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Annie Palone Spring 2013 Portfolio
Master of Landscape Architecture 2013 Graduate Portfolio Program in Sustainability
University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture
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Design Philosophy
How do people imagine the landscape they find themselves in? How does the land shape the imagination of people who dwell in it? These questions from Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams frame my long-standing interest in landscapes. Sustainability and social resiliency are necessary to the way forward. From my undergraduate investigations of literature and art, to agriculture, food, and human geography, to my graduate studies of landscape architecture, and urban design, the making of meaningful places for human occupation underlies my academic interests and design philosophy. I believe that landscape architecture is the most meaningful way to change the fabric of the cities in which we live, and look forward to being a part of that change.
Contents
Design
Design Waller Creek: A Competition
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Braid Waller Creek
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Life Cycles Cemetery
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Traverse the Slope
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Emergent Education
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Topographic Modeling
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Shed[+] Public Interest Design
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5x5 / Detail Model
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Summer 2012 Internship Fall 2011
Spring 2012 Spring 2011
Build
Spring 2013 Fall 2010
Summer 2010
GUADALUPE NEIGHBORHOOD
Spring 2012 / 2011
Conceive Annie Palone 2011 thorbjornthankyou.indd 1
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Alpine Transect
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Float, Mist, Play
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Whale Pavilion
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ResumĂŠ
Fall 2012
Spring 2011 Spring 2013
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Design Waller Creek: A Competition - Cultural Resource Mapping An International Design Competition for Waller Creek, Austin, Texas
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Team CMG + Public Architecture Culture + Community Group 15th
These cultural resource maps, and those on the following pages were made in order to understand the cultural richness surrounding the project site, Waller Creek, on the eastern border of downtown Austin, and to understand the character of the intervention we would propose.
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Cesar Chavez
River / Holly
Lady Bird Lake
East - West Connections across IH-35
East-West Connectivity
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Internship Summer 2012 - Summer Associate at Public Architecture
Garza School
Frank Erwin Center Unemployment Tax Assistance Hearon Respite Center (ATCIC)
State Capitol Building
State Capitol Central Health Governor's Mansion Capitol C omplex Visitors Center
Coalition of Texans Kealing with School Disabilities
Lott Park
Symphony Square
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Henry Faulk Library
Splash Park Playground
Franklin BBQ ProArts Victory Grill AMOA / The Paramount Arthouse Blackshear Elementary
Preschool
Salvation Army ARCH Caritas
Antone’s
2009 Homelessness Survey Boundary
State Cemetery
Stubb’s BBQ Headhunters Driskill Hotel Red Eyed Fly Alamo Drafthouse Beale St Tavern Beerland The Parish Red7 Venue222 The Stage Flamingo Cantina The Velveeta Room Esther’s Follies Easy Tiger
Downtown Austin Community Court
Childrens’ Museum
City Hall
Austin Children’s Museum
Convention Center
Moonshine
Moonlight Tower French Legation Texas State Cemetery Progress Food Truck Park Coffee
Divers Arts
Travis Co. Family Support Services
Ironworks Long Center for Performing Arts
Congress Bridge Bat Colony Terrazas Library Austin Travis County Integral Care
Sanchez Elementary School
MACC
Metz Elementary School Festival Beach Community Garden
Martin Middle School
Resources for Kids - Schools, Playgrounds, Attractions
ools, Playgrounds, Cultural Attactors
South Congress
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Social Services + Homeless Populations (Perceived)
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Social Service Providers Homeless Individuals observed** Homeless Individuals observed*
Cultural Resources
05-06/2012 - Data collected by A. Palone during afternoon and evening site visits.
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03/27/09 - Data collected by UTSOA students in Bjorn Sletto’s CRP386: Social Life of Public Spaces.
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Design Waller Creek: A Competition
Cultural attractions and parkland in downtown Austin.
Local, City-wide, and Regional Cultural Attractors: Parks, Open Spaces, Museums, Galleries, Historical Sites, Venues, Hike and Bike Trails, etc., are mapped as a means for understanding the context of our proposal for a new Waller Creek District. Cultural attractions and parkland in downtown Austin.
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Design Waller Creek: A Competition
Culture and Community Group Working Drawings with Final Board Ideas
Internship Summer 2012 - Summer Associate at Public Architecture
THE SCORE FOR PUBLIC LIFE
Design Waller Creek: A Competition
Waller Creek will be a destination for the rich culture of Austin to evolve and thrive.
RESPOND
The design has only begun. We will continue to listen, learn, and ask the people of Austin to share their vision for Waller Creek.
There should be amenities for all levels of income.
The history of I-35 is hurtful to people who remember that that was once East Avenue. It was the only place the races got to interact.
Mandy DeMayo, HousingWorks Austin
It can’t be contrived. It has to relate to the culture of Austin. Representative, Real Estate Council of Austin
Team CMG + Public Architecture Culture + Community Group
The challenge is how do we make Waller Creek welcoming to our full community?
The regeneration of Waller Creek is an unparalleled opportunity to invest in Austin’s culture of creativity.
Between 8th and 9th, that used to be a swimming hole. It was crystal clear.
Cookie G. Ruiz, Ballet Austin Sabino Renteria, East Cesar Chavez Neighborhood Association
Austin’s just growing and growing. That’s great, but how do we maintain our cultural legacy?
Meredith Powell, Art Alliance Austin
Lisa Byrd, African American Cultural Heritage District
Lori Renteria, East Cesar Chavez Neighborhood Association
Access to fresh food does not exist in this part of Austin.
We don’t want Austin to lose its vibe.
Walter Moreau, Executive Director, Foundation Communities
Bob Lander, Austin CVB
So far, we’ve talked to: Affordable Living Foundation Communities / ECHO - Ending Community Homelessness Coalition / HousingWorks Austin /Austin CHDO Roundtable / Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation Art & Culture Art Alliance Austin / Okay Mountain / Austin Film Society / Ballet Austin / Big Medium / DiverseArts / MINDPOP Music Austin Music People / Austin Symphony Orchestra Communities Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association / East Cesar Chavez Neighborhood Association / GAIN - Guadalupe Association for an Improved Neighborhood Economic Development Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau / Real Estate Council of Austin / Austin Revitalization Authority / Downtown Austin Alliance Education Texas River School Food Slow Food Austin Health & Recreation Central Health Heritage African American Heritage Cultural District Mobility Movability Austin / Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop
ENGAGE
We’re innovating how large scale civic projects are conceived and created by experimenting, taking risks, learning as we go, and getting you involved.
Act Now!
Online
Stewardship
Art
We will be using quick-build prototyping, ephemeral events, and temporary structures to support uses during the design and construction process to learn what works and how to get it right.
Visitors will be able to share stories, stay connected, and contribute to a living archive of digital media dedicated to enriching the experience of Waller Creek through Zeega, an online software built by our team.
We can’t do this alone. Through volunteer programs and partnerships, individuals and local institutions will work hand in hand to ensure the health and success of Waller Creek.
Art will connect with the people and communities of Austin and enhance the distinctive characteristics of Waller Creek, physically, historically, and culturally.
Let’s not wait for the ribbon cutting.
Capturing your stories and ideas.
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A site for interactivity and discovery.
Left: Development Sketches for Public Architecture’s programming boards. Right: Final Competition Board.
zeega
Intensity
Phase 1 Act Now - Early wins
Waller Creek will be a hub for Austin’s creative and entrepreneurial spirit through an unfolding mix of activities that engage communities, support public life, and catalyze economic development.
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Activities on Waller Creek will be enriched through partnership with local organizations. Here are a few potential partners: Art & Culture Art Alliance Austin / Central Health / Austin Travis County Integral Care Children’s Museum Urban Patchwork / Urban Roots / Slow Food Austin Education Austin Youth River Watch / Texas River School / African American Cultural Heritage District Music Austin Music People / DiverseArts / Austin Symphony Orchestra Delight MINDPOP
Phase 2 Building the place
D es tin at io n
CREATE
Health & Recreation
Ask not what your park can do for you.
Collaborators Public Architecture (lead) Cynthia Garcia Brad Leibin Annie Palone John Peterson CMG (support) Chris Guillard Imani Hamilton Willett Moss Art Alliance Austin Meredith Powell Fyoog Dan Cheetham
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Youth water quality monitori ng Potential Pa rtner: Austin Youth River Watch Waller C reek histo ry exhibit Potential p artner: Afric an American Cultural Heritage D istrict
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Art & Culture
Incubation
Play
Health & Recreation
Food
Education
Music
Delight
The site will function as a living ecosystem of evolving events, exhibitions, and permanent works exploring the social, historical, and natural ecologies here.
Austin has a significant creative and entrepreneurial community. Waller Creek will function as a new center for incubatory programming in key cultural areas including food, art, and music.
The varied open spaces and ecocorridors of Waller Creek will be a setting for exploration and discovery for children and adults through creative learning programs as well as interactive playscapes.
In addition to traditional running trails and bike lanes, Waller Creek will bolster Austin’s healthy living in a more holistic way, including produce markets and outdoor health, healing, & fitness initiatives.
It’s hard to ignore the role of food in the social and cultural life of Austin. Food programming will take on a range of forms, including urban farming, food trucks, as well as culinary incubation and communal dining events.
Educational programming such as art classes, history exhibits, and eco-tours will enhance the experience of the site while home agricultural workshops and jobskills training will strengthen surrounding communities.
Austin is the mecca for live music and a training ground for talent. Waller Creek will provide a diversity of venues for Austin’s upand-coming and established music communities to experiment and perform.
Not all programming on Waller Creek needs to serve a purpose beyond the fundamental of all reasons to visit a park: sheer delight!
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Braid Waller Creek Austin, Texas Instructor Duration
Allan Shearer 16 weeks
Collaborators
Christopher Murton Katherine Phillips Kevin Sullivan
Award
UTSOA Design Excellence Fall 2011
Publication
ISSUE: 008, UTSOA 2012
Design Concept Using the metaphor or “big idea” of braiding to guide our design decisions, we strove to create a district with recognizable identity, based on prioritized objectives from the Waller Creek Conservancy. We translated “accessibility,” “non-exclusionary uses,” “protect and enhance the environment” and “engage the creek,” into “Gather,” “Thicken,” “Strengthen,” and “Wrap.” Our design proposes multi-use developments connecting to pedestrianized streets, creekside trails, and bike paths. We zoomed in to redesign four expanded parks, which we believe are the key to making significant changes within the new district and existing downtown core.
before
BRAID four sites
WIDTH
urban design
OVERLAP Transformation Diagrams and Plan
after
connections
Landscape Architectural Design, Fall 2011 Eighth Street MEANDER RELAX habitat vegetation filtration flood control herons turtles fish
slow dine enjoy walk engage jog drink
The Sixth Street CHANNEL COLLECT retention vegetation filtration corridor grackles songbirds fish
dine drink intersect meet rest shope gather
BRAID of the Waller
Creek District tightens and loosens in response to corridor
width,
while movement, activity, environment, and experience
overlap and intertwine to E. Fourth Street GREEN FIELD CONNECT infiltration vegetation habitat flood control seasonal bloom songbirds squirrels
art community play create shop bike dwell
create a place at the leading edge of Austin’s sustainable future.
Palm Park RIPARIAN SLOPE PLAY infiltration sedimentation vegetation habitat interaction seasonal bloom songbirds squirrels fish
splash slide family community tag run learn stay jump
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Braid Waller Creek - Four Sites
Brackenridge Hospital
Waterloo Park
WC Tunnel Intake Facility
Future high-rise residential
State Capitol Symphony Square & Serrano’s
Red River MusicDistrict
East Sixth Street Sixth Street
Brush Square
HOPE Farmers’ Market & Artists’ Studios
Downtown Commuter Rail Station
Austin Convention Center
Mixed-use, Low-rise Residential
Palm School: Community Center and Education
Waller Creek Hotel
50-story hotel under development, proposed completion 2015
Ironworks BBQ
Rainey Street District
Future high-rise, high-density residential infill
Austin Rowing Club Boathouse & Concessions
Waller Beach & Lady Bird Lake Trail
waterways Waller Creek trail illumination shade
Context: Downtown Austin’s riparian parks, trails, and play spaces
Murton . Palone . Phillips . Sullivan
Mexican American Cultural Center
commercial - hotel commercial - restaurant low-rise mixed use high-rise mixed use
Transformation Diagram
parks community parking structure imageable subdistricts
pedestria bike prio bus prior waller cr
Proposed District Diagram and Four Precedents: Four Sites
8th Street - Sunken Bridge
RO&AD, Netherlands
8th Street - Sunken Bridge
6th Street - Canal Café
Café de Jaren, Amsterdam, Netherlands
6th Street - Canal Café
E. 4th Street - Art Park Storm King Art Center, New York
E. 4th Street - Art Park
Palm Park - Slide World
MVVA Teardrop Park, NYC
Palm Park - Slide World
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Braid Waller Creek - Four Objectives
parking lots bus + train stops bike racks
public transit
bike
gathering areas
benches
transition
car
road
destination
sidewalk
movement
pedestrian
transition openings crossings
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shade
Gather
Provide Access
ada ramp stairs
paths
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lighting
Thicken Maximize Non-exclusionary Uses
tree canopy ground veg gathering area path adjacent district
mechanically stabilized earth retaining
visible riparian vegetation pools
engaged buildings
creek
creek corridor incised bank
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path
concrete retaining wall
Strengthen Protect and Enhance the Environment
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Wrap Engage the Creek
Objective 1: “Gather” “Gather” Existing
“Gather” Proposed
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fair
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excellent
excellent
Evaluation
System
bus, train, car
good
bike routes
entrances
System
Evaluation
creek trail
bus, train, car
bike routes
entrances
creek trail
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path at creek
failed wall
Braid Waller Creek - Palm Park ENGAGEMENT
Site Analysis and Site Design Fifth and Red River Streets, Austin, Texas
Palm Park
playful, active, family-oriented
Palm Park is a forgotten place, made invisible by broken access and crumbling infrastructure. We have proposed an active, play-oriented park for young families, at the meeting point of two north-south pedestrian promenades, to bring life and laughter back to an under loved corner of the city. GATHER
existing
Existing
Proposed GATHER
ACCESS
Existing ADA Deeply incised banks, an abandoned swimming ramp pool, lack of safe or secure access, and exposure to speeding traffic and noise pollution from IH35 make this once vibrant neighborhood park THICKEN anything but inviting.
ACCESS
ADA ramp out of use pool
THICKEN
USES
USES
Proposed A wide grassy hillside invites children to run and play; a series of slides makes traversing pooling thesabine slope more fun; boardwalk paths engage pedestrian theway creek and aquatic wildlife, while capturing sediment and creating habitat; and a hotel wine STRENGTHEN bar lets adults relax as they watch the activity below.
broken path
broken path
ENVIRONMEN
path at creek
failed wall
ENGAGEMENT
pooling
STRENGTHEN
ENVIRONMENT
path at creek
WRAP
sabine pedestrian way
WRAP
ENGAGEMEN
proposed
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Life Cycles - Cemetery Lost Pines Habitat Conservation Plan Area, Bastrop, Texas Instructor Duration Collaborator
Jason Sowell 12 weeks Jessica Zarowitz
Project Type
Cemetery
moderate severe
Our ecological design for a cemetery east of Austin responds to the idea that life cycles– from life, to death, to regeneration– by creating frameworks that are filled in through the repetition and variation of designed and ecological elements.
Burned Lost Pines
The nested scales of markers, plots, plazas, disposition areas, and cellular cemetery phases, operate together to highlight diversity and resilience, while working ecologically to create a patch-corridor matrix. Similarly, project phasing creates a matrix of disturbance and regeneration, focusing the impact of cemetery building into small footprints across time.
2011 Wildfire burn zone
Lost Pines Habitat Conservation Plan Area
Lost Pines Pinus taeda
Houston Toad Bufo houstonensis Bastrop Lost Pines
Critical habitat Wildfire Burn Zone City of Bastrop 6 5
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Project Phasing
Colorado River
Context
Topography
Comprehensive Landscape Studio, Spring 2012 riparian
swales
meadow
pollina
new forest
phase
established forest
forma
riparian
swales
built roads
meadow
pollinator garden
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riparian
swales
built roads new forest
rivers phase 1 + 2 vegetation
chapels + pedestrian
meadow
pollinator garden
proposed roads established forest
lakes ponds formal+ vegetation
co 10’water contour
new forest
phase 1 + 2 vegetation
pedestrian paths
floodplain
established forest
formal vegetation
10’ contours
Bastrop State Park
mausole
swales
built roads
rivers
chapels + buildings
scatter
pollinator garden
proposed roads
lakes + ponds
water columbaria
natural +
phase 1 + 2 vegetation
pedestrian paths
floodplain
mausolea + columbaria
nursery
built roadsvegetation formal
rivers 10’ contours
chapels buildings Bastrop +State Park
scatter
proposed roads
lakes + ponds
water columbaria
natural + traditional burial
pedestrian paths
riparian floodplain
swales + columbaria mausolea
built roads nursery
rivers
10’ contours
meadowState Park Bastrop
pollinator garden
proposed roads
lakes + p
new forest
phase 1 + 2 vegetation
pedestrian paths
floodplai
established forest
formal vegetation
10’ contours
Bastrop
Providing diverse spaces for humans, flora, and fauna, the project promotes the recognition of life cycles and their power to transform life, landscape, and experience. Site plan
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Life Cycles Three Objectives Three objectives drive the design: the reclamation of the site for flora, fauna, and human users; the diversification of ecosystems, habitat types, and experiences; and the personal and abstract memorialization of deceased and wildfire.
Reclaim: Life cycles of a Bastrop Pine
habitat
contour felling
erosion control
industry
snag
reforestation
Reclaim Reforestation and recycling are emphasized: snags left by the wildfire are retained for habitat and erosion control; upcycled lumber is used for buildings, boardwalks and benches; mulch and seeds support reforestation. Fire ecology informs the use of controlled burns to prevent future wildfires, control non-native plants, and promote a patchy ecological mosaic.
retaining
Diversify: successional fire ecology & plant palette
Memorialize: marker concept
Meadow
Understory
Pollinator
Ornamental
Forest
Little bluestem
Possumhaw
Cardinal flower
Mexican plum
Loblolly pine
Green sprangletop
Common hackberry
Autumn sage
Eastern redbud
Eastern red cedar
Indiangrass
Honey mesquite
Firecracker Plant
Roughleaf dogwood
American elm
Blackwell switchgrass
Hercules club
Flame Acanthus
Desert willow
Chinkapin oak
Illinois bundleflower
Flameleaf sumac
Lantana
Texas persimmon
Bur oak
Partridge pea
Blackhaw
Mexican Honeysuckle
Native pecan
Maximilian sunflower
Mexican Oregano
American sycamore
Purpletop
Trumpet Creeper
Post oak
Whorled milkweed
Turk’s Cap
Schizachyrium scoparium Leptochloa dubia
Sorghastrum nutans Panicum virgatum
Desmanthus illinoensis
Chamaechrista fasciculata Helianthus maximilianii Tridens flavus Asclepias verticillata L.
Green comet milkweed Asclepias viridiflora Raf.
Ilex decidua
Celtis occidentalis
Prosopis glandulosa
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis Rhus copallinum
Viburnum prunifolium
Lobelia cardinalis Salvia greggi
Russelia equisetiformis Anisacanthus quadrididus Lantana horrida Justica spicigera
Poliomintah longiflora Campsis radicans
Prunus mexicana
Cercis canadensis
Cornus drummondii Chilopsis linearis
Diospyros texana
Pinus taeda
Juniperus virginiana Ulmus americana
Quercus muehlenbergii Quercus macrocarpa Carya illinoinensis Platanus occidentalis Quercus stellata
Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummondii
White Mistflower Ageratina wrightii
Diversify Colonization by diverse (native) plants and animals is encouraged, in order to improve ecosystem resiliency. The endangered Houston Toad, native plant species, and beneficial pollinating birds and insects are prioritized through the plant palette and protection of riparian zones.
Memorialize The resting places of the deceased are marked by local Leuder’s limestone, copper alloy, and shadows. A pattern derived from a rasterized aerial image of burned Bastrop pines perforates copper plates, allowing light and vegetation to pass through, and accommodating personalization.
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Life Cycles
Memorial Plaza & Water Columbaria
Mausolea
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Scatter Plazas
memorial plaza + columbaria mausolea scatter plaza natural + traditional burial
memorial plaza + columbaria mausoleua
scattering plazas natural burial Phase 1 Section Key & Plan Zoom
Natural Burial
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Traverse the Slope Doherty Park, Charlestown, MA Instructor Duration
Hope Hasbrouck 3 weeks
Design Objective Introduce new ADA compliant walkways across a 40’ grade change, while maintaining three original puddingstone staircases designed by Olmsted & Co. in 1897.
Conceptual Intent Extend the park’s formal central axis with a grand staircase shaded with flowering trees, and extending the tripartite organization of the Olmsted & Co. site design by offering three options: an ADA compliant path, a new axial staircase, and the original staircases. Topographic model
Section key
Olmsted & Co. stairs
Site sections
Design and Visual Studies 2, Spring 2011
Hand-drawn with graphite and transfer marker on Swarthmore paper and vellum.
Medford Street
Bunker Hill Street
Saint Martin Street
Planting plan
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Emergent Education University of Texas Marine Science Institute Port Aransas, Texas Instructor
Coleman Coker
Duration
7 weeks
Collaborators Tim Campbell Todd Ferry Garland Fielder Matt Krowlick Jon Mautz Lauren Mullane Annie Palone Katherine Russett Jessica Zarowitz Awards
site Port Aransas Corpus Christi
Mustang Island
Gulf of Mexico
UTSOA Design Excellence Spring 2013 AIA Austin Student Award
This studio began with an examination of Complex Adaptative Systems, the Texas Coast, and its barrier islands; it is accompanied by a seminar “Measuring the Poetic,” which looks to thinkers from Bachelard and Heidegger, to Palasmaa and Zumthor.
vehicular circulation central flyways
mississippi flyways pedestrian circulation
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sun |summer
sun |winter water
This built group work satisfies the clients’ desire for an educational seating area on a sloping site in MSI’s (constructed) Wetlands Education Center, while engaging the idea of creating an experience rather than an object.
natural
wind
austin marine science institute
gulf of mexico port aransas
Project development was driven by a series of conceptual and design objectives that focused on creating a space that would let students visiting the site have an embedded experience of the wetland, rather than being disconnected spectators.
austin
254 miles Edwards Plateau
context
South Texas Plains
Blackland Prairies
Post Oak Savannah
Gulf Coast Prairies + Marshes
port aransas
conceptual drivers
design drivers
embeddedness
emergence
integration
encounter
porosity
observation
hurricanes
wind
light footprint
ecoregion mid-coast barrier islands + coastal marshes
barrier island formation
water ecotope prevailing wind
dune
experience vortex
release
2
discovery
5
seats
6
return
enclosure / pinch point
6
bench
wetland grass zonation
path
camphorweed + seaoats marshay cordgrass + dropseed smooth cordgrass + black mangrove
flocking birds
4
shade
helical flow zone protected from wind
entry
shadow and sunlight
3-in-1
zone protected from wind
vortex
1
3
foredunes interdune flats + coastal grassland salt flats + brackish/salt marshes
dune formation
threshold
framed views
brown pelicans
5 encounter
wetland grass association high marsh mid marsh low marsh / water’s edge
wetland grass morphology + experiential embeddedness
integral experience
1
2
4 3
concept
13
elevation
corpus christi ship channel animal rescue keep (ark)
site wetlands education center noaa / nerr
university of texas marine science institute
context plan
visitor’s center
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site plan
SEA LEVEL
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Concrete Bench and Oyster Gabion
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experience + construction
Context
design + build
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Topographic Modeling Sierra Vieja Mountains, West Texas Instructor Duration
Jason Sowell 3 weeks
Design Objectives This series of models and drawings explores representational tropes in landscape architecture. The models take a 24� x 6� topographic map section, using it to generate a series of hand-cut chipboard, dowel, and cast plaster models. The fineness of representational resolution versus interpolation varies across the four models. The drawings zoom in on: a sequence of sections cut across an ephemeral creek; a transect drawing of plants and geologic features that might be found on the site; and a constructed perspective of the northern end of the point model.
Projection
triangulated regular network
Context
Pantera Series/Riverwash Scotal Series
A - brown gravelly/sandy loam Ck1 - brown gravelly loamy sand Ck2 - brown very gravelly loamy coarse sand C - brown stratified very gravelly coarse sand
A - brown gravelly sandy clay loam Bk - yellowish brown very gravelly sandy clay loam R/Bk - white fractured tuffaceous rock C - unweathered tuff bedrock of the Pruett Formation
Transect
Site
Design and Visual Studies 1, Fall 2010
Systems + Surfaces
contour, point, grid, solid hand-cut chipboard + dowel
Sectional Sequence
Assembled Topography
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Shed [+] East Austin, Texas Instructors
Barbara Brown-Wilson Bryan Bell
Duration
6 weeks
Collaborators
Danica Adams Emily McMillan Christopher Murton Natalie Thomas Bea Vithaya
Award
Texas ASLA Merit Award 2012
GUADALUPE NEIGHBORHOOD
Design Objective
This intensive design/build studio to “green Austin’s alleys,” yielded an exploration of maximizing the usefulness of backyard spaces for low-income residents, on a thousand dollar budget. Our process began with conversations with community members and representatives of two neighborhood development non-profits – Austin Community Design and Development Center (ACDDC) and Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation (GNDC) – testing our idea of a multipurpose structure to provide outdoor living space, accommodate chickens, a greenhouse, composting, rainwater collection, and shaded seating. Their feedback transformed our concept, reprioritizing storage as the major need of community members, which became the driver for the project. This line of thinking culminated in the building of a prototype shed[+] unit, for Roland, a GNDC renter in East Austin. The structure is built from 2” x 4” and 4” x 4” lumber and upcycled shipping pallets that provide structural integrity and visual interest. Keeping cost low, so that the unit would be affordable for virtually any resident of Austin was another important consideration. Using shipping pallets and standard lumber kept the cost of the structure around $500. The facade is made from sanded acrylic panels to achieve translucency without transparency, in order to achieve the team’s architects’ vision of a “glowing box” at night. This selection of finishing material added significantly to the final cost of the unit. The prototype Shed [+] provides 120 square feet of storage with an attached chicken coop, built from pallets treated with a Japanese scorching technique to make them impervious to water and fire.
neighborhood character study
SHED [+] a kit of parts for “greening” your backyard: multivalent, site-specific, pragmatic, modular a kit of parts for “greening” your backyard: choose the components you want to design & build your perfect outdoor space.
multivalent / site-specific / pragmatic / modular kit of parts.
the yard.
make it more.
the goal.
relax play grow make practice hide maintain rest host plan perform decorate store gather escape eat interact
bedroom studio office greenhouse retreat shed coop garden dining room workshop
for the backyard to become a place of greater productivity, safety, value, and pleasure for residents and neighbors.
food production fruit, vegetables, chickens compost nutrient recycling rainwater collection storage vegetation / native landscaping play structure indoor /outdoor features seating / gathering / work space habitat creation shade
Public Interest Design, Summer 2011
storage before
construction & details
plan and elevation
after
chicken coop & shed
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Student Design Competition - Spring 2012
Harry Ransom Center Courtyard University of Texas Austin, Texas Award Duration
Second Place 10 days
A simple white pine recliner, three and a half feet wide is designed to fit into one of the twenty 5’x5’ planter boxes behind UT’s Harry Ransom Center, creating a multipurpose space for one to three users. The lounge’s angled back provides a wind break, and flowers and herbs in a raised planter box add ambience without permanence. The resulting space encourages relaxation, conversation, and study.
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bask
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Detail Model
Technology Workshop 2, Spring 2011
Dania Park, Malmรถ, Sweden Thorbjorn Andersson, SWECO Architects Instructor / Duration Jason Sowell / 4 weeks Collaborator
Tim Campbell
Detail Model 1:10 detail model of the sea wall and bastion at Dania Park, Malmรถ, Sweden. LAR 385L introduces an understanding of the materials and measures used in the making and management of built landscapes.
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Three Vertical Gardens
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Instructors
Hope Hasbrouck David Heymann
4000 meters
Duration
9 weeks
3500 meters
Collaborator
Ethan Bennett (M.Arch I)
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Mapping Switzerland to NYC
sea level
Alpine transect
Concept
Design Objective This conceptual project maps explores vertical gardens by transplanting Swiss landscape experiences into three vertical gardens in a New York City skyscraper. The most developed, “the Wild” (next page), folds an Alpine transect into a sixteen-story glass geometry that occupies the building’s facade.
Manhattan, NYC
Context
Lower East Side
United Nations + East River
Advanced Design, Fall 2012 One building, Three gardens
the garden | collects + moves water
the common | connects earth to sky
the wild | Alpine ascent in NYC
garden | collects and moves water vertical moss wall | Patrick Blanc
vine ribbon | MFO Park, Raderschal, Z端rich
alpine transect | hanging garden
common | connects earth to sky wild | alps in nyc
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Vertical Garden: “The Wild” an Alpine Transect in NYC
Vegetative Community : 1800- 4000m Finish Floor Elevation : 180’
Vegetative Community : 2000- 2600m Finish Floor Elevation : 135’
Vegetative Community : 900- 3000m Finish Floor Elevation : 90’
Alpine Snow Beds + Scree Fields
Alpine High Meadows
Pastures + Conifers
peak
Vegetative Community : 1800- 2500m Finish Floor Elevation : 45’
Vegetative Community : 900-1600m Finish Floor Elevation : 150’
Vegetative Community : 1500- 2780m Finish Floor Elevation : 105’
Rock Communities
Sub-Alpine Wildflower Meadows
Dwarf Shrub Heath
peak
Vegetative Community : 1600- 2280m Finish Floor Elevation : 60’
Springs + Flushes
valley peak
Vegetative Community : 1200- 1500m Finish Floor Elevation : 0’
European Broadleaf Forest
valley
valley
1 3 4 peak 2 Seasonal Color + Character by Zone
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Vegetation Model - Alpine “Lace”
Transect Mapping
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Float, Mist, Play Zilker Park, Austin, Texas Instructor Duration
Hope Hasbrouck 7 weeks
Conceptual Objective The dense program and use of the Barton Springs area is mirrored across the park from the creekshore to the lake-shore, siting three interventions – docks for promenade and sailing, misting stations for cooling down, and a multigenerational play area – in a part of the park not utilized by events including Blues on the Green and Austin City Limits. The proposal seeks to introduce an intensely programmed area similar to Barton Springs Pool along the shoreline of Ladybird Lake, increasing the accessibility of the water’s edge.
Existing area of dense program with The density of use at Barton Springs is pool, playgrounds, theater, concessions, MIRRORED across the park from the and boat rentals creek’s shoreline to the lake’s
Proposed site of high-density use on Lady Bird Lake, with misting stations, sailboat rentals, game courts, and play structures
mirror
Lady Bird Lake Trail
Botanical Gardens
Site of Interventions
float Zilker Events
mist play
Zilker Zephyr
Green Belt
site context
Barton Springs
Lady Bird Lake Trail
Design and Visual Studies 2, Spring 2011 float
mist
site plan
play
meadow
planting plan
butterfly rain garden
bosque
allĂŠ
planting palette
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Whale Pavilion University of Texas Marine Science Institute Port Aransas, Texas Instructor Duration
Coleman Coker 2 weeks
Corpus Christi
Port Aransas, Mustang Island
Conceptual Design The pavilion is designed to display the skeleton of a Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) that washed up on the beach in Port Aransas in February of 2010.
Padre Island
The pavilion’s roof acts as a shroud for the whale’s skeleton, while its columns are intended to stand as a lasting memorial - in the language of abandoned piers - even after a hundred years, when the barrier island has gone under the sea. The reflection of water and skeleton cast by a pool beneath the whale evoke memory and create a space for reflection in its other sense.
canal + coastline site
prevailing wind
context
experience view of entry sequence educational seating area
Marine Science Institute Wetlands Education Center
Marine Science Institute Visitors’ Center
whale pavilion
Resiliency statue
proposed dune bus turnaround pervious pavers
proposed dunes
expanded parking bus drop-off
expanded parking
proposed dunes + native vegetation bus parking
plan
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Balaenoptera physalus
Poetics of Building - Advanced Design, Spring 2013
shroud
memorial
experience view from bus drop-off
concept
reflection
corrugated metal
concrete + wood
water
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Education Master of Landscape Architecture 2013
Graduate Portfolio Program in Sustainability University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture
Bachelor of Arts - English major, Studio Arts minor
Stanford University, California
Geography + Development Studies (minor equivalent)
Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Ecovillage Design Education
GAIA Institute, Findhorn, Scotland
Art + Italian
Studio Art Centers International & FUJI Studio, Florence, Italy
High School Diploma
Noble & Greenough School, Dedham, Massachusetts
2003 2007 2006
Skills 2003 1999
Experience
Lectures & Exhibitions, University of Texas School of Architecture, Austin, Texas
Ground Truth, Austin, Texas
Emerald Hummingbird Designs, USA + Canada + United Kingdom
Hannah Bistro + Seaside Pub, Hyannis, Massachusetts
2004 - present
Continuing Graduate Fellowship, 2012-2013 Mebane Travel Prize for travel to Guatemala, January 2011
2004 - 2006
2007 - 2008
Cheesemonger + Retail Associate at organic bakery with artisan cheeses
The Organic Farm Shop, Abbey Home Farm, Cirencester, United Kingdom
2006
World-wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
VB Farms + Sunshine Organics + CCOF, Santa Cruz, California
2008 - 2010
Assistant Manager, Bartender, Employee Training, Server
Pan Chancho Bakery + Café, Kingston, Ontario
Braid Waller Creek, UTSOA Design Excellence, December 2012
Office Manager, Photoshop Editor, Account Executive
researching “farm to market to table,” local vs. commercial commodity chains
2004 - 2006
Farmers’ Market Sales + Office Assistant
Tutor and Academic Editor, USA + Canada
Emergent Education, ISSUE: 009, UTSOA, May 2013 Environmental Readings, Center for Sustainable Development Working Paper Series, University of Texas at Austin, April 2013, Co-Editor and Contributing Writer Braid Waller Creek, ISSUE: 008, UTSOA, May 2012
1998 - present 2007 - 2008
Custom Art Commission; Design, Event Planning, Catering for Ecologic launch
Ragged Hedge Fair, Abbey Home Farm, Cirencester, United Kingdom
Publications
Writing and organizational skills for high school to graduate students
Canyon Sound Flower Essences, Kingston, Ontario
Lake | Flato Scholarship, Fall 2010
Undergraduate Application Essays, Montauk and Klein, Eds. How To Get Into the Top Colleges. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 2000.
Management, Marketing + Organization
Emergent Education, UTSOA Design Excellence, May 2013 SHED[+], Texas ASLA Student Collaboration Merit Award, 2012
Agriculture + Cuisine
Emergent Education, Austin AIA Student Award, May 2013
2010 - present
Lead designer of hand-made jewelry + crafts
UTSOA Extraordinary Service in Landscape Architecture, May 2013
Landscape consulting + design start-up
Kennan Ward Photography + WildLight Press, Santa Cruz, California
2012
Summer Associate working with CMG on “Design Waller Creek: A Competition”
2012 - 2013
Mebane Gallery Staff
Public Architecture, San Francisco, California
Awards
Design, Planning + Production
Adobe Creative Suite, ArcGIS, AutoDesk CAD and 3DS Max, Drafting & Drawing, Graphic Design, Microsoft Office, Project Management & Organization, Research, Writing & Editing
2006
100% Green Powered Festival: Planning, Organization + Event Management
WE Players, Stanford and Alameda, California
2001 - 2006
Director’s Assistant; Photographer; Prop Manager; “Player”
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