project summary

results of last survey

Size: 900 m2

Budget: $250,000

Schedule: July 19, 2011: 1st public open houseJuly to Sept 2011: Design Development by Hapa CollaborativeSept 17, 2011: Presentation of 3 concepts at 2nd public open houseToday, Nov 1, 2011: Presentation of preferred design at 3rd open house Winter 2012: Construction Spring 2012: Estimated completion

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Palm Dairy Building ca. 1970

Ice cream & milkshakes served on site

Plants growing on trellis, creating a shady space

Example of ice cream vendor operating on New York City streets

Example of a paint application similar to the proposed

Garden example showing dot pattern from above

Park example showing dot pattern in perennials with crushed gravel walkways

The site’s history as the Palm Dairy

operations and the place once

considered to have ‘the best milkshakes

in the city” serve as an inspiration for

the building design and the park parti.

A bubble dot patterning is applied on

this site concept – circular planters,

mounded lawn, pavement striping, and

seating edges – to reference a past

use and suggest some whimsy in the

space. The interstitial spaces become

the places for activity and gathering

while a bright trellis provide shade and

enclosure.

Moveable chairs allow maximum flexibility

Fun swivel stools reference former dairy counter

concept 1

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Parallel parking1

Infiltration area2

Painted pattern3

Poodle sculpture4

Food / beverage truck5

Lawn6

Planting area7

Trellis8

Swivel stools9

10 bus stop

11 chairs

the Creative Framing Co.

Pho Hoang Vietnamese Restaurant

TD Bank

Shoppers Drugmart

Trellis creates green promenade space

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concept hillscape

As a small park on a busy street,

mounding and berming of the ground

can provide spatial separation from

noisy traffic on Main Street. Berms

and mounds provide soft landscape

treatment as well as more intimate

places for informal use and social

exchange. In this hillscape scheme,

terrain shaping provides opportunities

for seating and play, dramatizes

shadows and light, and aids in

stormwater management and drainage.

Higher mounds at street edge shelters space from traffic and noise

Wavy mounding provides choice to sit in sun or shade

Roadside infiltration area cleans polluted water

Mounds at edge define the park boundaries

Example park with wavy groundplane

Walls also serve as secondary seating

Gentle mounds in the center creates inhabitable spaces

Hammocks make fun and comfortable places to stop and take a break

Parallel parking1

Planting area2

Infiltration area3

Painted pattern4

Poodle sculpture5

bus stop6

Berm7

Lawn8

Mound9

Seat wall10

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Seat wall13

Hammocks14

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permanent park kiosk

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concept ombré

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A French word meaning shade

or shadow, ombré is a technique

that merges contrasting colours

or tones together in one fabric

resulting in an ethereal patterning.

The park site plays an important

role in blending two communities

together – Riley Park and Mount

Pleasant – thereby allowing the

park to belong to both. In this

concept plan, the technique of

ombré is suggested through the

use of flowering hydrangeas

that flower in different colours

depending on the acidity of the soil:

blue for acid and pink for alkaline.

Raised planters with built-in seating at south end

Sunken planters allow for infiltration and cleaning of water at the north end

Hydrangea shrubs contrasted with clipped, structure-providing plants

Lawn adjacent to beds of blooms in the middle of the park

Plaza space at south end of park with tables and chairs

Parallel parking1

Planting area2

Painted pattern3

Blue hydrangea beds4

Poodle sculpture5

Lawn6

Purple hydrangea beds7

Food / beverage kiosk

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Bus stop11

Pink hydrangea beds12

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Pho Hoang Vietnamese Restaurant

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winnermost favored...

...forms:

...overall: Hillscape

Interesting terrain

Seat walls, hammocks, benches

• Truck parked outside park• Truck packs up and leaves every day• Year-round operation

Mounded terrain and organic shapes

Soft perennials, large feature tree, medium sized street trees and vines

...plants:

...feature:

...furniture:

mobile food preferences

existing healthy trees proposed to be retained

existing damaged trees proposed to be removed

new trees proposed

circulationstructures

paving with pattern

soft landscape

trees

site plan

silva cells (soil and stormwater system)

spatial qualities

trees

Infiltration, water cleaning, planting area

More open, soft landscape, inhabitable

More urban, plaza-like, open space

Buffering zone

Pedestrians

Bicycles

Vehicles

cut-leaf beech

cherry, lindens

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lowest elevation

best sun

site diagrams

Walls also serve as secondary seating

Gentle mounds define park boundaries and create inhabitable spaces

Perrenials and grasses soften the site and blur edges

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Berm

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Feature tree 9

Seat wall (portions with bench backs)

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tables and moveable chairs12

Trellis, kiwi vine and promenade space13

11 Food / beverage vendor

swivel stools

Flexible plaza with pattern

Palm Dairy Building ca. 1970

Ice cream & milkshakes historically served on site

Example of ice cream vendor operating on New York City streets

Moveable chairs allow maximum flexibility

Swivel stools reference former dairy counter

Straw-like trellis creates green promenade space

Illustration of Silva Cell tree system protecting tree roots and providing place for water inflitration

In this small park on a busy street, berms and

gentle slopes create a soft landscape, provide

spatial separation from noisy traffic on Main Street

and become spaces for informal use and social

exchange. Within these edges are a variety of

seating options from seat walls and benches, to café

tables, chairs and swivel stools.

The site’s history, as the Palm Dairy operations

and the place once considered to have ‘the best

milkshakes in the city,” serve as inspiration for

the building design and park parti. A bubble dot

patterning is applied on the groundplane referencing

the past use. The interstitial spaces become places

for activity and gathering while a bright, straw-like

trellis provides shade and enclosure.

site plan

Inspiration: Pioneer Square Pergola, Seattle Volume of space created inside Pioneer Square Pergola Volume wrapped in straws, referencing Palm Dairy milk bar Volume removed, leaving staw trellis

Area of site with trellis shown at rightScale 1:400

View of trellis with climbing plants in summer

trellis

View of site at night with lights along seat wall benches

Section, Scale 1:400

Section through bench with poodle sculptureScale 1:25

Lighting diagramScale 1:400

lights along seatwall benches

light from facades

trellis lights

artwork spotlight

streetlights

public art

lighting

plantingtrees perennials

Tillia americana (Linden) New tree

Existing treeFagus sylvatica lacinata (Cutleaf beech)

Quercus robur (White oak)

Fraxinus pennsylvania (Green ash)

Achillea ptarmica ‘The Pearl’Brunnera macrophylla ‘Variegata’Carex spp.Juncus spp.Liriope spicata ‘Silver Dragon’Physostegia virginiana ‘Miss Manners’

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41 2Aquilegia canadensis ‘Corbett’Coreopsis verticillata ‘Moonbeam’Euphorbia rigidaGaultheria shallonHakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’Heliopsis helianthoides ‘Ballerina’Lysimachia clethroidesPennisetum alopecuroides ‘Orientale’Pleioblastus variegatusRuta graveolensSedum spp.Sesleria caeruleaTricyrtis hirta ‘Golden Gleam’Veronica longifolia ‘Sunny Border Blue’

Anthemis nobilis Bellis perenisFestuca spp.Trifolium fragiferumThymus serpyllum

Rosa spp. (Climbing Rose)

Perennials, drought-tolerant, <36” high Drought-tolerant grass mix Climbing perennialPerennials, drought-tolerant, wet soil