Aberdeen City Garden - West 8
The project places the gardens above road traffic, increasing threefold the current green area, and proposes raising four new buildings with a cultural and commercial program...
The project places the gardens above road traffic, increasing threefold the current green area, and proposes raising four new buildings with a cultural and commercial program...
The project proposes a gardened layer that makes the most of the level changes to generated multiple pedestrian connections and to insert the required program amid the vegetal mass...
The proposal lifts a gardened platform that covers the railway tracks and the highway, thus eliminating the barriers that isolate the largest green area in the historic center of the city. Beneath the new green layer and by taking advantage of the bu
The valley generated by the strong relief of the site is filled with the cultural and civic program defined in the competition brief, and is covered with a glass structure, evening out the terrain...
The proposal addresses the site’s level changes establishing gentle gradation, and places, over the road and the railway, a glass building that has a resonance with the National Museum of Scotland...
The project to refurbish the historic center of Aberdeen, in Scotland, has been the object of controversy ever since it was proposed in 2010. The City Council wanted to revitalize the Union Terrace Gardens, open to the public in 1879 and currently un