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The Tallgrass Prairie begins with the endless sky. Clouds play and dance along the rolling hills. As day turns to night, the stars begin to return the light to the darkness. The sky allows for the winds to flow freely. The direction shifts with the seasons, but hardly stops completely. Grasses greet the winds with a wave. Their swaying movements never seem to tire. These grasses grow green and tall in the summer months and brown through the winter. Fires whip through the grasses; stirring the fauna and flora along the way, turning the constricting biomass into nutritious topsoil...(more)

Architecture Courts the Prairie // Daniel Johnson

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Welcome back! A new year brings a new Design+Make studio, carrying on the tradition of design through making at Kansas State University. Starting in the Fall of 2015, the new school year brought about some exciting challenges, including a move out to a temporary location while Seaton is under construction. Now stationed at APD West, the team has been hard at work for our clients at reStart Housing Services and YMCA’s Camp Wood...(more)

The New Lineup // Sevrin Scarcelli

1/27/2016

Growing up in Kansas, the prairie was always seen but rarely regarded. I would pass it as I drove down the road but only on occasion would I pass the barrier to walk among the grasses. Through the team’s conversations over the past semester, we have discovered many locals and visitors have had similar experiences. We have always seen the Tallgrass Prairie at face value without giving it any more thought. This Preston Outdoor Education Station aims at changing that perception. The project provides the infrastructure to experience the nuances of the landscape in which it is situated...(more)

Project in the Prairie // Briana Reece

The semester began with a quote by Baba Dioum that should embody the project: “In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught.” As the team began diving deeper into this excerpt we found it stemmed from the need to preserve the history of the landscape and of Camp Wood. This location has strong ties to its past which has shaped the traditions and operations used today...(more)

A Future Observing the Past // Briana Reece