URBAN INFILL RENEWAL PROJECT, ALBION QLD
Redeveloping Railway Embankment Areas
Neylan Architecture participated at the 6th International Urban Design Conference at the Novotel, Sydney in September 2013 with a paper and a poster illustrating our proposal. Our Principal John Neylan also gave a talk on the topic.
Analysis:
The inner-northern Brisbane suburbs of Albion and Wooloowin where selected as case studies. These neighbourhoods are dissected by the rail corridor and the resulting (and inadequate) vehicular network.
The inner-northern Brisbane suburbs of Albion and Wooloowin where selected as case studies. These neighbourhoods are dissected by the rail corridor and the resulting (and inadequate) vehicular network.
Proposal:
- Four (4) development precincts spanning the rail corridor were identified, with an approximate gross building area of 50,000 square metres.
- Four (4) development precincts spanning the rail corridor were identified, with an approximate gross building area of 50,000 square metres.
- Planning guidelines to be changed to allow for the economic, social & environmental benefits of medium & high urban infill types and densities.
- Proposed building types ranging from 4 - 16 storeys in height, to encourage high density living.
- Re-direction of existing road ways to integrate the currently disparate suburbs of Wooloowin and Albion.
- This is value-added by encouraging pedestrian and bicycle traffic through the connection of currently discontinuous walking and bike paths.
- Building over and adjacent to the existing rail line, will help to reconnect the urban landscape previously severed by the railway trench.
- Street lines to be activated through active building frontages which encourage pedestrian movements through public areas and boulevards.
- Proposed building types ranging from 4 - 16 storeys in height, to encourage high density living.
- Re-direction of existing road ways to integrate the currently disparate suburbs of Wooloowin and Albion.
- This is value-added by encouraging pedestrian and bicycle traffic through the connection of currently discontinuous walking and bike paths.
- Building over and adjacent to the existing rail line, will help to reconnect the urban landscape previously severed by the railway trench.
- Street lines to be activated through active building frontages which encourage pedestrian movements through public areas and boulevards.
- This strategy is applicable to numerous other locations in Brisbane which include significant Government owned land and infrastructure holdings.
- State governments have generally professed a preference for urban consolidation through the utilisation of existing services infrastructure as opposed to suburban
sprawl on greenfield exurban sites.
- State governments have generally professed a preference for urban consolidation through the utilisation of existing services infrastructure as opposed to suburban
sprawl on greenfield exurban sites.
Our paper is available from the 6th International Urban Design Conference Book of Proceedings ISBN: 978-1-922232-08-3
