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The 5 Principles
Foster
Business
3. A1.long
term
view ofInvestments
the future
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5.
Vibrant central city living
Adaptive
Re-Use;
Improving
air and water quality;
A new home for Orion
EnhancingArchitecture;
well being through community identity
Innovative
Grass roots businesses in market setting
Civic Landscape for Orion.
Local market as a neighbourhood focus for a
4.Respect
Easy to get
2.
for around
the Past
diverse community of affordable living, cafés,
arts, culture, and youth
Bike trail from city to sea
Adaptive re-use of heritage buildings while
Permeable blocks, connecting green to green
honouring historic hydrology and ecology
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Spaces like squares,
It would be amazing
to
amphitheatres,
alleys,
Preserve remaining
parks
haveetc.
a fresh food
heritage
buildings
For
peoplein
to
connect...
market
central city
Allison
via
Web
Richard
JasmineBeckenham
via Web
Site Tour
Inspiring architecture in
Dedicated
wood, something
people
cycling
would travel
to see.lanes
Mary via Web Tony Bryndwyr
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Spatial Plan
Retain Heritage Structures
Integrate category 4 & category 2
buildings into new site plan
Adaptive Reuse
Retrofit existing structure for mixed use
Office space & affordable residential
Green Area
Extensive andtoconnected
Connections
Broadergreen
City space
Context
Include
inner-city
farmers
market & cyclists
Offer
permeable
block
to pedestrians
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3D Views
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Cross -section
Christchurch Beautifying Association
Native Gardens - 1898
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Setting
Gondwana
Origins
The ancient connection,
Electricity toflora
East Christchurch
through giant primitive
Houhere
Liriodendron sp.
1937
Houhere
Harakeke
ti
Municipal
Mid-age&Plains
Ecosystem
Weaving
&Dept
plaiting,
ropes,
Electricity
Magnolia
sp.
Piwakawaka
- Kohuhu
baskets, food & fibre
1932
Key Elements
Municipal Electricity
Dept
• Courtyard in centre of
block
Ginkgo biloba (Fossils of all of these Site
species
found in Canterbury)
Location
• Permeable space
• 3D space, bridges for
surveillance, elevation
• Source point stormwater treatment
• Wide footpath,
asymmetrical street
Totara Forest
plan
Older Plains
Timber,
bark,Ecosystem
berries,
HistoricProposal
Heritage
Forestation
Cultural
Infrastructure
Elements
& Ecosystems
Design
•
Gondwanan
Ecology
fruit, medicine
Bellbird,
Matai & birdsLatimer Square
Natural
Tangata
Built
Environment
Heritage
Whenua
Identity
Tīrewa
A community space
comments on cultural
history
Derived from the
structure of the Tuna
(eel) drying rack,
Tīrewa
As a place for the
community’s food it
harkens to the whata
Forms
inspired
by local
Space
for
an inner city farmers market
food production
Northern Orion Constellation
Green Modular
roof and walls
involve
residential
prefab
timber
construction
space
in the flora
rich courtyard
Atrium
Interior
Prefabricated timber pods
inserted into existing
carpark structure
Provides affordable innercity living space
Workshop/retail space
offered on ground floor
Southern Orion Constellation
Reused existing carpark
structure, with steel &
timber additions.
Sustainable green features
such as photovoltaics,
natural ventilation & green
materials
Active street edge, high stud retail space
Central
Atrium
Slow,
tree lined
people-friendly street
PT-Timber Structures
Damage Avoidance Design
Design Intent:
•Damage Avoidance Design
•Light weight
•Prefabricated
•Local Manufacturing
Light Weight
UFP – Seismic Damper
•Timber lighter than concrete & steel
•Composite floor systems light and robust
•Reduces seismic loading
Prefabricated
•Reduced time on site
•High quality construction
•Modular design philosophies
Local Manufacturing/Materials
•NZ sourced timber
•High Skilled job creation
•Value added export potential
Rocking walls
Post Tensioned Frames
Tautoro Building & Gloucester Street Building
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Summary
• Adaptive
• 15,000m²
re-use:Orion Site
• • “Tired”
multi-story
car park
Offices and Affordable housing
6,850m²
Building
foot->print
• Heritage buildings -> Mixed Use
• 8,150m² Green landscaped area
• Two multi-story timber damage avoidance design post-tensioned
• 100no Car parking spaces
sustainable buildings to enhance site
• 125no Cycle spaces
• Vibrant market area – indoors, covered and outdoors.
• 10,820m² Office space
• Site permeability for pedestrians
• 4,050m² Affordable housing
• Green linkages
• 4,010m² Retail space
• Improved urban microclimate
• 2,540m² Indoor market
• Local materials and technology
• Low carbon
footprint
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for $49.2m