Semester 2, Week 5 (Part 2): Lighting in Parks

 The next 3 examples of newly designed urban parks were:

- Harvard plaza

- Le jardin Rosa Luxembourg

- Vilnius plaza

Harvard plaza gives us an open space with contemporary lit seating, ergonomically suiting different seating habits. An adaptive space, it can fit crowds attending concerts and events into it as well as a farmers market. That’s all well and good but I see a very empty space and one with lots of hard landscaping. It doesn’t sit softly in its surroundings and I don’t see any biophilic attention doesn’t on its design.

Vilnius plaza provides seating and lighting in a different way with illumination provided by overhead, sculptural strips. Regular greenery splits up the space and the more I looked at this design the more I started to like it.

The pragmatic, industrial park created in Paris is a great example of retrofitting. I love the presence of nature in this industrial relic. There’s something post apocalyptic about the way nature seems to have reclaimed this artefact of human activity which I find appealing. The reason I called this entry ‘lighting’ is because this design is in the shade and doesn’t look to have great night-lighting (perhaps giving it an even spookier demeanour during night hours)