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Contents 01 Threads: Stitching Lives Across the Rails • Kansas APA New Horizons Award 2014
02 Manhattan Community Library 03 Daring to Densify 04 Design Implementation 05 Prairie Vision: Hale Library’s New Front Porch • 1st Prize National Winner EPA Rainworks Challenge 2013 • ASLA Central States Merit Award 2013
06 Land Art: Hand Graphics & Mixed Media
Contact Info Amanda Kline address: 11110 W. Westlawn St. Wichita, Ks 67212 email: amanda.kline16@gmail.com cell: 316.708.1992
Cityscapes have complex issues at multiple scales, which are critically important to solve. From streetscapes to master planning, cityscapes can become greener and active spaces that are framed through design decisions. Through this portfolio, I am depicting my best work encompassing my passion for green, multifunctional, and active spaces for people.
Iterations of strategies for an activated urban riverfront N
Conceptual Site Plan
Threads
Stitching Lives Across the Rails
Threads envisions stitching St. Joseph’s downtown to the riverfront, while forming a new city identity centered around a social riverfront hub and a repurposed interstate. • In its current configuration, a large electrical substation, multiple rail lines, and Interstate 229 divides a space used primarily for parking, while ignoring the human qualities of successful public spaces. • Rerouting Interstate 229, allowing for a repurposed structure with buildings and pedestrian pathways that can create regional destination for St. Joseph, Missouri. • Proposed mixed-use buildings with connecting pedestrian bridges over the railroad allow for direct access to an activated riverfront and repurposed lively interstate. 6
Location: Saint Joseph, MO Year: Fall 2013 Team Project: Andrew Rostek Award: • Kansas APA New Horizons Award 2014
St. Jos ep hA ve.
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Visionary Moves Through large scale moves, Threads reimagines potential for downtown’s riverfront acting as a catalyst for economic growth and create a new St. Joseph destination.
4th Street
Interstate North Reroute
Substation Relocation
Repurposed Interstate
Railroad Tracks
Legend I-229 Reroute Existing I-229 to Remain Existing I-229 to be Repurposed Existing Substation Location Substation Relocation Existing railroad lines to remain Pony E x
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Bridge
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Regional Destination and New Identity Threads creates a regional destination for St. Joseph by activating the riverfront with the repurposed interstate infrastructure that houses new businesses and an elevated trail. These unique aspects take the current underutilized space and makes it a safe public environment that provides an economic catalyst for the rest of downtown. Pedestrian bridges allow for more site permeability and access across the railroad. Visitors are able to engage with the river once again through the multi-purpose programmed spaces allowing for recreation and leisure. Overall, Threads stitches St. Joseph’s downtown and riverfront together, creating a social riverfront hub and a new city identity.
Overlook Pier
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Riverfront Trail, Wetland Edge & Boat Launch
Skywalk
Viaduct Market
- Trails - Patios - Green Roofs
- Restaurants - Cafes - Plazas - Studios
Skywalk
Viaduct Market
Pedestrian Bridge
(Kline & Rostek)
Double Decker Destination
Flexible Event Plaza (Weekend Market)
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Manhattan Community mm m unityy Libraryy
TTextural e tu t al Plantings Pla tings tti gs Creat C eattiin ng S Space & Contrasting Co t astti g Architecture C c tectu e
The community library planting concept includes a variety of functional outdoor spaces defined by vegetation. The overall planting scheme feels light and feathery to contrast the low horizontal architecture, but creates connections with the building’s regulating lines through the linear arrangement of plants. • A raised bed community garden on the northwest is defined by tall grasses along the edge allowing for accessibility for all ages • Directly outside the north doors, a secure children’s garden and reading nook is defined by tall feathery perennials and shrubs as well as smaller trees to enclose the children in a space more to their scale. • A bosque of light textured trees define the connected event plaza to create a flexible space.
Location: Manhattan,, Ks Year: Fall 2013 Preliminary formal design sketches to determine how plant material created required spaces. Collage series discovers desired seasonal characteristics spatially.
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Spatial Planting Palette
Grass deďŹ ned corridor & open lawn
Children’s reading nook enclosed by shrubs & perennials
Community garden easily accessible with raised planting beds
Tool shed
Intimate enclosed reading nook
Entry of soft grasses and perennials
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Visual Planting Palette
Red Maple
Prairie dropseed
Feather Red Grass
Seasonal Characteristics Eastern Redbud Red Maple Praire Dropseed Feather Reed Grass Pink Muhlygrass Red Twig Dogwood Mary Fleming Kalm’s St. John’s Wort Butterfly Milkweed False Indigo Coneflower
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False Indigo
Mary Fleming
Kalm’s St. John’s Wort
Eastern Redbud
Butterfly Milkweed
Pink Muhlygrass
Coneflower
Red Twig Dogwood
Planting Plan
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Open lawn
Children’s Garden Nook
Flexible Event Plaza
Community Garden
Reading Nook
Library Entry
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Daring g to Densifyy
A Visionary Vi i Aggieville A i ill as an Urban U District Location: Aggieville, Manhattan, Ks Year: Summer 2014 Team Project: Jared Sickmann & Parker Ruskamp
Expansion
Kansas State University Campus
Bluemont Ave.
• By 2034, Manhattan population is expected to grow 30%
Moro St. 11th St.
Anderson Rd.
• Comfortable pedestrian environments with streetscape improvements are created with a new promenade to connect nodes of activity, KSU, Downtown Manhattan and City Park throughout Aggieville.
Laramie St. Laramie St. Entry Tower
• The Moro Street spine and form stay intact to preserve a portion of Aggieville’s historic character with streetscape improvements.
Fremont St.
City Park
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Manhattan Ave.
Manhattan Creative Center
14th St.
• The proposal incorporates high-density single-family and multi-family housing, office and commercial mixed-use buildings, as well as parking structures to supplement the new developments.
Phasing
12th St.
Anticipating population growth in the near future, this proposal looks at Aggieville as a densely developed urban district, providing an array of new housing, employment, entertainment, and outdoor activity opportunities while promoting walkable environments.
Linkage
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(Kline & Sickmann)
Manhattan Creative Center The Manhattan Creative Center or MC2 provides a year-round regional indoor attraction for all ages to explore and serve as settings to express ingenuity much like the St. Louis City Museum.
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Transformed Aggieville Blocks
A series 3-story rowhouses line Fremont St. to create a transition edge from City Park’s open space to Aggieville’s high density buildings.
(Kline & Sickmann)
The expansion and densification of Aggieville gives prospective residents the chance to live, work, and play in an established urban district.
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Design g Implementation p
Understanding U d t di off Construction C t ti Documents D Location: Colbert Hills Golf Course, Manhattan, Ks Year: Fall 2013 - Spring 2014
A set of construction documents were made for Colbert Hills Golf Course to learn how projects move from design development into the implementation stages. A quick design of Colbert Hills set the base for a series of construction plans including grading, earthwork, irrigation, lighting, layout and dimensioning, and construction details. The designs had to include two new lodge spaces to accommodate golf guests, their vehicles, and golf carts, as well as a large golf cart staging area.
In the layout plan, careful considerations were made for where the construction should begin and critical points to match up with the existing conditions.
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Basic lighting design was created to help emphasize the landscape and hardscape, while understanding isolux patterns to determine the amount of lumens a ďŹ xture produces based on placement.
All details were designed to be cohesive with existing structures, but also bring a fresh look with the design. All materials selected are local and speciďŹ ed within the drawings.
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Irrigation Construction Documents The irrigation system was custom designed to be efficient based on many aspects of the site design. System was designed using LandFX in Autodesk Civil 3D and proven to run based on its calculations. For the critical section, calculations were done by hand to understand the process and to confirm the computer’s calculations. 22
Site Grading Construction Documents Major grading changes occurred around the two proposed units and the vehicular dropoff area. Additionally, design grading of multiple landforms created privacy and screens throughout the site. All grading carefully considered drainage on site with attempts to minimally disrupt the existing conditions. 23
Prairie Vision
Hale Library’s New Front Porch Location: Manhattan, KS Year: Fall 2013 Interdisciplinary Team Project
CALL HALL VET MEDICAL
Awards: • 1st Place in 2013 EPA Rainworks Competition (Site Design Category)
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT CENTER
• ASLA Central State Conference Merit Award
Outside the entrances of Hale Library on Kansas State University Campus, a landscape of 13,260 square ft transforms into a highly improved stormwater management system while educating a high volume of viewers. • The site will successfully manage stormwater from the surrounding watersheds, promote a campus greenway network, and educate passersby about this pocket of sustainable design on campus. • Features include water filtration and infiltration runnel systems, rain gardens, permeable paving, decreased lawn space, native plantings, shaded hardscape, and wet meadow areas. • Seating nooks encourage people to sit and observe the systems, university community, and wildlife. 24
HALE LIBRARY Prairie Vision sustainable model
ANDERSON LAWN
BEACH ART MUSEUM (Kline & Heermann)
Disconnected Downspouts
West Entrance
East Entrance Drainage Inlet
Wet Meadow
Buffalo Grass Border
Site Plan N Transplanted Memorial Trees
Seating Nooks
Cobble Runnel
Accent Grate & Sand-blasted Sidewalk
Buttery Rain Garden
Permeable Paver Plaza
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Conceptual Design & Planting Palette My contribution to project focused on the conceptual design and planting palette choices based on seasonal characteristerics and effective placement for stormwater management. • Lawn space provides a visual break between wet meadows and butterfly rain gardens.
• Wet meadow basins will detain water for a short time until overflowing into the storm drain.
• Native buffalo grass minimizes erosion on steeper slopes, where water flows over during 100 year storm events.
• Along the library facade, lower vegetation transitions into taller shrubs to add texture, color, diversity, and reduce the large vertical scale of Hale Library.
• Native forbs dominate butterfly rain gardens creating observable new habitats.
Seasonal Characteristics Eastern Redbud American Plum Side Oats Grama Praire Dropseed Switch Grass Redtwig Dogwood ‘Hedgerows Gold’ Little Blue Stem Tussock Sedge Swamp Milkweed New England Aster Goldenrod
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April
May
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
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Dec.
(Kline & Heermann)
Wet Meadow Planting Palette
Transition Edges
Buffalo Grass
Side Oats Grama
Throughout Entire Meadow
Switch Grass
Little Blue Stem
New England Aster
Goldenrod
Prairie Dropseed
Indian Grass
In Basin Low Spots
Cord Grass
Swamp Milkweed
Bordering The Building Base
Tussock Sedge
Prairie Willow
American Plum
Redtwig Dogwood
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Re-establishing natural water processes
Evapotranspiration
Butterfly rain garden detention
(Heermann) Weirs slowing runoff Grate for water visibility Runnel infiltration
Designed Stormwater Levels Overflow inlet set at higher elevation
10 Year Storm Level 5 Year Storm Level 2 Year Storm Level 1 Year Storm Level
Butterfly Rain Gardens Wet Meadow
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Runnel
Existing vegetation
Proposed vegetation
(Sickmann)
Significant overall benefits • Restores a total of 9,147.60 ft2 (0.21 acres) of Flint Hills region native vegetation
• Removes 12,500 ft2 of irrigated lawn, reducing water consumption and minimizing motorized maintenance
• Retains 100% of the stormwater (24,000 gallons) from a one year storm. In a ten year storm, 65% of stormwater (45,900 gallons) is retained.
• Provides a new outdoor amenity for the more than 24,000 students, faculty and staff of Kansas State University and the greater community
• Removes 303.5 ft2 of impervious concrete for a permeable paver seating plaza totaling 870.5 ft2 adjacent to the east entrance.
• Promotes environmental awareness and stewardship by exposing campus users to a site scale example of green infrastructure.
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Experimentation with modeling paste and charcoal achieves the stark contrast and the feeling of the actual bark and rocks textures.
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Lan and Art
Hand d Graphics p & Mixed Media
The land art was based upon a lone tree on a hill in Marlatt Park. This site was selected due to the windblown look of the tree and how it visually points towards the top of the hill. The tree was barren except for a cluster of green leaves on the highest branches. This cluster of green leaves was the inspiration for the land art’s main concept of changing perspectives through movement and detail. When drawing, I tend to generalize the landscape and focus in on one area of the land art in higher detail. The use of an orange hued paper captures the essence of the fall sunset. Evening light delineated using white charcoal where the light falls.
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Cityscapes have always intrigued me with their complexity of systems and site scales. I hope to work towards the future of cityscapes becoming green and active through design.
Thank you
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Amanda Kline email: amanda.kline16@gmail.com cell: 316.708.1992
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