With Mill Woods being one of Edmonton's largest suburban districts where many different cultures converge and connect, its strong cultural and historical characteristics provide a matrix for the design concept of the Mill Woods Sport Park Pavilion. Multiculturalism is a word that conjures up images of global citizens who speak different languages, embrace distinctive tastes in food and music, and celebrate various religious and ethnic beliefs. The district of Mill Woods has increasingly become one of the most culturally diverse areas in Edmonton since its inception four decades ago.
The park is a significant element within the urban fabric of Mill Woods, located adjacent or in proximity to the Mill Woods Recreation Centre, Grant MacEwan University South Campus, two high schools, Mill Woods Town Centre, Grey Nuns Hospital, and the planned Southeast LRT line. The park is also weil connected to adjacent neighbourhoods and beyond through the City of Edmonton's multi-use trail network. The park is comprised of two disconnected halves - to the east a quiet open space, and to the west a series of sports fields and athletic facilities which, during games and practices, becomes an active social hub within the community.
This concept for the Mill Woods Sport Park Pavilion Design is to create a sense of place in an otherwise disconnected and incoherent park plan that has subsequently evolved from its original masterplan on a "piecemeal" basis. The concept looks to a series of formative and generative elements within a comprehensive master plan to create an integrated whole, 21st Century park place: Ley Lines; Cultural Square; Puzzle Pieces; Tree Bodies; Landscape Artifact; Jewelry Box.
ln every culture Ley Lines have figured historically as alleged alignments that create significant connections of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments, megaliths, earthworks, magnetic currents, and places of mystical energy. In contemporary milieu Ley Lines are perceived to channel connections to spiritual energy. In this concept, the Ley Lines formulate a master plan of axial relationships between significant elements and nodes of the park. The primary Ley Line connects the skateboard park, sports fields and courts, spray deck and future East Pavilion, and focuses the social and cultural energy upon the circular Cultural (public) Square.
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