Abdo: A conceptual design for the new planting schemes of the Biotope, focuses on incorporating new plant species with wilderness species as in the presented manner, in addition to a wooden platform and a built Herbarium for species recording and documentation.

A conceptual design for the new planting schemes of the Biotope, focuses on incorporating new plant species with wilderness species as in the presented manner, in addition to a wooden platform and a built Herbarium for species recording and documentation.

Talk:Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 9

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'''Group 2 Comments'''
First of all very nice interpretive work and nicely done case studies, we have gone through your presentation and the Wiki page for your cases and have some comments on your work, please do not think of them as criticism only but as how to make things better and more illustrated.

'''CASE A:'''
- We found that the approach to the Urban Landscape environment through the drivers and passengers eyes is an interesting idea for analysis. Also green urban planning touch ecological, environmental issues, the impact of pollution to the plants should be considered, the species of plants must resist the high rates of pollution.
- We missed the findings how does the comparison of the passing speed change the perception of green spaces by driver; might be blurred textures of plants, silhouettes of trees and very different approach by walker: detail insights and feelings of landscape.

'''CASE B:'''
- Why you selected it: Reasons stated are: The Location and its connections to the sub-springs – These are more of facts and do not give a strong reason to choose the site. The choice could be based on more personal analysis. For example: Using Point No.3 ´´for a country like Jordan with very less natural resources, the site works as a tourism center for both locals and tourists alike´´ …… This could set you thinking about the current situation, its pros & cons, changes over time, threats faced futuristic vision for the area, etc. Also how it relates to you is quiet unclear.
- Author's perspective: Very well clarified. Analytical and Projective drawings are well communicated. Summary: The site is facing a threat is clear and also the possibilities are well suggested. The summary however fails to bring out all the wonderful views suggested in the projective sketches. It falls flat seeing it as a future touristic center which it already is!
- One of the suggestions could be to create similar springs around the region and make it user friendly while restricting access or limiting access to the natural spring area. This could help maintenance and conservation to a certain extent.
- Conclusion: Interesting case and analysis. Comparison to one or two similar sites in other parts of the world (natural and created) could help readers to arrive at personal views as well. Nonetheless, great effort!

'''Case C:'''
- The whole idea is nice, simple and the drawings are well illustrated.
- There are some punctual mistakes though in the wiki page such as: In the first section 'why is this case interesting' you wrote in the second line 'Rate plants' do you mean by that rare plants? Also Aspekts should be : aspects in second paragraph and others.
- What do u mean by the term Alpennationalpark Berchtesgaden
- We think more emphasis should be made on the cultural features, dynamics and landscape content of the case.
- Building fences in natural landscapes won't be very good in the aesthetic point of view, may be tree hedges are more appropriate or even digging up small water canals to preserve landscape content.
- By proposing to fence the area, is there going to be a drawback or side effect to local animal species being trapped or could endanger the local environment?

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2013-12-10T22:42:56Z

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'''Group 2 Comments'''
First of all very nice interpretive work and nicely done case studies, we have gone through your presentation and the Wiki page for your cases and have some comments on your work, please do not think of them as criticism only but as how to make things better and more illustrated.

'''CASE A:'''
- We found that the approach to the Urban Landscape environment through the drivers and passengers eyes is an interesting idea for analysis. Also green urban planning touch ecological, environmental issues, the impact of pollution to the plants should be considered, the species of plants must resist the high rates of pollution.
- We missed the findings how does the comparison of the passing speed change the perception of green spaces by driver; might be blurred textures of plants, silhouettes of trees and very different approach by walker: detail insights and feelings of landscape.

'''CASE B:'''
- Why you selected it: Reasons stated are: The Location and its connections to the sub-springs – These are more of facts and do not give a strong reason to choose the site. The choice could be based on more personal analysis. For example: Using Point No.3 ´´for a country like Jordan with very less natural resources, the site works as a tourism center for both locals and tourists alike´´ …… This could set you thinking about the current situation, its pros & cons, changes over time, threats faced futuristic vision for the area, etc. Also how it relates to you is quiet unclear.
- Author's perspective: Very well clarified. Analytical and Projective drawings are well communicated. Summary: The site is facing a threat is clear and also the possibilities are well suggested. The summary however fails to bring out all the wonderful views suggested in the projective sketches. It falls flat seeing it as a future touristic center which it already is!
- One of the suggestions could be to create similar springs around the region and make it user friendly while restricting access or limiting access to the natural spring area. This could help maintenance and conservation to a certain extent.
- Conclusion: Interesting case and analysis. Comparison to one or two similar sites in other parts of the world (natural and created) could help readers to arrive at personal views as well. Nonetheless, great effort!
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'''Case C:'''
- The whole idea is nice, simple and the drawings are well illustrated.
- There are some punctual mistakes though in the wiki page such as: In the first section 'why is this case interesting' you wrote in the second line 'Rate plants' do you mean by that rare plants? Also Aspekts should be : aspects in second paragraph and others.
- What do u mean by the term Alpennationalpark Berchtesgaden
- We think more emphasis should be made on the cultural features, dynamics and landscape content of the case.
- Building fences in natural landscapes won't be very good in the aesthetic point of view, may be tree hedges are more appropriate or even digging up small water canals to preserve landscape content.
- By proposing to fence the area, is there going to be a drawback or side effect to local animal species being trapped or could endanger the local environment?

Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 2

2013-12-10T13:54:40Z

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== Assignment 2 - Lecture Concept Map ==
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== Assignment 3 - Images of Nature in your Environment ==

*'''Assigned: Wednesday, October 30'''
*'''Due: Tuesday, December 3'''

''An 'image of nature' can be any planting design or vegetation structure. It might be on a local scale in your direct vicinity or be a part of a wider landscape structure. Each group member finds an individual page here that links to a template. You can use this template for documenting your case.''

=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study A|Case Study A]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B|Case Study B]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study C|Case Study C]] ===
=== Presentation Slides Assignment 3 ===

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== Assignment 4 - Collaborative Planting Design ==

*'''Assigned: Wednesday, December 4'''
*'''Due: Tuesday, January 21'''

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'''From a 'BROWNFIELD' to a "GREENFIELD"

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Project Biotope ''
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| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Forchheim''
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| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Germany''
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| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rini James''
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== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

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WHY?: This case drew my interest as it stands as a testimony to demonstrate the ability of nature to self-transform or simply adapt!

EXEMPLARY BECAUSE: This site was used as a landfill till the recent past.Leftover building waste like bricks, stones, sand, etc. from construction sites, demolition projects etc. from neighboring regions were emptied into this site which is located off the Autobahn A73 towards, Forchheim.With excessive dumping the land was close to exploited and needed supervision and this intentness created a demand among private investors which led to encroachment and soon a logistics centre was set up in one part of the site.Eventually the state stepped in and took measures to guard a part of the site which is yet unexploited and took an initiative to conserve this area by transforming it into a 'BIOTOPE' (specifically an amphibian reserve).A couple of existing water ponds additionally strengthen the prospects of the project. I find this metamorphosis of a brownfield into a "greenfield" rather fascinating.
Further interesting is the site's topographic transformation.Over time, the terrain has self modelled itself from a flat plane to an undulated or contoured profile.This acreage is not an identified piece of land but it is prominently located and possesses innate abilities to transform itself into a dignified landscape.

RELATES TO ME: I am involved in the planning of this revitalization project which I believe, is an understanding of natural dynamics more closely and an investigation into the level of human intervention required in retaining a natural space in order to create a "naturalscape", while seeking sustainable outcomes.

== Author's perspective ==
As an architect, one cannot overlook the urban context of any project. This project particularly, demands a sound understanding of the local landscape conditions and requirements along with a clear analysis of the physical aspects of the urban fabric. I hence intend to investigate the case in terms of landscape conditions and urban influences and their interdependencies.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
The site of "Project Biotope" is located in Forchheim, Germany. Apart from the many farms and fields, the most prominent recognized public green space in the city is the StadtPark (City park),Forchheim. It also consists of considerable amount of forest cover. Overall, Forchheim is located in in the lower terrace of the Rhine valley and has a fertile and arable land.
This site however is not distinctly known for its vegetation type or its natural setting. However, its extrusive location; along autobahn A73 makes it inevitable to let it go unnoticed. Parts of the land are privately owned while most part yet belongs to the state. The undisturbed parts of the site is rich in vegetation and the ever changing local conditions show new plant species shooting up in various parts of the site. While the most dominant species of trees on site are ‘''Acer cappadocicum’ ‘Betula pendula’ ‘Pinus Strobus’ ‘Betula Pendula''’ and the ground cover is predominantly ‘''Molinia caerulea''’ and ‘''Juncus effusus''’ , exactly one or two shoots of ‘''Verbascum thapsus''’ and a couple of other species are now thriving.
The site is sometimes used by private owners for camping or rented out for campers. Small ponds with little decks and small aquatic creatures like fish and toads enhance the naturalistic setting on site. The self-modulated terrain with little sand dunes and deep trenches dramatizes the experience on site. The sand dunes are believed to be a result of dispersal of sand by wind from the landfill part of the site. The area encroached to be used as landfill has minimized in size after the proposal to revitalize the area.
Currently the entire area under discussion can be classified into three distinct parts as illustrated in the image below. The most predominant are the logistics center and the landfill that cast a gory impression along the road. This can be altered by planning the area and its usage.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

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Image:Unbenannt-6.jpg|Site Analysis
Image:Unbenannt-2.jpg|Change in topography
Image:Unbenannt-3.jpg|Current ownership pattern on site
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

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Image:1_yr.jpg|In the next '''one year''' the two basic possibilities would be:(a) to breed colloquial amphibian species and (b) to allow people to access the area as a thoroughfare.
Image:2.jpg|In the next '''two years''', the landfill area may be addressed to and treated to make the land vegetative and shift the landfill area to a less prominent zone and provide better visual interest and aesthetics along the highway.
Image:Untitled-4.jpg|In '''Ten years''', the project can develop into an arboretum (on similar lines as the current proposal),encouraging people to learn more closely about flora and fauna around them.
Image:10.jpg|In '''Fifteen Years''',the biotope could turn out to be a reserve of some rare species of amphibians and could add similar groups of fauna into the reserve. The vegetation could be further enriched to form a dense foliage.It could serve as an information and awareness centre as well.
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== Summary and conclusion ==
This proposal is a sustainable one and is a receptacle for conservation of both flora and fauna. The design proposal aims to make the reserve a public free zone in order to avoid maintenance concerns. Well, I personally feel one way to bring in awareness of nature among people and to sensitize them about its issues is to let them be a part of it. A "controlled" environment for the users will ensure judicious use of any natural assemblage to a certain extent. With innovative planning and design principles, this project has the potential to boost the local economy as well.

"'''''Image of Nature'''''" need not be an existing utopia.It can however be where potentials and possibilities of tomorrow lie.This particular case in its current state is a perfect image of nature in its unkempt state!It is in such situations that landscape can be recreated,revived or revitalised.I see this project as one such proposal where there land is put into an alternative yet natural use.It is an opportunity to knit a sanctuary into an existing urban fabric considering dual influences,impacts and consequences.
== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="230px" heights="230x" perrow="4">
Image:The_site_as_seen_from_the_approach_road_(A73).JPG|The site as seen from the approach road A73
Image:The_Logistics_Centre_on_the_site.JPG|The logistics centre adjoining the site (former part of the site)
Image:The_land_fill_part_of_the_site.JPG|Part of the site that is used as a landfill area
Image:Sand_dunes_that_have_formed_over_time.JPG|Sand dunes that have formed overtime undulating the terrain
Image:Water_bodies_on_site.JPG|The caravan far behind is indicative of camping activities on site.
Image:IMG_1286.JPG|The groundcover,shrubs and trees on site
Image:IMG_1291.JPG|Little sand dunes formed overtime
Image:IMG_1292.JPG|While one part of the site looks dry and comes across like an arid area,the other part is rich in green and consists of evergreen vegetation
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== References ==
''Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B

2013-12-03T10:43:00Z

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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
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| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
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| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
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| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
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== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.

As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniadis garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and by so dividing the garden into several mini gardens; the English garden, Italian Garden, Moorish garden, French garden, Royal glasshouse garden, Pentagon garden and Entrance garden, these gardens was referenced as the core of landscape design in Egypt and was considered to be a reference for Formal classic European style landscapes that was used for a long period as a style in design of landscape (since Egypt has no known landscape styles or studies) where several landscape projects were designed imitating Parts of Antoniadis garden till recently. These mini gardens posses the largest floral composition of Antoniadis botanic garden, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|Antoniadis Garden General Map
Image: Areas identification.jpg|Antoniadis Garden Area Identification
Image: Zonning.jpg|Landscape style gardens
Image: New planting design concept.jpg|New planting design concept
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis Palace.jpg|Antoniadis Palace
Image: English garden.jpg|English garden
Image: Entrance garden.jpg|Entrance garden
Image: Forest area.jpg|Forest area
Image: French garden.jpg|French garden
Image: Italian garden.jpg|Italian garden
Image: Moorish garden.jpg|Moorish garden
Image: Pentagon garden.jpg|Pentagon garden
Image: Royal Glasshouse garden.jpg|Royal Glasshouse garden
</gallery>

== References ==

'''Ashraf, A.E.A. (2008).''' Studies on some Cacti and succulents and Egyptian Botanic Garden Ph.D. Thesis, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo university, Egypt.

'''FICSBG (2006)'''. The First International Conference, "Strategy of Botanic Gardens", Guide about Egyptian Botanic Gardens 10-12 May, 2006 Agricultural Museum, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

'''Hamdy; R.S. , Abd El – Ghani, M.M. , Yossef, T.L. and El- Sayd, M.(2007).''' The floristic composition of some historical botanical gardens in the metropolitan of Cairo, Egypt. African journal of agricultural research, vol. 2(11): 610-648.

'''M.G.EL-Torky, Thanaa.M. Ezz, H. F. EL-Tayeb, Abdullah A. A. Arafa (2013)'''. The history and floristic composition of Antoniades Botanical Garden in Alexandria, Egypt (in press).
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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B

2013-12-03T10:42:38Z

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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
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| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
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| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
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| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
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</googlemap>
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== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.

As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniadis garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and by so dividing the garden into several mini gardens; the English garden, Italian Garden, Moorish garden, French garden, Royal glasshouse garden, Pentagon garden and Entrance garden, these gardens was referenced as the core of landscape design in Egypt and was considered to be a reference for Formal classic European style landscapes that was used for a long period as a style in design of landscape (since Egypt has no known landscape styles or studies) where several landscape projects were designed imitating Parts of Antoniadis garden till recently. These mini gardens posses the largest floral composition of Antoniadis botanic garden, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|Antoniadis Garden General Map
Image: Areas identification.jpg|Antoniadis Garden Area Identification
Image: Zonning.jpg|Landscape style gardens
Image: New planting design concept.jpg|New planting design concept
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis Palace.jpg|Antoniadis Palace
Image: English garden.jpg|English garden
Image: Entrance garden.jpg|Entrance garden
Image: Forest area.jpg|Forest area
Image: French garden.jpg|French garden
Image: Italian garden.jpg|Italian garden
Image: Moorish garden.jpg|Moorish garden
Image: Pentagon garden.jpg|Pentagon garden
Image: Royal Glasshouse garden.jpg|Royal Glasshouse garden
</gallery>

== References ==

'''Ashraf, A.E.A. (2008).''' Studies on some Cacti and succulents and Egyptian Botanic Garden Ph.D. Thesis, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo university, Egypt.

'''FICSBG (2006)'''. The First International Conference, "Strategy of Botanic Gardens", Guide about Egyptian Botanic Gardens 10-12 May, 2006 Agricultural Museum, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

'''Hamdy; R.S. , Abd El – Ghani, M.M. , Yossef, T.L. and El- Sayd, M.(2007).''' The floristic composition of some historical botanical gardens in the metropolitan of Cairo, Egypt. African journal of agricultural research, vol. 2(11): 610-648.

'''M.G.EL-Torky, Thanaa.M. Ezz, H. F. EL-Tayeb, Abdullah A. A. Arafa (2013)'''. The history and floristic composition of Antoniades Botanical Garden in Alexandria, Egypt (in press).
----
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2013-12-03T10:36:35Z

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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.

As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniadis garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and by so dividing the garden into several mini gardens; the English garden, Italian Garden, Moorish garden, French garden, Royal glasshouse garden, Pentagon garden and Entrance garden, these mini gardens posses the largest floral composition of Antoniadis botanic garden, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|Antoniadis Garden General Map
Image: Areas identification.jpg|Antoniadis Garden Area Identification
Image: Zonning.jpg|Landscape style gardens
Image: New planting design concept.jpg|New planting design concept
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis Palace.jpg|Antoniadis Palace
Image: English garden.jpg|English garden
Image: Entrance garden.jpg|Entrance garden
Image: Forest area.jpg|Forest area
Image: French garden.jpg|French garden
Image: Italian garden.jpg|Italian garden
Image: Moorish garden.jpg|Moorish garden
Image: Pentagon garden.jpg|Pentagon garden
Image: Royal Glasshouse garden.jpg|Royal Glasshouse garden
</gallery>

== References ==

'''Ashraf, A.E.A. (2008).''' Studies on some Cacti and succulents and Egyptian Botanic Garden Ph.D. Thesis, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo university, Egypt.

'''FICSBG (2006)'''. The First International Conference, "Strategy of Botanic Gardens", Guide about Egyptian Botanic Gardens 10-12 May, 2006 Agricultural Museum, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

'''Hamdy; R.S. , Abd El – Ghani, M.M. , Yossef, T.L. and El- Sayd, M.(2007).''' The floristic composition of some historical botanical gardens in the metropolitan of Cairo, Egypt. African journal of agricultural research, vol. 2(11): 610-648.

'''M.G.EL-Torky, Thanaa.M. Ezz, H. F. EL-Tayeb, Abdullah A. A. Arafa (2013)'''. The history and floristic composition of Antoniades Botanical Garden in Alexandria, Egypt (in press).
----
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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B

2013-12-03T10:35:00Z

Abdo: /* Landscape and/or urban context of your case */

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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and by so dividing the garden into several mini gardens; the English garden, Italian Garden, Moorish garden, French garden, Royal glasshouse garden, Pentagon garden and Entrance garden, these mini gardens posses the largest floral composition of Antoniadis botanic garden, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|Antoniadis Garden General Map
Image: Areas identification.jpg|Antoniadis Garden Area Identification
Image: Zonning.jpg|Landscape style gardens
Image: New planting design concept.jpg|New planting design concept
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis Palace.jpg|Antoniadis Palace
Image: English garden.jpg|English garden
Image: Entrance garden.jpg|Entrance garden
Image: Forest area.jpg|Forest area
Image: French garden.jpg|French garden
Image: Italian garden.jpg|Italian garden
Image: Moorish garden.jpg|Moorish garden
Image: Pentagon garden.jpg|Pentagon garden
Image: Royal Glasshouse garden.jpg|Royal Glasshouse garden
</gallery>

== References ==

'''Ashraf, A.E.A. (2008).''' Studies on some Cacti and succulents and Egyptian Botanic Garden Ph.D. Thesis, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo university, Egypt.

'''FICSBG (2006)'''. The First International Conference, "Strategy of Botanic Gardens", Guide about Egyptian Botanic Gardens 10-12 May, 2006 Agricultural Museum, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

'''Hamdy; R.S. , Abd El – Ghani, M.M. , Yossef, T.L. and El- Sayd, M.(2007).''' The floristic composition of some historical botanical gardens in the metropolitan of Cairo, Egypt. African journal of agricultural research, vol. 2(11): 610-648.

'''M.G.EL-Torky, Thanaa.M. Ezz, H. F. EL-Tayeb, Abdullah A. A. Arafa (2013)'''. The history and floristic composition of Antoniades Botanical Garden in Alexandria, Egypt (in press).
----
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2013-12-02T15:36:20Z

Abdo: /* Analytical drawings */

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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|Antoniadis Garden General Map
Image: Areas identification.jpg|Antoniadis Garden Area Identification
Image: Zonning.jpg|Landscape style gardens
Image: New planting design concept.jpg|New planting design concept
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis Palace.jpg|Antoniadis Palace
Image: English garden.jpg|English garden
Image: Entrance garden.jpg|Entrance garden
Image: Forest area.jpg|Forest area
Image: French garden.jpg|French garden
Image: Italian garden.jpg|Italian garden
Image: Moorish garden.jpg|Moorish garden
Image: Pentagon garden.jpg|Pentagon garden
Image: Royal Glasshouse garden.jpg|Royal Glasshouse garden
</gallery>

== References ==

'''Ashraf, A.E.A. (2008).''' Studies on some Cacti and succulents and Egyptian Botanic Garden Ph.D. Thesis, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo university, Egypt.

'''FICSBG (2006)'''. The First International Conference, "Strategy of Botanic Gardens", Guide about Egyptian Botanic Gardens 10-12 May, 2006 Agricultural Museum, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

'''Hamdy; R.S. , Abd El – Ghani, M.M. , Yossef, T.L. and El- Sayd, M.(2007).''' The floristic composition of some historical botanical gardens in the metropolitan of Cairo, Egypt. African journal of agricultural research, vol. 2(11): 610-648.

'''M.G.EL-Torky, Thanaa.M. Ezz, H. F. EL-Tayeb, Abdullah A. A. Arafa (2013)'''. The history and floristic composition of Antoniades Botanical Garden in Alexandria, Egypt (in press).
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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
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|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|Antoniadis Garden General Map
Image: Areas identification.jpg|Antoniadis Garden Area Identification
Image: Zonning.jpg|Landscape style gardens
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis Palace.jpg|Antoniadis Palace
Image: English garden.jpg|English garden
Image: Entrance garden.jpg|Entrance garden
Image: Forest area.jpg|Forest area
Image: French garden.jpg|French garden
Image: Italian garden.jpg|Italian garden
Image: Moorish garden.jpg|Moorish garden
Image: Pentagon garden.jpg|Pentagon garden
Image: Royal Glasshouse garden.jpg|Royal Glasshouse garden
</gallery>

== References ==

'''Ashraf, A.E.A. (2008).''' Studies on some Cacti and succulents and Egyptian Botanic Garden Ph.D. Thesis, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo university, Egypt.

'''FICSBG (2006)'''. The First International Conference, "Strategy of Botanic Gardens", Guide about Egyptian Botanic Gardens 10-12 May, 2006 Agricultural Museum, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

'''Hamdy; R.S. , Abd El – Ghani, M.M. , Yossef, T.L. and El- Sayd, M.(2007).''' The floristic composition of some historical botanical gardens in the metropolitan of Cairo, Egypt. African journal of agricultural research, vol. 2(11): 610-648.

'''M.G.EL-Torky, Thanaa.M. Ezz, H. F. EL-Tayeb, Abdullah A. A. Arafa (2013)'''. The history and floristic composition of Antoniades Botanical Garden in Alexandria, Egypt (in press).
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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|Antoniadis Garden General Map
Image: Areas identification.jpg|Antoniadis Garden Area Identification
Image: Zonning.jpg|Landscape style gardens
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis Palace.jpg|Antoniadis Palace
Image: English garden.jpg|English garden
Image: Entrance garden.jpg|Entrance garden
Image: Forest area.jpg|Forest area
Image: French garden.jpg|French garden
Image: Italian garden.jpg|Italian garden
Image: Moorish garden.jpg|Moorish garden
Image: Pentagon garden.jpg|Pentagon garden
Image: Royal Glasshouse garden.jpg|Royal Glasshouse garden
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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2013-12-02T13:44:38Z

2013-12-02T13:34:19Z

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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|Antoniadis Garden General Map
Image: Areas identification.jpg|Antoniadis Garden Area Identification
Image: Entrance garden.jpg|Entrance garden
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis Palace.jpg|Antoniadis Palace
Image: English garden.jpg|English garden
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image: Forest area.jpg|Forest area
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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2013-12-02T13:33:07Z

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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|Antoniadis Garden General Map
Image: Areas identification.jpg|Antoniadis Garden Area Identification
Image: Entrance garden.jpg|Entrance garden
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis Palace.jpg|Antoniadis Palace
Image: English garden.jpg|English garden
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B

2013-12-02T13:32:05Z

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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|Antoniadis Garden General Map
Image: Areas identification.jpg|Antoniadis Garden Area Identification
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis Palace.jpg|Antoniadis Palace
Image: English garden.jpg|English garden
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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2013-12-02T13:30:39Z

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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B

2013-12-02T13:29:49Z

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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|Antoniadis Garden General Map
Image: Areas identification.jpg|Antoniadis Garden Area Identification
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis Palace.jpg|Antoniadis Palace
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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2013-12-02T13:27:39Z

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File:Zonning.jpg

2013-12-02T12:23:01Z

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Antoniadis Garden - Central garden landscape styles

Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B

2013-12-02T12:14:22Z

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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|Antoniadis Garden General Map
Image: Areas identification.jpg|Antoniadis Garden Area Identification
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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File:Areas identification.jpg

2013-12-02T11:33:37Z

Abdo: An illustrated layout of Antoniadis garden defining different parts of the garden

An illustrated layout of Antoniadis garden defining different parts of the garden

Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B

2013-12-02T11:30:58Z

Abdo: /* Analytical drawings */

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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image: Antoniadis map.jpg|analytical drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B

2013-12-01T23:23:20Z

Abdo: /* Landscape and/or urban context of your case */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_2|working group 2]]

'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|analytical drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

----
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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B

2013-12-01T22:39:52Z

Abdo: /* Landscape and/or urban context of your case */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_2|working group 2]]

'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. The development of the area is suggested to be as follows:
1- For the planting design three approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species, two is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors and finally is to plant species that already exists in other parts of the garden so as to sustain unity through the hole garden, the proposed ratio of the three kinds of vegetation is 40:40:10 respectively.
2- Scientific buildings are being added in the form of a major building complex which can contain herbarium, library, seed banks and other important botanic garden buildings.
3- The installation of a formal English maze as an entertainment component and to add both aesthetic and functional value to the garden

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|analytical drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B

2013-12-01T07:41:51Z

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'''Antoniadis Botanic Garden, a foothold for native plants emphasis in Egypt'''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. As for the planting design two approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species and the other is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|analytical drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B

2013-11-30T22:34:10Z

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''Antoniades Botanic Garden case study'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

In addition to that the need of emphasizing the approach of using native plant species and ecology in landscapes is very important, most of Egyptian urban landscapes are foreign in style and there is no known use of Egyptian native plants and even no recorded ecological usage of plants in cities, Antoniadis garden could be the pioneer in the use of native plants in gardens and landscapes due to its unique location, historic value and scientific value which can be in the future a place to learn more about Egypt nativity and ecology.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. As for the planting design two approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species and the other is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|analytical drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 2 - Case Study B

2013-11-30T22:28:32Z

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''Antoniades Botanic Garden case study'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''Antoniades Botanic Garden''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Alexandria''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Egypt''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Abdullah Arafa''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Antoniades Botanic Garden.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="31.1153" lon="29.5509" type="satellite" zoom="8" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

Antoniadis botanical garden is considered to be the oldest botanical garden in Egypt, it was established in 1860 and located at the east of Alexandria in Smouha district with an area of 189000 m2, it contains significant amount of different plant species that can thrive under Egyptian conditions and is considered as an important place for scholars ans students interested in horticulture, landscape or any plant relating discipline.

Antoniadis garden is an important historic botanic garden in Alexandria, Egypt, it resembles a multicultural classic landscape styles, it was built to imitate Versailles Palace in Paris where a villa of Sir Antoniades exists in the center of the garden in addition to several copies of classic European landscape styles such as Italian style, french style, Moorish style and others. the garden architecture and landscape is considered as a foot hold for scholars and researchers to view, process and learn different landscape cultures and designs through the European classic architecture and landscape design in addition to it's large floral composition that researchers and students from architecture, urban planning and horticulture majors come frequently to learn more about bioflora and plants which can thrive under Egyptian conditions.

== Author's perspective ==

From the floral composition point of view, Antoniades botanical garden is considered to be poor in plant context, about 132 species exist only inside the garden, in addition to poor maintenance and lack of good professionals the garden has collapsed in every aspects and divisions through the garden, this factors combined caused the overall deterioration of the garden form as general and the dramatic decrease of visitors through the garden.
As so a need for the development of the garden is a must, a master thesis was done by the assignment author to develop Antoniades garden to a major scientific historic botanical garden, it included drawing current as-builts for the garden, as-built plant context, areas recognition and other documentations to emphasize, elaborate and document all the garden components, so on the future these contents will be available for the public and the garden staff since the garden administration itself has no documentation for the garden and also no available maps or layouts for the garden expect ones done by the Egyptian survey authority.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

Antoniades garden is a part of a greater garden complex called El-Nozha garden complex which is composed of the Rose garden, El-Nozha garden, Zoological garden and Antoniades garden. According to the Authors perspective Antoniadis garden is divided into five major parts; the central garden, Antoniades Villa and it's attached garden, Naval military base area, forest part and the garden nursery with attached administration buildings. the central garden is the main focus of the garden as it contains some the classic European landscape styles and the largest floral composition of them all, but it is not recommended much to propose plant changing in design due to the historic value of the central garden and the palace area in fact the most appropriate area to develop and as a space for further increasing of the garden flora is the forest area.

The forest area is about 25430 m2, it was developed spontaneously by planting some seedling of trees to be a future nursery and was left unattended and unmaintained for a long time until natural selection of trees occurred and a number of trees flourished and grew, and due to lack of human contact with this area some wild species of birds and animals took this place as their habitat and thus rendering it non accessible by humans.

The suggested development of the forest area here in based on the use of the same landscape style (Classic European formal style) in the area identification and preliminary landscape layout, formal lines, circles, squares, fountains and symmetry are the main concepts for the new development of this area to imitate the style of the garden as one unit and to create this new area as another historical component of the garden, in addition to the keeping of some important trees and the removing of other unimportant ones. As for the planting design two approaches are proposed; one is to plant the central area with native Egyptian plant species and the other is to plant plants that can thrive under Egyptian conditions so as to attract a larger number of garden visitors.

The main point here is to emphasize on the native plant species to Egypt, as this is a new approach to Egypt after all because there is no organization or a school that develop or study native plants, so people, scholars, landscape architects and others may see and come in contact to directly native plant species and understand the effect of different combinations of native plants as well as their effect on the local ecology of the community. This is considered to be a reference for any designer or horticulturist who need to understand the concept of native plants use and the concept of image of nature and ecology in Egypt to be a new approach that can be taught in the future in Egyptian Universities.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''
* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - in how far do these two forces come together in your case?''
* ''dynamic through the year (you may imagine how the site looks in spring and summer, maybe you also remember it)''
* ''highlight potentials and problems''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|analytical drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
* ''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) for your case and take the following aspects into account:''
** ''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''
** ''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|projective drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
Antoniadis Botanical garden could be in the future the foot hold of Egyptian native plants in display and production, the garden contains a considerate amount of plant species that can be increased by proper installation of plants and a good designing scheme for the garden, the forest area in the southern part could be the ideal place for such expansion. by doing so we will have our first ecological garden to start working on the concept of ecological and native plants garden and explain to locals what are native plants and the benefits and aesthetics of this plants and may be at some time make our own Egyptian landscape style or school instead of imitating foreign styles.

== Image Gallery ==
''You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings''

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|image 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|image 4
</gallery>

== References ==
''* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.''

''* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.''

''* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.''

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