IN-habitat

IN-habitat

Can we modify this industrial landscape, to reveal its JOY, to all its future IN-habitats?

Joy/Xinyi Wang

Macro Background

urbanism lead to.....

population/environment

the role of development in cities; what's the issue?

Design will need.....

Context Map

Site Selection

WBPS & ITS SURROUNDING

• Import and Expoet Coal • Powerplant Operation For movies and magzines

Environment

A place where contains a lot of contaminated soil

Lack of Vegetation Cover

Requires more vegetation especially along circulation, streets,entrances,public plaza and many more.

Public Space

surrounds residential area are crowded while this Site has a large spare space without any function

Main Users:

• Workers ftom construction site

• Residents (Balmain mainly)

• Students (Landsacpe/Interior Architecture)

• Place not for people - hard to access

• Uncomfortable - within walking distance

Accessibility with New site development

Activity are restricted from WBPS

Excpet the environmental issue, why this space has been blocked?

New site development

• Microclimate enhancement

• Soil/Air purification

• Functional Uses

• Keep the View

Opportunity

To offer easier access from different direction so that all the generations could enjoy the new space.

Constraint

The circulation of surrounding and the site itself are all barriers for people to access currently

Constraint

The emptiness and the poor surrounding infrastructure, which will easily make visitors feel uncomfortable. (safety)

Opportunity

Wide cityview right in front of the WBPS. Try to keep the view for residents and park.

Opportunity

The space itself offers people a feeling of refuge with its shape of topography and white bay power station as background.

Major constraints & opportunities

Constraint

To purify the contaminated soil will require a certain time, and the plants selection will be limited at early stage.

Opportunity

The story of toxic land condition could be used as educational function for future design.

Can we modify this industrial landscape, to reveal its JOY, to all its future IN-habitats?

Environment : Preservation

• Purify the contaminated environment.(air, underground)

• Education while playing (from the site topography itself)

Ecosystem : New Habitat

• Built new habitat for local pollinators

• Pollinator-friendly play journey

Human : New Living / Activity Space

• Place for activity

• lifestyle for all generation

• Access to nature

Phase 1

Phase 2 Phase 3

Phase 1

Environment : Preservation

• Helping the land regeneration.

• Education while playing (from the site topography itself)

Phytoremediation and Testing Plants

Specific Plants are used to absorb the Contaminants

Contaminated Soil without any Microbes

Phytoremediation requires a long term practice

Moves Planting, Replanting, Collecting

Testing of different type of plants

Testing for Succession Planting

Start and Overay and Testing:

• Short Term (pioneer) System

• Long Term System

Intermediate Stages

Success of Climax Community

After 2028 Metro Station

Opened, basic road constrction will finished before 2035

Take out the polluted plants and replace them

Main Moves

Planting, Replanting, Collecting

Still Large Amount of pollutant haven't been purified between the 10 years

While pollinators would help the environment regeration to speed up.

Pollinators: How? What do they need?

Why do we need to lift up the topo on environment side?

Lift up the level of part of land then put clean soil in

Clean soil for better pollinator friendly environment

2045/50 Topography Construction

Backfill and construction of topography

Native Plants: Glycine clandestina

In 20 Yrs

have more of a chance of having a developed planting composition on the site

What changes overtime?

Specific plants continuing to purify the soil

Meeting Plaza Construction

Basic functions could provide

Horizontal:

Vertical:

Rised topography with clean soil for more native plants

Plants used for contaminated soil

Dense trees absorbs co2

Buildings as sound wall absorbs noise

Lift up the centre area where most contaminated

Circulation

Buildings as sound wall absorbs noise

Contaminants Plants absorb pollutants

Illustrative section

Horizontal:

Phase 2

Ecosystem : New Habitat

• Built new habitat for local pollinators

• Pollinator-friendly play journey

2030/35 Reseved Habitat for Pollinators

To speed up habitat's recovery, as metro traffic begins in 2028, barely no target species at present.

2045/50 Reseved Habitat for Pollinators

WIth rised up topography and new native spicies, start to built a pollinator friendly garden with their foods and refuges.

What Changes Over Time?

A stable plant ecosystem is created with different flowering plants throughout the whole day and all season.

A More Resilient Habitat

What Changes Over Time?

A Pollinator-friendly Play Journey

Keep the view from harbour

Being in

Phase 3

Human: New Living/Activity Space

• Access to nature

• Lifestyle for all generations

• Place for activity

Main Moves

Programs

Main Moves

A Place Belongs to Everyone

Learn from the history of coal... Reference:

Instead of phase out, its now ‘phase down’ 1

Inspiration of Shapes Shape from the history

Program Location Plan

The Hope Garden

• Safety

• Aesthetic

• Survelliance 0 5 10

Existing Material