Aisha Iyengar
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Photography Work
Aisha Iyengar
Landscape Architecture Student email : aci64191@uga.edu
About Me
phone : (661) - 645 - 4240
EDUCATION
SKILLS
DESIGN STATEMENT
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Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
University of Georgia, Athens, GA - May 2023 Certificates: Sustainability and Urban & Metropolitan Studies Cumulative GPA: 3.97/4.0 President’s List Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Indesign, Autocad, Hydrocad, Sketchup, Photography, Lumion The rolling valleys of southern California, dry desert of New Mexico, and mountainous green of North Georgia—these are landscapes of my childhood. For years before entering design school, I saw these landscapes through a lens, capturing only the existing beauty that they held held to the physical photograph. Only with furthering my education do I see that these landscapes don’t have to just be the original form my camera saw. I have the ability to change, curate, and better these environments. I aspire to create spaces that people would gravitate to and admire. Landscape design is a universal art attracting humans to engage, share, and socialize in outdoor spaces. I believe a landscape should be a place where people feel physically and mentally comfortable. This allows for humans to stop, ponder, and explore their environment. I seek to create spaces that improve the human experience, better the landscape’s ecology, and provide aesthetic relief. Most importantly, I want to create vibrant outdoor spaces that give people a reason to find value and love for the environment that surrounds them.
Photography Work
Table of Contents Ecogrove
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Stewart County Analysis + Design
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Green Crest
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Expression (Photography & Watercolor)
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Pages 4 - 9
Pages 10 - 15 Pages 16 - 21 Pages 22 - 31
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Client Driven Design
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Client Driven Design
01 Ecogrove 5
Ecogrove
Client Driven Design Legend 0% - 5% 6% - 10% 11% - 15%
Masterplan
>16%
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Slope Analysis Map
Client Driven Design
Housing Typology
Community Invision
EcoGrove is a proposed residential development located in Athens, Georgia that fosters inter-community relationships through its client specific design. The plan counters common home orientation and placement, to place greater importance and feasibility on outdoor living. Various amenities are located within its boundaries such as pocket parks, a swimming pool, community buildings, a playground, outdoor paved gathering spots, and a dog park. This proposed community challenges modern developments giving new meaning to how space is effectively used in residential design. Walking Trail Amenity
Masterplan 80
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160
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Community Center Planting
Client Driven Design
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Community Planting Plan
Client Driven Design
Lot Planting Plan
EcoGrove includes an interwoven trail that connects all property fronts, each lot having intimate private backyards along the street side and large open front yards on the trail side to encourage the social life-style this community brings. Privacy along the street side would be created by the intently placed landscape plantings creating a screen to the street view while still providing an enticing streetscape. EcoGrove, being located in an intent-fully growing section of Athens, would set the standard for future
Lot Planting Schedule
Lot Planting Plan
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Photography Work
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Photography Work
Stewart County
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Stewart County Design
Parcel Analysis
Stewart County Design In both rural towns of Richland and Lumpkin, located in Stewart County Georgia, these plans propose to increase accessibility by improving pedestrian circulation to day-to-day destinations. New Sidewalks are proposed to connect existing sidewalks with neighborhoods, commercial areas, and existing green spaces. In Lumpkin the focus is to improve the green space downtown as well as creating safe passage to the main park on the west-side of town. In Richland, the focus is to connect sidewalks, giving pedestrian access to the local grocery store, as well as create a side path on the unused railroad joining in the center of town. Both towns will benefit from bicycle boulevards that loop through each city.
Lumpkin Parcel Analysis
Richland Parcel Analysis
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Stewart County Design
Community Invision Masterplans
Lumpkin Masterplan
Richland Masterplan
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Proposed Design
Stewart County Design
A bicycle boulevard located across Broad street in Richland, Georgia would provide a shared roadway bicycle facility. Broad street is chosen as it is one of the main streets in Richland, stretching from one side of the town to the other, reaching multiple popular destinations. A bicycle boulevard is designed to offer priority for bicyclists on the road, sharing the space with moving vehicles. By communicating the bicyclists presence on the road through roadway markings and signage it would create a safer environment for bicyclists and hopefully encourage more residents of Richland to bike to their needed destinations.
Proposed Pocket Park in Richland, Georgia
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Proposed Bicycle Boulevard in Richland, Georgia
Stewart County Design
Proposed Design
Playground
Proposed Park in Lumpkin, Georgia
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Community Design
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Community Design
03 Green Crest 17
Design Intent
Green Crest
Community Design
Green Crest is a holistically planned residential neighborhood focused on sustainable efforts and community engagement. The plan consists of 92 container homes, indoor recreation spaces, outdoor community gathering spots, greenhouses, garden plots, woodland trails, and a lake view boardwalk. As containers are prefabricated and modular, starter families can chose to easily enlarge their home as their family grows. While lots touch, the homes are arranged in a puzzle piece layout in order to maximize green space between the homes.
Home Perspective N.T.S.
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Slope Analysis Map
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> 20%
Community Design
Masterplan
Masterplan 100
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200
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Lot Specifications
Community Design
Lot Planting Plan
Lot Stakeout
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Community Design
Community Specifications
Home Axon
Within the Green Crest, streets between the housing sections of the neighborhood are smaller in width. This is to discourage street parking which aids in the naturalistic feel of the community, as well as helps to reduce the amount of impervious surfaces within the site. Along the roadside, residents also enjoy a green barrier in between their homes and the road, which aids in water drainage and aesthetics. Homes being small in size encourage residents to spend more time outdoors, using community spaces. This aids in greater outdoor engagement, while benefiting neighborhood interactions and relationships.
Community Greenhouse
Community Space
Lot Arrangement
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Photography Work
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Photography Work
04 Expression 23
Photography Work
Inspiration
Photography
Starting photography early in high school, I began to see the environment through my lens. I started being able to capture the active beauty of the natural environment in the stillness of a photograph. My drive for wanting to create more photography works pushed me to seek out new environments and analyze them through my camera lens. I soon realized that I didn’t just have to passively capture these environments, I could also create them. This realization allowed me to begin a new journey in studying landscape architecture to create and blend natural and built environments, continuing to use my photography as an aid to communicate my designs. Following is selected photography works, that I have had the privilege to see and capture, of the natural environments that have inspired me the most.
Alpharetta, Georgia
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Photography Work
Brasstown Bald, Georgia
Griffith Observatory, California
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Photography Work
Seattle, Washington
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Cumming, Georgia
Photography Work
Lake Lanier, Georgia
Lake Lanier, Georgia
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Photography Work
Biarritz, France
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Biarritz, France
Photography Work
Venice, Italy
Cumming, Georgia
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Inspiration
Watercolor
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A brief collection of watercolor work that focuses on capturing the natural beauty of the landscapes of costal Georgia. Having never touched watercolor as a media before, I decided to take part in a summer intensive program in the summer of 2021 through the College of Environment and Design on watercoloring landscapes. These pieces are a few outcomes, focused on Jekyll and Cumberland island.
Photography Work
Photography Work
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Photography Work
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