Jessica Wolff Portfolio_2013

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White Bear Lake Residence Sited along the picturesque White Bear Lake in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, the landscape work for this new high-end single family residence required diligence in code investigation, grading and erosion studies, impervious pavement counts, and a correspondence with architectural and site materiality. The design used orthogonal forms that extend the architectural lines into the surrounding landscape context. Screening on the north side of the property was a high priority, as this area fronted a public easement. The client wanted low plant material and structures on the lakeside of the property so as not to obstruct views. A grid of birch trees welcomes site users through the entry and driveway, with uplighting complementing the tree forms at night. A series of iterative design ideas resulted in a final product that exhibited both strong forms and seamless functionality.

Location: Mahtomedi, Minnesota

RETAINING WALL PRAIRIE MEADOW

LOW PLANTING AREA

EASEMENT WALL

SCREENING WALL

SEDUM GREEN ROOF

ENTRY PLANTINGS

MOWN TIRE TREADS

4’-0”

8’-0”

Current Phase: Construction Documents

ENTRY WALL

BIRCH TREE BOSQUE

DECK AND CHAISE LOUNGE AREA

13’-0”

Role: Project Manager, Lead Designer, Graphics Production

7’-0”

3’-0” 11’-0”

5’-0”

11’-6”

5’-0”

Office: Coen+Partners, Minneapolis, Minnesota

12’-0”

33’-9”

17’-0”

Collaborators: Charles Stinson Architects

DOCK IN EXISTING LOCATION

SEATING AREA WITH FIREPIT

BOARDWALK

MOVEABLE BEACH FURNITURE

RETAINING WALLS

WINDOW WELL PLANTINGS

PLANTER

SCHEMATIC MASTER PLAN FINAL CONCEPT - WITH BOARDWALK PERIMETER

WEENIG RESIDENCE / SCHEMATIC MASTER PLAN CONCEPT - WITH BOARDWALK PERIMETER AND ENTRY PLANTINGS WITH SHRUBS AND GRASS 2

ADDRESS SIGN

RETAINING WALL

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Location: Mahtomedi, Minnesota Current Phase: Construction Documents Role: Project Manager, Lead Designer, Graphics Production Collaborators: Charles Stinson Architects Office: Coen+Partners, Minneapolis, Minnesota

White Bear Lake Residence Perspectives and elevations reflect the project’s different iterations of design thought. One part of the schematic design project involved a lakeside storage area which was designed to meet code while also providing a scenic seating area. For cost reasons this part of the design was eliminated, however the structure’s inventive use of board-form concrete was a theme that continued to be discussed throughout the design process.

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Location: Verona, Wisconsin Current Phase: Design Development Role: Project Manager, Designer, Graphics Production Collaborators: Cuningham Group Office: Coen+Partners, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Corporate Campus Green Roof and Entry Plaza This immense green roof project, totaling 450,000SF in site area, necessitated research in technologies related to on-structure planting material and its supportive substrata such as the use of GeoFoam, Etera Sedum Tiles, and faux rock. In order to meet load bearing capacities, these technologies were studied in detail.

The user experience was of utmost concern to the client. As such, renderings exhibited the narrative of site users walking through the various path networks and views from imporant buildings on the campus. Native plant material was chosen in keeping with the surrounding context and to show year-round seasonal interest.

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Location: Verona, Wisconsin Current Phase: Design Development Role: Project Manager, Designer, Graphics Production Collaborators: Cuningham Group Office: Coen+Partners, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Corporate Campus Green Roof and Entry Plaza In addition to the green roof design, the scope of the project entailed an entry plaza, located sixty feet below the top of the green roof. Cavernous entries into the building allowed the design team to create naturalistic rock formations and plant “pockets” on the vertical walls of the entry plaza facade. Due to a high volume of pedestrian activity in the plaza, the rock and vegetative forms within this part of the site had to be placed and shaped in a deliberate manner, allowing for visibility across the plaza and gathering spaces at entry nodes. To match the large scale of the green roof, the plaza materials were stretched across the road into an adjacent stormwater retention area.

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Location: Chicago, Illinois Current Phase: Schematic Design Role: Project Manager, Graphics Production Collaborators: Studio Gang Office: Coen+Partners, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Writers’ Theater Green Roof and Plaza Redesign This green roof and plaza redesign project involved the thoughtful collaboration with Studio Gang in meeting requirements that were LEED-compliant and site-sensitive in response to requests from stakeholders from neighboring properties. Additionally, the landscape design component needed to respond closely to the changes within the interior and facade of the building while also meeting structural and cost demands. The next phase of the project involves more investigation into site detailing and lighting requirements.

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Tulsa Residence Similar to other residential projects that have involved a collaboration between Coen+Partners and Charles Stinson Architects, this project draws from the building armatures and features rectilinear geometries. There was much care taken in saving an existing grove of mature oak trees, which help to provide shade in the hot summers as well as provide the feeling of a mature landscape in the midst of a new construction project. Custom-designed features on the site included a pool, walls, signage, drains and a mailbox.

Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma

CONCEPT A

Current Phase: Construction Administration Role: Project Manager, Designer, Graphics Production Collaborators: Charles Stinson Architects Office: Coen+Partners, Minneapolis, Minnesota

CONCEPT B

ENLARGEMENT AREA

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Tulsa Residence While this high-end residential project in Tulsa, Oklahoma project is currently in the construction administration phase, an additional service agreement allowed for me to assist in designing a water feature and see it constructed shortly after. The three-year-old project is now nearing the end of its installation. Per the client’s request for the water feature to be located in front of the kitchen window, rendered perspectives showed this vantage point. Set within a granite block, recessed rock patterns mimic a nearby flagstone area and provide a shallow water surface in which birds can wade.

Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma Current Phase: Construction Administration Role: Project Manager, Designer, Graphics Production Collaborators: Charles Stinson Architects Office: Coen+Partners, Minneapolis, Minnesota

SMITH RESIDENCE / REVISED CONCEPT

SMITH RESIDENCE / FINALIZED CONCEPT

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Hewlett-Packard Building Entry Plazas This was my first project at EDAW/AECOM to manage from conceptual design through construction observation. The building, located at 6600 Rockledge Drive in Bethesda, MD, was being renovated and the owner wanted to redesign the entrances for the new tenant, Hewlett-Packard. The design concept was to provide an outdoor eating space for the northern entry and a break area for the southern entry. Both entries feature plants that provide year-round ornamental interest.

Location: Bethesda, Maryland Current Phase: Completed in 2009 Role: Project Manager, Lead Designer, Graphics Production Office: EDAW/AECOM, Alexandria, Virginia

Pre-Construction

Post-Construction

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Metro West: Master Plan, Site-Scale Design Plans and Appearance Guidelines EDAW/AECOM’s role on Metro West was initially as a consultant for the master plan of the proposed mixed-use, transit-oriented Smart Growth community. Eventually the scope of EDAW/AECOM’s work expanded to that of designing the parks and streetscapes within the masterplan, as well as developing guidelines for lighting, site furnishings, pavements and Low Impact Development features. The project stressed the importance of walkability, sustainability, and accessibility for the site users.

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1.2 Pedestrian/Vehicular Light

Location: Fairfax, Virginia Current Phase: Completed in 2009 Role: Assistant Project Manager, Designer, Graphics Production Collaborators: Pulte Realty Co.

Figure 1.2.1 Vehicular light

Name of Manufacturer: Cooper lighting Style: Decorative Acorn Product Number: CLB-CVL Mounting Height: 14’

Watts: 100 Color: Black Bulb Type: Metal Halide Spacing (derived from lighting plan): 60’ on center

1.3 Building-Mounted Light

Office: EDAW/AECOM, Alexandria, Virginia

METROWEST

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Figure 1.3.1 Front light of townhome

1.3.1 Front Name of Manufacturer:Sea Gull Lighting.

Product Number: 97045 Mounting Height: 10 ft.

Arm Dimension: 14.5”

Watts: 26 Color: Black Bulb Type: HPS(High Pressure Sodium) Spacing (derived from lighting plan): 24’ on center

Name of Manufacturer: Sea Gull Lighting.

Product Number: 8870-12 Mounting Height: 10 ft.

Arm Dimension: 14.5”

Watts: 100 Color: Black Bulb Type: HPS(High Pressure Sodium) Spacing (derived from lighting plan): 24’ on center 2 . 0 / PAV E RS AND S T RUCT URAL

METROWEST

Figure 2.4 Pavestone “Inltrastone” permeable unit pavers.

Color: River Red

Figure 2.5 4”X8” Hanover Prest Concrete unit.

Color: Quarry Red

Figure 2.6 6”X9” Hanover Prest Concrete unit.

Color: Gettysburge Grey

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Figure 2.7 12”X12” Hanover Prest Concrete unit.

Color: Limestone Grey

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Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Current Phase: Completed in 2009 Role: Project Manager, Lead Designer, Graphics Production Collaborators: Gensler Architects Office: EDAW/AECOM, Alexandria, Virginia

Reed Smith Roof Terraces Reed Smith Roof Terraces was the second project that I managed from conceptual design through construction completion. For the newly constructed Reed Smith Building to obtain LEED certification, the building needed rooftop terraces to be designed. The project abstracted the forms of Pittsburgh’s three rivers on its ground plane to draw users to the west side of the building where the best views of the downtown area were visible. Materials for the pavers and site furnishings were selected based on LEED compliance. The vegetation was chosen so that each season had a plant that showed a feature with the color red as ornamental interest, matching the building’s interior color scheme. Load-bearing standards were of great importance on this project, as well as adhering to sustainability guidelines.

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Government Facility Master Plan Since the EDAW/AECOM office in Alexandria had both planning and design studios, often times designers would assist on planning projects. For this project I had the opportunity to work abroad for 5 weeks, subsequently traveling throughout Japan. My role on the project involved assisting with the production of a master plan and working with the project team to finalize various master planning issues. With this experience I gained a better knowledge of masterplanning and graphics production at a large scale, as well as how to work on a government facility project with an international clientele and an intricate program. The socio-political factors tied to the project added an additional layer of interesting complexity.

Location: Classified Current Phase: Completed in 2008 Role: Master Planner, Graphics Production

Kyoto

Office: EDAW/AECOM, Alexandria, Virginia

Peace Prayer Park, Okinawa

Tokyo

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Location: Washington, D.C. Current Phase: Completed in 2007 Role: Graphics Production Office: EDAW/AECOM, Alexandria, Virginia

Kenilworth Avenue Corridor Study Located in the historic neighborhood of Anacostia, the Kenilworth Avenue Corridor study was prepared by EDAW/AECOM for the Washington D.C. Department of Transportation. These recommendations were developed to transform Kenilworth Avenue into a more pedestrian friendly urban roadway, connecting adjoining communities and neighborhoods. The project also entailed identifying and designing unifying elements such as signage, street furnishings and traffic calming devices to provide a safer and more aesthetically pleasing appearance for both drivers and pedestrians.

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Location: Freshkills Park, New York Competition: 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative Design Competition

Land Art Generator Initiative Design Competition The Land Art Generator Initiative Design Competition was spawned to inspire designers to think about renewable energy interventions in an artful manner. With a team of four people from four different countries, the “Shifting Algae Forest” team proposed to install a “forest” of “algae trees”: tubed structures which created energy from algae production. The trees would extract C02 from the landfill extraction points on the site and create electricity through its conversion.

The submission was one of sixty selected to be published in the Renegerative Infrastructures book about the competition, due out the summer of 2013, and will be exhibited in New York City in August of 2013. The competition organizers have requested that the Shifting Algae Forest team provide additional materials in order to apply for a grant to see one of the algae trees installed at an undisclosed location.

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Land Art Generator Initiative Design Competition 100 ft

Models and diagrams were created to show how the C02 is extracted from the landfill wells and converted into enough energy to supplant 720 algae trees, or 3,153 American homes per year. LED lights within the tubes highlight the algae production at night, providing a spectacle during the day and night.

The random LED light rings producing showering down confetti effect along the algae three height.

80 ft

LED light ring over tube connectors

60 ft 40 ft contineous electical wire along borosilicate glass tubing

20 ft 0 ft

ground varies

tubing connectors

Part of the puduced methane gas will be used to produce electricity to light up the algae tree at night

West plot (section 2/8)

Blow up detail

borosilicate glass tubing

Blow up detail

20,000 East plot (section 6/7)

Location: Freshkills Park, New York

15,000

10,000

5,000

0 landfill gas flow (CFM)

algae tree at night

Harvest and process

2012

2020

2030

2040

2050

Algae fuel

Competition: 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative Design Competition

borosilicate glass tubing

Going vertical means mean more algae oil production in the same given square feet

From follows sunlight; by hollowing the center and giving the torque form to an algae tree, the natural light is transmitted evenly light through out the tree body

The trees height are determined by the amount of CO2 emission from the landfill site, yeilding more algae oil production.

the algae trees body is a looped unit of photobiroreactor systems, made by borosilicate glass tubing

Variable algae concentrations and successions produce an array of vivid colors – from pale green to bright red – in the algae trees

CO2

NH2, O2, H2

NMOC

CH4

LANDFILL

7,135 feet long of 4” Dia. (1.05 ft circumference) photobiroreactor glass tubes

Each tree will theorically yield

61 barrels

(2,580 gallons) of crude oil/ year

The whole forest will theorically yield 44,228 Barrels (1,857,600 gallons) of crude oil/ year

The SAF (Shifting Algae Forest) can

supply 3,153 american homes per year

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International Garden Festival Design Competition Submission Redford Gardens “That’s MOSSed UP!” was a submission with one other teammate for the International Garden Festival. The premise of the design is moss growth as art. Using a series of wall facades, the site users can either choose to graffiti a wall with paint, “paint” a wall with a moss graffit mixture, add moss provided in troughs to a wall, or subtract moss from a wall that is already filled with mature moss. The site user who uses the moss graffiti mixture to “paint” their creation can see their creation flourish over time with the help of a smart phone app that logs the moss growth on the walls.

Paint Zone

Location: Redford Gardens Jardins de Métis Grand-Métis, Quebec, Canada Competition: 2012 International Garden Festival Design Competition

that’s

up!

(-) Wall Scratch away your Mossage!

(+) Wall Paint Zone

Add Moss with Moss Paint or Moss Remnants!

As cities and suburbs overpopulate, green areas are overtaken by paved areas. With more hardscape comes less park space, parks are overtaken by parking.

In revolt, urban dwellers have increasingly taken issue with the lessening of green to the extent that a movement continues to gain popularity. Guerilla Gardening, or the illegal gardening of public lands, tackles the lessening of green in cities by means of invoking humor, artistic expression, and an infusion of ecology.

That’s Mossed Up! uses the plant medium of moss as an interactive art form. With moss’s ability to take on a variety of forms, it allows site users to evoke a sort of moss graffiti of their choosing. The site user starts their creation with colored moss paint and over time the creation grows into an living art piece. After 6 weeks the site user Paint Walls (Exterior Sides) receives a text “mossage” of their creation.

(+) Wall

While one wall is blank for the addition of moss, the other wall is moss-covered and scratched away, its remnants being available to add to the blank wall. Thus the walls are a recycling of moss material; added and deducted, reduced and reformed.

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Materials Palette Hardscape

Moss Deposit Mounds

Beginning Condition

Type: Granite Pea Gravel Location: Ground Plane Base

Type: CMU Block (Painted White) Type: Teak Wood Location: Walls Location: Benches

Type: Rock Cap Moss Location: Entry Wall, Central Mounds , (-) Wall

Type: Moss Acres Moss Milkshake™ Location: (+) Wall

Type: Sod Location: Ground Plane of Interior

Assortment of Paintbrushes

Non-Toxic Paint Location: (+) Wall

Non-Toxic Spray Paint Location: Graffiti Walls

Plants

That’s Mossed Up! encourages the site viewer to contemplate the perception of beauty in the city context, redefining the idea of vandalism in the form of natural, growing, art forms.

Moss Paint Materials

Potential Conditions with the use of Moss Paint + Moss Milkshake and Moss Remnants from other Walls

Entry Wall

Paint Zone

This wall will remain untouched since its installation, and will act as an entry sign into the exhibit

(-) Wall Watch your MOSSage grow over time...

Beginning Condition

Potential Conditions with the method of scracthing away moss to put add to the (+) Wall

(-) Wall Scratch away your Mossage!

(+) Wall Paint Zone

Add Moss with Moss Paint or Moss Remnants!

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Location: Dessau, Germany Course: Energy Landscapes 3.0 Program Semester: Summer 2011 School: Bauhaus School of Architecture

Study Aboard Program and Festival Exhibition Bauhaus School of Architecture Energy Landscapes 3.0 Program In the summer of 2011, I participated in a summer program which focused on energy landscapes, more specifically those in the western European mega-region. My studio course involved creating renewable energy business plans for a prosumer, and working with other prosumers (other students) with their renewable energy systems in order to create a larger regional energy infrastructure.

The work from the summer program was exhibited at the Festival Über Lebenskunst in Berlin, Germany.

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Graduate School Thesis Extractive/Energetic: The Adapative Reuse of Minescapes as Landscapes of Renewable Energy in the Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania As part of my masters of landscape architecture program, I had the option of choosing to do thesis. Coupled with classes in brownfield remediation and studying patterns of regionalization, I decided to study the anthracite coal mining region of northeastern Pennsylvania. The coal mining industry in this region is currently undergoing a monumental shift due to waning economies, lagging infrastructure and environmental damage. For this thesis project, I made contacts in anthracite coal region and performed several site visits.

Location: Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania Course: MLA Thesis GSD 9341 Semester: Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Advisor: Niall Kirkwood School: Harvard Graduate School of Design

The thesis preparation included the production of a document that included research findings, a thesis statement and abstract, precedents, and graphics to support the research. The thesis final product was a design that implements site scale prototypes of mine sites that are reused as renewable energy venues, which could be applied to sites across the region. The 3-acre Huber Breaker site in Ashley Pennsylvania is currently the testing lab for this thesis project, with experiments being done with geothermal energy in former underground mine sites, and solar energy on open pit mining sites.

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Graduate School Thesis Extractive/Energetic: The Adapative Reuse of Minescapes as Landscapes of Renewable Energy in the Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania In studying the landscapes affected by mines, I defined several types of “minescapes” that coexist: open pit mines, deep underground mines, reclaimed mines, and supporting infrastructures (collieries, breakers, etc.). The mines exhibit irreparable damage to the landscape and have resulted in damaging effects to the region’s groundwater such as acid mine drainage (shown in the bottom left photo).

Location: Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania Course: MLA Thesis GSD 9341 Semester: Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Advisor: Niall Kirkwood School: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Site photos taken as part of the thesis research. Photos are Huber Breaker, the thesis site and formerg coal production facility for coal mining activities in Ashley showing open pit coal mines and neighboring contaminated and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. This particular type of breaker structure is the last of its kind still in watersheds in the northeastern Pennsylvania anthracite existence. coal mining region.

Visions from the anthracite coal mining territory: acid mine drainage, coal mining nomenclature, and waste coal or “culm” piles abutting residences.

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Graduate School Thesis Extractive/Energetic: The Adapative Reuse of Minescapes as Landscapes of Renewable Energy in the Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania The research for the project involved multiscaled mapping studies, socio-economic analysis, and comparative analysis with global mining industries. As part of the thesis research, a video was created in order to develop a narrative and showcase the multiple site visits that were taken to the site and region.

Location: Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania Course: MLA Thesis GSD 9341 Semester: Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Advisor: Niall Kirkwood School: Harvard Graduate School of Design

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NREL Mapping Tool for sites of renewable energy over brownfields The above shows regional analysis drawings, depicting coal formations within the anthracite coal mining region of northesatern Pennsylvania. Coal formations overlay sites of renewable energy potential.

Global Coal Production and Coal Reserves Statistics

Above: Screen shot images from a video that was created for Above: The anatomy of an open coal mine, with comparative the purpose of thesis research and analysis. statistics from today and at the height of the industry’s production.

Below: Coal mining statistics across the globe.

Below: The Huber Breaker thesis site with associated buildings and underground coal mining network.

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Location: Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania Course: MLA Thesis GSD 9341 Semester: Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Advisor: Niall Kirkwood School: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Graduate School Thesis Extractive/Energetic: The Adapative Reuse of Minescapes as Landscapes of Renewable Energy in the Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania Modeling of the site was essential for this thesis project, and uncovered layers of coal mining history in the process. Both digital models and foam physical models assisted in understanding the open pit and underground coal mines in relation to the site proper. Underground coal mines lay beneath the Huber Breaker site. They follow the undulating coal seams and still have “rooms”, some of which are filled with ground water.

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Location: Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania Course: MLA Thesis GSD 9341 Semester: Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Advisor: Niall Kirkwood School: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Graduate School Thesis Extractive/Energetic: The Adapative Reuse of Minescapes as Landscapes of Renewable Energy in the Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania The design intervention involved the creating plots of plant material that reflected the same pattern of coal mine rooms below the surface, and at the same scale. In this way, site users could understand the size of the coal rooms as they existed, and continue to exist. The plots feature plant material that helps in the phytoextraction process of converting toxic soils to non-toxic soils.

After the plants have finished the phytoextraction process, they are cut down and used for conversion to biomass energy, burned in the reused former coal breaker structures.

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Location: Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania Course: MLA Thesis GSD 9341 Semester: Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Advisor: Niall Kirkwood School: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Graduate School Thesis Extractive/Energetic: The Adapative Reuse of Minescapes as Landscapes of Renewable Energy in the Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania Biomass planting strategies include biomass as phytoextraction, biomass as grasslands biomass as crop material, and biomass as engineered wetland. Each of these uses biomass as a renewable energy form, creating an alternative fuel to that of coal. A research and developent center allows for futher investigation into the effectiveness of these strategies on-site.

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Location: Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania Course: MLA Thesis GSD 9341 Semester: Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Advisor: Niall Kirkwood School: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Graduate School Thesis Extractive/Energetic: The Adapative Reuse of Minescapes as Landscapes of Renewable Energy in the Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania The renewable energy iniatives work in concert with the existing coal breaker structures on site to produce a site that harkens back to the history of coal mining while exploring the future of alternative energy systems. An additional energy layer involves the extraction of underground minewater for geothermal energy.

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Location: Hamburg, Germany

Water City Hamburg: The Missing Link The Water City Hamburg studio entailed individual designs for an upcoming building IBA competition site in the area south of Hamburg, Germany. The purpose of the studio was to reconnect Hamburg with the city of Wilhelmsburg through a series of design interventions through canalization and programming the site for residents and event spaces. My project proposed using existing topography that was formerly a highway to be reused as a bikeway, extending canals to the south of the site to connect adjacent communities, and adding green spaces around central nodes to provide for potential building exhibition areas.

Course: GSD 1407 Water City Hamburg: Ths Missing Link Instructor: Henri Bava Semester: Spring 2010 School: Harvard Graduate School of Design

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Location: Hamburg, Germany Course: GSD 1401 The Greek City of Edessa: Search for a Sustainable Future Instructor: Martha Schwartz Semester: Fall 2009 School: Harvard Graduate School of Design

The Greek City of Edessa: Search for a Sustainable Future The Greek City of Edessa studio explored the complexities of a city trying to support a lagging cconomy and struggling tourist industry while embracing its existing natural features. My project site involved the design of a pak including a mix of active recreation uses and interconnected pathways linking an existing lake and canals with a proposed soccer stadium.

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Location: Rome, Italy Course: LARCH 499B Fourth Year Instructor: Pia Schneider Semester: Spring 2004 School: The Pennsylvania State University Sedi di Roma Study Abroad Program

Sedi di Roma Study Abroad Piazza Navona Site Analysis Project This studio challenged students to study a piazza in depth while using as few words as possible in the presentation. Piazza Navona was where I was living for the semester. The lively piazza proved to be an ideal study ground for such elements as stormwater patterns, architectural character, sun/shade analysis, olfactory/auditory effects, views, density, land use, pedestrian circulation, history, and spatial concepts.

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Selected Oil Paintings