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TREAD GARDEN | Grand Prize Selection Critical Mass Homegrown Raingarden Challenge

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Phytoremediation garden | Grand Prize Selection for Critical Mass Homegrown Raingarden Competition St. Louis, Mo.

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Page 1: Christopher Carl | Tread Garden

TREAD GARDEN | Grand Prize Selection Critical Mass Homegrown Raingarden Challenge

Page 2: Christopher Carl | Tread Garden

lafayette avenue

26 ft.

tReaD GaRDen is located at the southern terminus of 18th street; parallel with lafayette ave. The garden design encompasses the entire 140’ “bump-out” with a swale that flows east to west. Inserted into the swale is series of check dams and catchment areas. Tire-tread patterning is the graphic starting point from which 3D form is created. A sculptural lattice is built from gabion baskets and mats filled with rip rap. The lattice creates boundaries and enclosures for planting areas. The planting plan would be dominated by equisetum, a structurally intersting and primitive plant which is useful as a phytoremediator.

cuRb cut | WateR Inlet fROM lafayette ave.

WateR flOW tHROuGH GaRDen

PHytOReMeDIatIOn fIlteR netWORK

TREAD GARDEN

1600 SQ. ft

GaRDen lOcatIOn 18tH anD lafayette ave

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26 ft.PHytOReMeDIatIOn fIlteR netWORK

PHytOReMeDIatIOn Phytoremediation is the use of plants to remove pollutants from the environment. Equisetum hymale and its close relative Equisetum Averense are known to perform well for this purpose. Tread Garden’s connection to Lafayette Ave. creates the opportunity to capture road runoff and direct it through a pollutant filtering network of equisetum.

TREAD GARDEN FULL SUN

OveRflOW Inlet

GaRDen lOcatIOn 18tH anD lafayette ave

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EQUISETUM HYEMALE | scouring rush characteristics

natIve Equisetum hymale or Scouring Rush is native to Missouri, the North American continent, and varieties occur throughout the world. “The horsetails are closely related to ferns and both were common during the Carboniferous period (280-345 million years ago), when tree-sized horsetails and ferns occurred. The coal deposits of Illinois were formed in large part from the ancestral plants of today’s horsetails and ferns.” - John Hilty, http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info

GabIOn baSKet

cROSS SectIOn Of eQuISetuM fIlteR

cOMPOSt | tOP SOIl

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ORanGe lanDScaPe MeSH

lafayette ave

WateR PeRMeable lanDScaPe fabRIc

CHRISTOPHER CARL