Yuye Zheng Graduate Landscape Architect Portfolio

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

PORTFOLIO Candidate: Yuye Zheng Apply for Graduate Landscape Architect

CONTENTS

CONTACT Melbourne, Australia

01 WORKING EXPERIENCE

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a. Graduate Landscape Architect in JF Studio

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b. Landscape Architect Intern in China Great Wall Society

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nancyqimb@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Yuye (Yuki) Zheng DOB: 1997-04 Gender: Female I graduated from the University of Melbourne and achieved a master’s degree in December 2021. I have been studying Landscape Architecture for 5 years and I’m passionate about designing with nature. I’m especially interested in sustainability, hoping one day my work can make the world better, and I’m not just thinking about it but also taking action. Besides work, I’m also a volunteer at Herring Island. With a creative mind and a great sense of teamwork, I'm very willing to work in a team and help each other. I also take great care in the small, interesting details, with the goal of ingenuity in design.

SKILL AutoCAD PS/AI/ID ArcGIS

University of Melbourne 03/2020- 12/2021

Nanjing Forestry University 09/2015- 06/2020 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

EXPERIENCE

Revit

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06/2022- Present Research Assistant Melbourne University of Melbourne I’m assisting in the Updating of the National Sustainable Tourism Master Plan of Belize and Royal Park Translocation.

11/2021- 12/2021 Graduate Landscape Architect JF Studio Melbourne I assisted in site modeling and construction drawings in 02/2021- 03/2021 Landscape Architecture Intern Beijing China Great Wall Society I participated in the illustration drawing of the Great Wall Junior Ranger learning manual.

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MSDx Summer 2021 Landscape Architecture Thesis https://www.msdx-gallery.com.au/students/yuyezheng/ AILA Future Landscapes Competition Runner-Up

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MSDx Summer 2020 Landscape Studio 4: Strategies

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Young Bird Plan 2018 Suzhou Dayang Mountain Slow Traffic System Conceptual Design Competition Top 32

INTERESTS Nature

Illustration

03 RIPARIAN HABITAT RETREAT: Redefining waterfront typology

03 CAMPING AGAIN

04 COEVOLVE WITH BUSHIRE

A bushfire responsive community plan

05 THE MEGAPHONE Photography

Travel

REFERENCE Dr/Prof Alexander Felson

2021 AILA Future Landscapes Competition Runner-Up

A wetland restoration design in campus center green space

FEATURED

Rhino/ SketchUp Enscape/ Lumion Plant Knowledge Microsoft Office suite

Master of Landscape Architecture

alex.felson@unimelb.edu.au

Amplifying existing microclimate conditions with kits of parts intervention

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01 Working Experience a. Graduate Landscape Architect in JF Studio

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in Revit. The projects that I participated in included Eildon Reserve, Barngeong Reserves Kindergarten renewal, and residential landscape renewal.

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Project: Barngeong Reserves Kindergarten Renewal

Project: Residential Landscape Renewal

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In this project, I participated in detail design in construction drawings.

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b. Landscape Architecture Intern in China Great Wall Society

Experience Location: Beijing, China Landscape Architecture Internship Time: 2021

During the internship program with the China Great Wall Society, I participated in drawing the content of the Great Wall Study Manual for Junior Rangers, making local models, and composing.

The illustrations in the manual are hand drawings on an iPad, and the characters on this page are all original.

THE DEFENSE SYSTEM OF THE GREAT WALL TRENCH

THE WALL

THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE GREAT WALL

When we were drawing the Manual, we found that History books for Children about the Great Wall all have some mistakes. At that time, we started to realize that as a medium between historical knowledge and the public, we have a huge responsibility.

Boulders used as foundations were taken from the mountains.

The enemy is coming!

ICON DESIGN JUYONGGUAN PASS

MARCO POLO BRIDGE

THE GREAT WALL AT BADALING

A deep trench used to ward off cavalry A wall against the cavalry

SEPARATE ILLUSTRATIONS

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BARBED BARRIER

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Barriers used to stab enemy horses

FINE SAND MULCH

Sand used to preserve enemy tracks`

In July 2021, the Manual was published and started popular on the Great Wall. I’m very proud to be a part of this meaningful project, inheriting culture and taking care of the next generation.

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REQUIREMENTS:

Award

The competition asks participants to present and illustrate a unique narrative for an existing Australian street, park or public open space in its current form, as a landscape of spectacle and as a landscape from collapse.

As oversea students, we are attracted by the Victoria Market vitality and hope to continue the story of the market from the perspective of landscape architecture.

2021 AILA Future Landscapes Competition Runner-Up Location: Victoria Market, Melbourne Design Competation Time: 2021 Group work L i n k : h t t p s : / / w w w. a i l a . o r g . a u / S C / S C / S p e a ke r s / Re v i v i n g % 2 0 Melbourne%E2%80%99s%20Heart.aspx

REVIVING MELBOURNE’S HEART EXISTING: EMPTY SHELL

"I can literally remember when I was still a child, I always liked to shop in Queen Victoria Market with my grandma. I love the vibrant and multicultural atmosphere there, the chill vibe that comes out of the friendly banter with traders, the special festivals and events, and mostly, I can strongly feel a sense of belonging within it. I’m quite proud of Queen Victoria Market as an authentic, bustling, inner-city market that has been the heart and soul of Melbourne for 140 years, and it has even become a tourist attraction representing the local spirit.

However, the whole city was shut down due to COVID-19 and it has become a memory I miss most in lockdown. Even though the market is still open for trading, the whole space is still pretty empty. The stressful infection issue overrides the original vibrant atmosphere, the masks block the chill vibe’s delivery, and the sense of belonging for me has gradually faded away on this site.

Such a space for gathering and socializing’s function was not only challenged by pandemic but potentially serious flooding from global climate change as well. Instead of c onfronting it, as a landscape architect, I realize the best way to face it is to use our designs to adapt and embrace it in a more positive way which ensures human beings and our society and culture are still able to thrive even in a post-disaster era."

JURY COMMENTS:

"The judges found that this entry was specific to place. It visually illustrated how the Queen Victoria Markets are surrounded by the high-rise Melbourne CBD, and evoked a strong sense of the challenges, and potential solutions the site could face in the future, and the narrative form was honest and intimate. The judges were especially impressed with the collapse scenario and imagery, that proposes the successful integration of an elevated market infrastructure with the wetland landscape below. The combination of large-scale design ideas with a personal perspective in the narrative made this entry distinctive."

SPECTACLE: ARCADIA

COLLAPSE: RECLAMATION

"It’s like living in a dream, if not, please don’t wake me up.

"This is the twenty-second century; our city was destroyed by urban inundation. The flooding has swept away fields, crops and shelters in lowland areas, causing conflicts between wealthy people who live in high-rise apartments in the CBD and other people who lost their homes and lacked food. With the eruption of violence, buildings in the CBD had been set ablaze by extremists who lost their homes because of the flood. Our city collapsed, Wealthy people finally abandoned the city, the rest of us had to rebuild the city from ruins. After the flood, we were crammed into remaining small apartments in the CBD. The food supply was meager, we had to grow our own food in the city. Queen Victoria Market was planned as one of our new urban farms.

It is a lovely afternoon; I go to Queen Victoria Market to get some vegetables. After the reconstruction, the submerged area in the market has been developed into a wetland, and living systems have occupied the old market. I stop at a vegetable hanging structure and try to pick some vegetables from the structure.

There are some vendors around me selling coffee beans and fruits.

People are gathering and sitting near the wetland chatting and enjoying the beautiful view of the wetland. It’s good to see even if the Queen Victoria Market doesn’t look like it used to be, the 5 spirit of it as a market, a landmark and a social space is still there."

Finally, we humans have been immune to the Covid-19, and everything has been back on track and even better. Sometimes after work, I like strolling through the market near my company.

Conveyors replaced the traditional way of truck transportation, so the alley where trucks were parked was turned into a rain garden for better water treatment. This mini oasis is like a refuge in this busy place. People like staying here, resting or chatting. Sometimes I just sit in the garden and wonder. The reflection of sunset often drags me back to my childhood, when I played with my friends by the lake in Summertime. After I moved to the city, I can hardly see the beauty of nature."

03 RIPARIAN HABITAT RETREAT REDEFINING WATERFRONT TYPOLOGY Location: Riverside Park, Kensington Individual work assessed by Jela Ivankovic-Waters Time: 2021 This project has been selected in MSDx Summer 2021 LA Thesis.

Link: https://www.msdx-gallery.com.au/students/ yuye-zheng/

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THESIS STATEMENT: A park wedged along a river, industrial and residential area is the site for exploring the Anthropocene and postcolonial Australia. The thesis argues growth as a hybrid system that embraces notions of change, adaptation, and feedback to integrate biotic and abiotic elements in response to extreme precipitation events and potential inundation in the next 30 years.

The design redefines the waterfront typology along the Maribyrnong river to form a stepping stone, connecting

Maribynong River

the fragmented habitat for wild precolonial nature. The strategy is restoring a robust habitat that uses the dynamic process of indigenous plant growth and river level variation during different seasons. The ambition lies in promoting the decolonization process in the context of multicultural suburban. The positive feedback loop between ecological and indigenous knowledge systems will be established with ecological succession and public awareness.

Middlering Local Government Area

Location: Riverside Park, Kensington

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CITY OF MELBOURNE

Yarra River

1. Context: A. flooding - The risk of flooding in the next 30 years.

- Extreme precipitation can change the soil condition and affect plants.

- A more resilient waterfront habitat is needed.

C. ecology

B. socio-economic

- Because of COVID 19 and lockdown, People are more confined to their neighborhood, so the suburban parks need to take more responsibility.

- The Complex demographic background in the 20-min neighborhood of the site shows the trend of multicultural settlement, which is covering the precolonial nature.

Urbanization is making bioregion more and more fragmented. site is supposed to be functioning as a wildlife corridor but has very limited biodiversity.

2. Site Condition:

A. landuse and dominate species The site wedges in residential areas, factories, and public open space.

B.extreme hot summer- longer drought season Extended drought season indicates the need of a more responsive water harvesting system for water recycle in the new park.

C. surface water flow Grasshopper was used for this water flow simulation.

The simulation shows the areas that can accumulate stormwater and then be stored.

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3. Design strategy:

The existing waterfront

Proposed waterfront

The existing waterfront has very limited vegetation types, which means it hardly has ecological functions and becomes a habitat.

Besides, the topography is vulnerable to flooding.

The strategy is to transform the waterfront into a flood compensation area that has varied terrain.

Different vegetation types will be zoned and planted in different areas according to hydrological conditions and the need of featured species.

How to redefine waterfront typology: Context

Site specific issues

Solutions

Extended drought season

Stormwater harvesting

Flood risk

Diverse riparian topography

Habitat loss and fragmentation

Decolonization

Not just a PARK:

Climate change

Urbanization in postcolonial Australia

Stormwater harvesting & Constructured waterfront

Desired outcome: diverse habitats The robust habitat integrated with the dynamic process of indigenous plant growth and river level variation will reconnect the surranding reserves and prosperous again.

Erosion analysis: River flow simulation The waterfront also has an erosion challenge. Erosion analysis is used for testing the degree of erosion of banks of different shapes.

Evidence indicates that an increased flow rate from rapid, significant rainfall events exacerbated by runoff can impact erosion in a watershed. Therefore the degree of erosion can be predicted by the river flow simulation. The testing model is a simplified version of this area, and the testing program is Autodesk CFD.

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In normal circumstances, the river flow rate on the outside of the curving river is large, and erosion is easy to occur. The transformation of the shape of the bank will disturb the river flow and reduce erosion, but erosion control is still needed.

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4. Outcome:

A. master plan

According to climate change projection, water level variation shows how the constructed waterfront can be resilient to flooding.

B. water level projection

C. seasonal succession Legend Stormwater collection swales Tennis court Grassland Woodland Saltmarsh Lagoon Constructed waterfront Bird watching tower

Existing trees

Proposed trees

Corymbia maculata Spotted Gum

Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum

Brachychiton acerifolius Flame Tree

Eucalyptus melliodora Yellow box Banksia integrifolia Coastal Banksia

Eucalyptus camaldulensis River Red Gum Allocasuarina littoralis Black Sheoak Callitris preissii Rottnest Island Pine

Saltmarsh Plants

1. Suaeda australis Seablite 2. Tecticornia arbuscula Glasswort Atriplex semibaccata Creeping Saltbush

Erosion Control

1. Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani River Club Rush 2. Phragmites australis Common Reed

Aquatic Plants

Avicennia marina ssp. australasica White Mangrove

Shrub Layer

1. Melicytus dentatus Tree Violet 2. Melaleuca ericifolia Swamp Paperbark 3. Pomaderris vacciniifolia Small Leaf Pomaderris

Lawn

1. Triglochin procera Water Ribbons 2. Ottelia ovalifolia Swamp Lily 3. Crassula helmsii Swamp Stonecrop 4. Nymphoides crenata Wavy Marshwort 1. Themeda triandra kangaroo Grass 2. Austrodanthonia bipartita Wallaby grass

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4. Outcome:

Later summer - Eel Season

D. the Scenario of six seasons on Country:

Wominjeka! Now let's go for a walk along the trail of my site and enjoy the featured view of six seasons

on Country.

Constructured waterfront

Early winter - Wombat Season (Possum Season as site specific) Lagoon

On the Maribyrnong River Trail, people will notice the transformation of the landscape and the return of the ancient creatures, which will remind the public of the spirit of this land.

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Deep winter - Orchid Season

True Spring - Kangaroo Apple Season

Early spring - Tadpole Season

High summer - Dry season

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04 CAMPING AGAIN A WETLAND RESTORATION DESIGN IN CAMPUS CENTER GREEN SPACE

Location: concrete lawn, University of Melbourne Individual work assessed by Professor Ray Green Time: 2021

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PROGRAM ELEMENTS 1. Solar energy harvesting 2. Wind energy harvesting with posters printing The renewable energy, wind and solar energy, collected on the site will be used for lighting, pumping system and filtration systems in the water cycle.

3. Pop-up market stage 4. Dry creek 5. Camping site Wetland and native wetland plants cultivation are combined with a skywalk, which is a reference to the shape of the tent and how indigenous people were gathering near the wetland, reflecting the history of this place.

PROGRAM STATEMENT 6. Aboriginal art pavement The design of paving patterns will be consulted with Aboriginal students.

7. Hills with Eucalyptus Given the wind condition here is larger, the hills will disperse strang wind, creating a cozy microclimate.

8. Cafe seating 9. pocket resting space The existing spotted gums will be reserved and provide shelter from the wind and rain.

10. Sunny grass slope Open space is valuable on Campus and is often the place where students tend to congregate.

Climate change will intensify extreme precipitation and drought, the updating of open green space in the Campus will be put on the agenda.

This design aims to return to the site's origins as a gathering space near the creek and wetland.

Sustainability strategies lie in the following parts: energy harvesting, including solar wind and human movement, mature tree reserving, and water harvesting and recycling, delicately integrated with a Wetland Renaissance.

Through the wetland restoration, the current occupants of the site would realize the importance of sustainability initiatives and the aesthetic and ecological value of the wetland.

As esteemed Wurundjeri elder Aunty Di Kerr OAM states, "if you care for Country it will in turn care for you."

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05 COEVOLVE WITH BUSHIRE A BUSHFIRE RESPONSIVE COMMUNITY PLAN Location: Werribee, Melbourne Group work and Individual work assessed by Jenny Yu Time:2020

The site is located in a rural residential area in Werribee, a suburb of Melbourne, 32 km south-west of Melbourne's CBD, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Surrounded by bushfire prone areas, the site is facing intensified bushfire risks, While it has potential to connect the existing Natural resources, such as Werribee and Little River Lowlands catchment system, and then form a bushfire responsive community. My design proposal is a bushfire responsive community plan, as a mitigation of increasing bushfire risks at community scale.

The tendency for fire seasons to become more intense and fire danger to occur earlier in the season is a clear trend in Australia’s climate. Particularly the annual temperature is higher than the world level and locally the rainfall in Werribee is decreasing in recent 4 years.

To mitigate this trend, my design has three strategies. The first is using an existing nature corridor, lollypop creek to establish seasonal wetland to store carbon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which have a heavy impact on the changes in fire seasons, reduce temperature at community scale and setting buffer zones for the communities. The second is planting vegetation in patches to control the fire speed and size in case the fire happens in the site because there are some bushfire prone areas at the edges. The third part is an efficient transportation system.

In general, with the combination of wetland conservation, sustainable agriculture and water sensitive design, the community will be able to adapt to bushfire season and realize the ecological benefits of wetlands.

Legend Bushfire history 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Since the 1990s, the suburb has experienced rapid suburban growth into surrounding greenfield land, and becoming a commuter town in the Melbourne–Geelong growth corridor. Due to this urban sprawl, Wyndham and its suburbs have merged into the Melbourne conurbation.

CONTEXT

Areas with nature resources to prevent bushfires

SITE SELECTION CRITERIAS:

Areas with increasing bushfire risks due to climate change

In the next 10-30 years, Melbourne will face the challenges of the increasing need for infrastructure construction brought by population growth (State Government of Victoria, 2011, p.5) and more frequent disasters, such as bushfires, coupled with increasing lasting time and intensity, which are the consequences of climate change (Climate Council of Australia, 2017, p.1).

This project including two Parts: Part I Site selection for urban development PaRT II Planning for the community

PART II: PLANNING FOR THE COMMUNITY (INDIVIDUAL WORK)

New residential area in 2017 New residential area in 2019

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Transportation system

Vegetation patches

Seasonal wetland

PART I: SITE SELECTION FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT (GROUP WORK) Identifying places that are vulnerable to bushfires, while having available resources nearby for prevention and mitigation methods is our planning goal. Through a long-term approach in response to increased fire seasons, we aim to rethink before rebuilding.

Intensified Bushfire Risks

Areas have potential to mitigate bushfire impect

The site is located in The middle of Werribee and Little River Lowlands catchment system. Wetlands play a key role in this catchment, with many of the major rivers and creeks flowing through coastal wetlands listed under the international Ramsar convention. Especially for the community, some aspects of this system are meaningful, including vegetation and recreation opportunities.

WATER CATCHMENT DESIGN STRATEGY

TERRAIN MODIFICATION

A WATER SENSITIVE COMMUNITY

BUSHFIRE RISK REDUCTION STRATEGY

Lollypop creek

Site selection for the community

Identification of risk areas

The existing terrain

Water flow simulation

Designated terrain

Area solar radiation during bushfire season (October 1 to March 31)

Slope analysis

ArcGIS was used to analyze the vulnerable degree to bushfires of the woodland around the community.

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Vulnerable Degree Assessment Bushfire management plan Key Protection Zone 1. Forest thinning and weed control: Each year during the early growth phase 2. Fire breaks: Every 10 and 20 m 3. No entry season: October 1 - March 31

General protection Zone 1. Forest thinning and weed control: Every 2 years during the early growth phase 2. Fire breaks: Every 10, 25 and 35 m

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Solar Radiation

Wind Speed

Relative Humidity

Air Pollutants

METHODOLOGY: 1. Identifying Summer Desired Conditions: • • •

Areas with Low Solar Radiation Areas with Medium Comfortable Wind Speed: 1.1-2.3m/s Areas with High Relative Humidity

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TARGETED OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER:

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Design Development based on Solar Radiation Analysis on Ladybug

DESIGNING FOR SUMMER CLIMATE Key Strategy: Amplification of existing microclimate conditions

Junction of Corrs Lane and Lt. Latrobe Street

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Little Bourke Street: • Expanding Southern footpaths • Providing shades and urban pockets • Maximise retention of humidity through planting and misting

- Overexposed Area on South of Corrs Lane + High volume of wind on Middle Site + Rare public open space

Middle Site & Corrs Lane: • Directing wind into middle site during summer slowing it down during winter • Providing shade during summer while allowing solar radiation through during winter

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Site: Chinatown is a place of many extreme microclimates situated closeby. The middle site & Corrs lane in particular, is a highly trafficable area with high fluctuations microclimate across a single day.

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The selection of tools and combinations are firstly guided by on-site observations and preliminary analysis results, but how it performs when implemented will be re-analysed again and again to ensure the KOP complements each other in amplifying thermal comfort.

E Average Speed across Summer Months 2.73m/s from South

3. Defining Objectives for Areas of Intervention:

- Over exposure on South of Little Bourke Street - Illegal loading activities on Western End of Little Bourke Street - Narrow footpaths through Little Bourke Street + High Humidity and Low Wind Speed on Western End of Little Bourke Street

Average Speed across Winter Months 2.94m/s from North

The megaphone strategy aims to amplify outdoor microclimates on areas where it has conditions ideal for summer usage. In doing so, these area becomes an extra attractive respite when it contrasts the less thermally comfortable areas.

2. Analysing Weaknesses & Opportunities:

Design Development based on Wind Speed Simulation on Autodesk CFD

Location: Chinatown, Melbourne Group work assessed by Wendy walls Responsibility in the group: Using Autodesk CFD to test wind condition and design iteration, participated in model making, illustrations of Kits of Part and Section drawing Time: 2020

Final Design

AMPLIFYING EXISTING MICROCLIMATE CONDITIONS WITH KITS OF PARTS INTERVENTION

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Summer Months

Summer Extreme Day

Winter Months

Winter Extreme Day

OVERVIEW: KITS OF PART Misting + Water Recycling System

Outdoor Seats (Summer) Misting + Purification Corridor/Seating Ribbon Gate Entry

Social Stairs Mound

Wind Shield/ Channeller Deciduous Trees - Shaded Pockets

Rain garden + Rainwater Catchment

Based on Week 2 Monday’s feedback, the team allowed the middle site design to spill over Corrs Lane and Little Bourke Street, creating a more cohesive design intervention.

Initial seatings along North of Lt. Bourke St is removed as its impractical - for microclimate reasons (too cold) and the tight narrow footpath.

While this area is extremly hot in summer, it could be an area of respite for heat during winter months. Therefore, it was important to make sure this area keep gets enough solar radiation during winter.

We noticed south of Corrs Lane should be kept shaded during summer while allowing solar radiation reach the ground, therefore we’ve added more porosity and used ribbons at various heights/tension to work this out.

Misting + Purification Corridor

Canopy Shading (Summer) Kinetic Misting Release System This misting device is combined with a kinetic system which triggers the spray switch when a person step on the sensor.

Wind Penetration (Summer)

This intelligent interactive device is designed to enhance and engage users with the site.

By taking over the 3 metered parking spaces, we have extended the footpath and designed little tools to provide shade and area to sit while people move through Lt. Bourke Street.

Final Design Height: 4.5m

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Height: 1.5m Wind speed (m/s) 3.0

MASTER PLAN

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The wind channeler and trees successful in redirecting wind into middle site, bringing more humid breezes.

At this height, corresponding to the height of human experience, wind can go through the whole site without disturbance.

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Height: 4.5m

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Test Iterations

Average Speed across Winter Months

AR ANALYSIS AND WIND ANALYSIS OF ITERATIONS

The wind channeler will protect the middle site, maintaining a relatively stable wind speed.

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While this result were not accurate, it was roughly showing that the wind’s blocked from the middle site during both seasons. This is not ideal as we want summer breeze across middle site.

After adding the wind channeler, the wind in middle site will be slow down. In the seating area, south of the street, the wind speed was also relatively lower.

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This simulation was ran with Rhino .3dm file imported into Autodesk CFD, it was wraped and could not get anymore accurate without losing the details. This was then resolved by converting the file to .STEP.

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It was noticed that while the prevailing wind direction for winter and summer is North and South respectively, the wind heading into middle site is predominantly focused from West towards East. This was kept in mind while we move forward into the designs of the kits of parts.

Iteration

The ribbon canopy is retracted and deciduous tree leaves are dropped during winter, allowing solar radiation to reach under the canopy, providing warming effect.

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Existing Condition

It was critical for us to ensure this area remains exposed to sun during winter despite the additions over it.

Wind speed was still high in the middle site. Therefore, more methods of wind breakers are needed in winter. Trees and circular dirt mounds are then introduced.

Only this part of wind channeler were effective.

Therefore, vertical textiles were added to support it and achieved the result shown above.

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MIDDLE SITE SECTION

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KITS OF PART ANALYSIS

WEST OF LITTLE BOURKE STREET

WEST OF MIDDLE SITE OPEN SPACE

The street descends from east to west, so the rain garden will collect rainwater effectively, which will improve stormwater water quality through sedimentation, mechanical straining, chemical and biological processes.

Having considered the intervention as a temporal post-covid urban node installation, the timber battens have been strategically selected as the structural framing for its ease of assembly and its warmth matching the high tech engineered textile.

The textile system, has been inspired by various projects from the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program where new and emerging technologies are tested and realised. Its further combined with filters from the high-tech mask (Airinum) where electro charged layers are in-placed to filter particulates in our urban environment.

The plant serves multiple functions including maintaining humidity, reducing wind speed and promoting evapo-transpiration.

Raingarden plant species

1: Titanium nanoparticle (TiO2) spray coating Neutralizes polluting airborne particles. When TiO2 is exposed to the sun, it engages in photocatalytic oxidation, which safely oxidizes organic matter at the molecular level and converts it into water vapor and tiny amounds of carbon dioxide.

Height Eucalyptus cosmophylla

2: 1st Electro Charged Layer Filters larger PM10, pollen and other allergens 3: 2nd Electro Charged Layer Filters smaller PM2.5, dust and bacteria 4: Recycled Photo-luminescent textile During the day, these fibres absorb solar energy, emitting glowing hues of blue, pink and purple at night time.

High tech material engineering

J u n c u s pauciflorus Bursaria spinosa

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Filtered air with minimal pollutants

Bolboschoenus caldwellii

Microlaena stipoides

Carprobrotus rossii

Air with pollutants in urban environment

Juncus amabilis

Xerochrysum bracteatum Centella asiatica

Titanium nanoparticle (TiO2) spray coating

1st Electro Charged Layer

2nd Electro Charged Layer

Recycled Photoluminescent textile

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