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DIMBOOLA Rural Towns Urban Design Research Project urban design consultancy + UAL masters research studio + undergraduate design thesis and upperpool design studios + landscape architecture studio  Dimboola Urban Design Plan Consultancy Project, 2005 NMBW Architecture Studio Carey Lyon, Lyons Architects Dimboola RMIT Architecture and Landscape Architecture Upper pool Design Studios Semester 01, 2005 Project coordinator and Architecture Studio Leader: Nigel Bertram - Urban Architecture Laboratory; NMBW Architecture Studio Landscape Architecture Studio Leader: Fiona Harrison - RMIT Landscape Architecture partners: Urban Architecture Laboratory RMIT Landscape Architecture NMBW Architecture Studio  Hindmarsh Shire Council consultant team: Nigel Bertram; Marika Neustupny & Lucinda McLean, NMBW Architecture Studio with Shane Murray; Carey Lyon, Lyons Architects; Fiona Harrison Project Description The project was to undertake urban design studies and produce an Urban Design Plan for the town of Dimboola commissioned by the Hindmarsh Shire Council. This rural town in the State of Victoria faces serious demographic challenges with ageing and falling populations, surplus building stock and infrastructure, consolidation of regional services, and shifts from an entirely agricultural economy to other activities such as tourism. Students from the Dimboola Architecture Upperpool Design Studio joined Landscape Architecture students in a parallel studio coordinated by the RMIT Urban Architecture Laboratory (UAL). Postgraduate Masters of Architecture (by project) urban architecture students undertook research studio investigations on the Dimboola urban plan. Impact MINUTES OF THE ORDINARY MEETING OF THE HINDMARSH SHIRE COUNCIL HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER 92 NELSON STREET NHILL ON WEDNESDAY 19 OCTOBER 2005, COMMENCING AT 9.00AM. "9.6 DIMBOOLA URBAN DESIGN PLAN - (CEO;CDO; 11.3.1.5) Background: The Urban Design Plan for Dimboola has recently been completed by the NMBW Consultant Team. The Urban Design Plans were developed to take in the needs of community, visitors, the geography and community sustainability into the future. NMBW have put together hard copies and CD format of the final document. Issues: The final copy of the Urban Design Plan for Dimboola needs to be adopted and then distributed to the Dimboola Town Committee and community. Consultation: The Project team visited Dimboola once a month for four months in March, April, May and June 2005. Each visit included about twenty students with four or five consultants and undertook wide-ranging consultation with the Dimboola community. In addition, four public meetings were held, draft documents circulated and displayed, press releases printed in the Banner and comments received from a wide variety of sources. The project team stayed in Dimboola for three days on each visit which gave opportunities for formal and informal discussion and interaction. Comments received on the draft plan were incorporated into the Plan. The last meeting in June saw the launch and exhibition of the plan with subsequent submissions, comments and suggestions incorporated in the plan forwarded to, and accepted by, the Steering Committee. Options: Council can adopt the Dimboola Urban Design Plan or amend the Plan. RECOMMENDATION: That Council adopt the Dimboola Urban Design Plan. MOTION: CR. KEMFERT MOVED “THAT THE OFFICERS’ RECOMMENDATION BE ADOPTED.” SECONDED CR. GERSCH AND CARRIED. MOTION: CR. KEMFERT MOVED “THAT A LETTER BE SENT TO NMBW CONSULTANT TEAM CONGRATULATING THEM ON THE EXCELLENT JOB THEY DID ON THE HINDMARSH SHIRE URBAN PLANS.” SECONDED CR. HEINRICH AND CARRIED." Publications Bertram, Nigel & Neustupny, Marika, "Sparse Urban Environments: Design Strategies for Possible Futures" in The Changing Nature of Australia’s Country Towns, Edited by Maureen F Rogers and David R Jones, Melbourne: VURRN Press, 2006. ISBN: 1876851236 Order form - pdf Partners: Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities, La Trobe University, Bendigo Victorian Universities Regional Research Network (VURRN) RMIT University (Hamilton) - Centre for Regional and Rural Development Bertram, Nigel & Neustupny, Marika, "Sparse Urban Environments: Design Strategies for Possible Futures" (pdf file), refereed paper in Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities: 2nd Future of Australia's Towns Conference, Bendigo, 11-13th July 2005 UAL POSTGRADUATE PUBLICATION 38South Vol 3: Urban Architecture Laboratory 2002-2004 edited by Shane Murray and Nigel Bertram Melbourne: RMIT University Press, 2005 38South Vol 3 - Online Essay & Project Archive includes a full copy of the book online as downloadable pdf files includes: Paul Dash four town farms for a farm town (pdf) Master of Architectural Research (UAL) Han Li the ‘third’ thing of shrinkage (pdf) Master of Architectural Research (UAL) Paulo Sampaio designing dynamic and flexible urban space (pdf) Master of Architectural Research (UAL) Project Background This is the second iteration in this series of rural regional urban design plan research projects. The first design studio, UAL Masters research studio and urban consultancy project focused on Raibow & Jeparit in semester 1 2004, partnered with the Hindmarsh Shire Council. Rainbow and Jeparit Urban Design Project ________________________________________________________________________________ RMIT Architecture - Urban Architecture Laboratory Urban Architectural Design Research and Consultancy, Postgraduate Masters Program, Architecture Program research-led teaching stream | ||||||||
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