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More Then This Celebrating the Diversity of Landscapes

Adrian Keene S3197125

Major Project B: Concise ADR More Then This Celebrating the Diversity of Landscapes

Adrian Keene S3197125

Contents: Research Intent

Section

Theoretical Thinking

Gahnia Poa Themada

The Ominous Landscape;

Australian Film & Painting: A Problem

The Diverse Landscape; Australian Painting: A Reality

Design Iteration 03: Eucalytpus aromaphloia, Dominated Dry Sclerophyll

Key Precedents

Site Analysis: A Key Design Tool

Site: Lederderg Track, Crown

Land Reserve, Daylesford

Site: Geology

Site: Atmospheric Conditions

Site: Perceived Ecologies: Mapping

Site: Perceived Ecologies: Collage Design Iteration 01: Pinus radiata Dominated Novel Ecosystem

Diagrammed Thinking & Spatial Sections:

Variable Paths Topographic Paths Gabion Paths Intersecting Paths

Master Plan

Site Section

Design Iteration 02: Themada triandra Dominated Grassland

Grassland Master Plan Planting Design Sections 01

Gahnia Design Refinement Plan

Poa Design Refinement Plan

Themada Design Refinement Plan

Planting Design Collage &

Dry Sclerophyll Master Plan

Plant Colonisation Barrier 01: Double Acacia dealbata Hedge

Planting Colonisation Barrier 02: Acacia melanoxylon Hedge

Pathway Iterations: Sections and Key Spatial Conditions

Closed Roads: Planting Succession Overtime

Design Iteration 04: Eucalytpus viminalis & rubida Dominated Wet Sclerophyll

Wet Sclerophyll Master Plan

Gabion Details

Cutaway Path Details

Key Spatial Moment

Bibliography

Research Intent: How can landscape architecture be employed to broaden our perceptions of the Australian landscape, moving beyond a commonly held notion of ominous beauty, to incorporate and then celebrate the diversity of landscapes that exist within the culturally and environmentally unique continent of Australia?

Considering James Corner’s musings in Representation and Landscape, landscapes generate a strong and immersive spatial experience, filling the senses with stimulation and offering us a dynamic interface for engaging with the world.

Problematically the Australian landscape has been troubled by a cultural perception as an ominous beauty, cruel and unforgiving, harsh and bleak, reflected in many popular Australian films, such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, Wolf Creek, Snow Town, Jindabyne, Lantana, and in the paintings of Sidney Nolan, and Arthur Boyd.

More Then This, seeks to challenge this cultural perception, through a series of design stages. Initially a detailed analytical understanding site (a large section of crown land in Daylesford, Central Victoria), provides the foundations for defining and identifying the diversity that exists within the landscape.

4 iterative design proposals, capitalize on the information gained through the analysis, each generating different designs in response to the unique characteristics of the over arching ecology (as defined by the dominant plant species). Within these initial design responses the ambition is to emphasise different spatial and ecological conditions. Highlighting the difference between each

space and dually, generating new approaches to environmental conservation as apposed to the freeze frame approach of tradition revegetation, as Emma Marris highlights in Rambunctious Garden, the need to reconsider our approach to environmental conservation is paramount to protecting our biodiversity.

Within each of these four key ecological responses, accessibility through pathways and strategic design interventions are incorporated, compliment and amplifying the spatial experiences of the initial work, and setting up a carefully choreographed journey that moves users through the site, framing key moments and emphasising the mosaic like diversity of the site.

Building on these 4 initial responses, More Then This will compare and test each proposal on site and through drawings, with the intention of producing a design proposal for the entire site. The result will be a detailed and fine-tuned design, emphasising and choreographing a celebration of the diversity that is the Australian Landscapes.

Theoretical Thinking

The Ominous Landscape; Australian Film & Painting: A Problem

Picnic At Hanging Rock (1.23) (1.24)

Jindabyne (1.31)

Snowtown (1.26)

Wolf Creek (1.28) (1.29) (1.30)

‘The Hunter I’, Arthur Boyd, 1944

‘Inland Australia’, Sidney Nolan, 1950

The Diverse Landscape; Australian Painting: A Reality

‘Kozioscko and the Murray Flats at Towong’, Eric Thake, 1932

Fern Gully, In the Dandenong Ranges, Eugene Von Guerard, 1857

‘Girl in Forest- Mount Macedon’, Fredrick McCubbin, 1913

Ricketts Point, Beaumaris’, Charles Conder, 1890

‘Land of the Golden Fleece’, Arthur Streeton 1926

‘Pyrmont Power Station, Darling Harbour’, Rah Fizelle c.1935

Key Precedents; Contemporary Landscape Architecture: A Set of Tools

Existing Habitats

Phase One

Phase Two

Phase Three

Phase Four

Mature Biomatrix

Field Operations: Effortless Detail

Teresa Moller: Planned Moments

SLA: Contextual Contrast

Gilles Clement: Jardin en Movement

Site Analysis: A Key Design Tool

‘Before doing anything, you need to be aware of what is there and what that place wants you to do. I think it’s really the most important thing. It is something that one cannot overlook.’- Teresa Moller (2.12)

Site: Lederderg Track, Crown Land Reserve, Daylesford

CBD

Lake Daylesford

Site

Located, approximately 115 kilometers North-West of Melbourne, Daylesford is best know for it’s mineral springs, and Queer History.

Melbourne

Less well known is it’s unique geological and ecological positioning, siting roughly at the junction between, Wet Sclerophyll Forest sitting on rich volcanic soils, and dry Box-Iron Bark Forests based on skeletal grey clays.

Becuase of its diverse community and unique environmental characteristics, a large tract of crown land to the south west of the CBD was selected as the testing ground for new modes of engaging people with their environment and environmental conservation.

Jubilee Lake

Site: Geology Site Geology

Site Boundry

Skeletal Grey Clay Soil Lake Daylesford

Slope Gradients Steep

Transitional Transitional Soils Soils

Rich Volcanic Soil Flat

Lake Jubilee

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Scale: 1:75,000 @ AO

Site: Atmospheric Conditions Ambient Air Tempreture +5 +4 +3 +2 +1

Site Boundry O Degrees Difference -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 Strong Wind Chill Minimal Wind Chill Shade Patterns No Erosion Minimal Erosion Moderate Erosion Heavy Erosion Dry Mixed Forest Damp Mixed Forest Wet Mixed Forest

Skeletal Grey50/50 ClayIndigenous/ Soil Exotic Forest 75/25 Indigenous/ Exotic Forest 25/75 Indigenous/ Exotic Forest No Mow Bracken Thicket Radiata Pine Forest

Paddock Mowed Land Transitional Soils Cleared Land

Transitional Soils

Wet Remnant Sclerophyll Forest Damp Remnant Sclerophyll Forest Moderately Damaged Remnant Sclerophyll Forest Heavily Damaged Remnant Sclerophyll Forest Dry Remnant Sclerophyll Forest

Rich Volcanic Soil

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Scale: 1:75,000 @ AO

Site: Perceived Ecologies Mapping

Pinus Radiata, Dominated Ecologies

Percived Ecologies Novel Ecosystems Low Level Erosion Minimal Erosion Moderate Level Erosion High Level Erosion Braken Thicket No Mow Wet Mixed Woodland

Eucalyptus aromaphloia, Dominated Ecologies

Damp Mixed Woodland Dry Mixed Woodland

Themada triandra, Dominated Ecologies

50/50 Mixed Indigenous/ Exotic Forest 25/75 Mixed Indigenous/ Exotic Forest 75/25 Mixed Indigenous Forest Radiata Pine Forest

Maintained Landscapes Cleared Land Mowed Paddock Indigenous Flora Landscapes Wet Remnant Eucalypt Forest Damp Remnant Eucalypt Forest Dry Remnant Eucalypt Forest Moderately Degraded Eucalypt Forest Heavily Degraded Eucalypt Forest

Lake Jubilee

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Eucalyptus rubida/ viminalis, Dominated Ecologies

Site: Perceived Ecologies Collages

25/75% Indigenous/ Exotic Plant Mix

50/50% Indigenous/ Exotic Plant Mix

75/25% Indigenous/ Exotic Plant Mix

No Erosion

Minimal Erosion

Moderate Erosion

Site: Perceived Ecologies Collages

Dry Mixed Forest

Damp Mixed Forest

Wet Mixed Forest

Heavy Erosion

Bracken Thicket

Radiata Pine Forest

Site: Perceived Ecologies Collages

Dry Remnant Sclerophyll Forest

Damp Remnant Sclerophyll Forest

Wet Remnant Sclerophyll Forest

No-Mow

Mowed Land

Paddock

Site: Perceived Ecologies Collages

Heavily Damaged Remnant Forest

Moderately Damaged Remnant Forest

Cleared Land

Defining Each Ecology* Defining what an ecology is composed of, and where one starts and another begins, is an extremely difficult and laborious task. Requiring vast amounts of data, time and historical information, for an accurate definition to be created.

The ecologies defined and outlined here, through collage, plan, and later analytical mappings, are intended to provide an insight into the different spatial arrangements, experienced on the site, and their perceptions by people.

Initially, Close to Me, did attempt to quantify the different ecologies in a similar framework to the D.S.E

and their use of EVC’s to define and manage landscapes.

However after reading The Rambunctious Garden, by Emma Marris, it became clear, that to don the hat of an ecologist, and attempt to use the experiential and observational information from the site to quantify the ecologies outlined here, was foolish and dangerous.

As a project on Landscape Architecture, to try and grabble with ecologies, and the preservation of species is a pointless exercise, considering how ill equipped we are to tackle such issues compared to scientists. Instead Landscape

architects should focus on the experiential and spatial elements of the landscape, figuring out what these are on a physical level, and how we can design with these, to generate a more engaging landscape experience.

In doing so surely a landscape in active use is more likely to survive development then a derelict and under utilized landscape, regardless of its conservation value? *For a detailed break down of the phyiscal characteristics and key plant list, refere to the Appendix, section: Break Down of Percieved Ecologies

Design Iteration 01: Pinus radiata Dominated, Novel Ecosystem

Diagrammed Thinking: Variable Paths

Delta-Esque Paths

Distributes People

Minimises Impact of Foot TrafďŹ c Facilitates Informal Interaction

Site Specifc

AmpliďŹ es Existing Qualities

Illustrates Thinking of Site

x2 Variation of Path Widths

Creates Different Spatial Qualites Facilitates Different Means of Engagement

Curved Paths

Reduces Line of Site

Removes the Anthropologic

Hightens the Unkown

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Spatial Section: Variable Paths

2000mm width

500mm width

250mm width

End Node

Scale: 1:75 @ A3 Landscape

Diagrammed Thinking: Vegetative Paths

Defines EVC

Records EVC Boundary

Quantifies Vegetation

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Physical Barrier

Inhibits ‘Invasives’

Inhibits Spread of EVC

Allows for Exploration

Creates Tangible Spaces

Illustrates Thinking of Site

Importance of Paths

Minimises Impact of Foot Traffic Maximises Impact of Foot Traffic Concentrates Human Activity

Site Specifc

Spatial Section: Vegetative Paths

Scale: 1:100 @ A3 Landscape

Diagrammed Thinking: Topographic Paths

Dry Heat

Cool Shade

IdentiďŹ es Topographic Variation

Emphasises Gullies

Empahsises Ridges

DeďŹ ning Contours

Multiple Spatial Experiences

Open Spaces

Intimate Spaces

Comparative Spaces

Denies The Anthropologic

Look Outs

Tunnel Vision

Site Specifc

Structures Site

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Spatial Section: Topographic Paths

Scale: 1:100 @ A3 Landscape

Line Work: Diagrammed Thinking: Gabion Paths

Multiple Paths in One

Centralized Path

Dispersive Path

Departure Points

Working With Hydrology

Redistributes Water Flow

Slows Water Velocity

Minimise Erosion

New Oppertunities

Reinforces the Anthropologic

Emphasises Gullies

Site Specifc

Creates a Seperation from Site

Removes Existing Creek Bed

Minimises Impact of Foot TrafďŹ c

Line Work: Spatial Section: Gabion Path

Scale: 1:100 @ A3 Landscape

Diagrammed Thinking: Intersecting Path

Redistribution of Water

Slows Water Velocity

Minimises Erosion

Intersecting Topography

Amplifies Gradients

Indetifies Gradient Change

Cross Section of Vegetation

Allows quantifiable comparisons Covers Some, Not All, Vegetation

New Opertunities for Plants

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20% 10%

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Domineering

Creates strong Line of site

Reinforces the Anthropologic

Not Site Specific in Approach

Spatial Section: Intersecting Path

Scale: 1:100 @ A3 Landscape

+10 Year EVC Boundary

+20 Year EVC Boundary

+30 Year EVC Boundary

People Movement

Gravel Paths

Gabion Paths

Topographic Lines

Legend:

Existing EVC Boundary Scale: 1:1000

Skeletal Grey Clay Soil

Transitional Soils

Rich Volcanic Soil

Transitional Soils

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Scale: 1:1,000 @ AO Landscape

Master Plan

Section Line

Line Work: Site Section

Scale: 1:100 @ AO Landscape

Design Iteration 02: Themada triandra Dominated Grassland

Legend Ambient Air Tempreture Cooler Then Average

Hotter Then Average

Pimelea linifolia

Planting List Daviesia latifolia Acacia implexa Acacia dealbata Acacia melanoxylon Tetratheca ciliata Hovea linearis Microlena stipoides Austrodanthonia spp.

Austrostipa ramosissima Themada triandra Poa sieberiana Lomandra longifolia Dianella revoluta Arthropodium strictum Arthropodium milleorum Chrysocephylum semipapposum Acaena novea-hollandea Stylidum gramminifolium Gahnia spp.

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10m Topographic Lines Existing Pathways Wind Movement 5m Grid (For Sense of Scale) Detail Plan Outline and Section Line Intial Planting Sections

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Themada Detail Plan

Grassland Plan

Grassland Master Plan

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Gahnia Detail Plan

Poa Detail Plan

Planting Design Sections 01

Planting Design Sections 01

Gahnia Detail

Gahnia Planting Design Refinement Plan

Legend Themada triandra Poa labrillarderi Gahnia sieberiana Carex spp.

Dianella revoluta Arthropdium strictum Stylidium gramminifolia Aceana novea-hollandea Chrysocephylum semipapposum

Craspedia glauca Dillwynia cinerascens Acacia implexa Coprosma quadrifolia Bursaria spinosa Goodenia ovata Acacia melanoxylon 10m Contour Scale: 1:100

Poa Detail

Poa Planting Design Refinement Plan

Themada Detail

Themada Planting Design Refinement Plan

Gahnia Planting Design Collage

Gahnia Planting Design Section

Poa Planting Design Collage

Poa Planting Design Section

Themada Planting Design Collage

Themada Planting Design Section

Design Iteration 03: Eucalyptus aromaphloia Dominated Dry Sclerophyll

Dry Sclerophyll Analytical Plan

Legend

10m Topographic Lines

Key Pedestrian Movement

Direction of growth by: Ulex europaeus Pinus radiata Spartium junceum Cytisus scoparius Rubus fruticosus aggregate Roads for removal (for erosion control)

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Atmospheric Conditions Hot, Dry, Open

Cool, Damp, Shaded

Car Accessable Roads

Acacia dealbata Hedge Path Iterations

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Key Ecologies

Dry Sclerophyll Forest Grassland Riparian Scrub

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Riparian Focus Revegetation

Revegetation 02 Intuitive Paths

Grassland Focus Revegetation

01 Intersecting Paths

03 Mid-Way Paths

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Scale: 1:1,000

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Dry Sclerophyll Analytical Design Plan

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Plant Colonisation Barrier 01: Double Acacia dealbata Hedge

Novel Ecosytem: Radiata Pine Dominated Mosaic

Barrier 01

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Dry Sclerophyll: Grassy Woodland

No Man’s Land

owth of Known Invasive Plants: Ulex europaeus Pinus radiata Spartium junceum Cytisus scoparius Rubus fruticosus aggregate

Barrier 02

Plant Colonisation Barrier 02: Acacia melanoxylon Hedge

Dry Sclerophyll: Grassy Woodland

Barrier 01.a Incline

Barrier 01 Acacia melanoxylon Hedge

Novel Ecosystem: Grassland Mosaic

Barrier 01.b Flat

Growth of Known Pest Plants: Oxalis pes-caprae Romulea rosea Rubus fruticosus aggregate Pennisetum clandestinum

Pathway Iterations: Section-Plan and Key Spatial Conditions

Dry Sclerophyll Forest in Spring

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C3

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Pathway Iterations: Section-Plan and Key Spatial Conditions

Entering the Dry Sclerophyll Forest

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Pathway Iterations: Section-Plan and Key Spatial Conditions

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Leaving the Dry Sclerophyll Forest

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Closed Roads: Plant Succession Over Time Removed Pathways

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5 Years

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Design Iteration 04: Eucalyptus viminalis & rubida Dominated Wet Sclerophyll

Flat Poor Soil Stability 10m Topograhy Lines Ecology: Riparian Planting: Pomaderris aspera Coprosma quadrifolia Bursaria spinosa Clematis arista Indigofera australis Acacia melanoxylon Acacia dealbata Solanum laciniatum Pimelea axiora Olearia argophylla Bedfordia arborescens Melicytus dentatus Eucalyptus viminalis Eucalyptus rubida Prostanthera lasianthos* Correa lawrenciana* Wet Scelrophyll Pinus radiata Forests

Scale: 1:1000

Planting Details

10m Grid

Path and Road Network Gabion Details

1m Contours for Cut Out Path

Gabions

Movement of People

Pathways: Wind Direction in Train Line Cut Out

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WetSclerophyll Sclerophyll PlanPlan Wet Master

Geology: Topographic Gradient

Legend Steep

Key Spatial Moments (Work In Progress)

01 Cut Away Path

02 Creek and Path Detail

Key Spatial Moments (Work In Progress)

04 Gabion Steps

03 Comparison of Revegetation and Existing Vegetation

Key Spatial Moments (Work In Progress)

05 Afternoon in the Forest

05 Summer at the Lake

Gabion Details (Work In Progress)

Gabion and Lake Detail

Gabion and Creek Detail

Gabion Details (Work In Progress)

Gabion and Path Detail

Gabion and Picnic Area Detail

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Cut In Pathway Exploration

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Sections Scale: 1:750

Cut Away Path Details

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