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General Design Category


Award of Excellence

Vacant Lot Library

Cecil Howell, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,

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 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisors: David Spooner, 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Doug Pardue, Associate 911±¬ÁÏÍø


Embracing Winter

Yekaterina Yushmanova, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
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 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Robert Wright


Ephemeral Boundaries

Brennan Baxley, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Roberto Rovira, 911±¬ÁÏÍø


Biophones

Nicholas Glover, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Ken McCown, 911±¬ÁÏÍø


Puddlescape: Freshwater Marsh and the Urban Matrix

Delia Kulukundis, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisors: Jorg Sieweke and Kristina Hill


Living Scaffold: Reimagining the Continental Bridge

Christina Sohn, Sutdent 911±¬ÁÏÍø and James W.T. Yan, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Jason Sowell

Residential Design Category

Honor Awards


Homegrown: A Residential Guide To Edibility

Vanessa Gilbert, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Meg Calkins, 911±¬ÁÏÍø


Productive End Walls

Cai Hanwei Leonard, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
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 911±¬ÁÏÍø,

Faculty Advisors: Anuradha Mathur, 911±¬ÁÏÍø 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 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Alissa North


The Jordan Valley's New Border Reality

Fadi Masoud, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Liat Margolis


Last Grain: Revising the End of the Fossil Fuel Era and Canada's Oil Sands Legacy

Kyle Xuekun Yang, Associate 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Alissa North


Filling the Gap: A new Productive Landbuilding Process for New Orleans, Louisiana

Stefania Mariotti, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Jane Wolff


Northern Capital: A Potential Future for the Mackenzie River Delta

Alessandro Colavecchio, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Peter North



Ecology as Industry

Gyoung Tak Park, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Haein Lee, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Soomin Shin, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Pierre Bélanger, 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Nina-Marie Lister







Designing the Ecology of Democracy

Emily Bonifaci, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Alexis Canter, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Jenelle Clark, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Ilana Cohen, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Casey Elmer, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Julie Gawendo, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Matthew Girard, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Eamonn Hutton, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Diane Lipovsky, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Nilay Mistry, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Izabela Riano, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Kerry Rutz, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Gary R. Hilderbrand, F911±¬ÁÏÍø


Riparian Urbanism

Haley Heard, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisors: Alan Berger and Rahul Mehrotra

Communications Category


Award of Excellence

Tactical Operations in the Informal City

Andrew Christopher tenBrink, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,

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 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Brittany Harvey, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisors: Martha Hunt and Bob Koester



Your Fault

Jonathan Avila, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Travis Gramberg, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Ryan Honeybourne, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisors: Andrew Wilcox, 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Bud Sutton


Interactive Ecoregional Management Plan (I.E.M.P.)

Shannon Nowell, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisors: Andrew Wilcox, 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Claire Latane, 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Keiji Uesugi, 911±¬ÁÏÍø

Research Category


Award of Excellence

The Cooling Ability of Urban Parks

Graham Slater, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,

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 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Chen Lin, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Xu Liyan, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisors: Kongjian Yu, International 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Dihua Li


Flood, Flow, Flux: Livelihoods on the Kafue Flats, Zambia

Allegra Churchill, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisors: Elizabeth K. Meyer, F911±¬ÁÏÍø; Kristina Hill, Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Nisha Botchwey

Community Service


Award of Excellence

Landscape Progress Administration

Hugo Bruley, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Eustacia Brossart, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Kirsten Dahl, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Jesse Jones, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Clare O’Reilly, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Adrienne Smith, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,

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 911±¬ÁÏÍø,

Faculty Advisors: Catherine Spellman and Zubin Shroff


Redrawing Equity

Herimar Meneses, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Rafael Vásquez, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Fabiola Meignen, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Santiago Rizo, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisors: María Mercedes Hernández

Student Collaboration


Award of Excellence

Catalytic Integration: Redefining Desert Tourism

You-Been Kim, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Matthew A. J. Brown, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,

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 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Ryan Connelly, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
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 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Aja Justine Bulla-Richards, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisors: Jorg Sieweke