SEQUOIA ELEMENTARY
FOUR GARDEN AREAS
2008
SEQUOIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LINCOLN AVENUE AT SCENIC
OAKLAND, CA
DESIGN: LAUREN ELDER
Parents invited Elder to consult and produce designs for the schoolyard, taking advantage of the window of opportunity created by a scheduled repaving. Elder advocated for larger, more natural areas as well as a subsurface cistern to store rainwater. The engineers were uninterested. It was possible to carve out three areas for shade and planting using California Natives and other drought-tolerant species.
FOUR GARDEN AREAS
2008
SEQUOIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LINCOLN AVENUE AT SCENIC
OAKLAND, CA
DESIGN: LAUREN ELDER
Parents invited Elder to consult and produce designs for the schoolyard, taking advantage of the window of opportunity created by a scheduled repaving. Elder advocated for larger, more natural areas as well as a subsurface cistern to store rainwater. The engineers were uninterested. It was possible to carve out three areas for shade and planting using California Natives and other drought-tolerant species.