AG R I -TOUR I SM AEROTROPOLIS
ZISHENG LIN YULEI GU Y U F O R F R A N C I S TA M XUETING ZHAN
SUPERVISOR
Mike Harris PICTURED
1. Structure and Masterplan (Luddenham and South Creek)
The Agri-Tourism Aerotropolis proposal has a major focus on the Tourism cluster design at Luddenham and the Town Centre cluster at North Bringelly. The size of the design proposal is about 3,900 hectares. The design explores agriculture and tourism as key economic drivers and creates an urban development with strong sense of the distinctive landscape of western Sydney. The Agri-Tourism Aerotropolis proposal uses a green corridor network to contain both recreation and agricultural uses. The corridor design particularly expresses the agricultural character of the site, and connects both clusters. Moreover, it provides a sensitive solution to adapt the existing agricultural businesses on site. The tourism cluster, designed as a new tourist destination, provides supportive services for the western Sydney tourism system such as accommodation, leisure, recreation and public transportation. The town centre cluster creates a diverse residential area to adapt to different groups of residents, and also an employment centre that focuses on providing infrastructures to serve the airport and site-related industries, such as logistic and agricultural services.
2. Tourism resort aerial perspective with airport vision 3. Urban daily life aerial perspective with urban agriculture 4. Tourism and urban agriculture experience montages
Overall, Agri-Tourism Aerotropolis demonstrates a design strategy that communicates with the Blue Mountain and Sydney at masterplan scale. At detail scale it develops two clusters to satisfy the demand from two new major projected user groups – tourists and new local residents. The proposal also represents the image of Badgerys Creek by displaying the identity of the site in the design.
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