Bringing together a fusion of technological, economical and cultural entities, and combining a public free space into an interwoven urban mixed use landscape, the newly developed Urban Weave becomes an open playground of hidden gems, which offers the community countless integrated opportunities to develop and harmonize the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts area and the newly developed Northeast False Creek District Waterfront. Introducing four distinctive dynamic regions, each partition within Urban Weave is central towards an active part into making the urban park feasible and effective.
Urban weave is a developmental master planning proposal which traces through humanizing the accessibility of the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts and Northeast False Creek Waterfront development area through proposing new branching open landscapes and bifurcation of programmes, which introduces innovative topological energy creation that regenerates and reconnects the community.
Acting as an intermediary “connector”, “weave”, and “infiltrator” within four main strands of intertwined organization—between levels of: ecology, pedestrian, vehicular, and infrastructure—Urban Weave challenge the visceral and abundantly urbanized Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts and proposed waterfront developmental area that feeds itself through both land (piezoelectric) and water (sea and storm water retention system).
Urban Weave is composed of modular and interwoven strips in an urban scale. It starts as a surface bisecting into multiple layers. By manipulating the layers with operations like perforation, triangulation, bifurcation, punctuation, etc. Urban Landscapes and spaces are created which could houses various functions and needs. The individual modular strips are interwoven to form a park that is fluid and ever going, whereby each layer of programme weaves and intersects each other and regenerates new energy and systematic advancement and growth through renewed energy which each path brings.
The straps are not only landscapes but also an innovative idea combing nature, leisure/function and sustainability. These multilayered developments offer a plethora of opportunities, microclimates and developmental programs. On microclimates to help adjust the city's environment and temperature while sustaining itself with little maintenance needed.
Through building a new and innovative infrastructural system that feeds into the ‘connectors'. Each layer of programme weaves and intersects each other and regenerates new energy and systematic advancement and growth through renewed energy which each path brings.
The park would be zoned into different themed area, where different programmes and event venues are inserted into the straps. The linear arrangement of the ecological straps creates maximum edges for different interactions to happen in between the ecological zones and the programs. Human activities and nature combined. Circulation spaces are a spatial journey that walks the landscape, up and down in and out, and across.
Pioneering a storm water retention zone and H2O desalination technology below and between the general area of the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts area at the deepest levels of the infrastructure layer of the bifurcating ecological landscape houses, a high-powered desalination plant, which functions to collect and purify the water of False Creek Bay. Enough to introduce new programs that involve a water park next and open landscape playground, and urban farms at the of Green Markets within the Greater Vancouver Area and provide an additional 20% of drinking water back to the Vancouverites.
Bringing together a fusion of technological, economical and cultural entities, and combining a public free space into an interwoven landscape the newly developed Urban Weave becomes an open playground of hidden gems, which offers the community countless integrated opportunities to develop and harmonize the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts area and the newly developed Northeast False Creek District Waterfront.
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