General Design Award of Excellence | Colóon: Collective Strategies for a Regenerative Waterfront
General Design Category
Award of Excellence
Colón: Collective Strategies for a Regenerative Waterfront
Carolina A. Jaimes, Assoc. ASLA, Graduate, Florida International University
Faculty Advisor: Gianno Feoli
The interest behind this research is the role of Individual Perception and Collective Space in highly complex urban environments, particularly the relationships between culture and the built environment and their impacts on society with a special interest in the role of the young population.
Award of Excellence
Hansol Kang, Student ASLA, Graduate, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Faculty Advisors: Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA, David Mah, Miho Mazereeuw and Chris Reed, ASLA
The project provides a vision for an urbanization process that integrates plant nurseries operations and practices as its main structuring system. The project aims to project a novel mode of urbanism that is framed by a productive ecology and integrates a more systematic proposal for a time based dynamic urbanization process.
Honor Awards
The Digital Evolution of Warfare: Protocol for Landscape Manipulation
Kunkook Bae, Student ASLA; Ellen Garrett, Student ASLA; and Connie Migliazzo, Student ASLA, Graduate, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Faculty Advisors:Pierre Bélanger, ASLA and Niall Kirkwood, FASLA
Growing Pier 68: Landscapes of Accretion
Michal Kapitulnik, Student ASLA, Graduate, University of California, Berkeley
Faculty Advisor: Judith Stilgenbauer
The Flux City: Reframing Willet’s Point
Chuhan Zhang, Student ASLA, Graduate, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Faculty Advisor: David Mah
Chelsea Andersson, Student ASLA; Olivia Bennett, Student ASLA; and Bradley Wells, Student ASLA, Undergraduate, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry
Faculty Advisors: Jamie Vanucchi
and Martin Hogue
Chad Caletka, Student ASLA, Undergraduate, Louisiana State University
Faculty Advisors: Van Cox, FASLA and Lake Douglas, ASLA
Residential Design Category
Honor Awards
DESERT FARMING MOISTURIZER — Transition from Dry Lands to Domingo Eco-Community
Jun Zhou, Student ASLA, Graduate,University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Advisors: Greg Burrell, ASLA and Laurie Olin, FASLA
Asylum Air Pupa in the Landscape
Zhinian Dong, Student Affiliate ASLA; Changlin Fan, Student Affiliate ASLA; Hongxia Wang, Student Affiliate ASLA; Yiding Wang,Student Affiliate ASLA; and Chao Zhou, Student Affiliate ASLA, Undergraduate, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology and Tsinghua University
Faculty Advisor: Liuting Chen
Analysis and Planning Category
Award of Excellence
Xiaoxuan Lu, Student ASLA, Graduate, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Faculty Advisor: Pierre Bélanger, ASLA
The project poses a new linkage between resource extraction and post-war metal cycling economies, strengthening a livelihood that heals a war-scarred landscape. It proposes a strategy of ‘demining bombs through mining gold.’ The bomb-impregnated landscape of Laos, which has 80 million unexploded bombs left over from the Vietnam War, is seen as an opportunity to rethink the processes of mining.
Honor Awards
Slip District: Chicago's Testing Ground for Water Industry
Nina Chase, Assoc. ASLA, Graduate, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Faculty Advisor: Philip Enquist ASLA, FAIA
Dismantle/Rebuild: A New Framework for Willets Point
Melissa S. How, Student ASLA, Graduate, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Faculty Advisor: Miho Mazereeuw
Off the Reservation: A Seed for Change
Meghan Storm, Student ASLA, Graduate, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Advisor: Ellen Neises
Joshua Brooks, Student ASLA, Undergraduate, Lousianna State University
Faculty Advisors: Lake Douglas; Van Cox; and Bruce Sharkey
Communications Category
Honor Awards
Walk Raleigh — Guerrilla Wayfinding
Matt Tomasulo, Student ASLA, Graduate, North Carolina State University
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Campanella
See Different, Think Different, Draw Different
Wei Chen, Student ASLA, Graduate, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty Advisors: Valerio Morabito and Karen O. Lutsky
Biotrash: The Video Game, App and Interactive Website
Leann Andrews, Student ASLA, Graduate, University of Washington
Faculty Advisor: Nicole Huber
Research Category
Honor Awards
Network-Landscapes — New Control Options for Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Alexander Dunkel, Student ASLA, Graduate,University of California, Berkeley
Faculty Advisors:Dr. Mona El Khafif; Dr. Catrin Schmidt; and Judith Stilgenbauer
Community Service
Honor Awards
Escuela Ecologica Saludable Initiative: Parque Primaria Pitagoras
Leann Andrews, Student ASLA and Jonathan Jue, Assoc. ASLA, Undergraduate / Graduate, University of Washington
Faculty Advisors: Benjamin Spencer and Susan Bolton
Student Collaboration
Award of Excellence
Anna Christy, Student ASLA; Kyle Fiano, Student ASLA and Erica Mackenzie, Assoc. ASLA, Undergraduate, Arizona State University
Faculty Advisor:Kim Steele
Peritoneum reflects the collaboration of interdisciplinary students employing their respective talents to build a temporary shade structure for a plaza space on a university campus. The undulating blue structure evokes a calming, cooling environment, and captivates others by its daring interpretation of typical shade structures.
Honor Awards
Bayou Commons: A New Urban District on Houston’s Buffalo Bayou
Victor Perez Amado, Student Affiliate ASLA; Alex Atherton, Student Affiliate ASLA and Anna Cawrse, Student ASLA, Graduate, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and University of Colorado — Boulder
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Thibodeau