John Wray IV Harvard GSD MLA Portfolio 2015-2017

John William Wray IV Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate Harvard Graduate School of Design Selected Works 2013 - 2017

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The Sudirman Six Introduction: Since the 1950’s, the urbanization process in Jakarta, Indonesia has transformed a vast area of former agrarian settlements into the world’s third-largest megacity. A massive investment in transportation infrastructure during this time established motorized vehicles as the prevailing form of personal mobility within the city.

But with Jakarta’s rapid population growth, this infrastructure investment has created a condition of near-continuous gridlock throughout the city. The Sudirman Corridor, Jakarta’s main thoroughfare, operates along the north-south axis of the city’s central spine, often to the detriment of the local-scale likes of mobility it transverses.

Proposal: At the intersection of the Banjir Canal is Dukuh Atas, a rail station serving an east-west regional connection that will be combined with Jakarta’s new north-south Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line. Here, architectural and urban scale pilot projects for future transit-oriented development create the opportunity for a novel confluence of collective and social space mediated by the rhythms of the city and the introduction of a more fluid means of mobility.

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The Sudirman Six

Jakarta, Indonesia

Course: Jakarta: Models of Collective Space for the Extended Metropolis

Instructor: Felipe Correa, Director of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design Program

School: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Date: Fall 2016

Partner: Max Sell

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Through a series of six interventions, the ability to cross the Banjir Canal at the local scale has been restored for both pedestrians and vehicles ultimately relieving the grid lock tension of the three regional highways. Each of the six bridges provide a unique condition that responds to the existing and projected conditions directly adjacent to it.

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Inside the new MRT Station, public courtyards punctuate the levels of each bridge, providing a connective tissue that accommodates multiple scales and speeds of access for pedestrian and rail commuters to navigate one of Jakarta’s busiest intermodal hubs.

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Model and Exhibition: After the studio was completed in May 2016, the material was sent to Jakarta for a summer (May 2016-August 2016) public exhibition to provide a vision for how their city might look. The exhibition was also presented in Shanghai, China.

Social media posts about the exhibit from Jakartan citizens Photo Credit: Justin Knight, GSD

Retiro Stitch Introduction: Fondly calling themselves, “Portenos”, the inhabitants of Buenos Aires have long acknowledged the cultural importance of the connection to the Rio de la Plata. However, transformations in shipping and port logistics have moved the bank of the Rio de la Plata further from the city while reducing the need for Portenos in its operation. These transformations have had a similar impact on public space in the Retiro area as well. Along the perimeter of the city there is a series of connected public spaces, however, this chain is broken when it encounters the extents of the Retiro area.

Proposal: This proposal seeks to reverse the effects of these transformations. Through a series of stitches extending from the formal city to the river, the project primarily tasks itself with creating new circulation networks. In restructuring circulation, the project allows for new block structures to emerge while creating opportunities for linkages out of the existing low income Villa 31 settlement. By leveraging existing neighborhoods, buildings and proximities, each stitch can inherit a distinct identity. Anticipating a gradual reduction in port activity, these stitches can be introduced as land becomes available. In doing so, the broken chain of public space that envelops the city will be closed, in turn providing new opportunities for the Portenos to engage with the Rio de la Plata.

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Retiro Stitch

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Course: Urban Strategies for the Retiro Area, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Instructors: Daniel Becker, Flavio Janches

School: Harvard Graduate School of Design Master’s Degree

Date: Fall 2016

Partners: Tim Clark, Yun Shi

Rugby Club Universitario de Buenos Aires & Private Pier

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The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires is bound by a continuous open space system that breaks in one location - at the Port of Buenos Aires. The port activity and infrastructure present throughout the site has limited the ability to close this open space gap around the city.

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Through a series of six abstract extensions of the formal city boundary into the Retiro port site, the network of proposed and existing public spaces is realized.

The Solution: The six stitches, originating in various areas throughout the formal city, collect the fragmented open spaces and amenities while they extend through the port site until they terminate at the piers.

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Solar Decathlon Morgantown, WV Irvine, California, U.S.

Introduction: The U.S. Department of Energy Bi-annual Solar Decathlon competition challenges twenty collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solarpowered houses that are cost-effective, energy efficient, and attractive. The winner of the competition is the team that best blends affordability, consumer appeal and design excellence with optimal energy production and maximum efficiency. The competition required the house to be built and tested in the team’s home state, then broken down and reassembled in Irvine, CA in just nine days.

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The 2013 Solar Decathlon proposal from Team West Virginia University was titled: Preserving Energy with Appalachian Knowledge... or P.E.A.K. Following Henry David Thoreau’s philosophy about “the best living occurring somewhere between nature and civilization,” Team WVU created a home styled after an Appalachian log cabin that combines the “Wild and Wonderful” Spirit of West Virginia with modern amenities to meet the innovative standards of the international competition. In addition to being completely netzero, the modular home integrated a passive heating/cooling system, 1,500 sq. ft. greenroof, and carport with electric car charger powered by the photovoltaics. The home was awarded for being the home that best blended technology with nature. This was a first place award out of twenty teams from around the world.

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2013 Solar Decathlon

Extracurricular Design Competition

Advisor: Dimitris Korakakis

School: West Virginia University Bachelors Degree

Date: Spring 2012 - Spring 2014

Structure and SigniďŹ cance: Traditional Appalachian log cabins were constructed using three programatic building blocks: Day, Night, and Gathering Areas.

The same concept is translated into P.E.A.K. allowing for smarter water management and energy efficiency.

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Night Area: Master Bedroom Full Bathroom Guest Bedroom 1/2 Bathroom

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Day Area: 3 Step Kitchen Dining Room Living Room Living Wall Green House

Gathering Area: Laundry Room Utilites Deck Access Solar Panel Control

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Image Credit: U.S. Department of Energy

Life After the Competition: After the competition in Irvine, California, the house was disassembled and sent back to West Virginia where it was reassembled and now serves as the West Virginia State Botanical Gardens Welcome Center.

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2013 Solar Decathlon

Lifted Manhattan New York City, NY

Introduction: Landscape offers a distinct starting point for the project of citymaking. On the one hand, landscape has the ability to address and integrate the multiple environmental, infrastructural, and social systems and scales that are in play—and can uniquely absorb and hybridize these multiple functions and initiatives in ways that architecture or planning alone cannot. On the other hand, landscape offers operational frameworks and modes of working that emphasize dynamics, change, and improvisation/adaptation—mechanisms that are as much in play in ecosystems as they are in cities.

Course: Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio

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Proposal: This studio will use landscape both as medium and as mechanism as a starting point for testing and prototyping ideas about urban form and city-making. It will emphasize the connections and hybridizations of urban and environmental systems and dynamics, rather than understanding them as oppositions. And it will utilize working methodologies that privilege experimentation and iterative modeling—of playful and critical prototyping—that could suggest pathways toward new landscape-based approaches to urban form.

Chris Reed, Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture

School: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Date: Fall 2016

Partner: Yun Shi

Selected text from Harvard GSD Course - DES 01211: Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio - Chris Reed.

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Thesis Concept Sketches / Boston / 2017

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John William Wray IV Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate Harvard Graduate School of Design Email: johnwwrayiv@gmail.com Phone: 724-809-8761