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Prepared by: Pengling (Roc). Xia, Fall 2023Cover Image Source: https://www.swagroup.com/projects/ricardo-lara-park/
Strong and positive family connections are important for children’s development. They can help children feel secure and loved, which gives them confidence to explore their world, try new things and learn. Also, they can give children the skills they need to understand and build healthy and strong relationships.
Strong and positive family connections are important for children’s development. They can help children feel secure and loved, which gives them confidence to explore their world, try new things and learn. Also, they can give children the skills they need to understand and build healthy and strong relationships.
The following case studies demonstrate how a landscape can be designed to attract family-oriented activities and promote family connections.
The following case studies demonstrate how a landscape can be designed to attract family-oriented activities and promote family connections.
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Yanaguana Garden at Hemisfair
Yanaguana Garden at Hemisfair
"A large net play structure allows children to climb high, but has ropes to catch them if they slip. "
Text and Image Source: https://www.migcom.com/work/yanaguana-garden-play-area
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Location: San Antonio, TX
Date Designed / Built: 2015
Client: Hemisfair Park Area Redevelopment Corporation; City of San Antonio
Designer: MIG
Project Context
Project Context
Hemisfair is an urban district with parks and open spaces, local businesses, and residences in downtown San Antonio. The Hemisfair Area Master Plan was created in 2012 to strategically catalyze three major phases of redevelopment within the park. The overall goals of the plan include the preservation and reuse of historic structures and features, providing public space with diverse programs, developing a mixed-use neighborhood, improving connectivity, and overall sustainable development. Yanaguana Garden is the first of the three major phases of redevelopment, and it was completed and opened to the public in the fall of 2015.
Text Source: https://www.migcom.com/work/yanaguana-garden-play-areaProject Description
Project Description
Yanaguana Garden is a 4.1-acre park within the 19.2-acre Hemisfair District in San Antonio, Texas, and it is the first phase of implementation for the Hemisfair Area Master Plan. Built on a portion of the site of the 1968 World’s Fair, Yanaguana Garden replaced a 1970s-era children’s play structure with a series of linked and flexible spaces that provide opportunities to play and socialize for people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. The park serves to catalyze social relationships and encourages play among different age groups.
Text Source: https://www.migcom.com/work/yanaguana-garden-play-area
Children, teens, and adults can all play and socialize on the net climbers
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Children play on the merry-go-around
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The large-scale chess sets can be used by children, teens, adults and the elderly.
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“Kite Table”, an art installation and seating element, offers experiences for all ages with varied seating options.
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Project Significance and Impact
Project Significance and Impact
The project produced a sustainable, all visitors friendly, and educational park. The redesign park captures, infiltrates, and evaporates an estimated 34% of average annual rainfall using infiltration basins and permeable play surfaces. Also, the park allows all visitors to access, use, and enjoy all play features according to 94% of 82 surveyed visitors. The park provides educational and cultural value. 65% of 82 surveyed visitors agreed that the art in the garden has helped them understand the site’s cultural and historical importance.
Text Source: https://www.migcom.com/work/yanaguana-garden-play-areaTakeaways for Design
Takeaways for Design
Provide a spirited environment that children and adults can enjoy together, while promoting learning and exploration of the history, arts, and culture of San Antonio.
Highlight play as a universal language and create an equitable space where children, families, and singles of all shapes and sizes, no matter their cultural heritage, age, or physical ability, feel welcome, inspired, and challenged to play.
For more information:
For more information:
https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/ricardo-lara-linear-park#/overview
Ricardo Lara Linear Park
Ricardo Lara Linear Park
An Aerial view of the Ricardo Lara Linear Park
Image Source: https://www.swagroup.com/projects/ricardo-lara-park/
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Location: Lynwood, California
Date Designed / Built: 2015
Client: City of Lynwood
Designer: SWA Group
Project Context
Project Context
“The United States is still recovering from urban renewal decisions to prioritize highways over communities, resulting in neighborhoods—primarily occupied by residents of color—that have been bifurcated by massive infrastructural barriers. Decades later, some of those disruptive decisions are beginning to be ameliorated, as are the communities impacted by them. One such community is Lynwood, California, where the five-block Ricardo Lara Linear Park replaces a barren, freeway-adjacent right-of-way with a shaded green space that affords park access to more than 26,000 neighbors.
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Project Description
Project Description
Ricardo Lara Park is a vibrant city park. It demonstrates how a small investment and creative thinking about landscape can transform the very infrastructure that has long divided and isolated a community into an amenity that unites it, offering much-needed environmental and recreational benefits. SWA’s design was inspired by a collaboration with the nonprofit organization From Lot to Spot to conduct community outreach; this lively exchange of ideas contributed to the park’s unique identity, structure, and function. Cross streets divide the park into five blocks, and each block accommodates a different program: dog park, fitness stations, play structures, community gardening and education, and passive recreation with artwork and storm water detention.
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Color paving delineates different areas of the park
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Playground structures designed for children ages 2-12 provide opportunities for strength-building exercise and play for all ages
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Planted stormwater basins also provide outdoor play opportunities
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Community gardening provides opportunities for families connection
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Project Significance and Impact
Project Significance and Impact
The project Improves social cohesion among residents, with 86% of 36 surveyed users reporting the park has made a noticeable positive change in the neighborhood and 68% of 37 users reporting that they have met new people and/or made new friends thanks to the park. Second, it Improves physical and mental health, with 87% of 38 surveyed users reporting that their physical activity level is higher, 89% of 37 reporting their physical health has improved, and 89% of 37 reporting that their overall mental health has improved since the park’s opening. The park also reduces noise pollution by up to 7 decibels, which represents a clearly noticeable change. Last but not least, it Improves health through the community garden, with 50% of 26 surveyed users reporting that their family’s health has improved and 45% of 31 users reporting that they eat healthier due to their participation in the community garden’s programs and activities.
Text Source: https://www.swagroup.com/projects/ricardo-lara-park/https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/yanaguana-garden-at-hemisfair#/overview
Design Takeaways
Design Takeaways
The methods that create planted stormwater basins that capture and clean stormwater runoff from Interstate 105 before it enters the storm drain while reducing flooding and costs associated with flood-related issues.
The way Provide a buffer between the community and the elevated Interstate 105.
The way it create a community garden and physical activity opportunities both for parents and children.
https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/yanaguana-garden-at-hemisfair#/overview
For more information:
For more information:
https://www.swagroup.com/projects/ricardo-lara-park/
https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/yanaguana-garden-at-hemisfair#/overview
Sources:
Sources:
https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/yanaguana-garden-at-hemisfair#/overview
https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/yanaguana-garden-at-hemisfair#/overview
https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/ricardo-lara-linear-park#/overview
https://www.migcom.com/work/yanaguana-garden-play-area
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