Emily Parish Gordon 2012 Portfolio by Emily Gordon

EMILY PARISH GORDON 2012 PORTFOLIO

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EMILY PARISH GORDON 2012 PORTFOLIO 4 Curriculum Vitae ACADEMIC DESIGN 8 Neo-Mining 20 Flux City 28 Forage Conservation 38 RiverCity Gothenburg 50 Re-Growing Kennedy Park RESEARCH & VISUALIZATION 58 Foraging Finland 62 Third Coast Atlas 64 Remediation & Symiotic Industry 66 Economic Geographies 68 Shrinking Cities 70 Groundcover 72 Soils, Planting & Construction PROFESSIONAL 76 Station Mall Waterfront 84 Princeton University 86 Texas Rose Garden

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Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION 2009-2012 Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts Graduate School of Design Master of Landscape Architecture I 2003-2007 Vassar College. Poughkeepsie, New York Concentrations in Religion and Art History Bachelor of Arts, with Honors

PROFESSIONAL 2012 Studio Instructor in Landscape Architecture. Career Discovery Program Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts 2012 Project development & graphic consultant. Green Roof Technologies, LLC Bel Air, Maryland 2009-2012 Teaching & research assistant. Graduate School of Design Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts 2007-2011 Design intern. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. Brooklyn, New York

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AWARDS ASLA Merit Prize, May 2012 ASLA Student Awards in General Design, nominee, 2012 ASLA Student Awards in Analysis and Planning, nominee, 2012 GSD Platform 5 selection, Spring 2012 and Fall 2011 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, nominee, 2011 Penny White Award, Spring 2011 GSD Platform 3 selection, Spring 2010 and Fall 2009

PUBLICATIONS 2012 Instigations: GSD 075, ed. Mohsen Mostafavi and Peter Christensen (forthcoming) Qinglonghu Foothill Strategy: Peri-Urban Development Alternatives for Southwest Beijing, ed. Kongjian Yu Adaptive Terrain: Infrastructural Strategies in the Hills of MedellĂn, ed. Christian Werthmann (forthcoming) Third Coast Atlas, ed. Clare Lyster, Charles Waldheim, and Mason White (forthcoming) Platform 5, Harvard Graduate School of Design, publication and exhibition inclusion (forthcoming) 2011 A View on Harvard GSD, vol. 3, Harvard Graduate School of Design 2010 Platform 3, Harvard Graduate School of Design, publication and exhibition inclusion

CONTACT emilypgordon@gmail.com t 845.206.8921 315 Eckford Street, Apt. 3R, Brooklyn, New York 11222

Curriculum Vitae

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ACADEMIC DESIGN Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 2010-2012

Academic Design

NEO-MINING: Reconstituting the Foothills of Beijing for Peri-Urban Growth Graduate School of Design, Spring 2012 Critics: Adrian Blackwell, Steven Ervin & Kongjian Yu Collaboration with Carmen Martinez Responding to the challenges of explosive growth in Beijing and a peri-urban site scarred by limestone mines, NeoMining proposes alternative processes for urban expansion in Qinglonghuâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a primarily agricultural township lying just outside the 6th ring road at the base of the foothills southwest of Beijing. Accounting for the extraction and reconstitution of raw material as necessities of growth, Neo-Mining leverages these as drivers of urban form. An ecologic life-cycle approach to the reuse of mining sites and materials generates and informs a new model for foothill urbanization. Collapsing sites of extraction with sites of construction, Neo-Mining proposes continued mining phased with the construction of a new city directly on the Qinglonghu mines. As a result, land disturbance is minimized and the agricultural plane is preserved. Mining techniques and technologies are altered to efficiently provide both the material source of the city and its constructed foundations as well. Methods that previously degraded the environment are altered to become the backbones of new urban ecologies. Developing beyond a master plan that details phasing, connectivity, urban program, and density distribution, three specific experiments in urbanization ensue. Factors explored include material re-use, water management, landscape strategies, urban program, built form, and ultimately, unique urban identities carved from phenomenal sites.

Geologic Tourism & Research in the Beijing region (opposite)

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China University of Geosciences Beijing Research Institute of Geology Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

regional rail

QINGLONGHU MINES

Beijing General Research Institute of Mining & Metallurgy

Fengshan Geoparks Tourism District Peking Man of Zhoukoudian

Geological Museum of China

Academic Work . Neo-Mining

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Current mining practices exacerbate erosion and air pollution (below); dispersed expansion of existing mines (above); strategic branching and phased urbanization of future mines (right).

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Inactive existing mine Active mine Residential Research/institutional Tourism

Academic Work . Neo-Mining

upland forest

cable car

city phase 3

hiking trail

city phase 2

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city phase 1

regional train drainage to agricultural plain

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2. Research Campus, 2025

3. Tourist Destination, 2030

1. Residential Development, 2020

Urban Plan 2030 (above); material excavation, processing and construction (below, graphic collaborations with Carmen Martinez); site systems (far left); transportation networks (near left).

Academic Work . Neo-Mining

cable car

built form

escalators

stairs

roads

regional rail

drainage network

SITE 1, 2020 RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT Density: Very high Population: 32,500 people Houses/Ha: 85 houses/ha Total surface: 125.46 ha % surface roads. 6.5% open space: 27.5% residential: 42% industrial: 20 % commercial: 3% other facilities: 3% parking: 7%

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Section 1

Section 2

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cable car

built form

ground circulation

drainage network

SITE 2, 2025 RESEARCH CAMPUS Density: medium-high Population: 6,000 people Houses/Ha: 40 houses/Ha Total surface: 38.51 Ha open space: 55% roads: 4% residential: 10.3% institutional: 16% commercial: 6% parking: 15%

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Section 1

Section 2

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cable car

build form

ground circulation

drainage network

SITE 3, 2030 TOURIST DESTINATION Density: high Population: 3000 people Houses/Ha: 55 houses/ Ha Total surface: 13.83 Ha open space: 65% roads: 1% residential: 18% tourist: 7% commercial: 4% facilities: 0 parking: 10%

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Section 1

Section 2

Academic Work . Neo-Mining

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site. Automotive disassembly businesses have successfully colonized the marginal land of Willets Point, but operate largely without environmental or economic regulation, resulting in high levels of contamination that are further mobilized during hydrologic events.

FLUX CITY: Willets Point Graduate School of Design, Spring 2011 Critics: Gary Hilderbrand & Chris Reed Individual work Traditional Western cities are typically founded on principles of stability and permanence. Change and uncertainty—in the form of rich and complex landscape systems—are typically erased, filled, leveled, denuded, marginalized, or stabilized. Experimenting within an alternative methodology that searches for a more responsive framework, the Flux City studio focuses on the development of urban form as driven by ecology and environmental dynamics—a landscape-based urbanism —aspiring to resiliency with regard to long-term environmental, social, political, and economic shifts. Flux City explores and challenges the perceived juxtapositions between fixed urban infrastructures and the environmental dynamism that characterizes coming climate change and sea level rise in Willets Point, Queens—a marginalized Flushing Bay neighborhood whose position is highly problematic for urban growth and land investment. The encompassing 100-year flood zone continues to hinder development in the area. Not only is the site unprotected from rising sea levels and storm surge on its coastal edge, but it currently forms a bottleneck pinch-point for a larger inland flood basin that drains increasing levels of precipitated storm water into Flushing Bay. These conditions further stress complex networks of aging and insufficient infrastructures surrounding the

Natural ecologies, such as those of the typical Atlantic coast barrier islands, are well adapted to absorb and mitigate these dynamic forces of coastal extremes associated with climate change—while cleansing water and providing diverse habitats. However, their ability to do so relies on cycles of generation and deformation that contradict the stability associated with safety and reliability in our built urban environment. The Flux City strategy embraces the challenge inherent in adapting such a system to the urban context. The strategic deployment of targeted coastal piers initially catalyzes symbiotic function between new infrastructure and natural processes of sedimentation and hydrology. The staged formation of protective barrier islands thus offers coastal protection and replaces expensive and destructive dredging practices. Later, the pier foundations—filled with accumulated sediment—gain land value, becoming the foundation for a new pattern of urban expansion that connects the disparate neighborhoods currently separated by the flood-zone void. By 2080, when sea levels are predicted to be 1.5 meters above today’s average, this new archipelago will protect the bay’s older development while providing outer-reef marine habitat and a new expanse of sheltered back-water tidal marsh, sited to filter and mitigate the basin’s contaminated storm water.

Academic Work . Flux City

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drinking wa ter qua l ity & s uppl y

increased sewer overflow

wa ter res ervoir qua l ity & s uppl y

dra ina ge & s ewer overflow

r eser voir nut r ien t s & eut r op hic at ion

elec t r ic it y demands, p r oduc t ion & sur ges

decreased brackish salinity

air c ooling & qualit y c ont r ol

ext en ded c on st r uc t ion seasons

st r uc t ur e & b uildin g floodin g

sea wall & c oast al st r uc t ur e degr edat ion

coastal eelgrass ecosystem decline

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b lue c r ab algae & b ac t er ia

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barrier island formation & def orm at ion

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upla nd ma rs h buffer

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Academic Work . Flux City

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Academic Work . Flux City

sea to marsh : island profile 1:750

along the road : open island 1:750

along the road : island string 1:750

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Academic Work . Flux City

(Plan graphics in collaboration with A. Scottie McDaniel; harvest montage by Sara Newey)

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FORAGE CONSERVATION: Sowey Naval Air Field Graduate School of Design, Fall 2010 Critics: Pierre Belanger & Christian Werthmann Collaboration with A. Scottie McDaniel & Sara Newey Sited on a decommissioned Naval air field in the suburban Boston metropolitan region, this studio demanded the revisualization of a complex 1,500-acre brownfield site for a long-range strategy that prefigures biophysical systems as the denominator for re-envisioning public infrastructures and regional urban economies and ecologies. Forage Conservation introduces a much-needed prototype for a new model of urban-suburban land conservation and wildlife management. By rejecting traditional, polarized

conceptions of conservation and development, the collisions and juxtapositions between our built environment and the resilience of ecologic adaptation are revealed and addressed. Responsive habitat management systems regain balance for exploding populations of wildlife “nuisance species,” while capitalizing on growing interests in local and wild food markets in the Boston region, and maximizing economic synergy between land management techniques, by-products and local economies. To address unpredictable fluctuations in wildlife populations, the notion of the static masterplan is rejected in favor of designed dynamic disturbance and flexible potentials for habitat creation, land management, and public use. The resulting ‘site plan’ is iterative and layered—an accumulation of trace and change.

Academic Work . Forage Conser vation

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Mapping reveals the flexibility of â&#x20AC;&#x153;nuisance speciesâ&#x20AC;? habitat ranges and discrepant relationships between species population densities, conserved land areas and management resources. Uncoordinated response to animal control, highway collision cleanup, and hunting regulations aggravates budgets and environmental issues. Disregard for the potential resources gleaned from suburban ecologies is epitomized in the current consumption of global domestic venison products opposite the concurrent market void for the processing and distribution of local game.

Academic Work . Forage Conser vation

Operational synergy maximizes site resources. Timber is managed for habitat creation and production; woodchip by-products compost regional roadkill waste and wild game butcher scraps; compost fertilizes plant nurseries that test and supply stock for wildlife control in the regional market.

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Public program responds to seasons and to long-term site morphology. Public activities participate directly in management practices, such as hunting and foragingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;exporting experiences and knowledge into the community. (Program calendar by Sara Newey; montage by collaboration)

Academic Work . Forage Conser vation

Management practices address four major components: a reconnected hydrologic course, a successional shrub meadow, runway breakdown, and regenerative silviculture. (Management sections & montage by collaboration) Beginning with initial construction, designed dynamic disturbance and land management alter habitats, appearance, and experience.

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2020

Academic Work . Forage Conser vation

Culinary Event: Sunday Dinner

Contamination Mound

Runway along pond and skeet shooting range

Atmospheric Views a,b,c

Adjacencies between habitat, site infrastructures, and program create a unique experiential reading of new conservation at Sowey Naval Air Field. (Sections by Sara Newey)

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Re-territorializing Conservation

Regional deployment: redistribution and aggregation of conserved land fragments enables critical land mass for efficient management practices and core habitat function. Resource and service exchange reaches the regional economy.

Academic Work . Forage Conser vation

* The return of aquasity: 15,000 years of post-glacial land rise gradually drained the ocean from the Gothenburg region. Waterways and archipelagos in constant transition defined the character of the landscape and the cities and economies derived thereof. Recently, global climate change has reversed the process, causing water levels to rise with increased fluctuation. Flooding is exacerbated by a local history of urban fill and coastal alteration (above left). A postcard for Gothenburg: Dive In! (opposite). Islands and archipelagos of the Gota Alv (this page).

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RIVERCITY GOTHENBURG: Dive In! Graduate School of Design, Fall 2011 Critics: Martha Schwartz & Emily Waugh Individual work Dive In! embraces the ability of the designed public landscape to provide an identity, a public amenity, and an infrastructural solution for the growing city of Gothenburg, Sweden. Through the transformation of a defunct industrial port site, Dive In! restores agency to the Gota Alv river to determine the character and organization of future

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urban growth—returning the river to the city. Responding to an ambitious City of Gothenburg initiative to densify and re-connect the sprawling city-center with the river, Dive In! proposes a landscape-based solution that will connect the north and south banks, enhance estuarine health and habitat, and provide a public landscape that becomes an urban oasis, a ‘Gateway to Gothenburg’ and an icon for Western Sweden. The project demanded an understanding of the complexities of infrastructure, river ecologies, economic development, social dynamics, history, and climate change that impact and shape the trajectory of the city and the river.

Academic Work . RiverCity Gothenburg

Once a bustling port with Dutch-designed canal networks, the Gota Alv is dominated by hyper-scaled infrastructure. Abandoned industrial land and port facilities built over urban fill and layered with parking lots, roadways, railway lines and ferry terminals, divide the city from the riverâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; visually, physically, and mentally. Already subject to flooding, this land faces increasing hydrologic challenges as sea levels rise. These flood-prone, defunct sites currently buffer zones targeted for residential growth from the waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge, inhibiting access and decreasing land value economically, socially and ecologically. Yet, as Gothenburg continues to grow, these massive swatches offer opportunities to reenvision the interior of the city. Inspired by geologic and port histories, as well as local ecologies and materials, recarved waterways and uncovered urban islands create a new river landscape that bring the river back to the city.

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The Dive In! concept seen from aboveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; a RiverCity identified by its connected island landscape (above). The Dive In! strategy (right).

remove strangling infrastructure

re-carve waterways through transitional land, relieve the main shipping channel

prioritize development along new waterfronts, re-establish aquatic habitats

Frihamnen islands: destination and retreat, city gateway and river crossing

Academic Work . RiverCity Gothenburg

Island 1.

Island 2.

Frihamnen Islands: A variety of waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edge conditions are sequenced for each island. A diversity of microclimates and habitats invite park users to explore and celebrate the Gota Alv.

Frihamnen Islands key: 1. Public Marina 2. Amphitheater Hill 3. Terraced Lawn 4. Play Lawn 5. Beach 6. Promontories

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Island 3.

7. Indoor Aquarium w/ Green Roof 8. Indoor Saunas w/ Green Roof 9. Aquarium Promenade 10. Habitat Pools w/ Sunken Walk 11. Infinity Pool 12. Boulder Hill 13. Marsh Walk

Hisingen Waterfront

Marsh Channel

Killibacken Stream

Ringon Waterfront

Hisingen Waterfront

Lundbyvassen Waterfront

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Gothenburg Bridge

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Island 1

Island 3

Historic Waterfront

remaining active shipyard 100m

Academic Work . RiverCity Gothenburg

A varied urban edge enlivens new waterfront development on the banks of the Gota Alvâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s northern neighborhoods. Frequent streetscape access employs consistent motifs but diverse forms and materials.

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A ramped walkway on Island 1 gauges the flood during highpressure weather. The meadow lawn and opposite terraced promontory provide views, while mossy microclimates beg investigation when the water goes down.

Academic Work . RiverCity Gothenburg

An aquarium promenade gradually ramps below the waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surface, revealing the aquatic world below. Opposite, visitors can take a plunge and join the display.

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The troughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a dry walkway immersed in the waterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;offers eye-level looks at the reflective habitat pool on one side, and the open river on the other.

Academic Work . RiverCity Gothenburg

Long lines in the re-constructed stepped edge dramatize the expansive scale of the original pier, while making water accessible.

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Lush plants make an urban jungle in the channel marsh, where residents can explore or escape, habitat is restored, and water is cleansed.

Academic Work . RiverCity Gothenburg

RE-GROWING KENNEDY PARK Graduate School of Design, Spring 2010 Critics: Anita Berrizbeitia & Jill Desimini Individual work Frederick Law Olmsted designed Kennedy Park for Fall River, Massachusetts during the industrial heyday of the late 19th century. Today, the park receives heavy use, but maintenance and facilities are significantly deteriorated, as is the historic vitality of the site. The redesign of Kennedy Park requires historic sensitivity while proposing projective responses to contemporary needs for access, maintenance, ecologic viability, and new program. Re-growing Kennedy Park proposes a regeneration of the parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vegetation that reflects and updates the original intentions of the Olmsted design. Three strategically deployed planting typologies frame evolving spaces for new programs to emerge, while enhancing ecologic vigor and alleviating drainage, erosion and maintenance problems caused by the continued denuding of the landscape.

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Three planting typologies frame evolving space for new and existing programs of various intensity, taking into account urban adjacency, visibility, access and maintenance throughout canopy growth (above right). Concept sections (below right) propose a strategy for successional growth that preserves existing specimen trees while restoring understory, transitioning segments of the park into a programmed urban forest.

1. Quadruple allĂŠes

2. Quincunx

2. Successional forest

Academic Work . Re-Growing Kennedy Park

AllĂŠes framing beloved athletic fields open into a quincunx over the new civic plaza and central gathering space, then diffuse into the irregular pattern of the successional forest, connecting to existing urban wilds along the rail corridor. Diversified groundcovers enhance water management, habitat and experience. Sequential site sections at two growth stages show transitions in spatial configurations and program as new planting is established and old-growth specimens reach their life spans.

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Academic Work . Re-Growing Kennedy Park

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Academic Work . Re-Growing Kennedy Park

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RESEARCH & VISUALIZATION Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 2009-2012

Research & Visualization

New Jersey New York Marthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vineyard British Columbia

REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY & SOCIAL NETWORKING A spatialized mapping documents the one-month acitivity of a social media site devoted to foraging activities (above), foraging sites visited (right).

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Helsinki Kemijärvi Rovaniemi

Oulu

Gaia Farm Moustikkavuori Tampere Pori Hämeenlinna

Helsinki

EVERYMAN’S RIGHTS: FORAGING FINLAND Graduate School of Design, 2011-2012 Independent Research, Penny White Award Forest occupies 86% of Finland, the most forested country in Europe. Unique laws protect “Everyman’s Rights” to access all of Finland’s forest as a cultural, recreational, and productive resource. Not only is public recreational access permitted regardless of land ownership, but rights are preserved to harvest wild edible berries, mushrooms, and herbs wherever found. These laws blur the boundaries between public and private land use, and ensure that the natural edible resources of the country’s forest remain free to the public despite ownership patterns. Though deeply grounded in Finnish tradition, increased urbanization and

commercial exploitation of these resources have changed foraging practices in contemporary Finland, with impacts that are felt globally. This travelling study of contemporary foraging in Finland examines phenomena that are indicative of the increasing complexity that entwines land use, cultural heritage, legislation, and economics. Travel and interviews across Finland focused on three areas of inquiry: (1) traditional foraging traditions as documented by the Herbologies Foraging Networks, a government-funded cultural heritage and public art project; (2) contemporary foraging traditions as adapted to urbanized areas and aided by locative and social media; and (3) contemporary issues and activism related to the human rights and environmental concerns of increasing populations of migrant berry pickers travelling between Finland and Thailand.

Research & Visualization . Foraging Finland

rowan berry

raspberry

pre-1980s labor force & berry distribution

buckthorn berry

bilberry

bog whortle berry

cloud berry

1980-2000 labor force & berry distribution

lingonberry

milk cap mushrrom

cep mushroom

chanterelle

2000-2010 labor force & berry distribution

THE WILD FINNISH FOOD INDUSTRY: Global expansion of wild food product distribution and labor sourcing.

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HARVEST & DEBT CYCLES: A calendar visualizing the rotation and planting cycles of Thai crops, Finnish berry picking, and the associated debt cycles of each.

Research & Visualization . Foraging Finland

LAKE ONTARIO ONTARIO fossil fuel power public supply industrial nuclear power domestic

Mgal/day 4,168.38 628.23 148.37 52.67 22.96 Lake Ontario surface water withdrawals

Ontario Basin total water use INTERBASIN DIVERSION Mgal/day public supply 6.91 CONSUMPTIVE public supply industrial fossil fuel power irrigation livestock

Mgal/day 218.07 96.22 91.59 35.18 20.84

NEW YORK hydroelectric power fossil fuel power public supply industrial

Mgal/day 45,584.00 793.58 184.50 166.69

WITHDRAWALS hydroelectric power fossil fuel power public supply industrial nuclear power domestic supply irrigation livestock

Mgal/day 45,584.00 7,979.82 1,665.53 818.94 201.62 129.42 70.95 38.15

public domestic irrigation livestock industrial fossilfuel nuclear hydroelectric

LAKE EERIE

MICHIGAN fossil fuel power public supply industrial nuclear power

Mgal/day 4,168.38 628.23 148.37 52.67

OHIO fossil fuel power public supply nuclear power industrial

NEW YORK hydroelectric power fossil fuel power public supply industrial domestic

Lake Erie surface water withdrawals

Mgal/day 1,692.95 415.98 148.95 56.94

PENNSYLVANIA Mgal/day public supply 28.77 industrial 5.37 Erie Basin total water use

INTERBASIN DIVERSION Mgal/day public supply 6.91 CONSUMPTIVE public supply industrial fossil fuel power irrigation livestock

Mgal/day 218.07 96.22 91.59 35.18 20.84

Mgal/day 45,584.00 793.58 184.50 166.69 22.96

WITHDRAWALS hydroelectric power fossil fuel power public supply industrial nuclear power domestic supply irrigation livestock

Mgal/day 45,584.00 7,979.82 1,665.53 818.94 201.62 129.42 70.95 38.15

LAKE HURON ONTARIO fossil fuel power industrial public supply

MICHIGAN fossil fuel power public supply industrial nuclear power

Mgal/day 4,168.38 628.23 148.37 52.67

Lake Huron surface water withdrawals

WITHDRAWALS hydroelectric power fossil fuel power public supply industrial nuclear power domestic supply irrigation livestock

Huron Basin total water use

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Mgal/day 463.20 173.24 8.97

CONSUMPTIVE public supply industrial fossil fuel power irrigation livestock

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Mgal/day 45,584.00 7,979.82 1,665.53 818.94 201.62 129.42 70.95 38.15

Mgal/day 218.07 96.22 91.59 35.18 20.84

LAKE MICHIGAN

WISCONSIN fossil fuel power industrial public supply

Mgal/day 463.20 173.24 8.97

Lake Michigan surface water withdrawals ILLINOIS fossil fuel power public supply nuclear power

Mgal/day 1,692.95 415.98 148.95

MICHIGAN fossil fuel power public supply industrial

Mgal/day 4,168.38 628.23 148.37 Basin total water use

INDIANA hydroelectric power fossil fuel power public supply

Mgal/day 45,584.00 793.58 184.50

WITHDRAWALS hydroelectric power fossil fuel power public supply industrial nuclear power domestic supply irrigation livestock

Mgal/day 45,584.00 7,979.82 1,665.53 818.94 201.62 129.42 70.95 38.15

INTERBASIN DIVERSION Mgal/day public supply 6.91

CONSUMPTIVE public supply industrial fossil fuel power irrigation livestock

Mgal/day 218.07 96.22 91.59 35.18 20.84

public domestic irrigation livestock industrial fossilfuel nuclear hydroelectric

LAKE SUPERIOR ONTARIO fossil fuel power public supply industrial MINNESOTA hydroelectric power fossil fuel power public supply

Mgal/day 4,168.38 628.23 148.37

Mgal/day 45,584.00 793.58 184.50

WITHDRAWALS hydroelectric power fossil fuel power public supply industrial

Mgal/day 45,584.00 7,979.82 1,665.53 818.9

Lake Superior surface water withdrawals

WISCONSIN Mgal/day hydroelectric power 45,584.00

MICHIGAN Mgal/day hydroelectric power 45,584.00

INTERBASIN DIVERSION Mgal/day public supply 6.91

CONSUMPTIVE Mgal/day public supply 218.07 industrial 96.22

Superior Basin total water use

THIRD COAST ATLAS: Water Use in the Great Lakes Graduate School of Design, Fall 2011 Critics Clare Lyster & Mason White Individual research towards collaborative publication WATER USE CATEGORY public supply domestic supply irrigation livestock industrial fossil fuel power nuclear power nydroelectric power

This study of water use in the Great Lakes basins contributed to a seminar and forthcoming publication on the regional territory of the Great Lakes. The Third Coast Atlas (ed. Clare Lyster, Charles Waldheim, and Mason White) is a “compendium of theoretical essays, maps, scholarly research and design provocations that facilitate a contemporary survey of the urbanization of the Great Lakes Basin, known as the Third Coast.”

Research & Visualization . Third Coast Atlas

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raw materials

transport / agricultural & food industry sectors

waste services X

N O RWAY FINLAND

Oslo

Helsinki

SWEDEN

Goteborg

DENMARK

Kariskrona Copenhagen

Kalundborg Trelleborg

GERMANY

POLAND

AQUIFER TYPES no aquifer

complex multilayered intergranular flow

complex monolayerd intergranular flow

unconfined monolayered intergranular flow

unconfined multilayered intergranular flow

unconfined monolayered fissure flow

confined monolayered fissure formation

confined monolayered intergranular formation

confined monolayered fissure formation

CORPORATE REMEDIATION

Bioteknisk Jordens is one of six soil remediation companies owned by DVS Miljø. The “one-stop shopping” contracting corporation offers remediation and recycling services for soils, construction debris and industrial byproducts, waste disposal services, excavation of raw materials, and ground transport for construction and agriculture. Tied to natural resources in the region, this business model operates above geologic and hydrologic subsurface systems that at once provide industrial resources while requiring remedial and preventative protection. Environmental legislation from the Danish government fosters the growing remediation economy.

sources: www.geus.dk; www.eusoils.jrc.europs.ey; www.dsvmiljoe.dk; www.symbiosis.dk; www.ec.europa.eu; geonetwork4ewater; United States Environmental Protection Agency; Danish Environmental Protection Agency; European Environmental Protection Agency

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SYMBIOSIS Declining water levels in Lake Tissø following rapid industrialization catalyzed environmental protection and remediation legislature, spawning new technologies for natural resource efficiency and waste reduction. A local business model responded with ecologic industrial symbiosis, a system that reuses byproducts of one industry in another, simultaneously reducing costs and waste while generating energy for municipal infrastructure. sources: www.geus.dk; www.eusoils.jrc.europs.ey; www.dsvmiljoe.dk; www.symbiosis.dk; www.ec.europa.eu; geonetwork4ewater; United States Environmental Protection Agency; Danish Environmental Protection Agency; European Environmental Protection Agency

CASE STUDY: Remediation & Symbiotic Industry Graduate School of Design, Fall 2010 Critics Pierre Belanger & Christian Werthmann Collaboration with A. Scottie McDaniel This study presents one model for leveraging links between economic potentials, site-specific geologies and hydrogeographies, and the political legislation of land use and resource management. The Bioteknisk Jordens (SOILREM) soil remediation facility in Kolundborg, Denmark reveals relationships between the geologic resources and hydrologic limitations informing the political management of groundwater resources in Denmark, the specific site-scale operations of the remediation facility, and the regional industrial symbiosis of facilities and byproducts.

The contracting corporation offers remediation and recycling services for soils, construction debris and industrial byproducts, waste disposal services, raw material excavation, and transport for construction and agriculture. Tied to natural resources in the region, environmental legislation from the Danish government fosters this growing remediation economy (above left). Declining water levels in nearby Lake Tissø following rapid industrialization catalyzed environmental protection and remediation legislature, spawning a market for new technologies in resource efficiency and waste reduction. In Kalundborg, a local business model responded with ecologic industrial symbiosis—a system that reuses byproducts of one industry in another, simultaneously reducing costs and waste while generating municipal energy (above right). Site operations are coordinated with respect to the symbiotic model (below left).

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Current economic conditions rely on finance/insurance and technological and biological research businesses. These industries are supported by smaller sectors of the workforce. Regional industries no longer transport goods but transfer knowledge, ideas and wealth to a global market through an intangible landscape of communication. The profitability of Greater Boston is dependent on the productivity of these international relationships. Banks not only support the region, but also have a presence overseas. Advancements made by thriving technology labs are not necessarily produced locally. These economic shifts reference the global nature of the region’s original trading industries, though products and means of transport are significantly different. Boston has repurposed its culture of exchange and now participates in complex global flows of wealth and production. 60 Kilometers 40 20 10 0

right: Manufacturing migrates to the southern states for cheaper labor/petroleum causing a declined economy. The Great Depression yields more factory closings and job loss. The still-prosperous wholesale trade fosters an emerging market for finance and service industries. Local universities develop electronic and radio innovations and catalyze research development businesses, most notably Raytheon and Polaroid. The region’s economy, once tied to shipping corridors, shifts towards roadways as automobiles become commonplace. Roadways join business nodes radially towards Boston, describing flow of capital. Current economic conditions rely on finance/insurance and technological and biological research businesses. These industries are supported by smaller sectors of the workforce. Regional industries no longer transport goods but transfer knowledge, ideas and wealth to a global market through an intangible landscape of communication. The profitability of Greater Boston is dependent on the productivity of these international relationships. Banks not only support the region, but also have a presence overseas. Advancements made by thriving technology labs are not necessarily produced locally. These economic shifts reference the global nature of the region’s original trading industries, though products and means of transport are significantly different. Boston has repurposed its culture of exchange and now participates in complex global flows of wealth and production.

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left: An influx of defense spending combined with innovative science revives the regional ec research in electronics, computer science, radio, radiation and nuclear physics at MIT labs technology businesses. Increased regional capital prompts sales and service secto manufacturing shrinks, new electronic/tech operations occupy empty facilities and sites. Ma business growth west/north of Boston. The workforce follows businesses in new suburba south, post-industrial economy lags.

[Source: Statistical Census 1870/1930/1967/2005, The Boston Region 1810-1850: A Study of Urbanization, Route 128 and the Birth of the Age of High Tech, Route 128: Lessons from Boston’s High-Tech Community, Building Route 128, The State of the Region: Informative Facts and Figures About Metropolitan Boston, The State of the Region: A Statistical Report, The Roots of American Industrialization, 1790-1860, Boston Redevelopment Authority, Town of Weymouth, BostonRoads.com, National Park Service]

The regional economy of Boston is resilient in its fluctuation to find niche markets and compete economically. Originally a port city for English goods, tied to natural resources and waterways for exporting, the region has evolved from industrial manufacturing to wholesale entrepreneurship to high finance to technological pioneering. Transportation infrastructure [i.e. waterways, railways and highways] has dictated the transformation of the area’s economic landscape; these systems describe migratory patterns of industries, workforce relocation and concentration of wealth. Industries rearrange in response to each introduction to new means of mobility. Often the remnant of one industry becomes underpinning support for the new. The presence of academic research institutions, government funding and infrastructure has enabled a diverse economic evolution. technology [Proportionally scaled per time period. Based on annual revenue of each industry]

left: Manufacturing peaks. Predominant industries were textiles, boots/shoes and publishing. The regions economy is defined by the acquisition of raw materials and the production/trade of goods. Dependency on natural resources sited manufacturing facilities and the towns they supported along waterway corridors [i.e. Merrimack and Charles Rivers]. Rivers were essential in the mobility of products/goods to international shipping ports. Throughout the 19th century, railroads steadily increased, connecting corridors and hubs of manufacturing. The network of rail + waterways describes the economic landscape of the time.

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ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES: Boston Metropolitan Region Graduate School of Design, Fall 2010 Critics Pierre Belanger & Christian Werthmann Collaboration with A. Scottie McDaniel Historical mappings of industry distribution, capital flows, and employee migration show the resounding connections between regional economy and the geography of natural resources and established corridors of transportation since industrialization in the Boston metropolitan region. These relationships evolved together as the economy of eastern Massachusetts transitioned from an industrial economy organized around waterways to a global biotech and information economy organized around highway and internet infrastructures. Geo-economic understandings provided background for studio work.

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left: The network of highways, roads, rails and mass transit lines allow business to infill the Greater Boston area, creating a distinction between the inside and outside of I-495. The centrally located financial district holds much of the region’s capital in a few large international corporations; implying high risk in the possibility of financial institutions closing or relocating. The area’s technology/research industries have continued to diversify, spreading smaller labs and facilities throughout eastern Massachusetts. With smaller revenues the 1000+ technology businesses in the area accumulate a significant portion of the local economy, while still participating in the global market. The region’s 50 institutions of higher education contribute to an increasing trend of professional jobs in the area.

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SHRINKING CITIES: A Card Game for Baltimore Graduate School of Design, Fall 2011 Critic: Jill Desimini Individual work In an advanced research seminar that explored the landscape issues and potentials of shrinking American cities, the format of a card game provides a typology within which “players” can reframe the dialogue around the shrinking city of Baltimore to focus on its vast possibilities. This card game explores the mythology of famous Baltimore foods, unravelling the stories behind the landscapes and people that produced them and the physical legacies they’ve left in the urban environment, While celebrating existing heritage, additional facts on currently under-utilized resources, places and potentials can be paired by players into new ‘myths’ for the city. “To know the myths is to learn the secret of the origins of things. In other words, one learns not only how things came into existence, but also where to ﬁnd them and how to make them reappear when they disappear.” —Mircea Eliade, Myth and Reality

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A NEW TYPE OF COMMUNITY GARDEN A plant never drops a single seed. They spread hundreds. Thousands, even. We believe that collaboration is more effective than any individual acting alone. By creating an online community of gardeners, we create a common ground for collaborations to transform places. Look around. The whole city can become your garden. MORE>>

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A NEW TYPE OF COMMUNITY GARDEN Community gardens are in high demand. Despite increased interest, the city of Somerville is able to provide only eight gardens for nearly 80,000 residents. Getting a plot requires a lot of patience. You will spend at least two years on the waiting list, behind hundreds of others hoping for a small bit of garden. But look around. When you begin to see through the eyes of a guerrilla gardener, the whole city can become your garden. Read about how, and take part in planting. ORPHANED LAND Less than 0.02% of land is used for community gardens in Somerville, but there is much more free space. 10% of the city is “orphaned” in vacant lots, barren medians, and highway or railroad buffers. Spontaneous vegetation, or weeds, have probably already noticed these sites and moved in on their own. With a few simple tactics, these spaces can become your new community gardens. It might not be your land, but you can choose what grows here. Give your neighborhood a new look. ‘EXPERIENTIAL OWNERSHIP’ Just because someone else abandoned their lot, doesn’t mean you should have to look at it. We believe in ‘experiential’ ownership—the idea that you can shape the experience of your neighborhood without having to technically hold the deed to the land. By sowing seeds across your local landscape, you can begin to claim ownership and take pride in the beautiful things that grow there. THE ECOLOGY OF COMMUNITY A plant never drops a single seed. They spread hundreds. Thousands, even. We believe that collaboration is more effective than any individual acting alone. In nature, ecologies are stronger when they are most diverse, and when all the parts work together. By creating an online community of gardeners, we create a common ground for collaborations to transform places. Join us.

GROUNDCOVER: The Mixed-Reality City Graduate School of Design, Spring 2010 Critics: Jesse Shapins & James Burns Collaboration with Sara Newey The Mixed-Reality City explores the use of mobile and social media to respond to the provocation that the contemporary city is constituted by “multiple overlapping, intermixing realities, articulated between built form and imagined space, individuated experience and collective memory, embodied sensation and digital mediation.” GROUNDCOVER is an interactive project that employs a website with mobile media and social media tools to instigate safe but active collaborative practice for a local community of “guerilla gardeners”—those who transform the look of vacant lots and abandoned land with chosen plants. All website graphics in collaboration with Sara Newey, web scripting and construction with Jesse Shapins and Kyle Parry, at the metLAB (at) Harvard and the Sensory Ethnography Lab, Harvard University.

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2 Most of the purification facility is below grade. The displaced soil created the change in elevation that defines the landscape.

3 Swales collect runoff from the cross-sloped footpaths and guide it to the on-site pond, eliminating the need for storm pipes and drain inlets.

4 Microclimates created by variations in grade foster ecological diversity and establish habitats for fauna.

5 Seed mix sown by hand to minimize soil compaction and lower costs. The planting palette requires no fertilizers or pesticides.

CASE STUDIES: SOILS, PLANTING & CONSTRUCTION Graduate School of Design, 2009 Tozier Grant, advised by Michael Van Valkenburgh Collaboration with Hans Baumann & Erik Prince

Plant success and soil pH at the CT Water Treatment Facility (left, graphic collaboration with Hans Baumann); plant communities and microclimate (right).

The team conducted case studies of the CT Water Treatment Facility in New Haven, Connecticut by Micheal Van Valkenburgh Associates, and the Novartis Campus Park in Basel, Switzerland by Vogt Landscape Architects. Research requiring site visits, office interviews with designers, and graphic analysis focused on planting design, implementation, and maintenance regimes. Resulting work provided teaching material for core coursework at the Graduate School of Design.

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PROFESSIONAL Green Roof Technologies, LLC 2012 Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. 2010-2011

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STATION MALL WATERFRONT Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Green Roof Technology, 2012 Design Team: Jörg Breuning, Andrew Yanders, Emily Gordon, Amy Whitesides As the largest property on the Sault Ste. Marie waterfront, the Station Mall site holds the potential to become a welcoming beacon and a recreational keystone for the city and its visitors. As the mall faces extensive renovations, early concept development demonstrates the potential of the site to become more than a mall: the Station Mall Central Waterfront.

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Station Mall occupies a key expanse of property in Sault Ste. Marie. Located downtown and linked to existing and planned waterfront attractions—the Hub Trail and recreation circuit, market venues, museums, hotels and marinas—the site also faces the Whitefish Island Nature Preserve, the National Historic Site at the Canal Locks, and the sweeping international bridge. Reinventing Station Mall to become a more diverse destination benefits both the town and the mall. Increasing site use, efficiency and access helps bring more people to the mall, while providing amenities for the city. Focusing on four key aspects of the site’s renovation allows for the flexible implementation of improvements that can diversity and enhance the site one step at a time. Areas of focus include: the reconfiguration of parking to diversify the ground plane; re-programming freed open space and the waterfront; greening the mall roof for environmental performance and new program; reinvigorating the mall interior with green installations. Graphics in collaboration with Amy Whitesides

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2. Garages at either end anticipate heavy Walmar t use MAXIMIZING SITE: MAKING THE MOST WITH PARKING New garages allow for new open space (left); parking options (above right); garage adjacencies and roof program (right); new open space welcomes visitors from the street entrace (below left); inside the new garage (below right).

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REINVENTING SITE: STATION MALL WATERFRONT & PARK New open space replaces parking and invites new use (left); diverse access and program along the new waterfront (above right); planting strategies for managing water, energy, and micro-climates (right); an afternoon on the new waterfront (below).

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1. Managing water and energy: simple sedum roof with solar option

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1. Flexible even space with minimal planting REDEFINING THE ROOF: USE & PERFORMANCE Green roofs provide efficiency and new program (left); options for greening existing mall roof structures (above right); options for programming new garage roofs (right); evenings on the new roof (below).

2. Multi-program space wtih intensive planting

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ARTS & TRANSIT DISTRICT Princeton University, New Jersey Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, 2011 Design Team: Jennifer Pindyck, Tim Kirby, Emily Gordon, Andrew McConnico One of several projects to emerge from work on the Princeton University Master Plan, the Arts and Transit District extends the campusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; southern boundary to allow for growth and new facilities while accommodating complex transit demands, including the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s train station and a new transit plaza. The Arts and Transit District landscape, designed in collaboration with Steven Holl Architects and Beyer Blinder Belle, provides a major new entry to the campus from the Princeton train station. The design aims to create an integrated experience between the diverse architectural styles of the southern campus, while providing pedestrian access and landscape space for adjacent arts programming. Work in the summer of 2011 included a return to schematic design following site boundary and zoning reconfigurations. Design work included concept development, consideration of program and traffic demands, and congruency with new architecture. Technical challenges included site grading, building access, and rigorous traffic requirements. Plan graphic in collaboration with Andrew McConnico

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Sections of the Texas Rose Garden planting beds show the composition of the native and xeroscape plant palette (left); a bloom chart demonstrates seasonal interest (right).

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January Lupinus texensis Yucca pallida Ilex vomitoria ‘Nana’

February Salvia cocccinea Lupinus texensis Yucca pallida Ilex vomitoria ‘Nana’

March Rosacea ‘Perle d’Or’ Salvia coccinea Melampodium licanthum Phlox drummondii Amsonia ciliata Lupinus texensis

April Rosacea ‘Perle d’Or’ Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ Lagerstroemia indica ‘Natchez’ Magnolia grandiflora Marshallia caespitosa Phlox drummondii Penstemon cobaea Amsonia ciliata Saliva lyrata Lupinus texensis Vitex agnust-castus Castilleja purpurea Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana

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Rosacea ‘Perle d’Or’ Yucca pallida Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ Lagerstroemia indica ‘Natchez’ Magnolia grandiflora Marshallia caespitosa Phlox drummondii Penstemon cobaea Amsonia ciliata Lupinus texensis Vitex agnust-castus Castilleja purpurea Aquilegia chrysantha var. hinckleyana

Rosacea ‘Perle d’Or’ Yucca pallida Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ Lagerstroemia indica ‘Natchez’ Magnolia grandiflora Vitex agnust-castus Echinacea purpurea Monarda citriodora Lobelia cardinalis Ipomopsis rubra Castilleja purpurea

Rosacea ‘Perle d’Or’ Cooperia drummondii Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ Lagerstroemia indica ‘Natchez’ Vitex agnust-castus Echinacea purpurea Monarda citriodora Lobelia cardinalis Ipomopsis rubra Tithonia rotundiflora

Rosacea ‘Perle d’Or’ Cooperia drummondii Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ Lagerstroemia indica ‘Natchez’ Vitex agnust-castus Echinacea purpurea Liatris mucronata Lobelia cardinalis Tithonia rotundiflora

September Rosacea ‘Perle d’Or’ Cooperia drummondii Lagerstroemia indica ‘Natchez’ Vitex agnust-castus Salvia azurea Echinacea purpurea Liatris mucronata Lobelia cardinalis Tithonia rotundiflora

October Lagerstroemia indica ‘Natchez’ Salvia coccinea Melampodium licanthum Salvia azurea Liatris mucronata Lobelia cardinalis Tithonia rotundiflora

November Melampodium licanthum Salvia azurea Liatris mucronata Yucca pallida Lagerstroemia indica ‘Natchez’

December Liatris mucronata Yucca pallida Ilex vomitoria ‘Nana’

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TEXAS ROSE GARDEN: GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Dallas, Texas Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, 2010 Design Team: Herb Sweeney, Megumi Aihara, Adrienne Heflich, Emily Gordon The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum landscape connects to the larger context of the SMU campus, while providing landscape spaces to welcome visitors and to provide for formal and informal outdoor programming. The larger grounds feature pathways through native Texas landsape typologies, while more

formal program spaces adjacent to the building include the Ceremonial Courtyard, the South Terrace, and the Texas Rose Garden. The Texas Rose Garden—with the same proportions, solar orientation, and formal organization as the White House Rose Garden—is deeply symbolic while supporting larger project objectives of increasing biodiversity, restoring native habitat, limiting the need for extensive irrigation and maintenance, and managing stormwater runoff. Work in the summer of 2010 included research, concept and design development, planting specification, and plant sourcing for the Texas Rose Garden, the Ceremonial Courtyard, and the South Terrace.

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