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My conspiracy is that with the initiation of the ‘Macaulay Structure Plan 2021’ and the ‘Arden Macaulay Precinct Flood Management Strategy 2021’, the City of Melbourne and Melbourne Water have colluded to further develop within flood zones in order to further line their coffers, benefiting only those not at risk. ‘The Moonee Ponds Creek Strategic Opportunities Plan 2019’ and the ‘Good Design Guide For Buildings In Flood Affected Areas In Fishermans Bend, Arden And Macaulay 2021’ further distorts the truth in the attempt to elicit public approval, further subjugating those already established in these precincts. I am immediately drawn to Stubbs Street within the Macaulay precinct, whose developed rear is pressed firmly to the Moonee Ponds Creek, only reinforced by a high levee at its edge disconnecting any access or engagement, despite what the ‘Plans’ suggest. Stubbs Street was the former location for a bend of the Moonee Ponds Creek. In spite of the realignment, the creek still regularly breaches the levee to reclaim its territory. With all the might of the MMBW (CityWide now managing) and their industrialised interventions of pump stations littered across the low-lying precinct, the urbanised creep to the creek’s edge has only reinforced Macaulay’s containment as a pond, a now paved Moonee Creek Pond. The conspiracy of flood inevitability is reinforced, buried but breaching the surface, with extensive pipework haphazardly implemented in hasty greed to prevent any suspicion that developments underway could at all put surrounding existing sites at risk, propogating as much development as possible before an event could unpick its lack of nuance. Flood prevention is not actually a thing exclusive from storm-water drainage limitations. A solution is hidden within an acceptance of site, and the opposite of prevention that is being peddled. Inundation and integration is key through performative flooding. In Macaulay’s attempt to follow the history of Melbourne erasing its landscape and history, uniquely and unequivocally Melbourne, it serves as an original mixed-use zone with workers cottages supplanted between industries. It has been subject to rapid evolutions of brick, to concrete, to commercial glass facades, all as elevated flat walls demarcating the generated space but devoid of sensory depth and interchange. Juhani Pallasmaa’s ‘The eyes of the skin’ evokes an ideal that instead of limiting architecture to a 2D elevated plane of the visual sense, exchange the role of the body as the locus of perception that integrates us with space, “peripheral [perception] envelops us in the flesh of the world.” In order for this solution to be embraced, the building must become a didactic exemplar whose gestures connect built form with the ground level retention through haptic relief. These are referenced from existing local urban anomolies, binding the building to its context and reassuring its inhabitants its understanding of place. This promotes a sense of identity through intensification and potency, while allowing a weighted shift and reorrient toward respect for the creek that sits both adjacent and beneath. The architecture suggested here is a hypersensitive tactile erosion of the planar wall and the street platform which performs in the interim time rather than in the snapshot of a catastrophe.
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STUBBS STREET SURVEY PLAN - WITHIN A FLOOD BOWL
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Reconstructing the environmental history of an urban landscape provides a window into the interaction of natural and social processes through time. This kind of history can be gleaned from historical documents, especially maps and photographs, from verbal descriptions, and from landscapes themselves. Studying environmental is depicted as a sinuous watercourse with change over time helps foster an understanding of urban scription of the creek given by Westgarth in landscapes as dynamic. It shows how natural processes ddle..."These 'Ponds', as they are called, MOONEE PONDS CREEK PROGRESSIONAL STRAIGHTENING are significant agents in urban development, and how to Melbourne, a genuine specimen of
Aerial imagery of Moonee Ponds Creek before and after the alterations to mitigate storm flooding.
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MOONEE PONDS CREEK REALIGNMENT AND CONSEQUENCE
Were startled when without warning, a great volume of muddy water burst into their homes and rose four feet in 15 minutes. A panic alarm is raised that the earthen bank had given way. But the bank had not burst, the flood waters having actually poured over the top of the levee. Women rushed from their houses with their children and struggled waist deep in swirling water. Husbands hastened to get their wives and children to higher ground. Many people leaped from beds into three feet of water. Others were terrified to find water suddenly sweeping over the bed clothes. The roar of the flood in the canal added to the panic. On the other side of the bank the avalanche of water cascaded directly into two terraces of wooden houses in Bent Street and Stubbs Street. Within 20 minutes it rose so high the occupants who had not been able to escape were forced first to take refuge on the window sills and later to climb on to the roofs of their verandahs.
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Moonee Ponds Creek existing levee and pump station behind Stubbs Street separating any pedestrian connection.
Flemington 2022 impact due to 2007 levee wall introduction. PROPOSED LEVEE RAISING BY MELBOURNE WATER
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Raising the street to new developments subjects existing adjacencies to inundation. How is this a practical solution?
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Figure 16: The City of Port Phillip is planning to integrate public realm raising with a delivery of a linear park in Montague Precinct, Fishermans Bend.
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Understanding Floor Area Ratio controls These diagrams explain the concept of FARs and how application of the control can result in different building types. For example, a FAR of 4:1 allows for a total floor area up to four times the size of the site itself. This could be up to four storeys if 100 per cent of the site’s area is developed (see example 1) or eight storeys if only half the site’s area is developed. FARs do not include basement levelsFloor and are toRatio be calculated Understanding Area controls from finished floor levels. These diagrams explain the concept of FARs and how application of the control can result in different building For larger a FAR combined with other types. For sites, example, a FAR of 4:1 allows for a built totalform floor controls allows for variety in the massing, height and area up to four times the size of the site itself. This could shape of four buildings, enabling a more driven be up to storeys if 100 per cent context of the site’s area response that(see can example better manage amenity impacts, is developed 1) or eight storeys if only whilethe also enabling delivery of newdo streets and open half site’s area isthe developed. FARs not include spaces. This will help to ensure that the future street basement levels and are to be calculated from finished network is better connected and supports walking and floor levels. cycling in the area (see example 2). For larger sites, a FAR combined with other built form controls allows for variety in the massing, height and Figure 2: An example of a 4:1 Floor Area Ratio control shape of buildings, enabling a more context driven response that can better manage amenity impacts, while also enabling the delivery of new streets and open spaces. This will help to ensure that the future street network is better connected and supports walking and cycling in the area (see example 2).
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SUBJECT SITE SET WITHIN PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT EXTENTS
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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LEVEL 1 PLAN
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LEVEL 2 PLAN
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SITE & ROOF TERRACE PLAN
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WEST ELEVATION - HUMAN SCALE INFERENCE
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Ocularcentrism to disrupt rather than make frontal ontology fixed
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SOUTH ELEVATION - TILT STUBBS ELEVATION AND VISUAL POROSITY TOWARD AND ENVELOP THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE TO SOLIDIFY ADOPTION
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NORTH ELEVATION
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Melbourne Pavilion - Racecourse Road
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Mark Street
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