4.5 LANDSCAPE PLAN

4.5.1 Educational Path Shape Development shape of the educational path evolved from the idea of responding to the shape of community building as shown in the diagram below:

The path will be shaped directly through the location of trees and shrubs that planted. The entire shape is only a proposal and offer flexibility to local people to decide what shape they prefer.

Offset the boundary of the building in order to get the basic shape for the path. Moving different pieces of the previous shape to connect through all the functions. Straight lines are just too stiff and does not offer any flexibility or exploring idea. So, change it to curves.

The curvy path is created but too consistent and does allow many self-exploring ideas in the landscape. So, cut off the two paths and transform it into five independent paths but with consistency which can offer people a sense of exploring and guiding in the landscape to discover all the knowledge stones.

4.5.2 Carved Stones The carved stones will be mostly consisted of two types. One is the direct access of recycle the excavation stones and carve on that. The only problem is that there are no large stones but small ones that can only provide as a free set up or little information on them. The second type is using the clay soil (since our site is mainly clay soil as discussed in 1 Fundamental) from the excavation and transform them into clay stones which is really easy and carving on them.

4.5.3 Plants Scheme on Site

Plant name Origin Picture

Palm tree (Phoenix reclinate) Native to Africa

Height/Spread

25-35 feet/12 to 20 feet

Soil Tolerances Reason why it is picked

Clay, sand, loam, acidic Can create large shade to the landscape

Baobab (Adansonia digitata) Native to Africa 16–82 feet/3346 feet Sandy Traditional food plant in Africa

Leydour (Cassia italica) Native to Africa 60 cm Clay, sand, well-drained Medical plant to ensure food security and local disease treatment

Palm tree data resource: Gilman, Watson, Klein, Koeser, Hilbert & Mclean, N.A.

Baobab tree data resource: Siyabona Africa, 2015; Encyclopedia of Life, 2015.

Leydour data resource: National Resource Conservation Service, N.A.

The Palm tree is selected to avoid large sun in local area to ensure that the landscape function can be used during the day.

The baobab tree is selected as a traditional food plant in Africa and used to people’s normal life.

Leydour shrub is selected as a medical plant that can be a treatment to local disease. According to Cissokho Lassana (2017), leydour’s leaves, mature seeds, leaves are used as a medical treatment to many types of diseases for instance, stomach complaints, venereal diseases and intestinal worms. Moreover, he also invested and suggested by local women that due to the food security caused by climate change, growing leydour make the money back and booming

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