ISABEL PRECIADO ARIAS 2018 | LANDSCAPE PORTFOLIO MASTERS IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE I CANDIDATE | HARVARD GSD BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE | UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ipreciado@gsd.harvard.edu + 202-549-5502
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CONTENT SYNTHETIC GROUNDS
THE ADAPTIVE CITY | HARVARD GSD | CORE 3
EL TRAYECTO ETERNO
TRANSFORM + MAGNIFY | HARVARD GSD | CORE 2
TECTONIC EXPLORATIONS
TECTONICS | HARVARD GSD | REPRESENTATION 2
(re)-CLAIMING THE EDGE
UNDERGRAD ARCHITECTURE THESIS | UVA
CITY HALL PLAZA
DISPLACE + IMMERSE | HARVARD GSD | CORE 1
RIVER-BEND LINEAR PARK FABRICATED LANDSCAPE
DISPLACE + IMMERSE | HARVARD GSD | CORE1
FABRICATION | HARVARD GSD | REPRESENTATION 3
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ISABEL PRECIADO ARIAS | MLA I CANDIDATE | HARVARD UNIVERSITY | GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
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SYNTHETIC GROUNDS CHOREOGRAPHING DREDGE PROCESS AS A PLATFORM FOR COASTAL
THE ADAPTIVE CITY | CORE 3 | HARVARD GSD | FALL 2017 | BOSTON, MA. | COLLAB WITH QIAO XU + FLETCHER P
CONCEPT
Synthetic Grounds reacts to the 10 M cubic yards of dredge material that will be excavated from the sea floor on the rece Boston Harbor Dredge Project. The soft landscape consists in choreographing and integrating the dredge process with ou prepare the land for urban development.
As a whole, we choreographed a system of instabilities, that is adaptive to the site conditions and the incoming dredge m goal was to design a site that is constantly changing and that incorporates the hard infrastructures of a city while keeping landscape evolving. We see this juxtaposition as an essential factor for our project and with the potential of benefiting th Boston as we imagine that the dredge process as never-ending, with the clean, bio-remediated material being shipped to around the area as needed. Within the systems, we analyzed four different scenarios as a means of how the urban devel and thrive without disturbing the dredge and forestry processes. DURATION: 4 MONTHS
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1 Serial Sections through project within the same time frame
Choreographed scenarios rendered at different time intervals
Dredge processing + Short Rotation Forestry
Public Space + Dredge Landscape
Central spine public space
Residential Courtyard with Willow coppicing plot
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Milled low-density white foam model with plexi and museum board
TRANSFORM + MAGNIFY | CORE 2 | HARVARD GSD | SPRING 2017 |BOSTON, MA
EL TRAYECTO ETERNO Franklin Park is a 527-acre park in Boston designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1880s. The park is the last (southernmost) component in the string of parks known as the Emerald Necklace. El Trayecto Eterno focuses on the journey along a section of Franklin Park from Sigourney St. / Walnut Ave to Blue Hill Ave, connecting the neighborhoods of Jamaica Plain and Dorchester. The project explores the idea of circulation as a mean of shaping experience and create geometries. The project explores the architecture of the path as the agent for defining and creating different experiences. It proposes a dynamic circulation system that loops around the park, to simulate the idea that it never ends - hence the name the Eternal Journey. The circulation was imagined as one dynamic system with three different components that differentiate in materiality and speed controls. These three components are the Forest Walk, the Fast Loop, and the Slow Loop. As they interact and meet each other, different interventions happen in order for each of their flows not to be disrupted.
DURATION: 5 WEEKS
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Programmatic diagram of different path interventions
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Milled high-density foam model with plexi + digital annotations
Casted plaster of paris + paraffin wax model
Casted plaster of Paris model
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Section Perspective B-B
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MOMENT 3 - LA DEPRESSION
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TECTONICS | HARVARD GSD | REPRESENTATION 2 | SPRING 2016
CTONIC EXPLORATIONS CONCEPT
Tectonic Explorations consist of three physical models that engage with the ground materiality of Franklin Park. The models were casted from combination of paraffin wax, powdered charcoal and plaster of Paris into a mold of a section of the site. The combination of materials attains the representation of the Puddingstone - a conglomerate rock local to the Massachusetts state that consists of distinctly rounded pebbles whose colors contrast sharply with the color of the finergrained cement surroundings that is found through the site. In addition, insertions of thread and thin dowels were made to diagram the changes in topography and relationships between different spot elevations.
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UNDERGRAD THESIS| UVA ARCH SCHOOL | SPRING 2015 | PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
(re)-CLAIMING
THE EDGE CONCEPT
At its heart, the Panama Canal is a piece of global infrastructure that provides easier and faster flow of international commerce. Built by the American Government in 1914, the Canal and its adjacent properties were turned over to the Panamanian government in 2000. After 15 years of management, Panamanians still lack a strong connection and identification with the Canal. Although it represents the biggest income source of the country, there is still a strong aration between the city, the canal, and its history. By re-CLAIMING the edges of the canal, a local landscape system can be designed to tie the global and local infrastructural systems together. This new focus on tying the Canal to the city and local culture will provide new civic spaces and the opportunity to leverage the benefits of tourism.
landscape infrastructure, the Canal Loop seeks to not only reconnect the city with the canal but also re define the linear dge of the canal, breaking it down and making it more accessible to locals. With the design of the Canal Loop comes the mplementation of different nodes as well that enable the opportunity of different programs and spaces that complement existing opportunities the city has to offer. From housing to viewing platforms, the nodes bring a different vibe to the city enabling locals to not only encounter the canal edges but also appreciate the amazing views it provides. As well, the loop and its nodes work towards giving a bigger identity to Panama and connecting it with its history. DURATION: 4 MONTHS
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RE-CLAIMING THE EDGE
One of the nodes introduces the infrastructure of a cruise ship terminal that enables tourists to hav also considers the role of local visitors and users. Other than the terminal structure, the site inclu included within the site in order to provide recreational amenities to the racers and local visitors. Th
ve a direct access to Panama City. Although the Terminal infrastructure is only used for the cruise passengers, the design of the landforms udes a wetland park that strengthens the locals relationship with water. In addition, a boat house designed for hosting the Cayuco races is he interaction between an international and a local community that is studied on the design of the terminal node serves as an example of how the other nodes along the loop can begin to be shaped and how visitors can interact within the space.
DISPLACE + IMMERSE | HARVARD GSD | CORE 1 | FALL 2016 | BOSTON, MA.
CITY HALL PLAZA
CONCEPT The proposed design aims to re-distribute the space in Boston’s City Hall Plaza in order to attain a separation of gathering and circulation and soften the presence of the City Hall building. Three different operations were followed to achieve this. First, creating a sunken plaza in front of City Hall provides not only a new entrance to the building, directly into the basement of the building, where the public services are located, but also establishes a new relationship between the building and its surroundings. Second, a direct circulation pathway between Congress and Cambridge street through an elevated walkway not only provides a faster transit route but also provides the opportunity of different interactions with the canopies along the plaza. Finally, a tent-like light structured canopy provides sheltering for the plaza and softens the presence of City Hall. DURATION: 5 WEEKS
Rendered plan_material study
Perspective sketch of City Hall Plaza’s entry
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DISPLACE + IMMERSE | HARVARD GSD | CORE 1 | FALL 2016 | CAMBRIDGE, MA.
RIVER-BEND WATERFRONT PARK
CONCEPT
Edges in landscapes are zones of ecological, spatial, social, and material complexities. Edges can divide and join, separate and connect, define in the linear shore of Harvard University’s campus at the Charles River and is a ten-acre public scape at the heart of Cambridge. As a threshold provide new relationships and a blurry edge between the Charles River and the City. The project is characterized by three different edges, each gradients of intimacy, veering from most urban to most intimate. The first edge, closest to the JFK Street, mirrors the courtyard rooms to create house more public. The second edge serves as the agent of vegetation insertion to the site by welcoming an alley of Honey Locusts into the par yet not seen or touched. Finally, the last edge transforms into an amphitheater facing the river, providing opportunities for more private and intim DURATION: 5 WEEKS
e and disperse. The River-bend Waterfront Park sites between the river and the city, the project seeks to creating three different urban spaces with different rooms of water to attain to make the Harvard boat rk. At this point, the water can be heard and smelled mate gatherings.
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FABRICATION | HARVARD GSD | REPRESENTATION 3 | FALL 2017
FABRICATEDLANDSCAPES CONCEPT
The model was produces as a method to describe the operative and performative nature of the encoded surface - th form of the ur to understand the urban fabric of Boston based on the moving extensions of industrial sites, a study the density of trucks along the to identify the frequency and popular routes trucks take to reach the nearest highway ramps. When the watershed system is overlay vulnerable areas – low, wet zones intersect with dense truck traffic – emerge. The suspended model explores different densities, fr interactions. It dynamically represents the interactions of the systems that happens “in between” the hard surfaces of the city. DURATION: 2 WEEKS
rban landscape and its process. Specifically, e different industrial sites was conducted ay upon the analyzed street scape, certain requencies and porosities of these
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