To continue with my Rhino landscaping skills, I was tasked with creating a small library of primitives that could be added as needed to subsequent landscape projects. To better utilize it to my current interests, I focused on the creation of topographic features that could be added to better a permacultural property, particularly in regards to water management, but also considering farms, gardens, and livestock. To begin, I created an annotated bibliography of various sources that could be useful for designing these land forms. 

Bibliography:

Practical Permaculture for Home Landscape, Your Community, and the Whole Earth - Jessi Bloom and Dave Boehnlein. 

Resource Management for Upland Areas in Southeast Asia: An Informal Kit

Soil Conservation Techniques for Hillside Farmers

https://permies.com/t/56013/Brush-berms

https://www.cityofpacificgrove.org/living/community-economic-development/planning/stormwater/lid-techniques/design-guidelines/creating-rain-gardens-design-guidelines

http://www.nzdl.org/gsdlmod?e=d-00000-00—off-0hdl–00-0—-0-10-0—0—0direct-10—4——-0-1l–11-en-50—20-about—00-0-1-00-0–4—-0-0-11-10-0utfZz-8-00&cl=CL1.15&d=HASH018cfbb77d155fa06876f29b.5.7&gt=1

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ec/ff/90/ecff9043339eb40229771770e93b4829.jpg

https://www.gardendesign.com/vegetables/raised-beds.html

https://www.americangeosciences.org/geoscience-currents/dry-wells-stormwater-management

http://ecotippingpoints.org/our-stories/indepth/usa-hawaii-taro-agriculture.html

http://www.nzdl.org/gsdlmod?e=d-00000-00—off-0hdl–00-0—-0-10-0—0—0direct-10—4——-0-1l–11-en-50—20-about—00-0-1-00-0–4—-0-0-11-10-0utfZz-8-10&cl=CL2.11.4&d=HASHbdde2fe3749493c1a0de2d.4.2.4&x=1

After investigating these sources, largely relying on the Practice Permaculture book, I selected ten land forms here. I drew up some quick sketches to clarify and moved on to the digital design. 

Using Rhino, I created two iterations of each land form, allowing for multiple ways to create their shapes, and made each distinct with its own layer. 

Finally, I organized them onto a poster that explains the steps I took to create each iteration, step by step and with commands written out. 

I believe this method will continue to prove useful in the future, as an expanded library could allow me to create general permaculture sites with relative ease. I would like to expand my personal library with a series of buildings to better allow potential clients to envision the basic infrastructure needed to run a site effectively.