PORTFOLIO
MADDIE CLARK
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
2014-2019
LANDSCAPE ART RESEARCH
RESUME
MADDIE CLARK madelynne.clark@gmail.com | 317.364.2553 | Shelbyville, IN Relocating to New York, NY Summer 2019
Education
Ball State University (Muncie, IN)
2014-2019
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (GPA:3.7)
Work
terrain-nyc (New York, NY)
May-August 2018
Landscape Architecture Intern Worked in all areas of design. Developed sketches, schematic designs, and design details for the Morningside Gardens Development.
SCAPE Studio (New York, NY)
January-May 2018
Landscape Architecture Intern Worked in all areas of design. Worked mainly on developing the Larchmont coastal resilience framework and producing concepts for the Arkansas Art Museum. Assisted with production for the Resilient by Design Challenge.
DESIGNworks Workshop (Muncie, IN)
July 2017
Teaching Assistant Chosen to be a student mentor and teach basic design skills to high school students.
B+C Studio (Atlanta, GA)
May-August 2016
Landscape Architecture Intern Mainly worked with detail production, site inventory and analysis, project filing, and product research.
Honors and Awards
ASLA Honor Award
2019
University Olmsted Scholar
2019
Udall Scholarship
2018
Perham Scholarship
2018
Recognized as an outstanding senior in the landscape architecture department for excellence in design and leadership. Nominated from the Ball State Landscape Architecture program to apply for the National Olmsted Scholarship. Honored as one of 34 students across the nation for leadership, commitment, and public service to environmental issues. One of six women honored for the pursuit of academic excellence and leadership by female students now and into the future.
Jennifer Pokorny Scholarship
2016
One of two students from the landscape architecture department for excellence and leadership in studio.
Dean’s List Made the Ball State University dean’s list for 8 semesters.
Fall 2015- Spring 2019
Maddie Clark
Activities
GROW Garden
August 2016-Present
Co-Founder/President
Emerging Green Builders
December 2016- May 2017
President
SCASLA
August 2015- May 2016
Member
Presentations and Publications
Understanding Contested Space (Detroit, MI)
May 2019
Paper and Poster Presentation Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation Presenting about the future of our environments along borders and other contested spaces. Highlighting the importance of studying the spatial repercussions of these landscapes through their constant evolution under political pressures.
Embracing Entropy
May 2019
GLUE 15 (Student Journal)
Skills
3D Software
2d Software
Adobe Suite
Microsoft
Proficiency:
Rhinoceros Grasshopper Sketchup
Autocad ArcGIS V-ray Hand Graphics
Photoshop Illustrator Indesign After Effects Premiere
Word Excel PowerPoint
Fabrication Laser Cutting 3D Printing
CONTENTS
ANTHROPOCENE MUSEUM
Capstone: Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
6-15
CONFLICT INFRASTRUCTURE
Independent Project: Fall 2017
16-23
EMBRACING ENTROPY
Competition: Fall 2018
24-27
REDISCOVERY SACREDNESS
Regional Design: Fall 2017
28-31
USS INDIANAPOLIS
Planting Design: Spring 2017
32-35
CREATING FEEDBACK
Site Design: Fall 2017
36-41
CAPSTONE
ANTHROPOCENE MUSEUM THESIS/CAPSTONE
ADVISOR: NATALIE YATES
SPRING 2019
As the anthropological becomes a dominant force within our world, we are forced to grasp the consequences of decay, mutation, and exhaustion. This project goes beyond remediating a site to a past condition and aims to study the Anthropocene and the opportunities that exist within these sites when we accept and harness complex and conflicting layers. This is accomplished through a method of deep mapping, a process that goes beyond the twodimensional map of a site and uses various mediums to uncover the historical, cultural, ecological layers of place. This process led me to view the site as a museum, exploring the creative programmatic experiences that expose the disturbances and the connections between culture and ecology. The museum will be composed as a series of interactive sites that embrace soft remediation techniques that clean the ground, avoiding hard processes that only remove and cap. By doing this, I will not only rehabilitate the site, but create new experiences that allow visitors to interpret the history and possible futures of Picher, Oklahoma. The sites within this landscape museum are interactive experiences that expose and harness cultural and ecological elements. The museum is essentially a journey through the landscape, evolving over time. The framework of the museum is divided into three phases: above, ground, and below.
(PICHER, OK)
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CULTURE AND ECOLOGY COLLIDE
A diagram showing what the site looked like before people and how the site developed toxins after people became involved in the process .
CAPSTONE
ECOLOGICAL IMPACT
Regional map showing how mining operations affected the greater ecology when acid mine drainage traveled from Tar creek and into the Neosho River.
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ANTHROPOCENE AS GRID
Used Grasshopper to represent how the Anthropocene disrupts our systems and showing that we will never be able to reach a past condition
PHASING DIAGRAM
The museum is divided into three phases (above, ground, below) and each phase affects how a site is experienced and evolves.
CAPSTONE
WEAVING THROUGH LAYERS
A central path runs through the museum and it used as a organizing structure and a base map that is used to build layers, histories, and relationships in the site.
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Phone App
PHASE 1
PHASE 2
PHASE 3
CAPSTONE
REMEDIATION METHODS
REMEDIATION LABORATORY
Watchtowers allow visitors to learn about the remediation process through augmented reality. Remediation is not hidden from the landscape experience
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PHASE 1
Chat pile is capped and used as infrastructure for watchtowers
PHASE 2
Remaining chat piles are removed and remediated. This is the foundation for “galleries�
PHASE 3
Once the ground start to become clean, a winding stair case is placed in existing sinkholes
DEEP SECTION
This section shows how site is under a constant evolution and that visitors will be able to witness this evolution when they go down into the Earth.
CAPSTONE
FINAL MODEL This is a CNC milled model with a video projection depicting the changes in my site. The video depicts how the landscape has changed from a rich ecological system to a toxic wasteland, covered in “chat�.
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FINAL MODEL This process allows a static site model to become more dynamic with animations and text.
CONFLICT INFRASTRUCTURE
CONFLICT INFRASTRUCTURE INDEPENDENT STUDY
ADVISOR: MARTHA HUNT
2017
This project questions what happens to landscape when we implement politicized infrastructure. How does politicized infrastructure impact the utility and quality of space within a region? How do these politicized spaces drive the cultural narrative? The aim of this project was to examine the effects of the infrastructure along the US/ Mexico border that equates peace with security, conflict, and disparity. The disrupted dialogue between the two nations has shifted and disturbed the social and ecological systems of the region around the border. More specifically, this project sought to spatially analyze and represent how these systems are disrupted on a series of different scales. Exploring this landscape at various scales allows us to analyze the border with a holistic lens that is not traditionally used. In doing so, we can begin to question the patterns and significances associated with a region characterized by division, conflict, and surveillance. The goal of this project is to open a dialogue within the profession about the future of our environments along borders and other contested spaces. This project understands these landscapes through their constant evolution under political pressures. It is important to study this evolution and question spatial repercussions of a narrative driven by a conflict between two nations The result is a speculative solution that operates under current military strategies to protect national identity. It questions what happens when we used the same tactics to protect the environmental systems within borderlands, opening the border in areas to allow water to flow freely. In doing so, we open a crucial dialogue between two nations that encourages cooperation. This solution raises more questions into how to open and expose systems between border lines.
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SPECULATIVE SOLUTION
This image proposes that we use the same military regime to protect and save our environmental systems as we do our national identity. It suggest that the border affects more than just security.
CONFLICT INFRASTRUCTURE
TIJUANA RIVER WATERSHED
This map illustrates how the division of the region has influenced land use and divided ecological regions
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WALL
SURVEILLANCE
MILITARY
CHECKPOINTS
BUFFER ZONES
CONFLICT INFRASTRUCTURE TYPES
Diagrams defining the types of “conflict infrastructure” along the US/Mexico border.
CONFLICT INFRASTRUCTURE
DISRUPTION DIAGRAM
Diagram of how uneven growth is disturbing ecological regions
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AREAS OF PASSAGE
This diagram depicts where areas of the wall would be removed to allow environmental passage
TERRAIN MODEL
CNC milled chunk model showing how the border cuts through natural systems.
MEXICO
CNC milled section cut
UNITED STATES
CNC milled section cut
EMBRACING ENTROPY
EMBRACING ENTROPY COMPETITION
URBAN DESIGN
FALL 2018
Lagos is in a constant state of order and disorder. The stadium treats waste as an architectural element to embrace this characteristic of the city. The site will continue to serve as a landfill, using trash to build the framework of the site. This projects looks at how waste can be treated as a positive within the site, avoiding the relocation of the landfill where the problem of unsustainable waste will continue to exist. As more waste is brought to the landfill, A lucid cover will be placed over mounds of waste to contain dangerous contamination. The stadium also performs as a waste facility that uses the process of plasma gasification to transform waste into energy. Bridges will be built over the mounds of waste to provide pedestrian circulation and transport waste from the site to the stadium through a series of pipes. Various building typologies are encouraged to develop within the evolving framework of the site, creating new neighborhoods. Together, each element of the site not only supports a soccer stadium, but encourages and supports an evolving city, providing the energy and space necessary for sustainable development. Overtime, the functions of the stadium and the waste facility evolve together, exposing energy processes that harness the continuous interactions and transformations of the city. The site celebrates process and change, inviting new architectural typologies and programmatic opportunities.
METHANE COLLECTORS
SOCCER STADIUM STEAM CHAMBERS
ENERGY PROCESS
PROTECTIVE MEMBRANE
COVERS
PLASMA GASIFIER
Waste is transported to the plasma gasifier chamber through a series of pipes. The chambers uses plasma torches to heat the chamber and convert solids into syngas. Steam exits through the steam chambers, where it is cleaned and returned to the air. The cooled syngas is stored in the generators under the field. The heat from these generators slowly wear the protective membrane. Methane collectors surround the stadium to collect excess pollution.
GENERATORS
WASTE TRANSPORTS
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YEAR 5 WASTE
CIRCULATION
STADIUM
SETTLEMENTS
YEAR 30
YEAR 75
EMBRACING ENTROPY
SITE PLAN (YEAR 75) This plan suggest how waste would accumulate and create growth for development. As more waste is brought to the site, more energy is produced for the city.
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REDISCOVERING SACREDNESS
REDISCOVERING SACREDNESS ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION
REGIONAL DESIGN
FALL 2017
The plan proposes three different prototypes that will be incorporated along different sites on the corridor. The following suggest a series of trails, environmental pieces (mounds), and way-finding programs that will eventually be implemented in more detail at the specific site. The network of trials that connect existing sacred sites and proposed sites will gesture the indigenous past. Because the Hopewell culture respected and cared for environments natural systems, these trails will begin to restore broken ecologies as they weave through the landscape. The environmental art pieces will represent abstracted version of the Hopewell mounds. The prototypes take influences from these mounds to create new landmarks where they can foster new relationships among communities and begin to create identity. Way-finding acts to provides an essential layer to the design. Through a series of podcast, people can follow the trail and listen to the memories and indigenous past of the landscape, weaving an essential narrative throughout the landscape.
Above:
Map of sacred sites in Indiana.
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SITE PLAN
REDISCOVERING SACREDNESS
WAY-FINDING Kiosk are placed along the trail, revealing the forgotten story of indigenous peoples.
TRAILS
RIVER
WOODLAND
WETLAND
PRAIRIE
Trails are placed within each of the landscape typologies throughout Indiana, restoring damaged systems.
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ART INSTALLATIONS
These pieces acts as abstracted versions of Hopewell mounds, aligning to specific features in the community and creating a gathering space for events.
USS INDIANAPOLIS
U.S.S INDIANAPOLIS PLANTING DESIGN
SPRING 2017
Considered one of the most tragic events in the history of the U.S. Navy, the USS Indianapolis is a story of strength, courage, and triumph. After delivering the atomic bomb, Little Boy, the USS Indianapolis was attacked by a Japanese torpedo. For four days, the remaining survivors faced sun exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks while floating with a few lifeboats and almost no food or water. The memorial is dedicated to those fallen and surviving soldiers who performed the ultimate sacrifice and helped bring an end to the war. The design of this memorial is simple: four mounds for the four days they struggled at sea. A ribbon of names glide over the mounds, leading the user to the memorial monument. The goals of this design were to create a more experiential space for the user, utilize simplistic, thoughtful design details, and create a more comfortable urban environment for the memorial.
Model of Site
The base of the model is milled to represent the unique terrain proposed with the design
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Planting Section A simple planting palette of grasses and ornamental trees are used to reinforce form.
USS INDIANAPOLIS
SITE PLAN
Four mounds are the center piece for this design. The users are encouraged to walk on them while looking at the names.
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Planting Plan
CREATING FEEDBACK
CREATING FEEDBACK SITE DESIGN
FALL 2017
While mussels provide an array of ecological benefits for aquatic and terrestrial animals, they also filter out pollutants from our rivers. Their declining populations can cause significant environmental and public health concerns. It is becoming increasingly necessary to reintroduce these mussels into areas of the river that host polluted conditions. By doing this, we can begin to visualize a site that promotes a feedback system between people and mussels to improve the ecological conditions of the Wabash river. The overarching goal for this design is to make the invisible, visible. This means exposing the environmental systems in our environment that we cannot see. Ultimately, the aim of this project is to reintroduce mussels back into the Wabash and expose the function of these organisms through sensor and data collection; therefore, making transparent the harmful systems that pollute our air, cities, and waters. Mussels will become a vital tool in creating this exposer and establishing a dynamic feedback system between city, water, and people.
MUSSEL FORMATION
The form derives from studying the patterns of mussel formation.
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SENSORS
Act to stabilize dock and collect pollution data
LIGHTS
Expose function of mussels by lighting up when pollution levels change
SEATING
Provides framework for social programming
CREATING FEEDBACK
Above: Section of feedback system. Pollution data from the town is collected and exposed through the docks.
FINAL SITE .25 MILES FROM TRAILS
LAYER 4 INTERSECTING URBAN DENSITY
LAYER 3
LAYER 2
LAYER 1
INTERSECTING .5 MILE INDUSTRIAL BUFFER
INTERSECTING SANDY SOILS
WATER CONTAINING POLLUTION
Above: Using GIS to find a site along the Wabash river for the mussel habitat.
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MUSSEL HABITAT
This section was chosen because of its close proximity to the industrial sites. This will act as starting point for the mussels in hopes that the habitat will expand along the Wabash.
FORM
The new trail features a more fluid design that follows the contours of the site. It also features an educational facility, that collects and reports pollution data
STORM WATER
Finding pockets within downtown that would hold and collect storm water. I also made the sidewalks wider that also feature storm water infrastructure.
CREATING FEEDBACK
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