Tatiène Guia Digital Portfolio

This design was a semester-long project responding to the prompt “Demonstrate or raise awareness of climate change and environmental processes in New Jersey.” I selected a site in the Palisades, by the NY-NJ border, and used the natural freeze-thaw cycles to highlight erosion and forest succession in a disturbed site. My end design was an…

A newspaper-style inventory and description of the CALFIRE Inmate Program in California, as my individual research project for a studio mapping the incarceral landscape of New Jersey. This project used media representation of the program to tell the story of the program’s inmates, their duties in the fire prevention landscape of California, and their lives…

A study of Landmarke Lausitzer Seenland (Lusatian Lakeland Overlook Tower), located in Germany, breaking down the elements of the tower and the landscape it overlooks.

This is my individual portion of a larger masterplanning studio project for Atlantic City. Along the coast of Atlantic City, this design for a dual-level Boardwalk would be connected to the other interventions proposed by the rest of my group. The whole of its length, the overhanging portion of the Boardwalk will have grating to…

A case study of the Columbus Cascades by Bas Smets. The digital exploration is meant to describe the layers and composition of the space, while practicing the workflow of AutoCAD into Illustrator.

This project was an exercise in designing landscapes by manipulating the ground itself. I based my design on a series of interlocking circles, that stepped down the slope of Eagleton lawn to create a mix of open and closed views as you move downhill. The circles themselves are grass platforms, with hardscaped paths of smaller…

The bus stop design project was the final project for a class. For my redesign, I addressed water infiltration and stormwater management without changing the basic bus stop design. My site placement was a bus stop that regularly floods, has very little seating, and very little paved surface. Most of the ground surrounding the bus…

The Barcelona Pavilion project was an exercise in using handwork to create a set of drafts that could be used to describe the layout of walls and spaces withinthe Barcelona Pavilion in Spain. The drafts included a plan view, cross sections, and spatial analysis diagrams as well as a hand rendering of a particular viewwithin…