Navy yards central green

case study land scale architecture

1. Navy Yards Central Green
James Corner Field Operations
Mohammad Saleh melmhseri.myportfolio.com

2. 21-24
BRIEF
3-5
SITE FORCES
FORM
9-15
CONCEPT
6-8
FUNCTION
16-20
DETAILS
29
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CONCLUSION
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3. 1.The park is divided into several different function.
2.The area of the park is close to the area of the site
to be designed .
3.Use trees and shrubs commensurate with the
region .
4.Use clear geometric shapes in the design.
WHY WE CHOOSE

4. Project Info
01
Architects :James Corner Field Operations
Size : 23000M
Project Year : 2015
Project Location : Philadelphia Navy Yard,Philadelphia,
PA,United States

5. Field Operations has designed the 5-acre Central Green
at the heart of the Philadelphia Navy Yard Corporate
Center. The site was historically marked by wetlands,
meadows, and bird habitat and is growing into
Philadelphia’s most innovative and progressive
corporate neighborhood.
General
description of the
garden

6. The site at the heart of
the former boat-
building docks in the
south of the city
The site contain curves like the
bow of ship
CONCEPT
02

7. The designer use these
lines to reflect them
into the park
Use circles to disconnect the different zones
and use the curves to determine the
regions and the axes of movement .
CONCEPT
02

8. The design unites the cutting-
edge urban potential of the
site with its native habitat
Resulting in a new type of environment that
is sustainable, green and natural as well
as social, active and urban.
02

9. LOCATONGENDER
THE SITE
Woman
40%
Man
60%
AGE
1-21
10%
Located near
the coast in a
city navy
yard
USERS
03
21-50
70%
50-70
20%
usa
The site is located
in an urban
development area
(there many
companies and
commercial areas
and also close to
the coast) so most
users of the park
are from the age
group of 21-50
years.

10. GENDER
Woman
40%
Man
60%
AGE
1-21
10%
USERS
03
21-50
70%
50-70
20%
Because of this, the
designer has
developed
dedicated play
areas for adults to
keep up with
development

11. TOPOGRAPHY
03
The region has one level for it
.The designer took advantage
of it and did not change it
He designed a running track on
the garden frame, taking
advantage of the comfortable
level of running

12. The designer distributed the entrances
of people and parking on the bystreets
to reduce the intensity on the main
street .
Site plan
Main
road
Bystreet
Main
Entrances
Main
Entrances
Barking
03

13. Main entrances
Secondary
entrances
Internal path

14. CLIMATE
SUN
N
03

15. CLIMATE
The site was historically marked by
wetlands, meadows and bird
habitat, and is growing into
Philadelphia most innovative and
progressive corporate neighborhood
SUN
Wetn
ess
03

16. FUNCTIO
N
ZONE
SEATING
AREA
PLA
Y
ARE
A
THE
BUILLDI
NG

17. CENTRAL GREEN
This is the only building in the park .
It contain two parts
THE BILDING
This lawn is gradually designed to
reduce the level between the
building and the lawn.
SUN LAWN

18. PLAY
AREA
Each major circle features a different environment: a fitness station,
amphitheater/”sun lawn” (hiding storage and bathrooms below rising
stairs), a hammock grove, bocce courts, ping-pong tables, a huge
communal table, and a “bio basin” for stormwater. The effect is a series of
richly different spaces that make space for diverse uses.
Bocce courtTrxfitness area Table tennis

19. SEATING AREA
LOUNGE LAWNHAMMOCK GROVA LOUNGE LAWN

20. Zone area
m
m
m
m
m
Play
area

21. THE FORM

22. General description of the design
The designer used circles as the
dominant design motif to define
Central Green’s different spaces, each
one offset by different tones of
permeable paths.
The rim of which is a “Social Track” –
literally a .2 mile track lined with wood
and metal lounge chairs and benches
–that neatly rings a series of round
rooms toward the park’s interior.

23. Walk across the park you
find yourself on circuitous
paths that make the space
feel larger than it is, a
feeling further enhanced by
the subtle changes in grade
from wildflower-covered
mounds and the stormwater
retention pond’s dip.

24. HARDSCA
PE
LAYERS
SOFTSCA
PE
LAYER

25. DETAILS
SECTION
S
SUNLAW
N
SWINGS NET
POLE
MOUND
SOCIAL
TRACK
POLE
MOUND
BUTTERFLY
GLADE
WET
MEADOW
SOCIAL
TRACK
A-A
B-B

26. WET MEADOW
This area was designed by placing plants
that need moisture, because the area was
previously famous for the name of the
WET area and because the climate of the
region is suitable for cultivation of these
plants, the designer put this spot to
indicate the history of the region

27. Prairie
Dropseed
Bushy
Bluestem
Feather Reed Blue Star Steeplebush
White
Meadowsweet
Blue Flag Iris
Southern Blue
Flag Iris
Blazing Star Great Blue
New York
Ironweed
Betony
Wet plants
That they cultivated

28. Wayfinding
Banners have been placed
visible to everyone upon entry
Also, they are designed
with colors suitable for
garden colors, and the
use of yellow color is
easy for visitors to read

29. CONCLUSIONS
The design is user-
dependent and therefore
designs garden functions
Using plants that have the
ability to live in the area
The clarity of the movement
paths and the change of the sub-
track materials and the main
tracks to difference between
them
user PLANTS
Walk paths
Clear geometric shapes helped
him divide the good function
FORM
Balance betweenhardscape and
softscape
Balance