Posted in Analysis / Interpretation, Final Presentations, Inspiration, Process, Research on December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Great River Road holds within it many different possibilities for a designer to follow. It presents possibilities from a variety of angles, but the elements that I chose to analyze included the systems, history, narrative memories generated through the landscape, hydrology, and geomorphology of the site.
I began [...]
Posted in Analysis / Interpretation, Process, Research on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Historical Data compiled for analysis of Walcheren, Zeeland Providence, The Netherlands
The first week that LSU Landscape Architecture Study Abroad class arrived in Holland, we were able to commence a workshop charette with the Landscape Architecture and Architecture students at the Technical University of Delft and the Professor, Han Meyer. The main focus throughout this design [...]
Posted in Process on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am trying to decide where these spaces are going to be and how they will function. I wanted to incorporate the edges from the entrepreneur business edges within the design. I was thinking of pulling the edges of these building into the site to create the intermediate spaces with the water catchment element. Essentially [...]
Posted in Process, Research on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a beginning of plant materials that will be incorporated in the water catch constructed elements throughout the Perkins Road Design Proposal. I would like to be able to incorporate more plant material to that would also be used towards the phytoremediation on the site. I need to begin compiling those species. I think [...]
Posted in Process, Research on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Smart materials are materials that have one or more properties that can be significantly changed in a controlled fashion by exposure to light, temperature, electric current, stress, and other external stimuli.
Posted in Process on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Phytoremediation is the use of plants to clean pollutants out of water, soil, air, sediment. It falls under the more general term of bioremediation, which includes other living things that can be used to clean pollutants, for example fungi or different types of bacteria. Just think of the prefix bio as life and phyto as [...]
Posted in Process, Research on April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Site analysis and inventory diagrams of the site. I created these to allow me to compile the important information to be addressed throughout the design process. I also generated a program and with it some perspectives to try and see if these idea would work in the surrounding landscape. I really like the idea of [...]
Posted in Analysis / Interpretation, Phenomena, Process on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Light Movement: I really fell in love with the phenomenon of light movement on the site. Here is my storyboard of the occurrences of the phenomenon on the site and other relative information. I constructed a model to replicate the occurrence of this phenomenon, and pictures of are also attached within the storyboard contents. I [...]
Posted in Process on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hopefully the final of my diagrams. I still have the ones to complete with the community, and one diagramming where the forces meet. I tried and that it looked like bah . donk. not sure how i am going to create it. the tones were not merging together as well as [...]
Posted in Process on March 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here are some studies that i did on how the wall could move through the landscape site.
I chose the third study to carry forward
