Scenery - Campus Project

Scenery - the general appearance of a place; the aggregate of features that give character to a landscape. Dictionary.com. This definition gave me the meaning of a campus. Scenery of the campus does give out a influence to each person’s emotions. When the person sees a black barrier around a campus, they may feel unsafe and creepy. When the person sees huge palm trees rooted on each corner of the campus, they may feel wonderful and dreamful.

From my previous experience with Gallaudet University, the campus was built inside a huge black iron fence. That is the first scary impression brought to me when I came to visit the campus for the first time. The second sorrowful impression was the dead bushes around the security building. The rest of impressions was pretty negative because the thousands dead leaves on the grounds, small spaces of flowers, and few trees.

With my group’s ideal campus, I want to improve the scenery in this campus than Gallaudet University’s campus because I don’t think that campus is fitting for other go green people. First thing I would improve with my ideal campus is the front entrance because the front entrance is where the people pull in and see the campus for the first time. I don’t want them to talk about the first thing they saw is the dead bushes. I would hide the security building with colorful flowers and bushes and in some ways it makes the security more inviting and make the visitors more safe.

About the safety reasons I prefer the campus to add a fence but I would add some kind of vines with colorful flowers around the fence so it makes more eco-friendly to the neighborhood.

I want to add colorful flowers to empty spaces around the campus, like the corners between buildings or the spaces between the entrance doors and windows around the buildings. I want to insert trees where there is vacant green spaces to give shades for the visitors and residents. I want to add a variety of trees to the campus because a variety gives out different appearance and feelings from each tree. Each different tree have different shade of green and shape of leaves.

With all kind of green addition to the campus would make the people who came to feel inviting and very airy. When you sit next to steel you may feel unsteady with it because you know that it is man made object. When you sit next to a green plant, you may feel relaxing because you know it is a part of nature. So that’s why you know that you cannot live without the green because it is a part of your life.