Jake Tiernan
Landscape Architecture Urban Design
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Community Through Domesticity
Studio: Atlanta After Property. Community Through Domesticity in Cabbagetown, ATL.
Urban Design Studio II: Atlanta After Property. Location: Cabbagetown - Atlanta, Georgia. Team Members: Shirley Chen, Jie Kong, and Sydnee Sampson.
LA+ Creature Competition. Conserving for the Piping Plover in Chatham, MA. pg. 13 - 18
Wildlife Photography. Selected Bird Photography and Curated Poetry. pg. 19 - 2
A former mill community in Atlanta, domestic life in Cabbagetown was tied to the walls of mill housing. When the mill was sold, owners sold this housing out from under residents to another absentee landlord class: speculative investors and AirBNB conglomerates. Through studying the domestic life of the Cherokee people, who inhabited what is now Cabbagetown, as well as the squats in São Paolo, Brazil, and Lilong in China, we
envision a new domestic life in Cabbagetown; one in which property is not the central pillar of domesticity. Legacy residents can return, while also inviting those who need it. Semi-nomadic occupation of houses will expand domesticity beyond property and blood relations to the community at large. This is all facilitated through the expansion and manipulation of the porch: a key architectural feature in the neighborhood.
Timeline of Domesticity in Cabbagetown
Cherokee Domestic Life
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Mill Worker Domestic Life
Dismantling the Domestic Sections
Speculative Housing and AirBNB Domestic Life
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Extending the Porch and Changing Interiors
Porch-Interior Interface
Porch Extensions to the Home
Sliding Door Folding Wall
Degree of Floor Plan Porosity
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Overall Axon View
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Unfolding the Street Through the Porch
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Views of the New Domestic
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Carrying Street Typologies to the Mill
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Influence on Surrounding Neighborhoods
Conserving for the Piping Plover LA+ Creature Competition. Location: Chatham, Massachusetts. Team Members: Eammon Powers and Jeff Wertheim.
The Piping Plover is a small shore bird that nests along beaches throughout Massachusetts. A point of contention with residents, our team, composed of two landscape designers and one wildlife ecologist, who had previously worked with the birds, sought to ease this tension. To do so, re-establishing coastal barrier islands was proposed to provide new, recreational space that would double as functional, and protected, habitat.
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Rhino-Grasshopper was used to re-construct base topography. Then, ArcGIS was used to run suitability analysis based on human use, habitat requirements, and dune reconstruction methodologies to provide a break for storms. From there, values were re-imported to Rhino-Grasshopper to use as bases for parametric planting strategies.
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Topography Generation for ArcGIS
Suitability Analysis and Parametric Planting
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Slope of Proposed Barrier Islands Generated Topography in Rhino
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Analysis Metrics Section Diagram Beach grasses provide reproductive habitat as well as cover for Piping Plovers Piping Plover forages in shallow waters near nesting areas
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Points Generated from Topographic Mesh
Prevailing Winds Along Proposed Barrier Islands
Planting Suitability along Proposed Barrier Islands
Raster Generated in ArcGIS from Points
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Areas not key for vegetation or habitat used for human recreation
Secondary Dune
Sun Aspect of Proposed Barrier Islands
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Wind moves sand through fencing and helps to establish secondary dunes Vegetation stabilizes dune and protects Chatham from storm
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High Suitability Values Populating Mesh Faces with Points in Extracted in Grasshopper High Suitability Areas
Placing Vegetation Based on Populated Points
View of Parametric Planting from Rhino
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Islands Design and Renderings
Wildlife Photography Independent Photography. Location: East Coast.
Island 1: Design and Rendering
Island 2: Design and Rendering
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As COVID hit and lock-down initiated in 2020, I needed a way to get out of my parents’ house on occasion. My solution was to begin bird watching, which began to quickly evolve into bird-based photography. Primarily interested in wetland and coastal birds, this resulted in a lot of time spent knee-deep in the marsh water of various state gamelands trying to find heron nests.
The birds on my portfolio cover and resume, as well as some used in the renderings in the last project, were captured over the course of that year. These birds were then paired with various pieces of poetry centered on birds to try and communicate the immense peace and relief birds have brought me during such a prolonged, difficult time.
Mallards “From the troubles of the world I turn to ducks, Beautiful comical things, Sleeping or curled, Their heads beneath white wings By water cool, To eat in various mucks, Beneath the pool, Tails uppermost, or waddling Sailor-like on the shores Of ponds, or paddling - Left! Right! - with fan-like feet Which are for steady oars When they (white galleys) Each bird a boat.” -”Ducks”, Frederick William Harvey Mallards, taken 10/7/20, around 4pm at Peace Valley Nature Reserve in New Britain,
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Indigo Bunting “These birds pursue their errands On curvatures of air; Like swift and lyric gerunds Unfurling everywhere, They lash the sky with ribbons, With wakes of wrinkled blue, Chanting Orlando Gibbons And Mozart’s Non so più Shall we not in all conscience And glittering major keys And reciprocities? Of melodies unheard: Brave philharmonious Billings And airs of William Byrd.” -”Anthem”, Anthony Hecht Indigo Bunting, taken 7/17/20, around 5pm at Rothrock State Forest in State College, PA.
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Cedar Waxwing “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers That perches in the soulAnd sings the tune with out the words And never stops at all And sweetest -in the Gale - is heard And sore must be the storm That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm I’ve heard it in the chillest land And on the strangest Sea Yet - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me.” -”’Hope’ is the Thing With Feathers”, Emily Dickinson
Cedar Waxwing, taken 8/9/20, around 12pm at Milbrook Marsh in State College, PA.
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Thank you. jm.tiernan57@gmail.com (267) 884 3367