At a Glance
Through multi-disciplinary collaboration, the Birmingham Botanical Gardens Master Plan will promote a higher level of sustainability for the community and its future generations.
Project Description
Birmingham Botanical Gardens is Alabama’s largest living museum, with more than 10,000 different plants in its living collections and over 25 unique gardens. As a key member of the Gardens’ master planning team, working collaboratively with Oasis Design Group whom served as the project’s master planner, Biohabitats helped craft a plan to ensure that the 68-acre site would demonstrate sustainability principles long into the future.
Biohabitats focused primarily on establishing a more regenerative approach to stormwater management that makes use of natural ecological processes emphasizing native vegetation. As part of this effort, Biohabitats engineers, landscape architects and ecologists helped conceptualize restoration of a prominent creek and conversion of a concrete-lined pond into a wetland and riparian ecological community. Biohabitats led a seminar on sustainability and participated in meetings and presentations to staff, board members, and donors.
Details
Bioregion
Other
Physiographic Province
Piedmont
Watershed
Cahaba River
Expertise Areas
Community, Ecological Restoration, Infrastructure, Urban Ecology, Water
Owner
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Location
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Project Team
- Oasis Design Group