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 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.

Soil is mostly made up of sands and clay. Water conditoins in the area are more complicated because of high level of ground water. That poses an oportunity in good availability of water for plants but it also generates a potential problem of periodical area flooding due to spring thaws.

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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  analytical 2

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  analytical 4

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  vegetation

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

• Projective drawings 1 natalia
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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 Synthesis Drawings
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  SWOT synthesis

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  synthesis drawing 2

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  synthesis drawing 3

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  environment + economy

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).

Natalia:

Working in a collaborative process has potentials as take advantage of knowledge of your workmates, sharing ideas or percpectives in desing planting and most of the times you can learn news and differents ways of working.

Some times, skype is not enought for working, i missed not sharing our laptop screen in skype. i think that would be useful.

Its great meeting nice people from other cultures and countries. Really, it is nice and fun. I liked work with them.

Barbara:

It's a great opportunity to meet interesting people and with their help discover new ways of thinking, approaching the same subjects. It is always interesting to learn perspectives from another culture/country, share ideas and see what is important in the design outside of the country I live in.

I think the bigest problem was to find time when we all could meet. Also internet conections don't always work so well so we had a lot of difficultis with it. There were some misunderstandings associated with language but we managed to get past those.

It was an opportunity to hone management skills, learn ways of solving problems and as I mencioned before learn approaches to planting design from my teammates.

Azadeh:

Image Gallery

• Image Gallery
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  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.

wikipedia.org - Ronald Reagan Park

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