Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields Study Bloomfield, NJ Wolfram Hoefer, Dr.-Ing, Associate Professor Department of Landscape Architecture, Co-Director Center for Urban
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Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields Case Study Bloomfield, NJ
Wolfram Hoefer, Dr.-Ing, Associate Professor
Department of Landscape Architecture, Co-Director Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability (CUES)
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
Department of Landscape Architecture
Department of Environmental SciencesCUES
Office for Agriculture and Urban Programs
Active community engagementCollaborative research and design process
Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
Landscape Architecture:Just private gardens and high end residential developments?
NYC
Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
Landscape Architecture is much more needed in NJ’s urban centersUrban Extension needs to help!
Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
Spring Brook Park – Bloomfield, NJTownhouse development was stopped Borough acquired landNJ Wetland Mitigation Council fundingPro bono help to transform a brownfield into a wetland
open space, resilience, and habitat issues.
Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
18-acre urban site with ~10 feet of historic fill material (1920s – 1985)
Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
Credit for all photos: Beth Ravit
Property contamination investigation USDA-NRCS (National Resources Conservation Service)Ground Penetrating Radar – Human Transported Material, depth in feetHelps to quantify fill removal and depth to groundwater
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Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
Graduate Independent StudiesDean JanulisMegan CollinsJennifer Ryan
Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
contour water management wetland vegetation Upland vegetationparking
Detention basin
Retention sequence
wetlands
Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
Inspired by the picturesquePooling water in wetlands
Megan Collins
Diverse wetland zonesContaminated soil moved upland and capped Soccer on clean fill cap
Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
Inspired by the engineered circle Pond as central feature
Dean Janulis
Diverse wetland zonesContaminated soil moved upland and capped Soccer on clean fill cap
Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
Bosque provides social spacerocks and logs playground
Diverse wetland zonesContaminated soil moved upland and capped Soccer on clean fill cap
Jennifer Ryan
Landscape Architecture Design for Urban Brownfields
Lessons Learned
Difficult environmental situations offer ample design opportunities.
Students learned how Landscape Architecture can transform engineered sites into attractive environments.
Pro bono work can contribute to discourse and foster solutions but cannot solve underlying political conflicts.
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