Land8: Landscape Architects Network

Daniel – You’re work on SketchUp is really remarkable. My opinion on SketchUp has improved as I see how much can be done with it showing realistic conceptual landscape designs. You’re making an impression on the technology in this field.

LET’S WRİTE DOWN UNDER THE DISCUSSION WALL…

lincon has its group …fab:)

@Yalçın: Yes its ok, i will be glad to have your results here!
@Ieva: Hi!! Nice to see you here too. I liked the art activities in the monsters of the landscape, it shows what can give a soul to the degraded places. Personally, i find all the pictures impressive that Mr Latz presented.
Just i have still questions if that project completely s…[Read more]

Hi everybody! First of all – nice to see you all there :). The lecture of Tilman Latz was very interesting! It is great that that kind of areas can have the second life.. after it has been used for other purposes.. That kind of areas seems so attractive for me personally. At the moment I’m working on my Master thesis – it is about transformation…[Read more]

yess we should decide.:)also does your visor study area ok with u?..also ı will search the project and share with this wall..:)

well i understand, we should search about the other examples too! i did not decide to the subject yet…

Yeah Işın,I know his study area-it s most of open mining areas-but ı really wanna to know this type of huge and transformation places,by the other hand ı havent any idea yet about thesis:s,ım just researching recently..and what about u??..

ı also, I think the future will be a lot of precedent for the field this project

i agree Yalçın, it was a good presentation! You know Erden from Ege uni., he is re-searching about industrial places as i heared from Mr Güney. You can also ask him.
What about your thesis issue? Did you already find a topic-why dont you write about industrial areas?

Glenn, and all
True that clients like to see green plants in the summer. Which is why some designers advocate a mix of native (80%) and non-native (20%) plants. The non-natives – which may require some summer water – stay green while the natives go summer brown.

Jon Q. asked about construction documents for green street work. After mining Portland’s BES site, i found a lot. Very helpful.

Just wondering how others are faring the extended barrage of budget cuts at public universities – seems to be happening everywhere. One of my current concerns is the increase in class size. We at the U. of Arizona are bringing together grad LA, Planning and Architecture classes with undergrad architecture classes, in the name of integration of the…[Read more]

Once upon a time, the reference manual had symbols for plants used in planting plan vignettes. These disappeared in 2006. I suspect this is what you may be referring to.

Susannah,

One vignette solution showed a swale constructed entirely in fill adjacent to a road. There was clearly no need for a swale given the existing topo depicted. They also…[Read more]

Why do you say that?

I’ve looked at SOME of the Section E material from Shake-n-Bake.
It was pretty bad.

I have used the Section C material. It’s pretty good.

Since many of our native plants go dormant in the summer as a survival technique to dry summers, I’m saying “advantageous for the summer-dry months” as it relates to the clients who prefer to see green plants and leaves still hanging onto their Buckeyes. Alternatively, Juncus, Western Sword Fern, and Iris, for instance, often receive summer water…[Read more]

Glenn Do you really need to irrigate these plants that you mention in summer? They are native to N California, and so in a “natural” context do not get any summer water. Why would you need to irrigate them in a cultured situation?

The Sustainable Sites Initiative: Metrics for a greener City” with Allegra Bukojemsky and April Philips
June 10, 2010 6:30 pm
AIA San Francisco, 130 Sutter Street, Suite 600

The Sustainable Sites Initiative SITES TM is the nation’s first rating system for the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable landscapes. This missing link in g…[Read more]