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TWO GARDENS FOR TWO CONTEMPLATIONS OR MAYBE THE SAME CONTEMPLATION TWICE IN TWO TONALITIES TO EXPRESS LIGHT AND DARK AND BEINGNESS AND ALONENESS AND PERHAPS SUBLIME

The underside of the leafCool in the shadowSublimely unemplathicSmiling of innocence

The frailest of stems Quivering in the lightBend and break in silence

This poem...is not really about nature. It is not what is seen. It is what is known forever in the mind.

Agnes Martin, Writings, p. 15

Substrate mixture:30% concrete15% sand40% compost (20% biosolids / 20%green waste)15% silt

Augment substrate with alkaline/porous concrete, particles crushed to 5mm-30mm

Top dressing for White Grove should consist of reused on-site concrete rubble crushed to 10mm-15mm

ABOVE: Scottish larch timber plank deck entrance at grade. Show in plan view. Timber to remain untreated to achieve silver grey finish.

BELOW: Water feature and sitting area inYew Garden.In-situ poured concrete anticipated for water feature and seating cubes. C25 waterproof reinforced concrete required. Gutter should connect to catch basin outlet and recirculate rainwater collection.

Guideline for areas to be removed for planting pits of Populus alba. Areas of concrete to be removed by following natural fissures. At time of demolition, additional fissure lines may be created to achieve desired effect.

Removed concrete to be crushed and reused on site in planting pits. Particles to be reused as part of substrate mix and for top dressing.

LEFT: Tree heights in maturity with desired effect of canopy shading.

LEFT:Cubed singular seats provide quiet contemplation in both the enclosed garden and in the open grove.

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Aerial view, 1948

SITE HISTORY

Yew Garden aims to present the community with a contemplation garden and grounds typically found in historic churchyards. With the loss of much of St. Mary’s garden grounds to modernity, a minimal design with traditional underpinnings is imposed on the Boston Street site.

CONTEXT CONCEPTS PLANT PALETTE

White Grove is densely planted white poplar grove planted into building rubble. The tree’s habit will provide a lightness under its canopy. A user will wander and way find without a formal path to singular seating cubes for contemplation and then further to Yew Garden.

Agnes Martin: Writings

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BRIDGE END, LEEDS - group led exploration of experiential landscapesINTEGRATION OF SHARED SPACES, PUBLIC AMENITY PARKS + URBAN GROVES

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Bridge End was envisioned to create a pedestrian friendly gateway with woonerf and shared space road design. Aimed to revitalise the neighbourhood with historic preservation methods applied to contemporary interventions creating new opportunities for communitiy interactions. The blending of private, semi-private,

and public spaces created as a series of gardens and outdoor rooms. Native plants would introduce a dominant tree canopy and urban groves would provide shade, noise reducation, and aesthetic improvement. By encouraging healthier, sustainable modes of transportation, pedestrians would take priority over vehicular forms.

The reintroduction of the pedestrian sphere having a substanitially larger influence in the public realm would be reached within phased approach to design. Hierarchies of function and impact and about designing ownership strategies as an integral part of aiding and preserving the spatial strategies are present.

Bruce Mau said, “landscape will be privileged over the realm officially known as architecture,” as the landscape is not to be designed as an afterthought, but the structure for this community.

a - New formal planting areas greet pedestrians upon entrance to the natural swimming area from Port Mahon Park.

b - Permeable loose gravel tree planting on paths creating a softened circulation route and increased canopy cover for pedestrians.

c - View shelters, café, and changing room act on site as anchors for transitional landscape interfaces.

d - Raised wetlands are purposed to re-circulate and clean the water body by solar powered pumps. Wetland habit functional whilst providing a pleasing backdrop to the Ponderosa site.

e - Improvements to existing paths. Utilising existing circulation route with few interventions, additional paths will be added. A formal timber deck boardwalk will lead visitors by formal plantings and raised wetlands to a large open no-mow fescue grass lawn with a corner nestled café.

f - Additional trees planted. Multistemmed Amelanchier ‘Obelisk’ and native Acer campestre predominant the small tree plantings.

g - Existing vegetation. Rosa arvensis and native, herbaceous, hedgerow basal flora seed mixtures will be additionally planted into the existing woodland edge layer. Acer pseudoplatanoides will be selectively removed to increase the upland ash woodland habitat diversity.

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1 - A viewing shelter is placed between the raised wetlands to allow a visitor to see the horizontally of the flat water body against the steep incline of the archeological dam structures now vegetated with a predominant upland ash woodland. Conversely a viewer could turn its back to the water and frame a view of the layers of community involvement present in the Ponderosa. Behind multi- stemmed Amelanchier alnifolia, a small community orchard acts as a woodland edge to the Victorian style planting with mature laurels and evergreens up to Oxford Street.

2 - To soften textures and to create a light canopy cover, multi- stemmed trees will be set in loose gravel the main pathway leading around the water body up toward Crookes Valley Road.

3 - With limited intervention to existing infrastructure, paths are increased a terraced points to provide more east-west and north-south directional pedestrian traffic flow through the Ponderosa. A viewing shelter is shown in profile.

WOODLAND GRADIENT GARDEN reflects the naturally occurring white flowering umbelifers, spring flowering woodland edge specimens and orchard trees present in The Ponderosa. The planting plan is thus designed with predominant white flowering plant species and selected ground covers to weave a contained woodland meadow like garden along the main path.

RAISED WETLAND is purposed to circulate and clean the large water body by solar pumps. With stormwater flow and a low velocity solar pump, water will keep the wetland habit functional whilst providing a pleasing backdrop to the Ponderosa site. With a predominant seed mix, the colour palette will be more varied. Tufts of Molinia should arch over the tall wetland herbs to create a softened, yet dramatic effect. WOODLAND GRADIENT MIX

Paeonia lactiflora‘Jan van Leeuwan’Deschampsia

cespitosa 'Schottland'

Asarum europaeumCaltha palustris

Amelanchier ‘Obelisk’

Rosa arvensis

Acer campestrePolystichumsetiferum Cardamine

heptaphyllaGeranium ‘White Ness’

Molinia ‘Bergfreund’

PATH & SEATING EDGE

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SPRING EPHEMERAL MIX

WETLAND SEED MIX

Filipendula ulmaris

Clematis x jouinana ‘Praecox’

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1:400Section 1 - Showing shortest neck of water body with a 4m retaining wall to path below. Pool would be structured with reinforced concrete so load bearing would not reside on core-ten steel alone.

Section 2 - With limited intervention to existing infrastructure, paths are increased a terraced points to provide more east-west and north-south directional pedestrian traffic flow through the Ponderosa. A viewing shelter is shown in profile.

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Path B - Woodland Walk1:80

The raised wetlands are purposed to treat the natural swimming area. The swimming area water is pumped by solar power into the raised wetlands for purification by a water circulation system. The clean water feed back into the larger water body via a small cut out into the stone acting as a water feature during nonseasonal periods.

WETLAND NATIVE SEED MIXAngelica sylvestrisCarex pseudocyperisEupatorium cannabiumGalium palustreGeum rivaleIris pseudocorusLysimachia vulgarisMentha aquaticaScutellaria gelericulataSilaum silausSilne flos-cuculi (Lychnis flos-cuculi)

WOODLAND GARDENAcer campestreAmelanchier alnifolia ‘Obelisk’Clematis x jouiniana ‘Praecox’Paeonia lactiflora ‘Jan van Leeuwen’Rosa arvensis

Asarum europaeumCardamine heptaphyllaDeschampsia cespitosa ‘Schottland’Geranium macrorrhizum ‘White Ness’Ornithogalum umbellatumPolystichum setiferum

WOODLAND GRADIENT MIXActaea simplex ‘James Compton’Anthriscus sylvestris ‘Ravenswing’Aster divarticusStipa tenuissimaLuzula luzuloides ‘Schneehaschen

SPRING EPHEMERAL MIXConvalaria majalisNarcissus ‘Thalia’Ornithogalum umbellatumTulipa ‘Spring Green’

ADDITIONAL WETLAND PLANTSCaltha palustrisFilipendula ulmariaMolinia caerulea ‘Bergfreund’

PONDEROSA, SHEFFIELD NATURAL SWIMMING POOL WITH RAISED WETLANDS

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PONDEROSA, SHEFFIELD NATURAL SWIMMING POOL WITH RAISED WETLANDS

PLANTING & CONSTRUCTION DETAIL DESIGN

ANNUAL MEADOW DISPLAY GARDENSPictorial Meadows is a large component of the Manor Lodge. Their displays of annual meadow mixes are situated in areas of high use and visibility.

INCREASED CANOPY AND WOOODLAND UNDERSTORY LAYERSApropriate native species were selected to increase biodiversity and improve stormwater management.

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LEGENDPRE-EXISTING ACTIVITY SPACESThese areas have not been redesigned.

Enhancement of existing native vegetation in these areas is recommended. Invasive species should be managed.

NATIVE ACID GRASSLANDS & HEATHLANDIncreased maintenance will improve the diversity of the naturally occurring grassland element. Nuances in flora species will depend on the existing soil substrates.

WOODLAND GLADESA light canopy provides dry and wet woodland opportunities with partial shade. Open glade areas are programmed for interpretative play and passive recreation.

TEMPORARY STORMWATER MANAGEMENT FEATURESSwales, dry streams, and detention basins follow the natural contours of the site. They are designed to provide temporary holding of excessive rain water during storm events.

SPECIES-RICH HEDGEROWS with HEDGE MEADOW FIELD MARGINSIncreasing biodiversity and stormwater management opportunities, (untrimmed) hedgerows are lined with companion herbaceous perennials and tall herbs as filter strips and accompanying swales or filter drains.

horse pasture

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meadow arena

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allotments

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existing stormwater features

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farm cottages

work yard

art studiocomplex

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HISTORIC POND RESTORATIONThe restoration of the 19th century ponds with increased blue infrastructural measurements will allow for flooding during abnormal or seasonal storm events.

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WET MEADOWPoor drainage due to clay enriched soils and compaction have resulted in boggy conditions on most of the northern half of the site. Plants growing in these areas will tolerate seasonally wet conditions and periodic flooding.

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PATHSLow impact 2m wide paths guide users from all three major points of entry: proposed educational centre, farm shop/estate, and the discovery centre. More narrow paths will guide adventurous visitors throught the site.

proposed educational centre

CONTEXT MAPLocated on the historically rich and archeological important mediaeval deer park, Manor Lodge is less than one mile from Sheffield’s city centre. It is now becoming an important green infrastructural link for the south Sheffield area and has improved the amenity parks surrounding. Improvements made to this site will further connect Manor Lodge to its past and its future.

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The natural forms of the landscape and terrain was used as sources for shapes in the design. The use of earthworks as part of the design including disposal of excavated material and its incorporation into the landscape was considered. Large detention areas created from the use of earthworks will visually enhance the site and create water play areas for children.

The condition of landscape elements such as trees, hedges, and walls will be enhanced for long term effectiveness, but not removed.

The species and varieties of plants found in the area were researched in the planning and designing landscape schematics.

STRATEGIES:

public right-of-way

possible entry with stile to castle remnant site

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existing swale

ANNUAL MEADOW DISPLAY GARDENSPictorial Meadows is a large component of the Manor Lodge. Their displays of annual meadow mixes are situated in areas of high use and visibility.

INCREASED CANOPY AND WOOODLAND UNDERSTORY LAYERSApropriate native species were selected to increase biodiversity and improve stormwater management.

NORTH

LEGENDPRE-EXISTING ACTIVITY SPACESThese areas have not been redesigned.

Enhancement of existing native vegetation in these areas is recommended. Invasive species should be managed.

NATIVE ACID GRASSLANDS & HEATHLANDIncreased maintenance will improve the diversity of the naturally occurring grassland element. Nuances in flora species will depend on the existing soil substrates.

WOODLAND GLADESA light canopy provides dry and wet woodland opportunities with partial shade. Open glade areas are programmed for interpretative play and passive recreation.

TEMPORARY STORMWATER MANAGEMENT FEATURESSwales, dry streams, and detention basins follow the natural contours of the site. They are designed to provide temporary holding of excessive rain water during storm events.

SPECIES-RICH HEDGEROWS with HEDGE MEADOW FIELD MARGINSIncreasing biodiversity and stormwater management opportunities, (untrimmed) hedgerows are lined with companion herbaceous perennials and tall herbs as filter strips and accompanying swales or filter drains.

horse pasture

agricultural field

meadow arena

agricultural field

allotments

raingarden

existing stormwater features

farm estate

farm cottages

work yard

art studiocomplex

discovery centre

HISTORIC POND RESTORATIONThe restoration of the 19th century ponds with increased blue infrastructural measurements will allow for flooding during abnormal or seasonal storm events.

design detail B

car park

car park

Maltra

vers R

oad

Manor Oaks Road

chickenwood

raingarden

raingarden

existing heathland

design detail A

WET MEADOWPoor drainage due to clay enriched soils and compaction have resulted in boggy conditions on most of the northern half of the site. Plants growing in these areas will tolerate seasonally wet conditions and periodic flooding.

castleremnant

PATHSLow impact 2m wide paths guide users from all three major points of entry: proposed educational centre, farm shop/estate, and the discovery centre. More narrow paths will guide adventurous visitors throught the site.

proposed educational centre

CONTEXT MAPLocated on the historically rich and archeological important mediaeval deer park, Manor Lodge is less than one mile from Sheffield’s city centre. It is now becoming an important green infrastructural link for the south Sheffield area and has improved the amenity parks surrounding. Improvements made to this site will further connect Manor Lodge to its past and its future.

Manor Cast

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school

site boundary

entrance garden

The natural forms of the landscape and terrain was used as sources for shapes in the design. The use of earthworks as part of the design including disposal of excavated material and its incorporation into the landscape was considered. Large detention areas created from the use of earthworks will visually enhance the site and create water play areas for children.

The condition of landscape elements such as trees, hedges, and walls will be enhanced for long term effectiveness, but not removed.

The species and varieties of plants found in the area were researched in the planning and designing landscape schematics.

STRATEGIES:

public right-of-way

possible entry with stile to castle remnant site

Manor Lane

archaeologic

al site

displaygarden

existing swale

design detail A

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main path

temporary stormwater catchment

species-rich hedgerows

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view toward city centre showing historic agricultural field boundaries with species-rich hedgerow improvements

PLANT PALETTE

Intrepretative play and passive recreation is a focus of the northern half of the site.

Catching frogs, racing after butterfles, and running through streams is a worthy child’ play reinstated into the proposed design.

"He reached the stile which led into the woods, climbed on to it and looked back. Fields and fences and hedgerows. The sun was in the sky, and the only sound was the continuous relay of bird song."

A Kestrel For A Knave by Barry HinesKes was filmed in nearby Barnsley

The existing hedgerows and the agricultural heritage of the site became a focus of the design for Manor Lodge. Species-rich hedgerows have thus been designed for multiple functions, including restoration and conservation.

Hedgerows can regulate the rate of flow of water within catchments, reducing peak flows and increasing minimum flows. This was used as a key element during the design of the stormwater management proposals.

Hedgerows may also contribute as a significant role in reducing the rate of climate change, through carbon storage. Urban areas hedgerows contribute to services such as climate regulation, sustainable urban drainage, and providing wildlife habitat. They also improve the aesthetic appearance of the built environment.

LANDSCAPE ARCHEOLOGY

The Manor Lodge site can effectively communicate the beauty and tradition of species-rich hedgerows by committing to restoration and protection of these important and iconic landscape features.

Because of their deep roots, hedgerows remove water quickly from the soil during periods of excessive rainfall, through increased evapotranspiration.

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not to scaleview through improved woodland toward castle ruins

Native tree planting will be utilised to frame the site’s buildings and views from the Discovery Centre. These primary species also allow physical access beneath the canopies.

Associated with the sustainable stormwater systems, it is anticipated that there will be a an area of semi-permanent wet woodland and glade in the north section of the site, nearer to the proposed educational centre.