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Atypically Suburban University of California, Riverside Chancellor’s Residence
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona / College of Environmental Design / Interdisciplinary Design Studio Landscape Architecture / Graphic Design / Winter 2016 / LA 302L + LA 510L + ART 455A
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Riverside, CA
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LA 302L
LA 510L
Brianne Moreno Karla Quevedo Robin Slovak Ryan Lawson
ART 455A
Christopher Carrillo Jingwei Zhou
Instructors Andrew Wilcox Anthony Acock Ray Senes
Cassidy Robinson Kadijah Rhinehart Maddie Carff May-Yen Lee Teesta Chakraborty
Site Design Studio Joe McNicoll Mike Sullivan
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Table of Contents
Phase One Individual Assignments Reading Analysis Case Study Analysis Performance Tool Analysis Team Assignments Argument Scale Capacity
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Phase Two Team Assignments Vision Strategy Performance
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Phase One
Reading Analysis
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Living Systems
Liat Margolis and Alexander Robinson
Weaving Porous and Nonporous Surfaces According to Living Systems, Germany’s Allianz Arena Munich soccer stadium is an example of a fluid landscape design because it accommodates the seasonal fluctuations of water flow and considers water volumes, frequency, and velocity. Through porous and nonporous asphalt surfaces, a weaving path that accommodates 70,000 visitors lays on top of the stadiums parking structure and allows water runoff to drain into the surrounding vegetation. Non-porous asphalt is used to accommodate foot and bike traffic while porous asphalt, consisting of black lava substrate, allows for infiltration, retention, and vegetation growth. A series of pipes embedded in the porous asphalt leads any access water to the edges and is redirected into more vegetation. The function of the design not only helps manage water, but also contributes to Germany’s heat-island effect.
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Reading Analysis / Brianne Moreno
AS Wind Adapted Road Canopy Structure In San Juan, Puerto Rico there is a red-coated steel structure along Roosevelt Avenue that mimics a human body with long stretched out arms. The human-like structure is repeated over a street median that is 350 feet long and can be considered as an “ecological logo.� Each figure is connected with vegetated steel cables and able to respond to both street and weather conditions. The project itself is very site-specific. This arrangement of steel structures cast shadows and also creates an abundance of ecological value. This is important because the design integrates the urban forest with the urban plan of the area. The steel wiring between the structures also casts a field of spatial value in between each of the steel structures. The design also fully takes advantage of the climate scenario to produce a more comfortable area for the pedestrians. The modular placement of these structures also gives the cityscape an interesting and unusual presentation of urban value.
This diagram shows the complexity of line work and geometry used to create a structure to withstand hurricane season. When driving by in a vehicle at certain speeds, the structure seems to become animated and looks as if it were alive and moving. Living Systems, Liat Margolis//Alezxander Robinson
Reading Analysis / Brianne Moreno
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Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities Patrick M. Condon
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Practicing sustainability should commence prior to the beginning of constructing something. A design must be well thought out to include a sustainable way or ways before wanting or needing to change the design into a sustainable one. Though, in many cases, sustainability is not considered until there is noticeable damage. For us, global warming set off an influence of sustainable practice and has thus far progressed the design strategy. “Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities,” by Patrick M. Condon demonstrates how cities can be transformed into green spaces and further suggests ecological ways to design communities. This book also develops our understanding of greenhouse gas production and how it disturbs the urban form. Condon highlights that in order to create sustainable communities we must “…create a linked system of natural areas and parks…,” and “…invest in higher, greener, cheaper, and smarter infrastructure.” In order for all our water to be clean, we need to provide efficient drainage that does not damage our water. Before we build a community, we need to think of a drainage proposal that will benefit us in the present, but mainly in the long run. We should not restrict these drainage systems from the public and have them run in an infrastructure or underground. We should design these systems around the public to restore communities. Condon states that “Suburban homes have at least four times more infrastructure per dwelling unit than do walkable streetcar neighborhoods.” The reason for that is because we build to get rid of our problems as soon as possible rather than thinking about building for the future. All these infrastructures are costing us too much and damaging our future. Condon demonstrates strategies to build for the future such as infiltrating, green infrastructure, and pervious surfaces. These strategies are extremely beneficial to make our spaces green. After implementing these green strategies to our cities and communities, we should start designing for our green future. Reading Analysis / Karla Quevedo
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The Use of History in Landscape Architectural Nostalgia Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
The key concept in this essay is that nostalgia can be used as a tool to understand the past, without “recurring to historic solutions.” In the understanding of nostalgia, views of the past are either directly understood or manipulated, “The tradition of the Italian Garden, how pointing back to the Renaissance and dignified by its numerous patrons of the laic and papal aristocracy, while considered valuable by its proponents, was by others deemed obsolete and also not particularly consistent with American democratic values.” With the emergence of landscape architecture in a new America, the past had to be looked at critically to decide what was most appropriate for designing the future. It comes back to what is valued, and the aristocratic views portrayed in Italian Gardens would conflict and serve no purpose for a land that holds completely different beliefs. Our view of the suburb, historically, has been focused on the nostalgic appreciation for its visual effects rather than its function. Let’s travel back to the first use of the lawn. A rough history is it was first used in England by the elites as a display of their status. It later became used for sports, and then for parks and finally ended up on people’s front door steps. When viewing the past, it is important to understand where an idea came from, but even more important to understand how that view has evolved. This will help in the investigation of the old Riverside for clues about the best way to represent the Southern California suburb character and ideals. The mission for the future is how to hold on to what’s valuable in this dream, while letting go of what’s harmful.
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Reading Analysis / Robin Slovak
If one is attempting to break a cylical mode of thought, that cycle must be fully understood. All its elements, its connections, its function must be analyzed to the maximum extent. Those who don’t challenge nostalgic thought processes are useless on the frontier of design.
Inside – Outside: Between Architecture and Landscape Anita Berrizbeitia & Linda Pollak
The red lines demenstate how a structure can extend out from the building to cover outside space making it feel like your still inside but your not really inside the structure any more. The green lines demenstate how with the building being open and nothing seperating outside from inside people can feel better connected with the outside with out needing to be out of the structure.
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What is considered inside? What is considered outside? This reading is talking about the combination of inside space and outside space. It is made up of many different sections that are used to talk about the different elements or methods that can be used to integrate inside space and outside space to be able to make them one functional space that works with each other. The methods talked about mentioned how you can bring the landscape into the structure or by bringing the structure out onto the landscape. They also talked about how the architecture and landscape can be blended with each other so that they transition from inside to outside is graceful and not just a dramatic change. This can be used in the project at UC Riverside in many different ways. Even the campus architect talked to us during out first meeting that we should try to combine inside and outside to make the landscape feel more like one with the building, he also said how we should try to use architecture and landscape together to make new spaces that the chancellor and his wife wanted while also making it so you still may feel like you are inside even when you are outside. After reading this and talking to the architect I see that the house and the landscape can be combined to solve some of the issues that the chancellor wanted us to address in this project by giving them more useable space while not having to make it feel really different from common suburban living. Reading Analysis / Ryan Lawson
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Gardens and the Larger Landscape David Leatherbarrow
In Gardens and the Larger Landscape, Leatherbarrow discusses the various relationships between the garden and the larger context in which it is located. Leatherbarrow talks about the four distances gardens create within the landscape to expand cultural identity. In a similar fashion, our design of the UCR Chancellor’s Residence needs to evaluate and integrate the surrounding ecological and cultural identities. Our design needs to stand out and lead the way in an innovative atypical suburban home, while still being part of the existing community. Leatherbarrow describes Luis Barragan’s approach to design for the demonstration garden in El Pedregal, Mexico City. Luis Barragan saw the potential and created a design that enhanced the attributes of the local elements. He planned a layout that would “accentuate the original landscape” and provide private and public gardens. He created private gardens to provide space for reflection. He designed public gardens as open spaces for people; one key spot being the entryway. Following key design principles from Luis Barragan, our design can keep the ideal suburban home in tact while producing a sustainable landscape. First, our design needs to accentuate the local environment by using native plants and the agricultural heritage. Second, we should use the elements such as the lawn and porch to provide a positive function for the public. Combining the design principles of Barragan with technological advancements, an atypical suburban home can utilize innovative ideas to keep the typical suburban ideal. The UCR Chancellor’s house can showcase a positive atypical suburban home.
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Luis Barragan enhanced the aesthetics of rocks using their texture.
Photo by Armando Salas Portugal
The Badlands: people only thought of it negatively.
Open spaces to accommodate public gatherings. Photo by Armando Salas Portugal
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Private gardens can produce food and provide meditation.
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Front lawns perceived negatively in Southern California due to drought. Atypical design can change the perception.
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Reading Analysis / Christopher Carrillo
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The reading mainly talked about how human impacted on the nature, and on the other hand, how the human-affected environment, in turn, influence people’s life. As humans are part of the ecosystem, and every creature is dependent on the ecosystem as a whole, we need to pay more attention to protect the environment as we conduct our daily work. There has been a lot of animals become extinct due to human activities, as such, more attention should be given regarding environmental variety in the future landscape designing. We also need to invent and apply more energy saving and renewable energy into our future design, since the lumber and fossil fuel storage is going down very quickly with our unlimited exploitation. Although our design work should satisfy the basic urban needs, it cannot ignore its social impact. People living in big cities have many stresses, such as the traffic and parking problems,
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Chancellor’s house concrete drive way
Narrow pathway
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even though the automobile has brought us so much convenience and pleasure. The streets and roads also give us pressures with noises and air pollution. There is no wonder that more and more people started to move back to suburban neighborhood, as there is more community connection and less headache caused by big-city problems. The cities have also caused problems in our communications, as people find it much harder to get along with each other with the crowdedness. As designers, it is our responsibility to find out the optimal way to create more natural and sustainable environment for people to live in.
Designing Sustainable Communities
Judy Corbett and Michael Corbett
Chancellor’s house big concrete parking area
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Biopool section www.gartenmitstil.ch
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Reading Analysis / Jingwei Zhou
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Chicago Museum of Science and Industry Smart Home
The museum of Science and Industry in Chicago displayed a Smart Home demonstrating ecological design ideas and how they work in an urban setting. The pre-built modular house features storm water and rainwater management systems, fruit and vegetable garden, native plant habitat and an energy producing green roof. The exhibit is located on the same lot of the historic Museum of Science and Industry Campus and has carried on the legacy of being a prime example of a futuristic home that now promotes sustainable strategies and a contemporary design. The Smart Home includes creative ways of capturing, infiltrating and reusing water through permeable pavement systems, bioswales and raingardens. The exhibit also demonstrates the removal of soil amendments for the gardens by using on-site compost. To allow more space for the growing vegetation, vertical growing walls were placed on exterior walls of the home. The Smart Home quickly became a popular venue for educational programs that promoted healthy eating, biodiversity, and the cycle of gardens. The planting material that surrounds the house was significantly influenced by the preservation of the mature bur oak grove. Once more planting material was added, the canopy of the vegetation isolated visitors from the street and created an enclosed experience. Intended for a one-year display, the Smart Home became such a popular hands-on educational experience that it was able to stay open for five years. To give visitors a new experience, the Smart Home was updated annually with new technology, decorations and vegetation. Being able to see individual sustainable features in an home setting, really helped people visualize and understand the ideas, which is why the exhibit was so successful.
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Vertical growing walls that utilize growing media and creates more space for vegetation in an urban setting. (Landscape Architecture Foundation, Mary Pat Mattson, CSI 2013)
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A rain barrel collects storm water runoff, which is then reused to irrigate the Smart Home’s gardens. (Landscape Architecture Foundation, Mary Pat Mattson, CSI 2013)
Green Roof technology conserves energy, which can be used to power a home. 861 sf of green roofs with accent plants on the deck of the house.
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The Crack Garden
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Sustainable practices can adjust a site to invert from negative environmental impact to positive through skilled, profound design. Developing an environmental sustainable site does not entail for a clean slate or a large amount of money to build. The Crack Garden, a 750sf gathering space and $500 renovation, can be witnessed as an environmental sustainability showcase. This small apartment building gathering area was transformed into a sustainable space with very little investment. Originally, this space was a large concrete area that was impermeable and retained excess heat in the summer. The site was transformed by only adding cracks into the concrete, soil, and plants. Now, it has significant environmental benefits: it “captures water, cools air temperature, creates habitat for wildlife, creates urban farm, prevents soil erosion, reduces urban heat, restores soils, [and] sequesters carbon.” The jackhammered cracks in the garden were made to provide plant life and the plants can endure foot traffic so the entire, small space can be occupied. The site now incorporates outdoor activities and food-giving plants. The Crack Garden was intensely renewed and assists in proving that not much investment can produce a powerful environmental impact. The design demonstrates that “…altering the perception of a place rather than completely remaking it…” considers for a sustainable intervention. This intervention can be applied to any concrete surface, thus creating a sustainable plane where ever the element was first introduced. When looking at a broader scope, the intervention produces a massing of environmental sustainability from one element that can begin altering a site and potentially become a global phenomenon. Case Study Analysis / Karla Quevedo
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Sunnylands Center & Gardens
There is a common misconception that to be sustainable one must sacrifice their water usage, in turn beautiful fauna and flora must be given up as well. With all the talk of sustainable practices in landscape architecture, the Office of James Burnett challenges the status quo of sustainability. The firm analyzed the Annenberg Estate’s extreme water usage in the dry region of Coachella Valley to determine that a sustainable model for beauty was in order. The project addresses the community’s over water use at large, by serving as an example to what is possible with sustainable design. Sunnyland’s is successful because of its sustainable checklist. The use of native arid-landscape plants, solar energy to power the center, use of water reduction practices, moisture-sensing technology, and experimental irrigation technology all synthesize into a functioning sustainable example. There is an attempt in this project to redefine the relationship between dependency and independency. A site has always been viewed as requiring inputs in order for it to function as a system. Sunnyland’s makes great strides in becoming independent from the water as well as electric district, essentially becoming its own selfperpetuating system. This case study will prove to be pertinent in the ‘atypically suburban’ approach because it takes previous ideas and applies relevant innovations to them. Our approach must tackle the previous notion of a suburb home and redefine its elements, creating a showcase for the suburban model.
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More people gather in the shade as opposed to the sunny areas.
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Drought tolerant trees can provide shade.
Drought tolerant landscapes can be aesthetically pleasing in order to uphold a standard of beauty some people associate with the typical suburban home.
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The California Garden was designed to reflect the vegetation of California and produce a drought tolerant garden. In addition, the plants also provide colorful aesthetics and bountiful shading. The California Garden proves water efficient landscapes can fulfill an ideal and provide a function. For the Chancellor’s Residence, the garden portions should reflect UCR and Riverside as a whole. The landscape already has citrus trees all around the backyard with placards of the plant names. Our design will take into consideration the local flora and history when creating a planting plan. When considering how much water some plants will take, alternative irrigation systems will need to be installed to compensate. As the California Garden reflects a positive view of the California landscape, the Chancellor’s Residence needs to reflect a positive view of suburbia using innovative sustainable ideas. The main design principle of the California Garden is designing with the local environment in mind. Due to the drought in Southern California, many homeowners have resorted to xeriscaping and rainwater capture and storage to conserve water. Using native plants along with local customs, the Chancellor’s House can set an atypical suburban standard to influence the neighborhood. With the atypical suburban approach in mind, the design of the UCR Chancellor’s Residence should incorporate native plants around the lawn. Creating rain gardens using local vegetation can also improve the onsite water retention and increase water efficiency. In order showcase the landscape successfully, native plants and rain gardens will also provide an aesthetically pleasing addition to the lawn. Case Study Analysis / Christopher Carrillo
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The village homeowners raise an innovation idea that can help to solve urban sprawl and a bunch of related issues. The starting design idea is to build a community where residents can live more lightly on the land. They wanted to lead residents to have more social activities with their neighbors. They also proposed for a low energy cost lifestyle. Their high-density residential area lead people to walk and ride bicycles a lot. Their solar panel roof also save them a lot of money in energy cost. They also believed that they can solve multiply problems through one approach. For instance, they narrowed the street, so as to save money and land for other use. They saved the extra land for food production, and the narrower street slowed the traffic and make walking much safer. “The narrow street allows a great sense of community ownership to develop”. Residents also started to manage the public areas as their own space. They invited
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Roof rainwater collection system www.rheinzink.us
Each house averge catch rainfall: Riverside annual precipitation: 6.35 in Riverside average single family roof square: 2000ft 1 mile buffer single family house number: 1363 1 mile buffer Riverside single family house annual rainfall catch : 1363*2000*6.35*1/12=1442508cube ft 1442508cube ft=10764985gallon Each house averge catch rainfall: 10764985/1363=7898gallon
low-income families to move into their community to help with the construction work, and the low-income families then can use the wages from construction work to buy their own houses. The success of village homes proved that the low-income families could actually become an integral part of the community. Another major concept of the village homes, apart from the community sense and energy saving, is the closed natural sense. They use drought-tolerate plant to conserve water. They also build neighborhood agricultural to encourage people in producing their own food. They also change the direction of the drainage to be away from the normal city drainage system, and the water will be led away from street to come behind houses, the house owners then can utilize about 90% of the rainwater for irrigation. Case Study Analysis / Jingwei Zhou
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The Emerald Village
Emerald Village is a community of healers, educators, and creators that help to build a heart-centered community. Their goal is to make a place where everyone contributes, share the responsibility to maintain the nature of their space, and utilize their natural abilities and develop new skills. As a group of people they support each other in personal, spiritual, and economic growth, and strive to take good care of their land. This is so they can create a sustainable environment that they know and take care of, so that they can raise families and all grow as a community. This place is just one example of what a community can be and how people can grow and work together and not be separated from one another. From the point of atypical suburban living this is different from most if not all suburban communities in southern California. So this is a great reference because we can take some of the ideas here and use them in our site to help change the idea of the typical suburban home. The Emerald Village already broke the typical suburban community but we are out to further it by also changing the suburban home to be something that would be a more modern look of suburbia and not what it is and has been for so many years.
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Case Study Analysis / Ryan Lawson
Emerald Village is about making a connection with one another and working together to help each other out and the best way is to be close and to do things with each other.
This is a good example of how a Emerald Village could be structured. Making people be close and see how a close community should be, Where they have to be close and interact with one another.
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This a an easy to use computer software program that analyzes tree data from a built inventory and can be accessed by any community. by using this software urban forest managers are able to quantify the dollar value of annual environmental and aesthetic benefits such as energy conservation, air quality improvement, CO2 reduction, stormwater control, and property value increase. it works by using consolidated data as a baseline and can manage resources, develop policy and set priorities. from the existing inventory of trees, the computer program allows managers to evaluate current benefits, costs, and management needs. The overall design of i-Tree Streets software is very straightforward and flexible, mostly because it is not GIS based and requires only basic inventory data. Streets can accept and analyze data from any existing street tree inventory provided species and trunk diameter data are present and that Streets inventory formatting protocols are correctly followed. In relation to the design of the chancellor’s house, this software could provide valuable information about the trees on the property and some of the issues that need to be addressed.
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Sub-Surface Drip Irrigaton
water flowing freelywater being evaporatedwater running offwater effectiveness: 75-85%
-water placed directly where needed -no evaporting -water effectiveness: 90% or more
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The sub-surface drip irrigation cost calculator is a Microsoft Excel-based calculator. It compares water use and the cost of a sub-surface drip irrigation system to a conventional sprinkler irrigation system that, in fact, wastes a lot of water. The inputs to generate a calculation for sub-surface drip irrigation are: irrigated area, water rate cost, length of growing season, number of days per month with over ½� of rain, and frequency of irrigation. The outputs for the calculation include initial cost, annual water use, annual water cost, average annual maintenance and repair cost, and lifetime costs for both systems. The calculation generates estimates that are low and high in range for each, based on the national averages. The users also have the option to include their own cost data. This tool is important to an atypically suburban design approach because typically lawns have a sprinkler irrigation system that wastes water. We can use this calculation to have an estimate of the outputs for single-family homes in the area. This, in general, can save a lot of water to the users, but also to the city. The calculation will generate the differences between drip and sprinkler irrigation, thus giving the users the ability to choose which to use.
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Green Roof Energy Calculator
This calculators main function is to dierentiate between the conventional dark or light roofs energy perfor-mance to that of a building with a green roof. The results are compiled from 100 major cities in the U.S. focusing on apartment and single home buildings. The calculator will give you the electrical, gas and energy cost saving for having a green roof, compared to the typical roof. This calculator may prove to be pertinent in our atypical suburban focus primarily because we are focusing on the housing dierences based on income. The upper class suburban landscape is substantialy dierent from the lower class suburban land-scape due to nancial issues. Providing a universal solution which will benet costs for both sides of the suburban continuum is leading us in the right direction for our design intervention.
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Program that can be applied to more than just one side of the suburban spectrum will not only bring about economic change, but it will begin to break the barrier created by existing suburban typologies.
Performance Tool Analysis / Robin Slovak
National Stormwater Calculator
This picture helps to deminstate how stormwater can be captured and not runoff on hard surfaces and be wasted. With out these measures water is rushed off site and has no chance to infeltrate.
"RainWise Program." <i>--Seattle Public Utilities</i>. Seattle.gov, n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2016.
This picture helps to deminstate how stormwater if not delt with appropriately can flood and area if it does not drain off a proporty properly.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Crawl Space Archives - Midori Haus.â&#x20AC;? <i>Midori Haus Crawl Space Tag</i>. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2016.
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This calculator helps to estimate the annual amount of rainwater and the frequency of runoff for any site in the U.S. It does this by using information from many different national databases that provide local topography, soil, historic rainfall, and evaporation information. The inputs that this program need are the location of the site and the percentages of the surfaces on the site. Then one would input how much of these surfaces would be used or changed in order to capture rainfall and runoff. After all of this data is inputted the program with run simulations to your specifications and give one the amount of water that will be retained on the site. This tool will be very helpful in giving us data of how our changes will be affecting the site. With the use of this data we could make adjustment to how we want the site to look and function to the standards that we set and want to achieve.
Performance Tool Analysis / Ryan Lawson
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Project Statement
Since the suburbanization of Riverside, the agricultural heritage that once thrived was supplanted by an expanding community. UCR and its suburban context contain the potential for becoming an example of a unique suburban shift . Typically the suburban home consists of elements that consume more resources than it produces. An atypical approach will attempt to change these elements to be more energy efficient. The Chancellor’s Residence is poised to alter the typical suburban home because of the prestige, status, and potential of the site. The property can potentially redefine a 20th Century residential development tool into the following innovative and sustainable 21st Century design approach. Our design seeks to challenge the outdated views of suburbia by incorporating sustainable ideas such as xeriscaping and rainwater storage. The suburb exists on the outskirts of the city due to people retreating from the polluted, unsafe industrial city to the countryside. Evolving with the suburbs were homes including a front lawn, garage, porch, pool, mailbox, gardens, driveways, and fences. Our design of the UCR Residence will analyze the typical elements of suburbia and explore methods that will demonstrate the atypical suburban home’s potential. Our teams atypical suburban approach for this project is derived from the outdated experience of the American dream home. By unpacking the typical kit of parts of a Southern California suburban home, we will reveal and interpret the site holistically. Through our design, we can then create a sustainable suburban landscape for the Chancellor’s Residence that will set a precedent for the Southern California suburbs we hope the Chancellor’s Residence will influence the immediate neighborhood and other government official residences.
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The typical suburban home embodies several amenities - including a spacious front lawn; a driveway leading to garage, and the backyard swimming pool. The suburban home landscape is copied and pasted across the country because it has become the ideal home for the common consumer. Our project’s design approach will take these stated existing suburban elements; break them down into their core purpose and re-envision them in a more sustainable manner with regard to water efficiency. Our team’s design will seek to shift this perception of the typical suburban home - of a cultural or prevalent mindset regarding suburbia - by incorporating surrounding ecological systems and utilizing emerging and existing trends such as xeriscaping, and urban agriculture. Southern California is in the middle of a severe drought causing the populous to think more about water usage and conservation. In order to be more water efficient, these trends among the SoCal population within this region have begun to culturally take root and be explored. Existing practices among homeowners include rainwater storage systems; graywater filtration and the establishment of drought tolerant landscapes. Utilizing these trends, the UCR Chancellor’s Residence, per our approach, will showcase sustainable methods to reincorporate some of these above noted, typical suburban elements. Since Riverside and UCR are historically known for agriculture of citrus, the concept of urban agriculture will seek to influence the Chancellor’s Garden spaces by growing crops. The Chancellor’s Suburban Home will also utilize edible gardens and food forests to produce local food. The UCR Chancellor’s Residence will be re-framed to establish a precedent - setting an example for its neighbors to participate in community gardening, which will develop a sense of community between neighbors by bonding through gardening and adding to the identity of Riverside.
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BackgroundLooking at Riversideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own suburban sprwal progression reveals where subur-bia was most prominent. It shows the suburban continuum from the first sub-urbs to the new contemporary suburbs. This will prove to be important as we analyze and depict the suburban typologies in Riverside. 1980
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Drought Progression
Not watering the lawn to save money LA Times
ISSUE: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DROUGHT RESPONSE: LOWER WATER CONSUMPTION Due to the severe drought enveloping Southern California, many residents have resorted to other techniques to save water. Since the California Drought has only continued to increase over the past few years, the government established new policies on water usage causing homeowners to turn to alternative landscaping. Therefore, low water usage becomes a trend in Southern California.
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Atypical Suburban watering their lawn and pay the fine. However, the growing trend tends to be the implementation of drought tolerant landscapes to save water. The typical suburban home includes the most water consuming element - the front lawn. The atypical suburban home will incorporate a low water use front lawn utilizing innovative techniques, such as xeriscaping and rainwater collection, that will allow for a front landscape that still provides the same function.
Watering in Beverly Hills
Mel Melcon/ Los Angeles Times
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The Unemployment Rate shows that people lost jobs
Forbes.com
ISSUE: ECONOMY RESPONSE: LOCAL PRODUCTION Due to the recession, many people have reduced their spending by trying new ways to save money. In addition to loss of income, residents of Southern California also have to deal with the drought. Based on income levels, homeowners have approached budgeting in different ways. However, the increase in local production stands out as the most noteworthy trend.
Monica Almeida/The New York Times
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Low income suburbs cannot afford to keep green lawns
Middle Class largest consumer of solar panels
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Solar Panel Installation Chart (Mari Hernandez pg. 2 2013)
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The wealthy afford to keep lush green lawns
Atypical Suburban wealthy have enough money to continue living extravagantly. The growing trend tends to be people generating their own resources for living. The typical suburban home has underutilized elements such as the roof, driveway, and gardens that can incorporate existing trends. The atypical home can use the roof to capture solar energy and rainwater; the driveway to capture solar energy; and the garden to produce food.
Damon Winter/ The New York Times
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Empty suburb - cars in driveways; no one outside
Devan King/TNC
ISSUE: LACK OF COMMUNITY RESPONSE: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Many neighborhoods from the lowest to highest income levels lack community. In poorer neighborhoods, the area begins to reflect this visually in the aesthetics. In richer neighborhoods, the lack of community can only be seen by empty streets. To keep this from happening, a growing trend is to involve the community in project developments.
The Kirkwan Institute
Community Garden renovation
Some neighborhoods build up their communities through many ways such as community meetings, community gardens, and community dinners. Village Homes and the Emerald Village exemplify community centered neighborhoods. Before developing Village Homes, the community came together to discuss how to design the 40
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Working together to produce locally
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Atypical Suburban neighborhood first. In the Emerald Village, the people work together to create a sustainable environment. Community development trends tend to arise from hard times, but only prevail through the peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard work. The typical suburban homes have porches and gardens that can be changed to increase neighbor relationships. The atypical suburban home will design elements that enhance engagements between neighbors to develop community and identity.
Neighborhood parks can build community
Jayne Vidheecharoen
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USA Average Household Size Maps Converged
Legend Median Age US avg: 37 52.1 or older 43.1 to 52 years old 35.1 to 43 years old 27,1 to 35 years old 27 or younger No population
USA Median Age Legend Average Household Size US avg: 2.6 3.5 or more people 3 to 3.4 2.5 to 2.9 2 to 2.4 Fewer than 2 No households
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Sustainable SITES Methodology for Performance Measures
Sustainable SITES has many different categories that they use to rate a project from open space to educational and institutional. The rating system uses performance measures instead of using practices that need to be followed. This allows designer teams to be flexible and creative while changing the landscape. They score you on things that look at the water for the site, soil and vegetation, materials selection, human health and wellbeing, construction, operation and maintenance, and education and performance monitoring all of which aid to the development of the site. We plan to address these categories in our design by using a few different performance measuring tools that we found and think will provide great information that would help to address sub-categories for our overall design. With our approach being atypically suburban we plan on taking the typical idea of what suburban living is and change it in such a way that we keep the idea of what a suburban home is but making it sustainable and give the clients more use of their property. The performance measures will be very helpful with calculating how much of the materials that are on-site can be reused or recycled and by trying to keep as much on the site as we can. This means we will try to capture as much water as we can and put in solar to be more efficient. In our design we want to this to showcase what suburban homes can be with out making everything look the same and still have the feel of suburban life.
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Typical Suburban Kit of Parts Pool
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The pool is a classic suburb element that people enjoy. Whether it is in your backyard or in your community, it brings people together.
The fence is an essential element in a suburb home. It is the most minor barrier that can create a powerful separation from the community or serve as a light buffer zone. Security
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The patio serves as a place to enjoy your home outdoors. It is commonly used for parties and seasonal dinners.
Arguably the most typical suburban element, the lawn has the potential to be harmful or exist to create healthy endeavors.
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Barbecue Grill
Sidewalks create the boundary between what is private and public land. On the other hand, they also facilitate exchanges amongst communitiy.
The grill is a very specific Southern California suburb element. It allows for an indoor-outdoor experience that often lacks in suburbia.
Sewer system
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Garage The garage is not only an extension of the driveway for the car, but it is also a space filled with typical suburban experiences and activities.
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The driveway typically holds two cars and acts as a place for recreation and activities. There are also negative impacts such as amount of cars purchased per family, CO2 emissions, and heat island effect from the concrete.
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Areas of denser population have the most low income families. The population cannot afford to move out to the suburbs. Poverty moves into the suburbs. Poorer neighborhoods cannot afford to change their landscape to accommodate for the drought.
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During an event, the chancellor’s house can provide for 100-150 guests, typically per month.
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The elements of the chancellor’s existing house that are bring retained are the entire house, the pool area, the air conditioning units, the storage, the Chinese Flame Tree in the courtyard, part of the garage, and part of the backyard’s concrete.
2 - Courtyard Concrete courtyard works as greeting space for around 50 people.
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The existing context of the region lied on the axis of the site so we decided create a design along those axis. On the south side the axis would align with detention basin. On the west side the orchard would merge into the backyard staying in a grid. On the east side provides a mountain viewing platform for a large event. On the north side would be the connection to the neighborhood. Our design would place areas along the axis and create a grid pattern that mimics the orchard. However the house kept getting in the way the flow of circulation and connection within the site. Anyway we tried to design the site, the house would keep getting in the way. Design Principles Combining the previous principles with the axial principle, we designed the site to connect the four main areas through the space along the cardinal axis. The axial design provides alignment, symmetry, and movement through the space. The site still stays balanced while providing the user with easy access to the main areas across the site. The axial pattern also unites the site as one complete entity.
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Connect the site to the existing conditions in the region. From the Chancellorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residence we can see the mountains, smell the orchard, hear the creek, and engage the neighbors. We want to somehow incorporate the surrounding environment into our design. Therefore we brought in the mountains by creating a viewing spot; brought in the creek by putting in a natural collection basin; brought in the orchards by expanding it into the backyard; brought in the neighborhood by developing circulation throughout the site.
Contextual Connections
Design Principles Utilizing the design principles of contextual integration and quadratic balance, we designed the UCR Chancellorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Residence with four connections to existing regional conditions. The contextual design emphasizes the surrounding regional elements in a balanced plan. The water detention basin on the south side balances with the community gathering space on the north side. The orchards on the west side balance with the mountain viewing space on the east side. Each area of the residence is anchored by a focal point that brings people in and around the environment to create a rhythmic movement throughout the site. The emphasis of each context connects the residence to the existing Riverside region
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Site Design Conceptual Development Using the concepts of the contextual environment and the grid of the axis we came up with a new concept that aligns everything on a grid pattern and changes the main entrance. In this final concept we renovate part of the garage to create an axis along the existing entrance of the house. From there we arranged the space to keep a flow throughout the house using pattern, repetition, scale, and rhythm. We placed the grand event space on the high point using terraces. The parking lot is redesigned to be permeable, have more plant life and act as a secondary space for large crowds. We incorporated rain gardens to retain and hold water on site. Design Principles Using the design principles from the previous concepts without disturbing the existing architecture too much, we designed the Chancellorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Residence to fulfill the program and connect to the contextual environment. The large event space on the terraces creates a view of the mountains from the high point of the site. The rain gardens and bioswales capture rainwater and reflect the creek. Placing the program elements on a grid pattern gives the site structure and order to gradually lead the user from one area to the next throughout the site Practical Connections
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Currently, the suburbs receive a negative connotation in California because the homes waste a lot of resources especially water. However, the suburbs are still a great place for families to live and grow. In our approach, we will change the function of the residence to be atypically suburban in order to utilize the elements of the suburban home in a sustainable way. We will change the lawn to be a regional grass that is more drought tolerant. We will incorporate rain gardens to retain and hold water on site. We will use solar energy to help power our homes. We will install permeable pavement to let water fill the water table instead of runoff into the oceans. Depending on the site, our approach hopes to utilize the local characteristics to make a more productive suburban home. Using the UCR Chancellorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Residence as a showcase we can inspire others to change their homes to more suitable landscape for their respective regions. Combining our approach with the program elements we will design a sustainable suburban landscape. First we will change the lawn to a more suitable grass for the region, which will provide a place to gather and enter. In order to be more water efficient we designed a permeable parking lot, placed some rain gardens, and put a swale through the terraces. The terraced platforms is the grand event space for the various large gatherings the Chancellor will be hosting on behalf of UCR. All these spaces will function for the people as well as the environment.
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Botanical Gardens Connection Creating a scene of awareness to the community, selected plant palettes from UCRâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s botanical gardens were chosen for this area.
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Educational Signs There will be a sign at the Botanical Trail head to inform people about the garden and a brief history. Also, there will be a small area that can fit about 8 people at a time, and they can read about the site and how it came to be.
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Large Event Space This area can hold up to 300 guest. It also provides several views of the botanical gardens, Box Spring Mountains, and the citrus groves.
Private Areas Since the chancellorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backyard is bigger than typical, we created a space that replicates the size of the average backyard.
Meadow Placed at the bottom of the large event space, this area is meant to capture water and restore native planting.
Sculpture Walkway The walkway is intended to invite the community on a quick stroll through current art installations.
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We designed each element using a grid pattern throughout the space to stay consistent. Pattern brings order to the design so the user can walk through the residence in a coherent manner. The trees throughout the the space are placed in a grid pattern. The paverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and terraces also reflect the grid pattern.
Scale
We designed certain elements at different scales to show the difference in capacity of people in each area. The large gathering space is much larger with more open and no walls in order to appear as a large event space. On the other hand, the entry courtyard is designed with walls and seating area to enclose the space to be more intimate and private for a smaller crowd.
Repetition
We designed some elements to repeat along corridors to direct users along certain paths throughout the residence. The repetitive elements lead the user from one space to the next through a connected series of rooms.
Rhythm
Combining the three strategies of pattern, scale, and repetition along with similar materials and plants we design the elements in rhythm. Providing rhythm throughout the space creates a natural movement within the residence so the user does not feel disjointed while walking around. Users can enjoy a leisurely walk throughout the space without getting disoriented.
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For this site we tried to look at how we could be sustainable but make it look different than what most people have done in the past so that our project would be atypical. One thing that we noticed was that homes would address some and maybe all of these categories but they all did it in a similar way and people just followed them thinking that it was the only way to be sustainable. We looked at these trends to try to figure out how we could take those and rethink them. To do this we first started to think of when we change something how could we use what is there on the site now and how people have done it in the past. Then we moved on to thinking of how to do that in such away that it is different from what people do and have been doing in suburbia. With this we then turned to how can we make this site as sustainable as possible while making it different then other suburban home and maybe including a variety of different ideas to make something that would work for this centuryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homes. When looking at and designing the site we addressed the 10 categories in one way or another. Whether it was directly or indirectly we wanted to make this site preform in both a sustainable and useful way for the environment and the people that live there. With this way of thinking we went step by step taking the categories into account. The best way we found to do this was to think of everything that a typical suburban home and suburban community do today that is out dated and how can that be changed to fit the need of people in the suburban communities as well as how that can work with the conditions of todays droughts, and need to conserve as much water and energy as possible, to make a new standard for the suburban home that will be sustainable. With this sustainable idea we also looked at how to reuse not just the materials but also the existing landforms that are on the site to make our infrastructure as well with using the water flow to our advantage. With these spaces that we are creating we want to make them so they are not just single use and can be used in many different ways, for the client but also for the environment. Another thing that I think helps with our goal of being sustainable is our attempt to bring the surrounding context and its vegetation into our site because the idea is we cannot be more sustainable if we do not use what has work and been working in the region for years and would stay sustainable if we did not interfere. So with the combination of many different ideas and ways of addressing these categories we hope to achieve a truly sustainable design that will work for a suburban home and could convince people that they too can work with the environment to make something that is beautiful, works with their area, and be more efficient overall.
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