AN INTERRUPTED SPACE Through the years Pioneer & Military Memorial Park has been ignored and disregarded as the city of Pheonix was built up around it. Lack of consideration for history has left this site as an outlier amongst the various business parks. By using the existing grid systems, as a key design focus for the new portion of the cemetery, it relates the design to the existing layout. To represent the interruption of the the built environment the new buildings interrupt these grids at an angle, and force views towards the historical site.
Using four of the main grids on the site helped create four distinct sections, a public area with tables, a more private area behind the history center with privacy walls, the built environments, and the new burial sites. The concrete pavers bleed into the existing brick work on the site as well as into the city side walk to create an integration of the site with its surroundings.
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MATERIALS PALETTE
RUSTED ETCHED METAL
CONCRETE PAVERS
The rusted metal will be used as hollow privacy screen walls and as panels on each gravestone with the deceased’s names etched onto it.The concrete pavers will be across the site dissapearing into existing walk ways and where vegetation is placed.The buildings, walls, and benches will be made of COLORED & NATURAUL CONCRETE two shades of concrete.
INTERIOR SITE PLANTS
WEEPING ACACIA THREAD GRASS WHITE GLOBE MALLOW
EXTERIOR SITE PLANTS
RAIN LILIES
DEER GRASS
The site itself will have tall trees to imitate the height of the surrounding buildings. The rest of the vegetation wil be made up of various grasses and bushes with white blooms or no blooms at all. On the outside of the wall will be various colorful desert plants to draw attetntion to the site creating a lively threshhold before entering the more simple cemetery.
EVER GREEN ELM
BIRDS OF PARIDISE BLUE GLOW AGAVE
ALA 226: Spring 2015 Design Fundamentals IV
FAIRY DUSTER
PENSTEMON
Student: Elizabeth Madsen Instructor: Monina Ramirez