The Friends of Oxford Botanic Garden commissioned FRLA to assist them in exploring the feasibility of creating a new visitor centre at the Harcourt Arboretum site. We worked with representatives from the Friends organisation and the Garden’s staff to explore their requirements for the new facilities. Using this list and our database of visitor centre sizes we developed schedules of accommodation and adjacency diagrams for three scales of centre to match different budget and visitor number scenarios. This provided the team with an idea of the sizes of building that would be required to meet their needs. One of the key questions that the team wanted answered was how much it would cost. Despite the early stage of the project, and again using our database of visitor centre projects, we were able to address this by benchmarking the three different scales of building against other completed projects and discussing with them the potential implications of certain design and project management decisions.
It's great to see the garden FRLA designed for Boschendal generating good publicity for the client. A well designed landscape can not only improve the quality of the visitor experience but also raise the profile of an organisation.
#landscapearchitecture #landscapedesign #masterplanning #frla #frla_ltd #winery #jamesfurseroberts #furseroberts #furse-roberts #gardendesign #boschendal #boschendalwineestate
8 months ago
Concept images developed as part of the master-planning FRLA undertook for a South African Winery. The aim was to design a garden that showcased the farm-to-plate ethos of the estate, its intrinsic links with the surrounding landscape and its heritage.
#landscapearchitecture #gardendesign #masterplanning #frla #frla_ltd #southafrica #winery #farmtoplate
1 year ago
Concept images developed as part of the master-planning FRLA undertook for a South African Winery. The aim was to design a garden that showcased the farm-to-plate ethos of the estate, its intrinsic links with the surrounding landscape and its heritage.
#landscapearchitecture #gardendesign #masterplanning #frla #frla_ltd #southafrica #winery #farmtoplate
1 year ago
Concept images developed as part of the master-planning FRLA undertook for a South African Winery. The aim was to design a garden that showcased the farm-to-plate ethos of the estate, its intrinsic links with the surrounding landscape and its heritage.
#landscapearchitecture #gardendesign #masterplanning #frla #frla_ltd #southafrica #winery #farmtoplate
1 year ago
This bespoke gate was designed by FRLA @frla_ltd for the Woodland Trust's Tring Park @woodlandtrust site as part of a project to create a new car park and arrival space. The form takes inspiration from the wooded hillside that is a prominent feature in the landscape. Handspring-design @handspring_design have done a great job with the fabrication.
1 year ago