BLA - Senior Thesis 2010

1. Danielle Mecham PORTFOLIO
Landscape Architecture I 2010

2. Environments for a Livable Future:
CULTIVATING GROWING CULTURES
Greenacres, Spokane WA I Senior Project 2010
Project Goals:
Provide spaces that facilitate interactive and
educational experiences in sustainable local
food production.
Objectives:
• Provide opportunities for children and the community to learn the process of food production.
• Promote awareness for the importance of locally grown and produced food.
• Create opportunities for all ages to experience diversity in lifestyles, people, and their natural
environments.
• Develop accessible and adaptive botanic environments for inclusion of physically challenged community
members.
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3. Site Location & Inventory
CONTECT / ANALYSIS
Greenacres, Spokane WA
Washington, USA
The site was approximately 7.3 acres and located among rural homes and
is currently used as an alfalfa field. The image below is the inventory of
the site which depicts the different physical elements throughout the area.
Inventory - Photoshop
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4. Pre-Design
I designed this park with hopes that upon seeing and experiencing these gardens the
community may be inspired to volunteer their time to help maintain the site and
encourage future generations to pursue a more sustainable lifestyle.
Design process
Edible Schoolyard
Community Garden
Edible Forest Trail
System
In order to further understand the dynamics and relationship
of different design elements I constructed these images with
SketchUP. The images portray the three dimensional
components of each space.
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5. Master Plan & Supplementary Images
Master Plan
Top Left: Covered outdoor
classroom with garden plots.
(Hand Rendered)
Middle Left: Raised planters, pergola
classroom and green house and
chicken coop in background.
(Hand Rendered)
graphics
Below: Raised planters in
the community garden.
(Hand Rendered)
Below: Plots and pathway
within the comm. garden.
(Hand Rendered)
Above: Edible Forest and trails.
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Above: Gazebo with edible vines and plants
Danielle Mecham PORTFOLIO 2009
within the Park. (Hand Rendered)