Computational Design

for Landscape Architects

Heritage Preservation

Rosedown

African American Burial Grounds

With an interdisciplinary team of colleagues, I have begun a long term project to preserve a record of the burial grounds of enslaved African Americans and their descendants. In the American South, These sites have long faced precarious conditions; originally built peripheral to antebellum plantations, today many occupy remnant parcels of isolated land. Climate change, industrial expansion, precarious land-tenure records, and dwindling populations of descendant communities threaten these cultural landscapes. The aim of this project is to develop a methodology for documenting the history, material culture, ecological character, and soundscapes of these neglected heritage sites. Here is a point cloud of Alford Cemetery captured by a drone with a lidar module. With drone lidar, we can record these landscapes and their surroundings at centimeter resolution.

Point Clouds

Point Cloud Modeling

Computational Ecology

Drone Data Analytics

Atlas of Heritage Trees

Robotics

Ecological Robotics

Teaching

Spatial science
Digital media
Theory & research
Studios
Electives

Spatial Science

LA 7075 GIS for Designers

Computational Design

LA 7032 Media III

Studio

Giant Panda National Park

LA 7051 Advanced Topics Studio, Fall 2019

Thesis

The Siltcatcher

A Sediment-Capture System for Wetland Creation and Coastal Protection in Western Lake Pontchartrain

Andrew Wright, 2020

Future Courses

Geospatial programming
Computational ecology
Computational design
Creative AI & robotics
Study abroad

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