STUDIES

ALL 1-180 degrees

RADIAL URBANISM
CONCEpT

1:50,000

URBAN

1 km

EXISTINg ROADS: SpREyDON-HEATHCOTE

THE MAIN ROADS IN SpREyDON-HEATHCOTE ARE ORIENTATED TOwARDS THE CBD AND THERE IS A LOw LEVEL Of CONNECTIVITy BETwEEN THE URBAN CENTRES IN THE AREA.

NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST 0+90 degress

OFFSET NSEW 1-15+75-89+91-105+165-179 degrees

OBSERVED IN RURAL CHRISTCHURCH, RADIAL pATTERNS EMERgE fROM THE CONVERgANCE Of LARgE STRAIgHT ROADS. THESE INTERSECTIONS ACT AS A CATALySTS fOR URBAN DEVELOpMENT.

NW NE SE SW 45+135 degrees

OFFSET NW NE SE SW 30-60+120-150 degrees

REMAINING ROADS 16-29+61-74+106-119+151-164 degrees

MOST PROMINENT 30-60 degrees

pHASE 1: ADJUSTED
SIMpLIfIED pATTERN OBSERVED pATTERN By STRAIgHTENINg EXISTINg MAIN ROADS AND CREATINg ADDITIONAL NEw MAIN ROADS, CONNECTIVITy BETwEEN THE URBAN CENTRES IN SpREyDON-HEATHCOTE IS INCREASED AND THE INCENTIVE fOR THESE CENTRES TO DEVELOp IS INCREASED.

ALL 1-180 degrees

SCALAR SHIfTS
OFFSET NSEW 1-15+75-89+91-105+165-179 degrees

AppLIED AT 4 DIffERENT SCALES; URBAN, NEIgHBOURHOOD, BLOCK AND BUILDINg, RADIAL pATTERNINg CREATES ULTIMATE CONNECTIVITy BETwEEN ANy LOCATION AND SpECIfIC ALLOCATED CENTRES, THEREfORE ACHIEVINg THE gREATEST DENSITy Of COMMERCE AND LIfE AT THESE CENTRES.

pHASE 2: IDEALISED
OFFSET NW NE SE SW 30-60+120-150 degrees

pROgRAM
MOST PROMINENT 30-60 degrees

THE URBAN CENTRE REQUIRES COMMERCIAL RETAIL, OffICE SpACE fOR SMALL BUSINESSES, RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION AND pUBLIC SpACES. BASED ON THE MODEL Of CHRISTCHURCHS CBD, RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION IS LOCATED ABOVE gROUND-LEVEL COMMERCIAL RETAIL AND MID-LEVEL OffICES TIN LOw-RISE BUILDINgS.
ALL 1-180 degrees

AS THESE CENTRES DEVELOp AND BECOME MORE DENSE, RINg ROADS DIVERT THE MAIN ROADS AROUND THE CENTRES BALANCINg OUT THE NEgATIVE IMpLICATIONS Of TRAffIC.

1:5,000
SITE
NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST 0+90 degress OFFSET NSEW 1-15+75-89+91-105+165-179 degrees

NEIgHBOURHOOD

1:50,000

100 m

EXISTINg ROADS: BARRINgTON

THE INTERSECTION Of MAIN ROADS AT BARRINgTON IS THE MOST CENTRAL INTERSECTION IN SpREyDON-HEATHCOTE. BARRINgTON MALL IS ONLy MALL IN THE AREA AND IS THE MAIN COMMERCIAL SHOppINg DESTINATION fOR THE AREA. DESpITE THIS, BARRINgTON IS SUBURBAN AND THE NEIgHBOURHOOD wOULD BENEfIT fROM URBAN DEVELOpMENT.

SpREyDON-HEATHCOTE IS THE MOST SOCIO-ECONOMICALLy DEpRIVED AREA IN CHRISTCHURCH. IT IS A CONTINUOUS SUBURB, wITH NO DEVELOpED CENTRE. CHRISTCHURCHS CBD IS ONLy A fEw KILOMETRES NORTH Of SpREyDON-HEATHCOTE, wITH MANy Of THE MAIN ROADS ORIENTATED TOwARDS THERE.
NW NE SE SW 45+135 degrees OFFSET NW NE SE SW 30-60+120-150 degrees

ALL ROAD IN SpREyDON- HEATHCOTE

ALL 1-180 degrees
REMAINING ROADS 16-29+61-74+106-119+151-164 degrees

MOST DOMINANT ORIENTATION Of ROADS [30-60 MOST PROMINENT DEgREES]

30-60 degrees

NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST 0+90 degress

BARRINgTON IS LOCATED CENTRALLy wITHIN THE SpREyDONHEATHCOTE AREA AT A MAIN INTERSECTION. THE INTERSECTION Of BARRINgTON, fRANKLEIgH AND MILTON STREET pROVIDES THE BEST OppORTUNITy fOR URBAN DEVELOpMENT. URBAN DEVELOpMENT IS ACHIEVED By AppLyINg A RADIAL pATTERN OFFSET NSEW TO THE ORgANISATION Of ROADS, pEDESTRIAN LANES AND BUILDINg 1-15+75-89+91-105+165-179 degrees CIRCULATION.

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CONTOURS (METRES ABOVE SEA LEVEL)

NEIgHBOURHOOD

100 m

1:5,000
RO AD

NEIgHBOURHOOD

100 m

1:5,000

pROCESS

100 m

SP ELD I
NON RESIDENTIAL ZONES

S RT S O

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RO AD

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MAIN ROADS (OUTSIDE SITE)

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PROXIMITY (KILOMETRES FROM SITE CENTRE)

Y AR ET
1 CHRISTCHURCH CARTESIAN gRID: EXISTINg IN THE
CHRISTCHURCH CBD

CONTOURS (METRES ABOVE SEA LEVEL)

A ER PL RS
NU

NT

COMMERCIAL BUILDINgS RESIDENTIAL BUILDINgS MAIN ROADS

AREAS

NON RESIDENTIAL ZONES

EXISTINg: BARRINgTON
COMMERCIAL BUILDINg ARE SCATTERED AND RESIDENTIAL BUILDINgS MAINTAIN A SUBURBAN DENSITy THROUgHOUT THE AREA. THE MAIN ROADS MEETS AT THE MAIN INTERSECTION, AND THE SUBSIDARy ROADS SURROUND THE INTERSECTION.

pHASE 2: IDEALISED
COMMERCIAL BUILDINg ARE gROUpED AT CENTRAL LOCATIONS AND RESIDENTIAL BUILDINgS ARE MOST DENSE TOwARDS THE CENTRE AND ARE LESS DENSE fURTHER fROM THE CENTRE. THE MAIN ROADS ARE DIVERTED ON A RINg ROAD, AND THE SUBSIDARy ROADS DIffUSE INTO THE CENTRE.

RIVERS

MAIN ROADS (OUTSIDE SITE)

ONE HUNDRED METRES

NEIgHBOURHOOD
SIZES (KILOMETRES UP AND ACROSS) PROXIMITY (KILOMETRES FROM SITE CENTRE)

pHASE 1: pROpOSED

RADIAL gRID: CREATED By ATTRACTINg THE gRID TO THE MAIN INTERSECTION

RI

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INTERSECTIONS Of THE RADIAL gRID

RADIAL pATTERN: gENERATED fROM THE

RADIAL gRID AND RADIAL pATTERN.

IDEAL URBAN pATTERN: RESULT Of OVERLAyINg THE

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BUILDINg

4m

LEVEL 1: COMMERCIAL RETAIL

ROOf LEVEL

malls

no vehicle access

family income

deprivation index

liquefaction

liquefaction

no vehicle access

LEVEL 2: OffICES

ABOVE ROOf LEVEL

deprivation index

liquefaction

malls

no vehicle access

personal income

family income

deprivation index

LEVEL 3: SHARED RESIDENTIAL

land damage christchurch liquefaction liquefaction malls no vehicle access

CROSS-SECTION: SOUTH-EAST
population increase personal income family income deprivation index

CROSS-SECTION: NORTH-EAST

water table

land damage

liquefaction

liquefaction

SOCIO-ECONOMICAL

personal income family income deprivation index population increase no vehicle access malls

liquefaction land damage water table malls

LAND DAMAGE

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BLOCK

5m

pHASE 4: ROOf REfLECTS BUILDINgS RADIAL DIVISION

pHASE 3: VOIDS Of EXISTINg BUILDINgS fORM COURTyARDS

pHASE 2: BUILDINgS
MAIN ROADS SUBSIDARARy ROADS pEDESTRIAN LANES

EXISTINg BUILDINgS

pHASE 1: RADIAL BLOCK

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M LL A

fROM RADIAL

gRID
RESIDENTIAL
fLOOR THREE

RADIAL SUBDIVISION INTO BUILDINg SITES RADIAL SUBDIVISION Of SECTIONS INTO UNITS

OffICE fLOOR TwO

COMMERCIAL

fLOOR ONE
SITE

DEMOLISHED EXISTINg BUILDINgS fOOTpRINTS LEfT AS

VOIDS