Originally Posted by
BAW
Any comparisons between the Myriad Botanical Gardens and Central Park are invalid. In terms of overall size and geopgrahical orientation there is no comparison. Central Park does receive shadows from neighborhing buildings. However, if you find yourself in a shadowed area of Central Park you have another eight hundred plus acres to find sun. Even though my graphic shows the Gardens half in shadow during the lowest azimuth we can expect, we still have the potential for shading in the summer. If you project the buildings up to three hundred feet without setbacks or increase the building height up to four hundred feet you start to get similar shadow conditions at all times of the year.
Moreover, my study is meant to show the affects of the smallest probable building size we can expect to see on that sight and how this would change sun conditions in the Crystal Bridge and specialized botanical plantings. My point being that a large building or complex of buildings wil serve not only to provide a physical barrier between the core and shore, but would also alter the growing environment for the Gardens.
As Blair has pointed out, a logical solution to the problem of pedestrian inaccessibility, increased motorized traffic and physical barriers between the core and shore is to look at all possible outcomes of our potential actions.
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