MY SUGGESTION AND PROPOSAL
My suggestion for this project is POCKET PARK.
A pocket park (also known as a parkette, mini-‐park, vest-‐pocket park or vesty park) is a small park accessible to the general public. Pocket parks are frequently created on a single vacant building lot or on small, irregular pieces of land. They also may be created as a component of the public space requirement of large building projects.
Pocket parks can be urban, suburban or rural, and can be on public or private land. Although they are too small for physical activities, pocket parks provide greenery, a place to sit outdoors, and sometimes a children's playground. They may be created around a monument, historic marker or art project.
In highly urbanized areas, particularly downtowns where land is very expensive, pocket parks are the only option for creating new public spaces without large-‐scale redevelopment. In inner-‐city areas, pocket parks are often part of urban regenerationplans and provide areas where wildlife such as birds can establish a foothold. Unlike larger parks, pocket parks are sometimes designed to be fenced and locked when not in use.
Beside that, my site area are surrounding by residential area and commercial area. I realise ,my site area are lack of a recreation area. Recreation area are needed to everyone for relax after a busy day.
In the pocket park, the design will be modern style , inside the pocket park will have children play area, sitting area . The uses of the pocket park is Rest & relaxation, lunch area, sight-‐seeing, meeting spot. There are no parking area , the people who wanted come to the pocket park , I encourage them walk to here or take public bus to here.
This are the example of pocket park in other country
A Midtown Pocket Park: Paley Park Size: 4,200 square feet .1acre
Location: Midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York Date
created: 1967
Designed by: Zion and Breene Associates
Funded by: William Paley, former Chairman of CBS (the William S. Paley Foundation)
Uses: Rest & relaxation, lunch area, sight-‐seeing, meeting spot, etc.
Features: 17 honey locust trees, 20-‐foot waterfall on back wall, moveable chairs, concession stand, ivy-‐covered walls. Paley Park is one of the most widely known and most successful of all pocket parks. It is designed as an oasis away from the bustle of Manhattan while still maintaining clear sight lines and a connection with the street. Unlike some pocket parks, Paley Park does not attempt to be multi-‐functional. It is primarily a place for sitting and relaxing and, despite catering to a limited user group, is extremely busy and popular because of the high density of workers, shoppers, and tourists in the area. The midtown park is for adults-‐ offi ce workers, shoppers, tourists, and passerby. Its purpose is for rest-‐ for the offi ce worker who has fi nished lunch, a place to spend the remainder of the lunch hour; for the shopper, an opportunity to put down parcels, recline in a comfortable chair, and perhaps sip a coffee before continuing; for the tourist or passerby an oppourtunity to be refreshed visually by the scale of the place, by the dense green growth and, hopefully, by the quiet of the tiny space.
Benefits of Pocket Park
Building the pocket park, have a lot of benefits , first was a place that give people relax. Everyone are busy with their daily work , stress and tension always come out of their mind , so pocket park can help them to realese their stress because at pocket park the design was peaceful and it was a tranquil places too.
Besides that, it also a place that can gather your family and friends. Example, parents always busy with their work can cause them lack interest with their kids , so if pocket park is build in their residential area ,they will have a nearest place to play with their kids . For friends they can meet up with them on lunch time and having their lunch at pocket park.
Morover, pocket park also can help the environment be green. In the pocket park, there got trees ,flower and help the environment be green and look more nice . I realise that my choosing site were lack planting of tress and some others plants and the air are be polluted too, trees provide us oxygen , so planting trees was needed in the pocket park.
Impacts of Pocket Park
Pocket park have a lot of benefits but also have impact too.
First at all , because the pocket park is small ,if too many people come it will be crowned.
Next , traffic jam problem appear , my site was beside the LDP highway , if many people came to the park , the traffic of the LDP highway will be more jam and cause the site lively.
Sketch Of My Proposal
In my plan, there got the table , and the pocket park was surrounded by tress .
Bricks are using as the ground
Professions that involved in this project
1.Landscape Architec -‐ That helps plan and design the pocket park
2.Civil Engineer -‐ That helps build the pocket park 3. Electronic Engineer -‐ That helps on setting the light and other electronic things in pocket park 4. Quantity Surveyor -‐That helps estimate the cost of building the pocket park
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