Water Corridor
A SEMESTER OF RESEARCH THROUGH STUDIO WORK
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012 Global Elwood, Port Phillip Demographic Design Proposition 028 Precedent Topography & Water Run Off Exploration 044 Methodology & Approach 060 Design Sythesis Soft Infrastructure
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The Beach
Research
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY
MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
FACULTY
STUDIO LEADERS
Leire Asensio Villoria Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design
MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Julie Willies, Dean
Andrew Hutson, Deputy Dean
Alan Pert, Director, Melbourne School of Design
Donald Bates, Chair of Architectural Design
Alan Pert, Director of the Master of Urban Design
David Mah, Senior Lecturer
Djodje Stojanovic, Senior Lecturer
Justyna Karakiewicz, Associate Professor
Alan Pert, Director, Melbourne School of Design
Nicole Allen, Lecturer
STUDENTS
Gunali Ajgaonkar Victor Alegria Yang Bai
Tianchen Gao Yitong Guo Runze Ling Scout Morris Nivedita Ravindran Wenxiang Shen Su Sun
Lingas Tran Yu Xia Zhisheng Yin Senqi Yang Zhenyu Yang
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individuals, for without their efforts this publication wold not have been possible:
Alan Pert & Donald Bates
Under The Pavement The Beach
“Under the pavement lies the beach”; a rallying cry adopted by the protestors during the May ’68 Paris riots, contrasts the domesticated urban surface of the pavement with the indeterminacy of the beach. The pavement, or the street is characterized as a highly prescribed urban space deployed to designate private property. The beach is its antithesis; an unprescribed, natural and open public space.
Today, the beach as an important public space persists in the collective Australian public imagination. Its capacity to serve as a commons for all is seen to resonate with the national self-image of an open and egalitarian culture. However, the beach, like any vital public space, can often be a contested site. Where conflicts can be made explicit and apparent.
spaces. The studio was invested in exploring urban design and architectural proposals that reinvest in the idea of the beach as an essential public site for the city.
Leire Asensio Villoria, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban DesignJuly 2019
In Australia, the role of the beach as a public space is largely presumed. However, this is frequently challenged by its economic value as property. More and more, tensions emerge between private ownership and public access over the right to these sites. Where the pavement threatens to encroach over the beach.
Conversely, these cultivated waterfront developments can also expect to see this contested area reclaimed again by the beach. Frequent flooding and projected sea level rise already threaten many of Australia’s beachfront residential areas including Melbourne’s bayside suburbs.
The studio engaged with the emblematic space of the beach. Its persistent association as a valuable commons may be reconsidered in light of concerns that challenge these
GLOBAL
The impact of climate change has become a growing concern as the rise of sea level continues to rise due to the melting glaciers and land based ice caps (Erin A, 2016). In 20 years it has been estimated to have rise by 762 mm and is estimated to rise upto 2 meters globally by the tear 2100.
Which brings the question to the vulnerabilities of coastal cities and what strategies can be ployed in order to protect our cities.
In Australia costal cities face the threat of tidal flooding, non-tropical storm flooding and stropical cyclone storm surge and it is critical to address these concerns to lower the impact that it will have on people livelihoods and the existing habitats and ecosystem.
risk and resilience in coastal cities 2016, Climate Change and Climate Law collection, Climate Institute
Elwood, City of Port Phillip
Elwood is an inner-southern suburb of Port Phillip and is 260ha located 8 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD.
Elwood was once a swampy land and a dumping ground for waste and was later transformed into a popular beach
destination during the summer during the post war period as a means to escape the hot uninsulated cottage suburban homes.
The beach became a popular place for residents and Elwood Surf Life Saving Club was one of the first of its kind in Victoria.
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Population Projection Port Phillip Bay
2016 - 108,627 2031 - 142,883 2041 - 177,890 2051 - 215,905 2061 - 251,106
Age 30 - 39
Population Projection Bayside
2016 - 102, 912 2031 - 118,038 2041 - 127,839 2051 - 139,190 2061 - 151,880
Population Density 64.94
Family 30% Single 70%
Single dwelling 13 / 8.4%
Medium density 42.4 / 37.7%
High density 44.4 / 52.2%
Elwood, VIC 3184
Part of: Port Phillip Council
• Elwood is approximately 2.6 square kilometres
• It has 8 parks covering nearly 13.2% of total area
Population Growth from 2011 - 2016 is 6.2%
Predominant age group in Elwood is 30-39 years
Households in Elwood are primarily childless $4000 per month on mortgage repayments 42.4% of the homes in Elwood are owned compared with 41.9% in 2016
(source: Australian Bureau of Statistics)
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Elwood has two geographic features: the Elster Creek (Elwood Canal), with headwaters in Bentleigh, flows north-easterly to the flat landscape of Elwood, and now enters Port Phillip Bay by a stream and Point Ormond, a little south of the canal.
Elwood Canal is a man-made watercourse and drains forty square kilometres of southeast Melbourne, including Prahran, Glen Eira and Kingston.
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Sea - Island Barrier
Amphibian Landscape Wetlands + Contentions
Landscape Contentions
Urban Fabric Canals / Porosity
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Sea - Island Barrier
Amphibian Landscape Wetlands + Contentions
Urban Fabric Canals / Porosity
Precedent
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Moray, Peru 50km northwest of Cuzco (3500m)
Moray, Peru 50km northwest of Cuzco (3500m)
Moray is an archeological site in Peru northwest of Cuzco on a high plateau at an altitude of 3,500 metres above sea level. These Inca ruins consist of several terraced circular depressions, one of the largest being 30m deep. These terraces were designed as irrigation systems for farming.
The Inca used wall systems used retaining walls to absorb heat during the day and radiated it back out at night to keep the crops from freezing at night time. Each terrace was filled with a base level of gravel and topped with sand or soil.
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Rice fields on terraced of Mu Cang Chai, Yen Bai, Vietnam
Terrace farming makes the best of poor soil conditions which supports civilization’s increased needs for crops, livestock and poultry. Terraced fields also decreases both erosion and surface runoff, and may be used to suport growing crops that require irrigation, such as rice.
Terrace farming consists of building a series of steps like benches. These are supported by sod or stone walls. Each level slows the flow of the water run, off and erosive processes. This method of farming can be found in other Southeast Asian countries such as Thailad, Phillipines and some now are been perserved or protected as national heritage sites.
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Plumes National Forest
Upper Miocene Canal Hiking Trail
Lime Saddle Memorial Park Trail
Phantom Falls
Spillway
Recreational Area Feather River
Mother Orange Tree
Feather Falls & Overlook
Big Bald Trail
9 Mile Trail
String Town Bidwall Canyon Orovillw Dam
East Branch Aquaduct, Southern California by State Water Project
Kelly Ridge Visitor Centre
Lake Oroville is a State Water Project and runs 70 mile north of Sacremento where the tallest Dam in the world sits which provides water storage, flood control and recreational facilities are built in and around the other area such as: fishing, camping-grounds, trails, boating activities and other wildlife viewing areas.
Recreational activities includes:
Bike Trail/40 mile loop, Boating, Boat House, Boat-In-Camping, Campfire Center, Campground, Equestrian Trail/17.5 mile loop, Hatchery Self-Guided Tour, Hiking, Hunting (check with Dept. Fish & Game), Lighting, Marina Nature Study, Swimming & Wildlife Area
Topography & Water Run Off Exploration
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EPERIMENTAL MORPHOLOGIES
Parabolic
Long walled - long trailing ridges and extensive deflation basins.
Elliptical
Shorter form, often with more semi-circular or elliptical deflation basins.
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EPERIMENTAL MORPHOLOGIES
Transgressive
Flat to undulating barchans (crescentic shaped with wings pointing downwind)
Transverse
Formed at right angles to the wind.
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Mounds & Depressions
Methodology
47,200 m3
32, 700 m3
21,000 m3
11,780 m3
5,200 m3
1,300 m3
47,200 m3
32, 700 m3 WATER CORRIDOR
21,000 m3
11,780 m3
5,200 m3
Ø 300 Ø 250 Ø 200 Ø 150 Ø 100 Ø 50
Modulating Depressions:
Base on the existing contour the measurements are estimated that most depressions will be roughly 2m in depth.
1,712,00 m3 1,750,000 m3
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Design Systhesis
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Terrain Depressions and hills. Wetland ecologies.
Roads Network Functional connections and leasure
Buildings Terrace houses and communitary programs
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BEACH
Active roofs
Urban agriculture and community gardens.
Public space
Intimate public spaces next to houses.
Housing diversity
Different configuration of terrace house typology
Communitary spaces
Viewpoints to wetlands and beach landscape.
Soft Infrastructure
Elwood Open Space
Elwood open space 107 ha
Government Schools 6.8 ha
Natural and semi-natural open sapce 6.8 ha
Non-goverment schools 27.8 ha
Parks and gardens 30.8 ha
Services and utilities reserves 2.2 ha
Sportsfields and organised recreation 38.2 ha
Housing Density
6 floors (24m)
4 floors (16m)
3 floors (12m)
2 floors (10m)
40YEARS 70YEARS
YEARS 100YEARS
rocks logs waterbirds frogs
Carex appressa (Tall Sedge)
Lomandra longifolia (Bluedale)
Terrestrial : indigenous walking Juncus flavidus Rush)
Terrestrial planting indigenous tree walking flavidus (Yellow Rush)
shrub ground cover species
bird watching picnic