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The Dance of Nature
Site Design For Saluda Shoals Amphitheatre
The path moves the viewer through the site, choreographing movement in and out of spaces.
Perspective #1
Entryway
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As water makes its way down the watershed it begins to form a dilect with its surroundings. The contrast between the strict horizontal pattern of the forest and the oxbow form of the river begin to work against each other and create music with each other.
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Outdoor Gathering Area / Path Perspective
Materials
Successional Banding
Another feature accentuated is the exposure of the rich color of the earth. This color pronounces the beauty of the inner structure of nature.
3 Perspective #3
Perspective Crossing Channel
4 Successional banding represents the climax species for trees in this environment. Species of oaks and hickories would dominate this area.
Perspective #4
Path Perspective
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Perspective #5
Amphitheatre Perspective
Site Plan 1:30
Walls are used within the site to direct people through the site. Each wall is used to set up a view, creating a space, or frame a key aspect of the site.
Light is a very important feature of our design. The filtration of light and shadow displays the true dance of nature as you move through the landscape. The walls are used to capture light and shadow in its greatest artistic form. As shadows fall from the trees, the walls create a surface for them to be cast.
LA 236 - Competition Studio
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Saluda Shoals Amphitheatre
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Shawn Sinn, Matt Fordham, and Dan Ryan created this project for an amphitheater in South Carolina in three weeks. The students created an identity for this area by using elements from the local landscape as inspiration driven by a concept called the dance of nature. The active movements involved in performances inspired the forms of the landscape. Bands of cor-ten steel walls, local rivers, and plantation forest plantings spiral and move to activate the site. Patterns of light reflect off of the water, or cast through the trees, or are thrown on to the cor-ten steel walls at night, or during the day. All drawings were produced by hand and rendered in photoshop, or hand drawn persectives were altered in photoshop. The boards were organized in Adobe Pagemaker.
Site Plan 1:30
M E T R O L E X I N G T O N
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P L A Z A K E N T U C K Y MATERIALS
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CULTURAL BEGINNINGS METAL GRATE
THE MOUND ON THE NORTH SIDE OF SHORT STREET REPRESENTS THE BEGINNING OF SETTLEMENT TO THIS REGION. THE BLUEGRASS REGION IS NOW KNOW FOR ITS GRASSY ROLLING HILLS AND THE THOUROUGH BREDS THAT GALLOP ACROSS THEM.
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METAL GRATE IS USED FOR PATHS AT STREET LEVEL. THIS ALLOWS FOR THE LIMESTONE AND WATER BELOW TO BE REVEALED TO THE VISITOR. LIMESTONE IS THE PRIMARY MATERIAL USED FOR THE PLAZA IN FRONT OF THE CIRCUIT COURTHOUSE. CONCRETE IS USED FOR THE RETAINING WALLS OF THE PLAZA IN FRONT OF THE DISTRICT COURTHOUSE. STEEL IS THE MATERIAL THAT IS USED FOR THE BRIDGE THAT CONNECTS THE TWO PLAZAS. THE BRIDGE IS DESIGNED SO THE USER CAN ONLY SEE A WALL IN FRONT OF THEM AS THEY START TO CROSS. AS THEY APPROACH THE WALL AT CENTER SPAN OF THE BRIDGE THEY CAN STEP ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PATH. AS THEY STEP ACROSS THEY GET ON LAST VIEW OF WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND THEN ANOTHER WALL PREVENTS THEM FROM SEEING ANYTHING EXCEPT WHERE THE PATH ENDS. THIS IS SYMBOLIC OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME FROM PAST TO FUTURE OR FUTURE TO PAST.
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TREES
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GEOLOGICAL BEGINNINGS RED OAK
WHITE ASH
VIEW 3
HONEYLOCUST : 1” = 40’- 00”
THE LIMESTONE MOUND ON THE SOUTHSIDE OF SHORT STREET REPRESENTS THE GEOLOGICAL BEGINNING OF THE BLUEGRASS REGION. THIS REGION WAS THE FIRST TO TURN INTO LIMESTONE AS THE OCEAN RECEDED WHICH EVENTUALLY LED TO THE BEAUTIFUL ROLLING TOPOGRAPHY OF THE BLUEGRASS REGION TODAY.
WHITE OAK
WHITE OAK, RED OAK, WHITE ASH, AND HONEYLOCUST ARE TREES THAT ARE COMMONLY FOUND IN THE BLUEGRASS REGION. THERE ARE MORE TREES IN THE PLAZA IN FRONT OF THE CIRCUIT COURTHOUSE TO REPRESENT THE FOREST OF THE REGION BEFORE SETTLEMENT. LESS TREES IN FRONT OF THE DISTRICT COURTHOUSE REPRESENTS THE PICTURESQUE QUALITY OF THE COUNTRYSIDE TODAY.
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: 1” = 32’- 00”
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LA 238 - Competition Studio
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CULTURAL BEGINNINGS
THE MOUND ON THE NORTH SIDE OF SHORT STREET REPRESENTS THE BEGINNING OF SETTLEMENT TO THIS REGION. THE BLUEGRASS REGION IS NOW KNOW FOR ITS GRASSY ROLLING HILLS AND THE THOUROUGH BREDS THAT GALLOP ACROSS THEM.
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GEOLOGICAL BEGINNINGS
: 1” = 40’- 00”
THE LIMESTONE MOUND ON THE SOUTHSIDE OF SHORT STREET REPRESENTS THE GEOLOGICAL BEGINNING OF THE BLUEGRASS REGION. THIS REGION WAS THE FIRST TO TURN INTO LIMESTONE AS THE OCEAN RECEDED WHICH EVENTUALLY LED TO THE BEAUTIFUL ROLLING TOPOGRAPHY OF THE BLUEGRASS REGION TODAY.
Lexington Courthouse PLaza
L E X I N G T O N
A sophisticated landscape reading inspires Shawn Sinn’s three week project for the Lexington, KY Courthouse Plaza. The Lexington area was the first land to emerge from an inland ocean, altering its ph from the surrounding areas. This high ph limestone base becomes ideal for plants such as alfalfa, which is the staple for horse feeding. The natural geomorphology dictates the cultural landscape. Shawn’s project displays this through a landscape narrative on each plot; these plots are set off from the city by surrounding them with metal grating. One project includes rolling vegetation, while the other uses limestone creating an active plaza environment with water for inhabitants to sit near. Shawn’s project was created by using hand drawings, photographs, xerox productions, and hand tracing. All elements were placed into photoshop for color altering and texture fills. After this, each element was organized using Adobe Pagemaker.
Lexington Courthouse Plaza
LA 236 - Competition Studio
Matt Fordham’s design for the courthouse plaza responds to the local landscape surrounding the Lexington, Kentucky region. His three week project contraposes the cultural landscape of the grid, with the landforms and vegetation of the region. This juxtaposition creates the forms for the plaza. Matt challenges the traditional American plaza by stratifying the section. The bridges and sunken areas create an active environment that challenges inhabitants’ perceptions and traditional activities. Matt used AutoCAD to create plans and models, along with freehand drawing techniques. Drawing colors were manipulated in Adobe Photoshop, and the boards were organized in PowerPoint.
Dr. Martin Luther King National Memorial
LA 338 - Competition Studio
Michael Hoffman’s project engages visitors through a guided narrative. Inscribed walls tell the story of the movement through imagery created by the photographs from the media, a key role in communicating to the nation the realities and horrors of bigotry. Physical elements such as walls and poles create feelings of oppression and segragation by interacting with circulation systems on site. The culmination of the design is a fountain that responds to the amount of people cooperating in its plaza. Pressure sensitive pavers allow organized groups to trigger the fountain to its highest setting, displaying the fruits of collaboration. Michael created two and three dimensional models in AutoCAD and dowloaded them into Adobe Photoshop for rendering with multimedia techniques. The boards were organized with Adobe Pagemaker.
Dr. Martin Luther King National Memorial
LA 338 - Competition Studio
Rick Haering’s project is a bold statement! Rick positions a large timepiece at the intersection of the cross axes of the main memorials in the district. This overscaled pendulum responds to the scale of the movement for equality and justice. Its active nature alludes to the ongoing mission of the civil rights movement, and its inevitability. Underneath the pendulum, key moments in time inscribe the granite plaza. Outside of the plaza are areas with monitors that display contemporaneous events marking the ongoing nature of the civil rights movement. Rick produced physical and computer models of his design. Images from these models integrate into photoshop with hand drawings, and Photoshop drawings for the final presentation which includes on site photography.
San Francisco Gate Competition
LA 338 - Competition Studio
This project won a third prize for Michael Loganbill. The competition asked for a gateway for San Francisco State University. Michael established an identity for the University in the community by creating a wall to be inscribed with names of graduates and donors, and activated the space by small footwalls for use by inhabitants in various forms. Pragmatically, theses small retaining walls establish a rigid datum for change in elevation that creates and amphitheatre. Michael produced this project through hand sketches, and model studies combined with computer wire frames. The drawings were worked by hand, and then compiled into Adobe Photoshop for further rendering and organization.
Urban-Open Competition
3rd year design
This competition asked international entrants to design a community center on an urban site in Chicago in an African-American community that would be sustainable in energy and socially just. The three entries shown here attempted to minimize the cost due to the severe budget while identifying program gaps in the neighborhood. The project to the far left proposes simple and inexpensive building construction for a community center based around sound and music. Several interviews showed children and youth wanted opportunities for musical education and growth. The project offers studios for recording, and a sound garden, where Ipods can be a continual interface to teach about natural processes and properties in nature. The center project defines the corner site with the building. The barn, formerly the architecture of this area while it was farms, is an iconic and inexpensive symbol for the community center. The project to the left stays under budget, creating a pavilion for shows and movies that faces upon a community event space. The perimeter surrounding the sunken, defined space is community gardens.
3rd year design
USGBC ‘Emerging Talent’ Competition
The United States Green Buildings Council’s Southern California Chapter sponsored this project for their ‘Emerging Talent’ competition. In this project, students were asked to provide a heritage study building and restoration for the re-use of the Eagle Mountain Mine Site. Eagle Mountain is a defunct iron ore mine carved out from Joshua Tree National Park. The mine and the town were abandoned and is now a contested landscape for park or landfill. Rather than take the architectural program at face value, the students critiqued the idea of placing heavy academic programming in an extremely hot and arid climate, a minimum of an hour away from the closest town. Three finalists in this portfolio examine ideas for the re-use of the site. One suggests that the site is acceptable for a landfill to refill the massive pit left by the mine. As long as only waste is put in, the mine will not attract non-native species that would affect the local ecosystem. The waste could provide opportunities for architecture and sustainability schools in the region to study re-use of waste materials for construction. This materials research could create low cost and desert efficient alternatives for a region booming in housing needs. The project to the left uses the concept of ‘stripping,’ which took the iron and materials away from the landscape, as the concept that could restore the site. Various stripping processes (and the ensuing deposition) offer opportunities to reveal industrial processes, gain energy, and retrieve futher materials from the tailings. Pictured to the left is the stripping and deposition of mine materials to affect the cricital habitat of the area. Mounds placed against the south side of the abandoned and dilapidated houses make prime habitat for the desert tortoise. This earth absorbs heat on the south side, keeping the houses cooler to create bat habitat. The project on the facing page argues Eagle Mountain has not reached its potential in its present state. The project research suggests restoration will never be possible. Various sites of tremendous acreage in Southern California are damaged by off-highway vehicles (OHV). Eagle Mountain Mine could be a challenging and unique place for OHV riding. Concentrating OHV use in Southern California at Eagle Mountain would release a halfmillion acres of sensitive lands from degradation from OHV, and save habitat for the bighorn sheep and desert tortoise. This marginalized population could purchase and restore homes at Eagle Mountain, forming an OHV commuity.
The EcoRoof is a habitat extension; it reduces heating and cooling requirements; cuts energy consumption; reduces storm water run-off and flow rate; filters pollutants out of the air; and restores ecological and aesthetic value to open spaces.
Nature in Neighborhoods Prefabrication in the Forest Ben McDowell Todd Severson
Landscape Planning and Design Integrating Habitats LLDE DE 461 | Fall 2007
Roof gardens, permeable paving, vegetated swales, and vegetated infiltration basins manage stormwater on site to prevent excess and polluted runoff. These strategies filter polluted runoff, protect local soils, reduce runoff volume, increase air quality, lower surface temperatures and cool local climates. Vegetated swales collect excess stormwater from the site, filter it, and release it into the creek. These stormwater treatment areas increase the bio-diversity in the surrounding conservation areas, helping to restore existing habitats as well as establish new ones.
This project restores th the wet area in the center of the site in the commercial development. It suggests the center of the site becomes a bog, which can be an index of environmental health during restoration. The bog is a resource for terrestrial, avian and aquatic species, indicating habitat function of the three types of systems.
The wall has two layers of a porous material approximately 1” thick and is made of loosely-woven plastic screwed on to the wall in pieces.
Tyler Stradling
Plants in gaps have their roots hold them in place. Roots grow downwards between layers and can grow to be several stories long.
uses restoration / habitat
integrating habitats - bog processes and webs for restoration Dendroica petechia known commonly as the Yellow Warbler owes its subsistence to its habitat. The Yellow Warbler calls the Willamette Valley home April through October. circulation replanting native
The Yellow Warbler prefers the crotch of the Pacific Willow and Quaking Aspen (both planted in this site design) to build its nests. This species thrives in riparian habitats such as bogs because it feeds on the insect populations that inhabit them.
Integrating Habitats Transect at the Bog
This interior wall is a natural filter which removes VOCs and CO2 emitted from the vehicles.
Mike Nicoli
‘Nature in Neighborhoods’ diverts from conventional construction methods. Apartment homes employ prefabricated modular construction in a compact arrangement. This creates a significant corridor attaching the riparian area and the park. Pre-Fabricated construction methods reduce the impact on the site, so that less habitat needs to be restored and reduces the amount of embodied energy in the built environment.
green practices
This exterior wall provides temperature mitigation and extended habitat for native bird species. The green wall panel is a stainless steel frame mounting system with 1’x1’ attached panels planted with a variety of plants; specifically the native huckleberry to encourage habitat. The berries attract birds and mammals, especially the Yellow Warbler.
Clayton Franklin Alisa Mallett Larisa Cherny Cheryll Herrmann
The human habitat intersects with the a boardwalk. The boardwalk allows people to observe the natural processes and the food web in the bog while taking people from the development area on the east of the site to a field of grapes on the east side. This grape field is an opening inside of a restored forest, as only one side of the site is developed. A green, living wall in the development area on the buildings allows habitat to bridge from one patch to another in the ecosystem network.
Clemmys marmorata, The Western Pond Turtle is mutually significant to its habitat. The species thrives in permanent water bodies such as bogs with slow moving waters for foraging. Shallow waters near shore with aquatic vegetation for hatchlings to hide from predators are valuable. Near to the bog, are accessible undisturbed upland sites with sparse vegetation and south facing slopes for nests.
Aquatic basking sites for turtles to regulate their temperature are essential. Corridors with streams, rivers and riparian areas allow movement between populations and are critical to ensure turtles continued existence. A habitat consisting of dry land and wetland reduces predation.
stormwater tilling / removal
existing non-native views
Boardwalks allow people to observe the processes and natural webs associated with bog processes, while keeping habitat physically separated.
Allowing a bog to dry up late in the summer will reduce the amount of egg masses, tadpoles and large bullfrogs that remain a key predator of the Western Pond Turtle.
Protecting + Connecting
Discarded paper is collected and stored on site for use in creating papercrete blocks.
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Entrants could choose from three categories, each having a habitat type, and a development type. These three categories were:
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-neighborhood infill development with a remnant oak woodland/savannah habitat interface -mixed use development with a riparian forest habitat interface (featured in infolio) -commercial development with a lowland hardwood forest interface (featured in infolio) BI
Riparian wetland Ripar-
With 180 parking spots 50% of the required parking is eliminated. While this seems drastic, overflow parking can take place as parallel parking spaces along the streets and the design is close to a Metro stop.
Paper, water, and a small amount of portland cement or fly ash is mixed on site to produce a papercrete slurry.
The slurry is poured into a wood framed mold to produce blocks.
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habitat distinctions
The blocks are set out in the sun to dry (approximately 4-7 days.)
The site will mitigate waste through the production of papercrete and compost on site. Production would occur as a public education demonstration. Papercrete uses paper waste from packaging and the community. Compost uses shredded waste paper from packaging and food waste from the Cafe on site.
Solar Benefits of Site Solar Panels
Solar Panels
This project protects all of the existing habitat on site from development. All commercial areas lie on the east side of the site next to major thoroughfares and public transit. This site planning scheme with reduced parking allows no development to bridge or enter into the habitat conservation areas.
This project for mixed-use development bridges from a park with a woodland habitat to a riparian corridor from east to west. The project site is altered to trade of land with the park to the east. The land swap allows for the creation of a wide corridor to facilitate species movement from the park to the stream.
Ashley Poulton Juan Rodriguez Martin Brett Gehring Valeria Bravo Josh Trommler
The mixed use development bridges north-south the natural habitat and the urban habitat. To the south, building faces the prairie corridor, and to the north, the development defines the street edge of the district in Portland.
92 Parking Spots underground
According to a Purdue University study, parking spaces outnumber drivers 3 to 1. Parking lots at typical home building centers often sit with most spaces empty. According an EPA article titled “Parking Spaces Community Places, ” these empty lots can cost thousands of dollars to maintain and are harmful to the environment. Even where
parking is shared with restaurants and other stores, there is often more exposed pavement than there are cars. Mitigating this waste of space by using a less rigorous ration than 3 to 1 will make the space enjoyable for users and more inhabitable by animals. This reduction will also mitigate the amount of storm water runoff.
Oregon White Oak dominate the savannah.
The main technique for storm water management is the addition of vegetated space to the site. Shade loving plants grow on the roofs below solar panels Habitat and bioswales are grown on bare existing areas of the site. Water drains from impervious areas to bioswales and then into the vegetated habitat corridors. With the extra water the creation of a new wetland was possible.
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Soils are often hydric, inundated with water for a significant part of the year.
Fallen trees provide homes for nesting mammals.
Drainage and Stormwater
Tufted hairgrass (Deschampia cepitosa) is a native prairie species and is an important forage for animals.
Well drained soils containing volcanic and marine rocks allow for successful canopy growth.
Openings in the forest canopy exist because of fallen trees creating mixed grassland areas.
High canopy trees allow safe nesting and roosting for resident birds.
Increased stream vegetation stabilizes stream banks with root systems and additionally filters debris from water. Additionally, it reduces stream velocity enabling a larger abundance of stream life.
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Solar Forest
Mixed Use in the Forest to the Riparian Edge
The compact development allows the creation of new habitat areas to connect existing, fragmented habitat zones. Additional new area creates diversity in the ecological matrix by providing both edge condition and increase amount of interior forest.
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This competition sited in the urban realm of Portland, Oregon challenges entrants to balance development and conservation. Designs should find best practices for accomodating growth while protecting the region’s environment and quality of life. How is it possible to integrate open space access, site planning, and environmental preservation and restoration in construction and development?
initial hardwood and wetland habitat
Christina Caputo Ryan Farrow
Expanding Habitat and Creating Views
Green Village
Integrating Commerce and Habitat
Papercrete Production
Integrating Habitats: A Design Competition
The competition expects design ideas in this competition to usher new development that maintains functioning natural systems within communities and ensures our quality of life and the environment for ourselves and future generations.
Protecting and Connecting
Mitigation of Waste
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Eliminating Under used Parking
Commercial Development: Lowland Hardwood Habitat
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BIOSWALE Solar Panels
Arizona State University | Tempe Arizona | http://design.asu.edu/sala/
proposed hardwood and wetland habitat
views to the habitat
The proposed design increases the size of the site habitat by approximately 75%. The new habitat has native plants and revegetation would begin with the removal of the Rubus armenicus found on site in the lowland hardwood corridor. The space would be revegetated with plants that are appropriate to Oregon’s lowland hardwood and wetland habitats. The new wetland would be created over time through the use of drainage from the impervious areas of the site. The new wetland creates a natural space for community members to enjoy nature and see natural processes as habitat grows over time.
The top right diagram shows the types of plant communities on site. The lowland hardwood habitat is yellow, the wetland riparian habitat is green, and bioswales in tan. Wet land sedges and rushes are in the bioswales and interact with the habitats to clean water drained from the site. The design of the on site built space directs views into the habitat. This is to show the users of the site the beauty and importance of the habitat without putting people in it. All movement corridors face the lowland hardwood habitats. This movement systems functions to remind users why they should participate in “green” practices and buy green products.
Stormwater Management Total Impervious Area
118,249 SqFt
Reduction Technique
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Pervious Paving Green Roof Contained Planter Vegetated Filter Strip Vegetated Swale
13752 SqFt 60,213 SqFt 8164 SqFt 68,850 SqFt 249,855 SqFt
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13,752 SqFt 60,213 SqFt 8164 SqFt 13,824 SqFt 22,486 SqFt
Impervious Area
The site has both passive and active solar benefits. Passively all of the trees and plant life on the site use the sun. During photosynthesis they absorb CO2 and emit oxygen. This cleans the air on and surrounding the site. Actively, solar panels are located on the roofs. According to Kyocera’s energy calculator, a 100kw-dc PV system will produce approximately 106,000 kwh of electricity per year. This would be enough to power the garden center and offices on site.
Total 118,259 SqFt Impervious - Managed 0 SqFt
OREGON WHITE OAK
BLACK COTTONWOOD
SNOWSHOE HARE
AMERICAN VETCH
SERVICEBERRY
TOLMIE’S MARIPOSA
WHITE TAILED DEER
CASCARA
BIG LEAF MAPLE
PONDEROSA PINE
Fallen trees provid and smaller stream
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