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BOULIA // WATER HAVEN
CLONCURRY // DOCKING STATION
Nomadic farming
A strategy to improve the issue of food security in remote Australian communities through mobile infrastructure
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Nomadic agricultural infrastructure provides access to food production resources, decreasing the reliance on importing
and exporting produce and increasing agricultural land
2030 – Mobile Infrastructure (Grain Silo) in landscape
2050 – Increasing arable land
Mobile Infrastructure & vehicles
Mobile Abattoir/Dairy collecting cattle
Effect on sub-node communities
Mobile Infrastructure docking into Tree Ti
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Dock is located at the edge of sub-node towns, for the town to expand and grow around the docking station
Kitchen of Abattoir/Dairy is used as a restaurant or food service in docking station
Eastern Boundary
Plan of eastern boundary condition. Showing end of roof system.
View looking from within roof system, which reduces surface evaporation, to the start point of the system which deals with flood waters & connects to the surrounding landscape.
Western Boundary
Site Plan showing western boundary of water system. Pavilions linking surrounding landscape.
Flood condition section.
Showing pavilion below water line inundated with flood waters. Lookout can proves vantage point of flood plains.
View from within boundary of town. Showing wetlands transitioning muddy flood waters into town system.
View inside lookout below flood line. Shown during dry season. Flood line visible as marking on wall.
Town Centre
Nolli Plan showing activation of pedestrianised main street
Section through main street. Showing intervention knitting town together & activating space. In this case connecting to pubs on either side of the road.
The new spaces created ensure the system is integrated into the township successfully.
Interactions with water are highlighted through exposed sections of the wetland as well as a deliberate staining of the internal walls during wet seasons via the roof.
Cross-overs
Site plan showing integration of residential, public (school & oval) and new docking station, via roof/wetland network
Long section showing roof and wetland network weaving together the town
Public spaces created
Public linking with residential spaces. Wetland creates a micro-climate to link to houses using evaporative cooling & shading.
Winton Water Scheme
Issues Currently Faced:
Seasonal Flood Inundation Depleting Aquifer Reserves Rainfall Under-utilised
Systems to be implemented:
Cleansing wetland system implemented