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FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE AND VISUAL ARTS The University of Western Australia Landscape Architecture LACH3300 Semester One 2007 Suburban Studio

Karl Kullmann

S u b u r b a n S t u d i o > L A C H 3 3 0 0 > S e m e s t e r I 2 0 0 7 > K a r l K u l l m a n n 2

Contents INTRODUCTION TO STUDIO

Studio Description Coordinator Assistants

Studio Times Extra Consultation Communication Policies GOALS & OBJECTIVES

Main Intentions of Unit UNIT STRUCTURE/FORMATS

Class Types Venue Attendance Materials/Equipment

RESOURCES

Recommended Reading Server

ASSESSMENT Mechanisms Group Work Learning Outcomes & Assessment Criteria

UNIT SCHEDULE DESIGN PROJECT

Project Client Site Directions Site Extent Site Description Background Design Brief

DESIGN PROGRAM & PARAMETERS Land Use Amenity Circulation Parameters

PHASES & DELIVERABLES

Research / Analysis (by group work) Suburban Transect Structure Plan Master plan POS Design Refinement Final Drawing Set

FOLIO

Interim Folio Final Folio


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INTRODUCTION TO STUDIO Studio Description The Suburban Studio concerns the built environment, places where most Australians live.

It offers design projects which challenge the structural and aesthetic orthodoxy of contemporary suburbia. The studio fosters a critical attitude and cultivates innovative design proposals and design experimentation. Carefully choreographed relationships between built and open space, between public and private land, and between large and small scales are explored.

Coordinator Karl Kullmann > Room 4.17 > ph 6488 2585 > [email protected] Assistant Nicole de la Motte Studio Times Day Time Staff Monday 10:00am–1:00pm & 1:30–3:30pm Karl Thursday 2:00–6:00pm Karl + Nicole (4:00–6:00pm)

Session times may vary depending on the agenda for the day, in which case students will be notified by flyer and/or email. For example, individual appointments with Karl may start earlier, so there should be enough flexibility built in to accommodate students with other commitments.

Extra Consultation Thursday 10am–12pm Communication Communication will occur by email, so all students should ensure that they activate their

Pheme account and student email account, and check their account regularly (at least weekly). Furthermore, students are to communicate with University staff ONLY through their student email account (staff have been advised not to respond by email to any other addresses).

Policies Policy and Procedural information for the Faculty is available on the web at

www.alva.uwa.edu.au/current_students/forms_and_policies. Included are specific policies and guidelines regarding extensions, late work, digital submission, and academic conduct

___________________________________________________________________________________________ GOALS & OBJECTIVES Main Intentions of Unit

Students are able to produce: (1) Designs which take a philosophical and ethical position in regard to the socio-political, ecological and aesthetic roles of landscape architecture. Students gain the ability to apply historical, theoretical and technical knowledge to design. (2) Designs which illustrate a basic working knowledge of materials and construction techniques. Students gain the ability to negotiate and resolve complex site planning issues and developmental programmes. (3) Design diaries which disclose a willingness to engage with experimental design processes and self-directed research. Students give representations of final designs which utilise sophisticated manual and computerised graphic techniques.

___________________________________________________________________________________________ UNIT STRUCTURE/FORMATS Class Types desk crits, group crits, group discussion, pin ups, juries Venue Group Sessions: 4.11 + Seminar Room (TBA)

Individual appointments: 4.17 (Karl’s office) Attendance it is in your best interests to attend all formal sessions, as there is a direct statistical

correlation between availing oneself to staff feedback and folio results. Please note that


attendance records are kept throughout semester, although if you miss a session or two it is not the end of the world, so long as it does not become habitual. If you are late or unable to make a pre-booked individual appointment with the coordinator or assistants, please notify Karl so you do not waste the staff’s precious time. If you know in advance email is best, or if the session has already started use text messaging.

Materials/Equipment Expense Amount Covered by

Site visits (fuel) $15 student Consumables (CDs, paper etc) $50 student Folio production $200 student

Digital data $15 faculty _________________________________________________________________________________________ RESOURCES Reader (available from Resource Room)

Hedgecock, D., The Evolution of Suburban Landscapes: Battling the bush to the battle for the bush (draft) Weller, R., Landscape (sub)urbanism in Theory: Towards a theory and practice of landscape architecture in regard to the contemporary suburban condition (draft, Landscape Journal)

Recommended Reading Corner, J., ed. 'Recovering Landscape as a Critical Practice', Recovering Landscape: Princeton Architectural Press 1999 Lang, P. and Miller, T., eds Suburban Discipline: Princeton Architectural Press 1997 Rowe, P. G. Making a Middle Landscape: MIT Press 1991 Smiley, D. J., ed. Sprawl and Public Space: Redressing the Mall: Princeton Architectural Press 2002 Wilson, A. The Culture of Nature; North American Landscape from Disney to Exxon Valdez: Blackwell 1992

Server Topographical CAD data Student Resources/LACH3300_SUBURBAN STUDIO Digital aerial photo


___________________________________________________________________________________________ ASSESSMENT Mechanisms Component type Weighting Submission Date Interim Assessment Folio 30% Wednesday 4th April 3-4pm

Final Assessment Folio 70% Friday 1st June 3-4pm Group work Project and site background research will be undertaken in groups in the first week of

semester. Learning Outcomes & Assessment Criteria

AREAS OF PERFORMANCE

OUTCOME STATEMENTS ASSESSMENT CRITERIA aligned to outcomes

CONCEPT

Innovation, speculation, poetics

Develop awareness of the forces that shape suburban & urban landscapes and become familiar with the sources and application of specialist information and expertise with regard to innovative design responses applicable to suburban landscapes. Reconcile divergent factors and integrate domains of knowledge in the articulation of an suburban or urban landscape architectural proposition.

Demonstration of capacity for critical engagement in the design process and an engagement with the issues pertaining to the urban design brief and the machinations of the city in general.

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

refinement, resolution, completeness

Resolve masterplanning and more detailed design proposals for suburban & urban landscapes.

Demonstration of thorough investigation of suburban or urban typologies and an engagement with design processes that manifest this in clear, accountable and innovative design proposals.

TECHNICAL INTEGRATION

Tectonics, environmental, sustainability

Develop a design proposal that incorporates technical, social and environmental areas of study in regard to suburban or urban contexts.

Demonstration of basic knowledge of the limitations ands conditions governing the production of suburban or urban landscape architecture.

CONTEXTUAL AWARENESS

Social, ethical, historico-theoretical and ecological

Acknowledge the landscape architect’s roles and responsibilities in professional design teams and the social, ethical and ecological responsibilities impacting upon production of landscape architecture with regard to suburban or urban contexts.

Demonstration of professional awareness and of the need to sustain the natural and the built environment.

COMMUNICATION & PRESENTATION

Produce clear and accurate descriptions of a landscape architectural proposal in regard to suburban or urban contexts and apply design skills and technical knowledge towards the deployment of a comprehensive landscape architectural vocabulary.

Demonstration of command of landscape architectural representation that is clear, accurate, accountable and compelling with regard to suburban or urban contexts.


UNIT SCHEDULE

Please note that in order to allow the studio to develop to its full potential, the schedule is subject to change. The Studio Guide will be amended to reflect any changes and reissued in full or part in advance.

Week Date Day Time Venue Staff Contact Type Agenda Additional Notes Phases & Key Deadlines

Feb 26 Mon 10am – 3:30pm 4.11 KK All students Studio + Phase 1 Introduction (Research / Analysis) + group allocation

Arrange to visit site Begin studio readings 1

March 1 Thurs 2 – 6pm 4.17 KK + NdM Group by appointment Research progress

March 5 Mon 10am – 3:30pm 4.11 KK All students Phase 1 Presentation Phase 2 Introduction (Suburban Transect)

Issue Karl with presentations for copying onto server as studio resource

1. RESEARCH PHASE PRESENTATION 2

March 8 Thurs 2 – 6pm 4.17 KK + NdM Individual by appointment Transect progress

March 12 Mon 10am – 3:30pm 4.11 KK All Students Pin up

3 March 15 Thurs 2 – 6pm 4.17 KK + NdM Individual by appointment Transect progress

March 19 Mon 10am – 3:30pm 4.11 KK All Students Phase 2 Presentation Phase 3 Introduction (Structure Plan)

2. TRANSECT PHASE PRESENTATION

March 21 Wed 3–4pm 4.17 PHASE 1 & 2 SUBMISSION INTERIM SUBMISSION (30%) 4 March 22 Thurs 2 – 6pm 4.17 KK + NdM Individual by appointment Concept design progress

March 26 Mon 10am – 3:30pm 4.11 KK All Students Pin up Return of Interim Assessment Forms (by Email) 5

March 29 Thurs 2 – 6pm 4.17 KK + NdM Individual by appointment Concept design progress

April 2 Mon 10am – 3:30pm 4.11 KK All Students Phase 3 Presentation Phase 4 Introduction (Master Plan)

3. STRUCTURE PLAN PHASE PRESENTATION

6 April 5 Thurs 2 – 6pm 4.17 KK + NdM Individual by appointment Developed design progress

SB April 12 Thurs 2 – 6pm 4.17 KK + NdM Individual by appointment Developed design progress

April 16 Mon 10am – 3:30pm 4.11 KK All Students Pin up


April 23 Mon 10am – 3:30pm 4.11 KK All Students Informal round table


April 30 Mon 10am – 3:30pm 4.11 KK All Students Phase 4 Presentation Phase 5 Introduction (POS Design Refinement)

4. MASTER PLAN PHASE PRESENTATION 9

May 3 Thurs 2 – 6pm 4.17 KK + NdM Individual by appointment POS design progress Return of Written Feedback Forms (by Email)

May 7 Mon 10am – 3:30pm 4.11 KK All Students Pin up

10 May 10 Thurs 2 – 6pm 4.17 KK + NdM Individual by appointment POS design progress

May 14 Mon 10am – 3:30pm 4.11 KK All Students Phase 5 Presentation Phase 6 Introduction (Final Drawing Set)

5. POS DESIGN REFINEMENT PHASE PRESENTATION

11 May 17 Thurs 2 – 6pm 4.17 KK + NdM Individual by appointment Revision / refinement / visualisation / production SURF & SPOT Surveys (TBC)

May 21 Mon 10am – 3:30pm 4.11 KK All Students Informal round table

12 May 24 Thurs 2 – 6pm 4.17 KK + NdM Individual by appointment Visualisation / production

May 28 Mon 2 – 6pm 4.17 KK + NdM Individual by appointment Visualisation / production

6. VISUALISATION PHASE

FW June 1 Fri 3–4pm TBA PHASE 3, 4, 5, & 6 FOLIO SUBMISSION

FINAL SUBMISSION (70%)


DESIGN PROJECT BRIEF

Project Ocean Reef Redevelopment

Client Department of Planning & infrastructure + City of Joondalup (both hypothetically)

Site Ocean Reef Marina, Whitfords Sea Sports Club, and Surrounds

Directions Take Freeway North to Hodges Drive exit. Head West (left) over Marmion Avenue to Ocean Reef Road intersection. Marina Entrance is 200m to the south.


Site Description “The Ocean Reef Marina Redevelopment site is located on the coast at Ocean Reef and comprises approximately 46 hectares in total area. The site currently consists of a boat launching facility, parking for vehicles and boat trailers, reserves, freehold land and the sea sports and rescue club.”

Site Extents To be discussed in studio. Background Studies and surveys undertaken by the Department of Planning and Infrastructure have

identified that in the coming years Ocean Reef Marina will not be able to cope with demand nor public expectations of what a recreational harbour should provide. Consequently, you have been engaged by Landcorp to prepare a Master Plan for the Ocean Reef Marina Redevelopment.

A guiding document reads:

“This project focuses on identifying a concept design and structure plan for Ocean Reef Marina to meet the lifestyle needs of the region, promote economic development and protect the environment in a sustainable way. Essentially, this will broadly identify what should be included in the development such as boat pens, recreation areas, natural bushland, restaurants and shops, low, medium and high density residential, and special research and entertainment facilities. Physical development of the site will be a future project after Council has agreed the best way for development to move forward.”

(As this is a hypothetical project designed to maximise student’s educational experience, we will not be presenting to the relevant government agencies. However, as users of public space and residents of Perth, you are amply informed to design appropriately for the site.)

Design Brief The briefing that you have received from the Client is ambitious and intensive. It is envisaged that the site develop a profile which announces the area’s lifestyle opportunities to visitors. The waterfront is to provide excellent opportunities for recreation, education, contemplation, fitness, play, and observation. Using words like “world class,” “visionary,” and “rivalling the great urban waterfronts of Europe,” the brief requests that you deliver an exceptional product which will be the envy of local municipalities everywhere. A comprehensive design brief will be issued in studio.

DESIGN PROGRAM & PARAMETERS Land Use Residential include a suitable balance of High (R80), Medium (R40) and Low

(R20) densities Commercial office and business floor space

Retail necessity and specialty shops as appropriate

Entertainment pubs, cafes, restaurants


Research marine research facility Recreation specialist sporting facilities such as yacht club

Public Open Space occupying 10 - 12%of total project

Bush Forever Reserve occupying 40% of total project Amenity Car parking of sufficient scope and location as appropriate to your scheme –

includes cars with boat trailers Boat launching Ramps of sufficient scope and location as appropriate to your scheme Mooring Pens of sufficient scope and location as appropriate to your scheme Circulation Vehicular traffic logic and hierarchy of non-vehicular movement across the site –

includes cars with boat trailers Pedestrian circulation and experience

Service access entry and passage for delivery, maintenance & emergency

vehicles

Parameters Seawall the outer sea wall of the existing marina should be retained as the

seaward extent of the design Topography attempt to keep bulk earthworks to a minimum PHASES & DELIVERABLES

The Semester will be parcelled into 6 distinct phases: Research/Analysis, Suburban Transect, Concept Master Plan, Developed Master Plan, POS Design Refinement, and Final Drawing Set. Each phase is associated with a presentation as indicated in the unit schedule. Phases 1, & 2 will be formally submitted and assessed in week 4, while phases 3, 4, 5, & 6 will be submitted and assessed as part of the final folio in week 13.

PHASE 1 Research / Analysis (by group work) As the Client has not engaged other consultants previously, there is little preparatory work

available and as such you are required to begin your process from scratch. This means undertaking general research and site analysis, before beginning the design process.

Produce concise representations of the research material; try to represent all findings

graphically, and if possible to map onto the site, even better. Keep text to a minimum. Collate information into a concise presentation package suitable for digital projection. Each student should include a hard copy of their entire group’s work in their folio.

1. Climatic Prevailing winds, seasonal shifts, storm events, sun angles, aspect analysis (Bureau of Meteorology)

2. Historical History of the Marina and vicinity (City of Joondalup) 3. Contextual Site in its context, relationship to residential and commercial

centres; infrastructure, amenity, current land use (Fieldwork, interface with planning group)

4. Comparative Study of comparative marinas – Hillarys and Mindarie (City of

Joondalup, fieldwork)


5. Marine Boating infrastructure, tidal levels, wave impact, Marine Park,

(Department of Planning & Infrastructure) 6. Ecological Existing vegetation inventory, indigenous geomorphologies and

vegetation reconstruction (Fieldwork, Department of Environment & Conservation)

7. Planning Planning policies, strategies, visions. Zoning designations (City of

Joondalup, WAPC, DPI, DEC) 8 Cultural Site and coast usage, activity, visitations, current and projected

populations and demographics (observation, Australian Bureau of Statistics)

9. Suburban Dream How developers sell the dream, branding, lifestyle, brochures

(developers, land releases)

PHASE 2 Suburban Transect

Each student will be assigned a study site situated on a line between Doubleview and Hamilton Hill. The Transect covers a board range of suburban conditions and styles from the last 100yrs. Each site should be visited, photographed and documented using the cadastre and planimetry proved. When viewed together, the Suburban Transect becomes a crash course in the Perth Suburban Condition. Further details to be discussed in studio.

PHASE 3 Structure Plan This marks the beginning of the formal design phases, although if you are a motivated (or

rather obsessed) designer, the design process will already be underway from week 1. Think in clear schematic moves, rather than detail at this stage. Be prepared to pursue alternatives on the advice of staff and accept that the process will probably not be linear. Once you have an agreed strategy/vision/idea for the site, the process of developing this into a concept design begins.

The role of the Structure Plan is to clearly convey your overall vision and organisational strategy for the site. The Structure Plan should address the strategic, thematic and technical requirements of the brief and the physicality of the site. All zone and elements should be located and work in principal. The Structure Plan drawing need not be immaculate for the interim submission as it will continue to be further refined for the final submission. Nevertheless, the drawing should do justice to the clarity of your concept and spatial organisation.

PHASE 4 Master Plan

This phase involves ironing out the discrepancies of the concept design whilst refining it to a virtually documentable level of detail and accuracy. Further details to be discussed in studio.

PHASE 5 POS Design Refinement

The final design phase of the project involves elaborating on the design of the Public Open Space as identified and arranged in your Master Plan. The extent, scope, and scale of this phase is dependant on the structure of individual designs and will be discussed and negotiated in studio.

PHASE 6 Final Drawing Set Herein lie the ultimate results of your semester’s toil: the Final Drawing Set will be used to

judge the success or otherwise of your design project. The challenge of this phase is to produce drawings which are at once beautiful and precise; the design precision and technical (and legal) correctness inherent in your earlier drawings should be combined with


artful representation which communicates the ‘atmosphere’ of your scheme across all scales and angles.

A simple criteria that I find useful is the “proximity test”; that is, from a distance your drawings should leap off the page and draw the (re)viewer in. From up close, the same drawings should reveal an unequivocal exactitude. The Final Drawing Set should comprise the drawings listed below. How these drawings are curated onto sheets, and the medium(s) you work in, are up to you. Please note that this is the minimum required and can be expanded on as appropriate to successfully represent your scheme. Sheet sizes to be agreed on in studio.

• Concept imagery

Convey the themes, ideas, references, and/or precedents which drive your design

rationale. Sell the vision, sell the dream. • Structure Plan 1:5000 • Master plan 1:2000 Drawing with graphical impact which celebrates and brings the scheme and context to life.

Concisely demarcate the main elements of the design. Include cadastre, kerblines, land use zoning, residential densities in R-Codes format, public open space.

• Detail plan 1:500 Public open space in greater detail • Sections and elevations ca. 1:200 Alignment, extent, and quantity as appropriate to your scheme. • 3D design detail ca. 1:50 Develop a design intersection of importance in full detail as appropriate to your scheme. • Presentation perspectives Evoke the three dimensionality materiality and atmosphere of the scheme. Angle, extent,

and quantity as appropriate to your scheme. • Elemental diagrams Isolate elements such as walls or grading as individual diagrams. Stacked axons work

well here. • Function diagrams Clearly demarcate functions such as circulation, service access, car parking, public

amenities etc DRAWING LIST SUBJECT TO REVIEW FOLIO Interim Folio Include the following sections in order:

1. Suburban Transect 2. Group Research (include whole presentation, not just your contribution)

Final Folio Include the following sections in order:

1. Final Drawing Set 2. Curated process work

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