BC-HS Making of, vol. 1

*** Internal Memo *** RE: The Making of the Brekuso Club Hill Station 20100901

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Berekuso Club Hill Station is an ANTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT that remakes landscape as institution. As the city of Accra, like all Africa, urbanizes its environment BC-HS is an experiment in ecology. Sited in the peri-urban village of Berekuso, on a summit opposite Ashesi University between Adenta and Aburi, Berekuso Club Hill Station is a project to grow a 20-acre botanical garden as counterpoint to the unchecked ecological pressure of rapid urbanization in the Greater Accra environ.

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Scalar comparison of BC-HS project site to NYC Central Park

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As a landscape like the Berekuso context -- natural enough to support bush hunting* -- urbanizes, what sort of impact on the emerging community can a dedicated ecological sink have? Building an open-source productive landscape can encourage active lifestyles and active architectures simultaneous with a new social force promoting sustainability through micro-enterprise.

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{* insert picture of actual bush dog +/- brekuso hunting here}

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Berekuso Club Hill Station promotes sustainable lifestyle and interaction between public and nature in support of biodiversity.

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summit view, weaver nest, flamboyant seedlings, forsythia on laterite berms, dragonfly metamorphosis

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Landscape design was derived from GPS-enabled site analysis in order to optimize water catchment systems, existing vegetation and view corridors.

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Google Map generated by My Tracks Android app http://tinyurl.com/brekuso

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Construction of berms and terraces, North and South slopes

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Phase 1 implementation

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