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Mission Statement
To maintain the intimacy of the De Vries van Heytsplantsoen park while raising its awareness.
Client(s)
People who use (or would use) the De Vries van Heytsplansoen site regularly. A simple survey indicated that the park is used by very few people. Further analysis will uncover how the park is used, by whom, and how often.
Impressions
The park seems to be a quiet and nicely abandoned place. This gives it a special atmosphere when you get into it; it belongs to you at this moment yet at the same time, one intuitively feels that you cannot see everything in the first moment. This abandonment makes the park hidden, which might make the guests curious. The park has so much inaccessible space, which would be nice to discover. And in this way to discover things in the nature relates to the botanic garden just next to the park. However here the way of discovering goes not into this academic way of a botanic garden, then much more into exploring the park. This may happen in different levels, or layers. Questions
Concept Idea
An apparition takes you and leads you through [all layers of] the park and let you see the whole beauty of its hiddenness. This apparition permits you discover the site, at the same time withholding you from it, preventing you from walking on the ground. Later on it lets you feel alone, giving you the information you need at the right moment, allowing you to be alone, or with other people, in the park, and with the park.
This apparition could be a surface that leads you above the bushes, it could be a tube lets you be completely alone [or intimately hidden], sometimes it is a shelter, protecting you from the rain. Sometimes it has small windows, letting you look at an old tree, one you have never seen before ,or maybe its just grass, or a strawberry bush.
Design Challenges
Before being able to design an actual project/object for the site, analysis must validate our impressions and hypotheses as to the nature of both the space we are working in and the space we are trying to create.
The intervention should be incorporated into the site without disturbing the intimacy of the park. Perhaps this is achieved through the use of a discovery device; a tangible object that will lure certain curious passersby into the park.
In order to achieve this, we must incorporate certain individuals and processes into our design process. To start, the director of the TU Delft Botanical Garden will be a valuable reference for all things related to the maintenance and running of an educational garden.
