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PROJECT

BARONETCY PENNY LANE PARK

Baronetcy Estate in Cape Town is located adjacent to the Tygerberg Nature Reserve.
It was established in 2005, with Penny Lane Park upgraded more recently to
accommodate all age groups and a variety of activities.

Project Team
Client: Baronetcy Home Owners
Association and Estate Manager
Landscape Architect: ATLA
Landscape Contractor: Contours Group

Circular seating walls under the shade of existing Coral trees

esigning and installing a park in an The space should not only accommodate to Table Mountain.
established residential estate with children, but also parents and grandparents, By carefully balancing cut and fill slopes,
Ddiverse needs was always going to be in an environment where one space does not Turrell was able to sculpt out a wide, sinuous
a challenge. This, combined with a long list dominate the other. path connecting the upper park with the
of requirements and an uneven, graded site lower park, adding activities in nodes along
with a nine-meter height difference from top Landscape design philosophy the way. The stone-clad terraces were
to bottom, set the framework for design. Landscape Architect Alistair Turrell says that designed to create seating for up to 100
The primary need and brief from the client the design philosophy was to make use people, with panoramic views towards Table
called for a level-surfaced, kick-about space of the relatively steep slope in a way that Mountain and beyond.
for informal soccer games, but after further provided multiple opportunities for play, rest Play activities were grouped in age-
consultation, it became clear that there was and gathering, while respecting the existing appropriate zones, while passive recreation
an additional need to create play areas for a tree collections and boundary walls that spaces are provided in circular seating walls
range of age groups, and an area where the bordered the park. Planting of new trees under the shade of existing mature trees. The
community could gather for outdoor movie was strategically planned to blur the lines of central lawn space is encircled by a walking
nights, picnics and birthday celebrations. adjacent homes, while respecting views out and riding track, and scrambling stone paths

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