Landscape Architecture Portfolio by alyssa.shrewsbury

Alyssa Shrewsbury Landscape Architecture Portfolio

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Personal Statement My name is Alyssa Shrewsbury. I am an undergraduate student of Landscape Architecture at the University of Georgia. Additionally, I study Studio Art, Historic Preservation and Environmental Ethics. Throughout my college career, I have learned that it is easy to fall in love with landscape architecture because I am able to incorporate every passion and experience I have into my work. This ability is unique to the field of design as very few careers view the world through such a zoomed out lense. For this reason, my additional studies have given me a unique perspective as a designer. While viewing my work, it is important to understand that I consider myself equally an artist and a designer. This has had a profound effect on my perspective and process as a landscape architect, which can be seen throughout this collection of my work from the past 5 years.

Austin, Texas

09-14

TBG Internship

Pocket Park

Piazza Piscaia

01-08 15-20 21-28 29-30

Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture

Artistic Interests

Housing Complex

Driftmier Greenway Apartments

Agritourism Project

Bees and Berries

Bees & Berries: Handcrafted Honeys and Meads Blue Ridge, Georgia

This open-ended agritourism project gave students the ability to develop a design program specific to their farm needs. My project, Bees and Berries, combines a bee farm, berry farm, and meadery in order to create unique, berry infused meads. Guests can enjoy a variety of activities at the farm like mead tastings, tours, berry picking, seasonal classes, and more. The sloped topography filled with rows of berries offers a beautiful backdrop for visitors, whether they are eating at the restaurant, enjoying a mead tasting, or holding an event in the garden area.

Program Development

Bees & Berries: Handcrafted Honeys and Meads Buildings

1. Welcome Center: - includes Tasting Room, Restaurant and Mead Production House 2. Greenhouse - located within the event garden space 3. Berry Kiosk/ Container Shed/ Bathrooms - includes snacks, picking buckets and storage space for equipment

Main Attractions

- Bee Farm - Honey and Mead Production (50 Hives) - Berry Farm (Blackberry, Bayberry, Raspberry, Service Berry and Elderberry fields) - Garden/Event space - Rosemary Field - Seasonal Pumpkin Patch

Activities

- Guided Mead tour: informative experience learning about mead production. - Mead Tasting - taste handcrafted meads in tasting room with notes on food pairings - Reserve Event Garden for special occasions - Seasonal berry picking - Seasonal pumpkin patch

Inventory

Bubble Diagram

Educational Signage

1. Inside Welcome Center: - Explanation on decline of bees - Explanation about how ppl can help - Empty beehive with sign telling how honey is extracted 2. Near the Production House - Explanation on how mead is made - Explanation of solar wax melter, berry crushing platform, and honey extractor

Extra Equipment

- Primary Fermentation Area - Secondary Fermentation Area - Bottle Filling Machine - Corking Machine - Solar Wax Melter - Berry Crushing Platform - Honey Extractor

Site Topography and Placement of Road/Building:

When producing a masterplan for this project, functionality and responding to the topography became a priority. Buildings were placed on higher points to ensure fantastic views and prevent flooding. The drive into the site was another key consideration. By nestling it in-between hills, and making cars round the corner, the building reveal is an exciting experience. 04

Hand Graphics

Bees & Berries: Handcrafted Honeys and Meads

Welcome Center

Front Gate 05

Logo is integrated into the design of the paths

Architecture and Paths

The two main aspects of the farm, honeybees and berries, not only influence the production, but also create a central theme which guests experience during visits. In an attempt to convey this theme, the architecture is modern and sleek to represent the order of a beehive whereas the looping pathways represent the bumbling paths bees take.

Masterplan 06

Event Garden Bees & Berries: Handcrafted Honeys and Meads

Plant Palette

Shades of yellow and purple reinforce the theme as they are reminiscent of the colors of bees and berries.

Trees

Eastern Redbud 07

Perennials

Japanese Maple

Tulip Poplar

Red Cedar

Sourwood

Garlic Chives

Rough Goldenrod

Switch Grass

Bugleweed

Function

The event garden and greenhouse can be rented out for special occasions such as weddings or banquets. This is an important aspect of the agritourism site as it provides extra revenue throughout the year. The garden features a main open lawn that overlooks the beautiful, rolling topography and fields of berries.

Location Map

Shrubs

Fothergilla

Gardenia

Waxmyrtle

Rosemary

Flowering Quince 08

Piazza Piscaia Cortona, Italy

In the Summer of 2017, I had the opportunity to study abroad in Cortona, Italy, taking courses in both landscape architecture and studio art. My time in Italy was one of the most valuable experiences of my life; amongst many life lessons, it helped broaden my view of design. Scale and materiality are used in a completely different way in Italy. Seeing this in real life challenged me to think differently as a designer. Piazza Piscaia is a small, triangular shaped pocket park located in Cortona, Italy. It is surrounded with residences on all three sides and is situated along a steep slope. Currently, the park is extremely underused due to the fact that people in the area prefer to spend time in their personal gardens attached to their homes. Rather than creating an open park and hoping people would change their habits to utilize it, I began to think of the site in a new way: a transition space. With a descending slope at about 20% across the site, I designed a series of steps and pavilions that would make the trek up and down the hilly site less strenuous, therefore encouraging people to walk through the park instead of around it as they currently do.

Design Process Piazza Piscaia

Neighborhood Context

Early Design Sketches

Steep Slope of Site

Axonometric View

Fiting the Design to the Site

Alternate Planting Scheme 12

Hand Graphics Piazza Piscaia

Driftmier Greenway Apartments Athens, Georgia

Driftmier Greenway Apartments, based on the graduate housing at UGA, is located on campus near an old growth forest known as Driftmier woods. For this project, students were asked to create a building layout that would foster community, improve the connection across College Station Road, and provide enough parking for residents.

Design Process

Driftmier Greenway Apartments

Inventory and Analysis

During a site visit, I inventoried the existing conditions and analyzed spots which had potential for improvement. My entire class split up the many areas of research that had to be conducted. My focuses were wind patters, solar patters, and ways to optimize these conditions through building orientation and buffering.

Design Concept

The concept of this design was to incorporate a continuous green space throughout the site. In doing this, everyone living in the complex could be connected, even across College Station Road. In addition, the green space opens into Driftmier woods in order to encourage the use of existing paths that lead to campus. 17

Design Process

Bubble Diagram

Developing Greenspace

Playing with Building Footprint

Considering Human Circulation

Creating the Building Layout

In order to visualize the space and meet the building area requirements, legos were used as a tool to play with the building footprint. Based on the research I had done in the early stages of the design process, my building layout responded to wind and solar conditions. In addition, smaller pockets of space were created to offer a heightened sense of community.

Final Graphics and Construction Documentation Driftmier Greenway Apartments

Section-Elevation: View of Stairway toward Crosswalk

View of Patio and Community Garden

Masterplan Section-Elevation: View of Southern Parking Lot and Lawn

Preliminary Grading Construction Exit

Disturbed Area Stabilization Mulching

Disturbed Area Stabilization Seeding

TBG Internship Austin, Texas

Over the summer of 2018, I had the opportunity to intern with the design firm TBG Partners out of Austin, Texas. During this time, I was able to learn in ways I never had in the classroom: through hands-on experience, making mistakes, and being open and flexible. This time allowed me to grow tremendously as a designer and as a person. Collaboration with other designers was a key takeaway from my internship. As designers, we must be able to defend our work, while still being open to otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ideas. This balance makes for richer, more holistic designs. Over the summer, I was pushed to generate ideas with a team, giving me a taste of what it is like to design in the real world. Another takeaway from my internship was learning how to work on several projects at once in a fast-paced environment. This aspect of the internship was certainly a challenge, but I learned that there is definitely a rhythm to the madness and before long, I was able to adapt. In addition to learning new skills, I also gained experience working on several real-world projects that ranged in type and scale. While the majority of the projects I worked on were urban mixed-use, I also gained experience designing parks, rooftop pools, and larger planned communities. For many of these projects, I worked on several aspects of their design from project kickoff and schematic design, to construction documentation and client presentation graphics. Overall, I feel as through my internship taught me numerous important lessons, made me a better designer, and helped me become more equipped to face challenges in the future.

Babcock Development - Conceptual Design TBG Internship

Project Outline

This residential development will nestle a modern ranch community into the Texas hill country. I was able to join the team working on this project in an early design phase, therefore it exemplifies conceptual design thinking. Some of the goals of this project were to take advantage of the site’s natural features, create a low impact design that handles drainage, and provide resident’s access to the amenities which would be located at the bottom of the site. In order to meet these goals, the team of designers and I created a timetable and deliverables for each person. I began by considering the experience resident’s would have when trying to reach the amenities. One solution was to funnel everyone through the middle of the site, and have them descend the slope toward the amenity center. We began calling this feature the “spine.” During the first session, we noticed that water drainage would be a challenge, but could be incorporated as design features in many instances. As we moved forward developing other aspects of the design, this initial breakthrough continued to drive our thinking.

Spine Bubble Diagram

Amenity Center Concept

Site Map

Spine Concept

78-84 Rainey - Construction Documentation TBG Internship

Materials Plan

Grading Plan

Layout Plan

2204 San Antonio - Concept Development TBG Internship

Concept 1

Concept 2

Sun Analysis

Furniture Plan

Planting Plan 26

Tablet Graphics TBG Internship

Waters Park

This graphic was apart of a team-wide effort to complete a design package for a client. Through everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard work, we met our deadline and I was able to contribute by rendering this plan view on a tablet.

Drainage Park

During my internship, I was introducted to a new tool for rendering: the tablet. Using tablets, I produced many graphics that combined hand-drawn elements with photoshop. I found that using tablets speed up the rendering process while still achiving a handdrawn look.

Westwood Entry Concept 1

Westwood Entry Concept 2

Westwood Entry Concept 3

Westwood Entry Concept 4

Artistic Interests Drawing, Painting, Sculpture

Contact Information:

Phone Number: (678) 739 - 8191 Email: als53079@uga.edu