Unravelling Urban Design project 2
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- 1. PROJECT 2 | SOME AGGREGATED ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN PYRMONT
PRECINCT COFA 0922 UNRAVELLING URBAN DESIGN Suek Yi Sue LIM 3343577
Ka Long Bryan WONG 3359086
- 2. PART A PYRMONT PRECINCT OBSERVATION & RECORDINGS
SELECTED ISSUES & SWOT ANALYSIS Pirrama Park Melcalfe Park
Ballaarat Park and waterfront Pirrama Road near James Watkinson
Reserve Cliff
- 3. Pyrmont Pyrmont is located in between the Sydney CBD and
among the some of the densest residential suburbs in Sydney,
including Rozelle and Glebe; Pyrmont could somehow classified as a
transitional area between the two. It contains diversity of public
spaces, landuses, buildings, and people. It has a long history of
being an industrial area providing a built environment with
different range of remained heritage buildings. Together with the
unique landscape, a huge cliff on the northern part, it has some
different identity to the other suburbs. Today it is mainly known
by The Star City Casino, being the major landmark of Pyrmont. The
area selected is the eastern part of Pyrmont, including The Star
City, the harbor or wraft region, Pirrama Park, Pirrama Road and
the existing boardwalk. For the purpose of this project, our team
examine how each space work out as a public domain, and how each
space is related to each other or could be. We also examine the
intimate relationship between the programs of space to be provided
could be closely relate to what is needed by the people living in
the area, and close observations of peoples activities and behavior
while being in each space. OBSERVATION & RECORDINGS
- 4. OBSERVATION & RECORDINGS
- 5. OBSERVATION & RECORDINGS
- 6. Green spaces, Vegetation Green Space has a large proportion
and located separetaly to serve people from different areas Street
trees help the inner part of Pyrmont, where not much green space is
located Built Form There is not a building grain in the area.
Buildings are built according to the landscape so that there are
different orientations and shapes OBSERVATION & RECORDINGS
- 7. OBSERVATION & RECORDINGS Green Open Space There are four
parks in the area, namely, Pyrmont Bay Park, Metcalfe Park ,
Ballaarat Park and Pirrama park. Pyrmont Bay Park and Pirrama Park
are more popular than the other two Parks are lack of activities
Heritage Most of the heritages in this area are occupied, and the
biggest one is the Jones Bay Wharf, a commercial centre
- 8. OBSERVATION & RECORDINGS Commercial Mixed Use
Residential Public Recreational Currrent Building and Landuse There
are great variety of landuse, namely, commercial, residential,
mixed useand open space. Mostly in this area is commercial and
mixed use space. There may be issue between residential and
commercial areas, between public and private spaces as there are
not many buffering in between Building Height Most buildings are
30m so there are not many view obstructions
- 9. OBSERVATION & RECORDINGS High Pedestrian Movement Low
Medium Pedestrians Density and its relationship with range of
attractions The Stat City basically hold most of the people from
CBD, and residents mostly spend their time in Piramma Park Other
areas are being underused Pedestrian movement People mainly move
around the Star City and do not go further to the space surround
Roads are not favouring and guiding human movement to the open
spaces
- 10. OBSERVATION & RECORDINGS Existing boardwalk promenade
The existing promenade along the water edge breaks in some area so
that it weaken the circulations in nearby areas
- 11. SELECTED ISSUES & SWOT ANALYSIS Propose boardwalk
promenade extention Bind the broken promenades together to continue
the circulation along the water edge from barangaroo throughout the
whole Pyrmont
- 12. Lack of Activity Discourage Human Movement Strength
Landscape that adapt to its existing levelchange and contribute to
the identity ofPyrmont Heritage buildings are remained, giving
theplace sense of its origin and value Great complexity in uses,
working together togive variety of activities Weakness Inefficient
Access between higher and lowerground No disable access Number of
public spaces are underuse, giventhat pedestrians are generally
attacrted to the main attractions Poor circulation, failing to lead
people to the public space where good views are located Our team
decided to selected 4 sites out of the entire context, and closely
examine its existing built environment, observe peoples daily use
of the space. Pirrama Park Ballaarat Park and waterfront Metcalfe
Park Pirrama Road (near James Watkinson Reserve Cliff) SELECTED
ISSUES & SWOT ANALYSIS
- 13. Opportunity Continuity of the circulation along the water
edge, by extending and continuing the boardwalk Enriching Pirrama
Road and enhancing the movement to Pirrama Park Water facility
could be installed along the boardwalk, to further extend publics
experience with the harbor Relocation of Boat parking can provide
bettervision to the harbour and Barangaroo Relationship between
each proposed space Proposal of each public space could
furtherimprove the pedestrian experience through Pyrmont Threat
Resident may be disturbed if there are too manyactivities assigned
nearby View will be blocked if extra elements are being place
un-strategically SELECTED ISSUES & SWOT ANALYSIS
- 14. Facilities included SELECTED ISSUES & SWOT ANALYSIS
Accessibility Relationship to surrounding park and existing
boardwalk Flexible access for all Reintroduce Pedestrian Movement
Directing boardwalk pedestrian into underuse space View Pirrama
Park
- 15. Facilities included SELECTED ISSUES & SWOT ANALYSIS
Metcalfe Park Accessibility Relationship to surrounding streets and
boardwalk Built Environment and Height Relationship to surrounding
build- ings facade and height View
- 16. SELECTED ISSUES & SWOT ANALYSIS Ballaarat Park and
waterfront Extending Waterfront Edge View Accessibility and
relationship to harbor Extension of boardwalk experience through
introducing new public domain Facilities included
- 17. SELECTED ISSUES & SWOT ANALYSIS Pirrama Road (near
James Watkinson Reserve Cliff) Accessibility Relationship to
adjacent street Public and disable access from higher ground level
to lower Flexibility and adaptibility of the use of public stair
Relationship to surrounding build- ings and facade View Potential
viewing platform along the accessibility route proposed Facilities
included
- 18. PART B PYRMONT PRECINCT | Re-Design Pirrama Park Melcalfe
Park Ballaarat Park and waterfront Pirrama Road near James
Watkinson Reserve Cliff
- 19. Re-Design Pirrama Park Careful examination of design of the
seating through an understanding of what people do or behave in
such open space The design of the seating relates to the
understanding of human proportions and its scale to the selected
site The design of the bench not only serve as seats, but also
install with some fixtures, for example, BBQ facility, swings and
other features for children, frame for photo taking, art elements,
in a way that read as a large piece of sculpture within the area,
but not moving any trees
- 20. Re-Design Pirrama Park
- 21. Re-Design Pirrama Park
- 22. Metcalfe Park Re-Design Strengthen the linkage between
streets and promenade by putting pavement in the park Mainly
divided into 3 areas, namely Playground and Resting area, Sport
area and Mixed area, so that more variety of activity can be
attained Some interesting canopies and shading panels are installed
in reference to the existing shading device, so as to shade the
western sun and give a interesting shadow casting on the ground A
large levelled seat area is put on the west side of the park in
order to provide seat for people to enjoy the view of Barangaroo
and provide a underneath space for the public toilet
- 23. Metcalfe Park Re-Design Precedent Park in Mollet, Enric
Miralles
- 24. Ballaarat Park and Waterfront Re-Design Create an extension
of the park as a public pool area in Jones Bay for mainly the
resident nearby. It also improves the relationship of context wharf
bays in term of planning Extend the public experience of boardwalk
and enhance the quality of the harbor
- 25. Ballaarat Park and Waterfront Re-Design
- 26. Pirrama Road (near James Watkinson Reserve Cliff) Re-Design
Create a public access, as well as disable access, between the
upper and lower part of the cliff Caf is put beside the cliff as
part of the public stair, providing more activity and good use of
the area (Daytime: Caf,Night time: Restaurant and Bar) Some art
pieces and irregular shading panel are put beside the sitting area
of the caf in order to boost the enjoyment of the people using the
space Trees are planted in between the resident building and the
caf as a buffer Cycling track has been installed on the other side
of the road, favouring the human movement by bike
- 27. Pirrama Road (near James Watkinson Reserve Cliff)
Re-Design
- 28. Re-Design Before Piramma Park
- 29. Re-Design After Piramma Park
- 30. Re-Design Before Metcalfe Park
- 31. Re-Design After Metcalfe Park
- 32. Re-Design Before Pirrama Road (near James Watkinson Reserve
Cliff)
- 33. Re-Design After Pirrama Road (near James Watkinson Reserve
Cliff)
- 34. Re-Design Before Ballaarat Park
- 35. Re-Design After Ballaarat Park