Integrated Designs Enhance Public Landscapes
Regardless of the scale, public projects represent complex systems. Projects
that typify public landscapes include parks, plazas, playgrounds, streetscapes
and rights of way, and an assortment of institutional and municipal uses. These
built environments respond to myriad criteria—they must overcome tight
budgets and schedules, satisfy agency standards and stormwater requirements,
reduce short- and long-term resource consumption, minimize life-cycle costs,
and maximize durability.
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June 23, 2008
Integrated Designs Enhance Public Landscapes
Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Kirkland, WA. Integrated design features, such as this rainwater sculpture, blur traditional discipline boundaries and result in unique, engaging, and functional stormwater amenities.
(Photo courtesy of Cascade Design Collaborative Inc.)
Regardless of the scale, public projects represent complex systems. Projects
that typify public landscapes include parks, plazas, playgrounds, streetscapes
and rights of way, and an assortment of institutional and municipal uses. These
built environments respond to myriad criteria—they must overcome tight
budgets and schedules, satisfy agency standards and stormwater requirements,
reduce short- and long-term resource consumption, minimize life-cycle costs,
and maximize durability.
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