Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 27

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Liban Quarry, Krakow-Poland

Name	Liban Quarry
Location	Krakow
Country	Poland
Authors	Ilona Feklistova,Saranya Gunasekaran, Luisa Colorado,Hari Adhikari

Landscape and/or urban context of your case

The Liban Quarry is one of the most forgotten places in Kraków, this place is remembered for the victims of the Nazi labor camp that operated there during Kraków’s occupation (World War II); within the time The Liban Quarry become slowly a nature sanctuary for waterfowl, birds of prey, pheasants and other creatures.

The landscape of the place contains incredible limestone cliffs, ponds and dense vegetation.

History

1873_The limestone company 'Liban and Ehrenpreis,' run by two well known Jewish industrial families from Podgórze established a quarry.

end of the XIX century _ a complex of buildings was established within the quarry and a railway line.

1942-1944_ Nazi occupation, in which a penal camp, where 800 young Poles were prisoners and forced to perform hard labors, was set-up.

1993_ Steven Spielberg used Liban as the set of all the scenes from Schindler's List that take place in the Płaszów concentration camp. The Liban Quarry, the site of the reconstruction, is one of the places where inmates of Płaszów were worked to death or randomly murdered.

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.

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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.

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Design Synthesis

Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the SWOTanalysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.

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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

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References

1. http://www.inyourpocket.com/poland/krakow/sightseeing/Podgorze-Places-of-Interest/Liban-Quarry_49806v

* 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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