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Full-Text Articles in Landscape Architecture
What Is Lost When Time Is Saved: Drawing In Collaboration With The Urban Periphery, Carmen Ribaudo
What Is Lost When Time Is Saved: Drawing In Collaboration With The Urban Periphery, Carmen Ribaudo
MFA in Visual Art
I pay attention to the overlooked spaces where land and industry meet, prompting me to wonder what can be gleaned in the oily and cracked urban periphery. With a focus on my hometown St. Louis, this industrial city is my subject matter. And so, I draw in a neighborhood bisected by a highway. I animate with sand near the river confluence on land preserved after a historic flood. I make my own bricks in this Brick City, setting up in locations of former terra cotta clay mines. I sit in the tension of what author Michael Martone calls the “midwestern …
Forest Evolution, Mengying Li
Forest Evolution, Mengying Li
Fall 2019 Confluence: St. Louis and Hinterlands
The forest we enjoy today is very different from the forest 100 years ago in Missouri. Forests have undergone excessive cutting during the 19th century. After that, US and state governments implemented forest regeneration programs that ensure harvests for the future. Forest can be a renewable resource if we manage it in a sustainable way. The site is separated into three parts, each part applying different strategy: selective cutting and natural regeneration, selective cutting and replanting, clear cutting and replanting. I will plant far more trees than I remove. I use a 20’ by 20’ grid to visualize the density …
The Meeting Of Water, Trash, & Us, Xue Ying
The Meeting Of Water, Trash, & Us, Xue Ying
Fall 2019 Confluence: St. Louis and Hinterlands
The sewer system is an integral part of an urban context. It separates types of wastewater, while also making our city cleaner and more beautiful. However, these pipes clog and back up, loosening the functional system. As a result, we now face unseen daily accumulations of trash and flooding. Due to the dynamic topography in this old part of the city, the Gateway Mall is a great place to highlight the sewer system and play play with the rules of the old sewer system. Humans have built up thousands of plastic and concrete pipes underground to move the wastewater. In …
Partition & Connection, Lei Liu
Partition & Connection, Lei Liu
Fall 2019 Confluence: St. Louis and Hinterlands
Shipping, the transportation of materials goods, is a worldwide industry that influences everyone’s life. Shipping is part of our lives. We consume large amounts of material goods, but this process also implies a huge transportation process. This is significant because the emission of carbon dioxide from shipping also contributes to climate change. On average each, person in St. Louis is responsible for enough carbon emissions to fill 3 largest size containers, by volume. Additionally, railways and highways divide our cities. These are connectors but also dividers, and I am choosing my location year railroads. My site is also near the …
Beyond Coal: Facing Our Landscape Legacy & Seeing Our Renewable Future, Danni Hu
Beyond Coal: Facing Our Landscape Legacy & Seeing Our Renewable Future, Danni Hu
Fall 2019 Confluence: St. Louis and Hinterlands
Beyond Coal is a park design project located at the Gateway Mall in St. Louis. Coal has been an essential source of power generation since the 1800s. Coal is a non-renewable resource and causes environmental pollution in the process of using coal to generate electricity. Since the 21st century, there has been a shift from coal to renewable resources. In Missouri, however, coal still generates more than 70 percent of electricity. Coal ash from power generation is buried underground, threatening soil and groundwater resources. Climate change is further exacerbated by the large amounts of greenhouse gases produced by power generation. …
Steam Illusion, Tianhao Xiang
Steam Illusion, Tianhao Xiang
Fall 2019 Confluence: St. Louis and Hinterlands
Nuclear power plants provide 20% of the electricity in the United States. Heat from Uranium and chain reactions turns water into steam to run the generator. Being close to water is an important element to select the site for nuclear power plants. Most of the water elements are concentrated in east of Gateway Mall. This factor combined with the underground nuclear shelter in 22nd Judicial Circuit Court help me determine my site. The inner design is a microcosm of the nuclear cooling tower, the design can provide a warm atmosphere in the winter for visitors but at that same time …
Concrete Poetry, Sara Ghazi Asadollahi
Concrete Poetry, Sara Ghazi Asadollahi
Graduate School of Art Theses
This text addresses my work as an artist and defines it in the context of the following subjects: The concept of ruins, which highlights the relationship between architecture and landscape; the formal and metaphorical dialectic between absence and presence in abandoned places; and the idea of dystopia, which emerges from that in-between space where the real dissolves into the imaginary. At the same time, my work is inspired by the visual culture of cinema and literature, principally within the science-fiction genre, and draws upon my observation of abandoned buildings in Tehran, my native city. These urban ruins are products of …
Baden Community Open Space Plan, Rod Barnett
Baden Community Open Space Plan, Rod Barnett
Books and Monographs
A team led by professor Rod Barnett has completed the Baden Community Open Space Plan. In summer 2016, Barnett and a team of research assistants collaborated with the on-the-ground team to engage residents to understand their needs. This data, combined with ecological data points, and public health assessments collected in the community, informed the proposed masterplan. In the voids created by voluntary buyout and demolition, the Baden neighborhood has an opportunity to redefine how infrastructure and greenspace can come together to create a space that serves residents. The team of partners has included the Green City Coalition, the City of …
Intervention Proposal: Reinvestment In Eugene Tink Bradley Park, Ed Falkowski
Intervention Proposal: Reinvestment In Eugene Tink Bradley Park, Ed Falkowski
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Harlem Watershed Neighborhood Landscape Intervention, Mateus Iamarino
Harlem Watershed Neighborhood Landscape Intervention, Mateus Iamarino
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Urban Food Garden / Food Bank, Tianyi Zhang Meo
Urban Food Garden / Food Bank, Tianyi Zhang Meo
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Mapping Intensities, Leilei Wu
Mapping Intensities, Leilei Wu
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Rainstorm Mosaic Park, 4732 Natural Bridge Ave, Yiran Zhang
Rainstorm Mosaic Park, 4732 Natural Bridge Ave, Yiran Zhang
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Syllabus: Social Ecologies Of Harlem, Spring 2016, Jacqueline Margetts
Syllabus: Social Ecologies Of Harlem, Spring 2016, Jacqueline Margetts
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Initial Conditions And Analysis - Accumulation And Subtraction, J.D. Mcclanahan
Initial Conditions And Analysis - Accumulation And Subtraction, J.D. Mcclanahan
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Proposal: Creation Of Bio-Habitat, Zhang Ailing
Proposal: Creation Of Bio-Habitat, Zhang Ailing
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
On/Off The Grid: Autocatalytic Ecologies, Rory Thibault
On/Off The Grid: Autocatalytic Ecologies, Rory Thibault
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Social Ecologies Of Harlem Studio Board, Guangdi Yao
Social Ecologies Of Harlem Studio Board, Guangdi Yao
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.
Birdscape, Joshua Stevens
Birdscape, Joshua Stevens
2016 Spring Social Ecologies of Harlem
No abstract provided.