San Bernardino Valley College

Gymnasium Project Landscape Overview

April 15, 2014

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• Minimize Water Use

• Reduce Maintenance

• Reconnect with Nature

• Outdoor Education

(AERIAL OF GLADE- “GREAT OPPORTUNITY”)

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• Minimize Water Use

▫ Replacing Turf Areas with Native and Drought Tolerant Shrubs and Groundcover

▫ Efficient Irrigation Systems

▫ Approximately 50% Reduction

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• Reduce Maintenance

▫ Majority Spreading Plants with Open Spacing

▫ Oak Woodland

▫ Natural Mulch Ground Plain

▫ Efficient Irrigation Systems

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• Reconnect with Nature

▫ Small Seating Nodes

▫ DG Path

▫ Plant Diversity

▫ Attracting Wildlife

▫ Celebrating Natural Systems

▫ Tree Canopy

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• Outdoor Education

▫ Natural Pond

▫ Biology Learning Gardens

▫ Outdoor Teaching Spaces

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Biology Teaching Garden

Practice Lawn

‘Boardwalk’

Dry Stream / Bioswale

Athletics Promenade

Natural Pond

Decomposed Granite Trail

Seating Node

Oak Woodland

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Biology Teaching Garden

Practice Lawn

‘Boardwalk’

Dry Stream / Bioswale

Athletics Promenade

Natural Pond

Decomposed Granite Trail

Seating Node

Oak Woodland

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