European Landscape Architecture: Best Practice in Detailing

Hungary Design development The gardens The project’s aim was to provide hospitality for affluent guests, which required high-qua ...

The Garden of Somogy 5.3 Plan, section and terrain alignment of retaining walls 5.4 Ramped path and retaining walls 5.5 The syst ...

Hungary ...

The Garden of Somogy extended all the way to the stream. The original surfaces next to the buildings were inappropriate for the ...

Hungary peasant’s garden: Mentha, Lavandula, Santolina, Salvia, Thymus and Rosmarinus. Further away from the house, a greater pr ...

The Garden of Somogy the wall to ripen the fruit. This also adds character to the garden. The newly planted trees were advanced ...

Hungary Evaluation The Garden of Somogy came into being as a conse- quence of the designer’s typically organic approach. A parti ...

Case study Erzsébet Square, Budapest Project data Project name: Erzsébet Tér urban open space Location: Erzsébet Square, Budapes ...

Hungary Project history In medieval times, the site lay outside the city walls of Pest. Originally it was used for cemetery purp ...

5.11 Landscape masterplan by Péter Balogh, Zsuzsanna Bogner and Tamás Sándor landscape architects Erzsébet Square, Budapest ...

Hungary Deák Square and the sunken city agora were also highly regarded. The Firka Studio then tendered for proposals from lands ...

5.14 Computer-generated images of the proposals, one showing the view from Deák Square towards József Attila Street, the second ...

Hungary Design philosophy According to Zsuzsanna Bogner: The main idea of the landscape design was to create a great variety of ...

Design development Architectural concept The Erzsébet Square design answers various func- tional needs with a complex system of ...

Hungary this area can be used as an agora, which, because of its sunken level and orientation, can host noisy events without dis ...

Plants and trees The demolition of the Morocco Court residential block had created a gap in the urban fabric. Here again public ...

Hungary The lawn includes water features in the form of 11 jets which are lined up parallel to the glass buildings and the Gledi ...

5.21 The pier used as a sun terrace 5.22 The vertical walls beside the steps to the Hole are finished in huge raw slabs of red l ...

Hungary 5.24 Plan of steps and terraces ...

A further problem is the need for the limestone surfaces to be regularly scarified to prevent people from slipping on them. The ...