Baum Grove - Kasachstan

>>>Baum Grove: Return to the forest

Name	Baum Grove
Place	Almaty
Country	Kazakhstan
Author(s)	Anna Ilyuchshenko


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Why is this case relevant?

The Baum Grove is the unique natural park with a century-old history and an area of 139,5 hectares, which is located in the middle of Almaty, the biggest city of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The grove is called “the lungs of the city”, which literally provides oxygen to a good half of Almaty. It is the largest, and oldest forested part of the city with over 100 thousand trees. The Baum Grove was planted in 1868 and further developed by Edward Baum, a forest scientist and from 1875 a forest auditor of the region of present Almaty, who also was a chairman of the regional agricultural society for 25 years. This man arrived in an empty plain at the foot of the mountains and created “the city of gardens” – modern Almaty. He conducted a large selection work and introduced atypical for the region types of trees and shrubs - 61 species of trees and 52 types of shrubs, 74 varieties of apple trees, 49 varieties of pears and other fruit trees. The most visible of his legacy in Almaty - the Baum Grove, which carries his name.

In this section you talk about the design concept of your area. Is it a highly maintained site, i.e. does the design with nature require intensive maintenance? Or does the site follow a more organic interpretation of nature? Which changes are expected if maintenance is missing?