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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

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

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

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

MAPPING DROUGHT

MAPPING DROUGHT

2021

2021

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

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

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

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.

Map Making

Freehand Sketching

PLAN Strategy&Impact

Physical Modeling

Photography