The park incorporates a high percentage of locally-available materials, light-colored permeable paving surfaces to reduce the urban heat island effect, and special light fixtures to reduce light pollution.
Close Me! Photo: The Toronto Star. Project Facts The 3. Once the jets are turned off the plaza is transformed into a stage, and in winter months the plaza turns into a skating pond. A carefully considered lighting strategy creates visual interest and a well lit environment for evening use.
A hybridized park, Sherbourne Common is the first park in Canada to integrate a UV treatment facility into its design and represents major innovation in the way natural systems and civic infrastructures are integrated into cities. The stormwater narrative is the primary organizing feature of the park and describes the journey and transformation of stormwater from the sky to the ground and ultimately to the lake. The process of cleansing stormwater binds all of the elements of the park together, and turns the entire park into an aesthetic and experiential stormwater system that educates the public about water quality issues through its interactive and engaging spaces.
Sherbourne Common is the first site along the revitalized waterfront to make a strong public connection from Lakeshore Boulevard to Lake Ontario, and attempts to repair the long felt disconnect between the city and the lake. Sherbourne Common provides an opportunity for Torontonians to reengage with the lake and experience from a new perspective a forgotten stretch of their industrial waterfront.
As one of the first parks in Canada to pursue LEED Gold certification, Sherbourne Common successfully integrates a number of sustainable practices in the park design. The park also incorporates a high percentage of locally available materials, extensively uses light coloured permeable paving surfaces to reduce the urban heat island effect, and uses particular light fixtures to reduce light pollution.
Landscape architecture was responsible for setting the overall direction of the park and how architecture, public art, and infrastructure were to be layered into the park design. The design of the park, lauded for its commitment to landscape, community, sustainability, and great innovative design has brought significant exposure to the perception of Landscape Architecture as a profession that leads complex, large scale projects. Sherbourne Common Park is a 3. The primary organizing feature, water, is expressed through a stormwater management system that evokes the journey of water from sky to ground to lake.
A key element of the stormwater system, a UV purification facility for neighborhood-wide stormwater treatment, is the first of its kind in any Canadian park and stands as exemplar for the integration of natural systems and civic infrastructure into cities. Because many parks were being developed simultaneously, design integration was a challenge particularly when working with multiple stakeholders, each with their own interests in the development of the site.
To respond to the need for a staggered stormwater implementation strategy, as the adjacent projects and systems were in various stages of completion, the landscape architect worked closely with engineers to develop interim solutions for elements like the UV purification facility, public art sulptures, biofiltration beds, and the skating rink, for example, using lake water for the skating rink in advance of having access to stormwater.
The design ideas were the result of information gathering about programmed park spaces around the site and the city in an effort to see the park not as a singular entity but as part of a collective. Throughout the process, the landscape architects were cognizant that some ideas, though important to the park design, would ultimately be abandoned as they conflicted with the overall direction of the waterfront. Toronto, Canada. Architects: Teeple Architects. Products translation missing: en-US.
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