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Mackenzie PageSelected works in
Landscape Urbanism, Art & Design 2014
Panoptic Alienation/Intimate Dwelling
Invasive Remuneration
Woodland Cemetery
Reversible Destinies
New Orleans Emerging Futures
Technical Drawings
Clara Tyner Gardens
We Call This a Tree
Sketchbooks
Academic Travel
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Table of ContentsIntro02
Hello, my name isMackenzie Page.
I am currently a master of landscape architecture candidate at the University of British Columbia and a previous graduate of the environmental design bachelor program at the University of Manitoba with a focus on landscape urbanism. My interest lies at the critical intersection of landscape, urbanism, and built form. I am an avid runner, cyclist, and motorcyclist and enjoy reading, drawing, and travelling. The following pages are a collection of my undergraduate, graduate, and personal design endeavours.
Panoptic Alienation/Intimate DwellingThis three week studio project took place at Pitt
Marsh Ecological Reserve. Under the context of
land art we responded to the existing landscape
and visitor amenities. In navigating between the
dialectics of the scared and profane, I found the
existing access infrastructure provided panoptic
vantage points and give a feeling of alienation.
They do not immerse the user in the wetland
itself.
My intervention seeks to bring closer the
wetland environment through a floating pathway
network of partially submerged steel channels.
The channels follow the palimpsests of former
dredging, failed farming practices, and ecological
flux.
LAND ARTMLA Studio 503
Kris Fox 2013
PROCESSAnalogue Multimedia
PhotoshopModel
LAND ART 03
PANOPTIC ALIENATION / INTIMATE DWELLING 04
Local
Regional
National
Global
Infrastructure
Invasive RemunerationThe final project of the land art studio saw us
study the threshold of the Second Narrows
bridge along the Trans Canada Trail in Vancouver.
Surrounded by industry, I analyzed the
widespread scale of the shipping industry, from
local to global. I synthesized my explorations into
a spatial response which induced the user into a
experience of compression and revelation from
a vegetative condition into a barren industrial
space. The augmentation of this threshold was
aided by the veil of blackberries shrouding the cor
ten steel armature.
Just as the industry remunerates our society, it
has negative consequences as it invades existing
ecologies. This is made analogous by the planting
of Himalayan blackberries, an aggressive invasive
species which gives delicious berries.
LAND ARTMLA Studio 503
Kris Fox 2013
PROCESSAutoCAD
PhotoshopIllustrator
Model
LAND ART 05
INVASIVE REMUNERATION 06
LAND ART 07
Trans Canada Trail
Blackberry Bramble
Corten Armature
1 : 500 N
Invasive remuneration:an inquiry into increasing complexities
mackenzie page larc 504
INVASIVE REMUNERATION 08
310 0m
Rubus armeniacusaverage terminal cane propogation
view eastward
view westward
010
30100
200
meters
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Woodland CemeteryWe were required to research the design of
the Woodland Cemetery located in Enskede, Sweden, by Eric Gunnar Asplund as a precedent
for this studio. This design plays an important role
in drawing on one’s established notions of Nordic
archetypes: the forest, the woodland chapel, and
the burial mound. In Nordic mythos, forests are
associated with mystery and the unknown, while
meadows denote the antithesis. Asplund uses
each to juxtapose death and life in the landscape. The chapel is the synthesis between temple and
traditional home.
The duality between forest and meadow - dark
and light - is enhanced and revealed by a series
of liminal spaces. We simplified the images
in order to augment the contrasts and liminal
spaces. We then found parallels between a
passage from Dante’s Inferno and the spatial
archetypes found throughout the cemetery
procession (following pages).
PRECEDENT STUDYEnds Design Studio 5
Straub + Wilson Baptist 2009
PROCESSHand Drawn
COLLABORATORS
Carly Moore
PRECEDENT STUDY 09
The contrast between forest and meadow - dark and light - is enhanced and revealed by a series of liminal spaces. These spaces act as intermediate conditions to juxtaposed environments, such as a birch grove in between dark pine forest and meadow. Asplund uses the transitional spaces to produce interest or incentive to the user as they proceed through the site.
We were required to interpret the design intentions and communicate them both graphically and verbally to our classmates. We simplified the images in order to augment the contrasts and liminal spaces. We then found parallels between a passage from Dante’s Inferno and the spatial archetypes found throughout the cemetery (next page).
0 10 30 100 200
meters
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WOODLAND CEMETERY 10
Midway in our life’s journey, I went astrayfrom the straight road and woke to find myselfalone in a dark wood. How shall I say
what wood that was! I never saw so drear,so rank, so arduous a wilderness!Its very memory gives a shape to fear
Death could scarce be more bitter than that place!But since it came to good I will recountall that I found revealed there by God’s grace.
How I came to it I cannot rightly say,so drugged and loose with sleep had I becomewhen I first wandered there the True Way.
But at the far end of that valley of evilwhose maze had sapped my very heart with fear!I found myself before a little hill
and lifted up my eyes. Its shoulders glowedalready with the sweet rays of that planetwhose virtue leads men straight on every road,
and the shining strengthened me against the frightwhose agony had wraked the lake of my heartthrough all the terrors of that piteous night.
Just as a swimmer, who with his last breathflounders ashore from perilous seas, might turnto memorize the wide water of his death-
so did I turn, my soul still fugitivefrom death’s surviving image, to stare downthat pass that none had ever left alive.
Way of the Cross
Way of the Seven Wells
Woodland Chapel
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PRECEDENT STUDY 11
Midway in our life’s journey, I went astrayfrom the straight road and woke to find myselfalone in a dark wood. How shall I say
what wood that was! I never saw so drear,so rank, so arduous a wilderness!Its very memory gives a shape to fear
Death could scarce be more bitter than that place!But since it came to good I will recountall that I found revealed there by God’s grace.
How I came to it I cannot rightly say,so drugged and loose with sleep had I becomewhen I first wandered there the True Way.
But at the far end of that valley of evilwhose maze had sapped my very heart with fear!I found myself before a little hill
and lifted up my eyes. Its shoulders glowedalready with the sweet rays of that planetwhose virtue leads men straight on every road,
and the shining strengthened me against the frightwhose agony had wraked the lake of my heartthrough all the terrors of that piteous night.
Just as a swimmer, who with his last breathflounders ashore from perilous seas, might turnto memorize the wide water of his death-
so did I turn, my soul still fugitivefrom death’s surviving image, to stare downthat pass that none had ever left alive.
-canto I: the dark wood. the inferno. dante alighieri.
And there I lay to rest from my heart’s racetill calm and breath returned to me.
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WOODLAND CEMETERY 12
We were required to design the entire industrial site (bottom right), as well as design the main burial grounds in detail (left page). We designed an open-ended burial procession within a functional landscape, both following the existing geometries of the site and the concept of a fluctuating homeostasis. We expressed the spatial experience the bereaved may have throughout the procession (next page).
Site Frame
Retaining Ponds andCivic Interface
Procession Burial Grounds
HydrologyActive Recreation Paths
0 15 60 150 300
meters
Bishop Grandin Fwy
Pem
bina
Hw
y
Not to scale
The burial grounds are described as follows. The concrete pads of the major industrial area are crushed for the procession of tree plantings as the main building is redefined as a ceremonial space and crematorium. The cemetery is defined by a swale containing red vegetation that thrives in the existing condition. Tailing ponds are reinterpreted into the ponds which cleanse the storm-water from local
communities and retain it for use in the nursery. Production and retail space for the nursery overtakes existing buildings and fills the civic interface along the highly populated edge shared with Pembina trail. Existing recreational trails such as Bishop Grandin Greenway are connected to and extended throughout the site. These elements together form an unchanging core while the surrounding space remains undefined and flexible.
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The abandoned Manitoba Sugar Beet Factory was the site of this intervention. We used the information gained from researching burial practices, and from the precedents studied, in partners, to design a cemetery. The post-industrial site contained remnants of its industrial past, including storage silos, buildings, and a unique landscape of crushed limestone.
Studio5|Mackenzie Page+Carly Moore|2010Reversible Destinies
Land left destabilized from the production processes stretches out beyond the iconic silos. Left unused for years, nature has found ecosystems to thrive on these extreme landscapes. The site adapts to the disturbances and never returns to its previous state. There is a constant search for a state of homeostasis; a site learning to adjust, a city in flux, a person overcoming loss.
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FINAL PROJECT 13
Reversible DestiniesThe abandoned Manitoba Sugar Beet Factory
was the site of this intervention. We used the
information gained from researching burial
practices and from the precedents studied, in partners, to design a cemetery. The post-
industrial site contained remnants of its industrial
past, including storage silos, buildings, and a
unique landscape of crushed limestone.
Land left destabilized from the production
processes stretches out beyond the iconic
silos. Left unused for years, nature has
found ecosystems to thrive on these extreme
landscapes. The site adapts to the disturbances
and never returns to its previous state. There is
a constant search for a state of homeostasis; a site learning to adjust, a city in flux, a person
overcoming loss.
FINAL PROJECTEnds Design Studio 5
Straub + Wilson Baptist 2009
PROCESSAnalogue Multimedia
Photoshop
COLLABORATORS
Carly MooreWe were required to design the entire industrial site (bottom right), as well as design the main burial grounds in detail (left page). We designed an open-ended burial procession within a functional landscape, both following the existing geometries of the site and the concept of a fluctuating homeostasis. We expressed the spatial experience the bereaved may have throughout the procession (next page).
Site Frame
Retaining Ponds andCivic Interface
Procession Burial Grounds
HydrologyActive Recreation Paths
0 15 60 150 300
meters
Bishop Grandin Fwy
Pem
bina
Hw
y
Not to scale
The burial grounds are described as follows. The concrete pads of the major industrial area are crushed for the procession of tree plantings as the main building is redefined as a ceremonial space and crematorium. The cemetery is defined by a swale containing red vegetation that thrives in the existing condition. Tailing ponds are reinterpreted into the ponds which cleanse the storm-water from local
communities and retain it for use in the nursery. Production and retail space for the nursery overtakes existing buildings and fills the civic interface along the highly populated edge shared with Pembina trail. Existing recreational trails such as Bishop Grandin Greenway are connected to and extended throughout the site. These elements together form an unchanging core while the surrounding space remains undefined and flexible.
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We were required to design the entire industrial site (bottom right), as well as design the main burial grounds in detail (left page). We designed an open-ended burial procession within a functional landscape, both following the existing geometries of the site and the concept of a fluctuating homeostasis. We expressed the spatial experience the bereaved may have throughout the procession (next page).
Site Frame
Retaining Ponds andCivic Interface
Procession Burial Grounds
HydrologyActive Recreation Paths
0 15 60 150 300
meters
Bishop Grandin Fwy
Pem
bina
Hw
y
Not to scale
The burial grounds are described as follows. The concrete pads of the major industrial area are crushed for the procession of tree plantings as the main building is redefined as a ceremonial space and crematorium. The cemetery is defined by a swale containing red vegetation that thrives in the existing condition. Tailing ponds are reinterpreted into the ponds which cleanse the storm-water from local
communities and retain it for use in the nursery. Production and retail space for the nursery overtakes existing buildings and fills the civic interface along the highly populated edge shared with Pembina trail. Existing recreational trails such as Bishop Grandin Greenway are connected to and extended throughout the site. These elements together form an unchanging core while the surrounding space remains undefined and flexible.
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Site Frame Procession Burial Grounds Recreation Circulation Retaining Ponds/Housing Hydrology
REVERSIBLE DESTINIES 14
0 30 75 150
meters
B
A
B
A
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We were required to design the entire industrial site (bottom right), as well as design the main burial grounds in detail (left page). We designed an open-ended burial procession within a functional landscape, both following the existing geometries of the site and the concept of a fluctuating homeostasis. We expressed the spatial experience the bereaved may have throughout the procession (next page).
Site Frame
Retaining Ponds andCivic Interface
Procession Burial Grounds
HydrologyActive Recreation Paths
0 15 60 150 300
meters
Bishop Grandin Fwy
Pem
bina
Hw
y
Not to scale
The burial grounds are described as follows. The concrete pads of the major industrial area are crushed for the procession of tree plantings as the main building is redefined as a ceremonial space and crematorium. The cemetery is defined by a swale containing red vegetation that thrives in the existing condition. Tailing ponds are reinterpreted into the ponds which cleanse the storm-water from local
communities and retain it for use in the nursery. Production and retail space for the nursery overtakes existing buildings and fills the civic interface along the highly populated edge shared with Pembina trail. Existing recreational trails such as Bishop Grandin Greenway are connected to and extended throughout the site. These elements together form an unchanging core while the surrounding space remains undefined and flexible.
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C
C
0 30 75 150
meters
B
A
B
A
30
the grid of elms stand solemna composed welcomeshrouded by their shaded veilthe silos lurk above their canopiesthey rise stronglysentinels of the site
the breathing city is watchedfrom its agrarian ruinsmnemonic landmarks litter the groundwith photographic impressionthe city reads as a palimpsest
order appearswhite trees guide the waythe pace slowsthe sky fades awayas shade takes overa division occurs between realms
Contextual Still Frame
Reception of Elms
The Approach
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FINAL PROJECT 15
Cemetery Procession
dense spruceforms the dark unknownmystery unfolds into vastnessthe smell, the carpetthe shadowy path is illuminatedperpetually dark
it’s a pause away from the worldenclosed by willows in a bed of wet fernsfocused, enclosedthe dead rest in the scatter gardenthe dead rest in the wall of urnsprotectedsilence and reverence ensues
the solemn geometry rises from the grounda shearing tectonic plate ofcompact limestone forms the expansethe aftermath of industrythe context is revealed againit was always thereit never stopped
Dark Forest
Submerged Forest
Plinth
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REVERSIBLE DESTINIES 16
Cemetery Procession
Orleans. The study ranged in scales from continental, regional, to municipal. We explored how the Louisiana wetlands are integral to the protection of New Orleans. Our analysis assisted ourselves, as well as our classmates, in understanding this foreign and complex environment. We responded to our experiences through self-directed study in a studio setting.
In January of 2010, our studio travelled by train to New Orleans, Louisiana to study the political, environmental, and cultural conditions existing in the wake of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. In groups, we were required to analyze the city and region in many dimensions, including the infrastructure, ecology, music, food, culture, and history. My group researched the ecology of New
Studio 6 | Mackenzie Page | 2010New Orleans: Emerging Futures
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FINAL PROJECT
New Orleans: Emerging FuturesOur studio travelled by train to New Orleans to
study the political, environmental, and cultural
conditions existing in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina. In groups we were required to analyze
the city and region in many dimensions, including
the infrastructure, ecology, music, food, culture, and history. My group researched the ecology of
New Orleans. We explored how the Louisiana
wetlands are integral to the protection of New
Orleans. Our analysis assisted in understanding
this foreign and complex environment.
Subsequently, we responded indiviudally to our
experiences through self-directed study in a
studio setting. My focus fell on augmenting the
levee wall in the Lower Ninth Ward into both
park space as well as remediatative infrastructure
for the vernacular ecology.
FINAL PROJECTEnds Design Studio 6
Eaton + Perron2010
PROCESSGIS
AutoCADPhotoshop
Illustrator
COLLABORATORS
Patrick OystrykLogan Littlefield
(analysis only)
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EcologyLoss of Wetlands
Coastal land loss 1930-2050
Protection
Habitat Though the unregulated hunting and deforestation practices of the early twentieth century caused extensive wildlife population loss, more recent conservation efforts such as the banning of certain pesticides as well as harvesting regulations and incentives have been very successful in re-establishing many species. However, Now that populations of such species as the alligator and the brown pelican are restored, they face the threat of habitat loss. On a greater scale, Louisiana’s wetlands are a major feeding and resting stop for 75 percent of all birds making their annual migration through the Mississippi flyway.2 Hence, efforts of both species and wetland restoration are by no means mutually exclusive. Therefore, if the wetland ceases to exist, the species cease to exist. This works vice-versa and creates a domino effect which very quickly reaches the human population, as our climactic, nutritional and recreational needs as well as the economic systems that drive them rely on the health of the wetlands.1
It goes without saying much of what distinguishes the way of life of New Orleanians, Louisianians and Americans at large depends on the state of coastal wetlands. This culture and way of life is at risk in many ways because of the continued loss of coastal wetland.
Indian village Brown PelicanIsle St. Catherine
Coastal wetland has the ability to act as a natural barrier to storm surges , protecting much human settlement and industry. However, for every 2.7 miles of wetland that disappears, an extra foot of water from the Gulf of Mexico is allowed to surge inland, threatening all communities and adding additional stress to the already inadequate infrastructure of urbanized areas such as New Orleans.1
from storms
of industry of cultureThough the oil and gas industries have in many ways contributed to the accelerated degradation of the deltaic plain, the health of these industries is, interestingly enough, also completely dependent upon the restoration of the wetlands. This is evident in that 34 percent of the United States’ natural gas supply and 30 percent of the crude oil supply are produced within the wetlands or offshore and are transported via 30,000 square miles of pipeline that also traverse the wetlands.2 This is all not to mention, the commercial fishing and hunting, recreational and tourist industries that the wetlands support. influencing both economy and cultural way of life.1
The establishment of human settlement in the Mississippi deltaic plain and the culture it has developed is in many ways a result of the ecological processes of the region. It’s climate, it’s soils, its geographic location, its beauty, its hostility and its natural resources have established a history, a culture and an economy that relies upon its natural surroundings. For those living within engineered levee system, for those living outside such systems, and for those living on the swamp, the loss of land in many cases means the loss of identity and the loss of place.
1 Campanella, Richard. (2006). Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics before the storm. University of Louisiana. Lafayette, LA.2 Dunne, Mike. (2005). America’s Wetland: Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast. Louisiana State University Press. Baton Rouge, LA.
Logan Littlefield Logan Littlefieldhttp://media.nola.com/politics/photo/brown-pelicans
1,875 sq. mi23-35 sq. mi515 - 675 sq. mi
coastal wetland lost in the 20th century
annual coastal wetland loss
projected coastal wetland loss 2000-2050
Image adapted from: National wetlands research center. Depicting Coastal Louisiana Land Loss. Retrieved from <nwrc.usgs.gov/factshts/2005-3101/2005-3101. htm> on January 23, 2009
EMERGING FUTURES (group) 18
FINAL PROJECT 19
TThe failing infrastructure lacks more than functionality; this barren landscape offers a blank canvas for opportunity.
lower ninth ward
MRGO canalindustrial canal
mississippi r.
“Any element, any bit or piece of
anything, does not exist in isolation; it alw
ays relates to other bits and pieces of the sam
e kind and those of other types. M
eaning is not inherent in the single bit, but fixed by its relationship to others. Thus an elem
ent acquires meaning or
has its meaning defined only w
ithin a specific context. In Language, a w
ord is ultim
ately defined only when used and
not while standing alone in a dictionary.
In a landscape, it is the context provided by all the elem
ents as a group and system
that structures them; these
interrelationships ultimately define the
element.”
(Mark Treib. Settings and stray paths,
writings on landscapes and gardens.
(Oxford: Alden Press, 2005), 37)
There are disparities between w
here the residents returned and w
here they did not after Katrina. Through the m
apping of the interaction between
the returning residents and the levee w
all, a relationship is formed; from
this investigation of context, the response w
as the Lower N
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“Any element, any bit or piece of anything, does not exist in isolation; it always relates to other bits and pieces of the same kind and those of other types. Meaning is not inherent in the single bit, but fixed by its relationship to others. Thus an element acquires meaning or has its meaning defined only within a specific context. In Language, a word is ultimately defined only when used and not while standing alone in a dictionary. In a landscape, it is the context provided by all the elements as a group and system that structures them; these interrelationships ultimately define the element.”
(Mark Treib. Settings and stray paths, writings on landscapes and gardens. (Oxford: Alden Press, 2005), 37)
There are disparities between where the residents returned and where they did not after Katrina. Through the mapping of the interaction between the returning residents and the levee wall, a relationship is formed; from this investigation of context, the response was the Lower Ninth Ward Park.
38
“Any element, any bit or piece of anything, does not exist in isolation; it always relates to other bits and pieces of the same kind and those of other types. Meaning is not inherent in the single bit, but fixed by its relationship to others. Thus an element acquires meaning or has its meaning defined only within a specific context. In Language, a word is ultimately defined only when used and not while standing alone in a dictionary. In a landscape, it is the context provided by all the elements as a group and system that structures them; these interrelationships ultimately define the element.”
(Mark Treib. Settings and stray paths, writings on landscapes and gardens. (Oxford: Alden Press, 2005), 37)
There are disparities between where the residents returned and where they did not after Katrina. Through the mapping of the interaction between the returning residents and the levee wall, a relationship is formed; from this investigation of context, the response was the Lower Ninth Ward Park.
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It is a Divide- one that does not need breaching, just an understanding.
On one side the industry reigns and humans are absent. Rationality and logistics are the governing principles.
It makes sense.
On the other side, residents live in a unique and dynamic cultural climate in which the loyalty and resilience of the residents is paramount.
It makes sense too.
There is still a dividing line between the residents and rationality
EMERGING FUTURES (solo) 20
high tidehigh tide
low tide low tide
ecotone ecotone woody-herbaceous layermid-elevation grasseslow-elevation grassesOpuntia spp. (prickly pear cactus) Oplismenus hirtellus (basket grass)Ampelopsis arborea (peppervine)Sabal minor (palmetto) Ilex decidua (deciduous holly)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Monanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
ecotone ecotone
mesic hammock forest
mid-elevation grasses
Quercus virginiana (live oak) Ulmus americana (american elm)Salix nigra (black willow)Quercus hemisphaerica (laurel oak)Sabal minor (palmetto) Morella cerifera (wax myrtle)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
low-elevation grassesMonanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
sediment depositionthe rise and fall of the tide deposit fine clay and silt particles in between the concrete berms. This action, over time, results in a ground plane that increases in elevation. The vegetation composition thus changes with the shifting topographies.
t=0 t=100
As more vegetation establishes itself, erosion is mitigated while providing habitat to many species of animals and specifically, endangered migratory birds.
horizontal scale 1:200vertical scale 1:100
Lower Ninth Ward Park extends from Claiborne Avenue to Florida Avenue along the Industrial Canal Levee. It straddles either side of the levee, providing an acknowledgement of the divide, both physically and culturally, that the levee creates. On the eastern side Live Oaks are planted in a single row, providing shade while respecting
the attitude of permanence expressed by the residents. The western side, along the Industrial canal, is placed under a strategy that employs the tidal fluctuations of the canal, which aims to enhance erosion resistance, while increase the biodiversity of vegetation and wildlife.
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high tidehigh tide
low tide low tide
ecotone ecotone woody-herbaceous layermid-elevation grasseslow-elevation grassesOpuntia spp. (prickly pear cactus) Oplismenus hirtellus (basket grass)Ampelopsis arborea (peppervine)Sabal minor (palmetto) Ilex decidua (deciduous holly)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Monanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
ecotone ecotone
mesic hammock forest
mid-elevation grasses
Quercus virginiana (live oak) Ulmus americana (american elm)Salix nigra (black willow)Quercus hemisphaerica (laurel oak)Sabal minor (palmetto) Morella cerifera (wax myrtle)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
low-elevation grassesMonanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
sediment depositionthe rise and fall of the tide deposit fine clay and silt particles in between the concrete berms. This action, over time, results in a ground plane that increases in elevation. The vegetation composition thus changes with the shifting topographies.
t=0 t=100
As more vegetation establishes itself, erosion is mitigated while providing habitat to many species of animals and specifically, endangered migratory birds.
horizontal scale 1:200vertical scale 1:100
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high tidehigh tide
low tide low tide
ecotone ecotone woody-herbaceous layermid-elevation grasseslow-elevation grassesOpuntia spp. (prickly pear cactus) Oplismenus hirtellus (basket grass)Ampelopsis arborea (peppervine)Sabal minor (palmetto) Ilex decidua (deciduous holly)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Monanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
ecotone ecotone
mesic hammock forest
mid-elevation grasses
Quercus virginiana (live oak) Ulmus americana (american elm)Salix nigra (black willow)Quercus hemisphaerica (laurel oak)Sabal minor (palmetto) Morella cerifera (wax myrtle)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
low-elevation grassesMonanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
sediment depositionthe rise and fall of the tide deposit fine clay and silt particles in between the concrete berms. This action, over time, results in a ground plane that increases in elevation. The vegetation composition thus changes with the shifting topographies.
t=0 t=100
As more vegetation establishes itself, erosion is mitigated while providing habitat to many species of animals and specifically, endangered migratory birds.
horizontal scale 1:200vertical scale 1:100
Lower Ninth Ward Park extends from Claiborne Avenue to Florida Avenue along the Industrial Canal Levee. It straddles either side of the levee, providing an acknowledgement of the divide, both physically and culturally, that the levee creates. On the eastern side Live Oaks are planted in a single row, providing shade while respecting
the attitude of permanence expressed by the residents. The western side, along the Industrial canal, is placed under a strategy that employs the tidal fluctuations of the canal, which aims to enhance erosion resistance, while increase the biodiversity of vegetation and wildlife.
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high tidehigh tide
low tide low tide
ecotone ecotone woody-herbaceous layermid-elevation grasseslow-elevation grassesOpuntia spp. (prickly pear cactus) Oplismenus hirtellus (basket grass)Ampelopsis arborea (peppervine)Sabal minor (palmetto) Ilex decidua (deciduous holly)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Monanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
ecotone ecotone
mesic hammock forest
mid-elevation grasses
Quercus virginiana (live oak) Ulmus americana (american elm)Salix nigra (black willow)Quercus hemisphaerica (laurel oak)Sabal minor (palmetto) Morella cerifera (wax myrtle)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
low-elevation grassesMonanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
sediment depositionthe rise and fall of the tide deposit fine clay and silt particles in between the concrete berms. This action, over time, results in a ground plane that increases in elevation. The vegetation composition thus changes with the shifting topographies.
t=0 t=100
As more vegetation establishes itself, erosion is mitigated while providing habitat to many species of animals and specifically, endangered migratory birds.
horizontal scale 1:200vertical scale 1:100
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FINAL PROJECT 21
high tidehigh tide
low tide low tide
ecotone ecotone woody-herbaceous layermid-elevation grasseslow-elevation grassesOpuntia spp. (prickly pear cactus) Oplismenus hirtellus (basket grass)Ampelopsis arborea (peppervine)Sabal minor (palmetto) Ilex decidua (deciduous holly)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Monanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
ecotone ecotone
mesic hammock forest
mid-elevation grasses
Quercus virginiana (live oak) Ulmus americana (american elm)Salix nigra (black willow)Quercus hemisphaerica (laurel oak)Sabal minor (palmetto) Morella cerifera (wax myrtle)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
low-elevation grassesMonanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
sediment depositionthe rise and fall of the tide deposit fine clay and silt particles in between the concrete berms. This action, over time, results in a ground plane that increases in elevation. The vegetation composition thus changes with the shifting topographies.
t=0 t=100
As more vegetation establishes itself, erosion is mitigated while providing habitat to many species of animals and specifically, endangered migratory birds.
horizontal scale 1:200vertical scale 1:100
high tidehigh tide
low tide low tide
ecotone ecotone woody-herbaceous layermid-elevation grasseslow-elevation grassesOpuntia spp. (prickly pear cactus) Oplismenus hirtellus (basket grass)Ampelopsis arborea (peppervine)Sabal minor (palmetto) Ilex decidua (deciduous holly)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Monanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
ecotone ecotone
mesic hammock forest
mid-elevation grasses
Quercus virginiana (live oak) Ulmus americana (american elm)Salix nigra (black willow)Quercus hemisphaerica (laurel oak)Sabal minor (palmetto) Morella cerifera (wax myrtle)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
low-elevation grassesMonanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
sediment depositionthe rise and fall of the tide deposit fine clay and silt particles in between the concrete berms. This action, over time, results in a ground plane that increases in elevation. The vegetation composition thus changes with the shifting topographies.
t=0 t=100
As more vegetation establishes itself, erosion is mitigated while providing habitat to many species of animals and specifically, endangered migratory birds.
horizontal scale 1:200vertical scale 1:100
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high tidehigh tide
low tide low tide
ecotone ecotone woody-herbaceous layermid-elevation grasseslow-elevation grassesOpuntia spp. (prickly pear cactus) Oplismenus hirtellus (basket grass)Ampelopsis arborea (peppervine)Sabal minor (palmetto) Ilex decidua (deciduous holly)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Monanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
ecotone ecotone
mesic hammock forest
mid-elevation grasses
Quercus virginiana (live oak) Ulmus americana (american elm)Salix nigra (black willow)Quercus hemisphaerica (laurel oak)Sabal minor (palmetto) Morella cerifera (wax myrtle)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
low-elevation grassesMonanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
sediment depositionthe rise and fall of the tide deposit fine clay and silt particles in between the concrete berms. This action, over time, results in a ground plane that increases in elevation. The vegetation composition thus changes with the shifting topographies.
t=0 t=100
As more vegetation establishes itself, erosion is mitigated while providing habitat to many species of animals and specifically, endangered migratory birds.
horizontal scale 1:200vertical scale 1:100
high tidehigh tide
low tide low tide
ecotone ecotone woody-herbaceous layermid-elevation grasseslow-elevation grassesOpuntia spp. (prickly pear cactus) Oplismenus hirtellus (basket grass)Ampelopsis arborea (peppervine)Sabal minor (palmetto) Ilex decidua (deciduous holly)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Monanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
ecotone ecotone
mesic hammock forest
mid-elevation grasses
Quercus virginiana (live oak) Ulmus americana (american elm)Salix nigra (black willow)Quercus hemisphaerica (laurel oak)Sabal minor (palmetto) Morella cerifera (wax myrtle)
Sabal minor (palmetto) Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)
Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Spartina anglica (common cordgrass)Spartina pectinata (prarie cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Batis maritma (turle weed)
low-elevation grassesMonanthochloe littoralis (shoregrass)Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass)Andropogon glomeratus (bushy bluestem)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
Quercus virginiana (live oak)
sediment depositionthe rise and fall of the tide deposit fine clay and silt particles in between the concrete berms. This action, over time, results in a ground plane that increases in elevation. The vegetation composition thus changes with the shifting topographies.
t=0 t=100
As more vegetation establishes itself, erosion is mitigated while providing habitat to many species of animals and specifically, endangered migratory birds.
horizontal scale 1:200vertical scale 1:100
The rise and fall of the tide deposit fine clay and silt particles in between the concrete berms. This action, over time, results in a ground plane that increases in elevation, which would eventually consume portions of the berms. The vegetation composition thus changes with the shifting
topographies. As more vegetation establishes itself, erosion is mitigated while providing habitat to many species of animals and specifically, endangered migratory birds. The planting strategy corresponds to changes in the elevation, and ideal habitats for the specific vegetation.
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EMERGING FUTURES (solo) 22
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DRAFTING
Technical DrawingI have produced technical drawings that
responded to various contour manipulation, site drainage, and site planning tasks. These
assignments gave me the technical skills as well
as the understanding of how landscapes are
designed, drawn, and constructed.
FINAL PROJECTSite Grading
2008-Present
PROCESSAutoCAD
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TECHNICAL DRAWING 24
DESIGN - BUILD
Clara Tyner GardensA local elementary school was given a grant
to incorporate a tactile learning component
to their waste and plant growth curriculum. I was contacted to design raised planters and
combined compost containers. The students
grow and harvest the crop while contributing to
the compost year round, allowing students to
actively participate in and learn about the life
cycle of their food products.
DESIGN - BUILDCommunity Initiative
2012
COLLABORATORS
Clara Tyner Elementary
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INSTALLATION 26
We Call This a TreeThe installation intended to decontextualize the
content of the projected image and render it
in a foreign manifestation in order to explicitly
separate the relationship between form and
semantics. This was an attempt to further
engage the viewer in understanding the mind’s
projected constructs onto physical forms in a
temporary gallery setting by projecting a video
loop of an aspen forest onto 10’ tall paper strips.
INSTALLATIONMidnight Bazaar
2012
COLLABORATORS
Katie Dolphin
‘Landscapes are formed by a series of
relationships. However, if some of these
relationships can be removed, how does one
experience that which we call a tree, a forest, a city?
A flat, blank canvass is cut, jarred, layered. Evoking a world that is at once familiar,
but somehow present. Like looking at a foreign landscape.
A landscape free of semantics.’
Ryoanji and Shodenji Zen Buddhist Gardens - Kyoto, JapanLake lot landscape design sketch - Wizard Lake, Alberta
RECORDING & PROCESS
SketchbooksRECORDING & PROCESS
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Sketching and drawing are an integral part to my
design studies. This compilation of sketchbook
pages illustrate moments when I have been
thinking with both my head and my hand.
Tadao Ando and Sanaa - Naoshima Island, Japan Les Archives du Coeur | Rice Terraces | Teshima Art Museum - Teshima Island, Japan
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My degree gave me the opportunity to travel abroad with my professors and classmates. We travelled to places such as Barcelona, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, London, New Orleans, and Chicago. These experiences have given me a broad perspective on urban form and many seminal design precedents to draw upon from around the world.
Environmental Design | Mackenzie Page | 2008-2010Academic Travel
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Academic TravelPHOTOGRAPH
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My undergraduate degree gave me the
opportunity to travel abroad with my professors. In multiple trips I have been to Barcelona, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, London, New Orleans, and Chicago. This has exposed
me to many seminal design precedents and
varied cultures. I also travelled independently
throughout Japan and New York in 2012.
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