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The (un)conditional garden Aim Some 60% of Dutch flora and fauna are

present in or near the city. But policy on nature is still dominated by red-versus-green polemics that divide the city from nature. The design for the (un)conditional garden is an ode to urban nature and shows the city as a landscape where specific flora and fauna find their place in their own way. The garden shows the richness that lies hidden in the corners and cracks of the city.The aim of the design is to add the image of urban nature to our traditional images of nature. In that way the garden can distance itself from the image of the urban park, because it is based on natural (urban) ecological processes such as succession, disruption, predation and isolation.

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Design The garden is designed on top of and

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partly in the future parking garage of Artis zoo. The grid on which the parking garage is composed forms the basis for a large number of boxes in which the huge number of habitats that the city accommodates are projected. Boxes differ according to the conditions that they create. Those differences can be achieved not only through differences in soil type and drainage, but also through the arrangement of the boxes. Taller boxes cast shadows on lower boxes, while lower boxes can expose

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adjoining boxes to the elements. In this way the arrangement can either stimulate or slow ecological processes. Taken collectively, the boxes are arranged in such a way that an alternating landscape is created. A floating path leads the visitor past four zones in the garden and emphasises the contrast between the grid on which the garden is based and the traditional route that the path offers the walker. The visitor is thus challenged to look afresh at what first seemed to be just weeds, and to discover just how rich nature is in the city.

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1. floorplan 2. architectonical diversification 3. ecological zones and stimuli 4. spatial expression of the ecological zones 5. routing through the different environments (bothon top and in the garage) 6. birdseye view of all four layers 7. model of garden and Zoo 8. section of the garden merging with the garage

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