European Landscape Architecture: Best Practice in Detailing

France France has a long tradition of design competi- tions compared to other European countries. The system developed in the 19 ...

Bay of Somme motorway service station Case study Bay of Somme motorway service station, on the A16, France Project data Project ...

France Design philosophy The aim was to integrate the service station into the surrounding countryside, a landscape where the fi ...

Bay of Somme motorway service station modelling, the functional needs of the project were analysed and incorporated into the des ...

France 3.6 Section of the site through the A16 motorway and a canal in the park 3.7 Section of the site through the A16 motorway ...

Bay of Somme motorway service station 3.8 Final plan after implementation: (1) service area; (2) service building; (3) park land ...

France Design development Service area To enter the site from the A16, you have to sweep around a U-bend. This detour might seem ...

Bay of Somme motorway service station 3.10 Photo showing the transparencies between service building and park 3.11 Photo showing ...

France is transparent and through its huge windows the park landscape is totally exposed. The playground is covered with gravel. ...

Bay of Somme motorway service station Park landscape From this point we have free access to a park that contains many different ...

France The edge of the pond consists of sand and pebbles from the nearby coast. Each canal has an infiltration pond designed to ...

Bay of Somme motorway service station Evaluation The development of the vegetation is interesting. Initially the intention was t ...

France the Bay of Somme services the initial concept still stands strong and the design, as built, has changed little from the c ...

Landscape architecture in Germany Landscape architecture in its current form is a rela- tively young discipline in Germany, desp ...

Germany German unification in 1989 initiated numerous impulses and new fields of activity for the whole building industry, inclu ...

The Landscape Park, Riem Case study The Landscape Park in Riem Project data Project name: The Landscape Park in Riem Location: M ...

Germany Project history With a population of 1.3 million people, Munich is the third largest city in Germany. The new area aroun ...

The Landscape Park, Riem new quarter and the surrounding environment. The park acts as a green corridor for Munich, ensuring a f ...

Germany Design philosophy The design by French landscape architect Gilles Vexlard won the 1st prize in the 1995 international de ...

The Landscape Park, Riem ‘We do not just observe these things, we are in these things’, says Vexlard. With this, he clarifies th ...