COMPANY’S GARDEN – CAPE TOWN
PROJECT TITLE: |
COMPANY’S GARDEN CAPE TOWN: DEVELOPMENT OF A MANAGEMENT PLAN, POLICY FRAMEWORK AND ACTION PLAN 1999 TO 2002 – AWARDED A ILASA MERIT AWARD | |||||
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: |
Inventory of Historic Significant Areas and Elements for analysis and assessment towards the development of a Management Plan, Policy Framework and Action (Intervention) Plan. | |||||
PROJECT TIMELINE: |
Phase 1: Development of a Management Plan – First Draft June 1999; Development of a Management Plan – Final Report September 2000; Phase 2: Development of a Master Plan and Policy Framework; Heritage Audit, October 2001 report; Phase 2 Final Report, Overall Informants Plan and Overall Action Plan, February 2002 | |||||
CLIENT: |
City of Cape Town – Planning & Economic Development – Environmental and Heritage Department | |||||
PROJECT CONSTRUCTION VALUE: |
Planning Only | |||||
CORE PROFESSIONAL TEAM: |
OvP Landscape Architects | |||||
TEAM LEADER / PROJECT MANAGER: |
Johan van Papendorp | |||||
OvP PROJECT TEAM: |
Johan van Papendorp and Michelle Robertson-Swift | |||||
SUB-CONSULTANTS |
Penny Pistorius and Dr Stewart Harris appointed to carry out a comprehensive and informative Heritage Audit | |||||
FERNWOOD ESTATE – FERNWOOD, CAPE TOWN
PROJECT TITLE: |
FERNWOOD ESTATE LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT, SENSITIVITY MAPPING AND IDENTIFICATION OF APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENT PLANNING | |||||
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: |
In 2007 URBANscapes Landscape Architects was appointed by EPLA Consulting cc Environmental Planning and Landscape Architecture, as a sub-consultant to themselves, to conduct as part of a Status Quo of the Environment Report, a cultural historic landscape significance mapping of the property known as the Fernwood Parliamentary Sports Complex. This estate is situated on Erf 49922 Cape Town, Newlands and is furthermore made up of fifteen separate erven, registered to the Government of the Union of SA and administered by the Public Works Department. This mapping study and its identified cultural historic landscape significances when overlaid with the various other environmental specialist studies would then serve to provide planning, design and management indicators which include broad issues and considerations; trees, spatial identification of ‘no go’ areas for development (infrastructural and built form) as well as areas suitable, with identified varying degrees of mitigation, for infrastructure only or infrastructure and built form development; design structuring elements and detailing which would enhance the landscape character / sense of place in its reference notionally to the past as well as add value in terms of contemporary cultural views. |
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PROJECT TIMELINE: |
2007 to June 2008 | |||||
CLIENT: |
National Department of Public Works – Sub-Directorate Prestige Team Leader EPLA Landscape Architects | |||||
PROJECT CONSTRUCTION VALUE: |
Cultural Historic Landscape Assessment and Development Planning Only | |||||
CORE PROFESSIONAL TEAM: |
EPLA Landscape Architects | |||||
TEAM LEADER / PROJECT MANAGER: |
Hendrik van der Hoven | |||||
URBANscapes PROJECT TEAM: |
Michelle Robertson-Swift and Nicole Strong | |||||
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN MIDDLE AND LOWER CAMPUS’
PROJECT TITLE: |
UCT MIDDLE AND LOWER CAMPUS LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING | |||||
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: |
In July 2010, in order to address the HWC requirement, URBANscapes Landscape Architects was appointed by the UCT Physical Planning Unit to review the Landscape Plan submission of November 2009 and (in order to fulfill HWC requirements) further develop the Landscape Plan to encompass and detail the Middle Campus as an entire precinct. The brief was therefore to generate a Middle Campus Landscape Plan |
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PROJECT TIMELINE: |
July 2010 to November 2010 | |||||
CLIENT: |
UCT Physical Planning Unit | |||||
PROJECT CONSTRUCTION VALUE: |
Landscape Assessment and Development Planning Only | |||||
CORE PROFESSIONAL TEAM: |
URBANscapes Landscape Architects | |||||
TEAM LEADER / PROJECT MANAGER: |
Michelle Robertson-Swift | |||||
URBANscapes PROJECT TEAM: |
Michelle Robertson-Swift, David Gibbs, Mark St Pol and Brian Scheiber | |||||
