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Bountiful Ruin:Designing For Contaminated Openlands

CCA Thesis: Fall 2011-Spring 2012Kadi Franson

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Paranormal: phenomena understood to be

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Agencies of Deception

Politics of Capitalism

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"national symbol of afailure to exercise asense of concern for future generations."



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Waste is valued as long as it makes a profit. A dismantledBoeing 747 lies in the landscape as part of the back lotstudio tram tour (seen on the roads). The cost of the tour

starts at $51 per person.Alan Berger

Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America

This art of landscape camouflage masks the histories andprocesses of disturbed industrial sites and obliterates aconnection that might render these parks more meaningfulto the public.

Elizabeth Meyer

Urban Parks: Disturbed Sites, Citizens, and Risk Society


The Camouage Approach



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As with stitching up wounds to the skin that are onlyrecurring symptoms of some larger failing, the continualpatching over of problems......fails to adequately address their source.

James Corner

Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes

Car repair/Pipe treatement facility redeveloped into commerical and ofce center.



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Environmental Apocalypse to Way of LIfe

What is the social reception of uncertain parks that consist of circuit walks alongmetal boardwalks elevated above a toxic ground plane planted with heavy-metalaccumulator plants? Gathering places and memorials amid industrial ruins? Kite-flying mounds and extreme sports grounds situated atop tons of consumer waste,

whose seepage is monitored?

Elizabeth Meyer

Urban Parks: Disturbed Sites, Citizens, and Risk Society

Gas Works Park, Seattle



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Agencies of Perception


This was a Pizza HutNow it's all covered with daisiesyou got it, you got it

-Talking Heads Nothing But Flowers

Image taken from Ana Mendietas Tree of Life/Silhouettes series 1973-1980


Environmental Apocalypse to Way of LIfe



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Agencies of PerceptionRepresentation and Conceptualization

Any recovery of landscape in contemporaryculture is ultimately dependent on the

development of new images and techniquesof conceptualization.

James Corner




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SOURCES:http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8209901/july_6_sedan_nuclear_test_1962.html?cat=37http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_California

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Plume:An area of chemicals moving away from itssource in a long band or column. A plume, forexample, can be a column of smoke from achimney or chemicals moving with groundwa-ter.

A concentration of contaminants in air, soil, orwater usually extending from a distinct source

A body of contaminated groundwater or vapouroriginating from a specific source andinfluenced by certain factors such as localgroundwater or soil vapour flow patterns andcharacter of the aquifer.

The way polluted water extends downstreamfrom the pollution source (analogous to smokefrom a smoke-stack as it drifts downwind in theatmosphere).

A visible or measurable discharge of a contami-nant body from a given point of origin. Can be avisible body of pollution such as smoke comingfrom a stack or a measured amount such asheat in water coming from a power plant boiler.

A plume is a visible smo ke-like structure, whichmay contain pollutants emitted from an exhaustor smoke stack and released into the atmo-sphere.

A volume of a substance that moves from itssource to places farther away from the source.Plumes can be described by the volume of air orwater they occupy and the direction they move.

In groundwater a plume is an undergroundpattern of contaminant concentrations createdby the movement of groundwater beneath acontaminant source. Contaminants spreadmostly laterally in the direction of groundwatermovement.

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BOUNTIFUL RUINDesigning for Contaminated Openlands

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Agencies of PerceptionVisualizing the Shadow Kingdom



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Plans, Sections, and RenderingsConventions of Representation in Architecture

If landscape architects construct ideas, then the role of imaging in idea formation and projection needs to be better articulated

than simply by opposing artistic renderings to technical working documents.

James Corner




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Plans, Sections, and RenderingsConventions of Representation in Architecture

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Wish You Were Here Postcard series. October, 2011.

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Site Name: Leviathon MineLocation: Alpine County, CA Size: 250 acresIndustry: Sulphur miningTimeline: 1951-1962Known Contaminants: Sulfuric acid, arsenic, copper, nickel, zinc,chromium, ironDescription: Leviathan Mine is an abandoned open-pit sulfur mine high onthe eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, in Alpine County CA. The mine, 24miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, has been contaminating a nine-mile stretchof mountain creeks, resulting in devastating effects on aquatic life. The

Toiyabe National Forest surrounds the site, and there are no permanentresidents within several miles. The stream system drains into Nevada aboutfive miles from the mine and enters Carson Valley nine miles downstreamfrom the mine.

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Site Name: Iron Mountain MineLocation:Size: 4,400 acresIndustry: Iron, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Pyrite miningTimeline: 1860s-1963Known Contaminants: Sulfuric acid, copper, cadmium, zinc, and otherheavy metalsDescription: The low pH level and the heavy metal contamination from themine have caused the virtual elimination of aquatic life in sections of Slickrock Creek, Boulder Creek, and Spring Creek. Since 1940, high levels of contamination in the Sacramento River have resulted in numerous fish kills.

The continuous release of metals has contributed to a steady decline in thefisheries population in the Sacramento River. The Sacramento River is adrinking water source for approximately 70,000 people within 3 miles of thesite.

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Site Name: Iron Mountain MineLocation:Size: 4,400 acresIndustry: Iron, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Pyrite miningTimeline: 1860s-1963Known Contaminants: Sulfuric acid, copper, cadmium, zinc, and otherheavy metalsDescription: The low pH level and the heavy metal contamination from themine have caused the virtual elimination of aquatic life in sections of Slickrock Creek, Boulder Creek, and Spring Creek. Since 1940, high levels of contamination in the Sacramento River have resulted in numerous fish kills.

The continuous release of metals has contributed to a steady decline in thefisheries population in the Sacramento River. The Sacramento River is adrinking water source for approximately 70,000 people within 3 miles of thesite.

Contaminated LandscapesVisibility Gradient and Concept Imaging

poetic property v. delineated real estate.James Corner




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Site Name: StringfellowLocation: Pyrite Canyon, CA Size: 17 acresIndustry: Hazardous waste disposal facilityTimeline: 1956-1972Known Contaminants: Pesticides, VOCs, perchlorate, cadmium, nickel,chromium, manganese, PCBs, sulfates, and other heavy metals.Description: More than 34 million gallons of liquid industrial waste, primarily from metalfinishing, electroplating, and pesticide production were deposited inevaporation ponds at the site. Heavy rains have caused the evaporationponds to overflow into creeks and the soil. A groundwater plume of site-related contaminants exists in the Glen Avon area, preventing the u se of private drinking water supply wells.

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Site Name: Leviathon MineLocation: Alpine County, CA Size: 250 acresIndustry: Sulphur miningTimeline: 1951-1962Known Contaminants: Sulfuric acid, arsenic, copper, nickel, zinc,chromium, ironDescription: Leviathan Mine is an abandoned open-pit sulfur mine high onthe eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, in Alpine County CA. The mine, 24miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, has been contaminating a nine-mile stretchof mountain creeks, resulting in devastating effects on aquatic life. The

Toiyabe National Forest surrounds the site, and there are no permanentresidents within several miles. The stream system drains into Nevada aboutfive miles from the mine and enters Carson Valley nine miles downstreamfrom the mine.

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Site Name: McCormick & Baxter Creosoting Co.Location: Near the Port of StocktonSize: 29 acresIndustry: Wood preservationTimeline: 1942-1990Known Contaminants: Arsenic, pentachlorophenol, chromium, copperDescription: The site came to the att ention of state agencies in 1977 whena fish kill was attributed to a release of PCP-contaminated stormwater runoff from the facility. Sampling has shown shallow aquifer contamination, which isconnected to a drinking water source. Contaminants are still apparent in fishsampling. Local people are known to fish at the site, despite fencing andposted signage.


Wish You Were Here Postcard series. October, 2011.



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Poison Pit Destinations Performative Photography. August, 2011.




The implications between ways of seeingand ways of acting are immense...

James Corner


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