sidney buckingham
portfolio
landscape architecture
sidney buckingham education
work experience
Masters of Landscape Architecture Temple University | Graduation May 2022
Research Assistant Landscape Architecture Foundation | Philadelphia | Spring 2022-Current • Completing a landscape performance evaluation at the Rail Park • Quantifying sustainable, economic and social benefits • Participating in landscape architecture research methods training
Bachelors of Art in French Temple University | 2014-2018 | Magna Cumme Laude
skills AutoCAD Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign SketchUp Rhino Lumion
languages
French (fluent/C1) Spanish (advanced beginner/A2)
about
Landscape Design Intern Studio Bryan Hanes | Philadelphia | Summer 2021 • Developed designs from concept to schematic design, created • sketches, renderings, rhino models, grading, materials and layout plans. Landscape Design Intern Philadelphia Parks Alliance | Philadelphia | 2017-2018 • Assisted in community design visioning meetings • Produced renderings • Conducted research on site history
leadership and awards President Student ASLA - Temple Chapter | Philadelphia | 2020-Current • Organizing events, lectures and workshops • Advising regional PA-DE ASLA Chapter on student outreach activities • Run book club for incoming students Planning & Analysis Merit Award | PA-DE ASLA Rosemary Hodgins Foreign Language Award | Temple University President’s Scholarship | Temple University
Sidney is a graduate landscape design student. Her work focuses on place making and memory with a focus on ecology, heritage, and community-driven design.
Sidney Buckingham, MLA
sidney.buckingham@temple.edu 213.507.7440 7126 Bryan St. Philadelphia, PA
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1. Weaving City and Sound Nykøbing Falster development plan
2. Common Ground Susquehanna Ave. street scape
3. Goldenrod Play Space New residential play and gathering spaces
4. ReThink the Refinery 2100 Former Philadelphia oil refinery development plan
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Development Strategy for Nykøbing Falster, Denmark SUMMARY The goal of this project is to create a development strategy for the medieval city of Nykøbing Falster, transitioning it from an industrial landscape to a mixed use waterfront while accounting for sea level rise. CONCEPT This proposal rediscovers the harbor by breaking down existing barriers to build a new resilient relationship between the city, water and landscape through weaving the three elements together.
University of Copenhagen, Professor Ellen Braae, Fall 2021
Project completed with Eirick Bruun, Josaphine Bresson, Karen Vibeke, and Cecilie Engesgaard
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Recreation trail
GROWING CITY
Projected population growth and housing demand
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Artist workshop 2025
Flood-able park
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Climbing silos
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Bridge
VULNERABLE COAST
Sculpture garden
Sea level rise and storm surge prediction
Nykøbing Falster Heritage Museum Swimming hole
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Swimming steps Cafe
Flooded areas (2.5 m sea level rise)
BARRIERS AND INDUSTRY
Existing structures & circulation Flooded areas (2,5m sea level rise)
Marina Playground Library Nature center Wetland
Plaza Green space Harbor shoreline Large road Connecting road River shoreline
Plaza
plan rendering completed by Cecilie Engsgaard
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Green space Harbor Shoreline
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Semi-Public Courtyard
Existing and historic shorelines merge
Climbing Silo
Artists’ workshops
Nykøbing Falster Heritage Museum
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Playground
Nature Center
Library
Private Garden
Section E-E - Entire Harbor front
Wooden Boardwalk
ADAPTIVE REUSE OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS
Existing buildings are reused as recreational, institutional and educational spaces. Transportation is redesigned around them in order to fully incorporate these buildings into the existing and proposed cityscape.
Sundby Bridge
Wooden Boardwalk
Nykøbing Falster Heritage Museum
NYKØBING FALSTER HERITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDEN A new regional locus with bicycle and pedestrian access
Paving gradient encourages direct nature interaction Industrial Relic
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public and private thresholds Old vs. New Building Blocks
GUIDED BY HISTORY New housing strategy
The new building typology takes inspiration from Nykøbing’s existing morphology of street front façades, courtyards, human scaled buildings and a jagged roof line. In order to achieve a new identity in the new district the façades are tilted. This weaves the public harbor front with the private of the old city by creating semipublic pathways and courtyards.
Boardwalk
Harbor Walk
Proposed Residential Block
Semi-private Courtyard
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PLAZA ENTRANCE
Bike rack
Bollard
Storm water planter
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Street scape for Susquehanna Ave, Philadelphia, PA SUMMARY Common Ground seeks to harness the rejuvenating nature of a growing Temple University by creating opportunities for community art, economic advancement, and public gathering that will enhance both the historic and student communities. CONCEPT Pedestrian access, a festive atmosphere, and multiple scales of gathering place all work together to foster a bond between the existing and student communities
Temple University, Professor Carter Van Dyke, Spring 2020
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all are welcome here
Festuca spp.
Baptisia australis Panicum virgatum
Asclepias tuberosa
COMMUNITY MURAL The community mural is composed of written descriptions and images of what makes a place a home from both students and neighbors to highlight commonalities.
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Mural project brings students and residents together
PAVEMENT DETAIL Concrete
Glass mosaic tile
Section E-E
14’-00” Sidewalk
10’-00” Planting/Parking
12’-00” Street
14’-00” Sidewalk
Stamped circle pattern
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Outdoor community amenities for residential development, Bucks County, PA SUMMARY This is a central gathering area to serve the residents of a new neighborhood. It features a nature based play area, fire pits, and a dog park. CONCEPT To create an enivronment for self led nature play and spontaneous community gathering using flexible materials found on-site. Studio Bryan Hanes, Summer 2021
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Park entrance
Playspace mound slide
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DOG PARK
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Central Fire area Pit Firepit gathering
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Central Pit FirepitFire section
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Development strategy for the former PES Refinery, Philadelphia, PA SUMMARY A re-imagining of the former PES Refinery in South Philadelphia. This proposal envisions a symbiotic future landscape where nature and people benefit from each other. CONCEPT To reconnect the site to both the city and shoreline and establish a new neighborhood in balance with the ecological functioning of the river
Temple University Professor Andrew Hayes and Donna Shumpert, Fall 2020 Project completed with Alyssa Hannigan
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Philadelphia Energy 2012 Solutions Created & 1606 Arrival ofTakes first Europeans Over Operations in Pennsylvania
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Original Gas Works built
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1750-1856: Colonial Agriculture
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Sunoco Purchases Point Breeze & Girard Point Refineries
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Farms in Philadelphia county among most productive in PA
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layers of history sculpture garden & environmental education center HEALING ECOLOGY AND COMMUNITY Former industrial structures are reused to aid in ecological restoration or as public art. Reinforced by the environmental education center, community members act as stewards, caring for the land with the attentiveness one would pay to a community garden.
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Reclamation Loop
Schuylkill River Trail
Lower Schuylkill Environmental Education Center
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planning for change
>10’ elev. Upland Forest
SEA LEVEL RISE AND PLANT MIGRATION STRATEGY
5’-10’ elev. Floodplain Forest
MHHW: 3.5’ MSL: 0.5’
Nuphar lutea subsp. advena
100-Year Flood: 10’
Hibiscus moscheutos
Planning for sea level rise means designing around migrating plant communities and siting building above vulnerable elevations
Lobelia siphilitica
2’-5’ elev. Tidal Marsh
Typha latifolia
Breakwater
Pontedera cordata
3’-5’ elev. Scrub/Shrubland
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TIDAL MARSH
PLANT COMMUNITY MIGRATION WITH SEA LEVEL RISE
Dredge Channel: -33’ KEY
Open Water
SLR: Sea Level Rise
Marsh
MHHW: Median Higher High Level Waterline
Scrub/Shrubland
MLLW: Median Low Lower Lever Waterline
Floodplain Forest
MSL: Mean Sea Level Rise
FLOODPLAIN FOREST
Upland Forest
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Impatien capensis
+5 SLR
Lilium superbum
+3’ SLR
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum
+1’ SLR
Onoclea sensibilis
CURRENT WATER LEVEL
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from abstract to concrete Visualizing climate change
Existing Horton sphere
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Remove legs
Create cut-outs framing views
Paint line showing flood line of extreme storms
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sidney.buckingham@temple.edu 213.507.7440 7126 Bryan St. Philadelphia, PA