DANA KASH HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN MASTER IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, 2017 DKASH@GSD.HARVARD.EDU 914-649-8377
CONTENTS 1. LANDSCAPE CIRCUIT BREAKER ... 3 ARBORETUM EDGE ... 15 FRANKLIN PARK FIELDS ... 25 GETTING OUT OF GITMO ... 33 ALLSTON CITY CANOPY ... 39 2. PLANNING KINLOCH PARK ... 51 BOSTON SENSE MAP ... 61 3. PLANTING STUDIES ... 65
RESUME ... 77
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CIRCUIT BREAKER "Ulsan Remade: Manufacturing the Modern Industrial Landscape" Option Studio, Spring 2017 Critics: Francesca Benedetto, Niall Kirkwood Project Partner: Siobhan Feehan This project's site is the metropolitan region of Ulsan, a coastal city in South Korea home to nearly two million people, rugged seascapes and steep mountains, as well as the headquarters of Hyundai Heavy Industries, oil refineries, and chemical processing on a vast scale. Circuit Breaker takes on issues of health and wellness in this scenic-industrial landscape to propose that citizens of the modern industrial city must reclaim rest as a defining characteristic of humanity in a city and global culture defined by productivity. Taking cues from the Korean tradition of jimjilban (public bathing culture), Circuit Breaker is a public circuit for rest and pleasure that, in its form, daylights natural and industrial systems in a landfill buffer at the edge of downtown Ulsan. An indoor/ outdoor jimjilban unfolds over the course of a 2-kilometer circuit, bridging varied edge conditions and allowing new connections to water and energy systems. This circuit path corresponds with a closed loop of radiant heat energy in the form of steam extracted from a neighboring industrial site. Along the circuit are strategically positioned landscape architectural interventions that use binaries of exercise and rest, fuel and waste, the health of a citizen and the health of city to create outdoor pleasure pools, plazas, and gardens, imbuing traditional sauna culture with seasonal and industrialeducational novelty.
PARTI + ZOETROPE MODEL
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SITE SCHEMATIC
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ONDOL-HEATED TOPIARY PLAZAS
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MARKET + GATHERING SPACES
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FLOATING BIOSWALE BOARDWALK
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STORMWATER + SOLAR SPACES
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STEAMPIPE MICROCLIMATE
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THERAPEUTIC + BATHING SPACES
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ARBORETUM EDGE “Field Methods and Living Collections� Seminar, Fall 2016 - Spring 2017 Critics: Rosetta Elkin, Ned Friedman (Director, Arnold Arboretum) Project Partners: Sophia Geller, Mary Miller An exercise in direct observation and close collaboration, this project began with a curiosity about the relationships between the Arnold Arboretum and its adjacent neighborhoods. We focused specifically on social exchanges and plant reproduction and movement. Our process begins with repeated surveying in the field, noting in detail all species and evidence we come across. After our work outdoors, we compare notes, and begin to illustrate them, collectively drawing by hand on dozens of sheets of trace paper. Eventually, all these drawings are compiled into large exhibition prints, along with related diagrams, keys, and narrative texts. The work will be installed as an exhibition at the Arboretum's visitor center in summer 2017. It is intended to provoke curiosity and encourage detailed observation of sites, interactions, and processes around us.
PLAYING CARDS
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Calvatia gigantea ball mushroom meadows, and deciduous forests
elds,
Unlike most, these mushrooms reproduce sexually Spores develop inside the fruiting body, which can contain up to several trillion spores Spores are released from the fruiting body in the fall and spread through the wind
Ampelopsis brevipedunculata Porcelain berry Climbing vine commonly termed invasive, porcelain berry thrives along highway and railroad edges, fence lines, and borders of all sorts Two methods of propagation: owers develop into bright blue berries readily consumed and spread by birds Creeping stems root wherever they touch the ground Growth habit stabilizes slopes and riverbanks in disturbed areas
Cynanchum luiseae Black swallow wort
Cynanchum luiseae Black swallow wort
Creeping vine native to Europe and considered an invasive species in North America
Creeping vine native to Europe and considered an invasive species in North America
Fruiting vine wrapping around the branches of front-yard hedges
Fruiting vine wrapping around the branches of front-yard hedges
New plants emerge from underground rhizomes in the spring ower in the early summer
New plants emerge from underground rhizomes in the spring ower in the early summer
Pods form later in the summer, which contain hundreds of brous parachute structures that allow them to travel great distances on the wind
Pods form later in the summer, which contain hundreds of brous parachute structures that allow them to travel great distances on the wind
Pods begin to open in mid august and release seed through the fall.
Pods begin to open in mid august and release seed through the fall.
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STUDY SITE ILLUSTRATIONS
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EXHIBITION MATERIALS
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IN THE FIELD
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FRANKLIN PARK FIELDS CIVIC
ORCHARD
Acer rubrum
Malus domestica 'Cortland'
Gleditsia triacanthos
Prunus cerasus var. Montmorency
CLONAL
Prunus persica 'Reliance'
Fagus grandifolia Sassafrass albidum CONIFERS Pinus strobus Taxodium distichum LOW SLOPE Nyssa sylvatica Betula popufolia
OAK FOREST Cornus kousa Quercus coccinea
FRANKLIN PARK FIELDS MLA Core Studio II Spring 2015 Critics: Anita Berrizbeitia, Rosetta Elkin, Kristin Frederickson Project Partner: Emily Blair A design intervention to create an open, social, "great lawn" space in Boston’s Franklin Park. This intervention is located in response to the vast privatization of public space in Olmsted’s final project. Currently, a golf course, a zoo, a stadium, sports fields, a hospital, and a cemetery take up the majority of the park—and what space is leftover tends to be extremely rough and rocky ground. We chose a spot in the northeast corner of the park, bridging multiple neighborhoods with large, gentle landforms. We shaped the south-facing hill here into a series of terraces, creating social spaces of varied scales, and planted a public orchard. The north-facing hill remains in craggy, solitary counterpoint. Thickening the urban edge to the east of the site creates a paved plaza for higher impact programming, like weekend farmer’s markets.
SITE CONTEXT
steep terrain
JAMAICA PLAIN
White Stadium
ROXBURY Playstead & Fields
Franklin Park Zoo
steep terrain
steep terrain
Lemuel Shattuck Hospital
William J. Devine Golf Course
steep terrain
DORCHESTER
Forest Hills Cemetery
MATTAPAN
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EXISTING + PROPOSED GRADING
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PLANTING PLAN
CIVIC
ORCHARD
Acer rubrum
Malus domestica 'Cortland'
Gleditsia triacanthos
Prunus cerasus var. Montmorency
CLONAL Fagus grandifolia Sassafrass albidum CONIFERS Pinus strobus Taxodium distichum LOW SLOPE Nyssa sylvatica Betula popufolia
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Prunus persica 'Reliance' OAK FOREST Cornus kousa Quercus coccinea
PUBLIC TERRACES
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GETTING OUT OF GITMO MLA Core Studio IV Spring 2016 Critics: Pierre Belanger, Fionn Byrne I produced these drawings as part of a group of 12 students trying to design a way for the United States military to leave Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a site it has occupied extralegally since the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Some students focused on agricultural practices in Cuba, on cleaning up the contamination from decades of landmining and target practice, or on infrastructural development as CubanAmerican relations thaw. Along with two other students, I focused on the material reality of the prison camp—how many buildings, how many roads, built of what materials—and what might be done with this 2-mile-long coastal site in the future. Should it be a memorial to the people held captive here? A tourist site? An ecological preserve? Returned to the Cuban people for whatever end they like? We settled on a strategy of earthworks, with a nod to land artists, constructed of gabion walls filled with the camp's post-destruction rubble. We coupled this with a planting strategy meant both to remediate the compacted land and deteriorate the prison materials over time, for eventual return to the Cuban state.
GABION WALLS + SEEDING DIAGRAM
FUTURE ARID GRASSLAND
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MATERIAL CONSTRUCTION
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ALLSTON CITY CANOPY MLA Core Studio III Fall 2015 Critics: David Mah, Chris Reed Project Partner: Carlo Urmy A one-month study using phasing and planting to direct the development outcomes of a Harvard-owned postindustrial railroad site over the next several decades. The site, in Allston, is a nexus of competing interests and future transit overhauls (including commuter rail, freight, and an interstate highway); there is also a strong legacy of economic disparity in the neighborhood. How can low-cost landscape moves and mass tree-planting strategies with immediate, if temporary, uses effect the long-range development of the site without being beholden to any one player or outcome?
SITE PHASING
phase 0
phase 1
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phase 2
phase 3
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STRATEGY SAMPLE: BETWEEN SPACES
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STRATEGY SAMPLE: ROADWAYS
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PRECEDENT STUDIES
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garrett eckbo, vallejo migrant laborer’s camp
michel desvigne, bordeaux master plan
frederick law olmsted, boston back bay & the fens
catherine mosbach, bordeaux botanic gardens
CANOPY LIFE CYCLE
DICTUMS
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PLANN
NING
Here
KINLOCH PARK “Affirmatively Further: Fair Housing After Ferguson” Option Studio, Fall 2016 Critic: Dan D’Oca The city of Kinloch, Missouri is located in North St. Louis County, sharing a border with Ferguson to the east and LambertSt. Louis International Airport to the west. Kinloch was the first all-black city to incorporate west of the Mississippi, and at one time had over 10,000 residents and 30 churches within its 1 mile-by-1 mile borders. Today, less than 300 people live in Kinloch. Half the town was recently developed for light industrial use; much of the land that remains are rolling hills and thick forests. However, every Sunday, members of Kinloch’s diaspora return to the churches still active in town. This project, intended as a publication, asks: How can landscape prevent industrial encroachment into the rest of Kinloch? How can the present character of much of the city—open, semirural land in the middle of metro St. Louis—be reframed as an asset for North St. Louis County? And finally, how can landscape create a more just and pleasurable experience for those who remain in town and for the diaspora community, while respecting the history of what took place in Kinloch?
HISTORY
Population: 11,00
Here
Streetcar suburb
Population: 300
1890s-1930s
School segregation battle
1939
1980s-90
UNINCORPORATED KINLOCH PARK WHITE FAMILIES
LAMBERT AIRFIELD
BLACK FAMILIES
FERGUSON K
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MALIN
1938
BERKELEY FERGUSON LAMBERT AIRFIELD
BLACK FAMILIES
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MALIN
1939
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Lambert International Airport buyouts Kinloch’s tax base drops by 80% (*but no airport expansion ever takes place)
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Disconnected road grid
Leftover infrastructure
Successional growth
ARGUMENT
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STRATEGIES
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POSSIBLE OUTCOMES
Memorial parks and paths; Commemoration spaces; Commercial tree farms, Goat-managed woodland
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ds; Open views between homes and churches; Community gardens; A prairie buffer from industry ...
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BOSTON SENSE MAP “Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation” Seminar, Spring 2017 Critic: Bobby Pietrusko Project Partners: Ellen Epley, Ruben Segovia A make-your-own map kit for the city of Boston, meant to encourage participants to map physical sensations and then move around the city based on factors like heat or moisture, rather than destination. The stencils in the kit are drawn from data compiled over five years at the GSD, as students mapped the locations of their ideal day in Boston. Each stencil consists of the locations where students experienced a particular sensation—hot, cold, open, dense, quiet, damp, etc. By overlaying the stencils, a participant can map a set of ideal factors, perhaps cold and enclosed, or warm, dense, and loud. The kit is meant to encourage participation and communication using the seduction of playful materials—textured paper, bright paint pigments, watercolor pencils—and take some of the mystification out of how maps are made.
STENCIL KIT
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SENSE MAP POSTCARDS
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PLAN STUD
NTING DIES
LIGHT BOX ALLEY PLANTING STUDY “Poetics of Planting Design� Seminar, Fall 2015 Critics: Danielle Choi, Kim Mercurio A plan to light up the post-industrial brick alleyways seen so often walking around Somerville, MA. The project's plan was inspired by ephemeral qualities of light, moisture, and color, especially how reflection can be used to fill a small space with color. I utilized an understory planting palette to deal with the limited available light for trees, and simple strategies like paint and reflective materials, to design a replicable strategy of small spaces for reflection throughout the city.
PLAN + SECTION
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SEASONAL LIGHT BOX
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SEASONAL COLOR
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LIVE MATTER MODEL
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RAIN GARDEN PLANTING PALETTE SHRUBS
Ilex verticillata ‘Nana’ and ‘Jim Dandy’
Ilex glabra ‘Compacta’
Kalmia angustifolia ‘Candida’
Itea virginica ‘Little Henry’
Asclepias tuberosa - June to August
Rudbeckia fulgida - June to October
Coreopsis ‘Creme Brulee’ - June to O
Eupatorium ‘Baby Joe’ - July to September
Liatris microcephala - July to August
YELLOW PERENNIALS
Waldensteinia fragarioides - April to May
PURPLE PERENNIALS
Iris sibirica - May to PALETTE June RAIN GARDEN PLANTING
Geranium maculatum - April to May
SHRUBSMt. Holyoke College Centralized Dining and Community Center
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Aronia melanocarpa ‘Low Scape Mound’
MT. HOLYOKE RAIN GARDEN PLANTING STUDY
Solidago ‘Little Lemon’ - July to August
Achillea ‘Pomegranate’ - June to September
2016-08-09
Ground Inc. Internship Summer 2016 With Shauna Gilles-Smith A rain garden design for the entryway to a new campus center at Mt. Holyoke college, in concert with a larger landscape and tree-planting plan for the campus. Working with swaths of yellow and purple flowers, we aimed to stretch the bloom time of the entry garden outside of summer and into the academic year on either end. Plant choices also had to be able to withstand drought with minimal maintenance. I undertook the initial plant research and schematic design, and worked with Ground's planting designer to finalize the planting plans for a 60% design submission.
CHARLESTOWN HOUSING COURTYARD STUDY Ground Inc. Internship Summer 2016 With Shauna Gilles-Smith Study models produced for a masterplanning project Ground Inc. is undertaking with the City of Boston's Housing Authority, replacing a dozen blocks of aging public housing with mixed-income apartment structures. These models focused specifically on courtyard designs for the buildings, negotiating both the social comfort of a semi-public semi-private space relating to both the building and the street, as well as significant topographic change across the sites.
DANA KASH
dkash@gsd.harvard.edu 914.649.8377
EDUCATION
Harvard University Graduate School of Design Cambridge, MA MLA I, May 2017 New York Botanical Garden Design, History, and Ecology courses New York, NY 2012-14 Cornell University College of Art, Architecture & Planning Ithaca, NY BFA in Painting, May 2009
ACADEMIC + AWARDS
Winter Extern, 2017 LA-Más, Los Angeles, CA Assisted this non-profit design firm with site analysis, research, and drawings for a first/last mile transit project on LA's Gold Line. Teaching Assistant, 2016 MLA Core Studio III, Harvard GSD Coordinator: Sergio Lopez Pineiro Leading workshops and holding weekly TA hours for this fall-semester core landscape studio. Research Assistant, 2016 Silvia Benedito, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD Research and drawings for a publication, ‘On Atmospheres,’ by Prof. Benedito. Research Fellow, 2015-16 Harvard University Asia Center Grant funding for travel and research in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam, as well as an exhibition of the work back in Cambridge.
TECHNICAL
Adobe CS Autocad Rhino ArcGIS SketchUp Vectorworks
PROFESSIONAL
Career Discovery Studio Instructor Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA May–Aug. 2017 Responsibilities include curriculum development and studio instruction for this summer introductory design program. Design Intern Ground Inc., Boston, MA June–Aug. 2016 Responsibilities included planting research and design, as well as assisting with schematic design, construction documents, and physical models for multi-family residential, campus, and civic projects. Also edited RFPs and RFQs. Design Intern Reed Hilderbrand, New Haven, CT June–Aug. 2015 Duties included design studies across residential and institutional projects in the office, as well as material, maintenance, and zoning research, and site visits and documentation at the Clark Art Institute. Research Assistant Sam Green, Brooklyn, NY Feb. 2012–June 2014 Assisting Academy Award–nominated documentary filmmaker Sam Green with research and production. Editorial Coordinator & Grant Writer Triple Canopy, Brooklyn, NY Dec. 2010–May 2013 Managing operations, editions, and fundraising for this nonprofit publisher and event series. Copyeditor & Proofreader Freelance, 2010–2014 Freelance editorial work for publishers like Simon & Schuster, as well as art institutions and galleries. NY Art Book Fair Coordinator Printed Matter, New York, NY July 2010–Jan. 2012 Managing logistics at this non-profit art fair attended by more than 16,000 visitors annually at MoMA PS1.
REFERENCES
Rosetta Elkin Assistant Prof. of Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD rselkin@gsd.harvard.edu Shauna Gillies-Smith Founder + Principal, Ground Inc. sgs@groundinc.com Beka Sturges Associate Principal, Reed Hilderbrand beka@reedhilderbrand.com