Kymberly Ware | Work Samples - Winter 2020

Selected Works K Y M B E R LY WARE

BSLA 2019

MLA II 2021

Kymberly Ware CAMBRIDGE, MA (614) 827 5799 KYMBERLYWARE@GSD.HARVARD.EDU As a designer, I am compelled by landscape systems and how gaining a deeper understanding of ecological processes can inform our practice. Whether designing for humans, migratory fish species or pastured livestock, each landscape constituent has unique ways of using the site that designers can use to cultivate a more symbiotic relationship between people and the world around us. My goal as a student and practitioner is to be conscientious of often invisible processes, and to work with and alongside them.

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COASTAL COMMONWEALTH COLLABORATIVE Autumn 2019 - Harvard GSD

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WATERMAN FARM Autumn 2018 - OSU Knowlton School

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PICTORIAL CARTOGRAPHY Spring 2019 - OSU Knowlton School

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WHISKEY ISLAND SOUND Spring 2018 - OSU Knowlton School

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Coastal Commonwealth Collaborative Boston, MA DOWNTOWN BOSTON

Changes in climactic and hydrological activity over the next 50 years will challenge our current jurisdictional definition of “coastline” and the industries that depend on it. Using Boston Harbor’s Designated Port Areas (DPAs) as a focus, the Coastal Commonwealth Collaborative (CCC) envisions how coastal agencies can work to strategically facilitate industrial retreat using localized material processes such as asphalt degradation, sedimentation, erosion, and urban plant succession.

Collaborators: Kongyun He, Angela Moreno-Long, and Chloe Soltis

SOUTH BOSTON

INNER HARBOR

dpas/potential CCC sites designated port areas (dpas) 2070 3’ sea level rise dredged channels

MEDIUM DENSITY RIVER/WATERSHED

HIGH DENSITY

Material Ecology + Dispersal Studies

PORT EDGE

urban surface runoff

Breaking down the cross section from inland Boston to the outer Massachusetts Bay, these studies illustrate the movement of materials like sediment, contaminants, and heavy metals through the system via water disturbance and human dredge activities. These larger scale processes can be used on a smaller site scale to begin to phase out industrial land uses.

Field work conducted at Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum served as a precedent for understanding dispersal, material/metabolic flow, and non-scalability. Focusing on the dawn redwood, these drawings depict how the specimens perform in their native habitat and with human intervention at the arboretum.

contaminent release

nor’easter activity

dredge plume

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stronger deep water currents

shadehouse

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SPECIMEN A 30° 10’N, 108°40’E

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male cones open and pollen is dispersed through wind

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fertilized cones release bracts cones

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bracts germinate to form new seedling

SPECIMEN B 30° 10’N, 108°40’E

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coastline + asphalt excavation

Coastal Commonwealth Collaborative

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existing bulkhead edge

initial seeded grid

deposited dredge mounds

sediment catchment zones

CHELSEA RIVER

Decommission 2020 Choreography of agents is envisioned in the transformation of the Chelsea River DPA from an airport parking lot to a new littoral zone. Army Corps and Massport do the initial work of depositing dredge along the coastline, cutting the coast into catchment zones, and breaking up the asphalt while the EPA continues to monitor plant remediation over time.

asphalt breakdown via growth and weathering new tidal flat

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CHELSEA RIVER

2050

Coastal Commonwealth Collaborative

Plant Actors Plants are long-term actors in the decommissioning of industrial sites.

The above matrix and subsequent rolodex of spontaneous urban species are categorized by function and behavior, with the knowledge that these aggressive species will colonize ground far beyond where they are planted.

exposed soil/ accumulated sediment

exposed compacted soil old weathering material

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recent fracturing material

riprap stones roots

RIPRAP + RHIZOMATOUS ROOTS

ASPHALT + SPREADING ROOTS

EXCAVATED MATERIAL PILES

seeded asphalt grooves

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excavated sediments

Zn zinc Cd cadmium Cu copper Pb lead Na salt excavated sediments

Artmesia vulgaris mugwort Cichorium intybus chicory

organic matter

Lyrthrum salicria purple loosestrife excavated asphalt

WETLAND RESEARCH PARK UPPER ARLINGTON (UA)

proposed bike path

olentangy bike trail FRED BEEKMAN PARK

AGRICULTURAL CAMPUS

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OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

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Waterman Farm Columbus, OH

TURFGRASS RESEARCH

35 acres

SILAGE

RESEARCH

35 acres

70 acres

Using hydrological and circulation patterns as the impetus for design, this project reimagines Ohio State University’s Waterman Farm as a destination with a model multispecies pasture grazing system that engages both public and academic constituents, remediates soils and allows for a more rich research and educational opportunity.

Collaborators: Yujia Kuang and Jessica Muha

OUTREACH GARDENS

SILAGE

8 acres

35 acres DAIRY PASTURES

25 acres

RESEARCH

25 acres

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Current Site Organization

views towards campus + downtown

temporal wetland in silage field

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UA

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NO RTH STA R RO AD

OSU

UA

extended riparian circulation corridor

OSU

Concepts

NEW DAIRY CAMPUS

greenhouse research ctr

orchards

The conceptual framework for this design is centered around the connection of the north and south streams that run though the site by creating an extended riparian corridor.

This corridor dictates circulation and privacy for the site.

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outreach garden/ ecology center

raised bike path

RESEARCH PLOTS

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Proposed Site Plan

NO RTH STA R RO AD

AC KER MA N RO AD

Waterman Farm

relocated soils

wetland/ overlook

RESEARCH PLOTS

poorly drained

soil drainage major swale minor swales

Proposed Hydrology Interventions

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raised bike path seasonal conditions

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wetland path overlook* * wetland overlook drawn by Yujia Kuang * wetland section drawn by Jessica Muha

PASTURE B layer hens

Waterman Farm

PASTURE A sheep

animal storage

Rotational Pasture Scheme

small animal temporary housing

PASTURE C jersey cattle

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jersey/sheep winter housing

feed & equipment storage

Pictorial Cartography High Plains Ecoreigon / Great Plains, USA In many ways, capturing the West has been an elusive task since the earliest colonial maps were drawn. Today, much of the representation of this “hinterland� becomes reduced to areas that are open for urban-industrial imposition. As a result this region, that makes up the majority of the land mass and production in the United States, is often overlooked by designers in the discussion of climate change in favor of the more populated coasts. This project uses pictorial cartography to give character to territory and explore how the ecoreigons of the Great Plains could evolve over the next 50 years in response to climate change.

irrigated land playa lake

filtration

aquifer

plants emerge

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percolation

chemical fissure processes

soil breakdown + expansion

playa lakes

ogallala aquifer western high plains ecoreigon

20% evaporation water filtration

80% percolation water filtration filtration

Manifest Ephemera One of the most pressing issues of the High Plains is the imminent depletion of the ancient Ogallala Aquifer. Playa lakes are ephemeral bodies of water that perform recharge naturally. Thus the design for this ecoreigon is driven by a north-south playa lakes migration corridor that encourages biodiversity, transhumance, rewilding and recharge.

Pictorial Cartography

High Plains Territorial Plan

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Whiskey Island Sound Cleveland, OH In the decades since the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire and the subsequent passage of the Clean Water Act of 1972, the water quality of Cleveland’s river has become substantially more habitable for aquatic wildlife. However, the industrial corridor is dredged and lined with bulkheads that do not facilitate safe passage for native fish populations that migrate between its tributaries and Lake Erie. Whiskey Island Sound proposes the transformation of an abandoned industrial riverfront site into a sanctuary for vulnerable migratory fish that also engages the surrounding community.

Collaborators: Megan Nerici and Daniel Phillips

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Submerged Modules Fenestrated basket modules create an interior edge condition for the site’s canals and are spaces where smaller fish, such as the sunfish or sand shiner, can feed, mate, raise their young or escape from larger predatory species like the white bass. The basket module’s circular, perforated form is transformed and multiplied in various ways across the site to engage both human and fish.

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The Old Cuyahoga River has been a less active industrial corridor since its diversion in the late 19th century. To take advantage of the safer waters, Whiskey Island Sound is programmed as a kayak park for teaching youth from surrounding areas about native fish and how to navigate waters. The park also acts as a small watercraft launch site for the more experienced.

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Whiskey Island Sound

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Kymberly Ware CAMBRIDGE, MA (614) 827 5799 KYMBERLYWARE@GSD.HARVARD.EDU

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