LUCY MCFADDEN Portfolio MLA 2016 | University of Virginia
CONTENTS 01 Design Studios Plant Logics, Manifesto Studio, Madrid and Richmond Common Lot, Dew Traveling Studio, Detroit New Orleans Free Plan, ASLA Honor Award Rock Walk 02 Design Research Havana Parcel, Benjamin C. Howland Traveling Fellowship The Domestic Landscape 03 Representation Planted Form and Function Palm House, Kew Gardens The Wedge, Gowanus by Design competition Yard-keeping, Independent Study with Dean Beth Meyer 04 Professional Work SCAPE Zandmotor d.i.r.t. studio 05 CV
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Plant Logics Three countries, three cultures, three climates, one profession Spring 2016 | Critic Teresa Gali-Izard ArcGIS, AutoCad, Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Hand
A walk in the garrigue in the evening after a very hot day is an amazing olfactory experience. There is the thick and sticky smell of Cistus monspeliensis, the deli cate scent of the aspic lavendar, the whiff of tar from Bituminaria bituminosa and the acid freshness of Calamintha nepeta growing along the sides of the path. The mediterranean flora possesses a unique range of aromatic plants. In Crete, the powerful scent of salvia mingles with the more peppery frangrance of Satureja thymbra, the pretty pink-flowered savory; in Turkey Teucrium species and rare oreganos abound, including Origanum dubium with a scent at once piquant and powedery; in Cyprus the scent of Salvia dominica can be so strong at midday that it is almost suffocating. And when you arrive at Corisca by ship, even before you land you can catch on the wind the bouquet of scents from the maquis: the sharp fruity tang of myrtles and the spicy fragrance of the everlasting flowers that give colour to the coastal cliffs. The production of essential oils is an interesting strategy by which the aromatic plants adapt to the difficult conditions of the mediterranean climate. The primary role of essential oils is to protect the plant against predators, either herbivores or insects. A second, more complex role of essential oils i from other species: the litter of decomposing leaves formed beneath cistus or thyme plants, for instance, releases substances that inhibit the germination of com from other species: the litter of decomposing leaves formed beneath cistus or thyme plants, for instance, releases substances that inhibit the germination of competing plants. - Olivier Fillippi, French horticulturist, author, and nurseryman
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Rosmarinus officinalis
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Plant Logics, Spring 2016, Critic Teresa Gali-Izard
Garriga plant palette The garriga is the shrubby, low plant community in the mediterranean climate that consists of aromatic plants such as lavender, sage, rosemary, and wild thyme. These plants send shallow roots where trees cannot root. Known as undershrubbery, dense thickets of cistus or rock rose and rosemary, romeral, release aromatic oils into the soil and through allelopathy, they assert dominance of a plant over its neighbor, which gives each plant defined space and gives the overall landscape a pattern of clusters within open space. Through this landscape thinking of the logic of the garriga, resources are saved and the vernacular character of the dry, Iberian landscape is preserved.
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Making room for the undershrub (phrygana) Undershrubs, specific to mediterranean climates because they are not potential trees, but gregarious, unpalatable, aromatic and insect-pollinated. Undershrubs are shallow rooted and drought-resistant, growing where there is insufficient root-penetration for trees or shrubs. Undershrubbery forms dense thickets or more delicate, isolated specimens. The romeral is the Spanish word for rosemary thicket, jaral or xaral for cistus thicket, and tomillar for thyme phyrgana.
+ mix woody and undershrubs for structure and aromatics +undershrubs in clumps
+ clump undershrubs in a monocrop for strong aromas and walkable space
+ plant in linear form to make clear pathways
+ dense alternation of woody species and undershrub
+ plant spreading and mat forming groundcovers for walkable surfaces or edges
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Plant Logics, Spring 2016, Critic Teresa Gali-Izard
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Plant Logics, Spring 2016, Critic Teresa Gali-Izard
(B) Vacant lot
clear path and articulate clumps
existing condition lot + side walk + median strips
(C) Median + strips
existing condition lot + side walk + median strips
condense strips and median to make garriga-sidewalk
new sidewalk edge, takes storm water for garriga-basins > plants > tap root
garriga-basins intake rain water from adjacent empty lots
adjac
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Madrid: Urban Garriga
make paths and articulate existing clumps
1a Corner lot
A system of matching typical urban form in Madrid to the landscape type of the garriga produces a set of low maintenance, logical outcomes that speak to the vernacular of the region. The drought(B)resistant garriga reveals Vacant lot unexpected forms and functions that can reorganize the urban fabric. By providing the oppurtunity for garriga species to colonize, the orthagonal grid is reimagined as a shrubby, widely spaced field, allowing plant beds to retain water and remain competitive. The urban fabric is arranged according to the logic of the garriga. (C) Median + strips
apply modules large, medium, small remove concrete and asphalt and expose rock ground straight edges along street
1b Corner lot
adjacent to rail
6� basin allows water to seep and pool in reservoirs .5 m below ground, encouraging tap root growth
typical ARUP median
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Plant Logics, Spring 2016, Critic Teresa Gali-Izard
A walk in the garrigue in the evening after a very hot day is an amazing olfactory experience. There is the thick and sticky smell of Cistus monspeliensis, the delicate scent of the aspic lavendar, the whiff of tar from Bituminaria bituminosa and the acid freshness of Calamintha nepeta growing along the sides of the path. The mediterranean flora possesses a unique range of aromatic plants. In Crete, the powerful scent of salvia mingles with the more peppery frangrance of Satureja thymbra, the pretty pink-flowered savory; in Turkey Teucrium species and rare oreganos abound, including Origanum dubium with a scent at once piquant and powedery; in Cyprus the scent of Salvia dominica can be so strong at midday that it is almost suffocating. And when you arrive at Corisca by ship, even before you land you can catch on the wind the bouquet of scents from the maquis: the sharp fruity tang of myrtles and the spicy frangrance of the everlasting flowers that give colour to the coastal cliffs. The production of essential oils is an interesting strategy by which the aromatic plants adapt to the difficult conditions of the mediterranean climate. The primary role of essential oils is to protect the plant against predators, either herbivores or insects. A second, more complex role of essential oils is to combat competition from other species: the litter of decomposing leaves formed beneath cistus or thyme plants, for instance, releases substances that inhibit the germination of competing plants. - Olivier Fillippi, French horticulturist, author, and nurseryman
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reservoirs exist below substrate
Garriga geometry
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Plant Logics, Spring 2016, Critic Teresa Gali-Izard
Richmond: Wild Islands In Richmond, the cycle of seasons allow the plants to shed their leaves and go dormant in the winter months to conserve nutrients, and in the spring their buds release leaves to begin harnessing the light and nutrients again. Clonal species are defined by their ability to adapt using their network of roots. Where one shoot or ramet is located in a place short on nutrients, another shoot may be short on light, but together they provide the single organism enough resources to survive. In cities with disturbed soil and compaction, clonal species thrive. Urban forms of predominately parking lots can provide swaths of potential for removal of asphalt in various dimensions, allowing different levels of ecological succession and competition to occur. Also, different resources are tapped by ramets of the same organism, seeing the parking lot as one pool of resources to be tapped for light and nutrient in potentially different places.
Clonal plant palette
Clonal root growth
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Mugwort Island
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Plant Logics, Spring 2016, Critic Teresa Gali-Izard
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Plant Logics, Spring 2016, Critic Teresa Gali-Izard
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Plant Logics, Spring 2016, Critic Teresa Gali-Izard
1 Urban facade + open lot
2 Urban + parking
2 Corner bus stop
3 Parking lot
Wild street stands
Wild street stands + wild island lot
Clumper and runner
Wild Islands
4 Existing Wild
Wild Island of spreaders + clumpers
5 Railway
Wild Rails
01 Design Studios the food stand
the bar (a)
remove asphalt uncover compacted, sterile soil see what happens
One sucker shoot (or few) can colonize this size island.
planting a monocrop densely promotes fast growth
A few years, later a stand of Robinia forms a canopy and Aralia spinosa fills the understory, providing a small space for a person or two.
jumpstart succession with Tilia americana and Robinia pseudoacacia ruderal plants colonize
Robinia decay and add to organic material and nutrients in soil. A wider range of species can then colonize.
jumpstart succession with Aralia spinosa and ailanthus colonizes
Artemesia (mugwort) colonizes the entire island.
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the bar (b)
the booth
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the picnic table
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jumpstart with tilia and liquidambar ... ailanthus colonizes
the buffet
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Trenches along urban infrastructure already have less compacted soil due to deep foundations. Sun and organic material allow nutrients to populate soil. Species frequently found colonizing these corridors are Rhus copollina and Ailanthus altissima.
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Plant Logics, Spring 2016, Critic Teresa Gali-Izard
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Plant Logics, Spring 2016, Critic Teresa Gali-Izard
Existing site plan
Phase one
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Phase two
Phase three
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Plant Logics, Spring 2016, Critic Teresa Gali-Izard
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Common Lot Fall 2015 |Critic Julie Bargmann AutoCad, Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Hand Herman Kiefer Health Complex and Development Virginia Park, Detroit, MI The studio traveled to Berlin to observe techniques of adaptive reuse and regenerative design that could be applied in Detroit. As a studio, we each observed different methods of adaptive reuse and low maintenance planting strategies that could be applied in Detroit, neighborhood and site wide. The studio shared these lessons with Maurice Cox, City Planner of Detroit, and Detroit Future Cities. Our charge was to design a new urban life for Herman Kiefer and the neighborhood of Virginia Park, where almost half of the homes have been demolished and have left behind empty lots. This project proposes a new urban forest on Herman Kiefer’s 300,000 square foot parking lot. The urban forest offers an adaptable public space -- a pedestrian avenue along the axis of the site, wings of parking bays on either side of the avenue, and venues for temporary program such as markets and events. The arrangement and phasing of vegetation allows a mundane parking lot to become a dynamic and vegetative field that evolves into a parking lot again as it is needed. The new parking lot is porous, allowing water to enter the ground and supply the new plant communities within the lot.
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Fall 2015, Critic Julie Bargmann, Common Lot
Herman Kiefer Hospital, 300,000 ft2 concrete
Detroit, MI
pervious
impervious
Herman Kiefer Hospital Complex + Virginia Park neighborhood
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existing ground condition + 3’ deep tree pits
fast growing trees + slow growing canopy trees + herbaceous, shrub, and understory
+3 years growth, canopy begins to fill in, markets in parking spaces
canopy trees higher and limbed up to accomodate market/program, parking returns to parking spaces + shrubs
market + parking make patchwork
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Phasing Stratey
Fall 2015, Critic Julie Bargmann, Common Lot
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Fall 2015, Critic Julie Bargmann, Common Lot
Plan
Plan enlargement
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First iteration of forest parking
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New Orleans Free Plan ASLA Award 2015 Fall 2014 | Critic Julie Bargmann AutoCad, Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Grasshopper, Hand How can a city like New Orleans, with newly aggregated swaths of urban land, take advantage of this land aggrandizement? What policies can be implemented to help the city move passed the now arbitrary rectilinear lines that guide mow paths and impede diverse ecological and social places from evolving? How can landscape architecture provide planting and maintenance strategies to make socially valuable places? What is the role of landscape architecture in public safety and comfort in urban places that have experienced trauma? Using the logic, form, and species of the Cajun prairie as a social and ecological strategy for residential planting, the project offers residents a choice, a civic compromise: to gain a private threshold, a civic-minded garden, on public land adjacent to their home, while also allowing public access within the block. Small-scale circulation provides a strategy for maintaining privacy, planting, maintenance, and sense of ownership and shared space. The end result is a complex city-wide mosaic of private and public gardens that defy the “load-bearing,� arbitrary parcel lines that currently guide public maintenance of vacant lots.
Garrett Eckbo, Master Tree Plan for Cooperative Housing, San Fernando Valley, CA, from Eckbo, Modern Landscape for Living, 238.
Garrett Eckbo, Master Tree Plan for Cooperative Housing, strategy for tree planting and circulation
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Existing urban succession in interstitial parcels
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INTERSTATE WILD CANAL-EDGE WILD SUBURB-MEETS-INDUSTRY WILD NEIGHBORHOOD WILD
UP TO 30’
EDITED WILD
UP TO 30’
CAJUN PRAIRIE, TALL
UP TO 10’ INDIAN GRASS
CAJUN PRAIRIE, SHORT
UP TO 3’ BLUESTEM CONEFLOWER
FLOTANT MARSH
UP TO 3’
DENSITY
TEXTURE
BLOOM
CUT-BACK
BURN
PERSONALITY INPENENTRABLE, OMINOUS, DANGEROUS
SECLUDED, PRIVATE, INTIMATE, SURPRISING
CONSISTENT, EXPOSED, TACTILE
BRUSHY, COLORFUL, ACTIVE
SATURATED, STILL, MIRAGE
Urban prairie maintenance plan
circulation
mosaic over time
public private back yard side yard saum
grassland woody mantel saum woody herbaceous grassland woody
prototype 2 -- fields of succession, heights relative to private and public needs
spatial division grass mown
path
space
proposed public space public
private
the mosaic homes, sidewalks, road, mow paths, public grassland, public woodland, private back yards, private side yards
existing vacant + occupied conditions
Residential scale mown path
saum
mantel
woody
Geography of Fallow Sites Marginal infrastructure Contaminated yards Abandoned Industrial Mown NORA lots Dorman institutional Defunct commercial Disintegrated blocks Derelict right of way Mapping fallow land types
Fall 2014, Critic Julie Bargmann, New Orleans Free Plan
A process of breaking down the arbitrary parcel lines through the residents’ choice maintains privacy while enabling access within the block. Access ranges from more private to shared to public, and shared spaces are carved out in the process. PROJECTED NEGOTIATED SPACE
EXISTING BLOCK
EXISTING CONDITIONS
HYPOTHETICAL PRIVACY POINTS
RESPECT PRIVACY - DRAW BUFFER SPACE
PRIVACY ZONES AROUND OCCUPIED HOUSE
INVITE PASSAGE
ESTABLISHED CIVIC GARDENS PRESERVE PRIVACY AND SHAPE SHARED SPACES
ENABLE GATHERING
FALLOW, MOWED
NEW FIELD
NEW FIELD
NEW FIELD
FALLOW, NOT MOWED
PRIVATE BUFFER
MOW PATH
PRIVATE BUFFER
DOMESTIC
DOMESTIC TURF
TURF
DRIVEWAY
DRIVEWAY
COMPOSITE LAND SWAP FOR PASSAGE
DOMESTIC
DOMESTIC TURF DRIVEWAY PRIVATE BUFFER
TURF DRIVEWAY
Enabling passage through blocks
SIGHT LINES
SHORT GRASS 18” TALL GRASS 4’ SHRUB LAYER
PINE LAYER
HARDWOOD LAYER
L O U I S A S T R E E T
P I E T Y
FLORIDA DEVELOPMENT AREA, NEW ORLEANS, LA PROPOSED SECTION OBSCURING THE PARCEL LINE BY SUSPENDING SUCCESSION
S T R E E T
Forest succession to blur parcel line
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Cajun short grass seed mix
front yard
front yard
mowed side yard
mowed
pine mulch path
the coup adjacent resident chooses a stage of succession - Cajun prairie grass, pine, or hardgathering space behind coup wood
clear, till, seed
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Cajun short grass seed mix
mowed
Fall 2014, Critic Julie Bargmann, New Orleans Free Plan
pine mulch path
mowed side yard
front yard Cajun prairie short grass seed mix
coup phase 2 private
coup phase 1 adjacent resident chooses Cajun prairie grass, pine, or hardwood public
original parcel line
mowed cared for by neighbors
the coup - phase 1
the coup - phase 2
gathering space behind coup
original parcel line
Holly Grove, New Orleans, prototype for two adjacent fallow lots
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A catalogue of prototypes provides choices for residents while also articulating circulation routes for the neighborhood.
corner lot prototype
right of way prototype (two adjacent lots through a block)
single lot prototype 51
Fall 2014, Critic Julie Bargmann, New Orleans Free Plan
Establish coups
Enable passage
Create shared space
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CORNER CUT - THRU ROWS OF PINE TREES CALL OUT PUBLIC PATH AND SHOW DIFFERENT STAGE OF SUCCESSION
CORNER CUT - THRU
NEIGHBORS JOIN FRONT LAWNS TO MAKE ONE MEADOW
USE 18” HIGH SHORT GRASS MIX
MOW PATHS MIN. 36” PATHS ACCOMMODATE 18” MOWER AND TURNING RADIUS
SUSPEND SUCCESSION IN FIELD TO PROTECT SIGHTLINES THICKEN SIDEWALK 8’ SWALE WETLAND SPECIES BALD CYPRESS CUT ROAD FROM 27’ TO 20’
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Fall 2014, Critic Julie Bargmann, New Orleans Free Plan
VARIETY OF SEED MIX AND GRASS HEIGHT BASED ON PREFERENCE, PROGRAM AND PROXIMITY TO HOUSE.
VACANT LOTS - CORRIDOR
SHORT, DENSE, PRAIRIE GRASS HIGH RATE OF WATER ABSORPTION
TALLER LESS DENSE PRAIRIE GRASS, DRYER, ‘STRUCTURAL, LARGER ROOTS, LONG-LASTING, ENDURING
PLANTING MODULES. LUCY MCFADDEN. 20141002. DENSITY OF VEGETATION BASED ON PROXIMITY TO RESIDENCE.
GRADIENT OF SHORT TO TALL GRASS IN RELATION TO RESIDENCES.
PLANTING MODULES. LUCY MCFADDEN. 20141002. DENSITY OF VEGETATION BASED ON PROXIMITY TO RESIDENCE.
GRADIENT OF SHORT TO TALL GRASS IN RELATION TO RESIDENCES.
LESS DENSE, WOODY, PINE FLAT
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YEAR ONE
THICKER EDGE DENSER PRAIRIE MOWN ONCE A YEAR INTERSTITIAL MOWN LAWN
PRAIRIE GRASS, MOWN ONCE A YEAR
PLANTING MODULES. LUCY MCFADDEN. 20141002. MODULATION BASED ON PERCENTAGE OF DWARF AND TALL SEED MIXES.
YEAR FIVE
MOWN LAWN
MOWN LAWN
WOODY SUCCESSION NEVER MOWN
GALLERY FOREST CLAY PAN KEEPS MEADOW INTACT, ENDS UPRUPTLY GALLERY FOREST
A series of rules involving density and proximity to property lines produced different outcomes. The Grasshopper definition changed dwarf and tall seed mixes according to the proximity to an occupied or vacant lot.
PLANTING MODULES. LUCY MCFADDEN. 20141002. MODULATION BASED ON PERCENTAGE OF DWARF AND TALL SEED MIXES.
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Fall 2014, Critic Julie Bargmann, New Orleans Free Plan
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Fall 2014, Critic Julie Bargmann, New Orleans Free Plan
Mosaic of private, shared, and public urban landscapes
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Aggregation of studio prototypes in the Lower Ninth Ward
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Spring 2014, Critic Nancy Takahashi, Rock Walk
Rock Walk Spring 2014 | Critic Nancy Takahashi AutoCad, Illustrator, Photoshop, Hand
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ROCK WALK
100’ LUCY MCFADDEN
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02 Design Research
Havana Parcel Benjamin C. Howland Traveling Fellowship, with Scott Shinton Emerging Entrepreneurship in Havana This research project consists of three parts -- first, preparing methods and drawing standards at home, second, gathering information and documentating conditions while living in Havana, and third, producing drawings, a book, and an exhibition at the UVA School of Architecture in the spring of 2016. My research partner and I are focusing on visually presenting and cataloguing types of home-based private businesses arising from shifts in laws initiated by Raul Castro in the last five years.
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The Domestic Landscape This research responds to the phenomena of the house and yard pattern of the post-war generation and the increasingly “burdensome� sum of unoccupied residential lots. It asks, can we use the needs and the values of domestic landscape of front, back, and side yards, streets, and short cuts as a tool to reconfigure and regenerate neighborhoods with shrinking populations? These post-industrial, post-growth American cities are comprised of dozens of square miles of single family houses and yards, and as population peaked decades ago, neighborhoods in these cities are full of land and potential to be used as a design tool. Looking at aspects of the landscape within the domestic realm -- the garden, the porch, the yard -- in the context of the urban and the political and economic, the domestic landscape can start to highlight value extending beyond the boundary of the parcel line and onto the street. Through mechanisms such as circulation, home-based entreprenueraliasm, and place-making planted form, a new kind of urban life can populate these swaths of landscape. Can plant form and shared space revive fallow cities and neighborhoods? How can designers and government work to integrate domestic patterns and streetscapes? What kind of plant architecture is conducive to safety, and thus, an infrastuctural piece of the city?
Excerpt from book
Excerpt pages from the research book
TABLE OF CONTENTS + Abstract + William Eggleston’s Color + Fallow Cities + Matrix + Content map + the T W O year cycle: the Mayor of Motor City leveraging votes for landscape // 35,000 trees domestic pandering + landscape // 35,000 trees + the domestic shop T H E H AVA N A PA R C E L finding seats in havana / living in vedado anatomy of self-employment + People watching (with Jane Jacobs) Smithson, “as found” + “A Free Plan for New Orleans, Domestic Rhythms, Public Ground,” UVA, LUNCH 10 the PRECISION of Garrett Eckbo’s site organization, “Landscape for Living” comparison: Miller Garden to Herman Kiefer Health Complex + Circulation as a tool + Cerda; urbanization + A N A L O G / plants as corporeal / mimicry and plant integrity GREY GUNDAKER, “No Space Hidden” Pearl Fryar “The Buzz,” Detroit Future Cities + yardKEEPING: domestic and vernacular landscapes, lexicon, surfaces and borders the landscape of laundry // le febvre and rhythm analysis + hitting PAV E M E N T berlin // bodies + movement detroit // figuring the ground ambiguity // Teardrop + Brooklyn Bridge Park +
Practioners // methods
+ + +
GLOSSARY SOURCES INDEX
The Domestic Landscape An Urban Armature in Fallow Cities Lucy McFadden
03 Drawings + Graphics
Planted Form and Function III Teresa Gali-Izard, 2015
SUMMER, YEAR 1
WINTER, YEAR 1
SUMMER, YEAR 2
WINTER, YEAR 2
The common dandelion’s tap root is its “gift,” its strategy for surviving unfavorable conditions and dispersing itself across the world. Using its tap root as a design mechanism, the dandelion becomes a root barrier to other species. Explored through the four seasons, there is potential and play in using a plant like a dandelion en masse.
Time cycles of a dandelion
THE LIFE OF A BIENNIAL
Philodendron squamiferum
Dieffenbachia picta
Anthurium plowmanii
Roberto Burle Marx, Celco ColumboRoberto residence, Rio de Janeiro Marx Anthurium plowmanii Burle Dieffenbachia picta Celso Colombo residence Peperomia macrostachya ItanhangĂĄ, RĂo de Janeiro Philodendron squamiferum
Planted Form and Function II Julie Bargmann, 2014 Teresa Gali-Izard, 2015
Through this core sequence at UVA, we learn how to rigorously draw plant architecture, planted form, and design experiments through case studies and test sites. The logic of the plant, its morphology, and then the deep understanding of planting experts including Beatrix Farrand, Piet Oduoulf, and Roberto Burle Marx, launch our investigations into the methodology and tools. After completing each of these courses, I then served as a teaching assistant and had the oppurtunity to give teaching demonstrations, give desk crits, and serve as a critic on reviews.
A STAND AVENUE W/ COLONNADE
TREE ROW
MEADOW CLEARING
AVENUE W/ COLONNADE
AVENUE W/ COLONNADE MEADOW WOLF
FERN LOT
AVENUE W/ COLONNADE
C TREE ROW
Palm House Kew Gardens, London
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Dypsis decaryi Triangle palm (Madagascar)
Rattan palm vine
Cocos nuciferia (illustrated by W. Fitch)
Bactris gasipaes
Papaya
Syagrus romanzoffiana
Attalea blepharopus
Banana
Rubber
Cocoa
The Wedge Axis Civitas, Gowanus by Design competition, July 2015 This competition was a collaboration with one other architecture student at UVA. For one week we shared tasks, conceptualizing and drawing an collection of meaningful maps for Gowanus and also a new kind of sidewalk typology for the area to interpret and understand the historic, contaminated past. Researching the area through user-based urban resources like AirBnb and Yelp, w e designed a specific notation for walking around the Gowanus neighbo`rhood. The Atlas pairs the industrial scale with the human scale, aiming to stitch or wedge together a new Gowanus sidewalk typology. Bt taking advantage of the EPA’s Superfund efforts and investment, a new kind of experience on the Gowanus emerges. As cheap rent for big lofts becomes a thing of the past, people will look for new ways to access the area’s industrial scale. The Gowanus Wedge enables access to this sublime landscape, and its inscription into the ground farners a recognition of the scale of excavation and remediating process.
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Yard-keeping Independent Study Beth Meyer
Professional Work
SCAPE STUDIO
FORT WADSWORTH AND STATEN ISLAND GATEWAY UNIT VISIONING As an intern, I produced these diagrams for SCAPE. SCAPE developed a series of catalytic and small-scale interventions that better link the park to the coastline and the surrounding region and to clearly reveal the existing historic and landscape assets. While the assets are clear, much of the site is difficult to navigate and interpret and does not strongly connect to the surrounding neighborhoods or regional populations.
Zandmotor “Napkin-sketch� proposal Jorg Sieweke
This project was a three day conceptualization and representation of the Dutch Zandmotor, sand nourishment strategy for Professor Jorg Sieweke, a consultant for the mayor of Riccione, Italy. The sand engine is an experiment in the management of dynamic coastline. An artificial sandbar-shaped peninsula is created and provides sand to be moved over the years of wave action, wind, and currents along the coast. Currently, the beach is artificially replenished every five years, but the sand engine supplies sand for 20 years.
original, formal condition strict geometry
berm as oppurtunity to break that repetition introduce new kinds of shade, clustered by dunes and creating smaller, more nuanced spaces
umbrellas by tide pools flora and fauna, aquatic species
shade tents look out point
kitesurfing enha source: West 8
d.i.r.t. studio Julie Bargmann Standard Quarry, Millville, WV
Youngstown, OH refractory limestone Pittsburgh, pulverized dolomitic limestone (steel) Wheeling, WV refractory limestone
Harrisburg, PA refractory limestone Buckeystown, MD tannery lime Washington, D.C. pulberized limestone (asphalt)
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LUCY MLA MCFADDEN 2016 | lccmcf@gmail.com 2016 2012 2009 2008 2005
2015/6 2015 2015 2016 2015 2015 2014 2013/6
2015/6 2015/6 2015
2017 2016 2015 2014
EDUCATION
University of Virginia School of Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design, Career Discovery University of Colorado, Bachelor of Science, Media Studies School for International Training, Buenos Aires, Economics St. Paul’s School, Dickie Prize in Visual Arts
2016 2015 2015 2014
AWARDS | LEADERSHIP
2016 2014
Benjamin C. Howland Traveling Fellowship, awarded $10,000 to research proposed topic in Havana, Cuba, with research partner Scott Shinton, UVA MLA 2016 ASLA 2016 Honor Award, selected to present academic work to VA ASLA Committee and subsequently received the award Student Admissions Committee Representative ASLA Honor Award, Fallow Ground | Future City Mellon Award, Graduate Workshop at Dumbarton Oaks, “Frontiers in Urban Landscape Research,” selected for urban landscape research Faculty Award, UVa SoA Vortex Competition, co-led team for The Prism, a residential precinct at UVa Weedon Fellowship Award, awarded for research and academic merit in a traveling studio in Delhi, India UVa Department Award Scholarship, awarded for academic merit
RESEARCH
Havana Parcel, Mapped and documented entrepreneurship Domestic Landscapes, An Urban Armature, Year-long independent research project comprised of history, theory, + design iterations Independent Study with Professor Beth Meyer, Yard-keeping: domestic and vernacular landscapes, developed syllabus, notational system, lexicon, and bibliography
PUBLICATIONS
“Havana Parcel,” to be included in Catalyst, UVa Journal “The Havana Parcel,” Lunch, vol. 11, UVa SoA “Domestic Rhythms, Public Ground,” Lunch, vol. 10, UVa SoA “The Beauty of the Rainforest,” The Dirt
2016 2016 2016 2016 2015 2015 2014
2013 2010/2 2010 2009
TEACHING
TA, Teresa Gali-Izard, Planted Form + Function III TA, Julie Bargmann, Planted Form and Function II TA, Nancy Takahashi, LAR 6010 Foundation Studio TA, Alex Wall, Topics in Contemporary Theory
EXHIBITIONS
“Havana Parcel,” Elmaleh Gallery, UVA SoA, with Scott Shinton “Re-Entrant India,” Summer studio design + research in Delhi, India
WORK EXPERIENCE
D.I.R.T. studio, Charlottesville, VA Research Assistant, Fallow Cities, Professor Julie Bargmann CMG Landscape Architecture, San Francisco, CA Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, San Francisco, CA Research Assistant, Zandmotor, Professor Jorg Sieweke SCAPE Landscape Architecture, New York, NY Peter Walker + Partners Landscape Architecture, Berkeley, CA
PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE
Intern, 596 Acres, Brooklyn, NY Legislative Assistant, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC Field Representative, Charlie Bass for Congress, Concord, NH Staff Writer, The Colorado Statesman, Denver, CO
SKILLS
AutoCad, Rhinoceros, Adobe Suite, ArcGIS, Microsoft Office, Outlook Laser Cutter and CNC Router Learning Grasshopper and SketchUp