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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 4 - Case Study C

2014-02-28T20:15:20Z

Imlamehuys: /* References */

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 4

2014-01-28T21:01:02Z

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

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Arboretum Hemelrijk - Area Spillebeek ''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Essen''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare trees and shrubs from all over the world. The idea of collecting many rear trees and shrubs because of their botanical interest was less important than the design and the general appearance of the English landscape inspired park. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation
Image:Habitat.jpg|different habitats
Image:Sun shade.jpg|Sunny and shady spots
Image:Colage.jpg|analysis photos
Image:Sights_Anna_2014.jpg| interesting sights
</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:Projektive sketch.jpg|Suggestion wild vs. tame 1
Image:Planting_concept_MM.jpg|Suggestion open landscape 2
Image:Des_1.jpg|Suggestion short spiritual retreat 3
Image:LEGEND_ANNA.jpg|Legend for the retreat 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:Sketch_mirror_pond.jpg|mirror pond (Russell Page)
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:Design_George_De_Belder_1965_2.jpg|Design John Bergmans 1966
Image:IMG_3429.JPG|clumb of Picea orientalis
Image:IMG 3433.JPG|multi-stem Fraxinus excelsior
Image:IMG 3437.JPG|old renovated house
Image:IMG 3441.JPG|micro-landscape
Image:IMG 3442.JPG|edge
Image:IMG 3447.JPG|wind buffer
Image:IMG 3448.JPG|summer dry pond
Image:IMG 3452.JPG|small canal: 'spillebeek'
Image:IMG 3455.JPG|oak lane
</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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[[Category:Planting Design 2013 Collaborative Design]]

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 4

2014-01-28T18:46:40Z

Imlamehuys: /* Design Synthesis */

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'''''Please add the title of your case study here, adjust the map coordinates and replace the moa image with a characteristic image of your site'''''

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Arboretum Hemelrijk - Area Spillebeek ''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Essen''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation
Image:Habitat.jpg|different habitats
Image:Sun shade.jpg|Sunny and shady spots
Image:Colage.jpg|analysis photos
Image:Sights_Anna_2014.jpg| interesting sights
</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:Projektive sketch.jpg|Suggestion wild vs. tame 1
Image:Planting_concept_MM.jpg|Suggestion open landscape 2
Image:Des_1.jpg|Suggestion short spiritual retreat 3
Image:LEGEND_ANNA.jpg|Legend for the retreat 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:Sketch_mirror_pond.jpg|mirror pond (Russell Page)
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:Design_George_De_Belder_1965_2.jpg|Design John Bergmans 1966
Image:IMG_3429.JPG|clumb of Picea orientalis
Image:IMG 3433.JPG|multi-stem Fraxinus excelsior
Image:IMG 3437.JPG|old renovated house
Image:IMG 3441.JPG|micro-landscape
Image:IMG 3442.JPG|edge
Image:IMG 3447.JPG|wind buffer
Image:IMG 3448.JPG|summer dry pond
Image:IMG 3452.JPG|small canal: 'spillebeek'
Image:IMG 3455.JPG|oak lane
</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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[[Category:Planting Design 2013 Collaborative Design]]

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File:Sketch mirror pond.jpg

2014-01-28T18:44:06Z

Imlamehuys:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 4

2014-01-26T22:04:14Z

Imlamehuys: /* Projective drawings */

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'''''Please add the title of your case study here, adjust the map coordinates and replace the moa image with a characteristic image of your site'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Arboretum Hemelrijk - Area Spillebeek ''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Essen''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Main picture.jpg|300px]]
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation
Image:Habitat.jpg|different habitats
Image:Sun.jpg|Sunny and shady spots
Image:Colage.jpg|analysis photos
Image:Sights_Anna_2014.jpg| interesting sights
</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:Projektive sketch.jpg|Suggestion wild vs. tame 1
Image:Planting_concept_MM.jpg|Suggestion open landscape 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:Design_George_De_Belder_1965_2.jpg|Design John Bergmans 1966
Image:IMG_3429.JPG|clumb of Picea orientalis
Image:IMG 3433.JPG|multi-stem Fraxinus excelsior
Image:IMG 3437.JPG|old renovated house
Image:IMG 3441.JPG|micro-landscape
Image:IMG 3442.JPG|edge
Image:IMG 3447.JPG|wind buffer
Image:IMG 3448.JPG|summer dry pond
Image:IMG 3452.JPG|small canal: 'spillebeek'
Image:IMG 3455.JPG|oak lane
</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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File:Planting concept MM.jpg

2014-01-26T22:03:12Z

Imlamehuys:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 4

2014-01-22T18:50:37Z

Imlamehuys: /* Analytical drawings */

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'''''Please add the title of your case study here, adjust the map coordinates and replace the moa image with a characteristic image of your site'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Arboretum Hemelrijk - Area Spillebeek ''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Essen''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Main picture.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=51.459141
|lng=4.426822
|zoom=7
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

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

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation
Image:Habitat.jpg|different habitats
Image:Sun.jpg|Sunny and shady spots
Image:Colage.jpg|analysis photos
</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:Projektive sketch.jpg|Suggestion wild vs. tame 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:Design_George_De_Belder_1965_2.jpg|Design John Bergmans 1966
Image:IMG_3429.JPG|clumb of Picea orientalis
Image:IMG 3433.JPG|multi-stem Fraxinus excelsior
Image:IMG 3437.JPG|old renovated house
Image:IMG 3441.JPG|micro-landscape
Image:IMG 3442.JPG|edge
Image:IMG 3447.JPG|wind buffer
Image:IMG 3448.JPG|summer dry pond
Image:IMG 3452.JPG|small canal: 'spillebeek'
Image:IMG 3455.JPG|oak lane
</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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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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:Design_George_De_Belder_1965_2.jpg|Design John Bergmans 1966
Image:IMG_3429.JPG|clumb of Picea orientalis
Image:IMG 3433.JPG|multi-stem Fraxinus excelsior
Image:IMG 3437.JPG|old renovated house
Image:IMG 3441.JPG|micro-landscape
Image:IMG 3442.JPG|edge
Image:IMG 3447.JPG|wind buffer
Image:IMG 3448.JPG|summer dry pond
Image:IMG 3452.JPG|small canal: 'spillebeek'
Image:IMG 3455.JPG|oak lane
</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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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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:Design_George_De_Belder_1965_2.jpg|Design John Bergmans 1966
Image:IMG_3429.JPG|clumb of Picea orientalis
Image:IMG 3433.JPG|multi-stem Fraxinus excelsior
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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2014-01-18T14:19:37Z

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 4

2014-01-18T14:17:54Z

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

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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:Design_George_De_Belder_1965_2.jpg|Design John Bergmans 1966
Image:IMG_3429.JPG|clumb of Picea orientalis
Image:IMG_3433.JPG|multi-stem Fraxinus excelsior
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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[[Category:Planting Design 2013 Collaborative Design]]

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|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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:Design_George_De_Belder_1965_2.jpg|Design John Bergmans 1966
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:Design_1966_John Bergmans|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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2014-01-18T14:07:12Z

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

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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:Design_George_De_Belder_1965_2.jpg|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:Design_1966_John Bergmans|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:Design George De Belder 1965 2.jpg

2014-01-18T14:06:20Z

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2014-01-18T14:04:59Z

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

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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:Design_George_De_Belder_1965_1.jpg|image 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|image 2
Image:Design_1966_John Bergmans|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:Design3 1966 John Bergmans.JPG

2014-01-18T14:03:49Z

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 4

2014-01-18T14:02:19Z

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

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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:Design_George_De_Belder_1965_1.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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2014-01-18T13:58:54Z

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|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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:Design_George De Belder_1965_1.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 4

2014-01-18T13:56:28Z

Imlamehuys: /* Image Gallery */

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

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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:Design_George De Belder_1965_1.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:Design3 1966 John Bergmans.JPG

2014-01-18T13:54:45Z

Imlamehuys:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 4

2014-01-18T13:28:00Z

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

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_4|working group 4]]

'''''Please add the title of your case study here, adjust the map coordinates and replace the moa image with a characteristic image of your site'''''

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

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a landscape park, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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 4

2014-01-18T11:05:49Z

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

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_4|working group 4]]

'''''Please add the title of your case study here, adjust the map coordinates and replace the moa image with a characteristic image of your site'''''

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Arboretum Hemelrijk - Area Spillebeek ''
|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a garden, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year).
On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea orientalis
- Ilex aquifolium
- Betula pendula)
or spontaneously:
- Fraxinus excelsior
- Alnus glutinosa
- Rubus fruticosa
The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus) or by seedlings (of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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 4

2014-01-18T10:55:13Z

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

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_4|working group 4]]

'''''Please add the title of your case study here, adjust the map coordinates and replace the moa image with a characteristic image of your site'''''

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Arboretum Hemelrijk - Area Spillebeek ''
|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Main picture.jpg|300px]]
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

* The Eastern border of our 2.5 hectare big site consists of an old oak lane and narrow water channels in the West. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape garden / arboretum featuring many rare species from all over the world. The idea behind this grand collection of so many rare trees and shrubs was to create a garden, that was greatly inspired by the english landscape garden and less a so to have a botanically interesting collection of trees for the sake of having collection. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation throughout Belgium and western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. Suddenly there was a need for a new energy substitute. So around the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a substitute. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on narrow channels. Within the ‘Spillebeek area’ one can still find these channels. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry were the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed once again and consisted mainly of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution the property was sold off by The French Republic. Thus meant the end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed owners a number of times over the centuries. The estates became self-sufficient and isolated from the surrounding environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again increased variety of micro-landscapes that can be found on estate. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. In 1961 the 107 hectares site has been property of the family ‘De Belder’, who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low maintained, because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively mown (only about 4 times a year). On our site there are various sorts of trees and shrubs planted:
- Quercus robur, Q. petraea
- Various Populus sorts mainly Populus x canadensis
- Picea, Ilex, Betula) or spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus). The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus or seedlings of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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 4

2014-01-12T19:02:01Z

Imlamehuys: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_4|working group 4]]

'''''Please add the title of your case study here, adjust the map coordinates and replace the moa image with a characteristic image of your site'''''

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

* Our 2.5 hectares site is bounded by an old oak lane and small canals. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape arboretum with many rare species from all over the world. The idea of colleting many rear trees and shrubs was less important than the design and appearance of the English landscape inspired park. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site:
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation in Belgium and the rest of Western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. So there was a need of a new substitute. Since the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a heating. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on small canals. The ‘Spillebeek’ is a remainder of this canals. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry was the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed and consisted mainly out of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution The French Republic sold the property. This made an end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed from owners over the centuries. These estates became self-sufficient and isolated from its environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again enforced the micro-landscapes. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. Since 1961 the 107 hectares site became property of the family ‘De Belder’ who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low in maintenance because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively maintained and mown only 6 times a year. On site we find various sorts of trees and shrubs planted (Quercus, Populus, Picea, Ilex, Betula) or spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus). The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus or seedlings of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|survey|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|legend survey|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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 4

2014-01-12T19:00:45Z

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

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_4|working group 4]]

'''''Please add the title of your case study here, adjust the map coordinates and replace the moa image with a characteristic image of your site'''''

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Arboretum Hemelrijk - Area Spillebeek ''
|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

* Our 2.5 hectares site is bounded by an old oak lane and small canals. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape arboretum with many rare species from all over the world. The idea of colleting many rear trees and shrubs was less important than the design and appearance of the English landscape inspired park. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site:
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation in Belgium and the rest of Western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. So there was a need of a new substitute. Since the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a heating. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on small canals. The ‘Spillebeek’ is a remainder of this canals. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry was the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed and consisted mainly out of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution The French Republic sold the property. This made an end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed from owners over the centuries. These estates became self-sufficient and isolated from its environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again enforced the micro-landscapes. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. Since 1961 the 107 hectares site became property of the family ‘De Belder’ who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low in maintenance because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively maintained and mown only 6 times a year. On site we find various sorts of trees and shrubs planted (Quercus, Populus, Picea, Ilex, Betula) or spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus). The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus or seedlings of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).

* This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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 4

2014-01-12T19:00:15Z

Imlamehuys: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_4|working group 4]]

'''''Please add the title of your case study here, adjust the map coordinates and replace the moa image with a characteristic image of your site'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Arboretum Hemelrijk - Area Spillebeek ''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Essen''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

* Our 2.5 hectares site is bounded by an old oak lane and small canals. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape arboretum with many rare species from all over the world. The idea of colleting many rear trees and shrubs was less important than the design and appearance of the English landscape inspired park. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site:
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation in Belgium and the rest of Western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. So there was a need of a new substitute. Since the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a heating. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on small canals. The ‘Spillebeek’ is a remainder of this canals. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry was the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed and consisted mainly out of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution The French Republic sold the property. This made an end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed from owners over the centuries. These estates became self-sufficient and isolated from its environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again enforced the micro-landscapes. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. Since 1961 the 107 hectares site became property of the family ‘De Belder’ who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low in maintenance because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively maintained and mown only 6 times a year. On site we find various sorts of trees and shrubs planted (Quercus, Populus, Picea, Ilex, Betula) or spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus). The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus or seedlings of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).
This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|analytical drawing 1
Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</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 4

2014-01-12T18:49:26Z

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

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_4|working group 4]]

'''''Please add the title of your case study here, adjust the map coordinates and replace the moa image with a characteristic image of your site'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Arboretum Hemelrijk - Area Spillebeek ''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Essen''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Main picture.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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|height=200
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|zoom=7
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

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

* Our 2.5 hectares site is bounded by an old oak lane and small canals. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape arboretum with many rare species from all over the world. The idea of colleting many rear trees and shrubs was less important than the design and appearance of the English landscape inspired park. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site:
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation in Belgium and the rest of Western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. So there was a need of a new substitute. Since the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a heating. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on small canals. The ‘Spillebeek’ is a remainder of this canals. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry was the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed and consisted mainly out of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution The French Republic sold the property. This made an end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed from owners over the centuries. These estates became self-sufficient and isolated from its environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again enforced the micro-landscapes. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. Since 1961 the 107 hectares site became property of the family ‘De Belder’ who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low in maintenance because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively maintained and mown only 6 times a year. On site we find various sorts of trees and shrubs planted (Quercus, Populus, Picea, Ilex, Betula) or spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus). The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus or seedlings of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).
This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation
Image yourfilename2.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), 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 4

2014-01-12T18:48:32Z

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

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'''''Please add the title of your case study here, adjust the map coordinates and replace the moa image with a characteristic image of your site'''''

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|-
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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==

[[Image:Survey.jpg|center|thumb]] [[Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|left|thumb]]
* Our 2.5 hectares site is bounded by an old oak lane and small canals. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape arboretum with many rare species from all over the world. The idea of colleting many rear trees and shrubs was less important than the design and appearance of the English landscape inspired park. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site:
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation in Belgium and the rest of Western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. So there was a need of a new substitute. Since the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a heating. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on small canals. The ‘Spillebeek’ is a remainder of this canals. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry was the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed and consisted mainly out of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution The French Republic sold the property. This made an end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed from owners over the centuries. These estates became self-sufficient and isolated from its environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again enforced the micro-landscapes. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. Since 1961 the 107 hectares site became property of the family ‘De Belder’ who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low in maintenance because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively maintained and mown only 6 times a year. On site we find various sorts of trees and shrubs planted (Quercus, Populus, Picea, Ilex, Betula) or spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus). The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus or seedlings of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).
This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

[[Image:Survey.jpg|center|thumb]] [[Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|left|thumb]]

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation
Image yourfilename2.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), 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 4

2014-01-12T18:47:27Z

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

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_4|working group 4]]

'''''Please add the title of your case study here, adjust the map coordinates and replace the moa image with a characteristic image of your site'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Arboretum Hemelrijk - Area Spillebeek ''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Essen''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Belgium''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Anna Martinez, Oliver Linder, Matthieu Mehuys''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Main picture.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=51.459141
|lng=4.426822
|zoom=7
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
[[Image:Survey.jpg|center|thumb]] [[Image:Survey sketch (legend) Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg|left|thumb]]
* Our 2.5 hectares site is bounded by an old oak lane and small canals. This site is part of a bigger 107 hectares landscape arboretum with many rare species from all over the world. The idea of colleting many rear trees and shrubs was less important than the design and appearance of the English landscape inspired park. Many landscape architects such as Russell Page helped to realize this idea.

* Short history of the site:
During the Middle Ages there was a lot of deforestation in Belgium and the rest of Western Europe. After a while wood became scarce and it could no longer be used as firewood. So there was a need of a new substitute. Since the beginning of the 13th Century people began to use peat as a heating. The manual harvesting of peat created micro-landscapes that can still be found on our site. The transport of peat was done by small boats on small canals. The ‘Spillebeek’ is a remainder of this canals. At the end of the 17th Century the area ran out of peat. So the land needed a new function. Agriculture and forestry was the most profitable at that time. So the landscape changed and consisted mainly out of forest and grassland. In 1798: After the French Revolution The French Republic sold the property. This made an end to a 7 Century long Abbey Farm. The property became an estate that changed from owners over the centuries. These estates became self-sufficient and isolated from its environment. During these times farms and other buildings were built with materials from the site. The bricks were made in stone ovens from clay that was found on site. This again enforced the micro-landscapes. The house that is on the site was close to the stone ovens. It was here that the foreman of the stone ovens lived. The house was renovated in the 1990’. Since 1961 the 107 hectares site became property of the family ‘De Belder’ who changed it into a landscape arboretum as we know it in its full glory today.

* The site is low in maintenance because the renovated house has no current usage. The grass is extensively maintained and mown only 6 times a year. On site we find various sorts of trees and shrubs planted (Quercus, Populus, Picea, Ilex, Betula) or spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus). The woody parts are overgrown with plants that came spontaneously (Fraxinus, Alnus, and Rubus or seedlings of Betula, Populus, and Ilex).
This is a very dynamic and high potential site with many different and interesting landscape typologies.

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

Due to the fact the plot has been managed at a low maintenance ratio, a lot of the garden has succumb to overgrowth and weeds. As the park is not only botanically interesting, but also the way it has been laid out, we see the restoration of the landscape park as the main objective. The first step woud be to do a survey of what was orignally planned and planted and to compare that with what trees and shrubs are still there and growing. A further step towards the restoration, would be to put together a maintenance plan, that would include things like pruning of the trees and shrubs, the removal of invasive and unwanted species and defining grassland maintenance from woodland and wetland maintenance.
Since the park is so vastand we have so little time, we have decided on choosing a smaller representative patch within the perimeter. This patch of land has a high density of the various different structural elements, that can be found within the Hemelrijk landscape park. The ideas and principles that we develop for the Spillebeek patch, can then be applied to the rest of the park.

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.''

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Survey topo.jpg|current topographical situation
Image yourfilename2.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|analytical drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), 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 4

2014-01-08T12:47:32Z

Imlamehuys:

File:Main picture.jpg

2014-01-08T12:46:28Z

Imlamehuys:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 4

2014-01-07T22:48:46Z

Imlamehuys:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 4

2014-01-07T22:47:12Z

Imlamehuys:

File:Survey.jpg

2014-01-07T22:46:35Z

Imlamehuys:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 4

2014-01-07T22:32:05Z

Imlamehuys:

File:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg

2014-01-07T22:27:06Z

Imlamehuys: uploaded a new version of "File:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg"

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 4

2014-01-07T22:25:08Z

Imlamehuys:

File:Survey sketch Matthieu Mehuys 2014.jpg

2014-01-07T22:24:15Z

Imlamehuys: