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Gabriella Rowe

Gabriella Rowe | Landscape Architecture 2018

Hi my name is Gabriella Rowe. I’m currently studying Landscape Architecture at the University of Florida.

About Me

I love all things design. My current field of study is in food and food trends that have or will shape the urban landscape. I believe that by studying people and their interaction with place, cities can move toward a more equitable future. I also believe that cities can be built and planned in ways that improve the quality of life of individuals and landscape architects can play a crucial role in helping create that reality.

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Photography

2018

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2018 G R A D U AT I O N P H OTO S 01 Photoshoot of my friends at commencement.

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Landscape Design

2018

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Worli Koliwada Village Population: about 8,000

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Mumbai, India.

Population: 18. 41 million (2011)

EQUI [CITY] DESIGN COMPETITION 02 An Arch Out Loud idea’s competition in Mumbai, India.

Incremental housing and open space strategies and models.

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the site

low income

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Revitalizing the Worli Koliwada Village 10

high income

In cities across the world, especially in developing countries, there is an extreme disparity between income classes in their access to open space and housing. There is a need from landscape architects to develop prototypes of egalitarian design which can foster diverse human interaction. This project is an outcome of Arch Out Loud’s Reside Design Competition and describes the problem of inequality in Mumbai, India and how we used design to engage that topic. In Mumbai, there is a stark contrast between where wealthy and poor people live and their access to open space because of high land costs and scarce land availability. Through projective design and literature review of existing international and local housing and open space standards, we review unequal access to these basic amenities.

The purpose of our project is to describe a design/ research experiment that does not solve a housing problem, instead, is centered on enhancing qualitatively community life and experience. Too often in the effort to solve a problem we prioritize the solution over community values. A sensitive land planning approach could be applied to other geographic and cultural contexts facing similar issues. As population sizes increase and segregation deepens, it is the duty of landscape architects to design and preserve, to redefine and critique the normalities of today so that the same mistakes are not repeated tomorrow.

White space includes public open space available to adjacent residents Black space includes housing space available to residents within

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Our project compares current international and existing standards of open space in Mumbai to propose an ideal square footage of private and public open space per capita. The housing area recommended from the 2034 Mumbai Development Plan and an average high-income housing area per capita in Mumbai are used to propose housing areas per resident and contrast existing averages of housing area of low and middle incomes in Mumbai.

The projective design consists of a phase one (minimum fixed build) and a phase two (maximum expanded buildout) of housing and open space for the 8,000 residents of Worli Koliwada. Expandable housing

guarantees people with lower incomes sufficient space to live with the flexibility to allow for those with higher incomes to expand their living space as desired. We responded to the design competition by using three typologies, a single-family detached, a multi-family courtyard, and a multi-family hybrid option, in order to accommodate people of differing incomes. The physical act of designing helped us study more critically the challenge of inequality of housing and open space in Mumbai. How can we rethink the design of dwellings to provide for minimum housing and open space for equal interaction?

PUBLIC OPEN SPACE STANDARDS, PER CAPITA, SQ-FT CURRENT

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PROPOSED COMBINED PRIVATE AND PUBLIC OPEN SPACE (World Conference Standard Area of Open Space Per Capita)

PROPOSED PRIVATE OPEN SPACE (World Health Organization)

PROPOSED PUBLIC OPEN SPACE

HOUSING STANDARDS, PER CAPITA, SQ-FT CURRENT

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INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS AVERAGE AREA (Low Income)

CHAWLS AVERAGE AREA (Middle Income)

84 MINIMUM FIXED AREA (Mumbai Development Plan 2034)

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430 MAXIMUM EXPANDED AREA High-Rise Apartments Average (High Income)

PROPOSED HOUSING + OPEN SPACE TYPOLOGIES, SQ-FT

PHASE 01 MINIMUM FIXED BUILDOUT Housing Area: 420 Size of Lot: 2,650 Story: 1 PHASE 02 MAXIMUM EXPANDABLE BUILDOUT Housing Area: 420-2,150 Size of Lot: 2,650 Story: 1-2

PHASE 01 MINIMUM FIXED BUILDOUT Housing Area: 420 Size of Lot per House: 2,650 Story: 1

PHASE 02 MAXIMUM EXPANDABLE BUILDOUT Housing Area: 420-2,150 Size of Lot per House: 2,650 Story: 1

PHASE 01 MINIMUM FIXED BUILDOUT Housing Area: 420 Size of Lot per House: 2,650 Story: 1-2

Floor 1

Floor 2 PHASE 02 MAXIMUM EXPANDABLE BUILDOUT Housing Area: 420-2,150 Size of Lot per House: 2,650 Story: 1-3

Floor 1

Expandable open private green space (green space that can be built upon)

Floor 2

Minimum open private green space requirement (green space that cannot be built upon)

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Access

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Landscape Research

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BROKEN CONNECTIONS 03 Enlarging the public realm in Prague, Czech Republic.

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02 02 03 04 05 06 2017 Landscape Research

This shows private vs. public land area. From the spaces we explored you can see in black show the buildings and spaces that are not accessible to the public, whereas in white are spaces accessible to the public, most days of the week.

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In red are all the spaces th were not accessible to us. shows locked spaces.

hat we came across that Currently, 60% of this map

Here we wanted to see what it would look like to give access to all the spaces locked from the public.

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Site Area

How many of these buildings are owned by Prague, yet the land around them is not accessible to you?

How much of this locked space is utilized for parking? Is there a need to turn what once was public land into parking?

Landscape Research

2017

How can you become more aware of the space around you?

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Map of Prague, CZ

gate opened

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Landscape Design

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MODERN ABODE 04 10’

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Third-year residential design project. Work in progress.

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Landscape Design

2016

coalesce: (verb) 1. to grow to

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o g e t h e r, t o u n i t e i n t o a w h o l e .

TO COALESCE 05 Second-year public park project in downtown Gainesville, Florida.

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While one space acts as a space for socializing and gathering, the other is for introspection and the self. The interaction of the two spaces unite together and form a window that allows one to look through to either side and decide which to pursue.

The linear pathways are the repititions and distractons of life that try to interrupt one’s social and private lives. Finding time to break free from the chaos and make time for one’s private and social life allows he or she to live a healthy fulfilling existence.

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The diagram below represents the two spaces, other (yellow) and self (purple). They each have seating areas along the pathways, some private, others more open and public.

The topography of the site changes with the colors/spaces. The more private, self reflection spaces have high seat walls and more vegetation for seclusion and reflection, whereas the other (yellow) is open with movable seating, catering to the needs of the group.

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Landscape Design

2018

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Agricultural pollution is the leading source of nonpoint source pollution in the Lower Suwannee Watershed (LSW). One of the largest agricultural industries in the LSW is dairy, which accounts for one third of all of Florida’s dairy farming. Current dairy practices emit greenhouse gases, pollute water runoff, and leach excessive nutrients into the groundwater through over-irrigation and fertilization. This pollution endangers the local flora and fauna of the Suwannee River environment, ultimately affecting tourism and recreational industries that boost the wellbeing and economy of the LSW. The Honest Dairy Project uses a landscape architecture perspective to analyze existing landscape conditions of the Lower Suwannee region and to design a sustainable, organic dairy farm that focuses on environmentally friendly land use strategies, sustainable and efficient dairy practice alternatives, and enriched community engagement.

HONEST DA I R Y 06 A new paradigm for dairy farms in the Lower Suwannee Watershed in North Florida.

Work in progress.

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The Suwannee River is the last major waterway in the southeast that remains unspoiled. The river is federally recognized as a wild river, meaning that it is designated to be protected and kept “relatively untouched by development with all, or almost all, of [its] natural values intact” (Australian Heritage Commission, 1998).

However, the river functions as a drain for a large sector of southern Georgia and northern Florida and pollution poses a major threat to the health of the LSW. One of the primary sources of pollution stems from the agricultural lands bordering the river, especially dairy farms. “Of [Florida’s] 148 dairies, more than one-third are located in the Suwannee River Water Management District” (The Gainesville Sun, 2007). In the mid 1980’s the Florida dairy industry experienced a shift. Originally, Okeechobee was home to the largest dairy industry in Florida. However, between the 1970s and the mid-1980s “concentrations of farm-based nutrients entering [Lake Okeechobee] increased nearly three-fold, resulting in water quality declines and diminished freshwater habitats” (The Gainesville Sun, 2004).

This enacted a state-sanctioned buyout plan in 1986, in which 32 of the region’s 51 dairies relocated their farms. Due to low land prices and an abundance of rural farm land, the Lower Suwannee Watershed became home to many of these relocated dairy farms and their systemic pollution problem; moving an environmental hazard from one region to another.

Thus, current dairy practices pose a large environmental risk to the LSW with increasing greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen polluting wastewater runoff, and nutrient loading fertilizer applications.

However, the dairy industry is a major economic strength in the Lower Suwannee Region, contributing to a national value of over $40 billion in 2017. This begs the question of how can dairy farms produce milk in an environmentally sensitive manner and still create an economically viable product?

INVETORY OF THE LOWER SUWANNEE

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LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANTS ANALYSIS

SUITABILITY MAP

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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

MASTER PLAN

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