PAIGE SWOPE-GINLEY
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture 2024
The Pennsylvania State University
PAIGE SWOPE-GINLEY
Cambridge MA | 617-710-3193 | Pjs5967@psu.edu
About Me
Landscape architecture student at Penn State University with goals to create vibrant, engaging spaces that foster sustainability and embody the values of the communities they serve.
Education
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
August 2020 - May 2024
Experience Generous Earth Gardens | Summer 2023-Fall 2023
Arlington, Massachusetts
Conducted on-site measurements, contributed to designs, and assisted in field installations
Derby Farm Flowers & Gardens | Summer 2022
Arlington, Massachusetts
Designed flower arrangements and cared for seasonal and perennial plants
Starter at Fresh Pond Golf Course | Summer 2021
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Controlled pace of play on the golf course while assisting customers
Involvement
Landscape Architecture Student Society | 2020 - Present
Arts Ambassador Program | 2021 - Present
Welcome new students and give prospective students and families tours of campus
Kakos Trustee Scholarship Arts & Architecture | 2021 - 2022
Awarded on excellence
Rhode Island Living Reef
Cemeteries as Spaces For Nature
Lancaster PA - Fall 2020 - 4 weeks
The purpose of this project is to increase public access to cemeteries. By rethinking creatively about cemeteries there are opportunities to add a significant amount of open space to the neighborhood in Lancaster PA.
Current Site
River Trail
Project Limit
Cemeteries 48
Multipurpose trail
Cemeteries
Planter Forest + Natural Organic Reduction
The process creates soil and saves an estimated one metric ton of carbon per person compared to a traditional burial. This soil can placed in one of the permeable ceramic planters to flourish in the forest.
Green park space is very limited in the SE quadrant due to the density and the large cemeteries that take up 21% of all landuse in the city.
Greenwood Cemetery redesign integrates converted paths for biking and running alongside existing roads, with the addition of a riverside trail through a planter forest.
Planter Timeline
Riverside Trail
Families pick
Planter vegetation
Permeable Planters
Space to reflect
Multipurpose Trails
Paths for biking, Running, Walking
Seating Area
Existing & New Vegetation
Rhode Island Living Reef
Charlestown
RI - Spring 2023 - 6 weeks
For this project, I collaborated with Annette Gill, a research professor of ocean engineering at the University of Rhode Island, to design a living reef off the coast of Charlestown, Rhode Island. By reducing beach erosion and wave energy, this reef will protect the shoreline.
Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge
Charlestown Breachway
Green Hill Pond
Trustom Pond
Habitat & Recreation
Reef Design
SPECIES
Scup
Blue Crab
Blue Mussel Shirmp
Tautog
Atlantic Cod
Blue Fish
Striped Bass
American Lobster
Flounder
Reef Balls
Reef Shelves
Sandy Slope
Jan Loh Platz
Bonn, Germany - Fall 2023 - 3 weeks
For this design I was tasked with transforming an existing space in Bonn to mitigate heat, capture storm water and create space for recreation and leisure.
Existing
Heat Mitigation
Stormwater Management
Tree Canopy Impermeable Surfaces
Proposed
Rain Garden
Bike Shelter
Oxeye Daisy Meadow Foxtail Yarrow Wild Bergamot
European White Birch
Winding Meadow
State College, PA - Fall 2022 - 3 weeks
Winding Meadow is a planting master plan for the Millennium Science Complex on Penn States campus. This design transforms the lifeless existing lawn into a vibrant micro meadow.
Construction Document
