Kiah Infranet
KIAH Infranet is a design studio which practices integrated Urban Design, Landscape Architecture and Strategic Planning. KIAH Infranet provides integrated planning and design services in Australia and overseas.
The firm brings international experience in strategic planning, architecture, urban renewal and infrastructure projects in former Germany, the USA, Australia and China with more than twenty five years experience working in Australia in the field of landscape architecture.
Our broad interdisciplinary focus on a variety of urban and landscape projects internationally allows us to draw from our widespread expertise and experience to deliver uniquely integrated solutions to complex planning projects.
Our disciplines include: • City and Strategic Planning • Environmental Planning • Landscape Architecture • Urban Design • Infrastructure Design • Architecture
KIAH Infranet is committed to applying sustainable principles from planning through to design.
A key approach of the practise is to assemble tailored project teams, by collaborating with other key individuals/practices to deliver appropriate resolutions for the particular needs of each project.
Trademark of the practice is the high level of involvement of directors with diverse backgrounds and expertise working directly on the project. In particular, KIAH Infranet has a strong environmental approach to the discipline of landscape architecture, with special expertise in water sensitive design.
Because of Kiah-Infranet’s structure, it is able to deliver projects creatively and personally. KIAH Infranet believe that each project, client and site holds unique opportunities and it is our responsibility to synthesise these into clear solutions that respond to the brief, are environmentally responsible and reinforce the sense of place.
KIAH is an aboriginal word meaning “a beautiful place”- i.e. in tune with the environment. INFRANET comes from “infrastructure” and “net” or connectivity meaning
Categories: Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Masterplanning, Town Planning, Environmental Design, Urban Art and Culture
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Projects
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Lane Cove Tunnel
Client: Parsons Brinckerhoff/Thiess John Holland/RTA
Date: 2003- on going
Services: Design, documentation, site surveillance
Key challenges: Integrated urban and landscape design and documentation for a major infrastructure project in Sydney. The 3.6 km long twin tunnel connects the Gore Hill Freeway with the M2 Motorway in the northwest of Sydney. Key elements include; tunnel portals, retaining walls, bridges, sound walls in a unified design with earthworks, sensitive drainage concepts, cycle and pedestrian networks, plantings to reflect ecological themes and improvements to viaduct spaces. The architectural language is based upon triangularity, form and colour reinforces the identity of the project and provides a unique character to each element.
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Eastcom City Masterplan
Eastcom City Landscape Design
Client: Eastern Communication Pty Ltd
Date: 2000-2002
Services: Masterplan, landscape design & documentation, site surveillance
Key challenges: A 30 hectare site for a telecommunications factory for 4,500 workers for a Motorola joint venture. The scheme transforms a polluted canal into a sustainable lake and canal system that recycles all storm water. Green space links, permeable carparks, recreation facilities and rationalisation of car park and road networks.
“The Eastcom City project is a landmark project for Hangzhou and for the firm of Landscape Architects. The project features the transformation of an existing contaminated canal into a celebrated water feature through the implementation of water quality control techniques. These included the filtration of rooftop and pavement runoff through swales and filters, aeration, permeable car parks, recycling for irrigation and recirculation.” (AILA 2004 National Awards Jury)
Key challenges: The Eastcom City project is a landmark project for Hangzhou and for the firm of Landscape Architects. The project features the transformation of an existing contaminated canal into a celebrated water feature through the implementation of water quality control techniques. These included the filtration of rooftop and pavement runoff through swales and filters, aeration, permeable car parks, recycling for irrigation and recirculation.”
The project displays a bold and successful attempt to incorporate sensitive water planning and design in a new culture. The sustainability concepts and environmental initiatives have been marketed across the city, and the province.
With our vision, the canal was transformed from the existing polluted canal into a new canal which displays how water can be collected, cleaned, aerated and recycled for irrigation to transform the polluted existing canal in to the “jewel” of the development.
The scheme transforms a polluted canal into a sustainable lake and canal system that recycles all storm water. The design included; green space links, permeable carparks, recreation facilities and rationalisation of car park and road networks.
Sensitive drainage initiatives included; the recycling of all storm water from the buildings and roads within the site through vegetated swales, rock lined swales, wetland filters, to the newly created lake that incorporates aerating water terraces. This innovative project is now used as a research project by the local University science department for student monitoring of water quality control.
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Hangzhou New CBD Foreshore Masterplan and Documentation
Client: Hangzhou Qianjiang New CBD Construction Committee
Date: 2006
Services: masterplan
Key challenges: The site encompasses an area of approximately 37 hectares along the foreshore of the Qiantang River to be used as a multi-function park as a key focus on visual and functional integration with adjacent developments/open space systems and a large portion of the site covers underground car parking and road infrastructure, thereby creating a large “green roof”. The Masterplan provided a more unified, legible open space framework that successfully integrated the many parts of the existing plan- adjacent developments, the central axis, adjacent parks & infrastructure as well as creating spaces for uses that would adapt to changing recreational and social needs over time.
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