aidan acker portfolio
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Academic and professional work from studies in Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2011TRANSCRIPT
AIDAN ACKERAcademic and professional work in landscape architecture and digital environment design
MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA
“Context Informs Form” is a site based design studio exploring the relationship between modern landscape design and
MIT Campus Phase 1: Master Plan
space; removal of an unused median along Memorial Drive to the south allows new green space to be created in front
EXISTING VEGETATION
CLIMATE ANALYSIS
SITE COMPONENT STRATEGY
Site Design, MIT Kresge Auditorium + Chapel
Site Design, MIT Simmons Hall Plaza
Site Design, Baker House Yard
Site Furnishing Design, Lighted Bench + Illuminated Bike Rack
Animation Study: Parametric Point Distortion
Dynamic Component Modeling
part 1
Modeling Form Within an Environment: Sketch to Render
FORESTED WETLAND
WET MEADOW
SHORT GRASSLAND
TALL GRASSLAND
CONSTRUCTED WATER BODY
UNFORESTED WETLAND
WETLAND EXPANSION AREA
RUNWAY
BIOREMEDIATION
PHYTOREMEDIATION
EXISTING BUILDINGS
ROADS
WALKING/BIKING PATHS
Site Plan 2020
500m
(FLOATING WETLAND)
1m CONTOUR INTERVAL
500m ROWING COURSE
SPECTATOR AREA/FINISH TOWER
FIELD HOUSE
SKATEBOARD PARK
TENNIS/BASKETBALL COURT
PARKING LOT/BEGINNER CYCLING TRAINING AREA
400m RUNNING TRACK
250m VELODROME
MOUNTAIN BIKE/ALPINE SKI TRAINING HILL
PRACTICE TENNIS COURTS
PRACTICE BASKETBALL COURT
BASEBALL/SOCCER FIELD
COMMUNITY ATHLETIC COURTS
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SITE ELEMENTS
FACILITIES
12%
8%4%
Existing Stormwater ManagementAquifers (USGS 2005) Vernal Pools (USGS 2005)
Wetlands
Detention basinsMedium yield: 100-300gpm
High yield: >300gpm
Potential vernal pools
NHESP certified vernal pools
GSD 1211: Hydrology AnalysisA watershed or basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean. Our site lies within the Coastal Mega Basin which drains to the Atlantic Ocean. Within the Coastal Mega Basin, the former naval base is located on the boundary of two major watersheds: Boston Harbor and South Coastal. Within the Boston Harbor watershed, our site lies within the Weir subwatershed draining to Weymouth Back River, which flows to Hingham Bay and then into the Boston Harbor.
GSD 1211: BiosystemsThe majority of the site is characterized by generally flat, slightly rolling terrain including bedrock outcrops, wetlands, waterways, excavated depressions, and developed areas.
Design Thesis in Landscape Architecture
Siting
Network Diagrams
Design Thesis: Tracing Network Traffic Routes
Design Thesis: Data Storage Hydro-Landscape
Design Thesis: Site Operations
Access roads
Design Thesis: Infrastructure
Study of disturbance effect on native bird habitat Visual projection of disturbance effect on native plant species population over a 10-year periodAvian migratory path
Design Thesis: Site Ecology
server infrastructure; the infrastructure
is routed through the landscape to the
both as retention basins to aid in slowing
water underneath the server infrastructure creates a natural cooling environment for
necessary to accommodate the growth
the infrastructure and the surrounding
cooling microclimate for the server
Design Thesis: Data Storage Site Infrastructure Landscape Elements
Design Thesis: Data Storage Site Experience
Design Thesis: Data Storage Site Context
Harvard Graduate School of Design Group Exhibition: Digital Terrain
ABU DHABI PAVILION, UAE, GROUND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PRIVATE RESIDENCE, ALAJUELA, COSTA RICAABU DHABI PAVILION, UAE, GROUND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PRIVATE RESIDENCE, ALAJUELA, COSTA RICA
Illustration and Photography
Illustration and Photography