student assignment ::: zen pocket park

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POCKET PARK

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ZEN

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N CBD

Flagstaff Gardens

Church College

Victoria Market

Flagstaff Gardens

SITE LOCATION

N intersection tram 57 Victoria St

mixed use zone highest point

church _ highest point

catholic college _ existing park

heritage building _ repetition _ ornaments

catholic centre _ disrespectful

church Willia m St

potential trees college

bicycle path

parking

Libraries

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via maps.melbourne

Howard St

concrete

catholic centre

focus point

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The corners of the triangle are highlighted because it is a focus point that can be very important to attract people. It is where the street views converge.

Nowadays, the Howard Street has just one direction and two lanes for parking. As this parking is just necessary for some periods of the week, one lane can be exclude in order to enlarge the park area. The street and one parking will be maintained just for the local residents.

school children residents workers church

Section through William Street scale 1.1000

ZONES_concepts The pocket park has 3 zones separated by the street and the sloping ground and designed according to concepts: 1.the meeting space_ will be in front of the church and will not have high elements in order to emphasize the heritage architecture of the church; 2.the relaxing space_ will be in the middle because it is further from the main streets noises and it is where the most of the trees are located (potential trees); 3.the reading space_ will have a pavilion used as a informal library (in the same location as the demolish building as reference) and seating spaces, therefore more architectural spaces.

MEETING space

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RELAXING space YIN YANG

PATHS_i nspiration&basis

READING space

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Potential trees

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The paths were designed to create perspective and peaceful experience to the pedestrian. It was designed to avoid the monotony of the straight path and to break the rigid triangle form. The organic circulation shape was ďŹ rst inspired by the symbol of taoism (yin yang) as reference to yoga practice at the relaxing space. The path in front of the church is related to the symbol of holy spirit: the bird, dove (we can see clearer in the site plan).

The new pocket park Zen has also secondary paths responsible to increase the number of access and to connect spaces. In the Relaxing Space, the secondary path forms a v-shape around the pond.

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V E G E T A T I O N _ trees N

The primary and organic path subdivide the park according to characteristics such as 1.1_lunch space, 1.2_open reading space, 1.3_ closed reading space, 2.1_yoga solo (individual), 2.2_yoga group, 3.1_open meeting space and 3.2_ sculpture space.

Howard Street will be maintained in order to attend the families that already lives in front of it.

However, it will have 2 points of traffic calm in the relaxing and meeting space connection in order to slow the car speed.

The vegetation was designed according to MALAMUT M. (2011) book’s concepts of “ceiling”, “wall” and “floor” that the vegetation can transmits.

SCULPTURE space

GROUND concept

OPEN MEETING space GROUND, CEILING & WALL concept YOGA GROUP space YOGA SOLO space

WALL concept

CLOSED READING space

Ground concept’s experience

Wall concept’s experience

Ceiling concept’s experience

Wall x Ceiling experience

CEILING concept

OPEN READING space LUNCH space Grid & repetition elements reference to the heritage buildings around the park that use this concept.

Images from MALAMUT M. (2011). Paisagismo - projetando espacos livres

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D E T A I L E D D E S I G N _ plan

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D E T A I L E D D E S I G N _ section AA materials

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Z E N _ pocketpark reading_space + relaxing_space

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REFERENCING MALAMUT, Marcos. (2011). Paisagismo - projetando espacos livres (Landscape - designing spaces). 1st ed. Marcos Malamuti.

CCS URBAN LANDSCAPE DESIGN. (2009). Moore Square Master Plan. Retrieved 10th October 2014 from www.christophercountsstudio.com/#!moore-square/cuvy.

ZOOM ARQUITETURA. (2014). Pracinha Oscar Freire. Sao Paulo - Brazil.

OSCAR NIEMEYER. (1958). Three Powers Square. Brasilia - Brazil.

ZION & BREEN. Paley Park. (1967). New York - USA. SWECO ARCHITECTS. (2010). Sjövikstorget. Stockholm - Sweden.

PWP LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. (2011). National 9/11 Memorial. New York - USA. WEST 8 and DTAH. (2011). Toronto Central Waterfront. Toronto - Canada.

Oscar Freire little square - Brazil _ concept of “pocket park” _ seating space _ lunch break

Three Powers Square - Brazil _ concept of “dry square” _ architecture emphasized

National 9/11 Memorial - USA _ trees’ grid composition

Paley Park - USA _ first pocket park _ water

Sjövikstorget - Sweden _ children _ water

Moore Square Master Plan - USA landscape design by circulation _ trees composition

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Toronto Central Waterfront - Canada _ seating spaces