The lecture is free and all are welcome. Please RSVP to ili@irishlandscapeinstitute.com to reserve your place. The Wijkeroogpark – dating from the 1960s – was split in two by infrastructural developments. What was left was a small neighborhood park that had long lost its soul. By digging into the geomorphologic history of the park, unexpected conditions came to light.
The Scheybeek, an ancient freshwater stream that was once imprisoned in a culvert, is revealed and developed into the backbone of the park. The new stream is “an elegant, streamlined watercourse that performs a host of ecological and recreational functions” within a highly engineered landscape.
Revealing and developing ‘unexpected conditions’ has long been the core of the B+B design process. Using these conditions to evoke human interaction in the public realm is a topic that many of the projects deal with. The Wijkeroogpark is a project by Bureau B + B urbanism and landscape architecture and Atelier de Lyon.
Urban Hydrology Part 2
Unexpected Conditions : The Wijkeroogpark
Gert-Jan Wisse, Bureau B+B
Thursday February 26th 2015 at 6.30pm
City Assembly House, South William St., Dublin 2
