3. Westin Dragonara Resort (St. Julian’s, Malta)
• Obras y mantenimiento de jardinería exterior e
interior.
4. Hilton Malta & Portomaso Marina
(St. Julian’s, Malta)
• Ejecución de obra de jardinería en el interior y
suministro de plantas y substratos para el
paisajismo interior
• Mantenimiento de jardinería exterior e interior.
6. Manoel Island – Tigne’ Point
Development Project
Phase 0
Site Establishment
20th December 2000
7.
8.
9. Summary of Development in
Tigne’ Point
• 75,500 sq.m. residential accommodation in pedestrian
environment
• 17,000 sq.m. commercial/retail space
• 14,500 sq.m. office accommodation
• 19,500 sq.m. Tower accommodation, hotel and conference
centre
• close to 2000 underground car-parking spaces
• 20,000 sq.m. for external and internal sports/leisure area
• 1000 sq.m. recovered from Fort Tigne’, for cultural/leisure
activities.
• Underground relief road, across Tigne’ Point.
• New and modern infrastructural services for the whole of Tigne’
Point.
24. Plans
Block T4B
Lower Floors
10th May 2001
10
10
10
2 bedroom apartments laid out on single floors
May 2001
May 2001
May 2001
looking onto the inner court.
These apartments benefit from partial sea-views
as their side (west) elevation is exposed.
Tigné South
25. Plans
Block T4B
Upper Floors
10th May 2001
10
10
10
3 bedroom sea-view apartments laid out on
May 2001
May 2001
May 2001
single floors.
Block (with small cantilevers) is composed
of 2 apartments per floor except at
penthouse level.
Tigné South
26. Plans
Block T4F
3 and 4 bedroom luxury sea-view apartments
10th May 2001
10
10
10
with generous frontages.
Typically 3 apartments per floor with one
May 2001
May 2001
May 2001
lift/stair core.
Split level layout provides exciting
architectural volumes.
Tigné South
27.
28. Elevations
scale & context - from intImacy to urbanIty
Ambience
Mediterranean climate results in a blurring of
inside/outside space – hence the terrace
becomes an external room to be reclaimed.
1 0 th M a y 2 0 0 1
Terrace structure serves as a deep façade,
increasing shade and sense of solidity and
hence permanence / timelessness of structure.
The larger scale play allows for flats to acquire
individual identities.
Tigné South
29. Elevations
scale & context - from intImacy to urbanIty
Levels of Richness
10th May 2001
Larger frames within the scheme provide a
‘macro’ level of relationships – a musical theme
between the blocks.
This provides room for more subtle richness at
the individual block level.
Tigné South
30. Tigné South
scale & context - from intImacy to urbanIty
Levels of Richness
1 0 th M a y 2 0 0 1
Elevations
31. Back Terraces
Back terraces – private
gardens.
Richness of colours.
Privacy increased
through proper
placement of landscaped
areas.
1 0 th M a y 2 0 0 1
Tigné South
33. Masterplan
Evolution - Tigné South
T9
T8
Plaza Blocks
Back Blocks T7
T6
T4
12th June 2001
T5
Front Blocks
Tigné South
34. Masterplan
Evolution - Tigné South
• Relationship between
blocks
• Ventilation
• Environmental Protection
like a walled garden
• Light/Shadow play over
course of day
• Seclusion/Privacy
12th June 2001
Tigné South
35. Investigation View of urban court
Joining the Blocks
•Strong tunnel feeling is created
Strong
•Permanent shade on levels directly
Permanent
below
•Serious consequences on light
Serious
quality
•Scale of blocks becomes
Scale
oppressive
joined not joined
joined not joined
View from Plaza Computer Simulation – Daylight Study
49. introduction
the plaza contains
spaces with different
atmospheres to
stimulate different
activities.
boulevard
Changes in materials
Planting and benches
colonnades
terraces
Water elements
lifts
Monumental staircase
T0-02-101-00 Plaza Environment
50. spaces
•PROVIDE DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERES FROM SHADED INTIMATE AREAS TO
LARGE OPEN AREAS IDEAL FOR A VARIETY OF USES.
•DESIGN CONTRASTING ATMOSPHERES BETWEEN SERENE STREETS AND
LIVELY OPEN SPACE.
T0-02-101-00 Plaza Environment
51. elements
The boulevard
•connection between the two
waterfronts.
•transition space between plaza
and shopping mall.
•A strong classic character
Changes in material
•spaces with different
functions are defined by
different materials.
•hard and soft surfaces
will make geometry of
spaces more readable.
•paving provides suitable
base for surrounding
buildings.
T0-02-101-00 Plaza Environment
52. elements
Planting
•Lower acoustic levels and light
intensity to create a more intimate
space.
•create a sense of layering together
with the colonnade and the façades
of the plaza blocks.
The colonnade
•Provide shade during the summer
months
•Create rhythm for the square
•re-interpret the traditional
colonnade, a classic urban
ingredient
T0-02-101-00 Plaza Environment
53. elements
THE STRONG EDGE
•focus public attention upon plaza away from
tigné south.
•add interest to the transition from radial
pattern of streets to square shape of plaza.
SPATIAL TRANSPARENCY
•create a sense of depth.
•reveal and conceal parts of tigné
south to support the adventurous
route through it
T0-02-101-00 Plaza Environment
54. elements
The water elements
•fountains, playful water jets, a large
pond
•provide acoustic and thermal backdrop
to the activities of the square
The lifts
•provide mobile vertical links between
the car parks and the plaza surface
•cater for telephone boxes, multi
media screens, publicity etc.
T0-02-101-00 Plaza Environment
64. Tigné Park & Walkway
urban landscape – south phase
T0-02-101-00
65. movement patterns
emergency
route
secondary
route
the main
public flow
T0-02-101-00 Tigné Park & Walkway
66. the brief & landscape restoring the
glacis
TIGNE CLUB
the walkway - entrance to
a linear park the fort
the walkway -
a linear park
T0-02-101-00 Tigné Park & Walkway
81. MELITA CABLE TECHNICAL CENTRE, MADLIENA
LANDSCAPING PROPOSAL.
The site is located on the prow of a hill in Madliena, an outstanding
rural environment with a limited sprawl of development whilst the
building complex itself, is surrounded by a reasonable large area with
a neighbouring fort.
The proposals aim to return the disturbed landscape of the site back
into a setting, which blends and merges with the immediate natural
surroundings whilst providing an enhanced foothold for the location of
a new building with a low profile.
In this landscaping proposal two zones, which are indicated on the
attached plans can be clearly distinguished as follows:
A) The Architectural Landscaping:
The central zone within the site that embraces the building
complex, and
B) The Contextual Landscaping:
These landscaped areas skirt the site and each relate immediately
and directly to the countryside that they border.
Note:
For both zones the species that dictate this landscape proposal have been taken from
the Guidelines on Trees, Shrubs and Plants for Planting and Landscaping in
the Maltese Islands (1999), Environmental Management Unit Planning
Directorate.
82. V
B
B
V
job tit description drawn
ECF
MELITA CABLE TECHNICAL CENTRE PROPOSED LANDSCAPING architect
DF
MADLIENA SECTIONS date
Sept' 2001
R
AR C H I T E C T U R E P O J E C T client MELITA CABLE TV dwg. no. scale
1 : 200
ref no.
M 101 M1 0 1 P 0 1 9
83. ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPE ZONE A
A1 Paved area with
concrete grass
B A2 Hedera helix
(Common ivy)
A3 Planted with species:
Capparis spinosa var.
rupestris (Caper bush)
Ruscus aculeatus
(Great butcher's room)
N
CONTEXTUAL LANDSCAPE ZONE B
01 Tetraclinis articulata
(Sandarac Gum Tree)
06 02 Plant species:
Anthyllis hermanniae
(Shrubby Kidney Vetch)
Ephedra fragilis
(Shrubby Joint Pine)
Euphorbia dendroides
(Tree spurge)
05 01
Rosmarinus officinalis
(Rosemary)
Rhamnus oleoides
(Small Buckthorn)
Spartium junceum
(Spanish Broom)
H
ITC
03
Plant species:
05 07 Cistus creticus (Hoary
03
AD
Rockrose)
Cistus monspeliensis
IEN
(Rockrose)
E rica multiflora
DL
02 (Mediterranean Heath)
Ononis natrix (Bush
MA
Restharrow)
Origanum vulgare
RT
(Common Marjoran)
FO
Phlomis fruticosa
(Great Sage)
Rosmarinus officinalis
09 A2
(Rosemary)
Salvia officinalis
(Common Sage)
Teucrium fruticans
(Tree Germander)
Thymbra capitata
(Mediterranean Thyme)
03 04
Plant species:
Coronilla valentina
(Shrubby Crown Vetch)
Crocus longiflorus
(Crocus)
E rica multiflora
(Mediterranean Heath)
Muscari spp.
Origanum vulgare
(Common Marjoran)
Phlomis fruticosa
V Cupressus
sempervirens
V (Great Sage)
Rosmarinus officinalis
A1 A3 04
(Cypress) (Rosemary)
08 A2
December 2001
S alvia officinalis
1 : 200
(Common Sage)
EJC
Teucrium fruticans
DF
(Yellow Germander)
architect
Periploca laevigata ssp. Thymbra capitata
drawn
scale
angustifolia
date
(Mediterranean Thyme)
(Wolfbane)
M1 0 1 P 0 1 4 6
05 Plant species:
Mespilus germanica
PROPOSED LANDSCAPING
(Common Medlar)
Myrtus communis
(Mirtle)
Punica granatum
(Pomegranate)
06 Crataegus monogyna
(Common hawthorn)
07
Plant species:
Planted with low
10
vegetation.
Micromeria
macrophylla (Maltese
savory)
PLAN
Sedum native spp. only
description
(Stonecrops)
dwg. no.
Thymbra capitata
(Mediterranean thyme)
Triadenia aegyptiaca
(Egyptian St. John's
MELITA CABLE TECHNICAL CENTRE
Wort)
A1 08 Planted species:
03 Quercus ilex ssp.
ilex (Holm oak)
MADLIENA
09 Planted species:
Pinus halepensis
(Aleppo pine)
MELITA CABLE TV
10 Plant species
Planted with low
vegetation.
M 101
Gynandriris
sisyrinchium
(Spanish-nut Iris)
Lygeum spartum
(Esparto Grass)
ref no.
Stipa capensis
job tit
client
04 (Common awn grass)
Stipa pennata (Feather
grass)
11 Plant species:
Anthyllis hermanniae
(Shrubby Kidney Vetch)
E rica multiflora
(Mediterranean Heath)
Eph edra fragilis
(Shrubby Joint Pine)
Euphorbia dendroides
(Tree Spurge)
EMB ANKM
ENT 03 Medicago arborea (Tree
medick)
Periploca angustifolia
LIENA Ceratonia siliqua (Wolfbane)
MAD Rhamnus oleoides
FORT
(Carob tree)
AR C H I T E C T U R E P O J E C T
(Small Buckthorn)
Rosmarinus officinalis
(Rosemary)
FORT M
R
ADLIENA Origanum vulgare
ACCESS (Common Marjoran)
DIRT RO Phlomis fruticosa (Great
AD Sage)
11 B
Rosmarinus officinalis
(Rosemary)
Salvia officinalis
(Common Sage)
Teucrium fruticans
(Yellow Germander)
94. 4.4 LANDSCAPE
ZONE 1
ZONE 2
ZONE 3
ZONE 4
ZONE 5
ZONE 6
ZONE 7
ZONE 8
ZONE 9
ZONE 10
ZONE 11
LANDSCAPED AREA 1,850 m2
95. ZONE 1
OREGON GRAPE JUNIPER
CAMPHOR TREE MYRTLE
ZONE 2
SWEET BAY
ITALIAN CYPRESS
ZONE 3
ROSES
ZONE 4
STAR JASMINE SWEET BAY
CAPE HONEYSUCKLE
ZONE 5
FLOWERING
MAPLE TREE
SPANISH FIR CHINESE
BELLFLOWER WILD LILAC JAPANESE MAPLE
ITALIAN CYPRESS
LEBANON CEDAR
96. ZONE 6
JACARANDA
GOLDENCHAIN TREE
ZONE 7
FLOWERING
MAPLE TREE CHINESE
COMMON HAWTHORN BELLFLOWER LEMON BOTTLEBRUSH LEMON TREE
ORANGE TREE
ZONE 8
JACARANDA
LEBANON CEDAR
FLAME TREE
ZONE 9
SWEET BAY
STRAWBERRY TREE
ZONE 10
GOLDENCHAIN TREE JACARANDA
ZONE 11
DWARF
BOUGAINVILLEA WILD LILAC IVY PLUMBAGO
107. LIST OF POSSIBLE PLANTS FOR LANDSCAPING.
H = maximum height
W = maximum width
IN = irrigation needs (d – dry, o – occasional, n – normal, m – moist soil)
GS = growth speed ( f – fast, a – average, s – slow)
FS = flowering season (1 end of winter, 2 spring – beginning of summer, 3 summer, 4 autumn – beginning of
winter, a – all year round, - without flowers or not apparent flowers)
(D) = deciduous
(E) = evergreen
(PA = included in the list of recommended species of the Planning Authority)
LIST OF PLANTS ZONE 1.
Plant species H W IN GS FS
Cinnamomum camphora (CAMPHOR TREE)
A delight to the eye in every season. Winter foliage is shiny yellow
green. In early spring new foliage may be pink, red, or bronze,
17 15 O S 2
depending on tree. Beautiful in rain when trunks look black.
Clusters of tiny, fragrant small yellow flowers in profusion in May,
followed by small blackish fruits. (E).
Eucaliptus ficifolia (RED FLOWERING GUM)
Bark red and stringy to grey and fibrous.
Spectacular 1 ft clusters of flowers in cream, light pink, salmon,
13 10 D F A
orange or light red (most common). (E).
(Note: prune off seed capsules from young trees so they won’t pull
branches down).
Metrosiderus excelsus (NEW ZEALAND
CHRISTMAS TREE)
Leaves firm, leathery, on young plants are smooth, glossy green, on 12 9 D A 3
alder plants dark green above, white and woolly underneath.
Dark scarlet flowers, in big clusters, covering ends of branches. (E).
(Note: requires careful staking and pruning to bring into tree form)
LIST OF PLANTS ZONE 2.
Plant species H W IN GS FS
Cupressus sempervirens cv. Stricta (ITALIAN
CYPRESS) 20 3 D F -
Narrow columnar trees. (E).
Laurus nobilis (SWEET BAY, GRECIAN LAUREL)
(PA)
Aromatic leaves, used traditionally in cooking.
Takes well to clipping into formal shapes e.g. gloves, cones, topiary 12 3 D S 1
shapes, standards, or hedges. (E).
(Note: very sensitive to scale insects and laurel psyllid, and tend to
sucker heavily)
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108. Appendix B: Reservoir volume calculation
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RESERVOIR VOLUME CALCULATION.
Due to weather conditions of Malta, the importance of preserving the water
resources of the island and the important role played by the landscaped
areas in every development, it is strongly recommended to provide a
reservoir, which could satisfy the irrigation needs of the landscaped area of
the development without resorting to external sources to provide water.
The landscaped area marked in the plan V31 – MMA – P016 is approximately
540 m2.
The Reservoir Volume is the result of multiplying the landscaped area by the
annual average water deficit.
Water deficit (l/m2) = [Rainfall (l/m2) – ETP (l/m2)]/ Irrigation efficiency
J F M A M J J A S O N D Year
Rainfall 89 61,3 40,9 22,5 6,6 3,2 0,4 0,7 40,4 89,7 90 112,3 547
ETP 15,97 15,604 36,06 41,893 71,278 96,022 120,62 114,96 87,365 77,775 40,826 21,259 739,
641
Water 21,547 71,864 103, 133, 126, 52,183 509,
135 581 956
Deficit 267
Rainfall (data from 30 years)
ETP has been calculated by the Thornwaite/Blaney-Criddle method (data
from 30 years).
To calculate the water deficit an irrigation efficiency of 0.9 has been
considered, provide there is a correct and intelligent handling of the irrigation
system.
Volume of the reservoir required for landscaped area.
509,267 (l/m2) x 540 (m2) + 15% Volume for clearance = 317 m3
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