 19th Century bores and reservoirs that can be reimagined to fabricate a contemporary fluvial water journey, by daylighting black water and stormwater. 3. Use of Open Space. Recreational open space is preserved, with water treatment and basketball courts restricted to the outer fringes. A subterranean canal links the northern passive zone with the southern active zone. 4. Cultural Planting. The neighbouring Centennial park is doused with long avenues of 19th century trees including towering Norfolk Island pines (Araucaria heterophylla), ancient figs (Ficus macrophylla) and majestic swamp paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia). Two less known but endangered plant communities will be re-established; the Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub and Sydney Freshwater Wetlands. -Ashleigh Newbury

Ebb + Flow

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START UP - BRUNSWICK DESIGN DISTRICT Led by Ata Tara Design Presentation Platform

Performance & Art Presentation Platform

Fashion Show Platform

Train Station Passenger Platform

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Brunswick was split in two by railway. The functional blocks located on both sides of the railway are not connected because of the railway. We can see that on the north side of the site, people's living and working areas have been cut, as well as the BDD creative industrial park on the south side of the site. Therefore, how to connect the areas on both sides of the railway and avoid being influenced by the railway is a very important issue.

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GERARD SNOWDON Spontaneous Garden Berlin In this traveling studio, a culturally sensitive site was chosen for detailed study, Nasses Dreieck, part of the former Berlin Wall strip. This design explores cultivation of endemic ecologies, and how space meets programmes of memorialistation and contemporary occupation. Primary design moves are introduction of topography to delineate space, a maintenance plan to develop the planting through time, and mauer-condition memorial. - Gerard Snowdon

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tim elinefor an Age of Uncertainty A Cemetary

Led by Katrina Simon Cemeteries are landscapes created to hold the physical remains of people who have died. As well as holding the physical traces of past burial practices, cemeteries can also be ‘read’ for the ways in which they embody ideas about how the world is organised, and about the relationships between life and death. 1st Year

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Yet, even landscapes built to preserve memory will begin to change and decay almost as soon as they are established. What might a cemetery designed in the end of the second decade of the twenty first century tell the visitors of the future about how the people who designed and made it imagined their world? Will it even buildings & remain as a legible landscape? footpaths

This studio explored ideas for a new cemetery for Melbourne’s expanding population. It engaged with ideas of landscape as process and required a long-term vision for how the cemetery will be sited, established, and how it will be transformed as burials the city continues to change. Each person explored their own landscape system and site and considered a set of interrelated questions through design. How is the cemetery sited within the city? What landscape conditions arehydrology appropriate to the cemetery in an age of uncertainty? How might a cemetery program be used to protect or expand landscape systems that might otherwise be obliterated by the expansion of urban development? Does the design of the cemetery itself topography alter the way that urban development might occur? What rituals might a cemetery from an age of uncertainty require, or make possible? How might the design of such a cemetery have the potential for reorganisation embedded within it? How might a cemetery be designed to allow for its eventual transformation into another kind of landscape type and use? What traces, if any, might remain? -Katrina Simon 1. Visitors’ Center

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Belgrave Remembrance is a community cemetery for the Belgrave residents. Located in the heart of Selby Bushland Reserve, it spans over 1km and offers 3 types of burials. Belgrave Remembrance celebrates the lives of all residents of the community and offers burial options for people from all walks of life. In addition, it helps to protect the wildlife of Selby Bushland Reserve from the effects of urbanisation, specifically the platypus, which population is a concern in the area. The remembrance site will become a memorial over time, allowing people to learn more about the residents and their contributions to the community. -JiaMei Ko

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PRIVATE PARKING Private Parking for staff and vehicles accompanying funeral parties. Accessed via Cobbledicks Ford Rd.

PUBLIC PARKING Access to site via Cobbledicks Ford Rd. Visitors will park at the designated carpark if arriving by car and then walk up through the tunnel like structure arriving at the site.

MAINTENANCE Space dedicated for grounds keeper large enough to house enough staff for maintenace of the various layers of site, which include the Western Grassland Reseve, the cemetery and public spaces.

SERVICES Space dedicated to outdoor funeral services. Privately accessed from the back of the services building from Cobbledicks Ford Rd.

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WAYFINDING A post for each circle that is home to burials to allow users to easily navigate site . On these will be information regarding the western grasslands and type of vegetation associated to that particular circle. As well as year of the burials.

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Ying Ying Li Lost And Found LOST AND FOUND is a new material recovery park in Brooklyn, Victoria. It includes a recycling facility, restored grassland landscape on closed landfills and spatial experiences created by recycled materials. It tells the material flow story from historical and regional scales in order to find the lost value of our daily waste in response to Victoria’s current recycling crisis and Brooklyn’s ecological issues. By researching Brooklyn’s current condition of recycling operations and landfills, as well as evaluating existing waste materials properties and quantities on site, the project aims to build a new recycling system relying on the site conditions and local industries to revitalize the material flow. According to Victoria’s new plan of the circular economy, the new material flow includes Recycle – receiving materials in Brooklyn’s new recycling facility, Remanufacture – processing materials in surrounding local industries, and Reuse – applying materials into creating spatial experiences in the material recovery park. The material experiences are divided into the natural material experience which uses grassland species, rocks, goats, water to remind people the original history of Volcanic Plain in this land, the man-made material experience which utilizes concrete, brick, gravel, glass, metal, timber, plastic to generate educational landscape to represent the industrial identity of Brooklyn, and the recycling experience which provides recycling transparency tour and recycling engagement activities for visitors. Those 3 kinds of material experiences represent the evolutionary process of Brooklyn which driven by materials as well. Hope this material journey could remind people of the damage that our daily consumption has caused to the land and show people how can we find the new values for waste again to protect our future life. -YingYi Li

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