CUHK Team A Design Presentation

Resilient City School of Architecture

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Advisor: HWANG, Cheng Chun Patrick Team A Members: AU, Sin Man Sophia ZHOU, Xiao Kitty CHAN, Hok Leung Joe

EXTREMITIES CHARACTERS ECOSYSTEM Responding to the extremes with innovative and comprehensive design

Shaping local character and allowing diversity

Promoting healthy lifestyle and sustainability

N

“A Resilient City is one that has developed capacities to help absorb future shocks and stresses to its social, economic, and technical systems and infrastructures so as to still be able to maintain essentially the same functions, structures, systems, and identity.�

- ResilientCity.org.

1 Sq KM

0

200

500m

RESILIENT CITY

N

LIFESTYLE sports center

Healthy community in harmony with nature ecological area

LOCAL IDENTITY

public library community center water park cultural hub

Maintain

market area

TRANSIT HUB

way of life

sewri station tourist center firm

water treatment plant waste to energy plants

factory

Restore biodiversity Grand lake as amenity heritage

financial center convention center

BUSINESS

Strengthen diversified business centers

ECOLOGY

natural education center

art museum yacht club

LEISURE

Lively and energetic waterfront

TOURISM

Regional destination with unique site character

Trans-Harbour Link To Navi Mumbai

Waterfront Promenade

WATERFRONT CONNECTION

‘State of the art’ Mumbai Metro suffers leakage due to rain in first month 2 July 2014 (WED)

FLOODING

EXTREMITIES

Monsoon Season

lasts for 4 months every year.

FLOODING

EXTREMITIES

Flooding Area

FLOODING

EXTREMITIES

Existing Drainage System

FLOODING

EXTREMITIES

MAIN STREAM

PROPOSED RIVERWAY

open space connector ecological area

flooding release

alternative transportation

natural habitat wetland

MONSOON SEASON

PROPOSED RIVERWAY

open space connector ecological area

festival parade

informal market area

natural habitat wetland

DRY SEASON

PROPOSED RIVERWAY

Traffic Congestion Road Safety

INFRASTRUCTURE

EXTREMITIES

Disconnection to Waterfront

INFRASTRUCTURE

EXTREMITIES

N

30 m

22 m

15 m

WALKABLE CITY

ROAD NETWORK

N

30 m

22 m

15 m

TRAFFIC EFFICIENCY

ROAD NETWORK

N

WATERFRONT CONNECTION

Rainwater Rainfall Filtering via filter garden / chanel / pool Supply to water tank/ treatment in unit

Stormwater Stormwater pass through filter garden/channel/pool

Blackwater Black water discharged from unit Water treatment purifing black water Purified water discharged to sea

Greywater Grey water discharge from unit Supply for irrigation

Water filter Water supply to water tank/treatment in unit

Floodingwater Flooding water flow to channel Part of water stored in dam Flooding water providing nutrients to mangrove Flooding proble relieved

CITY LEVEL

WATER SYSTEM

Enhanced water infrastructure Public lavatory Rainwater

Greywater

Flooding water

Stormwater

ARCHITECTURAL LEVEL

WATER SYSTEM

Rainwater

Stormwater

a. Highest Water recorded b. Mean High Water Spring Tides c. Mean High Water Neap Tides d. Highest Low Water e. Mean Sea Level f. Mean Low Water Neap Tides g. Mean Low Water Spring Tides h. Lowest Low Water recorded

+ 5.39 m + 4.42 m + 3.30 m + 2.74 m + 2.51 m + 1.86 m + 0.76 m - 0.46 m

a b c d e f g h

Blackwater

ARCHITECTURAL LEVEL

WATER SYSTEM

Fully occupied by water (Jul to Aug)

+4.5m

Half occupied by water (Jun and Sep) +2.5m Not occupied by water (Oct to May)

+1.5m

Festivals Collective living Strong Neighbourhood

CULTURE

CHARACTERS

Dabbawallas Street markets

DYNAMIC CITY

CHARACTERS

Recycling Industries

WORK-LIVE TOGETHER

CHARACTERS

Strong community

Work-Live together

Dynamic space

Culture and festivals Micro-economies

DYNAMIC CITY

DYNAMIC SPACE

DYNAMIC SPACE

Remaining wastes are sent to waste and energy plants for generating energy.

Work - live Recycling industries Job opportunities are provided.

Wastes collected from the city are sent to recycling industries.

waste to energy plants

Active market area

Energy is provided for the city.

wetland purification Pollutions caused by industrial activities are being purified by wetland before discharged to the sea

CREATING MICRO-ECONOMIES

WASTE TO ENERGY

Mangrove and Flamingo

ECOLOGY

ECOSYSTEM

Existing site and coastal area are being polluted by industrial activities.

POLLUTION

ECOSYSTEM

Mangrove and Flamingo

POLLUTION

ECOSYSTEM

Open space per person Mumbai = 1.58 sq m

United Nations World Food and Agriculture standard = 9 sq m

OPEN SPACE

ECOSYSTEM

Most of the existing open spaces are located at the eastern side of our site and some of them are not open to all.

OPEN SPACE

ECOSYSTEM

Living with nature and ecology healthy lifestyle

Play-Live together

INTEGRATED WITH NATURE

Infiltration garden

building | garden | building

River channel

steps | channel | steps

Pools

open space | pool | open space

Ecological zone

buffer | ecological | pool | ecological | buffer area zone zone area

Mangrove area

buffer | ecological | pool | mangrove | sea area zone

HIERARCHY OF ECOLOGICAL AREA

Existing

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

PHASES DEVELOPMENT

Ecological area in city center

Main riverway network as a connector for existing open spaces

Market area Plaza Pools in housing developments

Water theme park Playground Mangrove area

Waterfront promenade

OPEN SPACE CONNECTER

EXTREMITIES CHARACTERS ECOSYSTEM Responding to the extremes with innovative and comprehensive design

Shaping local character and allowing diversity

Promoting healthy lifestyle and sustainability

RESILIENT CITY