Landscape & Urban Design Workbook

LANDSCAPE & URBAN DESIGN WORKBOOK JOHN McASLAN + PARTNERS CONTENTS 4 Creating a Sense of Place “OUR WORK EXPLORES THE UNIQUE AND UNDERLYING Projects 8 Goldsmiths College Masterplan SPIRIT OF ‘THE SITE’. WE DELIVER CONTEMPORARY 10 Birley Fields Masterplan SOLUTIONS THAT CELEBRATE THE PAST, SEEK NEW 11 Heal’s 12 University of Manchester Masterplan OPPORTUNITIES, HEAL BROKEN AND ABUSED PLACES 14 Leeds Student Village AND RE-CONNECT PEOPLE WITH THEIR CULTURE, 16 Sloane Street 18 Heritage Quarter Houses HERITAGE AND COMMUNITY.” 22 Royal BC Museum 26 East Croydon Interchange 28 Euston Circus Masterplan ANDY HARRIS, DIRECTOR, JOHN McASLAN + PARTNERS 30 Bolshevik Factory 32 Mosfilm 38 Sugar Factory Masterplan 42 Stanislavsky Factory 46 British Embassy Algiers 50 Tate Millbank Masterplan 52 Thomas Tallis School 54 George Square 58 Wood Wharf 60 King’s Cross Station 62 Northern Line Extension 64 Crossrail Bond Street Station 65 Oxford Road Corridor 66 Dalston Junction Interchange 68 Calsberg Tetley, Thames Wharf 70 Bogota Masterplan 72 Dongguan Botanical Masterplan 76 The Cornhill 78 Fresh Kills Masterplan 81 Max Mara Headquarters 82 Timeline 84 End Matter 4 Landscape 5 Creating a sense of place CREATING A SENSE OF PLACE Stanislavsky Factory, Moscow, Russia George Square, Glasgow Urban design and landscape design are directed towards a bold social purpose: to London. important buildings. For example, the nominally different disciplines. But, in create a sizeable, properly connected part Landscape design often plays a key practice’s design of the British Embassy essence, they are closely linked: they of the city that feels “owned” by those who role in our urban design approach. The in Algiers was conceived as part of the make fresh sense, at various scales, of live and work there, regardless of their fundamental challenge inevitably lies practice’s wider landscape design for the our streetscapes, and the very ground demographic status. in deciding how to apply contemporary Embassy site as a whole; the landscape under our feet. John McAslan + Partners’ urban design landscape designs to evolving contexts dovetailed with the radiused plan of the At its best, landscape design produces and landscape studio has designed and that may be historic, or dominated by building, and changes in levels across a heightened sense of the human and delivered schemes in many different cultural imperatives, or are within urban the site. The Embassy’s architecture and material spirit of place, whether it takes ways in a wide range of contexts. They or site areas that are barely coherent. its landscape form a single coherent the form of a specific landmark-space, have included historically important The practice searches for design qualities composition. or as a series of connective or layered civic spaces and commercial hot-spots; that will create meaningful individual In Moscow, the practice’s landscape spaces. The most notable recent example massive city regeneration zones; corporate landscapes, or a spatial and physical design for the regenerated Stanislavsky of a fusion of these qualities can be seen headquarters such as the Max Mara narrative with specific atmospheres, Factory site dealt with a totally different in JMP’sour scheme for the Botanical campus in Reggio Emilia; schools and physical characteristics and purposes that situation: a large asymmetrical site Garden universities; settings for infrastructure will also be durable and highly functional. on which ex-industrial buildings were in Dongguan, China. hubs; and in ambitious proposals such as The practice has applied these design randomly positioned. The landscape Urban design gives logical form to the the vast Fresh Kills landfill site on Staten skills at every scale – from the simple scheme, publicly praised by the Mayor re-ordering of urban areas, sites, of Island. use of excess building materials to create of Moscow, was the first of its kind in the collections of buildings. Ideally, this Recent projects with significant landscape play-mounds at the Lavender Sure Start city. should lead to the finer details of spatial, design elements include historically Nursery School in Merton, South London, A common thread linking all the projects civil, landscape, or infrastructural sensitive courtyard treatments at the to our international competition-winning in this book is the belief that good design innovations that may not have been Heritage Houses site in Doha, the designs for the transformation of London’s can deliver distinctive qualities of place evident at the beginning of the design parkland elements of the practice’s Oxford Street, and Glasgow’s George and community energy to the most process. redevelopment of the 7ha Sugar Factory Square, one of a handful of Britain’s challenging of urban settings. This fusion of the logical and the site in Moscow, and the riverside greatest urban tableaux. stimulating informs all the practice’s landscape design for JMP’s Carlsberg Ambitious landscape design can be Jay Merrick urban design and public realm projects, Tetley Wharf mixed-use development in crucial in redefining the settings of whether they’re for iconic sites such as Sloane Street in London, or to establish greater connectivity and development potential in complex urban situations, such as those around the various sites of the Goldsmiths College campus. Urban design is about more than physical change – sometimes strikingly so. For example, the practice’s masterplan and urban design vision for the CAN district of Bogotá, the capital of Columbia, proposed the creation of a Garden City within the city, and though the elements and layout are generally familiar, its proposals were Hanover Square urban integration study Heals, London Bolshevik Factory, Moscow, Russia PROJECTS 8 Landscape 9 Projects GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE MASTERPLAN LEWISHAM, LONDON John McAslan + Partners was appointed to prepare a masterplan for Goldsmiths College from 2009 – 2019. This commission involves a comprehensive space management plan of all the buildings and departments within the campus aiming to improve space utilisation and efficiency. The masterplan also establishes a new public realm vision for the campus creating new development sites and linking the College into the wider regenerative initiatives of Lewisham and New Cross Gate. The commission also creates a sustainable masterplan with a coherent approach to the use management and development of the college estate over the next decade. New Cross Road Lewisham Way New Cross Road garden civic space civic space Laurie Grove Laurie Dixon Rd the square garden student gardens student gardens new entrance St Jame’s St new connection connection St Donatt’s Road stepped garden DRAFT Goldsmiths, University of London | Goldsmiths masterplan | John McAslan + Partners | 91 Above: site masterplan; right: view of proposed masterplan 10 Landscape 11 Projects HEAL’S BIRLEY FIELDS MASTERPLAN CAMDEN, LONDON MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY John McAslan + Partners has completed The practice was commissioned to produce the first phase of the redevelopment a strategic development framework for the of the Grade II * listed Heal’s Building 12 acre Birley Fields campus in Hulme, on Tottenham Court Road, a project a mixed-use proposal regenerating an commissioned by Threadneedle Property existing brown field site. The development Investors and The Bedford Estates. unites some 6,000 students training to The scheme redevelops former factory become teachers, nurses, social workers buildings and showrooms, improving and other health care professionals within a connectivity and access. Two dramatic single site. The proposals for Birley Fields, 4-storey atria spaces are linked by an seek to create the greenest university internal ‘street’, terminating in a newly campus in the UK, with environmental landscaped courtyard garden. The sustainability integral to all design. 40,000 sqft of office space has a BREEAM ‘Very Good’ rating. Above and right: masterplan model and masterplan in context Right; view of internal walkway; below: courtyard view. 12 Landscape 13 Projects UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER PUBLIC REALM MASTERPLAN MANCHESTER This complex, award-winning example of urban design and design co-ordination has provided the University of Manchester with a revitalised campus, and one which links physically, socially and visually with the city of Manchester. The design includes significant new open spaces to extend the public realm into the site, supported by new cycle and pedestrian routes across the campus. At the heart of the design brief was the university’s desire to reduce the sense of divide between ‘town and gown’ in this part of the city, and foster a more democratically inclusive image of higher education. Right: site plan; opposite and below: informal landscape areas 14 Landscape 15 Projects LEEDS STUDENT VILLAGE LEEDS The practice together with a team of leading consultants, are commissioned by Downing to undertake design work for a masterplan, landscape design, refurbishment works and a new 21-storey student accommodation tower as part of their proposed Student Village. The landscape is crucial in ‘knitting’ the disparate buildings and architecture into an integrated whole. With a 6m change in level from one end of the site to the other, the design needed to overcome numerous topographic challenges, but makes the most of the opportunities afforded through the creation of terraces and seat walls set into the slope. The predominantly green campus space unfolds around a central square: a

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