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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - 21ARC63
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 A landscape and ecological design firm founded more
than 40 years ago by Leslie Sauer

Andropogon, a scientific category for common field

grasses inspired the name, andropogon grasses are first
living things to emerge wherever land is distributed.

The firm considers this name as an idea, an aspiration

and an ethos.

PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM .

- Design with nature, by observing natural forms

and processes
- A site’s historical ecology should be integral to its
future use
- Innovative green strategies
- Innovative stormwater management techniques
- Creating positive impact and allowing sites to
evolve
- Respond to local circumstances
- Support the ecosystem through regenerative
designs

LUDLAM TRAIL .
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Andropogon associates designed the landscaping and

assisted in master planning of the college

:
- Retain the historical value of the space
- Blend the design with the urban fabric and build a positive
connection with the neighbourhood
- Pedestrian-friendly design (security, safety and ease of
movement)
- Enhance campus - town connectivity
- Creating spaces comfortable for students
- Strengthening living-learning environment

The landscape design is mainly divided into two

zones, the main campus and the historical core
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Campus greens, prevalent in historic core,

consists mostly lawns and canopy trees

Open spaces surrounding building, made to

serve as spill over space

Athletic zone: playing fields, tracks and

courts

Threshold gardens, orientation at the entrance

of a building, used for outdoor
activities/classes
Plazas, gathering places also used as entrance to
buildings
Transitional Landscape

Streetscape, linear pattern characterized by the

arrangement of blocks

- Tree trenches: in the plaza, historic core and

educational landscape
- Rain gardens: in larger open spaces
- Cisterns and Rain Tanks: used to store water
- Porous Pavements in parking and pathways
Industrial edge Main campus Historic core
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Private space .

Buffer .

Utilitarian space .

buffer athletic field buffer Public space . Narrow buffer details

- Using landscape to create buffer

zones, to reduce both sound and
visual impact on the users
- Creating green corridors along
translational spaces to provide shade
and comfort
- Usable open spaces close to buildings
that can be used as outdoor
classrooms
- Creating pathways through which the
whole campus can be experienced
and makes transition from one space
to another easy
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Bio-swales and wetlands Rain gardens Cisterns

Urban swales incorporated into street design

The St. Elizabeth’s West Campus was established as a mental health
institution in 1855.

Historic features remaining include the hospital buildings, residence

cottages and a variety of landscape structures that include wide
lawns, mature shade trees and wooden slopes.

The 2016 plan, described in the landscape preservation plan, is a

holistic guide for landscape design at St. Elizabeth West campus,
which includes the preservation and repair of the remaining
historically significant features

The west campus is known for its character-defining landscape

feature. This includes spatial organisation and land patterns, visual
relationships, topography and drainage system, water features,
circulation and small-scale furnishing and objects.

The proposed redevelopment of the St. Elizabeth West campus,

under the guidance of the general services administration, involves
the rehabilitation of the historic campus to house various federal
agencies.

Providing redevelopment guidance of the campus from

the master plan to construction administration phases is
the landscape integration plan by Andropogon
associates
 The upland plateau
overlooking the confluence of the the two rivers that
descend steeply to small stream lowlands, the steep
transitional slopes, and naturally erosive soil.

Each of these topographic conditions has its own

unique differences in microclimates, hydrological
regimes and plant communities, which should be
considered in preserving and restoring site vegetation

The upland plateaus include large areas of

native soil that have high horticulture value, but are
also fragile. They are favourable areas for stormwater
management.

In contrast to the naturally clean soil, contaminated

fills and debris can also be found on the campus. The
natural vegetation can’t outperform the invasive,
exotic vegetation without active care.
Plans showing various methods used to preserve the historical elements, while making strategic developments in the site to solve
issues regarding the soil conditions, circulation, stormwater management and forest preservation.
Conversion of existing lawn Sunny south and south west Shady north and north east Forest interior, where native
areas to a forest condition facing forest edges. Includes facing forest edges. This species predominate in the
fence line corridor includes fence line corridor canopy
 Creating visually appealing
outdoor spaces through thoughtful design, use of plantings, and
artistic features.

: Incorporating and preserving

native plants, and promoting wildlife habitats to support local
ecosystems.

Implementing strategies such as

rain gardens, permeable paving, and efficient irrigation systems to
manage water runoff and promote water conservation.

Providing
Creating inviting
opportunities for outdoor recreation, relaxation, and physical
gathering spaces that encourage social interaction and
activity to promote the health and well-being of campus users.
community engagement among campus users.

: Incorporating educational : Implementing environmentally friendly

elements such as demonstration gardens, or outdoor classrooms practices such as composting, use of recycled materials,
to engage and inform visitors about the local environment and and energy-efficient lighting to minimize the environmental
sustainable practices. impact of landscaping activities.
Rehabilitation of existing historic
pavements, cribs and site
structures and the construction of
newly built elements compatible
with the historic landscape

Protect the integrity of historic

landscape features

Maintain existing site benchmarks

New and rehabilitated pavements

to support modern use and
requirements

Non-historic materials identified for

removal may be reused, where
practicable, when they are not
easily replaced in a cost-effective
way
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● Nature, Man, and Spirits as One is the philosophy
underlying all of Turenscape designs. Tu-Ren is two
characters in Chinese.

● Tu means dirt, earth, or the land while Ren means people,

the man or human being. Once these two characters
come together, Turen, means earth man, a relationship
between land and people.

● The firm’s philosophy is to create harmony between land

Handan wastewater terraces
and people and to create a sustainable environment for
the future.

● Earth(Tu) is the base of all living beings and spirits, it

receives and accumulates energy from heaven.

● As per Chinese belief their forefathers visualized the

land with sacred trees as the axis for the sun to rise
and fall and as ladders for the spirits to travel up and
down.

● Man(Ren), claimed to be superior to all beings has

cut down the sacred trees tasted the forbidden fruit
and disturbed the harmony of ecological balance.
(concerning the mythological story of Adam and
Eve.)

Benjakitti Forest Park

● The Turen(The firm ) act as a messenger between nature and
the dwellers to adapt to the innate rules of nature and bring
about peace and harmony concerning cultural context.

● Turen(The Earth), directed by heaven acts as a messenger

armed with modern technology to observe the phenomenon
up in the sky and patterns down on Earth, following the natural
social processes to unify nature, man and spirits as one.

Suqian Santaishan Flower Quilt

● The firm tackles every design challenge along the path of

sustainability and sensitivity to the cultural context of the site.

● The solution approach comes with a vernacular touch of

farming techniques and the traditional methods of Chinese
landscaping.

● The firm has been able to transform damaged and traumatized

lands into habitable areas of connect between man. nature
and spirits proclaimed as one.

● The landscape design is based on the response to the long-

term exposure to certain climatic conditions and their changes.

Suqian Santaishan Flower Quilt Before development

Project Location：ChinaShenyang,Liaoning
Project Scale：21 Hectares
Design Time： January 2003
Client： Shenyang Architectural University
Award List：2005 ASLA Honor Awards

● The new Shenyang Architectural University is situated in

North China, Liaoning Province with an 80-hectare
suburban campus.

● Originally located downtown, the university was

established in 1948.

● But due to a dramatic national surge for architecture in

China, the enrollment of the school increased, creating
overcrowding in its downtown, urban location.

● The school decided the best solution was to move the

entire campus to the suburbs.

● The rice field project here is one portion of the campus

on the southwest side of the campus, with an area of 3
hectares.
The design had to contend with the following existing site
conditions and budgetary limitations:

(1) Former agricultural use: the new site for the proposed
campus was originally a rice field, the origin of the famous
“Northeast Rice,” known for high quality due to the cool
climate and its longer growing season than those from
southern China. The soil quality was good and a viable
agricultural irrigation system was still in place.

(2) Small budget: only about one US dollar per square meter
was allocated for landscaping.

(3) Short timeline: the university required the design to be

developed and implemented within one year.

Landscape architects working in China must address issues of

food production and sustainable land use, two of the biggest
current issues on China’s horizon as the country moves
towards modernization.

Productive rice fields that were

proposed and chosen as the
theme for the campus.
Yu had a design idea for the extensive campus
landscape that he believed could satisfy the goals of the
university leadership and meet the time constraints. At the
brainstorming session with the university president, Yu
asked, "Could this campus be rice," The immediate
reaction was positive.

His historical knowledge of Chinese urban planning: a grid

of nine squares, according to Yu, has been the traditional
building block design for Chinese cities for hundreds of
years. Some rice patches were deliberately left on the fields
to last until the winter, giving a bright, warm colour to
the cold atmosphere

Simplicity and minimalism, he said, were key

concepts in his design education with great
professors like Peter Walker.
 As Yu's sketches suggest,
he designed a roadway
system through the rice
fields that has a centre
median with plantings to
accommodate both
pedestrians and the
wheels of heavy tractors.

One design feature within the rice field

grid is worth noting: diagonal paths cut
through the squares of rice paddies to
provide for the circulation of students
across the campus. As Yu noted, the
paths are purely functional. "This line,"
said Yu, "means we are not agricultural
anymore. We are urban. We are post-
agriculture. Suddenly, we become
modern, or we find a modern
contemporary use for agriculture. So this
diagonal line is for pleasure, plus Rice fields are made penetrable
function." using concrete narrow paths, that
allow students, faculty and staff to
Rice fields and buckwheat fields are seen from
touch and feel the rice
inside the classroom window
The Rice Planting Day: In
mid May was designated
as the Rice planting day
for the university. Students
and faculty members will
celebrate the planting of
rice seedlings. It is
becoming an integral
part of the university
culture Rice paddies have study spaces incorporated
into them to allow the integration of students with
the agricultural landscape.

The Rice Harvesting Day: At Native plants

the end of October each (Polygonum)
year was designated as covering the slopes
the Rice Harvesting Day of the university
when all the students and sports field.
faculty members
participate in harvesting
their rice.
Project Location: China Yichun, Jiangxi
Project Scale: 46.67 hectares
Design Time: February 2010
Build Time: September 2011
Client: Yichun University Gao’an Campus

→ The Goan campus of Yichun College is

Located next to the village committee of
Dacheng Village, Dacheng town with National
Highway no.320 on its south side.

→The site is featured with a hilly landscape and

valley basin.
→The planning considers the terrain features and reasonably arranges
the functional zoning areas for the new campus to ensure the central
status of teaching and training areas.

→The layout of the building complex was decided according to the

classification of subjects, and different functions, to facilitate the
improvement of teaching and management.

→It makes teaching and living independently and also connects each
other efficiently.

→The integration of building complexes makes it possible to centralize

the construction land, leaving more and larger space for greening, to
improve the quality of the campus environment.
→It also facilitates the co-use and
management of facilities with greater
flexibility.

→The classrooms are adjusted

according to the development of each
discipline category.

→Each block is dedicated to a

particular course according to the
connectivity of each other.

→The courtyard is formed through the

enclosure of buildings, into which
landscape is introduced.

→The site also boasted of lush

vegetation and an excellent
ecological environment.
→The large viewing platforms are
integrated into the building facade,
which enables the indoor spaces to
interact with the external landscape.

→As the hillside is neither steep nor high,

thus the planning buildings are mainly
low-rise, with simple and spreading
forms.

→Meantime, buildings are partly

elevated to minimize the sense of
architectural mass.