Intensifying Places: Transit-Oriented Urban Design for Resilient Cities
Investigating how design research approaches can contribute to guiding the intensification of Australian cities.
By selectively layering different built-form, transit and land use strategies to create ‘constellations’ of urban interventions, new urban qualities and potentialities are demonstrated.
Shane Murray
This project looks at the most significant urban design challenge facing Australian cities: the transformation necessary to meet the pressures of population increases and reducing carbon emmissions and resource consumption. Intensifying Places develops and tests a range of design frameworks and visions for the urban intensification in Melbourne. The focus is on transit-oriented development and how design quality can impact on the interface between intensified places and surrounding suburban neighbourhoods. The project investigates and simulates a series of scenarios in the Melbourne metropolitan area, exploring a range of building types, morphologies and design approaches. These design scenarios have been tested for community resistance, market viability and forms of urban governance.
Perspective montage investigating potential strategies for re-inventing ‘big-box’ retail and industry buildings along major arterials. What kinds of urban renewal models can reinvent redundant industrial building forms to achieve higher levels of utilisation while retaining skills and employment in the area? Image by MAS.