This concept redefines the memory of Kenyans.

1. Texas A&M University TEAM #3Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning College of Architecture
REDEFINE MEMORY
LAND601 LAND ARCH DES THRY APP I
INSTRUCTOR: CHANAM LEE
LEADER: CAROLINA PENA ROJAS
MEMBERS: MENGFEI BAO, RUI ZHU,
YAXUAN HAN
10/21/2015
UBRICA ONE
Ustawi Biomedical Research
Innovation and Industrial
Centers of Africa

2. The urban form represents an accumulated memory of its origins
and the way it has grown.

3. CONTENT
1 . MISSION STATEMENT
2 . GOALS & OBJECTIVES
3 . CONCEPTS
4 . RESEARCH & CASE STUDY
5 . LOCATION & CONTEXT
6 . MASTER PLAN
TEAM: HAN, ZHU, BAO, PENA

4. 1 MISSION STATEMENT

5. MISSION STATEMENT
The master planning of the “Redefined” Biomedical Industrial City is
proposed to meet a full range of healthcare needs as well as different
development centers on a 4,000 acre property in Nakuru, Kenya.
The spatial arrangement in this location will include:
1. Medical district: One main hospital with different specialty centers
and two medical universities.
2. Research district: Centers and laboratories with advanced science in
biomedicine.
3. Industrial district: A biomedical industrial park which includes
pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing.
4. Residential and mixed-use: A residential community of different
densities and mixed-use buildings.
5. Recreation and tourism: Diverse recreational spaces for the tourists
and the local people.
This master planning stimulates a redefinition, focus and expansion of the
human, animal, environment and economic areas. The historic and local
traditions will be also preserved and promoted to maintain the essence of
the place.
RECREATION AND TOURISM
HOSPITAL RESEARCHZ
MIXED-USE INDUSTRIAL

6. 2 GOALS & OBJECTIVES

7. GOALS & OBJECTIVES
Environment
Economy
Culture
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Environment
 Incorporate multi-functional green infrastructure
 Support sustainable and low impact developments
Economy
 Provide diverse and mixed land uses
 Provide diverse opportunities for tourism
 Support employment and education opportunities
Health
 Promote human’s health
 Promote animal’s health
 Enhance the sense of health
Culture
 Local tribe culture
 Local vegetation
Transportation
 Encourage transit oriented development (TOD)

8. 3 CONCEPTS

9. CONCEPTS
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FINE Good for human health
Good for energy saving
Good for wildlife protection
Good for economy
Redefine memory

10. CONCEPTS
GOOD MEMORY
BAD MEMORY

11. CONCEPTS
Relationship between Green Spaces and Memory
Sensory Memory

12. CONCEPTS
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RETHINK
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REORGANIZE
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REJUVENTAE
Existing green spaces (Old memory)
Define new green spaces(new
memory), while retaining best existing
green spaces.
Connect the new green spaces and
existing green spaces to become an
entire urban green spaces system.

13. CONCEPTS
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14. 4
RESEARCH & CASE
STUDY

15. HUMAN, ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMY, ANIMAL
PNAS 2015 112 (26) 7873-7874; doi:10.1073/iti2615112
Edited by Susan Hanson, Clark University, Worcester, MA, and approved May 15, 2015
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/26/7937.abstract?tab=related
Human
•Greenness
•Preferred working experience
•Cognitive development
AnimalEnvironment&Economy
•Sustainibility
•Low cost
•Enivorment-friendly
•Upgoing tendency
•Connection among habitats
•Protection of natural ecosystems
•Maintaning biodiversity

16. CASE STUDY SUMMARIES
Centenary City
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Year: 2013 - 2014
Size: 1,200 ha
Topic : Urban plan
Project Description: Abuja Centenary City is designed to work in
harmony with nature, it is a city within a city that will offer complete
cosmopolitan lifestyle to its residents, as well as serves as a hub for the
wider community
Design Strategies:
-A GREEN CITY - with a natural buffer that envelopes the entire City and
encircles the central neighbourhood that protects and nurtures the whole
city with public
-A CENTRAL PARK - that provides the green-spirit which gives orientation,
clarity and iconic power to the City as a whole but most powerfully to the
City Centre.
-AN URBAN GRID - super-block system that is modular and organic, yielding a
resulting grid of arteries, streets and pathways with an efficient traffic
system where pedestrians, bicycles, motorcars, trams and monorail can co-
exist in a friendly human way.
-A NEW CEREMONIAL ARCADES (UNITY SQUARE) - To compliment the Eagle
Square to add color to Government ceremonies and activities.
-The master plan envisages dense central areas set within a system of windmill-
like arterial roads that formulated a central core and heart of the new
district.
Inspirations:
-Use arterial green space system to be heart of the new city
-Create the central square to provides city spirit which gives iconic power to the
whole city
-Consider some areas which provides local peoples to expand their culture

17. CASE STUDY SUMMARIES
Palomar Medical Center Healing Gardens
Location: San Diego County
Design Team: CO Architects
Size: 736 000 ft2
Topic : Healing garden
Project Description:
Palomar Health had a strong desire to create a healing and green
environment, building a garden hospital. Evidence shows that access to
nature reduces stress associated with the typical clinical environment
and has a positive healing effect on patients. Findings such as these
drove the integration of healing gardens into all areas of the medical
center’s campus, re-connecting patients, workers, and visitors with
nature.
Design Strategies:
1.The Tower Gardens begin at the arrival court and extend up through the
central tower by way of a series of terraces at each floor.
2.The approximately 1.5-acre Green Roof above the two-story diagnostic-and-
treatment wing offers calming views from the tower rooms above.
3.Each addresses different aspects of healing and provides a specialized
character and experience for individual relaxation or socializing.
4.The Mall Gardens comprise the primary pedestrian circulation through the
campus and engage the arrival court for automobiles, entrance lobby, and
garden beyond.
Inspirations:
1.Connect existing natural green space and artificial landscape
2.Connect interior landscape and outdoor landscape
3.Consider both medical staff and patients

18. CASE STUDY SUMMARIES
SERVER Project
Location: Sheffield, UK
Topic : Experimental agriculture
Year : 2009
Project Description: Alastair Parvin’s project SERVER, proposes an
Experimental Agricultural Belt (EAB) along an 8 mile stretch of the M1.
Overview:
The project proposes a radically different approach to sustainability issues from
that usually offered by contemporary design culture.
The project takes a section of the M1 motorway in the Midlands and investigates
its redesign as a self-sufficient farming system; a belt of knowledge-
intensive agriculture, producing no waste and consuming minimal external
resources.
Based on existing processes, prices and capacities, it begins with the production
of biodiesel from algae, and the residual biomass which is used as a cattle
feedstock.
Vitals:
Sustainability
Innovative agriculture.
Improves local economy

19. 5 LOCATION & CONTEXT

20. LOCATION
Recap: bad memory

21. BASE MAP
SUSWA MOUNTAIN
LONGONOT MOUNTAIN
LAKE NAIVASHA NATIONAL PARK
HELL'S GATE NATIONAL PARK

22. CONTEXT
https://weatherspark.com/averages/29282/-Coast-Kenya
https://www.safaribookings.com/kenya/climate
Wind Speed
Wind Directions Over the Entire Year
•Relatively uniform strength of wind
•Reasonably focused direction of wind
•Feasibilitry of wind energy utilization

23. Zone Appr. Area
(km2)
%
Total
I. Agro-Alphine 800 0.1
II. High Potential 53,000 9.3
III. Medium
Potential
53,000 9.3
IV. Semi-Arid 48,200 8.5
V. Arid 300,000 52.9
VI. Very arid 112,000 19.8
Rest (waters etc) 15600 2.6
http://www.infonet-biovision.org/default/ct/690/agrozones
http://agroforesttrees.cisat.jmu.edu/climate_natural.htm
NATURAL VEGETATION
Most vegetation on the site is wooded tall grassland. We could
conserve some and develop the vegetation to other useful
functions to redefine the area.

24. AGRICULTURE
•European-owned coffee, tea, sisal plantations and cash crops are
mainly crops
•About 80% of the work force engages in agriculture
•Farming in Kenya is typically carried out by individuals or small
groups
•These groups contributes to 75% of total production
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Kenya-AGRICULTURE.html#ixzz3p5nDaZjc
Agricultural Redevelope:
Tourism

25. 6 MASTER PLAN

26. ZONING DIAGRAM
Hospital
Residential
Research
Medical Campus
Mixed-use
Industrial Park

27. SCHEMATIC MASTER PLAN

28. GOOD NEW MEMORIES

29. PHASING PLAN
TRAFFIC ROUTES
WATER SYSTEM
GREEN SPACE SYSTEM
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
BUILDING AREA
BASE MAP

30. PLANT ANALYSIS

31. PERSPECTIVE VIEWS
The purpose of the traditional commerce area is to conserve the local traditions
and use them to attract tourists and disseminate the richness of their culture.

32. PERSPECTIVE VIEWS
In the commercial area, people can have access to many facilities without traveling
long distances. As a consequence, good memories are going appear as well as a
better economy for the locality.

33. PERSPECTIVE VIEWS
In this view, it is shown how the new hospitals are going to recover the city’s
image and the health of their people. Thus, the community is going to create
new good memories based on their improved healthcare.

34. PERSPECTIVE VIEWS
This view shows the close relationship that hospitals and research
facilities need to maintain in order to produce an effective medical
progress.

35. THANK YOU!