Seaport: Surface + Edge Indeterminacy
by Diana Jih (MLA '18) Boston Seaport, existing pier section Serial section study, models, perspective…
Projects
Acupuncture: Renovation of Franklin Park
by Jiawen Chen (MLA '18) This studio, the first semester in the Landscape Core sequence,…
Musical Box: The Well-Tempered House and the Hollowed Column
by Daniel Quesada Lombo (MArch '17) The project reconfigures the horizontal patio house into a…
Sound by Time
by Andrea Carrillo (MDes ADPD '17) and Marielsa Castro (MDes ADPD '17) We conceive time as a continuum,…
5,127
by Andrea Carillo Iglesias (MDes ADPD '17) 5,127 explores the body as an agent. Interested…
Counterordinance: A Manifesto on Maintenance
by Cali Pfaff (MLA '14) recipient of American Society of Landscape Architects 2015 Student Award…
Productive Conservation: Utilizing Landscape Ecology and Precision Agriculture Towards Land-Water Conservation
by Sourav Kumar Biswas (MLA '16) and Flavio Sciaraffia (MLA '15) recipients of American Society of…
Celosía Cosida
by Kritika Dhanda, Alkistis Mavroeidi, and Jake Rudin (all MDes ‘16) How can we create…
Wanderers
by Cannon Ivers (MLA '16), Devin Dobrowolski (MLA '16) and Mary Catherine Miller (MLA '16), winners…
Imagine the Barracks of Pion: Developing the Edge of the Park of Versailles
by Zheming (Taro) Cai (MLA '15) recipient of American Society of Landscape Architects Student Award…
99 White Balloons
by INVIVIA (comprising Harvard Graduate School of Design professors and recent alumni) recipient of 2015 Field Constructs…
Harvard Mellon Initiative: Reconceptualizing the Urban
“Reconceptualizing the Urban” is the title of a four-year investigation of urban studies undertaken by…
Ayer’s City Hub and Riverfront
by Emma Schnur (MUP '16), Laurel Schwab (MUP '16), Nina Phinouwong (MLA/MUP '16)…
Toward Buildings that Work: Reusing Design-Phase Energy Models for Operations-Phase Improvements
Too frequently today's energy-efficient building designs fall far short of performance expectations. Yet, most building…
Latent (e)Scapes
by Christina Leigh Geros (MLA/MAUD '15) recipient of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s…
Reenactment
by Qinqin Wu (MDes '15) Contemporary types of reenactments challenge the prevalent view that conservation…
Airborne
by Clementine Jang (MLA '16), Michelle Shofet (MLA '16) and Jia Joy Hu (MLA '17) How…
Real-World Energy Model Calibration
by Holly Samuelson This research evaluates the accuracy of 18 design-phase building energy models…
Design and Simulation Workflow of an Office Building in New Delhi, India
by Palak Gadodia (MDes EE ’16), Huishan He (MDes EE ’16), Rufei Wang (MDes RR ’16),…
FITNESS
by Kaley Blackstock (MArch '15) The body is a thermal machine, constantly negotiating the environmental…
Uncork : Augmenting the wine tasting experience
Uncork is a project developed by Kritika Dhanda (MDes ADPD ’16), Alkistis Mavroeidi (MDes Tech…
Public Spaces, Private Lives: Encoding Environments to Incite Civil Courtesies
by Jen Krava (MDes '15) This project investigates the issue of violence against women and…
Francis D. Pastorius’ Garden: A Botanical Cosmos in a “Howling Wilderness” (c. 1683–1719)
by Miranda Mote (MDes HPD ‘15) Francis D. Pastorius described Pennsylvania as Germany’s howling wilderness,…
Rethinking Taj Heritage Corridor: A River as Historic Connection
by Peichen Hao (MLA '15) recipient of American Society of Landscape Architects 2015 Student Award…
Within the Frame: The Countryside as a City
by Carly Augustine (MArch II '16) and Nicolas Lee (MArch II '15), recipients of American…
The Third Climate
by Kelly Murphy (MLA '14) & Martin Pavlinic (MLA '14) We started with a…
The Almond and the Bee
by Stephanie Hsia (MLA '15) The almond orchards of Central California, with a physical footprint…
Post Earth
by Jina Kim (MArch '15) How do we meet the demands of agricultural production in…
The Life and Death of Food Experience
by Frankie Au (MArch '15) and Patrick Herron (MArch '15) Food is not…
Salty Land
by Akihiro Moriya (MArch '15) Without the proper irrigation, farmland can become salinated. How do…
Superfarm
by Meng Yang (MArch) The Superfarm, a joint venture between China and Singapore is…
Food Hub Hub
by Paul Matevosyan (MArch '16) Considers social history (food-consumers and food-producer were historically the same people),…
The Haizhu Gardens: Guangzhou Group
by Brian Vargo (MDes '15), Matt Ciccotti (MDes '15) and Patrick Boateng II (MUP '14)…
Birmingham New Street Station
Birmingham New Street Station is an important transport hub and a key aspect of the…
Victoria Beckham Flagship Store
The Victoria Beckham flagship store in London is a conversion of a 560 m2…
Terracotta Bricks
Unfamiliar with many of the properties and methods of working with ceramics—armed only with a…
How Ultras Football Clubs Breed Activists
by Ana Maria Quiros (MDes '15) Developed in conjunction with the seminar “Networked Social Movements:…
In[Fresh]Structure: Floating Transshipment Hub
by Tiffany Chen (MArch '15)) This project positions a floating transshipment hub in the Caribbean…
Mass Customization of Reciprocol Frame Structures: Digital Optimization and Robotic Manufacture
by Ana Garcia Puyol (MDes '14) This thesis focuses on the creation of a digital…
Learning from District Six: Drawing On Cape Town
by Ashley Mendelsohn (MDes '14) District Six is an infamous example of the forced-removals of…