Botanic Garden
Oman
Key Collaborators
Grimshaw Architects
Haley Sharpe Design
Tim O’Hare Associates
Overview
Oman Botanic Garden is an important conservation, cultural, educational and recreation project initiated by the Sultan of Oman to celebrate and conserve the Country’s botanic diversity.
The garden lies within a spectacular and beautiful nature reserve site. The aim is to give local and international visitors the experience of visiting the eight distinctive and varied habitats of Oman in a day.
Process
Site exploration and drawing
Free form plan development with storyboard to explore experience and memory
Collaborate engineering and architecture to realise concept
Storyboard exploring visitor journey
Concept plans developing arrangement and relationship to water and topography
Internal biome landscape for high altitude habitats
Emulation of historical agricultural terraces
Terrace design timeline
Planting workshop and current construction photos
