The linear East Side Park located in Birmingham, UK aims to be a vital public amenity space at the heart of the city's regeneration. The park's design by Patel Taylor follows a sequence of defined spaces along its length connected by a pleasurable route. It is accessible and situated to draw people into the surrounding area and drive economic development. The bold planting strategy helps define the urban spaces in a way that provides different experiences through discovery and varied characteristics throughout the park.
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East Side Park,,Birmingham, Uk Year: - Architects
The linear East Side Park located in Birmingham, UK aims to be a vital public amenity space at the heart of the city's regeneration. The park's design by Patel Taylor follows a sequence of defined spaces along its length connected by a pleasurable route. It is accessible and situated to draw people into the surrounding area and drive economic development. The bold planting strategy helps define the urban spaces in a way that provides different experiences through discovery and varied characteristics throughout the park.
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EAST SIDE PARK,UK 18041AA074
INTRODUCTION
EAST SIDE PARK,,BIRMINGHAM,UK
Year: 2013 •Architects: Patel Taylor CONCEPT The linear park provides 3.4 hectares of public amenity space; a vital part of The Big City Plan and at the heart of the Birmingham’s Eastside regeneration quarter, a place where people can stop, relax and enjoy a colourful and aromatic landscape. It is this amenity space, being both the focal point and the principal route in to the district that will draw people into Eastside, enhancing the economic prosperity of the area and driving new development.
The design follows Patel Taylor’s strategy of making a
sequence of defined spaces with a logical yet pleasurable route between them, but with added layering of meaning as these work differently in the lengthwise or traverse directions. DESCRIPTION
The park’s length which extends eastwards from Park Street
along the frontage if Millenium Point, on a southeast decline towards the Digbeth Branch Canal, lends itself to a continuous narrative complemented by a canal feature running 188m that incorporates 21 jet fountains. Across its shorter dimension, it is more a moment of green in a journey through the city experienced via formal lawns and public squares punctuated by Corten steel. Patel Taylor has approached the brief primarily as a piece of urban planning, secondly as a landscape. FLOOR PLANS The architects have implemented a bold planting strategy that helps define these urban spaces in a way that evokes common perceptions and expectations of parks. Large trees differentiate spaces, direct views, and provide shelter and enclosure. This structure is reinforced by planting of a smaller scale that has sufficient variety provide many different experiential characteristics throughout the park, creating an unfolding experience of the park, full of discovery and delight.
• The park is situated as the heart
of Birmingham. • It is the best place for the people to stop,relax and enjoy. • As it is located at the center of the city,it has direct view points all around. • The park is easily accessible through public transport and also centrally liked to the pedestrian paths and the cycle tracks. • The structure is done using sustainable material and also pollution free. • The design is done based upon the survey of the people needs in Birmingham city.
Throughout the design process, there has been close
consultation with local communities; stakeholders developing within the Eastside quarter, such as Birmingham City University; and those who will be responsible for the maintenance of the park. Parks are long-term investments that need to meet and exceed the needs of users, and must continue to do many years after completion.