Scenario 3 Community

Scenario 3 is mainly focused on community transformation. This scenario optimizes the living conditions of the residents while preserving part of the original traditional cultural character of the shophouse and urban fabric.

The strategy is to demolish the middle row of the three rows of houses and keep the shophouses along both sides of the streets. Secondly, according to the new road network extend some of the original roads to improve connectivity. The demolished residents will be relocated to nearby medium-density housing. The open space in the middle will use for urban farming.

All demolished households will be relocated to the nearest medium-density apartments. New apartment developments will also respond to population growth. A large open space located in the centre of the neighbourhood, this area provides activity space for residents as well as a pop-up market for vendors. That is also an ideal venue for hosting events and celebrations.

After a long day of hard work, we are eager to find a place to have a break. A sense of belonging and a pleasant atmosphere always cheers me up.

The road is much tidier and more orderly. No need to worry about fire trucks not getting in when there is an accident.

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.