PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC WORK
REBECCA POPOWSKY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
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DILWORTH PARK PHILADELPHIA PA CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION 2014
I completed the construs on administra on por on of Dilworth Park, a er the ini al OLIN Project Manager le the office in March, 2014. I was the only team member staffed solely on this project through the Park’s opening in November, 2014. Responsibili es included daily project administra on, weekly owners meetings, shop drawing and RFI review, consultant coordina on, site observaon and punchlists.
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WASHINGTON CANAL PARK WASHINGTON D.C. SCHEM. DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION, SSI CERTIFICATION 2009-2013
Washington Canal Park is a DC Department of the Environment “demonstra on” project, which acts as a model for progressive stormwater management techniques in the District and elsewhere. The Park collects, treats and re-uses stormwater from the site and from adjacent roo ops. My involvement in the Washington Canal Park project began when I was an intern at OLIN, during the schemaƟc design and design development phases, con nued through the two-year construcƟon phase and
through LEED and Sustainable Sites IniƟaƟve cer fica on and a one-year post-occupancy evalua on. By the me construc on was complete in late 2012, I was the only fullme team member on the project, ac ng as project manager. Since project comple on, I have given presentaƟons about our experience as a Sustainable Sites Ini a ve Pilot Project and about the green infrastructure systems at Canal Park in conferences and academic se ngs.
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SUSTAINABLE SITES INITIATIVE PILOT PROJECT: THREE-STAR RATING
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• Rainwater harves ng meets 95% of annual non-potable water needs (at full buildout) • Potable water use for landscape irriga on reduced by 79% • 1.5 Million gallons stormwater removed from combined sewers annually • Site water storage capacity improved by 60% • 88% average annual runoff treated • 28 geothermal wells reduce overall energy use by 37% • Vegeta ve Biomass: Density Restored from 0.54 to 1.84 • Urban Heat Island Effects: 73% Reduc on • Cer fied Wood: 100% FSC Cer fied • Jobs Crea on: 160 FTE • Outdoor Energy Consump on: 67% Reduc on
BIM Model produced for construc on coordina on by Davis Construc on
PRIVATE RESIDENCES FRANCE AND SWITZERLANDSCHEM. DESIGN, DESIGN DOCUMENTATION, 2012-2013
A series of large residentail projects in France and Switzerland transform historic family estates. These projects include large-scale sitework, including sculp ng landform, establishing pedestrian and vehicular circula on networks, crea ng ponds and streams, extensive plan ng (gardens, meadows, woodlands, riparian edges, etc) and in one case, re-rou ng a por on of a river. My role on these projects ranged from small-scale site element design, detailing and documenta on to largescale grading and plan ng design. The examples shown here are “architectural� elements that I developed under the direc on of Laurie Olin, from early concept sketches through construc on documenta on.
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TEACHING: 2013-PRESEN UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
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2013 “Your Hands Are Mountains” project by firt-year MLA student, Francois Poupeau
LECTURER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FIELD ECOLOGY FALL 2014\ LANDSCAPE OPERATIONS SUMMER 2013, 2014
FIELD ECOLOGY, FALL 2014
LANDSCAPE OPERATIONS, SUMMER 2013 + 2014
Co-taught field ecology and representa on to first semester Masters of Landscape Architecture students in a required core class. The course introduces students to the varied physiographic provinces and associated plant communi es of the greater Philadelphia region, characterizing and analyzing the connec ons between climate, geology, topography, hydrology, soils, vegeta on, wildlife, and disturbance, both natural and anthropogenic. Co-teacher: Sally Willig, ecologist.
Co-taught LARP Summer Ins tute, introducing incoming Masters of Landscape Architecture students to tools, techniques, and processes for designing with landform (scale, contour, etc). Co-teacher: Nicholas Pevzner.
2014 Fall Field Ecology Fieldtrip to Hawk Mountain. Photo by Sally Willig
STUDENT WORK Field sketches by firt-year MLA student, Jingya Yuan. Field Ecology, Fall 2014
Soil Profile Study by firt-year MLA student, Jieping Wang. Field Ecology, Fall 2014
BARTRAM’S GARDEN: Freshwater Marsh
MOUNT HOLLY: Mixed Oak Forest
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Buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis
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Pin Oak Quercus palustris
Lowbush Blueberry Vaccinium angustifolium
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White Oak Quercus alba
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Final Project by firt-year MLA student, Le Xu. Field Ecology, Fall 2014
MLA/MARCH: 2006-2010 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
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ARCH 704 WEISS/MANFREDI STUDIO BOTANIC GARDEN, NYC PROJECT PARTNER: RIGGS SKEPNEK The final semester of the Masters in Architecture program is a research-based studio. This studio, taught by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, lead to the design of a botanic garden in one of two sites: the East River in New York and Arusha, Tanzania. The first half of the studio is dedicated to site, history and program research and the publica on of a studio research book. The second half of the studio is dedicated to conceptally redfining the botanic garden through a site-specific design.
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entry, “Bambooze,” was select“GIMME SHELTER” Our ed as one of 6 winning projects, out over 80 entries from the U.S. and COMPETITION FOR ofabroad. The 6 winning projects were as semi-permanent pavilions on THE SCHUYLKILL built the grounds of the Schuylkill Center. Our work was displayed, along with CENTER FOR the other semi-finalist projects, at the AIA Center of Philadelphia. ENVIRONMENTAL Project partner: Riggs Skepnek EDUCATION WINNER 2009
TIMBERFRAME HOUSE WARDSBORO, VT 1999-2003
In the fall of 2002, I organized a team of six amateur builders (including myself) to build a two-story mberframe house in a 90-acre wooded lot in West Wardsboro, Vermont. The landowner chose a building site approximately one mile from the nearest road, and strongly opposed building any kind of permanent road to the house. We therefore used only low-impact transporta on – logging with work horses, and carrying material in and out on our backs. We designed and built the home. We cleared the site and milled the mber on-site using a portable saw mill. We dug the founda on by
hand, and used only small power tools and hand tools to cut and erect the heavy mber frame. A group of friends and neighbors helped to raise the frame, using hand-made pole cranes and a winch and pulley system. We dug a well by hand uphill from the site so that we could run fresh water into the house. Project Team: Adam Gilbert Emily Kovich Tom Helmer Dave Warburton Jacob Goble
For a designer, it’s a potent and revelatory act to be able to show how ecosystems work so that people then appreciate and par cipate in the unfolding and working of a landscape in which they are par cipants, not merely consumers. The increased use of green infrastructure in our ciƟes is a good example in which people can see the func ons of a working ecosystem—whether in green walls that stabilize an embankment, or green roofs that provide food, or bioswales that filter and slow stormwater runoff. By making these processes visible, we have the poten al to make ecology directly relevant to our publics. But really smart green infrastructures that are instrumental to produc ve ecologies go a step further: they facilitate hands-on learning or they require ciƟzen parƟcipaƟon in the ecological funcƟon. ... (An) important characteris c of adap ve design is that it ought to be safe-to-fail. We know that structural engineers must design bridges and buildings to be fail-safe (i.e. a collapse or structural failure would be unacceptable). But living systems differ in several important ways from mechanical and structural systems. We use the no on of “safe-to-fail” to recognize that living systems are different par cularly in that they regularly undergo change events that move the system from one apparently stable state to another. The underlying idea is that if change is inevitable, then we ought to facilitate small-scale, manageable changes to happen without causing catastrophic failure. NINA-MARIE LISTER ON ECOLOGICAL URBANISM AND ADAPTIVE DESIGN (ASLA NEWS, h p://www.asla.org/ContentDetail.aspx?id=31738)