Andrew Boyd Master of Landscape Architecture - 2016
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Andrew Boyd aboyd@gsd.harvard.edu 路 (203)512-7004
Selected Works Academic he Blind Landscape Field + Permeability Landform Surface + Edge: Indeterminacy Professional Tiger Glen Garden I-Park Design Residency Saw Mill River Restoration Sticks & Stones Farm Mountain Laurel Trail Understory Garden
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he Blind Landscape Instructors: Gary Hilderbrand with Jane Hutton, Zaneta Hong, and Silvia Benedito Core Studio: Fall 2013
his studio focused on the development of understanding canopy, landform, permeability, and planting through the distillation and combination of various precedent works. hese were siteless investigations aproximating the scale of a typical urban plaza
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Permeability Diagram
Sub-Grade -.33M Swale
Granular Pavement 0M Crushed Rock
Unit Pavement 0M Granite Slabs
he modular paving unit of Funenpark by Architekten Cie is used to establish a ield condition of scattered enclosures.
he Blind Landscape
Planting
Permeability
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Christmas Fern Pattern Analysis
Mountain Laurel Pattern Analysis
Detail Model: moss and granite paving
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Vertical Elements of Parc de Pedra Tosca by RCR Arquitectes combined with the horizontal patterning of Roberto Brillo Marx’s Praca Sal Gado Fillo
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Surface + Edge: Indeterminacy Instructors: Gary Hilderbrand with Jane Hutton, Zaneta Hong, Silvia Benedito, and Michael Van Valkenburgh Core Studio: 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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Prunus serotina
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Granite Paving and Planter Open-cell concrete paver
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Pinus rigida
Salt-tolerant Grasses Concrete and shellfish aggregate
Nyssa sylvatica
Turf Grass
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Plan Boston Seaport, MA 0
Scale 1:400
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Precedent Analysis - Brooklyn Bridge Park
Precedent Transformations
Surface+Edge - Indeterminacy
Permeability
Material
Concrete and Mussel Shell Agregate Granular Pavement
Belgian-Block Rubble Unit Pavement
Planting Water
Granite Slabs 0.5 M
Cinder Block Paver
Planting
Program
Low Tide High Tide
Canopy and Understory Pinus rigida
Prunus serotina
Nyssa sylvatica
Nyssa sylvatica
Populus tremuloides
Prunus maratima
Groundcover Sublitoral <0M M. edulis C. virginianica F. Vesiculosus
Eulitoral 0-1.5M M. edulis C. virginianica F. Vesiculosus M. Areneria Upper Eulitoral 1.5-3M F. Vesiculosus Filamentous Algae M. Areneria Spartina
Barrier Beach Community >5M Ammophila Prunus maratima Vaccinium angustifolium Comptonia peregrina
Ilex opaca Planting Boundary
Rhus typhina
Seating and Play
Flexible Terrace Supralitoral 1.5-3m Spartina Ammophila
Turf Grass
Tidal Terrace
Planting
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Tidal Progression
Surface+Edge - Indeterminacy
Colonization and succession are central to the maturation of the park. Silt accumulates in the ribbed mud-lat, encouraging the proliferation of softshell clam. Bright ilamentous algae colonize just below the high water mark to create a mottled tapestry over the terrace.
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Surface+Edge - Indeterminacy
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Tiger Glen Garden Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY Landscape Architect: Marc Peter Keane Role: Moss and hardscape installation Completion: Fall 2011
Tiger Glen is a small courtyard garden fashioned in the Kyoto Tsuboniwa style. Installed at Cornell Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 inal installation.
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Tiger Glen Garden
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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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I-Park Design Residency
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Saw Mill River Restoration
Yonkers, NY Yonkers Planning Department 2010-2013
he Saw Mill River is a tributary of the Hudson River with its conluence in downtown Yonkers, NY. Due to health concerns from industrial pollution the river was sealed oďŹ&#x20AC; in an underground concrete lume in the 1920s. Nearly a century later, the river was uncovered and its banks transformed into a public
park. Andrew coordinated water quality testing, ish species census, and habitat restoration works throughout the watershed. He also documented the transformation and signiicance of the river in a series of 8 interpretive signs and wayinding maps placed throughout the park.
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Saw Mill River Restoration - Interpretive Signage
Creating a New Riverbed
Netting Chamber
The riverbed before you is a newly created path for the Saw Mill River. This area evolved from a wide bay at the mouth of the river to a congested industrial area, with the river channeled along Dock Street. Ultimately it was paved over in the 1920s, with no river in sight until November 2011.
Plastic bags and other garbage can destr ecosystems. A netting chamber was inst ilter this waste from the river before it en park. A special channel is installed to let is
Now the river has been uncovered and engineered to improve water quality, create a habitat for ish species and protect the park from looding. Here are the â&#x20AC;&#x153;working partsâ&#x20AC;? of this unique project:
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Diverts water from the lume into the park.
low into the newly created river path.
Excess water from heavy rain overlows into the lume to prevent looding.
A Âź-mile-long concrete arch, poured in place in the 1920s, covers the Saw Mill River from Warburton Avenue to the train station at the mouth of the river. The lume remains in place for lood prevention. Interpretive signs developed for the City of Yonkers by Groundwork Hudson Valley,
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Fish Ladder
Water Quality Storm Drain
Storm Drain
Sewage and
Outfall to River
Stormwater
Combined Sewage A ish ladder enables ish to swim up a steep elevation through a series of steps into the waters on the other side. Small â&#x20AC;&#x153;poolsâ&#x20AC;? inside the ladder allow the ish to rest between jumps.
Sewage
Separate Sewage
During large storms, the old combined sewer system spilled untreated sewage into the Saw Mill River. Separating the sewer from the stormwater ensures that when it rains, no sewage goes into the river.
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Jumbled rocks and narrowing of the river create turbulence and cause the stream to low at a higher velocity. This turbulence aerates the water and provides resting places for ish on their way upriver. Friends of Philipse Manor Hall, Yonkers Historical Society and Yonkers Public Library.
A conluence is a meeting of two or more bodies of water. Here the new river lows back into the old lume path and meets the Hudson River. Tides from the Hudson low into the tidal pool twice a day.
Sticks and Stones Farm - Mountain Laurel Trail Sticks & Stones Farm 2010-Present
Sticks & Stones Farm is a moss farm, stone yard, public sculpture park. leucobryum moss and mountain laurel are propagated on acres of this hillside terrain. his requires year round maintenance to keep the forest loor clear from debris. In the summer of 2011 a winding, narrow path was constructed using felled timber lodged in the crotch of tree stumps. he recess was then backilled with mulch to create a level switchback trail up the mountain.
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Understory Garden Sticks & Stones Farm 2011
his Garden is an essay in transplanting moss and its pairing with stone. Subtle changes in elevation, humidity, and sunlight may force moss into dormancy. Eight diďŹ&#x20AC;erent species from across the property were used. Moss when used as a ground-cover is unrivaled in its level of detail and variation.
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