Boyd Portfolio - Spring 2016

Andrew Boyd Masters of Landscape Architecture - 2016 Harvard Graduate School of Design

ANDREW BOYD (203)512-7004 · aboyd@gsd.harv Andrew is a designer and environmental professional interested in the integration of infrastructure, public space, and urban hydrology.

EDUCATION 2013 -Present

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Master of Landscape Architecture - 2016 Graduate School of Design - Harvard University Cambridge, MA

DESIGN STUDIO CURRICULUM Infrasttructural Ecologies - Cape Cod, MA Fall 2014

B.A. in East Asian Studies - 2010 Columbia College - Columbia University Thesis - Urban River Systems in Japan New York, NY

Ecological Urbanism - Jamaica Bay, NY Spring 2014 East New York Park System Fall 2015

EXPERIENCE Summer 2014 Present

Fall 2014

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Design Intern Harvard Graduate School of Design Teaching Assistant

New York, NY

Responsive Hydrologies - Louisiana Delta Spring 2014 Cambridge, MA Changing Natural and Built Coastal Environments Falll 2015

Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies Sequence Core IV Studio Spring 2013

Sou Fujimoto Architects Intern

Tokyo, Japan

Groundwork Hudson Valley Project Coordinator

Yonkers, NY

Enivronmental services coordination for river restoration Projects - Saw Mill River Daylighting Summer 2010

Earthworks E4 Sciences LLC Intern

Asher Browne Design LTD Intern

Newtown, CT

Saddle River, NJ

Teiyu Garden Design Intern

Kyoto, Japan

Maintenance and construction - historic and residential 2010 -Present

Sticks & Stones Farm Foreman

Columbia Sociology Department Intern Fieldwork and Surveys on NYC Parks Restoration

PUBLICATIONS

GSD Platform #8 - Work featured from Responsive Hydrologies GSD Platform #7 - Work featured from Core Studio I

Newtown, CT

Nursery maintenance, installation, moss cultivation, trail work Projects - Tiger Glen Garden, Johnson Museum of Art 2009 -2010

Oscar Lee Award for Research in East Asia - Thesis on Japanese River Systems 2010

Kerb Journal # 23 Sense and Sensibilities - Work featured by David Mah

Pruning, planting, and garden maintenance Projects- Shofuso Garden in Fairmount Park, PA Spring 2011

AWARDS I-Park Residency Competition Awarded in the category of Landscape Design 20132014

Bathymetric mapping of Hudson River Fall 2010

Urbanization in the East Asian Region Fall 2015 Large Landscape Conservation of America’s Rivers Pueblo, CO 2014

Scale modeling and CAD design Projects - 2013 Serpentine Pavilion Competition 2011 -2013

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

New York, NY

Skills AutoCAD Rhino ArcMap Adobe Creative Suite Mastercam

Maya Habitat Mapping Patch Analyst Hydrology Analyst Construction Admin

Table of Contents + Academic Surface + Edge - Indeterminacy Open Space Sytem - East New York Meadowlands Urban Atolls Infrastructural Ecologies

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+ Professional Waller Creek Corridor Framework Plan Tiger Glen Garden I-Park Design Residency Saw Mill River Restoration

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+ Research Hydroculture Large Landscape Conservation Structural Detail Studies

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Surface+Edge - Indeterminacy

Surface + Edge: Indeterminacy Instructors - Zaneta Hong with Gary Hilderbrand Core Studio I Fall 2013

Addressing issues of urban pattern, occupation, and temporality, this project imagines an urban plaza on the Boston waterfront. Tidal patterns create a dynamic topology to unite the urban and litoral experience. Initial formal investigations are derived from Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Brooklyn Bridge Park.

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Open Space East NY

East New York Open Space System Instructor - Ken Smith Option Studio Fall 2015

The Brooklyn Neighborhood of East New York is facing substantial redevelopment due to market gentrification and public policies targeting taimed at increasing the City’s supply of affordable and mixed housing. A public park serves as a scaffold for mass interpretive use while bridging a community divided by the imposing barriers of aging infrastructure. An existing overhead rail trellis serves as the backbone of this urban open forum.

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Meadowlands: Reviving Franklin Park Instructors: Jill Desimini, Anita Berizbeitia Core Studio II - Spring 2014

Only a century ago the forest of New England was feared to be irrecoverably overwhelmed by the agrarian landscape. Now the meadow and pasture have become increasingly removed from the ecological and cultural vernacular. This arc of environmental change is encapsulated nowhere better than Frederick Law Olmstead’s Franklin Park. Originally intended to afford far-reaching vistas of pastoral fields, Franklin Park is now dominated by canopy.

Meadowlands proposes a reintegration of grassland habitat as a microcosm of our agrarian heritage.

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Urban Atoll

Urban Atoll Instructors - Chris Reed, David Mah Collaborator - Daniel Widis Core IV Studio Spring 2015

Urban Atolls responds to the new economic, cultural, and ecological forces defining the modern metropolis. With the loosening of traditional spatial relationships between work and home, and the rise of an increasingly nomadic creative class, there is a generational tension to live “off-the grid� but not completely disconnected from amenities of modern living; a desire to be accessible to nature, yet not anti-modern. Centered around the creation of new marshland in Jamaica Bay, the project posits a future disconnected from the metropolitan chaos of New York City, yet still undeniably urban.

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Infrastructural Ecologies

Infrastructural Ecologies: Coastal Pathways of Waste West Falmouth Harbor, Cape Cod Instructors: Pierre Belanger, Rosetta Elkin Partners - Elise Bluell, Maria Arroyo Core Studio Fall 2014 Coastal wastewater treatment facilities are critical infrastructures particularly vulnerable to the impact of sea level rise. Current best-practices for waste disposal and nutrient treatment are unequpied for rising groundwater and increased salinity. An equally vital infrastructural network of saltwater wetlands is also affected by rising water levels as endemic species lack effective strategies for sediment accretion. This project retools the treatment wetland through a novel ecotone of grass and reed species to accomodate nutrient loads and accelerate sediment accretion rates to match the pace of sealevel rise.

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Waller Creek Corridor Framework Plan Austin, TX Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Gullivar Shephard, Danielle Choi, Evan Blondell, Katherine Liss

Waller Creek is the center of an urban renewal connecting key public spaces in Austin’s growing downtown. Andrew negotiated MVVA’s new trail allignment with the interests of contiguous private developers. Work ranged from rendered plans, elevation studies, rendered perspectives, and a sectional analysis of the riverbed.

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Tiger Glen Garden

Tiger Glen Garden Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY Landscape Architect: Marc Peter Keane Completion: Fall 2011

Tiger Glen is a small courtyard garden fashioned in the Kyoto Tsuboniwa style. Installed at Cornell University’s Johnson Museum of Art in the fall of 2011, Andrew was involved with the project from its initial planning in 2010 for stonework and moss cultivation as well as the final installation.

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I-Park Design Residency

I-Park Design Residency I-Park Sculpture Park, East Haddam, CT Landscape Design Residency Competition 2012-Present

I-Park is a 100 acre wilderness retreat and sculpture park for visual artists and designers. Andrew was awarded a residency for the creation of an outdoor enclosure inspired by the ritual of open-air tea ceremonies in Japan.

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Saw Mill River Restoration

Yonkers, NY Yonkers Planning Department 2010-2013

The Saw Mill River is a tributary of the Hudson River with its confluence in downtown Yonkers, NY. Due to health concerns from industrial pollution the river was sealed off in an underground concrete flume in the 1920s. Nearly a century later, the river was uncovered and its banks transformed into a public

park. Andrew coordinated water quality testing, fish species census, and habitat restoration works throughout the watershed. He also documented the transformation and significance of the river in a series of 8 interpretive signs and wayfinding maps placed throughout the park.

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Hydroculture

Hydroculture - From H20 to Hydrocarbon Singapore Instructors: Pierre Belanger Singapore is a nation on the cutting edge of water conservation and recycling, but there is little analysis on its water use by sector. The spatial infrastructure that connects water to coastal oil refineries is investigating through a series of mapping analyses.

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Riparian Landscape Conservation in Eastern Colorado

Riparian Landscape Conservation Arkansas River, Eastern Colorado Colaborator - Scott Campbell, Loeb Fellow 2014-2015 The Arkansas River flowing through South Eastern Colorado is a water-stressed agricultural region that predates other high-profile water conflicts like California by several decades.. This study analyzes the area as a microcosm that represents probable outcomes of water stress based on rates of water transfer from agriculutural operations to urban consumption.

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Structural Detail Studies

Structural Detail Studies Instructors: Alistair McIntosh, Niall Kirkwood The role of the discipline of landscape architecture is first, to describe and understand the found environment of a particular site and deploy means to achieve a sustainable bio/physical infrastructure for society; second, to shape social spaces for contemporary life in all its varying values, conditions and attitudes and finally, to express an understanding of the world – a concept of the nature of nature. How can a specific schematic design that seeks to embody these expressive goals be developed through design development and physically realized in landscape architecture?

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