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Aloe gardens with their minimal water requirements were appropriate in this environment.

including skills development and prove difficult to create a ‘full landscape variances and organic land massing to
skills transfer, especially boosting local experience’ in such a harsh environment. enhance the user experience. The site
employment; Typically, he adds, the buildings are ‘out of is used during the day and at night, and
• an adaptable and robust landscape, scale’, large and overpowering. For these safety was paramount; it was necessary
yet one that provides seasonal interest reasons, his approach was to introduce to ensure that the environment was user-
and softness to an otherwise harsh shaping and sculpt a three-dimensional friendly at all times, as well as functional
environment. landscape with many textures and layers, from a pedestrian and vehicular point
creating a robust, indigenous look and of view. Hence sidewalks are wide and
Project type determines design feel. inviting, and seating clusters occur
Landscape architect Theo Bredell explains With the focus on precast elements and frequently. “They also build up a natural
that since the project type is industrial, the effective use of contrasting natural rhythm within the landscape,” explains
manufacturing and warehouses, it would materials, the idea was to create textural Bredell.

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