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Appendix 6

Landscaping Report and Plans – Realm Studios Ltd

Amended - Received 1 July 2014

Majestic Church: ChristchurchResource Consent - Landscape

Issue B - 27th June 2014

REALMstudios Pty LtdABN 39165483330

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Bourke Street PO Box 24432Melbourne Vic 3001

MelbourneM 0411 551 [email protected]

SydneyM 0403 462 [email protected]

Perth M 04567 146 [email protected]

Contents

Design Approach P04

Histories and inspiration P06

Principals & Site Plan P08

Key Landscape Elements P08

• Threshold Ste Entries P10

• Courtyard P12

• Baptismal/Performance/

Events P14

• Stre etscape P16

Lighting P17

Drainage P18

Paving P20

Furniture P22

Carpark Green Facade P24

Planting P26

Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 20144

Design Approach

The design approach for the landscape proposal to the proposed Majestic Church is founded in a response to:

The histories of the Normal School - its past materiality, form, geometries and footprint, its gardens and presentation to the street; The adjacencies of the Cranmer Square - its leafy green, formal composition; The reading of the surrounding streetscapes - their simple boundary to kerb expression with important trees behind those boundaries to punctuate the streetscape and provide a sense of scale;

…..all of which contribute to this landscape proposal which is at once historic in its referencing yet contemporary and expansive in its application.

The landscape structure and treatments for the Majestic Church are informed by the site’s histories, adjacencies and projected uses. It is expressive of the functions of the new site uses and at the same time of its through-site connections to other places, maintaining a genuine dialogue with the street and surrounding area.

It combines an urban materiality, through its seating, pavement areas and lighting, with a playfulness and interpretation, in providing for church based activities ie performance, baptism and areas for gathering and celebration.

Management of stormwater, its cleansing and use as an irrigator, equally informs the spatial structure and design. Planters to the carpark’s green façade capture and cleanse runoff from the carpark. Trees are located along drainage lines to absorp and cleanse, and a central raingarden soak collects water in the central baptismal courtyard - symbolic of the activity of cleansing.

View looking north

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Histories and Inspiration

Facade from original Normal School Building prior to the earthquake/demolition

As a result of the Earthquake much of Christchurch’s heritage has been removed. The implications of this change are significant at all levels; structural, material and spatial relationships across the city have shifted, and we approach this site with the view to expressing its important histories, spatial relationships and materials.

The materiality of the Normal School building and its relationship to the street has informed and inspired the landscape treatments for the Majestic Church; the materials of the lost building can be incorporated into new pavements; its relationship to the street can be modelled on what was with garden beds of hedging and flowering/textural plantings; and trees can be included within the site boundary to punctuate and soften the built form. These are expressed historic values in the new design.

We note from recent writings in the Fairfax NZ News that what was once a city with a focus on attractive street frontages has been lost to more brutal contemporary treatments. David Moyle, President of the Christchurch Beautifying Association says;

“We don’t espouse a particular style of garden but we do want to see a more fulsome garden frontage, from traditional styles to formal, maybe a finely clipped hedge, maybe espaliered fruit trees, or a row of dwarf fruit trees set amongst herbaceous colour. We’re looking for beauty and difference.”

The landscape seeks to reinforce this expression.

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Principles & Site Plan

The site plan opposite is based on a series of landscape principles and key elements outlined in the diagram. Key landscape spaces are outlined in the following pages through exploration of:

• Streetscape• Threshold Site Entries• Courtyard and• Baptismal Pool

Landscape Principles: Legend

Line of Normal School

Entry Thresholds

Screen Plantings

Decorative Plantings

Central Court

Soak - Drainage Point

Lighting Element

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Site Plan: Legend (NTS)1 Auditorium

2 Chapel

3 Car Park

4 Existing Residential

5 Creative Studios

6 Multipurpose/Youth/Kids

7 Green Facade to Car Park

8 Courtyard - Insitu Concrete

9 Baptismal Pool and soak

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10 Site Entries/Thresholds

11 Vehicle drop-off

12 Seating

13 Deciduous tree alley

plantings

14 Deciduous tree copsed

plantings

15 Ornamental Plantings

16 Bitumen Sidewalk

17 Play Space

18 Bike Parking (34 spaces)

19 Existing trees to be

retained

20 Administration

21 Residential Accomodation

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22 Car parking with

permeable paving

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Key Landscape ElementsThreshold Site Entries

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• As a threshold at site entries the paving reflects a mosaic of the architecture of the Normal School in material and pattern. The actual image of the building can be read from elevated positions in the carpark.

• Tree alleys mark the site entry points and punctuate the streetscape between buildings.

• Integrated furniture combines timber seating (referencing the timber doors of the Normal School), lighting and planters for seasonal/festival colour and an expression of activity and welcome at the entry points.

• A red line of light in the pavement signifies passage beyond and through the site, quietly visible by day, featuresome and theatrical at night.

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Winter


Key Landscape ElementsCourtyard

• The courtyard functions as an arrival, a gathering, and a through space.

• Spatially it provides for both the gathering crowds and at the same time for the solitary/creative experience.

• Pavements to the courtyard are a triangulated patterns of sawcut honed (semi polished) insitu concrete, referencing and continuing the triangulated geometry of Cranmer Square paths. Pavements will stretch into the auditorium lobby and creative studio buildings to increase the sense of space and to integrate internal/external transitions and activity across the space.

• Trees are strategically located as a backdrop to the stage and to read as a sequential link with the threshold trees.

Perspective keyplan

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Key Landscape ElementsBaptismal/Performancme/Events

Timber deck with cover hinged open exposing poolTimber deck with cover hinged closed

• The stage allows for semi-formal, informal and impromptu performance for the church, the creative suites of the kids space and at the same time acts as a seat or as a platform (450 high) for functions or occasional elevated seats and tables.

• The Baptismal Pool sits within the stage, covered by a mechanically operated hatch which when opened folds over to become another 150mm high decking piece. Plumbing and drainage will be incorporated into the baptismal pool for filling and emptying at times of

baptism. Finishes of timber, hinging and steel reference the timber treatments of the original Normal School doors.

• The Raingarden/soak below the stage/deck is the catchment and cleansing point for on site drainage. It will include plant materials to the edges where there is available light and then gravel and filtration media for the remainder. The raingarden is directly connected to the stormwater.

Hinged cover opens

Soak layer

Outfall/Drain

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Decking sub-structure

Typical section of decking sub-structure and drainage soak Perspective keyplan


Key Landscape SpacesStreetscape

• Bitumen sidewalks maintain the material treatments of the area.

• Garden beds between site boundaries and buildings reflect traditional garden plantings and the histories of the School.

• Inclusions of Buxus hedging, flowering shrubs and textural plantings

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Lighting

• Lighting will be integrated into the landscape structure such as into seating/planter elements, baptismal deck and as uplights to trees, to provide soft, reflected and mood lighting to the gathering areas.

• By contrast and as a place of regular night-time activity, the central courtyard will be flood lit from lighting attached to the carpark structure.

• A red line of light set into the pavement signifies connection through the site beyond the central courtyard - quietly visible by day, featuresome and theatrical at night.


Drainage

Management of stormwater, its cleansing and use as an irrigator, informs the spatial structure of the design.

• Planters to the carpark’s green façade behave as raingardens, capturing and cleansing runoff from the carpark through the sequence of planters. At the same time this irrigates and maintains moisture to the climbing plants.

• The ground pavements have been divided into a series of catchments;• At the site thresholds trees are located along drainage

lines, behaving as bioretention pits i.e. as absorption/cleansing devises. This feature both irrigates the trees

and cleanses water prior to collection and discharge to stormwater underground. As a metaphor for the downpipe these drainage lines coincide with downpipe lines in the Normal School pavement elevation representation.

• The central courtyard is drained to central raingarden soak under the baptismal deck, collecting and cleansing the courtyard runoff prior to discharge underground, symbolic of the activity of baptism - cleansing.

Stormwater catchment and discharge has been integrated into the structural elements of the landscape rather than expressed as pits and grates.

stormwater roof runoff from level above to planters below

car parkauditorium

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Passive irrigation to tree pits with ballast rock - informalDrainage via facade ‘raingarden’ planters

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Stormwater Strategy - Drainage direction

drain to ‘soak’ under deck

permeable paving

Passive irrigation to tree pits - formal Passive irrigation to tree pits - formal


Paving

Three pavement types comprise the paving scheme;

1. Bitumenous concrete to the street side pedestrian pavement.

2. As threshold pavement at the site entries a mosaic of the architecture of the Normal School is proposed in both material and pattern. Recycled Normal School stone will be used in the threshold areas where the Normal School once stood. The elevation pattern of the School is used as a base for the pavment patterning and includes the reuse of stone stockpiled from the old building and with introduced stone such as slate to represent the School’s roof.

3. The pavement to the rest of the site is proposed as a bright and light honed concrete in a triangulated pattern through grout-filled sawcut. The pattern references and continues the triangulated geometry of Cranmer Square paths. Pavements will stretch into the auditorium lobby and creative studio buildings to increase the sense of space and to integrate internal/external transitions and activity across the space.

Paving detail to ChapelPaving detail to threshold/entries

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Paving plan

Paver Type 01

Location: CourtyardMaterial: ConcreteSize: InsituColour: GreyFinish: HonedJoint: Grouted saw cuts on grid and diagonals

Paver Type 02(mixed with P03)Location: Entry Thresholds & ChapelMaterial: Recycled Normal School BluestoneSize: 300x150cm or 150x150cmColour: BluestoneFinish: Milled

Paver Type 05

Location: Entry Thresholds & ChapelMaterial: Recycled Palestone to match Normal SchoolSize: 300x150cm or 150x150cmColour: CremeFinish: Milled

Paver Type 06

Location: Entry Thresholds & Chapel Material: Slate to match Normal School roofSize: 300x150cm or 150x150cmColour: GreyFinish: Milled

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Location: Child Care Area Material: Coloured softfall and concreteColour: Various

8 Paver Type 08

Location: Private external car parks Material: Concrete permeable paverColour: Grey

Paver Type 03 (mixed with P02)Location: Entry Thresholds & ChapelMaterial: Recycled bluestone (various)Size: 300x150cm or 150x150cmColour: Subtle colour variations based on Normal School Bluestone colourFinish: Milled

Paver Type 04

Location: Entry Thresholds & ChapelMaterial: Bluestone (various)Size: 300x150cm or 150x150cmColour: Subtle colour variations based on Normal School Bluestone colourFinish: Milled

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FurnitureSeating

Painted black steel framework Recycled timber slats

• Seating elements reference the ceiling materiality and geometries of the Normal School through the use of timber and steel over a solid base.

• Above the solid base elements cut outs in the seat accommodate plantings for seasonal effect ie bulb plantings in winter/spring.

• The design of the seat sets the timber/steel seat to ‘hover’ over the solid base elements where incorporated lighting exaggerates the effect at night.

• Furniture positions are located as part of the threshold treatments at places where they will have multifunctional use.

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Pre-cast concrete base / planters Seasonal plantings

Seating locations

Typical Section


Carpark Green Facade

• Planters for the green facade function as both stormwater drainage catchment/conveyance/cleansing units and irrigated planting beds (elevated raingardens).

• Growing media will be specified for both its stormwater conveyance/cleansing and growing properties.

• Plant materials have been selected for their climbing characteristics and in relation to the aspect and prevailing environmental conditions.

Western Green Facade Elevation

Extent of green facade

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Southern Green Facade Elevation


Planting

“We don’t espouse a particular style of garden but we do want to see a more fulsome garden frontage, from traditional styles to formal, maybe a finely clipped hedge, maybe espaliered fruit trees, or a row of dwarf fruit trees set amongst herbaceous colour. We’re looking for beauty and difference.”

Genus Species Common Name Size (HxSm) Location

Trees

Quercus palustrus Pin Oak 20x10 Full sun - Part shade

Shrubs/Grasses

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Morning Lights’ Eulalia 1.5x1 Full sun - Part shade

Metrosideros villosus ‘Tahiti’ Tahiti 1x1 Full sun

Ground Covers

Lithospermum ‘Grace Ward’ Lithospermum 0.3x1 Full sun

Thumus vulgaris Thyme 0.3x0.3 Full sun - Part shade

Tradescantia spathacea Moses in the Cradle 0.2x0.2 Full sun - Part shade

Tulbaghia violacea Society Garlic 0.4x0.3 Full sun - Part shade

Hedging

Lonicera nitida Boxleaf Honeysuckle 0.5x0.3 Full sun - Part shade

Pittosporum ‘Mountain Green’ Pittosporum 2x1 Full sun - Part shade

Buxus microphylla var japonica Buxus 0.5x0.3 Full sun - Part shade

Camellia sasanqua Camelia 1x1 Full sun - Part shade

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Pin Oak - Spring

Pin Oak - Winter

Pin Oak - Autumn

Pin Oak - Summer

Thumus vulgaris

Lithospermum ‘Grace Ward’

Metrosideros villosus ‘Tahiti’

Miscanthus ‘Morning Light’

Pittosporum ‘Mountain Green’

Lonicera nitida

Tulbaghia violacea

Tradescantia spathacea

Camellia sasanqua

Buxus microphylla var japonica

Adjacent Plain Oak, English Oak and Pin Oak plantings in Cranmer Square


Planting (continued)

Genus Species Common Name Size (HxSm) Location

Climbers

Clematis paniculata Puawhananga 8x5 Full sun - Part Shade

Trachelospermum jasminoides Chinese Star 3x3 Full sun - Part shade

Ficus pumila Creeping Fig 4x3 Full sun - Part shade

Hedera helix Common English Ivy 15x10 Full sun - Part shade

Wet or Damp

Carex secta Makura 1x1 Full sun

Carex trifida ‘Rekohu Sunrise’ Tataki grass 0.8x0.8 Full sun - Part shade

Cordyline australis ‘Albertii’ New Zealand Cabbage Tree 3x1.5 Full sun

Cyperus diffusus Dwarf Umbrella Grass 0.4x0.4 Full sun - Part shade

Leptocarpus similis Jointed Wire Rush - Oioi 1.5x1.5 Full sun - Part shade

Liriope ‘Royal Purple’ Liriope 0.4x0.4 Full shade - Part shade

Ophiopogon japonicus ‘nana’ Mondo Grass 0.1x0.2 Full sun - Part shade

Phormium ‘Emerald Green’ Flax 1.5x1.5 Full sun - Part shade

Containerised / Seating

Lavendula stoechas Lavender 0.5x0.5 Full sun

Brunnera macrophylla Brunnera Jack Fros 0.45x0.25 Full shade

Thyme Lavender Blueberry 0.5x0.5 Full sun

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Hedera helix

Ficus pumila

Trachelospermum jasminoides

Clematis paniculata

Cyperus diffusus

Cordyline australis ‘Albertii’

Carex trifida ‘Rekohu Sunrise’

Carex secta

Phormium ‘Emerald Green’

Ophiopogon japonicus ‘nana’

Liriope ‘Royal Purple’

Leptocarpus similis

Recycled door timbers

Camellia sasanqua

Lavendula stoechas

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Project: Majestic Church, NZ

Title: Master Plan

Client: Majestic Church

Scale: 1:200 @ A1

Issue:B - 29.06.2014

Date:09.03.2014

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Site Plan: Legend

1 Auditorium

2 Chapel

3 Car Park

4 Existing Residential

5 Creative Studios

6 Multipurpose/Youth/Kids

7 Green Facade to Car Park

8 Courtyard - Insitu Concrete

9 Baptismal Pool and soak under

10 Site Entries/Thresholds

11 Vehicle drop-off

12 Seating

13 Deciduous tree alley plantings

14 Deciduous tree copsed plantings

15 Ornamental Plantings

16 Bitumen Sidewalk

17 Play Space

18 Bike Parking (34 spaces)

19 Existing trees to be retained

20 Administration

21 Residential Accomodation (above)

22 Car parks with permeable paving

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Line of Normal School

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Screen Plantings

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Lighting Element

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Drainage via facade ‘raingarden’ plantersStormwater Strategy - Drainage Direction

drain to ‘soak’ under deck

Landscape Principles:

Pin Oak - Autumn

Pin Oak - Summer

Tulbaghia violacea

Tradescantia spathacea

Camellia sasanqua

Buxus microphylla var japonica

Carex secta Leptocarpus similis Lavendula stoechas

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Appendix 6 Landscaping Report and Plans – Realm Studios Ltdresources.ccc.govt.nz/files/business/RMA92025955Appendix... · 2014-07-10 · REALMstudios Pty Ltd ABN 39165483330 [email protected]