Blake Garden Adaptive Restoration Project

Project Basics

Project Sponsor: Department of Landscape Architecture
Blake Garden

Amount Awarded: $2,000

Grant Awarded: Fall 2015

Project Status: Complete

Project Description 

UC Berkeley’s Landscape Architecture Water Savvy Garden Design class is working on a design/build adaptive restoration project sited within Blake Garden – a design and research laboratory for students, open to the public, and owned and operated by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. The installation will include two separate components based on student-generated design and research: (1) slope-stabilization using sustainable methods and (2) a viewing platform made of locally-sourced materials, providing an inspiring view of the Bay. The primary slope stabilization technique will use hardy California native plants, many of which are pollinators providing major habitat value, and will have low water needs. Not only will this project focus on sustainable ecology and stewardship of the land, but it will also emphasize the poetic beauty of nature, itself.

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