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Lincoln Students to “Green” Christchurch Earthquake Spots
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Students from the Landscape Architecture programme at Lincoln University near Christchurch will be using the empty spaces where earthquake-damaged buildings have been removed to create beautiful green areas.
Landscape architecture students, staff and graduates from the University are contributing their expertise to Canterbury Biodiversity’s “Greening the Rubble” project.
“The aim of the project is to create attractive, temporary, public landscapes on sites where buildings have been destroyed by the (September 4, 2010) earthquake,” says the Chair of the Canterbury Westland branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, Neil Challenger, who is Head of Lincoln University’s School of Landscape Architecture.
They will prepare the ground and establish lawns, tree planters, garden beds of insect-beneficial plants, pathways and gabions filled with broken bricks. The gabions (containers of woven metal bands filled with the likes of earth or stones, but in this case bricks) have been constructed by students with the help of Warwick Hill in Lincoln University’s engineering workshops. Lincoln University catering staff will provide a barbecue lunch for the working bee members.
When each site eventually reverts to a building, most of the “greening” materials will be reused on another temporary landscape project on an earthquake-hit site somewhere else in the city.
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