The Design. December Fiona Morris Atelier Rabbit -

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1 The Design December Fiona Morris Atelier Rabbit - Fiona.morris@atelierrabbit.com

2 Contents: 1. Title Page 2. Contents 3. Site Location 4. The Brief 5. Design Context - overview 6. 1.Ecological Connections 7. 2.Campus Community s Vision Project EAT 8. 3.Compensation Planting 9. 4.Kennisveld MTD Public/Private - Planning Rules 11. Soil Challenge 12. Water Challenge 13. Social Challenge 14. Designing 4 Site Functions 15. The Design 16. Access 17. The Field design plan 18. Cross-sections of The Field 19. Project Space - plan 20. Incremental Colonisation 21. Apples & Worms 22. The Mush Room 23. Water & Power 24. Amenity Space 25. Amenity Building 26. Community Build Options 27. Sheep Shelter/Woodland Workshop 28. Green Infrastructure 29. Reserves for Beneficial Plants 30. Boundary Planting 31. Division Planting 32. Livestock Hedge 33. Woodland Edge 34. Willow Wetland 35. Pond & seating 36. Wildlife Connections 37. People Connections 38. Low-Input/Carbon-Neutral Options

3 Site Location: FORUM 3

4 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

5 Design Context: From open fields to knowledge fields... Elike Wijnheijmer Many existing plans and requirements to take into account 5

6 1. Ecological Connections - WUR 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

7 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

8 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

9 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

10 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

11 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 Soil testing & picture bottom right by Students FSE : Dienke Stomph Kristýna Kohoutková Miguel Ruiz Marchini Margaux Villebrun Veronica Reynoso Mingue Marner 11

12 Water Challenge: 1. Wettest areas: 1. (HISTORIC) Area where seepage water rises and stands for many days. 2. (NEW & SHORT-TERM ISSUE) Standing water unable to penetrate unstructured, raised soil and leaving the site at its edges creating erosion

13 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.

14 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

15 The DESIGN 15

16 Access:

17 The Field Wageningen Campus Alder/willow Ditch ( Elzensingel ) Willow Wetland Livestock Hedge Dead-hedge Dividing Hedges Project Space Vermicomposting Pond CGN Orchard Project Gardens Single-storey building with covered porch, meeting room, basic kitchen, & compost toilet Pollarded Willows Project Space Storage Outdoor Practicum/Workshop Sheep Shelter Project Space Boundary Planting Sheep Enclosure/ Event space Woodland-edge Habitat Planting Drainage Ditch Perennial Wildflowers 17

18 Cross-sections of The Field Site: Bus & bike lanes Boundary planting & willows Project area not in use becomes wildflower meadow Division hedges Project area in use Wildflower edging Orchard Project garden beds Amenities & social area Hedge + shrubs make mammal corridor wormcompost Café waste A A Bus & bike lanes Boundary willows Willow wetland for natural seepage water storage Historic willow/ alder ditch for drainage Project area between pathways & wildflowers Project planting beds Building with porch and basic meeting facilities Sheep shelter/ workshop space & equipment storage 18 Sheep paddock/ event area Woodland edge planting for bird habitat B B

19 Project Space = 0.5 Ha 19

20 Incremental Colonisation: 1. Smaller, more intensive projects get space nearer to the site facilities. 2. Larger-scale or less intensively managed projects If there are few projects, this section can be fully managed as as a flowering meadow

21 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 CGN Orchard 80+ apple varieties on show, with public fruit-picking, and education and demonstration activities. Green Office at Wageningen University wish to promote recycling of food waste on campus via worm farms. Marathon Scott Bauer, USDA 21

22 The Mush Room! agri-animal/superknot-sheeplivestock-fence/ 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

23 Water & Power: Electricity Options: 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 23

24 Amenity Space: Garden project spaces providing colour, scent, interactive education, insect fodder & habitat etc. Nwf.org Open space on hardstanding for informal meeting, organised events, and socialising. Open space on meadow when sheep are not on site for outdoor workshops and small organised events. 24

25 Amenity Buildings A simple one-storey building providing shelter, work- and social-space for project-workers or outreach activities and campus events. Passive air-vent CHALLENGE: To involve the campus community in a sustainable build project Off-grid design - including turning one of the project gardens into a phytoremediation system for waste-water Showcasing existing techniques and technologies for sustainable building, and creating space for trialling new ones Beautiful and human-scale with good inside-outside relationships (e.g. open porches) Urine: separate & collect, or combine evenly Container with soil, bark chippings, toilet and kitchen waste. Airintake Ventilation pipe Urine-separating toilet bowl & seat Urine pipe Spreader plate Air-intake Inspection hatch Air channels Urine delayer Swedish closed compost toilets: Nwf.org Urine separation for fertilizer Composted waste matter added to willow wetland 25

26 Community Build Options Recycled Design Donated materials Covered porch Timber Cabin Sustainable timber Green roof Space to relax Above: from Lex Maas - RIKILT Earthship Integral greenhouse Passive solar gain Use excess subsoil from campus Above: from Annet Kempenaar LAR Wageningen UR Straw Bale High insulation High % biodegradable Ewig Lernender location Swalmen, NL Dominic Alves location Brighton, UK

27 Temporary barriers 3 4 Sheep Shelter/ 6 5 Woodland Workshop Base for sheep when on the site. Sheep can also access other areas sequentionally, allowing rotational grazing as an alternative management option. Access Sheep shelter/ workshop space Storage Bob Harvey Pollarded willow can be used to make temporary barriers moveable fence panels or short-life dead hedges. The workshop is for organised events by student groups with nature organisations, and for practicums. 27 Chris Reynolds

28 Green Infrastructure Cultural-historical, and ecological value 1. Reserves for native plants 2. Boundary planting 3. Division Planting (including dead hedge 3.a) 4. Livestock Hedge 5. Woodland Edge Planting 6. Willow Wetland & restored fragment of old field boundary: alder and willow coppice ditch (Elzensingel & knotwilg) 7. Pond and seating 28

29 Across whole site: Reserves for Beneficial Plants Insect and bird forage Seed reservoir Soil-building by creating undisturbed areas Pest control species Colourful walking routes (mown paths) Field-work and nature-education resource NAT HOOI ZOOM 29

30 Prunus spinosa Rosa rubiginosa Boundary Planting: Wide, informal thorny boundary planting. Barrier for dogs, people, & sheep Ilex aquifolium _spinosa#/media/file:schlehe1.jpg sa_rubiginosa#/media/file:pink_r ose2.jpg Ulex europaeus Beautiful colours for yearround interest Easy & low maintenance Food and habitat for birds, insects, and small mammals quifolium#/media/file:acebo.jpg uropaeus#/media/file:ulex_europaeu s8.jpg Surviving &/improving poor soil 30

31 Rosa rubiginosa Salix purpurea Division Planting: Control movement and access for sheep, people, dogs Survive poor soil conditions Improve soil (N-fixing, nodisturbance, build-up of organic matter) Sheep forage (self-pruning hedge) Wildlife habitat, forage, & corridor sa_rubiginosa#/media/file:pink_r ose2.jpg ix_purpurea#/media/file:salixpurpurea-leaves.jpg Natural England/ Catherine Burgess 31

32 Livestock Hedge: Ecological link/mammal corridor between park and woodland Using local provenance plant stock Prunus spinosa Acer campestre Rhamnus cathartica Quercus robur Euonymus europaeus Cornus sanguinea Ligustrum vulgare Corylus avellana Viburnum opulus Ribes nigrum Rosa arvensis Showcasing an historical agricultural technique and landscape element Control access - sheep, people & dogs Provide sheep forage Workshop opportunities (hedge laying) M J Roscoe 32

33 + Woodland Edge: Adding understorey fruiting trees/shrubs of local provenance to the existing mature trees edging the south of the site at Dijkgraaf to create extra habitat and forage for birds. Viburnum opulus Corylus avellana Prunus padus Euonymus europaeus Prunus spinosa Sambucus nigra Rhamnus frangula Ilex aquifolium Rhamnus carthartica Rosa arvensis Cornus sanguinea 33

34 Salix viminalis kipedia/commons/1/11/salix_vim inalis_002.jpg Willow Wetland: Space to allow natural fluctuation of seepage water in an area which has always flooded Adapted traditional Dutch landscape management (griend) local provenance plants used Habitat and forage for a range of wetland plants, insects, and birds. Provides plant material fences, baskets, mushroom logs, (in leaf) sheep forage Takes composted waste from compost toilet 34

35 Pond & Seating: An artificial pond to provide a consistently full (non-fluctuating) water-body for insects which will provide pest-control to the orchard and other projects, and create extra habitat for amphibians A sitting area of benches made from some logs preserved from the bus-lane felling Water source for birds & small mammals

36 Wildlife Connections Creating and connecting the various hedge-bank-ditch structures maximizes the variety of species that are provided with habitat, forage & corridors. 36

37 People Connections Building Interdisciplinary project work Community courses School visits Social activities Hosting campus guests Public access Orchard Public fruit-picking Guided tours Courses Green Infrastructure Worm farm Example of how projects can link functionally link people to wider campus life Field-work possibilities Views for bus & bike travelers Meadows & flowering hedges create attractive walking routes Event space 37

38 Low-Input/Carbon-Neutral Options Off-grid Materials Possibility to create a self-sustaining low-impact building Ground water irrigation (by hand or solar pumps)/ gravity fed rainwater irrigation Solar panels for building & power line Fossil-fuel Free Maintenance All green waste can be managed on site, generating materials (e.g. coppice wood for fences, compost), creating structures, feeding sheep, growing mushrooms, cold-composting etc. Cold Composting Worm towers and log piles recycling organic waste in-situ. All green infrastructure can be maintained manually by traditional methods, giving opportunity for skills workshops and student groups to organise practial workgroups. Carbon Sinks Addition of trees, permanent shrubs, & areas of undisturbed grassland act as carbon sinks. Site design means that low numbers of sheep could be used to manage grassland and some hedge-growth through grazing in rotating sections. 38

39 December Fiona Morris Atelier Rabbit - Fiona.morris@atelierrabbit.com