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Rebecca.huggins:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 26

2014-02-04T23:10:34Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Design Synthesis */

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'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site. Overall these maps hope to help generate answers to the questions: what have we got to work with here, and what elements have potential? What should be hidden or removed? What can be highlighted or enhanced?
Image:Variance1F.jpg| This image is simply to acknowledge the variance and changeable nature of the site, the river has made it's own path, and has carved a route. It is important for us to appreciate this while designing, as the river will alter and adapt over time, and so our designs should accommodate this.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg| This projective drawing focuses on where hard elements could be placed within the landscape, it considers new safer ways for people t get on to the site, moving down in someway front he bridges, and overstepping the railway line. This map also suggests a promenade, which should have minimal impact, and not take over too much space from the vegetation. Stepping stones can help improve access to the waterside, and hope to tempt people to cross and move through the river, therefore improving the relation between local people and this very important element in their public landscape. The 'Phase 1' proposition simply acknowledges that introducing many hard elements in to a site like this, should perhaps be done in steps, as huge drastic changes and increase of hard landscape elements disturbs wildlife, and also be unsettling for community member onlookers.
Plan2conceptFin.jpg| Overall this landscape idea uses the concept of "prospect and refuge," showing how different layers of the landscape can provide niche spaces where children might be able to play under shade from the tree canopies, while viewing and having access to the river. The two different layers of the landscape show how just by using vegetation, new "green rooms" can be created, allowing people and and animals to find protective places by the river.
Image:Threesections1F.jpg| These three sections present the importance of variation and diversity of planting, not simply in species, but also in heights and forms. Also how these vegetation types are used: to accentuate the banks or give hiding spaces for wildlife, to give shaded areas, to provide a range of interesting temporal changes over the year for example.
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|Simplistic collage showing "green rooms" in action. Ever child should have the chance to take their shoes off, paddle and clamber over the rocks to the other side! Using nature to exert their confidence, and improve self-reliance, away from their parents on the other side (but still are in a safe and viewable space!)
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg| This projective drawing sees the river and the railway and two ''ribbons'' running through the landscape, and then puts forward the concept of the third ''pathway ribbon'' between them. Sections show how these three ''ribbons'' meet, and thinking about how vegetation might work between them.
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|This map shows elements of the design idea which were were more confident with after the SWOT analysis. Many of the ideas are subtle, for example the mown pathway is not too overpowering or intensive, the change can be made gradually as not to disturb the landscape and habitats too much, and to keep the natural appeal of the place without a wash of concrete.
Image:Traincover21.jpg| This drawing shows how a permeable barrier could be made with vegetation. The barrier is simple, instead of being a bought fence, it could be made from old steel cabers in an interesting unique formation, perhaps working with the rail line to give a post-industrial "''vegetation takes over''" kind of aesthetic.
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg| This drawing is showing a swale example, which could be found in various places along the river, retaining excess and run off water from offsite, and slowing the water before it meets the river.
Image:design synthesis2.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process.

''Which potentials have you encountered?''

Choosing a site that no one actualy had alot of knowledge of, was a questionable way to start but our pretty regular online meetings and disscusions solved this issue through alot of questions and debating the pros and cons of the site. We had to change ideas quite a few times but that lead to better understandment of the site and eachother and improved our collaborativeness.

''What was most difficult?''

We had 3 hours time difference so a suitable hour for an online meeting was difficult to find. Also, differences in commitment, and time availability. Different reasons for partaking in the course. We solved this through persevering and being flexible and establishing deadlines and tasks for everyone. We set a goal to send the finished work to people that can actualy use it so this might also helped motivating us.

''What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''''

"In this circumstance I believe that I learned far more about working with a broad range of people, with completely different backgrounds of landscape architecture and cultural connections to planting and nature. Therefore to me, collaborative design means to be aware of all of there differences, to respect them, and put forward your own ideas, and to learn! Truly the journey of collaborating is far more important that the final visual product at the end." Rebecca's answer on this question couldn't capture any better our thoughts on the seminar. :)

== 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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-04T23:10:10Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Design Synthesis */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site. Overall these maps hope to help generate answers to the questions: what have we got to work with here, and what elements have potential? What should be hidden or removed? What can be highlighted or enhanced?
Image:Variance1F.jpg| This image is simply to acknowledge the variance and changeable nature of the site, the river has made it's own path, and has carved a route. It is important for us to appreciate this while designing, as the river will alter and adapt over time, and so our designs should accommodate this.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg| This projective drawing focuses on where hard elements could be placed within the landscape, it considers new safer ways for people t get on to the site, moving down in someway front he bridges, and overstepping the railway line. This map also suggests a promenade, which should have minimal impact, and not take over too much space from the vegetation. Stepping stones can help improve access to the waterside, and hope to tempt people to cross and move through the river, therefore improving the relation between local people and this very important element in their public landscape. The 'Phase 1' proposition simply acknowledges that introducing many hard elements in to a site like this, should perhaps be done in steps, as huge drastic changes and increase of hard landscape elements disturbs wildlife, and also be unsettling for community member onlookers.
Plan2conceptFin.jpg| Overall this landscape idea uses the concept of "prospect and refuge," showing how different layers of the landscape can provide niche spaces where children might be able to play under shade from the tree canopies, while viewing and having access to the river. The two different layers of the landscape show how just by using vegetation, new "green rooms" can be created, allowing people and and animals to find protective places by the river.
Image:Threesections1F.jpg| These three sections present the importance of variation and diversity of planting, not simply in species, but also in heights and forms. Also how these vegetation types are used: to accentuate the banks or give hiding spaces for wildlife, to give shaded areas, to provide a range of interesting temporal changes over the year for example.
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|Simplistic collage showing "green rooms" in action. Ever child should have the chance to take their shoes off, paddle and clamber over the rocks to the other side! Using nature to exert their confidence, and improve self-reliance, away from their parents on the other side (but still are in a safe and viewable space!)
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg| This projective drawing sees the river and the railway and two ''ribbons'' running through the landscape, and then puts forward the concept of the third ''pathway ribbon'' between them. Sections show how these three ''ribbons'' meet, and thinking about how vegetation might work between them.
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|This map shows elements of the design idea which were were more confident with after the SWOT analysis. Many of the ideas are subtle, for example the mown pathway is not too overpowering or intensive, the change can be made gradually as not to disturb the landscape and habitats too much, and to keep the natural appeal of the place without a wash of concrete.
Image:Traincover21.jpg| This drawing shows how a permeable barrier could be made with vegetation. The barrier is simple, instead of being a bought fence, it could be made from old steel cabers in an interesting unique formation, perhaps working with the rail line to give a post-industrial "vegetation takes over" kind of aesthetic.
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg| This drawing is showing a swale example, which could be found in various places along the river, retaining excess and run off water from offsite, and slowing the water before it meets the river.
Image:design synthesis2.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Please reflect on your collaborative design process.

''Which potentials have you encountered?''

Choosing a site that no one actualy had alot of knowledge of, was a questionable way to start but our pretty regular online meetings and disscusions solved this issue through alot of questions and debating the pros and cons of the site. We had to change ideas quite a few times but that lead to better understandment of the site and eachother and improved our collaborativeness.

''What was most difficult?''

We had 3 hours time difference so a suitable hour for an online meeting was difficult to find. Also, differences in commitment, and time availability. Different reasons for partaking in the course. We solved this through persevering and being flexible and establishing deadlines and tasks for everyone. We set a goal to send the finished work to people that can actualy use it so this might also helped motivating us.

''What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).''''

"In this circumstance I believe that I learned far more about working with a broad range of people, with completely different backgrounds of landscape architecture and cultural connections to planting and nature. Therefore to me, collaborative design means to be aware of all of there differences, to respect them, and put forward your own ideas, and to learn! Truly the journey of collaborating is far more important that the final visual product at the end." Rebecca's answer on this question couldn't capture any better our thoughts on the seminar. :)

== 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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-03T00:03:14Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site. Overall these maps hope to help generate answers to the questions: what have we got to work with here, and what elements have potential? What should be hidden or removed? What can be highlighted or enhanced?
Image:Variance1F.jpg| This image is simply to acknowledge the variance and changeable nature of the site, the river has made it's own path, and has carved a route. It is important for us to appreciate this while designing, as the river will alter and adapt over time, and so our designs should accommodate this.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg| This projective drawing focuses on where hard elements could be placed within the landscape, it considers new safer ways for people t get on to the site, moving down in someway front he bridges, and overstepping the railway line. This map also suggests a promenade, which should have minimal impact, and not take over too much space from the vegetation. Stepping stones can help improve access to the waterside, and hope to tempt people to cross and move through the river, therefore improving the relation between local people and this very important element in their public landscape. The 'Phase 1' proposition simply acknowledges that introducing many hard elements in to a site like this, should perhaps be done in steps, as huge drastic changes and increase of hard landscape elements disturbs wildlife, and also be unsettling for community member onlookers.
Plan2conceptFin.jpg| Overall this landscape idea uses the concept of "prospect and refuge," showing how different layers of the landscape can provide niche spaces where children might be able to play under shade from the tree canopies, while viewing and having access to the river. The two different layers of the landscape show how just by using vegetation, new "green rooms" can be created, allowing people and and animals to find protective places by the river.
Image:Threesections1F.jpg| These three sections present the importance of variation and diversity of planting, not simply in species, but also in heights and forms. Also how these vegetation types are used: to accentuate the banks or give hiding spaces for wildlife, to give shaded areas, to provide a range of interesting temporal changes over the year for example.
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|Simplistic collage showing "green rooms" in action. Ever child should have the chance to take their shoes off, paddle and clamber over the rocks to the other side! Using nature to exert their confidence, and improve self-reliance, away from their parents on the other side (but still are in a safe and viewable space!)
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg| This projective drawing sees the river and the railway and two ''ribbons'' running through the landscape, and then puts forward the concept of the third ''pathway ribbon'' between them. Sections show how these three ''ribbons'' meet, and thinking about how vegetation might work between them.
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-03T00:02:46Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site. Overall these maps hope to help generate answers to the questions: what have we got to work with here, and what elements have potential? What should be hidden or removed? What can be highlighted or enhanced?
Image:Variance1F.jpg| This image is simply to acknowledge the variance and changeable nature of the site, the river has made it's own path, and has carved a route. It is important for us to appreciate this while designing, as the river will alter and adapt over time, and so our designs should accommodate this.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg| This projective drawing focuses on where hard elements could be placed within the landscape, it considers new safer ways for people t get on to the site, moving down in someway front he bridges, and overstepping the railway line. This map also suggests a promenade, which should have minimal impact, and not take over too much space from the vegetation. Stepping stones can help improve access to the waterside, and hope to tempt people to cross and move through the river, therefore improving the relation between local people and this very important element in their public landscape. The 'Phase 1' proposition simply acknowledges that introducing many hard elements in to a site like this, should perhaps be done in steps, as huge drastic changes and increase of hard landscape elements disturbs wildlife, and also be unsettling for community member onlookers.
Plan2conceptFin.jpg| Overall this landscape idea uses the concept of "prospect and refuge," showing how different layers of the landscape can provide niche spaces where children might be able to play under shade from the tree canopies, while viewing and having access to the river. The two different layers of the landscape show how just by using vegetation, new "green rooms" can be created, allowing people and and animals to find protective places by the river.
Image:Threesections1F.jpg| These three sections present the importance of variation and diversity of planting, not simply in species, but also in heights and forms. Also how these vegetation types are used: to accentuate the banks or give hiding spaces for wildlife, to give shaded areas, to provide a range of interesting temporal changes over the year for example.
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|Simplistic collage showing "green rooms" in action. Ever child should have the chance to take their shoes off, paddle and clamber over the rocks to the other side! Using nature to exert their confidence, and improve self-reliance, away from their parents on the other side (but still are in a safe and viewable space!)
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg| This projective drawing sees the river and the railway and two ''ribbons'' running through the landscape, and then puts forward the concept of the third ''pathway ribbon'' between them. Sections show how these three ''ribbons'' meet, and thinking about how vegetation might work between them
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:58:10Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site. Overall these maps hope to help generate answers to the questions: what have we got to work with here, and what elements have potential? What should be hidden or removed? What can be highlighted or enhanced?
Image:Variance1F.jpg| This image is simply to acknowledge the variance and changeable nature of the site, the river has made it's own path, and has carved a route. It is important for us to appreciate this while designing, as the river will alter and adapt over time, and so our designs should accommodate this.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg| This projective drawing focuses on where hard elements could be placed within the landscape, it considers new safer ways for people t get on to the site, moving down in someway front he bridges, and overstepping the railway line. This map also suggests a promenade, which should have minimal impact, and not take over too much space from the vegetation. Stepping stones can help improve access to the waterside, and hope to tempt people to cross and move through the river, therefore improving the relation between local people and this very important element in their public landscape. The 'Phase 1' proposition simply acknowledges that introducing many hard elements in to a site like this, should perhaps be done in steps, as huge drastic changes and increase of hard landscape elements disturbs wildlife, and also be unsettling for community member onlookers.
Plan2conceptFin.jpg| Overall this landscape idea uses the concept of "prospect and refuge," showing how different layers of the landscape can provide niche spaces where children might be able to play under shade from the tree canopies, while viewing and having access to the river. The two different layers of the landscape show how just by using vegetation, new "green rooms" can be created, allowing people and and animals to find protective places by the river.
Image:Threesections1F.jpg| These three sections present the importance of variation and diversity of planting, not simply in species, but also in heights and forms. Also how these vegetation types are used: to accentuate the banks or give hiding spaces for wildlife, to give shaded areas, to provide a range of interesting temporal changes over the year for example.
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|Simplistic collage showing "green rooms" in action. Ever child should have the chance to take their shoes off, paddle and clamber over the rocks to the other side! Using nature to exert their confidence, and improve self-reliance, away from their parents on the other side (but still are in a safe and viewable space!)
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:53:42Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site. Overall these maps hope to help generate answers to the questions: what have we got to work with here, and what elements have potential? What should be hidden or removed? What can be highlighted or enhanced?
Image:Variance1F.jpg| This image is simply to acknowledge the variance and changeable nature of the site, the river has made it's own path, and has carved a route. It is important for us to appreciate this while designing, as the river will alter and adapt over time, and so our designs should accommodate this.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg| This projective drawing focuses on where hard elements could be placed within the landscape, it considers new safer ways for people t get on to the site, moving down in someway front he bridges, and overstepping the railway line. This map also suggests a promenade, which should have minimal impact, and not take over too much space from the vegetation. Stepping stones can help improve access to the waterside, and hope to tempt people to cross and move through the river, therefore improving the relation between local people and this very important element in their public landscape. The 'Phase 1' proposition simply acknowledges that introducing many hard elements in to a site like this, should perhaps be done in steps, as huge drastic changes and increase of hard landscape elements disturbs wildlife, and also be unsettling for community member onlookers.
Plan2conceptFin.jpg| Overall this landscape idea uses the concept of "prospect and refuge," showing how different layers of the landscape can provide niche spaces where children might be able to play under shade from the tree canopies, while viewing and having access to the river. The two different layers of the landscape show how just by using vegetation, new "green rooms" can be created, allowing people and and animals to find protective places by the river.
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|Simplistic collage showing "green rooms" in action. Ever child should have the chance to take their shoes off, paddle and clamber over the rocks to the other side! Using nature to exert their confidence, and improve self-reliance, away from their parents on the other side (but still are in a safe and viewable space!)
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:52:01Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site. Overall these maps hope to help generate answers to the questions: what have we got to work with here, and what elements have potential? What should be hidden or removed? What can be highlighted or enhanced?
Image:Variance1F.jpg| This image is simply to acknowledge the variance and changeable nature of the site, the river has made it's own path, and has carved a route. It is important for us to appreciate this while designing, as the river will alter and adapt over time, and so our designs should accommodate this.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg| This projective drawing focuses on where hard elements could be placed within the landscape, it considers new safer ways for people t get on to the site, moving down in someway front he bridges, and overstepping the railway line. This map also suggests a promenade, which should have minimal impact, and not take over too much space from the vegetation. Stepping stones can help improve access to the waterside, and hope to tempt people to cross and move through the river, therefore improving the relation between local people and this very important element in their public landscape. The 'Phase 1' proposition simply acknowledges that introducing many hard elements in to a site like this, should perhaps be done in steps, as huge drastic changes and increase of hard landscape elements disturbs wildlife, and also be unsettling for community member onlookers.
Plan2conceptFin.jpg| Overall this landscape idea uses the concept of "prospect and refuge," showing how different layers of the landscape can provide niche spaces where children might be able to play under shade from the tree canopies, while viewing and having access to the river. The two different layers of the landscape show how just by using vegetation, new "green rooms" can be created, allowing people and and animals to find protective places by the river.
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|Simplistic collage showing "green rooms" in action. Ever child should have the chance to take their shoes off, paddle and clamber over the rocks to the other side! (exerting confidence and improving self-reliance, away from their parents on the other side.)
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:46:37Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site. Overall these maps hope to help generate answers to the questions: what have we got to work with here, and what elements have potential? What should be hidden or removed? What can be highlighted or enhanced?
Image:Variance1F.jpg| This image is simply to acknowledge the variance and changeable nature of the site, the river has made it's own path, and has carved a route. It is important for us to appreciate this while designing, as the river will alter and adapt over time, and so our designs should accommodate this.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg| This projective drawing focuses on where hard elements could be placed within the landscape, it considers new safer ways for people t get on to the site, moving down in someway front he bridges, and overstepping the railway line. This map also suggests a promenade, which should have minimal impact, and not take over too much space from the vegetation. Stepping stones can help improve access to the waterside, and hope to tempt people to cross and move through the river, therefore improving the relation between local people and this very important element in their public landscape. The 'Phase 1' proposition simply acknowledges that introducing many hard elements in to a site like this, should perhaps be done in steps, as huge drastic changes and increase of hard landscape elements disturbs wildlife, and also be unsettling for community member onlookers.
Plan2conceptFin.jpg| Overall this landscape idea uses the concept of "prospect and refuge," showing how different layers of the landscape can provide niche spaces where children might be able to play under shade from the tree canopies, while viewing and having access to the river. The two different layers of the landscape show how just by using vegetation, new "green rooms" can be created, allowing people and and animals to find protective places by the river.
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:44:46Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site. Overall these maps hope to help generate answers to the questions: what have we got to work with here, and what elements have potential? What should be hidden or removed? What can be highlighted or enhanced?
Image:Variance1F.jpg| This image is simply to acknowledge the variance and changeable nature of the site, the river has made it's own path, and has carved a route. It is important for us to appreciate this while designing, as the river will alter and adapt over time, and so our designs should accommodate this.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg| This projective drawing focuses on where hard elements could be placed within the landscape, it considers new safer ways for people t get on to the site, moving down in someway front he bridges, and overstepping the railway line. This map also suggests a promenade, which should have minimal impact, and not take over too much space from the vegetation. Stepping stones can help improve access to the waterside, and hope to tempt people to cross and move through the river, therefore improving the relation between local people and this very important element in their public landscape. The 'Phase 1' proposition simply acknowledges that introducing many hard elements in to a site like this, should perhaps be done in steps, as huge drastic changes and increase of hard landscape elements disturbs wildlife, and also be unsettling for community member onlookers.
Plan2conceptFin.jpg| Overall this landscape idea uses the concept of "prospect and refuge," showing how different layers of the landscape can provide niche spaces where children might be able to play under shade from the tree canopies, while viewing and having access to the river. This map brings forward the idea of play within the river spaces.
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:39:29Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site. Overall these maps hope to help generate answers to the questions: what have we got to work with here, and what elements have potential? What should be hidden or removed? What can be highlighted or enhanced?
Image:Variance1F.jpg| This image is simply to acknowledge the variance and changeable nature of the site, the river has made it's own path, and has carved a route. It is important for us to appreciate this while designing, as the river will alter and adapt over time, and so our designs should accommodate this.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg| This projective drawing focuses on where hard elements could be placed within the landscape, it considers new safer ways for people t get on to the site, moving down in someway front he bridges, and overstepping the railway line. This map also suggests a promenade, which should have minimal impact, and not take over too much space from the vegetation. Stepping stones can help improve access to the waterside, and hope to tempt people to cross and move through the river, therefore improving the relation between local people and this very important element in their public landscape. The 'Phase 1' proposition simply acknowledges that introducing many hard elements in to a site like this, should perhaps be done in steps, as huge drastic changes and increase of hard landscape elements disturbs wildlife, and also be unsettling for community member onlookers.
Plan2conceptFin.jpg|
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:28:13Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site. Overall these maps hope to help generate answers to the questions: what have we got to work with here, and what elements have potential? What should be hidden or removed? What can be highlighted or enhanced?
Image:Variance1F.jpg| This image is simply to acknowledge the variance and changeable nature of the site, the river has made it's own path, and has carved a route. It is important for us to appreciate this while designing, as the river will alter and adapt over time, and so our designs should accommodate this.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg|
Plan2conceptFin.jpg|
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:24:58Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site. Overall these maps hope to help generate answers to the questions: what have we got to work with here, and what elements have potential? What should be hidden or removed? What can be highlighted or enhanced?
Image:Variance1F.jpg| This image is simply to acknowledge the variance and changeable nature of the site, the river has made it's own path, and has carved a route. It is important for us to appreciate this while designing, as the river will alter and adapt over time.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg|
Plan2conceptFin.jpg|
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:19:54Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg| This map begins to give us more detail regarding what vegetation types are already existing on the site, and the areas most suitable for bringing people in to the site.
Image:Variance1F.jpg|
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg|
Plan2conceptFin.jpg|
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:16:26Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg|
Image:Variance1F.jpg|
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg|
Plan2conceptFin.jpg|
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:15:45Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising different elements of river, it highlights different or unique landscape features which could be thought about in the development process
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg|
Image:Variance1F.jpg|
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg|
Plan2conceptFin.jpg|
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:13:32Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that could be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|This map is particularly helpful for visualising changes in the river, and also making initial suggestions for possible projective drawings. Overall shows that the river site has a lot of potential and could be developed in a huge variety of ways.
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg|
Image:Variance1F.jpg|
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg|
Plan2conceptFin.jpg|
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-02-02T23:10:54Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|This map highlights the river within the site, and the naturally occurring islands it makes as the river splits in to two, and then remerges. The map also takes in to account some important social spaces, by the river, and therefore gives us a specific space in the river that can be focused on first.
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg|
Image:Variance1F.jpg|
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg|
Plan2conceptFin.jpg|
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-01-31T15:21:51Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* SWOT discussions */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg|
Image:Variance1F.jpg|
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg|
Plan2conceptFin.jpg|
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:'''

'''''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-01-31T15:21:05Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* SWOT discussions */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_26|working group 26]]

'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Târgului River''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Câmpulung Muscel''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
|-
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:DSC07954.JPG|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="[45.273242]" lon="[25.049903]" type="map" zoom="18" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg|
Image:Variance1F.jpg|
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg|
Plan2conceptFin.jpg|
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

'''Through our SWOT discussions we found:

''Strengths'''''

• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

'''''Weaknesses'''''

• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

'''''Opportunities'''''

• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

'''''Threats'''''

• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</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 26

2014-01-31T15:20:05Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Design Synthesis */

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'''''Târgului River, Câmpulung Muscel, Romania'''''

Why this site?

''Radu'' - I came across this site during a workshop I have participated to this summer, in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania. I related to the site almost instantly when I saw its potential of becoming a landmark of Câmpulung Muscel. The unicity it has, due to the man-made concrete slopes that frame the river with households on one margin and train rail on the other and the wildness of the plants that grow near the water has charmed me and I am very glad that my team-mates agreed to work on this site.

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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Rebecca Huggins, Sophia Meeres, Radu Mircea Giurgiu, John Lööf Green ''
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</googlemap>
|}

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

*'''Biogeography'''
Câmpulung Muscel is a city formed on both sides of the Târgului River. It's placed at the Sub-Carphatian Mountains. This region was early valued by it's inhabitant, the city growing to be an important econoical center. Here you can find forests, meadows, good rock for expoitation and good soil for growing vegetables. The river is crossing the city on 7.4 km long way, from North-Est to Suth -West.The city is placed at around 600m above sea level. You can find plants like ''Carpinus betulus, Populus termula, Betula verrucosa, Corylus avellana, Cornus mas, Craetegus monogyna, Rosa cannina, Sambucus nigra, Alnus glutinosa, Salix fragilis, Agrostis , Festuca rubra,''

*'''Cultural features'''
The city has a strong cultural background. It can be found alot of relics about the Romanian culture. The soroundings are also rich in culture and history from ancient ruins to beautifull arhitectural monuments. The city can be found in alot of writings from respected Romanian writers. In modern times, the city lost a little of it's charming, romantic features due to the lack of maintenance works. There is no strategy tourism-wie, so if people want to find the places that talk about the beautiful history and culture of the places, they will have difficultes in finding these places. '''The Târgului river''' is framed on both sides by houses and railroad. The animals from the households are living freely on the river shore. People are only passing by and they don't have activities related to the river. There is no pathway in the area, the vegetation grows freely keeping the people that are passing by on the path near the households.

*'''Overall character'''
Câmpulung Muscel has an impressive built and historical heritage, very diverse and nationally and internationally acknowledged. Approches on reabilitation and recovery of the sites has been given more attention in the last few years. The city has evolved due to it's rich heritage and resourses but sadly it's started to be forgotten in the last decades that lead to it's decay. The landscape, natural values, the tradition should support the future development.

'''History and dynamics'''
Câmpulung Muscel was the first Capital of Romanian Country, from the will of the ruler Basarab the First. The sub-carpathian mountains zone where the city is placed gave great circumstances for the city to evolve and become an impotant economical city. Few decades ago, people used the river site as a recreational area. They were going to take baths in it, the place had a strong social character. The river changed the most when it was constructed a dam up the river..the building have grow in number closer to the river, he acces to the water was destroyed and the river's course has decreased. This was an important artificial intervention that chaned the river completly. The peoples link to the river was cut down and the wildness of the vegetation took its course.

*'''Present issues'''
There are some discussions in the town hall about development of the city, and the river is one of the subjects. The mayor spoke at a workshop in the summer of 2013 about redesigning the river site. Some ideas were about high waterfalls made by man to have more dynamicy, alot of terraces and decks so people can get closer to the river. They are not working with any Landscape Architects just with the town's Architect who says she had some courses of Landscape Architecture, who redesigned some of the parks from the city in a debatable fashion. In this context, the river is at the danger to be dramatically changed and lose its distinctive look and the potential of raising value of the site can be lost.
Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

* Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

<gallery caption= widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:analyticriver.jpg|urban context
Image:campulung mic.jpg|man vs nature

</gallery>

== Our design objectives ==

Our collaborative design will put forward '''best fit suggestions to help the municipality''', proposing a '''development strategy based on a documentation on the urban context of the river'''. We want to '''give examples''' of good practices and ways of redesigning the river that are '''functional,non-aggressive and sustainable.'''
From our first project discussions we realized the importance of '''involveing local people''', right from the onset of the project. In order to bring back a sense of pride for the river, and get people spending time there again; essentially local people would make a brief for the space, telling us what is really needed.
The objectives raised from this brief are likely to involve '''opening up access to the river,''' and '''creating a range of improved spaces using vegetation''' allowing for a variety of activities, children's play, swimming and bathing, animal watching etc
We would also suggest '''implementations in stages''', so that attention and interest in the river could be built up again, and perhaps to start work where the river meets the city center, and work outwards.

== 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="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
Image:finalup.jpg|urban context
Image:Beccapanorama.png|Key Point! This area along the river has the potential to be a great meeting point. Ideas have been put forward to turn the old swimming baths in to an architectural school. The combined improvement of this space and the river corridor might being students in to the area, improving a green space that connects with the river and the train line. Trains along the line are slow and infrequent.
Image:Railandriversmall1.png|
Image:Smallriverpictures.png|
Image:Exsistingveg1.jpg|
Image:Variance1F.jpg|
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==
''These projective drawings and sketches show our collective ideas for improvements to the river, sometimes there are sketches explaining structural hard landscape elements, however the emphasis in on planting design/vegetation aspects.''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="280px" heights="280px" perrow="4">
Image:Structure_elements1F.jpg|
Plan2conceptFin.jpg|
Image:Threesections1F.jpg|
Image:Neiche_spacesF.jpg|
Image:Suggestions1Fin.jpg|
Image:riverside3.jpg|
Image:projective_drawing.jpg|
Image:usagehuman.jpg|
Image:water_retention_strategy.jpg|
</gallery>

== Case Studies==
Group discussion lead to us thinking about case studies and instances of successfully designed landscapes that has a similar concept to ours.

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:Ribbon2.png| We found this landscape by ''Turnscape'' reflects our overall concept of design a planting scheme which gave people the opportunity to walk alongside the river, taking a journey. We have three ribbons, the river, and railway and a pathway amongst the vegetation. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
File:Ribbon1.png|This landscape uses a very bold element of the red "ribbon," running alongside the river. We would not need such a bold fixed element, but the concept is helpful. <http://www.archdaily.com/445661/red-ribbon-park-turenscape/>
</gallery>

==SWOT discussions==
Overall we realized that although we liked our projective ideas, we found in a lot of ways they could be developed, in order to become more detailed and specific. The SWOT analysis made us change a lot of our ideas, and ultimately gave us new and stronger ideas for what we believed should happen to the site.

Through our SWOT discussions we found:
Strengths
• We found the realism to be attractive, that is to say, we felt that our designs are not too farfetched, they are believable and effective in there simplicity.
• We had a focus on bringing people down to the river, improving planting, access, in order to improve how local people feel about the space.
• Historically as the capital of Romania, there could be a lot of pride reinstated, and an improved water walkway could be just the way to do this! However the walkway could also be a threat!

Weaknesses
• We have decided to highlight both the train line and the river, however this is a threat as some people would find this unsafe, therefor we need to have a plan for making these spaces safer.
• Although community involvement would be a great thing, it would also mean quite heavy reliance on them keeping up maintenance. The site is large, and so more work would be required in to seeing planting selections that perhaps required less maintenance, at least in the more inaccessible areas.
• One weakness in all our ideas could be that they are vague; there is much room for development! We realized that there was only do far we could take this project considering time restraints. We questioned how necessary it would be in this situation to have a full planting plan, or to invite community members to build up the site gradually with guidance.

Opportunities
• We thought about the railway as an opportunity. None of our projective drawings suggested any improvements for safety. So we realized the possibility of making a permeable natural barrier made with climbing plants. This way there is a physical barrier but not a visual barrier, so the train passing is still part of the site. This reminded us slightly of the technical meet vegetated structure we saw in saw in Ferdinand Ludwig’s Seminar. We wanted to bring in this idea of ‘living Structures.’
• We realized one of the strongest opportunities was to intergrade the local community. We thought about how they could get involved if this project were to continue. Perhaps there could be allotments for them, perhaps they could get involved with maintenance and redevelopment of the site.

Threats
• We have tried hard to intergrade all of our ideas, and so far the connected and complimented each other very well. However, we cannot be sure that local people would take to our ideas. For example, the might not like the idea to put in a more mixed assortment of vegetation, they might not like the idea of development at all, worrying that it will bring negative impacts. So, if it were possible to make this design a reality, one thing we would want to do is involve the local community. We would want our planting scheme to be immersive, that is to say that planting arrangements could be managed by groups of local people, and they would also have a say in designing the site.
• The idea of having a walkway through the site works, however after discussion about flooding issues, we agreed that it was best to have a mown path, which can therefore change slightly year to year with changing of the river.
• Another problem with the vegetated path, is that it could easily be wet, and too much of an uneven surface to walk on, we could solve this with under-bedded gravel, that the plants can grow through, in order to be mown in the right places to make a path.
• Community spirit/lack of garden knowledge could be a problem.

== 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:Finalmapsynthesis.jpg|
Image:Traincover21.jpg|
Image:design_synthesis_swale.jpg|
Image:design synthesis2.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:tr1.jpg|Targului River and future Architecture School
Image:tr2.jpg|Photo of the river from the '60s
Image:tr3.jpg|plants growing near water
Image:tr4.jpg|animals on the river shore
Image:tr5.jpg|the size of the river in some zones
Image:tr6.jpg|man made concrete slopes
Image:tr7.jpg|River Targului context
Image:tr8.jpg|green areas near the river
</gallery>

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

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

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

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Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 26

2014-01-31T13:17:14Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Presentation Slides Collaborative Design */

--> Back to [[Working_Groups_Seminar_International_Perspectives_Planting_Design_2013|working group overview]]

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

== Assignment 2 - Lecture Concept Map ==

<gallery caption=" " widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:lanting Israel IIinitialmap.jpeg|''This mind map looks at some of our initial ideas on which to add too, and deals with the structure and layout of the design and its historical relevance''
Image:Planting Israel II.png|''This mind map is revised and brings together our groups' opinions and key thoughts about the seminar lecture with Heike Kaiser, Planting Design in Israel pt2, where we thought also about social backdrops and design concepts''
</gallery>

== Assignment 3 - Images of Nature in your Environment ==

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

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

=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study A|Case Study A]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study B|Case Study B]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study C|Case Study C]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study D|Case Study D]] ===

=== Presentation Slides Assignment 3 ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Slide1G26.jpg|Group 26 Slide 1
Image:Slide2G26.jpg|Group 26 Slide 2
Image:Slide3G26.jpg|Group 26 Slide 3
</gallery>

== Assignment 4 - Collaborative Planting Design ==

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

==='''[[Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 26|Collaborative Design Working Group 26]]'''===

=== Presentation Slides Collaborative Design ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
lastpresentaiton1.png|
Lastpresentation2.png|
lastpresentation3.png|Discussion of four main ideas of design. 1: Swales for river infrastructure improvement and holding more run off water, brings another interesting element to the river. 2. meandering pathway, made with gravel underneath for some stability, vegetation growing through will be mown. This is best as flooding will not cause problems, and the route of the pathway can be changed with different mowing patterns. 3: Natural fence made with climbing plants for barrier of rail tracks, however is permeable and so the train line is still part of the site. 4. Perhaps most importantly bringing forward the question of community involvement. Community members could have their own patches to plant vegetables etc, they would be taught about maintenance, negative elements of the river way could be improved by them, example: by getting school children to paint, and create art on the concrete barriers running along the river. Also discussion about plants and species suitable for the river.
</gallery>

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File:Lastpresentaiton1.png

2014-01-31T13:16:44Z

Rebecca.huggins:

Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 26

2014-01-31T13:16:16Z

Rebecca.huggins: /* Presentation Slides Collaborative Design */

--> Back to [[Working_Groups_Seminar_International_Perspectives_Planting_Design_2013|working group overview]]

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

== Assignment 2 - Lecture Concept Map ==

<gallery caption=" " widths="250px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:lanting Israel IIinitialmap.jpeg|''This mind map looks at some of our initial ideas on which to add too, and deals with the structure and layout of the design and its historical relevance''
Image:Planting Israel II.png|''This mind map is revised and brings together our groups' opinions and key thoughts about the seminar lecture with Heike Kaiser, Planting Design in Israel pt2, where we thought also about social backdrops and design concepts''
</gallery>

== Assignment 3 - Images of Nature in your Environment ==

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

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

=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study A|Case Study A]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study B|Case Study B]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study C|Case Study C]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study D|Case Study D]] ===

=== Presentation Slides Assignment 3 ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Slide1G26.jpg|Group 26 Slide 1
Image:Slide2G26.jpg|Group 26 Slide 2
Image:Slide3G26.jpg|Group 26 Slide 3
</gallery>

== Assignment 4 - Collaborative Planting Design ==

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

==='''[[Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 26|Collaborative Design Working Group 26]]'''===

=== Presentation Slides Collaborative Design ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="300px" heights="300px" perrow="4">
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== Assignment 2 - Lecture Concept Map ==

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== Assignment 3 - Images of Nature in your Environment ==

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

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

=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study A|Case Study A]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study B|Case Study B]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study C|Case Study C]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study D|Case Study D]] ===

=== Presentation Slides Assignment 3 ===

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== Assignment 4 - Collaborative Planting Design ==

*'''Assigned: Wednesday, December 4'''
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=== Presentation Slides Collaborative Design ===

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lastpresentation3.png|Discussion of four main ideas of design. 1: Swales for river infrastructure improvement and holding more run off water, brings another interesting element to the river. 2. meandering pathway, made with gravel underneath for some stability, vegetation growing through will be mown. This is best as flooding will not cause problems, and the route of the pathway can be changed with different mowing patterns. 3: Natural fence made with climbing plants for barrier of rail tracks, however is permeable and so the train line is still part of the site. 4. Perhaps most importantly bringing forward the question of community involvement. Community members could have their own patches to plant vegetables etc, they would be taught about maintenance, negative elements of the river way could be improved by them, example: by getting school children to paint, and create art on the concrete barriers running along the river. Also discussion about plants and species suitable for the river.
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== Assignment 2 - Lecture Concept Map ==

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Image:lanting Israel IIinitialmap.jpeg|''This mind map looks at some of our initial ideas on which to add too, and deals with the structure and layout of the design and its historical relevance''
Image:Planting Israel II.png|''This mind map is revised and brings together our groups' opinions and key thoughts about the seminar lecture with Heike Kaiser, Planting Design in Israel pt2, where we thought also about social backdrops and design concepts''
</gallery>

== Assignment 3 - Images of Nature in your Environment ==

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

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

=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study A|Case Study A]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study B|Case Study B]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study C|Case Study C]] ===
=== [[Planting Design 2013 Working Group 26 - Case Study D|Case Study D]] ===

=== Presentation Slides Assignment 3 ===

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== Assignment 4 - Collaborative Planting Design ==

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*'''Due: Tuesday, January 21'''

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=== Presentation Slides Collaborative Design ===

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== ''''' The weathered heights of Yorkshire's Heather Moorland''''' ==

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=Rationale=
*''Why did you select it?''
I selected to look at this project because I find the place beautiful but also incredibly interesting, because of it’s ecology, it’s history and it’s maintenance. The Peak District’s Yorkshire Moorland is very well protected and I wanted to look in depth in to why it is so.
*''Is it exemplary for a specific theme or a problem?''
The National Park has high maintenance demands, some of the maintenance methods are contentious. For example there is 10 year rotational burning of the moorland Heather, so that new shoots keep growing and forests do not return through succession. The 22 million visitors to the national park each year also, poses considerable maintenance and conservation problems.
*''In how far does it relate to your life?''
I first visited the Peak District in my first month at university. I had just started learning about Landscape Architecture/Ecology, and we spent a lot of time there learning about the natural systems evident in the Peak district as a whole, I found the wet and dry moorlands particularly interesting.

=Author's perspective=
*''From which professional background/perspective is your documenting this case?''
I am currently in my last year of a Bsc in Landscape Architecture and Ecology at Sheffield University, UK. However I am currently on an Erasmus term out in Weihanstephan University of Applied Science, South Germany. Much of my professional experience has been in the environmental and ecological domain. However throughout my degree and Foundation Diploma in 3D Art and Design, I have been interested planting and ways of expressing different landscapes with various artistic techniques.

Reporting this case from a landscape architects point of view, who is interested in ecology and habitats, and getting as close to the wild as possible.
I am hoping also to talk about human experience within these landscapes, and discuss how the prospective images explain different aspects of the landscape, and how it might effect us.
The focus of this project will be to try and realise possible implementations that would improve fragmented landscape mosaics, while being aware of historical, economical and cultural framework that has become so key in appreciation and characteristics of the peak districts. I will highlight a walk through the Peak district area, looking at different points along the way. It is a walk I have made many times and have a feeling of connection to.

KEY CONCEPT: In George Monboit's recent book 'Feral,' he discusses how people view our natural environments, and the "enchantment...of rewilding." More importantly for me in this topic, Monboit states that we should not seek to "freeze living systems in time," managing ecosystems "as if thy were a garden." His point that we should not be managing our wild areas to never change, but accepting that they should and will, as is the dynamics of ecosystems. I would want to put forward prospective ideas which "permit ecological change to resume."

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

The name “Heathland” describes the physiognomic distinct landscape type of ''Culluna Vulgaris'' (Heather) vegetation that dominates the area, and is typical of British Moorland. Much of the vegetation types are distinct to the UK, which is what gives the area such a high conservation status. There is also extensive coverage with Moorgrass (''Molinia caerulea)'', bracken (''Pteridium aquilinum'') and cowberry (''Vaccinium vitis-idaea''). Some of the wetter moorland has sphagnum moss and turns in to bog and marshland (these parts account for a high amount of the UK's Carbon equestration). The Heather has stayed until now due to heavy animal grazing.

'''Fauna'''

There are uncommon animal species such as Dartford Warbler (''Sylvia undata'') and Smooth Snake (''Coronella austriaca''). One endemic species is the Red Grouse (''Lagopus scoticus scoticus''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Grouse]).

'''Geology and Geography'''

The underlying geology of the landscape is predominantly Limestone making up the 'White Peaks,' also Granite which is contrastingly called 'Dark Peaks'. At the last ice age this area was right at the boundary of where glaciers came to. Therefore the valleys are both U- shaped by glaciers and V - shaped by rivers), there are also many hanging valleys. The interesting rock formations are one of the main visual features which give the landscape its particular character, and what many people would associated the Peak District with.

*''Cultural features''
'''Economic Features'''

Over 90% of the Peak district is privately owned land, however as a national park it is completely open to the public. For many people the Peak District and Moorland represents is an important heritage site. Walking, climbing and Paragliding, and Red Grouse shooting are very common and provide the area with the majority of its economic base for conservation. For the surrounding cities such as Sheffield, tourism also provides a large revenue, with around 45-50 million day visits to the Peak District each year.

'''Poety and the Local Area'''

Sheffield is one of the closest cities to the Peak District, and the closest to the area of the Peaks I will be focusing on. Sheffield has a long history of poetry, and particularly poetry about the Peak District. Here are two poems, one historical and one recent which explain the character of the Peaks, but also how it's integration with culture has been ever-present.

'''Sullen and vast the Winyates fearful chasm
Yawns on the vale, as if an earthquake’s strength
Had spent itself in one convulsive spasm,
And then subsided – its tremendous length
Cleaving the hill’s deep heart from side to side
In jagged lines . . .
Array’d on either hand
Majestic images of beauty stand
In stately rows – a mimicry of tall
Cathedral, steeple, turret, castle - wall,
And frowning battlements, whose reeling height
Is such that mortals tremble at the sight . . .
From: Scenes Around Castleton'''
''A Picnic at Woodhead and other Poems, Thomas Barlow 1867'' [http://www.peaklandheritage.org.uk/index.asp?peakkey=40800221]

'''A procession of cars twists
up through the hills, each one intent on God knows where. Each one searching
for a reference, an anchorage in an ocean of heather.
Rest a while,
you drovers and jaggers,
unhitch your load. Look back
from where you’ve come,
the old paths lost now
in the valley’s folds,
the fraught sky tethered to a stone.
This place is neither here nor there,
but set your hand on its gritty heart, feel the earth’s cold pulse.
For every path will lead you
to somewhere you have yet to name. So choose,
the road out, or the long road home.
From: Companion Stones Poems'''
''Stoop, James Caruth'' [http://www.artsinthepeak.co.uk/cs/home/CSPoems.pdf]

*''History''
'''At first site many people believe that part of these landscape within the Peak District National Park are untouched, however "''Its character has been influenced by thousands of years of human intervention and management''"''' [http://http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/microsites/npmp/our-vision/a-diverse-working-and-cherished-landscape].

'''How the Moorland came about'''

Although the Heather moorland may look natural, its history is not. Some 1600 years ago vast quantities of forest was removed by man to be used for farming, after these areas were left, the Heather grew back in abundance (This is not true for all Moorland in the UK, only Yorkshire Heath Moorland) Due to heavy grazing from animals this heather scrub landscape was maintained.

'''Protective history'''

The Peak District is Britain's first National Park, and has 109 conservation areas within, due to sites of specific architectural, scientific or historical significance, often being counted as as SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest). Also there are many areas with high levels of biodiversity which are certified as National Natural Reserve Sites, such as the Darbyshire Dales[http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derbyshire_Dales_National_Nature_Reserve], which has large preserved ares of grassland woodland and scrub.

'''History and human development'''

Sheffield and Manchester are the two biggest and closest cities to the Moorlands. Many rivers through the moorlands, leading to these cities, have mills, and were extensively used during the industrial revolution, still today discarded Mill Wheels can be found around the Peak District near rivers and weirs where the mills used to be. The Mill Wheel remains the emblem of the whole Peak District.

*''Overall character and dynamics''

'''Landuse, landscape types and their dynamism'''

The whole national park covers 555 square miles. It has interesting landscape mosaics of Heath and moorland, marches and wetland, calcareous grassland, valleys, cliffs and ancient forest, on the boundaries of arable private land and intermittent farmsteads. The upland Moorland covers a vast proportion of the Peak District National Park. One dynamic feature is that it is a huge carbon sink, and holds more carbon per m squared then forests of the UK.

'''Overall visual characteristics'''

The character of the Moorland is rolling, rocky and rugged. There is very little cover above 1 meter, so you are open to the elements as you walk through.

'''Moorland and the British culture'''

The moorlands in Britian in general, have quite a strong history in literature; it is where ''Wuthering Heights'' by Emily Brontë is set. Brontë describes the character to British Heath-Moorland:
''"the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house;
and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun"''
– here she is describing how you feel being exposed to the wind, and how the wind has bent the only trees, and the Brambles are reaching for any sun they can find – the landscape is windswept, and its force reminds you of the power of nature.
''
<gallery caption="''Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses''" widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:MILLWHEELS.png|Mill wheels left behind in the moors as relics of the industrial revolution. Nearby mills used them to grind corn and make cutlery, then left them to form moss and lichen amongst the heather.

Image:Map1peaks.png|This map highlights different land uses and planted landscape types/characteristics within the area, of which the changes are very drastic and sudden. The blue line shows a walking route of which I will be able to focus on certain points, and possible improvements that could be made along the way.

Image:Perspectivemapping1.png| This visualisation or 'Perspective mapping', maps a view from the moorland overlooking lady bower, in order to get an idea of different configurations of land use, and landscape types. Mapped view from Whinstone Lee Tor
</gallery>

== Analytical drawings ==

* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - and how far these two forces come together''

The nature of the area I have chosen clashes strongly with the cultural framework that is associated with the Peak District. The walk I have chosen is a classic example of this, where many land uses come together with habitats, making them fragmented. Ultimately the cultural connection with the Peak Districts means that money, time and effort gets put towards maintaining these landscapes, both for visual heritage value and for biodiversity. Many of the Peak District Action Plan Documents,[[http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/looking-after/eqm]] discuss culture and nature as the two integral and inextricable aspects of the Peak District.

Tourism is very important for conservation of the Peak Districts; charitable funds are very valuable for conservation, which come from this tourism. When tourists and local people see the burning if the heather, they usually think it is on fire accidentally. Many people have a negative view of this system, not only because it releases large amounts of CO2 in to the atmosphere, but also because they believe Grouse Shooting is wrong. However the Red Grouse feeds on the new Heather shoots that are produced after this burning. It is through the sustainable management of the Heathland that the red Grouse has been able to survive, and why it is relatively endemic to this area.

The following diagram tries to explain these complex relationships between the social, economical and environmental aspects of the site.
<gallery caption="'Diagram of Social, Cultural,Economic, Environmental and Historical interconnectivity of the Peak District Moorland'" widths="900px" heights="850px" perrow="4">

Image:Moorland,_Peak_District,.jpg

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* ''dynamic features through the year)''

Lambs can be seen in spring, on areas of wildfower meadows and grassland within the valleys. Heather sprouts new shoots and gives a sea of dark purples, reds and pinks in summer. The Peak District is often brightest in the middle of summer, and in deep winter, when the landscape is lit up by the snow.

* ''potentials and problems''

Much of the forest next to the Reservoir has been replanted, although this is positive, the tree species is not diverse with mostly Ash tree species. They are clearly quite young as the bark is still smooth, also there is very little coarse woody debris that has been left on the ground which is very important for invertebrates. Potential problems are that this forest area continues to not have a high diversity standard. There is an on going problem of how to maintain the heather moors and grasslands, and avoid successional vegetation turning it back in to forests using appropriate methods of maintenance.

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:Problemsandhighlightsmap.png| This map shows significant points along the route which can be enhanced, such as the rocky outcrops, or improved, for example the inner woodland.
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="110px" heights="110px" perrow="4">
Image:Changeable.png|This drawing explains the important dynamic changes of the forest landscape, which is on part of the walking trail. The Ladybower Reservoir can be seen through the trees. The diagram below explains the glimmering light through the trees brings rhythm and repetition as you walk. The canopy provides shelter and coverage for most of the year, which is very contrasting to the later landscapes in which very exposed.
Image:Patchwork.png|A lot of the moorlands are not particularly species diverse, on the walk I am looking at there are large areas that can be seen in to the distance. It is surprising how colourful the Heather alone can be. The picture below touches upon the effect of being in this vast patchwork landscape.
Image:Rockyoutcrops.png|Along the walk there are many rocky outcrops, some quite famous ones such as "lost lad" and "Black Tor." These random and sporadic geological formations provide a great stopping point, to sit and take it all in.
Image:Darknessofthemoors.png| Expressive textures and techneques to reflect how Bronte sees English Moorland. Picture showing late evening, coming in to winter time, walking through the Moors, following a stone path. The picture below tries to express this bleakness very clearly with words and greyscale.
Image:Canopy.png|
Image:SeaofHeather.png|
Image: Ribbonvalleys.png|
Image:Darkskies.png|
</gallery>

==A critical intervention==

Viewing others work has shown me, I have been focusing too solely on the protection of flora and fauna. There’s no problem with this, however I need to be careful that I realize the importance of sustaining the landscape for human satisfaction. Because where there is interest in natural environments, there is also protection. It is important to find ways to protect these natural habitats where keeping history and culture alive, and allowing people to see these natural places.
A building/kiosk/small walkers hut, containing information about all the complicated issues surrounding conservation and maintenance of these areas would be favorable.

== Projective drawings ==

''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''

*Implementation of and reintroduction of native wildflowers in certain areas, for example in the forest understory, certain plants can survive in the shadow of the trees such as ''Anemone nemorosa.''
*Planting of variety of tree species at forest boarders to improve ecotones and ‘buffer zones,’ adjoining to farmland.
*Variety of new shrubs added to hedgerow, which are kept for both their historical and conservation value, and provide good ecological pathways for fauna.
*Rocky outcrops to be surrounded by patches of wildflower and other low scrub, to augment the heather, using plants that can deal with the acidic grassland and heathland. This perhaps is the most difficult, as the Culluna vulgaris is so dominant

''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

*Clear improvement of floristic biodiversity in ecotones and at landscape boundaries between agricultural and grassland/moorland/forested areas.

*Hiker rest and stop places in positions which are most relevant, in order to bring up important different landscape types within the peak district.For example the edges between farm, woodland and moorland.

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:ForestNew.png|Drawing suggesting understory implementation of shade plants such as ''Anemone nemorosa''
Image:HeightDifferention.png|Detail drawing showing hope for planting implementations which vary in height and species type to make more dynamic both visually and for fauna.
ecotoneedges.png|This drawing explains how some landscape edges could have undulating shape of new planting to increase effectiveness of 'buffer' zones, using locally native species mixes.
Image:FOOTPRINTS.jpg|''Spreading the word about how to enjoy and respect our natural environments'' This projective drawing is more of an explanation about the social changes in understanding I hope would happen in the coming years. Public understanding of these landscapes is important for improving them.
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

I believe the small implementations I have suggested are achievable, however a piloting/testing, before the scheme was widespread would be advised. Care should be taken into ensuring that the plant mixes are right for their situation, not only as regards to soil and living conditions, but also that the mixes derived from other local wildflower and scrub mixes, and suit the surrounding visual character. Maps have been a good way of pinpointing within this vast landscape of the Peaks, where we might find the most fragmented habitats to improve, and which might have the most success.
Overall this project has been beneficial not only for rethinking and landscaped area, but for realizing how far my own perspectives of nature and our own humanistic habitats differ to those from other cultures. Techniques for surveying, assessing and presenting our landscapes vary so widely across different cultures, I have become aware of lots of other effective methods.

'''

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

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:RotationalBurning.png|Showing the 10 year rotational burning - management of Heather
Image:TraditionalDryStoneWall.png|Traditional dry stone wall, very commonly seen at edges where farmsteads meet the Moors
Image:Screen Shot 2013-11-21 at 14.56.35.png|Walking way to get to one of the main rock climbing points within the Moorlands: Stanage Edge
Image:Intermittent.png|Intermittent ancient forests and rocky outcrops
Image:Bikingacrossthemoors.png|Bleak looking landscapes mountain biking through the Moors in Winter
Image:BandW.png|Snow, Heather and Moorgrass
Image:Cross.png| Nearby farmsteads in winter, drystone walls at farmstead boundaries
ladybowertrees.png| Looking down on the lower part of Ladybower Reservoir in deep winter
</gallery>

== References ==

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== ''''' The weathered heights of Yorkshire's Heather Moorland''''' ==

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=Rationale=
*''Why did you select it?''
I selected to look at this project because I find the place beautiful but also incredibly interesting, because of it’s ecology, it’s history and it’s maintenance. The Peak District’s Yorkshire Moorland is very well protected and I wanted to look in depth in to why it is so.
*''Is it exemplary for a specific theme or a problem?''
The National Park has high maintenance demands, some of the maintenance methods are contentious. For example there is 10 year rotational burning of the moorland Heather, so that new shoots keep growing and forests do not return through succession. The 22 million visitors to the national park each year also, poses considerable maintenance and conservation problems.
*''In how far does it relate to your life?''
I first visited the Peak District in my first month at university. I had just started learning about Landscape Architecture/Ecology, and we spent a lot of time there learning about the natural systems evident in the Peak district as a whole, I found the wet and dry moorlands particularly interesting.

=Author's perspective=
*''From which professional background/perspective is your documenting this case?''
I am currently in my last year of a Bsc in Landscape Architecture and Ecology at Sheffield University, UK. However I am currently on an Erasmus term out in Weihanstephan University of Applied Science, South Germany. Much of my professional experience has been in the environmental and ecological domain. However throughout my degree and Foundation Diploma in 3D Art and Design, I have been interested planting and ways of expressing different landscapes with various artistic techniques.

Reporting this case from a landscape architects point of view, who is interested in ecology and habitats, and getting as close to the wild as possible.
I am hoping also to talk about human experience within these landscapes, and discuss how the prospective images explain different aspects of the landscape, and how it might effect us.
The focus of this project will be to try and realise possible implementations that would improve fragmented landscape mosaics, while being aware of historical, economical and cultural framework that has become so key in appreciation and characteristics of the peak districts. I will highlight a walk through the Peak district area, looking at different points along the way. It is a walk I have made many times and have a feeling of connection to.

KEY CONCEPT: In George Monboit's recent book 'Feral,' he discusses how people view our natural environments, and the "enchantment...of rewilding." More importantly for me in this topic, Monboit states that we should not seek to "freeze living systems in time," managing ecosystems "as if thy were a garden." His point that we should not be managing our wild areas to never change, but accepting that they should and will, as is the dynamics of ecosystems. I would want to put forward prospective ideas which "permit ecological change to resume."

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

The name “Heathland” describes the physiognomic distinct landscape type of ''Culluna Vulgaris'' (Heather) vegetation that dominates the area, and is typical of British Moorland. Much of the vegetation types are distinct to the UK, which is what gives the area such a high conservation status. There is also extensive coverage with Moorgrass (''Molinia caerulea)'', bracken (''Pteridium aquilinum'') and cowberry (''Vaccinium vitis-idaea''). Some of the wetter moorland has sphagnum moss and turns in to bog and marshland (these parts account for a high amount of the UK's Carbon equestration). The Heather has stayed until now due to heavy animal grazing.

'''Fauna'''

There are uncommon animal species such as Dartford Warbler (''Sylvia undata'') and Smooth Snake (''Coronella austriaca''). One endemic species is the Red Grouse (''Lagopus scoticus scoticus''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Grouse]).

'''Geology and Geography'''

The underlying geology of the landscape is predominantly Limestone making up the 'White Peaks,' also Granite which is contrastingly called 'Dark Peaks'. At the last ice age this area was right at the boundary of where glaciers came to. Therefore the valleys are both U- shaped by glaciers and V - shaped by rivers), there are also many hanging valleys. The interesting rock formations are one of the main visual features which give the landscape its particular character, and what many people would associated the Peak District with.

*''Cultural features''
'''Economic Features'''

Over 90% of the Peak district is privately owned land, however as a national park it is completely open to the public. For many people the Peak District and Moorland represents is an important heritage site. Walking, climbing and Paragliding, and Red Grouse shooting are very common and provide the area with the majority of its economic base for conservation. For the surrounding cities such as Sheffield, tourism also provides a large revenue, with around 45-50 million day visits to the Peak District each year.

'''Poety and the Local Area'''

Sheffield is one of the closest cities to the Peak District, and the closest to the area of the Peaks I will be focusing on. Sheffield has a long history of poetry, and particularly poetry about the Peak District. Here are two poems, one historical and one recent which explain the character of the Peaks, but also how it's integration with culture has been ever-present.

'''Sullen and vast the Winyates fearful chasm
Yawns on the vale, as if an earthquake’s strength
Had spent itself in one convulsive spasm,
And then subsided – its tremendous length
Cleaving the hill’s deep heart from side to side
In jagged lines . . .
Array’d on either hand
Majestic images of beauty stand
In stately rows – a mimicry of tall
Cathedral, steeple, turret, castle - wall,
And frowning battlements, whose reeling height
Is such that mortals tremble at the sight . . .
From: Scenes Around Castleton'''
''A Picnic at Woodhead and other Poems, Thomas Barlow 1867'' [http://www.peaklandheritage.org.uk/index.asp?peakkey=40800221]

'''A procession of cars twists
up through the hills, each one intent on God knows where. Each one searching
for a reference, an anchorage in an ocean of heather.
Rest a while,
you drovers and jaggers,
unhitch your load. Look back
from where you’ve come,
the old paths lost now
in the valley’s folds,
the fraught sky tethered to a stone.
This place is neither here nor there,
but set your hand on its gritty heart, feel the earth’s cold pulse.
For every path will lead you
to somewhere you have yet to name. So choose,
the road out, or the long road home.
From: Companion Stones Poems'''
''Stoop, James Caruth'' [http://www.artsinthepeak.co.uk/cs/home/CSPoems.pdf]

*''History''
'''At first site many people believe that part of these landscape within the Peak District National Park are untouched, however "''Its character has been influenced by thousands of years of human intervention and management''"''' [http://http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/microsites/npmp/our-vision/a-diverse-working-and-cherished-landscape].

'''How the Moorland came about'''

Although the Heather moorland may look natural, its history is not. Some 1600 years ago vast quantities of forest was removed by man to be used for farming, after these areas were left, the Heather grew back in abundance (This is not true for all Moorland in the UK, only Yorkshire Heath Moorland) Due to heavy grazing from animals this heather scrub landscape was maintained.

'''Protective history'''

The Peak District is Britain's first National Park, and has 109 conservation areas within, due to sites of specific architectural, scientific or historical significance, often being counted as as SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest). Also there are many areas with high levels of biodiversity which are certified as National Natural Reserve Sites, such as the Darbyshire Dales[http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derbyshire_Dales_National_Nature_Reserve], which has large preserved ares of grassland woodland and scrub.

'''History and human development'''

Sheffield and Manchester are the two biggest and closest cities to the Moorlands. Many rivers through the moorlands, leading to these cities, have mills, and were extensively used during the industrial revolution, still today discarded Mill Wheels can be found around the Peak District near rivers and weirs where the mills used to be. The Mill Wheel remains the emblem of the whole Peak District.

*''Overall character and dynamics''

'''Landuse, landscape types and their dynamism'''

The whole national park covers 555 square miles. It has interesting landscape mosaics of Heath and moorland, marches and wetland, calcareous grassland, valleys, cliffs and ancient forest, on the boundaries of arable private land and intermittent farmsteads. The upland Moorland covers a vast proportion of the Peak District National Park. One dynamic feature is that it is a huge carbon sink, and holds more carbon per m squared then forests of the UK.

'''Overall visual characteristics'''

The character of the Moorland is rolling, rocky and rugged. There is very little cover above 1 meter, so you are open to the elements as you walk through.

'''Moorland and the British culture'''

The moorlands in Britian in general, have quite a strong history in literature; it is where ''Wuthering Heights'' by Emily Brontë is set. Brontë describes the character to British Heath-Moorland:
''"the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house;
and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun"''
– here she is describing how you feel being exposed to the wind, and how the wind has bent the only trees, and the Brambles are reaching for any sun they can find – the landscape is windswept, and its force reminds you of the power of nature.
''
<gallery caption="''Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses''" widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:MILLWHEELS.png|Mill wheels left behind in the moors as relics of the industrial revolution. Nearby mills used them to grind corn and make cutlery, then left them to form moss and lichen amongst the heather.

Image:Map1peaks.png|This map highlights different land uses and planted landscape types/characteristics within the area, of which the changes are very drastic and sudden. The blue line shows a walking route of which I will be able to focus on certain points, and possible improvements that could be made along the way.

Image:Perspectivemapping1.png| This visualisation or 'Perspective mapping', maps a view from the moorland overlooking lady bower, in order to get an idea of different configurations of land use, and landscape types. Mapped view from Whinstone Lee Tor
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== Analytical drawings ==

* ''natural dynamic versus cultural framework - and how far these two forces come together''

The nature of the area I have chosen clashes strongly with the cultural framework that is associated with the Peak District. The walk I have chosen is a classic example of this, where many land uses come together with habitats, making them fragmented. Ultimately the cultural connection with the Peak Districts means that money, time and effort gets put towards maintaining these landscapes, both for visual heritage value and for biodiversity. Many of the Peak District Action Plan Documents,[[http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/looking-after/eqm]] discuss culture and nature as the two integral and inextricable aspects of the Peak District.

Tourism is very important for conservation of the Peak Districts; charitable funds are very valuable for conservation, which come from this tourism. When tourists and local people see the burning if the heather, they usually think it is on fire accidentally. Many people have a negative view of this system, not only because it releases large amounts of CO2 in to the atmosphere, but also because they believe Grouse Shooting is wrong. However the Red Grouse feeds on the new Heather shoots that are produced after this burning. It is through the sustainable management of the Heathland that the red Grouse has been able to survive, and why it is relatively endemic to this area.

The following diagram tries to explain these complex relationships between the social, economical and environmental aspects of the site.
<gallery caption="'Diagram of Social, Cultural,Economic, Environmental and Historical interconnectivity of the Peak District Moorland'" widths="900px" heights="850px" perrow="4">

Image:Moorland,_Peak_District,.jpg

</gallery>

* ''dynamic features through the year)''

Lambs can be seen in spring, on areas of wildfower meadows and grassland within the valleys. Heather sprouts new shoots and gives a sea of dark purples, reds and pinks in summer. The Peak District is often brightest in the middle of summer, and in deep winter, when the landscape is lit up by the snow.

* ''potentials and problems''

Much of the forest next to the Reservoir has been replanted, although this is positive, the tree species is not diverse with mostly Ash tree species. They are clearly quite young as the bark is still smooth, also there is very little coarse woody debris that has been left on the ground which is very important for invertebrates. Potential problems are that this forest area continues to not have a high diversity standard. There is an on going problem of how to maintain the heather moors and grasslands, and avoid successional vegetation turning it back in to forests using appropriate methods of maintenance.

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:Problemsandhighlightsmap.png| This map shows significant points along the route which can be enhanced, such as the rocky outcrops, or improved, for example the inner woodland.
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="110px" heights="110px" perrow="4">
Image:Changeable.png|This drawing explains the important dynamic changes of the forest landscape, which is on part of the walking trail. The Ladybower Reservoir can be seen through the trees. The diagram below explains the glimmering light through the trees brings rhythm and repetition as you walk. The canopy provides shelter and coverage for most of the year, which is very contrasting to the later landscapes in which very exposed.
Image:Patchwork.png|A lot of the moorlands are not particularly species diverse, on the walk I am looking at there are large areas that can be seen in to the distance. It is surprising how colourful the Heather alone can be. The picture below touches upon the effect of being in this vast patchwork landscape.
Image:Rockyoutcrops.png|Along the walk there are many rocky outcrops, some quite famous ones such as "lost lad" and "Black Tor." These random and sporadic geological formations provide a great stopping point, to sit and take it all in.
Image:Darknessofthemoors.png| Expressive textures and techneques to reflect how Bronte sees English Moorland. Picture showing late evening, coming in to winter time, walking through the Moors, following a stone path. The picture below tries to express this bleakness very clearly with words and greyscale.
Image:Canopy.png|
Image:SeaofHeather.png|
Image: Ribbonvalleys.png|
Image:Darkskies.png|
</gallery>

==A critical intervention==

Viewing others work has shown me, I have been focusing too solely on the protection of flora and fauna. There’s no problem with this, however I need to be careful that I realize the importance of sustaining the landscape for human satisfaction. Because where there is interest in natural environments, there is also protection. It is important to find ways to protect these natural habitats where keeping history and culture alive, and allowing people to see these natural places.
A building/kiosk/small walkers hut, containing information about all the complicated issues surrounding conservation and maintenance of these areas would be favorable.

== Projective drawings ==

''How would you like this case to change in the near future? (in 1-2 years)''

*Implementation of and reintroduction of native wildflowers in certain areas, for example in the forest understory, certain plants can survive in the shadow of the trees such as ''Anemone nemorosa.''
*Planting of variety of tree species at forest boarders to improve ecotones and ‘buffer zones,’ adjoining to farmland.
*Variety of new shrubs added to hedgerow, which are kept for both their historical and conservation value, and provide good ecological pathways for fauna.
*Rocky outcrops to be surrounded by patches of wildflower and other low scrub, to augment the heather, using plants that can deal with the acidic grassland and heathland. This perhaps is the most difficult, as the Culluna vulgaris is so dominant

''And how could it look like in 10-15 years?''

*Clear improvement of floristic biodiversity in ecotones and at landscape boundaries between agricultural and grassland/moorland/forested areas.

*Hiker rest and stop places in positions which are most relevant, in order to bring up important different landscape types within the peak district.For example the edges between farm, woodland and moorland.

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:ForestNew.png|Drawing suggesting understory implementation of shade plants such as ''Anemone nemorosa''
Image:HeightDifferention.png|Detail drawing showing hope for planting implementations which vary in height and species type to make more dynamic both visually and for fauna.
ecotoneedges.png|This drawing explains how some landscape edges could have undulating shape of new planting to increase effectiveness of 'buffer' zones, using locally native species mixes.
Image:FOOTPRINTS.jpg|''Spreading the word about how to enjoy and respect our natural environments'' This projective drawing is more of an explanation about the social changes in understanding I hope would happen in the coming years.
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

I believe the small implementations I have suggested are achievable, however a piloting/testing, before the scheme was widespread would be advised. Care should be taken into ensuring that the plant mixes are right for their situation, not only as regards to soil and living conditions, but also that the mixes derived from other local wildflower and scrub mixes, and suit the surrounding visual character. Maps have been a good way of pinpointing within this vast landscape of the Peaks, where we might find the most fragmented habitats to improve, and which might have the most success.
Overall this project has been beneficial not only for rethinking and landscaped area, but for realizing how far my own perspectives of nature and our own humanistic habitats differ to those from other cultures. Techniques for surveying, assessing and presenting our landscapes vary so widely across different cultures, I have become aware of lots of other effective methods.

'''

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

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="4">
Image:RotationalBurning.png|Showing the 10 year rotational burning - management of Heather
Image:TraditionalDryStoneWall.png|Traditional dry stone wall, very commonly seen at edges where farmsteads meet the Moors
Image:Screen Shot 2013-11-21 at 14.56.35.png|Walking way to get to one of the main rock climbing points within the Moorlands: Stanage Edge
Image:Intermittent.png|Intermittent ancient forests and rocky outcrops
Image:Bikingacrossthemoors.png|Bleak looking landscapes mountain biking through the Moors in Winter
Image:BandW.png|Snow, Heather and Moorgrass
Image:Cross.png| Nearby farmsteads in winter, drystone walls at farmstead boundaries
ladybowertrees.png| Looking down on the lower part of Ladybower Reservoir in deep winter
</gallery>

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