Plan
The plan for my architecture Master's thesis, how one might relate subdivision to place. Three bands of prairie wet, mesic and savannah (left to right) encase two housing developments. The roads are ditches, acting as firebreaks to stop the prairie fire during the (bi)annual burning. The houses are low and sleek, slightly buried and offset to keep the landscape in Urbana, IL open. A public landscape of remnant prairies, hedgerows, groves and orchards connects and separates the lots.
The site is on the side of the Yankee Ridge Moraine, looking west.
Plan
The plan for my architecture Master's thesis, how one might relate subdivision to place. Three bands of prairie wet, mesic and savannah (left to right) encase two housing developments. The roads are ditches, acting as firebreaks to stop the prairie fire during the (bi)annual burning. The houses are low and sleek, slightly buried and offset to keep the landscape in Urbana, IL open. A public landscape of remnant prairies, hedgerows, groves and orchards connects and separates the lots.
The site is on the side of the Yankee Ridge Moraine, looking west.