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Processing Downsview Park: transforming a theoretical diagram to master plan and construction reality
The winning competition scheme for Downsview Park proposed a process based landscape strategy. Ten years later, the park is undergoing significant construction. Changes in the original design team membership along with political and economic factors have steered park development toward reliance on a staticmaster plan instead of the proposed iterative process design where site development would be guided over time. With material collected through interviews with the designerscurrentlyinvolved in the formation of Downsview Park, this essay offers an account of the time that has elapsed since the international competition, and documents current park construction and what is planned in the near future. In the context of Downsview Park's design development, it examines the oppositional approaches of open-ended process based designs and traditional fixed form master plans to posit a landscape framework approach that accommodates the flexibility, iterations and resiliency necessary to support contemporary urban landscapes.
Processing Downsview Park: transforming a theoretical diagram to master plan and construction reality
The winning competition scheme for Downsview Park proposed a process based landscape strategy. Ten years later, the park is undergoing significant construction. Changes in the original design team membership along with political and economic factors have steered park development toward reliance on a staticmaster plan instead of the proposed iterative process design where site development would be guided over time. With material collected through interviews with the designerscurrentlyinvolved in the formation of Downsview Park, this essay offers an account of the time that has elapsed since the international competition, and documents current park construction and what is planned in the near future. In the context of Downsview Park's design development, it examines the oppositional approaches of open-ended process based designs and traditional fixed form master plans to posit a landscape framework approach that accommodates the flexibility, iterations and resiliency necessary to support contemporary urban landscapes.
Processing Downsview Park: transforming a theoretical diagram to master plan and construction reality
North, Alissa (author)
Journal of Landscape Architecture ; 7 ; 8-19
2012-05-01
12 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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