Reflecting and Connecting
The idea of the docklands historical personality was initiated through study of the sites historical forms and past processes. Relating this to future demands of sustainable living, design intentions revolved around the idea of connecting people with the past as a way of providing for the future. To achieve intended design programme spatial forms would reflect those from the past.
Visualising the design the overall structure formulated a rigid, linear layout that presented a central village that stretched across the waterscape. Consisting of forms catering for retail, shopping, food production and parkland the designed landscape enables integration of surrounding local communities for enjoyment of the landscape as part of their day-to-day life routines.
Studying design success the program proposes opportunities for sustainable living, a landscape that connects surrounding contexts to a central sustainable hub. Reflecting the docklands busy industrial past, design attempts to replicate the pasts busy dockland community through a new village that will attract large volumes of people from local and regional contexts, through leisure and recreational services. Concerned with environmental impacts design has incorporated a minimalistic structure of wetlands and marshlands that will enable systems of water cleansing and food production to sit within a functional sustainable system that cohesively addresses ongoing issues of climate change. Past functions of the docks gave over space for production, providing urban populations with food produce, materials and employment. Therefore involving such elements within this green infrastructure will provide economic, social and environmental advances that benefit future demands.
A glimpse at Design Process
