"My project is both a historic
preservation and comprehensive master plan. The project is called:
Evolve and Preserve: Planning our future history in the Mendocino Woodlands. The project site is
the Mendocino Woodlands State Park, a 720-acre family and group camp
in Mendocino, California.
It was built in the 1930s by the
Civilian Conservation Corps as a a recreation demonstration area and
is a National Historic Landmark.
Located within a second-growth redwood
forest, the Woodland’s structures are suffering from deterioration
due to the evolution of the forest over the last 75 years. The closed
canopy forest has reduced sunlight and air circulation, and seasonal
erosion has damaged structures, roads and paths.
A
cultural landscape inventory was completed in the spring of this year
and the cultural landscape report is near completion.
My goal is to work with the various
stakeholders to develop a comprehensive master plan that will address
preservation needs for the landscape and the structures as well as
plan for future needs that will be effected by changing populations,
climate and values."
So yeah, it's big, it's complex and it's amazing. It's in the California redwoods and all the buildings and features were built by the CCC/WPA crews. But, now, almost 80 years later, it needs some love to keep it awesome for the next 80 years. I've been spending nearly all my time on it. This past weekend I worked on a sketchup/photoshop perspective for making one of the cabins accessible:
Before:
Of course, I'm not done with this yet... I need to add in people to the image. While I was looking for an image of a happy active kid in a wheelchair to Photoshop into this image, I came across this and just simply had to share: Ramp fail and this ramp fail.
Here's another perspective I worked on the other day involves a new pedestrian bridge across a river that runs through one of the camps.
Before:
After:
I have 11 more days til my final presentation. I expect to be posting items as I complete them, so I might just actually update this poorly neglected blog more frequently.
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