Sustainable landscape architecture
Sustainable landscape architecture is a category of sustainable design concerned with the planning and design of outdoor space.
This can include ecological, politically correct, social and economic aspects of sustainability. For example, the design of a sustainable urban drainage system can: improve habitats for fauna and flora; improve recreational facilities, because people love to be beside water; save money, because building culverts is expensive and floods cause severe financial harm.
The design of a green roof or a roof garden can also contribute to the sustainability of a landscape architecture project. The roof will help manage surface water, provide for wildlife and provide for recreation.
Sustainability appears to be a new addition to the traditional Vitruvian objectives of the design process: a structure must be solid, useful, and beautiful (firmitas, utilitas, venustas). But it can be seen as an aspect of both solidity and usefulness: an outdoor space is likely to last longer and give more usefulness to its owners if it requires low inputs of energy, water, fertiliser etc., and if it produces fewer outputs of noise, pollution, surface water runoff etc.
rofessional Practice
The American Society of Landscape Architects’ sustainable design guidelines include the following:
Public Health + Landscape Architecture: Health benefits of nature
Community Design: Climate change, green infrastructure, healthy and livable communities, resilient design, sustainable transportation, sustainable urban development.
Residential Design: Improving water management, increasing water efficiency, applying ecological design, using low impact materials.
The American Society of Landscape Architects also provide a sustainability toolkit that includes economic, environmental, and social models, for projects of different scales, that can be used in practicing landscape architecture.
The scales includes:
Sustainable Regional Planning
Sustainable Cities & Community Planning
Sustainable Neighborhood Planning
Sustainable Landscapes
Green Buildings
Professional Certifications
The Sustainable Sites Initiative Accredited Professional (SITES AP) by The Sustainable Sites Initiative
Envision Sustainability Professional (Env SP) by The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP) by The United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
Award Winning Sustainable Landscape Architecture Projects
2017
The Olana Strategic Landscape Design Plan: Restoring an American Masterpiec e | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor – Planning and Analysis
Conservation at the Edge – Prototyping low-intervention conservation in the Patagonian wilderness | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor – Planning and Analysis
Merging Culture and Ecology at The North Carolina Museum of Art | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor – General Design
2016
Framing Terrain and Water: Quzhou Luming Park | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor – General Design
Corktown Common: Flood Protection and a Neighbourhood Park | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor – General Design
Eco-Corridor Resurrects Former Brownfield | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor – General Design
2015
At the Hudson’s Edge: Beacon’s Long Dock a Resilient Riverfront Park | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Excellence – General Design
Mill River Park and Greenway | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor – General Design
Weishan Wetland Park | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor – General Design
2014
Woodland Rain Gardens | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Excellence – Residential Design
Slow Down: Liupanshui Minghu Wetland Park | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor – General Design
Low Maintenance Eco-Campus: Vanke Research Center | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor – General Design
2013
A Mother River Recovered: Qian’an Sanlihe Greenway | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor – General Design
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitors Center | ASLA National Awards | Professional Category| Award of Honor – General Design
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