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Rotunda Community Garden
Rotunda Community Garden
Kirkdale, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Rotunda Community Garden
Kirkdale, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Firm
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$50K - 100K
Vision
This project began with a very loose but important brief – to make a real positive difference to local people and the environment in a deprived area where help is most needed. With a modest initial budget, BCA Landscape worked closely with the client to tap in to additional funding from a cocktail of sources to ensure the final community campus was robust and ultimately worthy of its vision to help change people’s lives for the better.
In order to achieve this big vision the project focused on three significant threads that run through all stages and aspects of the design process and implementation – Community – Regeneration and Sustainability. The team looked to innovate in these three key areas throughout the project to ensure that maximum benefit and high quality could be achieved for every penny spent and every hour volunteered.
Community
The project has involved stakeholders in imaginative ways every step of the way – from defining the brief, through to building and planting the campus and on-going training and use of the thriving spaces in wider out-reach community programmes.
Regeneration
The scheme has directly regenerated a forgotten and derelict area of land, but just as important is its on-going impact of its wider outreach programme to the local community, including employing a full time gardener – Terry - to work with and train volunteers and some of the most marginalised people in society.
Sustainability
There are two important elements here – firstly the implementation of a robust environmentally sensitive vision in all aspects of the design - through both hard and soft landscape. Secondly is the importance of environmental education and how it should be at the heart of everything we do in our everyday lives from recycling to healthy outdoor exercise and our eating habits.
Role of the Designer
Rotunda with BCA Landscape have created the Kirkdale Community Campus as a means to reach out to parts of the whole local community and especially those that are hardest to connect with: those living in poverty, ex-offenders, drug and alcohol dependants, those suffering with mental ill health as well as the long-term unemployed and young people. The garden is an educational project as well as a place for recreation, with community members encouraged to take entry-level horticultural courses as a pathway to employment and self-sufficiency. BCA Landscape have worked closely with Rotunda to develop the original brief, designed the campus with community input and also helped to establish a cocktail of funding to make the project a reality. They volunteered their own time to help plant the campus with other volunteers from the area and continue to help this important local charity on a regular basis.
This project is a timely reminder that a small budget or a wider backdrop of deprivation should NOT limit an exciting sustainable vision, the quality of design or a willingness to engage positively with people at every stage of the process.
This project began with a very loose but important brief – to make a real positive difference to local people and the environment in a deprived area where help is most needed. With a modest initial budget, BCA Landscape worked closely with the client to tap in to additional funding from a cocktail of sources to ensure the final community campus was robust and ultimately worthy of its vision to help change people’s lives for the better.
In order to achieve this big vision the project focused on three significant threads that run through all stages and aspects of the design process and implementation – Community – Regeneration and Sustainability. The team looked to innovate in these three key areas throughout the project to ensure that maximum benefit and high quality could be achieved for every penny spent and every hour volunteered.
Community
The project has involved stakeholders in imaginative ways every step of the way – from defining the brief, through to building and planting the campus and on-going training and use of the thriving spaces in wider out-reach community programmes.
Regeneration
The scheme has directly regenerated a forgotten and derelict area of land, but just as important is its on-going impact of its wider outreach programme to the local community, including employing a full time gardener – Terry - to work with and train volunteers and some of the most marginalised people in society.
Sustainability
There are two important elements here – firstly the implementation of a robust environmentally sensitive vision in all aspects of the design - through both hard and soft landscape. Secondly is the importance of environmental education and how it should be at the heart of everything we do in our everyday lives from recycling to healthy outdoor exercise and our eating habits.
Role of the Designer
Rotunda with BCA Landscape have created the Kirkdale Community Campus as a means to reach out to parts of the whole local community and especially those that are hardest to connect with: those living in poverty, ex-offenders, drug and alcohol dependants, those suffering with mental ill health as well as the long-term unemployed and young people. The garden is an educational project as well as a place for recreation, with community members encouraged to take entry-level horticultural courses as a pathway to employment and self-sufficiency. BCA Landscape have worked closely with Rotunda to develop the original brief, designed the campus with community input and also helped to establish a cocktail of funding to make the project a reality. They volunteered their own time to help plant the campus with other volunteers from the area and continue to help this important local charity on a regular basis.
This project is a timely reminder that a small budget or a wider backdrop of deprivation should NOT limit an exciting sustainable vision, the quality of design or a willingness to engage positively with people at every stage of the process.
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