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Reinvigorating The Hill In Turners Falls, Ma, Patrick Burns
Reinvigorating The Hill In Turners Falls, Ma, Patrick Burns
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
This masters project will focus on the site of the Hillcrest and Sheffield Elementary School campus in the "The Hill" neighborhood of Turners Falls, MA. This project aims to create a vision of possibility for an underutilized neighborhood amenity. This project reviews social, demographic, physical data of the neighborhood in Turners Falls as well as research on play, nature play, outdoor experiential learning, and the local ecology of Montague Wildlife Management area. To execute this goal, the study aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Revitalize an underutilized space into a neighborhood asset;
- Improve elementary school campus reinforcing a positive learning …
Bournewood Hospital: Designing A Healing Landscape, Winfield Henry
Bournewood Hospital: Designing A Healing Landscape, Winfield Henry
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Masters Projects
Currently in the United States there are 51.5 million Americans suffering from mental illness (Mental Illness, 2021). With trends having been on the rise over the past decade, particularly for depression and anxiety, and showing a significant jump during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial that behavioral health hospitals utilize all available treatment methods (Daly et. al., 2021, & Goodwin et. al., 2020). While the outdoor environment has played a role in mental and physical healthcare since the 11th Century, it has been largely lost until the late 1900s. Through research and evidence-based design, a holistic approach to healthcare is …