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RON NYREN
The Green Outdoors
Ten landscaped open spaces
give communities some
breathing room.
The isolation brought on by
the COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted
the need to create more outdoor
spaces in which people could stroll
and gather with friends and family,
commune with nature, or just get
out of house after being on Zoom
meetings all day. In many cases,
that means tearing up asphalt or
adapting existing parks or other
facilities to add trees, paths, lawns,
gardens, and areas in which to
socialize and recharge.
The following 10 projects-all
completed during the past five
years-include an art deco dairy
turned into a mixed-use complex,
a gravel-mining pit repurposed to
filter stormwater runoff, a roundabout
planted with trees and laced
with pedestrian and bike paths,
a privately owned public " beach "
that lifts pedestrians and bicyclists
above the flood zone, and an airport
runway-turned-linear park.
RON NYREN is a freelance architecture and urban
design writer based in the San Francisco Bay area.
1. Arizona State University Orange Mall Green Infrastructure
TEMPE, ARIZONA
With global warming sending desert temperatures soaring, Arizona
State University replaced a portion of roadway with a shaded
pedestrian mall at the heart of campus. Located alongside a new
net-zero-energy student pavilion, the Orange Mall comprises garden
spaces, learning laboratories for students, and bioswales equipped
with terraced steps that double as seating where students can hang
out. Wide steel pedestrian bridges cross the basins, which are linked
by surface runnels, putting stormwater management on display and
keeping neighboring buildings from flooding during rainy weather.
A water feature made of brass pipes arranged like the stalactites
of Arizona's caves filters air-conditioning condensate into the
low-water landscaping and provides evaporative cooling for the
area. Drought-tolerant date palms provide shade for events and
informal gatherings held in the multiuse Palm Grove, lowering pavement
temperatures by more than 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Opened in
2017, Orange Mall was designed by Phoenix-based Colwell Shelor
Landscape Architecture.
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