Grant Associates - East Village: Victory Park & Belvedere

 GRANT East Village Victory Vegetable FINAL V02

This design intrigued me due to it being inspired by biophilia and the psychology of colours. Biophilia is the main design inspiration behind my North Place car park design for my Design Project module. I find the connection between people and nature and the deep psychological need for humans to be surrounded by greenery extremely interesting. I have actually visited this site twice on geography field trips both during my GCSE’s and A levels. I was of course visiting before this recent redesign. I think this redesign was extremely necessary as the space was really underused and slightly run down on both occasions that I went. 

When looking at the design and access statement for this location I really enjoyed the concept drawings that overlayed different patterns on top of each other to form the basis of the overarching concept. This is something I have also been doing for my North Place design. 

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