forced landscape

forced landscape

liyana che ismail s3262762 martyn hook riet eeckhout ephraim louis

All rights reserved First Edition Copyright Š Liyana Che Ismail ISBN 0-3262-2762-11 Year printed: 2011

CONTENT

urban potrait : flat square |

event diagram : redefining the square |

forced landscape : edgy square |

URBAN PORTRAIT:

THE SITE IN SEARCH OF THE DEFINITION OF BOURKE ST THE FLAT SQUARE

THE SITE : BOURKE STREET

HEART OF MELBOURNE BOURKE ST

LIVELY!

CITY CEILING

THE SAFEST TRAM LINE IN MELBOURNE Tram is indeed a thing we need to aware of while we are crossing the road, yet Bourke st give you the safe feeling while crossing that you cant get anywhere else

IN SEARCH OF THE DIFINITION OF BOURKE STREET

walking passing the retails

walking passing the retails

in tram, passing by bourke stret

approaching bourke street

spotting the street events

looking around bourke street

car in bourke street?

retails closing

6 MINUTE MOVIE : THE FLAT SQUARE

“

If a picture is worth of thousands words, what is a video worth of?

” http://vimeo.com/31467509

SNEAK PEEK INTO BOURKE STREET

COMPARISON OF BOURKE ST AND SWANSTON STREET DURING DAY TIME

DYNAMICS OF HUMAN FLOW BLOCKED BY TRAM...

DYNAMICS RESUMES AFTER FEW SECONDS

BOURKE LOSE ITS DYNAMICS AT NIGHT

EMPTINESS OF NIGHT BOURKE STREET

COMPARISON OF BOURKE ST AND SWANSTON STREET DURING NIGHT TIME

WHAT IS BOURKE STREET? IS IT A STREET? IS IT A SQUARE?

FLATNESS .

SQUARENESS .

DYNAMICS .

HUMAN FLOWS .

OPEN .

LIVELY . . . .

DULL .

EMPTINESS

CITY SQUARES AROUND THE WORLD

TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY

“...But Times Square is not a square. In fact, it is nothing but a glorified intersection. In this case, “square,” refers not to the foursided polygon, but the dictionary definition of an open area or plaza in a city or town, formed by the meeting or intersecting of two or more streets...”

EVENT DIAGRAM:

REDEFINING BOURKE STREET SQUARE

WHAT DEFINES THE SQUARENESS OF BOURKE? THE PAVEMENT? THE RETAIL FACADES? THE PEOPLE?

EARLY SKETCH

MODEL 1

MODEL 2

SKETCH 2

SKETCH 3

MODEL 3

SKETCH 4

MODEL 4

EVENT DIAGRAM: DAY BOURKE STREET

EVENT DIAGRAM: NIGHT BOURKE STREET

FORCED LANDSCAPE: EDGY SQUARE

HUMAN DYNAMICS IN BOURKE ST SQUARE IS HIGHLY AFFECTCED

BY TIME AND WEATHER

SKETCH 1

SKETCH 2

CONCEPTUAL DRAWING

ANCHORING TO THE SITE

FURTHER RESEARCH INTO BOURKE STREET EDGES

ZONING THE BOURKE STREET

DRAWING INSPIRATION

DAVID KUPLER

FINAL PLAN DRAWING

e d g y b o u r k e

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