Nathan Burgess, Portfolio 2013 by Nathan Burgess

NATHAN BURGESS portfolio

Introduction| Nathan Burgess DESIGN TOOLS | PROCESS My work in graduate school has been characterized by conceptual and technological experimentation within a suite of emerging and traditional design tools. The resulting projects are situated at the boundary between the scientific and the intuitive—bearing the mark of my undergraduate training in environmental science and literary criticism. A common theme within much of this work is the production of landscape by interventions within human and geophysical processes. I have organized the first section of the portfolio in order to highlight my experimentation with the tools of design and the second section to describe how these tools find their way into the process of researching and designing landscapes.

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1 Independence Community Park becomes a home away from home for the citizens of Melville. For several days the park provides space for parking and plenty of amenities. Here and in parks like it outside of the basin, Melvillians can create annual rituals and traditions, and continue to enjoy their rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness! Move your game piece to Independence Park.

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MARKET INFORMATICS p. 56

Introduction| Nathan Burgess

DESIGN PROCESS

Design Toolbox | Diagram

ANALOG DIAGRAM | ANATOMY OF A BARRIER ISLAND ink, Thesis Design Research/Regenerative Technologies, Fall 2012 advisor: Brian Osborn, critic: Matthew Jull, Theresa Gali (based on Reinson, 1992)

pre-development

These hand drawn block diagrams helped to quickly record my understanding of barrier island ecology for my thesis research on coastal morphological modeling in designing for sea level rise adaptation at Sandbridge Beach, VA.

post-development

landward mlgration

design toolbox | diagram

This diagrammatic axon proposes an idealized model for a new residential community on a barrier island. The “overwash parks” between neighborhoods allows the island to adjust to sea level rise. The model proposes a rotating land occupation, where the dune-fronting properties move to the lagoon side every 70 years.

DIGITAL DIAGRAM | ATCHAFALAYA LANDSCAPES OF RISK Adobe Illustrator and Rhinoceros3D (Grasshopper Plugin) ParadoxCity Studio: New Orleans, Fall 2011, critic: Jorg Sieweke (data from NOAA, National Flood Insurace)

This diagram synthesizes research into the geophysical and social rules of the life-or-death game of ring-levee town property ownership at the base of the Morganza floodway. The representation also features (and evokes the design process of) diagrams generated parametrically with Grasshopper (roulette boards).

design toolbox | diagram

HYBRID DIAGRAM | ATCHAFALAYA LANDSCAPES OF RISK chipboard, Rhinocerus 3D, Grasshopper plugin ParadoxCity Studio: New Orleans, Fall 2011, critic: Jorg Sieweke This hybrid diagramming process took advantage of newly acquired understanding of parametric modeling to streamline a collaborative workflow. My collaborator could scan physical diagrams in chipboard (left) and I created a script to convert these diagrams to digital block diagrams for use in our project.

Ijsseloog

bioswale

polder

moat

alluvial fan

remediation field

crevasse

superlevee

oxbow lake

check dam

levee

windrow

Ijsseloog (collaborative)

levee

design toolbox | diagram

This diagrammatic model solved the challenge of representing the distinction between non-physical geopolitical space (acrylic) and topographic space (chipboard). The geopolitical plane illustrates two approaches to living in the delta: narrower French parcels aggregate along naturally high ground while the Jeffersonian grid extends through the lowlands.

HYBRID DIAGRAMMATIC MODEL | HISTORIC ATCHALAYA LEVEE SETTLEMENT laser-cut chipboard and laser-etched acrylic, cardboard, wood ParadoxCity Studio: New Orleans, Fall 2011, critic: Jorg Sieweke (collaborative)

Design Toolbox | Map

(MOSTLY) ANALOG MAP | HUMAN ECOLOGY OF THE VENICE LAGOON ink (drawn over a digital aerial collage) ParadoxCity Studio: Venice, Spring 2012, critic: Jorg Sieweke

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design toolbox | map

Inspired by the representation of Raumlabor and my work as an illustrator prior to graduate school at Earth magazine, this drawing helped me frame the novel human ecology of the Venice lagoon as my collaborator and I began conceptual design exploration for land “reclaimed” by the Port of Marghera at Cassa di Colmata B.

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DIGITAL MAP | ATCHAFALAYA LANDSCAPES OF RISK ArcGIS and Adobe Illustrator ParadoxCity Studio: New Orleans, Fall 2011, critic: Jorg Sieweke

chance roll

LANDFARMING [Bateman Island, LA]

Storage Treatment Pond 1x

LANDFARMING [Bateman Island, LA] A. transport and storage

PRICE: $280

PRICE: $150

PRICE: $260

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MARVIN GARDENS

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MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME: $20,625 BELOW POVERTY LINE: 40.1%

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VISITING PRICE: $120

PRICE: $100

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POPULATION: 1376 HOUSEHOLDS: 542 HOUSES: 648

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PRICE: $150

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LANDFARMING [Bateman Island, LA] B. spreading and bioremediation PARK PLACE

PRICE: $160

VIRGINIA AVENUE

CHANCE CONNECTICUT AVENUE

PRICE: $320

PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

PRICE: $200

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD

MONOPOLY

design toolbox | map

This map begins with the metaphor of Monopoly, and its anti-capitalist predecessor, The Landowners Game, to spatialize the processes that have incentivized land development in flood and contamination-prone areas.

PRICE: $60

HIGH VALUE COLOR GROUP

RENT: $2 $10. 30. 90. 160.

BOARDWALK RENT: $50 WITH 1 HOUSE WITH 2 HOUSES WITH 3 HOUSES WITH 4 HOUSES

WITH HOTEL $250

WITH HOTEL $2000

MORGAGE VALUE $30. HOUSES COST $50. EACH HOTELS, $50. PLUS 4 HOUSES

MORGAGE VALUE $200. HOUSES COST $200. EACH HOTELS, $200. PLUS $ HOUSES

if a player owns all the lots of any Color Group, the rent is Doubled on Unimproved lots in that group.

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ELECTRIC COMPANY If one “utility” is owned rent is 4 times amount shown on dice. If both “utilities” are owned rent is 10 times amount shown on dice Mortgage Value

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3% of total cost returned per rental

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RENT: $30

$200. 600. 1400. 1700.

INITIAL COST: 400$

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LANDFARMING [Bateman Island, LA] C. scraping and restoring

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MEDITERRANEAN AVE WITH 1 HOUSE WITH 2 HOUSES WITH 3 HOUSES WITH 4 HOUSES

LOW VALUE COLOR GROUP AND PROPERTY

$60 + 100 = $160 total cost

19% of total cost returned per rental

$60 + 200 = RENT: $160 $260 total cost 62% of total cost returned per rental

8% of total cost returned per rental

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LANDFARMING [Bateman Island, LA]

$400 + 200 = $600

33% of total cost per rental

25% of total cost returned per turn

$400 + 400 = RENT: $600 $800 75% of total cost returned per rental

50% of total cost returned per turn

$400 + 800 = RENT: $1700 $1200 total cost 141% of total cost 100% of total cost returned per rental returned per turn

return = 4x chance roll

Storage Treatment Pond 1x

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ANALOG DIAGRAM | SANDBRIDGE BEACH, VA ArcMap, ArcScene, ink, Thesis Design Research, Spring 2013 advisor: Brian Osborn, critic: Matthew Jull, Theresa Gali (based on Reinson, 1992)

design toolbox | map

Design Toolbox | Model

ANALOG SECTION MODEL | GEOLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF CASSA DI COLMATA B cardboard, chipboard, paper, nails, sand ParadoxCity Studio: Venice, Spring 2012, critic: Jorg Sieweke This collaboratively constructed section model of Cassa di Colmata B represents the relationship of a distinctive layer of clay in the Venetian lagoon and its impact on the formation of the intricate network of channels within the lagoon. Carving the channels by hand from aerial photographs imparted a visceral understanding of morphological change.

This project curated the morphological change of a large lump of nourishment sand placed off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia. This simple sand table helped to visualize how a lunar calendar of data-collecting buoys might serve as a datum and palimpsest for a periodic nourishment ritual. My thesis research uses a simple morphological model, the Coastal Evolution Model for a similar purpose.

design toolbox | model

ANALOG PROCESS MODEL | WILLOUGHBY SPIT MOONSCAPE cardboard, chipboard, paper, nails, sand Foundation Studio II: Spring 2011, critic: Dr. Kristina Hill

DIGITAL MODEL | BUOYS AND COASTAL MORPHOLOGY rhinoceros 3D, photoshop (rendering) Foundation Studio II, Spring 2011, critic: Kristina Hill

design toolbox | model

HYBRID PLAN | FACE PLAYGROUND Ink, AutoCAD Earthwork, Spring 2011, critic: Jen Trompetter This project explored translation of topographic data from clay to an ink contour plan (middle) to AutoCAD (right) and a digital model.

design toolbox | model

HYBRID FABRICATED MODEL | ASCLEPIUS HIGH FLOW DISTRIBUTOR Soft Surface Operations, Fall 2011, critic: Lucia Phinney This mechanical model of a milkweed pod responded to changes in fluid flow by opening or closing. This design project developed into a broader project researching the aerodynamics of milkweed pods in an environmental science course in fluid mechanics.

Rhino3D + Grasshopper Plugin + Firefly Plugin + Arduino Microprocessor: Responsive Digital Model

Ink: Milkweed Pod, Mechanical Diagram

Acrylic + Rhino3D + Laser Cutter + Arduino Microprocessor + Water Flow Sensor + Servos: Fabricated Mechanical Milkweed Model

Design Toolbox | Plan, Section, Axon

ANALOG SECTION | OBSERVATORY HILL WASTEWATER REMIX graphite Foundation Studio I, Fall 2010, critic: Nancy Takahashi This section depicts a proposal for converting two unused water treatment storage ponds at the University of Virginia into an amphitheater and constructed wetland. The bald cypress in this hand-drafted section reflects my parallel exploration of planted form and ecology in a plant identification course that semester. I still find that hand drawing provides the most flexible, efficient and elegant means of representing the detailed form of trees and shrubs.

design toolbox | section, plan, axon

ANALOG ANALYTICAL AXONOMETRIC| BENCH CONSTRUCTION ON THE HIGHLINE graphite Site Assembly, Fall 2010, critic: Zaneta Hong

This analytical axonometric was developed from sketches and notes taken in the field at the Highline in Brooklyn, NY.

DIGITAL SECTION PERSPECTIVE | OBSERVATORY HILL CREMAINS GARDEN Adobe Photoshop and Rhino3D Foundation Studio I, Fall 2010, critic: Nancy Takahashi This section perspective from my first studio project of graduate school synthesizes newly acquired techniques of digital modeling in Rhino3D with collaging techniques in Adobe Photoshop. The reflecting pool in the section perspective rests on a surface intended to erode over time. I proposed that family of persons used as medical cadavers for the University could place small, compostable memorial items in the reflecting pool.

DIGITAL PLAN | CASSA DI COLMATA RECREATIONAL MASTERPLAN Adobe Photoshop ParadoxCity Studio: Venice, Spring 2012, critic: Jorg Sieweke

EDGE OF 1960s PORT EXPANSION PROPOSAL

IDROVIA MOUTH PROPOSED INFORMAL CAMPING AREA I

PROPOSED HABITAT AREA/CORRIDOR PROPOSED PHRAGMITES PHYTOSTABILIZATION EXPERIMENT

PROPOSED BIRD NESTING TOWERS

CASSI DI COLMATA B

PROPOSED DREDGE REMEDIATION GARDEN

design toolbox | section, plan, axon

CASSI DI COLMATA A TREATMENT WETLAND

PROPOSED INFORMAL CAMPING AREA II

CASSI DI COLMATA D/E PROPOSED DREDGE SCOTS BUOYS PROPOSED DREDGE REMEDIATION GARDEN

COLMATA C (NOT CONSTRUCTED)

NAVIGABLE CHANNEL

PROPOSED FORESTRY EXPERIMENT PROPOSED STICK CONSTRUCTION PLAYGROUND

PROPOSED BOARDWALKS

This proposal for reclaimed land in the Venetian lagoon imagines an island where human and non-human squatters have equal right to use the land. These agents include fishermen, endangered birds, phytoremediating plants, and tourists from Venice.

PROPOSED OBSERVATION TOWER PROPOSED PUSH BUTTON VAPARETTO

EXISTING DREDGE/BARENA EDGE

EXISTING PORT (15’ depth)

EXISTING VALLE DE PESCA

CANALE MALAMOCCO (15’ depth) EXISTING NAVIGABLE CHANNEL ON-GOING BARENA CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS N

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HYBRID PLAN | THE FLOOD THEATER Adobe Photoshop, ArcGIS, Illustrator, graphite | UVA Vortex Competition, faculty advisor: Lucia Phinney In the spring of 2013, I led a team of 10 undergraduates and graduates in a school-wide competition considering the future of a river in the town of Charlottesville. Our team proposed a disturbance regime whereby a series of enormous concrete spheres would move through the Rivanna River lowlands, carving new paths through the landscape.

design toolbox | section, plan, axon

DESIGN PROCESS | ACADEMICAL VILLAGE HISTORICAL TOPOGRAPHY Client: UVA Office of the Architect; Supervisor: Mary Hughes, UVA Landscape Architect Cultural Landscape Report Fellowship, Summer 2012

RESEARCH AND ORGANIZATION | DATA FOR MULTIPLE CLIENTS This research was conducted in preparation for the University of Virginia’s 2012-2013 Cultural Landscape Report. The Office of the Landscape architect asked me and another Cultural Landscape Report Fellow to construct a series of digital models to show changes to the University of Virginia’s topography over time. We created topographic models for the years 1896, 1909, 1945, and 2012. These models synthesized data from existing historical contour maps, sections, spot elevations, and aerial photographs. In addition to purely documenting the site, the process of designing these models allowed us to fill in some of the historical narrative. For example, we were able to describe the topography within the Rotunda Annex’s rampart walls—filling in a blank in the historical record. We carefully organized our research process and products so that they would be used by multiple clients: the Office of the Architect, Facilities Management, and the Cultural Landscape Report consulting firm. We chose ArcGIS and ArcScene as a platform for developing this model because of the power of its toolset and because it was used by each of our clients.

3D TOPO DATA: ORGANIZATION Reference Basemaps

Resources

Reference Shapefiles

Primary Generated Content

Working Files

Secondary Generated Content

Documentation/analysis sources: summary and limitations

georeferenced maps (raster)

major synthetic and interpretive moves historic spot elevations (shapefile)

Buildings (MultiPatch)

paths, building footprints (shapefile)

Interpoloated & 3D contours (.shp)

contours and elevations (shapefile)

written accounts

ArcMap (.mxd)

Draped paths, extruded walls and stairs (MultiPatch)

notes TIN metadata VRML

historic photographs ArcScene (.sxd) historic maps

cultural landscape survey maps

(c. 1896)

Rhino3D

(c. 1909) archaeological spot elevations

(c. 1945) (c. 2012)

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ArcGIS Rhino3D Other

Design Process | Historical Topography

RESEARCH AND ORGANIZATION | DIGITIZING HISTORICAL MAPS

McKim, Mead and White 1896 contour map (UVA Facilities Management)

1909 Anonymous Contour Map (UVA Special Collections)

An ArcMap .shp file was created for contour data from georeferenced maps.

1909 map (digitized, collaborative)

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For the 1896 model, spot elevations obtained from pre-construction survey points in architectural elevations and sections were combined with elevations from a partial contour map from that year.

Spot elevations were interpolated in ArcGIS to help recreate the topography of ground that is today occupied by academic buildings and other landscape features.

1. annex c. 1895 after rotunda fire (UVA Special Collections)

1. ArcScene model

2. northeast annex stairs before rotunda fire (UVA Special Collections)

2. ArcScene model

3. northeast annex stairs before rotunda fire (UVA Special Collections)

2. ArcScene model

Design Process | Historical Topography

3D MODELING AND HISTORIC PHOTOS | ITERATIVE TESTING AND REFINEMENT

HISTORIC TOPOGRAPHY | 1896

Discovery: an occupiable earthwork existed within the Rotunda Annex’s rampart walls

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Design Process | Historical Topography

HISTORIC TOPOGRAPHY | 1909

Discovery: stairs on the southwest side of the Academical illage’s extended southern terrace existed in 1909 and were part of an unfinished pergola wing to the adjacent academic building.

DESIGN PROCESS | CVILLE CARNIVORES NURSERY Studio Critic: Julie Bargmann Planted Form and Function, Spring 2012

Shrub

Buxus sempervirens (Boxwood, naturalized) Crataegus species (Hawthorn)

Physocarpus opulifolius (Nine bark) Viburnum prunifolium (Black-Haw)

Myrica cerifera (southern waxmyrtle) Rhododendron maximum (Great Rhododendron)

Ground Cover

SITE RESEARCH AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN | ARBY’S PARKING LOT TO CARNIVOROUS NURSERY Buxus sempervirens (Boxwood, naturalized) Dicentra cucullaria (Dutchman’s Phlox stolonifera (Creeping Phlox) The goal of this project wasBreeches) to design a nursery and display garden Crataegus species (Hawthorn) Eupatoriadelphus fistulosus (Joe-pye weed) Geranium maculatum (Wild Geranium) on a parcel of land adjacent to Rt. 29 in Charlottesville, VA—the site of an Arby’s restaurant and an abandoned gas station.sempervirens The idea(Carolina Jasmine) Mertensia virginica (Virginia Bluebells) Typha species (Cattail) Gelsemium Carex crinita (Long Hair Sedge) Anemone quinquefolia (Wood Anemone) Chrysogonum virginianum (Green and Gold) for a carnivorous plant nursery came as a response to the existing site use by human “carnivores.” The section below (Adobe Illustrator) was produced as a group mapping exercise for existing vegetation on the site. P

MESIC URBAN LAWN

HYDRIC RIPARIAN CORRIDOR

MESIC WOODLAND

As the site of a former gas station and a current fast-food operation, the limited unpaved area exhibits a monoculture of lawn grass with a small wooded area. Non-lawn vegetation consists of Japanese honeysuckle, a sub-canopy featuring plants such as Autumn Olive, and a canopy of pine trees.

The current riparian corridor exhibits weedy, invasive and some native plantscommon to disturbed and degraded sites, including sycamore and mimosa. The wetland ecology bears the imprint of human disturbance from nearby sites as well as the disconnection produced by the concretized stream channel.

The woodland on the site encompasses a west-facing slope with a dense ground and shrub layer and areas of somewhat full canopy. Canopy and the understory here are patchy at best, but well-formed dogwood and tulip poplar specimens stand out. Birds, insects, and roads and residences. Cornus florida Pinus echinata

Platinus occidentalis Albizi julibrissin

Stellaria media Robinia psuedoacacia Liriodendron tulipifera.

Pinus strobus

Acer rubrum

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Pinus virginiana

Mahonia bealei

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Lonicera japonica

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Hedera helix

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Design Process | Carnivorous Nursery

Diagramming sightlines and existing site vegetation (below, ink and colored pencel) helped to structure the initial design proposal for the nursery. After creating a schematic palette and a consulting with a local expert, I accomodated the needs of carnivous plants by designing the canopy to allow stock and display plants to receive strong sunlight yearround and to prevent leaf litter from entering the display bogs.

SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND RESEARCH

Sequential sections (ink, graphite) through the initial site plan were used to refine the initial design concept with regard to existing site topography and enclosure/sunlight.

Design Process | Carnivorous Nursery

SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND RESEARCH PARKING

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summer folliage

fall foliage

CVILLE CARNIVORES: SHRUB

EARLY DESIGN DEVELOPMENT PLANT PALETTE

VILLE CARNIVORES

Nate Burgess

MISSISSIPPI QUEEN

Pinus palustris | longleaf pine

CANOPY

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LOUISIANA EASTERN HILLSIDE SEEPAGE BOG

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Native Range: Native Texas to Southeastern Virginia in deep, coarse, acidic, sandy soils. Key species in the Longleaf Pine Savannah ecosystem type. Duration: Perennial Bloom: Jan, Dec Habit: Erect tree with long needled plume at considerable height. Notes: Tapped for turpentine and resin and logged for construxtion timbers and pulpwood. Prune to maintain shape and fertilize 3 times a year. Noted as part of the Eastern Hill. Seep. Bog.

Nyssa sylvatica | Blackgum 100’

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Native Range: Found native throughout the east and midwest. Found on well-drained, finer soils on low ridges or alluvial slopes near streams. Habit: Medium to large tree Notes: Typelo leaf miner and forest tent caterpillar are notable pests.

HIGH-END CARNIVOROUS NURSERY MAIL-ORDER DISTRIBUTION CENTER BOTANICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY LEARNING GARDEN

SWEET TEA PLEASE 100’

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Native Range: Native Texas to Southern Deleware in acidic, wet soils: muck, clay, fine sand. Key species in the Longleaf Pine Savannah ecosystem type. Duration: Perennial Bloom/Fruit: Perennial, Mid Spring/Summer Habit: Conical Tree Notes: Wood used for construction purposes. Seeds eaten by turkey, ducks, waterfowl. Domes provide watering opportunities for birds and mammals.

Alnus serrulata | smooth alder

Native Range: Northern Florida to Southern Maine, growing best in moist bot-

SUBCANOPY

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Native Range: Fast-growing tree with multiple leaders. Found in wet soil along stream corridors and pond margins, tolerant of clay, loam, sand, slightly acidic soil Duration: Perennial Bloom: March-April Fall color:Yellow Size: 35-75 ft

Native Range: Common in swamps, marshes, and ditches in the deep south. Hardy zone 7-11. Size: 7-10’ Note: Leaves look like marijuana.

Native Range: Native Texas through the mid-atlantic, found in wet acidic soils in Virginia carnivorous bogs. Habit: erect grass Bloom: Notes:

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Typha species Cattails

Native range: Lower 48 on acidic, well drained soil, prefers shade and mountain

10’

M H

SHRUB

Native range: Acidic wamps/bogs in gulf Coast states (anec-

Native Range: Canada to Pennsylvania in moist soils associated with peat bogs. Cultivar does well in zone 6 and 7. Habit: Densely pyramidal coniferous tree Bloom: Notes: Forms stands with black spruce in the north around bogs that feature Sarracenia Purpurea.

Larix laricina | Tamarack larch Native Range: Canada to West Virginia Habit: Conical deciduous coniferous tree Bloom: Notes: Forms stands with black spruce in the north around bogs that feature Sarracenia Purpurea.

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Native range: Acidic wamps/bogs in gulf Coast states (anec-

Native range: Tall fern that grows in woods of VA, West Virginia. Duration: Deciduous Notes: I think this was the fern that turned a glorious yellow on my visit to the bogland at Dolly Sods, WV, in fall 2010

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Native Range: Native in the lower 48 states, not tolerant of basic soils, or salt or too much shade. Habit: Shrub to subcanopy Bloom: June-August Notes: Provides nesting and food for many birds. Many mammals eat the fruit or eat the red twigs.

Nepenthes species | Tropical pitcher plant 100’

10’

Pteridium aquilinum | Bracken fern

100’

Native Range: Western bracken fern is native to most of the United States, though it is considered a weed in some areas. In many states, however, the brackenfern is endangered or threatened. Habit: Bloom: Size: Bracken ferns can get up to 7’ tall and function solidly in the shrub

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Native: Texas to Virginia, found in acidic bog soils in the south. Habit: Erect, bunching grass form Bloom: Brown, Spring Notes: Needs 230 frost free days and is intolerant of shade. It can’t survive below 7 degrees farenheight.

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Native fange: Florida to North Carolina; faces significant habitat pressure Habit: Bloom: Note: controversy exists over whether jonesii is a subspecies of S. rubra.

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Native Range: Louisiana to Canada, acidic ponds and muddy

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Native Range:Texas to Maryland found in acidic bogs Duration: Perennial-Annual Form: Forb/herb Bloom: March Notes:

Native Range: Eastern Louisiana to North Carolina, moist,

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aciic, sandy coastal pinelands and savannas Bloom: March-May, temperature dependent

Habit: Notes:

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Polytrichum commune | Hair cap moss 100’

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shade tolerant

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sedge and cattail leaf litte

Deep rooted and prone to fungii. Difficult to grow in quantity.

Sarracenea purpurea | Purple Pitcher 100’

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Duration: Notes: See P. primuliflora

10’

partial shade Notes: attracts butterflies (Boloria eunomia). Don’t pant with bog plants. Use a separate area for stones and cranberries.

Native Range: Alabama to Virginia Duration: Perennial Form: Herb Bloom: April-June Notes: Difficult to grow. Rob S. Says no to this

plant crowns to reduce rot. Rob S. suggests planting pitchers in clumps within a field of sphagnum. For bog soils use peat moss with a pH of ~4.

Native range: Texas to Nova Scotia, in ponds and ditches, wet, acidic, still water

10’

Duration: Perennial Habit: Subshrub Bloom: Yellow, May-Nov Note:Poisonous seed and flowers! Consumes Mosquito larvae.

0’

10’

Native Range: Native to sandy moist, basic pinelands, bogs, and ditches

in the Southeast US. Requires poor, acidic soils Bloom: White, one of the first to flower in spring Notes: Genus name refers to the slimy upper surface and leaves. Buy in tissue culture and sell cheaply.

Drosera filliformis | Threadleaf sundew 100’

10’

Native Range: Florida to Newfoundland, acidic, wet, sandy, coastal

areas

Bloom: Lavendar rose flowers, June - Sept Habit: Perennial Notes: Forms an unusual groundcover. Rob S. suggests sprinkling in with Sarracenia sp. Rob S. says D. filliformis is easy to propagate.

0’

Utricularia inflata | Floating bladderwort

100’

10’

H 0’

Habit: Bloom: Notes: Takes 2-1/2 years to grow. Use regular well water.

Utricularia radiata | Small floating bladderort 100’

Pinguicula primuliflora | Primrose butterwort B

0’

Sphagnum species | Sphagnum moss

Native Range: Southwest Australia. Unable to tolerate low calcium

water.

0’

10’

100’

Bloom: Note:

Cephalotus follicularis | Albany pitcher plant 100’

Native Range: Florida to North and South Carolina, moist or aquatic habitats Bloom: light lavendar to blue

Pinguicula breviflora |Dwarf sundew 100’

Native Range: Georgia to New Jersey. Unusual species found at acidic seeps in the Blue Ridge mountains. Habit: Pitcher

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Pinguicula caerulea | Blue butterwort 100’

H 0’

Native Range: Florida to North Carolina Habit: Pitcher Bloom: March, April, May Notes: Plant bacteria for digesting flesh may also provide nitrogen-fixing abilities.

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Native Range: VA native, grows in bogs and similar acidic moist soils in sun or

Native range: large wetland moss, decays to form peat moss, found in bogs. Notes: Fine to plant with Sarracenia and other species. Keep pulled away from

Native: Lower 48 states and Canada, drought intolerant and Size/texture: One of four mosses available for gardening uses. Notes: Moderately pollutant tolerant.

30 cm 100’

Native Range: Lower 48 states Bloom: green Size/texture: coarse textured graminoid, grows in clumps. Notes: aquatic Utricularia (i.e. U. minor, intermedia, stygia) benefit from

10’

0’

100’

Carex atlantica | Prickly bog sedge 100’

Sarracenia minor | Hooded Pitcher

Oxycoccus erythrocarpus | American Cranberry

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sedge and cattail leaf litter

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one, but I think it can go in the terrarium garden.

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Pinguicula lutea | yellow butterwort B

stock plants on the slope.

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10’

growth and sales.

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10’

Drosera capillaris | Pink sundew 100’

streams

Duration: Annual Bloom: Purple, Jul-Sep Note: Threatend in Maryland; Rob S. suggests this plant for stock

Habit: Bloom: Notes: Can be used as an outdoor plant. Buy in tissue-culture.

Notes: aquatic Utricularia (i.e. U. minor, intermedia, stygia) benefit from 10’

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Native Range: Native to VA, grows in acidic, moist soils, sun-shade. Size/form: Low shrub Foliage: red green in spring to blue green in summer to maroon purple in fall. Notes: Blueberries are awesome. Rob S. suggests planting as a border above

Dionaea muscipula | Venus flytrap LB

Utricularia purpurea | Purple bladderwort B

Native Range: Native to U.S. 48 and Canada, found from California to Oregon in coastal bogs and along mountain streams and seeps near cold running water Habit: Subshrub Bloom: Bloom: April-August, Perennial Notes: Cold terrarium only.

Carex scoparia | Broom sedge

Vaccinium species | Blueberry 100’

Native Range: Indigenous to the coastal plane of North and South Carolina, grow in humid, wet, sunny warm bogs.

100’

Native Range: Found throughout the east on the edge of forests and distrubed areas. Bloom: light lavendar to blue Bloom: warm season grass Notes: Found in all of Louisiana’s Major Land Resource Areas except for Gulf Coast Marshes. Use plants from within 100-300 miles of the site. Feeds birds and mammals.

Suitable only for greenhouse conditions. Limited sales potential. Purchase enough for display and high-end customers.

100’

Note:

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Andropogon virginicus | Broomsedge bluestem B

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Native Range: Native to central Virginia. Semi-evergreen to evergreen. Grows in moist, acidic soils, sandy to clay loam. Habit: Shrub Bloom: Beautiful, leathery white flowers open in the morning and close at night for several days each year. Apr-July

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H M

Sarracenia rubra | Red Pitcher 100’

layer.

10’

Cyperus haspans | Haspan flatsedge L B

Native: Grows in humid jungles of southeast Asia. Habit: Bloom: Notes: Grows on large vines; one of the largest pitcher plant species.

Darlintonia californica | Cobra lilly 100’

Magnolia virginiana | Sweet bay

0’

Native Range: Alabama to Florida to Southern Virginia (coastal plane) Habit: Pitcher Bloom: Spring Note:

0’

Sarracenia flava | Yellow Pitcher 100’

plants versus plants cut form the wild. Popular for horticultural display.

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Size: Large shrub 6-10 feet high Notes: Sometimes used with willows for stream bank stabilization.

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dotal evidence of species in Virginia)

Habit: Pitcher Bloom: Produces two pitcher crops, mid-spring and late summer. Note: White top interveined with red or purple. Find propagated

Native Range: Cornus amomum is adapted from Florida to maine, performing best in moist, poorly drained, moderately acidic soils.

Cornus sericea | Red Osier Dogwood 100’

100’

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SUBSHRUB

LIGHT

0’

Sarracenia leucophylla | White-topped Pitcher

GROUND

MOISTURE

Cornus amomum | Silky dogwood

100’

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Dennstaedtia punctilobula | Hayscented fern

dotal evidence of species in Virginia)

Habit: Pitcher Bloom: March-April Note: In native locations, one of the tallest pitcher plants at 3-6’.

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10’

Native Range: Found throughout the eastern half of the United States in me-

10’

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100’

dium textured soils tending toward acidic soils.

wide range of pHs. The plant is slightly tolerant of salinity.

Bloom: spring Note: Will tolerate hedging

Sarracenia alata | Pale Pitcher

10’

Native Range: New Hampshire to Florida. Found in flood plains and swamps Habit: Peeling bark and a spreading form. Bloom: Note

Size: Heigh at 20 years, 25 feet. Shade tolerant species.

Native range: Native to Virginia, grows in fine to coarse textured soils and a

10’

0’

100’

Betula nigra | Alternate leaf dogwood

Cornus alternifolia | Alternate leaf dogwood 100’

woods.

Size/shape: 6-20 ft tall, coarse, thick texture. Bloom: Pink, purple, Apr-Jun Notes: Propagate with sphagnum moss and germinate under a mist.

Morella cerifera | Waxmyrtle 100’

from sedge and cattail leaf litter

10’

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0’

Notes: aquatic Utricularia (i.e. U. minor, intermedia, stygia) benefit 10’

100’

LB 10’

0’

Rhododendron catawbiense | Catawba 100’

0’

100’

10’

100’

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0’

100’

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Saccharum giganteum | giant plumegrass 100’

10’

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100’

FRUIT COLOR M

Picea mariana c. ‘Doumetii’ | Black spruce

M H

100’

DIST. LEAF COLOR

0’

Hibiscus coccineus | Scarlet Rose Mallow

100’

Native Range: Native to central VA. acidic soilsHabit: Form is wider than other pines, with an sort of “explosive” look. Bloom: Notes:

10’

BLOOM COLOR

0’

100’

Pinus strobus | white pine

tomlands or stream margins. Acid and shade tolerant.

Habit: “Picturesque,” hicket-forming shrub to small tree Bloom: Note: Nitrogen fixing plant that has potential for streambank stabilization.

10’

Salix NIgra | Swamp willow

10’

CARPETBAGGERS

VIRGINIA PIEDMONT/COASTAL PLAIN SEEPAGE BOG

Taxodium distichum | bald cypress

120’

CARNIVORE B L

10’

0’

100’

HEIGHT 100’

Native Range: Texas to Nova Scotia, in ponds and ditches, wet, acidic, still water Duration: Perennial Bloom: Yellow, May-Nov Note: Swimming pray touch trigger hairs, a trapdoor-like tissue flap expands sucking organism into the plant, where it is digested. Consumes mosquito larva.

Lycopodium dendroideum | Tree clubmoss 100’

10’

H 0’

Native Range: Northern half of the United States, including Virginia, grows on moist acidic soils Notes: accompanies sphargum moss in the boglands of Dolly Sods, West Virginia

As our class moved into design development, I began a set of AutoCAD drafted sections (below) and plans that could ultimately move into construction documents.

Design Process | Carnivorous Nursery

EARLY DESIGN DEVELOPMENT SECTION

CARPETBAGGER BOG

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT | REFINED PLANS

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carnivorous plant research bunker

Emmet US-29

MISSISSIPPI QUEEN

Meadowbrook

SWEET TEA PLEASE

greenhouse central retail area

As the project entered design development, modeling site topography and boardwalk details helped to clarify the relationship between undulating bog topography and a network of viewing platforms and stock display tables. The final design included converting the existing Arby’s into a terrarium sales area with a connecting greenhouse for tropical carnivorous plants. A secretive carnivorous plant research bunker was embedded into the adjacent hillside and accessible by an elevated walkway over an existing one-lane road.

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CARNIVOROUS NUR DISPLAY GARDEN RESEARCH CENTER

CARNIVOR

Cville Carnivores is a display garden, and r center for carnivorous The site is organized gion. “Sweet Tea Ple plants evoke the Nort lina and Virginia piedm coastal plain seepage “Mississippi Queen” p evoke the Louisiana e ern hillside seepage b “Carpetbaggers,” loca the greenhouse and a mountain display bog of exotic and northern orous species.

SCHEMATIC PLAN

1’

8’ 16’

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT (95%)

04/27/2012 LAR 5380 PLANTED FORM AND FUNCTION NATE BURGESS

Design Process | Carnivorous Nursery

Pinus echinata

Magnolia virginiana

Pinus echinata

Pinus strobus

Pinus taeda

Salix Nigra

Pinus strobus

Salix Nigra

Pinus taeda

Taxodium distichum

Pinus taeda

Salix nigra

Pinus palustris

Salix nigra

Pinus palustris

Vaccinium species (SHR)

Salix nigra

Magnolia virginiana

Salix nigra

Pinus palustris

Cyrilla racemiflora (SHR)

Lyonia lucida (SHR)

Morella cerifera (SHR

VIL

CARNIV

CARNIVOROUS DISPLAY GARD RESEARCH CE

emmet street

PLANT

SHR

5’ TYP

SHR

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SR SF ST2

ST2

ST1

ST2

MQ 2

SPH2

SHR SF

SA SL

MQ1

ST1

Dinaea muscipula Lycopodium dendroideum Utricularia inflata

SR SA

Pinguicula caerul

SPH3 SA

greenhouse

ST1

Pinguicula primul fora Platanthera bleph riglottis var. conspicua Marshallia sp. Dichanthelium dichotomum var. dichotomum Sphagnum sectio Acutifolia Sphagnum sectio Acutifolia

ST2

Saccharum gigan teum Sarracenia alata Sarracenia leucophylla Sarracenia rubra Sarracenia flava Carex atlantica

SA SL

ST2

SPH3

ST1

Sphagnum sectio Sphagnum Sphagnum sectio Subsecunda

Sphagnum sectio Acutifolia

PARTIAL

DESIGN DEVELOPME (95%)

SHR

Marshallia sp. Pogonia ophioglo soides Sphagnum sectio Acutifolia Shagnum section Acutifolia Pinguicula lutea

Polytrichum commune SPH1

ST2

SPH2

ST1

Drosera capilaris Cyperus haspans

Drosera capilaris Utricularia purpur

SPH1 SF

ST2

Morella cerifera Lyonia lucida Cyrilla racemiflora Vaccinium specie Zenobia pulverulenta Andropogon virgi cus Hibiscus coccineu

SHR

N Magnolia virginiana

Betua Nigra

Pinus strobus

Betua Nigra

Salix nigra

Pinus taeda

LATE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT, REFINED PLANS AND SECTIONS, 1”=16’

Magnolia virginiana

1’

mail-order work center

04/27/2012 LAR 5380 PLANTED FORM FUNCTION NATE BURGESS

In order to facilitate plant counts and specifications, a tonal system was used to designate one of four different bog mixes.

DESIGN PROCESS | CITY MARKET INFORMATICS Studio Critic: Elizabeth Meyer and Leena Cho Comprehensive Studio, Spring 2012

SITE RESEARCH | PRECEDENTS AND SITE VISITS

This project was developed as part of a studio that asked students to relocate and redesign an existing farmer’s market in Charlottesville, VA, and embed this within a larger urban strategy for an urban district and a green infrastructure plan. My project explored the importance of information exchange in markets. It also explored a market-based stormwater management approach for a local subwatershed. My initial research explored farmer’s market precedents such as Green City Market in Chicago (below), as well as the existing City Market in Charlottesville (stops along a sound-transect through the market, right).

GREEN CITY MARKET | Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL

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The most popular city market in the city of Chicago. Comprised of 50 farmers from five different states (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin Has grown from approximately 40,000 visitors in 2007 to 200,000 visitors in 2010 Producer-only market (all foods either produced or created by vendors)

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GREEN CITY MARKET ~50 vendors

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Farmer/Agricultural Vendors Prepared Food Vendors Artisans

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~100 vendors

20% 80%

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20%

Other Markets

Green City Market Parks

Design Process | Market Informatics

2nd

Stre

SITE RESEARCH | URBAN FRAMEWORK PLAN AND STORMWATER HYDROLOGY

Gar

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Stre

CLAIMED BUILDINGS

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600 1,200

2,400

3,600

OTHER BUILDINGS

CANOPY

ROADS

320

STORMWATER PIPE

640

960

1,280

CONCEPTUAL AND SITE ALTERNATIVES | 1ST STREET AND GARRETT STREET

An initial design concept for the site at Garrett Street considered the hydrology and urban canopy of the site and proposed a new “hydrologic commons” downstream from the market site.

An alternative design concept for the site at 2nd Street proposed creating a hydrologic and social network linking local government buildlins with the new City Market.

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960

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600 1,200

2,400

3,600

2nd Street | existing

Feet 4,800

Stream Network

2nd Street | existing ±

600 1,200

2,400

3,600

2nd Street | proposed 2nd Street | existing

Feet 4,800

Stream Network

2nd Street | proposed Garrett Street | existing

600 1,200

2,400

3,600

Garrett Street | existing

Feet 4,800

Garrett Street | proposed

er Pipe Network

600 1,200

2,400

3,600

Design Process | Market Informatics

Urban Framework

Feet 4,800

Garrett Street | proposed

er Pipe Network

Garret Street alternative: proposed groundplane strategy section model

2nd Street alternative: proposed groundplane section model

SCHEMATIC DESIGN | GARRETT STREET OPTION

MARKET COMMONS

POLLOCKS BRANCH COMMONS

urban hydrology strategy

market district sectional sketch

market district strategy

market district sketch diagram

Design Process | Market Informatics

SCHEMATIC DESIGN | MODELING AND PLAN REVISION

COMMUNITY CARD EXCHANGE STATION PUBLIC TOILETS, MARKET STORAGE TREE PIT STAGE AND COMMUNITY WORKSHOP AREA 4 UNIT MARKET STALL 3 UNIT MARKET STALL N

BUS STOP

BIKE RACKS

FARMER/AGRICULTURAL (50%)

SURFACE RUNOFF DETENTION

FOOD VENDORS (30%)

ARTISANS (20%)

EARLY DESIGN DEVELOPMENT | URBAN AND MARKET STRATEGY

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town

new city market Friendship Court redevelopment

Pedestrian exchange Subdivision exchange Hydro commons exchange

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urban development strategy

market seasonal diagrams: autumn

market district strategy

market seasonal diagrams: summer

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shared utilities

market informatics centers: located by product area

monitoring station

monitoring station 0’

2’ SHARED SEATING CO-OWNED STORMWATER

shared shelter

Design Process | Market Informatics

hydrologic and market informatics: from detail to subwatershed

market informatics center: located at market entrance AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS PREPARED FOOD ARTISAN PRODUCTS MARKET INFO HYDROLOGIC AMPHITHEATER

PIPE JUNCTION SURFACE DRAIN

S CK H O C LL AN PO BR

MARKET COMMONS KIOSK

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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT | MARKET ILLUSTRATIVE DRAWINGS

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Design Process | Market Informatics The final market area is subdivided by market product. Each product area features a uniquely color labeling to living and constructed canopy (red, orange, yellow). The groundplane is a vegetated urban plaza range from garss to grasscrete to pervious concrete.

CONTACT Nathan Burgess 1702 Rugby Ave Charlottesville, VA 22903 nab3vw@virginia.edu 757 715 3104