Canvas Parklet
The Canvas Parklet is a cost effective solution to providing more livable and people friendly streetscapes.
Business to build and personalise.
Duration: 1 - 2 years
Installation: Business or per request by Urban Commons
Lead time: 2-4 weeks
The Canvas Parklet system allows the local trader to upgrade their streetscape in accordance with council approval to enhance trade and provide greater public amenity.
Streets are our greatest public asset and under the lens of a COVID safe world the ability to provide adequate distancing whilst businesses still trade is of paramount importance.
The local street trader is the backbone of our civic economy. Our streets have to become super people centric, where green open space, free of fast moving cars can allow people to spend more time. The streets need to be places for people to meet, play and grow - Multimodal public arenas.
The nature of the system allows for greater customization to reflect the individual businesses identity. It can be flat packed and palletized before being assembled by a small group of willing individuals.
The system can be maintained easily and provides additional seating, planters and bicycle parking.
Parkscape
Parkscape is a kit of parts to rapidly transform our streets into more livable and people-friendly spaces.
Can be refurbished and redeployed to last.
Duration: 3-6 years
Installation: Council / Contractor
Lead time: 6-8 weeks
As our population grows and transport challenges become more complex, there are real opportunities for Rapidly Deployable Urban Infrastructure (RDUI).
Our streets, public spaces and transport networks must be adapted to meet the travel demands of the future while ensuring cities become more people centric.
We need wider footpaths to provide for greater pedestrian activity that our growing cities are experiencing; we require more bicycle friendly parking, seating and greening of our urban spaces.
We have developed a range of RDUI platforms, planters, seating and bicycle parking solutions that allow car spaces to be rapidly transformed into footpath extensions.
Our systems are flexible and robust in their design, having already spent many years out in the wilderness, rigorously tested outside cafes, bars, schools and apartment developments.
Foodscape (Kitchen Garden)
Our kitchen garden systems have transformed many major institutions such as the National Gallery of Victoria, Monash Health and Westfield Group.
With greater levels of urban densification, more concrete and more asphalt - a connection to nature and especially to our food system is critically important.
International studies have shown the direct benefit of growing your own food - a greater sense of wellbeing, better access to higher nutritional food without the pesticides, a greater opportunity for active recreation - especially important for challenging childhood obesity. There are also wider benefits for the community, allowing for a meeting place and a common activity for all cultures and nationalities – food is the common language.
We have specifically designed our kitchen gardens to outperform in Australia’s built urban environments as we now experience greater levels of low rainfall, hotter and drier conditions on average.
Our systems have dual wall structures to avoid the rapid drying out of important nutrient rich soils which helps to sustain the gardens over many more months of the year. We have incorporated water reservoirs in our designs to ensure the plants have access to water on demand, reducing the amount of active watering days.
In addition, we have devised our gardens to incorporate seating and different working heights to facilitate social connection and access to a broad range of age groups and physical abilities.
We are here to connect like-minded people to a new vision where planting, sharing and celebrating food empowers us all to realise greener, healthier, more community-orientated cities that we all aspire to live in.
