Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 19

---> back to group page working group 19

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

Name	Canale Green roof
Location	Buenos Aires
Country	Argentina
Authors	Manfredi Anzalone, Ana Zmire, Valeria Micou
File:CanaleVA.jpg

Landscape and/or urban context of your case

This terrace is situated in San Telmo neighbourhood,Buenos Aires city, Argentina. Buenos Aires is one of the biggest cities in the country, with almost 15 million inhabitants. it´s also increasing its population and many buildings are built. Impervious surfaces are growing every year and flooding is always a risk.

San Telmo neighbourghood is one of the emblematic places in the city because it´s where it was founded and started its urban development. It´s characterized by XIX and early XX century spanish and italian style architecture. As it´s near the port, many factories were established by that time. Nowadays, the use is changing and many factories have closed and new developments are happening. Because of its historical and architectural interest many buildings have been refurbished and have change their use.

This is the case of Canale building that was originally an important cookies factory and now it works as an office building. Another important topic to emphasize is that this building is also infront of an important park in the city, "Lezama Park". This public park is one of the most important public green spaces in the city.

The building architectural design take into account the construction of several terraces in all their seven floors. In order to achieve the objectives of this assignment we decided to work with the terrace located in the 5th floor. It´s placed in a commercial offices floor, so it can be used by workers during luch time or just to have a break during work.

Building context

• widths="150px"
• 

  Plan and context

What are the objectives of your design?

To ensure a comfortable space within the city structures that lack open green spaces, we decided to create a green oasis in the form of a roof garden. Two main objectives are :

I. The users are the most important element of any designed space, therefore we decided to create a space where people can stay, relax and enjoy a pleasant view of the garden, instead of the surrounding buildings.

II. Increasing droughts and abundant precipitation are due to disturbed circulation of water in nature. Rainwater doesn't drain through the soil layers during which it purifies and fills underground streams, instead it is collected through the sewer and often insufficiently purified released into natural streams and rivers. This results in groundwater level drop with major impact on plant and animal habitats. Lack of permeable surfaces greatly affects the disorder in climate at the micrlocations, soil dries off and temperatures increase. In order to improve climate condition and reduce the cost of maintenance a green roof is one of the solutions. Rainwater flows through the green roof layers while it purifies and can be collected and stored for future use, watering or use in the building, for example flushing toilets. Roof garden besides providing a place to rest and improvement of vistas from the offices also helps in reduction of cost of heating and cooling the building, improves ecological conditions by becoming a habitat for variouse species of insects and birds.

Analytical drawings

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

• Analytical Drawings
• 

  Building analyses

• 

  Relationship between built and open green spaces

• Yourfilename3.jpg

  analytical drawing 3

• Yourfilename4.jpg

  analytical drawing 4

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.

• Projective Drawings
• 

  projective drawing 1 Valeria Micou

• 

  projective drawing 2 Valeria Micou

• Yourfilename3.jpg

  projective drawing 3

• Yourfilename4.jpg

  projective drawing 4

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.

• Design Synthesis Drawings
• Yourfilename1.jpg

  synthesis drawing 1

• Yourfilename2.jpg

  synthesis drawing 2

• Yourfilename3.jpg

  synthesis drawing 3

• Yourfilename4.jpg

  synthesis drawing 4

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

• widths="150px"
• 

  image 1

• 

  image 2

• 

  image 3

• 

  image 4

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.

---

About categories: You can add more categories with this tag: "", add your categories