Scholars’ Green Park by gh3
Toronto, Canada-based gh3 have designed the Scholars’ Green Park in Mississauga, Ontario.
.
Project description
Located at the centre of Sheridan College’s new campus, the Scholars’ Green is a symbiosis of public park and academic common that provides rich outdoor amenity for students, faculty and the surrounding community. Ordered by a criss crossing circulation system, a modern take on Harvard Yard, it both pays homage to the collegial landscape while providing an ‘everybody-everywhere’ lattice of paths that seamlessly connect the park to its surrounds. Lined with allées of columnar beech, the park’s facets contain variously: micro-forests; teaching amphitheatres; grass quadrangles; outdoor cafés; and public squares. Effectively a series of discreet outdoor rooms, Scholars’ Green fulfills a need, in a neighbourhood undergoing densification, for a safe and quiet refuge for individuals and small groups of all ages.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Landscape Architecture: gh3
.
sjb on 16 Nov 2012 at 6:34 pm #
perhaps i have to see it in person.
perhaps it will get better as it ages.
but this is definitely a landscape that is driven by the visual aesthetic of the plan view that seems to only think about how it will engage and accommodate the user as an afterthought. it feels sterile, empty and a rather hostile environment to try and occupy. a la harlequin plaza?