Park Vert is a competition proposal submitted to Waterfront Toronto and the City of Toronto for a two-acre park in Downtown Toronto. The design is the result of an extraordinary collaboration between Agency Landscape + Planning and DAVID RUBIN Land Collective. Park Vert celebrates the community’s desire for a green oasis and its love of Toronto’s urban forest while creating a park for introverted social experiences. The park is conceived as a series of layers that unfold for the visitor – both from the ground up and from the outside in – revealing new experiences in every direction. The park has three layers of experience: the Urban Forest, Tree Walk, and Forest Floor. Park Vert offers a dense Urban Forest that is planted, over time, for maximum diversity and climate resilience. The Tree Walk is a light walkway that encircles the site, offering at once a meditative path for meandering through the city and a series of programmed moments. The Forest Floor uses surface material changes to reinforce the sense of transition from the bustling city outside, through the planted frame, into the central clearing, and arriving at the park’s calming water feature – the Ephemeral Fountain.
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