(David) Chenghao Zhong Landscape Architecture & Urban Design CONCEPT ANALYSIS DELIVER
2: Grassland Hubs 3: Grassland Networks
1: Community Grasslands
Inspired by the widespread, social, cultural and environmental values of Australian native grass lands, this project reimagines the roles of grassland reserves at the fringe of Melbourne metropolitan. Through iterative designs, the project discovers that grasslands of various scales can enhance both spatial and social connections, become sites of attractions, production and education, and plays a critical role in reducing negative impacts caused by climate change. This project examines grassland in the west of Melbourne, where it is challenged by urban extension and is at risk of disappearing.
Considering the future surrounding urban contexts, this project tests out different spatial structures, mixes of functions and landscape design languages. It takes into account community participations and the seasonal changes of such landscape, and discovers many aspects of native grassland’s aesthetics, the values it offers to local communities and wildlife habitats. The project revisions and repositions grassland as the most unique, valuable types of public space in Australian suburbs.
2022 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
KEY Gilgai Wetland Restoration Program Seasonal PaddockCommunity Grasslands Program Grassland Hub Program
Eco/Social Connection In The Regional Scale
Multi-scales Landscape Reconnection Project
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Grassland Awareness Regional Plan Project Phasing
The insertion of community grasslands into the existing community public space promotes the diverse aesthetic and values of grasslands to communi ty members and invites them onto the wilderness grasslands. Grassland Hub creates a series of functional zones within the confirmed grassland reserve parcel through landscape interventions that help vis itors to have a grassland experience while contributing to the long-term sustainability of the grassland. Through the promotion of grassland awareness a variety of native grass land landscapes are created in dif ferent land parcels to help increase the visibility of the landscape and act as an ecological network to enhance habitat connectivity.
GRASSLAND AWARENESS
1. 3. 4.2. 5. 6. 5. Grassland Checkpoint Trail (South) 6. Grassland Checkpoint Trail (North) 1. Grassland Gate(Entrance Display Garden)2.KEYGrassland Planting Center 3. Gilgai Wetland System 4. Grassland Hidden Play Space the grassland hub, provides various of grassland experiences in the site according to the level of interaction, based on the current condition of the site. Visitors are invited to contribute to the sustainability of the native grassland in different ways while get ting grassland experiences. Appreciation Making Approaches Contribution Making Approaches Design Strategies2. GRASSLAND HUB MASTER PLAN
The Grassland planting Centre is placed in the human dominate area of the site and invites visitors to partic ipate as volunteers in the planting of native plants, allowing them to gain experience in growing native veg etation while helping to provide the necessary plant sources for grassland restoration on and off site. The Plant ing Centre is divided into a Genral Vegetation Area and an Endangered Species Area depending on the type of plants being grown, allowing vol unteers of all levels to participate.
Restored native grasslands provides a sense of being in the grassland.
2.1 PLANTINGGRASSLANDCENTER
The planting area is a planting experience and a way to contribute to the native grassland resto ration program.
Inspired by Southern Cross University’s organic contaminant control experiments at the Hearnes Lake catchment (Shane White, 2021), the project recognizes that even a fully organic planting process can introduce contamination into the site, so this phase of the detailed design places bio-reactors in all planting areas to minimize the impact of possible organic contamination on the site.
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Life Pattern Analysis
Settlement Upgrade
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Public spaces reintegrate the needs of everyday life and provide more possibilities for community members to interact
AFTER-AID
Public spaces reintegrate the needs of everyday life and provide more possibilities for community members to interact
Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Community garden with additional productive support for family members living there
This landscape architecture research studio program is a community landscape upgrade program that builds on the existing RISE settlement upgrade program, which aims to provide affordable water infrastructure upgrades to informal settlements in cities in developing countries and thereby improve water security for local residents. The Alla-Alla informal settlement in Makassar city, Indonesia, was selected as the design study site to discuss how a landscape architectural approach could be used to further enhance the livability of the informal settlement in an environment where the infrastructure has been optimised. The resulting landscape provides a more equitable use of space for each household, supports the community in production and creates new public spaces to enhance community cohesion at a level beyond the household.
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shows the landscape design providing maximum productivity to the community as a way to help it develop further
focuses on providing a relatively equitable use of public space for each household in the community Earth Bag Shelf A Earth Bag Shelf B Water Supply Outdoor LaundryGarden along the lane Motorbike Parking Constructed Wet Land Planting Box Roof Top Garden Rearranged Store By analyzing the various existing patterns of residential activity on the site and reorganizing them using landscape design techniques, this project provides a relatively equitable use of the landscape for the family clusters in the community and creates the potential for enhanced community cohesion
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1. Earth Bag Garden 2. Artifical Wetland 3. Outdoor Laundry 4. Bike Parking 5. Household Farmland 6. Shared Lawnway 7. Climber Plants Area 8. Tree2.Boundary3. 4. 6. 5. 7. 8. 1. A AB BC C N
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shows the reconfiguration of space in an informal settlement to meet the daily needs of residents
Drought:Focus/Importance:Methods:Issue/Problem:
Drought is always a severe problem on Victorian Agriculture. Detailed impacts of severe drought has been mentioned by Austra lian department of agriculture(2018) that a se vere drought year can causes 53% decline of crop yield and 17% decline of livestocks. Con sidering that the Central Highlands Regions is an important agricultural town dominated by cropping-grazing system, it’s necessary to understand and respond the impacts of drought. Suitability Overlay) EuclideanHumidityDistance in AquiferSolarDamsStreamDensityRadiationSystem
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Phase 03: Planning Tool Kit
This document focus on impacts of drought on the cropping-grazing zone of rural Victoria, especially on the Central Highlands Region, Victoria. The main propose of this document is mapping the most vulnerable place of the cropping-grazing zone inside and around the Central Highlands Region, then design spec ulates for mitigating such impact factors would be generated.
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By using landscape feature layers such as geographic unit, digital elevation model(DEM), soil type and land cover image, the research is able to expose relationships between land scape features and affected Agricultural region through reclassify and weighted overlay. Then further mechanism about How and where does drought affect cropping-grazing area would be clarified to support design/planning specula tion.
MAPPING DROUGHT Geographic Information Analysis and Design 2021 Phase 01: Suitability Test Condition Mapping Phase 02: Strategy
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Octopus path finder is a landscape planning tool developed in Grasshop per for Rhino through an open source workflow. This tool is used to find the optimal path when travel between two points on a map that is disturbed by impenetrable areas introduced as barricades. This functionality gives Octopus path finder a ability to develop future potential in urban plan ning, design of travellers' paths in ecological re serves, etc.
Intercepted animated image showing how Octopus path finder picks up the shortest path in a Thismapcase assumes that the injured need to be moved as quickly as possible to the nearest hospital after a random accident in the city, while avoiding possible high-traffic areas in the process.
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DOCUMENTING 2021Grasshopper2021 Tool Making Research CAD Design Drawing
OCTOPUS PATH FINDER
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A. Urban farming layer B. Kids playground C. Viewing platform D. Community public space
COMMUNITY RENAISSANCE Vertical2019 Urban Landscape Program PROTOTYPES OF CONSTRUCTION OVERVIEW COMMUNITIES Other communities have similar situation like Cherry Other communities have higher ecnomic mobility Medical Institution ChurchSchool Charlotte CN Vertical Community ParkEconomic Mobility Map
The design aims to improve the living quality in low-income communities through the landscape practice. The vertical modular landscape is de signed for the Belmont community with minimum changes to the existing local lifestyle (and the land ownership), to solve the problems caused by the low economic mobility in the current community, in cluding the lower personal income, lack of care for children, a high crime rate and the neighborhood with a poor communication. The design concept will finally be expanded to other communities with similar problems. Based on the urban farm and playing space for children, the complex vertical landscape is arranged at the unoccupied space in the existing community, in which the multifunc tional landscape has improved both the income and health of residents here and provided playing space with more fun for local children. As the pri vate property of the community and relax and chill out space for children, the landscape also provides a reason for residents to constantly overlook at the street, that is, the so-called 'eyes on the street' created by Jane Jacobs in the landscape area. At the same time, different types of landscape spread out in the site with the same function gathered the residents around the space, as a result, it formed a community space.
‘As a result, designing landscape programs as a vertical structure is a reasonable idea to make balance between existed boader and community development.’
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Extending green space out of block is also unavailable for this community. The reason is that narrow streets were provided by formal urban foundation, which contain minimum size of path and roadway. Therefore new structures are limited their square to prevent to occupy the street. Public Spcae Slide Atrium
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URBAN FARMING CHILDRENACTIVITY EYES ON THE STREET COMMUNITY UNION
The picture shows a classic type of vertical landscape in the Belmont community. In the vertical structure of two to three floors, there are spaces for different functions such as urban farms, children's playgrounds and community exchange spac es. Depending on the site's existing site, other vertical land scapes of the same type that interfere with the Belmont com munity can be selected for the most appropriate conversion among the plural functional modules.
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Taking the urban agriculture mod ule as the main body, it provides a landscape exchange space to en hance the community construction while improving the income and health of community members.
Children's play module, connecting and improv ing the existing small children's park, micro-topographydesignedand height difference create a child-friendly landscape space for children to play. Tiled urban agriculture modules and observation decks, continuous flow of people and sights play a positive role in reducing potential crimes in the region.Close to the landscape module of the community middle school, and provide outdoor farming practice areas and outdoor play areas for extracurricular activities for children in the community. children in the community.
A+B+D Urban farming + Kids playground + Public space Urban farming + Viewing platform B Urban farming + Viewing platform
B+D Urban farming + Viewing platform
OVERLOOK MASTERPLAN AND DETAILS FOR EACH LANDSCAPE INTERVENTION
The master plan of the site shows the distribution of vertical landscapes in the community. The four circles in the figure are the different combinations of four prototypes in the block. Similar prototypes are distributed in different locations in the block.
DESIGN
SITE 4 of 7 Newtown, Connecticut, US SANDY HOOK PERMANENT MEMORIAL
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The Sandyhook Elementary School shooting in 2012.12.14 was one of the most serious school shootings in the history of the United States. In the incident, 24 teachers and students were killed, and more experienced people left unbearable trauma. Building a permanent memorial landscape will help the witnesses continue to face the life after the tragedy. MAPPING previous quarry affected area railroadmainsettlementhighway
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Memorial2019 Design Competition
This project is designed to commemorate the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting and to heal the wounds of other witnesses. After analyzing the history of the site, a selection of design plans to commemorate the landscape was proposed in conjunction with the site's long-term plan for the history of the feldspar mine. The commemorative landscape aims to heal the minds of the witnesses by introducing rainwater harvesting, and healing the site through a series of measures to heal the land.
Compared with the traditional monuments, the healing landscape allows a person to experience the process of site restoration. During the process of gradually greening the site, the inner pain of the witness is also natu rally healed by the increasingly dense nature. PURPOSE
01 02 FINAL MASTER PLAN Master plan in the 1 year Master plan in 5 years A B C D E F G H I J K A. entrance B. water inflow C. water sedimentation D. memorial wall E. waterfall F. subsurface flow wetland G. lawn H. retaining wall H. retaining wall I. pond (reservoir) J. activity facility K. platform Section 3 Section 3 Perspective 01: The Entrance of Memorial Landscape Perspective 02: The process of healing the land implies that the landscape is healing for the people involved in the incident
UNCLOS III SeaUNCLOSBedTreaty EEZ Treaty 100KM 100KM200KMTEST 200KMTEST Migratory Brids CurrentTier StrategicTier Plan Tier ImpactIII Timor Trough OverlappedAU-INDOBoundary Sea Bed (1972) Moving Direction EEZ (1991) Gas Field Exploitation Platform Current Deposit Tourism Serving Cente (From Gas Platform) Artificial Marine Habitat Boat Visiting Gas Platform Moving Path Serving Center Deep Diving Diving AreaEnter ServingfromCenter To ControledAU Park Marine Park Fishing Zone Bio-Richness Area Birds Migration Gas Pipe Recycle For Artificial HabitatGas Factory Original Size After Strategic Plan Original ChangedRouteRoute TITLEDRAWINGTITLEPROJECT 250 500125 Km SITE LOCATION 2050 JOINT DEVELOPMENT PLAN Strategy&Impact
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The Map provides an overview of the current situation of the overlapping boundary areas, the strategic plan and the potential pacts of the plan’s implementation. Map the po development of the overlapping boundary from multiple perspectives in an attempt to inform the final decision.
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LEGEND CurrentTier StrategicTier Plan Tier ImpactIII Timor Trough OverlappedAU-INDOBoundary Sea Bed (1972) Moving Direction EEZ (1991) Gas Field Exploitation Platform Current Deposit Tourism Serving Cente (From Gas Platform) Artificial Marine Habitat Boat Visiting Gas Platform Moving Path Serving Center Deep Diving Diving AreaEnter ServingfromCenter To ControledAU Park Marine Park Fishing Zone Bio-Richness Area Birds Migration Gas Pipe Recycle For Artificial HabitatGas Factory Original Size After Strategic Plan Original ChangedRouteRoute Current 2030 2050 2070 2100 ToNorthEastMarket M AFTERTwo-WayAGREEMENTImpact TITLEDRAWINGTITLEPROJECT SITE LOCATION 200 400100 KM LEGEND Future Population Growth Future Gas Productivity Population Growth(Without plan) Population Growth(With plan) Current populated Area Urban Impact on National ParksUrban Creep(Ribbon) 20 Yrs30GrowingYrs Direction Benifited Indigenous Conmmunity Gas Drilling Retreat(After Agreement) Disbandoned Gas Pipeline 10 Yrs 20 Yrs Remained Gas Field Yrs Gas Transportation Direction Before Agreement After Agreement Gas Production Area After Agreement The M Scale Map focuses on mapping the impacts of the 2050 Agreement on the nearby inland Northern Territory. Assuming that the Joint Development Zone will bring steady economic development and population growth to the region, the changes in the existing Northern Territory landscapes driven by this new layer (offsets, growth, connec tivity, etc.) will be the main point of the M Scale Map. APPENDIX Freehand SketchingMap Making Physical PhotographyModeling
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