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Academic City Flux Infrastructural Ecologies Urban Gradients Recycling Infrastructure Surface + Edge The Constructed Landscape Old Field Sucession View From Above Professional Light Play! Inspiration Port Credit EyeBAM Town Branch
Above Positions of encampment are developed through section
Above Positions of encampment are developed through section
City Blind The Flux Landscape: Field + Permiability GSD1212: Landscape Architecture Core IV Critics: Chris Reed (STOSS) & David Mah Site: Jamaica Bay, New York City Partner: Liza Langer
Jamaica Bay represents one of the most significant contiguous patches of estuarine salt-marsh in the Northeast, serving as a critical habitat for shorebirds and migrating species. It is also a constructed, Harvard First-Semester polluted ecology resulting Core from Studio dredging and filling, Garywas and Hilderbrand at the epicenter of the flooding from Imaginary Sandy. Hurricane Site The purpose Text Goes Here of this project is to develop a strategy for city-making that engages dynamic ecologies. An overall site framework is derived from adaptive processes and married to operational requirements for urban and hyrdologic infrastructure. Forthcoming is an detailed investigation of urban form and multiblock strategies tuned to the flux of open-ended environmental phenomena.
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Historical // Section
Upland Urban Density
Historical // Section
Channel Depth Less Urbanized Upland
Shallow Channel Marsh Expansion // Contraction Robust Salt Marsh Jamaica Bay has historically been a fertile coastal lagoon consisting cheifly of salt marshes. This ecological composition has made it ecologically significant to the issues such as storm surge that are pressing issues today. region. Many of the feature of the bay makde it resistant to issues
Reduced Inundation Suceptibility
Existing // Section
Upland Urban Density
Existing // Section
Channel Depth Highly Urbanized Upland
Deepened Channel Marsh Expansion // Contraction Reduced Salt Marsh With significant upland development and urbanization; infrastructure projects including JFK airport and dredging; and significant polution the historic marshes have retreated and given way to deeper dredged channels (for navigation) that foster eriosion and dangerous surge events.
Increased Vessel Traffic
Proposed // Section
Upland Urban Density
Proposed // Section
Channel Depth Urbanized Upland Condition
Shallowed Channel Marsh Expansion // Contraction Expanded Salt Marsh
Right Typological temporal sections with urban fabric, canal depth, and vegetal extent diagrams
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Infrastructural Backbone
With the introduction of a field of landforms sedimentation is encouraged and erosion is mitigated promoting regeneration and expansion of existing salt marshes. The existing channels are shallowed over time, reducing greatly the amount of water that can enter the bay during a storm event. New development infrastructure is situated atop the piling and walls conposing the sedimentation landforms.
ACADEMIC // CIT Y FLUX
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Landform // Sediment Bags
Backbone // Permanent
Occupation // Temporary
Dewater geotextile tubes represent the soft landform infrastructure interventions. The bags are constructed of bio-degradable material to allow slow decomposition. As the bags degrade and their sediment spills from the tubes, it fosters the creation of new, localized marshes and estuarine ecologies. Pedestrian Access Bicycle // Pedestrian Mooring Connections Mass Transit // Light Rail Sediment Bags
Landform // Concrete Wall
Support Pilings
Water // Sewer
Concrete walls represent the proposal’s hard-infrastructure interventions. The walls are constructed of concrete and, depending on orientation, either disrupt or focus tidal flows resulting in conditions favorable for sediementation and power generation, respectively.
Power Generation // Temporary
Recreation // Temporary
Landform // Pillings & Piers
Bicycle // Pedestria Bicycle // Pedestrian Mooring Connections Pilings are the most flexible infrastructural component of the proposed intervention. They can be used in the construction of the Concrete Wall and Sediment Bags; they can also be employed on their own to support structure above water or to anchor a floating structure. Depending on their spacing and patterning the pilings also serve to interact with water flow to accumulate sediment, diffuse damaging waves, and mitigate storm surges.
Sediment Bags Support Pilings
Tidal Power Generation Services Conduit Concrete Walls
Clockwise L to R Contour plan exploring responsive landform interventions; urban infrastructure typologies; regional infrastructure alignment study
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ACADEMIC // CIT Y FLUX
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05 - 10 year marsh growth 10 - 20 year marsh growth
05 - 10 year marsh growth 10 - 20 year marsh growth 20 - 40 year marsh growth
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Backbone node with two permanent pedestrian/biking paths. Major flux housing development.
Permanent pedestrian/biking node. Minor flux housing development.
Above Lateral urban development diagram of infrastructural and heirarchical development Below Secondary development diagram of secondary occupation expansion from primary infrastructure core
10 - 20 year marsh growth 20 - 40 year marsh growth
05 - 10 year marsh growth 10 - 20 year marsh growth
05 - 10 year marsh growth
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Backbone node with one temporary pedestrian/biking paths. Major flux housing development.
Backbone node. Major flux housing development.
Above Site Details illustrating potential urban nodes arranged around infrastructural backbone and secondary networks
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ACADEMIC // CIT Y FLUX
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Infrastructural Ecologies GSD1211: Landscape Architecture Core III Critics: Pierre Belanger + Andrea Hansen Site: Cape Cod Canal, Massachusett Partners: Lief Estrada + Han Xu The Cape Cod Canal (CCC), first opened in 1914, connects Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay. It currently serves coastal-tanker and commercial-barge traffic. It is, however, obselete infrastructure: the economics of shipping is dictating ever larger ships; with shrinking budgets, government is looking to divest itself of costly, unnecessary assets; and the canal currently only benefits a few, distant corporations, while the burdens (an ecological desert, oil spills, and limited occupational opportunities) are born locally. The purpose of this project is to develop vegetatal strategies to catalyze long-term change to landforms, ecologies, and occupation. By investigating and understanding the detailed function of vegetation they can be leveraged; systemic change can be spurred through seeding interventions. This proposal transitions the CCC from its current condition to an ecological infrastructure.
Lef t Vegetation analysis examining life-cycle, response to slope, salinity, light, and innundation
Above vegetation detail for Zostera maritima showing vegetal and sexual propagation characteristics Below timeline showing transition of canal profile, shipping volume, and vegetal composition
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ACADEMIC // INFRASTRUCTURAL ECOLOGIES
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Above Perspective showing intervention in brackish transitional zone between fresh upland spawning site and saline canal Right Intervention catalogue: granite blocks, planted Spartina, dredge berms
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The Blind Landscape: Field + Permiability Harvard First-Semester Core Studio Gary Hilderbrand Imaginary Site Text Goes Here
Above Perspectives showing canal storm surge and bio-fuel berm interventions, and residential retreate Below Typological landforms from transitioned canal
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Lef t (previous) Analytical plan(s) exploring watershed connectivity, slope adjacencies, and existing aquatic infrastructure Above Sectional and temporal model of canal bathymetry
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Urban The Blind Landscape: Gradients Field + Permiability GSD1211: Landscape Architecture Core II Critics: Anita Berrizbeitia & Luis Callejas Site: Franklin Park, Boston
Franklin Park is a 527-acre park in Boston designed by Fredrick Law Olmsted in the 1880s. The park is Harvard the southernmost First-Semester component Core Studio in the string of parks Gary Hilderbrand known as the Emerald Necklace, which begins in Imaginary the Back Bay Siteand winds through the city until its termination in Dorchester, where the park is located. Text Goes Here Focusing on the northeastern portion of the park, the site is large, with dramatic topographical change, and weak spatial, material, and programmatic definition. Attempting to work with the park ’s palimpsest, the proposal reintroduces a reimagined version of the orginal Greeting to address spatial, social, and programmatic goals. In contrast to the uniformity of the original mall, the new Greeting contains a path whose width and extent responds to existing vegetation and topography to create rooms and hallways through manipulation of vegetation and the groudn plane. The path itself is a hallway with the interior recreation areas as rooms; expanded and diverted moments along the path represent rooms within the path.
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Previous Planometric sections Above Detail plans of path and vegetation strategies
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ACADEMIC // URBAN GRADIENTS
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The Blind Landscape: Field + Permiability Harvard First-Semester Core Studio Gary Hilderbrand Imaginary Site Text Goes Here
Clockwise Perspective; site plan of circulation and vegetation; and programmatic serial sections
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Recycling Infrastructure GSD1211: Landscape Architecture Core II Critics: Anita Berrizbeitia & Luis Callejas Site: Fischer Hill Reservoir, Boston This student project is based in an abandoned reservoir in a hilltop residential neighborhood. This proposal aims to craft the atmosphere of the reservoir (the air space between the bottom of the tree canopy and the ground plane) through the careful modulation of light transmission. To achieve this, the reservoir is planted in a regularizing grid with species selection based on canopy light transmission values and leaf characteristics to balance performance and experience. Each of the three segments of the grid contains a specific ratio of three different categories of trees to both manage the overall amount of light reaching the reservoir floor and to create contrasting light experiences. Further, the strict maintenance of the bottom of the trees creates a flat plane, intended as an indexical registration of the historic water level, in which the visitor would exist. This registration is reinforced by a change in material color along the reservoir berm.
Above Sections of lighting experience, heat mapping, and radiation absorption
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ACADEMIC // RECYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE
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Clockwise Site Plan showing planting variation and leaf characteristics; perspective of light transmission; and study model photograph
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Surface The Blind + Edge Landscape: Field + Permiability GSD1111: Landscape Architecture Core I Critics: Gary Hilderbrand & Silvia Benidito Site: Seaport District, Boston
This student project focuses on conceptualizing a new urban square at a waterfront site in South Boston. With inspiration from Mathur and Da Cunha’s SOAK, the focus of the project was the inderderminant b oundary between the water and the land. Harvard H ar var vard d FFirst-Semester irst-S irs t-Seme emee st ste te r C Core ore St Studi Studio ud do The Leça pools Gary Gar y Hild H Hilderbrand lderb erbran ran rand an n dby Alvaro Siza were the precedent landform forSit Imaginary Imagin Ima gi ary Si Site ithe t e design. The concept of platforms and the relationship between regular and irregular landforms were Textthe Tex Goes Goe oe primary e s He Here e re r concepts carried forward. The project contains a terrace platform, estuary platform, and water platform. In an inversion of Leça, the existing site is regular, and the irregular forms protrude therefrom. The project creates an indeterminant land-water boundary by creating a walkway across the site that at times is 40m removed from the ocean and other times is completely enveloped by water.
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Above Perspective of land-water interface at mean tide.
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Above Detail plan of upland urban estuary, waterfront plaza, and submerged granite platforms Above Tidal inundation diagram Below Section of plaza and estuary spaces transitioning from urban fabric to intertidal zone
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The Constructed Landscape SD6242: Ecologies, Technologies, Techniques IV Alistair McIntosh + Niall Kirkwood Meyer Gate, Harvard University Partner: Devin Dobrowolski The constructed landscape is explored through the relationship between an existing built landscape work and design detail. This exercise looks to reconstruct the Meyer gate between the Old Yard and the Science Center Plaza with details that evoke traditional New England stone walls, by the removal of existing design flourishes. The proposed design references the existing brick design through the vertical width of the proposed stone units.
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Future Ecologies GSD6241: Ecology, Technology, Techniques III Peter Del Tredici North Common Meadow, Petersham, MA Projecting old-field sucession requires a systematic understanding of plant communities, site conditions, environmental trends, and human intervention. This field-study projection examines the sectional change to a portion of a meadow site recently transitioned to an un-managed condition. Speculating on temperature, moisture, and climatic changes mature trees are anticipated to shade out existing grasses and vines are expected to flourish.
Below Tree morphology study
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ViewBlind The From Landscape: Above Field + Permiability GSD2142: Landscape Representation III Luis Callejas + Fadi Masoud Avalanche Structures, Siglufjรถrรฐur, IS
This student project is a thorough exploration of a precedent project through the production of over 20 drawings of the siteCore -- ranging Harvard First-Semester Studio from atmospheric perspectives to figure-ground drawings. The process Gary Hilderbrand emphasizes the exhaustive depiction of the ground Imaginary Site plane and the exploration of phenomenological Text Goesover qualities Heretime, while simultaneously exploring the range of current representation techniques.
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Avalanche Defense Structures Landslagsarkitektar Siglufjรถrรฐur, IS 0
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Clockwise Context plan; hypsometric tint color ramp, exploded axonometric diagram, vegetation growth cycle diagram
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Reviving Town Branch Lexington, Kentucky Scape Studio PLLC, 2014 G. Wirth, A. Weber Town Branch Commons weaves a linear network of public space along the path of a long-buried stream in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. The newly exposed water network adapts to the particulars of its surrounding environment. The proposal amplifies emerging districts within the city and invites sympathetic programming and development. Taking advantage of superfluous vehicular space through roadway realignment and surface parking removal, Town Branch Commons introduces a new narrative to Lexington that is embedded in a dynamic and productive public realm. Here Design Guidelines for typical blocks and design element typologies are a part of a comprehensive Feasibility Report created subsequent to the initial competition.
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EyeBAM Brooklyn, New York Scape Studio PLLC, 2014 C. Barnes EyeBAM is a mixed-use and cultural building in downtown Brooklyn. Mayor Bloomberg selected a team of six entities, including Scape, to develop the city-owned parcel. The proposed 12-story building includes a outdoor, rooftop terrace/deck and an 11th story conservatory. The working plan creates various spaces with different character while also creating as dense a vegetation plan as practical.
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Light Play! Syracuse, New York STOSS, 2012 Competition E. Prince, A. Whitesides, M. Klemens, S. Bishop Light-Play! is about shaping healthy bodies, a healthy street, and a healthy and vibrant community in the Near Westside. It plays with light and colorful and fun materials to create a new identity for Wyoming Street, a new activity center for neighborhood life, and playful new surfaces and structures that inspire movement in people of all ages. Here
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Inspiration Port Credit Mississauga, Ontario STOSS, 2013 M. Klemens, A. Whitesides Inspiration Port Credit establishes a Comprehensive Strategic Master Plan for the Imperial Oil Limited’s former refinery site and Canada Lands Company Limited’s Port Credit Harbour Marina site. The proposed, responsive development scenarios for varying commercial and residential spaces are based in demographic, massing, economic, and occupational statistics, which are inputs into a massing model to visualize the impacts of a host of quantitiative assumptions.
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hard cap 100% 150 $ 2,758,925 $
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