MICHELLE JORDAN
Michelle Jordan, MLA, ASLA michelle.a.jordan@gmail.com 207 610 0885
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EDUCATION
MLA., Masters of Landscape Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Aug. 2011- May 2014 B.S., Landscape Horticulture, University of Maine, Orono, ME, Dec. 2009, graduated magna cum laude Civil Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 2004-May 2005
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Landscape Architect, Searle and Searle, Providence, Rhode Island, June 2014-Current Developed CD sets for the restoration of historic 19th century landscapes, including Swan Point Cemetery and East Greenwich Free Library. Intern, Pouder Design Group, New Milford, Connecticut, June 2013-August 2013 Assisted with concept development, model making, and visualizations for a range of projects from campus Master plans to residential homes. Led the design of an affordable housing project in Middletown, NY from concept through construction documents. Intern, FormTomorrow, Leeds, Utah, June 2012-August 2012 Worked with a team of designers in developing a trail system that negotiated a balance between recreation and ecological restoration. Presented trail to the community and interested government groups. Physically surveyed the Virgin River for damage and encroachment, and collectively covered a total of over 46 miles of the river. Scheduled meetings with the BLM, USFS, Private Owners, the Town Council. Estate Gardener, Private Residence, Orono, Maine, May 2009-Fall 2011 Constructed a stone retaining wall, diagnosed pest and disease problems, and developed safe action plans for the site. Project Designer and Nursery Worker, NewLand Nursery, Ellsworth, Maine, April 2010-November 2010 Designed and managed residential gardens. Created bids and kept projects within their budgets. Organized and managed the greenhouse.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, RISD, January 2011-Spring 2013 Researched Sri Lankan architecture and landscape architecture for a design studio during winter 2015. Created and edited DESINE-lab’s book “Sri Lanka Analysis: history, economy and architecture.” Research Assistant, Dept. of Environmental Horticulture, University of Maine, September 2009-January 2011 Worked in conjunction with Engineers Without Borders on a wetland project in Honduras. Tested the effect of effluents on Penstemon barbaris and Canna glauca. Placed Third at the American Society for Horticulture Science Research Competition.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant Department of Landscape Architecture and Foundation Studies RISD Field Ecology and Site Design Studio & Seminar, Spring 2014; Spatial Dynamics, Spring 2013; Costa Rica Design Build Studio, Wintersession 2013; Design Foundations and Field Ecology, Summer 2012
CONFERENCES AND AWARDS
Transparent Ecology, Graduate Thesis Book American Society of Landscape Architects Graduate Merit Award, Awarded June 2014 Reinventing Rocky Point, Guest Speaker June 2014 (http://warwickonline.com/stories/Fall-targeted-for-Rocky-Point-openingbut-thats-just-the-beginning,93171) Ruth Fisher Harwood Prize, Awarded 2013-2014 Kent Land Trust, Analysis Presentation Spring 2012 (http://www.risd.edu/about/news/2014/natural-alliance/) Landscape Architecture Department Fellow 2011-2014
SKILLS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Computer Skills: Adobe Suite, AutoCAD, Rhino, Sketchup, ArcGIS Hand Skills: Ink, Pencils, Rendering, Model Making 3
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CONTENTS transparent ecology (4) ritual infrastructure (16) restoration of remington arms (22) [re]mediating: the mill and the river (32) design principles (38) evolving berm (44) wade+map and leeds creek trail [FormTomorrow] (46) research (48)
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TRANSPARENT ECOLOGY GRADUATE THESIS//FOX POINT PROVIDENCE, RI//NICOLA DE PACE, ELIZABETH HERMAN, ADAM ANDERSON
ABSTRACT: Urban environments are removed from the sense of vulnerability and powerful dynamism that is present in the natural environment. Over half the world’s population lives in urban areas. Rural and suburban areas can no longer be relied on to provide ecological function for cities. Simplified urban systems need to be incorporated and expanded to: clean air; filter water; recycle biological waste; and provide habitat for wildlife. Climate change and the shift towards urban dwelling require a change in behavior towards the integration of complex ecological function in cites. Ecology in the urban context needs to be resilient and able to adapt to rapid changes. Design interventions can bolster ecological processes and connect people to their environments. Natural processes operate at many scales. For this thesis, my interest is in how scale (micro sidewalk, mid neighborhood and macro region) impacts these processes. The project focuses on engaging people through the activation of the urban environment through cracks in borders of cultural and ecological processes. This thesis asks how hydrology can be used to help urban inhabitants extend agency past their property boundaries by utilizing traditional and contemporary techniques of water infiltration typically implemented within the property lines to dissolve the border between property owners and engage them in their water network. It challenges the current top-down approach to stormwater management in the city and proposes a method of activism from homeowners, questioning how the process of design can help urban inhabitants extend agency past their property boundaries and restore ecological function in their neighborhood.
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BELOW: Conceptual Drawing
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Green Infrastructure Projects
BELOW: Web of Projects
$75,000 for public stormwater projects that can serve as models Mashapaug Pond
Roger Wiliams Park City streets
Lisa DeProspo Philo
Lisa Hollister
Vanessa Venturini
Kate Venturini
Communications Specialist
Youth Environmental Educator
Communications Specialist
Outreach Director
United States Government President Barak Obama
Clean Water Act
1972 act in reaction in polluted water ways
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
Gina McCarthy
Allision Hamel
Administrator
Environmental Scientist
EPA New England Division
Municipal Government
Curt Spalding
Margarita Chatterton
Director
Senior Sanitary Engineer
Eric Beck
Supervising Engineer
NPDES
National Pollution Discharge Elimination Service
Margarita Chatterton
Megan Higgins
Permitting
Council Member
RI Habitat Restoration Restoring habitat in Rhode Island Restoring Habitat
Public Awareness
Improve Water Quality Restoration Principles
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Jeff Wells
Deputy Director
RI Stormwater Solutions Educate Rhode Island residents about stormwater
RI BRWCT
Public Campaign
Stormwater management
Rhode Island Bays, Rivers and Watersheds Coordination Team ($900,000)
Municipal Outreach
Climate change adaptation
Stormwater Policy and Practices
Freshwater Resources Water-Relient Economic Development
Workshops
NEMO
Rhode Island Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials
Lorraine Joubert Director
URI
University of Rhode Island Coorpoerative Extension
Mayor Angell Taveras Mayor of Providence
Janet Colt Director
City of Providence
State of Rhode Island
Municipal Government
Municipal Government
Lincoln Chafee
Narragansett Bay Commision
Governor of Rhode Island
Local non-profit for improving water quality in the Bay
Ralph Mollis
Secretary of State
MWH
International Company
Raymond Marshall
Tom Ardito
URI Narragansett Bay Campus Executive Director
Rhode Island Land Trust
RIDOT
Local land trust for conserving sustainable land conservation
Rhode Island Depatment of Transportation
Meg Kerr
Michael Lewis
Tresurer
Director
Chuck Allot Director
PNPP
RIDEM
Providence Neighborhood Planting Program
Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
Douglas Still
Janet Colt
Providence City Forester
Director
Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council
CRMC
Local non-profit for improving water quality in the Woonasquatucket River Watershed
Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council
Donald T. Burns
Anne Maxwell
President
Chair
Save the Bay
Local non-profit for improving water quality in the Bay
Waterkeeper
National Pogram
Coastkeeper David Prescott
Baykeeper Tom Kutcher
Jonathan Stone Director
CSO Control Facilities Phase III
Governor Budget
Green and Sustainable Infrastructure
$3 million local open space grants
Alternatives to the current CSO project Intergrated Planning Framework
$75 million “Clean Water, Open Space and Healthy Communities Bond� $3 million DEM farmland purchase program
$4 million for DEM land conservation and acquisition program
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LEFT: Photograph of Pamphlet and Booklet RIGHT: Soil Chart Material Chart
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Asphalt
Concrete
Bricks
Porous Asphalt
Open Grids
high
high
0.25
Forest Soil low
low
3.9 (in./hr.)
60 (in./hr.)
6.1 (in./hr.)
39%
40%
48%
50% slow
38% 46% slow
slow
35%
33%
44%
43%
moderate
moderate
28%
22%
40%
fast
42%
15%
11%
Soil Capacity
38%
32%
Soil Porosity
fast
fast
fast
Light Clay Loam Clay Loam
0.25
low
3.9 (in./hr.)
4.1 (in./hr.)
<0.00002 (in./hr.)
0.00006 (in./hr.)
Percolation
Silt Loam
high
moderate
moderate
moderate
high
Infiltration Rate
Loam
0.27
low
moderate
low
low
Temperature
Sandy Loam Fine Sandy Loam
0.29
0.50
0.97
0.95
Runoff Coefficient Microbe Potential
Sand Heavy Clay Loam
Turf
Clay
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LEFT: Timed Water Test on Various Surfaces RIGHT: Existing Filtration Diagram Possible Filtration Diagram
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Brick
Lawn
Concrete
Asphalt
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LEFT: Macro-Watershed
Blackstone River-West River to Peters River
RIGHT: Micro-Watershed
Miller River
Clear River Branch River Blackstone River
Ten Mile River
Chepachet River
Woonasquatucket River Moshassuck River
Regulating & Moswansicut Reservoirs Ponagansett & Barden Reservoirs
Pocassett River
Barrington & Warren Rivers Palmer River
Scituate River
Seekonk & Providence Rivers
Pawtuxet River Mainstem
North Branch Pawtuxet River Flat River Reservoir Upper Moosup River Greenwich Bay
South Branch Pawtucket River
Mount Hope Bay Upper Narragansett Bay
Upper East Passage
Big River
Hunt River
Upper West Passage
Upper Wood River Lower West Passage Queen River
Lower East Passage
Sakonnet River
Pottaquamscutt River
Lower Wood River Beaver River
Saugatucket River Chipuxet River
Upper Pawcatuck River
Wading River
Point Judith Pond Southwest Coastal Waters
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Coastal Aquidneck
Upper Driveway
Upper East
Upper West Winter Ice Fracture
Western Edge Central Flow
Central Drive Spring Upheaval
Lower West
Lower East 15
Bioswales
& ion ion at
Transpir Evapo at r able to absorb up to 1,800 gallons of stormwater
Infiltration
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BELOW: Armstong Street Water Diagram
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Street Trees
able to absorb between 300-550 gallons of stormwater
[+] Habitat
[+] Border [+] Outdoor Space Surface Runoff
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RITUAL INFRASTRUCTURE TUILERIES STUDIO//PARIS, FRANCE//SCHERI FULTINEER, ANDREW HARTNESS
Napoleon creates Rue de Rivoli
French Revolution
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Luxor Obelisk
Napoleon III created fosses
Hausmann redesign of Paris
Palace burned
Grande Arche Johann Otto von Spreckelsen
I.M. Pei design Grand Louvre Pyramids
Jacques Wirtz redesign of the Carrousel
This studio celebrated the long and successful history of the Tuileries Garden designed by Andre Le Notre in 1564. The garden has transformed over generations through the influence of landscape gardeners and planners and still remains one of the most successful and active gardens in Paris. The park becomes the backdrop for strolling, looking at art, people watching, eating, sunbathing, reading, playing, sailing boats, listening to music, celebrating, arguing, feeding birds, and contemplating the sky. The parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hierarchical framework ties together not only the uses within the park but also into the context of the city. This studio challenged what it means to be an historic park in a contemporary context.
1806 Arc de Triom
1789
1789-94
1806
1836
1850
1871
1989
1853-70
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1989
1990
1989 Grande Arche
1563
1578
mphe
1662
1667
1668
Catherine de Medici Palace built
Walled garden along the road
Parade Ground
Garden Opened to Public
Andre Le Notre redesigned for Louis XIV
BELOW: Perspective Historical Timeline
1563 Original Garden with Boundary Wall
1836 Luxor Obelisk
1667 Garden Opened to Public
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697 THOUSAND VISITS TO MUSÉE DE L’ORANG 1.5 MILLION VISITS TO ARC DE TRIOMPHE
3.1 MIL
70 THOUSAND VISITS TO PARIS CINÉMA
1.8 MILLION VISITS TO GRAND PALAIS
14 MILLION VISIT
7.0 MILLION VISITS TO TOUR EIFFEL
306 THOUSAND LIVE WITHIN A MILE OF THE TUIL
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spring
summer
BELOW: Visitors to Tuileries Garden Seasonally and Yearly
GERIE
46.5 MILLION VISITORS TO PARIS
LLION VISITS TO MUSÉE D’ORSAY 3.6 MILLION VISITS TO CENTRE POMPIDOU
TS TO TUILERIES 5.0 MILLION VISITS TO PARIS PLAGES
LERIES
13.6 MILLION VISITS TO CATHÉDRALE NOTRE-DAME
8.8 MILLION VISITS TO MUSÉE DU LOUVRE
fall
winter
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BELOW: Passerelle Diagram
views
EXISTING SOLFĂ&#x2030;RINO
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access under roadway access
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bikeway views
access
market
access
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RESTORATION OF REMINGTON ARMS CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPES STUDIO//BRIDGEPORT, CT//GINA FORD, EAMONN HUTTON
This studio investigated urban public spaces and the restraints of design in the urban context. Lead by Gina Ford and Eamonn Hutton from Sasaki, we focused on the practicality of design and methods that allow a city to do more with less. Through their connections with the City of Bridgeport, we were able to meet with the members of the city government multiple times to develop a dialogue about how to tackle some of the issues that Bridgeport faces. Our site was located at the abandoned Remington Arms campus in Bridgeport, CT located along the Yellow Mill Creek. To the north of the site is a large wooded forest, which is fenced off to the public due to its past use as an ammunition testing ground. Along the southern end of site is the Yellow Mill Creek, an estuary connected to the Long Island Sound, where there are plans to create a river walk. Bridgeport is deciding how to modernize itself and provide for its citizens with a very limited budget. The city is seeking innovative ways to provide more recreation space for its constituents with minimal maintenance costs.
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BELOW: Site Analysis
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LEFT: Seasonal Maintenance Diagram RIGHT: Phasing Diagram Yearly Maintenance Diagram
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Phase One (0-7 years): establishing the dialogue retail, train station, meadow, tennis court, basketball court Phase Two (8-14 years): activating the interior high school, boat launch, sport fields
PROGRESSIONAL
CONSTANT
Phase Three (15-1000 years): connecting to the forest forest, rolling meadow, expansion of courts
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LEFT: Tree Planting Detail RIGHT: Grading Plan 29
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BELOW: Rendered Plan
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BELOW: Perspective Along the River
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[RE]MEDIATING: THE MILL AND THE RIVER SITE ECOLOGY & DESIGN//PROVIDENCE, RI//SCHERI FULTINEER, LAURA MARETT
This studio examined what site and ecology mean in contemporary practice. Rather than limiting ourselves to traditional â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;site boundariesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; we designed at multiple scales, from the more extensive regional scale to the zoomed in scale of the riverbank, where every inch impacts is impacted differently by the water flow. Our locus was along the Woonasquatucket River corridor between Donnigian Park and Waterplace Park. The site was situated between upstream efforts that focus on preservation and restoration and the downstream redevelopment of the waterfront through downtown Providence. Many postindustrial brownfield sites along the river remain vacant due to contamination and the societal shift away from the river in recent generations. Deciding to take a stance on these sites, could offer the public and wildlife a refuge within in the city.
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BELOW: Rendered Plan
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LEFT: Parti Diagram RIGHT: Social Mapping Habitat Mapping
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LEFT: Perspective Along the River RIGHT: Perspective at the Stormwater Ponds
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DESIGN PRINCIPLES DESIGN PRINCIPLES STUDIO//OLGA MESA
This studio explored the principles of design in architecture and landscape architecture. The formal, spatial, and tectonic properties that are inherent in design were found in materials and then translated into paper and finally a structural proposal. The found materials became the starting point for the manipulations and their core principles remained through the various iterations. Window screen offered an opportunity to compress and expand portions of the structure.
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LEFT: Plan Section RIGHT: Photograph of Model
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LEFT: Section Idealized Plan True Plan RIGHT: Photograph of Model
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LEFT: Human Scale Charcoal Drawing Building Plan Building Section RIGHT: Photograph of Model
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EVOLVING BERM TECHNOLOGY AND MATERIALS II//SARA COHEN
This wall was designed to decay - rather than trying to preserve the wood the wall is designed to slowly decay and establish an earthen berm. The wall is constructed by a gradient of branch sizes--smaller at the top and larger at the bottom. The smaller pieces will breakdown first and allow ferns, mushrooms and fungi to establish along the top of the berm. Overtime the pile will breakdown and become a large earthen berm, filled with lush vegetation that is fertilized by the decaying wood.
LEFT: Photographs of Models Time Diagram RIGHT: Photograph of Model
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WADE + MAP AND LEEDS CREEK TRAIL NETWORK FORMTOMMOROW//SOUTHWESTERN UTAH//PETER STEMPEL*
This internship focused on design outside of the academic setting. We worked in southwestern Utah creating a trail network for a community and mapping the Virgin River. We met with different government agencies, town councils, and private property owners over the course of the summer to work on not just the design, but how to realize the projects. Working for the nonprofit FormTomorrow enabled us to delve into issues and topics that often draw heated debate in the American West: land rights, water rights, and endangered species. A fellow team member and myself presented our findings to the town councils, city planners, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the Virgin River Program. Working on the trail network for Leeds meant looking beyond the mining history of the site to expose the ecological, geological, and historical aspects. We met with local historians, geologists, biologists and many other experts to distilled their information into a trail network that highlights the unique history of the area. For the mapping of the Virgin River as a group we hiked over 46 miles of the river and documented the conditions of the river as we hiked. We developed case studies that revealed the impact of embankments, the spread of tamarisk along the river, and the vitality of the protected portions of the river.
LEFT: Photograph of River RIGHT: Collage Case Studies Region Mapped
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* note: this was a group project: Desiree Gonzalez, Samantha Dabney, Michael Jacobs, Carla Sanchez, Karl Sippel, Dian Jiao, Georges Fischer
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DETERMINING THE POTENTIAL FOR CANNA GLAUC SUB-SURFACE FLOW WASTEWATER TREATMENTS AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HORTICULTURE SCIENCE//AUGUST 2010
Abstract: Constructed wetlands offer communities, companies and homeowners aesthetically pleasing and effective treatment possibilities for their wastewater. Plant choices play a large role in the success of a constructed wetland, offering both physical presence and toxin stabilization. The Univ of Maine chapter of Engineers Without Borders is working on designing a horizontal sub-surface flow wastewater treatment system in Dulce Vivir, Honduras. The plants chosen needed to be native to Central America, and tolerant of both wet and dry conditions, high porosity media, and wastewater exposure. Canna glauca and Penstemon barbaris were grown in closed systems with effluent from the Orono, ME, Wastewater Treatment Plant to simulate the conditions of a constructed wastewater wetland with one of the following treatments: 0% effluent, 50 % effluent, and 100% effluent. Salinity (measured as electrical conductivity) increased 61.9% from 0.39 mS·cm to 0.63 mS/ cm in 0% to 100% effluent respectively for P. barbaris, and increased 52.9% from 0.37 to 0.70 mS·cm–1 in 0% to 100% effluent respectively for C. glauca. Despite the changes in salinity, all of the plants survived and grew equally well as measured by height, width and root length. The project demonstrated that C. glauca and P. barbaris are good candidates for constructed wetlands through their survival and performance in the experiment.
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Michelle Jordan, MLA, ASLA michelle.a.jordan@gmail.com 207 610 0885
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