Wednesday, 17 October 2012

NEW YORK | AMSTERDAM | GLIMPSES 2040

MOVING | AMSTERDAM





Fabric's proposal suggests a more integrated and intensified city.  Currently, the city seperates people, goods, leisure, work, play, information and energy.  Thus, seperation = time, energy and fuel.  By integrating these currently segregated aspects, they have created a playful and functional cityscape designed at human scale.  
The advantages are not only technological (new fuel, engines and use of renewable energy), their key position is that modern transportation has essentially shifted the orientation of the city 180degrees from the IJ waterfront and focused on the south axis and its international connectivity: where local and global connect, a 'front door' as such. 
Transport has moved above and below ground plane, freeing up much space for activation.  It is also more intelligent (collision self-avoiding capacity, non-polluting engines) and a shift to individual transport modules.

Application to Paddington.  Transport integration for Paddington currently:
- reliant on buses to City/Valley/Gabba
- train station at Milton - access not easy
- bike pathways - limited road access (streets too narrow).  hilly. 
- car heavy

Solution
- possible integration of public transport stop 1) to connect site to city centre 2) bring people to site
- lessen car parks to encourage public transport but still have possibility for people to drive
- if integration of supermarket remains, heavy reliance on delivery, therefore loading dock needs to be included
- more bike paths/parks

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