In the Crissy Field, Hargreaves’s design reinstates the areas’ natural and manmade features, enhancing its genus loci. There are various and diverse recreational areas that enable the user to find a space that suits their want at that time. This diversity and its key location create great opportunity and a chance the site will be a popular location. The topography is flats, and Hargreaves was sensitive to not installing a vast overengineered “art project” design.
Although this approach has allowed the natural landscape to sing, I do feel in some areas, the space seems “forgotten”, but this, I’m sure, was left intentional.
The original buildings have been refurbished and incorporated into the design, showing sympathetic sustainability. This is a very successful site and has become part of the community.
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