The Field – Design Plan 32

The Field – Design Plan 32

The Design December 2015 - Fiona Morris – Atelier Rabbit - [email protected] Contents: 1. Title Page 14. Designing – 4 Site Functions 28. Green Infrastructure 29. Reserves for Beneficial Plants 2. Contents 15. The Design 30. Boundary Planting 3. Site Location 16. Access 31. Division Planting 4. The Brief 17. The Field – design plan 32. Livestock Hedge 5. Design Context - overview 18. Cross-sections of The Field 33. Woodland Edge 6. 19. 1.Ecological Connections Project Space - plan 34. Willow Wetland 7. 2.Campus Community’s Vision – 20. Incremental Colonisation 35. Pond & seating Project EAT 21. Apples & Worms 36. Wildlife Connections 8. 3.Compensation Planting 22. The Mush Room 37. People Connections 9. 4.Kennisveld – MTD 38. Low-Input/Carbon-Neutral 23. Water & Power 10. 5.Public/Private - Planning Rules Options 24. Amenity Space 11. Soil Challenge 25. Amenity Building 12. Water Challenge 26. Community Build Options… 13. Social Challenge 27. Sheep Shelter/Woodland Workshop Site Location: FORUM 3 The Brief: An area suitable for 'inhabitants of Wageningen Campus' to realize temporary, ground bound projects for a.o. demonstration, information and training in relation to the knowledge fields of Wageningen UR. 4 Design Context: From open fields to knowledge fields..... Elike Wijnheijmer 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Many existing plans and requirements to take into account 5 1. Ecological Connections - WUR 2010-13 The area is conceptually meant to connect the park in the south with the small wood in the north – how best to do this? 6 2. Campus Community’s Vision – Project EAT Interactive Educational Social Human-scale Colourful Abundant... BUT this design was for the centre of campus, not the edge. 7 3. Compensation Planting – Provincie Gelderland/ WMO Plants disturbed by the new bus-lane would be compensated by new planting. How to integrate a new design with this? 8 4. Kennisveld – Facilitair Bedrijf, MTD Landschapsarchitecten 2015 Development in cooperation with key figures of Project EAT (Eetbare Academische Tuin) and its network of staff and students. Design: Space for experimentation, demonstration, information, education 9 5. Public/Private – Planning rules “ ” p.18 Public Land: open access 06:00-24:00 if users keep to the general rules; 24:00-06:00 passing through only. Organised activity allowed on approval by the Campus Manager. 10 Soil Challenge: Majority is added unstructured subsoil for 1-2m depth Soil height actively changing (settling) during designing Subsurface compaction due to previous use of site for soil heaps and machinery Standing water No worms seen Average amount of Nitrogen is 0.08% Average amount of Phosphorus 0.04% Average amount of organic matter 2,53% (Recommended 5%) pH 7.19 - 7.25 Soil testing & picture bottom right by Students FSE-50306 2015: Dienke Stomph Kristýna Kohoutková Miguel Ruiz Marchini Margaux Villebrun Veronica Reynoso Mingue Marner 11 Water Challenge: Wettest areas: 1. (HISTORIC) Area where seepage water rises and stands for many days. 1. 2. (NEW & SHORT-TERM ISSUE) Standing water unable to penetrate unstructured, raised soil and leaving the site at its edges creating erosion. 2. 12 Social Challenge: New bus-stop (change of use) A high volume ‘walk through’ path would be major infrastructure, expensive, restricting activity types & wildlife habitat function. Encouraging access behind VITAE conflicts with safety: liquid nitrogen storage tanks and regular lorry traffic. Enlarging of the woodland Dassenbos (least disturbed area on campus) Near to but no connection with the VITAE building Public and highly overlooked by student-flat Dijkgraaf, local houses, passing buses & cyclists Continued use as an unofficial dog park would restrict food growing options, landscape maintenance by sheep etc. DESIGNING - 4 Site Functions: 1. Restore the quality of the land Primarily soil-water functions, plus habitat for as wide a range of native flora and fauna as possible 2. Accommodate and support ground-bound initiatives In a flexible framework enabling a broad range of project activities: - good access - healthy soil - natural pest control - Protection from the elements/stray dogs etc. - Space for education - Social facilities - Potential for carbon neutral maintenance 3. Create ecological connections Create appropriate links between the Blauwe Bergen and the Dassenbos 4. Encourage community interaction Activities and educational opportunities for, by, and between: campus users, campus partners, and Wageningen inhabitants. 14 The DESIGN… 15 Access: 1. 2. 16 The Field Livestock Hedge Alder/willow Ditch (‘Elzensingel’) Willow Wageningen Campus Wetland Dead-hedge Project Space Dividing Vermicomposting Hedges Pond CGN Single-storey building with covered Orchard Project porch, meeting room, basic kitchen, Gardens & compost toilet Project Space Pollarded Willows Storage Outdoor Practicum/Workshop Sheep Shelter Project Space Sheep Enclosure/ Boundary Event space Planting Woodland-edge Habitat Planting Drainage Perennial Ditch Wildflowers 17 Cross-sections of The Field Site: Hedge + shrubs Project area not in make mammal Boundary use becomes corridor planting wildflower meadow Amenities & social area & willows Project worm- Wildflower Orchard Division Project area in use edging garden compost hedges beds Café Bus & bike lanes waste A A Woodland edge planting for bird habitat Willow wetland for Historic Building with porch and basic meeting natural willow/ Sheep shelter/ Boundary facilities seepage alder ditch Project workshop space & willows Sheep water storage for planting beds equipment storage drainage Project area between paddock/ pathways & wildflowers event area Bus & bike lanes 18 B B Project Space = 0.5 Ha 19 Incremental Colonisation: 1. 1. Smaller, more intensive projects get space nearer to the site facilities. 2. 2. Larger-scale or less intensively managed projects. 3. If there are few projects, this section 3. can be fully managed as as a flowering meadow. 20 Apples & Worms Living Bins Large bins with small holes around the sides sunken into the ground and seeded with manure and mainly epigeic worms provide a soil-building organic waste disposal system for projects. Café Composting Green Office at Wageningen University wish to promote http://www.nwf.org recycling of food waste on campus via worm farms. CGN Orchard 80+ apple varieties on show, with public fruit-picking, and education and demonstration activities. 21 Scott Bauer, USDA Marathon The Mush Room! www.geograph.org.uk http://www.mcnamarafencing.ie/ agri-animal/superknot-sheep- livestock-fence/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing Student design groups from FSE (2015 & 2016) have proposed mushroom growing projects for this north-facing, shaded area Gives multi-purpose to ditch-management access area Can be fenced off from dogs/sheep/people for food production, which also increases the wildlife benefit of this area by minimising human disturbance On-site coppicing of Corylus, Alnus, and pollarding of Salix spp. provide the material. When students are not involved this material and other woody waste can be stacked and allowed to degrade naturally through local, non-edible fungi, providing increased habitat and forage for wildlife 22 Water & Power: Electricity Options: www.pedalpowersound.co.uk Solar panels on building (size of courtyard trees must not interfere) or free-standing ‘flower arrays’ Phone-charging, water-pumping etc. by bike, or other new and trial energy generating technologies Water Options: Hand/solar pumped ground-water - depending on water quality Gravity-fed rainwater-harvesting from VITAE building/ on site building into tanks on roof/ by VITAE/ underground Drinking water: ceramic filters, or piped from the VITAE building http://airroofing.com/gallery 23 Amenity Space: Open space on hard- Garden project spaces standing for informal providing colour, scent, meeting, organised Nwf.org Open space on meadow when sheep are interactive education, insect events, and socialising. not on site for outdoor workshops and fodder & habitat etc. small organised events. 24 Amenity Buildings Passive air-vent A simple one-storey building providing shelter, work- and social-space for project-workers or outreach activities and campus events. CHALLENGE: Ventilation pipe To involve the campus community in a sustainable build project Off-grid design - including turning one of Urine-separating toilet bowl & seat the project gardens into a Urine: separate & collect, or phytoremediation system for waste-water combine evenly Container with soil, Showcasing existing techniques and bark chippings, toilet Urine pipe and kitchen waste. Spreader plate technologies for sustainable building, and Air-intake creating space for trialling new ones Inspection hatch Air channels Beautiful and human-scale with good Urine delayer inside-outside relationships (e.g. open Air- www.mullis.se porches) intake Swedish closed compost toilets: Urine separation for fertilizer Nwf.org Composted waste matter added to willow wetland 25 Community Build Options… Recycled Design Donated materials www.noorderparkbar.nl Covered porch Timber Cabin Sustainable timber Green roof Space to relax Above: from Lex Maas - RIKILT Above: from Annet Kempenaar – LAR Wageningen UR Earthship Integral greenhouse Straw Bale Passive solar gain Ewig Lernender – location Swalmen, NL Use excess subsoil from campus High insulation High % biodegradable Dominic Alves – location Brighton, UK Temporary barriers 3 4 Sheep Shelter/ 5 6 Woodland Workshop 1 2 www.living-wood.co.uk/green_woodwork_courses.html

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