Wolf Josey Landscape Architects
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Flight 93 Memorial

Location: Stanardsville, VA 

Completion: On-going

Situated on 700 acres of land with spectacular views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the barn at Monte Vista Farm is a live work environment.

The project began with a master plan for the barn complex where a more functional living environment was desired but the practical needs of a cattle operation had to be met. The plans created a clear precinct around the barn with an entrance court defined by large beds of native grasses and hedges. allees, pathways, and a native perennial garden frame distant views of the mountains. The project includes an orchard and berry garden.

Phase 2 of the project includes extensive meadows and reforestation areas.

 

Flight 93 National Memorial

Location: Shanksville, Pennsylvania
Phases: Sacred Ground, Field of Honor, Memorial Groves, Entry Road
Status: Completed September 2011 
(Lead) Architect: Paul Murdoch Architects
Landscape Architect: NBW
Role: Project Manager (Paul Josey)

Located over a former strip mine, the Flight 93 Memorial landscape was, by necessity, a reclamation design as well as a landscape of healing, both for the environmental damage caused by former coal mining as well as to honor the loss of flight crew and passengers who sacrificed their lives.

The memorial design is centered around a 154 acre native meadow, 40 groves of planted hardwoods and an allee of red maples along a common walk that leads visitors to the flight path and Sacred Ground. Collaborating with national mining reclamation expert Dr. James Burger while the project manager at NBW, Paul Josey developed innovative soil building strategies that were implemented to allow for the installation and growth of native plants throughout the memorial site. This included 1600 canopy trees in the 40 memorial groves, 4 stormwater wetlands, 7 parking lot raingardens and over 200 acres of warm season native meadows.

Paul oversaw the design of all reclamation, bioretention and planting soils profiles, construction documentation and administration. Working with Warren Byrd and Todd Shallenberger of Nelson Byrd Woltz, Paul collaborated on all planting and construction designs through the first two phases of the project.