General Design Award of Excellence
Vacant Lot Library
Cecil Howell, Student ASLA
General Design Category
Award of Excellence
Vacant Lot Library
Cecil Howell, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: David Meyer
San Francisco is dotted with vacant lots, unused and often forgotten spaces concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods of the city.
This project proposes creating a network of outdoor libraries within vacant lots. By converting these spaces into learning landscapes,
San Francisco will invest in the knowledge of it’s citizens and transform the forgotten into public spaces that help support creativity, education and community, the foundation for a truly sustainable city.
Honor Awards
Wormsloe: Reenvisioning a Cultural Landscape
Wes Ryals, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: David Spooner, ASLA and Doug Pardue, Associate ASLA
Embracing Winter
Yekaterina Yushmanova, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: Alf Simon, Catherine P. Harris and Peter Stacey
Building Resilience: The Re-Charging of Tobago's Buccoo Reef Through Electro-Accumulation and Sustainable Infrastructure
Zahra Awang, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Robert Wright
Ephemeral Boundaries
Brennan Baxley, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Roberto Rovira, ASLA
Biophones
Nicholas Glover, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Ken McCown, ASLA
Puddlescape: Freshwater Marsh and the Urban Matrix
Delia Kulukundis, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: Jorg Sieweke and Kristina Hill
Living Scaffold: Reimagining the Continental Bridge
Christina Sohn, Sutdent ASLA and James W.T. Yan, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Jason Sowell
Residential Design Category
Honor Awards
Homegrown: A Residential Guide To Edibility
Vanessa Gilbert, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Meg Calkins, ASLA
Productive End Walls
Cai Hanwei Leonard, Student Affiliate ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Jörg Rekittke and Hwang Yun Hye
Analysis and Planning Category
Award of Excellence
Sh*tscape: Mumbai's Landscape In-Between
Bret Betnar, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: Anuradha Mathur, ASLA and Dilip da Cunha
Sh*tscape, Mumbai’s Landscape In-Between focuses on the Appapada Quarry in the northern Mumbai suburb of Malad East. It addresses the issue of informal settlements and sanitation at the western boundary of Sanjay Gandhi National Park. This project will propose the making of an entirely functioning landscape built from human excreta. It will recover the ‘soil’ from the settlements while extracting the beneficial flora from the forest and, in turn, utilize both as a generator for a new and evolving landscape.
Honor Awards
Newfoundlandscape: Landscape as Rural Outport Regenerator
Matthew A. J. Brown, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Alissa North
The Jordan Valley's New Border Reality
Fadi Masoud, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Liat Margolis
Last Grain: Revising the End of the Fossil Fuel Era and Canada's Oil Sands Legacy
Kyle Xuekun Yang, Associate ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Alissa North
Filling the Gap: A new Productive Landbuilding Process for New Orleans, Louisiana
Stefania Mariotti, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Jane Wolff
Northern Capital: A Potential Future for the Mackenzie River Delta
Alessandro Colavecchio, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Peter North
Ecology as Industry
Gyoung Tak Park, Student ASLA; Haein Lee, Student ASLA and Soomin Shin, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Pierre Bélanger, ASLA and Nina-Marie Lister
Designing the Ecology of Democracy
Emily Bonifaci, Student ASLA; Alexis Canter, Student ASLA; Jenelle Clark, Student ASLA; Ilana Cohen, Student ASLA; Casey Elmer, Student ASLA; Julie Gawendo, Student ASLA; Matthew Girard, Student ASLA; Eamonn Hutton, Student ASLA; Diane Lipovsky, Student ASLA; Nilay Mistry, Student Affiliate ASLA; Izabela Riano, Student ASLA; Kerry Rutz, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Gary R. Hilderbrand, FASLA
Riparian Urbanism
Haley Heard, Student Affiliate ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: Alan Berger and Rahul Mehrotra
Communications Category
Award of Excellence
Tactical Operations in the Informal City
Andrew Christopher tenBrink, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Christian Werthmann
13 students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design developed, with the assistance of São Paulo’s Social Housing Agency Sehab, design tactics for the 30,000 person favela, Cantinho do Céu, in the South of São Paulo. The results allow us a glimpse into the future of slum upgrading, leading to a more integrative and tactical design practice.
Honor Awards
NativeSpec™
Nicholas Serrano, Student ASLA and Brittany Harvey, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: Martha Hunt and Bob Koester
Your Fault
Jonathan Avila, Student ASLA; Travis Gramberg, Student ASLA and Ryan Honeybourne, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: Andrew Wilcox, ASLA and Bud Sutton
Interactive Ecoregional Management Plan (I.E.M.P.)
Shannon Nowell, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: Andrew Wilcox, ASLA; Claire Latane, ASLA and Keiji Uesugi, ASLA
Research Category
Award of Excellence
The Cooling Ability of Urban Parks
Graham Slater, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Robert D. Brown and Terry Gillespie
This study investigated the potential of urban parks to mitigate the urban heat island effects of their surroundings. Results indicated that parks were up to 7°C cooler than their surrounding streets, and that park cooling, while variable, can extend almost 100m beyond a park’s boundaries. From this research, it is possible to generate design implications that can inform urban park and street design, creating cooler neighborhoods, increased human thermal comfort, and climate-sensitive design.
Honor Awards
Discovering the Grand Canal Heritage in the Changing Landscape
Xi Xuesong, Student Affiliate ASLA; Chen Lin, Student Affiliate ASLA and Xu Liyan, Student Affiliate ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: Kongjian Yu, International ASLA and Dihua Li
Flood, Flow, Flux: Livelihoods on the Kafue Flats, Zambia
Allegra Churchill, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA; Kristina Hill, Affiliate ASLA and Nisha Botchwey
Community Service
Award of Excellence
Landscape Progress Administration
Hugo Bruley, Student ASLA; Eustacia Brossart, Student ASLA; Kirsten Dahl, Student ASLA; Jesse Jones, Student ASLA; Clare O’Reilly, Student ASLA and Adrienne Smith, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Marcia McNally
In the wake of California’s 2009 budget crisis, funding was slashed to public programs across the state. As we saw staff and faculty furloughed and student services threatened in our own department, we took action. Our student group led a participatory process to reach out to public schools and parks similarly impacted by the budget cuts. Dubbing ourselves the Landscape Progress Administration, our department volunteered both time and expertise in support of public landscapes.
Honor Awards
Salvage Park
Gillian Baresich,
Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: Catherine Spellman and Zubin Shroff
Redrawing Equity
Herimar Meneses, Student Affiliate ASLA; Rafael Vásquez, Student Affiliate ASLA; Fabiola Meignen, Student Affiliate ASLA and Santiago Rizo, Student Affiliate ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: María Mercedes Hernández
Student Collaboration
Award of Excellence
Catalytic Integration: Redefining Desert Tourism
You-Been Kim, Student Affiliate ASLA and Matthew A. J. Brown, Student ASLA,
Faculty Advisor: Aziza Chaouni
This project introduces a new concept for sustainable tourism in remote desert locale. Through the collaboration of Architect and Landscape Architect, this design exhibits new program that capitalizes on local resources and context while also providing a new hotel typology that weaves seamlessly into the existing village, oasis and surrounding context.
Honor Awards
Culinary Garden at Kellogg Ranch
Kyle McEnroe,
Student ASLA and Ryan Connelly, Student Affiliate ASLA,
Faculty Advisors: Susan Mulley; Dan Hostetler and Andrew Feinstein
Alchemy of an Urban Estuary: Revealing and Transforming Infrastructure Along the Jones Falls Corridor
Sarah Noel Shelton, Student ASLA and Aja Justine Bulla-Richards, Student Affiliate ASLA,
Faculty Advisors:
Jorg Sieweke