Urban Design - Continued Group Development 02 (Landform)

We began the development of our sketches with a focus on landform. As one of our main desires is to bring the river into the site and use this water in an effective way (for waste management, energy production and filtration), invariably landform design had to be considered. Through the use of our sketches we had a basic idea of how we wanted the river to move through the site, rather than flowing freely at all times, we hoped to create a number of 'pockets' that could fill as the water level rises and permeates through the ground (this landform in a tidal river would create environments suitable to deploy our energy harvesting concept).

By taking the existing contour line and spot heights I was able to generate the existing landform in 3d, This allowed us to easily manipulate the spaces and experiment with the 'island formation'