CHRISTINA G. McCALLUM
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGE
The following project was an international competition for DC Water in Washington, DC. My role was deputy project manager on our team of landscape architecture and civil engineer professionals, where I was very involved throughout the two phase process of design development, site and construction drawings, cost estimation, project narrative, proposal package and presentation. We proposed a Symbiotic Streetscape model, which is a synergistic design that dynamically integrates green infrastructure and manages stormwater in urban streetscapes. A fusion of bio-filter zones, permeable landscapes, and low
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GI CHALLENGE McKissack & McKissack 901 K Street, NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20001 www.mckissackdc.com
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impact development technologies develop a complex, yet flexible stormwater management system. The concept could be retrofitted into any streetscape, as it is modified to work around areas with low utility and mature tree congestion and be located in significant drainage areas. Our team won a finalist position for the streetscape category in the first phase of the two phase competition that spanned over a year.
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This was a proposal for an international ideas competition of reconnecting people to nature and highlighting the positive relationship between humanity and the natural environment through educational and recreational design elements. The site is Omneberget in the High Coast, Kvarken Archipelago in Sweden which is a UNESCO world heritage site. In response to the site’s continuous post-glacial rebound, the proposed concept is an informative viewpoint whose structure is built around the physical representation of local geological and human history.
SUPPLY BUILDING 2 DEMO LANDSCAPE The proposed site demolition of this previous 1977 Estuary Wastewater Treatment plant converted into a warehouse building, Supply Building 2, involved the redevelopment and preparation of the site to create an efficient Green Parking Lot on DC Water’s Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant. Phases of Demolition, Erosion and Sediment Control, Stormwater Managment, Site Utilities to be reconstructed, relocated, or maintained, Utility details, Traffic Control, and Landscape Plans were developed to address a sustainable, stormwater management solution for the degraded site.
CLEARVIEW PARK GOLF COURSE This is the site of my final masters project in the New York City borough of Queens. It is in the heart of the east side and the largest green space, at 45 ha., in Queens with great potential to kickstart a domino effect that will integrate holistically with Queens’ west side. There is a prominent need for the site to become more of a community space flexible with the core golf course environment - which is the challenge. As Clearview Park Golf Course is classified by the city as a park, it now needs to indeed transition into one that benefits the immediate communities as well as the borough of Queens and New York City.
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CLEARVIEW PARK CONTINUED The main objective was to transition the public 18-hole golf course into a compact 9-hole model, more appropriate for a dense urban environment, which efficiently integrates within a flexible multi-functional park reflecting a renewed sense of place and identity in sync with the diverse surrounding Queens community. This model would give the community more access to the mass green space and would essentially become a bustling hub of activity with the multiple sports and environments introduced. Multi-use green spaces which are accessible to the masses are vital to the success of cities and people’s health.
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WAVERLY PLAZA Waverly Plaza is a lost space in Edinburgh, Scotland that is cornered by the hustle and bustle of Princes Street and Waverly Train Station, bordering the Old Town and the New Town with no clear identity. The space was a team project in collaboration with architect and urban design students. We developed our design based on thorough studies and analyses of Gordon Cullen’s serial vision, cognitive and intuitive approaches, Kevin Lynch’s imageability, and local integration maps.
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Canary Wharf LI Competition
Applecross - Torridon Planning & Rural Study
The Canary Wharf Landscape Architecture Competition was a student competition held by the UK’s Landscape Institute in search of a design for the vacant Wood Wharf to be a flexible event space for the London Olympics 2012. In collaboration with two classmates during
The open space off Saunders Street in the Stockbridge neighborhood was a project for a landscape construction module. The proposed design addressed the need to provide a welcoming and functional green space within this charming area in Edinburgh. Corten steel and teak wood were the main materials for the featured term time, we successfully created a movable and sustainable design solution, with the key element of docking pallets inspired by the wharf’s shipping history. We were awarded Special Mention out of over 200 submissions across the UK.
This individual project was an assignment of a modern sculpture at Edinburgh’s Modern Museum of Art which we had to create an environment that responded to the sculpture through a module made in 24 hours. I was assigned Rachel Whiteread’s Untitled (Pair), 1999, bronze with cellulose paint. Once you look beyond the simplicity of the sculpture, there is potential for it to inspire a wholesome place of reflection. The vision was for this sculpture to be placed in a clearing amidst the redwood forest in Muir Woods. The dramatic contrast with the redwood trees height and dark slate base would make the white sculpture pair a foci centered in the clearing that visitors would discover along a trail. This environment is to represent balance, a yin and yang in the subtle concave and convex surfaces of the tomb-like sculpture.
water walls and ground seating under the existing trees. The pavement was designed in a bold ripple pattern with different shades of exposed aggregate concrete to define various rings. The diverse mix of hard materials and additional plantings aimed to create an environment which felt safe and would draw residents in to engage within the space to hold community activities.
A rural study team project of the Applecross and Torridon area in the Highlands of Scotland. Through research, landscape analysis, and character assessments, strategic afforestation solutions were developed to enhance and strengthen the existing nature of the site. We developed landscape planning guidelines for 32 areas of various landscape characters such as mountain/
slopes, valleys, exposed and shielded coastal lochs, plateaus, and moorlands. The general objective was to strengthen the existing fragmented woodland habitat to create a functional woodland corridor network that efficiently connects with the woodland habitat network in the wider context.
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