The Concept - The Traversing Public Space
A city is an organism. It is a living, breathing entity, made up of its people, its buildings, its services. All these things combine as one.
Often overlooked in the modern built environment is the value of nature - parks, reserves, water bodies etc. More and more we as humans are looking to build new things, and up until recently, this came at he expense of nature. Now many designers are looking to re-incorporate green into the city - The Green City.
An idealic city would be one as seen below. A few high-rise buildings SURROUNDED by parks. This is inconceivable in our current world. Property in these areas is too valuable to be made into large parks that gain no monetary benefit.
The Park City
A more viable idea is using any rooftop space as a green environment. Some buildings are moving to recreate the image below, however it is costly, and serves no purpose to those who are on the road below the green.
The Rooftop Parks
The Park Royal Tower in Singapore is one of the first to embrace the Green City in a simple, cheap and attractive way. They have simply slapped green around the face of the building which will be allowed to grow out, until the tower is more green than concrete.
Park Royal Singapore
The Traversable Public Space
During the lecture, I took a liking to Zaha Hadids concept for the Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. Particularly their idea of a structure, around which is built a new public space that traverses the architecture.
My concept is built around combining these two ideas, of the green city and a traversing public space.
PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5fyev7sizkxuq3l/interim%201.pdf
