major _design_jr

Ephemeral

Natural Genius Loci Cultural Genius Loci (Ephemeral, Temporal, Indelible)

1_West Hove Esplanade: Site Context & Project Brief

Temporal Indelible

The Brief

Overview

Manipulation of natural process (longshore drift, wave action) to create a exciting, stimulating

coastal landscape in West Hove

Harnessing the tidal energy to ‘power’ a productive landscape scheme

Design a 21st century promenade for West Hove. A 24 hour linear park that respond to the

progressive nature of Brighton and Hove

West Hove seafront is an underutilised public space with outmoded programmes that are a

Victorian legacy.

Inspired by the ephemeral, temporal nature of the coastal landscape, the vision is to transform this

1.5km stretch of land into a productive landscape creating a new dialogue between ecology and

society.

In response to the ‘first nature’ opportunity that the sea provides, the west of the site is returned

to tidal lagoon, blending ecological and commercial opportunities. From east to west the

programming moves from permanent public realm to temporary event spaces. This is an antidote

to the single use corridor of a bygone era, creating a fluid landscape that is a continuum, just like

the natural forces that inspire it.

Create a meaningful connection between the promenade and the industrial to the west, possibly

using the eastern edge of the harbour as linkage

Rationalise the fragmented amenities that sit to the north of the promenade (leisure centre, mini-

golf, tennis, bowls, lagoon and skate park), to create a dynamic destination for heath and well-

being

3.5 km

1.5 km

Hove LagoonWater sportsPlay groundSkate park

HarbourShoreham PowerStation

Mini-golfTennis courtsBasketballBowls

King Alfred Leisure Centre

Opportunity / Linkage West Hove 1929: ‘Single Use Corridor’

Amenity

Industrial

The Site

Julian Richardson / MA_LA_Full Time / 000702083-X

Natural Forces + Socio-Cultural Demands = Productive Landscape

Concept Model: Land/Sea PermeabilityExploring Tidal Action

Impermeable Layers

2_Concept Development: Land/Sea Permeability

Road

Residential

Public amenity / recreation

Promenade

Beach

Sea

Tidal action Public Access

Impermeable Permeable Revealed Programmed


3_Concept Story: Tschumi + Natural Forces

1 2 3 4

Push

Concept Model: Nodal Points

The Coastal Situation Pull Capture Connect Programmed

1 Appreciating Tschumi’s concept of surfaces, lines and points as a way of organising space - how can the spaces between the land and sea be connected (model, left)?

2 Reveal the natural forces of the coast and use as the foundations for programming the landscape

3 Unlike Tschumi, do not ignore the historical context, embrace it and utilise in a palimpestic manner (the Lagoon)

The ‘push/pull’ of the coastal landscape as inspiration

The relationship between sea and the land

Appreciating the ephemeral Frame and capture Reveal and create foundations (continuum) Interventions ‘capture’ the ephemeral


‘Reversing’ Tschumi

Imagining the coastal conditions as a fluid surface

Nodal points in the landscape act as a ‘net’, capturing the ephemeral, temporal and rendering an indelible experience

Concept Summary

4_Strategy: ‘First Nature’ as Productive Landscape

Tidal Lagoon (Catalyst)

Connection with Sea(First Nature Foundations)

WESTHOVEESPLANADE

First Nature Targets

WEST HOVEESPLANADE

Hove Seafront 1898

Masterplan Concept Diagram for a Productive Landscape

Rural: Second Nature

City: Third Nature

Wilderness: 1st Nature

“involves the specific intention to make a space more beautiful... conjuring a sense of aesthetic pleasure” John Dixon Hunt

Hove Lagoon, to be returned to tidal lagoon and act as catalyst for productive landscape strategy

Single use corridor, outmoded legacy

1 New socio-cultural connections (well- being, education, commerce)

2 Anticipating growing community demands (West Hove, Portslade communities)

3 Future connection with potential growth areas (industiral site)


Hove Lagoon 1870 (as Tidal Pond)

PalimpesticLandscape

Urban Connection

1

3

2

Harbour

Cycle

Car

New programmes

Seasonal programmes

Amenity Water

Pedestrian

2_ Networks

Mean High Tide

Mean Low Tide

1_ Hydrology

Cross-seasonal programmes

Hard surface

Path and promenade

• Reduce dual carriage way to single carriage way• Use ‘reclaimed’ land to create upper promenade• Manage road run-off (currently no SUDs)• Ceate impactful easterly entrance

• Under utilised amenity space• Create cross-seasonal programs• Take advantage of landform to explore protection from weather• Add trees - currently no trees on site!

• Under used Edwardian boating lake• Reprogram and consider interface with wider community• Consider industrial site to the west and potential redevlopment

• Return to tidal pond• Increase ecological diversity• Utilise site as a commercial hub

• Consider interface with the beach

Road

3_ Hard Surface

Amenity grass

Planting

4_ Vegetation

Road and promenade

Longshore drift

Private homes

Shelter / clubhouses

Cafes

Westerly winds

King Alfred

6_ Buildings

Sun path

Exposed high ground

Shade condition

High mean tide

Low mean tide

5_ Micro-climate

5_Analysis: Site Survey

Opportunities

A_ Easterly entrance to site B_ Mini-golf lawns

A

BC

C_ Hove Lagoon


6_Masterplan Development: Cinematic Views

Concept Diagram: Framing the View

Programming First Nature

Concept Model: Organising Space


Interventions are both permanent and temporary, fluid not static

Framing 3D space, to amplify the ‘4D’ experience

A cinematic promenade of themed (dictated by interventions) and unthemed spaces (dictated by natural forces)

Negative space is heavier than a positive object

Designed as much for urban entertainment as for interaction with nature

Concept Drivers

Exploiting the cinematic themes of frame and sequence

7_Masterplan: Response to the Brief (Programming)

1st Nature Realignment (Return to Tidal Pond)

Foundations for F

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Tidal lagoon

Terraced pine grove Bio-tech pier (winter garden & community allotments)

Bio-tech pier (winter garden & community allotments)

Bio-tech R&D buildings(with shingle roof gardens)

Market plaza Upper promenade

Existing road reduced to single carriageway

Lower promenade ‘Band stand’outdoor performance stage Lido

Eastern plazaTennis and basket courts

Blue water pond (from SUDS)

Cycle and running lane

Lagoon promenadePontoons connected to pier to form temporary event space

Algae Farm Foundations

(Extension of Bio-tech Pier)

Sea as Landscape Framework (1st Nature)

TemporalEphemeral Indelible

‘Nature is never finished... nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.’

Robert Smithson


Scale 1:2500

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8_Masterplan Phasing

Tidal Pond & Bio-tech Winter Garden Temporary Events Pier and New Promenade Lido and Eastern Plaza


Scale 1:2500

Start date October 2013 Start date October 2015

Start date October 2016

Completion Spring 2016 Completion Spring 2017

Completion Spring 2018

Phase 1 Build Phase 2 Build

Phase 3 Build

Macro Level Events: Interventions and Micro-climate

9_Masterplan and Nodal Points and Event Calender

1st July @ 20:00hrs 1st July @ 13:00hrs 1st July @ 06:00hrs


10_Masterplan Future Proofing

- 500 Years: 1st Nature 2013 Masterplan + 500 Years: Reconfigured Site

• New masterplan embracing tidal action

• Tidal lagoon is returned and Bio-tech pier is introduced to create a social, ecological and commercial focal point

• Foundations are layed in the sea in anticipation of ‘claiming’ landscape future opportunities

• Untamed wilderness

• First nature scenario, unmediated, untouched and primal

• Tidal action uncontrolled by man

• Sea levels have risen significantly

• Algae farming is long established to the east of the Bio-tech pier

• New landscapes in the sea are established changing the boundary of the site and blurring the interface between land and sea


Established algae farm / Bio-tech communities

Sea levels define new site boundary

11_Atmosphere: Tidal Lagoon


Dilapidated skate park and children’s play ground

Under utilised Victorian boating lake with insignificant relationship with the sea/beach

Panoramic views

Lagoon promenade

Lagoon promenade

Link to harbour

Bio-tech research buildings

Negative space with no connection to the wider genius of the site

B_Westerly Aspect: Before

Returned to Tidal Lagoon

Reconnected to Nature

A_Easterly Aspect: Before

A

A

B

B

View points

Bio-tech research buildings

12_Planting Plan

Plant Schedule

Quantity

10

8

8

20

8

6

25

25

25

15

10

10

20

80

40

40

40

Julian Richardson MA_LA full time 000702083-X

West Hove Esplanade

Sheet 1 of 1 Scale 1: 50 @ A1 28 April 2013

Planting Plan: Roof Garden _ Bio-Tech Center

Dwg: JR_WH_001

Plant name

Eryngium maritimum

Echium vulgare

Limonium latifolium

Crambe maritima

Teucrium scorodonia

Raphanus raphanis-trum ssp. maritimu

Armeria maritima ‘Rubrifolia’

Armeria maritima ‘Vesuvius’

Armeria maritima ‘Alba’

Hebe ‘Country Park’

Hebe ‘Christensenii’

Hebe ‘Clear Skies’

Hakonechloa macra ‘Alboaurea’

Sedum acre

Galeopsis angustifolia

Silene maritima

Cymbalaria muralis

Pot size

3L

3L

2L

3L

2L

2L

2L

2L

2L

2L

2L

2L

2L

55cc plugs

55cc plugs

55cc plugs

55cc plugs

Height & spread (M)

0.4 h x 0.6 s

0.5-1 x 0.1-0.5

0.5-1 x 0.5-1

0.6-1 x 0.6

0.3 x 0.5

1 x .8

0.2 x 0.3

0.2 x 0.3

0.2 x 0.3

0.2 x 0.6

0.8 x 0.8

0.6 x 0.6

0.35 x 0.4

0.2 x 0.4

0.3 x 0.5

0.2 x 0.4

0.2 x 0.4

Specification

Full pot, fully rooted pot, healthy crown













Plug plants

Plug plants

Plug plants

Plug plants

Density per Sq M

3 per sq. meter

3 per sq. meter

4 per sq. meter

4 per sq. meter

3 per sq. meter

3 per sq. meter

5 per sq. meter

5 per sq. meter

5 per sq. meter

6 per sq. meter

6 per sq. meter

6 per sq. meter

6 per sq. meter

20 per sq. meter

10 per sq. meter

10 per sq. meter

20 per sq. meter

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13_A Productive Landscape: (Ecology, Well-being & Commerce)Ephemeral Community

Habitat High Value Products

Food

Pioneer Community Intermediate Community Established Community

Crambe maritima(Seakale)

Brassica oleracea(wild cabbage)

Atriplex lanciniata(Frosted Orache)

Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima (Sea beet)

Pinus nigra (European black pine)

Araucaria hetero-phylla (Norfolk pine)

Pinus radiata (Monterey pine)

Sedum acre (biting stone crop)

Salicornia europaea (marsh samphire)

Burnet moth on Echium vulgare

House Sparrow as BAP target

Egret wading at low tide

Red mason Bee on Echium vulgare

CommercialEducation Social Escapism

Strategic Planting

Ecology

Well-being


Scale 1:2000

14_Plant Pallette: Shingle plant communitesEphemeral Community

Pioneer community Intermediate community Established community Rare endangered(Sussex BAP)

Crambe maritima(Seakale)

Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima (Sea beet)

Rumex crispus(Culed Dock)





Echium vulgare (vipers bugloss)

Galeopsis angustifolia(Red hemp sea nettle)

Salicornia europaea (marsh samphire)

Calystegia soldane(Sea bindweed)

Lathyrus japonicus (Sea pea)

Santolina chamae-cyparissus (lavender cotton)

Silene maritima (sea campion)

Solanum dulcamara(woody nightshade)

Eryngium maritimum(Sea holly)

Frankenia laevis sea heath

Spergularia marinLesser Sand Spurrey

Sedum acre (biting stone crop)

Sea Thrift

Limonium spp. (sea lavender)

Limonium spp. (sea lavender)



Raphanus raphanis-trum ssp. maritimus (Sea radish)

Atriplex lanciniata(Frosted Orache)

Precedent and Vision: The Shingle Beaches of Dungeness

‘Cliff Edge’ Shingle Roof Garden Concept

15_Hardworks: Upper Promenade Paving


West Hove Esplanade

Sheet 1 of 2 Scale 1:200 13 May 2013

Upper Promenade Paving Scheme

Dwg: JR_HW_001


A

B

C

C

A

B

16_Hardworks: Details

Section A-A: Resin Bound Paving

Section B-B: Decking Construction

Section C-C: Paving Construction


West Hove Esplanade

Sheet 2 of 2 Scale 1:5 13 May 2013

Construction Sections for Hard Surfaces

Dwg: JR_HW_002


Street Furniture Concepts Inspired by Victorian Pier Construction

Upper Promenade

17_Waterworks: SUDS Attenuation Pond


West Hove Esplanade

Sheet 1 of 2 Scale 1: 200 13 May 2013

SUDs Attenuation Pond - Plan and Spot Heights

Dwg: JR_WW_001


18_Waterworks: SUDS Attenuation Pond


West Hove Esplanade

Sheet 2 of 2 Scale 1: Various 13 May 2013

SUDs Attenuation Pond - Construction Sections

Dwg: JR_WW_002


19_SUDs: Precedents and Vision

Arc GIS Hydrological Analysis

Urban Run-off and accumulation

Urban Run-off and accumulation

Road Run-off and accumulation

Shingle beds and filtration plants

Attenuation pond

Clean water used to irrigate Bio Pier

SUDs grey watercollection point

High 842

Collection

Cleaning

Irrigation

Low 0

Flow accumulation

Productive SUDs Strategy

Target zone

Road run-off accumulation point

The flow accumulation data has informed the location of the SUDs proposal. Road run-off will be redirected to the lowest point on the urban grid/road and reused for irrigation in the Bio Pier

Grey Water Collection

Arc GIS Hydrological Analysis

Renaissance Park, Chattanooga, Hargreaves Using shingle beds and plants as filtration system

Taking inspiration form Hargreaves constructed wetland scheme (left)

Concept model: Tiered Shingle Filter Beds

Grey water

StimulatingPublic Space

Productive water


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Documents

coastal landscape

fluid landscape

landscape act

west hove esplanade

west hoveharnessing

tschumi natural forces

ephemeral frame

temporal nature