General Design Category


Award of Excellence

Vacant Lot Library

Cecil Howell, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,

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 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisors: David Spooner, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Doug Pardue, Associate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ


Embracing Winter

Yekaterina Yushmanova, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
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 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisor: Robert Wright


Ephemeral Boundaries

Brennan Baxley, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisor: Roberto Rovira, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ


Biophones

Nicholas Glover, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisor: Ken McCown, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ


Puddlescape: Freshwater Marsh and the Urban Matrix

Delia Kulukundis, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisors: Jorg Sieweke and Kristina Hill


Living Scaffold: Reimagining the Continental Bridge

Christina Sohn, Sutdent Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and James W.T. Yan, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisor: Jason Sowell

Residential Design Category

Honor Awards


Homegrown: A Residential Guide To Edibility

Vanessa Gilbert, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisor: Meg Calkins, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ


Productive End Walls

Cai Hanwei Leonard, Student Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
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 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,

Faculty Advisors: Anuradha Mathur, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ 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 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisor: Alissa North


The Jordan Valley's New Border Reality

Fadi Masoud, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisor: Liat Margolis


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

Kyle Xuekun Yang, Associate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisor: Alissa North


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

Stefania Mariotti, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisor: Jane Wolff


Northern Capital: A Potential Future for the Mackenzie River Delta

Alessandro Colavecchio, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisor: Peter North



Ecology as Industry

Gyoung Tak Park, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Haein Lee, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Soomin Shin, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisor: Pierre Bélanger, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Nina-Marie Lister







Designing the Ecology of Democracy

Emily Bonifaci, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Alexis Canter, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Jenelle Clark, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Ilana Cohen, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Casey Elmer, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Julie Gawendo, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Matthew Girard, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Eamonn Hutton, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Diane Lipovsky, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Nilay Mistry, Student Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Izabela Riano, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Kerry Rutz, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisor: Gary R. Hilderbrand, FË¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ


Riparian Urbanism

Haley Heard, Student Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisors: Alan Berger and Rahul Mehrotra

Communications Category


Award of Excellence

Tactical Operations in the Informal City

Andrew Christopher tenBrink, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,

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 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Brittany Harvey, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisors: Martha Hunt and Bob Koester



Your Fault

Jonathan Avila, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Travis Gramberg, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Ryan Honeybourne, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisors: Andrew Wilcox, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Bud Sutton


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

Shannon Nowell, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisors: Andrew Wilcox, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Claire Latane, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Keiji Uesugi, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ

Research Category


Award of Excellence

The Cooling Ability of Urban Parks

Graham Slater, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,

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 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Chen Lin, Student Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Xu Liyan, Student Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisors: Kongjian Yu, International Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Dihua Li


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

Allegra Churchill, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisors: Elizabeth K. Meyer, FË¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Kristina Hill, Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Nisha Botchwey

Community Service


Award of Excellence

Landscape Progress Administration

Hugo Bruley, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Eustacia Brossart, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Kirsten Dahl, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Jesse Jones, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Clare O’Reilly, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Adrienne Smith, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,

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 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,

Faculty Advisors: Catherine Spellman and Zubin Shroff


Redrawing Equity

Herimar Meneses, Student Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Rafael Vásquez, Student Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ; Fabiola Meignen, Student Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Santiago Rizo, Student Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisors: María Mercedes Hernández

Student Collaboration


Award of Excellence

Catalytic Integration: Redefining Desert Tourism

You-Been Kim, Student Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Matthew A. J. Brown, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,

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 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Ryan Connelly, Student Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
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 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ and Aja Justine Bulla-Richards, Student Affiliate Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ,
Faculty Advisors: Jorg Sieweke