Tanner Creek: Urban Hydrology Diagram
Reconstructing a buried urban system through analytical drawing and cartographic narrative
Project Name: Tanner Creek
Type: Academic exercise
Course: Intro Graduate Design Studio
Date: 2025
Location: Portland, OR
Type: Analysis & visualization
Individual projectProject description
Diagrammatic reconstruction of Tanner Creek’s buried course beneath downtown Portland. The drawing explores how urban development, infrastructure, and real estate pressures erased a natural system, replacing it with hidden hydraulic networks.
The exercise focuses on layered representation, sectioned cartography, and narrative visualization as tools for understanding metropolitan systems
.