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SELF INFLATING PNEUMATIC
CULINARY GREEN WALL CONCEPT.
Image courtesy GOLA

GOLA faculty across universities
possess a broad array of research and
teaching facilities. The new College of
Architecture and Environmental Design
(CAED) at Kent State and the Cleveland
Studios (Cleveland) house studios, labs,
classrooms, and space for gatherings. The
College of Design, Architecture, Art and
Planning (DAAP) at the University of
Cincinnati holds large lecture halls, classrooms, labs, and various meeting spaces.
All institutions have various field sites and
labs. GOLA Associated Labs and Studios
include:
* Novel Ecology Design Lab, NEDlab (Reid
Coffman) new design and studio space.
* Landscape Architecture Studio, (Virginia
Russell) design and conceptualizations of
roofs and walls.
* Urban Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry Lab (Ishi Buffam), new chem/
biological analysis lab.
* Soil Ecology Lab (Chris Blackwood),
new state of the art soil ecology lab in
Integrated Bioscience Bldg.
* Architectural Sciences Lab (Adil SharagEldin), human health and atmospheric
simulations lab.
* Materials and Structures Lab (Rui Liu),
new mock up and materials physical testing laboratory.
* Watershed Hydrology Lab (Anne Jefferson), new urban water resource and
analysis lab.
* University of Cincinnati Center for Field
Studies UCCFS, (Lentz/Buffam).
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* Applied Quantitative Ecology Lab
(Christie Bahlai), new invertebrate community and data science lab.
* National Center for Water Quality
Research (Laura Johnson).
Over 350 students per year take coursework
in living architecture. This occurs through
a range of academic levels. Currently,
one Post-Doctorate, three doctors; eight
masters of science; one Masters of planning;
three Masters of landscape architecture,
18 undergraduate research theses and over
100 undergraduate and graduate green
roof design studio projects and case studies.
Students in field ranging from biology to
architecture can partake in some 30 courses
related to living architecture and green
infrastructure.
GOLA is seeking new partnerships with
international to local companies to develop
new knowledge and train university students.
With colleagues at Canadian universities and
at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, GOLA faculty are working on several
collabortive research initiaves:
* Long-term development of green
roof ecosystems: Plant communities
and nutrient and carbon sequestration
capacity are being monitored on green
roofs varying in age up to 20 years since
establishment, using a chrono-sequence
in Malmö, Sweden.
* Microbiome of green roofs: Assessment
of bacteria and archaea on a variety of
green roofs in Ohio and successional
changes in these communities over 20

years in Sweden.
* Green roof nitrogen-fixation: Does nitrogen fixation occur at appreciable rates
on green roofs and how do we bolster
this function to improve the long term
sustainability of green roof ecosystems.
* Roof and wall habitats and templates:
Exploring Great Lakes ecosystems for
transference to buildings.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Visit GOLA https://www.golacenter.org/
Dr. Reid Coffman
Executive Director
Kent State U.
rcoffma4@kent.edu
Virginia Russell
Director of Pedagogy
U. Cincinnati
russelvl@ucmail.uc.edu
Dr. Mark Mitchell
Director of Professional Outreach
Heidelberg
mitcheme55@gmail.com
Dr. Ishi Buffam
Director of Research
U. Cincinnati
buffamii@ucmail.uc.edu
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