Julæ Lynn-Tanning

Landscape

Image of deconstructed cigarette filter taken at RISD Nature Lab Microscopy, 2025.

Landscape Architecture for me is such an expansive field. Disciplines such as urban planning, architectural design, material science, ecology and the fine arts intersect in a variegated palimpsest.

Collage for Kongjian Yu. The landscape architect Kongjian Yu embodies the best qualities of the discipline. Combining immensely functional designs with cultural and aesthetic significance. He tragically passed in September of 2025.

2025/26 RISD SUSTAINABILITY LAB

Currently, I have signed up for the “Sustainability Lab” at the Rhode Island School of Design which is an interdisciplinary studio investigating material properties of different subjects each year. This year we have been investigating plant and animal fibres, specifically cellulose-based fibres such as paper-pulp and protein-based fibres such as wool.

Examples of material explorations with paper making:

Recycled butcher paper with bamboo leaf inclusion against backlight, 2025.
“Double-Couched” Bamboo-Butcher Paper Piece

MATERIAL

Recycled Butcher paper pulp from RISD students (processed by RISD Loop Lab), Processed Bamboo Leaves

FABRICATION

Scavenged bamboo leaves cooked in Soda Ash. Fibres pounded by pestle on board. Formed with a mould and deckle-box.

Image of microscopic crystalline cellulose fibres interacting with processed bamboo leaf inclusion. Image taken at RISD Nature Lab.

Example of work from past semesters:

INFRASTRUCTURES OF CARE: Flooding Mitigation around the Río Piedras, PUERTO RICO

With the advent of anthropogenic climate change, sea level rise and rapid advancement of urban sprawl along existing flood planes, it is integral for students of the landscape to grapple with the urban-scale infrastructural challenges that cities face whilst creating dynamic and multi-use spaces for ecological and social function.

Project was completed in collaboration with Cristy Falcone and under the supervision of Professors Emily Vogler and Manuel Cordero Alvarado (Spring, 2025).
In this project, I attempted to implement one of one of late landscape architect Yu Kongjian’s signature proposals of turning a city into a sponge to mitigate flooding.

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