Green New Deal Superstudio, Regenerative Reuse | JSTOR, University of Pennsylvania. 2021.
Trace: “Practicing” no. 3, Cultivation | magazine University of New Mexico SA + P. 2020.
The Architectural Question: A Wunderkammer, Living Architecture @thearchitecturalquestion | Instagram exhibition
PORTFOLIO + OTHER WORKS
https://issuu.com/samhubbard
SOFTWARE + SKILLS
Rhino 3D
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
ArcGIS
Revit AutoCAD Hand Drafting Laser Cutter Model Making
REVIEWS , invited
LiDAR Scanning Drone Surveying
The United States - Mexico Border As... Fall 2021 | Cesar A. Lopez | University of New Mexico SA + P
EDUCATION
Charlottesville, VA July 2022 - present
Albuquerque, NM 2017 - 2021
WORK EXPERIENCE
Philadelphia, PA June 2021 - present
Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate
University of Virginia
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture | Cum Laude University of New Mexico
Shiftspace Design | full time
Architectural Designer
Project architect coordinating various cultural, commercial, and residential projects. Assisting in concept and design development, project management, architectural drawing, and 3D modeling. Directing press outreach and marketing. Clients include The National Portrait Gallery, Atelier FAS, RebuildPHL, Barcade, and Philadelphia Parks and Rec.
Charlottesville, VA Spring 2025
Present Spring 2024 Fall 2023
Boston, MA January 2024
Albuquerque, NM Fall 2020
University of Virginia | part-time
Student Instructing Assistant | Foundation Studio IV | Bradley Cantrell
Student Research Assistant | Cesar A. Lopez
Student Instructing Assistant | EcoTech III | Matthew Seibert (coordinator)
Student Instructing Assistant | Foundation Studio I | Leena Cho + Matthew Seibert
STOSS Landscape Urbanism | full-time
Winter Internship
ecoMOD Project + NSF I-Corps | research assistant
Entrepreneurial Lead
Developed business proposal through research of existing and potential prefabricated home markets across the U.S. for potentail commercialization of ecoMOD home designs.
HONORS + AWARDS
Maryland ASLA
University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
Fort Washington Swim Club
Fort Washington, PA
Upper Dublin High School
Fort Washington, PA
Upper Dublin Aquatic Club
Fort Washington, PA
2024 Chesapeake Bay Watershed CAP Challenge Finalist
Skyscaping: Collaborative Experimentation for Avian Ecological Futures
Academic departmental award + additional merit | 2022 - 2025
Dean’s List | 2018 - 2021
Mountain West Academic All-Conference + Varsity Letter
One week charrette exercise exploring quick conceptual development and representation.
This therapeutic courtyard explores minimal, noninvasive, and subtle interventions to maximize a user’s agency over the space. The courtyard explores material relationships between paving and planting, looking for ways to soften edges and inspire calm, intentional, and slow engagement in the space.
Native trees and grasses frame the counseling grove, picnic area, and play space, creating soft, sensory, and dynamic buffers between zones and shielding visitors from the adjacent parking lot and sidewalk.
The delicate palette of pink muhly, Karley Rose ornamental grass, coneflower, false rueanemone, and lovegrass provide visual and sensory stimulation for visiting children, softening the strong structural framework of musclewoods and eastern redbuds framing the courtyard.
August 2023 (1 week) University of Virginia
Instructors: CL Bohannon + Rebecca Hinch LAR 7010 : Foundation Studio III
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud
Carpinus caroliniana | Musclewood
CUT FLOWER POLLINATOR GARDEN
INTERGENERATIONAL GARDEN
PAVILION + OUTDOOR CLASSROOM
KID’S GARDEN
RESTROOMS
OFFICE + STORAGE
GREENHOUSE
HERB GARDEN
FRUIT + VEGETABLE GARDEN
TRUCK ACCESS
ORCHARD
BARN
LAWN + OUTDOOR GATHERING
CULTIVATE COMMUNITAS
Community garden for Cultivate Charlottesville Charlottesville, VA
Historically, Charlottesville’s Booker T. Washington Park was a thriving core within the African-American community. Through decades of advocacy, stewardship, and justice, residents have played a key role in reclaiming the land, an effort that continues to this day.
Cultivate Charlottesville’s community garden at Booker T. Washington Park will allow residents to reclaim the park, strengthen community bonds, improve food access, steward the land, and, most importantly, one another.
Centered on values of intergenerational engagement, food production, and communitas, the garden features a core pavilion and gathering space surrounded by multiple garden programs, including sensory, accessible and senior’s, children’s learning, and a modular food production space to accommodate future growth.
Completed in partnership with Simin Liu (MLA ‘25)
October 2023 (3 weeks) University of Virginia Instructors: CL Bohannon + Rebecca Hinch LAR 7010 : Foundation Studio III
ADA picnic table ADA work table
Painted ADA raised planter
Covered patio
Planted row coverage
Painted modular raised bed
C/D KID’S GARDEN + OUTDOOR CLASSROOM
Community mural
HOMECOMING
Designing the return
Money Bayou Beach, FL
Homecoming is a public memorial landscape that reintroduces communal gathering space to Money Bayou Beach, making space for the Black community’s return.
Responding to community members’ requests to “replicate something and visualize the past,” the symbol of The Patio, Money Bayou’s Jim Crow-era dancehall, is repeated across the beach, at the scale of the former cottages and vacation rentals, to provide pavilions for reflecting, storytelling, and remembering
Working within the framework of Return, Storytelling, and Memory, the pavilions have been designed along a spectrum of permanence to trace, facilitating a transition from more static memorial spaces to porous, evolving landscapes that people can grow and identify with as they return time and time again.
These forms were explored through studies of vertical and horizontal edge conditions created by walls, floors, roofs, and planted form. By looking at different heights, thicknesses, and patterns, typologies ranging from enclosure to openness emerged. Fall 2023
University of Virginia
Instructor: CL Bohannon + Rebecca Hinch LAR 7010 : Foundation Studio III
MEMORIAL CYCLE
MONEY BAYOU COTTAGES
EDGE CONDITIONS
PATIO TYPOLOGIES
FOUNDER’S PAVILIONS
“IT
“I
“Money
STORYTELLING
The landscape begins with the Founder’s Pavilions, signifying the return for large community gatherings and events. Moving West, concrete and juniper posts dot the landscape, guiding visitors to the bayou.
Leaving the Founder’s Pavilions, visitors move through zones of storytelling and remembrance with various pavilions to support community programming. Storytelling pavilions make space for traditional recreational activities like cooking and dancing to facilitate the sharing of oral histories. Memory pavilions resemble a trace of the previous zones, making space for new recreational activities to take place and allowing younger generations to make their mark.
Additional memorials and monuments connect the beach and bayou to the landscape, telling the story of Money Bayou Beach’s past in a landscape that allows for the making of new futures.
Founder’s Pavilions
Dr. Willie Tolliver Apalachicola Native
WAS OUR BEACH.”
Bayou stands as a monumental place in my heart.”
Chester Davis Port St. Joe Native
remember love There was a lot of love on that beach.”
Lynn Peters-Lewis Peters Family Descendent
KOMOREBI
National Library of Biography Albuquerque, NM
Japanese forestry is grounded in belief that a forest is sacred and spiritual. A Chinju no Mori is a sacred forest surrounding a shrine, signifying beliefs that trees transport spirits back to Earth.
The National Library of Biography is a shrine to the 1,000,000+ U.S. lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. Home to biographies of those passed, the library is a Chinju no Mori of books, allowing spirits to tell their stories and connect with those on Earth.
Shinrin yoku, forest bathing, is the practice of submitting to your senses and allowing your body to guide you through nature. Listen to the wind through the leaves, smell the plants and soil, be present, and connect with nature.
In the library of inaccessible books, people must listen to the stories playing in audio zones and follow the komorebi; sunlight filtering through the leaves and fragmented roof canopy. When patrons let their senses guide them, they will begin to understand the memorial’s spiritual significance.
The Chinju no Mori surrounding the National Library of Biography serves as a noise barrier, carbon sink, and verdant haven for humans, animals and spirits alike. With community, accessibility, and empathy in mind, the native forest features a lending library, pedestrian and bicycle access points and paths, and unconditional access to a natural environment.
November - December 2020
University of New Mexico
Instructor: Karen King
ARCH 401: Architectural Desin V
URBAN CHINJU NO MORI URBAN
BIOGRAPHY CHINJU NO MORI
KONOMA
ko - no - ma (Japanese): among trees Richmond, VA
Ko no ma activates a vacant lot at the intersection of commercial, residential, and educational parcels. The existing site has full sun exposure, few plantings, and is bordered by two busy streets. Ko no ma provides a soft, dynamic space for people to safely and comfortably wait for the bus, hang out after school, and spend time among the trees. The ground plane is manipulated to provide landform barriers between patrons and the streets to the South and West. The roof structure mimics the underlying topography while the floor plates rise and fall, creating areas of compression and expansion with various levels of publicness. The space also generates a multitude of micro-climates to provide comfortable refuge from the summer sun while allowing light to warm the space in the winter.
April 2023 (1 week) University of Virginia Instructors: Michael Leugering + Katie Stranix ALAR 6720: Design Computation II
Abstraction of Free public space vs. POPS on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall.
LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS
Infrastructural, architectural, ecological, and sociological case studies.
Relationships between the Rio Grande, New Mexico Indian Reservations, the Rio Grande River Basin, and Dams + Diversions
Pueblo de Cochiti + Cochiti Dam
THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMMED
Infrastructural + ecological analysis
Pueblo de Cochiti, NM 14
Though irrigation is necessary for survival in the desert, decades of over-engineered dams and diversions have marginalized many of New Mexico’s pueblo communities. Since its conception in 1956, the Cochiti Dam and Lake have left the Pueblo of Cochiti broken.
As the symbiotic relationship between the people and land weakens, both are fighting for survival. The Rio Grande is often a slow trickle through southern valleys as Cottonwood bosques and wildlife diminish. The Pueblo of Cochiti has lost the ability to cultivate remaining lands, cutting ties to traditional ways of life, and have lost access to sacred lands. As the river goes extinct, so too does the culture of the Pueblo of Cochiti.
The Beautiful and the Dammed unearths injustices against and infringements upon the Rio Grande and Pueblo of Cochiti resulting from the desecrating construction and geographically opportunistic developments of Cochiti Dam, Cochiti Lake, and the Town of Cochiti Lake.
March - May 2021 University of New Mexico Instructor: Cesar A. Lopez ARCH 462: Representation as Action
In 1994, the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow was classified as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It now exists in only 5% of its natural habitat. The fish has gone extinct in the Pecos River and has disappeared south of Elephant Butte Reservoir, where the Rio Grande often runs dry. The depleting Silvery Minnow population has been directly linked to the artificial modifications and alterations to the Rio Grande over the past century.
When the waters of the Rio Grande flowed undisturbed, the Rio Grande Cottonwood thrived in the varying flood conditions. With a lifespan of 100 years, the magnificent trees require flooding to survive and germinate. As flood control efforts persist along the river, the cottonwoods are dying off. Most cottonwoods within the Middle Rio Grande Valley are nearing 80 years of age and have not germinated due to alterations in river flows and longstanding drought. Over the next 20 years, with continued drought and irrigation, the bosques of cottonwoods that line the Rio Grande from Cochiti to Belen could disappear.
From Indian relocation efforts in the Dam and Lake in 1956, and water Pueblo of Cochiti continually fights environmental survival. Once a predominantly the construction of Cochiti Lake agricultural lands, destroyed traditional the ecosystems within and around worship cherished by the Pueblos brought new problems and lawsuits waterlogged 615 acres of remaining causing the Pueblo to abandon their the Corps eventually installed a damaging native lands, seepage In 1960, Congress authorized the under the Flood Control Act. From Corps of Engineers built Cochiti 11,000 of the 50,000 acres of land Accepting their defeat in fighting asked the Corps to leave one portion burial grounds untouched. The Corps that were to remain intact. On the were the first to be dynamited and it was the only place where the outlet The various pueblos throughout New saw their ancestral and native lands
the 1930s, the conception of Cochiti water disputes continuing today, the for its cultural, social, economic, and predominantly agrarian community, Lake decimated nearly all available traditional pueblo summer homes, altered the river, and desecrated places of of New Mexico. Post-construction lawsuits as seepage from the dam remaining farmland and 250 acres of bosque, rural way of life completely. Though 17-acre drainage system, further from earthen the dam continues.
(Referred to as “the Corps”)
the construction of the Cochiti dam From 1965 - 1975 the U.S. Army Dam and Lake, encroaching on land owned by the Pueblo of Cochiti. the dam’s construction, the Pueblo portion of revered land and ancient Corps obliged and flagged the lands first day of construction, those lands excavated. The Corps argued that outlet works could viably function. New Mexico were devastated as they lands demolished before their eyes.
Initially, under Public Law 86-645, the reservoir was permitted as part of the Middle Rio Grande project solely for flood and sediment control, not permanent storage, until the idea for the Town of Cochiti Lake was born. Developers loved Cochiti because of its central location within the “Golden Triangle” of Los Alamos, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque. They planned for the reservoir to become a vacation spot of hiking trails, campgrounds, and a permanent non-Cochiti community of 40,000 people west of the lake. In 1964, Public Law 88-293 was amended to authorize a 50,000 acre-foot “permanent pool for fish and wildlife and recreation purposes.” As 99-year master leases for the town “with all the amenities of a seven-day weekend” on half of the reservation became realized, the Pueblo found themselves buying leases for their land to limit the size of the non-Native town encroaching on their reservation.
Underutilized
Various rented art studios, food truck lot, paid parking lots.
FUTURE: CITY OWNERSHIP
Developed as a floodwater park and integrated into the James River Park system.
FUTURE: DEVELOPER OWNERSHIP
Frequent inundation
Separation between Richmond +
Re-zoned as “Destination Mixed-Use.” Developed into high rise luxury condos and mixed use retail.
FUTURE: COMMUNITY STEWARDSHIP
Multipurpose
REVERENTIAL LANDSCAPES
Celebrating liminal space between infrastructure + society. Richmond, VA 18
Richmond is a city of transit and transition, with interspersed landscapes between society and without identity. These liminal spaces lie within complex networks of industrial land, vacant lots, and parking lots hugging the Upper Shockoe Valley and Southern end of the James River. Mayo Island is frozen in time and place, a historical node floating in the James, isolated from Richmond and the broader community. This project explores how cities can reengage with their leftover, forgotten, and liminal spaces resulting from the carving, extending, and framing of urban infrastructures.
Mayo Island is deeply embedded in Richmond’s transportation, recreational, ecological, and industrial histories but has no clear purpose within the modern urban fabric. The unrelenting flux of land use, occupation, and James River has led to the island’s severance from society and community, making it an urban threshold stuck in a pre-liminal state of separation.
Community farm/garden
Re-purposed as a space for learning, skill-sharing, experimenting, and play.
In praise of in-between spaces paused in time, these speculative futures respond to and amplify Mayo Island’s existence as an open work left to weather and destined for inundation.
February - May 2023 University of Virginia Instructor: Emily Wettstein LAR 6020: Fall Line Futures
HISTORICAL THRESHOLDS + STOLEN GLANCES
Residential Poolhouse Custom Roof Details | completed July 2023
