Gelendzhik Park establishes a landscape-led masterplan for a new 75-hectare botanical park along the Black Sea coast. Developed through international competition, the strategy positions ecology and hydrology as the primary organising systems - creating a resilient park landscape that integrates recreation, culture and environmental performance.

The design responds to the region’s geology, coastal climate and cultural landscape. The existing stream corridor becomes the ecological backbone of the site, reasserting its hydrological importance through daylighting and restoration. Rather than impose a singular monumental gesture, the proposal touches the land lightly — allowing native systems and botanical richness to re-emerge.

A multi-functional promenade traces the path of the restored stream, structuring circulation and defining a cellular arrangement of park ‘rooms.’ These zones support water collection, treatment and habitat diversity while accommodating botanical displays, recreation and social gathering. Bridges, lookouts and pavilions are conceived as a cohesive family of infrastructural elements - precious insertions distributed across the landscape to provide orientation and identity.

Gelendzhik Park will operate as ecological infrastructure and botanical destination - balancing wildness and precision within a cohesive spatial framework. It demonstrates how landscape-led thinking can align environmental restoration with public experience at territorial scale.