Art Canopy at Cubberley meet, learn, rest, educate and play  To increase awareness of our relationship to the beauty and inherent functionality of our native Bay Area environment, On40 will encourage and enable designers, artists and technologists to work together to create a hybrid natural/technological canopy that reconnects us to the function of the native […]

Cubberley—Cultivating a valuable resource Artists in residence nurture Cubberley campus as an artistic, natural and cultural cluster that is part of the Elk trail, bike paths, canopy project, etc. The overall aim is to provide a space that is nurturing, social and contemplative. Add native canopy trees mixed meadow/savannah to the back parking lot and interstitial […]

whole picture the north trail the trail walkthrough —-> Starting at the north entrance, we will walk through to Nelson Drive, focusing on the right then returning on the other side. A volunteer tomato already wants community gardens here! We pass by mature redwoods, and oleanders On the right is the Charleston Center entrance, ahead […]

Elk Trail On40 Areas and Elk Trails An On40 area is an enclave, a park-size of at least 40 acres, large enough to sustain a stable natural ecological network of plants and animals, while encouraging humans and pets to roam free, to engage and become part of the landscape Elk Trail is a view of the whole landscape, […]

elks lodge/event center grounds  

Interstitial Natural Space at Cubberley Bringing the work of resident artists out into intersticial spaces, combined with simple, sustainable greening of walking surfaces with native grasses and plants can bring energy and life to the community center.

Work in progress — please bear with us Byxbee Background Friends of Byxbee Reserve Byxbee basin walkthrough

San Francisquito Elk Trail Project Elk Trail is a view of the whole landscape, a lattice of connectors that allow safe and unimpeded passage for animals (such as Elk) to traverse during daily or seasonal migrations. Elk Trail + On40 is a landscape design concept derived of the need for the land’s natural creatures to […]