Green Project Grows

by dtoronyi

Green Project Grows

Fox, an assistant professor of landscape architecture, is helping to transform campus by incorporating real sustainable construction projects into the curriculum. Graduate and undergraduate students in landscape architecture and related fields get credit for taking part in these design/build studios.

 

This semester’s project was the second phase of a three-year effort to create an environmentally friendly corridor, called “the Artists’ Backyard,” between Turlington Hall and Owens Hall. If you didn’t know to look for the sustainable features, you’d probably miss them. There’s a cistern that collects rainwater off the roof and diverts it into a nearby rain garden, drought-resistant plants to reduce the university’s landscape maintenance budget, and permeable bricks in the walkways that help filter water bound for the storm drains.

 

Interview with Paul Morris – Center for Disease Control community design

by davetoms

Interview with Paul Morris, FASLA You've been active in the Center for Disease Control's Healthy Communities program. Please explain what the program is, and the role you've been playing. It’s an evolving program… Read More →

Open Letter to Design Students Everywhere: Observatory: Design Observer

by shiftncsu

Jessica Helfand Open Letter to Design Students Everywhere My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned to myself for each one of my undertakings. I… Read More →

Could the saddest city in the land be the best place for landscape architects?

by shiftncsu

Everybody’s got a great idea and a good many of us are drawn to landscape architecture because of the opportunity to fix problems that evolved from development patterns over the last century.  But … Read More →

Living Light

by shiftncsu

There are a lot of sculptural light concepts around the studio this semester.  Here is one from Seoul that merges light sculpture and streaming air quality data in a public space.  plus they… Read More →