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EcoCity (EBD) Studios

EBD Design Studios

In 2008, VEIL ran a series of workshops with design staff from Melbourne, Monash, RMIT and Swinburne Universities who engaged with international and local experts to develop revolutionary visions for the E-Gate site as a zero-carbon eco-city. Around 200 students took these visions to develop design ideas for a demonstration city as a living expo of a low-carbon urban community, now known as the Ecological Business District (EBD).

Designing the Sustainable Landscape

Staged Remediation

Lowered railway lines improve EBD connections with surrounding suburbs.

Urban Forest

Phytoremediation creates an urban forest, ready for integrated development.

Integrated & Sustainable Landscapes

Addressing homelessness with the development of integrated & sustainable living systems.

Reprogramming the EBD Landscape

What might people understand about process, time & their effect on the world, if the spaces they inhabit are woven around a post-industrial landscape?

Visible Technologies Bike Trail

Creating physical and aural landmarks along integrated bike & stormwater trails.

Sustainable Dreaming

Public access allows people to become aware of the space, and its processes, as the site slowly evolves through space and time.

Extending Westgate Park

Creating a functioning space that connects technology, industry, ecology, awareness and social activities.

Urban Design

Gama-dji Gurr: the Seed

Gama-dji Gurr: a seed emerging, waking up from sleeping _Woiwurrung

Divercity

Housing locations are matched with residents' food-growing interests.

Architecture

Graft

A symbiotic relationship between pedestrian pathways and the buildings of the EBD.

Vertical Farm

Multiple-level connections mimic horizontal uses of space.

Office Farm

New workplace models - office buildings with greenhouse walls.

EBD Town Hall and School

A Centre for Re-use, Research and Education

HabItat

Breezeway

A passive energy clothes-dryer for shared living spaces.

Aqua Anytime

What if the water you saved and recycled at home could be "banked" to use on your community garden plot?

UteRail

Human-powered haulage from the pathways to the rooftop gardens.

Split Fridge

Modular fridge compartments at the supermarket.

Static Clean

Appliances designed specifically to be shared.

Tower of Power

Why cool an empty fridge?

Thermo Kettle

Changing perceptions of energy & water.

MyQ Portable Hotplate

A portable induction hotplate: cook outdoors communally or quietly at home.

ClearSpace Stove

A modular stovetop that packs away when not needed.

HEXware

Straight sides for compact spaces.

Visual Communications

Wear Woolly Socks

rethink energy consumption

rethink community

Tall Cafe

Tall is a cafe which grows all of its own produce on and off site in vertical gardens.

Iconic? Yes. Sustainable?

Sustainable practices need to be able to question "normality".

The Rooftop Garden Initiative

rooftops + agriculture = EBD Public Gardens

EcoFood

Reducing food-mile impacts comprehensively through smart services.

More Than Once

reusable supermarket packaging

EBD Playground

Capturing energy everywhere possible.

Nero

Yellow = nearly there...

B.Honey

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.

Shift

A bike-share system for the EBD and its surrounds.

Visible Water Tanks

Using colours to show where water is harvested and how it's re-used in the EBD.

SmartCard

Indicators and incentives for tracking personal consumption of shared resources.

EBD Agri

Urban agriculture in the community.

Penny

A public bike system specifically for the EBD

Systems & Services

EBD Milk

A milk distribution hub for the EBD.

Thrive

Creating social sustainability through information networks.

Nature's Strips

Social interaction and co-operation: food localisation in the EBD.

Circular

Most of the $53 billion worth of food wasted every year in Australia is still edible.

ZeroCar

Railway Recycling

Compacted waste used as wheels.

Lady Bug

Flexibility, adaptability and efficiency.

CargoCar

A vehicle for passengers or freight, depending on the need.

2two4

Desirability and adaptability for the EBD ShareCar.

Odyssey Water Vehicle

Travel through the EBD and up the Yarra River in a share-car.

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