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Arup's Quarterly Review of Innovation, Design and Ideas @4 Arup’s quarterly review of innovation, design and ideas. Issue 12 | 2015 1 News Rethinking the Factory .............................................................................................. 4 Design Book: 50 city stories explored ............................................................... 6 Mapping the Budget ..................................................................................................... 8 Arup lead design for new urban rail system in Kuala Lumpur ................. 10 Designs revealed for MPavilion 2015 ................................................................. 12 Stories Passing through – More efficient interchanges .................................................14 Large scale infrastructure projects, the same time. We also consider Future Libraries – What could they be? .............................................................. 18 city-shaping planning, and iconic how apps and digital innovation buildings aren’t delivered overnight, built on Intelligent Transport Hot tubs, holograms & healthy kids coming to a stadium near you! ..... 20 so we tend to take a long term, Systems can make our commutes big picture view of things. In and lives easier and more efficient. Intelligent Transport Systems – Putting the customer first ......................... 30 this issue though, we consider Climate change resilience is Enhancing and sharing knowledge at Arup ....................................................... 32 ideas and projects on a different scale — both time and size. something we are always considering Climate change doesn’t stop at local government borders ......................... 34 at Arup; Rob Turk tells us how it’s We investigate the inner workings our local councils who have been If it’s possible at the Sydney Opera House ....................................................... 38 of Arup University and interview quietly getting on with tackling the Andrew Maher, its Australasian ever-present risks and impacts. Thoughts & Projects Regional Leader. Foresight + Research + Innovation, the We’d also like to share with you Walkonomics: the High Line effect ...................................................................... 46 thinktank arm of Arup University, some of the amazing projects we’ve helps push the research that is had the privilege to work on recently Data is too precious not to share ............................................................................ 48 central to our innovation and including the Sydney Opera House and Regional Rail Link in Victoria. Regional Rail Link ...................................................................................................... 50 future thinking. We discuss two of their new reports, Rethinking the Finally, I’m pleased to announce An interview with Andrew Maher ........................................................................ 52 Factory and Future Libraries. our 2015 Design Book: 50 city Sport plays a major role in this stories explored. We examine the part of the world and Arup has ideas that help make great urban been fortunate enough to work places – through design that is on a range of amazing stadiums. intelligent, beautiful, green, resilient, Peter Bowtell discusses their responsible and future facing. importance for competitors, fans, and the wider community. Kind regards, Alex Borg talks us through a diverging diamond interchange, a twist on traditional designs that can move more traffic through an intersection and increase safety at Peter Bailey Chair and CEO, Arup Australasia Published by Arup in Australasia Editors Level 10, 201 Kent Street, Stacey Ryan Sydney NSW 2000, Australia Adam Keeney Graphic Designers Ines Silva Kathie Wallace 2 3 Changan-Ford’s assembly News line is equipped with robotic technologies that allow for rapid switching between car models. © Zen Wave / Flickr CC-BY-SA Rethinking the Factory Manufacturing has design and innovation processes ‘The Human Factor(y)’ looks at that are increasingly fast, open, the growing impact of technology entered a new age of collaborative and responsive. on the workforce, including production. A shift in the automation and the diffusion of As the world of manufacturing cyber-physical assistance systems. design and manufacture changes, the way factories are of goods not the result planned, constructed and operated ‘Seamless Design and Production’ will also change. They will focuses on the growing use of of a single trend, but need to become more flexible big data, insights, and smart driven by a broad and adaptable, achieve better machines to optimise production range of complex and integration between buildings and processes and enable greater processes, and be more resilient customisation of complex products. interconnected factors. to economic and environmental ‘Resilient and Adaptive Spaces’ These influences range from shifts. Future factories will have to operate at higher material focuses on the physical factory, advances in digital technologies looking at designs that are resilient and automation, to climate change and energy efficiencies, while providing safe and healthy working to environmental risks as well as and market demands. The collective sustainable in their construction, consequence is a shift towards conditions for an increasingly skilled and diverse workforce. operation and end of life disassembly. This report explores the future of the To read Rethinking the Factory factory from three different angles: please click here to download. Jaguar Land Rover people, production and space. Ingenium Engine © Jaguar Land Rover Manufacturing Centre 4 5 Glasgow Edinburgh Solihull Copenhagen Limerick Amsterdam The Hague London Milton Keynes Dornbirn Bilbao Milan New York Beijing Newark Hansung City San Francisco Las Vegas Shanghai Dhaka New Orleans Dubai Foshan Taipei Surat Hong Kong Mexico City Caracas Bogota Singapore Cali Semarang Pretoria Cape Town Sydney Adelaide Wollongong Concepción Melbourne Christchurch We include the thoughts of a Today’s city challenges In 50 city stories explored, we “ Design in a city is about Design Book: number of internationally-renowned explore the often-conflicting thinking about something spokespeople, talking about the Cities must tackle a diverse set of demands placed on cities. challenges cities face today. challenges. To name a few, they must in a different way. It’s new 50 city stories explored deal with urbanisation, changing As the projects featured in the book associations; it’s kind of a They include: demographics, climate change, show, cities have the opportunity change of angle. Sometimes economic growth, water scarcity to make many interventions for • Judith Rodin, President of 50 city stories explored brings together projects and congestion. improvement — becoming greener, that’s radical, sometimes it’s The Rockefeller Foundation of all kinds delivered for and with cities around more intelligent, beautiful, future kind of very evolutionary, • Edgar Pieterse, Director of the The world’s cities must differentiate facing, responsible and resilient. but it’s always got to be new, the world. We examine the ideas that help African Center for Cities themselves, to attract increasingly These themes inform our discussions mobile global talent, tourists because otherwise you’re just make great urban places – through design • Clover Moore, Lord Mayor of the within this book, as they do our repeating, you’re mimicking City of Sydney and inward investment. More than work with cities worldwide. that is intelligent, beautiful, green, resilient, anything, cities must be fit for – you’re not designing.” responsible and future-facing. • Thomas Heatherwick, British purpose today while anticipating Read the electronic version of the designer and the founder of the possibilities of tomorrow. book. Malcolm Smith, Global Masterplanning Heatherwick Studio and Urban Design Leader, Arup 6 7 Mapping the Budget See all the projects Users can easily see which projects The data that drives the Mapping have been invested in and projects the Budget website (which was also across NSW and in with specific locations are pinned to developed in open source software) your neighbourhood. the map and can be searched, sorted was launched as the budget was and expanded for more detail. announced. Publically available at data.nsw.gov.au, the data comes Following on from the success The tool shows what is happening in a range of formats for the free of last year’s iteration, the NSW across NSW or in an immediate area, exploration of both individuals and Government has developed in and can be filtered by region, local organisations. The NSW Government partnership with Arup, ‘Mapping government area, or by clicking encourages anyone with an interest the Budget’ for 2015-16. The and freely navigating the map. for further analysis, development interactive visualisation allows Responsibly sharing data is a of tools and visualisations, or a people to intuitively review government commitment, as simple curiousity, to visit the site. budget projects across NSW. outlined by the NSW Government All budget papers are available at The 2015-16 Budget Paper 2 on Open Data Policy as part of the budget.nsw.gov.au and Mapping the infrastructure is presented visually NSW Government ICT Strategy. Budget is housed at myinfrastructure. across a map of NSW and is Government data should be open planning.nsw.gov.au. searchable by agency, project, by default, including budget data, planning region, local government and Mapping the Budget leads area
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