MULTIPLICITY

Sydenham, Christchurch

SYDM.

Timothy Hogarth, Dimitar Penchev, Rod Tian.

Table of Contents
Sydenham Research ............................................................................ 1 Site Information .......................................................................................... 3 Demographics ............................................................................................. 11 Land Use ...................................................................................................... 15 Transport ..................................................................................................... 27 Sydenham Urban Proposal ................................................................ 33 Design Proposals ............................................................................... 45 G Link - Green Connection .................................................................... 47 Sydenham Building Blocks - Repurposing the Residential Zone ....... 63 Factory 2.0 - Repurposing an Industrial Building ................................ 79

Drawings by -

Rod

Tim

Dimitar

Sydenham Research

Site Information
Sydenham History
Swamp - Pre European Settlement (Before 1860s) Pre-1860s, Subdivided into 50 Acre Rural Lots 1860s, Lancashire Immigrants 1860-70s Rapid Subdivision

Late-19th Century Construction of Tram Line

Early-20th Century, Half Population Size of Inner City

Late-20th Century Urban Sprawl

Today

CBD

Sydenham Pop.

Christchurch Pop.

Other

Character Photos
G Block Science Alive (Moved out Pre-Earthquake) Washington Reserve Skatepark

Sydenham Key Characteristics

Waltham Rd Dairy

Industrial Presence, in the North

Heritage Buildings, many now destroyed

Sydenham Park

Old Sydenham Post Office (destroyed) Sydenham Park

Heathcote River Beckeham Church (Destoyed) Dominated by Two Busy Roads, Colombo and Brougham Street

Suburban Sprawl, in the South

Shops along Colombo Street

Sydenham Atmospheric Photos

Sydenham Existing Housing Stock

Property Values

Sydenham Property Information

$ Addington $296,950

2011 Earthquacke

2011 Earthquacke

$350

$375K $350K $325K

E - Valuer

30 25 20
No. of Sales

Sydenham $305,500
Spreydon $352,100 St Martin $408,150 Somerfield $398,800

$
Weekly Rent

$325

$300

$300K $275K

15 10 5 0

$275 $250

$250K $225K 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Beckenham $481,000

$225

2009

2010

2011

2011 Earthquacke

Waltham $278,700

2012

2013

Median Rent

Property Values

Number of Sales

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Demographics

Ethnicity
30%
21%

Age

17%

15% 11%

14%

13%

14%

15%

13%

10%

12%

10%

UNDER 10

TEENS

TWENTIES

THIRTIES

FORTIES

FIFTIES

10%

Sydenham New Zealand

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17%

OVER 60

18%
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10%

20%

30%

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14% 24%

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Income

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Land Use
Sydenham Land-use and Movement
Christchurch CBD

Industrial Corridor

CBD

Approx 800 businesses, employ +5,000 people

Colombo Street

Addington - Western Suburbs

Sydenham

Brougham Street

Hillsborough - Lyttelton

5,478 people live in Sydenham

Cashmere + Foothills

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Sydenham Land-Use

Sydenham Events and Businesses

Hoyts Cinema Aoraki Polytechnic Southern Ballet Theatre

Industrial Residential Retail Commercial Food

F3, Architectural Practice

The Roxx Climbing Centre I Seem to have Temporarily Misplaced my Sense of Humour: 23 Dec 2011 - current Form Gallery Kennet Crafted Jewels Community Chess: 25th Nov 2011 GAP Golf: 9th June to current The Jonathan Smart Gallery Ten Square / Gap Filler Office The Coffee Zone

Westende Jewellers

As Far as the Eye Can See: 9:30 Nov 2011

Green Space Religious Mixed-Use Entertainment Police Education Accomodation Demolished

Alexis Fine Art Gallery Academy Gold Cinema Burgers and Beer Inc.

GAP Golf: May to current

The Funky Pumpkin Sandridge Hotel Mitre 10 FILM IN THE GAP: 1-10 April 2011 Salvation Army Countdown

Road Train

Gap Filler Events Sydenham New Businesses Sydenham Points of Interest

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Sydenham Roofscapes

Retail / Industry Map

Retail

Industry

Green-Space

Buildings

Industry

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Soil Stability

Land Use Map

Residential Minor to moderate land damage from liquefaction is possible in future significant earthquakes. Moderate to significant land damage from liquefaction is possible in future significant earthquakes. Red Zone- Land repair would be prolonged and uneconomic. Business Green Space Rural Christchurch CBD Conservation Cultural Hospitals

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Existing vs Council Proposed Scheme

Park and Vacant/Unbuilt Sites

Master Plans Intentions: 1: A rebuilt and prosperous centre 2: Well managed access to and through the centre 3: Sustainable and active transport 4: Greening the corridor 5: Restoring social hubs 6: Telling the story of the place 7: Introducing living environments 8: Planning to enable transformation

Unbuilt space between buildings Common + Private Space

55%

70%
Demolished Buildings, Over 30 commerical buildings demolished.

Percentage of built space

Existing - 2013

Proposed

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Existing Parks
1. Unnamed 2. Unnamed

Existing Connecting Parks

3 4

7 6 5 2 1

3. Sydenham Park

4. Bradford Park

7. Unnamed 5. Unnamed 6. Unnamed

1. 2. and 6. Unnamed Parks

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Transport
Existing Transport

Sydenham Transport Led Problems

Moorhouse Moorhouse Ave 834 Ave 834

1136 Wordsworth Wordsworth St St

1136 Brougham Brougham Street Street

Brougham Brougham St St
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3698

3698

Milton/Huxley Milton/Huxley St St

2312

2312

Strickland Strickland St St
Tenyson Tenyson St St
11 7
Colombo Street

1772 1837

1772 1837

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Colombo Street

1000

1000

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2000

3000

3000

4000

4000

Hourly vehicle count at major intersections along Colombo Street

Traffic Volumes
115

Suburb Spit between Brougham St, North/South Divide

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Total Number of Vehicles along Colombo Street

Data Shown Includes Turning Traffic 2012

Colombo Street Travel Data - Entire Street

Walking

Cycling
Colombo Street

Private Automobile
Colombo Street

Tram
Colombo Street

5500 5000

Colombo Street

Bealey Avenue

Bealey Avenue

Bealey Avenue

Bealey Avenue

4500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 17:00 08:00 17:00 08:00
Moorhouse Avenue Rail Line

76 minutes 6.2 km
Christchurch CBD
Christchurch CBD

Number of Cars - Hourly

22 minutes 6.2km

Christchurch CBD

Christchurch CBD

Moorhouse Avenue Rail Line Sydenham Area

Moorhouse Avenue Rail Line Sydenham Area

Moorhouse Avenue Rail Line

Sydenham Area 5 Minute Walking Radius

16 minutes 7.1km

Sydenham Area

Brougham Street

Brougham Street

Brougham Street

Brougham Street

No Tram Service

Colombo Street Intersections

Brougham St
Strickland St

Last service on the 10/08/1954, the last suburban tram route to close.

Moorhouse Ave

Wordsworth St

Milton/Huxley St

Tenyson St

No bus service currently operates solely along Colombo Street.

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Vehicle count at major intersections along Colombo Street

Colombo Street Sections

Parked Cars

Colombo Street

Moorhouse Ave

3m

14m 20m

3m

Wordsworth St

Retail Strip Section

Bus Lane Shop Parking

Brougham St

Milton/Huxley St

3m

4m

5m 19m

4m

3m

Strickland St

Surburban Retail Section

Tenyson St

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1.1m.9m

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4.5m

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Residential Section

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Sydenham Urban Proposal

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Between Industry (North) and Residential (South)

Sydenham Divide

Our site for Future Christchurch: A Polycentric City is Sydenham, an industrial and residential zone immediately South of the CBD. Its urban condition is one of isolation and disconnection, severed twice by two main roads, Brougham and Colombo Street. This causes a zoning split of industry in the North and residential in the South, acting as two separate identities that exist separated from one another. To combat this phenomenon our urban proposal suggests implementing mixeduse zoning, combining the residential, industrial, business and retail spaces together in smaller agglomerated centres. This therefore allows people to live and work within the same area, ensuring more of a community sense. New centres are located within the new mixed-use zones, in three scales, Small, Medium and Large. This hierarchy of scales is generated by demand and location, as the largest center is located in the middle of the suburb, surrounded by medium and small centres. The centres are located so that they are within a five minute walking distance from one another, turning the area into a walkable and cycle friendly neighborhood. This network is created by green connections that link each of the centres, becoming part of a larger framework and integrating more green space throughout the area.

Existing

Connect Seperated Parts

Mixing Zoning and Land-Use

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Sydenham Isolated Zoning

Proposed Mixed Zoning

Urban Concept

Town Center Green Space Water Housing and Industry

Old Sydenham

New Sydenham

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New Town Centers

Community Center

10 min 5 min 5 min 2.5 min 2.5 min 1 min

Community Center

10 min 5 min

5 min 2.5 min

20 min 10 mins

Community Center

Large

Medium

Small

Christchurch CBD Moorhouse Ave Sydenham

Supermarket

Industry

Cafe

Light Industry

Dairy

Retail
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10

Real Estate Office

Fast Food

Preschool

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Bank

Flight Centre

Videostore

Bakery

Weekend Market

Employment Agency

Live / Work

Cafe

Restaurant

Cafe

Private Clinic

Post Office

Fast Food

Vet

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New Town Center Locations

Transport

New Medium Centre

New Medium Centre

Existing Percentage

Projected

67%
Decrease Desirability

Large Central Park

6% 7% 9% 6%
Increase Desire, by Improving Efficiency

Bradford Park

Heathcove River
Links via parks Multiple city centers Dedicated bike routes

New Medium Centre

Stronger community

Residential common spaces

Integrated bus and bike Pedestrian/bike safety

Access to local shops

5 minutes
Low Traffic Bike Lane Medium Traffic Bike Lane High Traffic Bike Lane

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Green Spaces

Proposed Master Plan

Town Center Green Space Water Housing and Industry

Existing Connecting Parks

Heathcote River

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Design Proposals
Upon studying Sydenham the group took the research data and urban strategies from the proposal and integrated it into three design propositions. Rods proposal examined the new green connections, exploring in detail one of the proposed connecting parks. Dimitars scheme looks at reconfiguring and stacking the residential zone, offering a detailed plan of a medium sized scheme. My proposal, Factory 2.0, looks at the industrial building stock of Sydenham and proposes repurposing it as mixed-use work and living spaces. The three group proposals highlight the key issues outlined within the urban proposal, which were connection and reimagining of the isolated residential and industrial zones.

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New Park Location Green Connection Rod Tian

Sydenham is an area by the central Christchurch where should has many geographical superiorities. It should have been reasonably and logically developed to be a region that has its own life style or icon. However, the reality of Sydenham is opposite to what it should have been. According to the newest statistics of demographics, youngsters under 20 contribute to 24 percent of the population in the whole Sydenham area, and people over 60 account 22 percent of the population. These two age groups are in the first and the second position of age groups in Sydenham. Simultaneously, the statistics shows the percentage of the population holding income less than 50,000 per year is convincingly higher than the urban and national percentage. Sydenham can be defined as a relatively poor, lifeless region for both youth and elderly. In order to balance the urban structure and recreate an appropriate life style for the people living here, the concept starts from the green frame. Green spaces with three different scales are provided. A big central park by Colombo Street and the city corridor is created as the new centre of Sydenham to connect CBD and Sydenham. Medium parks and small parks are distributed in Sydenham surrounding the big park. Green links that organically connect the parks together fuse into the original urban tissue. Huxley Street as a typical Sydenham lifeless street locates between the big central park and a medium green space. The geographical feature is the reason why this street is selected as the detailing and developing object of the green link system. The street is consistently quiet and the length of the street is out of human scale. Additionally, the street doesnt provide enough gathering spaces and resting spaces. The aim for the design is to establish a connection, a link between the central park and the medium park as well as to bring peoples life back. The location of the current link is for driveway. The utilization of the traffic on the street isnt frequent. According to the consideration regarding the organic connection between the two parks, associated with the continuity of the characters of the parks and about the proposed green space master plan, the street is redefined and re-functioned as a pure green band, a street park for pedestrians. There are several elements that are taken into account when the design is processing. The design considers the function and traffic joints among several areas and crisscrossing streets and utilize the transitional spaces to build up several activity spaces, plazas. These small plazas provide people enough room to rest, entertain, communicate and perform. The setting of the plaza by the medium park takes the contemplation of the relationship between the park and the street. A cement-made stair resting and performing place is installed in front the park area as the organic and functional connection between the park and the street park. Also, a cement performing stage is designed in front of the stairs. The ground lights surrounding the stage and stairs are responsible for the illumination of the area and the optimization of the environment at night. In the mid-section of the street, two resting and entertaining combined plazas are located. One is a cement installation with a southern pine squared dressed board decked stair rest place on the one side and a cement slide with grass planted on the other side. The concrete material pavers are renovated. Instead, a soft and eco-friendly grass land is under the installation as Green, this concept can be shown off in different details and closes the relationship between people and the nature. In addition, kids and children may be attracted to the creativity of the installation. They can step up on the top of the stair and slide down to the grass land from another side. The place can become an open-air cinema at night in summer. The other plaza is built up as an invisible maze. The plaza is decked by concrete pavers and geometrically divided by squares and different-sized circles from the top view. Some circles are used for the planting of trees; some are scaled into small holes and constitute a ground fountain; and the rest of the circles extend out vertically and become cement benches. Its not as same as the normal maze surrounded by hedges or other barriers. The fountain is automatically manipulated. The water spouts are switched on and off by the computer system. Thus, unpredictable spouting water, tree matrix and benches create an invisible maze for people, especially for children.The mini plaza at the top of the street is another performance place. It connects to the footpaths to the opposite directions, indirectly limits the boundary of the green link. A purple corridor comes up with the mini plaza to highlight the entrance of the new park. The corridor is architecturally constructed by a radiata frame with wisteria growing on the frame. Wisteria is a kind of climber with beautiful purple perfumed flowers. The artificial planting will create impressive natural scenery as an icon of the new park and Sydenham. Several plants are chosen for the park, including trees, shrubs, grasses and groundcovers. Osakazuki is the biggest tree among the plants in the park and the trees are planted beside the cycle lane as the division of the public and semipublic areas. Its a Japanese maple tree. The leaves of the tree become yellow during early autumn. Yellow becomes a special color of the new park and contrasts with green. The yellow color also can highlight the park and reminds people of the change of seasons. The illustration system in the park follows the scale of the private and the public. Small gathering and communication spaces need soft light, so ground lights are designed around these places. Street lamps are for walkways. The most importance of the park is the conscious and unconscious experience of the park. The construction of the park release more space for people to establish an interaction among people and between people and the nature. Huxley Street is part of peoples life and the re-function of the street contributes to the change of the life style. In other words, it can be a trigger of the creation of a new life.

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PARKPAR
PARK PARK PAR

PARK PARK PAR

SEMI PUBLIC

PARK PAR

GREENSPACE GREENSPACE GREENSPACE COMUNICATION GREENSPACE GREENSPACE GREENSPACE

HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE
COMUNICATION

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New Street Section

HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE HOUSE

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GREENSPACE COMUNICATION

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Design Intent

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GREENSPACE COMUNICATION

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Street Plan - Before

1:2000

Street Plan - After

1:2000

Proposed New Street

1:2000

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Detailed Plan

Detailed Plan

STAIRS + SLIDE For rest, communication, playing and performance. People can communicate with othter as well as their children are playing the slide.
STAIRS + SLIDE For rest, communication, playing and performance. People can communicate with othter as well as their children are playing the slide. MATERIAL: STAIRS: cement + southern pine squared dressed board SLIDE: cement PAVING: laminated bamboo decking PLANT: green mondo grass

MATERIAL: STAIRS: cement + southern pine squared dressed board SLIDE: cement PAVING: laminated bamboo decking PLANT: green mondo grass

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Detailed Plan

Detailed Plan

PURPLE CORRIDOR For highlighting the entrance of the green link park The purple plant corridor attracts people to come into the green link area.
PURPLE CORRIDOR For highlighting the entrance of the green link park The purple plant corridor attracts people to come into the green link area. MATERIAL: AWNING FRAME: radiata framing PLANT: wisteria

MINI PLAZA For rest, communication, performance and functional connection for the traffic MATERIAL: BENCH: cement PLANT: green mondo grass + carex dipsacea

MATERIAL: AWNING FRAME: radiata framing PLANT: wisteria

MINI PLAZA For rest, communication, performance and functional connection for the traffic MATERIAL: BENCH: cement PLANT: green mondo grass + carex dipsacea

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Render

Render

Park - Performance plaza and small gathering spaces

Park - Seating stairs and slide

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Render Aerial Render

Park - Purple corridor and mini performance plaza

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Plant List

Material List

Clay Pavers

Concrete Pavers

Laminated Bamboo Decking

Cement

Timber

Timber

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A small town centre needs to attract its people like a magnet, or rather it needs to be the means for those people to pull each other together and form a community. The centre is a focus, a destination and a place to meet others, to be seen and to participate in local events. The thoroughfare character of Sydenham does not provide this opportunity as it serves as a corridor for movement of people and goods beyond its own territory. The local amenities are lined up along Colombo Street, which also happens to be a busy transportation artery that used to feed people into Christchurch's CBD before the devastating earthquakes. Sadly this would present Sydenham as what Mark Auge would call a 'non-place', although this term is often reserved for buildings like airports, hotels, motorway for their association with transience and lack of enough significance to be called a place. When addressing the small scale communal centre, associated with small business and industry I had to chose a site, which correspond to the criteria which had been set out in advance. Namely it has to be small enough so one walk across it in 2.5 minutes or alternatively can bike across it in 1 minute. According to our initial concept this centre also had to be situated at a 5 minutes walking distance from the closest medium or large mixed use centre. The site which I found to fit these criteria is entirely dominated by residential buildings. Many of them are already showing tendency for intensification with their second storeys and shared driveways leading to small units. The building lots have strongly expressed rectangular form with a small street frontage. This is yet another reference to the thoroughfare feeling of the never ending sequence of driveways with repeating building types. The site has street access on three side, which is ideal for a small centre which strives to be a destination rather than a transient stop over. One way of clearing up of land for introduction of recreational areas and new businesses is to stack the existing buildings on top of each other either literally or figuratively. In the perfect case scenario the number of households will not be reduced. The problem which was encountered was that the existing footprints of the buildings are often too elongated and complex, which makes them difficult to align together in a meaningful way. In any case the decision of which buildings to stack and in what particular way is highly arbitrary. The application of any simple stacking rules was fruitless. Hence the building footprints had to be simplified on one hand and a stacking system had to be invented and implemented on the other. The complex form of the existing footprints was reduced to their corresponding geometrical centres. The bigger footprints typically have more complex geometry, which prompted their breaking down into more segments, each obtaining an individual dot. Hence a bigger building with higher number of households ultimately generates more dots or foci. Each one of them represents the very private centre of each home. I started growing squares with the dots serving as their centres. When two squares meet together and start to overlap, they start creating another level at the point of their intersection. When two second levels overlap, they start creating a third level and so on. In this way multi-storey buildings can be generated. More over the resulting geometry is organic and evenly spread. This is due to the square shapes that were used as they do not give priority to one axis over the other like the rectangles do. So to speak rectangles inherently have a direction along their longer axis, while the squares are more likely to create a centre and a place. To add some more variety to the outcomes I took note of the existing number of households of each building and created a map, which indicates the corresponding density of people who live there. I allowed some squares to grow faster than others if they happened to be located on place where a higher density building used to exist. When the densities and the corresponding growth speeds for the squares were inverted, results became more favourable in terms of interaction with the corner and street conditions and in terms of the efficiency of land use. One particular configuration happened to have smaller building footprint, while reaching higher percentage of second floor area. This allowed for recreational spaces, intensification and introduction of new amenities to occur all at the same time. The chosen small centre layout also happened to allow for the idea of interconnected parks serving as bike lanes to become viable. Once I had an indication of how the mass could be generated in a meaningful way, I could speculate with its implications. I decided to treat the outline of the mass suggested by the computer software as a frame. This allowed for the actual building to be recessed in from the edge of the frame. This created a negotiation between the edge of the building and the unused free space (or public space) outside of the frame. I created a hierarchy privacy as a response to this negotiation. The transition of public to private goes through an intermediate step of semi-private space, which sits between the public outside and private inside, at the edge of the suggested building. These spaces shared by a small number households may serve as barbeque areas with seating and hanging out spots to bring neighbours together. It also implies the possibility for chance encounters and creating of a place as well as a space.

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Repurposing the Residential Zone Dimitar Penchev

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Site Analysis

Site Analysis

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49%

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28%

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Number of households per building

Area used by space between buildings (grey), driveways (blue) and building blueprint (yellow).

2.5 min 1 min

Site Location

Existing amenities and building blueprint

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Design Strategy
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Design Variations
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Small/Medium/Large Centers

SMALL

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Small Center - Aerial View

Large Center - Aerial View

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Hierarchy of Privacy
Small Center Private - Semi Private - Public

Residential Typology Rational

A

Private
Backyard

Semi Private
Lounge

Open Space

Public

PRIVATE

SEMI PRIVATE

PUBLIC

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Privacy Diagram

Ground Floor Plan

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Bike Stands

Bike Stands

UP

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Bike Stands

Bike Stands

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Section B-B

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Public Space
Exterior Render

Semi-Private Space
Interior Render

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FACTORY

2.0
Timothy Hogarth

Repurposing an Industrial Building

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Factory 2.0 looks at repurposing and reactivating some of the industrial buildings from its singular function into lively mixed-use living and work space. Bringing new life to these industrial buildings becomes a method of creating new centres and activity in the current isolated northern Sydenham zone. Repurposing the industrial buildings in Sydenham offers to aid in the connection of the current separated zones, becoming a catalyst for a renewed engagement and interaction with the neglected industrial space. It also aims to reduce the current thoroughfare nature along Colombo Street, inviting people to explore the area, particularly because of its valuable proximity to the CBD. The project looks at one industrial building retrofit as an example, a large 198m long building located beside the rail line. Re-envisioning Sydenham industrial building stock in the new post-earthquake landscape becomes an important role in providing much needed housing stock to Christchurch. There is an opportunity in the industrial area to offer a different urban scheme than it currently offers, particularly as it had been predicted that the industrial presence will decrease along the rail line over the coming years. Sydenhams industrial space becomes ideal for retrofitting as it has had minimal effect from the 2011 Earthquake, and as the buildings are largely empty frames, flexible for reconfiguration. There are multiple reasons to save the existing industrial building stock, rather than simply destroying it and starting again. Firstly, much of the inner city building stock has already been destroyed, therefore it becomes important to Christchurchs memory to try and save some of its remaining large scale buildings. Secondly, it shows the character of Sydenhams industrial past, particularly the factory silhouette shape, which evokes the imagery of industry. Sydenham prides itself on its historic past, and as much of its heritage buildings have been destroyed from the earthquake it becomes an opportunity to embrace the areas industrial image and past. Thirdly, because the building chosen is such a large building it becomes a more sustainable initiative to save the existing structure than using new resources to completely build from the beginning. Lastly it speeds up construction time, and allows people to move in quickly as the buildings are already watertight. The design proposal for the building becomes an example of one of Sydenhams new proposed centres, a medium sized example in the industrial zone. The strategies from the urban proposals are abstracted and used in the logic for the new building. The spatial strategy for the building is taken from the existing structure, the gridded network of interior columns. The housing units are formed between this gridded framework, in three scales - small, medium and large. This allows for a diversity of the housing stock, as there is the choice between one to four bedroom units. These units are placed according to size in the plan, as the largest are located in the corners and intersections, the mediums along the outer perimeter, and the small along the middle section. The three scales are also used in the circulation network, creating a hierarchy of roads. The main circulation paths connect the building from the outside where it feeds people into the interior residential and second story marketplace. A North to South circulation route connects to a new proposed green connection, where other industrial buildings along the chain are proposed to be retrofitted as well. A diagonal connection links the building to the busiest road in Sydenham, Colombo Street, and intersects with the other large circulation route. Medium sized circulation corridors run horizontally off of the main spaces, spanning the entire length of the building, allowing unobstructed views to each end. The truss pattern is used in the plan as the units interior circulation facing walls mirror the same form, breaking the linearity of the passages and encouraging moments of exchange. Large event like staircases take people from the Ground Floor to the Second Story marketplace above, where the residents below sell their goods and services and where other businesses operate. It is zoned flexibly for different market activities and businesses, including cafes, gallery space, and a ballet school. This lively market space embraces and is sympathetic to the alternative creative character of the area, allowing for niche and start-up businesses to take place. This top floor marketplace has a network of bridges which spans and connects across the circulation spaces to the different market islands. This system of navigation inside the building allows for clear and efficient movement, enticing the occupant to explore more of the spaces. To allow light into the building because of its wide width, 53m, four courtyards have been strategically located. These courtyards all have different and unique gardens, including a fernery, water, palm and flower garden. This ensures that daylight and natural ventilation is brought into the middle units, as they are located off of these courtyards. These spaces become spatial moments of focus, navigation and orientation, while also communicating to the green connection the building is situated along. The courtyards are glazed in glass that connects to the ceiling and many of the gardens have tall trees. This enables the occupants to always see a courtyard from the public spaces, and from the second story allows views of all four gardens operating as light wells. The material choices of the new structure are sympathetic to the existing building, while offering a subtle contrast. The concrete building frame and roofing materials is kept and the new exterior walls keep the same banding quality of the original walls. The exterior surface is re-clad in black steel with stained black windows, keeping as much of the original structure as possible. This cladding choice ensures the building sustains its mysterious industrial monolithic appearance, while minimizing the appearance of any exterior fenestration. The interior appearance is of deliberate contrast to the exterior, with the use of white concrete and clear glass, to create a lighter more open appearance. The use of the black exterior and light interior, as well as the courtyards, creates visual contrast and release. Reimagining the industrial building stock in the post-earthquake Christchurch could bring new life into the declining industrial areas, while becoming new hubs and centres for activity. It looks at imagining the industrial zone in a different way, and how it can reengage a disconnected and isolated area. The buildings scheme is developed using the same urban strategies of mixed-use, connection and different scale centres, illustrating how the wider urban strategy can be implemented into the industrial zone and at a building scale.

Site Information

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Existing Building Elevations

Green Connection

West Elevation

East Elevation

South Elevation

New Green Connection, occupying vacant sites

Other factory buildings that could be retrofitted along the proposed park

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Design Intent
Before

Spatial Strategy - Rail Line

Proposal One

After Curve of the Rail Line Rail Line Pattern

Live and Work Space

Rail Line Pattern Curved

Curved Rail Pattern - Entrance Voids

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Spatial Strategy - Sydenham Map

Proposal Two

Spatial Strategy - Grid Column

Chosen Proposal

Grid pattern - from existing column layout. Sydenham Satelite Map

Sydenham Roads Become the Circulation Space

Garden Courtyards - fernery, water, palm and flower garden, allowing sunlight and natural ventilation into the middle section of the building.

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Floor Plan

Durham Street

Colombo Street

Large Medium Small A

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Circulation Roads - connects the building to the new green space and Colombo Street.

Cass Street

Ground Floor Plan

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20 Meters

Sandyford Street

Key 1. Gardens a) Fernery b) Rock & Water c) Palm d) Flower 2. Underpass 3. Ballet School 4. Caf 5. Markets 6. Art Gallery

Byron

Room Sizes - one to three bedroom units.

Second Story Floor Plan

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Building Section and Elevation

1 1 Cass Street Elevation

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20 Meters 20 Meters

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Building Renders

Second Story Marketplace

Hallway

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Courtyard - Fernery South East Entrance

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