Design of Botanic Garden & Associated Structures

published Nov 12, 2007
ends Jan 31, 2008
Design of Botanic Garden Associated Structures
The emerging Ethiopian Gullele Botanic Garden (GBG) is promoting an architectural and landscape design competition as part of the development process to establish this Botanic Garden, including also an indigenous forest sanctuary and a scenic mixed forest, in the North West of Addis Ababa.

The Gullele Botanic Garden is an initiative of the Addis Ababa University-Science Faculty and the Addis Ababa City Administration Environmental Protection Authority.

The Horn of Africa Regional Environment Programme of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Addis Ababa, has offered to provide financial support to kick start the development of the Gullele Botanic Garden and to construct the first components of the Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre (HoA-REC) in the Gullele Botanic Garden.

The competition is open to landscape designers and architects from all over the world, but participating firms are expected to form an international consortium combining knowledge and expertise from Ethiopia with foreign ideas and skills from other parts of The Horn of Africa and/or elsewhere in the world.

The Gullele Botanic Garden will be realized on a tract of land, approximately 700 hectares in size, straddling the escarpment West of the road to Gojam.

The GBG is to be realised in three phases with Phase I and II being the subject of this design competition, which is based on an approved development plan outlining the major components of the GBG.