the scheme aims to reconnect the city with nature by creating a green public corridor along tainan’s vibrant haian road.
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Williams Landing
Keeping the aeronautical history of its location on board, Williams Landing is a suburb located on the site of the former Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Williams airfield base at Laverton, nineteen kilometres south-west of Melbourne. Following the base’s sale by the Commonwealth of Australia, and subsequent rezoning, all airfield infrastructure was removed and ground remediation work carried out prior to its redevelopment as a masterplanned community. Civil construction commenced in 2008.
The developer, Cedar Woods Properties, entrusted MDG Landscape Architects to pilot an identity across the suburb. The entrance delineation is bold, a metallic-looking pronouncement, all curvy concrete, replicating a large riveted aileron jutting out of the ground. Emphatically emblazoned on it are the suburb’s initials and postcode, WL 3027, imparting the sense of unique aircraft alphanumeric identification. Uniform, alternating striations of groundcover and crushed rock radiate from the entry feature, continuing their trajectories on the other side of the road. In nearby Ashcroft Park, outdoor seating positioned under the curvature of a skeletal fuselage assemblage is aligned in the direction of a former runway. MDG’s response to the industrial heritage of the site rises above the predictable by way of the robust execution of its design. The structure, which emulates a cutaway of an oval monocoque with exposed steel bulkheads roofed by longerons and a permeable wall of stringers, is first-class, lifting the user’s imagination from a sense of place grounded in the past, to soar up across the landscape with a view to future horizons.
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