Amy Kaye Taylor by Amy Kaye Taylor

AMY KAYE TAYLOR MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

MLA CAPSTONE PROJECT INDUSTRIAL REIMAGINING URBAN ENGAGEMENT & COMMUNITY IMMERSION HISTORICAL & CULTURAL CONTEXT IN DESIGN CONCEPTUALIZATION IN DESIGN RESUME

MLA CAPSTONE PROJECT

ONCE UPON A TIME: FAIRY TALES TO FOREST

AMY KAYE TAYLOR

FAIRY TALES TO FOREST TOOL KIT FOR THE DESIGN OF CHILDREN’S FORESTS PROJECT TYPE Capstone Research Project | 1 semester research, 1 semester project REVIEWERS Justin Parscher, OSU|Katie Jenkins, OSU | Jason Kentner, OSU

Parker Sutton, OSU |Aimee Moore, OSU | Paula Meijerink, OSU

FINALIST REVIEWERS Sarah Karle, Univ. of Nebraska | Lauren Elachi, SCAPE/RISD

Dorothée Imbert, OSU

CRITIC Jacob Boswell

How

interact

with

our

animals. A study that is specifically

environment is influenced by our

focused

encounters with nature at an early

connections to children through

age whether these encounters are

the stories they read can further

actual experiences with nature

assist designers when considering

or vicarious experiences through

forest-like settings for family focused

other means. For example, we

landscapes. An analysis of text and

create images of place in our

illustrations of 110 children’s books

minds based on stories told to us

was used to categorize them into

as children. I am interested in the

spatial and character themes. New

role and perception of forest in

archetypes have been identified

children’s literature and creating

and defined. A tool kit of drawings

tool

kit

children’s

forests

and

their

forest

was composed that describes the

archetypes for design. Most of the

attributes of these children’s forest

existing research focuses on forests

archetypes for design.

in relation to nature, wilderness or

ARCHETYPE DEVELOPMENT READ → ANALYZE → CLASSIFY → DESIGN

COMPILING THE LIST OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS WITH FORESTS REPRESENTED

1527 AWARD AND HONOR WINNING BOOKS ONLY FICTION BOOKS ONLY

10,000 books

Book descriptions relevant to study

180

Availability in Columbus Public Libraries

130

THE CHILDREN’S LITERATURE COMPREHENSIVE DATABASE

2,468,000 BOOKS

“FOREST” “WOODS”

AGES 0-10 YEARS

24,400 books

23,000 books

Books Available during Analysis Time Period

112 books

ANALYSIS OF TEXT AND ILLUSTRATIONS

SPATIAL AND CHARACTER CLASSIFICATION

HYBRIDIZATION OF CLASSIFICATIONS FORM CHILDRENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FOREST ARCHETYPES

open

happy open forest

happy

The Experience

The enchanting enclosed canopy forest encompasses the feeling of escaping to another place and time. This forest begins compressed, reveals an alluring threshold, then opens up into a magical forested room where the imagination can run wild. A dappled canopy allows sparkling light to infuse the ground plane

Forest Features

Where the Wild Things Are (1963) Maurice Sendak

Strong Threshold High Dappled Canopy Expressive Spring Colors and Textures Mostly Open Ground Plane Moving Water

ARCHETYPE DETAIL

enchanting enclosed canopy forest

Spatial Relationships

0’

5.7 acre patch

Section Threshold Reveal

Area Type Neighborhood Regional

Park

Neighborhood

Back Yard

Planting Random Grid

Planting Distance 15-30’

Light Filtering Canopy

Canopy Height above floor 10-30’

Mature Tree Height 60-70’

Fagus grandifolia

Planting Distance 10-25’

Natural Path

Section Inside the Enchanted Enclosed Canopy Forest

ARCHETYPE

enchanting enclosed canopy forest

Acer saccharum

Cornus florida

Straight Trunks

Mostly Open Ground Plane Mossy Fallen Log

5’

10’

ARCHETYPE COMPARISONS

enchanting enclosed canopy forest Where the Wild Things Are (1963) Maurice Sendak Caldecott Medal Book

ominous impenetrable forest Hansel and Gretel (original 1785 - 1863) Grimm Brothers Illustrated by Paul Galdone (1982)

happy open forest Welcome Home, Bear: A Book of Animal Habitats (2015) Il Sung Na

uninviting dense ordered forest Little Red Riding Hood (1983) Retold and ill: Trina Schart Hyman Caldecott Honor Book

tranquil single tree forest Winnie the Pooh (1926) A.A. Milne Illustrated by E. H. Shepard

INDUSTRIAL REIMAGINING

INDUSTRY WITH CONSERVATION

AMY KAYE TAYLOR

Situated in the Great Lakes Region, this studio explores the agency of landscape and how it can be positioned in response to current and anticipated urban conditions. Two of the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest commodities are its unique natural resources and industry. The survival of the region relies greatly on the preservation of these perceptibly opposing land uses. The speculative landscape typology developed in this

project looks at connecting industry and conservation at multiple scales through the lens of accessibility. In the urban context, both industry and conservation are purposively inaccessible to the community. However new questions can address how industry can maximize conservation, how conservation can be productive for industry and how the community can participate in this alternative industrial park typology.

DETROIT RIVER INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ACQUISITION BOUNDARY At a network scale, an inventory was taken of industrial and conservation sites as well as the public connections linking to current trail systems; paved non-vehicular

NORTH CAPE, MI

LUNA BEACH, MI

GRAND VIEW, MI

MONROE TRAILS

and waterway within this existing boundary.

FORD MARSH UNIT

GERDAU AMERISTEEL JR WHITING POWER PLANT

ERIE MARSH PRESERVE

OHIO

MONROE POWER PLANT

LAKE ERIE

STONECO

STRONG UNIT

BRANCHEAU UNIT

LAGOONA BEACH UNIT

FIX UNIT

FERMI II NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

LAGOONA BEACH UNIT

STERLING STATE PARK

NETWORK SITE CONTEXT

TRAILS BUILT TRAILS PLANNED INDUSTRIAL CONSERVATION COOP CONSERVATION FWS COMMUNITY

MCLOUTH STEEL PRODUCTS DETROIT R.

MICHIGAN

GRASSY ISLAND UNIT

TRENTON CHANNEL POWER PLANT

GIBRALTAR BAY UNIT CALF ISLAND UNIT

HUMBUG MARSH

FERROLUX METALS CO.

GIBRALTAR MARSH UNIT

STONYPOINT, MI

WOODLAND BEACH, MI

DETROIT BEACH, MI

DET ROIT

GROSSE ILE RIV ER

ONTARIO

TRAILS BUILT

TRAILS PLANNED

INDUSTRIAL

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT UNIT

CONSERVATION FWS LAND

COMMUNITY

NORTH - SOUTH CONNECTOR

ELIZABETH PARK

TRENTON, MI

HUMBUG MARINA

GIBRALTAR , MI

LAKE ERIE METROPARK

GIBRALTAR HIGH SCHOOL

POINTE MOUILLEE STATE GAME AREA

BERLIN TOWNSHIP, MI

DETROIT RIVER HERITAGE WATER TRAIL

HCMA EAST-WEST CONNECTOR

I-275 TRAIL

DETROIT RIVER INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ACQUISITIONS BOUNDARY CONDITIONS - PUBLIC ACCESS

ADJACENCY: NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS INDUSTRY - CLOSED to public CONSERVATION - OPEN to public

ADJACENCY: NEARBY

INDUSTRY - CLOSED to public CONSERVATION - OPEN to hunting only

INDUSTRY FEDERAL WILDLIFE SERVICE COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT UNIT

ADJACENCY: NEIGHBORS

INDUSTRY - CLOSED to public CONSERVATION - CLOSED to public * Partners in Conservation Efforts

ADJACENCY: NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS INDUSTRY - CLOSED to public CONSERVATION - CLOSED to public

ACCESS TYPOLOGY STUDY BY INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY ACTIVE INDUSTRY TYPOLOGIES

industry and conservation work independently on same site -employees only -public

industry and conservation exchange research, ideas, service -employees only -public

conservation occupies inactive industry -employees only -public

conservation occupies inactive industry - some public access

CLOSED INDUSTRY TYPOLOGIES

industry and conservation exchange research, ideas, services -public

conservation industry is introduced -public

conservation industry -public

TRANSITIONAL INDUSTRY TYPOLOGIES

conservation industry is introduced -industry: employees only -public

conservation industry and public interact with each other -industry: employees only & public -public

-physical access -visual access

24 TRANSITIONAL INDUSTRY SITE DESIGN

a. New industry: compost and soil design b. Extended Conservation c. Community Amenity

a. c. pollinator habitat

wind barrier

clean water source

multi-use path

wheel wash system

odor / weather protection

water runoff diversion

material drop off and pick up

concrete building foundations for compost piles

Phase I Year 0 - 10

a. b. c.

pollinator habitat

multi-use path

wind barrier

odor / weather protection

material pick up water runoff diversion

clean water source

material drop off

water runoff diversion

Phase II Year 10

c. b.

URBAN ENGAGEMENT & COMMUNITY IMMERSION HUBTOWN - ULI HINES COMPETITION

AMY KAYE TAYLOR

HUBTOWN 2017 ULI HINES STUDENT COMPETITION PROJECT TYPE Competition | 2 weeks| Interdisciplinary Team MENTORS

Brian Bernstein, REALM Collaborative |John Eymann, M+A Architects

Mark Lundine, City of Columbus | Justin Leyda, Steiner + Associates

Clarence Simmons, SIMCO

CRITIC Matthew Leasure

The ULI Hines Student Competition is an urban design and development challenge for teams of five multidisciplinary graduate students to develop solutions that include drawings, site plans, tables, and market-feasible financial data. For the challenge site, north Chicago, our team developed Hubtown, a connected, mixed-use neighborhood fostering entrepreneurship and growing businesses. Visually we established a hub center containing our prime uses, with spokes of development radiating

outward. Connecting the spokes and activating the rivers edge is an expansive greenway and park. To maintain the aesthetic of the existing manufacturing neighborhood, we made sure that new buildings had an industrial feel with brick construction, large industrial windows, and iconic roof lines. In Hubtown, people venture through social and green spaces and entrepreneurs launch their businesses, all through a lens of economic and environmental sustainability.

7 1 2

5 4

THE HUB CO-WORKING SPACE

THE SPOKE PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY

FULCRUM EVENT CENTER

DEPAUL FABRICATION LAB

SECOND CITY DISTILLERY

THE APEX FLAGSHIP RESTAURANT

LAUNCH PARK

HINGE PLAZA

HUBTOWN VENTURE. LAUNCH. SUSTAIN.

1 3

THE HUB CO-WORKING SPACE

THE APEX FLAGSHIP RESTAURANT

THE SPOKE PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY

HINGE PLAZA GATHERING SPACE

THE FULCRUM EVENT CENTER

GREEN ROOF

LAUNCH PARK RECREATION

NATURAL PLANTING

HINGE PLAZA GATHERING SPACE

PERMEABLE PAVING

HUBTOWN VENTURE. LAUNCH. SUSTAIN.

CONCEPT HUB AND SPOKES

Kayak Launch 606 Bike Trail

The Hub

Neighborhoods

Downtown Chicago

TRANSIT CONNECTIVITY & ACCESS HUBTOWN TO CHICAGO STREETS

PUBLIC TRANSIT

L Train

BIKE

CTA Bus

Metra

GREENWAYS

On-Street Existing

Planned

Off-Street Existing

Planned

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE Green Roof Permeable Paving Natural Planting Wetland

HISTORICAL & CULTURAL CONTEXT IN DESIGN ELUSINA LAZENBY EXPERIMENTAL FOREST FOUNTAINS AND THE CITY BEAUTIFUL

AMY KAYE TAYLOR

TENSION AND BOUNDARIES ELUSINA LAZENBY EXPERIMENTAL FOREST PROJECT TYPE Seminar & Gallery Exhibit | Spring 2016 |7 weeks

Diorama Team & Individual Study

VENUE Knowlton School’s Banvard Gallery CRITIC Sarah Cowles

The Elusina Lazenby Experimental Forest

The historical scenarios of the Forest

is an installation that draws attention

and State, focusing on

to the conceptual spaces between

countries dealt with the consumption and

landscapes and landscape interpretation.

availability of timber, are depicted in this

Dioramas

gardens

diorama. It Illustrates the segregation

in scaled space through their tactile

and conflict in the Franche-Comté region

and spatial qualities and through the

between peasant forest inhabitant’s

immersive experience of gazing.

subsistent needs for wood and the

represent

forest

how various

strategic lumber needs of the 16th and 17th century French crown.

The diorama and drawings illustrate a political boundary where the peasants only have rights to the small trees and the massive trees, reserved for imperial uses, are protected by royal guards.

Aluminum studs represent a forest holding up the exhibition of forest studies.

ROYAL FOREST PATH

FOUNTAINS AND THE CITY BEAUTIFUL THE CLEVELAND GROUP PLAN PROJECT TYPE Seminar & Gallery Exhibit | Spring 2015 |16 weeks

Individual Research / Drawings + Collaborative Drawings

VENUE Knowlton School’s Banvard Gallery GUEST CRITICS Jennifer Guthrie, Shannon Nichol |GGN CRITIC Jacob Boswell

Glimcher

Distinguished

Visiting

Professors Jennifer Guthrie and Shannon

Nichol

shared

GGN’s

work on The Cleveland Mall and their

attempts

contextualize

situate

The

and

Cleveland

Group Plan within the City Beautiful Movement. student and

Within this context, drawings

analyzed

the

captured physical

changes that occurred within the boundaries of the Group Plan over the last century. Here, fountains, statuary and art through time are documented including planned fountains in 1903 through built pieces present on The Mall today.

CONCEPTUALIZATION IN DESIGN MODELS DRAWINGS PAINTINGS

AMY KAYE TAYLOR

While design is a heavily weighed

design

component in landscape architecture

at OSU, an emphasis on making is

understanding the conditions of site and

also cultivated.

intent,

dynamic

and systems.

the

interplay

Additionally,

The same rigor in

the function of natural systems as they

design for innovation and critique is

relate to and influence site planning,

encouraged in creating an individual

design and construction come to play in

visual language through drawing and

representation and mark making. This

modeling. Representation in both digital

presentation of work displays a range

format and hand work conveys research

of digital, hand and hybrid examples of

interpretation, concept development,

developing a personal visual language.

INTERLOCKING MOVEMENT Stained wood, acrylic, 3D print Digital Modeling | Rhino

This exploration of space began as an interpretation of a close-up wood grain image. This wood grain became the aerial plan where sections were cut. The thickness, mass, voided space, movement and interlocking layers of this form were investigated, redrawn in Rhino and reconstructed.

GORGE STUDY [previous page] The gorge land form was studied and reinterpreted in layers of handcut card stock highlighting the understanding of how water cuts through layers of stone.

EGG TO BIRDHOUSE Upper right 3D Prints Lower right CNC routed Digital Modeling | Rhino

Two birdhouse designs came from the prompt to create a birdhouse from the origin of a simple egg shape. As part of the design, decisions were made on how to gracefully open the egg without interrupting the flow of the design. The desire to actually use the birdhouse when complete led to the second design that became more practical and carved from cedar for longevity outdoors.

Buteo platypterus (Broad Winded Hawk)

Poecila atricapillus (Black capped chickadee)

Quercus bicolor (Swamp white oak)

Odocoileus virginanus (White Tailed Deer)

Calamagrostis cana (Blue-joint

Homo sapiens (human)

Tamias striatus (chipmunk)

Euphydryas phaeton (Baltimore checkerspot butterfly) Stylurus plagiatus (Russet tipped clubtail) Juncus spp. (Rushes) Lemna minor (Small duckweed)

MINERAL SOILS COMPACTED SUB-GRADE

Amynthas sp. (Earthworm)

DEAD LEAVES AND INTERWOV CLAY LAYER MINERAL SOILS

STAIRS 6’-0”

Garden of Planes | Planting Section | Great Lakes Wooded Marsh Plant and Animal Community

Scale 1” = 1’ -0”

“VERNAL POND” RAIN GARDEN 13’-0”

Acer Rubrum (Red Maple)

Homo sapiens (human)

adensis t grass)

RED BRICK PAVER 4x 2 1/4 x 8” HAND TIGHT, SAND SWEPT JOINTS

FINE CRUSHED GRAVEL AND SAND invitation for ruderal growth

1/8 - 1/4” GRAVEL

COMPACT GRAVEL BASE COMPACT SUBGRADE

GARDEN OF PLANES: PLANTING SECTION This hybrid drawing includes hand drawn textures in the construction details.

VEN ROOTS

Ambystoma maculatum (Spotted salamander) GARDEN WALL 1’-0” MULTI-USE TRAIL 10’-0”

Drawn By: Amy Kaye Taylor LARCH 6440 SP_2016

LANDSCAPE INSPIRATION PAINTINGS OF THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE PROJECT TYPE Oil on Canvas | “Journey Through the Fog” | 2016

Oil on Canvas | “Golden Pathway” | 2011

Prior to discovering the discipline of landscape architecture and the world where one could design and build landscapes, I was admiring and painting the natural landscapes around me. As a painter, scenes within nature and landscapes tell a story and I am the story teller. Those stories come to life through oil paint, brush, canvas and an archive of experiences constantly capturing a moment

in time. The goal is to expose the major players of the story and the mood of the space. Colors and textures are exaggerated to reveal important activators of the space. For me, the artist, it is a recording of a moment. For the viewer it is a chance to escape. My collections have been featured in numerous fine art shows and venues including my own gallery space.

AMY KAY E TAY L OR education

Amy Kaye Taylor amy@amykayetaylor.com https://issuu.com/amykayetaylor/docs/2017 614.596.5131

The Ohio State University Columbus, OH

MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE May 2017

Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH December 1999

BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN CERAMICS/ ART TEACHER PREPARATION (K-12)

honors Outstanding Senior Award in Art Education April 1999 James W. Strong Community Service Award April 1999

landscape experience

The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 2015- Present

GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT / RECITATION TEACHER LARCH3430/6430 - Workshop III Advanced Analysis + Communication, Spring 2017 LARCH2410/6410 - Workshop I Analysis + Communication, Autumn 2016 ARCH23OO - Outlines of the Built Environment, Autumn 2015 - Spring 2016

Seely’s Landscape Nursery Hilliard, OH Summer 2016 NURSERY ASSISTANT

awards

2017 Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture Research Travel Award “Securing Food Opportunities through Garden Design in Kenya”

2017 Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture Sigma Lambda Alpha National Honor Society Graduate Award gallery exhibitions

FIELD TESTING: LAAB Accreditation Student Work Exhibition | Banvard Gallery and Knowlton Open Space Show February 8 to March 3 2017 ELUSINA LAZENBY EXPERIMENTAL FOREST The Elusina Lazenby Experimental Forest and Interpretive Center | Banvard Gallery Show March 2, 2016 -April 2, 2016 THE CITY: BEAUTIFUL Gustafson Guthrie Nichol at The Cleveland Mall | Banvard Gallery Show March 25 - April 9. 2015

professional development

ASLA Annual Meeting New Orleans 2016|Chicago 2015|MEMBER 2014 - present 2016 OCASLA Annual Meeting + EXPO Columbus 2016 Gardens that Heal: A Prescription for Wellness Seminar Chicago 2016 LABASH Columbus 2016 THIS IS A TEST Symposium Knowlton School of Architecture, OSU 2016

software skills

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, INDESIGN | AUTOCAD | RHINO |SKETCHUP

gallery exhibitions

professional development

software skills

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, INDESIGN | AUTOCAD | RHINO |SKETCHUP

fine art experience gallery exhibitions

Amy Kaye Taylor Art, LLC Columbus, OH 2005- Present PAINTER, FINE ART SALES | AKT Studios GALLERY OWNER & CURATOR 2012 – 2014 St. George Art Museum PICTURED 3: THE NATIONS MOST SPECTACULAR

NATIONAL PARKS EXIBITION | St. George, UT | August 27 - December 31, 2016

Gallery Zella COLLECTIONS DEEP WOODS |THE SMOKIES Bryson City, NC 2016

Fine Art Festivals Chicago, Columbus, Cleveland 2005-present (list upon request) The International Art Business Symposium Grand Rapids, MI 2013 Solo Art Shows Columbus | Cleveland OH | Stillwater OK Ohio Art Annual ZANESVILLE ART CENTER BEST OF SHOW Zanesville, OH 2006 Undergraduate Art Exhibition DOROTHY UBER BRYAN GALLERY FIRST PLACE CERAMICS & FIRST PLACE FIBERS Bowling Green, OH 1999

teaching experience

Ponca City Public Schools Ponca City, OK September 2002 – June 2004 ART TEACHER PRE-K – 5, PASS Objectives & Integrated Curriculum Kayenta Primary School Kayenta, AZ. January 2000 – June 2002 ART TEACHER K- 2, “Art to Art” and “Painted Ponies” mural project National and State Art Education Associations member 2000 – 2004 BGSU Student Art Education Association member 1996 – 1999

other

FrontRunner, Inc. Columbus, OH 2009 – 2016 SALES | MEDIA GRAPHICS Team FrontRunner 2008-present PACE LEADER - MARATHON TRAINING GROUP

AMY KAYE TAYLOR MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY