Chloé Skye Nagraj | Portfolio

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M AS T E R O F L A N D S C A P E A R C H I T E C T U R E UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | 2020 1

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CONTENTS

1 ..................................................................... Resume

DESIGN 5 ............................ Thesis: Decommission as Design 19 .......................................... Transforming Tal Katora 58 ........................................................Shifting Mosaic 68 .......................................................... Lived Tapestry 76 ................................ Which Way You Ought to Go

COURSEWORK 79 ..................................... Planted Form and Function 85 ................................................................. Modeling

PROFESSIONAL 89.....................................................Residential Design 91 .............. Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects 97 ........................ Wolf | Josey Landscape Architects 99 ........................................ The Fralin Museum of Art 101 ............................................................ Photography

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CHLOE SKYE NAGRAJ EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

University of Virginia University of Virginia College of Arts & Sciences School of Architecture Charlottesville, VA Charlottesville, VA Bachelor’s in Art History and Studio Art Masters of Landscape Architecture 2008-2012 2017–current

Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects | Intern Charlottesville, VA | May 2019—August 2019 Produced Lumion model of Memorial Park Land Bridge design (Houston, Tx); coordination, renderings and animations for video production.

Wolf | Josey Landscape Architects | Intern Charlottesville, VA | May 2018—August 2018 Produced graphics for client presentations, revised construction drawings; produced 3D renderings of furniture and design features; hand rendered site plans.

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia | Curatorial Assistant Charlottesville, VA | December 2014–August 2017 Designed, fabricated, and installed exhibition didactics; production coordination for museum publications; coordinated departmental grants.

LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph | Production Manager Charlottesville, VA | 2012–2014 Managed production of digital projection exhibitions: produced and screened multimedia artist projects to audience of 2,000.

Michael Nichols Photography | Studio Manager Crozet, VA | 2010–2014 Managed photographic archive and studio of Editor-at-large for Photography for National Geographic magazine.

RESEARCH

Master’s Thesis | Decommission As Design: Reconciling Opaque Landscapes UVA, Advised by Bradley Cantrell| August 2019–May 2020 Research + Production Coordinator Material Cartographies book, Matthew Seibert | June 2020–August 2020 Dumbarton Oaks Graduate Workshop Garden and Landscape Studies | May–June 2020 Landscape Architecture Foundation Case Study Investigation | Research Assistant Glenstone, PWP Landscape Architecture, Emma Mendel | January–August 2019 Graham Foundation Grant | Research Assistant University of Virginia| Emma Mendel and Bradley Cantrell | Summer 2018

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TEACHING

Summer Design Institute | Teaching Assistant University of Virginia | Summer 2020 Foundation Studio I, II, III | Teaching Assistant University of Virginia | Fall 2018–Spring 2020

EXHIBITIONS

Design Advocacy: An Exhibit of Inclusionary Practice | Group exhibition University of Virginia School of Architecture | March 2019 Department of Landscape Architecture Accreditation Exhibition | Designer University of Virginia School of Architecture | March 2018 New Acquisitions: Photography | Co-Curator The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA | August 2016–February 2017

INVOLVEMENT

Howland Panel, Department of Landscape Architecture| Co-Organizer University of Virginia | Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Student Association of Landscape Architecture and Design | President University of Virginia | 2017–2019 School of Architecture Exhibitions | Designer University of Virginia | Fall 2017–Spring 2018

AWARDS

ASLA Certificate of Merit, UVA, 2020 Faculty of Landscape Architecture Award for Research Excellence, UVA, 2020 Virginia ASLA Commendation, Residential Category, Awarded for Studio 7010 Project “Lived Tapestries,” 2019 Virginia ASLA Commendation, Analysis and Planning Category, Awarded for Studio 7020 Project “Shifting Ground,” 2019 Raven Society, UVA, 2019 Student Research Grant, UVA, 2019 Landscape Architecture Departmental Merit Scholarship, UVA, 2017–2020 Mellon Symposium Award, Dumbarton Oaks, Fall 2018

PUBLICATIONS

“Designing Decommission: Plum Island, New York,” LUNCH Journal, Vol. 15, 2021

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

OLIN | Externship Philadelphia, PA | January 2020 Ken Smith Workshop | Externship New York, NY | January 2018

CAPABILITIES

Photoshop | InDesign | Illustrator | AfterEffects | AutoCAD | Rhino | Lumion Unity (AR + VR) | ArcGIS | Final Cut Pro | Audacity | CNC Routing | Digital and film photography | Copy editing | Grant writing and administration

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Decommission as Design Reconciling Opaque Landscapes SITE

+ Plum Island, New York Thesis Advisor: Brad Cantrell, Secondary Advisor: Sara Jacobs | August 2019-May 2020 Full project: decommissionasdesign.cargo.site In the United States, colonial power is often perpetuated by limiting access to and information about particular sites.

These opaque landscapes form a substantial network, which includes military, industrial, and waste geographies.

Landscape architecture practice has largely focused on what opaque sites are to become through redevelopment.

While designers are well positioned to translate what is obfuscated or forgotten in these landscapes, by focusing only on the designed outcome of decommission, this opportunity for decolonization and translation is overlooked.

If decommission were to be treated as design, how might we better mitigate the social impact of entangled histories embedded in contested sites? Drawing from existing policy on site remediation and decommissioning, design discourse on military and waste landscapes, relational ontology, and visual discourse analysis, I propose an expanded methodological and representational approach that creates a new space for design within the decommission process motivated by a relational understanding of site history.

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Rethinking Risk: Formerly Used Defense Site [FUDS] Policy

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Through the FUDS program, remediation of former DoD sites is designed to minimize health and economic risks to humans and the environment.

When approached in this way, remediation does not address or mitigate the social risks that are also present because of military occupation, and that continue to exist long after they are “remediated.�

Detail: Remediation technologies typically used by the DoD

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Unruly Boundaries: Decommission as Design

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What would an expanded decommissioning process look like?

One that focuses on focuses on the socio-cultural effects of military occupation and contamination, and seeks to reconcile them through decommission: a process of cultural remediation. Rather than a onesize fits all approach, this should be an interconnected, site-specific cycle of dissolution and maintenance.

This process, as a whole, highlights unruly ways of knowing a place. Unruliness, here, is knowing in spite of a prescribed site narrative or history; knowing in spite of inaccessibility; knowing in spite of forced removal; knowing as a radical act of interpretation.

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Designing Decommission: Plum Island, New York

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Plum Island, New York, a FUDS site off the coast of Long Island, is analyzed as a case study site for this expanded decommissioning process to take place.

Unruly Histories

Plum Island’s most famously opaque identity is as home to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC), operated by the Department of Agriculture since 1954 and since 2001, the Department of Homeland Security. It is being decommissioned in 2022, and its future is contested.

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Test Site 1 (of 3): Harbor

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As the main entry point to the island, the harbor has solely served the needs of PIADC for the past 70 years. The Montaukett tribe is currently advocating for recognition of their connection to Plum Island.

While the island’s future use up in the air, this recognition should happen no matter what this future is. It should happen now, beginning through decommission.

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Test Site: Harbor

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A gridded planting of grey birch, used for boat-building, claims space and acknowledgement that should have been granted long ago through planting, establishment, and maintenance.

The grey birch has a lifespan of 15-20 years; the site can be actively managed or left to grow, over this period of time. Its management can adapt to the short term future of the site, independent of plans for development, conservation, or government reuse.

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Transforming Tal Katora Renewing Jaipur’s Historic Reservoir SITE +

Jaipur, India Yamuna River Project: Jaipur Research Studio Studio IV | Pankaj Vir Gupta + Maria Gonzalez Aranguren | Fall 2019 This proposal uses the renewal of Tal Katora, Jaipur’s historic reservoir, as a vehicle to address the larger urban systems of solid waste, sewage, and stormwater management. Most importantly, the design introduces a central, expanded public space in the historic core of the walled city of Jaipur, where there is, on average, only 2 square meters of green space per capita.

Rapid urbanization over the course of the past three decades has disrupted the original water conveyance systems to the 1727 reservoir with solid waste, resulting in a polluted water body in the historic core of the city. This proposal introduces strategically sited decentralized waste and sewage infrastructure in the neighborhoods surrounding the 14-acre site. The reservoir will include expanded, stepped public spaces with embedded decentralized sewage and stormwater treatment systems.

Circulation will emphasize the central axis of the city—which the site was designed along—renewing the strong linear connection to the historic core of the walled city.

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Analysis: History and Context

Existing Condition

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Included in the original 1727 plans for Jaipur, Tal Katora originally supplied water to the City Palace. It was an important ceremonial site, but in the mid- to late-twentieth century became clogged with solid waste and sewage due to urbanization.

Analysis: Stormwater drainage

Stormwater flows from the Aravalli Hills to Tal Katora. Low points around the site accumulate stormwater and solid waste, which then flow to two drainage inlets One nallah carries sewage from two neighborhoods west of the site, with an inlet at the southwest end of the site.

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Analysis: Solid Waste Management + Tourism

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Uncontainerized open waste depots are the main waste collection infrastructure in Ward 84, where Tal Katora is located. Several of the low points near Tal Katora are also open waste depots, further exacerbating the flow of solid waste into the lake.

Concept: Layered System

This proposal addresses these underlying conditions by expanding the footprint of the site of Tal Katora to include stormwater, sewage, and waste hotspots flowing into the site, while also reconnecting Tal Katora to the central axis it is designed around.

EXISTING

STORMWATER

SEWAGE

WASTE

UNREGULATED FLOWS

DIVERT + TREAT

DECENTRALIZED TREATMENT

COMPOST

monsoon overflow to STP

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STORMWATER RUNOFF, MONSOON SEASON:

Treatment wetland

32,434 CU. M / DAY

Open dump site

PROPOSED WETLAND TREATMENT CAPACITY:

Waste route Sewage + drains Stormwater (surface) Pedestrian circulation

monsoon overflow to STP

WASTEWATER PRODUCTION,PER CAPITA: 189 LPD PROPOSED DEWATS CAPACITY: 63,405 LPD

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33,250 CU. M

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COMPOSTING HUBS

RECONNECT HISTORIC CORE

PROCESS + EXPERIENCE

composting hubs

monsoon overflow to STP

RODUCTION,PER CAPITA: 189 LPD ATS CAPACITY: 63,405 LPD

community waste receptacles

center line of city

WARD 84 WASTE PRODUCTION: 14 TPD SINGLE COMPOST HUB CAPACITY: 3 TPD

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Planting

The three plant palettes are catered to different contaminant types found upland, in stormwater, and in sewage. Visitor’s proximity to plantings depends upon the contamination of soil or water.

KEY heavy metal phytoremediation wastewater phytoremediation

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drought tolerant

Plan: Expanding the Footprint

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Embedded Infrastructure

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A 30 foot wide promenade allows for public access through the entire site. Two 40,000 sq ft. plazas are at either end, centered on the city axis. The two main stormwater inlets are filtered with embedded inlet filters that feed into a detention pond, that then feeds into a wetland.

Treated water flows into the open water area, where water is stored to use for irrigation during the dry season.

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Water Treatment: Divert, Cleanse + Store Top: A decentralized waste water treatment system is embedded underneath the promenade at the nallah inlet. This treats wastewater without the use of electricity at minimal cost and maintenance, and feeds water into a subsurface treatment wetland.

Bottom: Stormwater is diverted into a filtration garden at Pondrik Park north of the site, encouraging infiltration and lessening the load on Tal Katora during monsoon season.

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Experiencing Infrastructure

Proximity to the wetlands and gardens is linked to the water filtration process: around the sewage treatment wetlands, the promenade remains above the grade of the wetland. In the stormwater wetland gardens in Pondrik Park and Tal Katora (below), elevated walkways jut out and begin to wind through. On the side where treated water is stored, visitors are immersed in the gardens, just above the dry season water level.

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Tal Katora Transformed

Compost Hub

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This proposal introduces a new chapter in the history of Tal Katora: a site that once only served the elite, that the city has quite literally turned its back on, is here reimagined as a truly public, multifaceted space, where the functionality of the underlying system and the experience of the site are enmeshed with one another.

Aquatic gardens

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On Shifting Ground Seeding Patch Dynamics in the Southern San Joaquin

SITE

Kern County, CA Prototyping the Territory Studio IV | Bradley Cantrell, Andrea Hansen-Phillips, Michael Goetz, Zihao Zhang | Spring 2019 Collaborators: Gaelle Gourmelon, MLA ‘20; Taryn Wiens, MLA ‘20 *Drawings are my own unless otherwise noted.

The Southern San Joaquin Valley in California has both the highest agricultural production and oil extraction rates in the US. Industry is thriving, but current practices are running up against looming crises: the aquifer is being drawn down, land is subsiding, soil is becoming saline, and groundwater is being contaminated.

This proposal has two main purposes: to develop a menu of strategies for choreographing responsive land use, and to instigate a new imaginary for what the Southern San Joaquin landscape can be.

Instead of the vacuum of care that would result from traditional mass fallowing that will occur as a result of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), we propose a dynamic network that transforms, repurposes, and hybridizes obsolete, static land use patterns into a responsive system. Borrowing from ecological theory, we envision a dynamic patch mosaic—not a predictable succession to a “stable” climax. The success of this approach would be defined less by total annual production or complete environmental control, and more by season-to-season adaptation to changing environmental and social conditions, as well as by the cultural adoption of a new system that can absorb “failure.”

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Opposite: Mapping vulnerabilities. C Nagraj + G. Gourmelon.

TULARE BASIN VULNERABLE NARRATIVES

TULARE BASIN

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Focus area

VULNERABLE Urban area NARRATIVES Potential wildlife corridor

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Focus area Wildlife preserve Urban area

Idle Farm Potential wildlife corridor Wildlife preserve Subsidence Idle Farm Low soil salinity

Medium soil salinity Subsidence High soil salinity Low soil salinity Medium soil Lakesalinity High soil salinity River

Aqueduct Lake Perennial stream River Intermittent stream Aqueduct

Canals Perennial stream Irrigation and ditch canal Intermittent stream Impaired Canals water Hydrologic Irrigation and vulnerability ditch canal Impaired water Decomissioned oil Hydrologic well vulnerability

Decomissioned oil well

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Context: Existing patch types The existing landscape is primarily divided into four single-use patch types: Production orchards, oil fields, protected habitat and water infrastructure like recharge ponds.

I made this series of medium format photographs onsite.

MANAGED AQUIFER RECHARGE Infltration Basin, Kern County Potential for higher social and ecological value

WATER CONVEYANCE Natural (rainwater) and constructed (pipes, wells, canals)

INFILTRATION RATE 4� per day

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Informed by soil structure, subsurface geology, and vegetative cover

COST (PER ACRE-FOOT) $90-$1,100 (cheapest water storage option)

ACCESS Restricted to Water District maintenance

DESIGN Flat, bare basins to maximize infiltration

TYP. M.A.R. SECTION

aquifer

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COST (PER ACRE)

ALMOND ORCHARD Kern County

Establishment: $14,500 Yearly: $4,000-6,000

Potential for advanced sensing, rotation, regenerative farming

VALUE (PER ACRE) $20-30,000 per acre Net return: $1,431 per year (2015)

IRRIGATION

ACCESS

Drip or flood via canals and ditch canals

Dirt roads, mainly farmworkers

WILDLIFE REFUGE Kern County Potential for layered land use

WATER CONVEYANCE Wells, canals

WATER USE LIFESPAN

2.97 acre-feet per acre

25 years; starts producing 3rd year

ORCHARD DESIGN

WATER USE 3.9 acre-feet per acre/year, provided by US Bureau of Reclamation (through 2026)

Trees planted 21-22’ apart in square or offset square pattern

ORCHARD FLOOR MANAGEMENT Complete weed control: compaction and herbicides (used in orchards with very dry soil. Other options: nontillage, cover crops, strip weed control.

Production orchards

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Protected habitat

WILDLIFE Can support over 300 species of birds using Pacific Flyway

ACCESS Public car access, hunting + fishing permits

DESIGN Restored seasonal wetland habitat, grassland, alkali playa, and valley sink scrub habitats

OIL FIELD Kern County Post-production potential for cultural value, mixed use WATER CONVEYANCE Aqueducts and canals

WATER USE

COST (PER ACRE) $14,500 per year

REVENUE (PER ACRE) $23,500 per year

ACCESS Dirt roads, restricted to oil field workers

72 acre-feet per acre per day

LIFESPAN

WATER REUSE

12-25 years; idled or plugged and abandoned when no longer in production

Sells treated water to farms for $30 per acre-foot (compared to up to $1,300 per acre-foot)

POLLUTION High levels of greenhouse gas emissions, fine particulate pollution

Oil fields

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Speculative Future: Grounding monthly and yearly timescales of new patch types

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Concept: Expanding the mosaic through management

Existing mosaic

Shifting mosaic

Expanding mosaic

T. Wiens

Menu of Strategies

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2020 to 2060: Existing to Expanding

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Over time, and with buy-in from agents such as local water boards, farmers, and community members, existing rigid, single-use patch types give way to a complex ecological, agricultural and social landscape.

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Shifting Mosaic: 2060 Snapshot

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New Patch Types: Expanding the vernacular landscape

Existing

1. Recharge Refuge Strategies used: clearing digging habitat microtopography plant sensing edge seeding

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Process

Three hybrid patch types are shown here: recharge refuge, salt park, and orchard savannah. Siting is dependant upon soil and water conditions and the strategies implemented.

Implementation

2. Salt Park Strategies used: remedial furrows desalination salt piling path building oil pump painting

G. Goumelon

3. Orchard Savanna

T. Wiens

Strategies used: fallow fencing remedial furrowing hay mulching rotational grazing polycropping plant sensing no-till farming orchard savanna planting

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Mosaic Mania: Physical model of design strategy

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As a physical model of this design we created a board game, Mosaic Mania. The game acknowledges human agency and decision-making in the landscape, while showing the futility of attempting to control it.

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Lived Tapestry Making Place Through Spatial Trajectories SITE +

Charlottesville, VA Spatializing Culture: The Social Nature of Urban Landscapes Studio III | Elizabeth Meyer | Fall 2018 Collaborator: Taryn Wiens, MLA ‘20 *Drawings are my own unless otherwise noted.

The recently approved redevelopment plan of Friendship Court Apartments in Charlottesville, VA will transition the community from affordable housing to mixed-income. This design proposal aims to create a new spatial fabric at Friendship Court by emphasizing the connectivity between landscape, buildings, and roads through meandering pedestrian trajectories between the edge and center of the site. These trajectories are designed as areas to pass through and to pause, as spatial figures for walking, playing, cooking, and engaging with neighbors, family, and friends. This proposal inverts the notion that landscape happens in negative spaces left over between buildings and roads, and instead treats landscape as the fabric that buildings and roads are woven into, connecting beyond the edges of the site to the surrounding city fabric.

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Site Plan

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Through personal and cultural trajectories, the embodied space(s) of individuals and collectivities take on social, ritual, cultural, and political dimensions.�

Setha Low, Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017: 107.

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Context: Three grain typologies

T. Wiens

The scale of the Friendship Court superblock is five times the size of a typical Charlottesville city block. The finer grain gardens proposed in this design connect to a tradition of food production and gardening in adjacent neighborhoods.

superblock grain

commercial grain

Friendship Court site

residential grain

edible gardens and trees

corridors of movement

Concept: Interstitial Placemaking Interstitial Placemaking

Urban landscape as background

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In-between landscape as foreground

Creating place through trajectories

Lexicon: Anatomy of a Trajectory

Although each trajectory is designed for its particular condition, the general components remain the same: elongated concrete paving that becomes porous as the path widens, bosques, shrub screens, edible and ornamental gardens.

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Woven Community Spaces: Spatial transitions of flow and pause

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woven crosswalk

community stage

amphitheater

sycamore clump

Detail Plan: Thresholds of flow and pause

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Seasonal Shifts

Plantings are chosen to provide seasonal interest and produce fruit and vegetables to support the community gardening efforts requested by the neighborhood during planning sessions.

Serviceberry screen: spring production

Picnic area

Community vegetable beds: spring and summer production Blueberry hedgerow: summer production

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Persimmon quincunx: fall production

Extruded bench

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Which Way You Ought to Go

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Charlottesville, VA Paths: Systems of Sequence Studio I | Leena Cho and Michael Goetz | Fall 2017 This studio focused on a layered approach to design, beginning with fieldwork. I created a series of notational maps to critically engage with an assigned study area. From these maps, I developed a conceptual path system that sought to re-align human perception of scale through changes in elevation, vegetative structure, and density.

Four units of scale occur along the proposed path system: Control, Magna, Maximus, and Minima.

The Control environment establishes a baseline, serving as a barometer against which to compare subsequent experiences. In Magna, vegetation is denser and larger than in the control environment— this density is pushed further in Maximus areas, which are so out of scale with the norm they verge on surreal. In Minima, vegetation growth is shrunken and sparse, a stark contrast to the other scales.

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Concept: Scale + Experience

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Mediating experience through four units of vegetation scale and density dependent upon planting conditions

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Scale and Experience: Manipulating spatial conditions

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As the experience of the spaces along the path are temporal, the section shows the path after 50 years growth. The circular diagrams in this diagrammatic plan show existing vegetation and topography compared to the vegetation and topography after 50 years.

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COURSEWORK

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Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Gardens

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Charlottesville, VA Planted Form and Function II Julie Bargmann | Fall 2018 The Kluge Ruhe Collection is sited on land traditionally stewarded by the Monacan peoples. In keeping with the museum’s mission to expand knowledge and understanding of Indigenous Australian art and culture, this garden references Central and Western Desert dot painting in its spatial organization, and acknowledges Monacan stewardship through plant selection: included plants were used for food or medicinal purposes. The ten-week long experimental garden design prompt defined an “ideal site” with meadow, wet meadow, and woodland conditions. Plant selection reflects these parameters.

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Opposite: Sampling from plant palette

Rhus copallina thickets

Dennstaedtia punctilobula saum

Eryngium aquaticum mosaic

Chasmanthium latifolium drifts

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Sensory and Educational Gardens

Expanding knowledge of cultural history through plants

Design inspiration: John John Bennett Tjapangati Travels of the Tingari Men from Tjukurla to Mitukatjirri, 2000 Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Wet meadow: Pontederita cordota: edible Chasmanthium latifolium: edible 81

Woodland: Hamamelis virginiana: medicinal Podophyllum peltatum: edible Carya glabra: edible

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Physical

Modeling

EcoTech II Zaneta Hong | Spring 2018 These models are studies of Mary Miss’ hybrid public art and landscape work Greenwood Pond: Double Site in Des Moines, Iowa. In this work, Miss emphasizes the body’s experience of water through three different spatial relationships extracted in these models. Materials used include resin, 3d printed plastic, dirt, moss, clay, wood, and resin.

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Models for Studio 7010 project, Lived Tapestry (pages 8-15)

C Nagraj + T. Wiens

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Freelance Design: Residential

This freelance design project mitigates drainage issues onsite while expanding outdoor living space to include a brick patio, terraced garden, and native perennial plantings.

A rain garden captures sheet flow from a neighboring lot, and infiltration gardens direct water away from the house’s foundation and into a planting bed. This project is being constructed in Fall 2020.

Summer 2020 | Charlottesville, VA

Plant Stock: Perennials: Plugs + containers Trees + Shrubs: B+B, containers Rate of planting: 6-24" o.c., shrubs: 3-5' o.c.

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2" mulch layer 18" soil medium

Berm as needed

6" #57 gravel

River rock

property line Slope= 1:3

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swale

6" ponding level

rain garden

Slope= 1:3

Schedule 40 PVC connected to 12" drain box Drainage outlet into existing Ilex opaca bed

Shade Part Shade Sun

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Plant Palette: Shade Rain Garden

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TREES Magnolia virginiana Sweet Bay Magnolia

B+B 10-35’ ht.

Songbirds, gamebirds, 21 sp. native caterpillars.

Fragrant.

SHRUBS Clethra alnifolia Summersweet

B+B, container 3-8’ ht., 4-6’ spacing Hummingbirds, pollinators, songbirds

Itea virginica Virginia Sweetspire

B+B, container 3-4’ ht., 4-6’ spacing Butterflies, pollinators, songbirds

Ilex verticillata Winterberry

B+B, container 3-12’ ht, 36-60” spacing 48 sp. song + gamebirds, 34 sp. native caterpillars.

Winter interest

PERENNIALS

Actea racemosa Black Cohosh

Athyrium felixfemina Lady Fern

Container 4-6’ ht, 2’ spacing Spring Azure, Holly Blue, and Appalacian Azure butterflies [host] Container 1-3’ ht, 12-18” spacing Yellow in autumn

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Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects Internship, Summer 2019 | Charlottesville, VA

Storyboard sketches

Animation still: Lumion, Illustrator, After Effects 91

The land bridge and prairie at Memorial Park will be a centerpiece to NBW’s revitilization of Houston’s largest park. I was a key team member in producing a video piece about the project: in addition to collaboratively developing the storyboard, script, and concept, I developed a Lumion model of the site that served as the foundation for the film, and created animations of ecological and performance benefits.

Animation stills: Lumion, Illustrator, After Effects 92

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Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects Internship, Summer 2019 | Charlottesville, VA

Dock design

Aquatic planters to conceal drainage pipe 95

I proposed a series of discrete design additions to a private residence. This series of proposals are aimed at creating a connective path meandering from a boathouose, along the shoreline to a gravel beach. This included a set of options for shoreline stabilization.

Path to dam, gravel beach, and dock

Shoreline stabilization options and precedents 96

Wolf Josey Landscape Architects

Internship, Summer 2018 | Charlottesville, VA

Hand-rendered plans for awards submissions 97

Sampling of drawings produced for client presentations and award submissions.

Diagrams for client presentations 98

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia

Dealer’s Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945–1966 The Fralin Museum of Art, 2017

Richard Serra: Prints The Fralin Museum of Art, 2016

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A selection of exhibition typography and production, and publication management projects.

Andy Warhol: Icons The Fralin Museum of Art, 2016

New Acquisitions: Photography The Fralin Museum of Art, 2016–2017

Book design: Patrick Bell

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Photography

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‘The philosophy behind the dictionary was to pick words that are most used by the people,’ Maanaki explains. ‘Sometimes I came across a word that has a spoken meaning slightly different than its etymology, but people don’t use it anymore. We followed what was mostly used in print media or digital media – today’s Modern Standard Arabic.’

In the Arabic lexicography world, a quiet but persistent push and pull exists between Modern Standard Arabic and classical Arabic.

The debate surrounds the overlap between classical Arabic – the Arabic of the Qur’an and pre-Islamic poetry – and Modern Standard Arabic, which is used in official written and spoken discourses across the Arab world. Can some Arabic translations of English words, for example, be multi-word phrases or ‘loan words’?

Or should every Arabic dictionary maintain the strict root structure and grammatical rules of the classical language?

The Oxford Arabic Dictionary’s answer to the former was an adamant ‘yes’ in order for the final version to be the most up-to-date reference book in Arabic dictionary history. So, for example, an

In 2015, I was commissioned by Brownbook magazine to photograph UVA Lecturer and editor of the newest Oxford Arabic Dictionary, Bilal Maanaki.

02 'My dad collected encyclopedias,' Maanaki says of his love for books. 'I used to open and smell them.

That stuck with me'

03 A tidy office: Maanaki teaches Arabic language and media courses at UVA

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