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Macy’s Day Parade, New York

Coney Island go-kart race track, Brooklyn, New York

Washington Square Park, New York

Union Square Park, New York

Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles

Getty Museum, California 

Venice Beach skate park, Los Angeles

Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

MILLENARY PARK

Ujirany / New Directions Landscape Architects

Ujirany / New Directions Landscape Architects: Millenary Park is an 8.6-acre park situated near the heart of the commercial and residential district of Buda. Prior to its redevelopment in 2001, the site was an abandoned and contaminated factory complex where mechanical and electrical parts were manufactured. As the city slowly grew around it, the need for its restoration became clear. Millenary Park has become a model for modern, outdoor public space in Budapest. Very few new public parks were built in Budapest in the last century due to the country’s historical political unrest and the parks that remain consist of formal gardens with defined pathways. 

Design Program and Intent

The central theme used in the landscape architects’ design was ‘human creation’. The park itself is designed upon the temporal process of creation – divided into two parts. The first stands for ‘motivation’ and the second for ‘interaction’. In the motivational part you find yourself surrounded by normal urban and natural environment, but in a totally unusual form. All park elements, such as the grass benches, the grapes, the apple trees, the wheat field and the trees in the lake, aim to act strikingly upon the visitors to inspire them to take notice of and look at their surroundings in a different way. The glass corridor is conceptually the key element of the park. From within we see our environment as an exhibited object that we have absolutely no contact with. It is a call for interaction: our responsibility to take part in shaping our future and our environment, which is our own democratic right to do so. Leaving the motivational part you reach the interactive space, the playground of creativity. Here you can find environmental elements in mobile form – movable park elements in boxes -, and are invited to create your own actual surrounding. All of the park elements aim to motivate the visitors to interact with their surrounding in a different, cozier way opposed to the usual, more formal way of behaving in a park. The possibility of use lies in the hand of the visitor where he is able to mould the space to conform to his needs.

The overall goal of the Park’s design was to establish a place that was flexible in its use and allowed visitors to create a program for themselves. The improvisational nature of Millenary Park is a fresh approach to public spaces in Budapest and is reinforced by the blending of indoor and outdoor spaces in the park. The rehabilitated factory buildings seem to extend out into the park space and the outdoor concert hall and music pavilion blur the line between indoor and outdoor activities.

Project decription

Millenary Park is approached from the west by a short walk from a central transit hub. Magnolia trees and geometric shrubs emerging from the limestone surface greet the visitor at the entrance of the reception building. A central, 0.5-acre pond creates a visual anchor point for the main spaces within the park. Trees seem to grow from beneath the water, emerging above the surface as majestic symbols of life and energy. Steel bridges over the pond connect the main spaces. A music pavilion lingers over the pond’s surface. The pavilion’s form creates a vertical extension of the irregularly-formed edge of the pond below it. The southwest corner of Millenary Park is divided into a number of intimate spaces by a series of intersecting hill lines which seem to ripple up from the surface. Following the contours of the hills are a vineyard and a wheat field which evoke the historic land uses of the surrounding area. A glass corridor cuts diagonally through the entire space. Large labradorite stone benches are pushed into the hills that line the crushed limestone pathways.

The northern section of Millenary Park is informal and flexible. A series of intersecting grass benches with corten steel siding sit within the space. Next to this green area is a plaza where some of the original rail lines used by the factory still lie. The rails now serve as tracks along which custom-made tree planters can run. Bordering the plaza to the south is the pond’s 230-foot-long waterfall. Water flows over the 2-foot stone wall onto a stone and gravel bed, drawing visitors to its edge.

Environmental Impacts

Ré-appropriations  urbaines

(2000 – 2012) Re-appropriating urban spaces for inhabitation through the use of industrial plastic wrap. Clever and cheeky.

Combinatorial Models of Parc de la Villette’s Folies by Bernard Tschumi

A cube with a 10,8 m side is the generaing form of each of the 25 “folies” which punctuate the park of La Villette in Paris. The main cube is then subdivided into 27 smaller cubes of 3,6 m each side. In the geometrical creation of each folie, some of the smaller cubes are subtracted, some are presented as an emptied tridimensional grid. Other elements, with a different geometry, are added in collision with the main system. The walls and other interior planes as well as the stairs and the exterior elements, can be combined in order to produce different “folies”, according to several possible actions (repetition, fragmentation, intersection, qualification and distortion).

Buhl Community Park by Andrea Cochran Landscapes

The foundations for a footbridge over a brook can be more than purely functional concrete blocks. Enota show in this stimulating stair landscape that it will be exciting to enjoy the acoustics of splashing water in the geometry of the stairs? 

Das Fundamente für eine Fußgängerbrücke über einen Bach mehr sein können, als rein funktionale Betonklötze, zeigen Enota bei dieser zum Aufenthalt anregenden Treppenlandschaft. spannend wird zu sein, vor Ort die Akustik des plätscherten Baches in der Geometrie der Treppen zu genießen?