THE FALSE CREEK AND FALSE CREEK FLATS WERE ORIGINALLY TIDAL AREAS WITH A DIVERSE LANDSCAPE THAT PROVIDED A UNIQUE AND ABUNDANT RIPARIAN ENVIRONMENT. THE SURROUNDING VEGETATION WAS A DENSE TEMPERATE RAINFOREST LOW-LYING ELEVATIONS CONSISTED OF WETLAND GRASSES, RUSHES AND SEDGES, WHILE, MOSSES, LIVERWORTS, CONIFERS AND UNDERSTORY VEGETATION PREDOMINATED AT HIGHER POINTS AROUND THE FLATS.

THIS GREAT DIVERSITY IN VEGETATION BROUGHT A GREAT RANGE OF WILDLIFE TO THE AREA, INCLUDING MANY SPECIES OF MIGRATORY BIRDS, BEARS, COUGARS, ELK AND DEER. THIS SHELTERED WETLAND, ONCE CONTAINED SOME OF THE LARGEST SALMON AND TROUT RUNS IN VANCOUVER.

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STEEL RAILS RUNNING NEARBY, RUSTY MACHINERY, AND SOLID CONCRETE BUILDINGS INFORM OUR USE OF MATERIALS AND THE CHARACTER OF THE SITE DESIGN. THE USE OF CONCRETE AND COR-TEN STEEL SALUTES THE AREA'S RICH INDUSTRIAL HISTORY. THESE POST-INDUSTRIAL ELEMENTS APPEAR TO EMERGE FROM THE GROUND, REVEALING THE SITE FORMER INDUSTRIAL UNDERBELLY. INDUSTRIAL SCRAP AND WOOD ARE MAIN INGREDIENTS TO THE COMPOSITION OF WHAT SITS BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE FALSE CREEK FLATS TO FILL UP THE LAND THAT PREVIOUSLY HELD INDUSTRIAL BUSINESSES.

PLANTING THROUGHOUT THE SITE WILL BE DROUGHT TOLERANT, LOW MAINTENANCE TREES, GRASSES AND GROUND COVERS DESIGNED TO REFLECT THE SITES RIPARIAN PAST BUT ALSO A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. STREET TREES WILL BE CHOSEN AS PER THE CITY OF VANCOUVER/SEFC DESIGN GUIDELINES AND WILL BE LOCATED TO PROVIDE CLEAR, SAFE SIGHT LINES TO THE BUILDING ENTRY AS WELL AS THROUGH ALL TRAFFIC INTERSECTIONS.

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BEGINNING AS RIPARIAN LOWLAND, FALSE CREEK WAS GRADUALLY FILLED IN AS THE CITY GREW AND THE CITIES INDUSTRIAL HEART SPREAD SOUTH FROM ITS BEGINNINGS ALONG THE WATERFRONT. AFTER MANY YEARS OF STEADY INDUSTRIALIZATION, FOLLOWED BY A A BRIEF PERIOD OF STAGNATION, FALSE CREEK, WITH IT'S STUNNING VIEWS AND RAMSHACKLE MIX OF HISTORIC INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS HAS BEGUN A TRANSITION TOWARDS A MORE POST-INDUSTRIAL, SUSTAINABLE URBAN REVITALIZATION. THE ONCE MONO-CULTURED INDUSTRIAL BREAK IN THE MIDDLE OF VANCOUVER IS GRADUALLY BEING FILLED WITH A PLETHORA OF SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS, PARKS, BUSINESSES AND OTHER USES.

THIS RAPIDLY TRANSFORMING URBAN PRECINCT IS SEEING A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN VEHICLE AND PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC. WITH RAPIDLY INCREASING POPULATION AND CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS, COMES THE DEMAND FOR GOODS SUCH AS THE ONES MEC HAS TO OFFER. AS SUCH, MEC WILL PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN HELPING TO DEFINE THE CHARACTER OF FALSE CREEK.

THE INTENT MEC’S LANDSCAPE DESIGN IS TO ENGAGE CLIENTELE AND EMPLOYEES WITH THE HISTORY OF FALSE CREEK AND ITS FUTURE SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES. THE LANDSCAPE DESIGN FEATURES WILL REFERENCE THE NATIVE ECOLOGY AND PAST USES OF SITE. THE ENTRY TO MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT CO-OP HAS BEEN DESIGNED AS AN URBAN PLAZA, ABLE TO HOST A RANGE IT ACTIVITIES SUCH AS SEATING, EXERCISE, PRODUCT TESTING AND COMMUNITY EVENTS. THE ENTRY SEQUENCE IS MARKED BY A SPECIALTY PAVING AREA AND ROCK GARDEN THAT IDENTIFIES THE MAIN ENTRY AND PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CUSTOMERS AND VISITORS TO MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT CO-OP, TO ENGAGE VISITORS AND IDENTIFY THE MAIN ENTRY TO THE BUILDING.

THE GRAVEL-LAID WATER FEATURE COMMEMORATES THE ONCE GREAT SALMON RUNS THAT PASSED THROUGH THE FLATS AND TO THE URBAN STREAMS BEYOND. THE “WEIR-ED" PORTIONS OF THE WETLAND EMBODY THE TRAVELLING WATER FROM UPPER FALSE CREEK TO THE FORMER SHORE. CLASS B BICYCLE PLACED ALONG THE SOUTH SIDE OF FIRST AVENUE IN A LINE TO ENSURE A RANGE OF TRAVEL OPTIONS.

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THE CLIENT RECOGNIZES THAT THE SRW ALONG QUEBEC STREET IS FOR A FUTURE BIKE LANE AND ROAD DEDICATION. THIS FACT, LED US TO PROPOSE THAT THE STREET TREES BE LOCATED AT THEIR FINAL LOCATION ALONG THE BIKE LANE, IN ORDER TO MIXED WASTE AND COST WHILE ALLOWING THE TREES TO GROW TO FULL MATURITY WITHOUT BEING RELOCATED. THE CLIENT WOULD ALSO LIKE TO PROPOSE AN ENLARGED PATIO SPACE ALONG AT THE SW CORNER OF THE SITE FOR MEC EVENTS AND OTHER COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, WITH A GREEN SPACE OF MEADOW GRASS AND SEASONAL BULBS TO THE NORTH-WEST. FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND AESTHETIC REASONS THE CLIENT WOULD PREFER A NATIVE, SEASONAL MEADOW ALLOWED TO GROW LONG AND CHANGE COLOUR SEASONALLY TO AN IRRIGATED, MOWED LAWN THAT WOULD USE LARGE AMOUNTS OF WATER AND REQUIRE REGULAR MOWING.

THE ROOF DECK AMENITY SPACES ON THE TOP FLOOR HAVE BEEN DESIGNED TO PROVIDE SPACE FOR A RANGE OF SOCIAL, WORK AND HEALTH-RELATED ACTIVITIES. THESE LARGE DECKS ARE SHELTERED BY LARGE ROOF OVERHANGS AND FRAMED BY BERMS OF SALVAGED ROCK, LOCAL STONE AS WELL AS NATIVE TREES AND PLANTS WITH VIEWS TO THE MOUNTAINS AND OVER FALSE CREEK. THE ROOF DESIGN WILL REFERENCE THE GENTLY UNDULATING RIPARIAN TOPOGRAPHY THAT ONCE FORMED THE EDGES OF FALSE CREEK, WITH A RECYCLED DECKING MATERIAL MEANT TO REFERENCE THE OLD WOODEN PIERS THAT ONCE DOTTED THE EDGE OF THE CREEK.

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