Re-organizing the country by watershed

Inspired by the video chronicling of our studio, I’m determined to document my own design process throughout my third and final (!) semester.

Re-organizing the country by watershed

Arid Lands Institute’s Drylands Design Competition Research Prize winning entry

An idea I first heard about in studio this semester based on the work of John Wesley Powell who wanted to re-organize the US by watersheds. Would make for very appropriate and sensitive hydrologically based/site based infrastructure decisions!

Powell’s reworked boundaries for the American West:

STUDIO SPACE

Re-organizing the country by watershed