Grounded Narratives
Reimagining Pomona Island as an evolving post-industrial wetland landscape, this project is shaped through ecological succession, flood adaptation, and multispecies occupation. Rather than imposing a fixed masterplan, the proposal works with existing topography, seasonal water regimes, industrial remnants, and habitat processes to establish interconnected ecologies that gradually regenerate over time. Through low-impact interventions, adaptive planting systems, and material reuse, the project explores how landscape can function simultaneously as habitat, infrastructure, and living archive.
The project is guided by the research question: How can a polyphonic landscape strategy integrate Pomona Island’s layered histories and emergent ecologies to create a resilient multi-species habitat network that prioritizes ecological processes and sensitive human movement? In response, the design embraces uncertainty and change as fundamental landscape qualities, creating spaces that evolve over time rather than remain fixed.
Developed within the Some Kind of Nature atelier, the project reflects a growing interest in ecological resilience, landscape-led infrastructure, and designing with natural systems. It explores the value of observation, temporality, and storytelling in revealing overlooked ecologies and site histories. Through both design and representation, I am interested in how landscape architecture can foster meaningful relationships between people, place, and the wider living world while supporting long-term environmental regeneration. My broader interests include adaptive landscapes, habitat creation, ecological restoration, and approaches that balance human experience with the needs of more-than-human communities.
