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PORTFOLIO LANDSCAPE & URBAN DESIGN

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY

I would like to pay my respects and acknowledgment of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Elders, for all the past; present; and value of the continuing connection to this landscape, as the traditional custodians of the land we meet on today.

I respect and thank their generosity for sharing their knowledge, customs, and language in allowing urban designers & landscape architectures to become better decision makers.

I acknowledge aboriginal sovereignty have not been ceded.

1. Town Park Precinct: The Civic Heart of St Marys ..........

2. River-Centered Precinct: Corridor for Country ............

3. The Artificial Canal & The Forgotten Creek ...................

4. St Peters Station Precinct Improvement Report ...........

PROFILE

As a student Landscape Architect & Urban Designer, I am not afraid to take the next step, to put myself forward and fully engage into the profession, creating opportunities and providing changes to our current slowly disconnecting relationship between the built environment; people; and nature, teaching our next generation to strengthen this bond through design & planning.

EDUCATION

Master of Urban Design

University Of Sydney, 2023-2024

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture [Honours]

New South Wales University, 2019-2022

EXPERIENCE & ACHIEVEMENTS

Horticultural Volunteer

Indigigrow Plant Nursery, 2020 & 2022

2023 ADP Graduate Show Exhibitor [3 Displayed Projects]

University Of Sydney, 2023

2022 Dean’s List Candidate [Honorary Class 1]

New South Wales University, 2022

2022 Harry Howard Prize Shortlist Candidate

New South Wales University, 2022

SOFTWARES

InDesign Photoshop AutoCAD Sketchup Procreate ArchGIS

Rhino Illustrator QGIS

TOWN PARK PRECINCT: THE CIVIC HEART OF ST MARYS

St Marys Town Centre, Western Sydney

Urban Design Studio 3, 2024

CONSTRAINTS

KEY MOVES

QUEEN STREET: Intensified retails with continuous connection of awnings & interests.

CORRIDORS: Highlighted edges of communal & commercial uses as indicators.

SITE AMALGAMATION: Intensified hierarchy of business, character of Queen St.

LAND SWAP: Secondary street network prior to parking, facilitating the population.

Redirect high speed car inlets away from the main street, centering Coachmans Park as St Marys’ civic heart with rejuvenated walkability along day-to-night shopfronts, and to manifest sensible density concentration aligned by East-West ant-trail thresholds.

COACHMANS PARK: A welcoming entrance to St Marys Civic Core, with iconic spatial edges of communal uses.

CENTRAL PARK: The Civic Core, concentrate of activities with water as feature & reference to waterway ceremonial grounds.

“The

Heart of St Marys-ers, the place St Marys-ers wants to be, both weekends & workweeks.”

“The Heart of St Marys-ers, the place St Marys-ers wants to be, both weekends & workweeks.”

Bark Facade
St Marys Library
Civic Corner Iconic Edge
Civic Core
Communal & Culture Events
Water Feature
Misting Canopy
Clear Horizon
Central Park Entrance
Main Street Character
Commercial & Retail
Shared Path
Coachmans Park

RIVER-CENTERED PRECINCT: CORRIDOR FOR COUNTRY

Rydalmere & Camellia, Parramatta

Urban Design Studio 2, 2023

Parramatta CBD
Sydney CBD
Northmead
Carlingford
Sydney Olympic Park

KEY MOVES

TERRACING:

To configurate the landscape in a sloped-form towards Parramatta River, directing street network & views towards the parkland.

BLUE-GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE:

To implement green roofs; amphitheater as stormwater basin; street raingardens, broadening the green corridor of Parramatta River.

GREEN HUB:

To establish a balanced precinct with a floodable parkland recreational destination, with mixeduse commercial offices along arterial roads.

WATER CONNECTIVITY:

To encourage river interaction by incorporating facilities among mangrove gaps, connected via ‘Rivermouse’ light-ferry & bike routes.

Skateboard Pavilion Wild-Play Park

“Acknowledging Parramatta River as the centric connection & element to Country.”

Permeable Urban Grid

Green Chain & Reserves

Blue-Green Infrastructure & Terracing Structures

Community Orientated River Accessibility

Water Connectivity

Organic Design Detailing & References the River

Retreat the former industrial infrastructure and transforming the waterfront into a floodable parkland, shifting its development pattern in a terracing & volumetric manner, gradually allowing visitors to embrace the river with new activity nodes.

03.

THE ARTIFICIAL CANAL & THE FORGOTTEN CREEK

Alexandra Canal & Sheas Creek, Alexandria

Urban Planning & Design, 2023

“ Through years of human-centered industrial development, the waterway had lost its former beauty...”

“ Through years of human-centered industrial development, the waterway had lost its former beauty...”

“Industrial
“Industrial

In; Country Out”

In; Country Out” How did this part of the city have pushed The Cooks River Alliance may be our only hope…

CATCHMENT

VEGETATION & BARRIERS

SITE SKETCHES

Car-Centered
Emotionless
Trashed & Pungent
Treacherous

ST PETERS STATION PRECINCT IMPROVEMENT REPORT

St Peters Station, Saint Peters

Urban Design Studio 1, 2023

“Refine & improve the image-ability of St Peters station, increase urban vitality as a connecting public square.”

“Refine & improve the image-ability of St Peters station, increase urban vitality as a connecting public square.”

Pedestrian Movement Bike Movement Rail Route Propose Bike Lane

ST PETERS SITE -

PLAN

Commercial Zone Conservation Zone Project Site Rail Route

AXONOMETRIC

Pavement Zoning

2 Types of brick pavement as a indication of zoning between travel flow & resting space.

Sitting Space

Materials & form references the adjacent Bedford Brickwork kilns, former existing bricks are reused.

Shading Corridor

Highlights the existing station, a green link to May Lane & Sydney park, structural reference to the kilns.

Bike Parking Space

Provide convenience for cyclists to train station.

Station Staircase

Direct entrance to St Peters train platforms.

The upgrade of St Peters Station simply provides a clearer entrance down onto the platforms, it stimulates communal engagement within the new plaza as a pleasant dog-friendly meeting place, while stretches the liveliness of King Street with its own uniqueness.

Bike Parking Space

Provide convenience for cyclists to train station

Streetlight Installations Improve night traffic safety

Sunshade

Improve aesthetics & station entrance recognition

Wombat Crossing Connects the station & May Lane to improve safe access Road Upgrades Coloured coded pavings to indicate areas of shared path between vehicles & pedestrians

RE-SUBMERGED

Carrington, Newcastle NSW

Landscape Architecture Graduation Studio, 2022

“What if Sea Level Rise led the Project?”

“What if Sea Level Rise led the Project?”

“What if Carrington Port can’t Go Away?”

“What if Carrington Port can’t Go Away?”

“What if...?”

“What if...?”

CARRINGTON
HONEYSUCKLE

- 1st & 2nd round phytoremediation species

- 1st stage seawall building construction

- Install sunken raingardens in wider streets

- Remove industrial waste & equipment

- Meetings with local communities

- Planning of seawall building unit

- Negotiation with port

- 3rd & 4th round phytoremediation species

- 2nd stage seawall building construction

- Business relocation & consider circulation

- Soften water edge with floating wetlands

- Plant mangroves into sunken rain gardens

- Renew train cargoes for commercial use

- Install habitat enhancement modules

For at least 90 years, Carrington’s industrial plants will not move...

RE-MITIGATE: Toxins within soil

Five Nations will be uninhabitable by year 2100...

Sea level would rise above 70m if both poles had melt...

- 5th round phytoremediation species

- Transform train tracks for community use

- Extend seawall building unit reach

- Arrangement of large events

- Construct risen linear park

- Install floating solar panels

RE-GENERATE: Industrial facility use

To protect Carrington Port, a

with 70m as a reference limit.

- 3rd stage seawall building construction

- Expand industry collaboration network

- Re-purpose industrial structures

- Extend green corridors

RE-SEAWALL: As Country vertically

‘Seawall Building Unit’ needs to be built,
tallest skyscrapers in Australia is 322m in Gold Coast...

LEGEND

1. RISEN LINEAR PARK

2. ‘OYSTERS CLUMPS’ SOCIAL HUB

3. EVENT WAREHOUSE

4. INDUSTRIAL PIER

5. E-BIKE STATION

6. COMMUNITY GARDEN

7. MANGROVE HARBOUR

8. WORKSHOP PIER

9. MARINE PIER

10. SHIP VESSEL WHARF

11. TUG SHIP WHARF

12. THE FLOATING GATE

13. MANGROVE CORRIDORS

14. SEAWALL BUILDING UNIT

“Changes are hard, but are inevitable... An urban transitioning race against 200 years of sea level rise .”

“Changes are hard, but are inevitable... An urban transitioning race against 200 years of sea level rise .”

PERSPECTIVE ROUTE - BIKE

PERSPECTIVE ROUTE - KAYAK

SEAWALL UNIT SECTIONS

Section DD - Connection to Country

Phytoremediation Bioswales

Section EE - Airflow Circulation & Livability

Transition from horizontal to vertical form of viewing Country, farewell to engulfed ‘lands’ to welcome new ones. Floating wetlands & living seawalls are installed across the seawall unit, working together to boost biodiversity.

Rainwater are collected along the risen linear park, sea breeze are allowed to travel across the seawall building unit with its green corridor core for better ventilation & livability, cargo containers are also reused as infrastructure.

Smoking Ceremony
Marine Pier
Seawall Building Unit
Floating Solar Panels
‘Oysters Clumps’ Social Hub
Risen Linear Park Returned ‘lands’
The Railway
Rainwater Collection Systems
Sea Breeze
Ventilation
Seawall Building Unit
Along Throsby Creek To Marine Pier
To Linear Park
From Honeysuckle

06. HAND DRAWINGS

Landscape Architecture Studio, Year 1-3

07. 3D MODELING

Landscape Architecture & Urban Design Studio, 2022-2024

08.

QGIS & DOCUMENTATION

Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, 2020-2023

PORTFOLIO

GABRIEL LAW KING HEI

LANDSCAPE & URBAN DESIGN

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