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Editor’s Note In this issue, As the seasons change and we leave behind the stifling heat of summer and embrace the cooler climes, an unfortunate consequence is that the pollen count rises and allergy sufferers are once again- well, suffering! While it isn’t possible to pinpoint the exact causes for allergies, doctors believe it may be due to pollution, exposure to chemical agents and pesticides. According to Dr Hussain Abdul Rahman, director of medical affairs and head of ENT at Dubai Hospital, “The spread of allergic rhinitis is increasing across most of the world, and especially in the UAE, as a result of environmental pollution.” However, in the October issue of Landscape, we plan on addressing these issues. Our writer Thomas Leo Ogren puts some of the myths to rest and outlines how landscape architects and planners can reduce the suffering for people with allergies by planting more female plants and flowers. (see page 28) And now that we’re going to be spending more time outdoors, the last thing we want is to be breathing in these pesticides but according to one UAE based company who are producing their own compost called Cultiva, this will no longer be an issue as they promise to supply a smell free product. Learn more on page 18. In this issue, we also visit Kuwait’s largest urban park, Al Shaheed Park, it’s a must see on a visit to the city and its environmental legacy will be felt for decades to come. (Page36.) Enjoy the issue!

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Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah during his visit to the Quran Park project

Lootah inspects progress of Quran Park project Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director General of Dubai Municipality on Thursday inspected the progress of the Quran Park project in Dubai, which is being developed in an area of â&#x20AC;&#x2039;â&#x20AC;&#x2039;64 hectares by the Municipality within the framework of its creative initiatives in the field of landscaping and increasing the green area in the Emirate. Quran Park will feature exhibits that explain the meaning behind many of the stories told in the Holy Quran and the scientific and medical benefits of plants mentioned in the Quran and how modern medicine depends heavily on them in the treatment as well as their environmental benefits. Lootah was accompanied by Eng. Dawood Al Hajri, Assistant Director General for Engineering and Planning Sector and Mohammed Mubarak Al Mutaiwei, Assistant Director General for Communication and Community Sector and a number of department directors and other senior officials. During the visit, he listened to an explanation by the specialists about the nature of the project and the stages planned by the Municipality to develop the park and add many types of trees and fruits that were included in the

Holy Quran. The Quran Park is a pioneering modern cultural project that emerges from the cultural and scientific achievements of Islam. It showcases the collection of plants mentioned in the Holy Quran and Sunnah, and introduces visitors the plant species and their importance and scientific and food value, allowing them to learn about the cultural and environmental achievements of the Islamic heritage in agriculture. The project divides the green spaces into 51 species of plants and fruits that are mentioned in the Holy Quran including bananas, pomegranates, olives, melons, grapes, figs, garlic, leeks, onions, corn, lentils, wheat, sorghum, ginger, tamarind, basil, pumpkin. There is a glass house that will display and sell greenery mentioned in the Quran, while the Cave of Miracles will contain seven miracles mentioned in the Quran and will use the latest technology to display the exhibits. There will be plenty of modern features, including solar trees, on-site Wi-Fi, and phone-charging stations. There will be two play areas for children ranging from 2 to 12 years old, shaded with palm trees.

I news and events H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, visited last (Tuesday, 12 September 2017) the stand of Falconcity of Wonders LLC (FCW), the leading property developer in Dubai, during Cityscape Global 2017 exhibition at the Dubai World Trade Centre. His Highness commended FCW for its vital role in sustaining global interest in Dubai’s real estate landscape through its unique ‘World in a City’ project. The 16th edition of the world’s largest and most influential real estate investment and development event for the emerging markets provided an exceptional platform for FCW to showcase its iconic 41-millionsquare-foot featuring residential, tourist, entertainment and recreational components. Shaped in the form of a falcon, the UAE’s national emblem, FCW will delight its residents and guests alike with modern versions of world-famous landmarks such as the Pyramids Park, the Dubai Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Dueiffel Tower Dubai, the Taj Arabia, and the Leaning Tower of Dubai. Mr, Ahmad Salem Almoosa, Vice Chairman & Deputy General Manager of Falconcity of Wonders LLC, said: “We shared with H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum the grand vision of our globallythemed development and its progress up-to-date.”

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ASLA Launches Guides on Home Landscape Design

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is introducing a series of free online sustainable design guides that highlight cutting-edge ways for residential landscapes to support the environment—no matter the location or property size. The ASLA sustainable residential design guides center around increasing energy efficiency, improving water management, applying ecological design and using low-impact materials. Developed for homeowners and landscape architects and designers alike, the guides are designed to help spread more sustainable and resilient practices. The four guides fit into a larger trend about the growing preparedness of homeowners to make changes to their landscapes in response to climate change. The ASLA 2017 Residential Landscape Architecture Trends Survey results showed that consumers prefer sustainable design elements for their outdoor living spaces. Through integrated site design, a comprehensive approach to sustainable building and site design, sustainable residential landscape architecture practices can not only improve the environment, but also result in net-zero or even climate positive homes. ASLA’s guides offer a wide selection of tips, research, and best practices, including The Sustainable SITES Initiative™ (SITES®), a system for developing sustainable landscapes. Here are some best practices from the guides: Plant pollinator gardens. Bees, bats, and a number of other animals, including birds, beetles, and butterflies, play an important role in keeping ecosystems functioning, and provide vital services such as pollination. Homeowners can support pollinator population growth through such simple and cost-effective ways as growing pollinatorfriendly plants, creating urban and residential beekeeping systems, and building bat houses.

Practice ecological gardening. Edible gardens enable homeowners to grow their own food. However, fertilizers used in home gardens can pollute local watersheds through runoff. To avoid contaminating watersheds and damaging local ecosystems, homeowners growing productive landscapes should practice ecological gardening by using productive plants native to their environment and limit the use of chemicals. Install drip irrigation. Drip irrigation systems provide water through slow application directly at plants’ root zones, avoiding excess watering while keeping the roots at optimum moisture level. These systems reduce over-watering, evaporation, runoff and deep percolation of water. Drip irrigation is a cost-efficient means of improving water efficiency. It is adaptable to any landscape and requires minimal maintenance. Reuse and recycle. Instead of using increasingly-scarce virgin woods, particularly from tropical hardwoods, homeowners can use reclaimed wood from existing structures and avoid sending that material to the landfill. Recycled wood can be salvaged from places like old buildings and shipping materials, and restored for a variety of residential uses, including decking, seating, and fences. Go solar. Landscape architects can work with homeowners to develop an integrated site design to incorporate solar power systems into structures or leverage other energy-efficient technologies. Solar arrays can be placed in optimal locations to achieve the most solar gain with the least visual impact, and co-joining solar and green roof systems can further further improve energy efficiency, extend the value of solar systems, and provide more biodiversity on the roof.

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ART IN THE PARK, ISTANBUL CONTEMPORARY This September sees TA collaborate with Istanbul Contemporary, the country’s leading international art fair, now in its twelfth edition. This year, the Fair will have a strong architectural message and Tabanlıoğlu, is creating a design that will impact on both the interior and exterior design of the fair.

TA has designed a landscaped interior space designed as a pastiche of a neighbourhood park, evoking the openair public space of a nearby park that will be presenting sculptures during the Fair, maintaining the connection with the grand Macka Park one of the rare and precious green public spaces of Istanbul and a natural extension to the Nişantaşı neighborhood. These communal green spaces, accessible to all, offer relaxation and recreation and encourage our creative potential. Within an artificially landscaped space, TA has designed crossing points and paths as well as seating facilities created as geometric forms in different sizes and heights. The overall impression is of an open air natural space but in a man-made setting. Even though the park itself is man-made, TA has used only recyclable materials within it and following the closure of the event, the artificial grass will be donated to nearby schools for their sports and leisure use.

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City of West Torrens, South Australia, Australia H-E-B Park Edinburg, Texas PROJECT OVERVIEW: The City of West Torrens Council manages more than 42 hectares of PROJECT OVERVIEW: irrigated public open space. The council had been using Maxicom® In Edinburg, Texas, Rio Central Grande Control FC Torostohave a new Central Control and the IQ v2.0 manage 81stadium irrigation systems fromfield. theirH-E-B central office. Communication between the and playing Park consists of a 9,700-seat professional central control software and the satellite controllers was handled soccer stadium, an outdoor amphitheater, three practice fields via cellular network. As cellular network shut for 2G youth soccer, a playground, and picnic operators areas. Thebegan entire to site, down 2G networks in 2016, council decided to upgrade to the including landscaped areasthe in the parking lot and surrounding IQ-Cloud 3.0, a cloud-based remote water software. stadium, v. use Rain Bird commercial and dripmanagement irrigation products.

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END USER City of West Torrens Council Rick Johnston, Coordinator Horticulture Project Details: David Ward, Work Group Leader Turf & Irrigation

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CHALLENGE: The with expensive water (AUD$3.24 per kilolitre), Turfcouncil qualityisisfaced the top concern for players and team management. thus using water is a owner high priority. Incontractor addition, resources For Robert Evans,efficiently Aqua Tech’s and the who required manage systems be used wisely. installedto the project,the it isirrigation important to runmust multiple stations at With IQ-Cloud, council could eliminate the need to on have the same time the to meet tight watering windows, even a large software their own servers and would access site usinghosted rotors on with high flow demand. Evans, gain who remote provides to the irrigation systems from anywhere using iPad minis. ongoing irrigation management, also needs to be able to adjust the irrigation schedules from his office or smartphone when he is on the road. RESULTS: As part of the council’s asset management system, most of the irrigation systems have been replaced during the past ten years RESULTS: using standard specifications that included the ESP-LXMEF controller The soccer stadium uses a Rain Bird CLP variable drive pump and flow sensors. This standardization made the upgrade to and ESP-LXD Series Two-Wire controller with IQ-Cloud v. 3.0 for IQ-Cloud easier. In July 2016, the council upgraded the remaining remote water management. When Evans needs to adjust controllers to the ESP-LXMEF, installed 3G Cellular Network the schedules or manually stopon orall start a program orconfigured zone, he can Communication Cartridges controllers, and do so on to hismanage office computer or smartphone. sensors are IQ-Cloud each controller. There are Flow now 86 controllers installed on each system to measure flow at the stadium, practice managed by IQ-Cloud. fields and surrounding landscape. The sensors send accurate flow datacouncil to IQ tohad enable the flow management feature. IQ manages The previously been utilizing flow monitoring, and the irrigation based on the flow that continuesschedules to be a critical component in capacity achievingand thedemand. council’s Doingefficiency so enables more but efficient use staff of the pump, which canto the water targets, now the has mobile access run continuously having to cycle on and and helps information using without iPad minis. The staff is alerted to off, abnormal flows immediately, in cases whichperiod flow rates are higher than preset complete theand watering inin a short of time. parameters, IQ-Cloud can shut the system or zones down until the problem can be fixed. For the practice fields as well as the professional field, Rain Bird’s Falcon 6504 rotors with Rain Curtain™ Technology provide even, Rain Bird’s Global Weather service was also implemented to provide consistent coverage to achieve a high-quality playing surface. Internet-based weather data to IQ-Cloud. Therotors weather datapractice is used “The original plan was to keep the existing on the for ET-based scheduling on 95 percent of sites. fields, but it was time for an upgrade,” Evans said. “The Rain Curtain IQ-Cloud automatically adjustseven the irrigation basedthem on the nozzles result in consistently turf, and Ischedules recommended landscape’s evapotranspiration rate. The data helped reduce water for large playing surfaces.” usage during the most recent season, which was wetter and cooler than average. The landscape surrounding the stadium and the parking lot islands uses 53,000 linear feet of XF On-Surface and XFS Subsurface The council saved approximately AUD$48,000 in water costs during dripline with Drip Zone kits pressure regulation and the first season thatControl fully utilized all offor the IQ-Cloud features, or filtration. The property also uses 1800 sprays and 5000 rotors to approximately half the amount invested to upgrade to IQ-Cloud. irrigate the play and picnic areas. D41070

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As a Group of Companies inextricably linked to green, Desert Group takes the matter of environmental responsibility seriously. Sustainable development is now being driven worldwide by a growing number of consumers who are willing to go a little further and pay a little more for environmentally responsible products and services. We see business sustainability as a dynamic and continually evolving model operating in direct response to market opportunities, priorities and information. This responsive style of decision making is based on the management of three underlying principles and it is these principles that form the basis by which the continual evolution of a sustainable business is made possible. These three main principles are – People, Profits, Planet – also known as the triple bottom line (TBL as described by John Elkington, 1994). This is the way by which a company can manage its financial, social and environmental issues in a positive, responsive and ethical manner. A sustainable business is one that is defined as being resilient, able to ‘withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions and market surprises because they are closely involved with, and strongly connected to, healthy financial controls and governance, social enterprise activities and have a strong environmental commitment’. A sustainable business creates economic value and contributes to a healthy environment and develops strong community links through its CSR and other outreach programs. Business sustainability requires a company to fully accept and believe in the principles of taking care of both its human, intellectual and natural resources together with its assets and financial capital. Anything less in striking the right equilibrium can be put down to leadership that leaves much to be desired. Also known as short termism. So, for landscaping companies to be sustainable, they must manage financial efficiency (integrity, innovation, productivity), human dignity (social wellbeing, training, health, human rights) and natural resources

responsibly (land use, machinery and equipment, plants and materials). The reporting systems should be in place to enable management to be able to measure the success of these strategies against performance. Thus, businesses have moved from glossing over to deep thought! Managers need to listen to their employees and to try to remove the hierarchical top down mentality which tends to lead to convergent thinking and to encourage and support divergent thinking and increase diversity of thought. This is a harder than you think concept to get staff to accept. Ask someone to draw an organization chart and you will quickly see how steeped in the past we are. Managers need to listen to their customers and understand their growing concerns for the environment. This is increasingly being driven from the bottom up by our clients and customer’s children who are now more aware than any previous generation of the impact and damage being caused to the environment by their previous generations ignorance and pursuit of profit without regard to the consequences. Information flow must be unconstrained and without the barriers that impeded thought, determination and drive. Sourcing eco-friendly equipment, machinery, materials and other renewable items. Fully recycling our waste in-house, watching those carbon miles and so on. Engagement is about listening to everyone involved in and connected to our industry, and developing alternative methodologies and solutions to current practices that might better serve sustainability and environmentally friendly practices. Thus far the most recognized standard for sustainability worldwide is ISO 14001:2015, and is the world’s first international environmental management standard and provides an integrated approach to environmental management – putting sustainability at the heart of business. The UN too has a workable model. This provides the framework for the reporting, disclosure, transparency and the quantification, verification and control of the business which are at the heart of sustainable practices. Not only can organizations collect and collate the information, they can also be entirely transparent with clients and customers. Life cycle analysis: Organizations should systematically analyze the environmental and social impact of the products they use and produce through life cycle analysis. Firms that are sustainable have been shown to attract and retain employees more easily and experience less financial and reputation risk. These firms are also more innovative and adaptive to their environments. Its up to business leaders to let a culture of sustainability permeate their organizations without ego and structure coming in the way. However, easier said than done – don’t you agree? That is why you see so many business failures, short termism and hollow organizations necessitating turnarounds, restructuring and financial engineering. To avoid that we must take responsibility to build organizations that are sustainable. Another read of this article might be worthwhile!

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Claudia Pasquero and ecoLogicStudio to curate bioTallinn Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2017 Claudia Pasquero, director of ecoLogicStudio and the Urban Morphogenesis Lab at the UCL Bartlett in London, has been appointed as Head Curator of this year’s edition of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, entitled “bioTallinn”. From 13 September to 27 October 2017, a comprehensive programme of exhibitions and symposia will engage various architectural offices, artists and scientists on the topic of biotechnology in architecture, and the relationship between nature and the city in the Anthropocene age. In the Anthropocene age, no ecosystem is left unaffected by human action. The Urbansphere, the global apparatus of contemporary urbanity, sustains our cities' increasingly demanding metabolism, and wraps the Biosphere in a dense network of informational, material and energetic infrastructures.

bioTallinn proposes a radical revision of the contemporary Urbansphere that strides beyond accepted urban boundaries and across scales, from the microscopic to the continental. Claudia Pasquero focuses her curatorial strategy on a prototypical project site: the peninsula of Paljassaare in Tallinn. In collaboration with ecoLogicStudio co-founder Marco Poletto, Claudia has conceived a computational design platform for the master planning of the area; this will be collectively developed with the invited teams. The aim is to mobilize novel forms of hybrid intelligence – part artificial and part biological – in search of a new and robust mode of reasoning, and therefore of designing. "The convergence of biology and computation in architecture and urban design is considered by many to be one of the most promising future disciplinary developments. In this Biennale, I want it to embody a quest to expand the scope of our rational understanding of the impending global environmental crisis, and of the ability of architecture to unpack complex urban issues by reframing the problematic field and expanding space for solutions." – asserts Claudia Pasquero. At the core of the event will be a main curatorial exhibition entitled “Anthropocene Island” and an international symposium entitled “Polycephalum City”. “Anthropocene Island” will be hosted at the Museum of Estonian Architecture and will showcase a future vision for the Paljassaare peninsula. While site-specific in nature, this collective project also examines the area as a prototypical case study of an Anthropocene landscape, the inevitable frontier of future urbanity. The exhibition promotes a new urban morphogenesis, whereby Tallinn's existing urban wastewater infrastructure affects the biotic substratum of the peninsula. The resulting "contamination" evolves into an urban digestive apparatus. Pathogens in urban wastewater are captured and remetabolised by biotechnologically designed ecosystems. Infrastructural networks thicken into filtering surfaces, which in turn fold into convoluted epidermis, populated by robotic farming devices and thousands of active microbial units. Each unit is fed by the city's wastewater and gives back natural gas, food and fertile soil. The future urbanisation of Paljassarre is the biotechnological re-metabolisation of Tallinn itself.

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Top dressing with Cultiva, Jumeirah Golf Estates

By Emirates Environmental Technology

Cultiva compost is a new locally produced product that has been introduced to the UAE market with impressive initial results. Cultiva is the new brand name of compost from the Tadweer owned composting plant in Al Ain, which is operated by Emirates Environmental Technology (EET) under the guidance of Enrich, the Irish-based award winning compost production specialists. Over the last year, the team developed Cultiva horticultural products by evaluating all aspects involved in its production. EET and Enrich redeveloped the Al Ain facility to meet current International standards. The completed redevelopment of the Al Ain composting plant means that all aspects of the operations are controlled by audited Standard Operating Procedures and a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point plan. The Al Ain facility has a new advanced screening plant which delivers a uniform product. This investment guarantees product consistency, which is a key consideration in product selection by specifiers, landscaping contractors, main developers, nursery growers and sports turf managers.

Cultiva produces top class root development with less water

The materials sourced as feedstock are carefully selected to produce a range of premium grade organic fertilizers. Cultiva is odourÂ free and guaranteed free of weeds, seeds and other pathogens. Cultiva is high in plant nutrientsÂ and is a truly stable source of organic matter. The compost is produced to meet Irelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compost standard I.S. 441 and international standards. Every aspect of its production is managed to ensure maximum benefits are utilised.

Currently three products (compost, top dressing and general purpose organic fertiliser) are produced, but there are plans to expand the range. Over the last year scientific trials have been conducted, growing grass with Cultiva and using lower than normal watering regimes. The results during the summer months have really shown that grass with Cultiva incorporated requires less water while continuing to grow very well. The plots in the trials had an average of 16.5kg/m2 of Cultiva compost got approximately 25 litres of water per week versus the normal average of 105 litres of water per week. This has demonstrated that the application of good quality Cultiva compost can save water. In July grass using Cultiva, when cut and collected, had double the weight of grass compared to grass that received no Cultiva. Although Cultiva is new to the market, it has been used in some very prestigious projects. Cultiva Compost was used by SIS Pitches to replace peat moss in the construction of a new rugby pitch at Dubai English Speaking College. Cultiva top dressing has been chosen by Jumeirah Golf Estates for its 2017 top dressing programme on the tee

boxes of the Fire Course. Meraas and Engineers Office Dubai projects got the Cultiva treatment - Cultiva organic fertiliser is now being used in maintenance of high profile Meraas destination projects, The Beach at Jumeirah Beach Residence and Citywalk. With no smell and guaranteed free from all weeds and seeds, as well as having a high level of slow release nutrients, Cultiva is ideal for sensitive, high profile landscaping areas where only the best will do. Cultiva compost is now being supplied to Desert Turfcare for the first time, for use as top dressing in Emirates Rugby Club Sharjah, new soccer pitches for FIFA Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi, and Atlantis The Palm. Made from recycled green and clean food waste streams, Cultiva wins on three fronts - by diverting damaging organic waste from landfill, by providing vastly superior slow release nutrients to plants and grasses, and by reducing the need for chemical fertilizers and irrigation water. Enrich’s UAE Country Manager, Ronan Duffy, said “Quite simply, as a green Emirati product that assists in meeting so many sustainability criteria, Cultiva is a major step forward for UAE and GCC horticulture and landscaping”.

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Interview with

Walid Al Wahsh

Green & More Managing Director Please give us a brief description about you & your educational background? I’m a civil engineer with a master’s degree in civil engineering and have been working in the contracting and landscaping fields for almost 3 decades. Please highlight your past experience in the GCC region in the past years? I’ve been working for the past 3 decades in this region and my experience is multifaceted; spanning construction, contracting and landscaping. As a Jordanian national, I started my career as a military engineer, responsible for design, construction and delivery of private defense projects for a period of two years (1985 to 1987) in Jordan. After that I set out to establish my own company in Amman (Al Badr Contracting Co.), and won the bid

for a project valued at half a million Jordanian Dinars. Following the devaluation of the Jordanian currency in the late 80s, I decided to move to the UAE in February of 1990 to work as a project engineer for the construction of the military airport in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK). Simultaneously, with the successful completion of this project, I have also managed the construction, design and delivery of seven ADNOC filling stations in RAK and Sharjah. In 1994, I shifted to Sharjah to construct two of its biggest oil refineries and grain factories in Port Khalid for Emirates Grain and Emirates Refinery Co. Ajman was my next destination, where I handled the building of a landmark project: the 5-star Ajman Kempinski Hotel & Resort. This provided me with extensive experience in managerial and contractual

roles, enabling me to undertake large-scale construction operations, with 1,600 employees under management. Subsequently, in 1999, I joined Gulf Landscape & Irrigation Systems Co. as an operations manager and established contracting company Arab Land where I led the company as general manager. Arab Land went on to execute various construction projects in the UAE and abroad, including countries of CIS and the GCC. All this experience allowed me to transform Gulf Landscape from a company with a turnover of two million Dirhams to a 130 million Dirhams operation in a relatively short period of time. What is your current role? In November 2013, I set out to establish my own venture, Green & More, a regional landscaping company. Today, the Dubai-based company continues to operate with an upward growth trajectory, reaching a current turnover of above 80 million dirhams annually, and employing 300 people. With the ongoing development in Dubai and the wider UAE, we continue to invest in the company’s growth by acquiring cutting-edge equipment and machinery, modern office appliances and innovative software to deliver value to our customers. After 30 years of striving through self-motivation and self-learning, I have arrived at many of my goals,

and have yet to explore further opportunities and overcome future obstacles and challenges. It’s a continuous learning process. Green & More is a full-service landscaping company with a straightforward and unique design/ build philosophy. We believe in having one landscape designer handle the job from its conception on paper, to the realization on property. By doing this you are able to communicate and work with a single individual, with whom you can share your thoughts and ideas to bring them, in collaboration, to life. Green & More is made up of a group of highly skilled landscaping professionals who pay a lot of attention to small details. In the 17+ years of accumulated industry experience our staff strive to keep your property looking beautiful and functioning impeccably. In your opinion, what changes need to be adopted in the GCC landscaping industry to become on a par with the rest of the world? Climate Change is a major challenge as we try to adapt to new realities. This also creates significant expenditures to keep the environment acceptable for human life. Having said that, in the UAE the leadership is aware of these challenges and spares no effort in trying to tackle these challenges. However, I believe that everyone needs to do their part, and with daily steps taken, we can make a

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difference today. For example, government support for those using sustainable renewable energy, including encouraging natural energy projects and reducing implementation costs, can go a long way. Secondly, the number of vehicles on the road and ease of obtaining / owning a car is raising the bar for “Green People”, or those trying to protect the planet, making it harder to reduce emissions. Traffic restriction, raising car ownership fees or providing incentives for buyers of electric cars, can contribute to reducing carbon dioxide emissions significantly. Minimizing the use of conventional fuels and instead options for alternative sources of energy when possible will also cut emissions drastically. This is about mindset and creating an environmental culture that is respected and followed by all, simultaneously backed by law and encouraged by offering additional benefits to users. How important is it for the regional landscaping industry to adhere to International standards when completing projects? I believe that the UAE landscaping industry should have its own standards that take into consideration the local needs of the country and its people rather than copying the standards implemented somewhere else and spending lots of energy and money to achieve foreign standards. This should apply to material, design and execution within local needs and standards. However, as we are part of a globalized world, we have to maintain quality high-level objectives in our projects in a way that supports national goals.

What are some of the major projects that you have been involved with in the past years? Green & More designed, constructed and maintained many prestigious projects in the last years such as Living Legends- still ongoing, Dubai South Executive Jet Terminal, a few projects in Jumeirah Golf Estates, Zayed University Nursery project, entrances to The Villa-DP, Intercontinental Hotel DFC, Holiday Inn Hotel DFC-ongoing, Le Meriden PH 1-4, Private villas, Sanctuary falls, Marsa Al Seef, Culture Village, Club Villas in Jumeirah Palm, Marasi Business Bay and many others. Please outline your company’s plans for the future including new products and developments? Green & More has no plans to stop developing and expanding sustainably. We don’t ignore any opportunity that comes our way, giving each one it’s fair share of consideration. We keep upgrading our nurseries, maintenance team and increasing annual turnover, supported by added value equipment, skilled professionals and experienced staff. G&M exceeded AED 80 Million in signed contracts in 2017 and we are constantly on the lookout for selective projects that add value to the country and our company. What major changes or developments have you witnessed over the years? During the last 18 years of my landscaping experience, I have seen many positive changes in this field. The green area has been growing noticeably and attractively and we are proud to contribute to this evolution. With new guests knocking on Dubai’s door as the Expo 2020 approaches we are looking forward to being able to contribute with creative and unique projects that serve this great event.

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A story of one indoor water feature in Doha By: Watermaster

Water feature in the lobby of Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Doha executed by WATERMASTER Qatar

The reception area at Double Tree by Hilton Hotel located in the Old Town of Doha boasts a 5-meterhigh water feature made of a stainless steel mesh, inspired by the armor of medieval knights. It might have not been that visible as it perfectly corresponds with the surrounding decor. However, the story of its creation back from 2013 needs to see the daylight so more such architectural masterpieces are created around us.

The upper basin was made of a few metal pieces, perfectly bent to meet the design concept of an infinity-shaped structure

Water feature details which WATERMASTER has recieved when being appointed as the Main Contractor

The design concept came from dwp architects, a company with global reach who describe themselves as passionate about delivering innovative, visionary design solutions. They fact is that when coming up with the vision for a reception area at a hotel, they did exactly what they have promised. The concept was based on a shape of two combined ovals, reminding the symbol representing infinity in mathematics. It is perfectly visible when looking at the structure in an axial cross-section view, or simply from the top. The water feature is suspended from the ceiling on several 4-meter-long metal posts. The upper part incorporates an invisible basin and the piping which are hidden above the false ceiling. The fact which made it original was the surface area though. Made

from a stainless steel mesh, identical as those used for the armor of medieval knights, it assumed that water will fall down in an undisrupted, even flow. The biggest challenge, however, was the slope and curved shape of a water feature â&#x20AC;&#x201C; its convex and concave arches all along the hanging 5-meter structure, made it extremely hard to ensure the stability of water movement. WATERMASTER, a 40-year-old market leading turnkey specialist in water related projects, was hired to execute the design for Double Tree by Hilton Hotel. The cooperation with dwp architects has started with choosing the provider of materials. Two manufacturers were appointed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Kersten Europe, specialist in metal bending technology from

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Many thousand individual rings were combined to form a mesh of a total surface of almost 20 square meters

Netherlands, and Alphamesh, German producer of innovative meshes. The strength of chosen supplier lied in the fact that their manufacturing capability allowed the development and production of ring meshes specifically suited to the design requirements. Many thousand individual rings were combined to form a net structure of a total surface of almost 20 square meters. These were tied onto an upper basin with water, built of a few metal pieces, perfectly bent to meet the design concept of an infinity-shaped structure. Once all components were manufactured, the Project Manager form WATERMASTER, Adolfo Espinosa, visited the plants in the Netherlands in order to coordinate the assembly process. Even though all the materials were in place, the water feature still required several adjustments in order to reflect the vision of the architects, a vision of a

Assembly phase. A site visit of WATERMASTER to the manufacturers in the Netherlands

starting to fall down onto the mesh. At last, the structure was ready to transport to Doha. The installation itself was the easiest part after tiring testing made at the manufacturers. The final product met the design requirements and the clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision. The stainless steel mesh was fitted to the upper and lower basins with metal springs which kept it tight enough to allow the stability yet flexible to maintain the lightness of the water flow, just as if it was going down along silk fabric. At WATERMASTER the water feature at Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Doha is called perfect cooperation between an architect and a contractor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the underlying reason is that challenging designs never happen without the people who fight to make them happen. Thanks to that, the visitors at the hotel can relax in the lobby next to a real masterpiece- a masterpiece of collaboration.

Stainless steel mesh - close-up of a perfectly smooth water flow

perfectly smooth water flow on a bended surface of the mesh. In theory the stream was supposed to go down in an even and gentle way on a stainless steel surface acting like a silk curtain. In reality, the curved basin did not let water flow as softly as predicted. Therefore, the first task was to dose water in equal portions all along the structure. To that end, water level was regulated inside the upper basin. The water was first dosed inside the reservoir and next, as it was filling up, the pressure was stabilized by the quieting plates so that it was perfectly smooth once reaching the overflow level. The was right before

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Female African sumac - is allergy-free and very drought & heat resistant, a good tree for the Middle East

Cut it out Why female plants and trees are key to allergyfriendly landscapes in the Middle East

By: Thomas Leo Ogren For the past three to four decades there has been an ongoing epidemic of both allergy and asthma in almost every global city. In many urban areas, the number of allergy and asthma suffers has four folded and it seems that the phenomenon is exclusively urban as the same rise has not been seen in rural areas. There are several factors driving this epidemic in our cities: increasing global temperatures causing longer pollen seasons; increases in air pollution in cities from the use of more cars and trucks; an increase in the use and promotion of male clonal trees and shrubs in horticulture; a proven interaction between manmade air pollution and pollen, resulting in â&#x20AC;&#x153;super pollenâ&#x20AC;?, i.e. pollen that becomes much more allergenic. In addition, in recent times, the gloabal increase in global carbon dioxide (CO2) is triggering large increases in the actual amount of pollen produced from many common landscape species. In some cases, increases of C02 have been shown to increase pollen production by 4 X. With some landscape species (in particular Juniperus and Cupressus) that used to bloom only once a year, are now blooming (and shedding pollen) twice a year. Clearly, this allergy-asthma epidemic is a health problem of great concern and needs to be addressed with efforts to 1. Lessen chemical air pollution in cities, along with, 2. The need for serious efforts to start landscaping with plants that shed little or

no pollen, and also with plants that are known to trap pollen Pollen-allergies make life miserable for many people and have been shown to lower childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s test scores in school. People who already have developed pollen-allergy are at an increased risk of developing asthma. Asthma can be a life-threatening illness and the most common trigger for both allergy and asthma is pollen. In the Middle East there are many highly allergenic plants used in the landscapes. Some of the biggest offenders are male palm trees (especially from the genus Phoenix), olive trees, cypress

Pollen flowers male palm tree

Casuarina equisetifolia, male tree

A single pollen grain

trees and shrubs (Cupressus spp.), male selections of Junipers (Juniperus spp.), male selections of cottonwood trees (Populus spp.), male selections of Chinese Pistache (Pistache chinensis), male Casuarina trees (Casuarina spp.), male selections of mulberry (both Morus spp. and also paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera), Mesquite trees (Prosopis juliflora), and some introduced gasses, such as common Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylifera). There are other allergenic landscape plants as well, but these are the most common offenders. Most notably, many of these allergenic plants fall under the male clonal selections. Male plants have long been used because they do not produce any seeds or pods, and are thus considered to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;litter-free.â&#x20AC;? The big problem with these popular male clones is that all of them will produce and shed vast amounts of the most highly allergenic types of pollen. Female trees however, produce no pollen.

Female trees also act as natural pollen-traps, and remove pollen of their own species from the air. Female flowers on a tree that is growing in the earth and has its roots deep in the ground are grounded. The female flowers produce a small, but effective, negative electrical impulse. Pollen, from male trees, tumbles about in the wind and in the process picks up a positive electrical impulse. Because of the phenomena known as mutual attraction, pollen from the male trees is drawn directly to available female trees, trapped, and removed from circulation in the air. The more female selections in the landscape, the cleaner the air will be. Horticulture, worldwide, has been producing large numbers of clonal male selections from all of the dioecious (separate-sexed) species. Since all of these selections produce abundant pollen, as these clones became more popular, the rate of allergy (and allergicasthma) grew. In addition to the clonal selections taken from male plants of these separate-sexed species, male selections are also being made from plants that are not separate-sexed. Many trees, for example, have flowers of both male and female on the same tree. In some cases each branch will be entirely of only one gender.

OPALS labels being used in the UK

I PLANTS & TREes Plant propagators have taken cuttings from the branches that are male, and when rooted and grown on, these then become all-male plants. A classic example of this is the common Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) that, when grown naturally from seed, will have female flowers on the top branches and male pollen flowers on the lower branches. It is common practice now in horticulture to grow these trees only from cuttings taken from lower branches; hence, all the new plants will be male. They will all shed allergenic pollen, and they will trap and remove no pollen. In some areas now (in parts of the US, in the UK. and in eastern Australia) nurseries are starting to do the opposite; they’re growing female clones that are used in allergy-free plantings. Almost all of the allergenic landscape species already used in the Middle East, could be used in allergy-friendly landscapes if instead of male selections, female ones were used. For example, all of the date palms (Phoenix spp.) are totally separate-sexed. Any date palm that makes any fruit at all, is a female plant, and is pollen-free, and also it will trap pollen from any male date palm trees. Palms can be grown from basal sprouts, and if the sprouts come off the base of a female palm, then all of those sprouts will grow into female trees. With trees such as the numerous species of Casuarina there is great potential. All of the Casuarina (sometimes called “he oaks” or “she oaks”) species are separate-sexed. Female trees (see photo) make small seed cones that attach directly to the stem and persist on the tree for a long time; as such they are easy to identify. Casuarina trees can be grown from rooted cuttings and only female trees should be used. Casuarina is extremely droughtresistant and also very heat tolerant, plus they grow very quickly. Tall, wind and pollen-blocking windbreaks can be planted using all female Casuarina trees in areas with a lot of wind. Such windbreaks are very effective at reducing pollen exposure. Poplar or cottonwood (Populus species) trees are also a common source of pollen-allergy in much of the Middle East. All of these species are also dioecious, separate-sexed. The ones normally sold and planted now are almost always male clones that produce allergenic pollen. Female poplar trees are pollen-free and trap pollen from male poplars. All poplars are very easy to grow

from long, dormant cuttings. Poplar trees grow very fast, are often very drought and heat tolerant, and if females are used, will be allergy-free and allergy-fighting. OPALS® is an acronym for Ogren Plant Allergy Scale. It is an allergy rating system for plants that measures the potential of a plant to cause allergic reactions in humans. The Ogren Plant Allergy Scale takes into account pollen allergies, contact allergies, and odor allergies, with higher weighting given to pollen allergies that are caused by inhaling pollen into the lungs. Additionally, plants that cause contact allergies (such as rashes or itching), or that are highly poisonous when ingested even though their pollen does not cause respiratory allergies, are never given low ratings.[5] Low allergy ratings are considered to be 1 through 3 on the allergy scale. Mid-range ratings are 4 through 6, and high ratings are 7 through 10. Plants with ratings of 9 or 10 have an extremely high potential to cause allergic reactions.

Female Canary Island Palm Tree

Male ash tree flowers, pollen - this is how much pollen came off a small amount of male flowers after they'd sat on a piece of paper overnight inside the house

Usage: Within the United States: OPALS has been adopted for use by the American Lung Association and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Urban and Community Forest Service.[5] More recently, the California Public Health Department has endorsed the use of this allergy scale in city landscape planning to reduce asthma.[6][7] For more information on allergy-friendly landscaping, please see: www. safegardening.org and also, www.allergyfree-gardening.com OPALS Rating 1-3 4-6 7-8 9-10

Male tree, allergenic, Canary Island Palm tree

Guideline[5] Very low potential to cause allergies Moderate potential to cause allergies, exacerbated by overuse of the same plant throughout a garden High potential to cause allergies, advise to plant as little as possible Extremely high potential to cause allergies, should be replaced with less allergenic speciesa

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Super park By: Ricardo Camacho

This reconversion of a formal garden by Kuwait Amiri Diwan built in the early 1960’s, to celebrate the city’s modernization, and named as “Shaheed Garden” after Saddam’s Invasion in memory of the war martyrs was officially inaugurated by the Emir of Kuwait following the National and Liberation days celebrations on the 3rd of March 2015 after being completed in December 2014. 32

The almost 20Ha urban park (800mx2.5km long) comprehends the reconversion of the formal Green Belt Park built between 196164 following the demolition of the Kuwait ‘sour’ (3rd Wall built in 1920) as a section of the Kuwait City Green Belt established by the First Master Plan, approved in 1952, and replacing the trajectory of this physical limit of the old city. After concerns raised by the community,the park was reclaimed in 2012 for the introduction of built program that can perform as ground for national celebrations and festivals. The Lead local Consultant TAEP teamed up with the international consultant Ricardo Camacho on the competitionwinning redesign. The project included the integration of several buildings in the existing garden and the selection of a native vegetation scheme that could respond to water consumption restrictions, the harsh environmental conditions and urban maintenance practices. The project was developed and implemented in a record time of 22 months. The Park re-design process was determined and strongly affected by the precedent strategic and material value of the 196972 never accomplished proposal of Peter and Alison Smithson the “Rampart and Dune Gardens”. The new park contains two museums, a large underground car park, visitor centre and administration and maintenance facilities. Other built elements are the celebration gate,formal entrance in the park with all receptions, the conservation of the old city wall gate together with the implementation of a 900 lower amphitheatre defining the access through a tunnel to the Memorial Garden setting the frame for a Museum. On the opposite extreme of the park stands the birds nest at the edge of the Habitat Museum. In the middle of the Park a 9000m3 irrigation lake hides a telescopic pole for the national flag raise flanked by the visitor centre and the garden management and maintenance facilities. Both buildings are tentative translations of the courtyard building type. In the visitors centre, the ground is lowered and opened in two directions allowing cross ventilation-the programmatic instability of this building during the design stage generated a series of additions around the core, almost as an old town villa with its later additions, the mass resulting out of this process will define the constitution

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of the mound in its topography and volume -the soil is covering all annexes. Memorial Museum reclaims the shade under a free roof on top of ‘pilotis’drawn through the regularity of the trunks in a grove of date palms that contain the different programmatic dimensions of the building divided in pavilions, from exhibition to cafeteria, offices and research centre. Under the slab the ‘pilotis’ expand outside the building as the trunks of a new palms grove that will lead you to the city through a tunnel. This movement is defined by a system of retaining wall-tiles moving sufficiently often into proximity with the geometry of the site limits allowing a number of pedestrian paths. These retaining elements when exposed as internal faces of the building contain toilets, prayer rooms and other service shared between the use of the museum and the park. The Habitat Museum,’Mathaf AlMawten’, is a long sand dune planted with native plants that moves into proximity with the garden paths and covers the exhibition galleries, library, laboratory, offces, cafeteria, bookshop and a children learning centre.

The park lake determines a limit to the vegetation and plantation capacity understating unity along with the native landscape of the country. The soil movement was there instrumental to recreate along the park a section of Kuwait from north to south, including saline depressions and Acacia woodlands. This movement integrates the buildings in the given matrix of services and existing trees and accommodates the selection of a native vegetation scheme that can respond to water consumption restrictions, the harsh environmental conditions and urban maintenance practices. The landscape proposal uses the existing grid, made of underground services and existing trees, that will distribute all the programmatic outdoor and indoor events –the buildings– that will be then converted into mounds due to a consideration of the acoustic studies – the noise protection-and the visual impact of the surrounding.At a larger degree this grid will be a medium climate mitigating wind, noise, dust and sun orientation. It generates a referential that is able to recognize the existing Park limits and trees,

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underground services, the Constitution Monument and Mecca orientation, as well as providing connections between all proposed elements through three pathways-the Emir path, visitors path and jogging track. Considering the complexity of program and the short schedule for design and built, the owner and designer engaged all cultural and environmental entities, non proffit and governmental. During the construction and design of the project, the motivation of younger sectors of society became fundamental for the future management and content planning. The Park is today own by a civic organization (Al Diwan Al Amiri) and managed by a non profft organization of young volunteers (LOYAC). The Park program includes, among tours, sport activities and cultural festivals, leadership and professional training as well as children educational activities. After the failed attempt to build a new capital â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Silk Cityâ&#x20AC;? the expectancies of Kuwait younger generations are now back to the existing town grounded in new values of national identity from social to environmental responsibility. The optimism around this ambitious project prompts ecological strategies and urban principles, with relevant precedents, pursuing the never consolidated green corridor between the capital and the residential neighbourhoods. Shaheed Park, reconversion plan seeks to implement a living system where the pre-existing ecological infrastructure can provide multiple possibilities of using the public space in a desert city evoking the memories of the past and encouraging future urban and environmental behave. PROJECT DESCRIPTION A Design/Build contract for 167.785,00 m2 Park comprising aprox. 56.750 sqm of building area, Habitat Museum, Memorial Museum, Visitor Centre, Administration&Management Offices, Celebration Gate, Old City Gate, Amphitheater with 900 spectator seats and Underground Parking for 900 cars. details per built element: Kuwait Martyrs Museum(Memorial Museum), 6500sqm, in two floors including exhibition areas, several Lobby areas and exhibition foyer, cafeteria, research centre, gift shop, prayer rooms, offices, Power Substation, Water features such as roof water tank, lower water mirrors and water circulation

channels; Kuwait Habitat Museum, 4500sqm in two floors including exhibition areas and respective foyer, Lobby areas, three cafeterias, Offices, library, Children educational centre, Gift Shop, Seeds Laboratories, Vip room including lounge and other related facilities; Visitor Centre, 3200sqm of Restaurant, Cafeteria, Multipurpose Hall, Prayer rooms and Gift Shop, in two floors; Administration Building, 2100sqm Offices, First Aid Clinic, Garage and Maintenance Workshops, including all central control equipments, mechanical facilities including irrigation fire fighting and fresh water reservoirs, enclosed courtyards with water and landscape features and Power Substation, in a Ground floor plus basement; Underground Car Park estimated for 900 parking slots with 37600 sqm in two floors, covered by 18000sqm Roof Garden with acce Lobby areas and water features, includes Power Substation and Water reservoirs, maintenance offices and storage areas; Kuwait Birds Aviary, Cage in tensile Steel mesh 10m height, with 1250m2 semi buried in the ground; Mosque, 350m2

including male and female Prayer rooms in one single floor; Celebration Gate, 1250m2 of Reception Hall, Mini-market facility and Broadcast facilities for Tv and radio and Maintenance and Staff areas for male and female co-workers at the Park in one single floor; Old City Gate (Al Shaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ab Gate of Kuwait 3rd Wall) Conservation and Renovation of the building surroundings with1800m2. Open Air Amphitheatre, 10800m2 including water features, stage and spectator seating from 900 people; Lake Bridge, 45m spam bridge in reinforced concrete with one single support element in the middle and hanged plantation trays for aquatic vegetation; Memorial Walls Garden, 6800m2 of stepped garden with handmade tile cladding; Kuwait National Flag Mast, 37.5m height telescopic pole inside submersible pit 10m dept, inside the Lake. The permission of the Municipal Council was clear regarding the built program, reclaiming the argument that no single building could be erected from the Green Belt grounds, therefore, all proposed buildings are submerged under planted soil.The possibility of introducing extensive green roofs (35000m2) for larger areas in Kuwait will become a challenge similar to the use of concrete and steel structure for the construction of the Shuwaik Power Station and Desalinization Plant in 1953, first modern structures erected in Kuwait City (Ahmadi and the Oil exploration areas had earlier elements being built). MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY Landscape The park lake determines a limit to the vegetation and plantation capacity understating unity along with the native landscape of the country. The soil movement was there instrumental to recreate along the park a section of Kuwait from north to south, including saline depressions and Acacia woodlands. This movement integrates the buildings in the given matrix of services and existing

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trees and accommodates the selection of a native vegetation scheme that can respond to water consumption restrictions, the harsh environmental conditions and urban maintenance practices. The landscape proposal uses the existing grid, made of underground services and existing trees, that will distribute all the programmatic outdoor and indoor events –the buildings– that will be then converted into mounds due to a consideration of the acoustic studies – the noise protection-and the visual impact of the surrounding.At a larger degree this grid will be a medium climate mitigating wind, noise, dust and sun orientation. It generates a referential that is able to recognize the existing Park limits and trees, underground services, the Constitution Monument and Mecca orientation, as well as providing connections between all proposed elements through three pathways-the Emir path, visitors path and jogging track. The first two path are paved with regional stone from Bethlehem, West Bank Palestine, in three tone and finishing variants.

Buildings The two buildings in the centre of the Park, the Administration and Visitor, are tentative translations of the courtyard building type. In theVisitorsCentre,the ground is lowered and opened in two directions allowing cross ventilation. The mass resulting out of this process will define the constitution of the mound in its topography and volume -the soil is covering the building volume in concrete cast i situ and pre-cast elements covered with ‘floradrain’ layers providing the ground for plantation. The Memorial Museum is defined by a reinforced concrete roof slab covered by water and plantation, on top of steal ‘pilotis’ that define the limits of glass curtain pavilions recessed from the roof limits and in this way fully shaded and protected from sun incidence towards the south. The north lenght of the building is confined by a system of retaining wall-tiles containing the common facilities such as wet areas and detached from the building roof allowing cross ventilation throughout its lenght.

The Habitat Museum,’Mathaf AlMawten’, is a reinforced concrete structure covered by a long sand dune planted with native plants that moves into proximity with the garden paths and covers the building program including exhibition galleries, library, laboratory, offices, cafeteria, bookshop and a children learning centre. The Mosque is define by an identical section and the Celebration Gate is a steal framed building confined within a glass curtain protected by a gabion wall with stone from Palestine PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT The Sustainable Stewardship principles that touch upon a wide array of social, cultural and environmental factors are inherent parts of the reconversion project for Al Shaheed Garden Park and its future expansion along the city’s Green Belt. After the concerns raised by the Martyrs’ Bureau regarding the integrity of the park during the last years, the community reclaimed, in 2012, the use of the Al Shaheed Park for national celebrations and festivals

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under the memory of war martyrs. Considering the complexity of program and the short schedule for design and built, the owner and designer engaged all cultural and environmental entities, non profit and governmental. During this project the motivation of younger sectors of society became fundamental for the future management and content planning. The Park is today own by a civic organization (Al Diwan Al Amiri) and managed by a non profft organization of young volunteers (LOYAC). The Park program includes, among tours, sport activities and cultural festivals, leadership and professional training as well as children educational activities. After the failed attempt to build a new capital “The Silk City”the expectancies of Kuwait younger generations are now back to the existing town grounded in new values of national identity from social to environmental responsibility. The optimism around this ambitious project prompts ecological strategies and urban principles, with relevant precedents, pursuing the never consolidated green corridor between the capital and the residential neighbourhoods. Shaheed Park, reconversion plan seeks to implement a living system where the pre-existing ecological infrastructure can provide multiple possibilities of using the public space in a desert city evoking the memories of the past and encouraging future urban and environmental behave. The optimism around this ambitious project prompts ecological strategies and urban principles, with relevant precedents, pursuing the never consolidated green corridor between the capital and the residential neighborhoods. Shaheed Park, reconversion plan seeks to implement a living system where the pre-existing ecological infrastructure can provide multiple possibilities of using the public space in a desert city evoking the memories of the past and encouraging future urban and environmental behave. The soil movement was instrumental to recreate along the park a section of Kuwait’s landscape, from the desert plateau and springs in the north to the oasis of the south, including saline depressions and Acacia

woodlands. This movement integrates the buildings in the given matrix of services and existing trees and accommodates the selection of a native vegetation scheme that can respond to water consumption restrictions, the harsh environmental conditions and urban maintenance practices. At a larger degree this grid will be a medium climate mitigating wind, noise, dust and sun orientation. The volume of soil, its transport and storage, innate to the artifcial lake and underground car park (program requirements), identifed the opportunities to transcend the norm and provide the architectural resources to design the buildings’ fundamental elements. PROJECT BUILT ENTITIES DESCRIPTION The project comprehends a 167.785,00 m2 Park comprising aprox. 56.750 sqm of building area, Habitat Museum, Memorial Museum, Visitor Centre, Administration&Management Offices, Celebration Gate, Old City Gate, Amphitheater with 900 spectator seats and Underground Parking for 900 cars. The Park A lake determines the vegetation and plantation capacity understating unity along with the native landscape of the country. The soil movement was instrumental to recreate along the park a section of Kuwait territory, from north to south, including saline depressions and Acacia woodlands. This movement integrates the buildings in the given matrix of services and existing trees and accommodates the selection of a native plantation scheme responding to water consumption restrictions, the harsh environmental conditions and urban maintenance practices. The scheme distributes all the programmatic outdoor and indoor events –the buildings– converted into mounds considering the acoustic

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performance of the outdoor space – the noise protection-and the visual impact of the surrounding. At a larger degree this grid will be a medium climate mitigating wind, noise, dust and sun orientation. It generates a referential that is able to recognize the existing Park limits and trees, underground services, the Constitution Monument and Mecca orientation, as well as providing connections between all proposed elements through three pathways-the Emir path, visitors path and jogging track. The first two path are paved with regional stone from Bethlehem, West Bank Palestine, in three tone and finishing variants. At the start of this journey, the Celebration Gate demarcates the entrance in the park and the point where all these pathways get together and constitute a square. The Gate is a steal framed building confined within a glass curtain protected by a gab ion wall filled with the same stone distributed through the paths. The first element to be recognised while entering the Park is the lake framed by two mounts from each side. These are the Visitor Centre and the Administration facility, both tentative translations of the courtyard building type. In the VisitorsCentre,the ground is lowered and opened in two directions allowing cross ventilation. The mass resulting out of this process will define the constitution of the mound in its topography and volume -the soil is covering the building volume in concrete cast i situ and pre-cast elements covered with ‘floradrain’ layers providing the ground for plantation. In the second an internal street segregates the first aid clinic, garages and workshops, all central control equipments, and irrigation fire fighting and fresh water reservoirs from the offices that define on the opposed side from the lake enclosed courtyards with water and landscape features. Further north, the Mosque, is a reinforced concrete structure covered by a long sand dune planted with native plants that moves into proximity with the garden paths and covers the building mass. The Thekra Museum Al Shaheed Park’s Historical Museum focused on the history of Kuwait, its major battles and the Gulf War. Other facilities within the museum include the museum’s book shop, a cafeteria overlooking the memorial garden and pools, as well as a research room for the collection of historical data.

The Habitat Museum Al Shaheed Park’s environmental museum dedicated to the Kuwait environment and bird migration. Within the museum there is cafe, a kids room, a gift shop and as well as a VIP lounge and a cafeteria outside opposite the museum entrance.

Project Title: Al Shaheed Park Street Address: Kuwait City, Soor Street, Opposite Al Tijaria Tower Architect/Planner Ricardo Camacho + Stroop | landscape urbanism and The Associated Engineering Partnership Principal Designer: Ricardo Coelho Guerreiro da Silva Camacho Total site Area: 167.785,00 m2 (area as per Contract Terms of Reference 195.650,00m2) Ground floor area: 33.045,00m2 Total combined floor area: 56.750,00m2 (Including basement(s), ground floor(s) and all upper floors)

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Argentina’s newest science park has regenerated a formerly derelict area of Buenos Aires

It’s not rocket science By: Jimena Martignoni

The Science Park (Parque de la Ciencia) is an indivisible part of the recently finished scientific and technologic hub (Polo Científico y Tecnológico) in Buenos Aires. Located in a very central area of the city, the site was in the past a series of wine warehouses and a large area of derelict rail yards part of which was used for the loading of bottled wine. In the early 1900s the wine was transported from distant provinces of Argentina to the capital city for broader distribution, but when a new law was passed compelling the wine to be bottled locally, the area was abandoned. Later, over the years, both the buildings and the adjacent vacant areas were renovated, however, none of them ever successful.

It wasn’t until ten years ago that a national call for tenders was launched by the newly created National Ministry of Science and Technology, together with the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the National University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA). The brief was to plan in stages to assure the genuine implementation of the winning project and the budgetary assignation, the first stage was completed in 2011 and a second stage took place in 2015 with the completion of all the cultural and academic buildings. The park itself signifies the accomplishment of the third and final phase of a long and rewarding process which combined the work of architects, planners, landscape designers, industrial designers, politicians and, of course, in this case especially, scientists. Completed in November 2016, the project for the park was the result of a “design ideas competition”, launched in 2014 by the ministry of science and technology and the central society of architects (SCA). The winning project was the basis for the actual implementation of the park; for this purpose, the ministry put together a special team which coordinated the construction and oversaw all technical responsibilities of the landscape architecture project.

The design and construction of the two first stages, or buildings, was mostly financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the park mainly by the World Bank, after careful bidding processes. For the city, the hub and the park represent a new large public educational and thematic space, where recreational activities integrate with academic and research actions, fostering new kinds of thinking, comprehension and behaviors. Smartly incorporated into the urban grid, with an eye set on the preservation of the two traditional buildings and another on the experimentation of sustainable construction techniques, the project stands out as a positive example of new resolutions for the complex current cities and societies. The intricacy of the project had many different levels. On the one hand, the land belonged to the city and it had to be ceded to the national government for legal purposes; on the other hand, the National University acted as a “state consultant” defining urban decisions and regulations, since these kinds of neglected areas in the city did not have any specific designations or policies. The creation of an “Urban Agreement”, especially intended for the project, was the legal tool

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which made possible the overall execution. According to this agreement, 35% of the land can be built and 65% has to remain open. The winning project was awarded to two different offices which partnered for the competition: Estudio Parysow Arquitectos and Hauser-Ziblat Oficina de Arquitectura. Architect Emilio Schargrodksy, from the first office, says: “We presented a master plan: an urban project and an architectural one, but the reason it was awarded the first prize was because of the proposal for a linear park located adjacent to the buildings and framed by the existing elevated railways. We wanted the buildings and the semi-roofed terraces to open onto a large green thematic space.” Architect Germán Hauser, from the partner office, adds: “The main facade of the buildings is the one facing the park, and the project feels completed now that the park is opened.” This is clear when, sitting outside, at one of the tables of the coffee shop and restaurant, we look at the many kids, parents and young couples playing with the colorful and custom designed playgrounds that relate to diverse elements of the fields of biology and science; the place is crowded. “In the original project the restaurant was located on one of the top floors, for private use of the ministry’s staff. But later during the process we decided to move it down, here, for visitors. In this way people can stay in the park for a while and then go into the museum to experience the many public educational activities,” Hause said. In order to respond and to adapt to the new uses requested by the first competition’s programmatic component, the existing buildings were renovated, preserving their original main structures and only the facades opposite to the park. In this manner, the traditional facades of the two former wine warehouses –both representing past architectural styles from the early 1900s– strengthen the concept of a domestic scale, so typical of the Buenos Aires’s residential neighborhoods. At this side of the site, a linear esplanade integrates the access to all offices and that to the museum, cultural center and auditorium, offering a large public area and semi-roofed spaces which reveal the institutional character of the complex. In a smart and generous gesture to the city and the neighborhood’s configuration, the architects decided to create an internal street, passing through just between the renovated buildings and the new one, connecting the esplanade across with the park. At the same time, they opened one of the edging streets of the site, formerly closed, and built an underpass (when reaching the elevated railways) as part of the traffic diversion plan.

Completing the urban-architectural proposal, the facades in front of the park were treated as one single piece. Recalling and celebrating the linear aesthetics of the historical and still existing railways, and facing the also linearly shaped open green area, a ventilated facade covers the full extent of the old and new buildings. White, contemporaneous and showing off the grand scale of an ambitious project, this element becomes both the background and the main frame of the park. Two large accessing areas, at the two opposite streets that outline the site, allow people to visit the park independently from the museum and cultural center. However, the buildings were integrated too with the park by presenting a series or stepped terraces that reach a height of 1.10 meters, which was the original level of the wine warehouses’ platforms where the unloading and loading of the wine took place in the past. The terraces are shaped as hexagons made of concrete, some of them covered with lawn, and people use them to rest, sunbathe or watch their kids playing around and climbing the intriguing playgrounds. These hexagonal terraces match the rest of the concrete pieces spread throughout the park which create paths, sitting and gathering areas. The rest of the park, covering 80% of the total area, presents three different kinds of lawn.

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The design of the playgrounds relates to the visual memory of railways and local train stations: the iron and the colors. Yet, the most significant creative decision was that of giving them the form of easily recognizable elements of science, genetics and biology: molecules which appear as teeter-tooters; corpuscles represented by swings; neurons which can be explored as climbers; DNA-spinners and muscles. Grouped and placed by an existing large metallic bridge that was renovated and painted in bright colors, the innovative set of playgrounds appear as a colorful fun composition; at the same time, they are a literal reference to the origin and basic elements of life. The architectural project offers diverse clean technologies and non-mechanical climate conditioning systems, achieving high standards of comfort: passive solar control and ventilated facades, free cooling, rain water collection and grey water recycling for reutilization in irrigation, and a flexible open overall plan with narrow widths which guarantee natural light gaining at all times of the day.

The park, in turn, incorporated a complementary series of sustainable design decisions. Soils and underground drainage systems were planned to harvest surface run off and, in case of floods, to redirect water into the new diverting tunnel built in 2012 for the contiguous Maldonado Stream; soil types regulations were also included into the project, with percentages of 80% of pervious surfaces and 20% of impervious; 90 % of the planting plan is native; historical architectural pieces were renovated and reused for present needs, such as the reutilization of the old water tanks built of brick which now collect rainwater for irrigation.

Location: City of Buenos Aires, Argentina Area of the park: 10,100 m2 Built area: 44,700 m2 Dates of Completion: 1st stage: 2009-2011; 2nd stage: 2013-2015; 3rd stage (park): 2015-2016. Client: National Ministry of Science and Technology, Minister Lino Barañao Designers: Master Plan: Estudio Parysow Arquitectos (Roberto Parysow, Emilio Schargrodksy, Jessica Parysow) Hauser-Ziblat Oficina de Arquitectura (Germán Hauser, Daniela Ziblat) Park’s ideas competition: Landscape Architect Silvestre Borgatello Park final project’s coordination and construction: Architect Bruno Spairani, Ministry’s Director of Infrastructure. Playgrounds design: Architects Ramiro Gallardo and Max Zolkwer. Galpón Estudio. Industrial designers: Euforia. Photography: Lucas Vallorani and Federico Zampaglione (MINCYT) Galpón Estudio, Jimena Martignoni

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