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- - Project Approach - 2 - October 10, 2007 - - We created multiple pathways so that there is no single way to enjoy the park. This will also be important at Heritage Park. A goal at the Artspark that will also be critical at Heritage Park is to recognize that multiple users will be experiencing the park simultaneously. The contemplative user, wanting to ':\:'J enjoy a passive environmental experience amidst the natural trails, which we will propose, while the mother and her child enjoy a fun time on the playground. We were able to achieve this with a concept of outdoor rooms all while Federal Highway and three lanes of traffic are passing by in downtown Hollywood. ~;::-K:i;=-~ ,"9 ~.-r-__J.o-;." ~.?" ~.' ~/d'- "l' . -'.. ~....- ~ ~ ~ .'~ "{ill" '~~fI '~:~ :r:llIL~ f.'"".;.,~-..-;...~i(r. :_ Today, parents are crossing traffic with their strollers; couples are walking hand-in- hand to spend Friday night in the Artspark in downtown Hollywood after they have been to a restau rant. . . At Heritage Park it will be important to understand all the different users of the area, from the residents in the towers, to those driving to the park, to those on foot and others who may visit the site for field trips, or artists interested in seeing the site for its creative potential to look at or draw from. The residents ~ :-:--..-.---- -:n looking over the park will have a particular point of view that is different from the public visiting the park on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. One should contemplate the different visitor and imagine that they will want to return. The parent who may use the park regularly will possibly use primarily one area of the park, say the children's play area. ~ In the Artspark, we have children lining up for the play elements. It has become so popular that families will go nowhere else. We elected to develop a non-traditional playground based on creativity and sensory elements that, through discovery and movement, a child's imagination is engaged. Playgrounds are also a part of the visual realm and are art elements and places for learning about the environment. ~ Also designed are unique site specific benches and seating, impromptu performance spaces, sculpture spaces for art, meandering paths, a unique interactive sensory garden children's environment and play area, water oriented experiences including an artist collaborated 60' long fountain and interactive water play fountain and a misting fountain conjuring a primitive ethereal landscape. Although Heritage Park will be much smaller in size, these same elements can be incorporated to provide a range of experiences for the community. Landscape elements also include a Bamboo grove, tropical hedonistic garden terraces, a grassy meadow with formal color changing volumes emerging from the ground amidst existing trees articulating multiple visual and sensory experiences, Frisbee lawns, native gardens and colorful seasonal trees are added . I throughout the park. ~_~.. . . The. Artspark Ar~hitectural Program~ .i~c1uded a Visual Arts Pavilion for artist "',\ .... StudiOS, community classroom, exhibition space, dance rehearsal space and 2 . ,~1I': administration, containing an outdoor amphitheater for classes and support space __ for a glassblowing and a metal workshop. The building is integrated into the landscape as part of the concept of building as art and building as landscape. We invite you to visit the Artspark to fully appreciate the transformation that has been created.