Park Park Fabric Landscape: Landscape Systems Give Form to Architecture

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dc.contributor.authorSurla, Sean O'Dellen
dc.contributor.committeememberYglesias, Caren L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMiller, Patrick A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberKaten, Brian F.en
dc.contributor.departmentLandscape Architectureen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:34:41Zen
dc.date.adate2006-05-26en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:34:41Zen
dc.date.issued2006-03-21en
dc.date.rdate2006-05-26en
dc.date.sdate2006-05-01en
dc.description.abstractToday, throughout the world, we are in the midst of a man-made environmental crisis. We must change how we consume and affect natural resources on the planet if we are to retain its richness of landscapes and biodiversity. It is our job as landscape architects to lead the way in changing the human relationship to natural resource consumption and building. My thesis asks the question, how can an understanding of landscape as a system give form to architecture? In natural systems nothing is wasted, everything is interconnected and self-sufficient at the same time. How can we model our buildings -- our built landscapes -- after nature? Three natural systems are key components to modeling nature: water, vegetation and energy. The landscapes that we have constructed for cars exemplify the problems we have ecologically. Cars produce greenhouse gases creating global warming. Highways and parking lots denude the vegetative habitat and lead to excessive water runoff polluting the watersheds. Solving the car problem goes a long way to setting an example for ultimately resolving ecological development issues. Cars are both the epitome of freedom and environmental degradation. Joni Mitchell put it eloquently with "they paved paradise put up a parking lot." My studio project is a mixed use parking facility fabricating the natural systems of water, energy and vegetation in order to mitigate environmental problems as well as resolve the practical necessity of where to put cars in crowded urban centers. Park Park puts the paradise back into the pavement.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Landscape Architectureen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05012006-174917en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05012006-174917/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/32078en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartSurlaThesisMay2006xyz.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
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dc.subjectInfiltrationen
dc.subjectNatural Systems and Architectureen
dc.subjectPorous Pavingen
dc.subjectEnvironmental Crisesen
dc.subjectRun Offen
dc.subjectLandscape Systemsen
dc.subjectFabric Landscapeen
dc.titlePark Park Fabric Landscape: Landscape Systems Give Form to Architectureen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineLandscape Architectureen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Landscape Architectureen

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