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DAN SHAW Master of Landscape Architecture University of Washington 2012 BS Landscape Architecture University of Massachusetts 2009

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Portfolio of creative works while earning a Master of Landscape Architecture at university of Washington 2012, and Bachelor's in Landscape Architecture at the University of Massachusetts 2009.

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DAN SHAW

Master of Landscape Architecture

University of Washington 2012

BS Landscape Architecture

University of Massachusetts 2009

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BOISE CASCADE PARK: LARGE SITE STRATEGIES

Yakima, WAWinter and Spring 2012Iain Robertson + Jeff Hou, professorsExhibited: European Biennale of Landscape Architecture 2012

To become a large park, this urban brownfield is re-shaped by community, nature, and the designer’s composition of landform, in a collaborative improvisation. “Places” were composed in both music and in landscape, as conceptual analogues.

Existing condition

Landform directs improvised ecologies (AutoCAD, Photoshop Google Earth collage)

Improvisation, layers (Right: Rhino, Photoshop)

LANDFORM ECOLOGIES STRUCTURES

islough

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playfields, gathering spaces

successional grassland/forest

productivelowland

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existing greenway

ruins

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Landform score, for bulldozer and shovel (AutoCAD)

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Phytoremediation : Guitar : Composed

Landform : Bass : Composed

Succession : Guitar : Improvised

Use : Guitar : Improvised

Industrial Remnants : Drums : Sampled

(S. alba is inoculated with PAH-degrading endophytic bacteria)

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FRIDAY HARBOR WATERFRONT ESPLANADESECTION A: ESPLANADE AND HABITAT PLANTER BOXES 7/9/2014

PORT OF FRIDAY HARBORPROJECT NO. 14-1647

0’ 4’ 8’

Scale: 1/4” = 1’

CONCRETE SEAT WALL WITH TIMBER

PLANTER BOX, SOIL

STORMWATER RUNNEL

INFILTRATION SAND COLUMN

OVERLOOK WITH WOOD/STAINLESS STEEL CABLE RAILING

RIPARIAN PLANTING BOX, EL. 9.6

HIGH MARSH PLANTING BOX, EL 6.6

LOW MARSH PLANTING BOX, EL. 3.6

ORDINARY HIGH WATER 8.5’

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STRUCTURAL SEAWALL (NOT IN GRANT REQUEST)

ROOF DECK, SPRING ST LANDING PROJECT (NOT

IN GRANT REQUEST)

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ATTACHMENT FOR MAINTENANCE SAFETY HARNESS

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GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE

Various locations, Washington State2013-currentProfessional work through J.A. Brennan Associates

As lead producer of illustrative perspective graphics in the office, I coordinate with engineers and help clients visualize the multi-layered benefits of green infrastructure.

Rain gardens reduce pollutant discharge into Hood Canal (hand, Photoshop)

Above and facing: coordinating with an engineer, the seawall design provides habitat, storm water treatment, and public space (hand, Adobe CS; designed with J. Brennan)

Restored wetland reduces flooding and enhances habitat (design support and drafting; designed by M. Perfetti)

Green infrastructure doubles as public space (hand, Photoshop)

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ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION

Tukwila, WA2013-currentProfessional work through J.A. Brennan AssociatesDesigned with J. Brennan and M. PerfettiMy role: grading, planting, detail, and sculpture design; permit support, lead drawing production

3 acres of excavation, earthwork, and native planting will transform a channelized, contaminated, post-agricultural river bank into integrated public space, tribal related art, and intertidal/ riparian habitat. Design process required collaboration with tribes, archaeologist, geotechnical engineer, and rain garden engineer.

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The site lies on an urban, channelized riverbank (Photoshop)

Above and opposite: existing vs proposed grade illustrates the dramatic extent of earthwork. Designed ecological zones transition from mudflat, to marsh, to riparian (AutoCAD)

Stone walls define edges between gathering space and restoration zone (AutoCAD)

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ECOLOGICAL ZONE ELEVATION MAX. SLOPE

UPLAND RIPARIAN 13+ 3:1

MOIST RIPARIAN 10-13 3:1

HIGH AND LOW MARSH 5-10 5:1

MUD FLAT 0-5 10:1

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DESIGN ACTIVISM

Lima, PeruWinter and Summer 2011Ben Spencer, professorWinner: ASLA Honor Award in community service, EDRA Great Places Design Award, SEED Award for Public Interest Design

Site design, and prototyping: fog-harvesters restore productive dry-forest ecosystems, generating industry (Google Earth, Photoshop, physical model)

Staging: Performance:

Nursery scaffolding/ fog-catchers

Upland fog-catchers

Program and event: “fog-racers” (e.g.)

Ecology

AgroforestPROJECT 1: DESIGN STUDIO

The hill above a desert slum becomes programmed with fog harvesters, establishing a regenerative agro-forest to sustain these urban pioneers living on the frontier of climate change.

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PROJECT 2: COMMUNITY DESIGN-BUILDOur team designed and built a greywater-fed school landscape through community participation, with only $5000, in one month. I helped lead the award-winning design.

The greywater irrigation system uses water from hand washing.

Clay irrigation pots use ancient Incan technology to slowly release water.

A sand filter collects particulates and contaminants before the water is used for irrigation.

Why Greywater?A greywater irrigation system has been installed utilizing wastewater from the hand washing station in the central grounds to irrigate the lower end of the park close to the primary school classrooms. This system was installed as part of the overall project design based on input from parents. Due to the melting of glaciers that feed the rivers supplying water to Lima, it will become more and more important to recycle and conserve water.

Replacement PartsSand filter, connections and water storage tank for greywater system were purchased at Maestro Naranjal, Naranjal (631-0300).

Clay water-saving pots were purchased from Ceramicas Rivera, Zapallal (01-408-9852).

bathroom

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The greywater irrigation system uses water from hand washing.

Clay irrigation pots use ancient Incan technology to slowly release water.

A sand filter collects particulates and contaminants before the water is used for irrigation.

Why Greywater?A greywater irrigation system has been installed utilizing wastewater from the hand washing station in the central grounds to irrigate the lower end of the park close to the primary school classrooms. This system was installed as part of the overall project design based on input from parents. Due to the melting of glaciers that feed the rivers supplying water to Lima, it will become more and more important to recycle and conserve water.

Replacement PartsSand filter, connections and water storage tank for greywater system were purchased at Maestro Naranjal, Naranjal (631-0300).

Clay water-saving pots were purchased from Ceramicas Rivera, Zapallal (01-408-9852).

bathroom

greywater sand filter

culverts 1M from wall edge

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clay irrigation pots connected by

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The greywater irrigation system uses water from hand washing.

Clay irrigation pots use ancient Incan technology to slowly release water.

A sand filter collects particulates and contaminants before the water is used for irrigation.

Why Greywater?A greywater irrigation system has been installed utilizing wastewater from the hand washing station in the central grounds to irrigate the lower end of the park close to the primary school classrooms. This system was installed as part of the overall project design based on input from parents. Due to the melting of glaciers that feed the rivers supplying water to Lima, it will become more and more important to recycle and conserve water.

Replacement PartsSand filter, connections and water storage tank for greywater system were purchased at Maestro Naranjal, Naranjal (631-0300).

Clay water-saving pots were purchased from Ceramicas Rivera, Zapallal (01-408-9852).

bathroom

greywater sand filter

culverts 1M from wall edge

culvert

clay irrigation pots connected by

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underground flexible

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underground PVC irrigation pipe

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THE DESIGN

Subsurface irrigation (photo by B. Spencer)

During and after (top photo by L. Andrews, bottom photo by B. Spencer)

The greywater irrigation system uses water from hand washing.

Clay irrigation pots use ancient Incan technology to slowly release water.

A sand filter collects particulates and contaminants before the water is used for irrigation.

Why Greywater?A greywater irrigation system has been installed utilizing wastewater from the hand washing station in the central grounds to irrigate the lower end of the park close to the primary school classrooms. This system was installed as part of the overall project design based on input from parents. Due to the melting of glaciers that feed the rivers supplying water to Lima, it will become more and more important to recycle and conserve water.

Replacement PartsSand filter, connections and water storage tank for greywater system were purchased at Maestro Naranjal, Naranjal (631-0300).

Clay water-saving pots were purchased from Ceramicas Rivera, Zapallal (01-408-9852).

bathroom

greywater sand filter

culverts 1M from wall edge

culvert

clay irrigation pots connected by

rubber hose

underground flexible

irrigation hoses

underground PVC irrigation pipe

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The greywater irrigation system uses water from hand washing.

Clay irrigation pots use ancient Incan technology to slowly release water.

A sand filter collects particulates and contaminants before the water is used for irrigation.

Why Greywater?A greywater irrigation system has been installed utilizing wastewater from the hand washing station in the central grounds to irrigate the lower end of the park close to the primary school classrooms. This system was installed as part of the overall project design based on input from parents. Due to the melting of glaciers that feed the rivers supplying water to Lima, it will become more and more important to recycle and conserve water.

Replacement PartsSand filter, connections and water storage tank for greywater system were purchased at Maestro Naranjal, Naranjal (631-0300).

Clay water-saving pots were purchased from Ceramicas Rivera, Zapallal (01-408-9852).

bathroom

greywater sand filter

culverts 1M from wall edge

culvert

clay irrigation pots connected by

rubber hose

underground flexible

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underground PVC irrigation pipe

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The greywater irrigation system uses water from hand washing.

Clay irrigation pots use ancient Incan technology to slowly release water.

A sand filter collects particulates and contaminants before the water is used for irrigation.

Why Greywater?A greywater irrigation system has been installed utilizing wastewater from the hand washing station in the central grounds to irrigate the lower end of the park close to the primary school classrooms. This system was installed as part of the overall project design based on input from parents. Due to the melting of glaciers that feed the rivers supplying water to Lima, it will become more and more important to recycle and conserve water.

Replacement PartsSand filter, connections and water storage tank for greywater system were purchased at Maestro Naranjal, Naranjal (631-0300).

Clay water-saving pots were purchased from Ceramicas Rivera, Zapallal (01-408-9852).

bathroom

greywater sand filter

culverts 1M from wall edge

culvert

clay irrigation pots connected by

rubber hose

underground flexible

irrigation hoses

underground PVC irrigation pipe

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THE DESIGN

Applied landscape media design techniques from UMass studio (LArc297A model, 2006)

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SettingSeattle’s Elliott Bay seawall marks the boundary between city ecology and aquatic ecology. The stretch of wall in front of Piers 54, 55, 56, and 57 sits below a concentration of human culture and commerce along the waterfront, a potentially vibrant eco-cultural exchange zone.

ConceptA new seawall that’s an irregular edge. Increasing and creating the surface area of exchange zone. Drawing water inland while making piers “islands”. Reimagining the seawall as a border rather than a boundary. Wildlife habitat as armature for public space. Seawall-as-promenade. Seawall-as-habitat corridor. An intimate waterfront edge, a walk along a re-discovered tidal zone. A chain of human-scaled nodes.

DisconnectThe seawall, due to be replaced, is a vertical edge that limits human engagement with water, while offering inhospitable conditions for migrating salmon and other species.

0’ 50’ 100’ N

Promenade Seawall / Intertidal Light Permeable Surface Pier Multi-Purpose Trail

A straight edge says “moveon”, while an irregular edge says “stay, explore, exchange, find your niche”

Exchange Zone Rediscovered: Elliott Bay Seawall

Vertical edges and deep water limit habitat at the Duwamish/Elliott Bay estuary

Juvenile chinook salmon seek refuge and food in shallow water

Imagine an urban water’s edge thatsupports life

Rooted life

Transient life

Seawall as public space: the intimate edge

Piers as promontories:the expansive edge

Layers of waterfront

Public Spaces & Public Life for Seattle’s Central Watefront

SEATTLE WATERFRONT: SEAWALL AS PUBLIC SPACE

Seattle, WA and Copenhagen, DKFall 2010Nancy Rottle, professor Winner: WASLA Student Merit Award

Students from varied disciplines collaborated on one comprehensive design, replicating a professional project with a rigorous timeframe. The studio benefitted from guidance by Gehl Architects during a study tour to Copenhagen.

I contributed the design of the seawall itself, centrally situated; a task which required communication and creative leadership.

Terraced seawall reveals intertidal zone (3D AutoCAD, Photoshop)

Layered water’s edge (Illustrator)

Revealedfacades

Steppedseawall

Reversiblemultimodal lanes

Piers

Topo

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A more complex and rich water’s edge (AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop)

SettingSeattle’s Elliott Bay seawall marks the boundary between city ecology and aquatic ecology. The stretch of wall in front of Piers 54, 55, 56, and 57 sits below a concentration of human culture and commerce along the waterfront, a potentially vibrant eco-cultural exchange zone.

ConceptA new seawall that’s an irregular edge. Increasing and creating the surface area of exchange zone. Drawing water inland while making piers “islands”. Reimagining the seawall as a border rather than a boundary. Wildlife habitat as armature for public space. Seawall-as-promenade. Seawall-as-habitat corridor. An intimate waterfront edge, a walk along a re-discovered tidal zone. A chain of human-scaled nodes.

DisconnectThe seawall, due to be replaced, is a vertical edge that limits human engagement with water, while offering inhospitable conditions for migrating salmon and other species.

0’ 50’ 100’ N

Promenade Seawall / Intertidal Light Permeable Surface Pier Multi-Purpose Trail

A straight edge says “moveon”, while an irregular edge says “stay, explore, exchange, find your niche”

Exchange Zone Rediscovered: Elliott Bay Seawall

Vertical edges and deep water limit habitat at the Duwamish/Elliott Bay estuary

Juvenile chinook salmon seek refuge and food in shallow water

Imagine an urban water’s edge thatsupports life

Rooted life

Transient life

Seawall as public space: the intimate edge

Piers as promontories:the expansive edge

Layers of waterfront

Public Spaces & Public Life for Seattle’s Central Watefront

Considering Seattle’s waterfront parks (sketchbook) Loading docks as front stoops (pen on trace)

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CURATING ECOLOGY

Shutesbury, MAFall 2007Dean Cardasis + Mike Davidsohn, professors

The design of landscape space, carved carefully from the forest, reconciles the arbitrary relationship between the house and garage, between the driveway and garden, and between the indoors and out.

Lawn edged by fieldstone ret. wall; dry laid fieldstone patio w/ seat wall Indoor/outdoor interface

Low-cost wood chip path through surrounding beech-oak forest Circular back decks tie the house into the landscape’s design

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Existing native fern meadow (P. noveboracensis) is encouraged (photographs of working / presentation model, above and facing)

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MUSEUM OF THE TIBUR

Rome, ITFall 2011Thaisa Way + Rob Corser, professors

This museum highlights the role of sediment, through installation art along the length of Rome’s under-used riverfront. This was a product of two months spent absorbing Italy’s food culture, urban history, language, landscape, and lifestyle.

Travertine embankment becomes a faceted surface, to display sediment deposits and installation art (Rhino, hand, Photoshop)

Urban studies (Pen, sketchbook)

Papal Arsenale (pink dot) becomes museum headquarters; underused river walks serve as galleries (hand, Photoshop)

INSTALATION ARTTO REFOCUSON THE TIBER.THE URBAN RIVER BANKSBECOME GALLERY WALKS.WHAT HAS THE RIVER BROUGHT?

Flood

Sedimentation

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The Arsenale site is redesigned as the headquarters for a museum focused on istallation art, and includes artist residences and workshops; its center-piece is a sediment-cob pizza oven/kiln, which can support community dinners (AutoCAD, hand, Photoshop)

+ Tibur River

+ Low terrace, often floods, captures sediment

+ Bike path/river walk

+ Installation terraces

+ Overlook/enclosing berm

+ Sediment oven

+ Arsenale workshop+ Living spaces+ Offices+ Workshops

+ Outdoor work areas+ Garage

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Japan study tour

Parallel stripes of landscape conditions blur together as they meet the water, while micro-grading makes legible subtle water level changes (model: laser cutter, hand) (section-perspectives: pen on trace, sample of a 4’ x 6’ section-perspective drawing showing entire site)

CLIMATE CHANGE LEGIBILITY

Japan, and Seattle, WASpring 2011Thaisa Way + Ken Oshima, professorsDesigned with M. Kaiser and H. PerryExhibited: Studioworks UW Arch 2011, European Biennale of Land. Arch. 2012Winner: WASLA Special Mention 2012

A collaboration with two architecture students, this speculative proposal for a climate change research center makes subtle shifts in climate highly legible, through sensitively designed buildings and landscape. The studio included a study tour to Japan.

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This research center is integrated with its site, influenced by Japanese architecture; sections depict ecotones and landform (AutoCAD, hand, Photoshop; plan drawn with H. Perry and M. Kaiser)

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This green roof over an underground garage links two areas of Northampton’s vibrant downtown. The design feels safe, open, and visible, and still is an intimate community space.

PULASKI PARK

Northampton, MASpring 2008, revised Winter 2013Mark Lindhult + Jane Thurber, professors

Raised planting beds, edged by seating walls, form numerous social corners in each outdoor room (AutoCAD, Rhino, Photoshop)

(AutoCAD, Rhino, Photoshop)

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SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AS ART AND PUBLIC SPACE

Maidstone, England Spring 2009Designed with T. Hutchinson, graphics drawn with T. Hutchinson

The design of a pedestrian mall uses green infrastructure to shape space that encourages exploration and gathering, punctuated by wind energy systems as kinetic art.

ABONORGANICO

Guatemala CitySpring 2009Designed with T. Shultz, B. Giggey, T. Hutchin-son, J. Dell’Orfano, A. Monroy, S. Morrow, M. Reagon, P. Kumble

Regenerative solutions to the cycle of poverty and urban waste streams were forged by partnering with the munipality, community, and local businesses. Our interdisciplinary group established a community-run composting business that rerouted sources of waste, employed at-risk teens, and helped green Guatemala City. I contributed site design, field work, and graphics as part of my undergraduate honors capstone.

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Systems of interstitial space become a framework for landscape based community building tactics, including urban agriculture, sustainable mobility, and space for ecology, play, and art. The project became personal, leading to urban agricultural volunteer work.

BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH LANDSCAPE

Springfield, MAFall and Winter 2008-09Frank Sleegers, John Taylor + Chingwen Chen, professorsDesigned with M. Crete, S. F. Lau, and T. Hutchinson Winner: BSLA Student Merit Award in Analysis and Planning

Surface Types + Vacant Lots Topography Land Use

Possible Urb.Ag. Sites Proposed Bike Network Proposed Open Space System

Perspective and urban surface layers (Pen on trace, Photoshop)

Above: analysis of neighborhood food security (hand, InDesign)Left: site work (Photo by P. Merzbacher)

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Moderate hunger 6.6%

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Hunger Indicators Among Residents In Mason Square

An assured ability to acquire nutritious food in socially acceptable ways is called food security. According to Project Bread’s 2008 Status Report on Hunger in Massachusetts, one third of school children in high poverty communities live in food insecure families. Children who are poorly fed do not learn as well in school and are more prone toward obesity and associated health problems such as diabetes and high blood pressure. The situation is not improving with current economic conditions. In 2008, calls to Project Bread’s FoodSource Hotline, an emergency food assistance line, were 22 percent higher than in the same period in 2007.

30% of households in Western Massachusetts do not have enough food to meet dietary needs. The monthly maximum food stamp allotment for a family of four with no other income is $542. However, the monthly cost of the USDA Thrifty Food Basket (the lowest-cost food plan that meets dietary requirements) for a family of four is $588. Food availability within Mason Square is somewhat limited. According to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, there is only one full line supermarket within a 5 mile radius of Mason Square, compared to 18 supermarkets within a five mile radius of Northampton, MA, a nearby city whose population is only 28,411. Though a number of smaller stores are found in the district, they do not carry the full range of food needed for a healthy diet.

In Springfield, the median income is $30,417. The federal poverty level for a family of four is $21,200. In the four neighborhoods of Mason Square (McKnight, Bay, Old Hill, and Upper Hill), 40% of households live in poverty.

Nearly one fifth of Mason Square residents are food insecure, and a more detailed study has shown the symptoms of food inse-curity among all Mason Square residents during 2005, ranging from cases where people worried that food might run out, to cases where people didn’t eat for a whole day (right). During the past three years, the Mason Square community has organized a small and slowly growing farmer’s market in an effort to increase food availability.

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State St at Mason Square:Indian Motorcycle Building, left, Firehouse, middle

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Complexity is elegantly resolved. Eighty housing units, with layered systems of drainage, rain gardens, habitat, pedestrian walks, open space, roads, and parking, with solar-oriented architecture and floorplans, with individual sensitivity to climate, views, tree cover, and topography, all integrated through a seven-week design process, is a challenging but achievable task.

HIGH DENSITY HOUSING

Amherst, MASpring 2008Joseph S.R. Volpe, professorDesigned with M. Crete, andplan drawn with M. Crete

Public spaces defined by architecture, landform, and tree canopy (colored pencil on trace)

Grading, drainage, paths, public spaces, architecture, road alignment and parking; overlaid (colored pencil on bond)

Drainage, housing, walks, drives, open space, and plantings, overlaid. (colored pencil on bond)

Public spaces defined by architecture, landform, and tree canopy (colored pencil on trace)

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Living in James Rose’s masterpiece of landscape and architecture was a calming and enlightening experience in testament to the power of well designed space. A landscape is a living process, which must be experienced, and is never finished.

INTERNSHIP AT THE JAMES ROSE CENTER

Summer 2008Design by James RoseDean Cardasis, director

Music, Sculpture, and Artwork | Ongoing | Personal Work

SCULPTURE

Fall 2009Amherst College

A sculptor makes an object that occupies space; we walk around it and it is the subject of our attention. A landscape architect, however, designs space itself: between landform, plants, structures, and water, an inverted sculpture, in which we are all the subjects together beneath the sky.

“Passenger Pigeons” (welded steel)

TRAVEL SKETCH BOOK

2009-2011Guatemala, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, Peru, Italy, Germany, Dominican Republic, United States

Indoor and outdoor space seem one. Front cover: view across roof garden (photo by Richy Alevi)

Copenhagen (pen, sketchbook)

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DAN SHAW // CURRICULUM VITAE (abridged) // [email protected]

EDUCATION2010-2012 Master’s of Landscape Architecture II, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Areas of study: global urbanism, landscape infrastructure, design for climate change, phytoremediation, health and built environments, urban hydrology, design activism, informal urban settlements, participatory design, design-build, landscape representation, expressing ecological process through site design, creative process for indeterminacy.2005- 2009 Bachelor’s of Science in Landscape Architecture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Commonwealth College Honors, Magna Cum Laude. Capstone: “Theory and Practice of Urban Sustainability”

ACADEMIC POSITIONS2012 Teaching Assistant, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE2013 – prsnt. Landscape Designer, J. A. Brennan Associates PLLC Landscape Architects and Planners, Seattle, WA2010 Landscape Construction Consultant, Regenerative Design, Greenfield, MA 2010 Farm Worker, Simple Gifts Farm, Amherst, MA2009-2012 Landscape Designer, Dan Shaw Landscape Designer, MA and WA2008 Resident Intern, James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design, Ridgewood, NJ 2008-2009 Landscape Construction Consultant, Cave Hill Landscape Architects, Leverett, MA

REGISTRATION AND MEMBERSHIPS2012 Social, Economic, and Environmental Design (SEED) Certified in public interest design, Public Interest Design Institute2009 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) associate membership

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND HONORS (select)2013 Northwest Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in Italy (NIAUSI) fellowship (declined for personal reasons)2012 ASLA Student Honor Award in Community Service, “Escuela Ecologica Saludable”, team project2012 Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Great Places Award, “Escuela Ecologica Saludable”, team project2012 SEED International Design Honor Award, “Escuela Ecologica Saludable”, team project2011 Washington ASLA Student Merit Award, “Seattle Waterfront: Seawall as Public Space”2009 ASLA Student Honor Award for collective body of undergraduate work

SERVICE (select)2013 Volunteer, landscape construction. Danny Woo Garden, Seattle WA2012 Committee member, MLA Admissions Committee, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington2010 Volunteer, community garden installation. Springfield, MA2010 Pro-bono design service, Simple Gifts Farm, Amherst MA

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2008 Volunteer, James Rose Center. Spring and Fall cleanup.2008 Vice President, Student ASLA UMass LARP

DESIGN RESEARCH TRAVEL (select; * indicates obtained funding)2012 Boston, San Francisco, Seattle: Informational interviews with 30 landscape architecture firms.2012 Dominican Replublic: Visited edible garden design-build and education initiative at MADAELAS (orphanage) in La Victoria.2011 Duisborg, Germany: Independently organized study tour of Duisborg-Nord post-industrial park.*2011 Italy: Acque Romane: Architecture & Landscape Architecture in Rome 2011.*2011 Lima, Peru: University of Washington Exploration Seminar, in collaboration with San Marcos University, Lima, Peru.*2011 Japan: Designing for Urgent Change on the Pacific Rim.2010 Malmo, Sweden: Scan | Design Study Tour (see above).*2010 Copenhagen, Denmark: Scan | Design Study Tour hosted by Gehl Architects and University of Washington.*2009 Guatemala City, Guatemala: Helped found “AbonOrganico”, UMass capstone and service learning.2008 Belize: Ecotourism Planning. University of Massachusetts Commonwealth College Honors research.

CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITIONS2012 Structures for Inclusion 2012 Conference, Austin, TX , “Escuela Ecologica Saludable”, Panel I: Partnerships, Presented with Leann Andrews and Jorge Alarcon, invited 2012 European Biennale of Landscape Architecture, Barcelona, Spain, 2012, “An Instrument of the Many Voices of Climatic Uncertainty”, exhibited, group project; “Songlines and Groundline: Music and Landform Shaping Each Other”, exhibited.2008 Commonwealth College Undergraduate Symposium, UMass, Amherst, MA “The Heart of Holyoke”, exhibited, group project

PUBLICATIONS2012 Shaw, Daniel. “Songlines and Groundlines: Music and Landform shaping Each Other”. Master’s Thesis, University of Washington. Iain Robertson and Jeff Hou, committee.2010 Dell’Orfano, Jason; Giggey, Brian; Hutchinson, Tamzeena; Monroy, Adam; Morrow, Seth; Regan, Megan; Shaw, Daniel; Shultz, Travis. “Community Service Learning Through the Lens of Applied Field Studies in Guatemala”. Scholarworks@ UMass Amherst.

INVITED ACADEMIC DESIGN REVIEWS2014 LArch700A Master’s Thesis Studio, University of Washington, sponsor: Jeff Hou2014 LArch432 Urban Soils and Hydrology for Landscape Architects, University of Washington, sponsor: Nancy Rottle2014 LArch301A Design Foundations Studio, University of Washington, sponsor: Iain Robertson2013 LArch302A Urban Sites Studio, University of Washington, sponsor: Luanne Smith2012 LArch303 Ecological Systems Studio, University of Washington, sponsor: Ken Yocum 2012 LArch502A Design Activism Studio, University of Washington, Sponsor: Ben Spencer2009 LandArch 297B Studio II: Spaces & Places in Context, sponsor: Frank Sleegers2009 MLA Residential Design Studio, University of Massachusetts, sponsor: Joe Volpe