URBAN ARCHIPELAGO

GEORGE SHERWOOD Z5217834 T3P3

HOTTER SUMMERS, INCREASED FLOODING, SCORCHED WILDLIFE, DRY PADDOCKS

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE?

URBAN ARCHIPELAGO

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Cyborg Teal infrastructure + Community = Reaching Phase IV

How can integrating a cyborg blue-green infrastructure edge into a new urban public domain, increase stakeholder understanding of resilience in the bays?

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1.1 RESPONDING TO COP26

“COP26 MUST BE A TURNING POINT. WE MUST ACT NOW WITH AMBITION AND SOLIDARITY TO SAFEGUARD OUR FUTURE AND SAVE HUMANITY.”

CURRENT PROJECTIONS WILL SEE TEMPERATURE INCREASE “IN EXCESS” OF 1.5C TO 2C ABOVE PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS.

BETWEEN 2013 AND 2021 SEA LEVELS HAVE DOUBLED COMPARED WITH THE RISE FROM 1993 TO 2002

CURRENT SEA LEVEL RISE PROJECTIONS

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1.2 SITE CONTEXT

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1.3 CONTEXT TO LANDMARKS

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1.1 HEADING

as humans we have re-etched and botched this landscape despite this, there is still hope

we can achieve this through edge a BGI hybrid edge...

1.4 THE NATURAL

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1.1 HEADING

we need to educate people whilst creating climate resilient landscapes

to help heal mother nature

and the toxic sludge of industry

1.5 THE HUMAN

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2.1 SITE ANALYSIS FINDINGS

Potential site opportunities for the sites unique condition, orientation and natural processes of the area are outlined below:

RECONNECT OPEN GREENSPACE

UNLOCK FORESHORE INTERACTION

CREATE A SENSORY LANDSCAPE

IMPROVE CLIMATE RESILIENCE

• Re-establish ecological connections • Hybrid blue-green infrastructure elements BGI

• Reconnect community to the waterfront • Frame the historical site views to emphasize site peninsula

• Create refuge from ultra-urban landscapes • Habitat hybrid elements weaved into wetland corridors

• Foster an educational landscape on climate change and sea level rise • Improve stakeholder understanding of BGI

ACCESSIBILITY

SITE CONDITIONS

SENSORY

BLUE-GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

GREEN SPACES

LOW TIDE

HIGH TIDE

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3.1 FUNDAMENTAL ASSETS

09 Z5217834 | GEORGE SHERWOOD | GRAD STUDIO Wharf detail photograph (Bottom left) sourced from, Isabel Peng, 2021

3.2 FUNDAMENTAL ASSETS

WHARF INTERFACE

HERITAGE EDGE

FLATNESS OF SITE

EMBRACE EDGE CONNECTIONS

CELEBRATE SITE MODIFICATION

JUXTAPOSITION OF PRE + POST INDUSTRY

• Retain deep water docking • Some of the last wharfage in Sydney Harbour • Improves hybrid wetland processes

• Maintain marine architecture • Educational opportunities • Original headland to support urban precinct

• Restore site outlook, follow CPTED for eyes on the street • Opportunity for cyborg headland park to contrast flatness

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3.3 TO MEND OR RESTORE

11 Z5217834 | GEORGE SHERWOOD | GRAD STUDIO Photographs taken by author, G Sherwood, 2021

4.1 KEY DESIGN MOVES

Modify Glebe Island to incorporate resilient blue-green infrastructure corridors on-site

Reconnect and establish habitat areas to disassociate from the ultra-modified industrial landscape

Follow circular design principles + provide educational opportunities for stakeholders to celebrate site elements

Imagery sourced from, "Glebe Island — Pyrmont History Group". Pyrmont History Group, 2021 https://aggregatetechnologies.com/concrete-wharf-demolition/ Logo Graphics sources from the Noun Project, https://thenounproject.com/ 13-10-2021

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to4.2 REnew...

PHASING PLAN TIMELINE TO RENEW

KEY PHASE OBJECTIVES

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5.1 DESIGN RECONSIDERATIONS

FAILURE TO CUT DOWN WHARF EDGE ROADBLOCK:

DEEP WHARF EDGE

CONTAMINATED SOILS

SOLUTION BEVEL INTO GLEBE ISLAND ROADBLOCK:

DEEP WHARF EDGE

SOIL LEACHING

RESOLUTION BUILD AGAINST WHARF EDGE BENEFITS:

RETAINED DEEP WHARF MOORINGS

MAXIMISING GLEBE ISLAND FOOTPRINT

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1.1 HEADING

Imagery sourced from, "Glebe Island — Pyrmont History Group". Pyrmont History Group, 2021 https://aggregatetechnologies.com/concrete-wharf-demolition/ All Graphics sources from the Noun Project, https://thenounproject.com/ 13-10-2021

LETS PEEL BACK THE LID...

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6.1 PHASING BREAKDOWN CUTTING THE SLABS

SOIL SAMPLE

SOIL SAMPLE SUNKEN INTERACTION WITH EDGE

CYBORG BGI ELEMENTS

ROOT ANALYSIS SHOWING PROCESS OF REMEDIATION

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6.2 PHASING BREAKDOWN CUTTING THE SLABS

SOIL SAMPLE

SOIL SAMPLE SUNKEN INTERACTION WITH EDGE

CYBORG BGI ELEMENTS

ROOT ANALYSIS SHOWING PROCESS OF REMEDIATION

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6.3 PHASING BREAKDOWN CUTTING THE SLABS

SOIL SAMPLE

SOIL SAMPLE SUNKEN INTERACTION WITH EDGE

CYBORG BGI ELEMENTS

ROOT ANALYSIS SHOWING PROCESS OF REMEDIATION

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2022

befriend - Phase I

7.1 BEFRIEND - PHASE I

PHASE I

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7.2 BEFRIEND - PHASE I

TO CUT

TO CLEANSE

TO REPAIR

BREAKING GROUND

COMMENCING PHYTOREMEDIATION

CREATE WETLANDS TO MITIGATE RUNOFF

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7.4 BEFRIENDING SITE

TO CHIP AWAY...

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7.5 HEALING SITE

HARVEST PLANTS

ACCUMULATION IN SHOOTS DESTROY PLANT BIOMASS ROOTS EXTRACT TO SHOOTS

PHYTOREMEDIATION TO EXTRACT 85% OF HEAVY METAL CONTAMINANTS

UPTAKE OF POLLUTANTS

PLANTING PALETTE

SUNFLOWER • Arsenic • Cadnium • Nickel • PAH • Zinc

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MARIGOLDS Arsenic Cadnium Nickel

TUSSOCK GRASS • Copper • Cadnium • Zinc

Imagery sourced from, Google Images, 2021

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PIGS FACE Copper Lead Zinc

COMMON RUSH • Alluminium • Arsenic • Lead • Maganese

PHYTOREMEDIATION PROCESS IN ACTION BAECKEA DWARF •

Zinc

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7.6 SITE UNLOCKED

3D PERSPECTIVE ON PHASE I ACTIVE RECREATION Imagery sourced from, Google Images, 2021

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7.7 DESIGN OBJECTIVE DESIGN CIRCULARITY - CYBORG HEADLAND

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7.8 DESIGN OBJECTIVE STAKEHOLDER INTERACTION - CIRCULARITY

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7.9 DESIGN OBJECTIVE ARTIFICIAL TIDAL INUNDATION LEVELS - BGI HYBRID

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2026 END OF PHASE I WORKS

2027 mend - Phase II

8.1 MEND PHASE II

PHASE I

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PHASE III

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8.2 MEND PHASE II

TO MITIGATE

TO CONNECT

TO EDUCATE

IMPROVING CLIMATE RESILIENCE

BRING PEOPLE BACK TO THE EDGE

CREATE CYBORG BGI TO TEACH

1.5M RISE KING TIDE HIGH TIDE

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8.4 BGI FUNCTIONS

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INCORPORATING BGI INTO PUBLIC DOMAIN • Bringing BGI into the public domain follows COP26 goals • Improves site resilience to climate change and sea level rise • Creates opportunity for Glebe Island to set the precedence for brownfield renewal

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8.5 MEND PHASE II

UNCUT EDGE OPEN UP AND RECONNECTING SITE RECYCLED SLABS AS BARRIERS Plan Key

CONSTRUCT SEA WALL

Peel Back Wharf Concrete Cap - Phytoremediation

Human Edge Interaction

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Sea Wall Erected

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8.6 MEND PHASE II

ESTABLISH INTERTIDAL EDGE WATERPROOF MEMBRANE ADDED TO MANAGE LEECHING REUSING SITE MATERIALS IN CONSTRUCTION Plan Key

WETLANDS OPENED TO PUBLIC

Regrading Post Phytoremediation - Initial Wetland Planting

Wharf Concrete Cap Edge

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Developing Sea Wall

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8.7 MEND PHASE III

MATURE GROWTH WORLD CLASS FORESHORE WALKWAYS OPENED MARITIME DESIGN CELEBRATED IN MATERIALITY DESIGN FOR ALL - BILLABONG SWIMMING AREA

Maturing Hybrid Wetland Landscape - Established Habitat

Edge of Urban Domain

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Human Interaction with Wetland - Recreation + Educational

Sustainable Sea Wall

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8.8 WETLAND PLANTING

MANGROVES

GREY MANGROVE Avicennia marina Mature Height 3-10m

RIVER MANGROVE Aegiceras corniculatum Mature Height 1-15m

MILKY MANGROVE Excoecaria agalloch Mature Height 1-15m

WHITE MANGROVE Laguncularia racemosa Mature Height 3-10m

SALTMARSH

TIDAL INUNDATION LOCK SYSTEM SAMPHIRE MARSH Tecticornia spp Mature Height 0.3-0.5m

GLASSWORT

SEABLITE

Salicornia europaea Mature Height 0.3-0.5m

Suaeda esteroa Mature Height 0.1-0.9m

GRASSES

COMMON RUSH Juncus usitatus Mature Height 1.2m

SPOROBOLUS Sporobolus africanus Mature Height 0-1m

SEAGRASS

SEAGRASS MEADOWS Posidonia, Zostera and Halophila

WETLAND TO TRAP + FILTER CONTAMINANTS Imagery sourced from, Google Images, 2021

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8.9 RECYCLED SEA WALL AIM TO ESTABLISH AN AQUATIC HABITAT EDGE ALONG DEEP WHARF EDGE TO BRING NUTRIENTS TO SITE

0% TOXICITY WALL SUNKEN

20% ALGAE GROWTH, PROMOTING HABITAT

80% MATURITY HABITAT EDGE

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8.10 MEET THE RESIDENTS

GOLDEN BELL FROG

STRIPED MARSH FROG

ALBATROSS

FLESH FOOTED SHEARWATER

BROWN ANTECHINUS

HASWELL’S SHORE CRAB

WHITE-FRONTED CHAT

EASTERN WATER SKINK WHITE’S SEAHORSE YELLOW BREAM Imagery sourced from, Google Images, 2021

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2046 END OF PHASE II WORKS

2047 tend - PHASE III

9.1 TEND PHASE III

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9.2 TEND PHASE III

TO HYBRID INTEGRATE SITE FUNCTIONS

TO STACK RE-ESTABLISH SITE TOPOGRAPHY

TO NAVIGATE CREATE SITE HIERARCHY - CPTED

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9.4 TEND PHASE III

UNLOCKED EDGE POST PHYTOREMEDIATION STORING CONCRETE SLABS FOLLOWING CPTED GUIDELINES

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Barren Concrete Landscape - Open Recreation

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Wetland Edge

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9.5 TEND PHASE III

STACKING UP WORLD CLASS FORESHORE WALKWAYS OPENED DESIGN FOR ALL - BILLABONG SWIMMING AREA IMPLEMENTING RECYCLED ELEMENTS

Loop Pathway

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9.6 TEND PHASE III

MATURE GROWTH TERRACED WATER TREATMENT FUNCTIONING CLEANLINESS TARGETS HIT - BILLABONG SWIMMING AREA STACKED CONCRETE HAS NATURALISED

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9.8 FINAL DEVELOPMENT

3D PERSPECTIVE - PHASE III CYBORG LANDSCAPE

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Imagery sourced from, Google Images, 2021

1.1 HEADING

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE?

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1.1 HEADING

OR OR IS IS IT? IT?

53 Imagery sourced from, Google Images, 2021 Imagery sourced from,(Midnight Oil - Red Sails In The Sunset (Album Review) — Subjective Sounds, 2021)

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