{"id":63822,"date":"2010-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-landscape-architecture-students-propose-plans-for-redesign-of-bay-campus-east-farm\/"},"modified":"2010-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"uri-landscape-architecture-students-propose-plans-for-redesign-of-bay-campus-east-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/12\/uri-landscape-architecture-students-propose-plans-for-redesign-of-bay-campus-east-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 landscape architecture students propose plans for redesign of Bay Campus, East Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 December 8, 2010 \u2013 Undergraduate students studying landscape architecture at the 溏心vlog免费B站 have spent the semester preparing new landscape designs for the University\u2019s Bay Campus in Narragansett and elements of East Farm in Kingston.<\/p>\n


\n\tTen students in Professor Will Green\u2019s senior-level sustainable design studio were divided into two groups and asked to come up with a vision for a sustainable Bay Campus after the construction of a new building left an unattractive quadrangle in the middle of campus.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe Bay Campus is a complex site to design,\u201d said Green. \u201cIt has historic elements, the water\u2019s edge, a public road through the middle, limited parking and an array of uses. The students had to deal with issues related to energy, storm water management, and navigation around a campus where it\u2019s hard to even know where the campus begins.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe students held a workshop earlier in the semester with Bay Campus stakeholders to get their ideas and input. That was followed up with a design charette involving three alumni of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s landscape architecture program to help the students begin the design process.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe pressure on the students to be creative grew in mid-November when they learned that last year\u2019s class had been recognized by the Rhode Island chapter of the American Planning Association for its project to design the landscape around a proposed charter school at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s W. Alton Jones campus in West Greenwich.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe final Bay Campus plans prepared by the student teams will be submitted in late December, and the campus stakeholders will then decide which elements they like best and how to proceed.<\/p>\n


\n\tWhile the seniors were redesigning the Bay Campus, Professor Richard Sheridan\u2019s junior-level students tackled a design for the new headquarters of the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association, which is located on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s East Farm in Kingston.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cFor these students, it was their first real design class and their first opportunity to focus on outreach to the community,\u201d said Sheridan. \u201cThey loved the opportunity to work with a real client for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tBut it wasn\u2019t easy, because East Farm is home to a diverse array of research groups with varying missions \u2013 from fisheries to gardening. The students had to provide links from the Association\u2019s building to the adjacent orchards, greenhouses and Master Gardener facility while developing habitat for wildlife, using native plants and addressing parking issues.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe requested that students help to make our office landscape be a reflection of what our organization does and also demonstrate the significance and importance of what our members do in agriculture and in caring for the environment around them,\u201d said Shannon Brawley, executive director of the Nursery and Landscape Association. \u201cWe were so impressed by the professionalism and respectful way Richard Sheridan and his students approached their work. The quality demonstrated in each design presentation was superior.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe students\u2019 biggest challenge was realizing that this was a multi-level project that ultimately has significant ramifications on people\u2019s lives,\u201d Sheridan said. \u201cIt\u2019s not enough to create a lovely spot. It\u2019s also about solving problems of rainwater, invasive species, circulation and movement of vehicles and pedestrians around the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 19 student designs will be put on display at the association\u2019s January 25-26 winter meeting for its members to view and discuss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 December 8, 2010 \u2013 Undergraduate students studying landscape architecture at the 溏心vlog免费B站 have spent the semester preparing new landscape designs for the University\u2019s Bay Campus in Narragansett and elements of East Farm in Kingston. Ten students in Professor Will Green\u2019s senior-level sustainable design studio were divided into two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}