Week 2 Reflection

Design-charette
While we are at the tutorial, some interesting ideas came out for four of the different sites.
The four sites are:

Urban area
This topic requires us the think about what if the Brisbane City intorduce the London style congestion charge to reduce traffic in the city. We have create a timeline and consider what is it going to happen in a month, a year, 10 years.

First month
Vehicles access to city will not decrease dramatically as we assume the council will gradually increase the cost to access to the city. Council is going to provide more free loop buses in order to transport people coming from suburban area.
A year
More bike parking/station are setted within the CBD and suburban area in order to allow people enter city by bike. Offices provide shower and lockers in city while in suburban area, more carpark has been built. The public transport has decrease the fares to attract more users and few roads are blocked and changed its uses to parkland.
10 years Electrical bus is popular and the CBD underground tunnel network has completed which it looks like a spider web and connect every suburbs. People has already got used to going the CBD by bike and public transport. Office moves to the fringe of suburban area due to lower renting cost for offices and inconvenience transportation in CBD. The city has spreaded out while the center of CBD turns into a green zone.

Suburan area
The retails stores is fading out and the getting stuff online is becoming more popular. That means the shopping centre has less users and the purpose of it is changing. When people is getting everything on the internet, the shopping centre is going to shut down as they are not able to make any money. However, the online store cannot provide a physical trial for users.

Regional area
An large area provided for us to set up a self-sufficient community. While we can grow our own food or products to consume and sell it to other areas. We have thought about to set up a Educational college which includes from pre-school to University. The University is specifying for high technology farming so that it can support the surrounding farms as well as keeping the technicians within the town.

Virtual World

Human kind in the Virtual world is going to be separated into two groups. One is the anti-virtual world which they will have a health body and spend most of their time in the physical environment. While the other part of human kind is anti-physical world and spend most of their time in virtual. Which is similar the movie, Surrogates (2009), people are anti-social and afraid to confront people with their true face. They look perfect in virtually by not physically. As there are always limited resources, these two groups is going to have conflicts in whether to have more resources in developing the virtual or physical world.

Surrogates (2009)