[re]MEDIATING BROWNFIELD URBAN STRUCTURAL INTERVENTIONS AT THE ROZELLE MARSHALLING YARD
:: simone prince
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A Brownfield is a latent condition, as yet unreclaimed, unbuilt. Too often the approach to its remediation is driven by economics and litigation rather than by a conceptual framework of landscape, urbanism and culture. The coincidence of development pressures and new environmental technologies has resulted in a growth of industry of Brownfi eld reclamation. In a contextualised understanding of Brownfi eld, contamination can be seen as one of many preconditions shaped by the interaction of geological resources, social economy, history and culture rather than political boundary.
This project proposes an overlay of strategies onto a Brownfi eld site, namely through the extrapolation of the working vernacular in combination with articulating an historical axis within local design solutions. This involved the reading of a cultural landscape, with siting and historical data as the guiding architectural tools for the unveiling of opportunities. The Gallery and Bridges are sutural elements that seek to re-weave an existing tract [scar] condition into the urban fabric.
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