AGRICAMp Landschaftspark Herzberge as a Rurban and Social experience
A new definition of Camping
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Camping as a place for re-union,
socialization, be together and share
(experiences, knowledge, feelings,…)
Camping in a nature friendly landscape and zero impact: the park is considered as an educational site where people from the neighborhood ad ‘special’ tourists could learn about agriculture,
slow life style, animals care and get in touch with the nature.
The main idea is to make people interact and learn by doing some activities in contact with nature. The spaces of Agricamp are divided between tents or bungalows and large common spaces. The common spaces of the camping will ensure an immersion in a «new» way of life.
Concept: Layering Temporary elements:
Tents or Bungalows are plugged to the platform Freedom
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Fixed Element:
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Platform with facilities Fluidity // Connectivity
Productive and Natural Area: Ground Floor as an unique landscape Unicity // Nature
The overlapping of two main layers, at different levels, ensure contemporaneous activities. On one layer, the more organic one, people ďŹ nd the living-units and service while on the lower one, activities in contact with nature are hosted.
Agricamp USERS Agricampers Management of the whole area during the staying period Harvest of local organic products Selling of the extra products in a ‘farmer market’
The main users of the camping are groups of children, teenagers or adults that are looking for a new experience of life, an immersion in a natural context and get involved in agricultural activities.
Families // Groups Friends
The others users of the area are the families or group of friends that don’t want to play an active role in the park but discover it on the week end. They will use the services of the camping.
Main Topics
The productive areas are made of three main areas. Two of them, the forest and the agricultural field, have a particular pattern. The new area of the camping looks for a diversity of landscape, and consequently to a diversity of experiences for the users.
Each border has its own characteristics and deals with the context, giving to the camping
different level of privacy and kind of activities that belongs to both sides.
The platform as a network of facilities.
«Plugging camping» enabling a high grade of flexibility
Agricampers Storyboard
Families Storyboard
Storyboard
Families and groups of friends are arriving with public transportation systems or bikes and enter the area
A shop with local products is located in between the commons areas of the camping and the street showing to citizens the production of the park and involving them
The local products bought in the stand can be cooked in the common areas of the agricamp using the open air kitchens
After a favoured meal, the families visit the park and participate to the activities proposed in the different thematic areas
The groups of Agricampers arrive to the area. They receive some ÂŤAgricamp ManualÂť and a tent or bungalow
Depending on the task they are ask to do, the type of experience they are looking for and their personal wills, they choose the platform position on which they plug
People mounts the platform and their tent or bungalow
The Agricampers get involved in differents learning activities around the platform. LEARNING BY DOING... cultivations on a vegetable garden
Agricampers help to the creation of the facilities of the site thanks to its own ressources as the branches of the forest
Agricampers take care of the animals
Agricampers learn about botanic in the forest and the orchad
At the end of this marvelous and special experience, the former Agricamp managers are substituted by new group coming
The areas created by the platform shape are adaptive as regards the intents of the Agricampers and the seasons. Many eductional and practical activities should be done in sequences.
Summer Urban Agriculture Greenhouse Agriculture Workshops Ecology, sustainable living, organic farming
Open - Air Kitchen Healthy sport Didactic recreational Activities Animal Care
Autumn
Flexibility of functions Winter
SPring
Masterplan
Agricultural activities
Workshops // Ecological Spot
Farmer Market // Open-air kitchen
didactical and recreational Area
AGRICAMp Thank you for your attention !