ASHLEY SCOTT KELLY
Urban Found Architecture
New York NY
ashley@urbanfoundarch.com
BROOKLYN FOUNDRY
The project registers a new visible public infrastructure to foster the distributions, collections and expansion necessary to sustainably re-diversify the City's land uses.  The hyperdense structure creates a highly-differentiated cross-grain, traversed by multiple, focused public grounds that look to reorganize the collision between mega(infra)structural planning and a society of private ownership.
SPECULATION I
Architecture that operates at the urban scale generally attempts to dissolve.  The project seeks to find a particular language for the museum that is able to conform to a nearly infinite range of site dimensions and topographic conditions, linking high and low ground.  The building is parametrically generated in CATIA by a 'best fit' algorithm, placing program throughout the structure based on its proximity to defined program attractors, distributing and re-distributing in the available space.  Alternating voids, projected normal to the ground, are cut through the building to force linear circulation through the galleries.  Two sites were chosen with drastically different site areas and proportions, producing a tower and pseudo-mat typology that are formally geologic in their stratification and registration of Chongqing's highly varied topography.
GALLERY DIALECTIC
This early study aims to recognize order within organic conditions, taking advantage of the eccentricity arising at the seams of notably rigid educational systems.  While registering the abstract measurement of topography and layers of vegetation, natural foliage and worn foot paths are given architectural character.
MAPPING THE ECOTONE
This project creates a highly visible, experiential public infrastructure that responds to the shifting ecosystem of Jamaica Bay and defines a new vision of the relationship between nature and people.  Though within New York City, it is a stretch to call this an urban park in the context of Manhattan.  Gateway must be made more accessible in terms of its idea.
In collaboration w/ R Wakabayashi
 
Awards: First Prize Envisioning Gateway Competition 2007
Published: 1000x Landscape Architecture; LA Journal China; others
PROSPECT ON STRUCTURE
The call to reinvent the face of Prospect Park's 526 acres of forest, water and wetlands is to signal a new public attitude with the extension of the park's ecological systems and interface with the City, creating a multifaceted network of open space, transit and cultural exchange.
 
Awards: Honorable Mention Reinventing Grand Army Plaza Competition
Exhibited: Design Trust for Public Space Exhibition Brooklyn 2008
Published: Reinventing Grand Army Plaza 2009
ANTI BIODIVERSITY
A Park positioned on a barren shore with harsh wind, flooding, brackish water, substantial aircraft noise, endangered species, encroaching development, vandalism and poverty- What is an urban tundra? Biological diversity must also take another definition when we answer this question: There are solo players in this ecosystem, sea beach amaranth and the piping plover, with one great benefit- the public can understand its complex simplicity.
BAMBOO GROWTH ECONOMY
Due to high seasonal climate variation and its influence on regional worker patterns, the project aims to stem rural-urban migration and the exodus of Senegalese youth to Europe through the teaching of dry-season agro-forestry techniques and economies.  The growth of bamboo clumps within the colony, as well as the landscape of production and harvesting is adapted to passively provide shade and wind-break to buildings and people.  Basic necessities of water, shade and shelter organize the colony into clusters not dissimilar from the traditional African village, while redefining its aesthetic character based on the means of felling, curing and drying of this native African species of bamboo.
 
Published: Selected for Harvard's upcoming StudioWorks 2010
DIFFUSE DENSITY
A sustainable market-based public park system: to reduce the dilution of Detroit.  Something to mend the dross and re-stitch the communities of Ecorse, Lincoln Park, and Wyandotte separated by an 87 acre industrial brownfield.  In an attempt to blur the boundaries between nature and artifice, an amorphous grid is scaled to the size of the lot, precluding the suburban condition and patched with a series of forested blocks that break up and make temporal key viewing corridors.
 
Published: Michigan's Dimensions20 2007
ARID GROUND/ SUBFLOW
Continued over-pumping of groundwater and diversion of the region's surficial flows has caused more than 3000 square miles of Arizona to experience some form of differential land subsidence.  Rapid population growth is increasingly juxtaposing urban densities with tensile earth fissures, pulling at the basins' edge.  Land use in the region will need to adapt radically to new systems of water conveyance, use and storage.  Climate modeling indicates the desert southwest will be particularly hard hit by global warming, with longer droughts and more extremes in rainfall.  A change in the ground's makeup may very well alter the policies and capitalist politics of private property, immanently establishing a new geography for the region.
TRANSMISSION LANDSCAPES
Though the system has strength in its effective distribution of massive amounts of power to the entire Los Angeles metropolitan region, 'weak' energy can be defined in terms of more ad-hoc planning arrangements within and on the city's periphery where natural processes have the ability to interact, damage and possibly benefit the system.  The notorious yearly brush fires in the Los Angeles National Forest and the modified, artificial 'burn-cycle' of this landscape, the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, drought and the disproportionately high hydroelectric capacity of the California Aquaduct's Castaic terminus, underground pumps and artificial natural gas reservoirs are just a few examples of those opportunistic points of operation.  In studying these points, one can begin to approximate the infrastructural 'maxima and minima' of the system under very precise environmental loads.
GLOBAL REDESIGN
 
ASHLEY SCOTT KELLY
Cambridge
2008  ongoing
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE
 
Ann Arbor
2002 - 2006
University of Michigan
College of Arch + Urban Planning
B.S. ARCHITECTURE
 
New York
2004
Columbia University
School of Arch Planning + Preservation
Summer Design Studio
 
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New York
2009
TEN Arquitectos
 
 
New York
2006 - 2008
HOK New York
Arverne Mixed-use Master Plan, Queens
US Congressional Master Plan, Washington DC
New York Penn Station (Moynihan) Redevelopment
Jaipur Township Master Plan, India
New Songdo City Landscape, Korea
Univ Science + Tech Master Plan, Saudi Arabia
Me Tri District Master Plan, Hanoi
 
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CURRENT WORKS
Bklyn-Queens
2007  ongoing
Gateway National Recreation Area
National Parks Conservation Assoc
in partnership with R Wakabayashi
 
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PUBLICATIONS, EXHIBIT, ETC
Berlin  2009
Gateway NRA Master Plan included in
   1000x Landscape Architecture, Verlagshaus-Braun
Brooklyn  2008
Design Trust for Public Space's
   Reinventing Grand Army Plaza Exhibition
Beijing  2007
Landscape Architecture Journal, feature article
Michigan  2007
Dimensions20, 2007 - "Diffuse Density" Detroit
   brownfield reclamation center + urban renewal
New York  2007
"Mapping the Ecotone" Gateway National
   Recreation Area feat. in The Architect's
   Newspaper/ Newsday/ NY Daily News
New York  2007
NYIT Guest Critic
Michigan  2006
Michigan Architecture Commencement Speaker
 
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AWARDS
First Prize, Van Alen Institute's Envisioning
   Gateway
Competition
Honorable Mention, Design Trust for Public Space's
   Reinventing Grand Army Plaza Competition
Mastin Architecture Endowment for Structures
 
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MEMBERSHIPS
Forum for Urban Design, member
Architectural League of New York, member
20 MAY 2010 - Proposal for multiple museums in Chongqing, China uploaded (with video).
View Project
 
30 JAN 2010 - African Bamboo Growth Economy, a project for Le Kinkeliba Foundation, presented by architect Toshiko Mori at the World Economic Forum's IdeasLab on community healthcare.
View World Economic Forum Video   View Project
 
15 NOV 2009 - Entry for Reinventing Grand Army Plaza (Honorable Mention) published by the Design Trust for Public Space.  Visit the Design Trust's Publications to order or to download a free copy.
 
04 NOV 2009 - UFA's work referenced in Design Ecologies: Sustainable Potentials in Architecture by Lisa Tilder and Beth Blostein, and also in On the Water: Palisade Bay by Guy Nordenson, Catherine Seavitt and Adam Yarinsky.
 
12 MAY 2009 - Proposal for Atlantic Yards uploaded.
View Project
 
25 DEC 2008 - UFA's work included in 1000x Landscape Architecture published by Verlagshaus-Braun.
 
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