Docklands Purification Park

Docklands Purification Park enabling the chain of ecosystem in Melbourne

Docklands Water Purification Park: enabling the chain of ecosystems is a manifesto to make Melbourne more adaptive to climate change, in which the Docklands is envisaged as a pioneer to make change happen. In the Australian context, where urbanisation has always played a leading role, cities have left little room for original ecosystems that provided resistance and purification for our current problems. Restoring these ecosystems provide one of the solutions to protect the city from more severe conditions. In our design, the Docklands is among these enabling frontrunners, which ecosystem will revolve around purifying water. The Docklands will be launched as a large Water Purification Park, and in doing so it commits to research and education to make the effects measurable and apparent. Not just to researchers, but to all Melbourne residents and visitors. A research institute, hotel, kayak launch station, and swimming pool are proposed to facilitate this programmatically, along with better transport connectivity to the city.