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Visible Technologies Bike Trail

Creating physical and aural landmarks along integrated bike & stormwater trails.
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The design has focused on the Moonee Ponds Creek bike trail from the Racecourse to EBD, aiming to connect public open spaces. The design adds value to Moonee Ponds Creek by creating a series of visible ecological water cleansing technologies throughout the trail, restoring some of the original structure to the creek. Making sustainable technologies visible is important to the ongoing education and behaviour change of the community. Appreciating the differences between cycling and other forms of fast transport, the design also introduces different surfaces along the trail to connect riders to the environment and the different technologies surrounding them.

Open Space Strategy To provide an integrated system of multifunctional open spaces, which will form the cornerstone for Melbourne's sustainable future. The basalt necklace will form a new greenbelt, the foci within a connected polycentric city. The open space strategy for the connection between the EBD and Royal Park includes the following facets:

  • Promote reduced car use through improving and increasing pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure.
  • To understand and integrate natural and man-made hydrological cycles forming a multi-system stormwater treatment train.
  • To create a healthy ecology by maximising the use of indigenous and native floral species.
  • Transformation of the public realm into multifunctional, productive spaces using diverse vegetation types and applications.
  • To include permaculture, urban forestry and indigenous revegetation.
  • Focus on future and current generations' education by highlighting history, ecological systems and human impact.

Designer: Tim Muhlebach
Domain: Landscape Architecture
Studio: Designing the Sustainable Landscape
Studio Leader: Dr. Sidh Sintusingha

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Tags: eco-city  landscape  mobility  integrated