POR T FO LIO tanner jordan prewitt
a word from the designer umbra 2018-2019 Umbra represents the development of sites hidden in shadow. Light is shown on out-dated projects, been-done memorials, try-hard urban development, and underutilized space. Umbra includes new ways of thinking, of designing, and of planting the natural world. These projects, like all projects, are never finished. They still evolve.
LA 301
malcolm cairns + colby gray housing and urban design
4 the village at cardinal downs
13 the lyndenbrook
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the village at cardinal downs housing and urban design The Village at Cardinal Downs is a mixeduse community located north of Ball State University. Created with various housing types and landscape uses, the VCD envelopes people into the landscape. This symbiosis blurs the lines between nature and man, between the lawn and the homeowner.
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Cardinal Lake
The Meadow
Village Center Delta Park Jefferson Park
Grocery
Mixed-Use Apts.
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Project Statement The Village at Cardinal Downs is a mixed-use development north of Ball State University’s campus. Radiating from the village center, the avenues and housing pulsates away from this central hub. Despite the number of housing types, the VCD integrates itself in the landscape. There is no clear boundary when it comes to hardscape and softscape. The village center is the strongest feature of the VCD. At nearly 60,000 square feet, the center features a farmer’s market and grocery, the Cooking Cardinal restaurant, a mixed-use building with a coffee shop, fitness studio, daycare, and other amenities. This commercial hub is constructed in a circular fashion, modeled off Jeffersonian architecture. Connected by colonnades, the village center is a vibrant social hub in the warmer months of Muncie’s weather. Jefferson Park is also directly accessible by the school. The VCD boasts three other major park systems. Cardinal Lake is another social hub, with an amphitheater and concert pavilion. South of it is the Meadow, a more rustic and serene setting nestled between housing developments. Here, copses of trees allow privacy and a retreat from domestic life. Finally, Delta Park is a formal park space away from the village center. The gardens here attract a number of visitors, and the Cardinal Christmas Celebration begins here with a tree-lighting ceremony.
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Housing Typologies lofted apartments Inspired by the Circus in Bath, England, these apartments curve along the radial pattern of the development. With a livework structure, these apartments are optimally located by the village center. Ground Floor parking in the rear 3,565 sq.ft. office space
1st Floor 7 units/building 521 - 726 sq.ft./unit
2nd Floor lofted
Rooftop Garden
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townhouses • • •
955 sq.ft. per individual townhouse parking is accessed off the street 33,838 sq.ft. lot with average (12) townhouses per lot
The townhouses allow residents to live in a community of its own. Affordable and manageable, these townhouses feature pocket greenspaces to better integrate nature into the development. These pockets can function as a private yard, a natural area, or for bioretention.
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1,153 sq.ft. per individual home detached two-car garage faces street 7,936 sq.ft. lot with average (2) homes per lot
Designed for small families and college students, these small homes allow neighbors to truly be next-door without the clutter of suburbia. Facing an expansive park rather than a street increases the value of these units. Easy access to bike lanes also decreases the need for cars.
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1,822 sq.ft. per home 7,467 sq.ft. lot with (1) home per lot
With only two on the site, these family homes are rare. Larger than the single-family homes, they are better fit for larger families or a large group of college students. The family homes also have a larger yard for larger occupancy.
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This symbiotic relationship also includes transportation. Most of the roads in the VCD feature bike lanes, allowing sustainable transportation in a city dominated by commuters. Many of these bike lanes are separated by landscaped medians, especially in the more urban areas. A series of trails wrap around the development, better connecting homeowners with the landscape.
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the lyndenbrook housing and urban design The Lyndenbrook combats the invasive consumerism rampant in Muncie. Using various typologies, the Lyndenbrook has reformed the idea of the main street, an American icon that has lost its hold on commercialism as time has progressed. It focuses on bioretention, uniting the landscape with the streetscape.
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recreation
residential
grocery
grocery
services
residential
commercial
technology
cafe
MadJax
commercial
deli
programming
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Project Statement the american main street Architectural historian Richard Longstreth stated: “Main Street became to America what the piazza was to Italy”. Small towns across America are defined by a “main street” typology of commerce, residence, and recreation. It is the root of character for urban environments. It is a driving force of centralization, the heart of civic life. The Main Street’s dominance parallels the dominance of streetcars and trolleys. Rail transit concentrates populations. Yet in the 1920s, when personal automobiles became a fashion, then a commodity, and now a necessity, the Main Street became obsolete. Automobiles distribute populations. A well-designed streetscape provides non-traffic social functions related to commerce, assembly, recreation, and aesthetics. It neither concentrates populations to a singular space or distributes populations to alternate spaces. Instead, the new Main Street connects populations. It creates a series of connections that attach to similar forms, typologies, and uses. a commercial conglomeration Today, Muncie is known for its university and for its fast-food chains that link McGalliard Road. This traffic artery is metaphorically clogged on the fat and grease of tens of chain restaurants (as well as clogged with commuter traffic). Wedged between these chain restaurants are little pockets of commerce. Strip malls cut through the landscape, selling everything from cell phones to bail bonds. Professional buildings dot the entire eastern border of Lyndenbrook, consuming most of the land. Marsh used to be a large pull to the area, but with the company’s bankruptcy in central Indiana, the large supermarket is now super empty. Rural King serves as the major flagship in the district. The entire district is a conglomeration of knick-knack locations that draw passerbys in. Little development occurs along McGalliard Road, and little residential development occurs north in those pockets. Student apartments, small subdivisions, and senior living communities are walled in by fast-food, box stores, vacant storefronts, and busy traffic intersections. The full project booklet can be viewed at: https://issuu.com/tannerprewitt/docs/lydenbrook_booklet
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The Tech District site plan
Sprint Store
Plasma Center MadJax McAllister’s Deli
Best Buy
Starbucks
Small courtyards allow people in the site to leave the confines of the building.
Water feature tumbles around and down itself in various jets and spirals. A line of white pines act as a sound barrier, a sight barrier, and a wind screen for the courtyard.
White Pine Pinus strobus
Aluminum Light Bollard
Concrete
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The Urban Corridor site plan
Pinch points in the urban corridor slow the flow of traffic to prevent pedestrianrelated accidents.
Plaza serves the commercial hub and the corridor as a social gathering space.
Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis
Rope Lighting
Urban rain garden collects stormwater and creates aesthetic beauty.
Pervious Pavement
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Pervious pavement controls stormwater in pedestrian-oriented areas.
Trees aide in absorbing a majority of runoff from the corridor.
Washington Hawthorns provide interest throughout the year.
Banks of rain garden begin to slope downward to direct runoff.
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LA 312 engineering iii cap courtyard The third semester of engineering focuses on materials and construction detailing. Located outside of CAP is a recently-demolished site. We were asked by the college to design a collective space for students, a collaborative space for studios, and an aesthetic space representative of CAP. The following are sheets from the documentation.
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LA 313 engineering iv nature conservancy The fourth semester of engineering focuses on site development and a more thorough look at the science. This particular site is in Brown County, Indiana. A nature center is being built, and the site needed to accommodate buses, students, education, stormwater management, and LID practices. The following are sheets from documentation.
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LA 302
susan tomizawa + eric walker planting design
29 garden moderne
37 iowan gothic — memoriam
49 trinity park
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garden moderne planting design Garden Moderne replicates the design styles and motifs of the Art Deco period (also called style moderne). Characterized by monolithic forms emphasizing intense linear movement struck by curves, Art Deco is clean and simple in geometry but flashy and intense in ornamentation.
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mood board
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Central fountain serves as a feature in the garden. Majority of flowering plants are located on the berms.
Unique pavement pattern and custom seating.
Juniper trees create a dense, enclosed space allowing for privacy.
Allee of ginkgo trees serve as a gateway into the garden.
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Project Statement The garden’s “streamlined� appearance is seen in tiered geometries creating a feeling of immense weight at the foundation. Art Deco is also characterized by the heavy ornamentation these forms receive, though it is not gaudy but symmetrical and a more intense replication of those linear forms. Metals and stucco painted in brilliant pastel colors were the chief media of ornamental Art Deco designers. Art Deco represented the Roaring Twenties, a period that preceded the Great Depression and a second world war. Garden Moderne looks at Art Deco styles as applicable to landscape architecture, transitioning them from fashion, interior design, and architecture. The southern plots of the garden feature dense, green plantings in strong lines. A central allee lined with ginkgos leads to an ornamental fountain and an explosion of colorful perennials. Curving berms pull the visitor out of the garden, bathing them in an array of soft colors accented by intricate flowers, leaf margins, and plant forms. The various plantings chosen for the garden stem from their unique foliage or flowers. Many of the plants also have brilliant color through a long blooming season or overlap with later-blooming species. Most of the plants are natives, a few are rather aggressive species, and the zinnias themselves will have to be replanted each year. However, the species and cultivars of perennials add unique textures, shapes, colors, and features to Garden Moderne.
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MIXED PLANTING: 113) RHO-AR 113) RHO-CA 113) DAH-GA
MIXED PLANTING: 51) DAH-CD 51) IRI-LU 51 IRI-SU
MIXED PLANTING: 37) DAH-CD 37) IRI-LU 37) IRI-SU
283) ZIN-EL
MIXED PLANTING: 220) IRI-GE 220) IRI-PA
MIXED PLANTING: 47) RHO-AR 47) RHO-CA 47) DAH-GA
1) HAL-CA
1) HAL-CA
MIXED PLANTING: 80) RHO-AR 80) RHO-CA 80) DAH-GA
MIXED PLANTING: 70) RHO-AR 70) RHO-CA 70) DAH-GA
MIXED PLANTING: 102) DAH-CD 102) IRI-LU 102) IRI-SU
MIXED PLANTING: 101) DAH-CD 101) IRI-LU 101) IRI-SU
4) COR-SE 54) HAM-IN
3) HAL-CA
3) HAL-CA
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18) HAM-IN
18) HAM-IN
18) HAM-IN
MIXED PLANTING: 154) ASP-NI 154) OSM-CI 154) ATH-NI 154) MAT-ST
18) HAM-IN
18) HAM-IN
MIXED PLANTING: 154) ASP-NI 154) OSM-CI 154) ATH-NI 154) MAT-ST
1) FAG-SY
4) HAL-CA
4) HAL-CA 19) HYD-AR
4) HAL-CA
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38) BUX-GV
24) DAS-FR
27) BUX-GV
27) BUX-GV
MIXED PLANTING: 423) ASP-NI 423) OSM-CI 423) ATH-NI 423) MAT-ST
MIXED PLANTING: 423) ASP-NI 423) OSM-CI 423) ATH-NI 423) MAT-ST
11) JUN-SC
11) JUN-SC
MIXED PLANTING: 139) ASP-NI 139) OSM-CI 139) ATH-NI 139) MAT-ST
6) JUN-SC 21) EQU-HY MIXED PLATNING: 154) ASP-NI 154) OSM-CI 154) ATH-NI 154) MAT-ST
MIXED PLANTING: 53) RHO-BU 53) ZIN-AU 53) RHO-AU 53) DAH-MO
6) JUN-SC 21) EQU-HY MIXED PLATNING: 154) ASP-NI 154) OSM-CI 154) ATH-NI 154) MAT-ST
7) JUN-SC 21) EQU-HY
7) JUN-SC 21) EQU-HY
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14) EQU-HY
8) GIN-BI MIXED PLANTING: 149) ASP-NI 149) OSM-CI 149) ATH-NI 149) MAT-ST
MIXED PLANTING: 139) ASP-NI 139) OSM-CI 139) ATH-NI 139) MAT-ST
8) GIN-BI MIXED PLANTING: 149) ASP-NI 149) OSM-CI 149) ATH-NI 149) MAT-ST
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plant schedule
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Ginkgo biloba Halesia carolina
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Juniperus scopulorum Cornus sericea ‘Cardinal’ Rhododendron arboreum
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Dahlia ‘Gallery Art Nouveau’
Bureau Rhododendron
Iris lutescens Athyrium niponicum Fagus sylvatica ‘Purpurea’ Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Diane’ Rhododendron austrinum Buxus ‘Green Velvet’
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Moonfire Dahlia
Axon highlights the ginkgo allee and rectangular pools.
Axon of juniper rows and understory plantings of ferns.
Axon displaying the varieties of color present on the berms.
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iowan gothic — memoriam planting design Iowan Gothic — Memoriam hearkens back to a second-year project. The original project replicated a Gothic cathedral and landscape, as if plucked from the streets of Prague. This re-visitation looks at that same project as ruins, as a landscape consumed by the native prairie and ruderal plantings.
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Arcade
Rest Stop Building
Bioswale
Cathedral Ruins
Colonnade
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Project Statement The original project statement called for an attraction at a rest stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Much of the design work and criteria was left to the imagination. Combining Czech heritage in Cedar Rapids with Iowan agrarianism proved fruitful for the former. A large Gothic cathedral was built as an extension of the rest stop, complete with cloisters, formal gardens, and a large arcade. It became less of an attraction and more of a destination, an opulent gem like Thorncrown in Arkansas by E. Fay Jones. The project became architectural, and this memoriam reexamines the approach taken. Taking the idea of the past, of Gothic ruins, and the behavior of native prairie, this project looks at the former site as a ruderal body. Consumed by grasses, wildflowers, sedges, and vines, the stone ruins of the former buildings begin to fade into the landscape. The rest stop is still an experience and a destination, less of a tacky, American roadside attraction that cars pass by on the Interstate. Iowan Gothic — Memoriam allows tourists, motorists, nature, and architecture to interact in various seasons. People can walk over ruins, pass through ruderal vegetation, and take a respite from their journey. Before, Iowan Gothic was Gothic elitism triumphing over Iowan agrarianism. Now, Iowan Gothic is Gothic elitism brought to heel by Iowan agrarianism.
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MIXED PLANTING: 276 HOS-AF 276 HOS-FI 276 HOS-HA
869 MEL-VI
516 HYL-TE
987 AST-MA
839 PER-AT
1,081 EUT-PU 541 PAN-VI
10,201 SAG-SU
Hosta ‘Halcyon’
2,272 LEP-SQ
991 PAR-TR
2,068 CAR-FL
1,116 PER-AT
2 MAL-PR 15,641 SAG-SU
93 HEL-OR
Leptinella squalida ‘Pratt’s Black’
193 PAR-TR
994 HEL-OR
361 PER-AT
1,219 EUT-PU 610 PAN-VI
582 EUT-PU 292 PAN-VI
725 AST-MA
7 MAL-PR
752 PER-AT
763 MEL-VI
2 ACE-SA
907 CAL-NE
872 CAL-NE
MIXED PLANTING: 159 HOS-AF 159 HOS-FI 159 HOS-HA
431 HEL-OR 382 HEL-OR
3,932 LEP-SQ
941 SYM-LA
MIXED PLANTING: 146 HOS-AF 146 HOS-FI 146 HOS-HA
Acer saccharum ‘Bailsta’
639 CAL-NE
1 ACE-SA
Malus ‘Prairifire’
755 PER-AT
1,200 CAL-NE
2 ACE-SA
235 SYM-LA
986 CAL-NE
49 HEL-OR
15 JUN-SC
80 HEL-OR
1 ACE-SA
2 MAL-PR
618 PER-AT
483 SYM-LA
111 HEL-OR
1,252 EUT-PU 627 PAN-VI
Eutrochium purpureum
1,268 EUT-PU 635 PAN-VI
Melanthium virginicum 102 HEL-OR
736 HEL-OR
326 SYM-LA
525 AST-MA
1,057 EUT-PU 529 PAN-VI
1,199 CAL-NE
2 MAL-PR
242 PAR-TR 11,741 LEP-SQ
1,236 MEL-VI
Perovskia atriplicifolia
497 HEL-OR
4 ACE-SA
794 SYM-LA
1,331 PER-AT
planting plan 312 HEL-OR
428 HYL-TE
MIXED PLANTING: 140 HOS-AF 140 HOS-FI 140 HOS-HA
5 ACE-SA
454 AST-MA
166 HYL-TE
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Calamintha nepeta Carex flacca ‘Blue Zinger’
bioswale. Set on an island between two parking lots, this bioswale collects runoff from those lots. Scattered through the swale are the remnants of the art walk towers.
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Acer saccahrum ‘Bailsta’
Juniperus scopulorum ‘Skyrocket’
plaza. Located beside the rest stop building, this plaza space was once encased by walls. Chunks of the wall were removed to allow screening with junipers. The arches also help break the visual barriers created by the former design.
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Malus ‘Prairifire’
Panicum virgatum Perovskia atriplicifolia
Helleborus orientalis
cathedral. The stained glass is gone. The roof is missing. Only the skeleton of the cathedral remains. Filled with mossy groundcover, the cathedral becomes a showcase, a holy space for nature and people to dwell together.
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Sagina subulate ‘Aurea’
Malus ‘Prairifire’
Eutrochium purpureum
Perovskia atriplicifolia Panicum virgatum
cathedral. A wide view of the cathedral shows it wrapped in ivy, surrounded by the lush grasses and sharp purple of the surrounding landscape. The ruins rise up from the prairie setting, a stoic site for weary travelers.
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colonnade. Formerly a formal garden, the colonnade allows pedestrians to peer around columns, fade between the stone and extensive groundcovers. Switchgrass flanks part of the colonnade, difussing light as people pass through.
Sagina subulate ‘Aurea’
Panicum virgatum Helleborus orientalis
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colonnade. Inside of the colonnade, moss and hellebore soften the ruins. Ivy continues to crawl across the colonnade, wrapping around columns, archways, and fallen stone. In the fall, the sugar maples bathe the skyline in fiery reds.
Acer saccahrum ‘Bailsta’
Parthenocissus tricuspidata
Sagina subulate ‘Aurea’
Helleborus orientalis
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Acer saccahrum ‘Bailsta’
arcade. Located in the north, the arcade once was flanked by formal gardens and stone pathways. Again, moss, grasses, and ivy have covered the ruins, lending to the ruderal setting of the site. Sugar maples and crabapples provide structure to the plantings.
Malus ‘Prairifire’
Pancium virgatum
Eutrochium purpureum Sagina subulate ‘Aurea’
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trinity park planting design Trinity Park is a memorial landscape for the U.S.S. Indianapolis Memorial in Indianapolis, Indiana. As the single greatest loss of life in Naval history, the sinking of the Indianapolis coincided with two other events, each having their own impact on history in this tumultuous time period.
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History of the Indianapolis “The day wore on and the sharks were around, hundreds of them...”
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Day 4 of listing in the sea sailors badly burned + dehydrated, many having drank saltwater and slipping into delirium McVay and a handful of sailors in a life raft sharks lured to wreckage by dead bodies + food rations light winds blow many rafts away
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317 survived
1,196 deployed
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History of the Trinity Project P.M. Winston Churchill one of the original architects of the Manhattan Project
Joseph Stalin furious at the U.S.S.R.’s lack of atomic weapons; spied on Trinity tests
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In the Blast Zone • • • • •
death in a fraction of a second bone marrow boiled soft organs melted into a gelatinous substance flesh exploded from skeleton compressed gases from corpse sucked into the vortex created by the mushroom cloud
Outside the Blast Zone disturbed by the test but determined to win the war with Japan
President Harry Truman
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blindness caused by the flash melted flesh from superheated air radiation poisoning oozing blisters high-velocity shrapnel propelled by shockwave superheated-water conflagrations pandemonium
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Administration Building
U.S.S. Indianapolis Memorial
Meridian Street
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Project Statement In the days leading up to Japan’s surrender, and the end of World War II, a battle cruiser sailed for an island. On board was top-secret cargo, the contents of which the Navy personnel weren’t privy to. Returning from its destination, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was struck by torpedoes from an enemy submarine. A few leagues from where the survivors fended off shark attacks, the top commanders in the Pacific Theatre were planning a full-scale invasion of Japan that could result in the deaths of thousands of U.S. soldiers. And unbeknownst to the commanders and the survivors at sea, on another island, men were loading the greatest weapon the world had ever seen onto a plane. These three parties were unaware of each other’s circumstances, yet were intricately entwined. Trinity Park addresses these legendary stories. Not only is it the name of the project that tested the atomic bomb, it serves as a unifier between the stories of the crew of the Indianapolis, General MacArthur, and the airmen that flew the bombs. What the stories contain is destruction and pain, but also determination and courage. These stories can be shared, in the namesake of that fateful ship, in the heartland of America. Sources for historical research on the Trinity Project include Silent Voices of World War II (Rogers + Bartlit); Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center (Monk); The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Glasstone); The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Alperovitz); and Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (Gordin). For information on the atomic bombing, see Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (Lifton); Hiroshima (Hersey); Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath (Ham); The Bomb: A Life (DeGroot); The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals (Hasegawa); and The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki: August 1945 (Wainstock). For sources on the sinking of the battle cruiser, see Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the USS Indianapolis, the Navy’s Greatest Sea Disaster (Newcomb); In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (Stanton); and The Tragic Fate of the USS Indianapolis: The U.S. Navy’s Worst Disaster at Sea (Lech).
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location map The park is located in the American Legion Mall, just north of Monument Circle, near the central library. The location is better suited for the nature of the mall and for visitors’ accessibility.
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63 AST-MA 67 PER-AT MIXED PLANTING: 169 IRI-SI 1,498 TUL-QU
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Ilex verticillata ‘Sparkleberry’
Slate
The dark, fragile slabs of slate create a broken landscape.
CorTen Steel
Sparkleberry is a hardy, urban-tolerant evergreen hedge
The purples and blues of the flowers draw parallels with bruising.
Aster macrophyllus ‘Twilight’
Iris sibirica ‘Caesar’s Brother’
Granite
plant schedule
Bluestone
Acer griseum x nikonese ‘Cinnamon Flake’
The blue-gray color mirrors that of the hull of ships.
Magnolia x soulangeana
Tulipia ‘Queen of the Night’
Deep purple tulips look almost black and funerary in beds. The peeling nature of the bark symbolizes skin trauma.
Perovskia atriplicifolia ‘Blue Spire’
Platanus x acerfolia
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reflection pool The ellipsoid reflection pool is shaped like a battle cruiser and a submarine coning on the surface. Two pathways strike it like the two torpedoes.
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slate bands The bands of slate symbolize the eruption radius of the atomic bomb. Trees emerge from the slate like solitary, skeletal figures. The cathedral is seen nearby.
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lawn The three hills undulate across the landscape, keeping focus on the memorial while blocking views of the peripheral world. Their height begins to enclose visitors. Indy’s skyline still gleams.
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Umbra -Latin. Shadow. Darkness.. Absolute. Apex. The darkest of shadows.