CONCEPT ANALYSIS DESIGN
(David) Chenghao Zhong
Landscape Architecture & Urban Design
Grassland Awareness Regional Plan Project Phasing
1: Community Grasslands
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.
2: Grassland Hubs
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.
1. Grassland Gate(Entrance Display Garden)
Grassland Planting Center
Gilgai Wetland System
Grassland Hidden Play Space
Grassland Checkpoint Trail (South)
Grassland Checkpoint Trail (North)
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
2. GRASSLAND HUB MASTER PLAN
2022 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Multi-scales Landscape Reconnection Project
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.
Design Strategies
Eco/Social Connection In The Regional Scale
Appreciation Making Approaches Contribution Making Approaches
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
KEY
Gilgai Wetland Restoration Program
Seasonal PaddockCommunity Grasslands Program Grassland Hub Program
3: Grassland Networks
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2.1 GRASSLAND PLANTING CENTER
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.
Planting Pattern
The planting area is a planting experience and a way to contribute to the native grassland resto ration program.
Bio-Reactor
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.
Restored native grasslands provides a sense of being in the grassland.
Kangaroo grass
Slender Wallaby-grass Weeping rice-grass Silky Blue-grass Blue Devil Slender Spear grass Tussock grass
Scaly ButtonsGrass-leaved Triggerplant
Pale Vanilla-lily Themeda triandra Rytidosperma racemosum Microlaena stipoides Dichanthium sericeum Eryngium ovinum Austrostipa scabra ssp. falcata Poa labillardierei
Leptorhynchos squamatusStylidium graminifolium Arthropodium milleflorum
Summer Planting Pattern
Endangered Species Restoration
Bushland Planting Pattern
Winter Planting Pattern
Senecio macrocarpus
Pterostylis basalticaPrasophyllum suaveolens
Dianella amoena Large-fruit Groundsel Basalt GreenhoodFragrant Leek-orchid Matted Flax-lily
Wattle Silver Banksia River Bottlebrush Acacia montana Banksia marginata Callistemon sieberi
Golden
Public spaces reintegrate the needs of everyday life and provide more possibilities for community members to interact
AFTER-AID
Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Informal Settlement Upgrade
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.
Life Pattern Analysis
Public spaces reintegrate the needs of everyday life and provide more possibilities for community members to interact
Community garden with additional productive support for family members living there
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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
Section A-A: Section A-A shows the landscape design providing maximum productivity to the community as a way to help it develop further
Section B-B: Section B-B shows the reconfiguration of space in an informal settlement to meet the daily needs of residents
Constructed
Section C-C: Section C-C 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
1. Earth Bag Garden 2. Artifical Wetland 3. Outdoor Laundry 4. Bike Parking 5. Household Farmland 6. Shared Lawnway 7. Climber Plants Area 8. Tree Boundary 2. 3. 4. 6. 5. 7. 8. 1. A A B B C C N
Wet Land Planting Box Roof Top Garden Rearranged Store
MAPPING DROUGHT
MAPPING DROUGHT
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Central Highlands, Victoria, Australia
Geographic Information Analysis and Design
Geographic Information Analysis and Design
Focus/Importance:
Focus/Importance:
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.
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.
Issue/Problem:
Phase 01: Suitability Test
Condition Mapping
Phase 02: Strategy Suitability (Reclassify+Weighted Overlay)
Dry Forest
Dry Forest
Soil Humidity
Solar Farm
Trees along boundaries
Native Pasture Plots
Drought: 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.
Drought: 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 un derstand and respond the impacts of drought.
Issue/Problem: Methods:
Methods:
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.
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.
Design Approaches along Avoca River
Euclidean Distance in Stream
Trees along boundaries Avoca River
Boundary
Land Boundary
Design Approaches along Avoca River
Design Perspective Along Acova River
Avoca River
Phase 03: Planning Tool Kit
Phase 01: Suitability Test Condition Mapping
Phase 02: Strategy Suitability (Reclassify+Weighted Overlay)
Soil Humidity
Euclidean Distance in Stream
Dams Density
Solar Radiation Aquifer System
Central Highlands, Victoria, Australia
Solar Farm
Native Pasture Plots
Phase 03: Planning Tool Kit
Dams Density
Solar Radiation Aquifer System
Land
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OCTOPUS PATH FINDER
Grasshopper Tool Making Research
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.
This case 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.
DOCUMENTING
CAD Design Drawing
This work is a part of CAD redrawing class. I show this work to demonstrate my software skills on computer aided drafting program.
TREE
Intercepted animated image showing how Octopus path finder picks up the shortest path in a map
1500 1360 1500 1120 1500 2960 40 4080 1500 1500 825 3925 2000 2000 2000 6060 2000 column spacing 300 Max Concrete Slab Below BE BE BE BE B B B B B B B B B B TIMBER DECKING TYPE B 07 713 08 713 04 713 300 cut out 04 713 375 600Varies 100 100 50 150mm concrete slab with N12's @200mm top bottom both directions, Refer Engineer's drawings.Dimension: 2960x6060 Timber Decking: B1 Dimension: 4080x6060 Timber Decking: B2 Dimension:3925x6060 Timber Decking: B3 Yellow Beam structure & concrete footing below timber deck refer Peter Elliott Architect's drawings. Scale 1:50Structural Plan B1-B3 TIMBER DECKING WITH TREE PLANTING02 Scale 1:50Section TREE IN TIMBER DECK TYPE B03
TIP - BOWEN TERRACE SURFACE PLAN STRUCTURAL SECTION AA Plan & Sections TREE05 Section TREE09 Consultant File Reference: M1234 RMIT NEW ACADEMIC STREET Bowen Street & Level 7 Casey and Gillespie Rooftop Circle Studio 1500 1360 1500 1120 1500 2960 40 4080 1500 1500 825 3925 2000 2000 2000 6060 2000 column spacing 300 Max Concrete Slab Below BE BE BE BE B B B B B B B B B B TIMBER DECKING TYPE B 07 713 08 713 04 713 300 cut out 04 713 375 600Varies 50 150mm concrete slab with N12's @200mm top bottom both directions, Refer Engineer's drawings.Dimension: 2960x6060 Timber Decking: B1 Dimension: 4080x6060 Timber Decking: B2 Dimension:3925x6060 Timber Decking: B3 Yellow Beam structure & concrete footing below timber deck refer Peter Elliott Architect's drawings. Scale 1:50Structural Plan B1-B3 TIMBER DECKING WITH TREE PLANTING02 Scale 1:50Section TREE IN TIMBER DECK TYPE B03 TREE TIP - BOWEN TERRACE Direction of decking boards SURFACE PLAN STRUCTURAL SECTION AA Plan & Sections TREE05 Section TREE09 Consultant File Reference: M1234 RMIT NEW ACADEMIC STREET 1500 1360 1500 1120 1500 2960 40 4080 1500 1500 825 3925 2000 2000 2000 6060 2000 column spacing 300 Max Concrete Slab Below BE BE BE BE B B B B B B B B B B TIMBER DECKING TYPE B 08 713 150mm concrete slab with N12's @200mm top & bottom both directions, Refer Engineer's drawings.Dimension: 2960x6060 Timber Decking: B1 Dimension: 4080x6060 Timber Decking: B2 Dimension:3925x6060 Timber Decking: B3 Yellow Beam structure & concrete footing below timber deck refer Peter Elliott Architect's drawings. Structural Plan B1-B3 TIMBER DECKING WITH TREE PLANTING02 04
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OVERLOOK
AND DETAILS FOR EACH LAND-
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.
This project examines the economic context and physical structure of disadvantaged communities and discusses the potential for vertical green infrastructure to enhance the economic mobility of communities through 3d modelling.
Urban Farmland
Function of Communal Park
A+C Urban farming + Viewing platform
Play Space
Tiled urban agriculture modules and observation decks, continuous flow of people and sights play a positive role
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.
B+D Urban farming + Viewing platform
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, designed micro-topography and height difference create a child-friendly landscape space for children to play.
Lookout
Urban farming + Kids playground + Public space
B Urban farming + Viewing platform
Lookout
MASTERPLAN
SANDY HOOK PERMANENT MEMORIAL
Hook school shooting and to heal the wounds of design plans to commemorate the landscape history of the feldspar mine. The commemorative rainwater harvesting, and healing the site through a
DESIGN PURPOSE
Design Propose
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.
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
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DESIGN PURPOSE
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.
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Map Making
Freehand Sketching
PLAN Strategy&Impact
Physical Modeling
Photography
UNCLOS III UNCLOS Sea Bed Treaty EEZ Treaty 100KM 100KM 200KMTEST 200KMTEST Migratory Brids Tier Current Tier Strategic Plan Tier III Impact Timor Trough AU-INDO Overlapped Boundary 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 from Serving Center To AU Controled Park Marine Park Fishing Zone Bio-Richness Area Birds Migration Gas Pipe Recycle For Artificial HabitatGas Factory Original Size After Strategic Plan Original Route Changed Route PROJECT TITLE DRAWING TITLE 250 500125 Km SITE LOCATION 2050 JOINT DEVELOPMENT
The L Scale Map provides an overview of the current situation of the overlapping boundary areas, the strategic plan and the potential im pacts of the plan’s implementation. the L Scale Map evaluates the po tential development of the overlapping boundary areas from multiple perspectives in an attempt to inform the final decision. LEGEND Tier Current Tier Strategic Plan Tier III Impact Timor Trough AU-INDO Overlapped Boundary 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 from Serving Center To AU Controled Park Marine Park Fishing Zone Bio-Richness Area Birds Migration Gas Pipe Recycle For Artificial HabitatGas Factory Original Size After Strategic Plan Original Route Changed Route Current 2030 2050 2070 2100 To North East Market M AFTER AGREEMENT Two-Way Impact PROJECT TITLE DRAWING TITLE 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 Yrs 30 Yrs Growing 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