A landscape design competition has been organised by the James Rose Center for landscape architectural research and design in New Jersey. Entitled "Suburbia Transformed 2.0" it's goal is to "promote and celebrate residential designs that go beyond “green” by explicitly using sustainable strategies, tactics and technologies to enrich the aesthetic spatial experience of people...the emphasis is on how such sustainable landscapes can be beautiful, inspiring, perhaps profound; and serve as examples for transforming the suburban residential fabric, one garden at a time."
The winning entries will be part of a catalogue and exhibition. Usefully, non-built as well as built work is acceptable for submission. The competition is open to both students and professional landscape architects and designers.Selected submissions must provide landscape experiences that are beautiful, inspiring and/or profound; in so doing they should:
*Make the most of what’s already on the site (earth, rocks, plants, structures, water) before importing or removing anything
*Use local, inexpensive, low-energy-consumptive, non-polluting materials and construction techniques before others
*Consider the landscape’s potential to create useful resources rather than consume them
*Consider the relationship of the site to larger environmental systems
*Consider means for guiding future growth and evolution of the garden
The competition is co-sponsored by the American Society of Landscape Architects, New Jersey Chapter and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Go on, give it a go!
Extracts from the competition website with kind permission of Prof. Dean Cardasis, Director, James Rose Centre. Many thanks.
Thanks for sharing, not sure if the competition is open to inetenational entries, but sounds like a nice challenge never the less...
ReplyDeleteThanks Steven, I believe it is.
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