CONTENTS
3 Activating Agriculture, 601 Studio, PennDesign, 2016
9 Rhizomatic Roots and Lateral Shoots, 502 Studio, PennDesign, 2016
14 The Oasis of Memory, 501 Studio, PennDesign, 2015
17 Designers Field Guide, Ecology Workshop, 2015
21 Selected work, GSD Summer Intensive, 2014
23 A few sketches, 2015-2016
24 Prints, Vassar College, 2007
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Activating Agriculture
Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
Studio 601
Instructor: Ellen Neises
ACTIVATING AGRICULTURE
WEAVING AGRICULTURE+ INDUSTRY + TOURISM
TO REIMAGINE THE FUTURE OF FARMING
LEHIGH VALLEY, PA
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agricultural and vacant lands
agricultural preservation area
aricultural security area
agricultural easments
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A ribbon of high-value agriculture cuts through the cash-crop landscape, with agricultural
runoff draining to a retention and treatment pond. Bottom: Industrial maple syrup tapping
provides one backdrop among many for multi-use recreational trails.
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Strange agricultural intensifications provide new uses for
post-quarry structures and lands: blueberries and apiary, flood-
plain mushroom forest.
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The pastoral agricultural viewshed of the Lehigh Valley is chal-
lenged by juxtapositions with industry, energy, and excavation
landscapes; resulting in a new understanding of regional identity.
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LATERAL SHOOTS
AND RHIZOMATIC ROOTS
Lateral Shoots and Rhizomatic Roots
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Studio 502
Instructor: Karen McCloskey
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Zelkova Serrata
Japanese zelkova
Gingko biloba
Gingko
Acer campestre
Hedge maple
Carpinus caroliniana
American hornbeam
Taxodium distichum
Bald cypress
Amelanchier grandiflora
Serviceberry or shadbush
Gleditsia tricanthos
Thornless honeylocust
Persica parrotia
Persian parrotia
Acer rubrum
Red maple
Platanus occidentalis
London planetree
Existing trees
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YEAR 01 YEAR 10 YEAR 20 YEAR 30
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The Oasis of Memory
Studio 501
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Nicholas Pevzner
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EXISTING
PROPOSED
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Designers Field Guide
Ecology Workshop
Eastern US Physiographic Provinces
Instructor: Sally Willig
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Losing Ground, Gaining Distinction
Ecology Workshop
New Jersey Shore
Instructor: Sally Willig
Partners: Prakul Pottapu Reddy, Jingyi Hu
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Geomorpologic Breaks
Ecology Workshop
Eastern US Physiographic Provinces
Instructor: Sally Willig
Partner: Prakul Pottapu Reddy
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Soil Profiles of the Piedmont Geographic Province
Ecology Workshop
Willisburg Preserve, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Sally Willig
CONOWINGO SILT LOAM CHROME SILT LOAM WATCHUNG SILT LOAM COKESBURY SILT LOAM GLADSTONE GRAVEL LOAM
CwB ChB2/ChC2 WaA CpA GdB
Weathered from serpentine. Weathered from serpentine. Weathered from serpentine. Weathered from gneiss. Weathered from gneiss.
Serpentine Virginia Pine - Oak For- Serpentine Prairie. Serpentine Seepage Wetland. Red Maple Swamp. Tulip - Maple - Beech Forest.
est.
O: .25-.5 Fast decomposition of O: .25-.5 grass O: 3-4 Thick accumulation of O. O: Very little O. Earthworm casts and a few
Oi: 1 Pine needles, oak leaves. leaves. Decomposing grasses, deer A: 2 Darker soil, roots. Hydric soil; spongy, saturated to tree leaves.
Oe: 1 More decomposed. scat, Virginia pine needles. B: Clay, silty clay. Finer texture. surface. Sulfuric smell. Roots. A: 14 deep. Very deeppotentially due to
A: Color: 7.5YR 3/2; dark brown. A: .5-3 Rooty, coarse materials. Mottled (multi-color) with red spots. A: 1 More decomposed. over-thickening from erosion. Roots pres-
Ribbons <1, gritty. Silt loam. Small 7.5YR 2.5/1 black (charcoal). 7.5YR 3/2 matrix predominantly B/C: Mineral, sandy, sandy-loam. ent. Silt loam. Smooth. No ribbon.
roots. No earthworms seen. Doesnt ribbon, coarse fragments: dark brown/gray. 5YR3/3 Color of Coarse. Gray. 10YR 3/1 very dark B/C: Dark yellowish-brown. High chroma.
B: To bottom of pit at 10 depth. silt loam with fragments. No earth- red mottling gray. 10YR 3/4.
Larger roots. Color: 7.5YR 5/6; worms seen. R: Estimated 60-99 to bedrock R: Estimated 20-30 to fragipan. R: Estimated greater than 60 to bedrock.
strong brown. Ribbons out to just R: Bedrock refusal at 3. refusal.
about 1. Smooth. Silty clay loam.
Btclay accumulating.
R: Estimated 42-60 to bedrock
refusal.
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Printmaking Studio
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
Instructor: Harry Roseman
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