Infrastructural City
Melbourne suburbs are of some of the lowest density on the planet. By 2050, 75% of the population will live in city. The practice of ever expanding suburban fringe development that entrenches and exacerbates car-dependency therefore cannot continue. City must be condensed.
Sub western region consists of population of 712k as of 2013, with the estimated growth of 370k ? 430k by year 2031. Sunshine Employment Cluster will experience growth of around 57k by year 2031. However, as population increases, average household size is decreasing and expected to decrease further, signalling that single detached house might not be the future of Sunshine.
Sunshine, consists largely of suburban sprawl, freeways and poor public transport, with population speculated to be doubled in next 30 years, it has the potential to be a key test-site for a new form of multi-level, flexible urbanism. One of the main problems was discerned as the lack of comprehensive infrastructure in Sunshine, which was an obstacle to urban physical and economic growth. Along with the lack of public area, Sunshine was pulverized into thousands of small private lots in celebration of homeownership, forming residential super zoned impermeable to public. High traffic and lifeless street discourage walking. When residential use are separated from most other uses, residents lose the benefit of adjacency to a range of different programs such as commercial, entertainment, etc. The proposal seeks to incre...