General Design Category


Award of Excellence

Vacant Lot Library

Cecil Howell, Student ASLA, College of Environmental Design,
UC Berkeley

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, University of Georgia
Faculty Advisors: David Spooner, ASLA and Doug Pardue, Associate ASLA


Embracing Winter

Yekaterina Yushmanova, Student ASLA, Univeristy of New Mexico
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, University of Toronto
Faculty Advisor: Robert Wright


Ephemeral Boundaries

Brennan Baxley, Student ASLA, Florida International University
Faculty Advisor: Roberto Rovira, ASLA


Biophones

Nicholas Glover, Student ASLA, Arizona State University
Faculty Advisor: Ken McCown, ASLA


Puddlescape: Freshwater Marsh and the Urban Matrix

Delia Kulukundis, Student ASLA, University of Virginia
Faculty Advisors: Jorg Sieweke and Kristina Hill


Living Scaffold: Reimagining the Continental Bridge

Christina Sohn, Sutdent ASLA and James W.T. Yan, Student ASLA,The University of Texas at Austin
Faculty Advisor: Jason Sowell

Residential Design Category

Honor Awards


Homegrown: A Residential Guide To Edibility

Vanessa Gilbert, Student ASLA, Ball State University
Faculty Advisor: Meg Calkins, ASLA


Productive End Walls

Cai Hanwei Leonard, Student Affiliate ASLA, National University of Singapore
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, University of Pennsylvania

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, University of Toronto
Faculty Advisor: Alissa North


The Jordan Valley's New Border Reality

Fadi Masoud, Student ASLA, University of Toronto
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, University of Toronto
Faculty Advisor: Alissa North


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

Stefania Mariotti, Student ASLA, University of Toronto
Faculty Advisor: Jane Wolff


Northern Capital: A Potential Future for the Mackenzie River Delta

Alessandro Colavecchio, Student ASLA, University of Toronto
Faculty Advisor: Peter North



Ecology as Industry

Gyoung Tak Park, Student ASLA; Haein Lee, Student ASLA and Soomin Shin, Student ASLA, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
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, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Faculty Advisor: Gary R. Hilderbrand, FASLA


Riparian Urbanism

Haley Heard, Student Affiliate ASLA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty Advisors: Alan Berger and Rahul Mehrotra

Communications Category


Award of Excellence

Tactical Operations in the Informal City

Andrew Christopher tenBrink, Student ASLA, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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, Ball State University
Faculty Advisors: Martha Hunt and Bob Koester



Your Fault

Jonathan Avila, Student ASLA; Travis Gramberg, Student ASLA and Ryan Honeybourne, Student ASLA, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Faculty Advisors: Andrew Wilcox, ASLA and Bud Sutton


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

Shannon Nowell, Student ASLA, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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, University of Guelph

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, Peking University
Faculty Advisors: Kongjian Yu, International ASLA and Dihua Li


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

Allegra Churchill, Student ASLA, University of Virginia
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,
College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley

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,
Arizona State University

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, Universidad Simon Bolivar
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, University of Toronto

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, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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, University of Virginia
Faculty Advisors: Jorg Sieweke