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PROJECT

Sandstone cutting after being stained with Permeon A section of the pass after construction The Fountain of Youth waterfall after construction and rehabilitation

Escape openings through the barrier walls, allowing small animals to get through to the Viewsite 1 after construction, with sandstone barrier wall
adjacent veld
Under the supervision of the landscape • directing what areas were to be information posters on the natural history
architects, significant rehabilitation was done rehabilitated and what method should be of Sani Pass.
to recreate the riparian edge. They guided used;
the earth moving machine in the placement • designing public amenities such as Success
of boulders, rocks and topsoil at the stream’s lookout/viewing sites; Menno Klapwijk, lead landscape architect
edge. Special riparian planting was selected • providing access to points of interest such for the project, says that its success was due
for the site. as the Fountain of Youth waterfall; to the combined effort of the entire team,
• integrating, together with the engineers, as well as the fact that the rehabilitation has
Role of the landscape architect the requirements of the tour guides with blended all aspects of the project into the
The role of the landscape architects was to the design of the road; existing landscape. Amongst many other
manage the visual impact of the project. • determining what structures needed to things, the success was also due to the fact
This entailed determining what issues were be stained and how light or dark the stain that concrete structures such as the bridges,
of an aesthetic nature and to incorporate should be, depending on the application; culverts, barrier walls and retaining shotcrete
the constructed road into the existing • making the road user-friendly by designing walls were stained to visually age them.
landscape, as follows: viewing sites with tables and seats; and
• directing the final shaping of earthworks • rehabilitating the historic Good Hope Text and photos supplied courtesy of Menno
such as cuts, fills and slopes; Trading Site, including the provision of Klapwijk, BCK Landscape Architects. n

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