Love @ First Site

Love @ First Site

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Topography and Elevation

Kelburn Campus

109 m

Terrance Tunnel Chosen site Cnr of Ghuznee and Willis St, Te Aro

17 m

139 Vivian St, School of Architecture and Design

33 m

13m

Sealevel

Sealevel

Section

Journey From Kelburn to Te Aro Campus Kelburn Campus

A

A

1.35km

B

B Te Aro Campus

Environmental Contrast Between Zones

Terrance Tunnel Park Cnr of Ghuznee and Willis St, Te Aro

S = 1:1000

Diagrams of Site Activity Sound from the motorway is the greatest factor affecting the site.

Trees or tall hedges would provide a partial sound break to the site.

The waveform of a 30s field recording on site shows motorway noise is constant and the magority of the waveform is (light blue) is a low frequency. The high frequency band (dark blue) shows bird sounds.

33 m

-16 m Currently there is some pedestrian activity through the site.

17 m

What My intervention aims to accentuate the potential of the Terrance Tunnel park area by introducing a new pathway, allowing students a more intuitive route in their journey through the currently disfunctional space. This is achieved by selecting elements of Kelburn’s unique organic forms and incorporating them within the cities grid. This intervention intends to create a moment of ‘flow’ within the journey by placing a form on site that mimics a slow meandering river system.

Why “As more people are moving to cities our quality of life will be defined by our public spaces” - Thomas Balsley

Preceding Urban Landscaping Interventions

Path Design

The new paths design is directly informed by 1m contour lines of the site. By laying the path parallel to the contour lines as much as possible I was able to restrict loss of elevation. This will keep the pedestrians from surcuming to gravity’s pull and rushing down the slope.

Inturn, the path helps to minimise this steepstraight-path effect, supporting the ‘meandering flow’ concept.

Form Iterations The path’s form has been layed over the site and needs minor adjustment to fit best with in the site boundry.

These iterations will explore incoporating exiting trees and paths as much as possible and include access through the site from two extra points.

These forms wind to un-naturally (switch-back), over time people will create short-cuts across the path.

This form makes most use of the existing pathways with out making the journey tedious. It also presented an opportunity to introduce additional pathways.

The form weaves around the majority of existing trees.

Leaving enough room between pathways for shrubs is also a consideration.

This form made no use of existing pathways but does allow a smooth intergration for an additional intersecting pathway. This form is by far the most gestural and fluid.

The intersecting path lends itself well to people travelling in other general directions making the site more accessible.

Materials Concrete River stones Rustic timbers Bamboo Grasses Crushed Limestone

Crushed Limestone

Bamboo

Grasses

River stones

Rustic Timber Sleepers

It’s not enough to just have a meandering path to slow people down, they need other stimlus. To achieve this I need to add material that can appeal to the human senses. We like the sounds of crispy leaves under foot in autumn and the sounds of chipped limestone or gravel.

The pathway will be layed with loose gravel contained by clean raw concrete kurbs. The dis-used off-ramp will strive to be a fraction what the NYC High Line Park became, that is, river stones shrubs and beautiful blending of concrete and grasses (see figure below) with the addition of bamboo clumps and rail way sleepers.

The Terrance Tunnel Park begins to provide moments of rest and experiential interface for students and general public within a highly developed urban environment.

Concrete

Neglected and under-used valuable urban space

Re-purposed urban space

S = 1:1000

Bamboo acts as a screen

Work Submitted for Assessment Declaration Form Student’s full name

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Keegan Davis

Course

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SARC112

Assignment/project (number and title)

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Project 1 - Love At First Site

Date submitted

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16.08.2014

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