LANDSCAPE PATTERNS SITE WALL AND STAIR PALETTE The site walls at Liberty will provide structure for its landscape rooms, which will, be places to sit and study, amphitheaters for sunbathing on the first warm day of spring or spaces to gather for a formally organized event. Walls within the core campus will respond to their immediate surroundings and be either monolithic granite or faced with fieldstone to establish a classic, unified identity. In some situations close to buildings, the materials of the site walls should coordinate with the buildings and be of pre-cast concrete and brick or other materials as appropriate. Site walls will generally be 20-24 inches in thickness and vary in height. Seat walls will be 16-20 inches in height. Site wall caps may vary from fieldstone to be bluestone in response to special site conditions. The rustic character of the warm-toned fieldstone will bring a rustic, earthy feel to 1
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complement the smaller-scale brick and pre-cast concrete of the campus core. Capped in places with bluestone, the strong lines of these walls will become most prominent in winter when plantings recede. Classic, cleft-faced granite monolithic seat walls will comprise grand terraces and amphitheaters, whose cool faces will contrast with the warm reds of brick and lush greens of planting. Granite lasts for ages and will bring a sense of timelessness to the campus. Stairs will be clad in bluestone in the core campus with fieldstone cheek walls. In other areas stairs can be of gray concrete with 8” wide concrete cheek walls. Wall and Stair Images:
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Monolithic Granite Wall at Library East Amphiteater in Liberty’s Core Campus Area with ‘Mount Airy’ granite
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Fieldstone Wall with Fieldstone Cap at Liberty Lake: Schofield Stone from Tennessee 80/20 ‘Shawnee Split Face’ and ‘Blue Gray Strip Rubble’
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Brick Wall with Precast Cap
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Fieldstone Wall with Bluestone Cap
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Bluestone Stair with Fieldstone Cheek Wall
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Concrete Stair with Concrete Cheek Wall
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