The Living Line - Tempe Center for the Land Arts The Living Line is a landscape project intended to advance the public conversation of resilient design and adaptation to ecological change. The theme engages visitors in a participatory landscape to increase their understanding of the Sonoran desert and how we co-evolve with our ecosystem over time.The Living Line for the land arts highlights the interrelationship between natural and human processes. It is designed as a landscape stage with plant communities that change with the five Sonoran seasons, through the years, and incorporates space for land art installations. This project serves as a new and necessary layer to Tempe’s urban space to make the city explicitly more co-evolutionary, adaptive and relevant to start conversations on how to design for resiliency. 1937
Salt River Bed Change
Main Braided River
•Raise the awareness of the history of the Salt River and complexity of water in Metro Phoenix •Increase visibility of natural processes through landscape design. •Create a landscape that visitors can experience and “see” changes over time through regenerative design.
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The Living Line
Land Art
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•Increase visitors opportunities to interact with both canal and storm water raising awareness. •Create useable spaces for exterior exhibitions and land art.
Landscape Architecture
Human Order Art
•Provide plant communities to highlight animal “architecture” .
Natural Order Regenerative Design
Science
GOALS
Hohokam Indians Hispanic families San Pablo Hayden's Ferry The town was named Tempe
1937
Railroad bridge built Need of flood control
1989
River channelization begun
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Mill Avenue Bridge built. 1949 1969 1979
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Red Mountain Freeway opened
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Valley Metro Light Rail Bridge
built Tempe Center for the Arts opened.
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Town Lake Pedestrian Bridge built
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Lake was officially full.Water from the Central Arizona Project
Opps & Cons: Human & Natural Order Opps and Cons: Human Order Precious water resource not fully utilized Lack of diverse activities Cliff Swallow Nests
Opps and Cons: Natural Order Absence of natural processes
2009
Buoy Line
The Channelized river bed of Tempe Town Lake make the site lack of landscape cultural experiences/disconnected from historic braided river system.
2 Natural Plants- The “Sonoran Gallery”
Inspiration of the Living Line
Example of Floating Wetland,Houston, TX Change of floating wetlands line
Floating Wetland being stored to river bend
Floating Wetland of the Living Line
The Living Line is inspired by the existing buoy line used by people to designate the zone for boating. Birds use these buoys like small islands in the water.
The floating wetlands buoy system moves and meanders as with the wind and also in order to make the Living Line more adaptive and resilient.In order to make the Living Line more adaptable, the line is be designed to two parts, one is floating wetlands on the lake and the other that is fixed on the river bank—the Docking Canal.
Proposed Plants Palette
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The “Braid” (northside of site) meandering line made up of the floating wetlands and curving paths and vegetated swales represents the historic Salt River meander. Master Plan
Natural Processes 1.Natural Water – The “Braid” – The “Docking Canal” 2.Natural Plants – The “Sonoran Gallery” 3.Natural Art – The “Animal Works”
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Human Processes 1.Human Water – The “Docking Canal” 2.Human Plants – The “Town Gallery” – The "Floating Wetland" 3.Human Art – "The Living Line" – Space of Land Art Installations Site Plan
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Natural Art -The “Animal Works”
Mirror Art Installations help people look up
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Site Plan
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The “Docking Canal” (southside) connects the stormwater, fountain water, and lake water together, expressing the complexity of water in the desert.
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Everyday
1The floating wetlands can be stored and displayed in the Docking Canal in case of flood, maintenance, or for special events. The new docking canals Ocotillo provides stormwater management as well as entertainment and sidewalk. Fouquieria splendens 2 Platform for people to close to the water Fremont cottonwood 3 The Living of Desert Life Populus fremotii -Velvet mesquite path for people to observe leaves change Velvet mesquite 4 Memory of Desert Life Prosopis velutina -Cottonwood Seating Area 5 Space For Land Art Installations Exibition Day Floating wetland stored
Floating wetland being stored
Land art installations
1 "Docking Canal” 3 Human Art
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2 The “Town Gallery”
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1"Docking Canal” 3 Human Art
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LDE 593: Spring 2016 Advanced Landscape Studio IV
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Student: Zixuan Wang Instructor: Edward Cook
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