ANDRÉS ORJUELA

Landscape architecture is increasingly concerned with understanding and intervening in the interwoven systems that compose regional ecologies. The term regional ecologies simultaneously implies two modes of focus: first, on the ecologies endemic to a region, and, second, on ecologies analyzed at a regional scale.

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This work uses mapping techniques to produce a cartographic study of a selected human-produced condition, exurban centers, in the state of Alabama that interacts with regional ecological systems. Series of interim analysis looking at these conditions through the consecutive lenses of ‘systems’, ‘interactions’, ‘changes’, and ‘landscapes’ were built toward a conclusion of issues, caused by those regional interventions.