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EPA-P3 Student Design Competition
Phase I: Strawbale Learning Module
 

Landscape System


Landscape System
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Landscape System Master Plan
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This project benefits from a rich, regenerative landscape system that includes dry prairie habitat, wet prairie habitat, and a variety of washwater gardens, bioswales, and constructed wetland and solar aquatic biological water treatment systems. This is, to the extent possible, a passive system where water, using subtle swales and under the influence of gravity, direct road and farm field runoff and wastewater from the adjacent farmstead through a series of surface water swales, bio-swales, and outdoor and indoor landscapes that regenerate water quality. Most elements of this regenerative landscape system including the greenhouse solar aquatic system and the constructed wetland will be installed in Phase II of this P3 project.

   
EPA-P3 Student Design Competition Home

Challenges Defined
Built-site as Integrative, Regenerative W-WW-E-B-L System
Project Sub-systems
  > Water-Wastewater System
  > Active Energy System
  > Passive Energy System
  > Building System
  > Landscape System
Modeling of Anticipated Performance
  > Energy 10 Energy Performance Modeling
  > STELLA Ecobalance Modeling
Constructing Strawbale Building / Greenhouse Component
  > Building System
  > BSU Students Constructing the Building
Ecological Footprinting
Carbon Balance Assessment
LEED Assessment

 

Dr. John Motloch, Director
Land Design Institute | College of Architecture and Planning | Ball State University