Portfolio 2017 by Florencia Lima

Portfolio Florencia Lima

Contents

03 - 10 Fort Dotted Channel

23 - 28 Bussey Brook Meadow

45 - 48 Mausoleo

29 - 34 Berlin Landscape

49 - 52 Bar Cinco Patas

Selected Works

11 - 16 Directing Stormwater Runoff

35 - 40 Crafted Fiction

17 - 22 Maverick Mills

40 - 44 Learning Space

53 - 56 Coatepeque Stool

57 - 60 Slide the Calendar! 02

Fort Dotted Channel Despite Fort Point Channelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accessibility, it has become disengaged with the rest of Boston. This disengagement calls for a design that connects and fosters its potential. With a series of pods and pools, Fort Point Channel will become activated and connected to the rest of the city.

South Boston, Boston, MA Fort Point Channel

Pod Categories

Ecological

in g.

a’ s

Provide habitat and other environmental benefits.

Bird Houses

he w

I’m

Fe d er i

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Ornamental vegetation

Fish enclosure

rd w

re n

at ch

Analysis Diagrams

4’

Highly Salt Tolerant vegetation

Ornamental Grasses

Threespine Stickleback

Pampas Grass Cortadera selloeana

Winter Flounder

Fourspine Stickleback

Muhly Grass Muhlenbergia capillaris

Panic Grass Panicum virgatum

Lavender Cotton Santolina chamaecyparissus

Common Yarrow Achillea millefolium

Crested Caracara Caracara Cheriway

American kestrel Falco sparverius

Red-footed falcon Falco vespertinus

Eurasian kestrel Falco tinnunculus

Merlin Falco columbarius

Gyrfalcon Falco rusticolus

Perennials

Smooth Flounder

Northern Pipefish

Shorthorn Sculpin

Blanket Flower, Gaillardia Gaillardia pulchella

Recreational

“Activity and enjoyment when one is not working...”

South Bay Trail

Zones

Access

Hub of the Channel

Open Plaza

Pneumatic Facade

Sea Wall Basin South Bay Urban Industrial Wild

It’s

Night Pod

a ag

6’

10 ‘

Harbor Walk

Children’s Museum South Station

glass surface

“pneumatic muscle” opaque

translucent

Industrial

Allows for productive and at the same time interactive space.

Fort Point

Bass River

Void

Nodes

Medicinal cultivation

4‘

Green & Void Spaces

Algae cultivation

Salt Pond

+ dunaliella salina

Rosemary Rosemarinus Officinalis

Mint Mentha

Sage Salvia officinalis

Promenade

Green

Plan

Polyethylene Cube

High Tide

Low Tide

Concrete Block

Fabric

High Tide

Low Tide

Directing Stormwater Runoff Water purification is a process by which harmful chemicals are depleted. The goal for this project was to create a pedagogical landscape that would teach this system in an artful manner. This was achieved by morphing a topography in accordance to each process that entails waterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purification; from collection at the beginning to irrigation or consumption at the end.

patterns Collection

Nutrition

Aeration

Detention

Collection

Irrigation

Collection

Nutrition

Aeration

Detention

Collection

Irrigation

Wet Season

Dry Season

Water Direction

Vegetation

fix axons!

Water Speed low

Vegetation

high

Water

Maverick Mills This project’s site shows high vulnerability to natural factors like floods, and impermeable surface due to its flat terrain and proximity to water. The proposal for this site aims to soften the existing edge condition by situating “hard” and “soft” urban instances that not only mitigates flooding but also serves as a connector for the surrounding neighborhood.

East Boston, Boston, MA Maverick Mills

Mapping

Plan

Urban Puzzle Icons Soft --> Hard

Chelsea

Maverick Mills

Vegetation

Wetland Marsh

Terraced Edge

Sea Wall

Buildings

Floating

Building on Piers

Building with Edge

Constitution Beach

Boston Logan Airport

Maverick Mills

Marine Biodiversity Navigation Channel

Taxonomoies Public Space

Boardwalk

Organic Promenade

Recreation/ Plaza

2D Landscape Systems

Circulation

Green Space

Paved Surface

Entrance Pedestrian

Entrance Street

Buildings

DY AN BR

TRUSTMAN TERRACE

ED YN W R

TB ES W

G TO RA

CLEL LAN H

WILL IAM FM

N TO NG

ADDISON ST

G TO RA

WORDSWORTH ST

N TO NG

W TH

BYRON ST

Commercial Retail

Commercial Office

Residential

Node

Paved Surface

Green Space

289,554 sq. ft.

195,398 sq. ft.

863,892 sq. ft.

7,160 sq. ft

70,729 sq. ft.

123,002 sq. ft

Bussey Brook Meadow The research done at the Arnold Arboretum seeks to explore the relationship between the existing slope condition and invasive species. Moreover, a triangulation was made in order to explore the exact position of boundaries and features.

Boston, MA Arnold Arboretum

Index Operation

Slope Analysis 0-5% 5-15%

Slope 0-15%

5-15%

15+

15%

Invasive Wetland Species

Wild Cucumber Echinocytis Lobata

Wild CucumberStaghorn Sumac Rhus Typhina Echinocytis lobata Multiflora Rose Multiflora Rose Rosa Rosa Multiflora

Multiflora

Wild Cucumber Echinocytis Lobata

Multiflora Rose Rosa Multiflora

Staghorn Sumac Rhus Typhina

Sequential Plot Reconstructed Transect

Berlin Landscape The main concept of the designed landscape of this site begins by exploring the activities and characteristics of an urban city. Firstly, an urban plot is designed where buildings and landscape features will take place. Urban activities which take part in the building-landscape interaction play an important role in defining interactions between the architecture and landscape.

Berlin, Germany

Index Operation

Site Plan Urban Plot

Urban Activities

Connection

1:500

Trees Existing & Preserved

New -0.45 -0.45

Elements + Activity

Path + Entrance

Frames

Surfaces Green/trees

Water Collecting green area

-1.00 -0 .5 +1 5 .45

+0.0 0 +0.0 0 -0.5 5

+0.00 -0.45

+1.00

Wood

Pre fabricated concrete

Slope High

Low

Crafted Fiction A terrain surrounded by large infrastructure, housing, complex hydrological issues - the Gowanus Canal offers an opporunity to be â&#x20AC;&#x153;re-imaginedâ&#x20AC;? as a tool of socio-spatial transformation.

Brooklyn, New York City Gowanus Canal

Programming/Operation Flows

Index Operation

Sequential Section

Corridor (rapid)

Plosion Strong Source

Activity Nodes

Index/Scale 37

Learning Space The space is designed to accomodate groups of varying sizes - small, medium, and large. To achieve this, the design focuses on manipulating the ground with a triangle as a module. This shape is morphed and arranges so that it creates an outdoor climbing space or an intimate and protected one.

Cambridge, MA Carpenter Center, Harvard University

Mausoleo This monument was created in response to the client’s simple desire: a paradisiac garden to visit often and bring back beautiful memories of their loved one. It’s made up of a “deep cut” that carves through the middle of a mound. The idea was to activate some senses in order to become oblivious to the surroundings; the sound of the stirring grass, the feel of the cold marmoled surface,the view of the raised garden, and the smell of the fountain grass.

East Boston, Boston, MA Maverick Mills

46 45

0.80

2.05 1.20

4.10

1.35

0.55

3.00 2.10

1.30

0.85

1.30

1.60

0.02

0.02 3.80

Bar Cinco Patas This monument was created in response to the client’s simple desire: a paradisiac garden to visit often and bring back beautiful memories of their loved one. It’s made up of a “deep cut” that carves through the middle of a mound. The idea was to activate some senses in order to become oblivious to the surroundings; the sound of the stirring grass, the feel of the cold marmoled surface,the view of the raised garden, and the smell of the fountain grass.

East Boston, Boston, MA Maverick Mills

Mueble a Fabricar 2.50 0.10 0.08

0.10 0.08

Cuadro de Simbolos 0.06

Pieza existente de madera Recortar a medida 2.42 m x 0.86 m

0.16

0.42

Concreto Pulido

1.10

1.10 MDF con acabado laca

0.49 0.29 0.05

Tubo metalico de 2” x 2”. 2 manos de anticorrosivo. Acabado lacado, color a definir

0.05 0.10

0.15 0.54

0.54

0.56

0.05

0.56

Interior

0.05 2.30

2.50 0.10

0.10

0.91

0.06 0.05

0.79

0.10 0.09

0.05

Concreto Pulido

0.02 0.79

0.15

0.05

Tubo metalico de 2” x 2”. 2 manos de anticorrosivo. Acabado lacado, color a definir

1.03 0.53 0.05 0.052.30

0.10 0.09

0.15

0.05

0.91

0.05

0.05 0.05

1.12 0.05

MDF con acabado laca

1.10

0.29

0.05 0.64 0.15

0.79

0.29 0.29

1.10

Pieza existente de madera Recortar a medida 2.42 m x 0.86 m

0.100.14

0.41

0.16

Cuadro de Simbolos

0.08

Exterior

0.91 0.10

0.10 0.09

0.37

0.16

0.40 0.79

1.10

1.10 0.58

0.64

0.50

0.05 0.15

0.05 0.53 0.05

Opción 1

0.38

0.15 0.05

0.05

0.05 0.48

0.91

52 0.10

Coatepeque Stool The stool top was made with CNC Router technologies to achieve a smooth topographical surface and additionally explores woodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s materiality.

Size : 24” x 24”

Slide the Calendar! This monument was created in response to the client’s simple desire: a paradisiac garden to visit often and bring back beautiful memories of their loved one. It’s made up of a “deep cut” that carves through the middle of a mound. The idea was to activate some senses in order to become oblivious to the surroundings; the sound of the stirring grass, the feel of the cold marmoled surface,the view of the raised garden, and the smell of the fountain grass.

Size : 4.5” x 4.5”