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Year 4: Port-City Interface Design

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CB

QUAY STREET

Year 4: Port-City Interface DesignPORTS OF AUCKLAND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

A SECTIONAPARTMENTS

TAMAKI DRIVE

ALBERT PARK AND THE AUCKLAND DOMAIN

MARKET PLACE AND SOCIAL RECTREATION/ VIEWING PLATFORM

VISUAL CONNECTION TO PORTS FROM KEY PUBLIC CITY SPACES

PACKING/ UNPACKING BUILDING

INTEGRATION OF PORTS AND CITY THROUGH INTERACTIVE MARKET PLACE

RED FENCE MOVED BACK

PORTS WORKER ACCESS TO PUBLIC SPACE

BLURRING THE PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE EDGE

Creating a sustainable Ports for Auckland was the objec-tive of this studio brief. I chose to design for social sus-

tainability. Design interventions included:

1. Importance of Equality in the city: three new spacial struc-tures create a positive dialogue between the ports and the surrounding city-scape. Views over the ports are emphasized and people interact and relax on the multi- levelled structures.

2. Connectivity: Due to safety reasons it is impractical to al-low people into the ports themselves but visual connections can be just as relevant. These visual connections (similar structures and view shafts) create awareness of the ports from surrounding neighbourhoods (B and C on the plan) and the Auckland CBD. By widening the Quay Street pedestri-an walkway and incorporating vertical structures along the fence-line of the Ports (A), the public have greater connection from Tamaki drive towards the city, and also a greater appre-ciation of Ports land and operations.

3. Compact/ mixed use: Seen in the mixed use environment of the market place on Quay Street (A, seen above) and the viewing/ recreation/ train-spotting/ car-parking structures in surrounding neighbourhoods (B and C on the plan).

4. Mental/physical health of public: The Market place pro-vides mental health through the integration of ports and city processes, and physical health through the trees and fresh produce.

5. I created an integration rather than separation of differ-ent uses and users within each of these structural spaces. I created a smoother transition zone between private Port land and public CBD, with the implementation of the !anchor objects", which allow for port workers and the public to meet and interact on top of a steel, wood and tree structure. From here, people may gaze over towards the other anchor objects in the wider neighbourhood.

C SECTION

Year 4: Port-City Interface Design (Continued)PORTS OF AUCKLAND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

RAISED BRIDGE TO MEET RAISED PART OF QUAY STREET, ALLOWING DOUBLE-STACKED TRAINS TO PASS UNDERNEATH

CARPARK BRINGING VARIETY OF USERS

NATIVE COASTAL VEGETATION PLANTED, AIDS IN BANK STABILITY

PLATFORMED STRUCTURE PROVIDING VIEWS OUT OVER THE PORTS AND SOCIAL NICHES OF INTERACTION

C PERSPECTIVE

ECOLOGICAL LINKS TO THE WIDER LAND-SCAPE

RAILWAY LOWERED BY 1.5M TO AL-LOW FOR MORE SUSTAINABLE DOU-BLE-STACKED TRAINS.

DIRECT VISUAL LINK TO PORTS, WHICH IS REINFORCED AS POS-ITIVE IN THE VIEW SHAFTS DESIGNED WITHIN THIS INTERAC-TIVE, INTERESTING SPACE. A SIMILAR STRUCTURE ALONG THE PORTS EDGE ON QUAY STREET HELPS TO CREATE A MORE POS-ITIVE IMAGE OF THE PORTS THROUGH VISUAL ASSOCIATION

MATERIALS: CORTEN AND WOOD. THIS STRUCTURE HAS AN OLD RUSTIC SHIP/ CRANE CHARACTER. THE CRISS-CROSS OF THE CORTEN REFLECTS PORT STRUCTURES WHILST FUNCTIONALLY PROVIDING SEATS FROM THE FRAMEWORK AND PLATFORMS

VARIETY OF USERS MEET AT CARPARK

C ZOOM-IN

B ZOOM-IN

B PERSPECTIVELADDERS, STEPS, SLABS OF CORTEN AND WOOD CREATE A MYRIAD OF NICHES FOR SOCIAL INTER-ACTION

MATERIALS: RUSTIC WOODEN BEAMS AND POLES, THICK WOODEN DECKING AND STEEL EMPHASIZING THE HISTORIC RAIL-ROAD CHARACTER OF THIS SITE

ECOLOGICAL LINKS TO THE WIDER LANDSCAPE THROUGH COASTAL VEGETATION

ACCESS FROM APARTMENTS

CHEAP CARPARKING: BRINGS A VARIETY OF USERS TO THE DESIGN, CREATING INTERESTING INTERACTIONS/ TENSIONS/ CONFLICTS AND A MORE VIBRANT PUBLIC SPACE

VIEW SHAFTS ACROSS TO PORTS OF AUCKLAND. VISUAL RECOGNITION OF SIMILAR STRUCTURE, CREATING A POSITIVE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE PORTS AND THE WIDER CONTEXT