The Botanic Spine : A Greenway and CPUL for Dublin (eco)city

THE BOTANIC SPINE: an 18 km long orbital linear park that threads through the city of Dublin, a series of pocket parks,  some existing, some proposed.

View A3 PDF of concept here.

View full architectural Thesis “Catalyst @ Botanic Spine“, in 2 parts here 1 | 2

Dublin inner city has historically been defined as that land which lies inside the two city canals. Recently that sense of city has been lost, this project aims to remind the city of its lost identity.

The Spine acts as an eco corridor and greenway that threads together the 6 existing city waterways, the Phoenix Park (Europe’s largest city park) and the Botanic Gardens, which serves as the brain of the network that uses the spine as a constant feedback loop to output ecological projects and thinking into the wider city. The Botanic Gardens become the Dublin node in a global ecological system, greening the city, improving plant and animal life along green corridors, raising awareness and getting citizens involved with exciting eco initiatives.

The Spine is also a CPUL (continuous productive urban landscape) with a series of organic food gardens along it. The Spine mimics somewhat the structure and function of the human spine: a network of different systems flowing through the spine; plant and animal life, people, water, cycle route, metro line, digital info, hurling fans heading up to Croker for the big game?

View Botanic Spine detailed plan PDF here

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Have your say in the botanic spine communication space

Heres what the land around Drumcondra could look like

greening city, connecting communities update:
architecural thesis “catalyst @ botanic spine” successfully completed in june.

Vision : Creating the botanic spine an 18km orbital eco corridor/ greenway for dublin city. a green thread that connects up a sries of pocket parks, organic food gardens, local amenities, cities waterways and a new city metro underground.

Locally produced fruit and veg is a huge part of this project, we started dolphins barn community garden in April which has been a wonderful project to be part of.

Botanic Spine mimics somewhat the structure and function of the human spine. A network of different systems flowing through the spine; plant and animal life, people, water, cycle route, metro line, digital info, hurling fans heading up to Croker for the big game?

It connects up to the botanic gardens and this acts as the brain of the scheme, as a node in a global ecological network: greening the city, improving plant and animal life along green corridors, raising awareness and getting citizens involved with exciting eco initiatives.

International velo-city conference happened may 31st- june 3rd here in Dublin.

“Dublin is delighted to welcome people from all over the world to the 15th Velo-city conference. The Velo-city series of conferences is unlike any other transportation conference worldwide“. As part of this there was 1st Docklands City Cycle. Also during this time in Dublin was the european greenways conference,

We carried out, as part of this conference dublins first greenway cycle

international greenways and velo city people come to support grassroots initiave

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