ASHLEY SCOTT KELLY
Approach, Background I seek out design that changes our approach to the cycles of our cities, and creates instrumentalized systems which do it quickly and efficiently. My explorations pan across not only urban revitalization, as with my work on The Rockaways and for Detroit, but largely experience with the reorganizing urbanity of developing nations. Participation within and leading design efforts across India, Southeast Asia, Moscow and Jeddah has given me substantial latitude to address how to maintain and create potent cultural and contextual identity within a global market, and increasingly, conceptualizing the infrastructure and processes that will promote a culture of sustainability.
Cambridge MA
2008 ongoing
2008 ongoing
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE
Graduate School of Design
MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE
Ann Arbor MI
2002 - 2006
2002 - 2006
University of Michigan
College of Arch + Urban Planning
B.S. ARCHITECTURE
College of Arch + Urban Planning
B.S. ARCHITECTURE
New York NY
2004
2004
Columbia University
School of Arch Planning + Preservation
Summer Design Studio
School of Arch Planning + Preservation
Summer Design Studio
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New York NY
2006 - 2008
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
Moscow Film Society Mixed-use Complex
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
Moscow Film Society Mixed-use Complex
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CURRENT WORKS
Bklyn-Qns NY
2007 ongoing
2007 ongoing
Gateway National Recreation Area
National Parks Conservation Assoc
in partnership with R Wakabayashi
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, Verlaghaus-Braun
1000x Landscape Architecture, Verlaghaus-Braun
Brooklyn 2008
Design Trust for Public Space's
Reinventing Grand Army Plaza Exhibition
Reinventing Grand Army Plaza Exhibition
Beijing 2007
Landscape Architecture Journal, feature article
Michigan 2007
Dimensions20, 2007 - "Diffuse Density" Detroit
brownfield reclamation center + urban renewal
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
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
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
Forum for Urban Design, member
Architectural League of New York, member
12 MAY 09
Proposal for Atlantic Yards uploaded. View Project
"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."
Proposal for Atlantic Yards uploaded. View Project
"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."
17 JUL 08
Entry "Prospect on Structure" for the Design Trust's Reinventing Grand Army Plaza competition will be one of thirty exhibited in an outdoor installation within Brooklyn's historic plaza from 12 Sept 2008 through 13 Oct 2008.
"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."
Exhibition Photos 13 Sep 08
Entry "Prospect on Structure" for the Design Trust's Reinventing Grand Army Plaza competition will be one of thirty exhibited in an outdoor installation within Brooklyn's historic plaza from 12 Sept 2008 through 13 Oct 2008.
"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."
Exhibition Photos 13 Sep 08
25 DEC 07
Article written on Gateway published in Landscape Archictecture Journal China.
View Gateway Presentation Video
Article written on Gateway published in Landscape Archictecture Journal China.
View Gateway Presentation Video
04 JUN 07
"Mapping the Ecotone" selected FIRST PRIZE entry in international design competition Envisioning Gateway for the revitalization of a 26 000 acre national park along NYC's waterfront. more/less
Ashley Scott Kelly, along with former Univ Michigan studio-mate Rikako Wakabayashi, recently won first prize in an international design competition for a vision to revitalize a 26,000 acre national park along New York City's waterfront. The Gateway National Recreation Area, encompassing Jamaica Bay and parts of the greater NY Harbor, is in a state of disrepair, plagued by vanishing wetlands and ranks lowest of all national parks on the NPCA's natural resource scale.
The design creates an iconic vision for New York City that interfaces instead of opposes the natural processes of this estuarine ecosystem, and which suggests shaping a new public attitude about our urban parks.
The competition is supported by the National Parks Conservation Association, Columbia University and the Van Alen Institute. A presentation to the National Park Service is slated for early 2008. The six finalists have been posted to the NPCA's website and are open for public opinion and voting.
View Press Release; View Project
"Mapping the Ecotone" selected FIRST PRIZE entry in international design competition Envisioning Gateway for the revitalization of a 26 000 acre national park along NYC's waterfront. more/less
Ashley Scott Kelly, along with former Univ Michigan studio-mate Rikako Wakabayashi, recently won first prize in an international design competition for a vision to revitalize a 26,000 acre national park along New York City's waterfront. The Gateway National Recreation Area, encompassing Jamaica Bay and parts of the greater NY Harbor, is in a state of disrepair, plagued by vanishing wetlands and ranks lowest of all national parks on the NPCA's natural resource scale.
The design creates an iconic vision for New York City that interfaces instead of opposes the natural processes of this estuarine ecosystem, and which suggests shaping a new public attitude about our urban parks.
The competition is supported by the National Parks Conservation Association, Columbia University and the Van Alen Institute. A presentation to the National Park Service is slated for early 2008. The six finalists have been posted to the NPCA's website and are open for public opinion and voting.
View Press Release; View Project
29 MAY 07
"Diffuse Density" Detroit Brownfield Reclamation Center recently published in UMichigan's Dimensions20 2007.
"Diffuse Density" Detroit Brownfield Reclamation Center recently published in UMichigan's Dimensions20 2007.