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.
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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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Coastal Commonwealth Collaborative Boston, MA DOWNTOWN BOSTON
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
SOUTH BOSTON
INNER HARBOR
dpas/potential CCC sites designated port areas (dpas) 2070 3’ sea level rise dredged channels
MEDIUM DENSITY RIVER/WATERSHED
HIGH DENSITY
Material Ecology + Dispersal Studies
PORT EDGE
urban surface runoff
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. 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 and with human intervention at the arboretum.
contaminent release
nor’easter activity
dredge plume
cutting
cone
stronger deep water currents
shadehouse
greenhouse b
greenhouse a
SPECIMEN A 30° 10’N, 108°40’E
seed
bract
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cones
male cones open and pollen is dispersed through wind
pollen 2
fertilized cones release bracts cones
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bracts germinate to form new seedling
SPECIMEN B 30° 10’N, 108°40’E
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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 09
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
WETLAND RESEARCH PARK UPPER ARLINGTON (UA)
proposed bike path
olentangy bike trail FRED BEEKMAN PARK
AGRICULTURAL CAMPUS
NO RTH STA R RO AD
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
AC KER MA N RO AD
Waterman Farm Columbus, OH
TURFGRASS RESEARCH
35 acres
SILAGE
RESEARCH
35 acres
70 acres
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 both public and academic constituents, remediates soils and allows for a more rich research and educational opportunity. Collaborators: Yujia Kuang and Jessica Muha
OUTREACH GARDENS
SILAGE
8 acres
35 acres DAIRY PASTURES
25 acres
RESEARCH
25 acres
LA NE AV EN UE
Current Site Organization
views towards campus + downtown
temporal wetland in silage field
public
UA
public
NO RTH STA R RO AD
OSU
UA
extended riparian circulation corridor
OSU
Concepts
NEW DAIRY CAMPUS
greenhouse research ctr
orchards
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.
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outreach garden/ ecology center
raised bike path
RESEARCH PLOTS
LA NE AV EN UE
= 1 tree
Proposed Site Plan
NO RTH STA R RO AD
AC KER MA N RO AD
Waterman Farm
relocated soils
wetland/ overlook
RESEARCH PLOTS
poorly drained
soil drainage major swale minor swales
Proposed Hydrology Interventions
LA N E AV EN UE
raised bike path seasonal conditions
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wetland path overlook* * wetland overlook drawn by Yujia Kuang * wetland section drawn by Jessica Muha
PASTURE B layer hens
Waterman Farm
PASTURE A sheep
animal storage
Rotational Pasture Scheme
small animal temporary housing
PASTURE C jersey cattle
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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.
irrigated land playa lake
filtration
aquifer
plants emerge
runoff fills dry depressions 17
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
High Plains Territorial Plan
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Whiskey Island Sound Cleveland, OH 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. Collaborators: Megan Nerici and Daniel Phillips
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WHISKEY ISLAND
IRISH BEND
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Submerged Modules Fenestrated basket modules create an interior edge condition for the site’s 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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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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Whiskey Island Sound
Kymberly Ware CAMBRIDGE, MA (614) 827 5799 KYMBERLYWARE@GSD.HARVARD.EDU
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