Future Botanical Garden Complex in Novi Sad to Have Outdoor and Indoor Exhibition Spaces, Management Building, Herbarium, Seed Bank…

The future complex of the Botanical Garden is located in the settlement of Petrovaradin, along the northeastern border of the zone of the Hornverk defense structure, and the urban project envisages its spreading on an area of 41,643 m2 and containing a management building, an exhibition zone with a glasshouse, as well as economic-production rooms.

The space meant for the Botanical Garden is well integrated into the city whole in terms of infrastructure and traffic. The parcels covered by the plan currently feature illegally build residential facilities, which are planned to be demolished in the second phase of the construction, it is clarified in the urban plan, which was prepared by Set from Sabac for the purposes of the City of Novi Sad.

The botanical garden complex is split into three main functional zones:

– the administrative-information zone (the zone of entrance to the complex, the main facility of this zone is the management building);
– the exhibition zone (outdoor areas of the botanical garden with various plant varieties, the central facility of this zone is the Exhibition Glasshouse);
– the economic-production zone (the facility where warehouses and rooms for employees are located, as well as rooms meant for the research sector and the production/quarantine glasshouse, and next to the facility are outdoor areas meant for the production and growing of plants – before being exhibited in the Botanical Garden).

The future complex will consist of:

– The management building, with a basement, a ground floor and a gallery (rooms/offices for the employees – scientific research sector, Botanical Garden management sector – administration, work rooms – classrooms, amphitheater – 50 users, sales space for the visitors to the complex, exhibition space of the museum/herbarium, as well as auxiliary rooms for these functions in the form of rooms for working on exhibition items, archive, chambers and stock, technical rooms, a café with a balcony…). The gross area will amount to 2,956 m2;
– The exhibition glasshouse, with a basement and a ground floor, with a gross area of 1,281 m2 (the facility whose purpose is the presentation of the plants which can’t be grown outdoors, the planned three sectors with various conditions, that is, various plant varieties, and in addition to the exhibition part, the facility also features technical rooms and warehouses spaces);

– The ground-level production glasshouse facility, with a gross area of 934 m2 (facility containing production and quarantine glasshouse, seed bank, research labs and rooms for employees, mechanization and equipment for maintenance of the botanical garden complex);
– The underground tank for rainwater (the preliminary design envisages a zone for the construction of an underground tank for the collection of rainwater, which would later be used for the irrigation of plants at the botanical garden);
– Infrastructural facilities (the construction of a gas boiler room, two substations, three flat areas with a canopy for the diesel generator… is planned on the parcel).

Access to the facilities is realized through the system of internal traffic routes within the complex. Said locations has direct access to the Dunavske Divizije Street and indirect access to Preradoviceva Street. Both traffic accesses are to be retained and, according to the urban project, there are no newly designed connections to public traffic routes.

The open spaces of the botanical garden, that is, the exhibition space of the Botanical Garden, are organized by zone, by related plant varieties, with thematic displays and space organization modeled after the natural environment. Some of the zones that are planned in the exhibition space are: the zone of plants of extensive and intensive roof gardens, the zones of evergreen trees, meadow grasses, decorative grasses, medicinal herbs, indigenous varieties, as well as the zones of an alpine garden, the zone of a Japanese garden, as well as a lake with aquatic plants…

The exhibition zone takes up around 80% of the total area of the complex of the Botanical Garden Novi Sad.

The urban project plans phase-based forming of construction parcels, which follows the organization of space meant for various users. The construction of new sanitary and hydrant network is planned, so as to enable the connection of all facilities to the newly built infrastructure. That entails the removal of all the existing exterior connections.

The public presentation of the urban project lasts until November 16.

S. T.

Grad Novi Sad

Set d.o.o. Šabac

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