Portfolio - Spring 2022 by csloan512

PORTFOLIO Colleen Sloan

EDUCATION

May 2022

Harvard Graduate School of Design Cambridge, MA Master of Landscape Architecture

COLLEEN SLOAN csloan@gsd.harvard.edu

December 2017

University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA Major: Urban and Environmental Planning; Minor: Architecture ‘Sustainable Europe’ Study Abroad Program

June 2017

(512) 422-7841

327 Highland Ave, Unit 1, Somerville, MA 02144

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Research Assistant Jill Desimini, Harvard GSD Head Teaching Assistant Jill Desimini, Core IV Landscape Studio, Harvard GSD Teaching Assistant Jill Desimini, From Fallow, Harvard GSD Research Assistant Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Harvard GSD Teaching Assistant Karen Janosky, ETT II, Harvard GSD

June 2020 - Present January 2022 - Present August 2021 - December 2021 June 2021 - December 2021 January 2021 - May 2021

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Accenture Federal Services Arlington, VA

November 2018 - July 2019

Management Consulting Senior Analyst • Developed sales growth strategy for various federal accounts, and research for the HUD’s Strategic Plan items. • Team Lead for Accenture’s internal NextGen team in charge of increasing use of Adobe Creative Suite in client work.

National Capital Planning Commission Washington, D.C.

June 2016 - August 2016

Intern, Policy and Research • Created a guide to diagnose the inefficient reviewing process of penthouse plans in D.C. by analyzing policies pertaining to the Height Act, D.C. Zoning, and the Comprehensive Plan.

Lyall Design Architects Norfolk, VA

June 2015 - August 2015

Intern, Architectural Design • Created graphics for current projects, using primarily SketchUp and Adobe Photoshop.

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE, AWARDS + PUBLICATIONS Sloan, Colleen. “Figure 2.3”, Drawing contribution for Jill Desimin’s written piece in The Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research, edited by Kate Bishop and Linda Corkery, forthcoming 2022.

I bring a combination of my landscape architecture education as well as my background in urban planning and architecture to reimagine public space through design. I am interested in the opportunities for interaction among people, material ecology, and infrastructure/industry, and how these three forces interact to renegotiate the boundaries of public and private space and produce new ecological systems.

Featured Project in Boston Public Library Exhibition, Boston Public Library, Maps Collection Featured Projects for Green New Deal Superstudio Harvard GSD End of Semester Nominated Work Harvard GSD NextGen Change Adobe Super Users Team Lead Accenture Member of the Raven Society University of Virginia

Spring 2022 Spring 2022 Fall 2020 + Spring 2021 Fall 2020 December 2018 - July 2019 June 2016 - Present

SKILLS Software: Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Rhino, Grasshopper, Bison, Lumion, ArcGIS Pro and ArcMAP, SketchUp Physical Models: 3D Printing, CNC Routing, Laser Cutting, Drafting, Sketching

CONTENTS 01_WASTE AS COMMONS Harvard GSD, Core III: Dredgescape: Forms of Borrowed Matter

05-08

Harvard GSD, Core IV: Community Power: Generating Collective Capital through Material Interception

09-12

Harvard GSD, MLA Thesis, in progress: Landscapes of Repulsion: Hidden in Plain Site

13-15

02_HISTORY AS CATALYST Harvard GSD, Option Studio: The Lincoln Avenue Cookbook

17-20

Harvard GSD, Core II: The Next Layer: Peeling Away Franklin Park’s Palimpsest

21-23

03_DESIGN AS PROCESS Harvard GSD, Core I: Ashes to Ashes

25-26

University of Virginia, Architecture Core I: POD Living

National Capital Planning Commission: Quick Reference Guide: Penthouse Conditions

Washington University in St. Louis, Architecture Discovery: Fold + Tuck

29-30

01_WASTE AS COMMONS

DREDGESCAPE: FORMS OF BORROWED MATTER Harvard Graduate School of Design, Core III 2020 Author: Colleen Sloan Instructor: Sergio Lopez-Pineiro New Bedford, Massachusetts has become a center for material exchange where seafood derived from outside the harbor is processed and exported to consumers, while its toxic sediment, laden with PCBs, is dredged and exported for burial in a landfill outside of Detroit, Michigan. This project seeks to reimagine the potential for waste material as a resource for new types of public spaces and material commons.

2 2.5 years PCB Disposal Site Detroit, MI

New Bedford, MA 2 years

1.5 years Possible future islands

1 year 0.5 years fishing catch locations seafood exports PCB dredge exports 320 km

New Bedford, MA - 2

195 m

The sites of intervention in both Detroit, MI and New Bedford, MA are situated within this material exchange of high value The proposed intervention for New Bedford outer harbor, includes an archipelago of spoil islands, reimagining the lifecycle seafood imports into and out of New Bedford and the exporting of highly toxic dredge material to a landfill in Detroit. of dredge waste. Detroit, MI

New Bedford, MA - 1

2080 sea level

Phased timeline Phase 0: Prepare the ground

processed sediment exits Phase 3

Phase 1: 1 year Oats + Field Peas Phase 2: 2-3 years Sorghum-Sudangrass + AM Fungi Phase 3: 4+ years American Beech and Sugar Maple

Phase 2

community run nursery

Phase 3 Phase 3 Phase 1 Phase 0

raw sediment enters

In Detroit, Michigan, the landfill that houses a significant portion of contaminated dredge from New Bedford, reintroduces, Lastly, the logistics site of New Bedford inner harbor includes the processing of dredged material that is used as fill once ubiquitous to the area, Maple and Beech trees in a phased capping and planting scheme to create a public park. for the archipelago and a public park and nursery for the planting of the islands.

The layering of Maple and Birch trees in the final phases of the Detroit landfill not only echo the layering of toxic material within the landfill, but make connections to the layered effect of the archipelagos in New Bedford, hundreds of miles away. 07

Primary dredging channel

Non-commercial barges can navigate between islands

2060

2080

2100

2040

The spoil islands envelop the harbor. The constructed sides of the islands that face New Bedford are planted according to coastal slope zones, and are imagined to shift over time as sea level rise meets each height in the coming years.

Natural deposition occurs on the New Bedford-facing side creating new underwater ecologies

COMMUNITY POWER Harvard Graduate School of Design, Core IV 2021 Authors: Colleen Sloan + Morgan Vought Instructor: Rosalea Monacella A radical shift in the tech industry’s current chain of extraction and waste is needed to ensure social and environmental justice in South Boston and globally. This project harnesses and amplifies community power, defined as the community’s ability to thrive and to maintain resilience in the face of change, by bringing industry, government and community together to rewire sites of consumption, production, and waste processing.

Drawing by Colleen Sloan

The project creates a Community Coalition around material exchange and sharing with five key sites of intervention. Through the Coalition’s key principles of Repair, Reimagine, Transform, Convene and Regrow, current conceptions of public and private space and waste are rewired through metabolic flows creating a new network of material ecology corridors in South Boston.

Regrow

Repair

Reimagine

Convene

Transform

Drawing by Colleen Sloan

Introducing the notion of care and cycles of waste and regrowth in the home that extend outward into shared spaces.

LANDSCAPES OF REPULSION: HIDDEN IN PLAIN SITE Harvard Graduate School of Design, MLA Thesis in progress Author: Colleen Sloan Advisor: Sergio Lopez-Pineiro This thesis interrogates landscape architecture’s participation in the cleaning and concealing of repugnant sites of industry through the creation of a fabricated mountain range in Iowa constructed from the wastes of the industrial hog industry. The constructed mountains, dubbed the De Soto Range, are proposed to be located just north of the Town of Manson in northwest Iowa. The De Sotos are in constant negotiation between industry and pristine nature, always changing and never complete.

Like the effects of Big Pork, the mountain range has implications beyond its own site as political boundaries have to be redrawn allowing for greater shared ownership and jurisdiction over the unique resource. On a clear day, the tallest peak can be spotted across a large portion of Iowa and even parts of Minnesota and Nebraska, as depicted here in white.

The constructed peaks themselves can be understood as a container for waste at the construction scale while offering a textural experience at the human scale.

02_HISTORY AS CATALYST

THE LINCOLN AVENUE COOKBOOK Harvard Graduate School of Design, Option Studio 2021 Authors: Colleen Sloan + Scarlet Rendleman Instructors: Gina Ford + Rhiannon Sinclair The Lincoln Avenue Cookbook is a collaboration with local community members of New Rochelle, NY, Walter Brown and Linda Tarrant-Reid to piece together the cultural history of the Lincoln Avenue Neighborhood, prior to the desegregation and destruction of Lincoln Elementary School and construction of Memorial Highway that cleared homes and local businesses. This cookbook serves as not only a repository of food and culture, but also a proposal for a healthy and inclusive future for the Lincoln Avenue Neighborhood. Link to full book: https://issuu.com/virginia277/docs/sloan_rendleman_ lincolncookbook_final

Drawing by Colleen Sloan

Below, is a diagram of the goals and activities of Linda’s grow! Community Garden in New Rochelle. We used these principles as our guide in the redesign of 4 significant public spaces in the neighborhood, at right. Given that our focus for the project was around food and culture, our designs for these spaces are organized in the book by season and in harmony with seasonal food production activities.

Left: Diagram by Scarlet Rendleman Right: Drawings by Colleen Sloan + Scarlet Rendleman

Throughout the cookbook are family recipes from our two community advocates as well as proposed locations (below) where items may be sourced, publicly available kitchens, and new public spaces to eat and gather around food.

Drawing by Scarlet Rendleman and Colleen Sloan

One of the spaces of intervention is in Lincoln Park, where the Lincoln School once stood and where Linda’s grow! Community Garden currently resides. The proposal includes seating, BBQ grills, new paths of circulation, a memorial for the school, and a greenhouse to extend the growing season.

Drawing by Colleen Sloan

THE NEXT LAYER: PEELING AWAY FRANKLIN PARK’S PALIMPSEST Harvard Graduate School of Design, Core II 2020 Author: Colleen Sloan Instructor: Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich Franklin Park is a palimpsest of disruptions, layers, and ground changes varying in timescales and impact. For this project, the understanding of the site’s history was used to develop a system of peeling away the layers of history to reorganize previous forms or uses of the site. In doing so, pre-existing towers re-emerged, past ecological functions were brought back, and the ways that humans engaged with the park were reimagined.

Phase 01 was completed as a team, which included Jessica Love, Xue Bai and myself. We created this Score in Phase 1 of the project to understand the social and material changes of the site over time. Each loop represents a major disruption to the site, primarily of a constructed nature, but also including a couple of instances of major weather events. Each loop includes the material changes whereas material within the loop is subtractive and the material outside the loop is additive.

Running above the timeline are corresponding sections describing the interventions and disruptions occuring in time below.

Behind the timeline, we included atmospheric and population data to understand the larger anthropogenic changes occuring in relation to historic and material changes.

Social histories are listed along the bottom making connections to the disruptions, such as the rise of automobiles and the expansion of the roadway within the park.

This collage plan of the park is meant to peel away the layers of time. The bottom layer of the initial survey of 1890 is visible in some locations where alterations have not been made, while other interventions such as Olmsted’s plan, the stadium, and golf course are layered on top. The site of Olmsted’s old Bear Dens and an old tower utilizes the highs and lows to make connections across the site, both physical and visual.

The site of Scarboro Pond, registers its history of excavation through the path connecting hgih points whose slope corresponds to the intensity of the excavation carried out.

The Main Entrance at right, takes into account both physical characteristics and social history of the old Refectory, reinventing the site to be suited for new uses.

B A

High points

Physical Connections Visual Connections

03_DESIGN AS PROCESS

ASHES TO ASHES Harvard Graduate School of Design, Core I 2019 Author: Colleen Sloan Instructor: Emily Wettstein For this project, I designed a courtyard that incorporates the material ash, the month July, and the time 10 pm. The design is a microcosm of a much larger process of fire and succession, as depicted below, as well as contributing to discourse about the force of nature and the ways in which we attempt to control it to shape the regrowth of the land.

Year 0

Year 1

Point of no return

Year 2

Year 5

Year 10

Year 20

Year 40

Year 75

Year 100

Year 101

Peak Destruction cycle begins again

Decay

Fire cycle Woody species begin to grow and die making room for new growth

H2O Soil

Biomass

Plant Litter

Nutrient cycling Charred trees decompose

ash

H2O + CaCO3

Nutrient from ash diminish over time

Time

Site Pre-Fire

Site Post-Fire

Site Post-Fire Phase 2

Site Post-Fire Current State

Site Future Projection

Pioneering Species

Tree Canopy

H2O CaCO3

Lichen

Christmas Fern

Vibernum

Pin Cherry

CaCO3 H2O Ash

CaCO3 H2O

CaCO3

Topography

Walls and Circulation

Directionality of Run-off

Usage over time shapes the landscape

The process begins with a controlled burn of a grid of pine trees. Topography is altered through cut, fill and walls to shape the regrowth of the site over time. As natural processes and intentional plantings take place, one can begin to imagine what the site may look like in future projections. In the final plan, crosses represent the pine trees, post-burn, where nutrient run off collects in the low points creating new fertile zones of regrowth in white.

ARCHITECTURE CORE I: POD LIVING University of Virginia, Core I 2015 Authors: Colleen Sloan, Cory Page, Sicheng Zhou Instructor: Anselmo Canfora For this studio project, my group designed a 100% recyclable living pod. We used recycled Pepsi crates from the nearby Pepsi plant in Charlottesville, VA as our material of choice. Below are studies in the tectonics and light qualities of the material during the design process.

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE: PENTHOUSE CONDITIONS National Capital Planning Commission, Research and Policy Intern 2016 Author: Colleen Sloan Advisor: Michael Sherman This project was part of a summer long internship at the National Capital Planning Commission. At the time of this project, the office had an influx of Penthouse plans to approve in the D.C. area but the complicated zoning codes in place made this a long and arduous task. This guide serves as a tool to speed up the approval process as a way to more easily identify which penthouse structures and setbacks were allowed and the corresponding codes and policies to back it up.

FOLD + TUCK Washington University in St. Louis, Architecture Discovery Course 2013 Author: Colleen Sloan Instructors: Lindsey Stouffer and Catalina Freixas The rules from Phase 01 were translated onto a plan that would inform the design of a three-dimensional cube that would become a folly, below, where line weights determine the cuts, folds and tucks.

In Phase 01 of this three-week project, I created a set of rules, above, to abide by based on the origin of a line and where it intersects on the page. This criteria became the basis for the phases that followed.

The same set of rules were applied again to a landscape to situate the folly upon, above.

Lastly, the plan was translated into a landscape comprised of balsa wood.The lines that form both the folly and the landscape tuck under, into and over themselves blurring the distinction between site and structure.