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Green neighborhood offers 'community' feel
Lindsey Pruitt
Issue date: 4/30/08 Section: News
"I don't know of any other project that we've funded in our region that comes close to what the university has done in demonstrating low-impact development's role in decreasing stormwater runoff," he said in the press release. "This is a great example to other communities."
A wet meadow, rainwater gardens, bioswales, and pervious parking and street surfaces will absorb and treat stormwater on site, a key goal in low-impact development.
With no curbs, gutters and pipes needed, infrastructure costs are cut by half, said Stephen Luoni, director of the Community Design Center, in the press release.
Architecture students Keith Wheeler and Russell Worley were charged with designing homes for the neighborhood, and focused on the porch to meet Habitat for Humanity's request for low-cost, one-story homes, according to the press release.
The students' spacious screened porches extend housing square footage at one-quarter the cost of conditioned space and provide variety to the streetscape, according to a press release.
Streets become part of the runoff treatment train, and eliminates expensive curbs, gutters, pipes and catch basins found in conventional systems, which can cut costs by 40 percent, according to the ASLA Web site.
"What began as a strong idea became a visionary statement for a community," said the 2008 Professional Awards Jury, according to the ASLA Web site.
"The landscape architect took a fresh approach to a simple issue and solved it with leading edge sustainable strategies."
A wet meadow, rainwater gardens, bioswales, and pervious parking and street surfaces will absorb and treat stormwater on site, a key goal in low-impact development.
With no curbs, gutters and pipes needed, infrastructure costs are cut by half, said Stephen Luoni, director of the Community Design Center, in the press release.
Architecture students Keith Wheeler and Russell Worley were charged with designing homes for the neighborhood, and focused on the porch to meet Habitat for Humanity's request for low-cost, one-story homes, according to the press release.
The students' spacious screened porches extend housing square footage at one-quarter the cost of conditioned space and provide variety to the streetscape, according to a press release.
Streets become part of the runoff treatment train, and eliminates expensive curbs, gutters, pipes and catch basins found in conventional systems, which can cut costs by 40 percent, according to the ASLA Web site.
"What began as a strong idea became a visionary statement for a community," said the 2008 Professional Awards Jury, according to the ASLA Web site.
"The landscape architect took a fresh approach to a simple issue and solved it with leading edge sustainable strategies."
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