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Fargo365
First Prize: Fargo Urban Infill International Design Competition
The driving force behind our design was the belief that a true public space is accessible to all, open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Creating a place like this in North Dakota means dealing with extreme variations in climate. A common strategy in extreme climates is to move the public space indoors into skyways or malls. However, issues of access control, ownership, and governance, in addition to the the ...
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Future Green Studio Website
//Professional/Digital Media
Future Green Studio Website
A brand new website for the Brooklyn based design/build firm, Future Green Studio. This site replaced a Flash based site which was difficult to update and inaccessible to mobile devices with a modern, HTML based site powered with a custom Django backend.
The site layout follows the principles of 'Responsive Web Design', optimizing itself based on the specification of ...
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Seattle Central Waterfront
//Professional/Landscape Architecture/Urban Design
Seattle Central Waterfront
WRT was one of four teams short-listed for the role of lead designer for the Seattle Central Waterfront project. This project includes the demolition of the existing double decker Alaskan Expressway viaduct and the creation of a framework plan and conceptual design for the waterfront and the city interface.
I created several images to be used in WRT's presentation ...
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Bethlehem 21st C. Town Square
//Professional/Landscape Architecture
Bethlehem 21st C. Town Square
Bethlehem 21st Century Town Square is a dynamic arts, culture and education campus that will be constructed on 4.5 acres of former Bethlehem Steel Corporation land in Bethlehem, PA. WRT was tasked with the design and documentation of an amphitheater, three plazas, a picnic grove and a parking lot in the shadow of the sublime ruins of the Bethlehem ...
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Art in the Open Website
//Professional/Digital Media
Art in the Open Website
Art in the Open (AiO) is a citywide event that celebrates artists, their inspirations for creating art, and their relationships with the urban environment. Art in the Open debuted in June 2010, bringing a selected group of artists to the Schuylkill Banks - from the historic Fairmount Water Works to Bartram's Garden - to inspire new ways of seeing the river ...
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430 Pine Drive
//Professional/Landscape Architecture
430 Pine Drive
For this project, I was asked by the client to design a new driveway and surrounding landscape for their pre-war home on the south shore of Long Island. The client had constructed a new detached garage and was relocating and extending the driveway along their side yard. This required redesigning a large portion of the front yard including the approach ...
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Action Manual for Urban Voids
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Action Manual for Urban Voids
For the past five years I have been working as a design and planning consultant with the City Parks Association on community engagement and provocation over the issue of vacant land in Philadelphia. Initially, I worked on public engagement for the Urban Voids Ideas competition. I am now transforming the competition entries into a web resource for the community to ...
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Route 23
//Personal/Landscape Architecture/Urban Design
Route 23
Urban Transect to Living Epistructure
Route 23 is a personal research project that I am developing into a studio brief. Stretching north nearly 13 miles from the Sports Complex in South Philadelphia, through Center City East, North Philadelphia, Germantown, Mt. Airy, and Chestnut Hill, Route 23 is Philadelphia’s most traveled surface transportation route and, arguably the world’s longest ...
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Dai-Ichi Office Landscape
//Professional/Landscape Architecture
Dai-Ichi Office Landscape
In January 2009, I was invited to Tokyo, Japan as part of a team from WRT to work with Takenaka Architects. We collaborated on the conceptual design of a landscape for a new office building in a suburb outside of Tokyo. The site of the building was next to a neighborhood school, park, and workers housing. In response, we developed ...
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Red Mountain Park
//Professional/Landscape Architecture
Red Mountain Park
Red Mountain Park is a 1,200 acre former iron ore mining mountain located in Birmingham, Alabama. Decommissioned in the 1960s, the formerly clear cut forest has regenerated with new successional vegetation. This new ecology is punctuated by the ruins of mining structures located at each of the nine openings of diagonal mine shafts. These shafts extend for miles at ...
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Gwanggyo Lakeside Park
//Professional/Landscape Architecture/Urban Design
Gwanggyo Lakeside Park
I worked with a team at WRT on this competition for a new park in Gwanggyo, Korea. Gwanggyo Lakeside Park lies at the confluence of two regional watersheds - a receiving basin for the Mt. Gwanggyo water system. Over time, this water system has been modified to support human activity. A hydrological landscape once altered to create damned reservoirs for agricultural ...
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PAB Website
//Professional/Digital Media
PAB Website
The Planning Accreditation Board asked me to redesign their website to allow users to easily find information about PAB and important documents for the accreditation process. We developed an organization for the site based around PAB's different users: Program Chairs & Educators, Site Visitors, and Practitioners & Students. The site has a section dedicated to each type of user, allowing PAB ...
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Operation Activoid: H2Woah!
//Academic/Landscape Architecture/Urban Design/Digital Media
Operation Activoid: H2Woah!
The premise of this studio was to develop a design system for quarter acre vacant lots in Philadelphia based upon an environmental technology. My design dealt with water in various ways. At one level, a constructed wetland is strategically placed to intercept stormwater run-off. On top of this, a system of treeoids acts to collect rainwater, generate solar hot water ...
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Interchange
//Academic/Landscape Architecture/Urban Design
Interchange
ULI Urban Design Competition Finalist
“Interchange” turns the word’s meaning from its car-centric, space-wasting, and neighborhood-dividing connotations to a holistic vision of cultural, economic, and ecological living and working environments.
Anchored by a linear park connecting South Dallas with Downtown, a landscape “connective tissue” is layered over the street grid to provide bicycle and pedestrian pathways, manage stormwater, introduce ...
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Post Forest
//Personal/Landscape Architecture/Public Art
Post Forest
Post-Forest was an interdisciplinary research / design / art project resulting in an artificial forest constructed of recycled Christmas trees and shipping pallets. Post-Forest explored the economic, social, and ecological aspects of the Christmas tree industry and translated that into a piece of public art to explore and enjoy.
The project involved three main pieces:
The first was a research component, which ...
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Design Guidelines for Sejong
//Academic/Urban Design
Design Guidelines for Sejong
The purpose of this studio was to develop urban design guidelines for the Public Administrative Town [PAT], within Sejong City, Korea. The twelve-member studio, consisting of planners, designers, architects and landscape architects, began the process of guideline development by analyzing the 2007 winning design for the PAT formulated by Haeahn Architects and Balmori Associates. This design consists of an iconic ...
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King's Cross Infill
//Professional/Landscape Architecture/Urban Design
King's Cross Infill
This project is a proposal for an infill re-development in downtown Glasgow, Scotland. As an intern at EDAW Scotland, I worked with Alastair Haigh to design the open space and streetscape for the urban design masterplan. The design features curbless shared space streetscapes that blend seamlessly into plazas, adaptive reuse of existing historic sheds and walls, a children’s playground ...
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Governor’s Island
//Professional/Landscape Architecture/Digital Media
Governor’s Island
As an intern at WRT, I worked with a team of landscape architects and architects to design their entry for the Governor’s Island Open Space competition. The plan features a series of varied and nested ecologies and topographic elements in the heart of the park surrounded by a working farm, a promenade, a beach, an artificial reef, and cultural ...
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Calibrating Rhythms
//Academic/Landscape Architecture/Urban Design/Digital Media
Calibrating Rhythms
Mumbai is a city that defies traditional conceptions of planning and design. Rather than view the city as a series of geographic territories or zones, I chose to examine it as a network of temporal flows, each with their own corresponding rhythms.
My study area was an section of the Mithi River between Mahim Junction and Bandra rail stations. This ...
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Reactivating the In-Between
//Academic/Landscape Architecture/Urban Design
Reactivating the In-Between
This studio was an exploration of scale, working from the regional to the city and down to specific interventions and designs. Our site was Camden, NJ, a complex and deteriorated urban environment: economically, socially and environmentally.
My analysis of the city showed that it has been abandoned by commercial retailers. In addition, distinct identifiable neighborhoods have grown in the areas ...
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Horizontal Integration
//Academic/Landscape Architecture/Urban Design
Horizontal Integration
For the second half of the 502 studio, we were asked to design a park on a 170 acre post-industrial site on the North Delaware River, taking into consideration the larger urban context. My project builds on the existing shipping infrastructure, activating the site by receiving, storing and composting dredge material from the river. The dredged material is used to ...
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Transient Garden
//Academic/Landscape Architecture
Transient Garden
For this 4 week project, each student was assigned a 60'x60' plot on a former industrial site adjacent to the Delaware River. My site straddled an abandoned shipping warehouse, a loading dock, and a truck and rail loading pad now overtaken by pioneer vegetation. The site has become home to marginal uses such as skateboarding, socializing, and temporary housing ...
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Agile Territories
//Academic/Landscape Architecture
Agile Territories
This studio was set in an urban forest valley along the Wissahickon Creek. Through a variety of techniques, including drafting, charcoal drawings, plaster casts, and photo montage we explored movement, transition, threshold and process in the landscape.
The studio culminated in the path project. My path project centered around the idea of resistance. This idea was expressed both in the ...
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City Parks Assocation Website
//Professional/Digital Media
City Parks Assocation Website
The City Parks Association of Philadelphia is a non-profit organization established in 1888 to stimulate visionary thinking about natural resources and open space in urban communities. They asked me to redesign their website to better promote their organization, events, and research.
In addition to designing the visual aesthetic of the site, I worked with the client to create an appropriate ...
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East Falls Neighborhood Plan
//Academic/Urban Design
East Falls Neighborhood Plan
This project was for the first year Planning Problems Workshop in the City Planning department at Penn. I worked with a team of 4 other planning students to develop a neighborhood plan for the East Falls Development Corporation. The following is the introduction to our final report. You can download the full report using the link to the right.
East ...