Amended - Received 1 July Appendix 6 Landscaping Report and Plans Realm Studios Ltd

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1 Amended - Received 1 July 2014 Appendix 6 Landscaping Report and Plans Realm Studios Ltd

2 Majestic Church: Christchurch Resource Consent - Landscape

3 Issue B - 27th June 2014 REALMstudios Pty Ltd ABN enquries@realmstudios.com Bourke Street PO Box Melbourne Vic 3001 Melbourne M jon.shinkfield@realmstudios.com Sydney M chris.yandle@realmstudios.com Perth M damien.pericles@realmstudios.com

4 Contents Design Approach P04 Histories and inspiration P06 Principals & Site Plan P08 Key Landscape Elements P08 Threshold Ste Entries P10 Courtyard P12 Baptismal/Performance/ Events P14 Stre etscape P16 Lighting P17 Drainage P18 Paving P20 Furniture P22 Carpark Green Facade P24 Planting P26

5 Design Approach The design approach for the landscape proposal to the proposed Majestic Church is founded in a response to: The histories of the Normal School - its past materiality, form, geometries and footprint, its gardens and presentation to the street; The adjacencies of the Cranmer Square - its leafy green, formal composition; The reading of the surrounding streetscapes - their simple boundary to kerb expression with important trees behind those boundaries to punctuate the streetscape and provide a sense of scale;..all of which contribute to this landscape proposal which is at once historic in its referencing yet contemporary and expansive in its application. It combines an urban materiality, through its seating, pavement areas and lighting, with a playfulness and interpretation, in providing for church based activities ie performance, baptism and areas for gathering and celebration. Management of stormwater, its cleansing and use as an irrigator, equally informs the spatial structure and design. Planters to the carpark s green façade capture and cleanse runoff from the carpark. Trees are located along drainage lines to absorp and cleanse, and a central raingarden soak collects water in the central baptismal courtyard - symbolic of the activity of cleansing. The landscape structure and treatments for the Majestic Church are informed by the site s histories, adjacencies and projected uses. It is expressive of the functions of the new site uses and at the same time of its through-site connections to other places, maintaining a genuine dialogue with the street and surrounding area. 4 Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014 View looking north

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7 Histories and Inspiration As a result of the Earthquake much of Christchurch s heritage has been removed. The implications of this change are significant at all levels; structural, material and spatial relationships across the city have shifted, and we approach this site with the view to expressing its important histories, spatial relationships and materials. The materiality of the Normal School building and its relationship to the street has informed and inspired the landscape treatments for the Majestic Church; the materials of the lost building can be incorporated into new pavements; its relationship to the street can be modelled on what was with garden beds of hedging and flowering/ textural plantings; and trees can be included within the site boundary to punctuate and soften the built form. These are expressed historic values in the new design. We note from recent writings in the Fairfax NZ News that what was once a city with a focus on attractive street frontages has been lost to more brutal contemporary treatments. David Moyle, President of the Christchurch Beautifying Association says; We don t espouse a particular style of garden but we do want to see a more fulsome garden frontage, from traditional styles to formal, maybe a finely clipped hedge, maybe espaliered fruit trees, or a row of dwarf fruit trees set amongst herbaceous colour. We re looking for beauty and difference. The landscape seeks to reinforce this expression. Facade from original Normal School Building prior to the earthquake/demolition 6 Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014

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9 Principles & Site Plan The site plan opposite is based on a series of landscape principles and key elements outlined in the diagram. Key landscape spaces are outlined in the following pages through exploration of: Streetscape Threshold Site Entries Courtyard and Baptismal Pool Landscape Principles: Legend Line of Normal School Entry Thresholds Screen Plantings Decorative Plantings Central Court Soak - Drainage Point Lighting Element 8 Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014

10 Site Plan: Legend (NTS) Peterborough Street 1 Auditorium 2 Chapel 3 Car Park 4 Existing Residential 19 5 Creative Studios 6 Multipurpose/Youth/Kids Green Facade to Car Park 8 Courtyard - Insitu Concrete 19 9 Baptismal Pool and soak under 10 Site Entries/Thresholds 4 11 Vehicle drop-off 12 Seating 13 Deciduous tree alley 22 plantings 14 Deciduous tree copsed plantings 15 Ornamental Plantings Bitumen Sidewalk 17 Play Space 18 Bike Parking (34 spaces) 19 Existing trees to be Montreal Street retained 20 Administration 21 Residential Accomodation (above) 22 Car parking with permeable paving N Kilmore Street 9

11 Key Landscape Elements Threshold Site Entries As a threshold at site entries the paving reflects a mosaic of the architecture of the Normal School in material and pattern. The actual image of the building can be read from elevated positions in the carpark. Tree alleys mark the site entry points and punctuate the streetscape between buildings. Integrated furniture combines timber seating (referencing the timber doors of the Normal School), lighting and planters for seasonal/festival colour and an expression of activity and welcome at the entry points. A red line of light in the pavement signifies passage beyond and through the site, quietly visible by day, featuresome and theatrical at night. Autumn Summer 10 Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014

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13 Key Landscape Elements Courtyard The courtyard functions as an arrival, a gathering, and a through space. Spatially it provides for both the gathering crowds and at the same time for the solitary/creative experience. Pavements to the courtyard are a triangulated patterns of sawcut honed (semi polished) insitu concrete, referencing and continuing the triangulated geometry of Cranmer Square paths. Pavements will stretch into the auditorium lobby and creative studio buildings to increase the sense of space and to integrate internal/ external transitions and activity across the space. Trees are strategically located as a backdrop to the stage and to read as a sequential link with the threshold trees. Perspective keyplan 12 Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014

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15 Key Landscape Elements Baptismal/Performancme/Events The stage allows for semi-formal, informal and impromptu performance for the church, the creative suites of the kids space and at the same time acts as a seat or as a platform (450 high) for functions or occasional elevated seats and tables. The Baptismal Pool sits within the stage, covered by a mechanically operated hatch which when opened folds over to become another 150mm high decking piece. Plumbing and drainage will be incorporated into the baptismal pool for filling and emptying at times of baptism. Finishes of timber, hinging and steel reference the timber treatments of the original Normal School doors. The Raingarden/soak below the stage/deck is the catchment and cleansing point for on site drainage. It will include plant materials to the edges where there is available light and then gravel and filtration media for the remainder. The raingarden is directly connected to the stormwater. Timber deck with cover hinged closed Timber deck with cover hinged open exposing pool 14 Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014

16 Hinged cover opens Soak layer Outfall/Drain Typical section of decking sub-structure and drainage soak Perspective keyplan Decking sub-structure 15

17 Key Landscape Spaces Streetscape Bitumen sidewalks maintain the material treatments of the area. Garden beds between site boundaries and buildings reflect traditional garden plantings and the histories of the School. Inclusions of Buxus hedging, flowering shrubs and textural plantings 16 Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014

18 Lighting Lighting will be integrated into the landscape structure such as into seating/planter elements, baptismal deck and as uplights to trees, to provide soft, reflected and mood lighting to the gathering areas. By contrast and as a place of regular night-time activity, the central courtyard will be flood lit from lighting attached to the carpark structure. A red line of light set into the pavement signifies connection through the site beyond the central courtyard - quietly visible by day, featuresome and theatrical at night. 17

19 Drainage Management of stormwater, its cleansing and use as an irrigator, informs the spatial structure of the design. Planters to the carpark s green façade behave as raingardens, capturing and cleansing runoff from the carpark through the sequence of planters. At the same time this irrigates and maintains moisture to the climbing plants. The ground pavements have been divided into a series of catchments; At the site thresholds trees are located along drainage lines, behaving as bioretention pits i.e. as absorption/ cleansing devises. This feature both irrigates the trees and cleanses water prior to collection and discharge to stormwater underground. As a metaphor for the downpipe these drainage lines coincide with downpipe lines in the Normal School pavement elevation representation. The central courtyard is drained to central raingarden soak under the baptismal deck, collecting and cleansing the courtyard runoff prior to discharge underground, symbolic of the activity of baptism - cleansing. Stormwater catchment and discharge has been integrated into the structural elements of the landscape rather than expressed as pits and grates. stormwater roof runoff from level above to planters below drain to soak drainage from planters auditorium car park 18 Drainage via facade raingarden planters Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014 Passive irrigation to tree pits with ballast rock - informal

20 permeable paving drain to soak under deck Stormwater Strategy - Drainage direction Passive irrigation to tree pits - formal Passive irrigation to tree pits - formal 19

21 Paving Three pavement types comprise the paving scheme; 1. Bitumenous concrete to the street side pedestrian pavement. 2. As threshold pavement at the site entries a mosaic of the architecture of the Normal School is proposed in both material and pattern. Recycled Normal School stone will be used in the threshold areas where the Normal School once stood. The elevation pattern of the School is used as a base for the pavment patterning and includes the reuse of stone stockpiled from the old building and with introduced stone such as slate to represent the School s roof. 3. The pavement to the rest of the site is proposed as a bright and light honed concrete in a triangulated pattern through grout-filled sawcut. The pattern references and continues the triangulated geometry of Cranmer Square paths. Pavements will stretch into the auditorium lobby and creative studio buildings to increase the sense of space and to integrate internal/external transitions and activity across the space Paving detail to threshold/entries Paving detail to Chapel 20 Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014

22 8 7 Paver Type 07 Location: Child Care Area Material: Coloured softfall and concrete Colour: Various 8 Paver Type 08 Location: Private external car parks Material: Concrete permeable paver Colour: Grey Paving plan Paver Type 01 Location: Courtyard Material: Concrete Size: Insitu Colour: Grey Finish: Honed Joint: Grouted saw cuts on grid and diagonals Paver Type 02 (mixed with P03) Location: Entry Thresholds & Chapel Material: Recycled Normal School Bluestone Size: 300x150cm or 150x150cm Colour: Bluestone Finish: Milled Paver Type 03 (mixed with P02) Location: Entry Thresholds & Chapel Material: Recycled bluestone (various) Size: 300x150cm or 150x150cm Colour: Subtle colour variations based on Normal School Bluestone colour Finish: Milled Paver Type 04 Location: Entry Thresholds & Chapel Material: Bluestone (various) Size: 300x150cm or 150x150cm Colour: Subtle colour variations based on Normal School Bluestone colour Finish: Milled Paver Type 05 Location: Entry Thresholds & Chapel Material: Recycled Palestone to match Normal School Size: 300x150cm or 150x150cm Colour: Creme Finish: Milled Paver Type 06 Location: Entry Thresholds & Chapel Material: Slate to match Normal School roof Size: 300x150cm or 150x150cm Colour: Grey Finish: Milled 21

23 Furniture Seating Seating elements reference the ceiling materiality and geometries of the Normal School through the use of timber and steel over a solid base. Above the solid base elements cut outs in the seat accommodate plantings for seasonal effect ie bulb plantings in winter/spring. The design of the seat sets the timber/steel seat to hover over the solid base elements where incorporated lighting exaggerates the effect at night. Furniture positions are located as part of the threshold treatments at places where they will have multifunctional use. Painted black steel framework Recycled timber slats 22 Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014

24 Seating locations Pre-cast concrete base / planters Seasonal plantings 23

25 Carpark Green Facade Planters for the green facade function as both stormwater drainage catchment/conveyance/cleansing units and irrigated planting beds (elevated raingardens). Growing media will be specified for both its stormwater conveyance/cleansing and growing properties. Plant materials have been selected for their climbing characteristics and in relation to the aspect and prevailing environmental conditions. Extent of green facade Typical Section Western Green Facade Elevation 24 Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014

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27 Planting We don t espouse a particular style of garden but we do want to see a more fulsome garden frontage, from traditional styles to formal, maybe a finely clipped hedge, maybe espaliered fruit trees, or a row of dwarf fruit trees set amongst herbaceous colour. We re looking for beauty and difference. Genus Species Common Name Size (HxSm) Location Trees Quercus palustrus Pin Oak 20x10 Full sun - Part shade Shrubs/Grasses Miscanthus sinensis Morning Lights Eulalia 1.5x1 Full sun - Part shade Metrosideros villosus Tahiti Tahiti 1x1 Full sun Ground Covers Lithospermum Grace Ward Lithospermum 0.3x1 Full sun Thumus vulgaris Thyme 0.3x0.3 Full sun - Part shade Tradescantia spathacea Moses in the Cradle 0.2x0.2 Full sun - Part shade Tulbaghia violacea Society Garlic 0.4x0.3 Full sun - Part shade Hedging Lonicera nitida Boxleaf Honeysuckle 0.5x0.3 Full sun - Part shade Pittosporum Mountain Green Pittosporum 2x1 Full sun - Part shade Buxus microphylla var japonica Buxus 0.5x0.3 Full sun - Part shade Camellia sasanqua Camelia 1x1 Full sun - Part shade 26 Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014

28 Pin Oak - Summer Miscanthus Morning Light Tradescantia spathacea Buxus microphylla var japonica Pin Oak - Autumn Metrosideros villosus Tahiti Tulbaghia violacea Camellia sasanqua Pin Oak - Winter Lithospermum Grace Ward Lonicera nitida Pin Oak - Spring Thumus vulgaris Pittosporum Mountain Green Adjacent Plain Oak, English Oak and Pin Oak plantings in Cranmer Square 27

29 Planting (continued) Genus Species Common Name Size (HxSm) Location Climbers Clematis paniculata Puawhananga 8x5 Full sun - Part Shade Trachelospermum jasminoides Chinese Star 3x3 Full sun - Part shade Ficus pumila Creeping Fig 4x3 Full sun - Part shade Hedera helix Common English Ivy 15x10 Full sun - Part shade Wet or Damp Carex secta Makura 1x1 Full sun Carex trifida Rekohu Sunrise Tataki grass 0.8x0.8 Full sun - Part shade Cordyline australis Albertii New Zealand Cabbage Tree 3x1.5 Full sun Cyperus diffusus Dwarf Umbrella Grass 0.4x0.4 Full sun - Part shade Leptocarpus similis Jointed Wire Rush - Oioi 1.5x1.5 Full sun - Part shade Liriope Royal Purple Liriope 0.4x0.4 Full shade - Part shade Ophiopogon japonicus nana Mondo Grass 0.1x0.2 Full sun - Part shade Phormium Emerald Green Flax 1.5x1.5 Full sun - Part shade Containerised / Seating Lavendula stoechas Lavender 0.5x0.5 Full sun Brunnera macrophylla Brunnera Jack Fros 0.45x0.25 Full shade Thyme Lavender Blueberry 0.5x0.5 Full sun 28 Majestic Church - Public Realm Concept Report Feburary 2014

30 Clematis paniculata Carex secta Leptocarpus similis Lavendula stoechas Trachelospermum jasminoides Carex trifida Rekohu Sunrise Liriope Royal Purple Camellia sasanqua Ficus pumila Cordyline australis Albertii Ophiopogon japonicus nana Recycled door timbers Hedera helix Cyperus diffusus Phormium Emerald Green 29

31 Peterborough Street 19 Site Plan: Legend Auditorium 2 Chapel 3 Car Park 19 4 Existing Residential 5 Creative Studios 6 Multipurpose/Youth/Kids Green Facade to Car Park 8 Courtyard - Insitu Concrete 9 Baptismal Pool and soak under 10 Site Entries/Thresholds Vehicle drop-off Seating 13 Deciduous tree alley plantings 14 Deciduous tree copsed plantings 15 Ornamental Plantings Bitumen Sidewalk Play Space 5 18 Bike Parking (34 spaces) Existing trees to be retained 20 Administration 21 Residential Accomodation (above) 22 Car parks with permeable paving 16 9 Montreal Street Kilmore Street Line of Normal School Entry Thresholds stormwater roof runoff from level above to planters below Screen Plantings Decorative Plantings Central Court Soak - Drainage Point Lighting Element Pin Oak - Summer Tradescantia spathacea Buxus microphylla var japonica drain to soak under deck Pin Oak - Autumn Tulbaghia violacea Camellia sasanqua drain to soak drainage from planters auditorium car park Carex secta Leptocarpus similis Lavendula stoechas Landscape Principles: Selected Plant Material Stormwater Strategy - Drainage Direction Drainage via facade raingarden planters Sydney, Melbourne, Perth Project: Majestic Church, NZ Title: Master Plan Client: Majestic Church Scale: A m N Date: Issue: B