5.1 Group Masterplan and Vision for Leeds Innovation District

5.1. MASTERPLAN AND VISION

Masterplan representing final group ideas and interventions for Leeds Innovation District 1. Regeneration park 2. Innovation park 3. Glass biome 4. Rose bowl 5. Staggered forest 6. Blenheim beanstalk 7. Green streets 8. Blenheim terrace

THE BLUE RIBBON

• Multi use sculpture (seats varieties, recreation, visual amenity). • Light Blue colour reflect education and

Innovation district. • A unique thin laser cut, powdered steel structure. • Characteristic guideline across the district (sense of the place).

• Main pedestrian and cyclist connection with the central building of the whole establishment • Designed to connect the areas together and enrich the importance of the destination building. • Two bridges each of a different height • Purple and red • Walk through trees canopies

TWO BRIDGES

6. NIFTY LOOP - Design with terrain changes

Accessible urban food square with ramp integrated into stairs. Tribute and memorial of the great historical icons of the scientific world.

PEOPLE AND WELLBEING

• South facing, accessible for all, multi-use food corner. • Provide combination of enclosed and open spaces

TO CONNECT

• Carefull management of the existing slope. • Site accessible for cyclists and wheelchair users.Nature Inspired

Honey comb

Spiral motif in nature Golden ratio

SUSTAINABILITY AND BIODIVERSITY

• Integration of coffee shop into existing hill • Increasing Bio diversity, through the use of native and wildlife friendly species. • Limiting wind corridors and noise from the surrounding traffic.

MESSAGE

• Organic layout fully inspired by nature • Enhance the tribute to great scientists and thinkers.

Basalt hexagonal structures Water ripple

DNA structure

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WHEELCHAIR AND CYCLIST ACCESS A ramp integrated into stairs (Gradient 1:12)

PEDESTRIAN ACCESS

SLOPE MANAGING / RAMP MELTED INTO STAIRS The oval shape of the

conception inspired by water ripple, include 7 main steps, managing 4 meters change in level. The grades and heights will be descending on alternating sides, allowing access for disabled people and cyclists, as a innovative way of crossing the ramp through the stairs.

URBAN FURNITURE AND PLANTERS Inspired by honeycomb, hexagonal cubes as a mixed- use street furniture, planters as well as bare planting areas left under construction for water management and expansion joints in general paving. Structures in different sizes and heights, in three different shades, made by pre casted concrete.

TREE AND HERBACEOUS PLANTING BEDS The concept is to plant densely

within a controlled framework. The purpose is to create diverse landscape by selection of native species, what will reduce the heat island effect, increase bio-diversity and create an urban ‘meadow’ of ornamental grasses, flowering plants and trees .

GOLDEN SPIRAL Inspired by golden ratio, paving feature with aesthetic and memorial function. Starts on central point of the design, and spread over the whole assumption. Made by sealed corten steel with casted quotes, embedded flat into general paving surface of high-strength concrete.