04250098 | Jaarboeke 2016 | Universiteit van Pretoria
Program: LLM Opsie: Internasionale Reg (Gedoseer)
04250098 Fakulteit Regsgeleerdheid Duur van studie: 2 jaar Totale krediete: 200 JULIE BARGMANN | DESIGN / ONTWERP
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Julie Bargmann is ‘n Internasionale ontwerper.
Haar maatskappy se gebruik van materiale en werkprosesse, spreek omgewingskwessies aan.
Julie Bargmann word internasionaal erken as ‘n innoverende ontwerper wat besoedelde industriële terreine in die VSA, wat erg besoedel is deur mynbou of die storting van rommel, herwin. ‘n Belangrike fokus is die behandeling van ‘AMD’ (dreinering van suur mynwater) wat oorloop in strome en riviere, en sodoende die suurvlakke verhoog en vorms van lewe versmoor.
Sy ondersoek die kreatiewe potensiaal van hierdie gedegradeerde landskappe en verander hulle in regeneratiewe landskappe.
Bargmann pas haar navorsing toe vanuit haar klein ontwerppraktyk, genoem D.I.R.T. (Design Investigations Reclaiming Terrain/Dump It Right There). Sy ondersoek die effek van industriële bedrywighede en stedelike prosesse in die verlede en hede op ekologiese stelsels en gemeenskappe en hoe dit verband hou met nuwe tegnologieë. Bargmann het spanne argitekte, kunstenaars, ingenieurs, geskiedkundiges en wetenskaplikes in diens om haar te help om die volgende ‘lewe’ van landskappe met geslote gruisgate en verlate steenkoolmyne te verbeel.
Bargmann leer mense ‘kritiese terreinwaarneming’ wat daarop gemik is om die verskeie geskiedenisse van ‘n terrein te verken ten einde al die prosesse te verstaan wat gelei het tot die agteruitgang daarvan en om vorendag te kom met ‘n plan vir sy herstel, en sy verhouding met die gemeenskap en die ekonomie te hernu. Sy wil ‘nie net die landskap laat herleef nie, maar ook nie laat vergeet nie’, met ander woorde, ‘n herinnering laat van wat op hierdie terreine gebeur het. Sy wil wegbeweeg van die algemene praktyk van totale verbloeming van die terrein se elemente uit die verlede, onder groen heuwels of ontspanningsterreine soos gholfbane. In haar eie woorde, dit is soos ‘om lipstiffie op ‘n vark te sit’.
Projek titel en beskrywing:
Toetswaters. Bargmann het die terrein van ‘n voormalige steenkoolmyn in Vintondale, Pennsylvania, omskep in ‘n 45-akker-park vir suurmynwater-dreinering en gemeenskapsontspanning. Bargmann het toe die uitleg van die park ontwerp deur die bestaande vorm van die landmassa te gebruik om die vorm van ‘n passiewe ‘AMD’ behandelingstelsel te skep. Dit is soos ‘n reuse ekologiese wasmasjien. Sy het die publiek uitgenooi om te kom en die skoonmaakproses fisies sowel as simbolies te ervaar.
Eerstens gaan die ‘AMD’ deur ‘n reeks behoudingskomme en, soos besoedelde water oor hierdie ‘Behandelingstuin’ gaan, verander sy kleur van suur-oranje tot ertjiegroen en dan uiteindelik tot ‘n alkaliese blou-groen. Elkeen van hierdie kleurveranderinge is simbolies en ‘n fisiese verandering. Die skoonmaakproses word simbolies getoon in die ‘Lakmoes-tuin’. Die seisoenale kleure van die bas, blare en vrugte van die afwisselende rye van inheemse bome en struike stel visueel die behandelingsvolgorde voor, en ontwikkel van diep-rooi en oranje na koeler skakerings van groen en blou. Die vloedvlak van die terrein se spruit is herbou in ‘n nuwe vlei en addisionele vleilande vir die finale ‘spoel’. Nadat dit deur hierdie vleilandgebiede gevloei het, keer die water in ‘n gesuiwerde staat terug na die plaaslike spruit.
Julie Bargmann - International designer
Julie Bargmann is an International designer.
Her company’s use of materials and work processes is addressing environmental issues. Julie Bargmann is internationally recognised as an innovative designer who reclaims polluted industrial sites in the USA that have been severely polluted by mining or the dumping of rubbish. A major focus is the treatment of AMD (acid mine drainage).
Acid mine drainage spills into streams and rivers, thereby raising acidity levels and suffocating life forms.
She explores the creative potential of these degraded landscapes and alters them into regenerative landscapes.
Bargmann applies her research from her small design practice, called D.I.R.T. (Design Investigations Reclaiming Terrain/Dump It Right There). She researches the effect of past and present industrial operations and urban processes on ecological systems and communities and the relationship of these to emerging technologies. Bargmann employs teams of architects, artists, engineers, historians and scientists to help her imagine the next ‘life’ of landscapes such as closed quarries and abandoned coal mines.
Bargmann teaches ‘critical site-seeing’ which aims to explore the multiple histories of a site in order to understand all the processes that led to its degradation and to come up with a plan for its regeneration and to renew its relationship with the community and the economy.
She aims, ‘not only to revive the landscape but also not to forget’, in other words, to leave a reminder of what has happened at these sites. She wants to move away from the common practice of completely disguising past elements of the site, under green hills or recreation fields such as golf courses. In her words, this is like ‘putting lipstick on a pig’.
Testing waters: Bargmann has transformed the site of a former coal mine in Vintondale, Pennsylvania into a 45 acre park for acid mine drainage and community recreation. Bargmann then designed the layout of the park by making the existing shape of the landmass into the form of a passive AMD treatment system. This is like a giant ecological washing machine. She invited the public to come and witness the cleansing process physically as well as symbolically.
First, the AMD goes through a series of retention basins and, as polluted water passes over this ‘Treatment Garden’, its colour changes from acidic orange to pea green and then finally to alkaline blue-green. Each of these colour changes are symbolic, and a physical change. The cleansing process is symbolically shown in the ‘Litmus Garden’. The seasonal colours of the bark, foliage and fruit of the alternating rows of indigenous trees and shrubs visually represent the treatment sequences, progressing from deep reds and oranges to cooler hues of green and blue. The flood plain of the site’s creek is reconstructed into a new marsh and additional wetlands for the final ‘rinse’. After flowing through these wetlands areas, water returns to the local creek in a purified state.
Julie Bargmann word internasionaal erken as ‘n innoverende ontwerper wat besoedelde industriële terreine in die VSA, wat erg besoedel is deur mynbou of die storting van rommel, herwin. ‘n Belangrike fokus is die behandeling van ‘AMD’ (dreinering van suur mynwater) wat oorloop in strome en riviere, en sodoende die suurvlakke verhoog en vorms van lewe versmoor. Sy ondersoek die kreatiewe potensiaal van hierdie gedegradeerde landskappe en verander hulle in regeneratiewe landskappe.
CAPS: Gr 12