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September 2014 KEZIA ELAYNE OFIESH PORTFOLIO SELECTIONS 2014 Profile Contact Kezia Ofiesh is a designer based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Kezia has worked previously at Leroy Street Studio Architects in Manhattan and Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture in San Francisco. She is currently working at Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects where she is engaged in the design of several urban parks and gardens. As a recipient of the Sarah McArthur Nix Fellowship, Kezia studied the hydrology of the Canal St Martin in Paris. Additional work and studies have shaped her focus on the cultural and ecological history of a site, responsive environments, as well as her interest in issues of stormwater management, rising sea waters, toxicity and contamination remediation, and large-scale/long-term project phasing. She holds a Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia. Kezia Ofiesh 601 Park Street #9 Charlottesville, VA 22902 703 655 5650 [email protected] www.keziaofiesh.com

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September 2014

K E Z I A E L AY N E O F I E S H P O R T F O L I O S E L E C T I O N S2 0 1 4

Profile Contact

Kezia Ofiesh is a designer based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Kezia has worked previously at Leroy Street Studio Architects in Manhattan and Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture in San Francisco. She is currently working at Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects where she is engaged in the design of several urban parks and gardens.

As a recipient of the Sarah McArthur Nix Fellowship, Kezia studied the hydrology of the Canal St Martin in Paris. Additional work and studies have shaped her focus on the cultural and ecological history of a site, responsive environments, as well as her interest in issues of stormwater management, rising sea waters, toxicity and contamination remediation, and large-scale/long-term project phasing.

She holds a Master in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia.

Kezia Ofiesh601 Park Street #9Charlottesville, VA 22902

703 655 5650

[email protected]

www.keziaofiesh.com

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8 SEPTEMBER 2014

THE BOTANIC GARDEN AT HISTORIC BARNS PARK1/8” = 1’

4’0’ 8’ 16’

NSECRET GARDEN | CONTEMPLATIVE CIRCUIT

PerennialsColor, form, all-year interest

RillCircuit of water meanders among central beds

FernsShady, damp groundcover nestled at existing tree

Hedge cloudsPlayful shrubs with color & textural variety

Garden gateOpaque, approx. 32” wide, with discrete portal

PathSinuous circuit, interior views “unfold” during walk

Tall hedgeEvergreen garden wall, screen from parking

BenchSpace for one or two people to pause

Existing Chinese ChestnutFocal point of new garden experience

8 SEPTEMBER 2014

THE BOTANIC GARDEN AT HISTORIC BARNS PARK

PHASE 2 DEVELOPMENT | SECRET GARDEN

~22’

~48’

PHASE 2 GARDENS

2September 2014

NORTHWEST MICHIGAN BOTANIC GARDEN: SECRET GARDENTRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN

WITH NELSON BYRD WOLTZ LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS2014

NBW created the master plan for the Northwest Michigan Botanic Garden several years ago, and with the help of donors it is being constructed section by section. The Secret Garden was commissioned this past spring as an addition to the master plan. My role in the project was to design the garden based on initial schematic work done by the project manager. I was tasked with creating perspective renderings and a plan as well as a suggested planting palette that will aid in securing a donor for this part of the botanic gardens.

The Secret Garden is a 1050 square foot space enclosed on two sides with existing stone walls - remnants from a

former building on site. A mature Chinese Chestnut has been preserved as a focal point and a part of the site's history. The main factors of the design are: a 6.5 foot tall evergreen hedge to close off the two open sides of the site; a circuitous stone path; a water rill that snakes alongside the path; shrubbery; perennials; and ferns. There is an option for the vegetation to be globular, like bowling ball boxwoods and alliums, and an option for it to be spiky, like arborvitae spires and veronicastrum.

A tall stand of shrubbery obscures views of the garden from the entryway lending to an atmosphere of mystery and playfulness.

This plan of the Secret Garden was presented in September 2014.

Portion of the original master plan with added Secret Garden site.One of dozens of test renders used to determine shapes and sizes of hedge, shrub and tree types within the garden, and the water rill.

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3September 2014

NORTHWEST MICHIGAN BOTANIC GARDEN: SECRET GARDEN

Perspective view of the sphere-themed garden. Note the water rill in the foreground between the path and perennials.

Perspective view of the spike-themed garden, peering around a stand of arborvitae at the front of the garden.

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Central Park, NYC840 acres

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco1017 acres Hyde Park & Kensington Gardens, London

630 acres

Overton Park, Memphis342 acres

Prospect Park, NYC585 acres

Regent’s Park, London410 acres

GOLDEN GATE PARK, SAN FRANCISCO1017 ACRES

CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY840 ACRES

HYDE PARK/KENSINGTON GARDENS, LONDON630 ACRES

PROSPECT PARK, NEW YORK CITY585 ACRES

CORNWALL PARK, AUCKLAND500 ACRES

REGENT’S PARK, LONDON410 ACRES

OVERTON PARK, MEMPHIS342 ACRES

Cornwall Park, Auckland500 acres

4September 2014

CORNWALL PARKAUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

WITH NELSON BYRD WOLTZ LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS2013-2014

The 100-year Master Plan for this 500-acre urban park is charged with taking into account both significant Maori cultural history and agricultural history as well as its present use as a recreational escape from the city and preserved farmland.

My role in this project has been to assist with creating imagery that illustrates our ecological intentions for the park. Early on in the master planning process NBW received a large set of LiDAR data from the client containing point locations which I used to fashion a highly detailed 3D model of the park's terrain and canopy cover using ArcGIS and Rhino. The model has been useful in helping to set up strategic views of and from the site.

I also created a series of before-and-after perspectives of key corridors throughout the park to show the impact of road removal, wider pathways, and tree canopy restoration; and sections that show existing conditions along important circulation routes. Finally, I worked on numerous diagrams of park ecology, circulation, vegetation, road closures, public access, and more.

All of the drawings that I worked on were included in the master plan book that the Cornwall Park team produced for the client. We are currently in the final stages of the master plan.

Used LiDAR data to generate digital terrain model of Cornwall Park.

Vehicular and pedestrian circulation comparison across a range of urban parks. Cornwall third from right.

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GRAND DRIVE

POHUTUKAWA DRIVE

PURIRI DRIVE

GRAND AVENUE

CHERRY WALK

POPLAR STEPS

OLIVE GROVE

KAURI GROVE

TWIN OAK DRIVE

mixed oaks

Araucaria heterophylla

Metrosideros excelsa

Pinus radiata

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CORNWALL PARK

Plan diagram of legacy planting corridors throughout the park.Section through existing stand of native New Zealand trees, walking path and grazing field.

Section through existing Pohutukawa Drive. Existing and proposed planting corridor for Pohutukawa Drive.

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ALL IDEAS, DESIGNS, ARRANGEMENTS & PLANS INDICATED OR REPRESENTED BY THIS DRAWING AREOWNED AND ARE THE PROPERTY OF WILLIAM McDONOUGH + PARTNERS, AND WERE CREATED, EVOLVED,DEVELOPED FOR USE ON AND IN CONNECTION WITH THE SPECIFIED PROJECT. NONE OF SUCH IDEAS,DESIGNS, ARRANGEMENTS & PLANS SHALL BE USED BY OR DISCLOSED TO ANY PERSON, FIRM ORCORPORATION FOR ANY PURPOSE WHATSOEVER WITHOUT THE JOINT WRITTEN PERMISSION OF WILLIAMMcDONOUGH + PARTNERS.

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6September 2014

CAD SKILLS WITH NELSON BYRD WOLTZ LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS2013-2014

Note: Additional CAD work and documentation cannot be shown here due to standing NDA agreements between NBW and various clients. References at NBW are happy to discuss CAD experience upon request.

I have used CAD extensively in several projects to set up and draw plans, sections, details, and even an entire project set using the Sheet Set Manager.

Sections cut through Memorial Park in Houston.

A firepit section detail.

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PHASE 1

PHASE 2

(3) JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA

(4) JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA

PINUS STROBUS

(5) JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA

(3) JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA

PINUS STROBUS

(3) JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA

SEE PHASE 2 PLANTING PLAN L 420(26) CORNUS SERICEA 'CARDINAL'

(2) PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

(2) NYSSA SYLVATICA 'WILDFIRE'

PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

(3) ILEX OPACA

PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

(6) MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

(2) NYSSA SYLVATICA 'WILDFIRE'

(2) MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

(21) CALLICARPA AMERICANA

WARM SEASON MEADOW SEEDINGNYSSA SYLVATICA 'WILDFIRE'

(6) MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

(22) CALLICARPA AMERICANA

PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

(2) NYSSA SYLVATICA 'WILDFIRE'

PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

(2) TAXODIUM DISTICHUM

ILEX OPACANYSSA SYLVATICA 'WILDFIRE'

WET MEADOW SEEDING

(2) QUERCUS BICOLOR

(23) CALLICARPA AMERICANA

QUERCUS BICOLOR

NYSSA SYLVATICA 'WILDFIRE'

(6) ILEX VERTICILLATA(10) CALLICARPA AMERICANA

NYSSA SYLVATICA

(3) MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

TAXODIUM DISTICHUM

(15) ITEA VIRGINICA 'LITTLE HENRY'

(17) ITEA VIRGINICA 'LITTLE HENRY'

TAXODIUM DISTICHUM

PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

(15) CORNUS SERICEA 'CARDINAL'

NYSSA SYLVATICA 'WILDFIRE'

(3) MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

(2) PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

(3) MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

(3) NYSSA SYLVATICA 'WILDFIRE'

ILEX OPACA

NYSSA AQUATICA

(23) ILEX VERTICILLATA

BIOSWALE PERENNIALS/GRASS MIX, TYP.SEE KEY FOR DETAILS

(18) ILEX VERTICILLATA

MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

(4) MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

(4) PRUNUS ANGUSTIFOLIA

CELTIS OCCIDENTALIS3 CAL., B&B AS PLACED

(15) CORNUS SERICEA 'CARDINAL'

(8) PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

(3) MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

(14) CORNUS SERICEA 'CARDINAL'

(3) MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

NYSSA SYLVATICA 'WILDFIRE'

TAXODIUM DISTICHUM

(3) MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

(3) VIRBURNUM DENTATUM

NYSSA AQUATICA

(3) MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

(3) OSYTRYA VIRGINIANA

(2) TAXODIUM DISTICHUM

(2) MAGNOLIA ACUMENATA

NYSSA AQUATICA

(3) VIBURNUM DENTATUM

(3) VIBURNUM DENTATUM

(3) VIBURNUM DENTATUM

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PONTEDERIA CORDATA, TYP.

(2) NYSSA SYLVATICA 'WILDFIRE'

(2) PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

(4) NYSSA SYLVATICA 'WILDFIRE'(4) PRUNUS ANGUSTIFOLIA

PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

(13) FICUS CARICA 'CELESTE'(14) PRUNUS PERSICA 'REDSKIN'

(3) PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS

(4) OSTRYA VIRGINIANA

(507) JUNCUS EFFUSUS

(955) LOBELIA CARDINALIS, (955) MELANTHIUM VIRGINICUM,(955) PANICUM VIRGATUM 'HEAVY METAL'

(405) VERBENA HASTATA

(250) IRIS VIRGINICA

(3) MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA

7September 2014

CAD SKILLS

Excerpts from planting plans. Top: bioswale. Bottom: perennial matrix.

A planting plan for swimming ponds.

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1. SAMFORD PARK

2. CCF - CENTRAL CLASSROOM FACILITY

3. PARKERSON MILL CREEK

4. THACH CONCOURSE

8September 2014

AUBURN UNIVERSITYAUBURN, ALABAMA

WITH NELSON BYRD WOLTZ LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS2014

I was recently brought on to the Auburn University project to create several renderings of the focus areas for phase one of our master plan. It was important to the client that the imagery for the project accurately reflected our intentions for hardscape and softscape materials. These are all in progress.

The Parkerson Mill Creek corridor.

The focus areas of our master plan. The Thach Concourse (cropped).

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9September 2014

AUBURN UNIVERSITY

The Samford Park live oak allee.

The CCF pond and pedestrian bridge.

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10September 2014

POWELL AVENUE STEAM PLANT PLAZABIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA

WITH NELSON BYRD WOLTZ LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS2014

The Powell Avenue Steam Plant is a now defunct coal burning site for the Alabama Power Company (ALP) in downtown Birmingham. The ALP has a history of philanthropic projects in the city and this newest one is planned as a mixed-use civic space. The park, immediately south of the steam plant, is the scale of one city block and the site neighbors the new Railroad Park (designed by SF firm Tom Leader Studio). The challenges for this master plan were to tie it into the culture and history of Birmingham while also differentiating it from Railroad Park and the various monuments to Civil Rights that are already embedded within the city.

My role in the project was to research and create an initial set of diagrams describing the downtown area's development patterns, circulation and transportation, amenities and entertainment, and access. Alongside these, I also worked on an extensive timeline with another team member that looked at the physiographical history of the regional landscape and how it relates to the coal industry, as well as the history of the ALP and its evolution and expansion of power production. These were placed in context with the rise of the railroad and the surrounding cultural issues that took place in the 20th century.

The research compiled became a framework and context for the resulting master plan that sought to lay out democratic spaces within culinary-themed gardens.

Top: Plaza master plan showing a portion of the rooftop culinary gardens. Right: Several of the downtown Birmingham site diagrams.

Quick perspective views of the scrim fountain and main plaza.

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LOFT DISTRICT

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FUTURE PARK

PARKSIDE RAILROAD EXPANSION

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GROCERY/SPECIALTY FOOD STORE

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PARKSIDE RAILROAD EXTENSION

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INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT

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UAB CAMPUS + MEDICAL DISTRICT

FIVE POINTS

ST. VINCENT’S

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ZONING

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30CITY OF BIRMINGHAM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ZONING AND CIRCULATION

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CIVIL RIGHTS

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INSTITUTIONAL - UAB & MEDICAL

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CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

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PARKSIDE RAILROAD DISTRICT

FUTURE PARK

PARKSIDE RAILROAD EXPANSION

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FARMERS MARKET

GROCERY/SPECIALTY FOOD STORE

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S i t e D i a g r a m S • D o w n t o w n B i r m i n g h a m

11September 2014

POWELL AVENUE STEAM PLANT PLAZA

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12September 2014

MCMILLAN PARKWASHINGTON, DC

WITH NELSON BYRD WOLTZ LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS2013

McMillan Park is a concept design for the McMillan Reservoir's old sand filtration plant located in northwest DC that was originally designed by Olmsted. The operations on site were decommissioned in 1980 and it was sold to the city. The land has been fenced off and left untouched ever since. The sand filtration silos and grid of manhole covers to underground vaults are preserved in a picturesque, abandoned infrastructure way.

There is a highly controversial masterplan in place for a large mixed-use development encompassing the majority of the site but leaving a portion of it as a park. NBWLA did the schematic design for the park. It was important to us to keep intact as many existing infrastructural components of the sand filtration operation as possible and repurpose them in ways that park-goers can experience and interact with.

My role in the project was to draw and illustrate numerous sections through the park for presentations at mixed-use development hearings last winter.

Above and right: Sections through the park and its edges.Part of the schematic plan for McMillan Park.

Detail section of a rain garden next to a silo.

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13September 2014

MCMILLAN PARK

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SCALE 1” = 1’-0”

14September 2014

ICE FISHING HUT FOR MAE WESTUNSITED

HARVARD UNIVERSITYPROFESSOR MACK SCOGIN2013

This studio began with a discussion of obsessions. Each student created a video describing the space of our obsessions. Mack assigned each of us a building program based on something about our videos - he intended the programs to challenge our instincts. We were tasked with transforming our programs into architectural concepts. Our architecture was also presented in the form of a video, and therefore these images shown are only stills.

My obsessions were of views and overlooks, intricate patterns and cutouts, and ancient things. I used footage from travel in Istanbul, Ephesus, and Cappadocia, which directly influenced the architectural forms that I experimented with.

The ice fishing hut for Mae West is a series of slippery spaces and liquid doors. It is an architectural illusion, almost unreachable. There is not an entry - there is only an inside of it and an outside of it. Each room has a specific use tailored to the scale of Mae. It is beautiful, clean, clear, white, silver, glassy, glossy, rich; it has furs and jewels but minimally. Its entire skin breathes air and light; it looks like the landscape and it is the landscape.

The elusiveness of form defines the ice fishing hut.

Mae West's ever-changing proportions demand a flexiblearchitecture.

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15September 2014

ICE FISHING HUT FOR MAE WEST

The rippling of the architecture lends to its sense of illusion. The dressing room and the bedroom.

A preliminary study of the unsitedness of the ice fishing hut.

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16September 2014

URBAN OCEANMASSACHUSETTS MILITARY RESERVATION, CAPE COD

HARVARD UNIVERSITYPROFESSOR PIERRE BELANGER2011

In this studio we were assigned to groups of three and asked to envision the landscape of the Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod as a dual, urban infrastructure that comprises military operations, ecological services and social networks. The three objectives of the project brief were carbon footprint reduction, ecological process optimization, and co-programming of civilian and military operations. The brief emphasized the consideration of a strategy that responds to the legacy and future of America’s defense imperatives. My teammates and I focused on the role of the US Coast Guard in strategically choreographing the logistical and biophysical flows of marine ecologies and economies.

Drawings shown here are mine.

Right: Strategic site data used to determine key sub-sites to study in depth.

Far Right: I worked specifically on the subsite immediately south of the airfield and analyzed subwatersheds and runoff patterns.

Hydrological map of Cape Cod with transect lines along significant saline gradients.

Tracking estuarine exchange and evolution along the saline gradient.

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17September 2014

URBAN OCEAN

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18September 2014

TOXICITYWILLET'S POINT, QUEENS, NEW YORK

HARVARD UNIVERSITYPROFESSORS CHRIS REED AND GARY HILDERBRAND2012

This project, treated as an epidemiological study of a toxic landscape, proposes the successional remediation and evolution of Willets Point, Queens into an infrastructural biomass matrix that responds to contaminants in the ground, water, and air while restructuring its urban form into a live-work network dominated by automotive industry. The three surficial operations leading to the transformation of the site both topographically and

epidemiologically are capping, draining and planting; capping is indicated by buildings, draining is indicated by channels and swales, and planting is indicated by phytoremediative tree and grass species. ToxiCITY is constructed from a set of codes based on ecological site factors including hydrology, topography, wind patterns, and sun paths.

Map of toxic sites and hydrological flows.

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19September 2014

TOXICITY

A portion of a set of phasing plans depicting the reconstruction of Willet's Point.

Live/work modular units.

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In this studio we were tasked with designing small installations in sites chosen around the city of Medford. One of the main requirements was to keep it as inexpensive as possible and to construct a portion of it at 1:1.

My project is a register of sunlight and water current. It is located at the intersection of a stormwater outfall creek with the Mystic River above which a path crosses. At this point the path widens and becomes a sort of overlook platform for both the creek and the river. The concept for this work is to take a single ordinary material – glow in

the dark ping pong balls – and assemble it in a way that will let it move with the water currents within the site. The material by nature is already a register of sunlight, as its coating absorbs sunlight during the day and emits a neon green glow in the dark. In daylight, the whiteness of the ping pong balls will stand out against the brown and dark greys of the late autumn and winter landscape, and at night the green will be an unnatural addition to the views from site. Variable spacing of the modules allows for some strands to expand like delicate tendrils while others that are closer together interact and weave together.

Plan and section composite drawing with installation module details and keymap showing location along the Mystic.

DESIGN FOR GLOW IN THE DARK PING PONG BALLS IN A RIVERMYSTIC RIVER, MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS

HARVARD UNIVERSITYPROFESSOR MARTHA SCHWARTZ2012

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21September 2014

Site photographs arranged into color map.

Model of site and installation.

DESIGN FOR GLOW IN THE DARK PING PONG BALLS IN A RIVER

Installation in outfall creek, daytime.

Installation in Mystic River, nighttime.

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field a full

field b full

field c full

field d full

a b c d

field a reduced

field b reduced

field c reduced

field d reduced

framework/module deformation fields

22September 2014

MISCELLANEOUS WORKSEE WWW.KEZIAOFIESH.COM FOR MORE

HARVARD UNIVERSITY2010-2013

Fieldwork

Estuary Evolution

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BEECH BEECH

BIRCH BIRCH

DOGWOOD

23September 2014

MISCELLANEOUS WORK

Design for Two Interlocking Rings of Trees

Drawing