Space To Grow
Dryland farming comes to the suburbs, thanks to an innovative community park.
By Timothy A. Schuler
An early sketch illustrates the designers? blended, permaculture-inspired approach to the site. Courtesy Superbloom.
When Diane Lipovsky, ASLA, and Stacy Passmore, ASLA, the founding principals of Superbloom, first visited the Windler homestead in Aurora, Colorado, to develop a proposal for a new community park, they knew they didn?t want to treat the buildings like dollhouses. ?We tried to think through how it wasn?t just a museum where people go to learn about farming;Â it was also your community park,? Lipovsky says. ?We want this to be a place where we can celebrate the history of dryland agriculture but [also] have a more future-oriented approach to what that means.? The 15-acre park will serve as the central green space of the Windler development, an 850-acre planned community that broke ground in 2022. Designed by Superbloom and Shape Architecture Studio, the green space is envisioned as a demonstration of alternative food futures for arid lands such as eastern Colorado, with biodiverse permaculture bands of fruiting trees and shrubs that radiate outward into the surrounding neighborhood. The park?s hybrid landscape contains areas for hydroponics, grazing, and no-till agriculture, as well as prairie restoration, historic interpretation, and recreation. Rather than treat food production as an aesthetic process to be observed and appreciated from afar, the designers inte...
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