Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 23
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| Name | Union Square | |
| Location | Iasi | |
| Country | Romania | |
| Authors | Fadera Williams, Florina Deleanu, Gisela De Santo | |
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Landscape and/or urban context of your case
- Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics
- you can keep this short
- Illustration: Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses
Union Square is located in Iași, Romania. The climate is template continental. Summers are generally very warm to hot and winters are quite cold, with moderate snowfall.
Union Square is a piece of history, a space where people come and meet, relax and socialize. It is situated in the centre of the city and it's surrounded by historical buildings like hotel Train build by the famous architect Gustave Eiffel and Hotel Unirea, where a restaurant in the 13th floor, allow to observe Iași having a 360 degrees over the city.
Because it's visited by many people all year long, it needs a planting design proposal with trees that make shade and flowers that add colour to the square. The biggest problem is represented by the blocks of marble with beautiful symbols drawn on them that represent different scenes of history, that are slippery when it rains or snows. They are dangerous and outworn three out of four seasons, it was simply a bad investment.
During the summer artist display their paintings or hand made jewellery, where cooking shows take place and children play after school.
This square unites three important aspects of a design landscape: economy, social and environment. These aspects are important because if combined right, they can increase sustainability in this space.
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
General Objectives:
1. Transform this space in a square that can be functional, attractive, safe and welcoming for its visitors. 2. Combine two elements cultural and nature in harmony. 3. Nature with a bigger role, so the balance between the cultural aspect and the natural one can be restored by using colour and volume, by respecting the town planing rules.
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
Space analysis
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.
Brainstorming IDEAS from the group: 1. The trees and shrubs not taller the 3mts so the beautiful buildings that have a nice view over the square are not covered by them. 2. Grass insertions , 4-5m long and only 10 cm large so it does not interfere with expositions, cooking shows ore any other events that take place in the square. 3. The umbrella trees make shade, so the square can be used in the summer as well, and the shrubs decorate trough the year with their flowers, leaves or ornamental form. 4. Add perfumed plants with a decorative form, annual and perennial. 5. Create a flat planting trough around the statue. 6. Create a pedestrian pathway of another material say rough paving, linking d 4 planting areas. 7. Introduce shade trees with short height but full canopy around all sitout areas. 8. Change orientation or shape of green area. Make it fluid and interesting. 9. Create 2 information stand gazebo's to provide information about the history of d park. 10. Introduce shrubbery around fountains on one side 11. Flower & herbaceous beds (New German Style approach).Use native plants to introduce ecology in urban landscape adding color, texture and low maintenace. 12. Investment to replace the mosaic for a non slippery rock conserving the original draw. 13. Eliminate individual pots. Replace them by big rectangular plant pots to improve visual impact and allow fluent pedestrian walk.
- Projective Drawings
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projective drawing 2
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projective drawing 3
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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
- Design Synthesis Drawings
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synthesis drawing 1
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synthesis drawing 2
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synthesis drawing 3
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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
Top View
Historic Hotel Train, by Gustave Eiffel, built in 1882
Mosaic marble, slippery when rains
Vegetation, buildings, artists and people as is
A view of the Union Square
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. * Traian Hotel: http://www.grandhoteltraian.ro/istoric.htm
* Know about Iasi City, history, weather and so on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ia%C8%99i http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Romania
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