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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-02-05T16:26:18Z

Sergio: /* Summary of the collaborative process */

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'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

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| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
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| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
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| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''The objective of our design is an integrated approach on both social and cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island. Emphasizing the natural and historical potential of the site is a key factor for a sustainable development. To achieve this goal we will propose the follow development measures :

- Develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community ( different kinds of leisure activities to respond to people's different needs, as for example, fishing, cultural activities, open air events and aquatic sports;)

- Improve the community awareness about the island landscape value and in this way address the problem about waste disposal and security;

- Improve the aesthetical image of the island by implementing maintenance and management programs to answer the specific needs;

- Enhancing the island value throw and new planting design concept;

- Use a more diverse approach in the planting design to improve the seasonal landscape change of the island;

- Use Romanian native plants in the concept to make the design more economically accessible and well adapted to the Romanian climate;

- Promoting the stratification of the vegetation to encourage a more diverse landscape and ecosystem;

- Protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island;

- Improving the quality of life for the people in the community.''

== Analytical drawings ==

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context urban insula.jpg|Urban Context (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Elements of nature.jpg|Overall image - the big picture (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Circulation-diagram-wikii.jpg|Circulation Diagram (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Vedavyas Analytical Drawing 1.jpeg|Basic Overview of Morii Lake Island (Ved)
Image:Features of Morii Lake Island.jpg|Island Features (Ved)
Image:Anilitical drawing 3.jpg|Presence of Salix Alba & Rosa Species (Ved)
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal morii lake.jpg|projective drawing-Monica Ciovica
Image:Planting-Design-Proposal_Sergio.jpg|projective drawing - Sérgio Ribeiro
Image:Developed Vedavyas Projective analysis.jpg|projective drawing - Vedavyas Vundyala

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Design concepts - Morii island.jpg|Concept design
Image:Proposal Morii Lake.jpg|Planting Design proposal
Image:Morii-island-cross-section-01-wiki-1100.jpg|Cross Section
Image:123456789.jpg|Perspective Drawing
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==

''
Morii Lake Island design synthesis was a collaborative process where the objective of our design was an integrated approach on socio-cultural aspect with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island which have also future economic implications.

We intended to protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island, so on our design approach the planting design concept was crucial and the main aspect during the creative process to improve the aesthetical image of the island. Enhancing the island value through a new planting design had into account factors as the use of native and low maintenance vegetation, improving the seasonal design of vegetation, equilibrate perennial and deciduous vegetation, shade and sun zones and a community orchard.

All this planting design characteristics were focused on creating two major areas, a sparse tree woodland (orchard) for a more enclosed atmosphere and an open lawn and meadow oriented for diverse activities, all together with a central paved area that function as a stage of a natural amphitheater.

In this way we intended to develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community with different kinds of leisure key activities to respond to people's different needs.
''

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Island silhouette.jpg|Island silhouette
Image:Marina.jpg|Marina
Image:Fountain.jpg|Fountain
Image:Gazebo.jpg|Gazebo
Image:Vegetation structure.jpg|Vegetation
Image:Urban landscape.jpg|Urban surroundings
</gallery>

== References ==

''* Web links:

http://uac.incd.ro/Art/v4n4a04.pdf

http://www.b365.ro/insula-ascunsa-a-bucurestiului_42975.html''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-02-05T16:23:33Z

Sergio: /* Summary of the collaborative process */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''The objective of our design is an integrated approach on both social and cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island. Emphasizing the natural and historical potential of the site is a key factor for a sustainable development. To achieve this goal we will propose the follow development measures :

- Develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community ( different kinds of leisure activities to respond to people's different needs, as for example, fishing, cultural activities, open air events and aquatic sports;)

- Improve the community awareness about the island landscape value and in this way address the problem about waste disposal and security;

- Improve the aesthetical image of the island by implementing maintenance and management programs to answer the specific needs;

- Enhancing the island value throw and new planting design concept;

- Use a more diverse approach in the planting design to improve the seasonal landscape change of the island;

- Use Romanian native plants in the concept to make the design more economically accessible and well adapted to the Romanian climate;

- Promoting the stratification of the vegetation to encourage a more diverse landscape and ecosystem;

- Protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island;

- Improving the quality of life for the people in the community.''

== Analytical drawings ==

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context urban insula.jpg|Urban Context (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Elements of nature.jpg|Overall image - the big picture (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Circulation-diagram-wikii.jpg|Circulation Diagram (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Vedavyas Analytical Drawing 1.jpeg|Basic Overview of Morii Lake Island (Ved)
Image:Features of Morii Lake Island.jpg|Island Features (Ved)
Image:Anilitical drawing 3.jpg|Presence of Salix Alba & Rosa Species (Ved)
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal morii lake.jpg|projective drawing-Monica Ciovica
Image:Planting-Design-Proposal_Sergio.jpg|projective drawing - Sérgio Ribeiro
Image:Developed Vedavyas Projective analysis.jpg|projective drawing - Vedavyas Vundyala

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Design concepts - Morii island.jpg|Concept design
Image:Proposal Morii Lake.jpg|Planting Design proposal
Image:Morii-island-cross-section-01-wiki-1100.jpg|Cross Section
Image:123456789.jpg|Perspective Drawing
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==

''Morii Lake Island design synthesis was a collaborative process where the objective of our design was an integrated approach on socio-cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island which have also future economic implications.

We intended to protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island, so on our design approach the planting design concept was crucial and the main aspect during the creative process to improve the aesthetical image of the island. Enhancing the island value through a new planting design had into account factors as the use of native and low maintenance vegetation, improving the seasonal design of vegetation, equilibrate perennial and deciduous vegetation, shade and sun zones and a community orchard.

All this planting design characteristics were focused on creating two major areas, a sparse tree woodland (orchard) for a more enclosed atmosphere and an open lawn and meadow oriented for diverse activities, all together with a central paved area that function as a stage of a natural amphitheater.

In this way we intended to develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community with different kinds of leisure key activities to respond to people's different needs.
''

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Island silhouette.jpg|Island silhouette
Image:Marina.jpg|Marina
Image:Fountain.jpg|Fountain
Image:Gazebo.jpg|Gazebo
Image:Vegetation structure.jpg|Vegetation
Image:Urban landscape.jpg|Urban surroundings
</gallery>

== References ==

''* Web links:

http://uac.incd.ro/Art/v4n4a04.pdf

http://www.b365.ro/insula-ascunsa-a-bucurestiului_42975.html''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-02-05T16:22:54Z

Sergio: /* Summary of the collaborative process */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''The objective of our design is an integrated approach on both social and cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island. Emphasizing the natural and historical potential of the site is a key factor for a sustainable development. To achieve this goal we will propose the follow development measures :

- Develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community ( different kinds of leisure activities to respond to people's different needs, as for example, fishing, cultural activities, open air events and aquatic sports;)

- Improve the community awareness about the island landscape value and in this way address the problem about waste disposal and security;

- Improve the aesthetical image of the island by implementing maintenance and management programs to answer the specific needs;

- Enhancing the island value throw and new planting design concept;

- Use a more diverse approach in the planting design to improve the seasonal landscape change of the island;

- Use Romanian native plants in the concept to make the design more economically accessible and well adapted to the Romanian climate;

- Promoting the stratification of the vegetation to encourage a more diverse landscape and ecosystem;

- Protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island;

- Improving the quality of life for the people in the community.''

== Analytical drawings ==

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context urban insula.jpg|Urban Context (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Elements of nature.jpg|Overall image - the big picture (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Circulation-diagram-wikii.jpg|Circulation Diagram (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Vedavyas Analytical Drawing 1.jpeg|Basic Overview of Morii Lake Island (Ved)
Image:Features of Morii Lake Island.jpg|Island Features (Ved)
Image:Anilitical drawing 3.jpg|Presence of Salix Alba & Rosa Species (Ved)
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal morii lake.jpg|projective drawing-Monica Ciovica
Image:Planting-Design-Proposal_Sergio.jpg|projective drawing - Sérgio Ribeiro
Image:Developed Vedavyas Projective analysis.jpg|projective drawing - Vedavyas Vundyala

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Design concepts - Morii island.jpg|Concept design
Image:Proposal Morii Lake.jpg|Planting Design proposal
Image:Morii-island-cross-section-01-wiki-1100.jpg|Cross Section
Image:123456789.jpg|Perspective Drawing
</gallery>

== Summary of the collaborative process ==
''Morii Lake Island design synthesis was a collaborative process where the objective of our design was an integrated approach on socio-cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island which have also future economic implications.

We intended to protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island, so on our design approach the planting design concept was crucial and the main aspect during the creative process to improve the aesthetical image of the island. Enhancing the island value through a new planting design had into account factors as the use of native and low maintenance vegetation, improving the seasonal design of vegetation, equilibrate perennial and deciduous vegetation, shade and sun zones and a community orchard.

All this planting design characteristics were focused on creating two major areas, a sparse tree woodland (orchard) for a more enclosed atmosphere and an open lawn and meadow oriented for diverse activities, all together with a central paved area that function as a stage of a natural amphitheater.

In this way we intended to develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community with different kinds of leisure key activities to respond to people's different needs.
''

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Island silhouette.jpg|Island silhouette
Image:Marina.jpg|Marina
Image:Fountain.jpg|Fountain
Image:Gazebo.jpg|Gazebo
Image:Vegetation structure.jpg|Vegetation
Image:Urban landscape.jpg|Urban surroundings
</gallery>

== References ==

''* Web links:

http://uac.incd.ro/Art/v4n4a04.pdf

http://www.b365.ro/insula-ascunsa-a-bucurestiului_42975.html''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-02-05T15:33:09Z

Sergio: /* References */

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'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

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|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''The objective of our design is an integrated approach on both social and cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island. Emphasizing the natural and historical potential of the site is a key factor for a sustainable development. To achieve this goal we will propose the follow development measures :

- Develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community ( different kinds of leisure activities to respond to people's different needs, as for example, fishing, cultural activities, open air events and aquatic sports;)

- Improve the community awareness about the island landscape value and in this way address the problem about waste disposal and security;

- Improve the aesthetical image of the island by implementing maintenance and management programs to answer the specific needs;

- Enhancing the island value throw and new planting design concept;

- Use a more diverse approach in the planting design to improve the seasonal landscape change of the island;

- Use Romanian native plants in the concept to make the design more economically accessible and well adapted to the Romanian climate;

- Promoting the stratification of the vegetation to encourage a more diverse landscape and ecosystem;

- Protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island;

- Improving the quality of life for the people in the community.''

== Analytical drawings ==

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context urban insula.jpg|Urban Context (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Elements of nature.jpg|Overall image - the big picture (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Circulation-diagram-wikii.jpg|Circulation Diagram (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Vedavyas Analytical Drawing 1.jpeg|Basic Overview of Morii Lake Island (Ved)
Image:Features of Morii Lake Island.jpg|Island Features (Ved)
Image:Anilitical drawing 3.jpg|Presence of Salix Alba & Rosa Species (Ved)
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal morii lake.jpg|projective drawing-Monica Ciovica
Image:Planting-Design-Proposal_Sergio.jpg|projective drawing - Sérgio Ribeiro
Image:Developed Vedavyas Projective analysis.jpg|projective drawing - Vedavyas Vundyala

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Design concepts - Morii island.jpg|Concept design
Image:Proposal Morii Lake.jpg|Planting Design proposal
Image:Morii-island-cross-section-01-wiki-1100.jpg|Cross Section
Image:123456789.jpg|Perspective Drawing
</gallery>

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

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Island silhouette.jpg|Island silhouette
Image:Marina.jpg|Marina
Image:Fountain.jpg|Fountain
Image:Gazebo.jpg|Gazebo
Image:Vegetation structure.jpg|Vegetation
Image:Urban landscape.jpg|Urban surroundings
</gallery>

== References ==

''* Web links:

http://uac.incd.ro/Art/v4n4a04.pdf

http://www.b365.ro/insula-ascunsa-a-bucurestiului_42975.html''

----
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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-01-28T20:04:40Z

Sergio: /* Design Synthesis */

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'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Morii Lake Island''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
|-
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|height=200
|lat=44.455556
|lng=26.025280
|zoom=13
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|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''The objective of our design is an integrated approach on both social and cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island. Emphasizing the natural and historical potential of the site is a key factor for a sustainable development. To achieve this goal we will propose the follow development measures :

- Develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community ( different kinds of leisure activities to respond to people's different needs, as for example, fishing, cultural activities, open air events and aquatic sports;)

- Improve the community awareness about the island landscape value and in this way address the problem about waste disposal and security;

- Improve the aesthetical image of the island by implementing maintenance and management programs to answer the specific needs;

- Enhancing the island value throw and new planting design concept;

- Use a more diverse approach in the planting design to improve the seasonal landscape change of the island;

- Use Romanian native plants in the concept to make the design more economically accessible and well adapted to the Romanian climate;

- Promoting the stratification of the vegetation to encourage a more diverse landscape and ecosystem;

- Protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island;

- Improving the quality of life for the people in the community.''

== Analytical drawings ==

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context urban insula.jpg|Urban Context (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Elements of nature.jpg|Overall image - the big picture (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Circulation-diagram-wikii.jpg|Circulation Diagram (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Vedavyas Analytical Drawing 1.jpeg|Basic Overview of Morii Lake Island (Ved)
Image:Features of Morii Lake Island.jpg|Island Features (Ved)
Image:Anilitical drawing 3.jpg|Presence of Salix Alba & Rosa Species (Ved)
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal morii lake.jpg|projective drawing-Monica Ciovica
Image:Planting-Design-Proposal_Sergio.jpg|projective drawing - Sérgio Ribeiro
Image:Developed Vedavyas Projective analysis.jpg|projective drawing - Vedavyas Vundyala

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Design concepts - Morii island.jpg|Concept design
Image:Proposal Morii Lake.jpg|Planting Design proposal
Image:Morii-island-cross-section-01-wiki-1100.jpg|Cross Section
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

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

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Island silhouette.jpg|Island silhouette
Image:Marina.jpg|Marina
Image:Fountain.jpg|Fountain
Image:Gazebo.jpg|Gazebo
Image:Vegetation structure.jpg|Vegetation
Image:Urban landscape.jpg|Urban surroundings
</gallery>

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

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

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

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

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File:Morii-island-cross-section-01-wiki-1100.jpg

2014-01-28T20:04:10Z

Sergio:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-01-28T20:01:11Z

Sergio: /* Design Synthesis */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Morii Lake Island''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''The objective of our design is an integrated approach on both social and cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island. Emphasizing the natural and historical potential of the site is a key factor for a sustainable development. To achieve this goal we will propose the follow development measures :

- Develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community ( different kinds of leisure activities to respond to people's different needs, as for example, fishing, cultural activities, open air events and aquatic sports;)

- Improve the community awareness about the island landscape value and in this way address the problem about waste disposal and security;

- Improve the aesthetical image of the island by implementing maintenance and management programs to answer the specific needs;

- Enhancing the island value throw and new planting design concept;

- Use a more diverse approach in the planting design to improve the seasonal landscape change of the island;

- Use Romanian native plants in the concept to make the design more economically accessible and well adapted to the Romanian climate;

- Promoting the stratification of the vegetation to encourage a more diverse landscape and ecosystem;

- Protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island;

- Improving the quality of life for the people in the community.''

== Analytical drawings ==

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context urban insula.jpg|Urban Context (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Elements of nature.jpg|Overall image - the big picture (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Circulation-diagram-wikii.jpg|Circulation Diagram (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Vedavyas Analytical Drawing 1.jpeg|Basic Overview of Morii Lake Island (Ved)
Image:Features of Morii Lake Island.jpg|Island Features (Ved)
Image:Anilitical drawing 3.jpg|Presence of Salix Alba & Rosa Species (Ved)
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal morii lake.jpg|projective drawing-Monica Ciovica
Image:Planting-Design-Proposal_Sergio.jpg|projective drawing - Sérgio Ribeiro
Image:Developed Vedavyas Projective analysis.jpg|projective drawing - Vedavyas Vundyala

</gallery>

== Design Synthesis ==

<gallery caption="Design Synthesis Drawings" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Design concepts - Morii island.jpg|Concept design
Image:Proposal Morii Lake.jpg|Planting Design proposal
Image:Morii-island-cross-section-01-wiki.jpg|Cross Section
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|synthesis drawing 4
</gallery>

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

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Island silhouette.jpg|Island silhouette
Image:Marina.jpg|Marina
Image:Fountain.jpg|Fountain
Image:Gazebo.jpg|Gazebo
Image:Vegetation structure.jpg|Vegetation
Image:Urban landscape.jpg|Urban surroundings
</gallery>

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

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

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

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

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File:Morii-island-cross-section-01-wiki.jpg

2014-01-28T20:00:05Z

Sergio:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-01-26T17:12:12Z

Sergio: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

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|-
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|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''The objective of our design is an integrated approach on both social and cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island. Emphasizing the natural and historical potential of the site is a key factor for a sustainable development. To achieve this goal we will propose the follow development measures :

- Develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community ( different kinds of leisure activities to respond to people's different needs, as for example, fishing, cultural activities, open air events and aquatic sports;)

- Improve the community awareness about the island landscape value and in this way address the problem about waste disposal and security;

- Improve the aesthetical image of the island by implementing maintenance and management programs to answer the specific needs;

- Enhancing the island value throw and new planting design concept;

- Use a more diverse approach in the planting design to improve the seasonal landscape change of the island;

- Use Romanian native plants in the concept to make the design more economically accessible and well adapted to the Romanian climate;

- Promoting the stratification of the vegetation to encourage a more diverse landscape and ecosystem;

- Protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island;

- Improving the quality of life for the people in the community.''

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

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context urban insula.jpg|Urban Context (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Elements of nature.jpg|Overall image - the big picture (Monica Ciovica)
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Circulation-diagram-wikii.jpg|Circulation Diagram (Sérgio Ribeiro)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposal morii lake.jpg|projective drawing-Monica Ciovica
Image:Planting-Design-Proposal_Sergio.jpg|projective drawing - Sérgio Ribeiro
Image:yourfilename3.jpg|projective drawing 3
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

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

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

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

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

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Island silhouette.jpg|Island silhouette
Image:Marina.jpg|Marina
Image:Fountain.jpg|Fountain
Image:Gazebo.jpg|Gazebo
Image:Vegetation structure.jpg|Vegetation
Image:Urban landscape.jpg|Urban surroundings
</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]]

About categories: You can add more categories with this tag: "[[Category:Category Name]]", add your categories

File:Planting-Design-Proposal Sergio.jpg

2014-01-26T17:11:08Z

Sergio:

File:Morii-island-planting-design-wiki.jpg

2014-01-26T17:04:37Z

Sergio:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-01-22T17:25:36Z

Sergio: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Morii Lake Island''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:lacul morii.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
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|type="satellite"
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|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''The objective of our design is an integrated approach on both social and cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island. Emphasizing the natural and historical potential of the site is a key factor for a sustainable development. To achieve this goal we will propose the follow development measures :

- Develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community ( different kinds of leisure activities to respond to people's different needs, as for example, fishing, cultural activities, open air events and aquatic sports;)

- Improve the community awareness about the island landscape value and in this way address the problem about waste disposal and security;

- Improve the aesthetical image of the island by implementing maintenance and management programs to answer the specific needs;

- Enhancing the island value throw and new planting design concept;

- Use a more diverse approach in the planting design to improve the seasonal landscape change of the island;

- Use Romanian native plants in the concept to make the design more economically accessible and well adapted to the Romanian climate;

- Promoting the stratification of the vegetation to encourage a more diverse landscape and ecosystem;

- Protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island;

- Improving the quality of life for the people in the community.
''

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

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context urban insula.jpg|Urban Context (Monica Ciovica)
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|Vegetation Analysis
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Circulation-diagram-wikii.jpg|Circulation Diagram (Sérgio Ribeiro)
</gallery>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-01-22T17:24:49Z

Sergio: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Morii Lake Island''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:lacul morii.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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|height=200
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|lng=26.025280
|zoom=13
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
|type="satellite"
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''The objective of our design is an integrated approach on both social and cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island. Emphasizing the natural and historical potential of the site is a key factor for a sustainable development. To achieve this goal we will propose the follow development measures :

- Develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community ( different kinds of leisure activities to respond to people's different needs, as for example, fishing, cultural activities, open air events and aquatic sports;)

- Improve the community awareness about the island landscape value and in this way address the problem about waste disposal and security;

- Improve the aesthetical image of the island by implementing maintenance and management programs to answer the specific needs;

- Enhancing the island value throw and new planting design concept;

- Use a more diverse approach in the planting design to improve the seasonal landscape change of the island;

- Use Romanian native plants in the concept to make the design more economically accessible and well adapted to the Romanian climate;

- Promoting the stratification of the vegetation to encourage a more diverse landscape and ecosystem;

- Protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island;

- Improving the quality of life for the people in the community.
''

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

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context urban insula.jpg|Urban Context (Monica Ciovica)
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|Vegetation Analysis
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Circulation-diagram-wikii.jpg|Circulation Diagram
</gallery>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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File:Circulation-diagram-wikii.jpg

2014-01-22T17:21:25Z

Sergio:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-01-22T17:18:24Z

Sergio: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Morii Lake Island''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:lacul morii.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=44.455556
|lng=26.025280
|zoom=13
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
|type="satellite"
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''The objective of our design is an integrated approach on both social and cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental elements of the island. Emphasizing the natural and historical potential of the site is a key factor for a sustainable development. To achieve this goal we will propose the follow development measures :

- Develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community ( different kinds of leisure activities to respond to people's different needs, as for example, fishing, cultural activities, open air events and aquatic sports;)

- Improve the community awareness about the island landscape value and in this way address the problem about waste disposal and security;

- Improve the aesthetical image of the island by implementing maintenance and management programs to answer the specific needs;

- Enhancing the island value throw and new planting design concept;

- Use a more diverse approach in the planting design to improve the seasonal landscape change of the island;

- Use Romanian native plants in the concept to make the design more economically accessible and well adapted to the Romanian climate;

- Promoting the stratification of the vegetation to encourage a more diverse landscape and ecosystem;

- Protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island;

- Improving the quality of life for the people in the community.
''

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

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Context urban insula.jpg|Urban Context (Monica Ciovica)
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|Vegetation Analysis
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:Circulation-diagram-wiki.jpg|Circulation Diagram
</gallery>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-01-22T13:42:50Z

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

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Morii Lake Island''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:lacul morii.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=44.455556
|lng=26.025280
|zoom=13
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
|type="satellite"
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''The objectives of our design are an integrated approach on both social and cultural aspects with the main goal of adding value to the historical and environmental aspects of the island. Emphasizing the natural and historical potential of the site is a key factor for a sustainable development. To achieve this goals we will propose the follow development measures / strategies :

- develop the site as a multicultural and multifunctional area for the community ( different kinds of leisure activities to respond to people's different needs, as for example, fishing, cultural activities, open air events and aquatic sports;

- improve the community awareness about the island landscape value and in this way address the problem about waste disposal and security;

- Improve the aesthetical image of the island by implementing maintenance and management programs to answer the specific needs;

- Enhancing the island value throw and new planting design concept;

- Use a more diverse approach in the planting design to enhance the seasonal landscape change of the island;

- Use Romanian native plants in the concept to make the planting design more economically accessible and well adapted to the Romanian climate;

- Promoting the stratification of the vegetation to encourage a more diverse landscape and ecosystem;

- Protect and preserve the historical structures and design of the island;

- Improving the quality of life for the people in the community.
''

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

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|Urban Context
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|Vegetation Analysis
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-01-21T18:49:01Z

Sergio: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Morii Lake Island''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:lacul morii.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=44.455556
|lng=26.025280
|zoom=13
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
|type="satellite"
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''Please give a short written argumentation (not more than 150 words). It is ok if you have different or even contradicting objectives within your group. Just make it explicit at the beginning of your process ''

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

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|Urban Context
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|Vegetation Analysis
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-01-21T18:48:29Z

Sergio: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Morii Lake Island''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:lacul morii.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=44.455556
|lng=26.025280
|zoom=13
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
|type="satellite"
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''Please give a short written argumentation (not more than 150 words). It is ok if you have different or even contradicting objectives within your group. Just make it explicit at the beginning of your process ''

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

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|analytical drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis (Sérgio Ribeiro)
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-01-21T18:36:10Z

Sergio: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Morii Lake Island''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:lacul morii.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| {{#widget:GoogleMaps
|width=300
|height=200
|lat=44.455556
|lng=26.025280
|zoom=13
|centermarker=yes
|maptypecontrol=yes
|overviewmapcontrol=yes
|largemapcontrol=yes
|scalecontrol=yes
|type="satellite"
}}
|}

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''Please give a short written argumentation (not more than 150 words). It is ok if you have different or even contradicting objectives within your group. Just make it explicit at the beginning of your process ''

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

<gallery caption="Analytical Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:yourfilename1.jpg|analytical drawing 1
Image:yourfilename2.jpg|analytical drawing 2
Image:Morii-island-structure-analysis_wiki.jpg|Structures and Pavements Analysis
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|analytical drawing 4
</gallery>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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File:Morii-island-structure-analysis wiki.jpg

2014-01-21T18:30:34Z

Sergio:

Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-01-16T17:14:19Z

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

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

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| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

[[File:Swot-small.jpg|500px|thumb|left|'''Morri Lake Island SWOT Analysis''']]

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

''Please give a short written argumentation (not more than 150 words). It is ok if you have different or even contradicting objectives within your group. Just make it explicit at the beginning of your process ''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 1

2014-01-16T16:50:44Z

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

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_27|working group 27]]

'''''Morii Lake Island'''''

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|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Bucharest''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Romania''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Monica Ciovica, Sergio Ribeiro, Vedavyas Vundyala''
|-
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== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*''Urban context-Dynamics
Constructed under the communist regime to prevent floodings in Bucharest, Morii Lake and the island were built over a cemetery and a church. The project had a huge impact on the area’s landscape due to demolitions and displacements of buildings and agricultural terrains left with no use, cutting down crop layers, meadows, rows of trees, isolated tress and shrubs. These actions lead to the loss of specific elements that characterize the specific landscape.
Located at the periphery of Bucharest the lake and island are somewhat hidden from the city and this lead to a complete neglect from the authorities. The area is like a puzzle composed of improvised establishments by Romani people, new residential assemblies, industrial and commercial units, abandoned arable land and green areas used as dumping places in the close proximity of the lake.

*''Overall character-Short analysis
Built in 1986 on an area of 4.2 ha, the Morii Lake Island was designed as a place of nature for the community. The design consisted of a high percentage of vegetation, with a “green belt” of Salix alba around the island’s limits and a “green core” of various Rosa species. One of the major goals in creating this area was to have diverse activities in a natural environment and for this were built two marinas, a gazebo and a flower-shaped fountain.

A short analysis of the island in present time shows several major problems regarding functional, natural and aesthetic elements: abandoned marina, vegetation in a state of degradation, broken pavement, no light system, sanitary waste, invasive vegetation so overall a complete lack of maintenance. The area is considered highly insecure and the only activity remaining is that of occasional fishing.

Inspite its’ degradation, the island remains an attraction for the people living in the neighborhood and the potential of becoming an important landmark, being the only island in Bucharest.

<gallery caption="" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-small.jpg|Morii Lake Island SWOT Analysis

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

''Please give a short written argumentation (not more than 150 words). It is ok if you have different or even contradicting objectives within your group. Just make it explicit at the beginning of your process ''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

----
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File:Swot-small.jpg

2014-01-16T16:47:28Z

Sergio:

Talk:Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 30

2013-12-11T18:02:27Z

Sergio:

Case study D and case study B focus on the necessity of planting design as an input to improve the environmental and social quality of those spaces. Stabilizing dunes in case study B is a very important aspect of landscape architecture practice and it´s done in many projects in Portugal (my country). Its very important to stop the coastal erosion, protected it from the strong winds, creating new recreational places for people to enjoy and also protect the coast from urbanization sprawl. The case study B, an urban park, also aim to improve the function and quality of planting design with new vegetation structures taking into account the ecological succession as a intentional design process. This two approaches were well done described and had an holistic design thinking.
Case study C focused on planting maintenance and management of a beautiful garden in a difficult dry climate. This case study developed a strategy on different time frames, improving the soil quality and then to purify the water channels changing the techniques used. The management and maintenance of a green space it´s a crucial aspect for the future of those spaces and without a strategic and integrated approach a garden/park is condemned. This case study analysis gives importance to this issue in a well explained example.

Good work for every cases, you have presented very interesting images of nature in different contexts!

Sérgio Ribeiro, Group 1, Case study B

Talk:Planting Design 2013 - Working Group 30

2013-12-11T16:50:27Z

Sergio: Created page with "Case study D and case study B focus on the necessity of planting design as an input to improve the environmental and social quality of those spaces. Stabilizing dunes in case ..."

Case study D and case study B focus on the necessity of planting design as an input to improve the environmental and social quality of those spaces. Stabilizing dunes in case study B is a very important aspect of landscape architecture practice and it´s done in many projects in Portugal (my country). Its very important to stop the coastal erosion, protected it from the strong winds, creating new recreational places for people to enjoy and also protect the coast from urbanization sprawl. The case study B, an urban park, also aim to improve the function and quality of planting design with new vegetation structures taking into account the ecological succession as a intentional design process. This two approaches were well done described and had an holistic design thinking.
Case study C focused on planting maintenance and management of a beautiful garden in a difficult dry climate. This case study developed a strategy on different time frames, improving the soil quality and then to purify the water channels changing the techniques used. The management and maintenance of a green space it´s a crucial aspect for the future of those spaces and without a strategic and integrated approach a garden/park is condemned. This case study analysis gives importance to this issue in a well explained example.

Good work for every group, you have presented very interesting images of nature!
Sérgio Ribeiro, Group 1, Case study B

Planting Design 2013 Working Group 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T23:50:47Z

Sergio: /* Projective drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

'''''Images of Nature - Boavista Avenue Greenway in Porto city'''''

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
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== Rationale: Why is this case interesting? ==

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

== Analytical drawings ==

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:Eyebird-02-s.jpg|Eyebird schetch - no colour dynamic through the year because of the ''Chorisia speciosa'' bad state almost without its pink flower. The other vegetation on site it´s perenial.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

* In a close time frame (1 - 2 years) the only change would be to the planting design scheme. In my projective cross sections I propose to take out the tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' (only the exemplars with bad health) because it´s a tree that is not adapted to the site climate and it has a dangerous trunk to cyclists. Instead of this specie over the lawn (high maintenance costs and competition) I propose to have an alignment of mixed shrubs, ''Cistus ladanifer'' and ''Crataegus monogyna''), both portuguese native species. ''Crataegus monogyna'' is a deciduous shrub with a nice white flower from late spring to early summer and can grow until 3/4 meters. ''Cistus ladanifer'' is an evergreen shurb also with white flowers that can be use as a perennial structure when combined with Crataegus monogyna.

* In a long term period ( 10 - 15 years) I would propose to restructure all the avenue to give more room to the bike track and at the same time developing a green corridor using the same shrubs of the first phase, but adding a new tree alignment as a new vegetation stratum, ''Platanus x acerifolia'' because it´s a tree with a good performance in Porto climate. In this way, this linear design along the avenue with trees and shrubs create a sound a visual barrier against the traffic and at the same time it allows a better rainwater management along the avenue slowing down the runoff.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives

</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as a reference urban nature scenario in Porto city.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</gallery>

== References ==
''* http://www.circuitodaboavista.com/gca/index.php?id=391#cont

''* http://daraopedal.blogs.sapo.pt/58664.html''

''* http://tram-porto.ernstkers.nl/indexp.html''

''* http://www.jn.pt/paginainicial/pais/concelho.aspx?Distrito=Porto&Concelho=Porto&Option=Interior&content_id=2039110&page=-1''

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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T23:36:28Z

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'''''Images of Nature - Boavista Avenue Greenway in Porto city'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

== Analytical drawings ==

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:Eyebird-02-s.jpg|Eyebird schetch - no colour dynamic through the year because of the ''Chorisia speciosa'' bad state almost without its pink flower. The other vegetation on site it´s perenial.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

* In a close time frame (1 - 2 years) the only change would be to the planting design scheme. In my projective cross sections I propose to take out the tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' (only the exemplars with bad health) because it´s a tree that is not adapted to the site climate and it has a dangerous trunk to cyclists. Instead of this specie over the lawn (high maintenance costs and competition) I propose to have an alignment of mixed shrubs, ''Cistus ladanifer'' and ''Crataegus monogyna''), both portuguese native species. ''Crataegus monogyna'' is a deciduous shrub with a nice white flower from late spring to early summer and can grow until 3/4 meters. ''Cistus ladanifer'' is an evergreen shurb also with white flowers that can be use as a perennial structure when combined with Crataegus monogyna.

* In a long term period ( 10 - 15 years) I would propose to restructure all the avenue to give more room to the bike track and at the same time developing a green corridor using the same shrubs of the first phase, but adding a new tree alignment as a new vegetation stratum, ''Platanus x acerifolia'' because it´s a tree with a good performance in Porto climate. In this way, this linear design along the avenue with trees and shrubs create a sound a visual barrier against the traffic and at the same time it allows a better rainwater management along the avenue slowing down the runoff.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as a reference urban nature scenario in Porto city.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</gallery>

== References ==
''* http://www.circuitodaboavista.com/gca/index.php?id=391#cont

''* http://daraopedal.blogs.sapo.pt/58664.html''

''* http://tram-porto.ernstkers.nl/indexp.html''

''* http://www.jn.pt/paginainicial/pais/concelho.aspx?Distrito=Porto&Concelho=Porto&Option=Interior&content_id=2039110&page=-1''

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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T23:32:00Z

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'''''Images of Nature - Boavista Avenue Greenway in Porto city'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

== Analytical drawings ==

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:Eyebird-02-s.jpg|Eyebird schetch - no colour dynamic through the year because of the ''Chorisia speciosa'' bad state almost without its pink flower. The other vegetation on site it´s perenial.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

* In a close time frame (1 - 2 years) the only change would be to the planting design scheme. In my projective cross sections I propose to take out the tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' (only the exemplars with bad health) because it´s a tree that is not adapted to the site climate and it has a dangerous trunk to cyclists. Instead of this specie over the lawn (high maintenance costs and competition) I propose to have an alignment of mixed shrubs, ''Cistus ladanifer'' and ''Crataegus monogyna''), both portuguese native species. ''Crataegus monogyna'' is a deciduous shrub with a nice white flower from late spring to early summer and can grow until 3/4 meters. ''Cistus ladanifer'' is an evergreen shurb also with white flowers that can be use as a perennial structure when combined with Crataegus monogyna.

* In a long term period ( 10 - 15 years) I would propose to restructure all the avenue to give more room to the bike track and at the same time developing a green corridor using the same shrubs of the first phase, but adding a new tree alignment as a new vegetation stratum, ''Platanus x acerifolia'' because it´s a tree with a good performance in Porto climate. In this way, this linear design along the avenue with trees and shrubs create a sound a visual barrier against the traffic and at the same time it allows a better rainwater management along the avenue slowing down the runoff.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as a reference urban nature scenario in Porto city.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</gallery>

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

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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T23:31:30Z

Sergio: /* Projective drawings */

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'''''Images of Nature - Boavista Avenue Greenway in Porto city'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

== Analytical drawings ==

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:Eyebird-02-s.jpg|Eyebird schetch - no colour dynamic through the year because of the Chorisia speciosa bad state almost without its pink flower. The other vegetation on site it´s perenial.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

* In a close time frame (1 - 2 years) the only change would be to the planting design scheme. In my projective cross sections I propose to take out the tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' (only the exemplars with bad health) because it´s a tree that is not adapted to the site climate and it has a dangerous trunk to cyclists. Instead of this specie over the lawn (high maintenance costs and competition) I propose to have an alignment of mixed shrubs, ''Cistus ladanifer'' and ''Crataegus monogyna''), both portuguese native species. ''Crataegus monogyna'' is a deciduous shrub with a nice white flower from late spring to early summer and can grow until 3/4 meters. ''Cistus ladanifer'' is an evergreen shurb also with white flowers that can be use as a perennial structure when combined with Crataegus monogyna.

* In a long term period ( 10 - 15 years) I would propose to restructure all the avenue to give more room to the bike track and at the same time developing a green corridor using the same shrubs of the first phase, but adding a new tree alignment as a new vegetation stratum, ''Platanus x acerifolia'' because it´s a tree with a good performance in Porto climate. In this way, this linear design along the avenue with trees and shrubs create a sound a visual barrier against the traffic and at the same time it allows a better rainwater management along the avenue slowing down the runoff.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as a reference urban nature scenario in Porto city.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T23:28:53Z

Sergio: /* Analytical drawings */

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'''''Images of Nature - Boavista Avenue Greenway in Porto city'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

== Analytical drawings ==

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:Eyebird-02-s.jpg|Eyebird schetch - no colour dynamic through the year because of the Chorisia speciosa bad state almost without its pink flower. The other vegetation on site it´s perenial.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

* ''In a close time frame (1 - 2 years) the only change would be to the planting design scheme. In my projective cross sections I propose to take out the tree alignment of Chorisia speciosa (only the exemplars with bad health) because it´s a tree that is not adapted to the site climate and it has a dangerous trunk to cyclists. Instead of this specie over the lawn (high maintenance costs and competition) I propose to have an alignment of mixed shrubs, Cistus ladanifer and Crataegus monogyna), both portuguese native species. Crataegus monogyna is a deciduous shrub with a nice white flower from late spring to early summer and can grow until 3/4 meters. Cistus ladanifer is an evergreen shurb also with white flowers that can be use as a perennial structure when combined with Crataegus monogyna.

* In a long term period ( 10 - 15 years) I would propose to restructure all the avenue to give more room to the bike track and at the same time developing a green corridor using the same shrubs of the first phase, but adding a new tree alignment as a new vegetation stratum, Platanus x acerifolia because it´s a tree with a good performance in Porto climate. In this way, this linear design along the avenue with trees and shrubs create a sound a visual barrier against the traffic and at the same time it allows a better rainwater management along the avenue slowing down the runoff.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as a reference urban nature scenario in Porto city.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T23:28:09Z

Sergio: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

'''''Images of Nature - Boavista Avenue Greenway in Porto city'''''

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|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

== Analytical drawings ==
''Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case and take the following aspects into account:''

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:Eyebird-02-s.jpg|Eyebird schetch - no colour dynamic through the year because of the Chorisia speciosa bad state almost without its pink flower. The other vegetation on site it´s perenial.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

* ''In a close time frame (1 - 2 years) the only change would be to the planting design scheme. In my projective cross sections I propose to take out the tree alignment of Chorisia speciosa (only the exemplars with bad health) because it´s a tree that is not adapted to the site climate and it has a dangerous trunk to cyclists. Instead of this specie over the lawn (high maintenance costs and competition) I propose to have an alignment of mixed shrubs, Cistus ladanifer and Crataegus monogyna), both portuguese native species. Crataegus monogyna is a deciduous shrub with a nice white flower from late spring to early summer and can grow until 3/4 meters. Cistus ladanifer is an evergreen shurb also with white flowers that can be use as a perennial structure when combined with Crataegus monogyna.

* In a long term period ( 10 - 15 years) I would propose to restructure all the avenue to give more room to the bike track and at the same time developing a green corridor using the same shrubs of the first phase, but adding a new tree alignment as a new vegetation stratum, Platanus x acerifolia because it´s a tree with a good performance in Porto climate. In this way, this linear design along the avenue with trees and shrubs create a sound a visual barrier against the traffic and at the same time it allows a better rainwater management along the avenue slowing down the runoff.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as a reference urban nature scenario in Porto city.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T23:27:11Z

Sergio: /* Summary and conclusion */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

'''''Images of Nature - Boavista Avenue Greenway in Porto city'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:Eyebird-02-s.jpg|Eyebird schetch - no colour dynamic through the year because of the Chorisia speciosa bad state almost without its pink flower. The other vegetation on site it´s perenial.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

* ''In a close time frame (1 - 2 years) the only change would be to the planting design scheme. In my projective cross sections I propose to take out the tree alignment of Chorisia speciosa (only the exemplars with bad health) because it´s a tree that is not adapted to the site climate and it has a dangerous trunk to cyclists. Instead of this specie over the lawn (high maintenance costs and competition) I propose to have an alignment of mixed shrubs, Cistus ladanifer and Crataegus monogyna), both portuguese native species. Crataegus monogyna is a deciduous shrub with a nice white flower from late spring to early summer and can grow until 3/4 meters. Cistus ladanifer is an evergreen shurb also with white flowers that can be use as a perennial structure when combined with Crataegus monogyna.

* In a long term period ( 10 - 15 years) I would propose to restructure all the avenue to give more room to the bike track and at the same time developing a green corridor using the same shrubs of the first phase, but adding a new tree alignment as a new vegetation stratum, Platanus x acerifolia because it´s a tree with a good performance in Porto climate. In this way, this linear design along the avenue with trees and shrubs create a sound a visual barrier against the traffic and at the same time it allows a better rainwater management along the avenue slowing down the runoff.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as a reference urban nature scenario in Porto city.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T23:24:00Z

Sergio: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

'''''Images of Nature - Boavista Avenue Greenway in Porto city'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:Eyebird-02-s.jpg|Eyebird schetch - no colour dynamic through the year because of the Chorisia speciosa bad state almost without its pink flower. The other vegetation on site it´s perenial.
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

* ''In a close time frame (1 - 2 years) the only change would be to the planting design scheme. In my projective cross sections I propose to take out the tree alignment of Chorisia speciosa (only the exemplars with bad health) because it´s a tree that is not adapted to the site climate and it has a dangerous trunk to cyclists. Instead of this specie over the lawn (high maintenance costs and competition) I propose to have an alignment of mixed shrubs, Cistus ladanifer and Crataegus monogyna), both portuguese native species. Crataegus monogyna is a deciduous shrub with a nice white flower from late spring to early summer and can grow until 3/4 meters. Cistus ladanifer is an evergreen shurb also with white flowers that can be use as a perennial structure when combined with Crataegus monogyna.

* In a long term period ( 10 - 15 years) I would propose to restructure all the avenue to give more room to the bike track and at the same time developing a green corridor using the same shrubs of the first phase, but adding a new tree alignment as a new vegetation stratum, Platanus x acerifolia because it´s a tree with a good performance in Porto climate. In this way, this linear design along the avenue with trees and shrubs create a sound a visual barrier against the traffic and at the same time it allows a better rainwater management along the avenue slowing down the runoff.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as a quality image of nature in Porto city.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</gallery>

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

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

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

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2013-12-10T23:18:47Z

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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T21:27:22Z

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'''''Images of Nature - Boavista Avenue Greenway in Porto city'''''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

* ''In a close time frame (1 - 2 years) the only change would be to the planting design scheme. In my projective cross sections I propose to take out the tree alignment of Chorisia speciosa (only the exemplars with bad health) because it´s a tree that is not adapted to the site climate and it has a dangerous trunk to cyclists. Instead of this specie over the lawn (high maintenance costs and competition) I propose to have an alignment of mixed shrubs, Cistus ladanifer and Crataegus monogyna), both portuguese native species. Crataegus monogyna is a deciduous shrub with a nice white flower from late spring to early summer and can grow until 3/4 meters. Cistus ladanifer is an evergreen shurb also with white flowers that can be use as a perennial structure when combined with Crataegus monogyna.

* In a long term period ( 10 - 15 years) I would propose to restructure all the avenue to give more room to the bike track and at the same time developing a green corridor using the same shrubs of the first phase, but adding a new tree alignment as a new vegetation stratum, Platanus x acerifolia because it´s a tree with a good performance in Porto climate. In this way, this linear design along the avenue with trees and shrubs create a sound a visual barrier against the traffic and at the same time it allows a better rainwater management along the avenue slowing down the runoff.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as a quality image of nature in Porto city.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T21:23:14Z

Sergio: /* Image Gallery */

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

* ''In a close time frame (1 - 2 years) the only change would be to the planting design scheme. In my projective cross sections I propose to take out the tree alignment of Chorisia speciosa (only the exemplars with bad health) because it´s a tree that is not adapted to the site climate and it has a dangerous trunk to cyclists. Instead of this specie over the lawn (high maintenance costs and competition) I propose to have an alignment of mixed shrubs, Cistus ladanifer and Crataegus monogyna), both portuguese native species. Crataegus monogyna is a deciduous shrub with a nice white flower from late spring to early summer and can grow until 3/4 meters. Cistus ladanifer is an evergreen shurb also with white flowers that can be use as a perennial structure when combined with Crataegus monogyna.

* In a long term period ( 10 - 15 years) I would propose to restructure all the avenue to give more room to the bike track and at the same time developing a green corridor using the same shrubs of the first phase, but adding a new tree alignment as a new vegetation stratum, Platanus x acerifolia because it´s a tree with a good performance in Porto climate. In this way, this linear design along the avenue with trees and shrubs create a sound a visual barrier against the traffic and at the same time it allows a better rainwater management along the avenue slowing down the runoff.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as a quality image of nature in Porto city.

== Image Gallery ==

<gallery caption="Image Gallery" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T21:22:09Z

Sergio: /* Projective drawings */

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

== Projective drawings ==

* ''In a close time frame (1 - 2 years) the only change would be to the planting design scheme. In my projective cross sections I propose to take out the tree alignment of Chorisia speciosa (only the exemplars with bad health) because it´s a tree that is not adapted to the site climate and it has a dangerous trunk to cyclists. Instead of this specie over the lawn (high maintenance costs and competition) I propose to have an alignment of mixed shrubs, Cistus ladanifer and Crataegus monogyna), both portuguese native species. Crataegus monogyna is a deciduous shrub with a nice white flower from late spring to early summer and can grow until 3/4 meters. Cistus ladanifer is an evergreen shurb also with white flowers that can be use as a perennial structure when combined with Crataegus monogyna.

* In a long term period ( 10 - 15 years) I would propose to restructure all the avenue to give more room to the bike track and at the same time developing a green corridor using the same shrubs of the first phase, but adding a new tree alignment as a new vegetation stratum, Platanus x acerifolia because it´s a tree with a good performance in Porto climate. In this way, this linear design along the avenue with trees and shrubs create a sound a visual barrier against the traffic and at the same time it allows a better rainwater management along the avenue slowing down the runoff.
''

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as a quality image of nature in Porto city.

== 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:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T21:14:51Z

Sergio: /* Summary and conclusion */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as a quality image of nature in Porto city.

== 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:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T20:24:33Z

Sergio: /* Summary and conclusion */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as an image of nature of quality in Porto city.

== 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:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T20:24:12Z

Sergio: /* Summary and conclusion */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

"The Boavista Avenue Greenway it´s a linear structure going from the city center to the ocean with a particular microclimate because of its localization. Along the time it was a place with diverse uses and its importance to the city was crucial as a fast lane to cars, tram, bus and pedestrians. My case study, the part of Boavista avenue which have its borderline with the Porto Urban Park it´s a particular section of the avenue because of the aesthetical and ecological strengths it adds to the avenue scenario.
The projective cross sections of this case study have into account two time frames of intervention in the planting design structure as well as the structure of the bike track and the road that come together in an overall idea which takes into account the following three aspects: ecological infrastructure, rainwater management and safe and enjoyable mobility. All this aspects aim to improve this avenue as an image of nature of quality in Porto city."

== 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:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T18:39:53Z

Sergio: /* Author's perspective */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

== 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:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-10T18:39:35Z

Sergio: /* Rationale: Why is this case interesting? */

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''From which professional background/perspective are your documenting this case?

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

== 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:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-09T18:11:52Z

Sergio: /* Summary and conclusion */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''Please give a short introduction to the site you have selected (not more than 150 words)
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''From which professional background/perspective are your documenting this case?

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==

== 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:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-09T18:11:18Z

Sergio: /* Analytical drawings */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''Please give a short introduction to the site you have selected (not more than 150 words)
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''From which professional background/perspective are your documenting this case?

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Descriptive Analysis" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Swot-analysis-s.jpg|SWOT Analysis
</gallery>

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
''
This were the main points behind my proposal:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

== 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:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</gallery>

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

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

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

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2013-12-09T18:06:00Z

Sergio:

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2013-12-09T18:03:50Z

Sergio:

Planting Design 2013 Working Group 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-09T17:55:24Z

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

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''Please give a short introduction to the site you have selected (not more than 150 words)
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''From which professional background/perspective are your documenting this case?

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
''
This were the main points behind my proposal:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

== 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:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 Case Study]]

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Planting Design 2013 Working Group 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-09T17:50:09Z

Sergio: /* Summary and conclusion */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''Please give a short introduction to the site you have selected (not more than 150 words)
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''From which professional background/perspective are your documenting this case?

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
''
This were the main points behind my proposal:

'''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have several problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

== 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:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-09T17:44:25Z

Sergio: /* Summary and conclusion */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''Please give a short introduction to the site you have selected (not more than 150 words)
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''From which professional background/perspective are your documenting this case?

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
'''''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have varied problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water demand.
'' ''

== 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:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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 1 - Case Study B

2013-12-09T17:42:57Z

Sergio: /* Summary and conclusion */

---> back to group page [[Planting_Design_2013_-_Working_Group_1|working group 1]]

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

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| '' Boavista Avenue Greenway''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Porto''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Portugal''
|-
| '''Authors''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Architect Manuel Ventura''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:Apresentation_boavista.JPG|200px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="41.165829" lon="-8.675984" type="satellite" zoom="15" width="300" height="250" selector="no" controls="small">
</googlemap>
|}

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

''Please give a short introduction to the site you have selected (not more than 150 words)
* ''The Boavista Avenue Greenway, as I call it, it’s a part of the biggest avenue in Porto that goes from the ocean in the west side during 6 Km until the Boavista roundabout in Porto city center. In the west side, this avenue goes along with the south side of the Porto Urban Park (Parque da Cidade do Porto), which it´s one of the biggest urban parks in the world with an ocean front through over 80 hectares of a green lung. ''
* ''I selected this avenue section because on last times it has been an urban landscape with a lot of changes. Several projects have been going on in this section because of its different uses along the time as, for example, a tram network system, bike tracks, planting beds, sidewalks, highway, the Porto Urban Park and also a part of the Boavista International Rally. In this way this section of the Boavista Avenue has feeding a controversial social debate about its functions and it´s aesthetics. All this aspects have a huge impact on the planting design that´s possible to see there today and which is influenced by different solutions.. In this study case it´s possible to find some problems and some good planting design ideas.''
* ''The Boavista Avenue is very near from the place I live in Porto and the Urban Park which goes along with, it´s a place I use to use a lot for jogging or bike. Both the urban park and this section of the avenue are places that works as planting design laboratories for me because of its diversity of aproaches.''

== Author's perspective ==
''From which professional background/perspective are your documenting this case?

I have a bachelor in Landscape Architecture and for me the Boavista Avenue Greenway is an interesting study case because of its different uses along the time and its impact on the planting design. Different planting design approaches have been tried out and as a result it would be possible to analyze the evolution of different cross sections where its important to reflect about the use of an ecological corridor along with different means of transportation at the same time it has to be a flexible system because of its annual international rally event. Therefore it's important to analyze the spatial evolution as a whole where planting design plays an important role and acts as an urban spatial organizer.''

== Landscape and/or urban context of your case ==
*'''''Biogeography Context''':
Porto is part of the Eurosiberian region and its part of the Galaico-Portuguese Sector. This means Porto climate has a strong influence of the Atlantic ocean temperate effect and the amplitude of annual temperatures is moderate (little continental effect), so in Winter it's possible to have temperatures between 5°C and 14°C and in Summer between 15°C and 25°C. The precipitation can vary in extreme ways during the year and in Winter its possible to have abundant raining periods in short time and in Summer it can happen to have several weeks without raining, so the precipitation it’s a limiting factor when a landscape architect is choosing the vegetation. This climate together with a granitic soil and a hilly topography makes the city of Porto a place where a huge variety of vegetation can grow and adapt.

*'''Cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics'''

The Boavista avenue was part of the first network of tram systems in Portugal dated back to 1872. As a result this had a great impact on the city mobility. During the 19th century this tram network system has spread around the city of Porto. Later, some of the lines were out of service because of the beginning of other type of public transport as the BUS. In Boavista Avenue, the tram line was out of service from 1999 and much of the space was left abandoned and in some cases it was used as a parking space somehow caothic.
From 1993 until 2002 the Porto Urban Park was constructed and as most of its south part represents the borderline with the Boavista Avenue, it is very important to reflect about the relationship between this two realities, the urban park and the busy avenue.
Other important historic aspect which influenced the overall character of this space is the "Boavista Rally" dated back to 1931 when were organized the first races. This annual event lasted until the 60's and returned in 2005, which has a big impact on the image of the avenue. The last intervention in the avenue was made in the context of adapting it to this race event and at the same time with a different infrastructure including a new bike track, new pavements and a new planting design which included new flower beds (''Pelargonium domesticum''), new tree alignments (''Chorisia speciosa'') and a new grass area along the roads. The flower beds are removable to adapt the space to the annual races. So, all the planting design was thought to be aesthetical attractive. Anyway I would point some aspects in this planting design approach that I think are important to reflect:

<gallery caption="Localization of the case study - Boavista Avenue in Porto city" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:1---City-of-Porto-s.jpg|City of Porto, Portugal
Image:2---Planta-s.jpg|Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
Image:3---boavista-avenue-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue (Area of study)
Image:4---eye-bird-s.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird view (Area of study)
Image:5_-_localization_colour.jpg|Boavista Avenue eyebird (Area of study with colour)
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Analytical Cross Sections (hand drawing + Illustrator)" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Cross-section-3-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1900
Image:Cross-section-2-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 1999
Image:Cross-section-1-smaller.jpg|Cross Section in 2013
Image:Transição-parque-da-cidade-s.jpg|Transition between Porto Urban Park and Boavista Avenue
</gallery>

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

<gallery caption="Projective Drawings " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
Image:Proposta-a-curto-prazo-s.jpg|Short term projective sketch
Image:Proposta-trabalhada-s.jpg|Long term projective sketch
Image:Perspetivas-juntas-s.jpg|Proposal Perspectives
Image:yourfilename4.jpg|projective drawing 4
</gallery>

== Summary and conclusion ==
'''''1''' - The displacement of the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' from the urban park sidewalk pit was a good option because the ''Pinus pinea'' planted over a retaining wall in the urban park grew very well until 15/20 meters competing for the sun with the ''Platanus x acerifolia'' that started to have varied problems. In this case ''Pinus pinea'' can function very well as a street pit tree of the paved sidewalk.

'''2''' - The flower beds of ''Pelargonium domesticum'', which is a native species from South Africa was a good decision because this specie is a very resistant evergreen perennial. They can be kept in flower throughout the winter months and almost all year which gives nice colors to the avenue. Their main requirement is a warm, sunny, sheltered location like the flower beds where are located. Many varieties tolerate drought conditions for short periods and it´s why there is a drop irrigation system on this flower beds.

'''3''' - The choose of ''Chorisia speciosa'', as an alignment tree throughout the avenue was a bad decision in my opinion. This is a species of deciduous tree native to the tropical and subtropical forests of South America and it´s a tree which is not freeze or salt tolerant. This avenue is very cold and windy in the winter time and brings the saltiness of the sea with it which is harmful to the tree health as is possible to see on the pictures below. Other problem is the fact that this tree does not do well in competition with lawn grasses which is the case, mainly when it´s a young tree. The bulbous green trunk is covered with big blunt warty triangular spines and turns gray as the tree gets older. This can be dangerous to the bikers as the bike track in right along this trees and for a safety measure this spines should be removed from the basis of the trunk until arround 2 meters what didn´t happened in this case. This tree has large roots often formed at the base of the trunk just beneath the soil, so it shouldn´t be planted too close to sidewalks or pavement and fifteen feet from curbs, driveways and sidewalks should be adequate what is not the case.

'''4''' - The use of lawn grasses as a ground cover along with the plantation of ''Chorisia speciosa'', is not a good planting design choice because of the competition for water as mentioned before and also because of the maintenance costs. The process of mowing has to be done about 3 or 4 times a year and irrigation, especially in summer, has high water costs.
'' ''

== 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:Av-boavista-pinus-pinea.jpg|Boavista Avenue perspective
Image:CIMG9043.JPG|Retaining wall with ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9034.JPG|Sidewalk covered by ''Pinus pinea''
Image:CIMG9048.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9059.JPG|Boavista Avenue overall features (Planting beds, bike track, road, sidewalk)
Image:CIMG9051.JPG|Planting bed with ''Pelargonium domesticum''
Image:CIMG9052.JPG|''Pelargonium domesticum'' drop irrigation system
Image:CIMG9056.JPG|Tree alignment of ''Chorisia speciosa'' in bad conditions
Image:CIMG9054.JPG|Big blunt warty triangular spines of ''Chorisia speciosa''
Image:CIMG9086.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' alignment
Image:CIMG9098.JPG|''Pinus pinea'' with ''Hedera helix'' ground cover
Image:CIMG9020.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
Image:CIMG9025.JPG|View from the Porto Urban Park
</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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