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Vaughan Healthcare Centre Precinct – Landscape Architecture
Vaughan Healthcare Centre Precinct – Landscape Architecture
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Project Summary
The City of Vaughan and consulting team, HOK, have completed the
Vaughan Healthcare Centre Precinct Landscape Architecture
which includes a landscape concept, landscape guidelines, detailed designs for early phase streetscape and landscape works, and a
landscape maintenance manual.
The
Landscape Development Concept
provides a landscape framework for future development in the Vaughan Healthcare Precinct.
Four broad landscape concepts – Active Amenity Spines, Naturalized Waterways, Naturalized Landscapes and Passive Buffer Spine – are broken down into specific open space typologies with general guidelines for the public realm and future development sites.
Like a healing garden, the landscape concept embraces a broader holistic approach to building landscapes for health and wellness by connecting people with nature. Water is symbolically celebrated for its healing and meditative qualities and integrated into the design of the landscape systems. Sensory design re-invigorates public landscapes with visual intensity and seasonality of urban nature, including the subtleties of fragrance, sounds, sunlight, and texture. The dynamic qualities of the landscape can respond to changing needs and opportunities as the community develops in the future.
As a precinct premised on health and wellness, the
Streetscape Development Concept
incorporates the themes of restoration, growth and renewal.
Urban boulevards are designed as high functioning green spaces in support of human and environmental ecologies. The streetscape Meadow Matrix is a landscape strategy for long term financial, social and environmental urban sustainability. Additionally, in place of the conventional manicured landscape, the aesthetic of wild, naturalized boulevard gardens will help to create a distinct character and identity for the Healthcare Precinct.
Site Overview
The Vaughan Healthcare Precinct is an 82 acre site located at the northwest quadrant of Major Mackenzie Drive and Jane Street. As a
Primary Centre
in the City’s Official Plan, the site is planned to evolve as a pedestrian friendly, transit oriented, urban, mixed-use health and wellness community, anchored by the new Mackenzie Health Hospital.
Contact Information
Development Planning Department
Phone:
905-832-2281
Location:
City Hall
Planning Commission,
Level 2
2141 Major Mackenzie Drive
Vaughan
L6A 1T1
Additional Resources
Related Links
City-Wide Streetscape Implementation Manual and Financial Strategy
Vaughan Healthcare Centre Precinct Plan
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