Plant List for Phytoremediation

this link is to a complied plant list for phytoremediation

http://www.superorg.net/archive/proposal/plant%20species%20phyto.pdf

Smart/reflective materials

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.

Phytoremediation

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 specific to plant life, combined with the word remediation.  On the down side the remediation generally goes only as far as a plant’s root system can reach, we are not sure if the pollutants are transferred to bugs and animals that eat the plants, and there is concern that the pollutants can still leach out into the groundwater.  Some typical  pollutants are metals, sewage, explosives, arsenic…

Design Process: Perkins Road

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 water capture and allow phytoremediation to occur on the site.  I like how the spaces are broken up, but still have some spaces to refine.  I also want to strengthen the variety of ways the spaces can be utilized.  I also want to place some transparent planes of glass over the water capture constructed elements to direct rainfall into these areas, block rain from coming into the plaza spaces, and initiate the light movement phenomena within the landscape.

 

              

Mid Review Material:Perkins Storyboard, Video and Models

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 like the fact that my phenomenon occurred over a period of only a matter of seconds.  Knowing that this phenomena occurs everyday the sun is out and there is movement of people or materials within the day, I never really paid much attention to it.  Now, after completing this portion of the project, I notice it all the time and pause when i see it or get to experience it.  It is wonderful to feel movement of the light around me understanding that there will never be another reflection of light the same as the one that i was able to experience at that particular moment in my life.  How strange, and yet at the same time beautiful and mystical.  My video is also linked ot the photo, check it out.

Stormwater Management

A Sustainable Approach to Stormwater Management

SW 12th Avenue Green Street Project, Portland, Oregonby Kevin Robert Perry; ASLA Award 2006

NE Siskiyou Green Street, Portland, Oregon by Kevin Robert Perry; ASLA Award 2007

Mt. Tabor Middle School Rain Garden, Portland, Oregonby Kevin Robert Perry; ASLA Award 2007

Stormwater Innovative Design:  The role of the Landscape Architect  there are some more good links on this page. 

Portland Bureau of Environmental Services; Portland Green Streets Program

more to come

Precedents

Robert Irwin . . . I like the art work that he designed within the landscapes.  I like the studies and inspiration that it provokes in me.  He worked with some materials that i would like to incorporate into my design to initiate the phenomenon of light Movement.  Robert Irwin.-Wikipedia  His designs focused on light and space through perception.  Robert Irwin’s Homepage. 

Reflective Materials List

Reflective Materials

Glass, Mirror, Tin, Fabric, Plastics,

Manipulating Material

Marbles, Seran Wrap, Broken Glass, opaque materials

Laser Cutter

Laser Cutter:

The actual cut line is red, the etch lines are yellow.  It can only read from red to pink.  The size of the laser cutter bed is 18″ x 32″.  So when cutting think of the sheets to be cut in no larger than these measurements.  All of your lines will be cut by the speed and heat applied to the color.  So be sure that all the lines are the same color that are to be cut and etched.  You need a window that will define your sheet size. 

The laser is on a track.  You have a Y and X axis.  The increase of speed may vibrate reducing the cut accuracy.  Cuts do not matter as much . . . etching DOES!  Etching must be done very slowly. 

Movement of Light through Reflections and Shadows . . . Perkins Underpass Phenomenon

While on the site of Perkins Road Overpass, I walked through the site looking for a phenomenon.  I began walking over the overpass into the residential neighborhoods.  I began to focus on the movement of light that was created through plants.  The wind would blow them.  It rather amazed me to see actually how fast things move like that.  I became even more aware of this when i was trying to extract frames from my videos for photos to place in my storyboard.  If i were to include several seconds there would appear to be no change to the elements.  I had to pull frames from within one second or less.  That was just crazy . . . not to mention hard.  I needed my dad’s glasses to pick those out.  I continued to come back into the retail or commercial areas and where I10 crossed over Perkins Road.  I was also taken by the reflection of the light of the cars revealed on the underside of the freeway.  Again, the speed at which these phenomena were revealed is what captured my attention.  Most of the time we are too busy to notice little things like this.  But I absolutely was stuck on the view above me . . . so much that i fell over and hit a parked car from loosing my balance.  Watching the reflections move to fast gave me the feeling of being in Star Wars on the space ship going into Hyperspace . . . hell yeah!!

Links to the Videos are below. 

                            

My Storyboard – - Phenomenon:  Light Movement

   

This is my storyboard through analysis and interpretation of this phenomenon.  The photos are frames extracted from the videos taken on site.  I tried to highlight the reflection activity in each of them.  The diagram on the top right shows the amount of time each iteration of frames was actually visually present.  The maximum time reached would be only one second.  So, it clearly shows that these sequences occur within the time from of fractions of a single second.  So cool.  The second diagram down is referencing where each of phenomena occurred on the site.  And the final is a sketch of the experiential moment that i felt when watching these phenomena occur on the site.  GO STAR WARS!!  (Okay, I may be a goober, but if your laughing . . . you are too!!!!  hahahah)