What Is A Capstone?
A capstone is the final achievement in your undergraduate career. Students are able to combine all the skills and knowledge they have gained through their studies and produce a professional project in the community.
CSUMB Botanical Garden: Conceptual Design and Planting Plan
As part of my senior capstone I will be creating a conceptual design and planting plan for a potential botanical garden on the CSUMB campus as part of a living laboratory. This project attempts to address the campuses need for more green spaces and will use previous stakeholder research, principles of landscape design, and sustainability science to create the final conceptual design and planting plan. This project has been broken down into four major parts: A precedent mood board, the conceptual design, planting plan, and final presentation to be presented at the capstone festival and possibly CSUMB's campus planners.
I have chosen to do this individual capstone because I feel as though this project would be a great opportunity to create transdisciplinary learning on campus where students and faculty from multiple colleges could be involved in creation of this garden. Not only does this but the benefits of green spaces on campus go far beyond learning and will provide a space for refuge during times of stress, reduce stormwater runoff, provide habitat for local species, improve biodiversity, fulfill masterplan goals to use campus as a living laboratory, act as a place for recreation and much more.
This project also lines up directly with my future graduate studies in landscape architecture and is providing me with hands-on experience prior to me entering a new degree program. I hope that one day this project comes to full fruition and might even decide to continue on with the project into graduate school.
I have chosen to do this individual capstone because I feel as though this project would be a great opportunity to create transdisciplinary learning on campus where students and faculty from multiple colleges could be involved in creation of this garden. Not only does this but the benefits of green spaces on campus go far beyond learning and will provide a space for refuge during times of stress, reduce stormwater runoff, provide habitat for local species, improve biodiversity, fulfill masterplan goals to use campus as a living laboratory, act as a place for recreation and much more.
This project also lines up directly with my future graduate studies in landscape architecture and is providing me with hands-on experience prior to me entering a new degree program. I hope that one day this project comes to full fruition and might even decide to continue on with the project into graduate school.