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Daniel Widis Harvard Graduate School of Design Master in Landscape Architecture Candidate

DANIEL W ID IS 47 Inman Street, Apt. 41 Cambridge, MA 02139 dwidis@gsd.harvard.edu 704-526-5107

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“Prioritizing Wetland Restoration Sites: A Review and Application to a Large-Scale Coastal Restoration Program�

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• Assisted in the drawing of diagrams, illustrations, and renderings, as well as a complete design development submission set for the Pier 4 redevelopment project on the Boston Harbor • Formulated design development and construction drawings of an anchoring and paving suspension system for a roof terrace as part of the Pier 4 project ̽ &RQWULEXWHG WR WKH GD\ WR GD\ RSHUDWLRQ RI WKH 3LHU SURMHFW WKURXJK PDLQWHQDQFH RI NH\ ͤOHV FRPPXQLFDWLRQV ZLWK the development team, and the preparation of documents for weekly meetings, including presentations for the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Boston Civic Design Commission • Constructed concept drawings, design iterations, and material/vegetative palettes for a condominium courtyard project in New York City

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• Work from Landscape Architecture IV: Fourth Semester Core Studio published in Kerb Journal: Digital Landscapes (23)

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Reservoir Beach reclaims the importance of the Fisher Hill site as a public water amenity by introducing a series of inhabitable aquatic pools across the site. From singular, uniform and untouchable to multiple, varied and accessible, the role of the water basin is reinterpreted and expanded. The site is divided between a large, sweeping pool and beach, and a set of smaller, linear, UHFUHDWLRQDO SRROV ZKLFK YDU\ LQ WHPSHUDWXUH DQG SURJUDPPDWLF SRWHQWLDO 7KH SURMHFW ZKLOH UHWXUQLQJ WKH GHͤQLQJ FKDUDFWHULVWLF of the old reservoir – the water – repositions the site while still operating within its original historic framework. Taken as a whole, Reservoir Beach aims to meet the meet the recreational and phenomenological need of the greater city: a full-season, immersive, total aquatic experience.

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In a community constrained by severe economic and social pressures, what role can landscape architecture play in reconstituting a fragmented and isolated neighborhood? Does a landscape intervention even make sense? Focused on the neighborhood core of East New York, Pocket Rooms takes a varied approach to creating a more hospitable and socially-rich landscape. The dramatic, sweeping changes to the character and scale of two of East New York’s most inhumane streets reestablishes the primacy of the pedestrian. Afforded by these transformative alterations, the project carves out of the existing urban fabric a multi-block linear network of parks, gardens, and plazas programmatically situated to blur the boundaries between public space and private domestic life. In turn, creating a new appreciation and potential for an otherwise maligned urban neighborhood.

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Pier 4 is a place unique within Boston’s waterfront. Capitalizing on the phenomenological qualities of the site – dynamic ocean winds, an occasional salt spray, the rhythmic tidal change – Pier 4 presents an entirely new and unique vantage point to engage downtown Boston and the larger harbor. The site’s history is reinterpreted through tectonic vocabulary that re-frames the relationship between land and sea. This approach is expressed in both the material choices of the project – coastal vegetation, granite pavers, wood decking – and the programmatic potentials and experiences capable on site: to be suspended over water, to step down to the water, to ascend to a panoramic overlook. Pier 4 expands traditional notions of the urban waterfront park without losing its intrinsic sense of place.

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Constrained in space, and subject to challenging environmental conditions, The Hanley is a complete redevelopment of the lower lobby of an existing residential tower in New York City. Blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior, the project reconceptualizes what was originally a spatially, visually, and programmatically fractured space. During schematic design multiple iterations were explored, but two were presented to the clients - each offering their own unique vegetative and material palette. Option one focused on a dense planting of shade-tolerant bamboo and the installation of a perforated metal grate that would seemingly “float� across both the interior and exterior spaces. The second option centered around the SODQWLQJ RI D ͤHOG RI ELUFK WUHHV SRVLWLRQHG LQ IURQW RI D SHUIRUDWHG VFUHHQ ZDOO

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Drawing inspiration from local New Orleans’ jazz traditions of parading in “main lines� and “second lines�, the Underline aims to transform an economically depressed, spatially disjointed neighborhood into a thriving, dynamic, and healthy community.

The project actively engages and embraces Interstate I-10, which runs directly through the site; rather than see the elevated highway as an impediment, the Underline reconceptualizes and transforms a ubiquitous piece of American infrastructure into a new a new type of “urban canopy.� Energizing the space underneath with retail, community-minded programming, and light structures The Underline animates and energizes an otherwise inert and cold landscape.

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High seas, is a radical departure from most of the current discourse on sea level rise and threats posed by storm surge.

Established practice focuses on the construction of physical, heavy infrastructure: levees, dams, sea walls, etc. High seas completely rejects this approach by acknowledging the inevitability of land loss; with land retreat comes ocean gain, and set of opportunities and affordances previously absent. High Seas claims the ocean itself and the ocean floor as potential “ground� for landscape architecture. Through the systematic manipulation and deployment of physical “planters,� and the subsequent strategic planting of giant kelp, a new culture, economy, and ecology can emerge that recognizes sea level rise not as a threat, but an invaluable opportunity.

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Daniel Widis harvard graduate school of design mla candidate - 2016