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Selected projects from work toward master's in landscape architecture
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Quick-to-emerge, short lived plants provide early interest.
Mature prairie species replace the rudurals over time.
BADGER ROOF
The American badger hunts for ground squirrels by digging into their burrows.
Building off a scientific study of the positive effect of badger disturbances on prairie biodiversity, this green roof abstracts the process into an artificial ecosystem of planter bags made with UV-degradable textiles. The planting progresses from a peaky topography to a mellowed, mounded prairie planting. Ruderal and mature prairie species seeds in the bags replicate the growth process in the prairie, where seeds buried in prairie dog burrows, the badger’s prey, are brought to the surface by the badger’s digging.
Their digs uproot or bury existing vegetation and leave mounds of bare soil.
Prairie ruderals colonize the mound.
SUCCESSIONAL MODULAR GREEN ROOF
NATURAL PRECEDENT Badger dig spoils in dry prairie evolving, mounded vegetated roof
SEED MIX STRATEGY
0 1-2 years
Adjacent plants colonize via root propagation. Plant communities on the mound resemble those of mature prairie.
3-4 years 20 years
NORTH 1 PROSPERITY GARDENST
A PRODUCTIVE YOUTH TRAINING GARDENIn addition to managing the operations (and the youth workers) of the garden in its inaugural year, I assisted with its design and construction. Contributions include: Planting design around the base of the concrete retaining wall Selection of fence, red shelter, and shed to the left of the existing building Minor adjustments to the design during construction Selection of locally available red decomposed granite as an affordable paving option.
1. Excavate the home site.
3. Add materials to the open source brick press.
2. Harvest the soil.
2. Sort gravel from fine particulates
SOIL FIBER CEMENT
SEEDS
GRAVEL
SOIL
SOIL
SOIL
FIBER
FIBER
CEMENT
SEEDS
SEEDS GRAVEL
4. Sort and stage bricks for home and landscape construction.
(sub)URBANISMDIRT BRICK DWELLING This team project with an architecture student is intended as a relief home for the Joplin, Missouri tornado survivors. The home is constructed below the surface as an adaptation of the American prairie vernacular sod house. Compressed soil bricks are used in the construction of both the home and the landscape. The landscape bricks create analogous microclimates of those found in the nearby chert glades.
slopemimics chert prairie
mimics stream banksrain garden
mimics chert surfaceroof
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Plant selections exist natively in the nearby chert glades and also grow well in the garden.
Construction diagrams (all, far left)Vegetation and effects on plan, section, and perspective renderings (all this page)
GRAPHIC CONTRIBUTIONS
Construction process designEcological conceptGradingPlanting plan
DESIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
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1. Excavate the home site.
3. Add materials to the open source brick press.
2. Harvest the soil.
2. Sort gravel from fine particulates
SOIL FIBER CEMENT
SEEDS
GRAVEL
SOIL
SOIL
SOIL
FIBER
FIBER
CEMENT
SEEDS
SEEDS GRAVEL
4. Sort and stage bricks for home and landscape construction.
(sub)URBANISMDIRT BRICK DWELLING This team project with an architecture student is intended as a relief home for the Joplin, Missouri tornado survivors. The home is constructed below the surface as an adaptation of the American prairie vernacular sod house. Compressed soil bricks are used in the construction of both the home and the landscape. The landscape bricks create analogous microclimates of those found in the nearby chert glades.
slopemimics chert prairie
mimics stream banksrain garden
mimics chert surfaceroof
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60” X 30”chipboard, paper (printed, handmade, found), foam, nails detail of orchards along boneyard creek
detail of municipal composting and aquaculture operation
CU(d)scape AGRICULTURAL PUBLIC WORKSThe CU(d)scape creates infrastructure to support local agricultural production at a significant scale. Sited in typically underutilized land, it is a replicable model for supporting local food-based economies while creating unique open space.
Summer Seeded Brassicas
Stockpiled Tall Fescue
Orchardgrass
Bluegrass & White CloverDecemberNovemberOctoberSeptember
Bull
Pregnant Cow
Cow
Calf
Steer or Heifer
Billy Goat
Pregnant Goat
Nanny Goat
Nursing Kid Goat
Kid Goat
Ram
Pregnant Ewe
Ewe
Nursing Lamb
Lamb
Boar
Pregnant Sow
Sow
Piglet
Hog
aquaculture productively cleans composting runoff
pasture and livestock raised in the CU(d)scape numbers generated in a custom-made calculator
Pre-Grazing,Rotational
Continuous Grazing
Post-Grazing, Rotational
1.2.
3.4.
1.
2.3.
4.
rotational grazing builds soil quality
Phase one of the CU(d)scape is a pastured meat operation that uses rotational grazing to improve the land while producing over 80,000 pounds of high quality meat annually. As the soil becomes amenable for crop production, entrepreneurs are backed through CU(d)scape infrastructure, which connects small operations with the efficiencies of cities, large-scale agriculture, and natural systems.
Farms
Pastures
Aquaculture
City food wasteCommunity kitchen wasteFarm waste
Goats browsebrushand fertilize.
Cows or sheep graze grass.
Cows and sheep fertilize.
Chickens eat grubs in manure and fertilize.
Deep roots grow and improve soil structure.
Pigs root up pasture and fertilize.
Farmer enjoys fertile, prepared seed bed.
Repeat
Fertility increases
integrate materialsmosswaterairrootsalgae
selectivelyfilterwaterair
sedimentorganic matterseeds
diffuse energyerosional (wind, water
TECTONIC SITES
discarded carpet found while creek stomping
a curved weft makes pockets to collect materials from flows
STRUCTURING THE LANDSCAPE WITH TEXTILE-DERIVED CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUESSASAKI DAY PRIZE FOR TOP THESIS
Tectonic theory describes the relationship between construction and expressive intent. Such a theory has yet to be developed in land-scape architecture. Through historical and theoretical research of architectural texts, making textiles, and analyzing existing projects in landscape architecture, I inductively generated a seedling tectonic theory for my thesis.
Textiles are porous and flexible, uniquely suiting them to integrating, responding to, and even structuring landscape contingency. Textiles visibly entwine and integrate contingent forces, displaying an inher-ent quality of landscape construction: landscape architects, by inserting materials into the environment, change the contingent forces acting there. Textiles structure the small spaces in which these contingent forces can act, suggesting that these impacts might be made strategically.
A tectonic theory based on this aspect of the constructive practice of landscape architecture could serve as a forum for the collective development of best practices for structuring contingent forces in the environment and exploration of the expressive potentials of such techniques.
woven vellum models
textile windbreaks work better than solid
Naturaire®’s felt supports microbes
PEG landscape + architecture laser cut weed fabric to create a patterned planting
a textile can capture water from fogBiohaven®’s textile hosts water-cleansing microbes
PUMP
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filter fabric on prefabricated vertical drains excludes sediment to drain water and consolidate soils
FOODS RAISED AT EAST SIDE HEALTHF.R.E.S.H. GARDENThe comic on the following pages tells the story of this garden project.
a model with movable components helped us to collaboratively design with our community partners.
After ESHD contacted the East St. Louis Action Project (ESLARP), I was assigned to lead the project. I recruited five other students and a faculty advisor.
OK, I guess I need to get back to the office!
Thank you for helping me today. It’s nice to spend time with you.
I just wish sue had come. I’ll have to ask her what happened during the WIC class later.
These peppers are from the cookout! We have to plant these next year.
I can’t wait to kick those tires over and harvest the potatoes.
Ruby, I am so pleased that the healthy dinner cookout was such a success!
together, we designed the garden:
I wonder where Ruby is with those greens. We just sold out!
East side health district (ESHD) is a public health organization with clinics serving the East St. Louis area. ESHD wanted to improve a lot adjacent to their administration building and one of their clinics to support their mission of preventative health and education services.
F.R.E.S.H. (Foods Raised at East Side Health) garden combines a venue for health education classes and events, multiple options for community gardening, and a safe place for employees to exercise during their lunch hour.
After the trip with ESLARP students, I planned another day to take the design team down to plant flowers and tie up loose ends.
we took a quick break for a photo op...
do you think we can finish all these beds in time?
we transplanted plants from a local garden and found donations, planting the front beds at no cost to our partners.
contributions in whole: led team, coordinated with eshd, arranged travel and meetings, secured donations, built modelcontributions in part: design, planting plan design, drafting, digital modeling, rendering
f.r.e.s.h. midway through the first season
ON SITE I led eSLARP students clearing debris from future flower beds. we found treasures in the soil...
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12 pm irrigation
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4 pm irrigation
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8 pm irrigation
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8 am irrigation
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BRYOPHYTOPIARECONFIGURED, CHOREOGRAPHED ECOLOGYSASAKI DAY PRIZE FOR TOP GRAD2 DESIGN
Bryophytopia recontextualizes site materials upon which mosses and lichens grow. Overlapping patterns of shade, topography, irrigation regime, and surface material create a complex yet legible condition in which these communities can diversify and flourish.
mosses and lichens colonizing courtyard hardscape
choreographed irrigation regimecisterns store roof runoff Reconfiguration of materials and action of contingent forces create unique ecological and experiential effects in the courtyard of a campus building.
IRRIGATIONSPER DAY
IRRIGATIONSPER DAY
IRRIGATIONPER DAY
IRRIGATIONSPER DAY
CISTERN
DOWNSPOUT
WATER GAUGE
4 2 1 3
ASECTION
WALKWAY
CUT BLOCK
EXISTING WALL
BSECTION
BENCH BENCH
WALKWAY
TILES
EXISTING WALL
CSECTION
EXISTING WALL
WALKWAY
MAXWATER LEVEL
MAXWATER LEVEL
MAXWATER LEVEL
WEST 0 5 10 20 50 EASTDSECTION
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4 pm irrigation
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8 pm irrigation
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8 am irrigation
BA
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BRYOPHYTOPIARECONFIGURED, CHOREOGRAPHED ECOLOGYSASAKI DAY PRIZE FOR TOP GRAD2 DESIGN
Bryophytopia recontextualizes site materials upon which mosses and lichens grow. Overlapping patterns of shade, topography, irrigation regime, and surface material create a complex yet legible condition in which these communities can diversify and flourish.
mosses and lichens colonizing courtyard hardscape
choreographed irrigation regimecisterns store roof runoff Reconfiguration of materials and action of contingent forces create unique ecological and experiential effects in the courtyard of a campus building.
IRRIGATIONSPER DAY
IRRIGATIONSPER DAY
IRRIGATIONPER DAY
IRRIGATIONSPER DAY
CISTERN
DOWNSPOUT
WATER GAUGE
4 2 1 3
ASECTION
WALKWAY
CUT BLOCK
EXISTING WALL
BSECTION
BENCH BENCH
WALKWAY
TILES
EXISTING WALL
CSECTION
EXISTING WALL
WALKWAY
MAXWATER LEVEL
MAXWATER LEVEL
MAXWATER LEVEL
WEST 0 5 10 20 50 EASTDSECTION
Pavers, cut from existing site hardscape, are also raised up from the ground to create seating.
PEDOLOGY PARKREVEALING GEOLOGIC, GLACIAL, AND HUMAN HISTORY THROUGH SOILSSASAKI DAY PRIZE FOR TOP 1 YEAR STUDENT DESIGNThis guidebook explains how the yellow poles, which delimit the distribution of soils, can be used to interpret the site’s fascinating history, complete with fold-out pages and a pop-up.
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The site’s diverse mix of soils, unlike its vegetation, have been minimally disturbed. These soils reveal the site’s fascinating history; yellow poles delimit soil types and bring them to the surface for interpretation. Translucent poles display the beauty and meaning of typical soil profiles at the park entrance. The intervention minimally disturbs the community’s prairie while enriching the well-used park’s programming and vistas.
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4'-4"
8'-012"
ROOF ACCESS LADDER
CONCRETE FOOTING
CONCRETE FOUNDATION
NO ROPE FOR ACCESS
312"2'-51
2" 2'-512"
6"
10'-1"
4'
312"11
2"10'-21
2"
9'-6"
7'-812"6'-10"
20'-5"
10'-1"
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10'-4"
10'-4"
11'
8'
12'
20'
10'
712"
712"
4"8'-11"
8'-11"712"
8'-9"
2' 412"
4x4 TREATED LUMBER POST
STEEL ROLLER RECOVERED 2X4 BOARDS
CUBE HOLDING BEARINGS
2x4 TREATED LUMBER
2x8 TREATED RAFTER4x8 TREATED SUPPORT
2x8 TREATED RAFTER
20'
10'
712"
712"
4"8'-11"
8'-11"712"
8'-9"
2' 412"
4x4 TREATED LUMBER POST
STEEL ROLLER RECOVERED 2X4 BOARDS
CUBE HOLDING BEARINGS
STEEL GUTTER WELDED TO ROOF6” DROP OVER 12’
ROPE
5” DROP OVER 10’-4”
2x4 TREATED LUMBER
2x8 TREATED RAFTER
SCREW SIDING TO SUPPORTS
RECOVERED 2X8 BOARDS
SIDING LEFT OFF FOR VIEW
2X4 SPACED TO ALLOW AIR FLOW
LADDER RUNG
UPPER ENTRY
CORRUGATED METAL ROOF
LADDER RUNG
WELDED CONNECTION
WIND TRAP AND SECOND STORY SPACE
112"
312"
1'-012"
312"
8"312"
4'-4"
8"312"
DETAIL AT LADDER TOP1L-2 1”= 1’0”
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DETAIL AT LADDER BOTTOM4L-2 1”= 1’0”
0’ 1’ 2’ 4’
6L-2 1”= 4’0”
0’ 4’ 8’ 12’
VIEW FROM SOUTHL-2
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5L-2 1”= 4’0”
0’ 4’ 8’ 12’
VIEW FROM NORTHL-2
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DETAIL AT LADDER TOP1L-2 1”= 1’0”
0’ 1’ 2’ 4’
DETAIL AT LADDER TOP3L-2 1”= 1’0”
0’ 1’ 2’ 4’
L-2 1”= 4’0”
2ND LEVEL FLOORING DETAIL2L-2
0’ 4’ 8’ 12’
L-2PLAN WITH ROOF1
L-2 1”= 4’0”
0’ 4’ 8’ 12’
FRAME FROM SOUTH7L-2 1”= 4’0”
0’ 4’ 8’ 12’
12’
8L-2 1”= 4’0”
0’ 4’ 8’
VIEW FROM EASTL-2
L-2AXONOMETRIC
L-210
VIEW FROM WEST9L-2 1”= 4’0”
0’ 4’ 8’ 12’