BADGER ROOF SUCCESSIONAL MODULAR GREEN ROOF
Building off a scientific study of the positive effect of badger disturbances on prairie biodiversity, this green roof abstracts the process into an artificial ecosystem of planter bags made with UV-degradable textiles. The planting progresses from a peaky topography to a mellowed, mounded prairie planting. Ruderal and mature prairie species seeds in the bags replicate the growth process in the prairie, where seeds buried in prairie dog burrows, the badger’s prey, are brought to the surface by the badger’s digging.
SEED MIX STRATEGY
Mature prairie species replace the rudurals over time.
Quick-to-emerge, short lived plants provide early interest.
NATURAL PRECEDENT Badger dig spoils in dry prairie The American badger hunts for ground squirrels by digging into their burrows.
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Their digs uproot or bury existing vegetation and leave mounds of bare soil.
Prairie ruderals colonize the mound.
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Adjacent plants colonize via root propagation.
Plant communities on the mound resemble those of mature prairie.
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NORTH 1ST PROSPERITY GARDEN A PRODUCTIVE YOUTH TRAINING GARDEN
In addition to managing the operations (and the youth workers) of the garden in its inaugural year, I assisted with its design and construction. Contributions include: Planting design around the base of the concrete retaining wall Selection of fence, red shelter, and shed to the left of the existing building Minor adjustments to the design during construction Selection of locally available red decomposed granite as an affordable paving option.
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This team project with an architecture student is intended as a relief home for the Joplin, Missouri tornado survivors. The home is constructed below the surface as an adaptation of the American prairie vernacular sod house. Compressed soil bricks are used in the construction of both the home and the landscape. The landscape bricks create analogous microclimates of those found in the nearby chert glades.
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4. Sort and stage bricks for home and landscape construction.
mimics chert surface
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slope mimics chert prairie
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3. Add materials to the open source brick press.
rain garden 1. Excavate the home site.
mimics stream banks
GRAPHIC CONTRIBUTIONS
Construction diagrams (all, far left) Vegetation and effects on plan, section, and perspective renderings (all this page)
DESIGN CONTRIBUTIONS Construction process design Ecological concept Grading Planting plan
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Plant selections exist natively in the nearby chert glades and also grow well in the garden.
CU(d)scape AGRICULTURAL PUBLIC WORKS
The CU(d)scape creates infrastructure to support local agricultural production at a significant scale. Sited in typically underutilized land, it is a replicable model for supporting local food-based economies while creating unique open space.
detail of municipal composting and aquaculture operation
60� X 30� chipboard, paper (printed, handmade, found), foam, nails
detail of orchards along boneyard creek
Phase one of the CU(d)scape is a pastured meat operation that uses rotational grazing to improve the land while producing over 80,000 pounds of high quality meat annually. As the soil becomes amenable for crop production, entrepreneurs are backed through CU(d)scape infrastructure, which connects small operations with the efficiencies of cities, large-scale agriculture, and natural systems.
Summer Seeded Brassicas
City food waste Community kitchen waste Farm waste
Farms
Stockpiled Tall Fescue
Pastures
Orchardgrass
Aquaculture
Bluegrass & White Clover September
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aquaculture productively cleans composting runoff
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Cows or sheep graze grass.
Cows and sheep fertilize.
Chickens eat grubs in manure and fertilize.
Deep Pigs root roots up grow and pasture improve and soil fertilize. structure.
Farmer enjoys fertile, prepared seed bed.
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Pre-Grazing, Post-Grazing, Continuous Rotational Rotational Grazing
Repeat Fertility increases
rotational grazing builds soil quality
pasture and livestock raised in the CU(d)scape numbers generated in a custom-made calculator
TECTONIC SITES
STRUCTURING THE LANDSCAPE WITH TEXTILE-DERIVED CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES SASAKI DAY PRIZE FOR TOP THESIS
integrate materials moss water air roots algae
selectively filter water air
Tectonic theory describes the relationship between construction and expressive intent. Such a theory has yet to be developed in landscape architecture. Through historical and theoretical research of architectural texts, making textiles, and analyzing existing projects in landscape architecture, I inductively generated a seedling tectonic theory for my thesis.
sediment organic matter seeds
diffuse energy erosional (wind, water
discarded carpet found while creek stomping
Textiles are porous and flexible, uniquely suiting them to integrating, responding to, and even structuring landscape contingency. Textiles visibly entwine and integrate contingent forces, displaying an inherent quality of landscape construction: landscape architects, by inserting materials into the environment, change the contingent forces acting there. Textiles structure the small spaces in which these contingent forces can act, suggesting that these impacts might be made strategically. A tectonic theory based on this aspect of the constructive practice of landscape architecture could serve as a forum for the collective development of best practices for structuring contingent forces in the environment and exploration of the expressive potentials of such techniques.
a curved weft makes pockets to collect materials from flows
woven vellum models
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Biohaven®’s textile hosts water-cleansing microbes
textile windbreaks work better than solid
a textile can capture water from fog
PEG landscape + architecture laser cut weed fabric to create a patterned planting
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filter fabric on prefabricated vertical drains excludes sediment to drain water and consolidate soils
Naturaire®’s felt supports microbes
F.R.E.S.H. GARDEN FOODS RAISED AT EAST SIDE HEALTH
The comic on the following pages tells the story of this garden project.
East side health district (ESHD) is a public health organization with clinics serving the East St. Louis area. ESHD wanted to improve a lot adjacent to their administration building and one of their clinics to support their mission of preventative health and education services.
After ESHD contacted the East St. Louis Action Project (ESLARP), I was assigned to lead the project. I recruited five other students and a faculty advisor.
together, we designed the garden: Ruby, I am so pleased that the healthy dinner cookout was such a success! I just wish sue had come. I’ll have to ask her what happened during the WIC class later.
OK, I guess I need to get back to the office!
I wonder where Ruby is with those greens. We just sold out!
Thank you for helping me today. It’s nice to spend time with you.
a model with movable components helped us to collaboratively design with our community partners.
These peppers are from the cookout! We have to plant these next year.
I can’t wait to kick those tires over and harvest the potatoes.
F.R.E.S.H. (Foods Raised at East Side Health) garden combines a venue for health education classes and events, multiple options for community gardening, and a safe place for employees to exercise during their lunch hour.
ON SITE I led eSLARP students clearing debris from future flower beds. we found treasures in the soil...
do you think we can finish all these beds in time?
we took a quick break for a photo op...
we transplanted plants from a local garden and found donations, planting the front beds at no cost to our partners.
contributions in whole: led team, coordinated with eshd, arranged travel and meetings, secured donations, built model contributions in part: design, planting plan design, drafting, digital modeling, rendering
After the trip with ESLARP students, I planned another day to take the design team down to plant flowers and tie up loose ends.
f.r.e.s.h. midway through the first season
BRYOPHYTOPIA RECONFIGURED, CHOREOGRAPHED ECOLOGY SASAKI DAY PRIZE FOR TOP GRAD2 DESIGN
Bryophytopia recontextualizes site materials upon which mosses and lichens grow. Overlapping patterns of shade, topography, irrigation regime, and surface material create a complex yet legible condition in which these communities can diversify and flourish. C
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Reconfiguration of materials and action of contingent forces create unique ecological and experiential effects in the courtyard of a campus building.
Pavers, cut from existing site hardscape, are also raised up from the ground to create seating.
PEDOLOGY PARK
REVEALING GEOLOGIC, GLACIAL, AND HUMAN HISTORY THROUGH SOILS SASAKI DAY PRIZE FOR TOP 1ST YEAR STUDENT DESIGN
This guidebook explains how the yellow poles, which delimit the distribution of soils, can be used to interpret the site’s fascinating history, complete with fold-out pages and a pop-up.
The site’s diverse mix of soils, unlike its vegetation, have been minimally disturbed. These soils reveal the site’s fascinating history; yellow poles delimit soil types and bring them to the surface for interpretation. Translucent poles display the beauty and meaning of typical soil profiles at the park entrance. The intervention minimally disturbs the community’s prairie while enriching the well-used park’s programming and vistas.
FARM SHELTER
VERNACULAR COOLING FROM RECLAIMED WOOD
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CORRUGATED METAL ROOF
WELDED CONNECTION
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ROOF ACCESS LADDER
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CONCRETE FOUNDATION
2X4 SPACED TO ALLOW AIR FLOW
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2x8 TREATED RAFTER
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RECOVERED 2X8 BOARDS
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FARM REST SHELTER
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BY: JANET BROUGHTON
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