All Student Work

Adaptive Transformation

LARP 7020-201 2026

Students

Thomas Hellman Madi Shay Howard Seoyeon Jeon Megan Singleton Siyu Zhang

Faculty

Department
Landscape Architecture

Humans are, by nature, social creatures. The places where we spend time are the places where we observe, collaborate, and interact with the world around us. Gardens, plazas, streets, and parks are a primary home for these interactions in cities of all sizes across North America.

Gradient of Spaces
Seoyeon Jeon
From the Belt Line into the nightlife beyond
Seoyeon Jeon
Reimagining a Vibrant Nightlife
Seoyeon Jeon

In this studio, we collaboratively explore to uncover the complexities of a complicated American urban landscape. As designers, we are tasked with understanding cities and sites, not only as static elements but as living, evolving systems. Every location carries a unique blend of political, social, and environmental histories that shape its character, challenges, and opportunities. Our focus is on the adaptive transformation of sites, selected by each of you, across three neighborhoods in central Atlanta, Georgia.

Three images- one showing zoom plan, and two showing views of proposed experience. Detail plan shows paving and planting, while images show experiential images, like planting and students walking through a park..
Megan Singleton
Three images- one showing zoom plan, and two showing views of proposed experience. Detail plan shows paving and planting, while images show experiential images, like a cafe, and an aerial image of a market festival..
Megan Singleton
Three images- one showing zoom plan, and two showing views of proposed experience. Detail plan shows paving and planting, while images show experiential images, like a protest and entering a park.
Megan Singleton
A decommissioned Atlanta Streetcar car is repurposed as a café, with a service window opening onto the redesigned Dobbs Plaza. Historical photographs line the interior walls. The redesigned plaza connects the covered facility space to the broader neighborhood.
Siyu Zhang
10-by-10-foot vendor stalls are organized by a colorful paving grid. The layout echoes the post-fire farmers market that formed in this neighborhood after 1917, and continues the food culture of Soul Food Row. When the market is not open, the paving pattern remains as the space's identity. The ribbon runs through the center, transitioning between hanging fabric and ground-level seating along its edges.
Siyu Zhang
Sweet Downtown transforms the Atlanta Streetcar Facility beneath the Downtown Connector into a new stop on the Sweet Auburn Walk. The design layers three elements: colorful paving that defines zones and carries historical stories; sculpted ground that creates seating and edge; and an overhead ribbon of agricultural shade fabric that hangs from the highway structure. The facility, combined with a redesigned Dobbs Plaza, forms a civic space connecting Georgia State University to the MLK Historic Park.
Siyu Zhang
A conceptual collage of a pool within abandoned structures.
Thomas Hellman Madi Shay Howard
A conceptual collage of a community pool within solution pools on a granite outcropping.
Thomas Hellman Madi Shay Howard
Photographs of a physical landscape model with foam topography, 3D printed structures and vegetation.
Thomas Hellman Madi Shay Howard