Studio work from the Landscape Architecture Program at SUNY ESF
Off Campus Semester |
Chain Works District Ithaca, NY |
Nature Play |
Off Campus Semester |
Chain Works District Ithaca, NY |
Nature Play |
Off Campus - Berlin5th Year Off Campus - Fall semester 2016 |
As part of the five year landscape architecture program at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), I spent the fall semester of my fifth year living in Berlin, Germany. From August to November 2016 I worked on an independent project designed and proposed the previous year, conducted a field study, kept a project notebook, and sketchbook/journal. Click on one of the images to the left to view my project report, sketchbook, or Field study.
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Most of the semester was dedicated to research, synthesis, analysis and design for this 95 acre post industrial site in Ithaca, NY. Each stage of the project was done in groups. See the work I contributed to by clicking the button on the left.
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This was an independent project with a short time frame of two weeks. Each student in my studio designed a playground and presented it to members of the Village of Cazenovia.
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This small island in Newark Bay is just north of Staten Island and is close enough to swim to if swimming was allowed along this old industrial coastline. The abandoned island has gone through a dynamic history: in early times it was used as a hunting retreat, later expanded and industrialized for shipbuilding, and eventually abandoned, leaving it to become a popular spot for nesting waterbirds birds including egrets and other sensitive species. Today Shooters Island has been designated as a bird sanctuary although only a few significant birds dare to choose this island as their nesting place. Our challenge for the semester was to take inspiration from this island and study the processes that act upon it and learn to represent these concepts and processes graphically. The process and the expected product was very open ended and each design group was encouraged to explore, research, and design to create a large 'mash up' drawing of or resulting ideas. The design Extending Tides is a mix of data analysis, representation of coastal wetland processes, and a proposal for this abandon island just off of the declining industrial coastline of Staten Island.
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These hand drawn details were drawn as a final assignment for the Materials and Structures class taught by Tim Toland at SUNY ESF.
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Montezuma heritage park is a located in the small town of Montezuma with is most known for its large wildlife refuge. Design and analysis for this site was done over 9 or 10 weeks. Analysis and research was done in groups and the design phase was done individually. Professors for this studio were Martin Hogue and Margaret Bryant
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Helen McKitt park is a small piece of land along Cazenovia Lake. The park currently has no markings other than a small sign and driveway. The driveway leads into a parking lot set back in the woods and people have made their own trails down to the water to launch small boats and enter the lake for ice fishing. Our studio did a series of Charrettes to create design alternatives for the future state park.
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