LA Course Booklet Catch the Water_web

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CATCH THE WATER!Design Research on

Water Sensi t ive Urban LandscapesR M I T L A N D S C A P E A R C H I T E C T U R E S E M E S T E R 0 2 , 2 0 1 0 C O U R S E PA M P H L E T


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Ideas for underground storage raingarden ltra on(Reference: City of Melbourne)

Watersquare in Ro erdam(Reference: Watersquare Urban Architecture - 3D Concept)

Design Ideas for Water Sensi ve Urban Landscapes (Reference: Ryan John Baragwanath, Phillip Smith

course abst ract

This design research seminar dovetailed with inten-sive climate change adapta on research conductedworldwide, that emphases water as a cri cal re-

source for the urban environment. The par cularfocus was on metropolises situated on dal rivermouths, which are subject to storm surges and sealevel rise, simultaneously with unpredictable rainevents and droughts. Lack of water treatment andreten on facili es exacerbates water scarcity; urbandensi ca on places addi onal demands on diminish-ing water resources. This substan al challenge needsfundamentally new concepts of resilient water man-agement, treatment and reten on as part of urbanplanning and design, at the scale of ci es as urban

landscapes within their en re water catchments.The seminar pursued the ambi on to take a closerlook on comparing and contras ng urban watermanagement, treatment and reten on design strat-egies of threatened deltaic, low-lying ci es aroundthe world and in Australia. Thereby the main casestudy focus of this seminar was Australia in dealingwith water scarcity, which e.g. in Melbourne has ledto the young management strategy City as a Catch-ment as a way to reincorporate water into its urbanenvironment. Comparing and contras ng case stud-

ies of di erent urban water design strategies for en-re catchments and their visual representa ons (e.g.

mappings, diagrams, sec onal analysis, mindmapsand graphic images) supported the inves ga on andunderstanding of Melbournes system and led to pre-liminary design scenarios for resilient water sensi veGreater Melbourne. As water sensi ve ci es onlycan be developed in co-opera on of many disciplinesit is important that we develop an own vision fromthe landscape architectural perspec ve.The overall aim of the seminar was for studen ts to

develop research ques ons about designing watersensi ve urban landscapes, which provided the fo-cus for their case studies, and to propose design-driven research approaches which were carriedout throughout the seminar to develop theirvision for a resilient water sensi ve urban Mel-bourne. Learning ac vi es included core lec-tures, in-class-debates, guest speakers, smallworkshops, readings, on-site explora ons,documenta on and exhibi on.


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Ryan John BaragwanathPhillip Smith

Zhipeng CaiCyprian Czajkowski

Matthew David ConteAlice Tessa LewisLouise Naimo

Wan Tien FooWeichieh LaiTian Lan

Tech Yann OoiJoo Min Agnes SohWan Jing Christina Ting

Julia Werner

Phil Edwards (Team Leader Stormwater Qual-ity, Catchments at Melbourne Water)

Jock Gilbert (Urban Initiatives, Sessionalteacher RMIT Landscape Architecture Pro-gram)

Ralf P eiderer (Water Sensitive Urban DesignCo-ordinator, City of Melbourne)

Pru Smith (Team Leader Landscape and De-sign, City of Boroondara)

Professor Cath Stutterheim (SAALA Stutter-heim Anderson Landscape Architecture)

course leader:

thanks to:

Chao SunJing TianZhao Wu


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In order to create a successful space, the designerrequires a thorough understanding of the poli cal,environmental and natural processes of a site. Real-ity dictates that large areas of prime CBD real estatewill not be acquired by City of Melbourne to developthe public realm. We have therefore explored thepossibili es of designing within a smaller footprint something that can be retro ed onto both the exist-ing physical urban context and poli cal system. Thesespaces would work as a network across the whole

CBD to promote the use of urban wetlands and theirbene ts. Manipula ons of the poli cal system haveallowed us to design a palate of nancial incen ves,encouraging the private sector to become more ac-countable for their water use and reuse.We have created a Permeable Melbourne, a citythat absorbs and u lises its storm water, a city thatis aware of its water systems and is conscien ous increa ng environments which foster ecological ac-countability.

al ice lewis , louise naimo and mat thew conte

permeable melbourne

Studio Level 8


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As ci es con nue to grow in popula on and geo-graphical size, the quality and sustainability of ur-ban environments become cri cal in the debate forgrowth. Public space once seen as le over spaces

is now a cri cal component in the spa al planningof a city. At the same me, ci es also struggle to dealwith the impacts of weather-related water issues dueto climate change. Water management becomes es-sen al to ensure security of freshwater resourcesand mi gate damages caused by weather-related di-

sasters. Our studies of exis ng public spaces and wa-ter sensi ve urban design (WSUD) examples in Mel-bourne revealed an apparent disconnect betweenthe two. Given that urban landscapes are o en seenas areas of consump on, our research is focused onhow water sensi ve design strategies can be success-fully integrated into the planning and design of publicspaces to become a core design driver or programme,and how they can go beyond the current purpose asa design tool.

agnes soh, chr is t ina t ing, tech yann ooi

urban hydrat ion

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OverviewMoonee Ponds creek is a highly polluted and disfunc-

onal water system cu ng through a cross sec on of Melbournes North West. It passes through agricul-tural land in the north, Melbournes main airport, aregional airport, intensive suburban areas, light indus-trial and along a main infrastructural y-over beforeentering the bay at one of its most polluted points.Redevelopment in its lower region both threaten itand o er a chance to rehabilitate the water system.

Objec vesThe project aims to addess the Moonee Ponds creekas a whole catchment and deals with pollu on and

ow through a systema c approach addressing waterquality at each stage.To distribute the pressure on the system through thewhole and increase the poten al of in ltra on and

ltra on, design interven ons slow the water owand increase the distance that the water needs totravel to reach the bay.

ryan baragwanath , phi l l ip smith

playing with water

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With wastescape water collec on we propose analterna ve water system in the urban sphere to cre-ate a network to collect, transfer and u lize everydrop of water in the urban forge able small scale orshaded lots. By se ng up a series of landscape proj-ects, which include wetland bioreten on betweenbuildings, roof gardens, tramline greening and lane-way storm water collec on, our vision is to promotear cial waterways to connect those small dot catch-ments into a net, gather streams into undergroundpipes for transfer to di erent reservoirs. In the trans-

porta on, the water could cool down the adjacentbuildings to avoid urban heat e ects by evapora on.As civil infrastructure, the system could integratestormwater facili es into the landscape to mi gatethe water runo and erosion, as well as incorporatemul ple use of green corridors. It would add valuewhile minimizing development costs, wastescapewater collec on func ons more e ec vely and sup-ports the ecosystems through vegeta on ltra onand reten on, to remove pollutants close to theirsource.

wei chieh Lai [Josh] want ian foo [El ise] lan t ian

invis ible landscape infras t ructure

Studio 7 Studio 8 Studio 8

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