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Benjamin Monette, RLA, ASLA, LEED AP, Senior Landscape Architect, OLIN will be presenting his lecture, <i>Leveraged Density: The Rebuilding of Civic Space in the Center of Philadelphia</i> on Friday, March 7, 2014 at the <a href="http://design.ncsu.edu/urban/about/">11th Annual Urban Design Conference</a>. The conference is being hosted by the NC State University College of Design in conjunction with the Department of City Planning, Urban Design Center and NC State Foundation and held at the Raleigh Marriott City Center and lasts from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Benjamin's talk will beginning at 10:15 and an abstract of that talk is below:</div>
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The City of Philadelphia is a city on the mend. Of the Northeastern Cities that have suffered greatly in the waning of the industrial revolution, it has, on the heels of successes achieved in New York and Washington DC, begun its ascension. Dilworth Plaza is but one of many physical and cultural shifts that is reflective of Philadelphia’s growth and in this reflection, compounds the trend. The plaza holds a prominent position West of City Hall at the center of the city. It is being transformed from an inaccessible, multi-level, unattractive, hard-surface plaza into a sustainable, well-maintained, green public space with no stairs or barriers from the street. This presentation will cover the history of the plaza, the concepts embedded in its re-creation as a vibrant social space in a dense city, as well as many detailed aspects of its current redesign and construction. It will include information on stormwater capture, public art collaboration, fountain design, and the latest in parametric modeling and milling of site furniture. The lessons learned from properly scaled design interventions, public art, and design collaboration–a collective intelligence if you will–are transferable to the issues surrounding the densification of the Mid-South Region.</div>
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True this is a Sony commercial...but what Bruce Zaccagnino imagined into life is such an colossal work of art, that we could not resist sharing. Northlandz is a 52,000 square foot museum that houses over 100 model trains and their respective tiny tableaux, located off the beaten path in Flemington, NJ. The inventor/artist Zaccagnino first started building trains in his basement, and from there built a truly amazing collection of highly detailed and MASSIVE models. Enjoy.<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">We are excited to announce that on Saturday February 22 at 2:30 <a href="http://abioticdesignstudio.blogspot.com/p/who-is-abiotic.html">Emily McCoy</a>, <a href="http://design.ncsu.edu/people/person/kofi-boone">Kofi Boone</a> and <a href="http://abioticdesignstudio.blogspot.com/p/who-is-abiotic.html">Ben Monette</a> will be presenting on the topic: <u>Integrating Natural Processes into the City Fabric of the Global American South</u> at the <a href="http://cgi.unc.edu/gas"><i>Cities, Rivers, and Cultures of Change: Rethinking and Restoring the Environments of the Global American South Conference</i></a>. The conference is presented by <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/o/unc-center-for-global-initiatives-1517615462?s=20923165">UNC Center for Global Initiatives</a> on Friday, February 21, 2014 at 2:00 PM - Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 6:00 PM (EST), in Chapel Hill, NC. Emily, Ben, and Kofi will be presenting in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium on UNC Chapel Hill's campus.</span><br />
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growth structures and patterns in the Global South are influenced by
any number of interconnected macro and micro pressures, functions, and
changes. While a vast swath of the southeast, and to some extent the
southwest, continue to undergo rapid growth, a subset of cities in the
northeast (primarily the rustbelt cities) have experienced, and continue
to experience, a significant decline in population.</span></span></span></div>
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many rust-belt cities, vacant and abandoned structures, polluted post
industrial sites, decaying above ground infrastructure, shrinking tax
bases, and a combined water and sewer system contribute to a cycle of
urban atrophy. These cities are engaged in a life and death struggle
where urban planners, legislators, business owners, and citizens fight
for the survival their communities. To that end, there are creative,
adaptive solutions that build on existing strengths and look to leverage
government mandates for positive growth.</span></span></span></div>
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these strategies is a move towards green infrastructure. In an
adaptation of the EPA’s definition, green infrastructure can be
described as a storm water management
approach that uses vegetation, soils, and natural or engineered
processes to manage water and create healthier urban environments<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup>4</sup></span>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Research
is currently underway to test, in particular, the engineered systems so
that we can build a greener city in a quantifiable and rational
manner. By taking a holistic approach to post occupancy evaluation of
green infrastructure sites in cities like Philadelphia PA, we can begin
to examine efficacy of both the physical as well as the social
performance of these places. The interplay of functional systems with
social use is the true bellwether for how we determine success or
failure.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
thin line between these designations when viewed from a visitor,
citizen, or neighbor’s perspective can shift and perhaps fray under the
weight of social equity and economic reality. Even if we can dream a
plan to life, and get it to function according to design, we continually
ask ourselves: are we ignoring the fair treatment of all citizens?
Does everyone enjoy equal access to open space, protection from health
hazards? Is every citizen, regardless of race, ethnicity, or income
level able to participate in decision making processes?</span></span></span></div>
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questions of environmental justice provide the final thread to the
urban growth dynamic. Its impacts are relevant across scales of
humankind and are the meter with which we must test our planning and design efforts if our goal is to
construct a healthier and more diverse future. Looking across these scales and into the “interstices of cities”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup>1</sup></span>
to provide meaningful canvasses for ecosystem services and stages for
cultural narratives, we present conceptual, in-progress, and built case
studies that marry natural resource management with community building
efforts. These studies not only assist communities in-need, but provide
opportunity for a place to “adapt to what already existed.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup>2</sup></span></span></span></span></div>
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is clear from these studies is that enacting strategies to improve
urban life can no longer be encapsulated into one discipline’s goals,
one realm of implementation, one type of people, or viewed from one
scale<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup>3</sup></span>. The leveraging of opportunities in an effort to
facilitate sustainable development within the urban form, design and
planning strategies must involve the equal pursuance of social,
economical and environmental viability with thoughtful attention to
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1 Leslie Jones Sauer. <i>The Once and Future Forest: A Guide to Forest Restoration Strategies</i>. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1998).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I spy a circular-looking water body that looks almost like a ring, or maybe a flaming eyeball (maybe the Eye of Sauron?!) or perhaps an extremely large moat around the grandest of castles. Could it be a river or a lake? Is it Earthly? What is this un-natural looking ring of water?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While virtually roaming the New York North Country and Quebec via Google Maps; I spotted a peculiar, circular waterbody with a land mass in the middle...or was it spotting me? This "eye of Quebec" is called Lac Manicouagan, which surrounds a body of land known as René-Levassuer Island. The island is home to 2 reserves-- Réserve de biodiversité de la Météorite and Réserve écologique Louis-Babel. Before the area was dammed in the 1960's, the water body was actually 2 water bodies-- Lac Mouchalagane to the west and Lac Manicouagan to the east.</span><br />
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So, what formed the two odd lakes side by side? As one of the "Seven Wonders of Canada," this now one waterbody is known as an annular lake or moat <span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>, which is a lake formed from a meteor impact and also called an astrobleme. When meteors have such a dramatic impact, they form complex craters with multiple rings, where the middle of the impact uplifts and creates a land mass similar to <a href="http://www.uqac.ca/miac/crater.htm" style="font-family: inherit;">Manicouagan</a>'s. The 60-mile wide impact was so intense, the molten rock took thousands of years to cool (between 1,500 - 5,000 years) <span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span>. The crater is thought to be 213-215 million years old and may have been a part of a multiple impact event, as it forms a theoretical line on the late Triassic continents of North America and Eurasia with other craters, such as Red Wing Crater in North Dakota and Rochechouart Crater in France <span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span>. Interestingly, because of its unique geology, it is considered as a useful analog of other impact structures on other planets, such as Noachian Mars, for space exploration and study <span style="font-size: xx-small;">8</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The uplifted region-- Mount Babel and its island, Rene-Levasseur Island-- is not only geologically interesting and the<a href="http://www.worldislandinfo.com/LAKEV1.htm" target="_blank"> second largest lake island in the world</a>, it has a wealth of biodiversity due to its quick transition from the boreal forest to tundra. The reservoir and island are located in the Boreal Shield ecozone and the Central Laurentians ecoregion </span>9<span style="font-size: small;">. The rugged terrain hosts <a href="http://theses.ulaval.ca/archimede/fichiers/24402/ch04.html">species</a> from the boreal ecosystems, which are dominated by black spruce, fir, alder, jack pine, sphagnum and architectural sightings of <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.mddep.gouv.qc.ca/biodiversite/reserves/louis_babel/res_27.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dr%25C3%25A9serve%2B%25C3%25A9cologique%2BLouis-Babel%26sa%3DX%26espv%3D210%26es_sm%3D122%26biw%3D670%26bih%3D697">krummholz</a>; and tundra communities dominated by lichens and blueberries. 91% of the forest stands on the island are older than 100 years and the island houses almost 1,651 hectares of peatland</span> 4,5<span style="font-size: small;">. Protected peatlands are scarce, as only 3.5% of Quebec's peatlands are protected </span>5<span style="font-size: small;">. Moose and caribou are common on the island. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_salmon">Atlantic salmon</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_trout">lake trout</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_pike">northern pike</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_fishing" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; line-height: 19.1875px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;" title="Recreational fishing">c</a>an be found in the reservoir <span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">In the 1960's the lake was dammed for hydroelectric power and now supplies power all the way down to New England. The height of the dam is 214 m and some research suggests that the magnitude of the dams in this region have induced seismic activity 10. The lake gets the lowest during the heat of the summer, when New Englanders turn on thier AC's. Wikipedia reports that the chief engineer for the dam, Rene Levasseur, and Dan Johnson, the Premier responsible for the project, both died young from heart problems. Apparently, the native </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innu" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;" target="_blank">Innu</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> believe that just as the men clogged the rivers, the Earth's veins and arteries, the creator responded by clogging theirs, a belief which could reflect the cultural conflicts of the region. However, this may simply be a rumor, since Wikipedia has no source for this statement. However, there are reports of several conflicts between the native communities and the energy companies. Nonetheless, it fits well into the story of Tolkien's evil eye, the Eye of Sauron....my precious!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">A non-profit group, <a href="http://www.soslevasseur.org/">SOS Levasseur </a>acts to protect the unique ecological and cultural resources of the island from destructive activities such as logging and mining, and performs research on the island. Another organization which encompasses all the reserves in the area is called <a href="http://rmbmu.com/">Réserve de la biosphère Manicouagan-Uapishka</a>, designated by UNESCO in 2007. </span>We can't help but wonder what this place would be like if the dam were never built or the logging never occurred. Réservoir Manicouagan looks like a fascinating place to visit and we just might have to add it to the bucket list!</div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">2 Gouvernement du Québec, 2009. Réserve de biodiversité de la Météorite – Conservation Plan. Québec, Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs, Direction du patrimoine écologique et des parcs. 24 pages.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">3 <a href="http://ottawa-rasc.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Odale-Articles-Manicouagan">http://ottawa-rasc.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Odale-Articles-Manicouagan</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">7 <a href="http://www.soslevasseur.org/">http://www.soslevasseur.org</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">8 <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Spray, John G., Lucy M. Thompson, Marc B. Biren, and Catherine O’Connell-Cooper. "The Manicouagan impact structure as a terrestrial analogue site for lunar and martian planetary science." </span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Planetary and Space Science</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"> 58, no. 4 (2010): 538-551.</span></span></div>
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">9 Ecological Stratification Working Group, 1996. A National Ecological Framework for Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Research Branch, Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, and Environment Canada, State of the Environment Directorate, Ecozone Analysis Branch, Ottawa/ Hull. Report and national map at 1:7 500 000 scale.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">10 </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Leblanc, Gabriel, and F. Anglin. "Induced seismicity at the Manic 3 reservoir, Quebec." </span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"> 68.5 (1978): 1469-1485.</span></span><br />
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(a)biotic design studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12283736463401089412noreply@blogger.com1Lac Manicouagan, Quebec, Canada51.2876414 -68.29434400000002448.7471859 -73.479891000000023 53.8280969 -63.108797000000024tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625792955154182274.post-43059244629254805952013-12-08T09:29:00.004-05:002013-12-08T09:35:28.280-05:00Humans Are Not The First Link (In the Food Chain)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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In a recent NPR article <i>Between Pigs and And Anchovies, Where Humans Rank on the Food Chain</i> , Michaeleen Doucleff reports on how, the first time, ecologists have calculated exactly where humans rank on the food chain and how it's been changing over the past 50 years. Spoiler alert: it ain't us.<br />
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With a rise in wealth of developing nations, as a planetary-wide species, humankinds' meat to plant ratio is increasing. This increase, however, will not save us from hungry bears whose meat to plant ratio dwarfs ours...but with far less global degradation. </div>
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For a far more competent report, read the full text here: <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/06/249227181/between-pigs-and-anchovies-where-humans-rank-on-the-food-chain?live=1&utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook">www.npr.org/blogs</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625792955154182274.post-66827544097572680862013-12-05T11:52:00.001-05:002013-12-05T11:53:28.353-05:00EcoTracks<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Check out this information from Andy Giegerich, the Sustainable Business Oregon editor on Portland's new EcoTracks. Pretty slick!<br />
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"As completion of the Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail line hits the 70
percent mark, TriMet officials want future riders to take note of what
they’re calling an “eco-track” at one of the project’s new stations.<br />
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The vegetated trackway, which aims to reduce stormwater runoff, is
among the first such efforts in the U.S. It will adorn a station at
Southwest Lincoln Street and Third Avenue near the Portland State
University campus.<br />
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The installation “will provide a colorful carpet of low-growing
plants along 200 feet of light rail line,” according to the transit
agency. The technique is common in Europe and consists of one-inch thick
mats that contain various species of sedum, which are a hardy
low-maintenance vegetation.<br />
Stacy and Witbeck Inc. installed the track last month.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/real-estate-daily/2013/11/we-cant-call-it-the-light-rail.html" target="_blank">The 7.3-mile project</a> is set to open Sept. 12, 2015. It will essentially link downtown Portland with North Clackamas County via light rail."<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1 <a href="http://www.sustainablebusinessoregon.com/articles/2013/12/trimet-new-max-line-getting-on.html">www.sustainablebusinessoregon.com/articles/2013/12/trimet-new-max-line-getting-on.html</a></span><br />
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We saw this on the <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/03/248461489/something-cool-a-hopscotch-crosswalk-in-baltimore?ft=1&f=5500502%2C15709577%2C93559255%2C93568166%2C97635953%2C102920358%2C103537970%2C103943429%2C104014555%2C114424647%2C128334429%2C128494978%2C129702125%2C129828651%2C139941248%2C173754155%2C181572415%2C186436538%2C193157993%2C216836710&utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook">NPR blog</a> and thought we would pass along. The street crossings adjacent to the <a href="http://www.bromoseltzertower.com/">Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower</a> in Baltimore of are now equipped with four different games of hopscotch.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span><br />
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The <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/">Baltimore Sun </a>reports that the <a href="http://www.bop.org/">Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts' (BOP)</a> has set out on an
effort to put art in public spaces. In another part of town, for
example, another artist designed a crosswalk that looked like a <a href="https://twitter.com/promoandarts/status/403917747173597184">giant zipper opening</a>. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">1 </span><br />
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Tracy Baskerville, a spokeswoman for BOP, made it clear that safety concerns have been addressed:<br />
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did work with a review panel including a representative from the
Department of Transportation to approve the designs for the Crosswalk
Project. We think it is always nice for residents to engage public art;
however all pedestrians need to be mindful of the traffic, crosswalk
signals and traffic lights."<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></div>
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Check out these other cool crosswalks! <br />
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<a href="http://onmilwaukee.com/myOMC/authors/jeffsherman/pianocrosswalks.html">Piano Key crosswalk: Milwaukee's East Town neighborhood Kilbourn and Jefferson Streets and Wells and Jefferson Streets</a>.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.cruz-diez.com/work/intervention-in-urban-spaces/2000-2009/crosswalks-of-additive-color/">Crosswalks of Additive Color: Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, United States.</a><i> </i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/03/248461489/something-cool-a-hopscotch-crosswalk-in-baltimore?ft=1&f=5500502%2C15709577%2C93559255%2C93568166%2C97635953%2C102920358%2C103537970%2C103943429%2C104014555%2C114424647%2C128334429%2C128494978%2C129702125%2C129828651%2C139941248%2C173754155%2C181572415%2C186436538%2C193157993%2C216836710&utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2 http://onmilwaukee.com/myOMC/authors/jeffsherman/pianocrosswalks.html</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">3 http://www.cruz-diez.com/work/intervention-in-urban-spaces/2000-2009/crosswalks-of-additive-color/ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Structural soil, on a technical level, is confusing. On the other hand, it is easy to make, and compared to other complicated construction practices, it is easy to install. So what, exactly, is it? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There has been a perceived need to create growing room for trees in our urban environment along streets and in parking lots. The soil under sidewalks, adjacent to sidewalks, and in sidewalk cutouts is usually compacted to prevent the walk from settling. This prevents many tree roots from growing in soil under the walk. Growth can be severely restricted, creating unhealthy trees, especially in sidewalk cutouts, but if soil is not compacted, the walk will settle.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span><br /><br />A solution that creates root space without compromising soil strength for sidewalk support is "structural soil" or an "engineered soil" mix beneath the sidewalk as shown below (See: <a href="http://hort.ufl.edu/woody/urban-structural.shtml">structural soil detail</a>). This strategy appears to be especially beneficial for clayey and loamy soil where compaction beneath walks can become quite severe. One disadvantage of the engineered soil shown below is that settlement could be beyond acceptable standards in the U.S.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span><br /><br />The need for this soil has been assisted by federal and local stormwater regulations requiring reductions and sometimes elimination of run-off from spreading pollutants, destroying streams, and in our older cities, overburdening sewer systems.<br /><br />There are options out there when shopping for your structural soil and now that an overabundance of muncipality urban design guidelines are requiring its use, the inventors of each are all vying for your support. We break each down below and hopefully help steer you in one direction or the other, depending on your project needs.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.deeproot.com/products/silva-cell/silva-cell-overview.html">SilvaC</a><a href="http://www.deeproot.com/products/silva-cell/silva-cell-overview.html">ell</a> </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">DESCRIPTION: Simply put, they are milkcrate-esque plastic boxes that are buried underground and filled with dirt.1 They were developed by a well spoken, well read, and very convincing landscape architect, Jim Urban. We believe that he believes what he says, and so do a lot of other folks. This passion, and the fact that these things just look like they make sense, accounts for their success. Click here to buy <a href="http://www.deeproot.com/products/silva-cell/cost">some</a>.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">PROS: Like we said, these things seem to work, at least that what Jim Urban <a href="http://www.deeproot.com/blog/blog-entries/silva-cell-grows-bigger-trees-than-cu-soil-bartlett-tree-lab-study-is-ongoing">tells us</a>. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">CONS: Money. They are expensive and quite honestly are the first thing to get the axe when we start the value engineering process. Please, we are not whining about value engineering, just build it into your design on the front end like everyone else and roll with it from there. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">WHERE IT HAS BEEN USED: Lincoln Center, New York City; the Olympic Village in Vancouver; Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, Washington, D.C. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><br /><a href="http://www.hort.cornell.edu/uhi/outreach/">CU-Structural Soil</a></span><br />
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<li>DESCRIPTION: CU-Structural Soil is a mix of dirt and rocks designed to bear the load of pavement and whatever rolls across it, while leaving enough open space underground for tree roots, air and water. It’s since been licensed and sold to builders and landscapers across the U.S. and Canada. A mixture of 20-percent soil and 80-percent rocks (by weight) gets packed around a layer of soil surrounding the tree’s roots. The stones are all the same size and the ratio ensures that each stone touches another. When concrete or other loads press down on the soil, the stones create a rigid skeleton that bears the load while the soil itself stays loose.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span> It was invented by Cornell University professor Nina Bassuk, and now holds the license for the product.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span> You can find producers <a href="http://www.amereq.com/pages/2/index.htm">here</a>. </li>
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<li>PROS: Its cheap, and chances are any engineering or landscape architecture firm already has a passable specification laying around. Our advice: read your spec. If you haven't had a qualified soil scientist/structural engineer write you a fresh one in a while, it may be time. </li>
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<li>CONS: It can be tough to compact if it isn't dry. We ran into this problem on a big project and it was a struggle. In this instance, our spec was tight, but any time problems pop up during construction, it almost doesn't matter whose fault it is, it can hurt the client. Make sure you remind and double-remind the contractor that this is a tricky part of this soil and they need to pay attention. </li>
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<li>WHERE IT HAS BEEN USED: <a href="http://abioticdesignstudio.blogspot.com/2012/04/johns-hopkins-hospital-healing-gardens.html">Johns Hopkins Hospital, Sheikh Zayed Cardiovascular and Critical Care Tower and The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center</a>, World Trade Center, New York City; San Francisco Zoo Hippo Exhibit, San Francisco, CA; Ritz Carlton, Washington, D.C.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://vdcgreen.blogspot.com/">Sand-Based Structural Soil</a></span><br />
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<li>DESCRIPTION: The name is pretty much self explanatory. Instead of mixed-in aggregate, this is a sand based solution. A top layer of crushed rock allows air, water and minerals to get through to surface roots. The rest is filled in with sand that presses together under pressure, but leaves microspaces and remains loose enough for roots, water and air to move through. Compost gets mixed in to help hold on to water and nutrients. Landscape architect Robert Pine helped develop it, but it remains an open-source strategy and is not for sale as a product.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span> </li>
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<li>PROS: It is most likely better for trees because it doesn't compact as well. Having said that, we don't know for sure that is true. The folks who will want to sell you the two products above will tell you that it won't compact. We currently have a big project under construction that is using one of these sand-based structural soils, we will keep you posted on what we find. </li>
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<li>CONS: You never know what you are going to get. Again, this is not a product, it is as open-sourced as you get, and there is not one specification that is going to guide you </li>
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<li>WHERE IT HAS BEEN USED: Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Building, Washington, D.C.; Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, Mass.; coming soon to the Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York City.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.asla.org/uploadedFiles/CMS/Meetings_and_Events/2010_Annual_Meeting_Handouts/Sat-B1The%20Great%20Soil%20Debate_Structural%20Soils%20Under%20Pavement.pdf">www.asla.org/uploadedFiles/CMS/Meetings_and_Events/2010_Annual_Meeting_Handouts/Sat-B1The%20Great%20Soil%20Debate_Structural%20Soils%20Under%20Pavement.pdf </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2 <a href="http://hort.ufl.edu/woody/engineered-soil.shtml">http://hort.ufl.edu/woody/engineered-soil.shtml</a></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625792955154182274.post-75055843539155734512013-12-02T17:30:00.003-05:002014-01-03T14:41:14.423-05:00Radical Cartography<br />
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With <i>Design with Nature</i>, Ian McHarg pioneered the concept of ecological planning. Mcharg did not invent cartography, a practice that can be traced back to the ancient Greeks (what can't?), nor did he necessarily invent applied cartography: that is often attributed to fellow Scotsman, Patrick Geddes. In 1915, his suggestion that plans be made for <i>Place, Work, Folk</i> spawned the method of planning-by-layers (Meller 1990, 46). <span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span><br />
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McHarg was successful in clearly documenting and describing the layered analysis process, and has been considered one of the premiere minds in landscape ecology, planning, and architecture. Perhaps a less well known, but no less inspiring counterpart can be found in William Bunge, Jr. who looked at and mapped cultural behavior in and around Detroit. Bunge's work was similar to that of William “Holly” White, a master <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanist">urbanist</a>, organizational analyst, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism">journalist</a> and people-watcher in his own right, but at the same time, much, much different.<br />
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The distinction lies in the fact Bunge’s maps are as argumentative as he is. They demand social equality for a community that was ignored and abandoned and record it as a snapshot of truth in time. He mapped unconventional measurements: quantities of store bought toys and rat bites, to mark the disturbing inequity he saw before his eyes. In one map, he compares the number of bars to the number of playfields in each Detroit neighborhood. Another, titled "Where Commuters Run Over Black Children," is an indictment of poverty, white flight, and President Gerald Ford himself. Below are excepts from Fitzgerald and An Atlas of Love and Hate; these maps portray Bunge's time in Detroit, and his ability (and sometimes inability) to organize the landscapes around him.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> 2 </span><br />
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He shown a light on the way things were in a way that the powers that be at the time were not comfortable with. He wasn’t talking about how to better gentrify a park in NYC or how to build out the Jersey Shore. He was dangerous because he focused on the minute patterns of human movement and behavior, revealing the machinery that orchestrates our activities. His maps are based on statistics, truth, and "damn good graphic design."<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> 2 </span><br />
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For his efforts, again and again he lost tenure and was briefly blacklisted by the United States government as a communist sympathizer. Bunge published <a href="http://sitemaker.umich.edu/herscher/files/atlas_intro.pdf">An Atlas of Love and Hate</a>: Detroit Geographies in 1969, then followed it in 1971 with Fitzgerald: Geography of a Revolution (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation). Due to his combination cartographer/community activist role, his maps are both a romantic time capsule and an invaluable source of access to a period of fundamental change in the "Great American City." Mathematically exact yet gentle, Bunge lived in the communities he mapped, and his maps remain haunting and inspirational artifacts through which we can watch the Detroit of our grandparents become the Detroit of our parents.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2 </span><br />
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Recently we discovered this post on one of our favorite sites, <a href="http://materia.nl/">Materia</a>. Innovation for Design at different scales comes from inspiration at multiple scales. The handbags from <a href="http://www.tesler-mendelovitch.com/#!about/cjg9">Tesler Mendelovitch</a> got the gears turning in our heads...how can this be used in architecture? in the landscape?</div>
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The principle for the Tesler Mendelvotich work is visible in a range of work based on what the designers call ‘diamond wood’ geometric surface finishing. The wood-textile fusion, similar to <a href="http://materia.nl/material/foldtex/">materials such as Foldtex</a>, has led to plinths, pedestals and small tables. Recently, this work branched out into wearable pieces. The advantage of the wood-textile combination here is that it answers to users’ requirements. As an example, clutch purses made from the material provide the necessary resilience and hear-wearing attributes, while also being flexible and soft to the touch.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span><br />
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With any material, but especially with wood, it takes time to understand the material. The particular lesson here is that working on the scale of the material itself – small panels of lightweight wood – allows the designer to learn from the wood.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span> The applications of lessons learned from these microscale creations have yet to be discovered...maybe you can send us your ideas!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625792955154182274.post-48539745958601799352013-05-20T13:51:00.001-04:002013-05-20T13:51:26.299-04:00The Hypnosis and Inspiration of the Curvilinear <br />
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We saw this in the New York Times and just had to share. In his new book “Serpentine,” Mark Laita (Abrams, $50), presents us images of snakes photographed against a dark background
that represent a shocking depiction of beauty in Nature. In his prologue Mr. <a href="http://www.marklaita.com/" title="Link to Laita s Web site">Laita,</a>,” tries to articulate what it is about snakes
that spurred him to take on this project: “Attraction and repulsion.
Passivity and aggression. Allure and danger. These extreme dichotomies,
along with the age-old symbolism connected with snakes, are what first
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2 All images courtesy of the NY Times </span> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625792955154182274.post-77650407116985782732013-05-06T09:32:00.000-04:002013-05-06T09:32:36.986-04:00When Humor and Creativity Collide<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know this entry is stretching it for this blog but from time to time we like to indulge our love of animation. We also have, shall we say, a healthy sense of humor. Case in point, this guy, <a href="https://vimeo.com/adampatch" target="_blank">Adam Patch</a>, animated a joke told by his drunk wife and it is hilarious, in a good clean way...unless of course you are, on face value, horribly offended by corn chips. But really how awesome and creative and did I say awesome is it to actually take the time to animate something like that? Let's hope it's true...but it would be really funny sans the intoxication angle as well.<br />
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Adam, my man, you are our newest hero!<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/65102146">"Two Chips" / An Animated Short</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/adampatch">Adam Patch</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625792955154182274.post-11771009109369724832013-05-03T12:42:00.000-04:002013-05-03T12:42:12.319-04:00Chicago To America: "We Have The Greenest Streets!"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Bioswale planter (removes silt and pollution from surface runoff; 4.
Solar bus shelter; 5. White light lamp (40% more energy efficient); 6.
100% post-consumer recycled content used for sub-pavement levels; 7.
Light-colored pavement (39% of hardscape is reflective pavement); 8.
Reflective pavement to mitigate urban heat island effect; 9. Pervious
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Chicago may be known as a gritty, rust belt city, but lately they are looking more and more like a city that is trying to innovate its way out of a downward spiral that unfortunately affects many of the aging cities in that region (see also Detroit, Cleveland, etc). Case in point: the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) late last year "unveiled the first phase of their “greenest street in America” project. Located on a 1.5-mile stretch of Cermak Road in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, the street is made with air pollution-eating materials and features solar panels, native plants and stormwater-sucking pavement, among other impressive technology. The street’s success has since launched the city into the national limelight for innovative planning and design."<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span><br />
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This is an interesting claim, but lets unpack this claim a little and dive in to as many of the details as we can.<br />
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According to CDOT, this is the first commercial roadway application of photocatalytic concrete. We currently drafting a reasearch article on photocatalytic concrete but right now it looks like pretty amazing stuff. Imagine if you will, an abiotic material that not only cleans itself but also pulls carbon out of the air. The concrete’s "nanotechnology absorbs nitrogen oxide (i.e. car exhaust) from the air and cleans the road’s surface through a sunlight-powered reaction. The process uses titanium dioxide, so it’s not all roses — mining and chemical processing are needed to get titanium dioxide — but it’s a great application of the pigment. The sidewalk concrete uses more than 30 percent recycled content, and the cement’s reflectivity reduces the urban heat island effect."<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span> In this case it is worked into a road surface, but there are other possibilities, and something that looks to good to be true should be investigated further before we all start trumpeting it as the end-all be-all to global warming. Please stay tuned for our more extensive research! <br />
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On a more well known and tested note, they have incorporated stormwater capture where the "street diverts close to 80 percent of rainfall from the sewer system through permeable surfaces, rain gardens and street trees." The State of Illinois agreed to an Clean Water Act settlement consent decree with the <a href="http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/494B0626149A9DEF85257966006E3A44">EPA</a>, the <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/December/11-enrd-1637.html">Department of Justice</a> (DOJ), and with "the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) to setlle a court case under the Clean water Act relating to Chicago's combined sewer system which during times of heavy rainfall results in combined sewer overflows (CSOs) into Lake Michigan and other water bodies. The settlement requires upgrading Chicago’s sewer infrastructure to reduce combined sewage overflows. The legally binding settlement mandates that MWRD make critical structural changes to improve the quality of Chicago’s waterways and includes green infrastructure projects to reduce runoff."<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span><br />
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The re-use of this runoff and plant selection in the CDOT solution eliminates the need for potable irrigation water. A wind and solar-powers the lighting system with LEDs. To complete their Green Infrastructure intervention, a half-mile of bike lanes. Sidewalks are made more walkable with a pedestrian refuge island — "which separates crossing pedestrians from motor vehicles — and curb-corner extensions that allocates more street space to pedestrians. CDOT also created educational signage and a walking tour brochure."<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> 1 </span><br />
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So the big question is, how much does this intervention cost? The near $14 million for the mile-and-a-half-project comes out to around $88 per square foot if you assume a 60' Right Of Way. "Funding came from Tax Increment Financing and assorted grants from the Federal Highway Administration, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and Midwest Generation. "<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1 <a href="http://www.gridphilly.com/grid-magazine/2013/3/11/steal-this-idea-chicago-street-cleans-the-air.html">www.gridphilly.com/grid-magazine/2013/3/11/steal-this-idea-chicago-street-cleans-the-air.html</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2 <a href="http://geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2011/12/chicago-agrees-to-combined-sewer-overflows-consent-decree.html" target="_blank">geospatial.blogs.com/geospatial/2011/12/chicago-agrees-to-combined-sewer-overflows-consent-decree.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625792955154182274.post-15101719987172053462013-05-02T10:06:00.001-04:002013-05-02T16:37:24.370-04:00Bike Share<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The official start of The National Bike Challenge, a nationwide effort
to increase bicycle ridership through camaraderie and friendly
competition was yesterday. To commemorate the kick-off, <a href="http://www.altaplanning.com/" target="_blank">Alta Planning and Design</a> was in Philadelphia displaying the wares of their successful Bike Share program.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I met with Fionnuala Quinn and Charlie Denney who were excited to tell me about their bikes and their expanding Bike Share program. <a href="http://www.altabicycleshare.com/">Alta Bicycle Share</a> designs, deploys, and manages bicycle share programs and systems worldwide. They launched and manage <a href="http://www.melbournebikeshare.com.au/">Melbourne Bike Share</a> in Melbourne, Australia, <a href="http://www.capitalbikeshare.com/">Capital Bikeshare</a> in Washington, DC, <a href="http://www.thehubway.com/">Hubway </a>in Boston, MA, and <a href="http://www.bikechattanooga.com/">Chattanooga Bicycle Transit System</a> in Chatanooga, TN.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alta is an exciting company who in addition to there planning and design efforts are, at any given time, actively working on several bike-share projects and studies for jurisdictions and companies interested in bringing bike share to their communities. Alta has locations all over the country - Pacific Northwest, California, the mountains and the desert, Midwest, and up and down the east coast and are considered experts in pedestrian and bicycle planning, green space design, and research and innovation in planning and design.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I had the opportunity to intern for Chuck Flink at Greenways Inc., which is now <a href="http://www.greenways.com/" target="_blank">Greenways/Alta</a>, in Durham NC. It was a terrific experience and highly recommend it to any aspiring planners or landscape architects out there. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">As Emily and I have continued our discussions on the definitions of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_infrastructure">Green Infrastructure</a>" we definitely consider the impact and importance of bicycles on urban design. Alta is conducting research on how a seemingly nano-intervention of a bike share can help transform the way people experience the city but perhaps more importantly how a city infrastructure's will morph in response to that use. Stay tuned!</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625792955154182274.post-15721361133810957522013-05-01T17:59:00.001-04:002013-05-01T17:59:35.613-04:00Bending Masonry<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Check out this "Catalan free-form vault has been designed and build by students during a
one week workshop organised by Prof. Deplazes and Prof. Block from ETH
Zurich. <a href="http://www.block.arch.ethz.ch/tools/rhinovault">RhinoVAULT</a> has been used for the design of the complex compression-only shape.
For details, visit the homepage of the <a href="http://block.arch.ethz.ch/teaching/brickworks-masonry-vaulting">BLOCK Research Group</a>."<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span><br />
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"A grounbreaking new building in Hamburg, Germany, "intends to generate heat,
as well as revenue, from growing the micro-organism. The five-story Bio
Intelligent Quotient (B.I.Q.) building, which was expected to become
fully operational on Wednesday, has a high-tech facade that looks like a
cross between a Mondrian painting and a terrarium but is actually a
vertical algae farm."<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span><br />
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high-powered consortium that constructed the energy system, said in an
e-mail that the building was “an outstanding and important development
in the use of renewable resources in building technology,” comparable to
advances in the space program."<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></div>
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Exhibition, which introduced a competition in 2009 that led to the
creation of the B.I.Q. house, said, “Using algae as an in-house energy
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entrants to use smart materials, defined as “systems and products that
behave dynamically, unlike conventional building materials, which are
static.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></div>
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Read the complete New York Times article here:<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/business/energy-environment/german-building-uses-algae-for-heating-and-cooling.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0">When Algae on the Exterior Is a Good Thing</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2 All images courtesy of the NY Times</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625792955154182274.post-74778801948567443122013-04-25T09:54:00.001-04:002013-04-25T09:54:09.865-04:00Photography of the (a)biotic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Two Kyrgyzstan-based photographers, Andrew and Luda, run a <a href="http://lusika33.livejournal.com/" target="_blank">joint Live Journal account</a>
where they post amazing photos of outdoor scenery, wildlife, and
recently: active volcanoes."<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1 </span> We love the image above in particular for its metaphorical and literal translation of the biotic and abiotic elements that define our vision as designers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Earlier this year the duo trekked to the
Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia where the volcano complex known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolbachik" target="_blank">Tolbachik</a>
was in active eruption. Among the numerous hellish vistas photographed
by the team was this deep volcanic cave that offered a glimpse of what
it might look like below the Earth’s crust. You can see dozens of shots
from their trip organized into several sets <a href="http://lusika33.livejournal.com/tag/tolbachik" target="_blank">here</a>, not to mention the video below. (via <a href="http://ianbrooks.me/post/48443245902/lava-mountains-photos-by-lusika33" target="_blank">ian brooks</a>, <a href="http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/lusika33-tolbachik-volcano-photos" target="_blank">my modern met</a>)"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1 http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/04/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-an-incredible-glimpse-inside-an-active-volcano/. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2 All images courtesy of thisiscollassal or Tolbachik unless otherwise noted.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7625792955154182274.post-43123472001853216072013-04-24T14:57:00.001-04:002013-04-24T15:12:59.279-04:00City Branch Conceptual Design<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Ben recently completed work on this OLIN/BCJ lead team to look at the what the City Branch in Philadelphia could become. The plan is bold and in as much requires bold leadership from a variety of stakeholders, designers, and community members.<br />
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The City Branch is a SEPTA owned 2 mile long abandoned rail corridor that sits 30 feet below the surrounding cityscape. It begins just east of where the Reading Viaduct transitions down to Broad Street. It then passes under Broad Street and heads due West and disappears under Pennsylvania Ave, before jogging slightly and heading North.<br />
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The new below-grade park would extend from two points at the east
end: the connection to the SEPTA Spur, where the rail viaduct dips under
Broad Street (which is a bridge over the railway) and at Broad and
Buttonwood in front of the School District Administration building. A
key to the plan is the planned reconstruction of the Broad Street
bridge, owned by PennDOT. The parking lot now in front of the School
District building would be replaced with a multi-level public space
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New connections are made throughout allowing for a steady, unimpeded flow to create a safe and vibrant space to move along and through. Conceived as a series of connected program, adjacent buildings are provided an opportunity to connect to the park whether its retail or education. The entire length is meant to function as a stormwater capture and treatment system.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The draft of the Planning Commission’s Central District plan makes no
mention of establishing a rail park<span style="font-size: small;"> and </span>instead supports a Bus Rapid
Transit line to take riders west to Fairmount Park<span style="font-size: small;">. T</span></span>his is viewed as an <span style="font-size: small;">opportunity</span> in that the width of the City Branch could allow for each to co-exist.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">What is clear is <span style="font-size: small;">that the curre<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">nt</span> condition of the <span style="font-size: small;">City Branch<span style="font-size: small;"> is <span style="font-size: small;">such t<span style="font-size: small;">hat it<span style="font-size: small;"> creates a drag on land use<span style="font-size: small;">, pro<span style="font-size: small;">pe<span style="font-size: small;">rty value, perce<span style="font-size: small;">p<span style="font-size: small;">ti</span>on of safety, and overall health of the<span style="font-size: small;"> adja<span style="font-size: small;">cent pr<span style="font-size: small;">operties. Why not <span style="font-size: small;">ima<span style="font-size: small;">gine<span style="font-size: small;"> something better</span></span></span>? W<span style="font-size: small;">ell, </span>we did<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
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We at (a)biotic are no different than most slack-jawed designers who are as in love with grouping things in threes as we are of infographics. These particular infographics are espespically sweet because they graph when different herbs, fruits, and veggies are in season.<br />
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They are developed by <a href="http://chasingdelicious.com/">chasingdelicious.com</a> and they were even clever enough to develop a definition of each that plant biology folks won't point and laugh at (well some might, but we won't invite them to dinner). If you are a food-y-fooder-ton, then you will love this website. The posters here can be found for sale on that website if you are the poster-buying sort.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Members of the indie band <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.bowerbirds.org/" target="_blank">Bowerbirds</a> have been trying their hand at sustainable design with this fantastic self-built studio project. Since 2007, <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://olivehearts.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Beth Tacular and Phil Moore</a> have been constructing their very own cabin and music studio, using only <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/salvaged-materials/" target="_blank">salvaged materials</a> and running it on solar power. The band recently found success raising money on <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/271766523/bowerbirds-new-album-and-side-project-made-in-diy" target="_blank">Kickstarter, </a>and they are well on their way to minting a new album within the green construction.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1 Read more: <a href="http://inhabitat.com/bowerbirds-members-record-new-album-in-self-built-green-music-studio/#ixzz2R77G717e" style="color: #003399;">Bowerbirds
Members Hope to Record Next Album in Self-Built Green Music Studio |
Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green
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Dragonflies are simply amazing creatures and are, in fact, the ultimate predator. "Intercepting a moving object requires prediction of its future location. This complex task has been solved by dragonflies,
who intercept their prey in midair with a 95% success rate" versus a lion's 25% or a shark's 50%<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span>. For your conveinence find a link to the the NY Times article, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/science/dragonflies-natures-deadly-drone-but-prettier.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">Nature’s Drone, Pretty and Deadly</a>, by <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/natalie_angier/index.html">NATALIE ANGIER </a>. We at (a)biotic constantly strive for inspiration from nature. What better teacher than the incomparable dragonfly. The short clips below are stunning in and of themselves!<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">We just discovered this Moscow M<span style="font-size: small;">etro </span>Map<span style="font-size: small;"> (<a href="http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/metro/map/">larger version</a>)</span> on the <a href="http://www.coudal.com/">Coudal Partners</a> website. What is truly striking is the extent of this system . A fantastic web of public transportation with a loop ring and fingers into the surrounding city. Communists can sure do <i>some </i>things right...<a href="http://www.septa.org/">SEPTA </a>I'm talking to you! Below is Philly<span style="font-size: small;">'s rail system map<span style="font-size: small;">. You<span style="font-size: small;"> will </span>no<span style="font-size: small;">tice how lar<span style="font-size: small;">ge <span style="font-size: small;">swaths of the <span style="font-size: small;">city are completely un<span style="font-size: small;">ser<span style="font-size: small;">ved by a rail system<span style="font-size: small;"> that consists of mainly feeders to and from the sub<span style="font-size: small;">urbs.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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The simplicity of the Philadelphia SEPTA system is dwarfed by the system shown below. The Moscow Metro Map gets more complex when they add all the layers, although confusing, just look at how connected this place is...amazing.<br />
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