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The Living Landscape

The Living Landscape. Beyond scenery, landscaping as an integrated ecological system Benefits: Food, water and climate control, teaching materials, community building, aesthetics, and inspiration

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The Living Landscape

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  1. The Living Landscape • Beyond scenery, landscaping as an integrated ecological system • Benefits: Food, water and climate control, teaching materials, community building, aesthetics, and inspiration • Put the “Green” in the Green Mountain Walkway, the transportation spine of the campus as developed in the UVM Master Plan

  2. Wetland Park Marsh Forest Gardens Terrill Rock Garden Pathway Aiken Davis Green Mountain Walkway Gardens

  3. Key Design Constraints • Land banks: • Aiken and Hills banks for academic use • Open space designations: • Primary open space and connectives • Utilities: • Steam and storm water • Pathways: • Retained current locations

  4. Stormwater Mitigation Aiken Community Garden Picnic/Social Space

  5. Greenhouse Marsh Aiken North Forest Garden Landscape Indicators

  6. Mimicking Alpine forest condition where Aiken is the top of a mountain Rocky way Terracedown Aiken toward library Community area

  7. Indicators

  8. Indicators

  9. Retention pond to collect surface water from across Green between Davis Center and Library • Environmental art for aesthetic • Social gathering area • Food production- fruits & berries • Plant diversity and birdlife

  10. The Pond Art Park Indicators

  11. Vegetation Samples Ash Sugar maple Shagbark hickory Winterberry Elderberry Black chokeberry Cardinal flowers Joe-pye weed Wild blue iris

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