Horticulture group midterm notes

Concept of seed. Root, growth, reach.
Neighborhood lot siting.
50w x 150d based on typical lot.
Three core values.
Gathering, gardening, education.
Utilitarian sides flank social spaces, at container scale and at site scale. Cranking the orientation of the container activates the site.
Weekly, daily work activity of site 9-5, after school program, weekend events. Farmers market or CSA boxes?
Movements on site reinforce movement in container usefulness. Envelope addresses this. Patterns take language of raised beds, landscape path, etc, into detail. Signature planters. Transition of plants to detail. Vertical and horizontal. Ground elements rising up around container. Container leaves a footprint.
Materiality takes into account imperfection and randomness of wood supply.
Hardscape is the primary organizer after container. Set stage for less formal community improvements and garden.
Promote safety thru light. LED string lights as installation to reinforce geometry and create safe space.
Raised beds in nodes not rows?

Issues.
What if you put this next to a house?
What is the relationship of public adjacent to private? Street, program education, someone's porch or bedroom?
Site plan should be providential? Phased?
Shade map is necessary.
Fences as hard boundaries.
Lighting to accentuate attraction and boundary.

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