Kimberly R. Harding MLA Resume + Portfolio

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Portfolio of work by recent mla graduate kimberly r. harding

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published here for consideration as I am currently seeking an entry-level position at a design firm with big ideas, and elegant details.

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Teamwork, synthetic thinking, a ruthless eye for detail, and a comprehensive consideration of cultural connotation make me a candidate for leadership roles in the future.

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As evidenced by the work that follows, I have an apt grasp of a variety of design topics and tasks. I prefer to work collaborativly, and will contribute joy and intellect to the design team that prioritizes these values.

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I have just received a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from The University of Texas at Austin, and am currently seeking employment at a design firm.

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Resume Work Experience

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3 Reasons to Hire Me 1

Landscape Architecture Intern @ Ten Eyck Landscape Architects \ Austin, TX Created 3D models, renderings, diagrams, and construction documents. Jr. Graphic Designer @ Virilion Inc. \ New York, NY Identity development, branding and advertising campaigns. Designed user-experience and graphics for web. Designed materials for print like RFPs + brochures. Public Art Install @ Madison Square Park Conservancy \ New York, NY Installed and De-installed public art projects in Madison Square Park. Assistant to Principal @ HMA2 architects \ New York, NY Design support work including research, model making, drafting, and construction admin. for firm specializing in library design. Architectural Lighting Design Intern @ Fisher Marantz & Stone \ New York, NY Roller Derby Coach @ Team USA and Texas Rollergirls \ Austin, TX Prepare and lead practices and bootcamps for local and international skaters of all skill levels.

Volunteer Experience Texas Rollergirls The Trust for Public Land The Great Swamp Watershed Association Common Ground Disaster Relief Alive Structures Austin Derby Brats UTSOA Dean’s Ambassador

Proficiencies + Interests Sketching + Communicating in the Moment Ecosystem Service Calculation + Landscape as Infrastructure Writing + Using Language to Communicate Design Ideas Team Sports + Learning and Coaching Drafting [CAD] + Dimension and Detail ArcMap [GIS] + Thinking Synthetically History and Theory + Building from Precedent

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I notice details I am an excellent communicator I have long-term potential

Education

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Masters of Landscape Architecture @ The University of Texas Austin \ Austin, TX Coursework in studio design, history + theory, urban ecology + infrastructure.

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Continuing Ed. @ Pratt Institute of Design \ New York, NY Continuing Ed. coursework in digital deign (CAD, etc).

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Bachelor of Arts @ Middlebury College \ Middlebury, VT BA in The History of Art and Architecture, graduate cum laude.

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International Student @ DIS \ Copenhagen, Denmark Coursework in architectural design, urban planning, 20th century Scandinavian architecture.

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High School Diploma @ The Taft School \ Watertown, CT

Recent Honors 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012

AIA Austin student Design Excellence Award Texas ASLA student design Merit Award UTSOA Design Excellence Winner Flat Track Roller Derby Team USA UTSOA Spring GPA: 4.0 Texas ASLA student design Merit Award UTSOA Student Design Excellence Nominee


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MSI Dune Pavilion Port aransas, texas Sited adjacent to The University of Texas’ Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, Texas, this 600 square foot structure serves as a temporary gathering place and portal for a Texas dune ecology education program. The pavilion provides shaded seating for 12 and ADA access from an existing elevated walkway to a section of natural dune. Construction of a path system through the dunes will follow. In addition to shade and access, the structure was designed to poetically reenforce features of the dune including light, color, and an essential palate of grasses. Simple geometries frame and re-present site complexities that may otherwise remain hidden. The conception and execution of this structure has emerged from a shared belief that geometry ties people to nature in a profound way.

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2014 AIA Austin Design Excellence Award, with 8 others.


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The MIS dune pavilion was designed and built collaborativly by a team of nine Architecture and Landscape Architecture students. Round table sketches and discussions lead to mock ups, which lead to a full digital model and scripted construction process. Working with a small budget of $8,000 (excluding labor), we prefabricated panels in Austin, and subsequently constructed the pavilion over the course of 12 days in Port Aransas.


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Often registering a 9 (of 10) on the UV index, South Texas sun can be harsh. Accordingly, shade is this pavilion’s primary indicator of comfort. We used SketchUp to test the shade that would be provided by a slotted, southern yellow pine screen, reinforced by an opaque aluminium roof. This modeling process enabled us to determine the size and spacing of the screen necessary to provide adequate shade.


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Construction Documents

Northern Elevation

Southern Elevation

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East Section - Existing Walkway

East Section

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Deck Plan

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Preliminary site studies including analysis of the surrounding dunes (far left) and an inventory of site vegetation (scans, left) led to a understanding that the site’s beauty lies within it’s variability. This lead to a series of collaborativly referenced and refined plans and sections (above left), which we used to order materials and to develop necessary shop drawings.

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Sulphur Dell nashville, tennessee Nashville is growing, and wants to grow smartly. Sulphur Dell, a low-lying neighborhood Northwest of Nashville’s capital complex welcomes this growth with a suite of flexible programming and infrastructure. Inspired by Nashville Sounds baseball and great American past times, the Dell is a place for American traditions. Sports on the lawn, outdoor cooking, new business, and spending time with neighbors make the Dell Nashville’s backyard. This design for Sulphur Dell was a 2014 entry into the Urban Land Institute’s Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. I was one of five designers on the team, comprised of two Architecture undergraduate students, one Urban Planning student, an MBA, and myself. The work was collaborative. The drawings I am presenting were finished by me.

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THE DE LL N A S H V I L L E ’ S B A C K YA R D a woodland

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In order to identify and address Nashville’s vision for the dell, I developed and branded three design objectives that became drivers for our team’s decisions. The site was to become a Woodland, a Workout, and a Workshop. The Woodland takes the form of pedestrian-only blue streets, which serve social and ecological interests, becoming centers for gathering, movement, and habitat creation, as well as visible stormwater infrastructure for the area.


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Workshopping is embodied in flexible gathering spaces called spillways. Working Out is addressed with enhanced pedestrian opportunities, access to bike stations, access to fresh food, as well as access to outdoor gyms and community kitchen spaces. More diverse programming such as watersports, outdoor kitchens for picnicking, and concert space can be found at a new, large riverfront park named “Spillway Park� (see right) for its terraced ability to accommodate both flooding and crowded public events.

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Markings bastroP, teXas In death, we become substance; carbon, nitrogen: substance of the land. This cemetery returns that substance to the land. Disposition practices that re-integrate body and bone in to biogeochemical cycles amplify regrowth and regeneration following a devastating wildfire in the Bastrop Lost Pines ecoregion of Texas. Markings are strong field conditions that fill the more traditional role of “marker� in burial practice. Atmosphere is privileged over artifice as a means by which the dead are marked. Markings is about marking with place, and the character of a biophysical landscape amplified by the dead. This of view death and disposition situates itself within a growing movement away from chemical embalming and towards the cemetery as exurban green infrastructure for the Texas Triangle megaregion. 2013 UTSOA Design Excellence Winner, with Yinrui Li

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2014 Texas ASLA Merit Award, with Yinrui Li


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A DAMAGED ECOSYSTEM A CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF BURIAL PRACTICES A GROWING NEED FOR GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

AUSTIN, TX

CEMETERIES <20 ACRES

Dashed area shows area required to bury current population of Austin using standard 9’ x 4’ plots of land.


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OUTLINE OF REMNANT LOST PINES ECOREGION

MARKINGS 775 ACRES

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How do we bury 1,000,000 bodies? Grow a forest. This project is situated at the convergence of 3 contexts; a damaged ecosystem, a changing landscape of burial practices, and a growing need for green infrastructure.

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CONTROLLED BURN OF WRM, ROTATING 3 YR CYCLE

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Markings is a series of actions that generate changing place. Initial actions focus on regrowth, middle phases develop and sustain relationships between disposition practices and forest management. Later phases transition “regrowth� infrastructure to recreation opportunities or nurseries that support a growing need for urban trees. The drawing you see above (detail at left), shows the action, duration, and location of each process that make this cemetery a palace.

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This disposition practice is a strategy for phase I slope stabilization, the experience of which is understood as part of settling and healing. Fire-disturbed soil is pressed, re-vegetated, and dammed using felled trees fells are staggered along contours to slow and redirect water snag snag snag 3

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1 natiVe grasses miX and Perennial meadow, scythe mowed to 4”, 4 X year 2 2’ x 3” x 3” milled Pine suPPort stake 3 12’ x 18” d Pine snag, Placed along contour at 20’-40’ interVals 4 Pine casket or shrouded burial 5 teXas natiVe wildflowers, Planted by family (seen: lindheimer’s Paintbrush, fall aster) 6 habiturf, maintained to 2” 7 grassPaVe Porous PaVement system 8 1’ milled Pine snag as embedded edge

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This disposition practice pairs natural burial with the planting of a pine sapling. The milled wooden marker serves a tree stake and is later used to fertilize the tree. Walks through the field over time are opportunities to observe change and remember the deceased.


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1 2’ x 3” x 3” MILLED PINE SUPPORT STAKE 2 LOBLOLLY PINE SAPLING, 1.5” DBH, BALLED AND BURLAPPED 3 NATIVE GRASS AND WILDFLOWER MIX 4 PINE CASKET OR SHROUDED BURIAL 5 GRASSPAVE POROUS PAVEMENT SYSTEM 6 4” SUBSURFACE GRAVEL 7 1’ MILLED PINE SNAG EDGING 8 HABITURF NATIVE GRASS MIX

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This disposition practice pairs scattering of cremated remains with controlled burning in the Lost Pines. Access paths are fire breaks. Grates as temporary path infrastructure allow access to a recently burned plot for 1 year following a burn, then the path is disassembled and moved. Each plot(of 64 plots) is burned once every 3 years.


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Air Station youngstown, ohio Set at the transition point between a newly constructed subterranean parking facility and an existing under utilized urban plaza, Air Station is a place to relax and recharge. The project is inspired by a history of greenhouses and capitalized on contemporary affinities for wellness (and coffee). Air Station is a garden that employs a vegetation and hydraulic palate meant to soothe, inspire, and provide reprieve from the harsh winters and polluted atmosphere of an industrial city. Revenue from the new parking facility, which was sited at an existing surface parking lot right downtown, will be used to maintain the garden.

TRANSVERSE SECTION OF AIR QUALITY data source: epa.gov, 2008 & 2009 averages

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PLASTICS PACKAGING FILM AND SHEET

WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY

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Mist AUSTIN, texas

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A 3 part design intervention along Austin’s Ladybird Lake. The project locates and develops a sailing program (float), a cooling station (mist), and a multi-generational playground (play). The design responds to multi-scaled analysis of the site and is consequently inspired by Austin’s underlying karst limestone. The karst “cutouts” capitalize on a similarity between the program’s call to gather and the pooling shapes that define Austin’s geomorphology. These cutouts become a consistent language for how Austin recreates with its waterline and continue the city’s relationship with it’s karst cultural darlings such as Barton Springs.


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LCRA power plants

Wirtz Dam Max Starke Dam

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2060 future projections when available, (data from 2012Texas State Water Plan + Region K Plan) data sources: LCRA LCRA Hydrologic Data, LCRA, 05-2013 (http://hydromet.lcra.org/full.aspx) Water Flowing into the Highland Lakes, LCRA, 04-2013 Highland Lakes Storage, Drought Update and Storage Projections, LCRA, 04-01-2013 “LCRA updating Water Management Plan for Highland Lakes Plan determines how water is allocated during times of drought” 02-2013, (http://lcra.org/water/supply/wmp.html) LCRA Water Use Summary 2011, 03-2012 Water Management Practices and Drought Contingency Plans Draft, LCRA, 01-2012 Lake Buchanan and Travis Water Management Plan and Drought Contingency Plans, LCRA, 01-2012 How the Highland Lakes are Used, LCRA, 09-2010 (www.lcra.org) Historical Lake Levels, Highland Lakes, LCRA (http://www.lcra.org/water/conditions/historical.html) Highland Lakes System Profile, (http://hydromet.lcra.org/lakevolume/systemprofile.aspx) Texas Water Development Board Water for Texas 2012 State Water Plan, Texas Water Development Board, 2012 2011 Region K Water Plan, Lower Colorado Regional Water Planning Group, 07-2010 Texas Instream Flow Program Technical Overview, Texas Water Development Board, 05-2008 (http://www.twdb.state.tx.us) Precipitation and Evaporation Computing Program, Texas Water Development Board (http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/) other CAPCOG Region Geospatial Data Sets: “riversandstreams” “tx_precip” “bathytopotx” “aquifers” Colorado and Lavaca Rivers and Matagorda and Lavaca Bays Bason and Bay Expert Science Team, Environmental Flow Regime Recommendations Report, 03-2011 (http://www.texaswatermatters.org/Colorado_Lavaca.htm)

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4.92 miles at widest point Current volume: 363,794 acre feet volume when full: 875,566 acre-feet

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dimensions: 4.2 miles long, 3,000 feet at widest point volume when full: 13,668 acre-feet

1952 HISTORIC HIGH

PASS THROUGH LAKE_LBJ lake area: 6,256 acres volume when full: 133,216 acre-feet

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lake area: 545 acres dimensions: 5.75 miles long and 1,080 feet at widest point volume when full: 7,186 acre-feet

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volume of 438,500 af. irrigation diversion

lake area: 19,297 acres volume when full: 1,134,956 acre-feet

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1983 (HISTORIC LOW)

600

PASS THROUGH LAKE_LAKE AUSTIN

TARGET OPERATING RANGE

ELEVATION WHEN FULL CURRENT ELEVATION

lake area: 1,599 acres dimensions: 20.25 miles long, 1,300 feet at widest point volume when full: 24,644 acre-feet

1981 HISTORIC HIGH

500

1963 (HISTORIC LOW)

400

0

and emergency release

-193,334 /156,964 City of Austin municipal

+46,853 /74,366

Tom Miller Dam

COA municipal return flows Austin, TX

+90,000

Lane City reservoir *2017 additional 100,000 capacity commitment by LCRA

-20,851 /67,294 COA power plants

Longhorn Dam

• 46 cfs baseflow

+10,000

- 500 cfs

Garwood Irrigation Division gravel pits *2017 additional 100,000 capacity commitment by LCRA

blue sucker release

-438,500 irrigation diversion, interruptible

/0

-222,196

2011 release to Matagorda Bay, environmental flows require 171,120


regraded descent to waterline +28 +26

FFE +24.25

+24

TOS +24 BOS +22

+18

TOS +19

TOS +21.5 +22

BOS +19.5 +20

BOS +17

+16 TOS +16

+14

+18

BOS +14

+0

+16 +12

+12

+14

TOS +10.5 +7.5

+6

+9

+12

+4.5 +10

+3 +1.5 +8

+6

+0

BOW +6

+6

+8 +3

+4.5 +1.5

TOW +8.5

+1

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+6

“ mist” Program sited under moPac


Veterans dr. through Path to deeP eddy

moPac footbridge

Platforms are shaded and cooled by moPac oVerPass

Perforated concrete “karst� cutaways suPPly mist

concrete columns

ladybird lake

ladybird lake

additional Programs located under i-35

mist

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Images above show detail study model. Hand-drilled perforated balsa wood was used to represent perforated concrete slabs, which would house misting infrastructure. Sketch showing spacing and location of mist nozzles seen at right. Bee’s wax and small pieces of limestone are used to represent karst gabion baskets, implemented to provide bank stabilization for the new construction, as well as water’s edge habitat for lake fauna.


Perforated concrete Platform

karst gabion baskets

ladybird lake

mist

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2011 UTSOA Design Excellence Nominee


performance grounds

hand draWn perspective of movie screen

11/2011

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nested hierarchy of recursive cracKing + corresponding performative result:

2_three program areas + site elevation 2

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4_ vegetated areas

Plan + section-eleVations

1 3_ finer grain circulation: control Joints

48� X 30� graPhite and PhotocoPy transfer on Vellum 3 sections were drawn on the front of the Page and 3 on the back

1_amtraK corridor: novel meadoW

study models 1+2 (above) 3+4 (left)


performance gruonds

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Landscape representation using plastic bags as glazing.

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northern ocean

plastic bag collage

10/2010


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