Anna Irene Hooker Selected Works • 2012-2019
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Anna Irene Hooker
annaihooker@gmail.com • (317) 608-7559
Education 2012 - 2017
Ball State University College of Architecture & Planning • Muncie, IN Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Minors in Social & Environmental Justice and Sociology Academic Honors in Writing
Experience MKSK Landscape Architect II
Hired as an entry-level designer in 2017, promoted to mid-level designer in 2019. Participated in all phases of the design process: proposal writing, inventory and analysis, conceptual design, schematic design, construction documentation, and construction administration. Completed project report books, including all graphics and writing necessary. Prepared presentations and all materials for team and public meetings, and presented material at meetings. Interfaced with clients and consultants. Primary projects involved with: Cason Family Park, IU Miller Plaza, Woerner Avenue Streetscape, Neil Street Placemaking Plan, 10th Street Streetscape, Cincinnati Deaconess Development Plan, Conner Prairie Mastreplan.
American Structurepoint Intern
Summer Landscape Architecture intern in American Structurepoint’s Planning department. Common tasks included creating analysis maps, making renderings and perspectives, participating in the conceptual design phases of multiple projects, completing planting plans, and creating any graphic design elements (icons, diagrams, etc.) needed. Participated in client meetings, stakeholder sessions, and community presentations and events. Primary projects involved with: Anthenaeum Pocket Park, Lawrenceburg Riverfront Development, and Union City Strategic Plan.
Nature Play Guidebook InDesign Editor
Employed to assist Professor of Architecture Pamela Harwood with the creation of a book detailing the design, development and construction of a nature-based outdoor classroom learning and play environment. Given mark-ups and drawn drafts of pages, which were then inserted digitally into the InDesign file. asked with choosing photos and page layouts that best displayed the information given for each of the book’s sections.
2015
Landworks Sardinia Participant
Travelled to Sardinia to participate in a 10-day intensive workshop with international landscape architects and students. Worked on a team led by Walter Hood to dream up and build landscape interventions in the old mining town of Argentiera, after spending days of doing thorough inventory and analysis of the history and natural elements of the land. On the last day, a public presentation and tour of the installations took place.
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Mun(see) Exhibit Participant
Mun(see) was a photography exhibit put on by a group of students in the College of Architecture & Planning celebrating the rich visual history of Muncie. Participated in the show by showing a collection of panoramic photographs taken of various factories around town, highlighting the aesthetic quality of the post-industrial landscape. Was also tasked with creating the flyers and posters for the sho .
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Designworks Workshop Student Faculty
Two-week summer workshop hosted by Ball State’s College of Architecture & Planning for high school students interested in the college. Students completed various abstract art and design projects with the guidance of professors and student faculty. Gathered materials, gave desk crits, and helped demonstrate and teach good design thinking to the students in attendance.
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Recognition 2018
INASLA Professional Award • Honor Award for West Side Strategic Revitalization & Airport TIF Implementation Plan
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INASLA Student Design Award • Merit Award for Indiana Dunes Parkway Regional Plan
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GIS Day Student Poster Competition • Winner
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Sigma Lambda Alpha Travel Scholarship • Scholarship Recipient
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College of Architecture & Planning Dean’s List • Recognized
Skills Computer Applications • Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), AutoCAD, ESRI ArcMap, Sketchup, Microsoft Suite (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), Rhino Design Skills • Board and Presentation Layout, Graphic Design, Laser Cutting and Model Building, Design Thinking, Photography, Sketching, Site and Program Research, Public Speaking, Hand Rendering
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Professional Work
Cason Family Park
Location • West Lafeyette, Indiana Year • 2019 West Lafayette has proven itself to be a city dedicated to providing its residents with high quality parks and public spaces, keeping up with what people want and what they need. Not only is this project important through an educational lens, but it has major significance for the City as a new and exciting park for the public to enjoy. The creation of Cason Family park reflects the City’s westward growth and a community’s will to preserve an important piece of history. In doing so, the City will provide a recreational amenity located near trail systems, wooded areas, and the Celery Bog. To arrive at this point, volunteers have given time, land, and resources to establish an initial vision for Cason Family Park. Bringing that vision to life with thoughtful, elaborate design shows the community members the true power of working together, as none of this would be possible had they not come together to save the Morris schoolhouse. Now that the school has been relocated, it is time to give it a permanent home that celebrates history, education, and the City of West Lafayette. Covering over 13 acres of land, Cason Family Park has the potential to become a regional destination.
Across • The Morris Schoolhouse, 1880s
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Cason Family Park Masterplan
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Indiana Native Garden
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Above • The Morris Schoolhouse pupils and teachers stand for a class photo in the 1880s. Below • An entry plaza, flanked with Indiana limestone seat walls, holds visitors waiting to explore the schoolhouse. Outdoor rooms sit on each side of the preserved building, providing space for classes to discuss nature, history, education, and everything in between.
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Above • In 2019, the Morris Schoolhouse sits in a soggy field with a singular gravel drive. Below • Cason Family Park frames the schoolhouse like a crown gem. The park’s entry sequence retains the direct view of the school, with allées recalling entries to historic farms and estates.
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Indiana University Miller Plaza Location • Bloomington, Indiana Year • 2018
Indiana University is widely recognized as the most beautiful college campus in the state - and its sports are equally as popular. When the University decided to expand the function of Memorial Stadium with the addition of the new Excellence Academy, it was clear that a new signature outdoor space was necessary to accompany the academic building. Enter the Miller Plaza, an elegant public space designed to accomodate the daily flow of students along with excited game day crowds. Indiana limestone, warm brick, and ornate detailing have worked together for over a hundred years to define the aesthetic trademark of Indiana University. These elements too define the character of the Miller Plaza, translating main campus elements to the University’s sporting side of campus. Rich, textured planting frame and soften the traditional plaza elements. Curved limestone walls, reading “Miller Plaza” and “The Spirit of Indiana” were fabricated right there in Bloomington. The symmetrical alignment of the Excellence Academy, limestone walls, signature lighting, and large limestone seating plinth spotlight the monumental architecture.
Across • View of the plaza, facing northeast
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The Spirit Of Indiana
Collage • Tracing the story of campus and geology across the Indiana University campus
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Site Photos • The northeast (top) and true north (bottom) panoramic photographs capture Miller Plaza approximately one year after construction.
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Woerner Avenue Streetscape Location • Clarksville, Indiana Year • 2017
The town of South Clarksville, located directly across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky, has committed to revitalizing Woerner Avenue and the neighboring waterfront. Once lined with industry, the town sees the potential of the waterfront-facing district to be a community beacon. Woerner avenue has been chosen as a catalyst project for the larger vision, which includes the creation of new apartments, restaurants, shopping, and a 20-acre riverfront park. The South Clarksville Area will be a lively, prosperous and exciting place to live, work, and visit — a vibrant, walkable, mixed-use district that serves as Clarksville’s riverfront downtown. It will be a showpiece of the Greater Louisville Area and contribute to the exceptional character and economy of Clarksville and Southern Indiana. To be able to carry such development on its back, Woerner Avenue is designed to be a complete street with on-street parking, sidewalks, attractive stormwater management infrastructure, street trees, street furniture, a two-way cycle tracks, and special permanent parklets. All of these features together will generate an energy needed to propel South Clarksville’s regeneration.
Across • The Colgate-Palmolive Clock, a monument at the terminus of Woerner Avenue
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The Design and Palette
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The Parklets Café Style • Movable tables and brightly colored chairs are scattered across the parklet. Signature end planters provide shade with two large umbrellas and excitement with a pair of sculptures.
The Hangout • Tables and benches made of wood and steel articulate a series of seating and conversational spaces, accentuated with pops of technicolor translucent acrylic.
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Green Room • Angular benches backed with lush planters visually enclose this parklet, creating a “room” off of the busy street.This is the perfect spot for resting and carrying on conversation.
Streetside Gallery • A permanent shipping container houses rotating art galleries by local creators. Minimal linear benches define the adjacent reception space, backed by a trellis wall.
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Neil Street Placemaking Plan Location • Champaign, Illinois Year • 2018
The City of Champaign has chosen a key site within their downtown to become a new plaza, celebrating the community and energy of the city. There is enormous potential for this site to become the central gathering place in downtown and to offer unique urban amenities to current downtown visitors, residents, others who currently do not visit downtown. At this start of this project, the City Council outlined three critical goals for the outcome of the plaza placemaking plan and concept design. These goals are: a dedicated space for special events, an expanded appeal of downtown for all ages and lifestyles, and improved community image. To achieve these goals, the plan includes a wide variety of spaces and elements that are flexible, diverse, dynamic, inclusive, and family-friendly. Through the project’s process, direction crystallized around the notion that the vision is for a civic space that supplements the dining, entertainment, and retail offerings provided by the market to expand the appeal of downtown. Creating a fun and inviting space for community members and visitors of all ages and background helps strengthen the downtown economy, diversifies the people coming to downtown, and expands upon the market potential. Building on that idea, a consensus was achieved around the concept of the plaza setting itself apart as the space that celebrates the history, identity, and diversity that makes Champaign special.
Across • Bird’s eye view of the plaza
Rendering created by professional team
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The Vision for Neil Street Plaza
A History • Farmers’ Market, 1800s; Sears Roebuck Company Store, 1970s; The Orpheum Theatre, 1990; The Orpheum Theatre, 2019
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Plaza Features
Renderings created by professional team
Great Lawn • A large lawn provides a soft space to sit, lay, or play as well as a setting for larger events such as movies, concerts, the Farmers Market, and Oktoberfest.
Plaza at the Hill • This gateway is the plaza’s most significant entry point. In the winter, when the fountain is off, the holiday tree lighting takes place here at the end of the annual Parade of Lights.
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Neil Street Esplanade • The Esplanade is a pedestrian-friendly seating and socializing zone along the east side of the Neil Street Corridor, an energetic and lively entrance to the plaza.
Hickory Promenade • The Promenade is a unique curbless shared street. Parking is convertible to outdoor spill-out space for dining, sidewalk sales, and other activities by the facing businesses.
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Academic Work
Far Eastside Wellness Complex Location • Indianapolis, Indiana Year • 2017
The Far Eastside neighborhood of Indianapolis grew quickly during the post-war housing boom of the 1950s onward; this growth was abruptly halted by the loss of industry in the 1980s, as America shifted from being a nation built on industry to a Fourth World nation. Today, the Far Eastside stands as a drastically different neighborhood than the one that existed at its time of conception. This project aims to create a wellness complex to serve the socioeconomically challenged Far Eastside community. More specifically, the design will aim to assist to those who are unfulfilled on the bottom two tiers of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs achieve fulfillment. Programming and design elements are synthesized through an examination of the relationships between the physical-mental-social model of wellness and the Hierarchy of Needs. The complex centers itself around community enhancement and reclamation of a site that was once a major neighborhood asset. The most critical objective of this project is to patch as many gaps in the community as possible. Because there was such an abrupt, forced shift in the neighborhood in the 1980s, and there has been only grassroots intervention since then, the Far Eastside is in great need of a grand gesture in order to bridge this divide. In order to do so, as many spaces as possible will be designed with the intention of forcing interaction between users. The wellness complex’s program holds on to some nuances - as the needs of the community evolve, so should the site. Though this design aims to serve the community’s unmet needs at this moment in time, these needs will inevitably change over time; as they do, the community will be able to tweak the site to fit their desires. This authority over the site also further instills the idea of ownership within the community, leading them to exert more effort into caring for and maintaining the spaces.
Across • Newspaper article from 1960, annoucing the construction of the shopping center
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Community Pool • The community pool aims to break down age-old stereotypes, as well as creating a fun summertime asset for the Far Eastside that they are currently without.
New Housing • The flipside of the central gathering space acts as a front yard for the residents of the newly-created residencies, complete with a wide walkway and a shady lawn.
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Temporary Housing • The yard gives the residents a space that they can take ownership of, as well as an alternative to the larger recreation site for times when they want to be reflective.
Urban Farm • Urban agriculture creates jobs and training programs for local youth and residents of the temporary housing building, alleviates food desert conditions, and revives wasted land.
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CCB Plaza
Location • Indianapolis, Indiana Year • 2016 Indianapolis has long been known for racing... and not much else. But now that younger people are choosing to stay to live and work, a new culture is rising. The city has many formal outdoor spaces, but the creation of a modern, flexible plaza and park space would speak directly to the interests of downtown Indianapolis’ newest residents, while still encouraging use from those who already live and work in the city. The city needs more exciting and new design in order to support the growth of a new culture that is not only in spirit but also visible in built spaces. Indianapolis is going through a huge boom in architectural development, so it makes perfect sense that the city needs to see a growth in public space as well. The redesign of the City County Building plaza to include functions that can be enjoyed by new and existing community members will make the space an asset, influencing more people to move into the apartment buildings going up all across the city. With the transit center across the street, the plaza will also see consistent use from IndyGo patrons who may not stay downtown much today. The CCB Plaza will provide programs and events that take place during every season, as detailed out in the calendar below. Fall colors take the sculpture garden to a stunning new level in the autumn, while the lawn-turned-ice skating rink completely changes the dynamic of the plaza in the winter months. Continuous events will keep people active and happy all year round.
Across • The Lawn is converted into a Skating Ribbon in winter
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Above • The Sculpture Garden with autumn accents of red maple.
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Across • Internet Cat Video Festival on the Lawn, part of the Summer Movie Night series.
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Pleasant Grove Community Hub Location • Columbus, Indiana Year • 2017
Columbus is often regarded as the capitol of architectural excellence in the Midwest; the twon and its community have remained culturally vibrant to this day. However, the resilience of Columbus was tested in 2008 when flood waters took over thousands of acres of land and caused more than 100 million dollars in damage to the area. The Pleasant Grove neighborhood, located just east of Haw Creek, barely avoided being wiped out by the flood, and the majority of the homes near the creek had to be demolished after the waters resided. Today the space sits half-vacant, with the few devoted neighbors remaining in their houses. Because our FEMA guidelines prohibit the creation of new homes on the site, this portion of the Pleasant Grove neighborhood is the perfect site for a new community-strengthening space. This fresh, functional hub extracts the lot lines from the previous residencies and applies programs within them, remembering the past while welcoming in the future. The three primary functions recreation, food production, and education of ecological systems - come together to serve and inspire the residents of Columbus. The park would fit seamlessly with Columbus’ reputation as a city that welcomes and celebrates design and community.
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Agriculture • Urban agriculture is a strong way to activate a neighborhood, because it requires the community to take ownership of the growing process. This landscape prescription will be unique in Columbus to Pleasant Grove.
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Recreation • Shady picnic shelters located within the recreation zones of the site offer space for passive activity, while maintained grassy lawn can be used by children at the Foundation For Youth and other community members.
Education • Offering educational wetlands that highlight the benefits of managing water naturally not only benefits the members of the community, but creatively speaks to how to mitigate heavy rainfalls like the one that caused the previous flood.
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