Part of:

• Fonds: Ábalos&Herreros fonds, 1920-2009
•    Series: Architectural projects, 1953-2009
•      Project: Orange County Great Park, California, United States (2005), 2003-2005, predominant 2005

People:

• Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)
• Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
• Iñaki Abalos (architect)
• Juan Herreros (architect)

Title:

Orange County Great Park, California, United States (2005)

Date:

2003-2005, predominant 2005

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

• 33 printouts
  0.12 l.m. of textual records

Scope and content:
The project series documents the competition entry for the planning of the Orange County Suuokita Memorial Park in California, United States. The project site was previously a military base. The firm identified this project as number 212b

“The first action will be to excavate the existing E-W runways and construct in their place a great water channel. The second action will be to plant a large grid of indigenous trees over the entire site in tandem with the installation of irrigation systems. The third main gesture will be to transform the surfaces of the remaining runways into smaller gardens […] Following upon these initial gestures, [Abalos & Herreros] propose a series of vertical structures that will serve to punctuate the great horizontal expanse of the park, providing another scale to the park.” (ARCH270975)

Documenting the project are presentation drawings, correspondence, reference materials, notes, project descriptions, presentation documents, publications and a dummy.

Reference number:

AP164.S1.2005.D9

Arrangement:
Materials in this project series were kept in their original order.

Location:

Irvine California United States

Language of material:

• English
• Spanish

Contains:

• ARCH277448, Presentation booklet (masterplan) and its dummy, Orange County Great Park, California, United States, 2004-2005
• ARCH277925, Presentation booklet of the firm Ima Design and correspondence, Orange County Great Park, California, United States, ca. 2005
• ARCH277926, Correspondence and presentation drawings, Orange County Great Park, California, United States, ca. 2005
• ARCH277927, Correspondence, Orange County Great Park, California, United States, 2005
• ARCH277928, Project description, correspondence and presentation drawings, Orange County Great Park, California, United States, ca. 2005
• ARCH277929, Correspondence and a clipping, Orange County Great Park, California, United States, ca. 2005
• ARCH277930, Reference materials, Orange County Great Park, California, United States, 2003-2005
• ARCH277931, Presentation drawings and notes, Orange County Great Park, California, United States, ca. 2005
• ARCH277932, Orange County Great Park: streetscape design guidelines, 19 February 2004