outdoor meetings and contemplation areas. Decking, paving, seating and vegetation are optimised to create pleasant and intimate spaces for entertainment and retreat.
NZASM Heritage Court The criss-cross network of pathways etched in the landscape, as is evident in the archival aerial photographs, was captured in the new landscape design of the Heritage Court. Exposed aggregate footpaths, lawn and informal clusters of existing and newly planted trees will reinstate the space back to its authentic pattern.
The original well has been restored and replaces the plaque and water feature as well as the formal pathway system that was introduced in the 1980 renovation.
A buffer zone of indigenous trees wrap around the heritage court, in order to embrace the space
and to screen the neighbouring development as far as possible.
Restored Bankenveld Landscape From the Heritage Court, the space continues into the restored Bankenveld landscape and joins, by means of a pedestrian path, with the terrain of the Freedom Park Museum. This landscape has been rehabilitated from its previous disturbed and invaded status, into a natural Bankenveld landscape as part of the Salvokop foothill slope.
The fluid design of the central spine becomes more rigid and quirky at the historical hall building where the landscape makes a transition from the urban to the natural form. An indigenous natural landscape has been established, the natural slopes restored( by means of stone gabion terraces), and a pedestrian pathway leads to the southern point of urban connectivity at the Freedom Park Museum.
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