Graduation Projects 2014 - Bachelor of Landscape Architecture by UNSW Built Environment

Graduation Projects 2014

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

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Built Environment

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The graduation projects presented herein demonstrate the Landscape Architecture Programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to our students in developing their individual creative capacity and technical acumen. They are encouraged to be aware of and to take a stance on the issues facing contemporary cities. Importantly, we want them to see themselves as effective agents in creating built environments that enhance the interaction of human and natural systems.

PROJECT INDEX

A I R E C O L O G Y 13

E-MISSION

Hasti Afkham

Ali Beydoun

Sarah Fayad

Nathan Pirrottina

Hassan Naddi

Michael White

Ellen Ward

Hao Qi Zhang

101

AIRPORT CAMPUS CIT Y

URBAN PROPOSITIONS FOR

Xizhe Ju

BADGERYS CREEK

103

Hongxu (Paco) Li

Ben Charlton

105

Yang Liu

Alex Crowe

107

Zhengyi (Nick) Tian

Morgan Hannan

109

E C O - D E N S I T Y 33

E-TO D :

111

Nazanin Azimipanah

Kim Brown

113 115

Lachlan Bellach

Dae Hyun Dean Kim

Liu Hanrong

Jacqulyn Lam

117

Jenny Nguyen

Ming Zhang

119

THE URBAN AGR ARIAN

A N A G R I C U LT U R E K N O W L E D G E C I T Y

121

Georgia Alexander

Daniel Forlonge

123 125

Elise Newman

Catherine Lake

Annabel Spillane

Ivan Parker

127

Amar Zein

Reginald Santos

129

A CONNECTIVE AIRPORT CIT Y

B I O M E D 131

Ningxin Chen

Hugo Takase-Simpson

133

Yalin Sun

Cassandra Teo

135

Hanzhong Zha

Morgan Watt

137

Minyu Zhou

61 AG R I -TO U R IS M A EROT RO P O LIS

139

BADGERYS CREEK AIRPORT CIT Y

Yuelei Gu

141

Liam Isaksen

Zisheng Lin

143

James Kidd

Yu For Francis Tam

145

Xhian McIntyre

Xueting Zhan

147

Ryan Saxby

David Whitworth

CENTRES WITHIN A CENTER

149

[ ECO] NNECTIVIT Y:

Jaiyi Han

151

Danyang Hu

153

Alf Escuin

Tian Li

155

Jessica Lock

Lejiali (Sunny) Sun

157

Karen Ruthven

Nicholas Tuttle

Shijie Chan

159

BA DG ERYS CR EEK CIT Y:

Octavia Rogers

Gabriel Sicari

Rebecca Surian

CONTENTS

MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

MESSAGE FROM THE DISCIPLINE DIRECTOR

MESSAGE FROM THE COURSE CONVENOR

BACHELOR OF L ANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: 2014 PROJECTS

OCULUS TEAM: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN

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PROFESSOR ALEC TZANNES AM DEAN U N S W B U I LT ENVIRONMENT

Congratulations to the students who have completed their degree at UNSW Built Environment and now join our alumni community. This catalogue provides a glimpse into some of the many study themes and projects you have undertaken as part of your academic experience and serves as a record of your graduation class. We have designed your program of study to reflect advanced contemporary professional practice emphasising the development of leadership skills and innovation, ensuring that as a graduating student you have the best opportunity to be at the forefront of your chosen field of endeavour. Register to join the alumni community at www.alumni.unsw.edu.au

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LINDA CORKERY DISCIPLINE DIRECTOR, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE The projects undertaken by our students in the Graduation Studio are indicative of the range of contemporary issues landscape architects deal with in practice. The focus of this year’s final project has been particularly challenging – to anticipate a new international airport at Badgerys Creek and envision the possible attendant development in this region of Western Sydney. Working over two semesters gives the students an opportunity to consider the issues in depth and demonstrate capabilities of masterplanning and site-specific design. The outcomes presented in this catalogue are impressive at both scales of work. Working over two semesters gave the students an opportunity to consider the complex issues related to the proposal for a second airport. In Semester One, Catherine Evans, led the studio in the critical initial stages of understanding the site, its history, and its contemporary Western Sydney context, as well as gaining an appreciation of the infrastructure related to airport planning and design. Catherine was assisted by Libby Gallagher, Jeremy Gill and Mike Harris, in advising teams of students as they generated masterplans for associated urban development. In the second semester, Katrina Simon convened the studio with colleagues from Oculus Landscape Architecture, working with the students to develop detailed individual projects. The work presented in this catalogue illustrates proposals from both the group and individual projects. The graduation projects presented herein demonstrate the Landscape Architecture Program’s commitment to our students in developing their individual creative capacity and technical acumen. They are encouraged to be aware of and to take a stance on the issues facing contemporary cities. Importantly, we want them to see themselves as effective agents in creating built environments that enhance the interaction of human and natural systems. Congratulations to the 2014 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture graduands for all they have achieved throughout their studies. We commend you for all the hard work you’ve invested in this final studio. Best wishes for continued success and a personally rewarding career in Landscape Architecture! 7

C AT H E R I N E E VA N S: S E M E S T E R 1 S T U D I O C O N V E N O R

K AT R I N A SIMON LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE G R A D U AT I N G STU D I O 2 014 This year the studio has again partnered with a team from OCULUS, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, to help guide and reinforce the transition into landscape architectural practice that is marked by the graduating studio. The teaching team are Roger Jasprizza, Jess Hodge, Rosie Krauss, Katie Cooper, Paula Kuka, and Johnny Derwent. It is always a pleasure to see the emergence of new design voices, and to see the innovation, enthusiasm and commitment that students bring to their projects. We hope you are inspired by this collection of work, and by the unfolding visions of these transformed future urban landscapes. Each project draws on a unique appreciation for landscape and, requires each student to develop a distinctive language of design exploration to complement the design and technical skills that have been developed through the four years of the degree. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cohort has found remarkable opportunities for re-shaping the landscapes of the future to find new potential in the dramatic shaping of major urban infrastructures. This year the studio has again partnered with a team from OCULUS, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, to help guide and reinforce the transition into landscape architectural practice that is marked by the graduating studio. It is always a pleasure to see the emergence of new design voices, and to see the innovation, enthusiasm and commitment that students bring to their projects. We hope you are inspired by this collection of work, and by the unfolding visions of these transformed future urban landscapes.

BACHELOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: 2 014 PRO J ECT S

AIRECOLOGY

HASTI AFKHAM S A R A H FAYA D HASSAN NADDI ELLEN WARD

Airecology focuses on the theoretical framework of Urban Ecology. The design looks to address the immediate site’s existing elements and conditions and then takes a wider view to see how the site connects to a broader regional tapestry. Airecology utilises wind corridors to keep the city cool, rail and cycleways to act as green corridors and the linkage of national parks and local parks to create a regional system. Considerations of the global impacts of airports, food issues and water shortages have also been taken into consideration, along with how our design could be a part of reducing the stresses placed on the earth’s resources, by creating a self-sustaining city. Ratios to distribute mixed use densities of residential, commercial and industrial have also been implemented.

SUPERVISOR

Mike Harris PICTURED

1. Badgerys Creek – master structure plan 2. Urban concepts and interventions 3. Badgerys Creek Airport impression 4. Wind corridor configuration

The soil issue of the site; with 250,000 cubic tonnes of soil to be removed to make way for the airport, has been utilised to create a mounding system around the airport site. The mounds act as a boundary, noise barrier, habitat for local fauna (native grass and bush plantings to be integrated on and along mounds) and as an iconic aesthetic element, declaring your arrival to the airport. Airecology integrates the airport as part of an ecological system, reducing the impact on the surrounding landscapes and maintaining it for future generations.

HASTI AFKHAM

H Y B R I D R E V I TA L I S AT I O N : Socio hydrology as a landscape infrastructure

Socio hydrology is a concept that models the relationships between human and water. This project uses South Creek as an example. Considering the proposed airport and urban development, South Creek will sit within a mixed use, medium density urban fabric, thus receiving a significant amount of polluted water run-off and sedimentation. Socio hydrology implements re-invented hydrologically engineered infrastructures to achieve water balance, quality and conservation. These three main hydrological conditions are achieved through the arrangement of selected water systems such as flood mitigation, sedimentation, bio-filtration and constructed wetlands.

C O N TA C T

hasti.afkham@gmail.com 0450 902 015

Socio hydrology also observes the human contribution to this aquatic system. The public infrastructure of this revitalisation focuses on the relevant community setting of western Sydney and engages the physical, political, environmental and ecological context of this infrastructure within Badgerys Creek in order to sustain and nourish its community. This social context then narrows down to how people interact with water, either literally and physically, or visually and indirectly, and breaks the traditional engineering system of hard edges within an urban water system. The overlay of the proposed urban hydrological system and the carefully framed social interaction produces a series of powerful and dynamic scenarios on the edge of South Creek as well as on an aquatic web that feeds the city. This creek side revitalisation acts as a hydrological epicentre. It creates spaces and opportunities for people to interact with water and celebrate topography and local natural heritage of Badgerys Creek, while connecting communities and systems together within the Hawkesbury catchment.

SARAH FAYA D

EMERGENCE: Nonlinear Ecologies of Future Airports

C O N TA C T

This project is in response to the pressures facing Badgerys Creek waterways as the second Sydney airport emerges, specifically, focusing on the increasing threat of invasive algae growth and the rising issues with airport pollution. A foreseen rise in pollution, CO2 level and nutrient supply to creeks will result in detrimental algal blooms in surrounding waterways – causing disturbance and imbalance in the overall ecosystem. What if an airport infrastructure was more than just an energy consumer, but rather an energy source contributing positively to the globe?

sarah.fayad@hotmail.com 0450 070 030 PICTURED

1. Axonometric of terminals 2. Masterplan 3. Zoomed in Plan of Terminal and adjacent open space

In response to these ecological disturbances, the project employs the use of invasive algae challenging the stigma associated – and shows the potential of a landscape engineered system that is able to sustain the airport at various scales. The airport landscape becomes an algae farm and the terminals become a place for understanding the growth of algae and production of biofuel, encouraging social interaction between travellers. In addition, two buildings become a laboratory for monitoring and a processing plant for the production of biofuel.

4. Section showing terminal and open space water system

Emergence in nonlinear ecologies of airports gives rise to questions of possibilities and acts as a model for other sectors of urban growth to do the same. The airport will stand alive, living symbiotically within its environment, by using the creek’s invasive algae to drive its sustainability whilst creating a site specific airport. The variations of algae species will create an interactive airport which evolves throughout the year reflecting the changing state of the environment and climate of Badgerys Creek.

HASSAN NADDI

A DA P TI V E WAV ES

C O N TA C T

hnaddi@live.com 0401 681 264

With the powerful and swift spread of urbanisation across the land, we are confronting a string of issues arising from non-receptive and static infrastructures â&#x20AC;&#x201C; inevitably planned for obsolescence. This proposal for a second Sydney airport at Badgerys Creek delivers a system of landscape gestures that operate in direct response to fluctuating ecological, social and economic conditions. It contends that if future airport infrastructure is designed to be receptive and flexible it may be able to maintain its viability over time. By rethinking the use of energy in the airport landscape this project exploits an untapped and usually shunned source of airport energy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; noise. Noise is harnessed, transmitted and circulated whilst being converted to usable energy, and is also used to create new social spaces and experiences.

PICTURED

1. A harmoniously engineered landscape 2. Detail site plan of airport perimeter 3. Detail site transect

On a macro scale, the key gesture of earth building, using some of the massive volume of excavated soil, creates a perimeter bounding mound system that abates airborne, traffic and heavy rail noise and stores airport utilities such as car parks in static locations. A modular conveyor system, conceived from the notion of future adaptability and minimising footprint on the landscape, delivers airport modules, services, and additional soil as needed around this dynamic self-adjusting perimeter. Openings in key locations of the perimeter provide optimum noise harvesting environments and commerce interchanges. On the micro scale, sensory translations of sound manifest on the social level and verbalise the new conversation between the surrounding urbanisation and the dynamic airport landscape.

ELLEN WARD

GROUND ZERO: Sustainable residential community built from the soils of Badgerys Creek

C O N TA C T

earth.elle@gmail.com 0429 344 891

It is estimated that to construct the Badgerys Creek Airport, over 250,000 million cubic tonnes of Bringelly Shale soil will need to be removed to make way for the airportsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; infrastructure. The Ground Zero project aims to address the issue of how a large volume of soil, the basis of all life, could potentially be reutilised to create a sustainable residential community of earthen housing, urban agriculture, urban forestry, habitat corridors and creek regeneration, to address local, regional and global issues currently facing our world in regards to food shortages, climate change, clean water and biodiversity. With the development of a new airport city, which brings its own problems in terms of pollution, waste and environmental pressures, the question is what happens to the existing environment of Badgerys Creek with its agriculture, creek systems, bushland and current residents.

PICTURED

1. Soil profile of the Bringelly Shale 2. Soil use in residential community section 3. Walking through the biofiltration system area

Ground Zero project seeks to create a positive impact on the existing environment, with the creation of a high density, mixed use residential community, which supports and improves the existing environment, providing habitat and food for both people and native fauna, starting from the ground up.

4. Community college and water collection section

Ground Zero is a test site which links to other proposed residential communities built from the soils of Badgerys Creek in the proposed masterplan of the Airport City, with an aim of connecting the site to a broader more regional and global network of green corridors and food systems, therefore reducing the impact on our mother, the earth.

AIRPORT URBAN PROPOSITIONS FOR C A M P U S C I T Y: B A D G E R Y S C R E E K

XIZHE JU H O N GX U (PAC O) LI YA N G L I U ZHENGYI (NICK) TIAN

SUPERVISOR

Badgerys Creek, a rural area in Western Sydney region, has been identified as the proposed location for Sydney’s second international airport. The area then will be propelled towards development by the proposed airport in terms of transportation, employment, population flow, local landscape as well as the economic system. Based on current research that identifies this as a significant opportunity, the provision of higher education is proposed as the key element for the site’s development. Bringing a more organised higher education system will lead to transport diversity, increased job opportunities, the attraction of more students and stimulated economics. Hence the proposed airport, combined with a higher education system, can meet the demands from the increasing population in the future, encouraging a united development plan for the Western Sydney region.

Catherine Evans PICTURED

1. Perspective view of Airport Campus City 2. Campus activity 3. City Plaza 4. Masterplan

With the proposed airport, our design vision aims to bring higher education opportunities to Badgerys Creek as the key motivation for the site’s development. Within a carefully planned time frame, the airport and higher education system will accelerate the process. Hence the design is projected to accommodate additional 20,000 residents in total, 15,000 new job opportunities and 30,000 students in 2045. In addition, the future residents will also have a better living environment and better social experiences as the outcomes of this design. Thus the airport and higher education opportunities will lead to a better future for younger generations and for the Western Sydney region.

XIZHE JU

URBAN ECOTONE

C O N TA C T

oliver8244@gmail.com PICTURED

1. Masterplan 2. Detail Plan of Badgerys Creek Park 3. Badgerys Creek Park 4. Waterfront

The Urban Ecotone Project delivers an 120,000mÂ˛ transitional urban green corridor at Badgerys Creek to deal with the negative impacts from the creek, airport development and future urban growth, in order to promote a livable green urban environment and adapt to future conditions. The design is to provide a vision for how social neighborhood and activities in an urban setting can interact with ecological communities of Badgerys Creek, in order to create an ecotone that has the potential to generate a synergy between both systems and create a more diverse and superior system at Badgerys Creek. The corridor connects the urban centre, Badgerys Creek and local vegetation communities, as well as interacting with the existing landscape. It includes a park, detention basin, water retention lawn, new water canal and civic green spaces. The basic strategy is to collect water, prevent runoff, push water back to Badgerys Creek and at the same time to bring local vegetation up into social activity areas. The main park collects water from the city and at the same time provides a waterfront experience with local vegetation to the community. Cafe and community gardens also interact with water and support social activities for users. The water canal and water retention lawns bring water down to the creek and integrate the ecological system with and activity space. In the future, the corridor will become the major gateway for the airport and the main activity zone for local communities. At the same time, it will benefit local ecological system with its integrated water management and native species.

HONGXU ( PAC O) L I

FLOOD HARVEST IN BADGERYS CREEK

C O N TA C T

pangpaco@gmail.com

Badgerys Creek will become one of the significant catchments that will take the major airport and urban wastewater and stormwater runoff in the future. By investigating the existing and proposed site conditions, it is apparent that the area already floods during the rainfall season now, and there will be greater flooding with the proposed airport and city as well. However, instead of treating flood only as a major threat to the city, Flood Harvest will invite flood as a design catalyst to interact with nature and the surrounding social neighborhood into a greater â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blue Beltâ&#x20AC;? that can transform the Badgerys Creek flooding situation. It seeks to achieve flood mitigation in the rainfall season and reuse flood water to bring more opportunity for the city at the same time.

0430 061 677 PICTURED

1. Masterplan 2. Normal situation of terraced river park 3. Tracing the flood

Beginning with landform change, Flood Harvest will provide three methods of flood adaptation: canal, terrace, and mound. Each of these will achieve flood risk elimination in the proposed three districts of Badgerys Creek Catchment and hence instigate a series of water sensitive edge conditions to activate the urban grey space and integrate natural and social interaction.

4. Section of Flood Harvest

Flood Harvest will explore the condition created along these edges and transfer this lost space into a vibrant and multi-functional space by investigation of how it responds in a normal standard, 50-year and 100-year flood, performing as an ecological and social connection that integrates the site surroundings for human experience.

YA N G LIU

A L I V E LY A N D C O N N E C T E D LI N E A R PA R K

C O N TA C T

steven.890331@163.com 0433 626 912

A perceived lack of connectivity between people and their urban environment and the question of how to create richly diverse civic life have become important issues in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s modern cities. This linear park for the proposed new Badgerys Creek Town Centre is designed to help to reconnect the adjoining zones as an entire imageable system and revive the opportunities for civic life at the same time. There are numerous green spaces and public areas in between the buildings and the networked pattern of interlocking paths that cut through the city blocks will be used to reconnect these isolated patches and provide well-being for the surrounding communities. Additionally, as a consideration of the seasonal arid climate in Badgerys Creek, the dispersed nature of the proposed pathways can help to prevent bush fire by their urban cooling attributes. In addition, the linear park aims to blur the solid edge of urban form and try to integrate the adjacent natural landscape into peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daily environment. The green public spaces and varied programs encourage people to move through and across the site to their potential destinations, increasing the potential for emotional connections to the site, and bringing life to the city. Designed features include water fountains, rain gardens, timber decking, turf, sport centers, outdoor cafĂŠs, terraces and outdoor galleries. This project provides multiple opportunities and options for people to engage in the linear park through the attractive natural landscape, applied facilities and popular programed events.

ZHENGYI (NICK) TIAN

SUTURE

C O N TA C T

nicktian621@gmail.com 0424 802 126 PICTURED

1. Masterplan

This design project was inspired by the theory of everyday urbanism. A place can be meaningful when its physical configuration can meet the needs for human activities. The most efficient way to attract people to use a space is to provide the functions or contents of design to meet people’s daily requirements. This proposal creates a new public realm that will meet local communities’ everyday living requirement with better access and opportunity for activities. The site was chosen based on its size and urban context as well as location within proposed transportation system. The site is in the middle of existing agriculture land, and a proposed university campus and campus neighborhood. Yet the site is currently ill-defined, and facing the threat of inefficient use as well as isolation from the surrounding areas, especially the connection between residential area and university.

2. Community Farm 3. Community Centre 4. Sections

The concept of the design is the metaphor of ‘suture’. With an abstract needle of string, agriculture, education and community will be connected and combined, while meeting the aim of having everyday engagement with local residents in Badgerys Creek. Hence the design elements will be directly related to people’s general everyday living, including access, security, food, exercise and other social activities. The concept of ‘suture’ will also apply in a physical sense. A recreated access system will assure efficient and secured path for residents, and the design programs will be the key nodes along the route of travel.

ECODENSITY

N A Z A N I N A ZI M I PA N A H LACHLAN BELLACH RAINA LIU JENNY NGUYEN

SUPERVISOR

Libby Gallagher PICTURED

1. Masterplan 2. Leppington structure plan

Eco-Density is a response to the sprawling footprint of low-density residential development proposed for the South West Growth Centre. Against this backdrop, the announcement of a second airport at Badgerys Creek is seen as an opportunity to propose an alternative, and concentrate growth along a corridor based on the extension of the heavy rail line from Leppington to the airport. By focusing the first stages of development at these centres, and subsequent moves along the identified corridor, this plan allows the protection of vulnerable ecological areas and valuable farmland across a large area of the SWGC.â&#x20AC;¨ Design of the centres is structured according to the existing Cumberland Plain woodland vegetation, the system of creeks that characterise this landscape, as well as strong transport infrastructure. â&#x20AC;¨The centres will focus on mix-use building typologies organised around a strong public transport framed by grids. This design gives high pedestrian permeability, with high walkability and more active streets relative to less dense and decentralised development.

3. Luddenham structure plan 4. Regional development plan

Eco-Density design strongly aligns with a landscape urbanist approach by utilising natural features and systems to structure urban form, as well as integrating them into the social infrastructure of the community.

NAZANIN A Z I M I PA N A H

RECLAIMING LANDSCAPE IDENTITY

C O N TA C T

nazanin.panah@gmail.com 0402 452 647 PICTURED

1. Hills Park Masterplan 2. Design Concept Diagrams 3. Edge Condition Study 4. Rock Steps View

This project is about reclaiming the original character of the landscape in a green field urban development at Luddenham, Western Sydney. This unique landscape of rolling hills, scattered trees, hill top farm houses, water ways and ponds will face extreme changes as the result of the future proposed developments. The main question is what will be the quality of this future town? The project starts with a series of studies from which was developed a new structure plan for the future urban development next to the airport. These design iterations helped to achieve an urban landscape which is meaningful and helps the city dwellers to identify their place within the horizon of the big city. It creates a vital interconnection between the new city and its landscape setting. Finally, as a future reminder for the residents, the Hills Park has been located on top of the two most elevated hills in the area. This park with its iconic summit will be the point of reference from any location in the city surrounding the main boulevard and roads. The park is a big public open space which has been designed to preserve the sense of place for all the existing and future residents with its undulating topography, scattered plantation, and series of meaningful spaces, paths and iconic structures.

L ACHL AN BELL ACH Our pursuit of the Australian Dream of the quarter acre block has seen a large swathe of land from the M7 to Badgerys Creek zoned for low-density housing as part of the sprawling South West Growth Centre. REIMAGINING ‘THE DREAM’

C O N TA C T

Reimagining ‘The Dream’ is a response to urban sprawl, and explores how well designed public spaces will be key to achieving higher-density housing alternatives by taking on the role of residents’ back yard. The need to mitigate urban heat will be a necessary consideration for such spaces, with climate change projected to disproportionately impact Western Sydney relative to the coast.

lachbellach@gmail.com PICTURED

1. Scalabrini Creek Riparian Parkland 2. Linear Urban Parkway, Leppington Centre

This project focuses on a linear parkway and an urban park located in a planned dense centre at Leppington. The chosen site emerged from a semester 1 group project, in which the announcement of Sydney’s second airport was seen as an opportunity to concentrate growth in centres along a corridor, based on the likely extension of the heavy rail line from Leppington to the Airport. The plan for Leppington reserves two creek corridors as parkland connected by a system of parkways, creating a permeable network that improves circulation for residents to green space and to the town centre and rail station. Using a landscape urbanist theoretical approach, Reimagining ‘The Dream’ examines a test case section of this network that could ultimately be appropriated across Leppington and in centres along the larger airport corridor.

LIU HANRONG

CIT Y SANCTUARY

C O N TA C T

Western Sydney’s population is forecast to increase by one million people in the next 20 years. The proposed new centres of high density are in the South West Growth Centre to accommodate the growing population in future planning. However, to avoid the impact of urban development on the fragile environment across Western Sydney, the identified corridor is designed to protect vulnerable ecological areas. By taking advantage of the identified riparian corridor in this urban area, ‘City Sanctuary’ allows more interaction between people and nature, and also effectively improves walkability in the proposed new high density Leppington centre.

lhr809@hotmail.com 0433 320 320 PICTURED

1. Board walk through riparian woodland 2. Riverside Cafe 3. Section of visitor centre and East Park edge 4. Masterplan

This project proposes an ecologically and socially focused park for Leppington centre. The design of the park is structured according to the previously proposed riparian corridor and existing creek. The design recovers and revives the riparian corridor which allows for the provision of public amenity and programming. Existing natural conditions are used to create lively and enjoyable walking experiences in the park. The major programs are set up alongside the path of creek, such as the woodland picnic area, playgrounds, and visitor centre. When walking along the creek, the peaceful scenery, the biodiversity of woodland and dense green all form a contrast with busy urban life, which shapes an unforgettable experience for each user. This design also uses screens of trees to limit the awareness of views and noise from the urban surroundings, in order to strengthen the sense of a city sanctuary.

JENNY NGUYEN

C O O L I N G C O U R T YA R D S

The project takes on the challenge of tackling climate change issues by designing two paralleled urban plazas at Luddenham Town Centre. Research papers show that the weather on the far western Sydney will be more disturbing, especially with the heat. Our previous group project proposed that Luddenham will grow into a dense populated city in stages. The question is by the time the growth arrives in Luddenham, would the community be able to manage the uncomfortable extreme heat that climate change provides?

C O N TA C T

j.nguyentai@gmail.com PICTURED

1. The Duo Urban Plazas 2. The experiential walk 3. The cascading fountain 4. The sunken garden

The ecological urbanism approach leads to essential researches on weather in Luddenham, such as the significant high temperatures in a year, the frequent wind direction(s), the shadow angles. These researches are fundamental to determine building heights and plantings, because the plazas focus on the experiential moments when travelling through this space. Furthermore, the precedents explored a number of heat alleviating designs, of which other hot cities in the world use for many years, for example, Masda (U.A.E) and Spain. The duo urban plazas can transform by alleviating the heat within the town centre, and as far as it could get to the surrounding neighbourhoods. The plazas enable their visitors to linger rather than a quick pass-by, because of the provision of seats, shade and the tangibility to water and planting elements. The panels start with the Luddenham proposal town centre, the weather researches and precedents, followed by diagrammatic explanation on the concepts. Afterwards, the design development and design ideas testings are visualised through plans, sections, longitudinal section, photomontages and axonometric projections.

THE URBAN AGR ARIAN As a team we see the development of a second airport for Sydney as a way to provide direction and opportunity for the urban agriculture already existing in western Sydney. GEORGIA ALEX ANDER ELISE NEWMAN ANNABEL SPILLANE AMAR EL ZEIN

SUPERVISOR

As the world’s population increases and is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, there is an opportunity for urban agriculture to make a positive and sustainable impact on the world’s food systems (Smit et al. 1996). The new airport at Badgerys creek can be seen as a new market for the produce of urban agriculture and to help strengthen the industry even when a lot of the land will be lost with this new development. In this way the airport will provide a community feeling and will use urban agriculture to get people involved in their own community.

Catherine Evans

The community will be involved in airport operations to some extent – as there will be an opportunity to sell fresh produce to airport international and domestic customers. This urban agriculture direction will be mirrored in the residential community surrounding the airport site through community gardens, market stalls and city farming, rooftop gardens and green walls. Through our aims we have developed a strategic approach to environmental management whereby development is ordered in a way that will be less harmful to the existing environment and nearby waterways. This development will strengthen and engage with the community of western Sydney and provide opportunities for environmental management and growth of urban agriculture in western Sydney.

GEORGIA ALEXANDER

TR ANSIENT TR ACKS

C O N TA C T

georgia_alexander7@hotmail.com 0488 439 370

Erosion is a natural process shaping landscapes and normally it is viewed as a negative feature creating holes in the landscape. However, can this transforming process be seen as a positive driver to encourage innovative design for Badgerys Creek? On a broad scale it is evident that erosion is an issue within South Creek Catchment, which stems from disruptions to the water system through agricultural irrigation. Small farms rely on this water for irrigation which puts extra stress on the already fragile water system, making this the most degraded catchment within the wider Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment. It is my aim to connect with this concept of transient landscapes and to propose a solution which will capture increased surface runoff coming from the airport as well as proposed residential suburbs and then filter this runoff through a series of natural wetlands. Filtered water will be used in the grey water system of nearby residential suburbs and in the long term, recycled water may become a new source of irrigation for local farms, therefore relieving the pressure off local streams in the catchment. This new system will connect via a cycle path to residential areas and will become a place for environmental, educational and social interactions. By focusing on the process of erosion areas inside this system will demonstrate how erosion affects a landscape, and how this process can be resisted and restricted. Other transient features including vegetation, natural sediment processes, water, types of pathways and levels of user activity are main features of the design.

ELISE NEWMAN

C A M P U S PAT C H

C O N TA C T

elisenewman99@gmail.com 0435 338 185 PICTURED

1. Permaculture detail

Campus Patch is an Agricultural Campus situated on Adams Road in Badgerys Creek. The catalyst for this campus arose from the completion of our group proposal for the city of Badgerys Creek in first semester of this year. The main themes for our project were to retain the agricultural value of Badgerys Creek and to remediate and preserve the existing fragmented vegetation community of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cumberland Plain Woodlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; residing there. A patchwork framework has been applied to this design and was formulated by the idea that rural areas appear as a patchwork of farms from a satellite image. From this ideology, the campus has been designed with a patchwork theme informing the geometry of the site. A blend of permaculture and urban agriculture has then been applied to the site to create a kinetic spatial experience that connects students to the natural and agricultural elements of the Campus.

2. Axonometric of permaculture detail 3. Site analysis mapping 4. Timeline of establishment

By shaping Campus Patch around the existing topography and utilising the soil removed from the airport site a series of design moves have been made including: a terraced farm following the existing topography lines of the site, mounded microclimate farms, outdoor lecture theatres, permaculture restaurants, greenhouses and rooftop farms. By retaining the natural landscape and designing some agricultural incisions throughout the campus, Campus Patch, will ensure to retain, restore and educate international and local students on the importance of agriculture and how it can be adapted to urban form.

ANNABEL SPILLANE

A I R -T E R R A AU ST R A LI S

C O N TA C T

annabel.spillane@hotmail.com 0427 157 087 PICTURED

1. ‘Ripple’ Terminal design 2. Australian rainforest, wetland and coastal landscapes

An airport is a place where journeys begin and end. It is not however the destination, but merely a temporary space between point ‘A’ and point ‘B’. In regards to their use, form and size airports are frequently considered to be irrelevant and unconnected to the landscape, even though nowadays they are integral to the life of cities. This design turns the airport itself into a destination, by looking at how the landscape affects our experience of place and our formation of memory. Identity and meaning derive from the users and their activities, and the design activates Badgerys Creek Airport with the infusion of the attributes that represent Australian landscape microcosms. The space is transformed into an Australian parkland. You follow an imaginative journey through the Australian landscape, from coastal fringe to desert and more. Using a variety of Australian plants, materials and symbolism the proposal brings together horticulture, architecture, ecology and art to create a themed experience.

3. Design process

Shaping the design is an underlying ripple effect, used to activate areas by forming central hubs that in turn impact on surrounding areas. The ripples encourage a slow pedestrian and bicycle network, that expands and contracts to the contours of the landscape, allowing for additional activated areas: outdoor cafes, benches and amphitheaters. These pedestrian ways cut through the mixed use space on varying levels, allowing for picturesque views of the site and more intimate ways of navigating and way-finding.

AMAR ZEIN

IDENTITY OF BADGERYS CREEK

Badgerys Creek is an area that is currently identified by its agricultural landscape. The proposal of the airport and encroaching city looks to oppose and obliterate the existing identity of Badgerys Creek, thus my design approach investigates strategies to permeate the existing landscape character through the proposed development. The new urban fabric will thus be in harmony with the existing agricultural fabric of the area. It also takes inspiration from a personal narrative associated with this place – the story of a boy name Joe from the 1960s who played within the fresh waters of the creek during the summer and watered the tomato fields until the moon had set. This story heightens the transformation of a rural lifestyle into an urban setting. The design responds to the environmental and social factors within Badgerys Creek. The riparian park filters stormwater from the city to activate the childhood memories of children playing within the running water of Badgerys Creek and for irrigation of agricultural fields. The expression of identity also merges the airport to the city through vistas that peek through the riparian park. The water capture system creates an amphitheatre that overlooks the creek, pathways that meander through the park, bridges that over run the wetlands and mounds that overlook the horizon. The riparian park is a getaway from the neighbouring city. It is a journey that reflects moments within Joe’s childhood. A journey that demonstrates that “Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.”

A CONNECTIVE GREEN NETWORK AND A I R P O R T C I T Y: C O M M U N I T Y

YA L I N S U N MINYU ZHOU NINGXIN CHEN HANZHONG ZHA

SUPERVISOR

Jeremy Gill

The study by our group identified and explored opportunities in the existing natural landscape of Badgerys Creek Airport area as beneficial and potentially relevant to design moves. The whole site radiates out from the main center, which is a high density area, toward a mixed use medium density area and out to the low density area farming and industry area. Concepts relating to landscape urbanism are used to develop a range of ecosystem services. For supportive ecosystem services that aid biodiversity and traffic connectivity, paths will be landscaped with trees and some street plantings to serve as green corridors that will link the site. Another service is to mitigate the flood issue which will be achieved with a parkland alongside the catchment through the town center, creating hybridity between the nature elements and the community use area. Community services will also serve a recreational and educational role.

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1. Structure plan 2. Predicted population development 3. Commercial center

Many of these landscape attributes are already informally provided, but the proposed design aim is to provide guidance to these to allow for increased natural awareness, and increased access in human daily life.

4. Urban eco-park

NINGXIN CHEN

WALK ABLE COMMUNITIES

C O N TA C T

cnx0824@yahoo.com 0403 699 988

PICTURED

1. Masterplan: Badgerys Creek 2. Urban Plaza 3. Long section of the pedestrian pathway 4. Detail plan: Plaza main entrance

My design proposal brings communities and nature into a proposed new town center, creating space not only for the residents’ everyday use but also for visitors. The major issue affecting the site is a disconnection between key urban and landscape nodes. Inspired by ideas of walkability derived from New Urbanism the design explores ways to build node to node connections by using pedestrian pathways. This creates pedestrian-friendly spaces that connect all local attractions and neighborhoods, improve social infrastructure and build an attractive community environment. Viewing of public open space can be limited by built form, however, improved visual connection is important for the walkable city, not only to create a safe environment, but also as way to navigate and locate significant places. Two major local creeks also provide a strong design inspiration for the project, and water features are used as important elements in the organization of the pathway system. There is a range of different walking experiences, bringing the experience of a variety of landscapes into the one area. The design caters for a range of different users – older people, families, children, workers and visitors – and is also designed to be used from day to night, improving the economic development of the city. The experience of walking is thus the way to link communities and nature in this new urban landscape.

YA L I N SUN

G R E E N C O N N EC T I V I T Y: Making green space accessible to the community

C O N TA C T

sunyalin1990@126.com 0430 810 915 PICTURED

This project explores the question: How can we make open space accessible to the community? It considers what potential factors can make public open space more accessible to people, such as creating programs for diverse users, considering both physical and psychological health of visitors, and combining nature and social elements in the park. This project creates an eco-park that uses a green connectivity strategy to link people and the local ecology. The proposed site is part of a new City Center proposed in the group project. The site is surrounded by a residential area, commercial area and mixed-use area, therefore many people will potentially have access to this site. Moreover, there is a light railway line adjacent to the proposed site, and a large green open space within it. However, there are also several issues, such as a lack of interaction between people and place, disconnection between open space and surrounding building and a lack of activity.

1. Mater Plan of Eco-park 2. Small Conceptual Diagram Indicates Design Progress 3. Observation Terrace 4. Climbing Mound stand beside Creek

The eco-park includes a botanical garden, children playground, rainforest adventures, community garden and urban orchard. This place provides opportunities for social interaction and activity at different times of the day and night, connects public open space to the local and regional walking and cycling network with safe pedestrian crossings leading to or near park entrances, and also provides a range of active and passive recreational facilities for different age groups of people. This project also creates a link to the wide riparian landscape network, strengthening the character and ecology of the wide landscape.

HANZHONG ZHA

SHAPING THE U R BA N PA R K

C O N TA C T

zhahanzhong_alex@126.com 0431 676 626 PICTURED

1. Urban park masterplan

New urban areas will emerge with the development of a proposed second airport for Sydney. This project explores how Kevin Lynchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ideas from â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Good City Formâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; can be applied to the design of an urban park in one such proposed new town centre. If major elements of the city are building typologies and patterns, this project considers the ways that a park can generate relationships between the site character and the geometric patterns embedded in the surrounding urban area. Several issues need to be addressed within the site through the design process in order to mitigate problems related to the design of the centre of the city and the surrounding areas. These include a lack of community space in the city centre, a need for connections between the site and the user, the need for the creation of a path system, and the opportunity for the integration of the site into the wider urban and landscape systems. This urban park offers people a place to relax and can become a focal point for the surrounding community.

2. Enclosed resting space montage 3. Sporting and meeting area montage 4. Walking platform montage

A range of uses and elements are combined with the distinctive characteristics of the local landform and vegetation to create a sense of unity of the place. It is important to the success of the design that the different functions of the site be integrated and highlighted to give the site a sense of place and function, as well as allowing form and function to develop.

MINYU ZHOU

AN URBAN FOREST C O M M U N I T Y: Reconnecting people and spaces with nature

C O N TA C T

zmychristina@163.com 0430 969 607 PICTURED

1. Masterplan of Linear Park 2. Perspective long section 3. Detail site across section

This linear park addresses the issues of accessibility and poor quality of community services by harnessing a common desire to reconnect people with nature. The site boundary is surrounded by mixed use and residential areas and is an important link connecting the major town center and planned railway from last semesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group project. The Eco-park, which was also proposed in the group project, is seen as a fundamental utility which provides wildlife habitat, clean air and water, and also as a physically attractive setting for the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents and visitors. The linear park is thus an important linkage between the Eco-park and the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building blocks and is also a significant part of creating a great sense of place. Throughout the project the concept of the urban forest is used to create a relationship between human activities and environment protection. For the whole linear park, there is a main pedestrian route to connect the driveway near the EcoPark and the mixed use building area on the other side. Major design elements include community gardens, urban plazas and green open spaces, all of which utilise existing landform and link these with water elements. The use of diverse plant species and vegetation arrangements clearly show the use of urban forest concept in a variety of different ways. An emphasis on larger and longer lived canopy trees in the linear park works with the proposed community services that further integrate with the residential and commercial uses of the surrounding area. Accessibility and connectivity become the key elements of this urban forest community within the new airport city.

BADGERYS CREEK AIRPORT CITY

LIAM ISAKSEN JAMES KIDD XHIAN MCINTYRE R YA N S A X B Y DAV I D W H IT WO RT H

SUPERVISOR

Catherine Evans

Selected as the site for Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second airport, Badgerys Creek offers a unique opportunity to propose a new airport-related cityscape in Western Sydney. The site offers potential for an innovative and effective landscape urbanism project that will support growth. The proposal seeks to capitalise on potential investment, taking advantage of the opportunities for ecological, social and urban development. Landscape elements of the site design need to go beyond the role of camouflage and instead, stand as the armature and driver informing development. Landscape elements are conceived as the driver and structure for the proposed changes facing this region of Sydney, attempting to resolve key ecology issues related to development, from re-vegetation and conservation of fragmented and endangered ecological communities, to bio-banking arrangements and large scale treatment of increased stormwater issues. The development of Badgerys Creek will evolve over many years. This project embraces the idea of staging. Stages occur in relation to expansion of population, jobs, construction, development of transportation systems and the rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems. The stages are intended to create hybrid systems that grow and inform new urban expansion in Western Sydney, as an alternative to thoughtless sprawl.

LIAM ISAKSEN

MODERN ODYSSEY

C O N TA C T

liamisaksen@gmail.com PICTURED

1. Experiences forming the structure plan 2. A new journey to the airport

The ancient Greek Odyssey presented the challenges of a journey across the Mediterranean Sea by ship. Now, 2800yrs later, planes take to the skies and integrating airports becomes the challenge through which we must journey and navigate. I present a Modern Odyssey. It addresses how the journey of arriving and departing from an airport functions in a unique way to bring on a new experience for the users. This is through designing and programming the landscape, social principles and creating an identity in the new urban setting of Badgerys Creek. Moving away from the typical linear and enclosed action through an airport, this project proposes an alternative option that creates a dynamic movement through the airport and brings in the surrounding environment as a foundation for design.

3. Main entry and Flight Path Park

All who use this airport from the first time tourists to the families returning home will be able to engage with the landscape to give themselves identity and a relation to the region. The social aspects at airports are similar to those in cities but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t function in similar ways. The design of a flight path park and a new entry hub in front of the airport will serve as an exciting space in which people can enter an airport, stop, relax and enjoy. Overall this design questions and challenges the operation of how we enter airports today and presents a modern odyssey that can be taken to the new Badgerys Creek Airport.

JAMES KIDD

URBAN UNDERSTORY

The urban forest is a formula to strategise street trees, urban open space allocation, lower CO2 in cities and reduce urban heat by increased tree canopy cover. The endangered alluvial woodland on site acts as the armature for a social and recreational urban oasis in the heart of the new Badgerys Creek Airport City, as well as reconnecting fragments of remnant vegetation communities. A landscape urbanism approach to design is used, where the ecology and environment shapes the urban form to form a hybrid system. This will enable a long term staging process of expanding and revitalising vegetation communities before development of an urban environment. The second stage is design, streets, landscape, buildings and a program which fosters a human relationship with open space for people in the mixed use urban surrounding areas to use at various times throughout the day for a number of different functions. The key design moves include a woodland boardwalk and terraced landscape parkland areas leading into the woodland as a major design element to create open public spaces for people, as well as acting as a space to house flora and fauna species. A series of wetland filtration ponds will deal with the increased pollution and sediment runoff from urban development. These ponds will add an element of beauty to the site and improve water quality of Badgerys Creek. The site will function as an urban park, pedestrian walkway, public open space and a pedestrian network for the surrounding mixed use buildings.

XHIAN MCINTYRE “Cutting, warping and folding the surface creates a kind of smooth geology that joins interior and exterior spaces into one continuous surface.” Alex Wall. S U R FA C E S T R AT E G I E S Creating landscape continuity

C O N TA C T

xhian.b@gmail.com 0409 158 595 PICTURED

1. Context plan

‘Surface Strategies’ has created a new design language and a set of generators that have stemmed directly from natural and human processes in the Western Sydney landscape. This design language has informed a landscape intervention that seeks to cultivate new relationships between the landscape matrix and the urban field. This linear landscape currently exists in isolation from its surrounding urban area due to a hard edge creating two distinctly separate fields. The urban field is made up of residential to the south of the site whilst business and industry that has grown from Sydney’s second airport lies to the north of it. The site is bordered by two degraded riparian corridors, Badgerys Creek on the west and South Creek to its east, whilst fragmented Cumberland Plain Woodland is scattered over undulating topography.

2. Site condition and abstraction 3. Landscape structure plan 4. Folded landscape sections

The design intervention folds, twists and warps the surrounding edges of the site to create a continuous surface that joins the landscape matrix with its neighborhoods. The sensitive creek lines are connected over a ridgeline through an open space that remediates multiple vegetation communities. Furthermore, the connected nature of the surface is reflected through the pressures of urban development that warp with existing topography and crumple areas of the site. As a result, through these design generators a public open space has been realised that connects the surrounding landscapes and their urban life.

R YA N SA XBY

R E V I V I N G T H E WAT E R

C O N TA C T

ryandsaxby@gmail.com PICTURED

1. Detail plan 2. The central spine 3. Objectives

Water use and the treatment of wastewater in urbanised areas are often misunderstood by society. This project attempts to shed light on this process through an interactive park experience that demonstrates sustainable water use, filtration of polluted water and education about urban and rural water consumption. Key activities will include cycling, walking loops including bush walking, walking tracks through wetlands and dried up wetland systems as well as water themed playgrounds. This regional park is adjacent to proposed urban development of mixed-use residential, light industrial, business offices and the new Badgerys Creek airport 1.5kms to the West. Often the processes of soil and water treatment are done out of view of the general public. This makes understanding the process of how these treatments are performed difficult. The theoretical framework used for this project was derived from Landscape Urbanism and is one that seeks to make the invisible landscape processes visible. This approach provides a great opportunity for thousands of people to explore and understand these processes in an engaging environment. Users of the park would include residents and employees from the surrounding areas. The siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proximity to the newly planned international airport would also attract visitors from surrounding Sydney suburbs and tourists from inter-state and overseas. This proposal aims to achieve the above goals through designing a park that highlights the water cycle from the urban environment, through open space systems and into the natural environments.

DAV I D WHITWORTH Design interventions focus on a desire to amend and reframe. To gather again the qualities of the site, and present them in a manner that encourages stewardship and care. ANAMNESIS: A kind of un-forgetting, a recollectionre-gathering-of previous existence

C O N TA C T

dm_whitworth@hotmail.com 0407 239 460 PICTURED

1. Exploration of paths

An assumption has been made regarding the lack of conservation of the endangered ecological communities of the Cumberland Plain. It is assumed these communities are not considered beautiful or of value. The development of relationships of value relies on the strength of a personal experience of place. In response, the primary form chosen is a series of paths, punctuated by follies which act as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;re-framersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Paths are employed with the understanding that a path implies both place and value, by articulating a destination. Paths are intended to enable a relationship between individuals and place, at a pace that can become meaningful, moving and hopefully, transformative.

2. Experience of approach 3. Framing Folly 4. Approach to an oculus

[ECO] A L ANDSCAPE INFR ASTRUCTURE N N E C T I V I T Y: A P P R O A C H TO B U I L D I N G A N E N V I R O N M E N T A L LY I N T E G R A T E D , ADAPTIVE AND RESILIENT AIRPORT CITY ALFREDO ESCUIN JESSICA LOCK KAREN RUTHVEN NICHOLAS TUTTLE

SUPERVISOR

Libby Gallagher PICTURED

1. Green Chain Urban Plaza 2. Green Chain Network 3. Green Boulevard 4. Structure plan – 2080 projection

The implementation of Sydney’s second airport located in Badgerys Creek Airport will cause inevitable growth and radical urbanization to the Western Sydney region. Sensitive planning and urban design of the precincts surrounding Badgerys Creek must be employed in order to maximise success and ensure no adverse effects are encountered as a result of a foreseeable dramatic and catalytic urbanization. The proposal stems from a landscape urbanist approach that aims to create and support urban development through an understanding of the regional and local landscape context and respect for the natural environment. Through an integrated approach of urban and environmental processes this strategy provides cities with efficient and effective multifunctional systems that support the both ecology and society. These are represented through synergy between transit, flood mitigation, connectivity, habitat and supporting community. Through a synergy of urban and ecological process this strategy allows for cities to become highly adaptive and as a result allow for flexible phasing over time. [Eco] connectivity situates landscapes as the key organisational components from which cities are designed promoting interactions between people and ecology. This approach is applied through the design of the ‘green chain’ network where local centres and large urban parks are linked to transit nodes through the creation of an public open space network. This network is formed through the different configurations of urban form to allow for social interaction, hydrological processes, and pedestrian transit corridors.

ALF ESCUIN

INTERTWINED INGRESS

C O N TA C T

alfredo.escuin@gmail.com 0411 846 599 PICTURED

1. Masterplan 2. Discover perspective 3. Tangle perspective 4. Discover section

With the introduction of a second international airport in Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s west there is a greater concern for the mitigation of negative impacts that are associated with major urban developments and infrastructure. Intertwined Ingress aims to manage these issues by restoring remnant ecological communities of the Cumberland Plain with the systematic design of an ecological corridor that aims to explore opportunities to transform temporal edges with a focus on social interaction amongst designed ephemeral spaces. The corridor will span between the two Luddenham precincts to connect each major development with the other and develop an airport link created by the experimentation of interaction between network systems including the hydrology and ecology of the site. The restoration of Cosgrove Creek and existing detention ponds within the area will also aim to strengthen the South Creek Catchment and present opportunities for active recreation and education, with a dramatic emphasis on natural processes and their ability to transform spaces within the linear corridor. The experience of combined networks will act as conduits informing a continuous narrative that immerses the userâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senses within natural processes, educating them on the significance of natural systems in direct contact with major urban developments. By inviting the community to explore and witness natural processes on a regional, precinct and local scale, the intention is to create a more thoughtful way of living that displays the airport site through techniques of viewing the landscape from vantage points and acting as a catalyst for environmentally conscious urban developments.

JESSICA LOCK

+RECOVERYSCAPE: Propositions for a regenerative post industrial regional parkscape

C O N TA C T

jessicayanlock@gmail.com 0404 886 803 PICTURED

1. Quarry Park Precinct masterplan

The implementation of Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second airport will catalyse urban growth in Badgerys Creek and the Western Sydney region. While urban development is inevitable, the need to reclaim and preserve public open space is also vital for the successful functioning of the city. The former Boral Brickworks site is a logical and unique opportunity to reclaim land for the public and provide opportunities for people and nature to interact. + recoveryscape is the reclamation and transformation of a post-industrial quarry landscape into a regional park through multifunctional landscape interventions that are integrally guided by the understanding of the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique sense of place and process. The design aims to address ecological and social problems that range from a regional scale to a human scale. The landscape interventions tell a layered narrative of process and place through reconciling historical industrial layers within a contemporary framework that values ecosystem services and multi-functionality of space.

2. Lakeside precinct 3. Design drivers

The park serves to recover the health and connectivity of ecological systems in the immediate Badgerys Creek quarry as well as address these issues on a larger network across Sydney. This includes reclamation of the water body, regeneration of fragile Cumberland Plain woodland communities and connecting the network of regional parks from the Western Sydney Parklands to the Blue Mountains. Drawing upon its unique history, character, ecology and context, the revitalization of the site will facilitate a new parkscape within Western Sydney that is able to enhance quality of life for nature and people in a growing city.

KAREN RUTHVEN

INFLUXSTRUCTURE

C O N TA C T

karen.ruthven5@gmail.com

Influxstructure challenges the traditional motorway design as a single focus transit system by exploring how the landscape interface of road infrastructure projects can be designed to improve connectivity and flexibility within the surrounding urban and ecological environments. Motorways are engineered for function, to move vehicles as efficiently as possible from one location to another. They are not social, or ecologically rich environments, hence they are usually screened from sight, with buffers of walls and land mounds having little interaction with the surrounding context.

0411 231 441 PICTURED

1. Multi-functioning infrastructure interface in

While motorways are built with the sole focus of connection, their dissection of urban and ecological environments often results in disconnection that becomes a barrier to local communities.

Gateway Park 2. Structure plan and diagrams for Gateway Park 3. Motorway model and function analysis

The proposed airport and urban development at Badgerys Creek will require an efficient road strategy such as a motorway link to connect the district to the wider Sydney region. This however poses a local threat of segregation to the surrounding ecological and social communities. Influxstructure investigates the often neglected residual motorway landscape, and explores how these spaces can be transformed into adaptive landscapes. The project proposes a landscape motorway interface that is capable of facilitating a multitude of uses that responds to local context, as well as the dynamics of urban development and the shifting climate for the region over the next 100 years.

NICHOLAS TUTTLE

PA R K L A N D C O N N ECT

C O N TA C T

ntutts@gmail.com 0432 963 34 PICTURED

1. Parkland Connect masterplan 2. Landform is utilised to direct views 3. ‘Admire’ Lookout

Parkland Connect aims to establish a series of new connections around the proposed Badgerys Creek Airport via a network of cycle and pedestrian paths. Designed within a large parkland setting, the path network seeks to combine existing vegetation communities with that of newly constructed landforms to better incorporate the airport’s function as an engaging focus within a new landscape setting. The new landforms created as a result of the huge earthworks required to construct the airport provide an opportunity for visitors to orientate, identify and admire the surrounding landscape. Each path is developed with its own set of unique experiences that are developed around a range of varying users, such as cyclists and walkers. Users are prompted to engage with the surrounding landscape through the location of various precincts. Each precinct then develops upon certain aspects relating to themes of exploration, admiration and education, with a common and overriding focus on the airport.

4. ‘Play’ Precinct

Parkland Connect demonstrates how the inward focus of an airport’s operational activity can help to drive new and successfully multifunctional spaces around an airport’s perimeter. These spaces can potentially enable new airport developments to successfully integrate themselves both visually and functionally within existing landscapes and communities.

BADGERYS SYDNEY’S LEEDING C R E E K C I T Y: C ATC H M E N T

JANE MULLIGAN O C TAV I A R O G E R S GABRIEL SICARI REBECCA SURIAN

SUPERVISOR

Jeremy Gill PICTURED

The aim of this project was to design and implement Badgerys Creek Airport City as a best practice exemplar of energy and environmental initiatives. We chose the LEED certification program [Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design] as the framework to ensure design, construction and operation of the precinct would be energy efficient, environmentally compatible and provide a healthy working and residential environment. Decentralisation benefits that underpin the Government’s decision to invest in a second Sydney Airport is fundamental to the scheme. Industries and activities that reduce congestion and loadings on Sydney’s existing road infrastructure will be encouraged under these development guidelines. As such the proposed Badgerys Creek City has been designed using the principals of Hyper-Dense Transit Oriented Development, Hydrological and Ecological Management practices and Productive Land Use.

1. Badgerys Creek Airport City masterplan 2. Airport terminal 3. Water treatment 4. Population growth + city networks

Targets for water collection in aspects of the City will be established to ensure sufficient quantities are collected for treatment, reuse and ultimately to restore the quality of water in the catchment. Carbon offset benefits will be established for zones of commercial agriculture, community farms and gardens as well as recreational green spaces. The significant areas of minimal or low density space surrounding the high noise corridors adjacent to the airport will be put to productive use by growing of biofuel crops.

O C TAV I A ROGERS

LEFT WITH A SCAR

“Quarries are places that are outside of our normal experience, yet we engage with the product on a daily basis. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet sets us into...the dilemma of our modern existence” Photographer Edward Burtynsky Left with a Scar initiates awareness of this dilemma by allowing people to experience this unseen industrial landscape.

C O N TA C T

taverogers@hotmail.com PICTURED

Inspired by the quarry’s existing character and how nature slowly started to encompass the abandoned site, Left with a Scar reuses the landscape for a parkland yet still bears visible traces of its earlier form.

1. Perspective montage of stock pile trail 2. Quarry masterplan 3. Design development 4. Perspective montage of view in to quarry

Left with a Scar reveals the surprising beauty and landscape typologies with minimal intervention to evoke user interpretation. Retaining the machine constructed topography, and the use of an industrial materials palette, generates intrigue and rawness of the dramatic landscape. Limited direction is marked to invite people to explore the site with intuition and freedom to choose their own paths and tracks. This allows a person the opportunity to observe their landscape, take a step back and reflect. The planting palette is a reflection of wilderness taking over, with a desire for this park to surprise and embrace the quality of the seasons. Left with a Scar seeks to layer a sense of freedom in movement of people and freedom of growth in nature, enabling the quarry not to be static in use, but continually open up new experiences and opportunities for people and nature.

GABRIEL SICARI

M U LT I - E X P E R I E N T I A L CORRIDOR

C O N TA C T

g_sicari@hotmail.com 0414 439 995 PICTURED

1. Integrated systems 2. The Cumberland Gardens 3. Civic centre and community green 4. Multi-experiential corridor masterplan

The multi-experiential corridor is designed to be the defining public open space and central feature of the proposed Badgerys Creek Airport City. The design of the corridor aims to achieve the following targets: to integrate the existing rural residential and agricultural landscape quality; to re-establish the existing fragmented Cumberland woodland as a connected forest canopy; and to provide the prospective residents of the city with a multitude of experiences to facilitate their day to day life. These experiences are to be defined by the changing visual character and varied uses along the corridor. The theories of permeable urbanism and urban way-finding are used to create seamless pedestrian movement within the urban fabric. The design explores the strong link between movement and visual experience, in which a variety of opportunities for movement are available, such as walking, cycling, and public transport. Combined with a permeable urban environment, opportunities for social interaction increase, and each citizen gains a sense of ownership over the public domain. Concepts of threshold, converge, and infiltrate have been explored through conceptual drawings to influence the many ways in which the multi-experiential corridor can function. By linking together important aspects of cities, such as ecological, transport, consumer, and community functions, the multi-experiential corridor acts as a catalyst for social and ecological enhancement for the Western Sydney Region.

REBECCA SURIAN Badgerys Creek City is designed using principals of transit oriented development and hyper-dense housing to centralize the population, in turn reducing urban sprawl and making available valuable agricultural land for food production. A N E W U R B A N B A C K YA R D

C O N TA C T

becsurian@gmail.com

Badgerys Creek City is a move away from the Great Australian Housing dream of detached suburban housing. This raises the challenge of how to provide private areas that serve as backyards but also operate within the public forum, ie. buildings are not cut off from one another but rather they create a fluid series of areas that are simultaneously used as private and public space.

0413 448 447 PICTURED

1. Exeter mall and urban backyard masterplan

The New Urban Backyard is designed as a series of small garden rooms within the larger areas created by massing building blocks to the outer edges of the city block. The urban backyard gardens feature amenity facilities for entertainment and lawn areas for relaxation and ball games.

2. East-west section 3. Design development and conceptual modelling

The focus area for the project is situated along Exeter Mall; a linear pedestrian plaza utilising three city blocks on Martin Road. The primary use for the mall is as public open space for residents and business workers as a high-street shopping, dining and entertainment mall. It is modelled on La Rumblas (Barcelona, Spain) featuring a pedestrian zone down the centre strip flanked by single vehicle lanes on each side with short stay parking and bicycle lanes. Street trees frame the mall and provide a continuous green avenue, while restricted building heights reduce overshadowing and provide a comfortable ratio of building mass to human scale.

E-MISSION

The establishment of a new airport will impact local air quality by introducing harmful compounds including carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide and hydrocarbons. This raises health concerns for future residents. ALI BEYDOUN N AT H A N P I R R O T I N A MICHAEL WHITE HAOQI ZHANG

SUPERVISOR

Libby Gallagher PICTURED

E-mission is a proposal to improve the environmental condition of Badgerys Creek by instituting a program of large-scale reforestation. This will improve key indicators of environmental health including air quality, water quality, infiltration and total canopy cover. A recent study from the United States was used to calculate the number of trees required to offset carbon emissions and absorb toxins. For airport related emissions projected for 2060, 270,000 large trees occupying 42 kmÂ˛ of new forest space are required. The proposed solution is a significant area of new forestry space on the fertile post-agricultural soils of the site.

1. Forest City structure plan 2. Spatial qualities of proposed Forest City 3. Forest spine and city interactions 4. Schematic investigation and testing

This area is composed of both remediated areas of endemic vegetation and a sustainable mixed species native timber plantation. Species will include Spotted Gum, Blue Gum, Forest Red Gum and Blackbutt. These native timbers are highly prized on domestic and international markets. The plantation has the potential to be a new economic driver for the region while providing benefits to air quality and integrating the native landscape character with new development.

ALI BEYDOUN

WALK ABLOCK

C O N TA C T

a.beydoun@hotmail.com 0410 866 668

PICTURED

1. WALKABLOCK: masterplan 2. Secondary transportation method: light rail 3. Tree Walk: meeting the natives 4. Water filtration through bio-swales

WALKABLOCK is an innovative city centre located in the heart of the new Forest City. It is designed to promote activity in order to enhance people’s health, while also addressing environmental issues by preserving and restoring the endangered Cumberland Plain’s vegetation community. The design draws on principles from New Urbanism and from urban theorists Jan Gehl and Jeff Specks. It utilises design strategies that promote an active city in order to combat health related issues related to obesity and inactivity. The design achieves this by preserving some existing natural elements including dams and native vegetation as well as filtering runoff water through a series of linear native bio-swales connected to the creek, and also by developing an urban landscape for an active generation that will primarily rely on walking and cycling as a means of transport. Each designated area has a unique identity. A linear ‘active’ park incorporates mounds that function as viewing platforms to connect to adjacent parks and sporting fields. It also includes running obstacles for people to challenge themselves physically, which can be linked to an application that monitors performance. A walkable shopping grove is included, and people’s movement mimics the flow of water, as pedestrians and cyclists are given highest priority. The city centre will effectively promote activity, vegetation restoration and a carbon footprint free environment that will benefit the inhabitants as well as nature.

N AT H A N PIRROTTINA

MARSHALLING RUNOFF

C O N TA C T

ndpirrottina@gmail.com 0432 592 918

The Badgerys Creek catchment has been largely polluted and degraded over time, and currently holds minimal value in the regional ecological composition. Without intervention the addition of the proposed airport and its related pollution will further accelerate the dilapidation of the Badgerys Creek water catchment. This project is nestled between the proposed airport to the north and the existing degraded creek to the south. The ambitions of this project are to provide a solution to resolve the impact of the airport on the Badgerys Creek catchment, ecologically enhance the riparian edge, create a formalised network of public open space that connects onto the existing green network, as well as the establishment of the parks significance and usage.

PICTURED

1. Masterplan 2. Discover perspective 3. Tangle perspective 4. Discover section

MARSHalling Runoff tests the idea of detaining, treating and cleaning the polluted airport surface runoff via a network of water bodies. These water bodies together create a closed system of water treatment to purify and remove the airportinduced pollutants. Intertwined within is a parallel network that entices and attracts pedestrians through the space, promoting experience, exploration, education and relaxation. These elements function as the core of the linear park. Macro and micro scales of the design ensure that experiential appreciation, ecological value are maximised to ensure a holistic and complete landscape design balancing function, aesthetic and experience. Where intended these will be peeled back to reveal the underlying functions that further contribute to the spatial appreciation and qualities.

MICHAEL WHITE

SOUTH CREEK N AT U R E S C A P E

C O N TA C T

Research has shown that formative experiences in the landscape during our childhood years shape our attitudes towards conservation and environmental policy for the rest of our lives. The decline in outdoor recreational activity amongst Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s youth paints a concerning picture of our environmental future. South Creek Naturescape is a regional nature play park on the site of new development servicing Badgerys Creek Airport in Western Sydney. The construction of a new airport at Badgerys Creek will be the catalyst for the development of a new regional centre as discussed in the Forest City project.

mickgwhite@gmail.com 0434 586 486 PICTURED

The new population is likely to be represented by similar demographics to existing areas in Greater Western Sydney. A significantly higher proportion of youth will mean a new generation of children growing up in the Badgerys Creek region .

1. Naturescape masterplan 2. Forest City Adventure 3. Illustrative sections 4. Native vegetation character

The site will be transformed by imaginative playground environments that evoke the landscape character of the Cumberland Plain. These spaces will offer children a connection to the natural world that is lacking in the environment of a concrete or plastic pre-fabricated playground. At South Creek Naturescape, children will play amidst the treetops of the Forest Red Gum, Eucalyptus tereticornis. They will run freely through fields of our native grasses and wildflowers. The area will be revegetated using species from local native vegetation communities including Cumberland Plain Woodland and Sydney Coastal River Flat Forest species. By immersing children in our native ecology and creating these experiences we will guide them towards an appreciation for its value and beauty.

HAOQI ZHANG

T H E S U S TA I N A B L E RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY

C O N TA C T

haoqi888@hotmail.com 0430 086 918 PICTURED

1. Masterplan 2. Recreation area detail plan 3. Sections 4. The public spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s montage of residential

This project aims to create a new residential community for sustainable living, to provide enough living space to meet the needs of population growth, and try to reduce the impact of all kinds of pollution on the living environment caused by the airport and new city development. The new city is surrounded by the existing conservation area and proposed native carbon offsetting forest. This project helps the natural system expand into the suburb and urban districts, and provides a good opportunity for the proposed residential community to combine with the forest. The primary idea of the design for the residential community is to combine the various residential building block types with an urban forest park, testing the different types of buildings with different form of trees and planting for different density areas. It also includes more outdoor recreation space for activities. The forest design within the new residential community is based on the existing forest community. The forest in the residential community works as a natural conditioner, to clean air, filter rainwater and lower city temperatures. Trees, shrubs and other plants create important habitat for birds, insects and reptiles, and also create some natural connections to link the different forest inside and outside of the residential community. There are also some recreation spaces for people to enjoy activities in daily life, holidays and special celebrate days, and to encourage people more enjoy time in the outdoors, close to nature and to communicate with the neighbors and create friendly relationships.

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URBAN PROPOSITIONS FOR BADGERYS CREEK

B E N C H A R LT O N MORGAN HANNAN ALEX CROWE JAMES BIBBY

SUPERVISOR

Mike Harris PICTURED

1. Design framework: model appraisal and concept masterplans

In the near future Badgerys Creek will be home to Sydney’s second airport. This is a monumental shift of attention away from the Sydney CBD to the western suburbs, and goes hand in hand with the plan to develop a broader Western Sydney Employment Area (WSEA), one of the Metropolitan Plan for Sydney 2031 projects that will see the release of 6300 ha to development. Our proposal is for a strongly functional landscape, providing all the amenity required for a successful international airport freight and passenger transport node, while creating a high density, walkable liveable urban space. Based on selected principles of modernism, new urbanism and landscape urbanism four design drivers were established and used to create a menu of structural items that can be combined to create a design that responds effectively to each driver. ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN – How can urban form reduce or offset energy costs in climate control and transport? SOCIAL DESIGN – What urban forms allow the greatest social interaction? DESIGN FOR AIRPORT FUNCTION – What is the most functional way the urban form can respond to the needs of the airport? ECOLOGICAL DESIGN – How can the form produce the best interaction between people and nature, while preserving and improving the natural resource?

2. Structure plan 3. Two precincts: social, ecological, logistics, efficiency 4. Major landscape interventions

The complete rationalisation of the four drivers is applied systematically to the site to also explore how each of them can also interact with the local landscape character, climatic conditions and project requirements.

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BEN C H A R LT O N

TOWARDS A FLEXIBLE U R B A N P L AT F O R M

C O N TA C T

brcharlton@hotmail.co.uk 0481 339 679

The aim of ‘Toward a Flexible Urban Platform’ is to explore a social justice approach to the proposed development around Badgerys Creek airport. The concept of Convergence relates to the process of people ‘converging’ on an area from different ‘origins’. Three initial steps were taken – a linear pattern was overlaid on the site, based on desire lines, views and expected paths; the resulting geometric pattern was assessed and then groups of people were assigned to the resulting ‘rooms’. Convergence was then explored as something that would draw in more than just people. Several key features have been drawn in to site to reflect this, including existing site conditions, WSUD (Water sensitive urban design), ‘spirit of community’, built form, local endangered endemic vegetation communities, and water, through a program of retention and detention.

PICTURED

1. Masterplan at site character 2. Preliminary concepts and sketches 3. Convergence 4. Cosgrove Creek modules

A finer-grained modular concept of interventions was applied to the rooms developed through the ‘convergence’ concept and combined with program to create differing and editable moments throughout the site. Prototype modules are identified as ‘The Depression, The Protrusion and The Combination, and users can interact with these modules to customise and further transform the site. Overall this project aims to provide a public square that harvests program flexibility and attracts a range of users, whilst at the same time is sympathetic to existing and unexpected site conditions. This in turn will strengthen community integration and development and encourage participation and partnership.

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ALEX CROWE

B I L AT E R A L E C O LO G I E S

C O N TA C T

amandahuggenkiss@gmail.com

This design for a pedestrian plaza is a response to the disparity between the human and landscape ecologies that govern and facilitate life on earth. A gesture line â&#x20AC;&#x201C; derived from existing topography and heightened by built form and programmatic arrangement â&#x20AC;&#x201C; pulls the public realm [the space where society evolves] toward the riparian corridor of Cosgroves Creek and engages its attendant processes. The diversity of public life is played out in the requisitely flexible but hitherto calcified relationship between human habitation and landscape processes. This relationship becomes explicitly manifest in the daily life of a plaza tied to site through temporal hydrological processes.

PICTURED

1. Library//community centre//nature play

Sustainability pervades all scales.

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MORGAN HANNAN

AWAIR: Landscape driven architecture

C O N TA C T

morgan.hannan@robertsday.com.au 0428 604 473

An airport is typically a hub of bad human habits. It is a focal point of unsustainable consumption, a fuel intensive exercise, a gateway for international trades, and a glorification of “high end” retail. In Sydney, Badgerys Creek Airport has partly resulted in the Western Sydney Employment Area, an example of the continued sprawling, car dependent planning that has defined the issues facing Sydney today. The opportunity of approaching the Badgerys terminal design as a landscape architect is to create an airport that, while still both functional and beautiful, speaks both to the problem and the solution. The design proposed is a response to the realities of human impact on the wider landscape, but also takes on the ideas of hedonistic sustainability and green seduction, looking to take in all three pillars of sustainability; environmental, economic, and social.

PICTURED

1. Site masterplan 2. Functional priorities of terminal 3. Gateway sculptural elements 4. Section of terminal scale

Rather than having the airport compromise utility or be hidden to be considered “green”, selected moments in an array of scales have been developed to create an awareness of human impact and sustainable practices. This includes the emphasis of certain views and the display of particular physical and social systems, which, by tapping into the potential social capital of international travellers, can create wider discussion. The form creation takes the qualities of the “big box” development that distinguishes airport landscapes, playing on the user’s interpretation of inside and outside, and using the newly created public space to tie this transport node into the city’s civic infrastructure.

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E-TO D :

ECOLOGICA L TR A NSIT O R I E N TAT E D D E S I G N

DEAN KIM J A C Q U LY N L A M KIM BROWN MING ZHANG

SUPERVISOR

Mike Harris PICTURED

1. Masterplan in aerial view 2. Major road section 3. Bioswale interacting with the creek montage 4. Design analysis

As Kingsford Smith Airport nears capacity the new Badgerys Creek Airport is essential to relieve it. Coincidentally it renews mass development and amends shortages of housing and jobs. This is the greatest opportunity to develop Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s modern urban form. Transit Orientated Design and Landscape Ecology (Eâ&#x20AC;?TOD) combined to develop the Western Sydney expansion as a series of train station centred urban clusters. This minimises the environmental impact by preventing urban sprawl, decreasing pollution and increasing green spaces. Coincidentally, it improves conditions of city living by increasing dependence on public transport, bikes and walking, and minimizing travel for necessities such school, shopping, leisure, greenery and work, (a significant issue of the working class). The three cities developed within the area are designed to serve a specific function. Badgerys Creek Airport City integrates the airport into its supporting built spaces, North Bringelly City supplies urban living for the business district off its major roads, and Bringelly City acts as a second CBD for Sydney. A key design strategy to encourage dense centred clusters was initiated by elevating the rail and station to increase experiences of travel and develop a central green corridor at the cities hearts. With this we hope to market Sydney as a modern liveable environment and encourage its inhabitants and visitors to enjoy the experience of dwelling within its extended urban landscape.

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KIM BROWN

O B L I T E R AT I N G P R I VAT E S PA C E S

C O N TA C T

kim.e.brown.1991@gmail.com 0402 181 611

PICTURED:

1. Overview of station design 2. Initial design sketches 3. Design method 4. ‘Wire Roof Trunks’ and ‘Underbridge Playground’

Historically, rail divided cities by taking up space, creating eyesores and privatising stations. By contrast, the new North Bringelly Station enhances the experiential connections between transportation and space in order to activate areas in and around the station. The city as a whole is designed to ‘grow up, not out,’ in order to prevent urban sprawl. The station also plays a role with its multi-levelled design; a parkland sits on top, retail and active spaces are shared among the levels, and a streetscape sits on the base. The levels interact smoothly through interventions to weave the station into its surroundings via inter-penetration of spaces and merging and colliding of forms. This increases the active areas and maximises the potential for an active centre. However, the connection extends more than to the local surroundings. Train stations (and airports) can be seen as compasses and devices that orient us and expose us to the forces that merge, collide and interact to form our environment on a larger scale. These contextual features of Western Sydney are expressed in the design, like the Blue Mountains mimicked in the ‘hills’ or Western Sydney Parkland in the wire trees of the roof, while the rail, cars and planes are deliberately exposed, defining our means to get to them. Our public spaces and mode of travel shouldn’t be designed to divide our cities or to be ignored; they are all part of the experience of our environment and should be designed as part of the whole.

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DAE HYUN DEAN KIM

BLENDING THROUGH EDGES: South Creek Linear Park

C O N TA C T

deeaann92@gmail.com 0421 517 476 PICTURED:

1. Concept of blending in and journey 2. Section of urban open space 3. Section of the creek landscape 4. Engineered landscape feature plan

South Creek Linear Park is a long-term mega park project that provides green buffer zone between the two creeks – Badgerys Creek and South Creek – and the proposed new clustered cities including the Badgerys Creek Airport. Creeks are a major landscape condition that bounds the clustered cities, and reinforcing the natural habitat and ecology has only strengthened their edges and contain the sprawl. This park project aims to maintain the ecological value of the creek by blending its ecology with the urban grid, therefore the cities become its green buffer-zone that enhances the creeks’ natural habitat. The characters of creek and the hard-edged urban grid are blended in to lower the contrast between them. The more similar they are, the closer they become. Urban pedestrian areas are opened wide with naturalistic landscape features that mimic what exists in the park, and creeks are opened to the public and become great areas for all age groups, parklands with playgrounds and learning areas. The landscape features are designed to collect rainwater to create naturalistic open public spaces and placed on existing ridges so that they provide filtrated rainwater into the creek, restoring the creek’s ecology. It is no longer the grey versus the green, it is about coexistence.

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J A C Q U LY N LAM

G AT E W AY P R O J E C T

C O N TA C T

lam.jacqulyn@gmail.com

The airport is a gateway. Visitors are introduced to a place starting with arriving at the airport, lingering and meeting friends. Later, they depart from the airport, taking connecting flights to somewhere else. Inspired by the connecting movement, this concept is to be projected on North Bringelly city train station area. At a regional scale, traffic from eastern Sydney moves through Liverpool city, passing the natural landscape, via North Bringelly city to the other parts of the aerotropolis, naturally turning North Bringelly city into a transition zone. Within the pedestrian scale, people are sent via the train station to the northern part of the aerotropolis, creating a back-and-forth movement.

PICTURED:

1. Connections to airport via this train station 2. Design detail illustrations 3. Visual connection to the natural landscape 4. The station vs public space

The Gateway Project is a public open space structure on top of the North Bringelly city train station that not only serves and supports visitors to this city but also presents new opportunities where the landscape can be observed through different dimensions, new networks created with paths reaching through different levels via the Gateway structure and new discoveries offered through connections that are drawn between private and public sectors; commercial and residential areas, the built and the natural, the stationary and the moving. Acting as a gateway, like the airport, this station area is a catalyst for this city, evolving over time with the aerotropolis as a public space which collects memories and allows the social imagination to create new opportunities.

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MING ZHANG

F I LT E R I N G S C A P E : Urban void revitalization

C O N TA C T

mingzhang311@gmail.com

Drawing from the previous semesterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban design strategies that combined Transit Orientated Development and Landscape Ecology the detailed design has re-utilised these theories to establish a new methodology with particular references to Pedestrian Orientated Design (POD). Filteringscape observes and predicts the behaviour of people in order to develop essential moves in the landscapeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design. It utilises the experience of transition, travel and alternating between active-passive or slow-fast forms of movement as the areas of focus. This helps identify key points in the landscape to be designed as active or passive zones, and it also enables people to participate in creating the space.

0433 669 957 PICTURED:

1. Montage of train station square 2. Montage of main walkway 3. Site analysis and proposed street section 4. Masterplan

Passive zones are idling areas, spots for short stays and social gatherings with design interventions to encourage this, such as seating and lookouts, and functions such as gallery, cafe, playground, and community gardens. Active zones are organised around passageways, views and the experience of fluidity. Filteringscape therefore gives the space a number of different uses and attractions by testing street typologies and connecting spaces to pedestrian based travel. The multiple user groups though different times of day and night overlap spatially, socially and temporally; these attract, disperse or unite people depending on intensity, time and activity. The design aims to ignite ownership of the space and form a sense of identity, encouraging the development of a vital social hub in the modern public realm.

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AN A G R I C U LT U R E KNOWLEDGE CITY

C AT H E R I N E L A K E I VA N PA R K ER DANIEL FORLONGE REGINALD SANTOS

SUPERVISOR

Libby Gallagher PICTURED

1. Existing analysis – proposed changes 2. Structure plan 3. Site transects

The design development for the Badgerys Creek Airport aims to create the roots of an airport city that challenges the existing proposal that advocates urban sprawl and lacks consideration for the ecology. This plan conserves the riparian habitat that supports the ecology of the area while implementing infrastructure that integrates existing agricultural roots. On a larger context this proposal aims to use the airport city as an opportunity to increase Australia’s knowledge and innovation as well as economic diversity in the global economic market though the export of agriculture related products. The plan incorporates the complementary principals of high-hyper density development design, transit-orientated development and the knowledge city model. This will aid the conservation of riparian lands, increase potential for green space/ agricultural practices and increases navigational efficiency – these principals more importantly allow for a contingency of growth expansion for the Badgerys Creek airport city, enabling a mixed-use arrangement within the Western Sydney growth centre that places a strong focus on knowledge and innovation infrastructure.

4. Diagrams – design moves

Through implementing principals that enable a highly functional and efficient mixeduse urban environment, Badgerys Creek will be a huge pivot point between western and eastern Sydney and will therefore be linked into the current regional/local transport system and the upgrade of the road system to support future growth. This airport city design will be an exemplary model as it prioritises ecology and intuitive design that harnesses the inherent essence of an area through the implementation of sustainable design practice.

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DANIEL FORLONGE

WILDLIFE

An opportunity exists to develop and enjoy a future airport that considers the existing endangered species whilst minimising attractants for unwanted species. This project focuses on promoting natural processes to ameliorate the impact of the constructed environment and create balance in the environs of a new airport.

C O N TA C T

d.forlonge@gmail.com 0488 255 500 PICTURED:

1. Wildlife 2. Masterplan

Bird strike costs the aviation industry 1.2 billion dollars annually with the majority of incursions caused by bird species that are attracted by urban environments. Degraded, altered landscapes act to tip the natural balance. Land clearing has resulted in significant depletion in vegetation cover reducing ‘low risk’ endemic species and increasing ‘high risk’ species such as waterfowl, large prey birds and introduced species.

3. Montage

The four interconnecting site specific conditions of infrastructure, habitat, hydrology and social connection have been investigated using an ecological approach to enhance environmental balance. A deviation to The Northern Road will see the motorway rise over riparian zones and tunnel under existing landforms allowing patch and riparian communities to connect. The proposed design also acts to increase canopy cover and reduce open woodland all of which will ensure preservation of habitat and diversity. The airport drainage system will utilise a subsurface drainage cell system that retains, filters and releases storm water into the creek system at a controlled rate over a 48 hour period. A human connection to the location will be strengthened by providing opportunities to enjoy the vista to the Blue Mountains. A lookout park will offer a social hub to connect the towns of Luddenham and Bringelly.

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C AT H E R I N E LAKE

SYMBIOSIS

C O N TA C T

The impressive quality of the rural landscape of Badgerys Creek expresses a strong sense of history through layers of natural and cultural processes over time. From the retreating of ancient waterbodies carving fluvial forms, to the clearing of vegetation and establishment of farming communities, the landscape reflects the meeting of natural systems and merging civilised life; a unique settling in the Sydney region.

catanne.lake@gmail.com PICTURED:

1. Airport landscape masterplan 2. Airport landscape sections 3. Study model

The future of Badgerys Creek will, however, express a very different landscape as an estimated 225,030,000 cubic metres of earthworks (Steering Committee, 2012) commences to make way for an international airport. SYMBIOSIS hopes to write a coherent new layer into the visual story of Badgerys Creek; one of merging natural and human systems, of large scale infrastructure and experiential public space, and of international and local community. SYMBIOSIS looks to utilise opportunities created by the rapid topography changes that will abruptly commence on the landscape. By adapting and appropriating fluvial processes over time, the project prompts a reinvention of the airport landscape as one that eloquently asserts itself in its rural setting as it begins to merge with urbanism. Through the layers of infrastructure, innovative technology, public space and environmental regeneration a coherent airport landscape emerges that aims to elevate daily life within the airport landscape and to protect and enrich ecological systems. The aim is, not only make way for the changing nature of aviation and travel, but to reveal a coherent landscape in which all processes act in relative balance.

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I VA N PA R K E R

TECH QUARRYSCAPE

C O N TA C T

Australia has a technology sector that is inferior to many other countries, suggesting one of the reasons why Australia may drop out of the 20 biggest economies by the year 2050. This proposal aims to improve Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share of the technology pie by utilizing the impending airport proposed at Badgerys Creek. The bones of this proposal aims to implement a self-sustaining tech campus that utilises the intersection of science, engineering, technology and design to achieve innovation through environmental technology. Such focus areas will be renewable energy, sustainable materials and biotechnology, to name a few.

z3419933@zmail.unsw.edu.au 0423 329 218

The tech campus will be designed to facilitate walkability, interaction, connectivity and networking through the drivers of university education, university research, private sector and R&D. This co-existence of fields and drivers will create a mixing pot that could potentially become a model for generating creativity and innovation. Badgerys Creek airport plays a crucial role in this operation by facilitating knowledge sharing/exchanging/trading, industry import/export and overseas university education. The campus is located adjacent to a redundant quarry for the purposes of re-establishing ecological health by reconnecting natural systems that were in place prior to the quarry. Celebrating the historical aspects relating to the extraction of clay to make bricks will also be a common theme in the campus design, as will the natural and engineered characteristics of the quarryscape. The quarry will be the inspiration for the inhabitants of the tech campus. After all, Inspiration + Creativity = Innovation.

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REGINALD SANTOS The nest is defined as a place in which a living thing lives or finds rest, especially of a secluded or comfortable nature, similarly it is also a collection of people especially of the same type inhabiting or frequenting the same place. NESTING IN THE ENCLOSED

C O N TA C T

By establishing a bond between aviation and birds, the inspiration of the nest emerges where it is revealed that at the very core of the nest is the notion of creating a sense of enclosure. The nest becomes a recurring theme within the design scheme, exploring the different forms and configurations that result in experiences of enclosure occurring at varying scales within the site.

santosradl@hotmail.com PICTURED:

1. Exploring the nest concept

Forming an urban plaza connecting with natural green space to work as part of the city’s core and implementing social programs targeted to the different user groups allows for the new connection between people and the landscape around them.

2. Site plan 3. Sections – varying scales of enclosed experience

Building upon the reinvigoration of the surrounding urban centres it is important that these new centres can function on their own local scale and at the same connect to the Badgerys Creek airport precinct overall. With the imminent arrival of the airport transforming the natural site into a new urban system, the discourse of landscape architecture can play a significant role in this process and can help assist in mitigating the intense changes that this new urban infrastructure will create. By acknowledging the necessity of the constant connection of people with nature, it reveals the power this relationship holds to the benefit of one’s wellbeing and development.

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BIOMED

GRAEME STROLIN H U G O TA K A S E - S I M P S O N CASSANDR A TEO M O R G A N WAT T

SUPERVISOR

The development of Sydneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second airport at Badgerys Creek is a catalyst for rapid growth and urbanisation in Western Sydney. With predicted increases to the population and job deficits in Western Sydney by 2036, a powerful core industry is needed to address these issues that also supports a developing airport. In response, BIOMED proposes the development of an airport city that focuses on the development of an international biomedical research centre, and protects the existing ecological systems and landscape processes. There is currently a strong global movement into biomedical research with 9 new biomedical centres proposed in the next 15 years. The new airport at Badgerys Creek is prime location for developing an international biomedical centre, and opens up the possibility of advancing Australia in this global movement, and Sydney as a global city.

Jeremy Gill PICTURED

1. Structure plan 2. Biomedical precinct masterplan 3. Main connection axes through Biomedical precinct 4. Airport drive experience through

This design draws upon landscape urbanist principles to create and support urban development that is sensitive to environmental processes and context, allowing for growth and change through a network of ecological systems, open spaces, transit systems and urban centres. BIOMED intimately responds to the existing landscape, with the infrastructure and road networks designed to accentuate the existing topography and protect and conserve areas of remnant endangered ecological communities and the creek ecology.

native vegetation

Through a confluence of urban and environmental processes and planning strategies, BIOMED proposes an urban development that respects the existing landscape, and is adaptable to accommodate the ever-changing nature of urbanisation and growth.

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HUGO TA K A S E SIMPSON

[UNI]FY

C O N TA C T

Hugo.ts10@gmail.com 0425 248 976

The design principles of [UNI]FY challenge the traditional idea of a university as an environment which is detached from its surrounding context, to blend the university and community conditions into each other to create spaces which can be activated by a diverse range of users in the university community. My project works alongside the international scale of Badgerys Creek Airport to create a local scale landmark move. [UNI]FY introduces a community centered, multi-functional university facility on the edge of the South West Growth Centre, providing the surrounding community with spaces within which to grow, interact and learn, while progressively developing a sense of identity and community character in Badgerys Creek.

PICTURED:

1. Hybrid landscape conditions 2. Masterplan 3. Experiential sections 4. Context plan and concept analysis

The moves of the design are focused specifically on the intensities of interaction between people and place, with a hierarchy of conditions working throughout the landscape and university environment. From bold, contrasting landscape conditions, to subtle and layered representations, the design constructs a detailed response of the university environment to the community and its surrounding context. These hierarchies of conditions and experiences evoke the urge to explore the landscape in its entirety, while maintaining a range of both specific and multifunctional use spaces, effectively tying the values of the community and the university into the landscape.

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CASSANDR A TEO

[ADD]APT

C O N TA C T

0403 306 997

In a place of volatile hydrological conditions, the airport development proposal for Badgerys Creek places added pressures on the existing hydrological system through increased run off and pollutants, disturbed watercourses and increased demands on water supply. [ADD]APT proposes a public space at the confluence of the major urban centre and Badgerys Creek that addresses these issues by utilising the duality of flood and drought to create an adaptive, transformative landscape that intimately responds to the hydrological processes.

PICTURED:

1. Outdoor ‘study room’ platforms 2. Masterplan and programming Creek interaction at three hydrological stages 3. Extents of the three hydrological stages

[ADD]APT provides a series of public space typologies that seamlessly integrate water sensitive urban design and management into the urban and natural landscape to develop flexible spaces that respond to the site’s conditions and encourages meaningful social activation and engagement with the landscape. From educational programming, to recreation, to ecological conservation and restoration, these typologies showcase ways to appropriately integrate water management into everyday spaces that can be applied at various scales along creek systems. Designed is a series of spaces or rooms that slow down, store and treat the run off from the urban development. Water is also diverted to underground cisterns to help alleviate the urban centre’s demands on water. These water management mechanisms are designed to inspire social activation within the site by creating moments of education, water play and passive recreation. [ADD]APT proposes a resilient and adaptive environment to the duality of the hydrologic processes of the region. Envisioned is a form of urban development that intimately and evocatively integrates ‘blue-green infrastructure’ design and environmental thinking into its fabric.

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MORGAN W AT T

[ADD]APT

As the future urban development of Sydney’s second airport at Badgerys Creek expands there is a vital need for key social infrastructure to be designed alongside currently earmarked transport and logistics services. Extending semester ones group’s proposal to situate a global biomedical research centre within the airport development to drive economic growth, ‘Habitats for Healing’ focuses on enhancing local and regional human health and well-being through the detailed design of an ecologically sensitive hospital landscape, its entry park and central courtyard.

C O N TA C T

morgan.k.watt@gmail.com 0418 216 539 PICTURED:

1. Hospital courtyard, perspective

Central to the design process is an interpretation of evidence based methodologies, specifically Kaplan’s Attention Restoration Theory (1995) on designing for the psychological benefits of viewing and experiencing natural settings, one that is abundant with what Kaplan coined “soft fascinations” to induce “effortless attention” to enhance recovery from illness and fatigue.

2. Hospital precinct, aerial perspective 3. Design concepts; blur, focus, shift, expand

This project’s conceptual framework is driven by principles of human perception, playing with an abstracted notion of depth of field – to blur thresholds, to soften focus, to shift one’s gaze and to expand views to create a unique, restorative environment. The entry park serves as a visual and physical threshold between the urban domain and the hospital environs, a place of gathering and play. The hospital’s courtyard designed for respite and restoration, offers not only spaces of privacy and reflection for patients, visitors and staff but for immobile users viewing the landscape from hospital rooms and corridor windows. S. Kaplan. (1995) The restorative benefits of nature: Toward an integrative framework. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 15, 169–182.

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AG R I -TOUR I SM AEROTROPOLIS

ZISHENG LIN YULEI GU Y U F O R F R A N C I S TA M XUETING ZHAN

SUPERVISOR

Mike Harris PICTURED

1. Structure and Masterplan (Luddenham and South Creek)

The Agri-Tourism Aerotropolis proposal has a major focus on the Tourism cluster design at Luddenham and the Town Centre cluster at North Bringelly. The size of the design proposal is about 3,900 hectares. The design explores agriculture and tourism as key economic drivers and creates an urban development with strong sense of the distinctive landscape of western Sydney. The Agri-Tourism Aerotropolis proposal uses a green corridor network to contain both recreation and agricultural uses. The corridor design particularly expresses the agricultural character of the site, and connects both clusters. Moreover, it provides a sensitive solution to adapt the existing agricultural businesses on site. The tourism cluster, designed as a new tourist destination, provides supportive services for the western Sydney tourism system such as accommodation, leisure, recreation and public transportation. The town centre cluster creates a diverse residential area to adapt to different groups of residents, and also an employment centre that focuses on providing infrastructures to serve the airport and site-related industries, such as logistic and agricultural services.

2. Tourism resort aerial perspective with airport vision 3. Urban daily life aerial perspective with urban agriculture 4. Tourism and urban agriculture experience montages

Overall, Agri-Tourism Aerotropolis demonstrates a design strategy that communicates with the Blue Mountain and Sydney at masterplan scale. At detail scale it develops two clusters to satisfy the demand from two new major projected user groups â&#x20AC;&#x201C; tourists and new local residents. The proposal also represents the image of Badgerys Creek by displaying the identity of the site in the design.

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YUELEI GU

RESILIENT HYDROLOGY

C O N TA C T

gylbaby_mm@hotmail.com 0433 399 718 PICTURED:

1. Masterplan 2. Detail Plan of Water Plaza 3. Montages 4. Sections

As a result of the projected growth of the population, an increased amount of waste water, grey water and stormwater will be produced in the area surrounding the proposed airport. This will require a proper catchment for water treatment. This project proposes using water sensitive urban design methods in the green corridor that runs through the new town centre to treat different kinds of water from both urban edges before water runs into the creek and causes pollution. At the same time, this will create a new recreation green space for the surrounding residents. The design of the hydrology will generate improvements in three main landscape values. The social value will be improved as this recreation area will allow people from different cultures and communities to be engaged. Ecological values will be increased as the improvement of water quality will maintain biodiversity and other nature system, helping to create a liveable city. Economic value will be increased as the green space will provide a recycled and sustainable water system and achieve resilience of water and energy-efficiency. Thereby, it will decrease costs of maintenance and treatment. To achieve these aims a combination of different design strategies have been used to design this site. The original landform is modified to direct water flow and form a water cycle system. Seasonal change is used to allow the design to respond to different water flow and vegetation cover in different seasons. The potential water catchment will have different functions for people, especially in the urban area. Through this combination and integration of natural water systems and urban water systems the design will allow people to have a healthy, natural and liveable environment in which to live.

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ZISHENG LIN

DIVERSIFY TOWN CENTRE

C O N TA C T

linzisheng27@gmail.com 0433 045 013 PICTURED:

1. Masterplan 2. Design montages 3. Skate park section

As the development of Western Sydney increases, food production and urban water pollution will become inevitable issues for future urban sustainable development in this area. New challenges and definitions will be given by the changing relationship between agriculture, urban life and urban water system while the integration of traditional and new urban design ideas is explored. My proposal is to develop a research and science based multi-purpose farm that integrates urban agriculture and water sensitive urban design in the urban centre that we proposed in last semester. The focus area of the project is located as a gateway to South Creek system and a node point that connects to residential, agricultural, recreational and commercial zones in this urban context. Through the study of different types of urban agriculture, and the understanding of natural and urban water system in rain and dry seasons, I tested a series of combination of two components, such as combination of wetland treatment and slope agriculture and stormwater management with greenhouses.

4. Hydrology system

Also, in order to strengthen the relationship between human and agriculture, these combinations will be applied to public spaces such as the station plaza and a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playground. Both of these spaces will have different appearances during rain and dry seasons. The purpose of this design is to exert a subtle influence on peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s understanding of how agriculture works with natural and built environment in their urban life and how the integration of WSUD and urban agriculture could improve human and ecological health.

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YU FOR F R A N C I S TA M

AGRITOURISM CLUSTER

The agricultural farmland of the Badgerys Creek proposed airport areas defined the character of the precinct. In order to preserve the farmland when urban development takes place, a cluster integrating agriculture and tourism together might be a solution. Since the proposed airport will bring tourists into Badgerys Creek area, it is a great opportunity to promote the agricultural character to them and show the world a different side of Sydney besides the metropolitan clichĂŠ. After the completion of the airport and the urban development in Badgerys Creek, the impermeable ground coverage of the area will increase significantly. The water level of the rivers will increase. This is also an opportunity to utilise the increased water resources and use them in a sustainable way. Therefore, my main design driver is integrating water-sensitive design and the agriculture character of Badgerys Creek area to create an Agritourism Cluster that will be a tourist attractions and a public space for the local residents and also will present a brand new image of Sydney to the world. The light rail plaza is a meeting point for all the tourists. People can experience some of the farming experience in a small scale at the plaza and experience the large scale one at the farming stay around the plaza. From the educational boardwalk, visitors can learn more about how the extra water resources can benefit the agriculture industry.

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XUETING ZHAN

SEASONAL INTERCHANGE Rain and dry

C O N TA C T

yukixue18@gmail.com +61 424080 85 PICTURED:

1. 1. Masterplan and detail design 2. WSUD Theory application 3. Integration of WSUD and Urban Agriculture 4. Urban Life, WSUD and Urban Agriculture relationship sections

My proposal is to develop a research and science based multi-purpose farm that integrates urban agriculture and water sensitive urban design in the urban centre that we proposed in last semester. The focus area of the project is located as a gateway to South Creek system and a node point that connects to residential, agricultural, recreational and commercial zones in this urban context. Through the study of different types of urban agriculture, and the understanding of natural and urban water system in rain and dry seasons, I tested a series of combination of two components, such as combination of wetland treatment and slope agriculture and stormwater management with greenhouses. Also, in order to strengthen the relationship between human and agriculture, these combinations will be applied to public spaces such as the station plaza and a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playground. Both of these spaces will have different appearances during rain and dry seasons.

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CENTRES WITHIN A CENTER

LEJIALI (SUNNY) SUN J I AY I ( M A L L O W ) H A N TIAN LI D A N YA N G H U

SUPERVISOR

Jeremy Gill

The proposed Sydney West airport has been seen as the catalyst to motivate the development of Badgerys Creek. The design is based on the principles of transit oriented development and New Urbanism to enhance the connectivity of people and place. The planning vision is aimed at people who are going to live and work in the area as the airport being constructed, and the surrounding spaces will also be designed with airport related functions. This proposal aims to create centres within an overall centre. The whole site is planned as a new city centre for Western Sydney and within this centre there are four proposed precincts, which are identified as the Agricultural Precinct, International Airport City, Park City and Leppington Town Centre. These are all designed with their own landscape characteristics and particular land uses.

PICTURED

1. Perspective View of Airport Campus City 2. Campus Activity 3. City Plaza

The Agricultural Precinct is designed to maintain the present landscape characteristics, enabling production for both the local community and international export. This could include most of the farming residents who will lose their houses in the development.

4. Masterplan

International Airport city is the commercial centre. This is an important entrance to airport from the Northwest and a prominent location with great potential to expand the development in different directions. Park City is the extension of the West Sydney parkland to form the green gateway along South Creek. It acts as a conservation corridor for creek wildlife and also a transition from the recreational district to the proposed high density residential area. Leppington Town Centre is planned as the traditional civic suburb for residential expansion. It provides a population and economic base to extend towards the airport and support the activities of other precincts.

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JAIYI HAN

N AT U R A L R E S U S C I TAT I O N

C O N TA C T

mallowsweet@hotmail.com PICTURED:

1. Aerial view of the precinct 2. Masterplan and dynamic section experience

Badgerys Creek is significant due to its distinct natural environment and long history of agricultural. However, with the development of the international airport, the current landscape condition will be threatened. In these circumstances, Badgerys Creek needs to embody a higher order of richness and complexity while still responding to the existing characteristics which make the site special. The proposal is in the centre part of the precinct on the flooding zone of the South Creek basin area, which is developed to strengthen the natural irrigation system for agriculture and to create opportunities for better management and protection of the ecological value. This 30-hectare town centre is a typical transitional area surrounded by four distinct land uses, at the junction of the regional main street and the light rail line. The proposal aims to achieve the vision of retaining the idyllic atmosphere of Badgerys Creek with a new urban lifestyle, within the theoretical framework of Landscape Urbanism.

3. Detail design of Agricultural Garden 4. Montages

The three main blocks on site, (agricultural garden, transitional community main walkway and creek side bush-walk corridor), are activated by the intervention of the water, agricultural and natural elements and re-linked by the second-level boardwalk. Accessible anywhere from the precinct, the timber boardwalk acts as a tunnel to a series of spaces and creates multiple layers of landscape. The rootinspired engraved canopy, the twining boardwalk and the branch-like green wall are signs of nature which add an exotic sense to the urban spaces. A new civic link will be provided by the design from the city farm, through series of new precincts with natural characteristics, towards the surrounding residential areas.

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D A N YA N G HU

RECONNECTING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

C O N TA C T

danyang_hu@hotmail.com 0452 220 710 PICTURED:

1. Project detail plan

The future airport city is a place that invites people from all over the world to travel, work and live. This project looked at how to address the division of the existing creek corridor and the separation of the north and south urban areas to create a new urban space and park system that has public gathering, civic functions, and places for leisure and play. Where the most diverse land uses and densest area in population can be found, the project has used a key strategy of proposing a cultural and social corridor to strengthen the relationship of two separated precincts, as well as to stimulate movement and interactions. The interchange point in the middle will become a place where the most intensive activities happen. The design enhances the characteristics and intersections of the urban and creek corridors to emphasis the variety, contrast, and exchange of urban and naturalist forms and spaces, and uses the crossing bridges as a focal point of the whole organizing system.

2. Perspective view of creek edges 3. Perspective view of viewing terraces 4. Detail sections

The project also attempts to enhance the pedestrian experience through linking a diverse collection of spaces, and provide rich transitional experiences and multifunctional opportunities, which enable people to experience different programs and events, views across the creek, access to water at different point, and to engage with the water ecology. The overall design will enhance the connectivity of the neighborhoods and communities, creating new precincts as part of the longer urban park way, and giving an identity to the whole city.

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TIAN LI

SOUTH CREEK B O TA N I C G A R D E N : To achieve restoration and education through botanic cultivation

C O N TA C T

li_tian_good@hotmail.com

South Creek was considered to have local conservation significance as a stream habitat and a wildlife corridor. The design restores the existing vegetation community and proposes a new botanic garden with a dynamic planting structure which enhances a sense of identity and connectivity to the proposed town centre with engaging programs throughout the garden. The linear landscape of the garden has potential to expand and to engage the public with a botanic sensory journey. As planting is always the central driver of the botanic garden, there is a great opportunity to collect native species along the Western Sydney region, and to support the conservation of the creek habitat. In order to give more protection to the wetland the upper garden is enclosed as a natural and peaceful place while the lower garden is more lively and energetic.

0452 438 882 PICTURED:

1. Project masterplan 2. Montage of proposed Sensory Garden 3. Montage of Botanic Exhibition Building

Dynamic themed gardens are defined by different sensory experiences and spatial qualities. Linear avenues encourage movement and direct people towards the gathering space for events; the curving paths slow down movement and adjacent facilities and planting educate about botanic values; while the wavy paths circulate the smaller scaled spaces, encouraging discovery and adventure.

4. Sections cross proposed Theme Gardens

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LEJIALI (SUNNY) SUN

WAT E R R E S I L I E N T A N D R E S T O R AT I V E PA R K

C O N TA C T

269418211@qq.com

Water is the key element through this whole project. The design started with the question of what meant by the terms ‘resilient’ and ‘restorative’. Resilient relates to the environment and how it can recycle, recover and repair itself, and restorative relates to how the natural environment can be experienced by people as a place where they can also recover and repair. In the proposed structure of the new urban plan for Badgerys Creek, the park is located in the middle of the park-city and the agri-city. Waterflow come from the agriculture area and goes into the parkland, where the wetland can help to clean the water and improve the water quality.

PICTURED:

1. Masterplan 2. Section-bridge and wetland 3. Section light-rail and terracing farm 4. Perspective montage

There are opportunities for people to touch the water directly, or to take the raised walk-way through the wetland, and also to climb to higher platforms for viewing. The pedestrian route circulates in a network which also contains a series of routes across the wetlands and paths through the west terracing farm. There is also an extended cycle route through the site. Each part of the park can be considered in two parts, as each is like a node between parkland and agriculture. Water is the element that links them. Water Resilient and Restorative Park is not only a public park, but it is also a restorative design that improves the environment.

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SHIJIE CHAN

A MAZING OPPORTUNITY

Future prospects of intensive development in South West Sydney following the Federal Government’s decision to build Sydney’s second Airport at Badgerys Creek calls for the rethinking of how we integrate the management of surface water quality and high density cities. Is it possible to rethink ‘surface water management’ no longer as a separate entity? Rather than being tucked away and slotted into spaces within a park, is it possible to re-imagine a new park typology that is fully integrated into these vast structures of surface water treatment?

C O N TA C T

cj.chan91@gmail.com 0434 958 878 PICTURED:

1. Integrated paths weaving through bioretention swale 2. Mound maze playground within water catchment

Situated in the suburb of Leppington alongside Kemps Creek, ‘A Mazing Opportunity’ explores how systems for effective surface water management can respond to a dense urban fabric to enhance community engagement, improve ecological vitality and inspire appreciation of nature. Using the movement of water and adapting it to the concepts of the maze, this project develops a set of tools that inform the structure of pedestrian links and spaces that encourage pedestrians to slow down, be aware, think about and appreciate the natural and constructed beauty of the resurrected riparian corridor at Kemps Creek.

3. Systems for surface water management 4. Design concept and design development process

The proposal looks to offset surface run-off pollution in response to a rapid growth of a high density urban landscape while taking the opportunity to offer new and engaging paradigms for the park and surface water management which can be used as a model throughout South Western Sydney as it continues to grow.

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OCULUS TEAM LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN

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Katie Cooper, Paula Kuka, Roger Jasprizza, Rosie Krauss, Johnny Derwent, Jess Hodge

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