Landscape Architecture 2013

2013 Landscape Architecture Final Year Studio Never Stand Still

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Message from the Dean Professor Alec Tzannes Dean UNSW Built Environment I congratulate all the students who have completed their degree at UNSW Built Environment and now become our alumni.

This catalogue conveys through selected study themes and projects from our final year studios something about the unique student experience at UNSW Built Environment along with the outstanding skills of our students and academic staff.

UNSW Built Environment is a knowledge leader in the design, delivery and management of the C21st city and its elements. Our research is directly relevant to the development of knowledge within built environment professions and underpins our curriculum. Embedded in the curriculum are core values centered on the thinking and practices required to deliver sustainable urban environments of deep cultural value. Design education in all of its forms, including evidence-based design processes is at the centre of our degrees. This is complemented by the development of discipline knowledge with interdisciplinary design and research orientated projects.

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These projects align with advanced contemporary practices in industry, ensuring that as graduating students you are at the forefront of the built environment professions as innovators and leaders.

This year celebrated the establishment of our new school structure comprising ASA+D, the Australian School of Architecture and Design, and AGSU, the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism. ASA+D is the most comprehensive built environment school in Australia with a complete range of undergraduate and postgraduate professional degrees.

ASA+D’s sister school, AGSU, is tailored to post-professional study.

AGSU is the research engine of the Faculty and was created to fill the gap in the number of leading thinkers on urban issues. This is an exciting time to be part of the UNSW Built Environment community.

I wish every graduate a successful and satisfying career. In many respects, our relationship is just beginning. As you travel the world through your work you will meet many alumni and make special bonds of lasting value.

We look forward to your ongoing participation in the life of our university and the mutual benefits this brings.

“ I WISH EVERY GRADUATE A SUCCESSFUL AND SATISFYING CAREER. IN MANY RESPECTS, OUR RELATIONSHIP IS JUST BEGINNING. AS YOU TRAVEL THE WORLD THROUGH YOUR WORK YOU WILL MEET MANY ALUMNI AND MAKE SPECIAL BONDS OF LASTING VALUE.”

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Message from the Program Director Associate Professor Linda Corkery

The exhibition, Emergence, and this accompanying catalogue celebrate the accomplishments of students in the 2013 Graduating Studio of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture program.

Over their fourth and final year, these students have engaged in a twosemester investigation of the Gosford central business district and its environs.

During the first half of the year, Catherine Evans laid the foundation for the studio, introducing the students to the complex environmental, social and economic challenges facing this Central Coast city with the assistance of Jessica Hodge and Mark Tyrrell.

Working in small teams, these initial investigations generated detailed regional site analyses along with an understanding of contemporary urban design theory. This led to master plan proposals and detailed precinct plans for selected areas of Gosford.

In Semester 2, the group projects provided the framework within which students selected a site, formulated design questions and project briefs for an individual design investigation.

We were privileged to work with two studio partners this year: Clouston Associates and Oculus Landscape Architects. Chris Tidswell from Clouston; and Roger Jasprizza, Ben Nacard, Jessica Hodge and Rosie Krauss from Oculus, joined us in studio, guiding students as they advanced their individual project concepts. Students also had the opportunity to rotate through half-day sessions in the two offices for design tutorials. This is a unique tutoring arrangement for the BLArch Grad Studio and one that proves to work very well for everyone involved.

We also acknowledge the important contribution of Philip Coxall, Director, McGregor+Coxall Landscape Architects, our 2013 External Examiner.

In that role, Philip has reviewed each student’s project design report and met individually with them to discuss their project and assess their preparedness for professional practice.

The projects conceived and developed by our senior students reflect the range of contemporary issues with which landscape architects engage in practice, such as: remaking urban landscapes, renaturing post-industrial sites for new public open space, revealing and restoring urban ecologies, accommodating infill for residential and commercial activity, promoting bushland preservation and urban agriculture.

The work presented herein demonstrates the UNSW Landscape Architecture Program’s commitment to assist each student in developing individual creative capacity and technical acumen, establishing an ethical stance on contemporary issues and, importantly, envisioning themselves as effective agents in the creation of built environments that enhance quality of life.

Congratulations to the 2013 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture graduands on their achievements and best wishes for continued success and a personally rewarding career in Landscape Architecture.

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2013 Group Projects

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Stevie Medcalf Rosy Porter Helen Rogers Lorena Mulet Catalysing a Future City Gosford VISION: The Gosford Regional City Master Plan will activate Gosford as a vibrant, connected and environmentally minded city where people live, work, play and visit. Gosford of 2030 will undertake a multifaceted approach; environmental, economic and social.

It will return to an understanding of its landscape setting and systems which have underpinned its suitability for inhabitation for thousands of years.

It will be economically viable through three key industries; arts, education and health. Finally, it will prioritise extensive public domain networks and spaces which will improve connectivity and legibility for local and regional users.

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STRATEGY: Over the next 10 years multiple catalyst projects will be undertaken at a variety of scales targeting network, public space, key buildings and developments and program initiatives. This will set in motion an activation of both the periphery and the city core.

AT A LOCAL & REGIONAL SCALE: The catalyst projects enable a targeted investment in the city and at its periphery which will enable a number of mixed-use neighbourhoods to emerge over the following 20 years. These will have distinct characters, buildings, spaces and will be connected through pedestrian and cycle ways to the city core. The strengthening of key industries, transport networks, mix-use neighbourhoods and the development of regional attractions, such as, a regional parkland combined with an arts/ cultural centre will enable Gosford to grow into the Regional City which it has been designated.

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Visualisation of intrinsic landscape qualities Mann Street Catalyst implementation Library Catalyst implementation Donnison Street Catalyst implementation Phased approach to urban design implementation

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Jeremy Malgras Erik Hodge

Cross-Pollinated Energy Our vision for the revitalization of Gosford City Centre denotes a Permeable Urban Core with seamless landuse continuity, supported by socially and ecologically integrated system of open space infrastructure. This concept of Permeability is also upheld by a morphology of critically relevant building typologies.

The concept of “Cross-Pollinated Energy” was born from the experience of Gosford’s city centre as a decaying, lifeless mix of poorly articulated public domain and outdated architecture which left its major road- Mann Street (part of the Pacific Highway) void of activity and human energy. Our Masterplan reorganises the urban morphology through the idea that cross-complimenting precincts, programmed services and demographic attractions would perpetuate intra-city circulation and re-invigorate Mann Street with pedestrian energy which would lead

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to a stronger association with circulation patterns and ultimately, reinstate identity in the urban core.

Key moves in the restructuring of Gosford’s urban grain and the public domain is our creation of a very strong East-West thoroughfare, which bisects the city in contradiction of its otherwise North-South orientation. This links Gosford’s regionally significant Hospital in the North-West with the medical services in the East of the city.

Evident also is the informal system of public domain which crosses the linear Mann Street at several critical points. A consequent example of the resulting typology is the new town square – a high-energy point with strong identity in Gosford’s new urban form.

Ultimately this new energy transforms the city from a lifeless regional centre to a dominant, highly active city for the central coast.

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Perspective montage of town square Urban Design Layers Cross polinated energy principle City core Masterplan Precinct plan

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Shijie Chan Yuan Fang Rattaphong Jianthanakanon Ian Ka Hin Tse ‘Interconnections’ – Gosford City Master Plan Proposal The goal of the project was to develop Gosford city centre into a regional city that offers the opportunities to compete with the city of Sydney.

The way this was realised was through the strengthening of the city’s infrastructure to define a central commercial core, which was done through connecting the western half of Gosford to Mann Street: the main commercial axis of Gosford. The connection was conceived in the form of a large scale ‘super structure’, which was conceptually a land bridge with multiple layers offering different uses such as serving as a commercial hub or a transit hub. The move of the connection also created a secondary

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axis in Donnison Street, which itself connects to the Bluetongue Stadium, a strong attraction to Gosford.

The last big moves were the designation of residential blocks toward the north-east and southwest of the city. These residential blocks were placed at locations such that local residents can access major landmarks in the design with relative ease – such as workers at the Gosford Central Coast Regional Hospital can opt to live within a ten minute walking distance via the residential blocks to the north-east, while the south-western residential blocks offered movement on the axis of Donnison Street.

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The master plan of the design, with designed building blocks highlighted.

Conceptual montage of the south-western large field area.

Conceptual montage showing the residential avenues at the south-western residential blocks.

The concept of the ‘super structure’ in relation to the surroundings.

Conceptual montage of a courtyard within the north-eastern residential blocks.

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Edwina Morris Thomas Cormoreche Alex Georgouras Michael Polifrone Lateral Motion Situated on major transport networks and framed by a stunning natural landscape, Gosford disappoints in its role as regional city for the central coast. Its built fabric is fragmented and its pedestrian experience dysfunctional.

During development of the masterplan for Gosford, investigations into the city’s grid network uncovered desire lines for growth in the public domain. These points of energy formed the foundation of a new street hierarchy which unifies the city through east-west connections, breaks down barriers for pedestrian movement, engages the valley topography, and creates a spatially coherent city.

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train station. The Kibble Park axis crosses the rail line and arrives at a new town hall which borrows its grandeur from the landscape, looking down to the city and across to the spectacular vista of Brisbane Waters. The train station axis acts as catalyst for a new transport interchange, where the built form explores ruptures in the city grid, injecting energy and richness into the urban fabric.

At broader temporal scales the masterplan proposes a University campus and connecting tram network as a reinforcement of the east-west growth corridors. The campus’ arrangement takes in the grid by mirroring the street hierarchy within the city core, yet positioning it in a bush land setting to create a rich contrast to the urban experience.

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Gosford City Centre Aerial Kibble Park Civic Plaza Civic Precinct Lateral Motion Masterplan

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Hongjie Lin Rebecca Ka Yan Lo Jonny Nguyen Cloris Jiahui Wang Multimodal Neighbourhood Multimodal Neighbourhood offers Gosford a new identity as a regional city of the central coast and a destination known to national and international visitors, a mutual vision we share with the people of Gosford. Our Masterplan will change Gosford from being a symbolic pathway into a node for the greater region and transform Gosford into a vibrant city of unique social and environmental quality with a higher recognition.

Our vision is to achieve a “walkable sustainable urban village district” that attracts residence, workers and visitors, provide new public domains and precincts for allowing diverse use and connection, while enhancing appreciation towards existing geographical condition and preserving the existing heritage scale. Visitor Village, Creative Village, Civic Village and Business Village link the multiple uses

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of every corner with local landmarks and attractions.

Each centre will be having enough facilities to selfsustain, therefore turning Gosford into a walkable city We believe Gosford needs a ‘new skin’ of street and road network. This not does not mean stripping the existing but to upgrade and configure the physical form in ways that it would address the principles of new urbanism. A ‘second skin’ layer will enchant and crystalize the concept by redevelop vacant lots and buildings into public domains and revitalize underuse and unpleasant streets into more vibrant and pedestrian friendly network. Our proposal will create urban villages simultaneously across Gosford and certainly prepare the city to adapt to a great new change to become a destination to live, work and engage.

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Bird’s Eye View of Multimodal Neighbourhood 5 minutes community & Village Programs Activate Streetscape Creative Village Detail Plan Art & Culture Exchange Hub

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Matthew Drury Michael Longworth Steven Masters Ross Mills Nexus Gosford’s city centre has long sat stagnating with little human or commercial activity. It sits dormant for the majority of the day, with large, unsightly car parks reserved for Sydney commuters dominating much of the ground and skyline. In order to reverse this trend and create a brighter future foAAr the city, Fluid Interchange proposes moving Gosford’s train station 200 metres south to the site of the current Gosford city car park, to create a new public transport hub with a stronger connection to the city’s waterfront and bushland. This new transport hub will become a vibrant, ecological and water sensitive, civic space that will re-activate the commercial core of the city.

The impervious nature of the site and needs of commuters led to the investigation of the sites hydrological values, movement, circulation and porosity.

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The hydrological flows of the site and surrounding areas drove the design process, creating porous interventions where humans and water can move through the space effortlessly. Organising these spaces for water and humans to move efficiently, enabled the establishment of larger planted areas where original flora and fauna can reclaim space that they once occupied and share it with the more recent inhabitants, humans.

Creating a stage for the sites original ecological and hydrological systems to flourish will ensure that this underperforming city centre can be reborn. Fluid interchange will demonstrate how a synthesis of urban and natural systems can create a high performance civic space for Gosford.

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The new Gosford interchange Proposed Train Plaza north of Baker Street Axonometric view of Baker Street The Transit Precinct Masterplan of Gosford’s new civic space and interchange

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Wen Yu Kee Connie Ye Yin Xin Patricia Feary Dina Papadopoulos Retrofitted for the future A journey through Gosford’s past, and present takes us to the future where Gosford’s heart lies in the new social realm. As a regional city of Global Sydney, Gosford offers a waterfront location with the potential to provide amenity, self-containment and liveability to the whole region. Its city centre, its heart offers a destination for a diverse cultural community that is vibrant, safe, healthy and sustainable.

Our design proposal for Gosford City Centre looks at integrating historical landscape and cultural significant elements urban fabric into the Gosford CBD. The strategy involved two key retrofitting strategies. The first strategy is to retrofit the existing urban fabric back into its historical

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landscape by daylighting a buried creek. The group’s big move serves not only to reactivate Gosford’s waterfront, but also reconnects the local community to their historical landscape. The second strategy looks retrofitting culturally significant urban public streetscapes including the key move of reactivating the spine of Gosford City, Mann Street. This strategy recognises the needs of social programming for Anzac Day marches, the country women’s association bake off, and improves the city’s walkability. Retrofitting Gosford has the vision to create a strong sense of place and identity, thoughtful of the community’s needs and retrofitted to connect the heart with the soul of Gosford.

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Group Masteplan Montage of Daylighted Creek Section showing urban edge to daylighted creek Montage of partially pedestrianised Mann Street Section showing new building typologlies along Mann Street

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Thomas Smith Thomas Walker Claira Kratochvil Lewis Haig Revitalising a decaying City Gosford is a city in decline, a place that had lost relevance within its region through its urban decay, where the city streets are littered with derelict buildings and closed shops. This decay can be traced back to the cities economic decline in the late 90’s. Throughout the Central Coast region, Gosford has gradually lost its commercial prosperity, in particular the development of Erina Fair along with the heavily commercialised beach villages of Terrigal and Avoca. This has resulted in Gosford losing its ability to attract consumers, which inturn has led to the demise of the cities’ commercial core. This economic decline has led to Gosford becoming an unproductive centre.

As a group we sought to revitalise Gosford into a more viable and self-sufficient city. On a Regional Scale Gosford city lacks cultural and recreational services that are often essential characteristics of regional cities. The city offers no charisma, no sense of place that is consistent or obvious.

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Our design heavily focuses on developing a thriving regional city, which encompassed a prosperous city-working environment. A place where most people from the Central Coast area have the ability to work, live and raise a family, a Gosford that is economically sustainable. We sought to achieve this through focusing on a strong business district across two Mann St blocks that would foster private business investment. A district of medium rise office blocks that could retain the 25% of workers who leave the city everyday to work in Sydney. Through strategic density planning 10,000 new residents, could sophisticatedly be integrated across the city via a diverse mix use typology system. This inturn would translate in more consumers and at least 6000 new jobs. As a Group we felt that this lack of culture could be reconfigured through 1) stronger city core, 2) diverse urban grain and morphology and 3) a performative regional waterfront.

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Masterplan Analysis diagrams Perspective drawings of revitalisation hubs Waterfront section Ecology diagram

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Bhavna Arumugam Chloe Bristow Katie Rudowsky Brigitta Schyns Urban Eco-Tourism The regional city of Gosford currently features a disconnection between the city centre, the waterfront, recreational spaces, residential housing, and is dissected by the Central Coast Highway and the Regional train line. These current characteristics of Gosford have resulted in the city being dysfunctional and segregated. This study analyses the potential for an increase in population by reassessing the connectivity of spaces within the extremity of Gosford’s city landscape, injecting new ecotourism opportunities and revitalizing the built form. The natural setting of Gosford offers topographical challenges however through new infrastructure and urban development we aim to reconnect the city systems for pedestrians, vehicles and cyclists.

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throughout Gosford is our proposal for reconnecting the city. This green way scheme will simultaneously provide new tourism opportunities, in the form of camping areas along Narara Creek, a revitalised urban waterfront and new opportunities for active and passive engagement with Gosford’s natural setting.

By establishing and enhancing the existing natural settings of Gosford through ecotourism practices, will bring new economic benefits and raise the profile of Gosford as a regional city. This boom in tourism will allow for the new development and the increase of the city density. Through the use of urban design strategies and interventions, can the use of urban eco-tourism redevelop the connectivity of Gosford, ratify undefined infrastructure and catapult Gosford to compete against currently thriving regional cities.

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Proposed Urban Civic ‘hub’ connecting with Brisbane Water Gosford Waterfront Proposal Narara Creek Pedestrian and Cycle Track Proposal Process + Strategy of Gosford City Pyramid Programme Gosford Urban Eco-Tourism Masterplan

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Harry Thomson Jonathan Leatheam Callum Geeves Shane Kingsbury Urban Permeability The main focus for the semester one proposal involved the revitalisation of the city core particularly through the implementation of a range of ‘anchors’ along Mann Street and Watt Street which would act as active hubs, these then connected through revitalised streetscapes. This would spread interest and activity north toward a university hub that also had elements scattered throughout Mann Street,

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and down to the waterfront leading as a cultural district. The idea was to increase and diversify the range of people using the spaces together and more importantly keeping these spaces activated throughout a longer period of time hence the large change to mixed use function along the city core that came from an introduction of residential to the upper levels of existing and proposed buildings.

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Gosford LGA Proposed Masterplan Central Coast Regional Figure ground Connectivity Perspective of University Hub Activated Youth Hub Section through Mann and Watt Street Renewed Streetscapes.

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Larissa Capenter Natalie Adamou Nixon Ng Tina Heers Urban Spine Gosford has, in recent times, become a city that is bypassed by travellers whom are visiting the region, or simply passing through. This means that most often, potential tourists do not view Gosford as an attractive destination.

A number of issues that were identified within Gosford include a lack of tourism and tourismgenerated revenue leading to a downfall in the economy, which in turn led to the closure of small businesses which was also due to the opening of Erina Fair, a big branded shopping centre. There is a lack of younger generations and a significantly increasing ageing population, which causes another reason for Gosford to lose its “family destination� reputation.

In re-developing Gosford we are hoping to achieve a sense of place, a place where people

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associate it with a relaxed and enjoyable attitude while remaining pleasurable to live in; with a heart of culture, education and entertainment.

Through renewing Mann Street and encouraging more office space and opportunity for retail and businesses, this will help boost the economy. With expected increase in job opportunities, we have also considered an increase in residential dwellings, catering for an additional 10 000 new residents. In order to encourage people to see that Gosford is a beautiful place to live and work, we have included a number of arts, entertainment and social community spaces, throughout Mann Street. The development of a University campus that will cater for 15000 students and 7000 staff will help to encourage younger generations to further their education.

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Arts, Entertainment, and Community Precinct Section of University Faculty Building University Precinct Gosford City Masterplan Cultural and University Precinct Design

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2013 Individual Projects

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Natalie Adamou Email natalieadamou@live.com.au Phone 0415 633 134

Community Cohesion Community Cohesion provides a framework of social and cultural repair through interaction within all facets of the community, while responding to the site’s topographical opportunities and embracing the fine grain of the existing form to provide diversity and inclusion of the community. The site will not only serve adjacent buildings, but also provide needed public spaces for the neighbourhood, local workers and students within Gosford and the Central Coast.

The proposed Performing Arts Centre will encourage creativity and interaction throughout the community to try mend the gap of social disconnection between demographic groups in Gosford. The site aims to strengthen East/West connections along Etna Street to Rumbalara Reserve to the East of Gosford

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The basis of Community Cohesion is built up on various layers of existing and proposed components. Using existing corridors and voids on the site, multi use spaces and plaza’s are created between built form to create a connective community. The design theories from William H Whyte, Kevin Lynch and Jan Gehl have influenced the design of Community Cohesion. The combination of these theorists methodologies has enables a better understanding in patterns of social life and interaction within urban spaces. Community Cohesion recognises and provides a platform for social and cultural repair within Gosford.

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Central community space & corner of performing arts centre Community central plaza The connective pathway Social life on Mann Street & community gardens Sections through the connective pathway and the central plaza

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Bhavna Arumugam Email bhavi_1991@hotmail.com Phone 0404 421 875

Assimilating an Industrial Landscape Gosford is a unique regional city surrounded by beautiful natural settings. However it fails to effectively connect and harmonize with the natural landscape. As a city striving to compete against booming regional cities in NSW, Gosford needs to embrace and capitalize upon what it has to offer. Thus enabling Gosford to grow and develop as a city but also as a featured destination.

As a prominent natural setting of Gosford, Narara Creek fails to be capitalized upon, both physically and visually. Along Narara Creek sits a range of private/public recreational green-spaces (i.e. Gosford Racecourse, Gosford Golf Course, President’s Hill) however an industrial site prohibits the continuation of this recreational green belt. This project aims to assimilate this industrial site back into its surrounding natural setting, thus creating a continuous, recreational green belt along Narara Creek.

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As an industrial site its operations have led to the deteriorated and exposed landscape that exists today. Intense site remediation will be implemented to encourage the rehabilitation of the landscape and preservation for the endangered local vegetation communities and fauna.

Creating a social purpose for the site will be the final stage in assimilating this industrial landscape.

New residential apartments will ensure the site is active all day and night. Acute functions such as educational/sporting facilities for schools and cafĂŠs/ restaurants for surrounding hospital and industry workers, will allow the community to have an on-going rapport with the site. The assimilation of this industrial site back into the community and natural setting will act as a catalyst in the revitalization of Gosford.

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Rehabilitating the degraded industrial landscape Engaging with Narara Creek Retrofitted existed buildings for new social use Assimilating the Industrial Landscape Master Plan Design details in plan and sections

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Chloe Bristow Email c.bristow92@hotmail.com Phone 0447 328 277

Eco Logic: Gosford Waterfront With ECOLOGICAL URBANISM as a driver, how can the expansion of the ecological wetland of Carawah Reserve improve the waterfront and help to encourage an understanding of ecological processes?

Gosford’s waterfront is a dynamic and complex space, providing a gateway between the ecological estuary and the urban landscape. This interface, in its current state, is highly disconnected and disjointed due to the dominant structures of the overpass, car park and rail line. Consequently, the ecological area of Carawah Reserve, west of the rail line, has become lost within the waterfront landscape of Gosford City.

Eco-logic, aims to rehabilitate the ecological wetland of Carawah Reserve by transforming and expanding the permeable waterfront edge condition.

The ecological wetland will be introduced to the east of the rail line and will create a waterfront where the elements of flux and change are prominent. The

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cultural elements offered by Gosford and its people will be incorporated into the design to encourage human interaction and understanding of the ecological wetland processes of Carawah Reserve.

The dominating infrastructure will be transformed as a multipurpose space, used for bird habitats, as well as urban activities like community gardens. This will mediate the scale and blend the urban, concrete structures through the ecological wetland and work as an opportunity rather than a constraint.

Within the regional context of Gosford, the ecological wetland of Carawah Reserve is a unique landscape that Gosford has to offer for tourists and residents. With the expansion of the ecological wetland through the interface of the waterfront, there is a creation of flux which encourages a dynamic and rich site which reinvigorates Gosford City by establishing important connections to the estuary and its ecological wetlands.

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Sectional perspective under the overpass, with model iterations Detail perspective of pontoon boardwalk Section of boardwalk and bird habitat interaction Masterplan of Gosford Waterfront Site plan of the educational core

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Larissa Carpenter Email larissazcarpenter@gmail.com.au Phone 0452 466 824

TraverCity TraverCity is based on creating a university campus within Gosford that incorporates its surroundings, links in with the community, integrates with the topography and is diverse through the people who use the space and what it offers. The main aims for this project are to give back to the community a sense of pride and belonging, allowing them to feel like they have a place they can call their own.

The development of this university is designed for a range of uses not just for university classes.

There are cafes, restaurants, sporting facilities, amphitheatre, community gardens and a whole lot more. The topography of the site was a main reason for choosing this area to develop, as it is unique and creative for the university campus to blend well into.

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Ensuring that the landscape is accessible, for people who may be elderly or disabled, is very important and creates an interesting play with the land. The university will encourage the community to feel involved and is designed to persuade the community to enjoy the facilities that are offered by the university whilst developing a sense of belonging.

By ensuring that the community feel as though they own a part of the university it ensures that the campus will be seen as a treasured part of Gosford, becoming an icon for the city. As the successful development of the university takes off it will boost the economy, bring in a younger generation into Gosford and will put Gosford back on the map.

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Sectional perspective under the overpass, with model iterations Detail perspective of pontoon boardwalk Section of boardwalk and bird habitat interaction Masterplan of Gosford Waterfront Site plan of the educational core

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Thomas Cormoreche Email thomascormoreche@yahoo.com.au

Laguna Traction Laguna’Traction will occur on Gosford City waterfront, it consists in a park system with a swimming lagoon supplied by recycled storm water as a centrepiece of the design.

Gosford City is part of a small 110 ha catchment, its stormwater will be harvested, treated through a natural process, in order to supply a swimming lagoon of 600 m3.

Ultimately, the water will flow in Brisbane water at a nearly drinkable level of quality, enhancing and revitalizing the existing damaged eco-system. It will therefore have both civic and environmental positive outcomes.

The water route will be apparent, visible throughout the city, in order to raise awareness, curiosity and eventually attract people down the waterfront. The city users will in fact live a journey and will be drag subtly, almost unconsciously to the lagoon.

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Laguna’Traction is taking its roots in every artery of Gosford City. However, it will take the form of a complex but legible network of pocket parks punctuated by storm water treatment ponds, a large artificial promontory overlapping on the estuary, and an extensive boardwalk linking Gosford City Centre to Point Clare and Point Frederick.

Aesthetic and inventive features will add to the demonstration of Gosford’s ability to manipulate storm water at a regional scale, but this ingenious project should also have national and international repercussions, making Gosford the leader of Central Coast it is meant to be.

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Matthew Drury Email mattcdrury@gmail.com Phone 0419 836 914

Urban Landscape Heterarchy Gosford has lost it’s significance as a regional hub and turned it’s back on the unique landscape setting for too long. Gosford needs to take full advantage of it’s waterfront and connect the city core with it’s natural environment. Cities such as Gosford must embody a higher order of complexity and richness; understanding and responding to all aspects of the surrounding environment.

The Urban Landscape Heterarchy project, is a system of organisation that allows for multiple overlaps to occur. It has no formal hierarchy but coexistent patterns of relation with all elements of design considered equally. Christopher Alexander’s 1965 article ‘A City is Not a Tree’; argues that the current hierarchy or ‘tree structure’ applied to ‘artificial cities’ is too simplistic.

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lanes, pedestrian connections, ecological links and social interactions. This in turn has been accomplished through three major principles: 1. Improving connections to the waterfront by realigning the major axes, establishing a shared street and re-routing key roadways.

2. Creating greater social interaction and utilising forgotten spaces by creating a network of laneways, removing key abandoned buildings and transforming car parks into green spaces.

3. Bringing ecology and green infrastructure into Gosford through a network of street trees, recognising the original creek location and the creation of pocket parks.

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Forgotten space transformation perspective Shared street concept montage Open air cinema montage Open space sections Site masterplan

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Yuan Fang Email Seasand.cocoyan@gmail.com Phone 0415 140 006

SENSEScape As the emigration of people to Gosford continues to flourish, the city has to deal with a significant increase in population density while still keep its health and livable life style in Central Coast. As there is going to be more and more new residents infiltrating into an unfamiliar territory, it is time to revitalize and reactive the town center into a livable and visible area that allows more social interactions and activities.

For most of visitors, the ambience of the city center right now is unwelcome and chaotic; compare to Gosford’s stunning waterfront, the city center is not an ideal place that invites people to stay due to it brings many negative impressions. So the question is how to change and active a space into a positive place. The answer is by changing senses.

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By changing senses to a site, from negative to positive, a discard and unwelcoming site can be turned into a place where benefit to all types of residents in the city. The original site is located in a vital part of Gosford city core, parallel to Kibble Park, and has both relationship to surrounding districts and green patches, However, the ambience of site right now is unwelcome and chaotic; compare to Gosford’s stunning natural landscape, it has full potential of negativity, rather than positivity.

Thus, the design is looking for a way to provide an experience that stimulates basic five senses to change people’s awareness to the site. The design MAKES SENSES. By changing the site character and functions in respect to the wider urban context can also play the role that recall and reinforce citizen’s sense of belonging, and improve their live quality.

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Callum Geeves Email callumgeeves@gmail.com Phone 0431 677 234

Pulse The redevelopment of the Kibble Park Precinct can revitalize the city of Gosford. While this area is located centrally and offers relief from the surrounding urban setting, the full potential of Kibble Park Precinct is yet to be realised. The site is currently a mishmash of landscape ideas, and requires a holistic redesign that will serve the broad demographic profile of Kibble Park users, and which will respond to the unique environmental conditions of Kibble Park.

The theoretical background of William Whyte and Jan Gehl, as well as approaches to landscape inspired by the work of the Sydney Bush School, will guide the redevelopment of Kibble Park Precinct.

Site-specific concepts which emerged from initial investigations, such as the role of Kibble Park as “mediator”, will also be explored in this proposal.

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Broadly, the design will: prioritise pedestrians over vehicles; use the landscape as a means to celebrate the unique environmental character of Gosford; and improve Kibble Park’s relationship to the surrounding buildings and streetscape, as well as its internal structure. More specifically, issues the design will address include: creating a central meeting place at the heart of Kibble Park; activating the eastern edge of Kibble Park and overcoming the Henry Parry Drive ‘barrier’ so that the proposed Kibbleplex relates to Kibble Park; and introducing elements of Gosford’s indigenous landscape character into the Kibble Park Precinct.

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Section of eastern edge: terracing/entrance to avenue.

Context: central location within city and between mountains.

Exploded program; Active shopfronts/public-private/pedestrian links.

Montage: Kibble Bosque.

Masterplan: Kibble Park Precinct.

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Alex Georgouras Email alexgeorgouras@hotmail.com Phone 0404 626 520 URL www.theloop.com.au/AlexanderGeorgouras

rehab “Gosford has been built up too much on the provision of services (such as) the Methadone Clinic, the Department of Housing, Mission Australia, Salvation Army, Centrelink; all of these are in the heart of Gosford”- Mel Law (Youth Connections).

However, the charitable amenities enjoyed by the region are not reflected for the surrounding flora and fauna. With the urban form that comes with such services (typically highways, big block architecture adjoining multi-levelled carparks), Gosford has fragmented migration patterns and disrupted bio-diversity through habitat fragmentation.

Rehab engages with the apparent ‘grayfields’ (carparks) that run East-West, through Gosfords CBD, segregating President’s Hill and Rumbalara Reserve. Through the reconnection of these two dynamic habitats, Rehab seeks to;

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+ r econnect habitats that will lead to a greater biodiversity within surrounding plant, bird and mammal communities and thus a more robust ecology + create spaces that incoporate the remedial qualities of landscape for the less advantaged within the community + start to acknowledge an architectural vernacular that will help foster identity + expand the existing TAFE to include a tertiary educational facility that is centred on environmental sciences Rehab seeks to provoke a new rhetoric around social amenity for the City of Gosford, one that encourages identity, promotes bio-diversity and enhances economics within the region. It is these innovative solutions that cities need to embrace to remain relevant and competitive in this global age.

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An illustrative transect that highlights the three grids Concrete paving units that allow for modulating rain gardens A fauna crossing funnels ‘nature’ into an urban setting Section perspective of civic space Tilted aerial and section of the Rehab corridor

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Adam Grant Email 3335582@gmail.com

Gosford as adventure How could adventure recreation in Rumbalara Reserve enhance revitilisation to the city centre of Gosford providing a distinctive attraction that celebrates the local environment?

Gosford, the capital of a touristic region, yet plays no part in it. Its economic standing has moved to Erin nearby, and an adventure park is an opportunity to attract visitors. This will push for upgraded town infrastructure facilities and quality of life, increasing the livability of the place for home buyers and in turn revitalize retail activity – therefore economic growth.

Gosford has a dynamic landscape whose high potential for recreational adventure will place it on the list of destinations strengthening the theme of adventure as Gosford’s identity, living up to its region’s identiy and as a capital. The Gosford Loop is an assumed project proposal as a recreational route that links sites of interest around Gosford for tourism and local wellbeing which includes this park.

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The steep forested topography will provide experiences of thrill such as G-forces and physical challenges, suspended treetop adventures will emulate the habitat and movement of how wildlife navigates through the trees, while guided activity provides education on local history, ecology and environment.

From the landmark centre of Gosford – Kibble Park, the walkway leads as a trail landscaped as a water feature creek using only small size local plants and shrubs to keep the view range open and unobstructed. A newly designed picnic ground and tourist accommodation cabin park will counteract the abruptness of the natural and urban forms, creating a gradual transition between the zones, providing a greener urban breathing space suitable as a tranquil route for the assumed Gosford Loop to weave through.

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Proposal Mastaplan of Gosford’s new adventure precinct Revegetated creek and rollercoaster also acting as chairlift Cafes corner admiring view into picnic area Open forest treetop circuit. 250m lie-down flyingfox Water feature trail with illusion murials. Downsized road

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Lewis Haig Email Lew_haig88@hotmail.com Phone 0423 388 185

Gosford on Track A new order of cycle networks within and surrounding Gosford City aims to successfully re-establish pedestrian and bicycle movement as the preferred method of commuting, actuating from a modern cycle hub in the centre of the city. The triple track system integrates a hierarchy of cycling ability to an applicable route throughout the city. ‘Amble, Commuter and Thrill’ are the three urban mobility navigation tracks which appeal to the broad range of user needs. Each colour coded track assists in way finding through the city whilst providing cyclists with an option of choosing the most suitable path for their capabilities as a rider. Hill gradients, terrain, cycle path width and facility have all been examined and appropriately allocated to supply the most accurate opportunities for individual cyclist involvement.

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In order to convince citizens and commuters to opt for an alternate travel choice within the city, it is essential to provide for all types of users.

The location of the site lies within the commuter belt; a transit oriented zone encompassing a bus interchange, two multi-storey car parks, and a train station. Provision of a sustainable range of safe travel choices and applicable cycling amenities on the site and sprawling throughout the city, will in turn create cost effective alternatives to Gosford’s increasing capacity.

Staged deconstruction of the commuter car parks over time as more people turn to cycling, will provide increased visual amenity through views of Gosford’s natural topographic uniqueness and beauty, both into and out of the site.

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‘Amble Track’ Cycle-scaffold linking east and west parking stations.

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Buzzing Cycle Hub Centre Thrill Track’ Cycle-scaffold crossing over train line Master plan depicting Cycle Hub and east-west linkage.

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Tina Heers Email tinaheers@hotmail.com Phone 0458 955 024

Educating the Urban “The need for a university presence in the Gosford CBD has also been clearly identified by the community and is reflected in research developed as part of the Gosford City Centre Masterplan”.

Chris Hartcher 2013 - Minister for the Central Coast In order for Gosford to grow into a regional city, education is a key factor in the community, allowing opportunity to learn and gain skills to help the social, cultural, health and economic situation of a place.

The aim of this project is to propose and develop a new university campus that will sit amongst the urban fabric of Gosford City Centre. The design intent of

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the project is to establish a programmable university campus which is connected through different means of street typologies, landscape elements, land uses and building typologies. These ways of connection incorporate both physical and visual connection points which relate to the site itself as well as Gosford City as a whole. The theoretical framework behind the design relies on that of Clare Cooper Marcus’s study of “Campus Outdoor Spaces”. From this framework the project takes on the elements of a traditional university campus and applies them to the activation spaces of the city campus.

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Gateway to the new university Rooftop Gardens with views to Presidents Hill Perspective of the new city campus Detail Site Plan Sections of new campus buildings and student housing

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Erik Hodge Email eckahodge@gmail.com Phone 0422 656 075

Forgotten Systems The loss of Gosford’s landscapes features and defining character have gone relatively unnoticed, lost in time and amongst the city’s progressive urban development. This project aims to reinstate the landscape’s relationship with the city centre by fostering the return of the lost human and natural systems that once upheld the city’s identity. Critically, this involves a layering of the landscape systems to inform spatial and functional attributes for its redesign.

The bus terminal and adjacent spaces to the train station are at the heart of the social and economic complex which has progressively deteriorated the city. This site’s critical use and location in Gosford’s city centre assigns it a key role in the rearticulation of the urban morphology. Drawing upon the intersecting lines of landscape and human dynamics uniquely

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occurring on this site, it potentially becomes not only a catalyst for renewal, but the centre point for a citywide transformation that imbues the urban realm with a sense of environmental awareness and seamless urban function.

The illumination of this in the public experience can once again offer Gosford a sense of urban wonder, and hint at its broader connections neither beginning nor ending with the city but accommodating it in the context of endless other system centres.

This project aims to reinstate the harmonious relationship that the city once had with its environment, critically reintegrating forgotten landscape systems back into the city functioning.

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Systems Resurrected Forgotten Systems Masterplan Layered Resolution Sections – Experience of the Public Domain Resurrecting a Cultural Identity

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Ratthaphong Jianthanakanon Email sinoda_atom@hotmail.com Phone 0405 187 680

Connexion The proposal is a revitalization project that aims to reconnect and reactivate the bottom west of Gosford CBD with the surroundings in physical, social, and environmental senses. The site is currently underutilized and fenced-off to the public in terms of both physical and social disconnection. The project has been thought in a view of sustainability and environmental awareness as a driving goal blending the proposed interventions into its context to form new types of public space that provide a new start for Gosford to be lively, safe, sustainable and healthy city. A new pedestrianized spine will provide a transition link from the City Core and waterfront, which will situate as diagonal axis running north to southwest. This new walking spine will also draw people into catered public greenspaces both day

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and night. The underlying catalyst plan will support the site as a flexible daily usability for gathering, thoroughfare, a useful multipurpose urban space which will provide a venue for art exhibition, events, food trucks, farmer market and other weekend and after hours community, cultural and arts events.

Hydrological solution (rain gardens and stormwater infrastructure) will treat most of the runoff and also harvest rainwater, store and infiltrate, capable of supplying irrigation for the site. The project is resulted in a better community engagement that will reconnect and reunite the site with its context, and add an effective landscape interaction as a medium between people and built environment to improve physical and social disconnection.

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Top- Pedestrianied spine. Bottom- Dynamic urban greenspaces.

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Wen Yu Kee Email wenyu.kee@gmail.com URL k-ee@tumblr.com

Tidal Impressions From experiencing subtle daily tidal changes to the fearing the dramatic rise in sea level, the local estuarine waters evokes an imaginative scenarios which reconnects one with their landscape systems. Tidal Impressions relooks into storm water infrastructures as landscape typology that is not simply about ‘naturalizing’ infrastructures, but also one that explores into new ways for individuals to engage more meaningfully with their water systems.

This estuarine landscape system has defined an intertidal and highly sensitive landscape condition that adds on to the challenges of existing site issues of walkability to water front, run off contamination and disconnection to the greater community. This proposal acknowledges that complete elimination of flood

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risk on the floodplains of Gosford is an impossible task and hence investigates into a series of tidal sensitive edge conditions to embrace this dynamic relationship between the city and the landscape.

Tidal Impressions explores further into the physical and temporal qualities created along these edges to engage individuals physically, emotively with their intertidal landscapes.

Tidal Impressions plays the first phase of a long term vision of social and environmental sustainability through a series of schematic and flood adaptive planning and design proposal to re-envisage Gosford as ‘a city not just as a place in space but a drama in time’ ( Geddis,P 1925)

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Tidal Impressions Masterplan Marshland walkway at RL 0.3m Marshland walkway at RL 0.3m- 1.8m King tides in 2050 RL 1.8 – 2.5 Tidal Seawall Diagrammatic Perspective

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Shane Kingsbury Email shane_kingsbury@hotmail.com Phone 0402 265 377

Transitional Based on the concept of an ecotone connecting city and waterfront, the proposed design will act as a constructed and experimental transitional space of cultures. This concept is executed through understanding site conditions and the method of ‘layering’ which looks at ecology, history, community and hydrology of the waterfront and Gosford’s CBD. The ecotone enhances community engagement by reusing, retro-fitting and upgrading the existing structures and facilities adding to the waterfront’s legibility and assisting in its future resilience thus allowing continual development over time and establishing into an area of communal gathering and increased ecological health.

Existing ecology is disconnected due to large constructed edge conditions and the implementation of an extended ecological corridor pushing out either side of the rail line allows for the re-establishment of essential vegetation and natural habitats.

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The activation around the waterfront, including the movement from Bluetongue Stadium, is utilised as a catalyst for use and has the character of a gateway or entrance. The potential for programming by the community is experimental in nature and allows for retro-fitting the underside of the Central Coast Highway overpass as a hard-surface plane for a passive food and educational district whilst providing a visual anchor into the waterfront.

As a result the outcome is a high-use passive communal district of Gosford city which will provide a number of opportunities and alternate experiences for the community to engage with, including ecological and historical educational/ learning possibilities and allowing Gosford to develop into a more community engaged city.

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Re-introducing the community to an used space Studies in 3D space and use Area activation beneath the bridge Re-establishment of estuarine environments Gosford’s transitional waterfront masterplan

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Claira Kratochvil Email clairakrat@hotmail.com

Waterscopes This project is based on the way water can act as infrastructure on site and plays an important role in forming a sense of place. In semester one, our group project led to a conclusion that the presence of Brisbane water is underutilised and does not provoke a sense of place along the waterfront. The area that wraps around the south east corner of bluetongue stadium is shadowed by large infrastructural elements such as a stadium, a highway overpass and the railway line which leaves the space to be under used and unactivated.

This project attempts to move people through the site in a fluvial manner by introducing various water systems such as interactive water design, storm water treatment and a dynamic edge that moves with the tide. The lighting design through the site is a way for

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the site to be manipulated and morphed at various times of the day month or year and this allows for each experience to be different for any person. “Waterscopes� suggests that water can change the mood or outlook at any time on site depending on the context of what is happening in the area.

The projects main aim is to activate a new public realm which focuses on catering to the range of users on site but still manages to capture the subtle characteristics of this particular node in Gosford. Through the activation of pedestrian movement in the area the scope of the site will be transformed and will provide a much needed community feel in this underused Waterfront area.

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Perspective montage of waterfront square detail plan of interactive water design Perspective montages of shared user space Rain montage of Storm water basin Section across waterfront square

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Jonathan Leatheam Email Leatheam_jo@hotmail.com Phone 0401 889 111 URL http://au.linkedin.com/pub/jonathan-leatheam/52/119/478

The Urban Jungle Located 50km from Sydney’s CBD and 70km from Newcastle. Gosford city is comparable to the size of Wollongong and as far away as Penrith.

This shows us that it can easily be regarded as a regional city of Sydney and Newcastle.

The site chosen for this detailed study offers many opportunities to be a unique area within the city, connecting key areas of the city and providing a multi-functional space that encourages community interaction whilst retaining the existing emotive qualities of the site.

Through design principles such as community, connectivity, Ecology, education and Demographic sustainability, a proposed masterplan of the site was developed through conceptual testing and 3D visualisation to achieve a plan that will encourage residents of the city to use the site on a daily basis whilst retaining a unique quality that will attract visitors.

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Currently lacking in areas for a growing population to create community events, the design development phase of the design investigation was a spatial orientation study to allow for these events to take place within the site. This will see a connection from the only existing community area ‘Kibble Park’ to the study area which will directly link to the train station and the waterfront. The event spaces will be large enough to create regional interest which will also boost the number of visitors into the city centre.

The design is focused on community development and interaction as well as incorporating Water Sensitive Urban Design elements that will reduce the rate of water flow through the site and relieve the pressure on the existing stormwater system currently in place.

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Location Diagram inspired by SolĂ -Morales.

Concept Diagram showing opportunity for pedestrian permeability.

Intensive rooftop garden will be a new centre for community interaction.

Proposed masterplan with two detailed areas.

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Hongjie Lin Email hj.lynn@hotmail.com Phone 0430 411 166

interSTICE Hub Back street and remnant space, a network that we are tired of hiding in our urban environment is equally important as social, economic and environmental places behind the scenes of the typical life. The INTERSTICE HUB is located in a heavily urban structured district where a rich atmosphere of communal and commercial activities are intersected. However, the unbalances of active and passive use of spaces and problematic issues of vehicle and pedestrian circulation limited publics experience and sustainability. In this way, the primary focus and argument of the project is how the revitalizing and reframing of back street (lane) and remnant public spaces can improve connectivity and transition of pedestrian circulation throughout the Gosford City Centre?

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The concept of my design is to create a new network for the interstice hub where the site could be activated as a transitional corridor and multimodal interchange point that provide an easy transition from car, bus and train into urban life.

The short term parking spaces are limited and disused building are broken down to free up parts of the back street for pedestrian us. The east and south face of the car park and roof are identified as key locations to attract people into and around the network. Lighting as a layer to alter day and night variations of luminosity to help defined and comprehend the place. Plantings as a reinforcement of continuity and experience is to create diverse microclimate environment. And public art as a permanent and temporary event is to transform structures and space into an imaginable place.

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Activation of underpass parking space Rooftop Innovation of Gosford City Car Park Creating diverse experience within the ‘interstice’ Breaking and Interacting with Existing Structure Detail Plan of interSTICE Hub

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Rebecca Ka Yan Lo Email kayanlo@ymail.com Phone 0450 444 733

Gateway Extension Urban spaces are usually affected by the distinctive impact of past human activities and existing challenges of natural environment. The site in Gosford west is abandoned and became problematic spaces during the expansion of urban development, separated from the social life of Gosford City Centre by topography, light industries and lack of spatial cohesion. However, surrounding rich recreational areas and diverse environmental qualities reveal an opportunity of activating the essential beauty of the city’s western edge.

It responds to the question: How can the remediating and re-connecting of disused space improve public accessibility, hydrological functionality and city imageability of Gosford City Edge?

My vision is to transform the disused space into a new regional landscape gateway to improve landscape conditions by incorporating circulation movement and existing open space

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system into new urban fabric to encourage city connection and provide new public domain for the community. Gateway Extension is also addressing on issues including vehicle and pedestrian circulation, land use conflict and flood threat.

My proposal to inject new elements and programs including active and passive recreational space, central plaza, visitor centre, WSUD system, extensions to existing cycleway and the gateway bridge as a new landmark. Site uses fuses local leisure and touristic engagement, supporting the community needs and coordinate with corresponding to city centre development to reinforce Gosford’s comprehensive growth while offering Gosford a new identity as a regional city of the central coast and a destination known to local and international visitor to embrace the value of Gosford west environment.

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Passive civic garden impression Gateway Extension 3D perspective Making the public & private Master Plan Programs & edge conditions perspectives

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Michael Longworth Email m.h.longworth@gmail.com Phone 0415 155 870

Connecting Baker St Located in the south west of the CBD, Baker St is currently dominated by large buildings and boarded off car parks that have little interaction to the surrounding landscape or street scapes. It is an underutilised , poorly connected, vital area of Gosford that will play a key role in revitalising the CBD and reconnecting the CBD to the waterfront and its surrounding landscape . Connecting Baker St explores methods of reprogramming underutilised spaces and long term vacant buildings along two city blocks that flank Baker St to provide a unique landscape design driven by the importance of walkability of a city and porosity of the site as key design generators. Connecting Baker St unlocks over a third of the site to create a network of publically

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accessible open spaces, introduces new semi private landscapes, reduces the dominance of buildings in the site while increasing commercial and residential floor space. These key features provide vital activation to Baker St and tie it into the landscape of the CBD. The new landscape is connected directly to the existing circulation patterns of the CBD and create key visual moments into and out of the site. Each design iteration created was analysed by its impact on the legibility of the landscape it would create. This design development ensured that the final design sits within the surrounding context of Gosford and will enable Gosford to become a significant regional city to both the Central Coast and to Sydney.

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Layering of landscape though the site.

Rain garden detail.

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Connecting Baker St Masterplan.

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Steven Masters Email stevemasters91@gmail.com Phone 0417 073 170

The Exchange Hybrid landscapes are the future of cities.

Integrating the built form with the natural landscape in innovative and sustainable ways is critical for the function of a successful city.

Natural processes can be mimicked artificially or reintroduced to the city to aid in minimising the strain the city is placing on the environment.

This vision of a future city can be represented by applying these hybrid landscape principles to a key site in Gosford. Gosford currently lacks this significant site. ‘The Exchange’ is to become a new Performing Arts Precinct in the city of Gosford. The Exchange will provide the public with a landscape integrated building and rejuvenated public open space. The structure will provide a new and necessary link between the city centre and the waterfront. The implementation of the Exchange will increase

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views, create pedestrian links, provide a safe, active space during the day and night, and bestow Gosford with a much needed landmark building.

There are many opportunities for the site to become an active, functional and aesthetic part of Mann Street. It is important that the site is flexible for a wide variety of program. The potential activities include markets, galleries, city festivals and events, street art and performances, sport and fitness, and activities interacting with the waterfront. These activities in combination with the aesthetic new landscape will ultimately offer the public with an experience that will resonate with them long after they leave the site.

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Gosford Performing Arts Precinct aerial perspective Topographical design inspiration Performing Arts Centre internal program Gosford Performing Arts Precinct Masterplan Site program and activity

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Stevie Medcalf Email steviemedcalf@hotmail.com Phone 0421 559 047

A Logical Setting For Civilised Life Much like Harry Howard’s Lane Cove North, the bush is called out as the logical setting for civilised life (Catherine Bull, 2008).

The Site- nestled within Gosford’s unique topographical setting faces multifaceted disconnection when reserve (Presidents Hill) meets a wall of residential topologies that do not fit within the contexts consolidation needs.

Calling for the site to return to an understanding of its landscape setting- principals of landscape ecology, consolidation strategies, water sensitive

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design and bushfire management are employed to enable physical, visual and programmatic connection to establish itself whilst also allowing for the bush to be used to its full infrastructural potential. A Logical Setting For Civilised Life interweaves people and nature presenting itself to the audience as a stage for interaction- enabling us to move amongst beneficial systems at play and also providing a strategy for reconnection of important ecological patches on micro, meso and macro scales.

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Illustrative section showing design major moves Proposed reserve entry as part of streetscape Proposed low rise high density housing Illustrative plan Process of land allocation

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Ross Mills Email ross@oculus.info Phone 0402 288 352

Fluid InterCHANGE Gosford’s city centre has long sat stagnating with little human or commercial activity. It sits dormant for the majority of the day, with large, unsightly car parks reserved for Sydney commuters dominating much of the ground and skyline. In order to reverse this trend and create a brighter future for the city, Fluid Interchange proposes moving Gosford’s train station 200 metres south to the site of the current Gosford city car park, to create a new public transport hub with a stronger connection to the city’s waterfront and bushland. This new transport hub will become a vibrant, ecological and water sensitive, civic space that will re-activate the commercial core of the city.

The impervious nature of the site and needs of commuters led to the investigation of the sites hydrological values, movement, circulation and porosity.

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The hydrological flows of the site and surrounding areas drove the design process, creating porous interventions where humans and water can move through the space effortlessly. Organising these spaces for water and humans to move efficiently, enabled the establishment of larger planted areas where original flora and fauna can reclaim space that they once occupied and share it with the more recent inhabitants, humans.

Creating a stage for the sites original ecological and hydrological systems to flourish will ensure that this underperforming city centre can be reborn. Fluid interchange will demonstrate how a synthesis of urban and natural systems can create a high performance civic space for Gosford.

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Journey from the city to the new interchange Gosford’s impervious car parks interrupt hydrological flows Bush rehabilitation under the interchange structure Amphitheatre and green walls perched atop the interchange Masterplan of Gosford’s new civic space and interchange

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Edwina Morris Email edwina.morris@gmail.com

The Horizon Project The Horizon Project investigates fractures in the built environment; applying Dramstad’s landscape ecology theory to create a human-scale mosaic of walkable city streets. Proposed here is an extension of the Gosford city grid, originating from the civic heart of the city. A pedestrian avenue sweeps in a northwards arc up Presidents Hill to the new town hall which looks across the city, towards the headlands of Brisbane Waters, and up to the lookout trailhead.

A carpark which is transverse by the avenue is adapted to form a new public square and forecourt for the town hall. New connections are made across the railway line which severs the city, uniting east and west Gosford, urban fabric and landscape.

Immediately after construction the site interacts with the ground through cuts in the carpark surface, drawing the gaze down into dark voids. The cut surface acknowledges the impermanence of built form; its inevitable consumption by the earth.

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Sunken buildings are arranged around these cuts and across carpark levels, exploring the changing sensory experience of place in varying contexts of subterranean, surface and horizon. As the site grows, vegetation emerges from the cuts, at first just poking through and corrupting the horizontal surface, at maturity enclosing the avenue. From the perspective of buildings at lower levels, light wells evolve into lush courtyard gardens.

Plantings are informed by the local ecological communities of Presidents Hill, mirroring the lush rainforest qualities of the southern slope and bright, open aspect of the northern slope; used in turn to create intimate refuges and grand, formal prospects.

The horizon, evoked here on a civic platform, invites the community to re-engage with Gosford’s future and reclaim the stunning views which connect city and landscape back into the public realm.

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Section along pedestrian avenue connecting Presidents Hill and city centre.

Cool summer gardens are enclosed with lush rainforest species.

Winter gardens define civic space; sunken buildings emerge through carpark rooftop.

Over time vegetation grows through carpark cuts, uniting landscape and cityscape.

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Nixon Ng Email nixonngkh@gmail.com Phone 0433 991 319

A Permeable Gateway A Permeable Gateway presents a framework to improve pedestrian experience of the city centre of Gosford from Gosford Train Station. It comprises numerous key objectives: Reactivation of urban spaces; Reconnection of key destinations; and Reunification of the city’s key programs.

It seeks to create a vigorous and vibrant city, focusing on the human scale experience.

The existing built form and topography presents incoherent spatial quality and separation of the site from the surroundings.

This suggests a new sustainable gateway is the key to reconnect the separated areas as well as an opportunity to improve the spatial quality to shape a better sense of place in Gosford.

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footpaths links the open space of the train station terrace, the square outside the station, the plaza across Mann Street and the more distant blocks to create a new corridors for all users. The interventions of green and grey infrastructure seek to blend the area with aesthetic sense as well as encouraging social interactions within the new corridors. A series of design interventions integrate the seatings, pavilions, green walls, pergolas, and vegetations together in order to strengthen the linkage of the gateway by creating a better visual connection. This is to create an iconic place for much better social interactions within the Central Plaza and Active Green Space.

It is believed that the extension of green and grey infrastructure interventions will establish a more sustainable city that encourages community participations.

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Sections of central plaza and active green space Design interventions in central plaza Design interventions in active green space Gosford city centre design masterplan Active green space design masterplan

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Jonny Nguyen Email jonny.n143@hotmail.com Phone 0431 419 030

Urban Synergy The site is located in the heart of Gosford city. Due to its unique character and relationship with the surrounding context the site was selected. Currently it consists of an underused plaza space and a vacant parking lot. Surrounding the site are some of Gosford own heart and soul, Blue tongue stadium, Central coast leagues club, Gosford parking station, Work cover, Gosford city council, Gosford primary school as well as many unique local businesses.

There were also major issues on site, such as sense of disconnection between the surrounding precincts, poor walking experience, poor visual quality, lack of soft landscape and poor drainage management. These issues helped me arrived to my design principles as they were the drivers for my design investigation. My focus for this project was to answer ‘How can the development of a

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new public plaza improve social connectivity and strengthen links between surrounding contexts?’ through research, experimentation and design.

Urban Synergy arrived from the Masterplan for the city of Gosford in the group design and planning stage. The proposal was to turn Gosford into multi centered city made up of unique villages. The new plaza design focus on providing the appropriate outdoor spaces for the local community as well as rectify the current issues by following my design principles.

The plaza consists of 3 unique elements, The Garden, The Lawn and The Skate Rink. Each element is linked visually and through coherent material and planting. Each part provides it users with unique landscape quality and experience.

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Market space on Baker Street Section through The Garden and existing buildings Section through The Lawn and mix use development New access into plaza from Mann Street Axonometric view of complete design proposal

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Hee Young Park Email Parkism@outlook.com

Hydro oasis The landscape of Gosford is most characterized by its natural features that classify and differ from other regional city. The scenic landscape of its bushlands, rivers and water frontage deems to be a key aspect of Gosford.

However, as the development of the city gradually evolved, the construction of infrastructure and buildings has become a major constraint to access these natural environments. The proposal design for Gosford City Park, hence, aims to bring back the natural assets of Gosford by providing Wetland Park with wider landscape that primarily features the recreational activities in both passive and active forms. The place will be, thereby, beneficial in promoting sustainable well-being for its people and simultaneously encouraging endangered wild life animals by restoring the natural environment.

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The design focuses of Gosford City Park: -a cting as a catalyst to bring a new public space in Gosford - preserving and enhancing local and regional biodiversity - acting as a storm water ‘filter’ helping water quality that flows out to Brisbane water and further reducing the flood level - providing commercial and residential mix-use building near the park to cater for expected population increase - promoting well-being for people who visit the park enhancing the appreciation of health benefit - providing high amenity value in terms of scenic quality and recreation opportunity through incorporating water into design - providing a fun and educational experience for all who visit the park - Water Sensitive Urban Design

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Photomontage of wetland in the park Design goals Section showing stormwater system throughout the park Detail section of wetland with plant species Sections of space in the park

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Michael Polifrone Email m_poli1@hotmail.com

Transposition The research question explored through the design studio was to determine how the design of a typology of linear park along a portion of the central rail corridor and associated sites can enhance the connectivity between the east and west of Gosford and wider landscape context, whilst creating a new node of activity that will engage with existing city hubs and become a predominant gateway for residents and visitors.

The design was heavily influenced by two main factors, those being the intensity of vertical linearity throughout Gosford and especially along the rail corridor and also the desire lines and view sheds that offer permeability to the area, instigating a want

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and need for increased connection between east and west and the services that both sides provide.

It was critical to develop a consistency and coherence between each side of the rail corridor through the programming and sequencing of spaces as well as the materiality of the site which was established out of a need to reflect and respect the infrastructural context of the site. Greater connection to the areas outside of the site boundary was generated from the desire lines of the user and positioning of access points as well as the use of indigenous plant species which reference the protected areas of bushland that flank the site.

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Southern Entry Linearity Connection Point Southern Detail Area Transposition Masterplan

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Rosy Porter Email rosy.m.porter@gmail.com Phone 0423 772 619

frogy’s Gosford is situated within a compelling natural landscape setting. However the city does not reflect this and there is a disconnection between the water front and the city centre. The current urban environment does not support the social needs particularly for marginalised sectors of society. If Gosford is to become a regional city it will need to ensure social, environmental and economic sustainability.

What is the role of the Landscape Architect to facilitate this process? Is our job simply to create functional ‘image’ driven landscapes for people to enjoy or do we have a responsibility to address the bigger social and environmental problems of our time?

Frogy’s, the neglected roller skating rink would be retained for its historical and local value. It will

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be retrofitted as a Community Centre for its ideal central location and improve water front and the city core network. The building would offer public amenities and studios for creative industries while outside provide opportunities for community to influence the design & management of spaces (pink). The design encourages community driven programs to cultivate into local social enterprises bringing employment opportunities to marginalised sectors of society to the area.

The approach was to weave the natural landscape and social fabric together to allow for a genuine community aesthetic. It is a sensitive blend between the social, economic and ecological aspects of the urban environment.

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Conceptual Illustration of Frogy’s as social hub Re-constructing vegetation structures to improve biodiversity values Example of a Community Driven Program Frogy’s building and community program spaces (pink) Marginalised & Disadvantaged Sectors of Gosford’s society

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Helen Claire Rogers Email helen.rogers@hotmail.com Phone 0432 091 546

Punctuating the Edge How can the variable edge between Rumbalara Reserve and the urban fabric of Gosford be revealed/managed so to improve the interaction of city dwellers with the landscape setting and systems which support them?

Where one land-use transitions to another, a distinct and unique landscape character is evident, a result of both associated land-uses.

It is neither one nor the other, and it is often a forgotten or dismissed condition in the landscape.

Punctuating the Edge is an exploration of the way the variable edge of a city-reserve binary, can be edited; defined and managed, for distinct local user groups and as part of a city-scale approach to the city-reserve binary.

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The basis of each intervention draws upon the notion that landscape architectural interventions can enable greater interaction between users and landscape systems. Using a site-specific approach this is achieved through three types of moves, visual, function and programmatic interventions.

Each of these sites are distinct in condition and character, they have a variety of local and potential users for which the sites have been developed.

At each site the edge is treated in a different way; as a buffer, a blurred condition, or through signage as distinct point of contrast. In conjunction with this spatial understanding each site considers a range of users; the northern site is a community focussed edge, the central site is a civic educational space, and the south site is a regional recreation gateway.

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Questioning the edge. Conceptual model.

Intervention Three, Marker. The edge, a recreational gateway.

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Brigitta Schyns Email bschyns@gmail.com Phone 0407 341 058

ECO - SPINAM - The Revitalisation of Watt Street Watt Street is currently underutilised by users due to the sites location being nestled between steeply graded slopes and railway. This in turn has impacted the site as it prevents direct west, east connections.

Vehicle activity is also a concern as it is the main source of transport through the area however there are no current usages of Watt Street of which allow for or encourage high pedestrian usage. Together, these constraints have resulted in voids and spaces such as underutilised vacant blocks of land of which pose an opportunity to be regenerated and reactivated into new public spaces and typologies.

Therefore, how can the public domain of Watt Street be redesigned to incorporate ‘green infrastructure’ and reactivate the streetscape to become a civic hub for Gosford City?” To do so, Eco- Spinam sets

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out to expand multiuse functionality, whilst increasing pedestrian activity and usage. This in turn, will improve and reduce water and waste efficiency, together enhancing cultural identity whilst creating a safe and liveable new precinct or public space. By creating a successful and thriving public space whilst improving the functionality of infrastructure to support urban living, will implement sustainable practices of green infrastructure thus connecting Gosford’s CBD to its surrounding context. By using and creating these systems along with layering Gosford’s social and cultural systems, they will be a framework of which Gosford will be able to build its city upon using Watt Street as a catalyst for achieving broader goals of Gosford as a sustainable regional city.

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View of Pedestrian Boulevard from overhead walkway Gosford Gallery of Contemporary Art forecourt and waterplay Community Urban Farm and Education Centre Eco- Spinam Masterplan Sections demonstrating the atmospheric characteristics of Eco- Spinam

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Thomas Smith Email t.smithlandscaper@ymail.com Phone 0402 451 690

Conquering the Divide “Ability to conceive the site, less in terms of its limitations but more in its capacity to present new qualities of assemblage, linkage and orientation” David Leatherbarrow, Architectural Scholar By re-thinking Gosford waterfront’s divisive infrastructure how can the landscape re-configure itself to better connect with the city, natural setting and broader region? Gosford’s waterfront denotes a complex infrastructural typology where a piece of infrastructure becomes an irremovable element of the landscape. In conjunction with this strong arterial human service the waterfront edge encompasses a significant level change in landform, forcing design thought to embrace both typologies, leading to a confronting yet potentially inspirational landscape setting. Re-routing/ tunneling Dane Drive is the central design intervention of this project, overcoming the barrier effect the highway creates, whilst creating a landmark landscape node that will consist of

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a transparent and open War Memorial Park. The park has the ability to absorb Dane drive whilst transforming into an urban landscape terraced park with breathtaking views and ambiance. This will be a key juncture point that will transition the city to the waterfront, whilst standing as a sophisticated, active landscape. Key viewpoint/ transition corridors are central in encouraging and enforcing fluid movement/ access from the city through to the waterfront, whilst reinforcing accessibility. The project focused on the core objectives of activating the waterfront, linking city to waterfront and creating a vibrant regional destination, that all center on overcoming the barrier that is Dane Drive. These core objectives seek to build upon the good qualities as well as the unique opportunities of Gosford that include elevated views, unique landform edges and visual connections.

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North Entrance 3D perspective War Memorial Park views perspective drawing Southern Entrance 3D perspective War Memorial Park infrastructural section Mann Street Cultural Precinct Entrance and Civic Square link

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Harry Thomson Email harry@tfehunter.com.au Phone 0437 401 558

Beyond the City Façade My vision for the site within Gosford’s masterplan invites a multilayered flow of activity, focusing on the pedestrian activation of the city core. This invites people to flow in a much more erratic nature, untraceably through the permeable bottom levels of selected buildings between street and lane. This alone is enough to encourage an economy through exposure and access to retail and hospitality but the proposal will further encourage this through landscape design targeting ‘intrigue’. Furthermore a city active with people rather than vehicle is much more inviting and intriguing from the outside, leaving it to grow exponentially on its own.

The word ‘intrigue’ holds a lot of power in this design, being the base of all attraction, everything within the design, being at such an intimate scale will portray an evocative element, eye catching and enough to inspire a sense of interest and discovery, hence as one travels throughout the

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site, they are overwhelmed with information and decisions leaving a consistently attractive space.

The underlying focus of the design is paraarchitecture. This is defined as elements that lay beyond or beside architecture, often declared to lack potential. It is this concept that takes these spaces and plants the necessary seeds that then triggers the urban dwellers intrigue as they investigate, arrange and develop the space to suit their comforts and wants, inevitably leading to a constantly evolving site and a personal level, one that ceases to retain its layered rigidity and consistently maintains the sense of intrigue and discovery of something new.

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Masterplan – Activation of hub within the wider Gosford Birds Eye View from atop North Western Building Detailed Cross Section looking South through site Mann Street Intimate Entrance Condition and Streetscape Revitalisation AAFrom commercial Entrance, Facades draw intrigue into site.

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Thomas Walker Email tomgeorgewalker@gmail.com

Narara Corridor The distinctive natural setting of Gosford makes it a special and unique place, though the city centre is somewhat disconnected from the surrounding natural world, and many environmental problems have brought about the demise of the sensitive environments within Gosfords catchment area.

The Narara Corridor is a response to preserve the Narara Creek and its Ecological Communities from the growing pressures of urban sprawl, ultimately saving its Natural Beauty and ecological value from destruction. The environmental scheme proposes a trajectory along which people of Gosford can reintegrate with the natural environment located within and around the Narara Creek. Acknowledgment of the significance of the Narara Creek catchment drives the design development of a intelligible master

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plan aimed to establish major rehabilitation moves of the natural estuarine environment and related endangered vegetation types. The Project proposes to use existing public spaces within proximity of the existing urban and industrial fabric to create a sense of place and lead visitor away from the city and into beautiful Australian landscape. Site one being Gosford City Park and Site 2 Dell Reserve at the northern end of the Narara Creek, are to be of a Australian Native Parkland Design and serve as entry points to a proposed trail/boardwalk linking the two sites to each other and the foreshores of particularly high scenic value with included significant vegetation communities. A new level of ecological connectivity and community will be formed through this scheme to rehabilitate and re integrate nature with city.

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Master plan Site 1 plan - gosford city park Site 2 plan - dell reserve Dell reserve section Boardwalk - swamp mahogany (photography author)

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Cloris Jiahui Wang Email clorisw2010@hotmail.com Phone 0430 198 885

Narara Corridor The site of Baker Street and Gosford City Car Park area is currently taken as a lost space in city center, presenting challenges of low pedestrian accessibility, lifeless environment, topography and railway as barriers and social disconnection from greater community. However, the superior location of the site, the future blueprint of Gosford and existing constraints provides great opportunities for a new urban public domain.

The Fluidscape is a catalyst project as a gateway from nature to walking neighborhoods in a greater green belt connection plan and to give a dynamic travel experience and connection from Gosford Station to waterfront area. It seeks to activate the backstreet space and urban grey space, providing a pedestrian friendly environment, an eco-friendly and a vibrant destination for social interaction.

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Based on the existing form of the space, the Fluidscape seeks to integrate the urban voids and underutilized pocket space to the existing urban fabric by implementing green infrastructures, WSUD, evolving streetscapes, creating unique recreation place. This process of renovation is separated into stages, giving it potentials of temporary landscape art during the period of transformation and gives neighborhoods opportunities to give a hand and a voice in how their local built environment is shaped.

The Fluidscape will transfer this urban lost space into a new vibrant and multi-functional destination, performing as an ecological and social connection which integrates the site with surroundings for human experience.

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Extroverted Plaza and Core Connector to Places Hierarchy of Varying Levels Urban Void Activation - New Contemporary Art Space Illustrative Detail Site Plan Changing Experience through Fluidscape Sections and Water Interaction

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Connie Ye Email conniye@hotmail.com Phone 0430 304 990

Journey through Mann St Mann St was once a social and cultural significant street not only for Gosford but to Central Coast.

Over the past few decades, Gosford has suffered downturn and Mann St lost its importance place to its people. However, based on analysis of existing condition and character, the street offers great opportunity to be revitalized as a Great Street.

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Mann St will act as a main spine, providing a variety of experiences throughout the street from the moment you exit from the train station to all the way down to the waterfront. The new streetscape is not imposing a new character, but rather embracing the existing characters of Mann St; a street with social, cultural and historical significance.

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Section through Mann St Parklet on Mann St Section of Parklet Masterplan Section relating Gosdford station to Mann St

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Dai Zhang Email bellazhangdai@aliyun.com

Urban corridor + connection The Gosford city plays a key role in the region due to its strategic location as a central coast hub. This catalyst project consists of a public green component, and shared infrastructure component which incorporate the legible circulation and visual connection in and out of the site.

An active public space shall define the city, establishing the relationship between the built environment and people’s wellbeing. In this project, systems and strategies are expressed in ways that give the neighborhood an unique identity which engages the public with corridors and connections in both optical and haptical senses The neighborhood park is intended as an icon for a larger goal and concept of Gosford city. It will act as a catalyst for the city by providing the

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neighborhood with local cafés, outdoor activities and seatings, The extended green coverage is not only improving the streetscape with legible connection, but also providing habitat for many species.

Throughout time, the precinct will form the urban corridor with better-connected pedestrian network, and improved access to major streets. A well-defined streetscape will be established with hierarchical public space, a jogging path and a cycling track, which will also connect the city loop to improve the circulation.

A series of street furniture and signage will help to dress the neighborhood in a more welcome manner.

A green park will improve the connectivity and continuity of vegetation coverage to the local green context. Gosford has its vision of becoming a city that encourages a richer ‘life between the buildings’.

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Hand draw master plan and analytical diagrams montage of proposed Kibble park entrance on Mann street Improved streetscape of Donnason street Montage of existing Kibble entrance replacement Section of kibble park view on Mann street with planting decision and materials

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ALUMNI PROFILE

Elke Haege BLArch (2001) Owner, Elke Haege Landscape Architects “During my final year, I won an EDAW Summer Student Program in Colorado, USA and internship in London, UK. I have since worked for landscape architectural practices in both Sydney and Denmark. I opened my own practice, Elke Haege Landscape Architects, in 2009 and for the past five years I have been part of the executive committee for the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture (AILA NSW) as well as being on the national advisory panel for education of landscape architecture. I am also a part-time lecturer at UNSW and have lectured in the Diploma of Arboriculture course at Ryde TAFE. I chose the landscape architecture program as it is very highly regarded and recognised in the industry. I entered the Flemings Nursery International Student Design competition in my 3rd and 4th year, becoming a finalist both times. This was very exciting as it involved being flown to The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Festival to construct my designs and be part of the festival. I was

also awarded the UNSW High Achievers award in my final year at UNSW. The social life at UNSW is also very vibrant. I was lucky enough to represent the uni in ski racing and was part of the Ski Committee for three years which involved organising social ski tours as well as helping to organise the ski racing teams. I also represented UNSW in basketball and took part in UNSW’s swimming training program.

Since graduating I have continued my professional development, studying horticulture and arboriculture at Ryde TAFE. Career achievements include working on large scale master plans and public landscapes across Australia, Fiji, USA, Italy, UK, Denmark and China.

Whilst at Context Landscape Design, I had the privilege to work on the award winning heritage landscape design of Babworth House in Darling Point, NSW. I was part of the award winning team who put together the Audley Master Plan and Conservation Management Plan for the Royal National Park. I also had the opportunity to work on the Urban Design Award winning development for Australand and Cox Richardson Architects at Greenway Views.

My advice to anyone considering studying landscape architecture would be to choose an industry and profession that you are passionate about so that it will be a fulfilling experience.

Landscape architecture is not only about sympathetic design – it is about being good at communicating ideas, being creative and it is about understanding and respecting natural systems.”

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Faculty of Built Environment The University of New South Wales Online be.unsw.edu.au Phone +61 2 9385 4799 Email fbe@unsw.edu.au

2013 Landscape Architecture Final Year Studio