Browsing by Subject "landscape architecture"

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    Leave Catalytic Traces: Land-based infrastructures for environmental mitigation at Fly Ranch, Nevada, USA
    (Journal of Landscape Architecture, 2022) Rossi-Mastracci, Jessica
    This article focuses on Leave Catalytic Traces, a design entry for the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) Fly Ranch 2020 Design Competition, located in Fly Ranch, Nevada, USA. Co-hosted by LAGI, an organization that develops artistic renewable energy infrastructure, and the Burning Man Project, which organizes the annual nine-day art festival Burning Man nearby, the programmatic requirements of the competition included the mitigation of the festival’s environmental impact, ecological restoration and a demonstration of renewable energy generation through infrastructural sculpture at Fly Ranch. In response, this research through design case study investigates: (1) Land-based Infrastructures (LBI) as resilient infrastructure and a flexible process-driven framework for site design; (2) a temporary event harnessing participatory processes as a generative strategy; and (3) acupunctural land-based interventions as dynamic ‘sculptures’. The article argues that the work proposes a new design and research process that combines speculative futures and projective imaginaries, which are tested through the development of a process-driven design approach by deploying site-specific land-based interventions.
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    Little Earth of United Tribes Design Project.
    (1988) Nadenicek, Dan; Damon, Paul
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    Planting Design Concepts for Hutchinson.
    (1989) Snyder, Douglas J.
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    Reconsidering the Slab: The Concrete Sidewalks of Minneapolis and Their Hidden Landscapes
    (2020-12) Meyer, Laura
    The thesis you are about to read is an effort to reconsider the common urban sidewalk and rethink the way these objects are designed. As an ubiquitous element of our everyday infrastructure, sidewalks are often a taken for granted object in the landscape. But sidewalks are also an integral part of an extended network of urban systems.The purpose of this thesis is to look at ways to utilize and expand upon the typical design research process in order to gain a better understanding of the many systems that interact with the urban sidewalk network. This thesis is intended to expand the understanding of urban sidewalks within the discourse of design. This document can serve as a reference for others to use to design better sidewalks and for pursuing related research. Additionally, this thesis offers a methodology for positioning research as the primary purpose of a design project.