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MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA '17 phone: (615) 479-2291 email: clcasstevens@gmail.com website: www.clairecasstevens.com
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CLAIRE CASSTEVENS / 615-479-2291 / clcasstevens@gmail.com
Museum of Burial and Unearthing DEW TRAVELING STUDIO: BIOPHOBIA / FALL 2016 / PROF. SHIQIAO LI PLANS | Left to right: foundation, building, paving material, and composite plans; foundation is located 14' below ground level
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CONCEPT COLLAGES | Spatializing themes of burial and excavation by reassembling existing landscape and architecture projects
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INFILLED LAND IN WASHINGTON, D.C. | Black hatch signifies infilled land; red signifies site
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FILLED MARSHLAND
From a 1995 geological survey: "Artificial fill—Heterogeneous composition and texture. Largest areas of low-lying land filled for building purposes, determined from examination of historical topographic maps and a report and map by Froelich and Hack (1975)."
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DOUBLE SECTION-PERSPECTIVE | Stacked perspectives of the landscape above and building below reveal the continuous character of these two spaces
MOMENTS OF INTERACTION | Sloped walls, gravel berms, and opaque vs. transparent materials create spaces with variable degrees of isolation and sociality
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GRAVEL BERMS ON ADJACENT COURTYARD WALLS LIMIT VISIBILITY AND CREATE A SENSE OF ISOLATION
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Scenario 1. Gravel berms on adjacent courtyard walls limit visibility and create a sense of isolation.
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OPEN COURTYARDS WITH SLOPED WALLS PROVIDE VISUAL CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN LEVELS
STAIRS CONNECT UPPER AND LOWER LEVELS OF COURTYARD, BUILDING, AND LANDSCAPE
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Scenario 2. Open courtyards with sloped walls provide visual connectivity between levels.
LONG SECTION | Section revealing the underground highway that runs beneath the western portion of the site
Scenario 3. Stairs connect upp courtyard, building, and lands
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SEASONAL EXHIBITS | Glass courtyards collect 'burial' materials specific to seasons
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SHARED CONCRETE WALLS BETWEEN COURTYARDS AND BUILDING CREATE UNACKNOWLEDGED PROXIMITY
3/16” 3/16” = = 1’ 1’
GLASS “COLLECTION” ROOMS VISUALLY CONNECT VISITORS BUT MAINTAIN THEIR PHYSICAL DISTANCE
3/16” 3/16” = = 1’ 1’
Scenario 4. Shared concrete walls between courtyard and building create unacknowledged proximity.
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Scenario 5. Glass 'collection' rooms visually connect visitors but maintain their physical distance.
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What is a garden in darkness? OPINIONATED GARDENS STUDIO / SPRING 2017 / PROF. JULIE BARGMANN
SECTION-PERSPECTIVE | Trees on the slopes are limbed low—to 7'—and lend a sense of compression in contrast to the hilltop clearing; variations in tree species and configuratio
H I LLTO P C Star-gazer GROVE Mischevious darkness
PAVING CONFIGURATIONS + SEASONALITY | Four configurations of slate paving stones—dispersed, abutting, overlapping, and stacked—correspond to slope
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C L E A R ING darkness SU MAC OV E RLOOK Entangled darkness
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PLAN + PLANT SELECTION | Three species of trees, spaced irregularly, register concentric circles (dashed in red) emanating from the hilltop clearing
Staghorn sumac Rhus typhina
Skyline Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis 'Skyline'
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Dutchman’s pipe Aristolochia macrophylla
White wood aster Aster divaricatus ‘Eastern Star’
Sweet woodruff Gallium odoratum
Japanese hydrangea vine Schizophragma hydrangeoides ‘Moonlight’
Appalachian sedge Carex appalachia
Christmas rose Helleborus niger ‘Joseph Lemper’
Oak sedge Carex pennsylvanica
Dwarf-crested iris Iris cristata ‘Tennessee White’
Starry grasswort Cerastium tomentosum ‘Silver Carpet’
Corsican mint Mentha requienii
CLEARING GROUND PLANE Yarrow Achillea millifolium Buffalograss Bouteloua dactyloides Dwarf chamomile Chamaemelum nobile ‘Treneague’ Kentucky coffeetree Gymnocladus dioicus
White clover Trifolium repens
Lily of the valley Convallaria majalis Bishop’s hat Epimedium x youngianum ‘Niveum’ Fleabane Erigeron pulchellus ‘Lynnhaven Carpet’ Snowdrop Galanthus nivalis
Wild sweet William Phlox divaricata ‘May Breeze’ Creeping Jacob’s ladder Polemonium reptans ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Greater stitchwort Stellaria holostea Large-flowered trillium Trillium grandiflorum ‘Quicksilver’
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Vall d'en Joan Landfill: Grading and Remediatio ECOTECH IV / SPRING 2017 / PROF. TERESA GALI-IZARD GRADING PLAN | Existing contours in gray and proposed in black
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DRAINAGE: FLOWS + BASINS
PLANTING FOR SOIL REMEDIATION: CROP ROTATION
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Roberto Burle Marx: Garden + Climate PLANT FORM + FUNCTION IV / SPRING 2016 / PROF. TERESA GALI-IZARD
3 Yellow Daylily is grouped behind Bulbine, carrying the garden's yellow accents into mid- to late-summer. But the blooms are ephemeral, lasting only a few days.
2 Imperial Bromeliad serves as a specimen here; it punctuates the garden with its broad rosette of light blue-green leaves and towering red bloom in early spring to summer.
1 Blushing Bromeliad looks like a miniature version of Imperial Bromeliad and reveals Burle-Marx's practice of stamping similarly shaped but differently sized plants. It functions here as coarse ground cover.
4 A group of Spider Lily plants creates a voluminous zone. In summer, its stalks of fragrant white flowers add structure and scent to the garden.
5 Bulbine is best placed where its winterblooming spikes of star-shaped yellow flowers can be seen close up; Burle-Marx puts a swath of this clumping plant along the path.
PLANT LIST 1 Neoregelia compacta | Blushing Bromeliad 2 Vrisea imperialis | Imperial Bromeliad 3 Hemerocallis lilioasphoedius | Yellow Daylily 4 Crinum asiaticum | Spider Lily 5 Bulbine frutescens | Bulbine
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Macrographia, a gigantic book of tiny worlds DEW TRAVELING STUDIO: BIOPHOBIA / FALL 2016 / PROF. SHIQIAO LI Cork
Petrified wood
Cacapon River, West Virginia
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Sonoran Desert, Arizona
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More models of various sorts HISTORY, STUDIO, ECOTECH COURSES / SPRING 2015 — SPRING 2016
Funded fieldwork: Dakota Access Pipeline SUMMER 2017 / WITH B. ABBAS, L. HARRIS, C. TURETT, B.K. WALKER With aid from the Howland Traveling Fellowship, four classmates and I embarked on a month-long research trip along the Dakota Access Pipeline. We wore the hats of anthropologists, ecologists, and artists while using the frameworks and tools of landscape architecture to better understand the material realities and social and ecological implications of this contentious 1,172-mile site. We saw oil rigs in North Dakota, learned about Lakota history in the Standing Rock Reservation, and heard from farmers in Iowa whose lands had been claimed through eminent domain. While testing the limits of a mobile studio, we gained new perspectives on the complexity of relationships between people and land throughout the midwestern region. An exhibition of our work is scheduled for April 2018.