British Columbia Institute of Technology Multi Tenant Facility, Discovery Parks, Willingdon Site, Burnaby, British Columbia (1987-1984)

Part of:

Fonds: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander fonds, 1936-2019
Series: Landscape architecture projects, 1947-2018
Project: British Columbia Institute of Technology Multi Tenant Facility, Discovery Parks, Willingdon Site, Burnaby, British Columbia (1987-1984), 1979-1990

People:

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (archive creator)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (landscape architect)
Russell Vandiver Architects (architectural firm)

Title:

British Columbia Institute of Technology Multi Tenant Facility, Discovery Parks, Willingdon Site, Burnaby, British Columbia (1987-1984)

Date:

1979-1990

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

0.24 l.m. of textual records
71 drawings (including 67 reprographic copies)
1 contact sheet
1 panel

Scope and content:
Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the British Columbia Institute of Technology site at the Discovery Parks Multi Tenant Facility, located on Willingdon Avenue, in Burnaby, British Columbia. Created in 1979, Discovery Parks is an organization with the mission to accomodate scientific and technological research activities by building and renting research installations. Initially founded by the provincial government, Discovery Park became self-governning and independant in 1990. Oberlander worked on the Discovery Parks B.C.I.T's site from 1979-1984 with Russell Vandiver Architects. The concept of B.C.I.T's site was to create a park like environment for an industrial research site. The site was surrounded by a woodland and included a wetland. To reflect the existing condition of her landscape design, Oberlander added a rentention pool and a restored woodland, creating a urban forest using native plants. The project was completed in 1982.

The project series contains textual documents, such as correspondence with client and architects, financial documents, minutes of meetings, specifications and Oberlander's concept notes. The project is also documented through working drawings, including grading plans, irrigation plans, landscape plans and sites plans. It also included reference drawings of the site, photographs of the completed landscape and a mounted photographs of the a section of the landscape design by Oberlander.

Reference number:

AP075.S1.1979.PR04

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

Location:

Burnaby British Columbia Canada

Related units of description:

See also documents related to two others projects Discory Parks' sites of Oberlander in the same years: - AP075.S1.1979.PR05 for the Simon Fraser University site - AP075.S1.1979.PR06 for the University of British Columbia site.

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