Sasaki's Greenbuild presentation by Jason Hellendrung, "How BRT is Enabling the Renaissance of One of America's Grandest Avenues"

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BL04 J.HELLENDRUNG_IDEAS POST.pdf

Design Inspirations: The Creative Process

The third in the fall Design Dialogue series, this presentation challenges our current design process and conventions. The hour long discussion was led by a panel representing architecture, interiors, urban design, and landscape architecture.read more

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Design Dialouge_Oct_FINAL-with notes.ppt

Pedestrian/Vehicular Movement

So much of what we design and plan is about movement - about how and where people will go - yet we rarely use animation and movement to explain our designs or analysis.  Most animation, as 3D instructor Ted Boardman says : "looks like you strapped a camera to a shopping cart and sent it flying through a design".  I think this piece uses live video, simple text to make points, and computer modeling and animation to show a solution.

The Use of Native Plants on the University Campus.

An interesting article regarding the use of native plants on College campuses was recently forwarded to me by Beth Foster: Going Native: Rooting Campus Landscape Planning in Low-Energy Native Plants.

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