Studio 02

The Bradmill Cotton Factory

Nano Langenheim and Cosmo Darby

This studio is available to students enrolled in ABPL90176 Landscape Architecture Studio 2.

Studio Description

Streets are complex, crucial and yet often inhospitable public spaces. The design of Melbourne’s streetscapes has traditionally focused on the efficient movement of private motorised transport, drainage and services. The pipe and pit stormwater systems of Melbourne’s street network, a crowning glory of 29^th century urban design is often overwhelmed by today’s conditions, such as increased development pressure, and more intense, flashier storm events, resulting in frequent flood. In this studio, we will reimagine streetscapes in Melbourne’s fast growing Western suburbs, coupling street redesign opportunities to the redevelopment proposal for the 26ha heritage listed Bradmill cotton factory manufacturing site in Yarraville, Maribyrnong. In this studio we ask: What is the future street?

Studio Outcomes

Streets are challenging spaces to change as multiple complex and dynamic systems, both built and natural, are at play on multiple times frames both above and below ground. The aim of this studio is to investigate the opportunity redevelopment represents for improvement and change to the adjacent street network. Students will work with the complexities of heritage preservation (HO) (environmental audit overlays (EAO), land subject to inundation (LSIO), special building overlays (SBO), underground structures, soil contamination and post-industrial housing development.

This foundation 300p MLA studio encompasses a six-week computational skilling component which will lead students through the fundamentals of three primary data and design modelling techniques.

1. Accessing, processing and working with data from multiple fields including planning, transport and topography (GIS)
2. Understanding and drawing surface and subsurface street construction through sectional profiles (Autodesk Civil3D)
3. Visualising design propositions through 3D modelling, rendering and particle-based simulation of water flow (Autodesk 3Ds Max and Chaos Group PhoenixFD)

Studio Leaders

Dr Nano Langenheim is a lecturer in landscape architecture and urban design. She is a registered landscape architect, with a long practice background, a qualified horticulturist and arborist. Her research and teaching focus on development of innovative procedural landscape and urban system modelling methods, geospatial data visualisation, and knowledge transfer techniques to support multidisciplinary design decision-making.

Cosmo Darby is a Landscape Architect at Rush Wright Associates, where he works on across precinct wide works, streetscapes, parks and campuses. Cosmo has particular interests in 3D and procedural modelling, incorporating spatial data into real world projects, simulation of water systems, as well as visualising and procedurally texturing designs. His educational background includes a Juris Doctor before completing a Masters in Landscape Architecture

Readings & References

• https://maribyrnonghobsonsbay.starweekly.com.au/news/bradmill-redevelopment-plan/
• Davison, Graeme. Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities. NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2004.
• Dover, Victor, and John Massengale. Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
• Dunne, Anthony, and Fiona Raby. Speculative Everything : Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. WorldCat Holdings. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2013.
• Jacobs, Allan B. Great Streets. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1993.
• Jaluzot, A, S James, and M Pauli. “Trees in the Townscape: A Guide for Decision Makers, Trees and Design Action Group,” 2012.
• March, Lionel. Urban Space and Structures. Edited by Leslie Martin. New Ed edition. London: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
• NACTO. National Association of City Transportation Officials: Urban Street Design Guide. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2013.
• Schlossberg, Marc, William Riggs, Adam Millard-Ball, and Elizabeth Shay. “Rethinking the Street: Era of Driverless Cars.” University of Oregon, 2018.
• Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 1997.

Schedule Mondays 0900-12:00 and 12:15-15:15 in MSD 146 and Online

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