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HALLIE MORRISON

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

For this regional-scale studio we were tasked with de-


veloping new potentials for the Lehigh Valley economy.
Activating Agriculture reimagined the future of farming
in the Lehigh Valley by envisioining a regional center for
agriculture and proposing new high value and unusual
agronomies. The intervention is located at a dynamic site
combining the relics and quarries of a former cement
plant and agricultural lands on the Delaware River. This
site and its programming juxtaposed unexpected industri-
al elements with pastoral and high-intensity agriculture,
testing and reframing the pastoral identity of the Lehigh
Valley. The project elicited excitement and support of Le-
high Valley representatives, planners, and residents.

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

MARKET OPPORTUNITY UNDERUTILIZED ASSETS + MARTINS CREEK \ ALPHA CEMENT


$17million AG SIGNIFICANCE SITE SUITABILITY
annual agricultural revenue +50% loss of farmland since 1930 +iconic alpha cement structure
could increase to
+95% of lehigh valley residents strongly +prime farmland
$100million
if local households spent just $10/
agree with agricultural preservation +delaware river access
week on locally grown food in season +25% of current ag lands preserved through easement and +dynamic quarry landscape
zoning, 7% of Lehigh Valleys total land area +gateway to scenic route 611
$1.5billion +farms are lehigh valley viewshed +iconic viewshed
spent annually by lehigh valley +historical and cultural value +industrial elements
households on food
+provide ecosystem services +rail to hunts point, NY food distribution center
+regionally cheap land, low taxes +100+ acres farm field, 250+ acres
$30billion
spent annually by new yorkers +lehigh food insecurity quarry lands and lake
on food +access to huge regional markets +90 mins to nyc, phila by car
+global need for ag intensification

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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

For this studio I proposed an urban nursery park inspired


by Mexico Citys Viveros Coyoacan and Deleuze and Guat-
taris concept of lateral shoots and rhizomatic roots.

This is a working landscape situated within and respon-


sive to the current site conditions (post-industrial lots
in a big box strip). It is a strategic response to the Urban
Heat Island effect, which kills more people annually than
all other natural disasters combined in the US. Philadel-
phia is one of the most pronounced heat islands in the in
the country and this area of the city has been identified
as having highest potential for increasing tree canopy to
combat UHI. Im proposing a working urban nursery that
will create public buy-in for the project as a demonstra-
tion, distribution, education and resource center.

The entire grounds of the public-facing nursery park are


accessible to the public and features trees as experience,
trees as topography and nursery as theater. Areas are re-
served for public park programming; an education center
and greenhouse; playground; great lawn; floating lawn;
BBQ pier; and maintenance area. The park connects the
city and Delaware River waterfront and creates a water-
front promenade that stitches this site to the proposed
Delaware River Trail. Topo and major path circulation are
regulated by the working nursery program.

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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

0 6,000 26,000 50,000


TREES SUPPLIED TREES SUPPLIED TREES SUPPLIED TREES SUPPLIED

PARK STRUCTURE + NURSERY STOCK OVER TIME

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The Oasis of Memory
Studio 501
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Nicholas Pevzner

For this project we were asked to consider meanings of


nature, infrastructure, and urbanity while working at the
site of the former Glendinning Rock Garden in Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania.

After extensive historical research and onsite exploration


, and considering the existing and former placement of
soil, rock, water, and ruin (or built walls and stairs), my
intention was to recover the most productive layers of in-
frastructure to reimagine the sites future. This resulted in
a daylighting and reframing of the former reservoir and
restoring the historical stream hydrology of the site.

The site is located within an Audubon Important Bird


Area and is a critical juncture on the Atlantic Flyway. I
re-organized the site as a series of bird-habitat zones that
also provide a diverse set of human experience: rock,
deciduous forest, wet meadow, and shrub forest. Traces of
formers uses of the site to dictate suitability for each hab-
itat. A series of three gestural paths organized around the
resewrvoir transcend zones; while. a new path connects
the Brewerytown neighborhood to the river.

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EXISTING

PROPOSED

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Designers Field Guide
Ecology Workshop
Eastern US Physiographic Provinces
Instructor: Sally Willig

Designers Field Guide is the final project of the 500 Ecolo-


gy Workshop. A published, bound monograph, it explores
the physiographic provinces of the Eastern United States,
combining field observations and sketches with informa-
tion on geology, plant communities, and wildlife.

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Losing Ground, Gaining Distinction
Ecology Workshop
New Jersey Shore
Instructor: Sally Willig
Partners: Prakul Pottapu Reddy, Jingyi Hu

Within a given climatic regime, soil properties are the major


factor governing ecosystem processes... The soil properties of
an ecosystem result from the dynamic balance of two oppos-
ing forces: soil formation and soil loss... (Principles of Terres-
trial Ecosystem Ecology; Chapin et al 2011; 2nd Ed. Sppringer)

Island Beach State Park is a coastal barrier island on the


northeast Atlantic coast of the US. Inland from the beach,
but still on the outer coastal plain, are the New Jersey Pine
Barrens. Both landscapes share sandy, acidic soil condi-
tions.

Our map explores the relationshipof erosion factors at the


two sites. Despite the differences in location the two sites
rpoved to have the same primary erosioon drivers.
(Only one of a series of maps shown.)

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Geomorpologic Breaks
Ecology Workshop
Eastern US Physiographic Provinces
Instructor: Sally Willig
Partner: Prakul Pottapu Reddy

The Atlantic seaboard fall line refers to a zone of geologic


differentiation between two physiographic provinces: the
Inner Coastal Plain and the Piedmont. This sectional por-
trait represents the geologic layers across the two regions.
It spans from Philadelphias Fairmount Park, across the
Schuylkill River to Mount Holly in New Jersey. Hydrolog-
ically speaking the layers can be grouped into two basic
categories: aquifers and aquitards. This section attends to
the characteristics of the geologic layeres which determine
thie ability to hold and confine watere. A marbling tech-
nique was used to create a range of textures reminiscent
of the geologic makeup, with darker colors representing
aquitards and lighter colors aquifers.

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Soil Profiles of the Piedmont Geographic Province
Ecology Workshop
Willisburg Preserve, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Sally Willig

This is a descriptive exploration of the soils found at the


Willisburg Preserve in Pennsylvania. Rare serpentinite
bedrock exists in close proximity to a more common
gneiss; giving rise to different soil consiitons and a variety
of plant and wildlife communities.

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

This page: an experiment in intaglio printmaking.

Next page: two prints from a six-image series: Year in the


Hudson Valley.

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