European Landscape Architecture: Best Practice in Detailing

Spain 7.2 Plan ‘as built’, showing infrastructure: buildings, path system, walls and (in dashed lines) the main drainage lines ...

Jardí Botànic de Barcelona 7.3 Photo: the site before it was planted 7.4 First sketch scheme proposal, 1989 ...

Spain garden and to create suitable conditions for the successive establishment of the different phyto- episodes. During the exe ...

Jardí Botànic de Barcelona Design philosophy We did not want to show a Holm Oak (Quercus ilex) but to show an Holm Oak wood. (B. ...

Spain order and form is ‘echoed’ at the different scales At JBB, the geometrical principle of the ‘triangu- lation grid’, which ...

Jardí Botànic de Barcelona Design development The design can best be described in terms of themes rather than zones. Spatial str ...

Spain 7.8 (top left) Preliminary schemes by Dr J. Pedrola, 1989 7.9 (top right) Triangulated irregular networks digital terrain ...

Jardí Botànic de Barcelona Main paths run in the most suitable directions, fol- lowing the existing topography, and determine th ...

Spain 7.12 Photo: impression of the path network shortly after inauguration in 1999 7.13 Main path longitudinal cross-section. T ...

Jardí Botànic de Barcelona plants to be exhibited and as information stops along the way. Regarding the choice of materials for ...

Spain refore economy of means was an important issue. Ultimately the paths were made of 22cm-thick concrete without reinforcemen ...

Jardí Botànic de Barcelona cut at angles less than 60º relative to the edge of the concrete slab. This worked well with paths up ...

Spain 7.19 Photo: reinforced earth-retaining walls clad with corten steel 7.20 Cross-section of reinforced earth-retaining walls ...

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Spain and offer enough flexibility to assimilate the defor- mations that may occur in such unconsolidated soils and incorporate ...

Jardí Botànic de Barcelona In order to optimise the use of the corten plates, these were welded perpendicular to the slope of th ...

Spain According to the consultant botanist, the JBB site allows for approximately 4,000 species to be repre- sented, roughly 7 p ...

Jardí Botànic de Barcelona to be researched; indeed, it will be one of the major investigations undertaken at JBB. A study of th ...

Spain many species have yet to be obtained. The mature form of each phytoepisode relies upon the newly obtained species replacin ...

Jardí Botànic de Barcelona cultivate the soils after the passage of much heavy machinery. The standard correction applied to the ...