{"id":2119,"date":"2014-10-06T08:23:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T07:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/landscapearchitecture\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2014-10-06T08:23:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T07:23:02","slug":"lightmoor-site-visit-2nd-year-conversion-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/2014\/10\/06\/lightmoor-site-visit-2nd-year-conversion-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip to Lightmoor, Forest of Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We were blessed with glorious weather on Tuesday\u2019s field trip to Lightmoor, deep in the Forest of Dean.\u00a0 This former colliery site is the focus of Sustainable Technology 2, a module exploring the environmental development of a brownfield, contaminated landscape punctuated by three significant spoil heaps.\u00a0 On site, our Conversion and Second Year students were set the task of conducting a full site survey, encouraging them to investigate professional techniques in compiling topographical, hydrological, climatic, soils and vegetative information, whilst assessing the landscape character and recording views.<\/span><\/div>\n
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As we explored the site, butterflies, damselflies and kingfishers darted by and we kept a close eye out for the wild boar that roam the woods.\u00a0 Once the survey work was completed, we hiked across country to Mallard\u2019s Pike, a local precedent, where a similar site has been transformed into a recreational public woodland with a lake and also the home of Go Ape.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A choice of two briefs offers an opportunity for students to design mixed use development with either a residential Well-being Centre or a residential Forest Outdoor Activities Centre, integrating SUDS, sustainable construction and planting techniques, whilst gracefully enhancing the landscape, integrating their proposals into the historic, ecological environment of the Forest.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to see their final schemes!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Jane <\/span><\/div>\n
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