sketch

Sketches & Models

Haverford Pedestrian Entrance	The entrance off of Haverford St. crosses over the swale, through a filter of birch trees and over a hill before reaching the golf course. (Plan) The view is increased by looking out over the park making the space seem larger than it actually is - creating more space. A large wall slices into the hillside revealing its topography.
11th hole in the Retention Basin	Playing the sunken holes in the retention basin can be very wet. The path above the retention basin becomes a gallry space for passerbyes. The vegetation behind the path blocks the view to the parking lot. (Plan) The parking lot is graded so that the runoff travels underneath the berm and thru a small slit in the cor-ten steel producing a small waterfall that also helps stain the steel.

Haverford Pedestrian Entrance

The entrance off of Haverford St. crosses over the swale, through a filter of birch trees and over a hill before reaching the golf course. (Plan) The view is increased by looking out over the park making the space seem larger than it actually is - creating more space. A large wall slices into the hillside revealing its topography.

11th hole in the Retention Basin

Playing the sunken holes in the retention basin can be very wet. The path above the retention basin becomes a gallry space for passerbyes. The vegetation behind the path blocks the view to the parking lot. (Plan) The parking lot is graded so that the runoff travels underneath the berm and thru a small slit in the cor-ten steel producing a small waterfall that also helps stain the steel.

Effects of time and nature upon the built environment

(location of sketch is at the bottom of the 7th hole looking north. (Plan)

Ist Year:

The interior topograhy is formed by old building materials and rubble from vacant sites. The weathering of the materials has not yet set in and the view is expansive.

3rd Year:

Organic material begins to collect in the rubble and vegetation starts to grow in the crevices. Time is starting to take its effect on the materials and they begin to weather in relation to its wetness, especially the walkway which is made from urban debris collected from the streets

5th Year:

The mounds of rubble have almost become completely grown over with vegeatation. A sense of enclosure is formed. Materials are now rusty and crumbling and the process of time on the environment is revealed.

Study Model

Determining scale, form and narrative