Peace Bridge Extension

Docklands, Melbourne

2020

Derry-Londonderry is old town that has ancestry dating back to 540 AD. It is the second largest city in Northern Ireland. The architecture is a mix of Classical, Gothic and Beaux Arts. There are many defensive walls from historical wars throughout the city to protect it.Between the city runs The River Foyle.This river is approximately 130 kms long. The river is used for mostly recreational activities but was a dividing point of the city to slow enemies from invading Due to such unstable historic events there are many murals, monuments and symbolic structure throughout the city. These are to recognize and understand the history and to create a bond between all.

With tensions flaring with the introduction of Brexit we request for a design that can accomodate a shared space for all people.Particularly focusing on a breakout spot, stage and available food and beverages for the community.We would like to make the space on the iconic Peace Bridge as a representation of the city

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Group Members

Tim Fisher, Anthony Nastasi & Don Tran

Site Analysis

Addressing the smell problems. There are multiple complaints about smell sewerage, fish and decay of plant materials from the water. Since the polluted smell mostly coming from the river we would like to address the smell problem with our upcoming proposal

Shadows. This is what the bridge would look like with the shadows at 8 am to 4 pm. The shadow from the bridge are always in the river, meaning that adding an extension to the bridge will not cause any shadow impact on parks and neighbouring buildings.

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Sequences

Daily-life of James. James is 50 years old, a construction business owner, republican and backs a religious catholic ireland. He himself experienced first hand account of what happened during the events that unfolded between the 80s and 90s. He was born and bred in Northern Ireland. He usually does most of his jobs in the city on commercial building sites.

Daily-life of Karl. Karl is 24 years old. He was born towards the end of the civil war and his friend circle has similar views to what he does. He currently attends a local university with ambitions of being a graphic designer. He Goes out most weekends with friends and has been brought up in a home of parents that are both Protestant.

Daily-life of Siobhan. Siobhan is 60 years old. She was stationed at the army barracks during the attacks as a radio operator. Now that she is retired she spends most of her time enjoying the outside with friends and going on walks with her dog. She has a strong political stance that Northern Ireland belongs to UK and never backs down from confrontation

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Concept Programs

Introducing New Programs. There are several different programs on the bridge, including an interac-tive area, tunnel experience for our coffee tiles, food market stalls, recre-ation area and a staging area for bands. The programs are designed tobecome a focal point when it comes to activities and events. Our aim is toutilize the bridge, not just as an access way to cross over the river but tointeract with other people and its growing culture.

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Tile Design

The pod is made up of three different materials. 15 grams of Peat Moss (PM), 20 grams of spent coffee grounds and 30 grams of natural clay. In process, I then created a homemade press that allows for the seed pod to remove unnecessary water and the clay to set. The result is hard (but brittle) pod that allows for the needed boost inseeds. Through thorough research i came to conclusions which material will work with coffee grounds and then testing allows me to see if it will be suitable for indoor use and vertical points

Benefits Include

- Adds an element of nature to a largely artificial indoor environment,

- Adds interest, texture, shape, and colour,- Can be used as a room divider to separate spaces,

- Brings life to indoor spaces, especially in the winter,

- Can be used to grow food,

- Cleaner Air,

- Indoor plants have tendency to collect dust,

- Enhances your health and your well being,

- Reduce electric bills ,due to the not using of air conditioners and heaters,-

- Modular meaning you are able to move it somewhere else

Final

We wanted to keep using the same design language, using the same organic shapes and using the same structure, to match with the existing bridge. The bridge is a symbolic icon, changing how the bridge look feels like we are taking it core value away from the people.We added 2 new entrances which connect to the existing bridge and then splits off, going under the existing path before connecting it backup to the other side of the bridge. The added path allows more people to cross the bridge and adds new addition spaces for our programs.