OFC 2022 Submissions & Winners!

We are proud to present the final submissions from the 2022 OFC student design competition. Sustainable. Innovative. Creative. Scroll below to view the students amazing vision statements and panel presentations for an in depth walk through of the designs.

Team 8 - Mia Clarke and Laura Gibson (First Place!)

Vision: Creating an inclusive, liveable, and biodiverse city centre which promotes the mutually beneficial relationship of human and plant life through education and promotion of community.

Team 12 - Keren Maina, Evan Grosvenor and Meg Chatterton (Second Place!)

Our vision is for a healthy, connected and thriving community in the East Werribee Precinct.

Our mission is to improve biodiversity, connect communities and increase access to fresh food and open green space by creating a culturally diverse food walk with a range of fruit trees and other edible plants.

Team 5 - Bonnie Wu, Jessica O'Keefe, and Leyun Chen (Third Place!)

Vision: To support a sustainable, livable, equal, and vibrant city. Our design will be achieved through the use of the Biodiversity First Urban Design (BFUD) framework. A newly formed framework that builds on the existing Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design framework to incorporate the four key livable city drivers: Water Sensitive, Connectivity, Equity, and Circularity. BFUD also incorporates Indigenous knowledge and perspectives through in-depth consideration. BFUD proposes a design where built form and deep soil green space will be in a 50/50 ratio, and hence all inhabitants of the EWEP can thrive, prosper and enjoy a biodiverse city.

Team 7 - Merlin Jolly, Naveen Tharmalingam, Luke Burns, and Shrividhya Aiyer

Vision: Our plan envisages an East Werribee precinct representing the best practice for active transport, water management, local energy production, and community participation. This design aims to address some key challenges faced by Werribee:

• Car dependency

• Lack of connection to water

• Water quality and Ecological degradation

• Energy efficiency

• Endangered Platypus species

To address these issues our design includes the use of science-based solutions for improved water quality, an active and sustainable transport network, the use of local waste to produce energy, and the establishment of a local market for urban agriculture and a community garden.

Team 9 - Gaile Mingwai Chung and Janz HoiYee Cho

Vision : The development of holistic and sustainable community, which values and engages the whole of the environment, as well as supporting local economies and cultures.