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  • PUBLICATIONS
    • Peer Reviewed Articles >
      • Landscape of Things
      • Design with (Human) Nature
      • Reconceptualizing Suburban Terracing
      • The Drone's Eye
      • Dis/orientation Machines
      • Mirage of the Metropolis
      • The Garden of Entangled Paths
      • Topographic Urban Innovations
      • Concave Worlds, Artificial Horizons
      • Disciplinary Convergence
      • The Usefulness of Uselessness
      • Hyper-Realism / Loose-Reality
      • Emergence of Suburban Terracing
      • Red Loops / Green Links
      • Topographically Sensitive Urbanism
      • Design for Decline
      • Green Networks
      • De/framed Visions
      • Thin Parks / Thick Edges
    • Professional Articles >
      • Things that Matter
      • The Shape of Things
      • Aerial Reconnaissance
      • Fields of Decline
      • Fluid Geographies
      • High Fidelity
      • Hong Kong, Grounded
      • Design Liquidity
      • Satellites' Progeny
      • Route Fittko
      • Ecologies of Spectacle
      • Grounding Urbanism
      • Garden of Resistance
      • De/framed Gardens
      • Leaping Bridges, Forking Paths
      • The Paradox of Place
      • Is Landscape...? Book Review
    • Book Chapters >
      • Cultivating the City
      • Aerial Visions / Ground Control
  • PRAXIS
    • Public Gardens >
      • The Garden of the Forking Paths
      • Imprint Garden
    • Urban Parks >
      • Fremantle Esplanade
      • Park Rabet Leipzig
      • Centennial Park Sydney
      • Father Collins Park Dublin
    • Urban Design >
      • Kings Square Fremantle
      • Bahnhofsvorplatz Wiesbaden
      • Claremont Oval Perth
      • Fremantle Entry Strategy
    • Linear Parks >
      • Green Line Toronto
      • Rails to Kale San Francisco Bay
      • Emscher River Ruhrgebiet
      • Grünzug Leinefelde
    • Architectural Landscapes >
      • White Lakes Baldivis
      • The Peninsula Perth
      • CBD Courts Perth
      • Freiheit Zentrum Bern
      • Bavaria Hamburg
      • Red Bluff Quobba Station
    • Memorials >
      • Reconciliation Place Canberra
      • Gallipoli Peace Park
    • Speculative Infrastructures >
      • The Living Wall Esperance
      • The Galehouse Fremantle
      • The Darkhouse Cockatoo Island
      • Primate Enclosure Kings Park
    • Datascapes >
      • Urban Growth Scenarios 2050 Perth
      • Mapping Perth Metropolitan area
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Case Study Studio
Higher Ground: Sutro Baths Tsunami Memorial / New Ground: Hayes Valley Park, San Francisco

Higher Ground: Sutro Baths Tsunami Memorial
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On March 11 2011, an 9.0 undersea megathrust in the Pacific Ocean triggered the Tōhoku tsunami.  The resulting wave devastated a swathe of coastline in east Japan, killing 20 000 people and wiping entire villages from the map.  The wave made its impact as far away as California, with one person swept away from a beach.  The Japan disaster followed recent glut of devastating tsunamis.  In late 2009 a series of tremors sparked several tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean, devastating a number of small Pacific Islands including Samoa.  And on December 26 2004, a 9.3 undersea megathrust in the Indian Ocean generated tsunamis that killed approximately 230 000 people in 14 countries and obliterated entire communities from Indonesia to Sri Lanka.  Causalities were documented as far west as the horn of Africa.  The 10-year anniversary of this event was widely reported in the media, with numerous news specials documenting affected areas a decade on.
 
To help provide a focal point for loss, grief, healing, memory and information, memorials have and continue to be designed and constructed in many of the directly affected regions.  A tsunami memorial in San Francisco will give many who were affected – either directly (eg family origins in affected areas or holidaymakers) or indirectly (through the media) – a place in which to pay their respects and to not forget.  That is, although some of these events happened years ago, and none physically impacted San Francisco, memorialization transcends time and space.
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Eva Phe
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Adam Ng
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Tatyana Vashchenko
New Ground: Hayes Valley Post-Freeway Park
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The city block bordered by Octavia Boulevard, Fell, Laguna and Oak Streets, and partially incised by Hickory Street, has had a difficult recent history.  Originally an intact residential block situated within a contiguous urban fabric, the properties on the site were resumed and demolished in the 1960’s to accommodate off/on ramps servicing the freeway that was constructed over Octavia Street.  Due to structural earthquake damage and a changing tide in attitudes towards inner city freeways, the double deck structure was systematically removed, and much of the resultant void was reinvigorated as Octavia Boulevard.  Having lain fallow for several decades, in 2010, local activists cut open the gates and appropriated the formerly embargoed site for urban agriculture.  However, the Hayes Valley Farm is officially only temporary: under the adopted ‘Market-Octavia Neighborhood Plan’ vacant Hickory Street block is to be re-filled with residential housing. 
 
This studio explored an alternative future for the site: one which acknowledges the disruption of the freeway, but one which seeks to explore the possibilities latent in the site as we find it today, and to not simply stitch up the void with the status quo as if nothing ever happened.  The challenge is to transition the site from self organized temporary urban agriculture to a permanent public open space which draws on this recent land use, but also accommodates a wide variety of other amenities as expected of a public park
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Yolanta Siu
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Tianyu Guan
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Eva Phe