Bernard tschumi. The project confronts two realities - the digital and the wild - or (in homage to the lonely prairie dog we found barking on the site.

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bernard tschumi

The project confronts two realities - the digital and the wild - or (in homage to the lonely prairie dog we found barking on the site during an early-morning visit), THE DIGITAL AND THE COYOTE. Our proposal shows how, far from opposing the terms of this equation, they are made to mix, to permeate one another in the most positive and fluid-liquid-manner.

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DIGITS, SPOOLS, AND SCREENS

Conceiving of any large spatial organization begins with a strategy, never with a form.

- First, we maximize the presence and length of the perimeter. . (If we subtract the corporate business area, the Park is about five times smaller than Central Park in New York).

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The Edge of the Wild and the Perimeter Landscape

- It is precisely from this sense of 'strangeness' and even estrangement that the design of the park is engendered.

- Our intention is not to domesticate this strangeness but to heighten it by intensifying its edges and by re-generating a new and unpredictable wildness at its core.

- These edges are of two distinct types; the natural and the digital.

natural

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SCREENS

The major industrial military buildings will house many programmatic activities and events. To announce them, give a common identity to the buildings, and simultaneously seduce, large SCREENS are attached to them at various intervals. These image-screens can be made of photographic fabric or electronic devices.

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SPOOLS

located in the cultural campus are basins of attraction

activities ranging from sports to education to mass events,

also allow a further form of interface between the digital and the wild

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DIGITS

are our means to maximize this perimeter: fingers of nature, they act both as -boundary and an extended definition;

- increase the interface between natural artifacts and cultural ones.

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These DIGITS, SPOOLS, and SCREENS are our major physical and spatial means for defining and activating the Park. Time, rather than space, becomes the main agent of the project. From the undulating movements of the Digits to the attraction by the Spools to the images of the Screens, an ever-changing cultural landscape becomes a new dynamic symbol for Toronto and Canada.

bernard tschuminatural edges

drawn from the natural geology and ecology of the region (and an encircling perimeter described by the Niagara Escarpment, the great natural filter of the Oak Ridges Moraine, the former Lake Iroquois shoreline and the shoreline of lake Ontario. Twenty-seven deep ravines and valleys cut by rivers and streams following the last ice age.)

These edge conditions are remade into a new perimeter landscape which acts like a cup, or vessel, to the emerging wild at the core of the park.

bernard tschumidigital edge

Along the northern edge of this vessel, the cup of the wild opens to the second edge; a digital strip which streams from west to east of the park on an animated cultural/recreational surface. Fluvial folds in this surface run north/south, enter the wild, and its waters are distributed and then filtered in the wetland pools on the western edge.

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The Concept

-The concept of the park is based on the juxtaposition of digital mass culture with the emerging ecology of the wild.

- This juxtaposition is most pronounced in the interior of the park where the folded cultural field meets the succession landscape of the wild, on its southern edge.

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- Fluvial folds in the surface of the cultural field run north/south, enter the wild and are distributed across its surface finding their way to the wetland pools on the western edge. These north/south folds in the cultural strip are analogous to the ravines and valleys carved through the tableland of Ontario. The cultural and the wild are mixed, contaminated and spread in these liquid channels.

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The perimeter landscape of earthworks, trees, and wild gardens mediates between dense vehicular traffic on Keele Street and the nascent and more fragile ecologies of the wetlands and the succession landscapes of the western interior.

This perimeter landscape interlocks with the interior like the cupped fingers of the left and right hand, and at their intersection the pools of the wetlands are formed.

the digital and the natural edges

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phase1

defining the digit edge

phase 2

link spools,cultural edge to natural fields

phase3

activate screens

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site sections

-spools

-tall grass savanah

-screen

-land bridges

-mixed wood forest

- wetlands

- extreme sport deck

- reed ramp

- nursery terraces

- regenerative soilworks

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digit detail section

screen & spool detail section

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views

From the elevated Promontory the entire figure of the park reads against the horizon with the escarpment to the west, the airfield to the east, the City and lake to the south, and to the north, the animated field of the Cultural Campus, and the luminous strip of the Aerospace Memorial bridging Keele and Allen road with the sky.

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Perimeter paths to the east lead to the Birch Pockets, the Butterfly Garden and the Heritage Grove.

The Red Maple Forest is to the north, and to the west, paths and trails lead through the White Pines to the Reservoir

As the perimeter rises in this area it is retained with planted reinforced gabian walls continuing the green edge along the park service road, the railway tracks

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mixed wood forest

planting and succession model

0-5 years - mature trees are planted in nodes smaller trees

and seedlings planted in

protection of larger trees

5-10 years -seedlings grow in protection of larger trees, under-canopy species &

herbs begin to succeed into areas

between trees. smaller specimens are

planted between nodes.

other nodes are planted on other parts

of the site

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10-15 years - gaps between older

nodeshave filled in with forestand the

undercanopy is developed these areas have about 30% cover. newer nodes mature & expand further

15-25 years - gaps between nodes have all filled to create a continuous forest older parts of the forest are more

dense the forest will continue to densify and increase height

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0-5 years - 30% mature

trees30%burlap specimens

30% seedlings at the edge of

the zone

5-10 years -

filling out of planted trees

additional plantings in protection

of developing

trees

10-15 years gaps

between trees fill out

& mature

25 years +mature trees

dynamics of ecosystem

tall grass savannah

planting and succession model

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year2 - prairie

grasses & annuals emerge

year3- perennia

ls emerge

year4- burning of field

year5- cycle

begins again

tall grass savannah

planting and succession model

year1 - plant &

seed mixes away from trees

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meadow

planting and succession model dynamics of

ecosystem

0-5 years - meadow

seeds planted

perennials emerge

5-10 years -

meadow fills and densifies

10-15 years further

densification

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meadow

planting and succession model dynamics of

ecosystem

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meadow 2

planting and succession model

dynamics of ecosystem

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10 YEARS FALL 15 YEARS SPRING 30 YEARS FALL 5 YEARS SPRING

field operations

field operationscircuits5 interlocking

circuits provide ribbons with pathways &

services that allow for the

development of active programs event spaces &

facilities

+through flowsa matrix of drift

and gradient fields allows for the movement &

organization of drainage and wildlife flows,

habitat & plantings, site furniture and lighting and

information flows

field operationsthe circuits do 3

things1. link sectors of the site2. stream & concentrate active programmes along

& within circulation corridors

3. frame & protect large spaces of open

landscape

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5 circuits1. activity track

2. perimeter trail3. media & event loop4. east west distributor5. the runway circuit

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grass & gravel track

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field operationsthrough flows

1. maximise connectivityestablish a stormwater

stratergy that slows

2. stores & improves water quality on site

3. allow for drifting of biomass energy

services site elements

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