Selected Works K Y M B E R LY WARE
BSLA 2019
MLA II 2021
Kymberly Ware CAMBRIDGE, MA (614) 827 5799 KYMBERLYWARE@GSD.HARVARD.EDU As a designer, I am compelled by landscape systems and how gaining a deeper understanding of ecological processes can inform our practice. Whether designing for humans, migratory fish species or pastured livestock, each landscape constituent has unique ways of using the site that designers can use to cultivate a more symbiotic relationship between people and the world around us. My goal as a student and practitioner is to be conscientious of often invisible processes, and to work with and alongside them.
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
HARVARD UNIVERSITY GSD + Landscape Architecture, MLA II Fall 2019 - Spring 2021
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY + Landscape Architecture, BSLA - Cum Laude Fall 2015 - Spring 2019
FRANCES LOEB DESIGN LIBRARY - HARVARD UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE, MA Student Circulation Assistant August 2019 - present + Cataloging and processing library materials + Book shelving + Assisting in general circulation desk management KNOWLTON SCHOOL DIGITAL LIBRARY & STUDENT ARCHIVE COLUMBUS, OH Student Assistant December 2016 - June 2019 + Collaborated with faculty and staff on design and production of physical and digital communications materials + Assisted in digitizing and archiving over 100+ years of student work + Assisted in model photography and performed photo edits + Provided GIS support for drone surveys COLUMBUS & FRANKLIN COUNTY METRO PARKS COLUMBUS, OH Intern June 2018 - August 2018 + Assisted in design charettes, site surveys, installations and management for developing parks + Produced graphic materials and interpretive signage standards for regional park district STUDENT CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Communications Chair 2017 - 2018 + Produced organization graphics and communication materials
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
GSD MERIT GRANT Harvard University GSD Autumn 2019 - Spring 2020
FACULTY AWARD Ohio State University, Landscape Architecture Spring 2019
ASLA HONOR AND MERIT AWARD Nominee Spring 2019
KNOWLTON SCHOOL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Ohio State University 2017 - 2019
SKILLS + Microsoft Office + Illustrator + Photoshop + InDesign + Lightroom + Grasshopper
+ AutoCAD + ArcGIS + Archival Research
+ Urban plant identification + Rhino + After Effects + Premiere Pro
+ Civil 3D + Sketchup + American Sign Language
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COASTAL COMMONWEALTH COLLABORATIVE Autumn 2019 - Harvard GSD
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WATERMAN FARM Autumn 2018 - OSU Knowlton School
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PICTORIAL CARTOGRAPHY Spring 2019 - OSU Knowlton School
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WHISKEY ISLAND SOUND Spring 2018 - OSU Knowlton School
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DOWNTOWN BOSTON
SOUTH BOSTON
INNER HARBOR
OUTER HARBOR
Coastal Commonwealth Collaborative Boston, MA Changes in climactic and hydrological activity over the next 50 years will challenge our current jurisdictional definition of “coastline” and the industries that depend on it. Using Boston Harbor’s Designated Port Areas (DPAs) as a focus, the Coastal Commonwealth Collaborative (CCC) envisions how coastal agencies can work to strategically facilitate industrial retreat using localized material processes such as asphalt degradation, sedimentation, erosion, and urban plant succession. Collaborators: Kongyun He, Angela Moreno-Long, and Chloe Soltis
dpas/potential CCC sites designated port areas (dpas) 2070 3’ sea level rise dredged channels
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shadehouse
ARNOLD ARBORETUM 1
male cones open and pollen is dispersed through wind
Coastal Commonwealth Collaborative
cones
pollen 2
fertilized cones release bracts
cones
SPECIMEN A 30° 10’N, 108°40’E : south slope; mountain yellow soil; sandy loam.
SPECIMEN B 30° 10’N, 108°40’E : edge of ditched rice field
LICHUAN COUNTY, CHINA
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bracts germinate to form new seedling
Dispersal Studies Field work conducted at Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum served as a precedent for understanding dispersal, material/metabolic flow, and non-scalability. Focusing on the dawn redwood, these drawings depict how the specimens perform in their native habitat (right) and with human intervention at the arboretum (left).
MEDIUM DENSITY
RIVER/WATERSHED
Coastal Commonwealth Collaborative
urban surface runoff
contaminent release
dredge plume
HIGH DENSITY
INDUSTRIAL PORT EDGE
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nor’easter activity
Material Ecology stronger deep water currents
Breaking down the cross section from inland Boston to the outer Massachusetts Bay, these studies illustrate the movement of materials like sediment, contaminants, and heavy metals through the system via water disturbance and human dredge activities. These larger scale processes can be used on a smaller site scale to begin to phase out industrial land uses.
coastline + asphalt excavation
Coastal Commonwealth Collaborative
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existing bulkhead edge
initial seeded grid
deposited dredge mounds
sediment catchment zones
CHELSEA RIVER
Decommission 2020 Choreography of agents is envisioned in the transformation of the Chelsea River DPA from an airport parking lot to a new littoral zone. Army Corps and Massport do the initial work of depositing dredge along the coastline, cutting the coast into catchment zones, and breaking up the asphalt while the EPA continues to monitor plant remediation over time.
asphalt breakdown via growth and weathering
new tidal flat
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CHELSEA RIVER
2050
Coastal Commonwealth Collaborative
Plant Actors Plants are long-term actors in the decommissioning of industrial sites. The above matrix and subsequent rolodex of spontaneous urban species are categorized by function and behavior, with the knowledge that these aggressive species will colonize ground far beyond where they are planted.
exposed soil/ accumulated sediment
exposed compacted soil old weathering material
node
recent fracturing material
riprap stones roots
RIPRAP + RHIZOMATOUS ROOTS
ASPHALT + SPREADING ROOTS
EXCAVATED MATERIAL PILES
seeded asphalt grooves
excavated asphalt 15
excavated sediments
Zn zinc Cd cadmium Cu copper Pb lead Na salt excavated sediments
Artmesia vulgaris mugwort Cichorium intybus chicory
organic matter
Lyrthrum salicria purple loosestrife excavated asphalt
removable construction drawings
Coastal Commonwealth Collaborative
plant actors rolodex
temporal plans light box
*desk built by Angela Moreno-Long
site progress views
Exhibiting Workflow material flow test videos
The exhibition desk for this project is contains the construction documents, research artifacts, material studies and site photos that help visualize the complexity that comes with the meeting of agencies to implement a CCC project. 17
mylar layered plans
UPPER ARLINGTON (UA)
WATERMAN FARM
proposed bike path
OSU BEEKMAN PARK
Waterman Farm Columbus, OH Using hydrological and circulation patterns as the impetus for design, this project reimagines Ohio State University’s Waterman Farm as a destination with a model multispecies pasture grazing system that engages the public and students, remediates soils and allows for a more rich research and educational opportunity.
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olentangy bike trail
Collaborators: Yujia Kuang and Jessica Muha
AGRICULTURAL CAMPUS
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MAIN CAMPUS
NO RTH STA R RO AD
AC KER MA N RO AD
TURFGRASS RESEARCH
RESEARCH
35 acres
70 acres
Waterman Farm
35 acres
SILAGE
SILAGE
35 acres
OUTREACH GARDENS
8 acres
DAIRY PASTURES
25 acres
RESEARCH
25 acres
LA NE AV EN UE
Current Site Organization
views towards campus + downtown 21
Sketch Concepts
temporal wetland in silage field
The conceptual framework for this design is centered around the connection of the north and south streams that run though the site by creating an extended riparian corridor. This corridor dictates circulation and privacy for the site.
NO RTH STA R RO AD
AC KER MA N RO AD
NEW DAIRY CAMPUS
Waterman Farm
greenhouse research ctr
orchards
outreach garden/ ecology center
raised bike path
RESEARCH PLOTS
LA NE AV EN UE
Proposed Site Plan
raised bike path seasonal conditions 23
Waterman Bike Path
PASTURE B layer hens
Waterman Farm
PASTURE A sheep
animal storage
Rotational Pasture Scheme
small animal temporary housing
PASTURE C jersey cattle
horse stables 25
jersey/sheep winter housing
feed & equipment storage
Pictorial Cartography High Plains Ecoreigon / Great Plains, USA In many ways, capturing the West has been an elusive task since the earliest colonial maps were drawn. Today, much of the representation of this “hinterland� becomes reduced to areas that are open for urban-industrial imposition. As a result, this region that makes up the majority of the land mass and production in the United States, is often overlooked by designers in the discussion of climate change in favor of the more populated coasts. This project uses pictorial cartography to give character to territory and explore how the ecoreigons of the Great Plains could evolve over the next 50 years in response to climate change.
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Pictorial Cartography
High Plains Territorial Plan
irrigated land playa lake
filtration
aquifer
plants emerge
runoff fills dry depressions 29
percolation
chemical fissure processes
soil breakdown + expansion
playa lakes
ogallala aquifer western high plains ecoreigon
20% evaporation water filtration
80% percolation water filtration filtration
Manifest Ephemera One of the most pressing issues of the High Plains is the imminent depletion of the ancient Ogallala Aquifer. Playa lakes are ephemeral bodies of water that perform recharge naturally. Thus the design for this ecoreigon is driven by a north-south playa lakes migration corridor that encourages biodiversity, transhumance, rewilding and recharge.
Pictorial Cartography
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Whiskey Island Sound
DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND
Cleveland, OH
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In the decades since the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire and the subsequent passage of the Clean Water Act of 1972, the water quality of Cleveland’s river has become substantially more habitable for aquatic wildlife. However, the industrial corridor is dredged and lined with bulkheads that do not facilitate safe passage for native fish populations that migrate between its tributaries and Lake Erie. Whiskey Island Sound proposes the transformation of an abandoned industrial riverfront site into a sanctuary for vulnerable migratory fish that also engages the surrounding community.
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The Old Cuyahoga River has been a less active industrial corridor since its diversion in the late 19th century. To take advantage of the safer waters, Whiskey Island Sound is programmed as a kayak park for teaching youth from surrounding areas about native fish and how to navigate waters. The park also acts as a small watercraft launch site for the more experienced.
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Whiskey Island Sound
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Submerged Modules Fenestrated basket modules line edges the site’s inner canals and are spaces where smaller fish, such as the sunfish or sand shiner, can feed, mate, raise their young or escape from larger predatory species like the white bass. The basket module’s circular, perforated form is transformed and multiplied in various ways across the site to engage both human and fish.
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Kymberly Ware CAMBRIDGE, MA (614) 827 5799 KYMBERLYWARE@GSD.HARVARD.EDU