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Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Workbook Alex Taylor, w12015038
Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Contents
Proposal
Masterplan
Investigations at Seaton Delaval Hall continue with the Semester Two project focusing on the estate’s walled garden. Even when the hall was occupied, the garden never realised its true potential eventually falling into a long decline when the hall was abandoned.
Site analysis is not an isolated activity, it is a method of understanding and interpreting space that informs and underpins a design methodology for an appropriate architectural response. The masterplan is the medium through which initial analysis will be interpreted and applied. When complete it will provide a strategic framework communicating all essential elements for the proposed rejuvenation of the walled garden.
For over 300 years Seaton Delaval Hall embodied the wealth, power and privilege of a single family. It was the backdrop to an extravagant and unimaginable lifestyle only the upper echelons of society experienced. The hall now stands as a vessel through which these social histories will be retold, more importantly, for the first time in its history the National Trust have ambitious plans for the estate to become an asset and valued resource for the local community. Three new public buildings, located within the walled garden will offer educational, cultural and business facilities, these shall be the catalyst to rejuvenate the walled garden, a reinterpretation of a productive space. No longer a place of privilege but one of community engagement and shared experience. The project divides into two distinct phases. Phase one requires undertaking detailed site analysis to determine the environmental, physical, historical, contextual and spatial conditions within the walled garden. This analysis will generate a new master plan for the walled garden. New public uses for the garden will be suggested and the three new buildings located. For phase two, one of the three public buildings will be chosen and developed into a detailed architectural proposal.
The exercise provides an ever deepening knowledge of the qualities and physical conditions within the garden. In the second phase of the project this knowledge will contribute to the architectural exploration of the chosen public building. The masterplan will convey the three new public buildings, all associated external spaces and hard/soft landscaping. Brewhouse – A new brewing facility, returning and historic tradition to the estate. Gatehouse – A new visitor centre, exhibition space and educational facility. Cookhouse – A new restaurant and community training facility celebrating local produce from the area.
Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Brief
Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Masterplan Maps
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Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Masterplan Historical Maps
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1:1000 Plan and Axonometric drawings of Site
Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Masterplan - Site Analysis Views in to Site
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d e f Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Masterplan - Site Analysis Views in to Site
Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Masterplan - Site Analysis Views Out of the Site
Historical Wall
Temporary Building
Existing Building
Water
Historical Building
1 - Old Vicarage 2- Temporary Shed 3 - Pond 4 - Orangery 5 - Orangery House 6 - Temporary Ticket Office
7 - Rotunda 8 - Brewery 9 - Temporary Education Centre 10- Temporary Toilets 11 - Ice House 12 - Historical Toilets
Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Masterplan - Site Analysis Boundaries
Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Masterplan - Site Analysis Boundaries
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Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Masterplan - Site Analysis Sections
Main Site Axis with Central (Pond) Crossing
Secondary Axis, connecting Rotunda and Orangery
Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Masterplan - Site Analysis Axis
Seaton Delaval Productive Garden Masterplan - Site Analysis Sunlight