Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 30

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President Ronald Reagan's Park

Name	President Ronald Reagan's Park
Location	Gdańsk
Country	Poland
Authors	Barbara,Azadeh, Natalia
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Landscape and/or urban context of your case

The President Ronald Reagan's Park is a large public space located near the costline of Baltic Sea on the northern side of Gdańsk. It is separated from the beach only by a narrow line of protected dune. It's the biggest park in the City and one of the newest. It was established between year 2003 and 2006. Now the Park encompases 55,5 ha, but it's eastern part is not yet developed in accordence with it's purpose. The whole area is protected not only because it's considered a wetland but also because it's a part of underground drinking water spring for a considerable part of Gdańsk. The Park became a weekend escape, place to meet and go in for sports for city residents of all ages.

The area has to be protected so establishing a public park was one of the best options and wildlife benefited from this also. For that reason the entire area was excluded from motorised vehicle traffic. In our design we decided to focus on part of the undeveloped area as it has a lot of potential. Most of plants there grew naturaly but many were left after the shutdown of allotments. So in addition to the natural vegetation we have a lot of fruit trees and shrubs. The terrain is mostly flat only in the grasslands area it's naturaly hilly.

What are the objectives of your design?

Objectives:

- analising existing vegetation structure

- analising climate, water and siol condition

- chosing vegetation in concideration of climate and soil conditions

- make note of endurance of species

- giving social and educational function to the vegetation

- avoiding or dispose of invasive species

- walkway over sand dunes to protect plants ecosystem

- protecting threatened native plants with chicken wire

- preserving animal habitants

- inviting people in for activities and educational purposes

- natural vegetation with addition of designed planting

- leavings space for ecological succession

- managing the area in free and natural way

Analytical drawings

• Analytical Drawings
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  park area & design focuse area

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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.

• Projective Drawings
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  projective drawing 1

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  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
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  SWOT synthesis

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  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

You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings

• Image Gallery
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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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