Petal: Place
Imperative 01: Limits to Growth
 
Site Restoration

The Kendeda Building is located on a previously developed site (formerly a parking lot) on the northwest corner of Ferst Drive and State Street on Georgia Tech’s campus. The overall design intent is to restore the site as it existed prior to human development. This goal is accomplished by mimicking the hydrological flow of the area and reintroducing vegetation and biology native to the region, referencing the Piedmont Forest ecosystem. The project site moderately slopes down from south to north, with the building and adjacent porch plaza designed to follow this natural topography by terracing, or stepping down, at appropriate elevations.

Adjacent to The Kendeda Building will be the next phase of Georgia Tech's Eco-Commons. This new passive recreation and high performance landscape also replaces surface parking. While this Eco-Commons phase is separate from The Kendeda Building, it is another example of Georgia Tech's commitment to furthering sustainability across the entire campus. The two projects were designed to be interconnected and create one cohesive whole. 

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On September 8, 2017 over 50 members of the Georgia Tech community painted a mural on the future Kendeda Building site as part of the Office of Campus Sustainability’s Planting the Seeds event series celebrating the building’s launch. This event was a nod to the Beauty Petal: it educated student volunteers about the project and beautified the parking lot on which the building would be constructed.
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Situated in the southeast corner of an eight-acre piece of land once covered in asphalt, The Kendeda Building offers an expansive view of Georgia Tech's Eco-Commons expansion, a greenspace complement to—and compliment of—the beauty and ideals of this building.