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LEE VALLEY TRAIL

Cycle route and footpath to Hertford

Cycle route to Hertford

to Paradise Wildlife Park and Brickendon

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Cycle route and footpath to Hertford

THE LEE VALLEY WALK & PATHWAY

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THE LEE VALLEY PATHWAY UNTIL PARKING WICKFIELD

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Horse Shoe Bridge

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THE GOLDEN MILE

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LEE RIVER VALLEY GOLDEN MILE - We see the South Park Landscape Masterplan and Hub as a significant moment in the broader ecological and social corridor that is the Lee River Valley, and as such are fundamentally committed to enabling access, promoting awareness, and actively creating new habitat wihin the corridor - even as the proposal provides for the Legacy Companys dynamic park activation strategy. There are currently two dead ends in the trail system that we can link together with our proposal, creating the Lee River Valley Golden Mile TOWER SHADOW STUDIES In the shadow of the tower lies an enchanted wood... The shapes of the Pleasure Gardens were derived from the patterns made by the shadow cast across the site by the Orbit tower

bELVEDERE SERPENTINE EAST AMUSEMENT GARDEN WATER GARDEN GATEWAy SPORT GARDEN LAbyRINTH GARDEN

REFERENCE VAUXHALL GARDENS

IMPLEMENTATION OF FIRST GENERATION PLEASURE GARDENS

TOWER SHADOW STUDIES

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Full program

Open house

Culinairy event

Fair

FLEXIBLE PROGRAMMING

PLAN KIOSK

THE HUB PAVILLION INTEGRATED IN THE LANDSCAPE

CROSS SECTION

Landscape

Landfill

Facade

Re-use panels

Separation walls

Re-use steel arches

INTERIOR VIEW
SOUTH HUB AND KIOSK BOX OFFICE Adjacent to the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower and within sight of the Aquatics Centre and the Stadium, the southern rim of South Park will provide public facilities fully integrated with the wider landscape vision and design. The original South Hub functional programme has been partitioned over two volumes. This makes it possible to link functions clearly to two different routes within and into the park. As the majority of visitors to the park will enter from Stratford through the Gateway, it is desireable to create a welcoming first stop and arrival point at this entrance to the park. The central ticket box office and related functions are situated in the north end of a landscaped cushion, as a clearly visible and legible address to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. This Kiosk will have tickets on sale for all events in the parks, not only for the ArcelorMittal Orbit, and it is thus strategically situated upon this primary arrival point to South Park. In the southernmost landscaped cushion, all other programme of the South Hub is realized. Here, a range of core facilities for visitors, as well some specific requirements associated with the ArcelorMittal Orbit operations are combined into a single storey building volume, fully and flexibly organised to provide for ever-changing day-to-day programming. The two building volumes will become permanent elements of the parks design and infrastructure. They are deliberately not designed as individual buildings in the park. The limited functional programme has been integrated into the landscaped volumes to be able to correspond to the scale of other much larger volumes of the ArcelorMittal Orbit, the Aquatics Centre and the Stadium nearby.

FRONT VIEW OF KIOSK

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Both buildings structures will predominantly be erected of re-used material, coming from dismantled temporary bridges over the River Lee. Only the welcoming and fully glazed faades of the Kiosk and Hub will actually be new envelope elements. All functions of the buildings are easily accessible at grade, opening to local communities and regular park users as well as more occasional visitors and tourists. The positioning of the building volumes takes into account the restriction areas related to sub-grade technical infrastructure. Where required, the landscape fill of cushions is laid on load-bearing constructions to relieve the restriction. These constructions are fully made of re-used material, as described above.

The buildings simple geometry and structure will make swift erection achievable in order to meet tight time constraints as the buildings have to be fully operational at the parks opening in March 2014. Even though restrained in scale and physical expression, the buildings will have a creative, imaginative and memorable feel about them, and they will add another layer of importance and attraction to the parks landscape.

Foundation

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CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS

PLAN SOUTH HUB- TICKETING OFFICE

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VIEW FROM GATEWAY

VIEW FROM AQUATICS CENTER

BUILDINGS IN THE LANDSCAPE Formally and architecturally, both Kiosk and Hub relate to the appealing forms of the Aquatics Centre, the Stadium and the Velodrome, as well as to the meandering, undulating banks of the river landscape. The entrances to both volumes are legibly indicated by lightweight construction canopies, which are variations on the pocket-garden theme to be found elsewhere in the landscaped cushions layout. They strengthen the sense of place at these important park elements and make the public functions even more attractive in windy weather conditions. The Hub buildings functions in particular are organised so as to be fully flexible. The Hub accommodates spaces which are fit for purpose, designed to be sufficiently flexible to enable the key spaces to be utilised for a range of other functions and potentially reconfigured in future. The Flexible Space programme unit is orientated in the centre of the volume. It can be used separately, or be connected to either shop or caf. If climate conditions and programming allow, this space can also be fully opened up and literally become a part of the concourse. The shop function will also cover a secondary ticket outlet, specifically aiming on ticket sales for the Orbit. As South Hub does not have any internal load bearing construction elements, the 720 m large volume is actually a fully flexible public hall with flexible interior separation walls. In this, the Hub shows what is perhaps its most important aspect of sustainable building design. The South Park caf and primary WC facilities are located in the Hub volume close to the Orbit due to the servicing requirements, just as the back of house for the world-class sculpture. The WC facilities and the prayer room facilities have an entrance on their own, but can also be accessed from within the Hub building. Strategically placed between the coach/bus drop-off, the curtilage and Orbit and the Gateway, the division of functions between two building volumes takes into account the need to acknowledge both significant visitor flow patterns associated with the ArcelorMittal Orbit and the major event venues in the South Park.

HORIZONTAL SECTION

SECTION THROUGH SOUTH HUB

OLYMPIC PLAZA & GATEWAY INTERFACE

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Belvedere

Serpentine East

Amusement garden

LANDSCAPE FRAMEWORK At the heart of the Olympic Legacy South Park Masterplan are the Olympic Pleasure Gardens, part of the first phase of the project, which sets a clear vision and overall conocept for the South Park. We understand that the masterplan will build support and excitement around the project, will allow good decisions to be made around the priorities for the first phase of construction, and will be an essential component of securing additional funding to deliver the full vision - ultimately promoting sport and healthy living, attracting regional visitors, and building local ownership.

This flexible framework logic is applied throughout the site, establishing an inexpensive, low maintenance landscape established on future development areas, allowing that both interim program and phased implementation can occur simultaneously within a coherent landscape with a distinct park atmosphere. AMUSEMENT GARDEN The Amusement Garden is the northernmost of the four gardens, situated nearest the fork in the river. It is a mixed landscape that is mostly level, and hosts a permenent playground with an enchanted wood theme. The family rides are also at home here, evolving over time and surrounded by a lively combination of ticket booths, small retail and food offers. Its location here ensures that visitors from the Gateway will also be drawn toward the Belvedere, establishing a strong connection with that most elevated - though potentially distant - part of the site. WATER GARDEN AND THE PAINTED FOREST The Water Garden adjoins the Gateway to the north, and in addition to the fountain that greets visitors at this arrival point it features a larger fountain designed to display beautiful illuminated water jets. This larger pool can also be drained or decked over for events. It is envisioned that this Garden can also host additional program within the topography - we suggest the full service restaurant - above which sit a collection of the most interesting specimens of native flowering trees available. It is the heart of the enchanted wood, and will resonate with birdsong.

SPORT GARDEN The Sport Garden is situated just south of the Gateway, hosting a ticketing kiosk below the lifted northernmost edge of the landscape, above which is the skatepark. This skatepark consists of cacading terraces which double as seating terraces for spectators, whether for the skatepark itself or for sporting events held on the open, level southern portion of the garden - a flexible parkland open space suitable for a variety of sporting activities - kicking a ball, flying a kite, etc. - and durable enough to withstand heavy footfall and temporary events. LABYRINTH GARDEN The Labyrinth Garden is the southernmost of the four, and within its undulating form the Hub building is hosted - leaning towards the Orbit tower on the west, a gesture yielding a water-facing courtyard on the east, adjacent to the flower gardens descending the riverbank. Under scattered flowering trees the labyrinth itself is hedges arranged in the form of a fingerprint, a form hinted at when seen from the ground, but clearly revealed when seen from the tower above - this form is suggestive of the emerging common identity of the site and its inhabitants.

Fountain

Painted forest in the Water garden

Bar / restaurant Mirror of Llunet The kiosk Sportsgarden

Tying the overall vision securely into the the ecological context and activities of the Lee River Valley (including the North Park) enables the masterplan framework to respond effectively to the urban conditions surrounding it - becoming a dynamic and active urban park celebrating the Olympic Legacy while amplifying the ecological DNA that makes this site the remarkable part of the river valley that it is. Our first phase proposal establishes a flexible open space framework including key functional nodes and four first generation Pleasure Gardens incorporating the architecture requested - each of which consists of areas permanently landscaped and flexible areas of less intensive landscape intended to be sacrificed for other uses, whether temporal or permanent - knit together by an enchanted wood of flowering trees, attracting insects and birds, and providing seasonal colors and fragrances as additional incentive to visit the park repeatedly from season to season, and from year to year.

The Labyrinth

Temporary Large Events