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Ryland B FoxDesign Portfolio 2009
Ryland B Fox Academic
Project StrategyFuture Melbourne Design/Behaviour 2008What will the Melbourne CBD look like in the future? And what role will sustainability play in shaping that future? This project focuses on urban agriculture and how it can be inserted into a city. Focusing on design to change and affect behaviour, the project addresses food growth education for residents of all ages in hopes of mak-ing it a part of their everyday life.
rooftop
concrete wall
soil mix
7000mm
2000mm 3000mm2000mm
3500
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windbreak
sand
rigid insulationfabric separator
drain matwaterproof membrane
boardwalk garden bed garden bed garden bed
section b-b scale: 1:301
Project Parts - Garden
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Details
Garden View
car park roof level
crate levelglass screen 30% permeability south side60% permeability north side
17000 mm
h 2000 mmprotected zone: 10 to 20 x h
windbreak
To educate children about food growth and preparation, a Children’s Garden is inserted on the roof of a carpark in Federation Square. This site was considered ideal because of its close proximity to Artplay, the tram transport network and the CBD.
Project Parts - Garden/City TransitionIn order to kickstart the education process for the rest of the CBD’s population, a crate system has been devel-oped. The crates, in which a variety of vegetables are grown, are held in bays. They are transportable so that they can be distributed throughout the city to show the possibilities of small, localised agriculture.
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Soil - 230mm
Sand_25mm
Filter Fabric
Gravel - 25mm
Crate - 300mm
Water Collection - 50mm
Crate Layers
Crate with Vegetables
Project Parts - City Dissemination
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Crates are dispersed through the city via modified trams on the City Loop line. The trams stop in designated “Green Zones,” where people can learn about the Urban Agriculture and pick some vegetables.
Green Zones
Crates can be purchased and taken home to inner city balconies where they are fitted into a table super structure that allows the owner to enjoy their limited space and reap the benefits of small scale vegetable production.
Urban Agriculture at Home
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Based on yields from the Cuban “Organiponicos” method of agriculture, the 1m x 1m crate can achieve up to 24kg of food production a year.
Union LawnMelbourne University is rapidly expanding. The projected size of the student body by 2025 is 55,000, up from 12,000 twenty years ago. To keep up with the growing demand, the University is building outside the traditional boundaries of its Parkville Campus. But as the campus grows away from its center, it risks becoming a com-muter campus, where students go to attend class and fail to form any real feelings of attachment to it. To counter this, the campus’ central open space, Union Lawn, should be redesigned as the heart of the campus into a hub that holds the pieces of the sprawling campus together and serves the needs of the student body.
To this end, two designs were developed for the Union Lawn site. While different, the designs grew from the same base plan that improves the site’s visibility and circulation.
BIMThe project was created with the Building Information Modelling software Archicad as an experiment in the use of parametric software and 3D design technology in Landscape Architecture.
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Project Strategy
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Union Lawn
MelbourneSchoolof Design
Union HouseImpeded Corners
Limited Use
Site baseplan with is-sues removed and from which the two designs will work
Vehicle/Pedestrian Conflict Areas
In order to give the Union Lawn a presence on campus, a list of goals for the rede-sign has been set in place:
Major Issues
Goals
• Extend site’s usuable hours throughout the day
• Create a site that can accom-modate everyone from indi-viduals to large groups with ease.
• Improve entrances and exits to Union Lawn
• Eliminate motor traffic
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An intertwining system of two large mounds is the defining feature of the design. The rounded, sinouous mounds contrast strong-ly with the Union Lawn’s traditinal square shape. In places the mounds reach out of the square into surrounding areas, extending the bounds of the site and breaking it out of the mold.
Mounds
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Jutting monoliths emerge suddenly from the Union Lawn. The steep incline and height add the element of volume to the previ-ously flat space and redefine the space. The exterior sides of the monoliths are clad in the slate pavers from the existing space; the interior consists of terraced grass steps separated by polished concrete kerbs.
Monoliths
Project StrategyEcological Restoration Two ExamplesThis project looked at options for the rehabilitation of two environmentally degraded valleys. The Wandella Valley in rural southern New South Wales and the Jerrabombera Valley on the outskirts of Canberra.
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Wandella Vallea 1:37500
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The Wandella Valley is reborn as a mixture of patch-es, corridors, stepping stones, riparian vegetation and sustainable farmland. Large patches are cre-ated by vegetation spreading within the four ma-jor 150 metre asl contours that extend into the site from its surrounds. The contours form ecologically optimal patches because they provide ample inte-rior habitat and have curvilinear boundaries. The patches merge with existing patches in the valley to create a network that combines patches, habitat corridors and facilitated movement corridors. This promotes fauna movement provides ample habitat space. The patches are populated by floral commu-nities that occur naturally in the area.
The Wandella Valley is located in the southeast coastal region of New South Wales. It is a heav-ily cleared agricultural landscape in the middle of a large expanse of woodland. Overtime it has be-come degraded by deforestation and grazing that has resulted in a loss of native species and major erosion around it’s extensive creek system.
Ecological Restoration
Wandella Valley, NSW
Detail of Stepping Stones in farmland
Large Patches/Corridors 150m patches
Corridors Patches to surrounding woodland
Riparian Vegetation/Corridor Lining all streams in the valley
Stepping Stones/Small Patches Connecting patches
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Populated Areas
Human Corridors
Creek
Patches/Corridors
Creek Corridor
Agriculture
Sydney
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The plan for the Jerrabomberra Valley restores habi-tat by reconnecting woodlands and endangered grasslands with a system of corridors and patches. The Jerrabomberra Creek is also revitalised through the strengthening of riparian habitat on its banks and reintroduction of a chain of ponds damaged by land clearing and grazing. The end result is a en-vironmentally sound landscape that can support wildlife and currently threatened plant species as well as carefully contained urban infrastructure.
The Jerrabomberra Valley is located on the border of the ACT and NSW, amisdt the urban sprawl cre-ated by Canberra and the surrounding communi-ties of Queanbeyan and Hume. The valley has be damaged by encroaching urban infrastructure and contains and industrial estate, two landfills, a mine and expanding suburbs.
Ecological Restoration
Jerrabomberra Valley
Canberra
Model Making
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Siemperdarena, Genoa ItalyLaser Cut Perspex
Urban Design Traveling Studio2008
0 60 120
SCALE 1:1500
21.06.07 307124KO SIRE, PHUKET
CONCEPT PLAN
LD MP 01
Spa
Marina
Village
Hotel
Club
HotelVillas
MarinaApartments
Estate Villas
YieldEstate Villas 231-2 Story - 6 - 800m2 EA
Hotel Villas 521 Story - 250m2 EA
Hotel 843 Story - 90m2 EA
Spa 81 Story - 100m2 EA
Marina Apartments 484 Story - 250m2 EA
Village 7,500m2
Commercial/Retail
Marina 200+/- Berths
ZONE 1Buildings not to exceed 6
meters in height.
+80.00m(from MSL)
ZONE 1Buildings not to exceed 12
meters in height.
ZONE 6Area 40-80m from mean sea
level. Buildings not to exceed 8 meters in height.
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REED BEDie. Juncus Sp.
GROUND COVERie. Dietes
SCREEN PLANTINGie. Eucalypt, Melaleuca
LANEWAY TREEie. Waterhousia �oribunda
STREET TREEie. Plane Tree (Platanus)
LEGEND
DATE DRAWN CHECKED
PROJECT NUMBER DRAWING NUMBER REVISION
SCALE
SCALE 1:250
0 2 4 6 8 10 20m
307134 00
04-06-07 SC SC1:250@A1
LANDSCAPE MASTERPLAN
LD MP 01
JAQUES DEVELOPMENT RICHMOND
SECTION A
SECTION B
INDIGENOUSSCREEEN PLANTING
INDIGENOUSSCREEEN PLANTING
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WEEPING LILLY PILLY
COFFEESHOP
GraphicsColoured PencilPhotoshopIllustrator
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REED BEDie. Juncus Sp.
GROUND COVERie. Dietes
SCREEN PLANTINGie. Eucalypt, Melaleuca
LANEWAY TREEie. Waterhousia �oribunda
STREET TREEie. Plane Tree (Platanus)
LEGEND
DATE DRAWN CHECKED
PROJECT NUMBER DRAWING NUMBER REVISION
SCALE
SCALE 1:250
0 2 4 6 8 10 20m
307134 00
04-06-07 SC SC1:250@A1
LANDSCAPE MASTERPLAN
LD MP 01
JAQUES DEVELOPMENT RICHMOND
SECTION A
SECTION B
INDIGENOUSSCREEEN PLANTING
INDIGENOUSSCREEEN PLANTING
REEDBED
DECK REEDBED
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WEEPING LILLY PILLY
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*In conjunction with others
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Experiments in Parametric Software and ScriptingThe use of digital technology in Landscape Architecture offices is increasing but can we look past the current us-age as merely a visualisation tool and incorporate them into the design process? How would this be done and at what stages would they be the most useful? The follow-ing are a few attempts to use parametric and 3D model-ing as a tools that can aid the deigner by reducing time on common tasks and changing as the design evolves.
Software: Rhino Grasshopper plug-in
Grasshopper is a 3rd party plug-in for the CAD software Rhino that is described as “a graphical algorithim editor”that “allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring.”(www.grasshopper3d.com)
In this experiment we use it as a tool to find site levels between two points on a hypo-thetical survey.
First point (0,0,5.34)
(0,0,5.34)
1.51m
22m
Second point (0,22,6.85)
(0,22,6.85)
The goal is to obtain 1/3 meter points between the two levels using a script developed in Grasshopper that allows the user to get the desired results with the least amount of effort. So the result should have points at elevations of 5.5, 6 and 6.5.
The Grasshopper interface with script in Rhino 4.0.
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Grasshopper Script - Site Level Interpolation
Elevation ofHigher Point
Elevation ofLower Point
Heights of desired spot levels (5.5, 6 and 6.5).
Execution of formula to find location of new points.
Creation of new pointsand text labels.
6.85-5.50=
6.85-5.34=
1.35m1.35m
1.51m 1.51m
Horizontal distance between points.
Difference in elevation (Desired)
Location of 5.5m spot level
=2.3311
Change in elevation division
(Desired/Total)
Product multi-plied by
horizontal distance
Difference in elevation
(Total)
First Point Elevation5.34m
Second Point Elevation6.85m
Desired Point Elevation5.50m
Horizontal DistanceChange
22m
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Grasshopper Script - Site Level Interpolation
How it Works
Grasshopper
The two contours are stored in placeholders.
20m Contour
18m Contour
In this example a 19m contour is interpolated between the 20m and 18m contours.
After experimenting with spot levels the next challenge was to try to interpolate complete con-tour lines from existing ones. This script would not only be useful in the documentation process but also when constructing detailed 3d topo-graphic models of a site.
Software: Rhino Grasshopper plug-in
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Grasshopper Script - Contour Interpolation
The height of the desired con-tour is set in a adjustable slider box.
The interpolate 19m points are connected with a curve.
20m Contour
Interpolated19m Contour
18m Contour18.5m Contour
19.5m Contour
The script can then be quickly adjusted to get any other contours, in this case 18.5m and 19.5m
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Grasshopper Script - Contour Interpolation