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Living Edges

4th Year Design Studio

Professor: Ryan Jones of Lake Flato Architects  

Site Location: 1648 Riverside Dr, Knoxville, TN 37915 

Designing for: exploration, landscape rehabilitation, water cleansing, hydroponics, natural biological systems

The Living Urban Ecology Center and Masterplan project communicates a story of engagement and interaction between society and nature at an intermingling of scales. The belief system of this proposal involves the use of the landscape to heal itself and people. Through the integration of a natural biological system to purify the river, hydroponic food production. This promotes the rehabilitation of the environment in support of reclaiming the ground plane for exploration to bring people, water, and the landscape together. The site boundary is within the filtration process of the masterplan plan serving as a collision point of the natural cleansing machine. Its radial threshold embodies a sense of front doors to explore the landscape both internally and beyond. 

Elevator Pitch:

What: Living Edges Urban Ecological Center

How: The use of the Natural Biological System to purify river water is thus utilized in hydroponic food production in aiding the community and the landscape.

Why: To promote the rehabilitation of the environment in support of reclaiming the ground plane for exploration that brings people, water, and the landscape together

Whats a natural biological system?

Interested in project belief statement and site analysis?

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