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For the second phase of my capstone I have created a conceptual design for the botanical garden on my university campus. I have taken the key elements from stakeholder interviews previously done with students, faculty, and university campus planners along with a focus group where I was able to further incorporate concepts and elements related to the Living Community Challenge and get overall feedback on my design thus far. This along with precedent research and inspiration from the Huntington Library Botanical Gardens I have come up with this design to be used as a foundation for a more detailed plan in the future and to present at the capstone festival. In my design I have included a large gathering space where students can study, socialize, and recreate in the green space. There will also be the 5 themes which flow from MB native plants, Ohlone Native plants, Australian plants, South African, and Succulents. The botanical gardens over all intention is to be used as a living laboratory where students and faculty can use the space for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary learning directly on campus. I have also included an area that has all 5 themes in one space so that professors can bring their class and learn about all 5 themes with the help of interpretive signage and more in-depth information about the plants and their natural habitats. There will also be signage and along all the walking trails so that students can walk through the space and still learn something new about these areas without having to be in a class room setting.
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Blog Post #3
In the third and final phase of my capstone project I finalized my concept plan, drew example pictures of plants for garden themes, drew a perspective view of the garden, created an example planting plan for the Monterey Bay Native Plants section of the garden shown on the left along with a key, and created a booklet with all of the elements of my project. Prior to this semester I had very little experience in photoshop and illustrator and had to learn a lot of new techniques within the software in order to render my drawings. It was a very challenging experience but I have learned many skills in the basis of design that will be extremely useful as I move into my graduate program in landscape architecture. Overall this project has given me a unique opportunity to combine the concepts of sustainability from my current degree in environmental studies with my future degree program in landscape architecture and turn it into something that can potentially be used as a learning tool by many students and faculty at CSUMB.
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