Examples of my past work

7. MasterProject:AgrihoodinSHAsofSHAsofBelmont,Pukekohe
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Special Housing areas (SHAs) of Belmont comprises 90 hectares of elite and prime land on the western side of Pukekohe in the Franklin District, south of
Auckland (Auckland City Council, 2014).
• Monoculture practices and low-biodiversity areas
• Limited access to green infrastructure and nature
• Limited on-site water resources
• Limited water infrastructure for irrigation and future residential areas
• Potential landforms to use in design of a storm and grey water system
Nature & water management
Community & people
• Limited access to the community
• No existing training and education for small-scale gardening
• Only limited land for human-scale farmland in the local community;
the over-scaling of farmland in Belmont actually separates people from
farmland.
• Terrible environment (dust and noise) in farmland, unfit for an urban
environment and local community
Organic waste management
Leisure & recreation
• Limited road connections from north to south
• Single land function: producing food
• No existing social place in the farmland
• Limited access to open space
• No existing composting in use to support small-scale gardens in the
surrounding community
Market
• The main food resource for local customers is three supermarkets and
one farmers’ market located at the Pukekohe town centre.
• The main food resource for local retail is from large-scale industrial farms.
• There is no economic environment for small-scale growers.
• The farmers’ market, as a social place, is not in walking distance for the
future local community of Belmont.
Water flow
Land cover capability
Vegetation
Notable tree
Aspect
Slope
Hill shade
Elevation
Open spaces, farmland and cycling lane in Pukekohe
Green/blue/road infrastructure and farmland in Belmont and its
surrounding areas
The settlements, retails and farmland in BelmontThe map of land cover capability in Auckland
Pukekohe map
The overview of Belmont
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SITE LOCATION CONTEXT ANALYSIS LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS KEY FINDINGS
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9. The agrarian precinct, as part of the green, blue and leisure infrastructure of Pukekohe, will be a cross-town open space running continuously through the built urban environment,
connecting all kinds of existing urban open spaces and, eventually, the surrounding rural area. At the early stage, the existing open spaces, market gardens, cycling lanes and potential
locations for producing food within the Rural-Urban Boundary need to be identified. The agrarian precinct, by integrating the productive elements within the open spaces and by allowing
circulation, will provide the local community with food, leisure, accessibility and biodiversity.
Agrarian Precinct in Pukekohe
New location for producing food in the local park
Productive Wicking Bed in the Street
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A system-based design philosophy is required in order to develop a farming-centered residential area that is environmentally, economically and socially sustainable. Rather than an approach of dealing
with disparate problems, a system approach is based on an understanding of the relational, patterned and contextual complexity of the system. As we know, all the elements in the system, positive or
negative, interact with and rely on one another with specific relationships or connections, because they are all parts of the system. Neighbourhood and agriculture are two independent systems, self-
reliant and responsible to each other, but when they are integrated into one, new connections between the elements will be formed. To this end, understanding and creating connections between
agriculture and neighbourhood will be the key to designing farming-centered residential development in the SHA of Belmont.
Agrihood
DESIGN CONCEPT CONNECTION: AGRARIAN PRECINCT

10. Agrarian Precinct in Agrihood
Water management in Agrihood
Circulation in Agrihood
Check dams are used for slowing down water flow and
storing rain water for irrigation. Instead of the using
artificial fertilisers and monoculture, polyculture and
biodiverse planting, with green mulch, will be widely
used for growing food in the agrarian precinct.
Bioswales are used for cleaning stromwater and
graywater from local households. During the rainy
season, overflow from either side is collected in a water
channel, and when the dry season is coming, this water
is used to recharge to the main farmland in the agrarian
precinct.
Whangapouri Stream Park in agrarian precinct
Stromwater management
Graywater management
Composting hub in agrarian precinct
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ACCESS TO WATER MANAGEMENT
ACCESS TO LEISURE $ RECREATION ACCESS TO ORGANIC WASTE MANAGEMENT

11. The framework of agrarian community is based on its components: agrarian living blocks, each of which will incorporate and intensify
different agricultural activities over one acre of land across the transect, from simple window boxes to community gardens and larger-
scale farming cooperatives, cultivating a variety of associated economic, environmental and social benefits from a neighbourhood's
centre to its rural edge. A variety of agrarian living blocks will blend the edges of rural and urban, so that large-scale farmland is not
directly attached to high-density living blocks; in addition, a corrugated edge will improve the interaction between agriculture and
community and the engagement in of productive activity of all members of the community.
Agrarian community introduces agriculture back to modern life and provides choice of lifestyle in transect-based blocks. Basically,
there will be four types of agrarian living block: living farming, single housing, mixed housing and live-working blocks.
Agrarian community in Agrihood
Productive elements in Agrihood
Children's playground in market place
Edge of agrarian community
Private/public land in agrarian community
Land use in agrarian community
Live-working Block
10-15 Dwellings/ Acre
1/8 Acre farmland
Mix-Housing Block
10-15 Dwellings/ Acre
1/8 Acre farmland
Living Farming Block
4 Dwellings/ Acre
1/2 Acre farmland
Single-Housing Block
5-10 Dwellings/ Acre
1/4 Acre farmland
The size of housing areas & Infrastructures: 42.1ha
•Open Spaces: 23.4ha
•The size of agricultural land :
•Agrarian Precinct: 6ha
•Working Farm: 4.5ha
•Agrarian Community: 14ha
Concept of agrarian Living Blocks
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AGRARIAN LIVING BLOCK
ACCESS TO MARKET
INTEGRATION: AGRARIAN COMMUNITY
ACCESS TO PEOPLE & COMMUNITY

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