NEW.FARM is a hypothetical scheme for Brisbane’s river suburbs that retrofits a response to the landscape into the existing city fabric. It is a rearrangement more than a re-design, building on the opportunities presented by the adaptable ‘Queenslander’ house type.
NEW.FARM makes a distinction between ‘flood plain’ and ‘high ground,’ and presents a strategy for each. Dwellings on the flood plain are either raised to be above the level of a severe flood, or in-filled into the ‘high ground’ city. The land left vacant can then be developed as urban farmland or as park. The houses on the high ground must in turn be shuffled and adapted to accommodate the buildings moved from the flood plain. Queenslanders can be stacked under the one roof to form multi-residential buildings. Others are tessellated into backyards and other open space at the edge of the flood plain, increasing density and facilitating the urbanisation of the area. What the hill-dwellers lose in their private back yard space is made up for with a productive allotment and access to the produce from the urban farm. The flood-plain-dwellers save on their insurance premiums.
When the river does flood, the farm land is fertilised by the muddy water and the homes are kept dry on the hill.
Loading ...
Wow. There’s so much to consider here. check out the flood sculpture in the bottom left. I like how it adapts neighbourhood character and explores how the transition could occur.
Apart from the idea, I love this drawing so much. All it needs is a ‘Where’s Wally’ (or Where’s Anna) hiding somewhere!
I love it, though I’d go a step further and just remove the dwellings from the flood plain. I’m sure if we went backwards in time, we’d find that people did indeed build their houses on the hills and farmed the plains.
What an amazing sketch you really show a good sense of place. Perspectives like these work so much better then plan!