10 tips for landscape architecture

10 tips for landscape architecture
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1.
Use a local problem to invent a generic solution
Though landscape architecture tends to be a custom job,
it can still offer solutions for footloose phenomena
Dordrecht
Dordrecht power line park
> Dordrecht plan area
> Urban power lines in the Netherlands
> Urban power lines in the Netherlands
Dordrecht
> Limitations for the plan area
> Proposal for planted power lines in urban areas
2.
Use a global challenge to solve a local problem
Global problems can have a major influence on
landscape design
Almere
> Palm oil plant in Sumatra
> Tropical forest is replaced by fields of palms
> Field of poplars in Almere
> Pampushout 2010
> Pampushout in 2010
> Pampushout in 2020
> Pampushout in 2030
> Food-core
> Rausch-core
> Wood-core
3.
Think big in small scale projects
Design solutions often emerge in the bigger picture
Tilburg
Meijerijbaanbrug
> The Wilhelminavaart seen from the Meijerijbaan bridge
> The Meijerijbaanbridge has lost its current purpose
> Existing situation
> Proposal for the new situation: bridge, routing and landscape
> Proposal for the new bridge
> Proposal for the new bridge
4.
Think small and simple in large scale projects
On large scale and long term, it’s hardly possible to foresee
the results of a design intervention. Still it’s vital to show how
the future might look like
Grevelingen
> The delta before the disaster in 1953
> The Delta Plan to secure the delta
> The delta now
> Masterplan for the Grevelingen
> Eco-resort and tidal bath
> Island in splendid isolation
5.
Design total landscapes
If possible, ‘total design’ is very powerful an can
overcome apparent contradictions
Sintra
Cyprus
> Sintra is located between Lisbon and a National Park
> Sintra vs. Lisbon
> One park to withstand the urban sprawl
> Inner courtyards face nature
> Boiulevard drive
6.
Don’t design everything
The more you design, the less freedom there is left
Hannover
Rotterdam
Cyprus
> Leftover construction site A4 highway
> Park landscape shaped by people kiting, walking, driving
> Park landscape shaped by people kiting, walking, driving
Hannover all-season square
> Seasonal activities
Hannover all-season square
> A new square for Hannover city
> create the perfect conditions for any kind of use, all year round
Hannover
7.
Aim for pure nature
Designed nature might never be ‘pure’ but can be
overwhelmingly abundant, rich, exciting and fertile
Grevelingen
Grevelingen dam
> The Grevelingen Dam was a marvel of Dutch construction
Grevelingen dam
> But now the Grevelingen Dam is mainly a derelict, poor landscape
Grevelingen dam
> The result is that tourists stay away
Current situation map
> The current situation
> The masterplan
> Pure nature: sandbanks, lagunes and dunes
> Harbours and a boulevard provide service and entertainment
Natural landscape
> The result: pure nature man made
8.
Make devices to experience nature
People need devices to experience nature; they bring
binoculars, kites, bike, etc. Landscape architects should
develop unique devices to enable that experience.
Tilburg
> People bring generic devices to experience nature
> Holterberg National Park
> The Korhoen is a bird on the verge of extinction
> Roadkill
> There is a need for devices for nature and people as well
National Park Holterberg
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> Ponds and trails
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> The ponds guide you from the train station into the heart of the National Park
> The ponds guide you from the train station into the heart of the National Park
> The ponds provide water for the wildlife
> During the morning you might spot a deer
9.
Trigger senses
Like most media, this book only shows the visual side of
landscapes, while an intense landscape experience depends on all senses
Tilburg
Fountain
> The famous fountain of Chatsworth Garden
Composed City
Riffelschiene
Fly Paper
Kikkit
Tongue squash
Playback
Silent neighbours
> Wriezerer Freiraum artworks
Vessel installation
> Riffelschiene provides a hangout and enables people to people listen
> Riffelschiene provides a hangout and enables people to people listen
> Riffelschiene provides a hangout and enables people to people listen
> The kikkit amplifies the play of soccer
> The kikkit amplifies the play of soccer
Teugen Airport
> A fresnel-shaped amphitheater to experience the sound of airplanes
> The fresnel design focuses noise from the airplanes
> The center of the amphitheater is the focal point of tall airplane noise
Dordrecht sound barrier
> A new approach in the design of sound barriers
> The transformation of a traditional sound barrier
> The result is a landscape of park-like foothills
10.
Make sense
Landscape architecture is about realizing ideas
Appeltern
Landscape architecture is about realizing ideas
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2.
3. Use a local problem
to invent a generic
solution
Use a global challenge
to solve a local problem
Think big in small
scale projects
4.
5.
6.
Think small in large
scale projects
Design total
landscapes
Don’t design
everything
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8.
9.
Aim for pure nature
Make devices to
experience nature
Trigger senses
CARden
> A pedestal for the ‘holy cow’
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