We are excited to hear that the Eden Campus will be a part of the 2012 LAF Case Study Investigation that will focus on measuring landscape performance over the long term. BNIM and Andropogon developed the master plan in 2011 and now Mithun is taking the plan into phase one. We look forward to the seeing the results!
Andropogon is currently working as part of a larger planning team with the City of Chattanooga to develop plans to revitalize the city’s green infrastructure. During a typical watershed planning process utilizing ArcGIS, only a few people get to view the beautiful “middle step” maps that are created to analyze the surface of the land and evaluate how water moves along that surface.
We thought we would share this beautiful “middle step” map of the elevation data of Chattanooga, which elegantly illustrates the unique land characteristics of the region. Chattanooga is located in the “Great Valley of East Tennessee,” which is also known as the Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills Ecoregion of the Ridge and Valley Physiographic Province. Notice the valley next to the folding and faulting ridges that perch above the Tennessee River Valley.
For more information about some of the planning projects we are involved in with the city of Chattanooga, check out the city’s website here and a newspaper article here.
Check back later to see completed planning maps that will help Chattanooga develop new stormwater projects and guide green infrastructure planning.
Events calendar…music and Pennsylvania Dutch goods
‘Urban Hactivist’ Florian Rivière goes about city streets creating humorous and interactive public art interventions using mundane materials. One of the French artist’s latest projects is ‘don’t pay, play’ where he has transformed a Strasbourg parking lot into a playing field for multiple sports including: basketball, football, hockey, tennis and waterpolo. each pitch / rink / court occupies a single parking space, made over by simply using tape and shopping carts. via
(via lazyscrapbook)
From the Andropogon Archives:
Emily found this drawing while digging through an old Maintenance manual we did for the National Parks Department way back in 1986. Using the original Mac, the “Apple Macintosh” 128K, AA turned a hand drawing by Colin Franklin into this digital wizardry. 26 years old, and the manual is still incredibly relevant and informative. We’ll be posting more of AA’s archive of over 35 years of ecological design, so keep checking back.
In-progress photos of Andropogon’s design for the Phipps Conservatory Center for Sustainable Landscapes…one of the greenest projects the earth has seen.
Andropogon’s Shoemaker Green at the University of Pennsylvania is nearing completion! The trees are in, the paving is well under way, and we are eagerly anticipating a great summer and a big opening day on September 20th! Check out this Construction Time Lapse video we put together, and be sure to check back for updates as we approach opening day.
(by Andropogon)
The US Coast Guard Headquarters’ 6-acre green roof, designed by Andropogon, featured on Greenroofs.com.
This Week in Review - 05.11.12 - Greenroofs.com (by greenroofsTV)
A shiny new city rising in the desert is designed to be a testing ground for everything from wireless networks to self-driving cars. One catch: It’s totally empty.
(via America’s Most Innovative Neighborhood: 15 Square Miles In New Mexico, Population: 0 | Fast Company)
Incredible section documenting Kowloon Walled City before it was demolished in 1993. More on the city here, and a surprisingly informative clip from Van Damme’s Bloodsport here.
Hertz and IBM Launch Smart Microgrid for Electric Car-Sharing | TPM Idea Lab
IBM’s Ehningen Innovation Center campus in Germany is about to become ground zero for the development of an advanced personal transportation system that combines Hertz’s car sharing know-how with distributed renewable energy, electric vehicles and smart microgrid technology.
The new system, announced earlier this week, will piggyback on an existing car sharing agreement between the Ehningen campus and nearby Stuttgart Airport, through Hertz’s online self-service renting portal.
The new field test illustrates IBM’s accelerating embrace of renewable energy and electric vehicle technology. Last month, Idea Lab reported that IBM has been developing an advanced lithium-air battery that could be instrumental in lowering the retail price of electric vehicles.
The Ehningen test dovetails with IBM’s EV battery research and with its participation in the EDISON research consortium, which the company joined in 2009. EDISON is a Denmark-based project (it stands for Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) designed to build a pathway to mass market use of electric vehicles.
Students from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam designed “brick biotopes,” made from plaster and sand, which serve dual functions:
1) as bricks, and 2) as a home for house sparrows, which often nest in cracks.
During the past 20 or so years, sparrow populations have declined in many European urban environments. The hand-crafted bricks’ design allows plants and wildlife to “co-exist with architecture.”
This video shows how they’re made.
My Family Dead (2009), by Adrian Villar Rojas
I love the tree barnacles
