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Acadia Park, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1969)
Part of:
People:
  • Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (archive creator)
  • Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (landscape architect)
Title:

Acadia Park, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (1969)

Date:

1966-1971

Level of archival description:
Project
Extent and medium:
  • 11 textual documents
    8 reprographic copies
    2 photographic material
Scope and content:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for Acadia Park at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project in 1969. The project consisted in design the landscape master plan and the play area for the Acadia Married Student Housing complex, which included in kindergarten. Oberlander preserved the forest edge of the site and even included some of the mature trees present on the site by suspending rope swings to their trunks. The play area also reused ancient trees as play structures, and a wobble walk made of logs ends of various heights.

The project series contains design development drawings, including a proposed landscape master plan and landscape plans, and also working drawings, such as elevations and details of the playground structures and benches. The project is also documented through photographs of the playground and correspondence with clients.

Source:
[1] Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
Reference number:

AP075.S1.1969.PR01

Arrangement:
Material in this project series was kept in its original order when it was first processed upon its arrival at CCA.
Location:

Vancouver British Columbia Canada

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