Field Trip

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Site Sketching Exercise, Cape Arago State Park, Rapid Shelter Displaced People Studio, E. Mark Photo, Spring 2019

FIELD TRIP TO COOS BAY AREA STATE PARKS

A field trip and sketching exercise to the Oregon Coast is planned for April 7th, 2023.  We will be visiting two Oregon State Parks,  Sunset Bay State Park and Shore Acres State Park, near Coos Bay that will serve as hypothetical sites for the design studio. An environmental scientist State Park Ranger who has led tours previously with this instructor will led the studio on walking tour. We will stay overnight at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, OIMB.  A grant will cover the lodging and breakfast on the 8th, and most likely transportation through the university motor pool.


Figure 1. Sunset Bay State Park, View North, Google Earth Photo


Figure 2. Shore Acres State Park, View North, Google Earth Photo


 Figure 3. Sunset Bay State Park (left) and Shore Acres State Park (right), View East,  Google Earth Photo

ACTIVITIES

These activities are planned:

  1. A walking tour of the ecosystem is guided by an environmental scientist who is a park ranger for the State Park Service. We will start in the parking area of Shore Acres State Park, follow a level walking path out along the ocean cliff, and learn about habitats, types of plants and animals, geological formations, and vulnerabilities of the site to erosion, human use, climate change, and built structures.
  2. A field observation and sketching exercise of the two state park locations mentored by the research team of faculty on the Savage Endowment for International Justice and Peace research grant. The exercise will focus on notating through plan and thumbnail perspective sketches evidence of wind, sunlight patterns, hydrology, animal habitats and migration pathways, open areas, circulation routes, potential building sites, key adjacencies of land use, arable soils, sources of potable water, and other important site features.
    Figure 4. Sketching Exercise at Cape Arago State Park, Rapid Shelter Displaced People Studio, E. Mark Photo, 2019.
  3. OIMB will provide overnight facilities on it’s small campus over looking the outer harbor at Coos Bay.
    Figure 5. OIMB Created Video With Overview of OIMB
  4. We will likely take a brief walk through of the University of Oregon’s Charleston Marine Life Center adjacent to the campus.