CONNOR GENNARELLI PreCedent: mississippi river Basin model
Started in 1943 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Mississippi River Basin Model is designed to study floods, drought and other weather events. The early excavation was carried out by German prisoners of war, who were captured in North Africa when Rommel’s Afrika Korps was destroyed by Anglo-American forces. Later concrete work [is] by local Jackson contractors. The model was completed and ready for use in the early 1950’s. Interestingly, a day on the river can be simulated in just 5.4 minutes using the model.
Sarah DeGRAY
Cow hollow school natural playscape-san francisco, california
This playscape is a part of a whole network of movable parts, outdoor classrooms, nooks, playhouses, and plantings that make up an incredible outdoor space. This particular part, however, is fascinating because it allows children to move objects that are much bigger than they are. The large pillars create a small forest that can be manipulated into mazes, castles, and other creations. In essence, the kids get to create a new landscape every time they step outside. It is important to have activities where kids can manipulate and create something new.
-HannahK
-HannahK
Dymaxion sleeps
Hannah Marshman
FARM TO SCHOOLS PROGRAM
OAHU URBAN GARDEN CENTER
PEARL CITY, HAWAII
Website
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ougc/cgarden.asp
University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture created an educational center for kids. It consists of eight different gardens for children with different themes that includes the Pizza Garden, the Animal Garden, the Hawaiian Alphabet Tree Garden, the Sundial Garden, the Sensory Garden, the House Garden, the Butterfly Garden, and the Boardwalk Garden. The objective of this gardens is to teach children different lessons, such as the alphabet, the native species. In addition to these, there is also an experience of tasting, smelling, and touching that increases in children the curiosity about nature. All of these gardens are an interesting way for kids to learn different things.
Larissa Arruda
playpumps
Sidwell Friends School
washington D.C. USA
Links:
http://www.asla.org/sustainablelandscapes/sidwell.html
http://www.sidwell.edu/middle_school/ms-green-building/index.aspx
Mark Warfel Jr.
http://www.asla.org/sustainablelandscapes/sidwell.html
http://www.sidwell.edu/middle_school/ms-green-building/index.aspx
Mark Warfel Jr.
PLACE DE LA DAUVERSIERE - MONTREAL
The idea is to use a maze is the base for a playground that can have many different uses for the learning of the kids.
Wilivan Silva
Turtle Rock Schoolyard
Rose Helmer
Here, light weight wood is provided in order to build structures and play on or around. This gives an opportunity for children to imagine and use their creativity.
Swingtones - STRAFFORD, NH
The mission of that installation project is to educate students about the values of community, identity, nature, and collaboration.
Erick Mizushima
Philadelphia, P.A Grow Shelters
Manassas Park Elem School Landscape
http://www.asla.org/2011awards/456.html
The Manassas Park Elementary School Landscape in Manassas Park, VA is a 'LEED Gold' certified landscape designed for the education, stewardship and community. The city started rebuilding its schools and took the opportunity to create an educational landscape instead of a plastic playground. This school is located in a residential area and accommodated "walking stops" for children. This is different from our rural site but both have a surrounding forest. MPES took a significant amount of students receiving reduced lunch and prevalently non-English speaking immigrant children and pushed the school towards forward thinking and alternative education methods. MPES, like Caroline believes in utilizing the landscape for summer uses. This is a way of getting the community involved.
The design of the forest courtyards are based on Camp Carondelet, having an infrastructure of white oak wood plank paving, locally salvaged log benches, porous pavings and native woodland plantings. These outdoor learning habitats tie into the larger ecosystem. The stormwater garden and bus stop are also planted with native hydric species. There is amphitheater seating, a wood stage and a bench made from recycled steel and black locust. These spaces have small carbon footprints and are sustainable. Much like Caroline, MPES used the outdoor classrooms for studying and cultivating native plants, studying climate and weather, telling stories and for exploring native flora and fauna.
Amy Schieferstine
The Manassas Park Elementary School Landscape in Manassas Park, VA is a 'LEED Gold' certified landscape designed for the education, stewardship and community. The city started rebuilding its schools and took the opportunity to create an educational landscape instead of a plastic playground. This school is located in a residential area and accommodated "walking stops" for children. This is different from our rural site but both have a surrounding forest. MPES took a significant amount of students receiving reduced lunch and prevalently non-English speaking immigrant children and pushed the school towards forward thinking and alternative education methods. MPES, like Caroline believes in utilizing the landscape for summer uses. This is a way of getting the community involved.
The design of the forest courtyards are based on Camp Carondelet, having an infrastructure of white oak wood plank paving, locally salvaged log benches, porous pavings and native woodland plantings. These outdoor learning habitats tie into the larger ecosystem. The stormwater garden and bus stop are also planted with native hydric species. There is amphitheater seating, a wood stage and a bench made from recycled steel and black locust. These spaces have small carbon footprints and are sustainable. Much like Caroline, MPES used the outdoor classrooms for studying and cultivating native plants, studying climate and weather, telling stories and for exploring native flora and fauna.
Amy Schieferstine
Cherry Road Elementary school
appel osborne landscape architecture
-Ally H.
Dymaxion Sleep
Jane Hutton and Adrian Blackwell
-Ally H.
link: http://www.play-scapes.com/play-design/natural-playgrounds/dymaxion-sleeps-or-a-natural-playground-on-two-levels/
waldorf school natural play scapes
fairy tents- Burlington Vermont waldorf school
Tasha doulos
MONTESSORI SCHOOLS
nORTH carolina and new york
Jackson Magalhaes
Montessori Schools have developed the concept of Designed Environment, where the design of the schools ought to facilitate kids' development through independent learning and exploration. Thus, working in partnership with Nature Learning Initiative (NLI), Montessori Schools have provided kids with the opportunity to enjoy and learn with nature and other outdoor activities. With several sites in North Carolina and one in Ithaca, NY, the schools bring as features rain gardens, animals habitats, nature learning areas, clubhouses, grass mazes, sensorial pathways, etc. Besides that, the master plan for those schools also includes the aspects of social interactions with the community and encourages the children-parents relationship promoting children's psychological, physical, and social development.
Some of the Montessori Schools with NLI design program:
Montessori Community School, Durham, NC
Montessori Children's School, Jacksonville, NC
The Montessori School of Winston-Salem, NC
The Elizabeth Ann Clune School of Ithaca, NY
Source:
http://naturalearning.org/montessori-schools-and-designed-environment
Some of the Montessori Schools with NLI design program:
Montessori Community School, Durham, NC
Montessori Children's School, Jacksonville, NC
The Montessori School of Winston-Salem, NC
The Elizabeth Ann Clune School of Ithaca, NY
Source:
http://naturalearning.org/montessori-schools-and-designed-environment
Playground nests, kukuk
Kimberly C.
Bernhard Hanel and Robin Wagner; founders of German Design firm, Kukuk, take the timber constructions that we are becoming familiar with as part of the natural playground movement to a whole new and imaginative level.
Other kukuk links
Brockweel lido FUN Palace
The concept of Fun palaces was created by the theater director Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price in 1961 as laboratories of fun. A fun palace is a collaborative space where everyone is a scientist and everyone is an artist, they are inclusive spaces that merges fun and learning. This never happened on that time, but in the 21st century UK has been trying to translate the idea to a popup format locally planed but nationally and internationally linked.
One Funpalace was created in a landscape format inside Brocwell Park. The event consists in a serie of activities such as swiming with mermaids or learning sign language. But everything is structured trough a trail that creates a dimension of Folklore in the Park.
Brockweel Lido Fun Palace
Rafael Pegoraro
One Funpalace was created in a landscape format inside Brocwell Park. The event consists in a serie of activities such as swiming with mermaids or learning sign language. But everything is structured trough a trail that creates a dimension of Folklore in the Park.
Brockweel Lido Fun Palace
Rafael Pegoraro
Woods of nets - tezuka architects
Rodrigo Steiner
Team Building: growing healthy students
Case Study / Concept Dan O.
While studying the vegetation we quickly realized that native and non-native species work together to create the ecological systems that are currently present onsite. I believe that students should be exposed to team building exercises in order to help them develop mentally, physically, and socially! The photo collage shows a "Tough Mudder" 5 mile run that encompasses a dozen or so obstacles. These are quite challenging and grueling, however many people love this challenge and they firmly believe in the benefits !
While studying the vegetation we quickly realized that native and non-native species work together to create the ecological systems that are currently present onsite. I believe that students should be exposed to team building exercises in order to help them develop mentally, physically, and socially! The photo collage shows a "Tough Mudder" 5 mile run that encompasses a dozen or so obstacles. These are quite challenging and grueling, however many people love this challenge and they firmly believe in the benefits !
Growing Mentaly
Bill O'Brien
http://celosangeles.ucanr.edu/UC_Master_Gardener_Program/School_Gardens/
Urban Farm and gardening
Flavia Mattos
San Francisco Waldorf School
http://sfwaldorf.blogspot.com/
THE LAND
The Land is located in Northern Europe in Wales, an area with similar climatic characteristics to Ithaca, NY. Essentially, this adventure playground is what we've been calling an "anarchy zone"; both involve safe-risk play, however The Land might be the most risky of them all. Children are allowed to climb trees, light fires, and use hammers and nails to build all under teenage supervision, "deeply-rooted in the idea that kids are empowered when they are able to manage risks on their own". Since Caroline Elementary specifically mentioned that they want to include an anarchy zone as part of the master plan for the school grounds, The Land being the perfect precedent for that notion. Check out the link above, which will take you to supplemental videos and more information on The Land.
Oakes, Emma
Oakes, Emma
playground, Munich, Germany.
Designed by Rainer Schmidt Landschaftsarchitekten.
Fernanda Zotovici
"Playgrounds usually consist of pre-fabricated elements, which are A-Z tested and thousand times certified by various organizations; well that is the easiest (but not cheapest) way of doing it. Prof. Schmidt designed a landscape, without typical playground elements just with combining two material / colors (tartan and grass) and with modification of terrain. Landscape as it is provokes children to play and jump around and up and down."
Reference: http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2009/07/buga-05-playground/
Reference: http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2009/07/buga-05-playground/