Carly Troncale
Urban Vegetation as Cultural Ecology Harvard Graduate School of Design Landscape Architecture Master Candidacy Portfolio 2016
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Contents Studio Course Work: 4-7 8-11
Seoul Wings: Free Riding as Participatory Design, 2016 Landscape Architecture Option Studio Critic: Niall Kirkwood
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Flux City:Suburban Wild, 2015 Landscape Architecture IV Critic: Sergio Lopez-Pineiro Project collaborator: Rachel Bedet
Urban Planning + Occupied Vacancy: The Value of Spontaneous Vegetation in Legacy Cities, 2015 Urban Planning Option Studio Critic: Daniel D’Oca
14-17 Edge Condition Intervention, 2014 Landscape Architecture II Critic: Jill Desimini 18-19
Surface + Depth, 2014 Landscape Architecture II Critic: Jill Desimini Guest Workshop: Martha Schwartz
20-21 Scales of Time, 2014 Landscape Architecture II Critic: Jill Desimini
Vegetation Research:
22-23 Cambridge Common Allee, 2016 Poetics of Planting Design II Instructors: Danielle Choi + Kimberly Mercurio 24
The Urban Wild of Bussey Brook Meadow, 2015-16 Independent Study Advisor: Peter Del Tredici
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Between Tide and Time, Extending the National Seashore, 2014 Landscape Architecture III Critic: Pierre Belanger Project collaborators: Mailys Meyer + Leo Yuanji
26-27 Vegetation Study: Seattle, Why So Lush?, 2015 Urban Planning Option Studio Critic: Daniel D’Oca 28-29 The Sculpted Forest: A Study of Salon de Pinos, 2014 Vegetal City: Projecting Urban Canopy Critics: Gary Hilderbrand+ Sonja Duempelmann
Public Sculpture and Exhibitions: 30
ANSR Victory! Victory! One Land, One Ocean, One Sky, 2011 Screaming from the Mountain, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway
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ANSR Building Dwelling, 2011 Kristiansand, Norway
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ANSR Second Pink, 2009 Richmond, Virginia
Analog Drafting: 33
Boston Quarry Studies, 2014 Spring Pre-Semester Workshop “Landscape in the City” Instructors: Jill Desimini + Luis Callejas
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Material study, 2013 Landscape Architecture I Workshop: Peter Beard Various Years Vegetal and urban studies
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Contact: Carly Troncale carlytroncale@gmail.com 857-919-0647 cargocollective.com/carlytroncale
“-Kate My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.� Orff, Founder of SCAPE Landscape Architecture Studio
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Seoul Wings: Free Riding as Participatory Design, 2016 Landscape Architecture Option Studio Critic: Niall Kirkwood Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea is a car-centric region, completely out of scale for the pedestrian and biker. This project considers the freeway in the city as a creator of odd spaces to be reclaimed, layered and adapted into existing infrastructure. This site lies at the freeway intersection of five roads next to the Han River. Dirt jump or free riding trails are most often hand built by the bikers themselves and rebuilt after they erode from use or weather. Involving the local biking subculture of Seoul in the rebuild process was my main goal for this project. Most dirt jump trails are found in the woods, creating the experience of jumping and flying through the canopies. At this site, the jumping can be observed from the surrounding freeway intersections. Picrasma quasioides, in some circles considered invasive, is also revered as a strong and resilient tree species that regenerates by suckering. It is managed during the rebuild process when the roots are exposed. Picrasma also helps stabilize the slope, and acts as a screen for seating areas.
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Seoul Wings: Free Riding as Participatory Design
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We can make a place that’s just for us.
leaves 15-40cm inflorescence 8-15cm
3yrs Grows up to 1m in first year. Planted at 2” caliper. EARLY SPRING
drupe 6-7mm
10 yrs 7m Annual growth rate .8m for root sprouts.
10m spread EARLY SUMMER
20yrs 15m mature tree.
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Tree planting on a modified slope, from 5-50%.
Suckering roots exposed through air spading.
Seoul Wings: Free Riding as Participatory Design
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Seoul Wings: Free Riding as Participatory Design
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Urban Planning + Occupied Vacancy: The Value of Spontaneous Vegetation in Legacy Cities, 2015 Urban Planning Option Studio Critic: Daniel D’Oca This study focused on vacant lots in St. Louis. Most people consider them empty, abandoned, and dangerous spaces. I introduce a new perspective, that these lots are full of vegetation, and not vacant at all. They have been formed over time by property lines, disregard of property lines, and mowing techniques. This project seeks to integrate the existing vegetation into a design that reframes their value and potential as important sites in the urban landscape. By using chain link fence as a design element in the lots, I propose to create new pockets of vegetation and highlight existing ones, all managed by mowing techniques and fluid movement through property lines.
Site Context and Vacant Lots 8
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THE BORDERLINES
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Existing Species Urban Planning + Occupied Vacancy 10
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Flux City: Suburban Wild Generative Neighborhood Plan
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Flux City:Suburban Wild, 2015 Landscape Architecture IV Critic: Sergio Lopez-Pineiro Project Collaborator: Rachel Bedet All drawings these pages by C. Troncale. Societal and vegetal sprouting is our interpretation of the societal and vegetal wild. The social wilderness is a community that shares space and expands or contracts based on their needs. They live off the grid and may commute to the city but are not dependent on it for their electricity and water needs.Much like spontaneous vegetation grows up where there is opportunity and adapts to changing environments, human environments can respond in the same way by sprouting urbanism. 12
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Shotgun Modular Single Family Home 60m2
High Density Shotgun Homes
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Water Tower Holds: 1875 gallons/ 2 weeks water supply
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Addition 4.5m Pool
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Floating Shotgun Modular
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Wind Turbine Produces: 13,000 kw/h/yr
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High Density Homes on Stilts
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Free Standing Solar Panels Produces: 1000 kw/yr
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Edge Condition Intervention, 2014 Landscape Architecture II Critic: Jill Desimini A redesign of the edge of Franklin Park, originally by Frederick Law Olmsted in Boston, Massachusetts. A series of pathways lead to platforms that take you around the edge of the park through different programmed experiences. This porous edge condition allows for the city to come in at the edge and also for the paths to branch beyond the site towards the golf course and wilderness area. As you walk through either side of the paths you come across 3 different circuits of platforms which are a series of modest achievable interventions that accumulate to activate the edge. There are 3 platform circuits around the edge based on topographical altitudes. These interventions turn the edge of Franklin Park into an inviting space that is open to multiple possible uses and experiences. 14
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Surface + Depth, 2014 Landscape Architecture II Critic: Jill Desimini Guest Workshop: Martha Schwartz All of the design elements are kept below eye level within the urban context. Sweeping pathlines lead across the space. A subtle land bridge connects the City Hall entrance with the T station entrance. The areas between paths are populated with three different elements: granite rocks for seating, flat water areas to walk across, and urban meadow plantings (also for seating and walking through). These are easily accessible from the pathways. In the warmer seasons, the plants and water are activated, while in the winter, rocks and the sunken spaces created by the plantings and water holes each create their own interest when covered with snow or frozen over. The compartments reference the city grid and simulate building volumes on a small scale. 18
Surface + Depth
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Scales of Time, 2014 Landscape Architecture II Critic: Jill Desimini This project is a redesign of the Fisher Hill Reservoir in Boston, Massachusetts. The reservoir is no longer in use. The concept is to reveal the layers of time through exposing the materials in the berm. They are made of concrete, silt loam, roxbury stone (or puddingstone), and clay. The trees are Populus tremuloides, quaking aspen. When planted they spread by rhizomes and create stands of trees by single clone. The two main paths that cut through the berm connect to two roads leading to two other reservoirs (Chestnut Hill and Brookline), extending the concept of the reservoir walk. 20
Scales of Time
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Proposed new trees: Robinia pseudoacacia, black locust Existing Trees: 1. Quercus palustris, pin oak 2. Acer platanoides, Norway maple 3. Tilia americana, American linden 4. Fraxinus americana, white ash 5. Quercus robur, red oak 6 Tilia cordata, littleleaf linden 7. Gledetsia triacanthos, honey locust 8. Acer saccarinum, silver maple 9. Castanea dentata, American chestnut 10. Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip tree
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Cambridge Common Allee, 2016 Poetics of Planting Design II Instructors: Danielle Choi + Kimberly Mercurio Cambridge Common has its origins in the 17th century as grazing land, a place where multiple desire lines and transport routes converged. The relationship between circulation and planting on the Common has fluctuated dramatically over the years, evident through a complex palimpsest of circulation ways and rows of trees in varying states of growth and decline.
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I chose to insert a hedge of Robinia pseudoacacia among the existing trees to create a unique interpretation of the allee as planting typology. Fast growing, 2’ (.6m) per year over a 10 year period.Upright with a straight trunk becoming ragged and scraggly with age, black locust develops thickets and seeds freely, suckers from roots, can spread in habit with many trunks. An “alley cat” type tree, it can survive tough conditions like poor soil. 22
Cambridge Common Allee
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The Urban Wild of Bussey Brook Meadow, 2015-16 Independent Study Advisor: Peter Del Tredici As part of an ongoing independent study project at the Harvard Graduate School of Design advised by Peter Del Tredici, this research aims to expand a botanical survey of Bussey Brook Meadow that will be followed by the creation of a new online map of the spontaneous vegetation on the Arboretum’s website. This mapping technique used ArcGIS to georeference locations and generate a dispersal survey of several selected species of woody plants in the urban wild area of the Arboretum, hitherto uncatalogued. This deep site analysis allowed me as a landscape architecture student to understand how changes in the landscape affect wild plants and their growth patterns. I can then use this knowledge as a design management tool in reference to plant succession. The map (in progress) links the georeferenced trees in BBM to a specific disturbance that caused their emergence, showing that each species is flourishing in it’s specific site as a response to very specific conditions. 24
Marsh vegetation
Programming
Between Tide and Time, Extending the National Seashore, 2014 Landscape Architecture III Critic: Pierre Belanger Project collaborators: Mailys Meyer, Leo Yuanji (All drawings these pages by C. Troncale) Located in the southern marshes of Cape Cod, our site and strategy lies in the zone between tide and time. In order to have more control over land use regulations and the mixture of public and private properties, we extended the National Seashore boundary to the southern coast, and designed a coastal meadow as a strategy that migrates with sea level rise and protects against erosion while opening up new estuaries of occupation.Each time we refer to a zone, we are talking about a porous, inde terminate area that is in constant movement. We see sea level rise on Cape Cod as an opportunity to gain more coastal zone inland and not as a loss.
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Vegetation Study: Seattle, Why So Lush? 2015 Urban Planning Option Studio Critic: Daniel D’Oca This exercise explores the tree typologies and varying widths of the northern area of Martin Luther King Junior Way in Seattle, Washington as it arcs through the city. It is framed by trees of differing height, age and diameter as well as sidewalks and bike lanes on either the interior or exterior of the tree wells next to the street. 26
Vegetation Study: Seattle, Why So Lush
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The Sculpted Forest: A Study of Madrid Rio, Salon de Pinos, West 8, 2014 Vegetal City: Projecting Urban Canopy Critics: Gary Hilderbrand+ Sonja Duempelmann A semester of research of the Salon de Pinos design by West 8 resulted in a detailed diagrammatic section of the materials and tree wells used to create the green roof over the highway along the River Manzanares. 28
The Sculpted Forest
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Victory!Victory! One Land, One Ocean, One Sky, 2011 Kristiansand, Norway Screaming from the Mountain, Landscapes and Viewpoints Exhibition at Sørlandets Kunstmuseum Cultiva Express Artist Grant An edible garden planted in collaboration with the new Mean Bean Cafe, which served delicious organic dishes from garden harvests. celebrating self-sufficiency, and the intersection of food, art, community, and urbanism. 30
Building Dwelling, 2010 Town Square, Kristiansand, Norway West Agder County Artist Stipend, Cultiva Express Artist Grant Exhibition of models and found objects.Modular architecture, drawings of utopian landscapes and potential futures. Container as a gallery. Autonomous, reusable, and nomadic.investigation in planning and collaboration. 31
Second Pink, 2004 Public Sculpture, Richmond, Virginia In collaboration with a construction crew, 15 plywood boards were painted pink and returned to the workers. Their instructions were to use them as they originally would as part of the building. They would become a “secret� part of the apartment building being built. The building burned to the ground in an accident leaving the pink boards exposed once again. 32
Hybrid Drawing, Boston Quarry Studies, 2014 Spring Pre-Semester Workshop “Landscape in the City” Instructors: Jill Desimini and Luis Callejas 33
Analog Drafting, Material study, 2013 Landscape Architecture I Workshop: Peter Beard (Deteriorating sidewalk sealant) 34
Analog Drafting, Various Years Vegetal and urban studies 35