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Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 18

2014-02-03T16:41:13Z

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''Dear working group members. This is your group page and you will be completing the template gradually as we move through the seminar. Each member has an individual page for documenting his/her personal case. Good luck and enjoy your collaboration!
''

== Assignment 2 - Lecture Concept Map ==

<gallery caption=" " widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:Baubotanik.jpg|''Session 9. Living plant construction by Ferdinand Ludwing''
</gallery>

== 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 18 - Case Study A|Case Study A]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 18 - Case Study B|Case Study B]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 18 - Case Study C|Case Study C. Monte Gaias to Brañas do Sar]] ===

=== Presentation Slides Assignment 3 ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Folie1_18.JPG|slide 1
Image:Folie2_18.JPG|slide 2
Image:Folie3_G18.JPG|slide 3
</gallery>

== Assignment 4 - Collaborative Planting Design ==

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

==='''[[Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18|Collaborative Design Working Group 18. Monte Gaias]]'''===

=== Presentation Slides Collaborative Design ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Monte_gaias_group_18_aar_1of3.jpg|Shows Santiago as a city of many hills and two rivers. Next picture describe one of these hills (Monte Gaiás); the huge building site and cultural infrastructure on the man made esplanade on the top of it, green areas, relationship with river Sar and access from city. Finally, a picture that depicts existing vegetation on the hill.
Image:Monte_gaias_group_18_aar_2of3.jpg|Pictures of local plant communities that were used as inspiration for Monte Gaiás´s planting design and to describe it´s future atmosphere.
Image:Monte_gaias_group_18_aar_3of3.jpg‎ |Sketch showing Monte Gaiás proposed planting design; the heathland restored area, the medium and high meadows and the transitional (towards the heathland planting) areas. The image depicts the car park, how the existing pavement patters are draw through the meadow by moowing.
</gallery>

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[[Category: Planting Design 2013 Working Group]]

File:Monte gaias group 18 aar 3of3.jpg

2014-02-03T16:38:57Z

Aurora: Sketch showing Monte Gaiás proposed planting design; the heathland restored area, the medium and high meadows and the transitional (towards the heathland planting) areas. The image depicts the car park, how the existing pavement patters are draw through

Sketch showing Monte Gaiás proposed planting design; the heathland restored area, the medium and high meadows and the transitional (towards the heathland planting) areas. The image depicts the car park, how the existing pavement patters are draw through the meadow by moowing.

Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 18

2014-02-03T16:31:05Z

Aurora: /* Presentation Slides Collaborative Design */

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''Dear working group members. This is your group page and you will be completing the template gradually as we move through the seminar. Each member has an individual page for documenting his/her personal case. Good luck and enjoy your collaboration!
''

== Assignment 2 - Lecture Concept Map ==

<gallery caption=" " widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:Baubotanik.jpg|''Session 9. Living plant construction by Ferdinand Ludwing''
</gallery>

== 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 18 - Case Study A|Case Study A]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 18 - Case Study B|Case Study B]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 18 - Case Study C|Case Study C. Monte Gaias to Brañas do Sar]] ===

=== Presentation Slides Assignment 3 ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Folie1_18.JPG|slide 1
Image:Folie2_18.JPG|slide 2
Image:Folie3_G18.JPG|slide 3
</gallery>

== Assignment 4 - Collaborative Planting Design ==

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

==='''[[Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18|Collaborative Design Working Group 18. Monte Gaias]]'''===

=== Presentation Slides Collaborative Design ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Monte_gaias_group_18_aar_1of3.jpg|Shows Santiago as a city of many hills and two rivers. Next picture describe one of these hills (Monte Gaiás); the huge building site and cultural infrastructure on the man made esplanade on the top of it, green areas, relationship with river Sar and access from city. Finally, a picture that depicts existing vegetation on the hill.
Image:Monte_gaias_group_18_aar_2of3.jpg|Pictures of local plant communities that were used as inspiration for Monte Gaiás´s planting design and to describe it´s future atmosphere.
Image:yourslide3.jpg|your text
</gallery>

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File:Monte gaias group 18 aar 2of3.jpg

2014-02-03T16:26:38Z

Aurora: Pictures of local plant communities that were used as inspiration for Monte Gaiás´s planting design and to describe it´s future atmosphere.

Pictures of local plant communities that were used as inspiration for Monte Gaiás´s planting design and to describe it´s future atmosphere.

Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 18

2014-02-03T16:14:55Z

Aurora: /* Presentation Slides Collaborative Design */

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''Dear working group members. This is your group page and you will be completing the template gradually as we move through the seminar. Each member has an individual page for documenting his/her personal case. Good luck and enjoy your collaboration!
''

== Assignment 2 - Lecture Concept Map ==

<gallery caption=" " widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:Baubotanik.jpg|''Session 9. Living plant construction by Ferdinand Ludwing''
</gallery>

== 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 18 - Case Study A|Case Study A]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 18 - Case Study B|Case Study B]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 18 - Case Study C|Case Study C. Monte Gaias to Brañas do Sar]] ===

=== Presentation Slides Assignment 3 ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Folie1_18.JPG|slide 1
Image:Folie2_18.JPG|slide 2
Image:Folie3_G18.JPG|slide 3
</gallery>

== Assignment 4 - Collaborative Planting Design ==

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

==='''[[Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18|Collaborative Design Working Group 18. Monte Gaias]]'''===

=== Presentation Slides Collaborative Design ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Monte_gaias_group_18_aar_1of3.jpg|Shows Santiago as a city of many hills and two rivers. Next picture describe one of these hills (Monte Gaiás); the huge building site and cultural infrastructure on the man made esplanade on the top of it, green areas, relationship with river Sar and access from city. Finally, a picture that depicts existing vegetation on the hill.
Image:yourslide2.jpg|your text
Image:yourslide3.jpg|your text
</gallery>

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Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 18

2014-02-03T16:14:21Z

Aurora: /* Presentation Slides Collaborative Design */

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''Dear working group members. This is your group page and you will be completing the template gradually as we move through the seminar. Each member has an individual page for documenting his/her personal case. Good luck and enjoy your collaboration!
''

== Assignment 2 - Lecture Concept Map ==

<gallery caption=" " widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:Baubotanik.jpg|''Session 9. Living plant construction by Ferdinand Ludwing''
</gallery>

== 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 18 - Case Study A|Case Study A]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 18 - Case Study B|Case Study B]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 18 - Case Study C|Case Study C. Monte Gaias to Brañas do Sar]] ===

=== Presentation Slides Assignment 3 ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Folie1_18.JPG|slide 1
Image:Folie2_18.JPG|slide 2
Image:Folie3_G18.JPG|slide 3
</gallery>

== Assignment 4 - Collaborative Planting Design ==

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

==='''[[Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18|Collaborative Design Working Group 18. Monte Gaias]]'''===

=== Presentation Slides Collaborative Design ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Monte_gaias_group_18_aar_1of3.jpg|your text
Image:yourslide2.jpg|your text
Image:yourslide3.jpg|your text
</gallery>

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[[Category: Planting Design 2013 Working Group]]

File:Monte gaias group 18 aar 1of3.jpg

2014-02-03T16:13:27Z

Aurora: Shows Santiago as a city of many hills and two rivers. Next picture describe one of these hills (Monte Gaiás); the huge building site and cultural infrastructure on the man made esplanade on the top of it, green areas, relationship with river Sar and ac

Shows Santiago as a city of many hills and two rivers. Next picture describe one of these hills (Monte Gaiás); the huge building site and cultural infrastructure on the man made esplanade on the top of it, green areas, relationship with river Sar and access from city. Finally, a picture that depicts existing vegetation on the hill.

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-29T00:11:34Z

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-New plant communities with local species on the top of the hill will help increase the biodiversity on the city.
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==

''
On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet. This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

AREA

61,5ha

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Specially on the areas that have being modify “invasive” species have appeared, as the Cortaledia or the Eucaliptus trees, disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia and the images of the galician pastures have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura and immediate surrounding.

The project for the Cidade da Cultura plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use thouse themes to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild galician planting, with a strong visual impact.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">
Image:Pr_gaias_hill.jpg|planting design and new access to the Cidade da Cultura
Image:Tirasbw.jpg|carpark CdC

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="0">

</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Gaias_from_Sar.jpg|Monte Gaiás from Unesco World Heritage site buffer zone
Image:Caxadoenflor.jpg|Monte Caxado, reference image for the restored scrubland
Image:CdC_LaSp.jpg|Spontaneous vegetation on the Cidade Da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela
Image:Sarela.JPG |Spontaneous vegetation next to the Sarela River, Santiago de Compostela
</gallery>

== References ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

- To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

- To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-29T00:10:50Z

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| '''Location''' || style="background:White"|''Santiago de Compostela''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:White"|''Galicia - Spain''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:White"|''Aurora''
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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-New plant communities with local species on the top of the hill will help increase the biodiversity on the city.
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==

''
On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet. This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

AREA

61,5ha

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Specially on the areas that have being modify “invasive” species have appeared, as the Cortaledia or the Eucaliptus trees, disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia and the images of the galician pastures have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura and immediate surrounding.

The project for the Cidade da Cultura plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use thouse themes to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild galician planting, with a strong visual impact.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">
Image:Pr_gaias_hill.jpg|planting design and new access to the Cidade da Cultura
Image:Tirasbw.jpg|carpark CdC

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Gaias_from_Sar.jpg|Monte Gaiás from Unesco World Heritage site buffer zone
Image:Caxadoenflor.jpg|Monte Caxado, reference image for the restored scrubland
Image:CdC_LaSp.jpg|Spontaneous vegetation on the Cidade Da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela
Image:Sarela.JPG |Spontaneous vegetation next to the Sarela River, Santiago de Compostela
</gallery>

== References ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

- To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

- To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-29T00:09:08Z

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-New plant communities with local species on the top of the hill will help increase the biodiversity on the city.
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==

''
On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet. This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

AREA

61,5ha

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Specially on the areas that have being modify “invasive” species have appeared, as the Cortaledia or the Eucaliptus trees, disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia and the images of the galician pastures have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura and immediate surrounding.

The project for the Cidade da Cultura plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use thouse themes to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild galician planting, with a strong visual impact.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">
Image:Pr_gaias_hill.jpg|planting design and new access to the Cidade da Cultura
Image:Tirasbw.jpg|carpark CdC

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Gaias_from_Sar.jpg|Monte Gaiás from Unesco World Heritage site buffer zone
Image:Caxadoenflor.jpg|Monte Caxado, reference image for the restored scrubland
Image:CdC_LaSp.jpg|Spontaneous vegetation on the Cidade Da Cultura, Santiago de Compostela
Image:Sarela.jpg|Spontaneous vegetation next to the Sarela River, Santiago de Compostela
</gallery>

== References ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

- To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

- To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-New plant communities with local species on the top of the hill will help increase the biodiversity on the city.
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==

''
On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet. This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

AREA

61,5ha

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Specially on the areas that have being modify “invasive” species have appeared, as the Cortaledia or the Eucaliptus trees, disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia and the images of the galician pastures have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura and immediate surrounding.

The project for the Cidade da Cultura plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use thouse themes to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild galician planting, with a strong visual impact.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">
Image:Pr_gaias_hill.jpg|planting design and new access to the Cidade da Cultura
Image:Tirasbw.jpg|carpark CdC

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="1">
Image:Gaias_from_Sar.jpg|Monte Gaiás from Unesco World Heritage site buffer zone

</gallery>

== References ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

- To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

- To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-New plant communities with local species on the top of the hill will help increase the biodiversity on the city.
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==

''
On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet. This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

AREA

61,5ha

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Specially on the areas that have being modify “invasive” species have appeared, as the Cortaledia or the Eucaliptus trees, disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia and the images of the galician pastures have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura and immediate surrounding.

The project for the Cidade da Cultura plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use thouse themes to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild Galician planting in the City.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland.

''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">
Image:Pr_gaias_hill.jpg|planting design and new access to the Cidade da Cultura
Image:Tirasbw.jpg|carpark CdC

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="1">
Image:Gaias_from_Sar.jpg|Monte Gaiás from Unesco World Heritage site buffer zone

</gallery>

== References ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

- To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

- To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==

''
On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet. This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

AREA

61,5ha

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Specially on the areas that have being modify “invasive” species have appeared, as the Cortaledia or the Eucaliptus trees, disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia and the images of the galician pastures have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura and immediate surrounding.

The project for the Cidade da Cultura plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use thouse themes to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild Galician planting in the City.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland.

''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">
Image:Pr_gaias_hill.jpg|planting design and new access to the Cidade da Cultura
Image:Tirasbw.jpg|carpark CdC

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="1">
Image:Gaias_from_Sar.jpg|Monte Gaiás from Unesco World Heritage site buffer zone

</gallery>

== References ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

- To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

- To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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File:Tirasbw.jpg

2014-01-28T23:28:31Z

Aurora: uploaded a new version of "File:Tirasbw.jpg"

Native species are use on the car park. The species will grow around 60 cm hight, reducing the visual impact of cars but keeping this space open. The patterns on pavements run throughout the green areas by mowing.

File:Tirasbw.jpg

2014-01-28T23:25:19Z

Aurora: Native species are use on the car park. The species will grow around 60 cm hight, reducing the visual impact of cars but keeping this space open. The patterns on pavements run throughout the green areas by mowing.

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-28T22:02:48Z

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==

''
On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet. This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

AREA

61,5ha

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Specially on the areas that have being modify “invasive” species have appeared, as the Cortaledia or the Eucaliptus trees, disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia and the images of the galician pastures have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura and immediate surrounding.

The project for the Cidade da Cultura plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use thouse themes to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild Galician planting in the City.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland.

''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">
Image:Pr_gaias_hill.jpg|planting design and new access to the Cidade da Cultura
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="1">
Image:Gaias_from_Sar.jpg|Monte Gaiás from Unesco World Heritage site buffer zone

</gallery>

== References ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

- To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

- To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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File:Gaias from Sar.jpg

2014-01-28T22:01:07Z

Aurora: uploaded a new version of "File:Gaias from Sar.jpg": Monte Gaiàs from the city

Monte Gaiás and Cidade da Cultura buildings presence from the Historic City.

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-27T19:33:19Z

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==

''
On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet. This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

AREA

61,5ha

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Specially on the areas that have being modify “invasive” species have appeared, as the Cortaledia or the Eucaliptus trees, disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia and the images of the galician pastures have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura and immediate surrounding.

The project for the Cidade da Cultura plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use thouse themes to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild Galician planting in the City.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland.

''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">
Image:Pr_gaias_hill.jpg|planting design and new access to the Cidade da Cultura
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|projective drawing 2

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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 ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

- To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

- To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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File:Pr gaias hill.jpg

2014-01-27T19:31:57Z

Aurora: Vegetation plant comunities for the Gaias hill planting design

Vegetation
plant comunities for the Gaias hill planting design

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-27T16:22:18Z

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==

''
On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet. This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

AREA

61,5ha

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Specially on the areas that have being modify “invasive” species have appeared, as the Cortaledia or the Eucaliptus trees, disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia and the images of the galician pastures have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura and immediate surrounding.

The project for the Cidade da Cultura plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use thouse themes to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild Galician planting in the City.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland.

''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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 ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

- To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

- To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==

''
On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet. This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

AREA

61,5ha

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia and the images of the galician pastures have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura and immediate surrounding.

The project for the Cidade da Cultura plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use thouse themes to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild Galician planting in the City.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland.

''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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 ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

- To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

- To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia and the images of the galician pastures have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura and immediate surrounding.

The project for the Cidade da Cultura plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use thouse themes to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild Galician planting in the City.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland.

''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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 ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

- To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

- To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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|-
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|-
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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia as well as the images of the galician pastures images that have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura immediate surrounding.

The P. Eisenman´s project plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use this dualities to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild Galician planting in the City.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland.

''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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 ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

- To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

- To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''
In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia as well as the images of the galician pastures images that have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura immediate surrounding.

The P. Eisenman´s project plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use this dualities to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild Galician planting in the City.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland.

''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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 ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

-To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

-To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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2014-01-26T22:35:52Z

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''In visual terms the planting design has to be consider from the visitors point of view as well as from the visual presence the hill has from the city. This hill has a strong visual relationship with city and has the ambition to be a cultural landmark for the region.

The site history and cultural tradition is being use as a reference to develop the proposal. It is very important the images of other well kept heathlands in Galicia as well as the images of the galician pastures images that have inspired the new planting for the Cidade da Cultura immediate surrounding.

The P. Eisenman´s project plays with the duality between building and mountain, natural and built. We find fascinating the line that divides the wild from the designed natural planting, the implications that planting design has in national identity and culture and tried to use this dualities to achieve an sustainable and visually rich planting. We are looking for a piece of constructed wild Galician planting in the City.

The heathland on the hillside is restored; selected groups of native trees as oaks, birch and also pine are kept but generally the maintenance work put emphasis on create a open scrubland. Access to people will be confined to the paths that will take pedestrians to the building on the top of the hill.

The areas around the Cidade da Cultura where the heathland is being completely erased will be landscape using various planting communities. The car park will have a tree canopy. Below the trees the green areas will be planted with a medium high field (around 60cm tall) native perennials and annual native species. The green areas that are not part of the carpark and do not required the canopy, will be landscaped using taller species (120cm) and the margins will be a combination of those tall indigenous species and scrubs as Ulex and Ericas arboreas that help to merge this with the ºrestoredº heathland.

''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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 ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

-To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

-To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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2014-01-26T21:52:01Z

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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 ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

-To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

-To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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2014-01-26T21:50:30Z

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'''''Santiago de Compostela, spontaneus vegetation in the historic city. Monte Gaias to Brañas do Sar'''''

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* ''Why did you select it?''
Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The conservation of the medieval urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.
Traditional land management technics still informs the vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city. The variety of plant communities that citizens and visitors can enjoy is an integral part of it´s image, the quality of the daily life and its landscape.
Two rivers surround Santiago and many hills inform its landscape. Studying the vegetation of a section from hill to river is an opportunity to understand many other areas in the city. Monte Gaiás is one of these hills visible from many areas of the city and one that keep the traditional land management technics till recently. New physical interventions seem to threaten the establish cycles (water, nutrients,...) and therefore the "traditional" plant communities.
* ''Is it exemplary for a specific theme or a problem?''
Careful understanding of indigenous plant communities, indigenous species appearing in a spontaneous way, traditional crops and "traditional" garden species inside cities is important to develop a palette of species and to learn how to use them, in order to develop planting designs that "belong" to the place, are recognizable by the citizens and are sustainable due to its lower maintenance requirements and because they are already part of the wider ecosystem helping it to keep a certain balance.
The challenge is in many occasions how to maintain or manage that equilibrium that was base on hard work of many independent farmworkers and their animals in a contemporary society.

* ''In how far does it relate to your life?''
Daily we are in contact with diverse green spaces in the city. We see them from our windowsills and office and enjoy then in the way to school or to the shops. Santiago has a decent amount of green areas both to privately grow crops, enjoy gardening as well as public parks. I've been always fascinated by the soft integration of the vegetation (the image of the "natural") with the strict granite built fabric.

== Author's perspective ==
''From which professional background/perspective are your documenting this case?''
As architect and landscape architect I do projects and studies in Santiago de Compostela and other medium side cities with historic and cultural value, where the consideration to the existing vegetation and the understanding of ecosystems is very relevant for their landscape and for the sustainability of our proposals.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
* ''Biogeography''

Santiago sits on granitic rock and therefore the soil apart from the river basins in thin and acid. As mention before topographically is a hilly area.
This portion of valley or hillside that goes from the top of the Gaiás hill to the pastures next to river Sar followed until recently the traditional land management, the land was divided in two specialized types of productive spaces, the hillsides and the fields. From top to bottom generally will appear the forest and scrublands, the hamlets and the intensively work orchards (not present in this section), paths and bellow those fields where to grow crops and finally the flooding areas that were use as pasture and wet forest. Along this line carefull water management was implemented in order to irrigate and deliver nutrients from the upper areas to the rest of productive spaces.

In this case the top of the hills was a cultivated shrub land with heathers, broom and specially gorse. Gorse (Ulex europaeus) was useful to make beds for the cows that mix with animal detritus was them use as fertilizer. Apart from that the gorse and broom (Cytisus scoparius, Cytisus multiflorus) help to fix nitrates so they were use to improve the soil and also feed with nutrients the running of water from this top water catchment areas.
The hill side fields are still use to grow crops as corn and one can still read the pattern of the pastures and wet forest.

''Cultural features, overall character, history, and dynamics''
In the last decade a big cultural infrastructure, named as City of Culture, was built at the top of the hill shaving its top to make place for the new "mountain shape buildings". Big chunk of the hill is own by this institution but the landscape project is not being develop yet.

Roads running parallel to the contour lines were built breaking the water/nutrients flow. All of the running off rain water that falls both in the city and the Gaías go into the public sewage system.

The urban city plan has preserved the lower areas (hill side fields and pastures) but there is not a clear strategy for them. The plan aims for a big scale park with public facilities, some of then already built.

This area was completely managed and modify by humans through history, following "organic" cycles. It's now a cultural landscape in risk of disappear integral to the historic city fabric.

As mention before with the new cultural infrastructures and other public facilities this area pretends to be more insensibly use by the citizens and visitors.

== 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:Gaias_Sar_Compostela.jpg|Gaias, Rio Sar and Compostela
Image:Sar-Gaias.jpg|Gaias, Rio Sar together with surrounding important city infrastructures as well as building works infrastructure.
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section
Image:An-cuadrado veg.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities from the Gaias hill top to the Sar River
</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:PR-WATER Managment.jpg|New water managment brings rain water&nutrients back to valley land.
Image:PR section uses.jpg|New managment and new walkways allow for more public access and recreational and horticultural uses.
Image:PR section vegetation.jpg|The introduction of planting (based on local species)helps the habitats to develop in a more complex and sustainable way.

</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
''Please summarize your case and give arguments for your projective design (approx 150 words).''

== 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:Brañas_do_Sar.jpg|Sar river flood plain
Image:Hill_side_fields.jpg|Gaias hill side fields. November.
Image:Gaias_from_Sar.jpg|Gaias presence from the Historic City.
</gallery>

== References ==

- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

-To know more about the history and archeological importance of Brañas do Sar:
http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/27652

-To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

''* 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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2014-01-26T21:49:15Z

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'''''Santiago de Compostela, spontaneus vegetation in the historic city. Monte Gaias to Brañas do Sar'''''

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* ''Why did you select it?''
Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The conservation of the medieval urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.
Traditional land management technics still informs the vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city. The variety of plant communities that citizens and visitors can enjoy is an integral part of it´s image, the quality of the daily life and its landscape.
Two rivers surround Santiago and many hills inform its landscape. Studying the vegetation of a section from hill to river is an opportunity to understand many other areas in the city. Monte Gaiás is one of these hills visible from many areas of the city and one that keep the traditional land management technics till recently. New physical interventions seem to threaten the establish cycles (water, nutrients,...) and therefore the "traditional" plant communities.
* ''Is it exemplary for a specific theme or a problem?''
Careful understanding of indigenous plant communities, indigenous species appearing in a spontaneous way, traditional crops and "traditional" garden species inside cities is important to develop a palette of species and to learn how to use them, in order to develop planting designs that "belong" to the place, are recognizable by the citizens and are sustainable due to its lower maintenance requirements and because they are already part of the wider ecosystem helping it to keep a certain balance.
The challenge is in many occasions how to maintain or manage that equilibrium that was base on hard work of many independent farmworkers and their animals in a contemporary society.

* ''In how far does it relate to your life?''
Daily we are in contact with diverse green spaces in the city. We see them from our windowsills and office and enjoy then in the way to school or to the shops. Santiago has a decent amount of green areas both to privately grow crops, enjoy gardening as well as public parks. I've been always fascinated by the soft integration of the vegetation (the image of the "natural") with the strict granite built fabric.

== Author's perspective ==
''From which professional background/perspective are your documenting this case?''
As architect and landscape architect I do projects and studies in Santiago de Compostela and other medium side cities with historic and cultural value, where the consideration to the existing vegetation and the understanding of ecosystems is very relevant for their landscape and for the sustainability of our proposals.

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
* ''Biogeography''

Santiago sits on granitic rock and therefore the soil apart from the river basins in thin and acid. As mention before topographically is a hilly area.
This portion of valley or hillside that goes from the top of the Gaiás hill to the pastures next to river Sar followed until recently the traditional land management, the land was divided in two specialized types of productive spaces, the hillsides and the fields. From top to bottom generally will appear the forest and scrublands, the hamlets and the intensively work orchards (not present in this section), paths and bellow those fields where to grow crops and finally the flooding areas that were use as pasture and wet forest. Along this line carefull water management was implemented in order to irrigate and deliver nutrients from the upper areas to the rest of productive spaces.

In this case the top of the hills was a cultivated shrub land with heathers, broom and specially gorse. Gorse (Ulex europaeus) was useful to make beds for the cows that mix with animal detritus was them use as fertilizer. Apart from that the gorse and broom (Cytisus scoparius, Cytisus multiflorus) help to fix nitrates so they were use to improve the soil and also feed with nutrients the running of water from this top water catchment areas.
The hill side fields are still use to grow crops as corn and one can still read the pattern of the pastures and wet forest.

''Cultural features, overall character, history, and dynamics''
In the last decade a big cultural infrastructure, named as City of Culture, was built at the top of the hill shaving its top to make place for the new "mountain shape buildings". Big chunk of the hill is own by this institution but the landscape project is not being develop yet.

Roads running parallel to the contour lines were built breaking the water/nutrients flow. All of the running off rain water that falls both in the city and the Gaías go into the public sewage system.

The urban city plan has preserved the lower areas (hill side fields and pastures) but there is not a clear strategy for them. The plan aims for a big scale park with public facilities, some of then already built.

This area was completely managed and modify by humans through history, following "organic" cycles. It's now a cultural landscape in risk of disappear integral to the historic city fabric.

As mention before with the new cultural infrastructures and other public facilities this area pretends to be more insensibly use by the citizens and visitors.

== 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:Gaias_Sar_Compostela.jpg|Gaias, Rio Sar and Compostela
Image:Sar-Gaias.jpg|Gaias, Rio Sar together with surrounding important city infrastructures as well as building works infrastructure.
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section
Image:An-cuadrado veg.jpg|Pictures of diverse existing vegetation
</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:PR-WATER Managment.jpg|New water managment brings rain water&nutrients back to valley land.
Image:PR section uses.jpg|New managment and new walkways allow for more public access and recreational and horticultural uses.
Image:PR section vegetation.jpg|The introduction of planting (based on local species)helps the habitats to develop in a more complex and sustainable way.

</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
''Please summarize your case and give arguments for your projective design (approx 150 words).''

== 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:Brañas_do_Sar.jpg|Sar river flood plain
Image:Hill_side_fields.jpg|Gaias hill side fields. November.
Image:Gaias_from_Sar.jpg|Gaias presence from the Historic City.
</gallery>

== References ==

- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

-To know more about the history and archeological importance of Brañas do Sar:
http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/27652

-To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

''* 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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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T21:48:22Z

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-cuadrado veg.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities from the Gaias hill top to the Sar River
Image:an-veg gaias.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities on the Gaias hillside and Cidade da Cultura open areas.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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 ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

-To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

-To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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File:An-veg gaias.jpg

2014-01-26T21:45:54Z

Aurora: Pictures showing existing plant communities on the Gaiás hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open areas.

Pictures showing existing plant communities on the Gaiás hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open areas.

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T18:26:26Z

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-cuadrado veg.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities from the Gaias hill top to the Sar River
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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 ==
- To know more about the CIDADE DA CULTURA:
https://www.cidadedacultura.org/

- To know more about Santiago de Compostela´s GREEN STRATEGY:
http://intervencionurbanasostenible.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/estrategia-verde-urbana-de-santiago-de-compostela/

-To know more about the heathland in Galicia:
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/111/2/151
Annals of Botany 111: 151–172, 2013 doi:10.1093/aob/mcs257

-To know more about the flora in Galicia:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teresalaloba/sets/72157626288877685/#

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T17:56:54Z

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|-
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|-
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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-cuadrado veg.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities from the Gaias hill top to the Sar River
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T17:56:33Z

Aurora: /* Urban landscape context of your case */

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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="2">

Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-cuadrado veg.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities from the Gaias hill top to the Sar River
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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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2014-01-26T17:55:55Z

Aurora: /* Analytical drawings */

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|-
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|-
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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:.jpg|
Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|Plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-cuadrado veg.jpg|Pictures showing different plant communities from the Gaias hill top to the Sar River
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T17:54:50Z

Aurora: /* Analytical drawings */

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|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:White"|''Santiago de Compostela''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:White"|''Galicia - Spain''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:White"|''Aurora''
|-
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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:.jpg|
Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-cuadrado veg.jpg|pictures showing different vegetation comunities from the Gaias hill top to the Sar River
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T17:54:04Z

Aurora: /* Analytical drawings */

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:White"| ''Gaías hill. Cidade da Cultura Park''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:White"|''Santiago de Compostela''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:White"|''Galicia - Spain''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:White"|''Aurora''
|-
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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:.jpg|
Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">Image:.jpg|
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-cuadrado veg.jpg|pictures showing different vegetation comunities from the Gaias hill top to the Sar River
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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:An-cuadrado veg.jpg

2014-01-26T17:53:10Z

Aurora:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T17:51:39Z

Aurora: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_18|working group 18]]

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|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:White"|''Santiago de Compostela''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:White"|''Galicia - Spain''
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== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:.jpg|
Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:.jpg|
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:an-cuadrado veg.jpg|pictures showing different vegetation comunities from the Gaias hill top to the Sar River
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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.''

----
[[Category:Planting Design 2013 Collaborative Design]]

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T13:55:10Z

Aurora: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_18|working group 18]]

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:White"| ''Gaías hill. Cidade da Cultura Park''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:White"|''Santiago de Compostela''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:White"|''Galicia - Spain''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:White"|''Aurora''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Gaias_from_brañas.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=42.880485
|lng=-8.54567
|zoom=8
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Urban landscape context of your case ==
URBAN SETTING

Monte Gaiás is one of the hills that shape Santiago de Compostela´s landscape.

Santiago de Compostela is European medium size city, known for being the final destination of the Saint Jacques pilgrimage route. Its historic center was declared Unesco World Heritage in 1985. The urban structure of the city has allowed "nature" and the rural scape to be present in the life of the center of the city.

TOPOGRAPHY AND LAND COVER

The walled historic center was built on a high point surrounded by other hills and two rivers the River Sar and the Sarela. Outside it the city grew from medieval times a long the paths that join the city with other near by towns and rural areas. This allowed the agricultural fields to stay in between the rows of houses till the gates of the town.

Traditional management of land technics still informs the built elements and vegetation of many of the green spaces of the city like this hill. It is an integral part of the city landscape image.

The variety of habitats or association of species allow citizens of this city can enjoy is and integral part of the quality of life of the city.

Most of the Monte Gaiás hill is public land with a macro cultural center on its top. It is limited by a Motorway on the East, the Calzada do Sar a historic path that is use by the pilgrims from the South of Spain on the South and West, O Viso village or neighborhood and the Sar riverside urban park on the North.

<gallery caption="Urban contex" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:.jpg|
Image:Gaias Sar Compostela.jpg|Santiago the Compostela as a city with many hills and two rivers
Image:An-sar-gaias-sm.jpg|Monte Gaiás

</gallery>

== What are the objectives of your design? ==

DIVERSITY
-Restoring the heathland on Monte Gaiás. Heathlands are dynamic plant communities with a strong cultural and natural value. This type of habitat is uncommon on cities and will help increase cultural, visual and bio diversity in the city.

SUSTANABILITY
-Reinterpret the traditional water management of the land reducing the amount of rainwater in the city´s sewage system and bringing water&nutrients back to valley land.

ACCESS
-To allow for pedestrian access to the hills side and the Cidade da Cultura.

USE
-Introduce new management and new walkways to allow for public access, recreational and educational uses both on the hillside and the Cidade da Cultura open spaces.

== Analytical drawings ==
''On the top of this hill a macro cultural complex (Cidade da Cultura de Galicia) is being built for the last ten years, part of it´s buildings are finish and open to the public while the rest of the site is on hold. The open spaces (mainly a car park esplanade) was designed as part of the project but has not being not landscaped yet.

Pedestrian access to the Cultural center is only possible trough the north of the city following the newly build road.

Traditionally the hill side was a cultivated Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland , integral part of the local farming tradition. The initial ideas for the hill side were only consider at competition level and are being reconsider since then. No work has being done to it yet . This area is being seriously damage as is being use as back yard for the building works and various temporary building site roads and water reservoirs had being constructed.

VEGETATION

Erica–Calluna-ulex heathland past of the site is still visible. Some groups of trees mainly oak, birch and pine trees have appeared but still this is mainly an open area. Other “invasive” species have appeared as the Cortaledia disfiguring the habitat.
''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:.jpg|
Image:an-gaias-access.jpg|plan showing access from the city center and Monte Gaiás limits
Image:Section study areas.jpg|Section explaining the ecological relationships from Monte Gaiás to River Sar
Image:.jpg|
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.''

<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>

== Design Synthesis ==
''Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis SWOT]analysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.''

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

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''

== 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.''

----
[[Category:Planting Design 2013 Collaborative Design]]

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T13:41:17Z

Aurora: /* Urban landscape context of your case */

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T13:37:02Z

Aurora: /* Analytical drawings */

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T13:36:45Z

Aurora: /* Analytical drawings */

Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 18

2014-01-26T13:33:14Z

Aurora: /* Collaborative Design Working Group 18 */

Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 18

2014-01-26T13:31:01Z

Aurora: /* Case Study C */

File:An-gaias-access.jpg

2014-01-26T13:28:11Z

Aurora:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T13:27:18Z

Aurora: /* Analytical drawings */

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 18

2014-01-26T12:53:24Z

Aurora: /* What are the objectives of your design? */