Bingnuan Liu

Regathering in Distance

St Albans, a Melbourne western suburb, just ended a 155-days locked-down. Covid-19 not only infect-ed 624 people in the community but also caused concern among residents about the public health safety of public indoor spaces. The long term locked-down policy increased residential demand for more parkland and safe outdoor facilities.

The site used to be a landfill in the community and now  is going to closed due to the complaining of community.

The design will change the way people think about urban space in the post-Covid era, especially those locked down public places that were once locked down and considered as unsafe.  Parkland will become an important place to support the local economy and regather people safely.

To covert the existing landfill into a new landscape, the design carried on two precedents, the La Villette Park and Freshkill Park, which have been proved to change the idea of urban parks. Both parks used a matrix to solve specific issues.