2022 ASLA Student Awards

One crucial role that botanic gardens play is to collect species that naturally grow together and constitute the identity of a certain environment. It portrays a particular biotope through the display of particular plant species and encourages visitors to observe the various plant communities. 

The National Arboretum is located on the west side of the Anacostia River, surrounded by natural wetlands. However, these areas are isolated and not easily accessible to locals and

Urbanization has resulted in vast alteration of Earth’s ecosystems and in the exclusion of nature from the human experience. As we expand our cities and build new ones, people are further immersed in the built environment and detached from the lives of wildlife that once inhabited the lands that we have developed. Boston Anthro-zoo Park (BAZP) is a new model of zoo that is meant to enhance the native wildlife diversity of Boston and reconnect urban people with nature through storytelling and

The port of Tianjin, once the fifth largest port in the world, carried a huge volume of trade traffic. In 2015, a sudden explosion of hazardous chemicals in a warehouse shattered all prosperity. A large amount of brownfield soil from the explosion site needed to be contaminated. The loss of chemical components in the environment caused varying degrees of contamination and caused intense unease among the surrounding population. The hard-hit Tianjin citizens and firefighters desperately longed

In 2017, Hurricane Maria brought enormous damage and losses to most urban areas of Puerto Rico. Houses in the Candelaria, neighborhoods of Toa Baja, and part of the San Juan Metropolitan Area, were heavily affected by landslides. The lowest income and self-constructed dwellings located on steep terrain became extremely vulnerable to future natural disasters since then, most of which lack maintenance after emergent repairs. Candelaria is currently facing inefficient industrial single land use,

The pillars of environmental, social, and economic sustainability provide an infallible framework for a master plan designed to celebrate the cultural and historical significance of The Bottom, a historic Freedmen’s Town adjacent to the Trinity River just over a mile south of Downtown Dallas. The community’s unique bowl-shaped topography, resulting from natural elevation changes combined with a man-made levy and a barrier created by the I-35 highway corridor, provides for site-specific stormw

How can landscape architecture play a role in repairing the impacts of structural racism in post-industrial landscapes?  This project imagines how the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act could fund an eco-industrial park in South LA , thus providing economic opportunity while addressing the need for ecological and social well-being where the consequences of industry on race and poverty are most profound.  

The project site is a former brownfield in South LA in two neig

For the past decade, a community coalition has fought to protect Eagles Island, the largest island in a deltaic archipelago at the confluence of the Cape Fear and Northeast Cape Fear Rivers, as a recreational amenity. Located 20 miles from the

As wildfires in the San Gabriel Mountains become more frequent and severe, we need to expand our suite of management tools beyond firefighting and fuel clearance by seeking new inspiration. Around the world, wildlife have complex relationships and strategies for coexisting with wildfire. In this research project, animal adaptations to wildfire inform a land management framework designed to catalyze regeneration of habitat niches in post-fire landscapes to support ecological resilien

Our main design site is the lower Yuba River between Yuba City and the Englebright Dam.The basin has brought a series problems of ecological, economic and social chain problems of flooding, sedimentation, pollution and habitat destruction due to hydraulic mining, which are difficult to solve. The construction of existing dams can effectively reduce the risk of flooding, but the size of impact about dams on fish habitat destruction or flood without dams on downstream socioeconomics is difficul

Global climate change affects different geographies and populations disproportionately. El Paso, a Hispanic majority city located in the hot desert climate zone, experiences increasing frequencies of extreme heat. Annual temperatures is 3 degrees warmer than the same period a century earlier, and the hottest monthly average temperature could reach 98 F, indicating the severe heat threat.

Despite the recognition of climate change adaptation in the design di

The number of Americans with Alzheimer’s is expected to increase to 14 million by 2060. Furthermore, by 2034 the number of adults will exceed children in the United States for the first time. Alzheimer’s and related Dementias bear a disproportionate burden on women and people of color. There is an imperative and urgent need to search for the point source of “Dementogens,” or categories of toxins that can lead to Dementia. However, little research exists on mitigating environmental pollutants

In the western United States, wildfires are becoming bigger, hotter, and more frequent due to the effects of climate change. During the summer of 2021, as smoke from western fires stretched across the country, the first and only Oregon-based session of the Overlook Field School explored the theme of “Recovery” as it relates to wildfire burns. Over the course of five weeks, we visited post-fire sites, most of which occurred within the last 30 years. The projects shared here are the outcome of these forest explorations and creative interactions led by artist-in-residence, David Buckley Borden. The Field School culminated in a public exhibition centered around communicating the dynamism of post-fire landscapes and what they can teach us about resiliency.

Eagles Island, an ecologically vital freshwater marsh, has been continually altered through processes of extraction and deposit. This landscape, directly adjacent to Wilmington, North Carolina and between two of the state’s fastest growing counties, presents a generational opportunity for community stakeholders. Developed through informed and multiscalar analysis, Fixed in Flux proposes a ecologically distinct and regionally significant park that anticipates adaptation to dynamic na

Peak Expeditionary is a public elementary school serving a diverse community of learners - over 50% of whom qualify for free or reduced lunch. The school employs an Expeditionary Learning (EL) model that offers hands-on education connected to the curriculum. Learning happens outside their classrooms, from their local community to the far reaches of the state. Despite an expeditionary curriculum, the existing schoolyard was devoid of educational opportunities. This project addressed