Potential Green Space

Parking Lots

Agri•culture

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May be conceptualized as plantable space, allowing for urban agriculture

1. agricultural space as productive

2. agricutlrual space as identity

1. agricultural sapce as waste water managers

2. agricutlrual space as recreation

3. agricutlrual space as habitat

s t a t e s

c r o s s p o l l i n i z a t i o n

May be conceptualized as plantable space, allowing for Urban Agriculture or public recreational open space

May be conceptualized as Archiculture or “Vertical Farming”

May be conceptualized as Agricultural Corridors, reclaiming ag land

Streets & Buildings

Need of Terminus

Pedestrian Only Corridor

Potential Agricultural Strip

Potential Agricultural Node

R x R

Good Use of Terminus

an•alysis

Agri•culture

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1. San Juaquin Valley as shopping hub

1. Growth trend continuing to move northward

G r u e n

G r o w t h

Impediment to legibility

Pedestrian Only Corridor

city•diagram

Centered Trees Prevents Legibility

D a t e s

Agri•culture

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Reads as a “Landmark” Green Wall

1. imageability

1. Green giving identity to the fulton mall

2. Reclaim ag land

Context Map

l y n c h i a n

C e n t e r e d n e s s

C o n c e p t u a l i z i n g

O p p o r t u n i t y S o l u t i o n

Reads as “Edge” Recaptured Water From BuildingReads as “Path”

Impediment to legibility

Pedestrian Only Corridor

big•plan

Centered Trees Pre-vents Legibility

A r a b l e L a n dW a s t e d L a n d

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1. Bring agriculture back into the city2. Establish city identity

3 . City at forefront of agriculture, alterna-tive fuels, and water technologies

1. Scale Approach a design with at least 3 different scales. Regional, Landscape and Site scale are the 3 best, and often reveal the most important and pertinent information from which to produce a rich design. To look at these different scales reveals connections, similarities, patterns, conflicts and opportunities that may not otherwise have been found.

2. Centeredness These are areas of intense concentrations of many different uses such as commerce, transportation, residential, recreational, religious and civic activities. They need to be easily accessible and prominent within the landscape. Landmarks combined with open space makeup the back-bone for such spaces. They provide a sense of orientation for the rest of the city and give a city a sense of identity.

3. Ecology The ecology of people, commerce and government is just as important as the ecology of the natural world. So when we speak of ecology, we mean to incorporate all these things, and to do so, so that each is com-plimentary and supports each other. This is done by an ecological mind-set in the beginning of a project. A mindset that seeks to unite natural processes with human endeavors so that one is no more important than the other and that conflicts are resolved so that each is not harmed at the expense of the other.

4. Density Density of buildings saves a great deal on the physical footprint of set-tled cities on pristine lands but it also carries with it many other benefi-cial traits. Not only is a good sense of human scale achieved through density of the urban fabric but also as populations are condensed costs are often reduced, public transportation becomes increasingly viable and utilized and by the decrease in city footprint, habitats are more easily preserved.

5. Richness Of Program – Content It is increasingly important in the contemporary landscape as with any other human endeavor, that we imbue every element with multiple utility on multiple levels. For example, a riparian corridor can serve to provide habitat for wildlife, help in flood control, filter runoff before it reaches the ocean and provide areas for pedestrian recreation. If we look at each element in the landscape, even a bench, and find ways to get multiple uses out of them, we use less capital to get the same or even better results. Effects are often multiplied when certain elements combine to create something greater than their sum.

A g r i - c u l t u r e

Sc

ale

Agriculture Land

Connections Per Scale

City Fabric

tran•sect

Centered Trees Prevents Legibility

D e n s i t y

Agri•culture

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eco•logy

1. Rotating crops brings nutrients back into the soil

1. Multiple crop cultures help encourage biodiversity

2. Plant and animal life work in symbiosis

C r o p R o t a t i o n

R i c h n e s s o f P r o g r a m

E c o l o g y

M u l t i p l e C u l t u r e s

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alfalfa

- harvest

corn

thompson seedless grapes

tomatoes

lettuce

onions

garlic

biking

walking

gardening

public event

art installation

field events

Agri•culture

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ag•corridor

Agri•culture

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pro•ductive land•scapes

jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sept oct decnov

alfalfa

- harvest

corn

thompson seedless grapes

tomatoes

lettuce

onions

garlic

biking

walking

gardening

public event

art installation

field events