OPEN SOURCE RESTORATION
OPEN SOURCE RESTORATION, 2021
︎ Class: Constructed Ecologies, Building Tech. Elective
︎ Typology: Habitat
︎ Location: Presidio, San Francisco, CA
As we reckon with the ecological consequences of human industrialization and urbanization, conversations about habitat restoration techniques can become important catalysts for environmental change. Habitat restoration shouldn’t be hard. How can we empower people to incorporate practices of restoration into their lives?
Open Source Restoration is a vision for a DIY habitat restoration manual, with instructions for creating habitat modules and aggregate structures out of locally sourced materials.
Anyone can weave these “scaffold” modules from locally sourced materials. In the Bay, we can use creek dogwood or willow branches. The woven modules are set in sites where habitat restoration efforts are happening, and as the wood breaks down, local flora and fauna grow and live inside of the pyramidal modules. Eventually they will completely degrade and a new ecosystem will emerge in its place.
The crowdsourced platform would allow anyone to create and share designs for habitat modules, tailored to sites and species around the world.
︎ Class: Constructed Ecologies, Building Tech. Elective
︎ Typology: Habitat
︎ Location: Presidio, San Francisco, CA
As we reckon with the ecological consequences of human industrialization and urbanization, conversations about habitat restoration techniques can become important catalysts for environmental change. Habitat restoration shouldn’t be hard. How can we empower people to incorporate practices of restoration into their lives?
Open Source Restoration is a vision for a DIY habitat restoration manual, with instructions for creating habitat modules and aggregate structures out of locally sourced materials.
Anyone can weave these “scaffold” modules from locally sourced materials. In the Bay, we can use creek dogwood or willow branches. The woven modules are set in sites where habitat restoration efforts are happening, and as the wood breaks down, local flora and fauna grow and live inside of the pyramidal modules. Eventually they will completely degrade and a new ecosystem will emerge in its place.
The crowdsourced platform would allow anyone to create and share designs for habitat modules, tailored to sites and species around the world.