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Building Environmental Education Gardens in Los Angeles: Ryan Drnek Walgrove Wildlands Landscape Architect www.sodderstudio.com

Where are the Wildlands? Walgrove Elementary School Los Angeles Unified School District

2013 Charter School, Playground or Habitat? 2012 - Charter School Campus 2014

Project Leaders

Design Elements ❖ How do you re-wild a place? ❖ Create California native habitat as an education resource ❖ Habitat replication, not a restoration ❖ Over 50 California native plant species ❖ Forest, Meadow, Arroyo habitat areas ❖ Designed to attract wildlife & people ❖ Shaded seating areas for small and large groups ❖ Design considerations for future funding opportunities and long term habitat growth ❖ Two outdoor classrooms for 20 - 30 students ❖ Multiple small gathering spaces for 2 - 5 students ❖ Seating: boulders, tree trunks, haybales, seatwalls ❖ Paving: decomposed granite, gravel, river stones, bark ❖ ADA Considerations - Path of travel and seating

Concept Plan

❖ Bourget Brothers Project Partners ❖ California Native Plant Society ❖ Do Good Bus ❖ EnrichLA ❖ Friends of Ballona ❖ Hallmark Labs ❖ La Loma Development ❖ Los Angeles Unified School District ❖ Los Angeles Conservation Corp ❖ Lowe’s ❖ Matisse Studios ❖ Mike Bonin, LA City Council ❖ Million Tree LA ❖ Roth Family Foundation ❖ Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society ❖ Sony Pictures ❖ Steve Zimmer, LAUSD Board ❖ Surfrider Foundation ❖ TreePeople ❖ US Fish & Wildlife ❖ Venice Youth Build ❖ Venice Neighborhood Council ❖ Wildwood Foundation ❖ Whole Foods

Site Prep

Irrigation Spray vs. Drip

Land Forming

Arroyo - Bioswale

Run-off Water

Recommended Plants Los Angeles Unified School District Approved Plant List ❖ ❖ Yarrow, Achillea millefolium ❖ Manzanita, Arctostaphylos ❖ California Sagebrush, Artemisia california ❖ Narrow Leaf Milkweed, Asclepias fascicularis ❖ Coyote Bush, Baccharis pilularis ❖ Western Redbud, Cercis occidentalis ❖ California Lilac, Ceanothus g.h. ‘Yankee Point’ ❖ Toyon, Heteromeles arbutifolia ❖ Deer Grass, Muhlenbergia rigens ❖ California Sycamore, Platanus racemosa ❖ Catalina Cherry, Prunus ilicifolia ❖ Coast Live Oak, Quercus agricola ❖ Coffeeberry, Rhamnus californica ❖ Hummingbird Sage, Salvia spathacea

Planting Day

Council Circle

Meadows ❖ Lupine ❖ Blue Eyed Grass ❖ California Poppy ❖ Idaho Fescue ❖ Tidy Tips ❖ Red Fescue ❖ Clarkia ❖ Bentgrass ❖ Yarrow ❖ Meadow Sedge

Flowers

Wildlife

Wings in the Wildlands

Students in the Habitat

Community in the Habitat

Wildlands 2018

LAUSD Education Gardens 2012 - 2018 ❖ 20th Street Elementary ❖ Gardner Elementary ❖ Palms Middle School ❖ 75th Street Elementary ❖ Glenfeliz Elementary ❖ Portola Middle School ❖ Bancroft Middle School ❖ Grandview Elementary ❖ Rio Vista Elementary ❖ Beethoven Elementary ❖ Grant Elementary School ❖ Rosewood Elementary ❖ Broadway Elementary ❖ Hollenbeck Middle School ❖ San Pedro Elementary ❖ Carson-Gore Academy ❖ Kester Elementary School ❖ Selma Elementary ❖ Carver Middle School ❖ Kingsley Elementary School ❖ Sherman Oaks Elementary ❖ Cheremoya Elementary ❖ Los Feliz Elementary School ❖ Taft High School School* ❖ Mark Twain Elementary ❖ Toluca Lake Elementary ❖ Dominguez High School ❖ Marquez Charter Elementary ❖ Virgil Middle School ❖ El Sereno Middle School* ❖ Monlux Elementary School ❖ Walgrove Elementary* ❖ Environmental Charter ❖ Normandie Elementary ❖ Warner Elementary School Middle School* ❖ Ocean Charter ❖ Wilshire Park Elementary* ❖ Esperanza Elementary School* ❖ Ortho High School ❖ Wilshire Crest Elementary ❖ Frank Del Olmo

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El Sereno Middle School

! PROJECT SITE PROJECT SITE 13 CHEREMOYA OUTDOOR LEARNING CENTER CHEREMOYA AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANTS NATIVE PLANTS PLAN LEGEND PLAN LEGEND 16 CHEREMOYA AVENUE CHEREMOYA AVENUE TREES: TREES SYM DESCRIPTION WHITE ALDER Alnus rhombifolia WESTERN SYCAMORE Platanus racemosa 1 EXISTING PLAY EQUIPMENT AREA. COAST LIVE OAK Quercus agrifolia E 2 NEW PLAY EQUIPMENT AREA WITH ASPHALT PAVING SHRUBS: SHRUBS: V AND SAFETY MATS. EQUIPMENT TO BE SELECTED. YARROW Achillea millefolium I BEACHWOOD DRIVE BEACHWOOD DRIVE R NARROW-LEAF MILKWEED Asclepius fascicularis D 3 GARDEN ENTRY/ DEDICATION SIGN. WILD RYE GRASS Elymus c. 'Canyon Prince' D 9 BEACH STRAWBERRY Fragaria chiloensis O 4 ASPHALT KART TRACK WITH LANE MARKINGS. TOYON Heteromeles arbutifolia O ISLAND ALUM ROOT Heuchera maxima W PACIFIC IRIS Iris douglasiana H 5 TURF PLAY FIELD. C WIRE GRASS Juncus patens A COFFEE BERRY Rhamnus californica E 6 EXISTING ELECTRICAL VAULT TO REMAIN. PROTECT LEMONADEBERRY Rhus integrifolia B IN PLACE. PAINT METAL LID AS INDICATED FOR KART HUMMINGBIRD SAGE Salvia spathacea RACING TRACK. 7 OUTDOOR CLASSROOM WITH TREX BENCHES BY ENRICHLA AND FLAGPOLES. 8 DRY STREAMBED WITH BOULDERS AND RIVERSTONES. FRANKLIN AVENUE FRANKLIN AVENUE 9 CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANTS / HABITAT AREA. CAMPUS AERIAL CAMPUS AERIAL 10 EXISTING ASPHALT PAVING AND COURT MARKINGS TO REMAIN IN PLACE. 8 SCOPE OF WORK LINE SCOPE OF WORK LINE 11 STREAMBED OVERFLOW ZONE FOR EXCESSIVE 2 10 STORMWATER. WATER WILL SHEET FLOW TO EXISTING BASIN APPROX. FIFTY FEET SOUTH (50'). 12 EXISTING FICUS TREE AND CMU WALL, PAINT WALL WITH CREATIVE COLOR SCHEME. 13 EXISTING CHAIN LINK FENCE AND CMU WALL ADJACENT TO CITY SIDEWALK. FENCE AND WALL ARE TO REMAIN. PROTECT IN PLACE. 14 RAINBOW PATTERN PAINTED ON ASPHALT. 6 15 LARGE BOULDERS AND GRAVEL FOR A SMALL 9 GATHERING SPACE IN A CIRCULAR PATTERN. 16 KART STORAGE AREA ON EXISTING ASPHALT. 17. 1'-6" WIDE TREX BENCH SEAT, BUILD ON TOP OF EXISTING TREE PLANTER WALL. 11 14 8 13 5 Sodder Studio 15 landscape architecture + planning 7 www.sodderstudio.com 4612 maytime lane, culver city, ca 90230 RYAN DRNEK, ASLA 3 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT CA. LIC. NO. 5170 310.795.7994 RYANDRNEK@SODDERSTUDIO.COM THIS DRAWING AND THE DESIGNS, ARRANGEMENTS, DEPICTIONS, IDEAS AND OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN CONSTITUTE UNPUBLISHED WORK OF SODDER STUDIO AND SHALL REMAIN PROPERTY OF SODDER STUDIO IN PERPETUITY. THIS DRAWING IS PART OF THE 4 CONTRACT DOCUMENTS FOR THE STATED PROJECT AND SHALL BE USED ONLY AS SUCH. NO PART THEREOF SHALL BE REPRODUCED, COPIED, 1 12 DISCLOSED, DISTRIBUTED, SOLD, PUBLISHED OR OTHERWISE USED IN ANYWAY FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE WITHOUT THE ADVANCED EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF SODDER STUDIO. VISUAL CONTACT WITH THE ABOVE DRAWINGS, OR ANY PART THEREOF, SHALL CONSTITUE CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF ACCEPTANCE OF THESE RESTRICTIONS. 9 CONCEPT PLAN CONCEPT PLAN SHEET: L - 1.0 L - 1.0 SHEET LEGEND SHEET LEGEND L-1.0 CONCEPT PLAN 17 L-1.1 DEMOLITION PLAN DATE: 08.23.2016 L-2.0 CONSTRUCTION PLAN 10 L-2.1 STAKING PLAN NORTH SCALE: 1/4" = 1'-0" L-2.2 CONSTRUCTION DETAILS L-3.0 IRRIGATION PLAN L-3.1 IRRIGATION DETAILS L-4.0 PLANTING PLAN 0' 1' 2' 5' 10' 15 20' L-4.1 PLANTING DETAILS