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REMEMBRANCE PARK
Remembrance Park entails the renovation of the Museum's large, public front lawn, a green roof over the Soldiers & Sailors parking garage owned
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5 Remembrance Park embodies Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum’s mission of remembering and honoring our service members 3 3
BIGELOW BOULEVARD and veterans in an outdoor environment by creating a tranquil landscape UNIVERSITY PLACE 8 in the residential, educational, medical and historic neighborhood of Oakland. 8 9 9 5 3 3 The design vision will tie in with the historic, Beaux Arts style museum and result in a vibrant, interactive and community enhancing atmosphere as
2 the front lawn landscape becomes an extension of the Facility's mission.
With the added benefits of accessibility ramps, storm water reduction, and 1 1 the largest green roof in the region, the Remembrance Park project will become an attractive investment of passion and enhance the Museum's
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OAKLAND CIVIC CENTER Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum Remembrance Park 2017.06.16 AREA OF WORK AERIAL VIEW • 4141 FIFTH AVENUE Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum Remembrance Park 2017.06.16 Building and landscape rendering by Henry Hornbostel (architect) showing the Museum's entry stairs exiting directly onto Grant Boulevard and an elliptical garden in the foreground, neither of which were constructed.
Original Site Plan showing the Museum's entry stairs exiting directly onto Grant Boulevard which was never constructed. Beaux Arts Architecture
HISTORICAL REFERENCE Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum Remembrance Park 2017.06.16 Upper Plaza
Axial Path
Formal Lawn
Entrance to View from the Cathedral of Learning Parking Garage
Bigelow Boulevard
Entrance to Parking Garage
Fifth Avenue
View of Central Walkway (Axial Path)
EXISTING CONDITIONS Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum Remembrance Park 2017.06.16 View from Corner of Fifth and Begelow View of Plaza at Main Entrance
View of Lawn Near Fifth Avenue View of Lawn Looking Toward University Pl. View of Cannon with Museum Beyond EXISTING CONDITIONS Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum Remembrance Park 2017.06.16 Bow Ornament Artifact Cannon Artifact Torpedo Artifact
Sailor Statue Near Main Entrance Bell Artifact Bow Ornament on the USS Pennsylvania America's Defender Statue (Mock•Up) The creation of this statue was the genesis of Remembrance Park ARTIFACTS TO BE PLACED IN THE PARK Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum Remembrance Park 2017.06.16 • ceremonies • special events
• artifacts Existing • outdoor classrooms Site • america's defenders statue
• maintain central axis • oval walk for accessibility Project Goals: Conceptual • outdoor amphitheater 1. To use the green space to create a garden Design and park showcasing artifacts and memorials 2. To preserve the large public lawn with central axis while introducing handicap accessibility via the oval walkways 3. To bring the mission of honoring veterans and service members to the outside of the Museum 4. To honor veterans of the current generation through the creation and placement of the "America's Defenders" statue (refer to image on previous page). DESIGN CONCEPT Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum Remembrance Park 2017.06.16 3 11 8 6 3 5 11 12 9 6 1 9 4 8 10 2 3 6
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1 Arcing walkway for accessibility 5 Entry plaza and axis formed by decorative paving bands 9 Flowering tree bosque with seating below 2 Great lawn with Amphitheater 6 Accessible ramps 10 America's Defenders Statue 3 Honor garden with monuments in parterres 7 Relocated soldier and sailor statues 11 Flag poles flanking entrance as originally designed 4 Outdoor classrooms/overlooks 8 Native perennial and ornamental grass plantings 12 Entrance to parking garage RENDERING • CONCEPTUAL DESIGN Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum Remembrance Park 2017.06.16 RENDERING • AMERICA'S DEFENDERS STATUE • VIEW FROM THE MEMORIAL GARDEN Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum Remembrance Park 2017.06.16 Site Plan
Plan Key 3 1. Arcing walk with six monument locations each side 2. Great lawn with amphitheater 3. Honor garden with monuments in parterres 4. Outdoor classrooms/ overlooks 5. Entry plaza and axis with decorative paving bands 6. Accessible ramps 7. Relocated soldier and sailor statues 8. Native perennial and ornamental grass plantings 9. Flowering tree bosque with seating below
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Schematic Design Package Soldiers & Sailors Remembrance Park Site Improvement Options & Planting AE Works, Studio for Spatial Practice, Civil and Engineering Consultants, Inc. | June 2017 40’ x 60’ Wedding/ event tent fits within plaza
Replant bank and continue hedgerow plantings to integrate into Remembrance Park
Reconfigure seat wall to overlook garden
Bow plaza with seat walls and elevation change
Stairs widened to better Multi-stemmed trees connect garden to street form bosque
Formal boxwood Sweeps of perennials gardens with artifacts and grasses
Bell monument plaza, surrounded by seat walls BIGELOW BOULEVARD
UNIVERSITY PLACE LED lights in handrails illuminate ramps and walks
Limestone fines or flexi- pave pathways
Brick/ stone paving bands line walk and denote contributors
Defenders of Freedom plaza
Amphitheater seating
Lights with commemorative surrounds in paving bands to recreate axis
Groundcover/ perennial planting overhangs retaining walls
Overlook with seat walls and/ or movable furniture
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Outdoor educational New accessible entry ramps, programming both sides of stairs
Walls rebuilt and lowered to open up site to Fifth Avenue
Soldier and sailor sculptures relocated to entry stairs Possible realizations of decorative paving/ wall-mounted artwork at 6 stations along walk
Schematic Design Package Soldiers & Sailors Remembrance Park Site Improvement Options & Planting AE Works, Studio for Spatial Practice, Civil and Engineering Consultants, Inc. | June 2017 GREAT LAWN GREAT LAWN
SECTION A’-A’: Seat/ sign wall SECTION A-A: Steps lead to Great illuminated by in-ground lights with Lawn with former central axis illuminated PARTIAL PLAN A-A PARTIAL PLAN A’-A’ commemorative markers hold back by in-ground lights with commemorative grade at Great Lawn markers. Seat walls hold back grade on either side of steps.
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SECTION B-B: Centrally located concrete steps allow access to amphitheater tiers to either side of stairway
PRECEDENT ABOVE: Precast concrete seat walls die into grade at edges. Lawn panels extend from seat wall to seat wall PRECEDENT RIGHT: Stone seat walls hold back lawn panels while granite fines define stairway in amphitheater
SECTION B-B: Stone/ precast concrete seat walls form amphitheater tiers with lawn behind for additional space
SECTION C-C: Stone/ precast concrete seat walls form classroom perimeter, framed by parterre gardens filled with perennials and trees
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PRECEDENT ABOVE: Curving precast concrete/ B stone seat walls create classroom spaces B
PRECEDENT ABOVE LEFT: Boxwood parterres with perennials frame seating
PRECEDENT ABOVE RIGHT: Tree bosque with seating E below and landscape lighting A A E
Schematic Design Package Soldiers & Sailors Remembrance Park Site Improvement Options & Planting AE Works, Studio for Spatial Practice, Civil and Engineering Consultants, Inc. | June 2017 SECTION E-E AT OVERLOOK: Overlook may be used as outdoor classroom, overlook or equipped with movable furniture
PRECEDENT ABOVE LEFT: Overlook railing morphs into whimsical sculptural elements retelling a story PRECEDENT ABOVE RIGHT: Artist cast elements from former wartime residents into custom handrail PRECEDENT LEFT: Artist cast elements from former wartime residents into custom scupper for retaining wall
ELEVATION E-E OF OVERLOOK: Overlook framed by railing to allow for more transparency into and out of the space. Railing and wall are potential sites for artistic interventions
SECTION D-D: Precast concrete retaining wall supports Bow PRECEDENT ABOVE + LEFT: Monument allowing viewing from below and above. Lower plaza LED accessed by stairs or ramp handrails illuminate stairs and ramps to monument providing additional ambient light
LEFT + ABOVE: Submarine monuments embedded in D landscape indicate scale of memorial and allow views beyond D
C C B B ABOVE: Loose pebbles, engraved with Honorees names, are arranged beneath an olive tree and are available to visitors as mementos. They are frequently replenished as an act of
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ABOVE LEFT + RIGHT: Decorative paving utilized to convey A A meaning to monuments. Seating around the artifact allows E time for reflection and contemplation.
Schematic Design Package Soldiers & Sailors Remembrance Park Site Improvement Options & Planting AE Works, Studio for Spatial Practice, Civil and Engineering Consultants, Inc. | June 2017 Remembrance Park Schematic Design Plant List
Botanic Name Common Name Shade Acer rubrum ‘Brandywine’ Brandywine Red Maple Trees Carpinus caroliniana American Hornbeam Nyssa sylvatica Black Gum Oxydendrum arboreum Sourwood
Ornamental Amelanchier laevis Allegheny Serviceberry Trees Cercis canadensis Eastern Redbud Cornus florida Flowering Dogwood ABOVE: American hornbeam pleached and Shrubs Buxus microphylla japonica ‘Winter Gem’ Winter Gem Boxwood in its natural form Cornus alternifolia Alternate-Leaved Dogwood RIGHT: Leaves and Cornus sericea ‘Cardinal’ Cardinal Dogwood flower detail of Blackgum Fothergilla x gardenii ‘Blue Shadow’ Blue Shadow Fothergilla Ilex x meserveae Blue Boy/ Girl Holly m+f Ilex verticillata Winterberry m+F Itea virginica Sweetspire Myrica pensylvanica Northern Bayberry Rhohodendron maximum Rosebay Rhododendron Viburnum dentatum Arrowwood
Perennials Andropogon gerardii Big Bluestem and Grasses Bouteloua curtipendula Side Oats Grama Grass Carex pensylvanica Pennsylvania Sedge Panicum v. ‘Hanse Herms’ Hanse Herms Switch Grass Panicum v. ‘Rotstrahlbusch’ Red Rays Switch Grass
Achiliea millefolium Yarrow Asarum Wild ginger Asclepias tuberosa Butterflyweed Aster laevis Smooth Blue Aster Campanula rotundifolia Bluebell Caulophyllum thalictroides Blue Cohosh ABOVE + RIGHT: Allegheny Serviceberry, planted in a bosque Cimicifuga Americana American bugbane and flower cluster detail Echinacea purpurea Coneflower RIGHT BELOW: Eastern Redbud flower detail Helenium autumnale Common Sneezewood Helianthus annuus Common sunflower Liatris spicata Blazing Star Monarda fistulosa Beebalm Penstemon digitalis Tall White Beardtongue Perovskia atriplicafolia Russian Sage Rudbeckia hirta Black Eyed Susan Salvia ‘Snowhill’ Snowhill Sage Schizachyrium scoparium ‘The Blues’ Little Bluestem Sporobolus heterolepis Prairie Dropseed Tradescantia ohiensis Ohio Spiderwort
Groundcover Carex pensylvanica Pennsylvania Sedge Chrysogonum virginianum Green and gold RIGHT: Photo showing form and Pachysandra procumbens Allegheny Spurge flower of Arrowwood Sedum ternatum Stonecrop ABOVE: Boxwood hedgerow Thymus serphyllum Creeping Thyme Viola sororia Common Blue Violet
Vines Parthenocissus quinquefolia Virginia Creeper Clematis virginiana Clematis
Landscape Narrative Soldiers & Sailors Remembrance Park’s landscape features a Great Lawn (1) with amphitheater and arcing walks as its 5 central feature. Overlooking the lawn, the Honor Garden (2), with its formal parterre and tree bosque, features artifacts within planting beds, meandering pathways ABOVE: Big Bluestem cluster and fall color ABOVE: Sideoats grama and outdoor classrooms. Transitioning from the formal design framing the central axis, sweeps of ornamental grasses and perennials (3) provide habitat for bees, birds and butterflies while creating a native, low maintenance landscape. Clusters of 5 understory trees and native shrubs (4) will screen garage entrances and provide structure and backdrops. A refined palette 2 2 of groundcovers, perennials, uniform 3 3 shrubs and pleached trees (5) will reinforce the geometry of the arced walkways and complement the existing building. 4
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: 4 Smooth Blue Aster, Common Sneezewood, White Beardtongue, Beebalm, and photo showing 1 massings of Sage, Salvia and Prairie Dropseed 5 5
Schematic Design Package Soldiers & Sailors Remembrance Park Site Improvement Options & Planting AE Works, Studio for Spatial Practice, Civil and Engineering Consultants, Inc. | June 2017