Audubon of South Jordan: a migratory bird awareness / education center

I have always been an admirer of nature. I have always wanted to contribute and give back to the community by doing something that involved allowing people to interact with architecture amidst there encounter with nature. With the beginning of a new curriculum, we as a section started off using the lens of Landscape Urbanism to view contexts that were assigned to us. Broken into groups of four to five people, each group was assigned an area in the Salt Lake Valley to study and to research. I was given the area of South Jordan to research. South Jordan has quite a bit of history. Settled by the Beckstead family, they initially lived along the banks of the Jordan River in small rooms. As I continued to study the current history of South Jordan, the growth of its population has dramatically influenced its preservation of open space. Through my research, it was this issue of open space and its importance in our lives that I chose to research for my master's thesis project.