Ashley Reed Design Portfolio
Ecological Design Maumee Bay Harborlands Piers Park and Harbor View Yacht Club Maumee Bay Harborlands Lighthouse Island and Habitat Cove Baltimore Ecological Gradient Masterplan Baltimore +
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Systems Design L.E.W.I.S. Process Page 9 L.earning E.co W.ater I.nteractive S.ystems Pages 10-11
Experiential Design Lilly-Washington Coal Miner's Memorial Park Pages 12-13
Park Masterplanning Toledo's Thomas Edison Park Pages 14-15 Spring Creek Canyon Park Pages 16-17
City Masterplanning City in a Park Pages 18-19
Urban Design Neumarkt in Koln Page 20
Artful Rainwater Design The Pennsylvania State University Arboretum Page 21
Hand Drawing Orthographic Drawing Page 22 Energy Innovation Centre Quick Charette Page 23 Internship Work Page 24
Graphic Design Baltimore Ecological Study Demographics Analysis Page 25 Donald Pell Gardens' Re-Branding Page 26 Page 23 Atlas Page 27 Health-Pro Realty Group Page 28
Model Building Digital and Laser Cutter Models Page 29
Planting Design West Campus Quad Pages 30-31
Materials Detailing Plaza Details Page 32
Grading Plans Final Grading Implementation Project Page 33 The Pennsylvania State University's Center for Sustainability Page 34 Contact Information Page 35
Table of Contents 1
Maumee Bay Harborlands Piers Park and Harbor View Yacht Club
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Fourth Year Fall Semester Removed the rest of the Land Bridge
In Toledo, I was asked to address some ecological problems affecting the city and Lake Erie. The Piers Park project focuses on the Bay shore Power Plant that kills millions of fish every day and damages the local economy of Walleye production and tourism. The piers of the park create a weir that direct the fish from traveling down the intake channel. Each pier is designed to have a different relationship to the water and surrounding areas. The piers change the current of the channel and control the size of boat allowed; this creates a safe environment for recreational opportunities. The design compromises between the city's ecological and economic needs with the Harbor View Yacht Club's ownership of the land. Not only does the design save fish and create a public space, but it gives the Harbor View their own community amenities. All of these features stem from the simple ecological agenda of keeping the fish out of the intake channel.
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Another ecological problem in the Great Lakes is the loss of fish habitat, specifically for walleye. My previous design in the harbor would save millions of fish, therefore they needed a place to spawn and grow. The island cove combines getting tourists to the Toledo Lighthouse and creating walleye habitat. The cove created protects the fragile walleye spawning and nursery habitat. Above the water, terrestrial habitat is created consisting of grassland, wild flower, and forest for birds and other wildlife. A ramp system was created to safely get visitors from the water to the lighthouse and the trail spirals down to a fishing dock and kayak launch. The smaller islands create more habitat and are versatile to be used over and over again, expanding on the examples here or in other sections of the lake.
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Ecological Design 3
Baltimore's Ecological Gradient Fifth Year Spring Semester My final undergraduate studio worked with the Baltimore Ecological Study in the Middle Branch of the Chesapeake Bay. This masterplan was created by a team of three other students and myself. The Baltimore Ecological Gradient contains three main concepts. The first concept was the combination of human, water, and radiating forms that we abstracted ourselves and laid them over the bay, combining them into the new bay edge. The second concept was to redefine the urban rural gradient to show visitors that you can have the same amount of habitat in the core of a city as you can on the edge. Then finally the third concept was water movement through different settings and moving the user as if they were water. These three concepts created a dynamic site that offers different experiences and immersions through habitat and urban settings.
Patches in the Urban Core
Urban Natural Fringe
Middle Branch
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Forest Immersion
Marsh Immersion
A Plan Rendered by Thomas Knab
Section A
Section B
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Marsh Immersion
Forest Immersion
Urban Natural Fringe
Ecological Design
Patches in the Urban Core
Radiating Analysis and Suggestions Fifth Year Spring Semester A major part of the Baltimore Ecological Gradient Masterplan was an analysis measuring the impact of the current land cover of our site and the immediate area surrounding it. I used ArcMap to measure the land cover attributes of three half mile rigs radiating from the middle of our section of the bay. I later suggested improvements to the rings based on the improvements in our masterplan. These suggestions created a continual improvement through the city of Baltimore.
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Future Connection to M&T Bank Connection to M&T Bank Stadium
Baltimore + Fifth Year Spring Semester My final undergraduate project was to create an experimental landscape for the Baltimore Ecological Study. i focused my design under the highway structures. Baltimore+ is an innovative design that combines ecological experimentation with a dynamic and varied experience throughout The Middle Branch. Baltimore+'s purpose is to remediate the road runoff from the highways soaring over the Middle Branch. The design flows like the natural movement of the bay water focusing on four main design principles:
Water Purification
Connection to Residential Neighborhood
Horseshoe Casino
InitialTesting Water First site for metal levels
Stormwater Outlets
Habitat Immersion Path
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Industrial Site
Light Rail
Constructed Wetlands
Water Flow Channels
Test Tube Forest 1
Human Connection
Water Immersion Second testing site for metals after wetland filtration
Patapsco River Outlet
Research Microbe Art Canopy
Ecology
Test Tube Forest 2
Test Tube Forest 3 Connection to Swann Park
Connection to Residential Neighborhood
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Baltimore + Fifth Year Spring Semester The first important section of the design is the Habitat Immersion path, allowing visitors to interact with the wetlands. This is shown in the perspective. The other important piece of the design in the Urban Infrastructure Canopy shown in the bottom section.
Section B
Constructed Wetlands
Test Tube Forest 3
Microbe Art Canopy
Path to Water LevelS
lS eating under Microbe Art Canopy
Boulders
Water Immersion
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Concrete Driving Surface
Concrete Barrier
Steel Bracket Steel Gutter Steel Bracket Glass Tube Hole for Plant Growth Rock Filtration Material Shown: Limestone
Overflow Soil Mixture Filtration Spiral Shown: Silt Clay Phytoremediation Plant Material Shown: Ferns
Baltimore + Test Tube Experiment Fifth Year Spring Semester The purpose of the Baltimore Ecological Study studio was to experiment with the landscape and measure landscape change. My change was measured through the removal of metals from the stormwater through the test tubes located around the site. These test tubes used rock, soil, microbes, and plant filtration to uptake the metals and release cleaner water into the bay. The other portion of testing was metal removal through the wetlands below the super structure.
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Ecological Design
L.E.W.I.S. Process Fifth Year Fall Semester Throughout studying as an undergrad you go through the design process many times. However, L.E.W.I.S took that process to the next level with weeks of mapping and studying the EPA's stormwater best practices and sewer treatment systems. The entire semester culminated in this large pin board that displayed my entire thought process and ultimately helped me to design one of the most interesting and complex projects in my undergrad career.
Maps created by Ryan Walker
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Monongahela River
Riverside Trail
Train Tracks
ALMONO
Train Tracks
Green House and Basketball Community Garden Deck Hockey
Second Avenue
Tennis
Amphitheater
Tertiary Treatment Facility
Cistern
Urban Forest
Rain Garden Planters
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Culvert Release
Pedestrian Bridge
Treatment Center 3
Palustrine Forest
Open Grass
Wetland
Boardwalk
Treatment Center 2
Modal Hub
Hazelwood Avenue
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Exposed Treatment Culvert Facility 3
Train Tracks Culvert Pedestrian Release Bridge
Low Wetland
Riparian Buffer
Floodplain Palustrine Forest
Open Lawn
Street Rain Garden
Bottom Wetland
Open Lawn
Constructed Wetlands
Wetland 2nd Avenue Treatment Wetland Light Modal Hub Wetland Terrace 4 Facility 2 YMCA Terrace 3 Wetland Rail Terrace 5 Start of Wetland Terrace 6 ALMONO Terrace 4 Street Street Constructed Wetlands Rain Rain Garden Garden
Community Center
Wetland Terrace 2
Research Facility
Sylvan Avenue
Wetland Terrace 1
Outdoor Classroom
Keystone Church
Education Center
Children’s Playground
Gladstone Street
Rain Garden
Hazelwood Avenue
Entrance Plaza
Small Streets for Residential Pedestrians and Homes Residential Traffic N
Street Rain Garden
Constructed Wetlands
Dry Appalachian Oak Forest
Street Rain Garden
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L.earning E.co W.ater I.nteractive S.ystems Fifth Year Fall Semester L.E.W.I.S is a sustainable eco tech park that layers recreational activities on top of stormwater demonstration, and a functioning water treatment system. L.E.W.I.S Park serves a watershed consisting of part of Hazelwood, ALMANO and the surrounding community. This working system of wetlands processes the grey water from homes and businesses in the area as well as the stormwater inside the watershed. This localized disbursement lends to a more sustainable and environmentally aware community within Hazelwood. WIndows to see down through to wetland
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Educational Boards
Textured Glass Rainwater Collector
Wetland
Cafe
Systems Design
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Products
Process
Bullwheels pull carts of material and men out of the shaft
Sandstone A shaft is dug down to the coal layers in the geological seam.
Bony
Coal
Miner’s would dig the coal out using picks, gun powder, and dynamite.
Red Dog
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The pattern that the miners would dig out was the room and pillar layout.
Limestone
Lilly-Washington Coal Miner's Memorial Park Process Third Year Spring Semester The Coal Miner's Memorial Park was started as an illustrative design process. Combining the mining process, historical mine maps, site restrictions, and client's requests, we were able to create a gateway to the past. The process started with weeks of research on the mining process and products, travelled through several trace iterations and working models, and finally into a model.
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Experiential Design
Lilly-Washington Coal Miner's Memorial Park Third Year Spring Semester The Coal Miner's Memorial Park was resurrected in honor of the fallen coal miners in Lilly, Pennsylvania. A team of two others and I consulted on the project for the design phase. The design focuses on three major aspects, historical links to the area's mining, bioremediation, and the spatial experience of mines. The layout of the paths comes Seating Area from the historical mine tunnels under the site and throughout Entrance the design the materials used are readily available mining Coal Miner’s Memorial Seam Profile by-products. The section I created shows the experience through the gradient throughout Back Wall Screen Shrubs the site, starting at a formal Flag Stone Path space, a transition space behind Gabion Bench/Walls the memorial, an informal butterfly garden, to an intimate contemplative space.
Road Screen Shrubs Lawn
Streambank Stabilization Gabions Annual Beds Butterfly Garden in Pillar Forms
Phytoremediation Plants Bony Piles
Bull Wheel
Bio-Remediation
Historical Linkage Trellises
Spatial Experience
Bridge Red Dog Piles Contemplative Seating Area Decomposed Granite Path in Room Layout
Plan rendered by Jennie Ryan Piles of Red Dog and Bony Miner’s Memorial
Butterfly Garden in Pillar Forms
Bullwheel
Seam Profile Gabion Entrance
Seating Area
Gabion Bench/Walls
Trellises
Contemplative Seating Area
Paths in Room Layout
Underground Streambank Stabilizing Gabions Streambank Stabilizing Plants
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Thomas Edison Park Fourth Year Fall Semester Thomas Edison Park was designed to create an urban outdoor entertainment space for the city of Toledo. Toldeo's green infrastructure lacks natural areas, entertainment venues and a connection to the industrial waterfront. This design brings these amenities together in a naturalistic urban entertainment park. The main feature of the park is the Edison Amphitheatre to hold weekly attractions. The other amenities include; forest clearings for picnics or camp grounds, the boardwalk, outlooks, a bridge that connects the site to the Maritime Museum and future developments, and the event lawn and welcome area for large events. The site also serves ecological functions creating natural forest, wetland, marine, and grassland habitat. The paths through the sites take you through an experiential journey through these different habitats.
Edison Amphitheater
Forest Clearing
Section B
Constructed Wetland
Section B
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Park Masterplanning
Thomas Edison Thomas Edison ParkPark Urban Entertainment Urban Entertainment
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Skyline Outlook • Gathering Area for Campers • Views towards Downtown Toledo
Skyway Stage Constructed Wetland Edison Boardwalk • Variety of Events • Brings visitors to the water • Natural Area • Veterans’ Glass City • Views of Bay, Bridge, and City • Maumee Fed Skyway as backdrop • Dredge lined for nutrients
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Boardwalk Bridge • Has 14’ Boat Clearance Boardwalk Connection to Maritime Museum • Boater’s Entrace • Allows Boaters to Dock and Attend Events Maritime Museum
Rails to Trails • Connection to City’s Existing Trail System • Entrance for Pedestrians and Cyclists
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Edison Amphitheater • Seating for Events • Mini-CDF for Dredge • Backside is a constructed grassland
Maritime Museum Boat Docks • Give’s site connection Boating community
Park Trail System • Extends City’s trail system throughout the site
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Separation Mound • Block’s site from road • Dredge Material • Constructed Grassland Formal Welcome Area • Entrance for Pedestrians and Cyclists
Main Entrance • Entrance for Pedestrians and Cyclists • Connection to major intersection • Connection to Tribute Park
Parking Lot • Driver’s Entrace • Existing Maritime Parking lot renovated with more spaces and a drop off Connection to Front Street
Event Lawn • Another Space with a variety of Events Separation Mound • Central Gathering Area • Block’s site from road • Dredge Material • Constructed Grassland Forest • Renovation and Extension of existing tree grove • Natural Area
Event Lawn
Forest Clearing • Intimate Gathering Areas • Camping • Picnics
Edison Amphitheater
5’ Contours Shown (Exceptions at the start of the landforms)
Skyway Stage
Part of Section A
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Conservation
Spring Creek Watershed Canyon GIS Analysis
Agriculture
Third Year Fall Semester The Spring Creek Watershed and Canyon was the focus of the Natural Systems ESRI ArcMap Studio. My project focused on GIS to study, catalogue, and evaluate the Spring Creek Watershed. This culminated into a final design project and comprehensive atlas. The site analysis was created by intersecting different layers of information in GIS and finding the best site in the Spring Creek Canyon for the location of the proposed park. My project was focused on conservation and restoration while also looking to the appropriate placing of agriculture, trails, hunting grounds, an education center, and road placement. The Spring Creek Canyon is an important biologically diverse site within the Spring Creek Watershed. It has recently been given to four different landowners that have developed plans that will destroy the biodiversity of this ecological hot spot in Centre County. This project is a compromise for what is best for the land owners and the surrounding communities by preserving the biodiversity but also incorporating the desired interests of the land owners.
Trails
Hunting
Restoration
Education Center
Land Owners The Spring Creek Canyon is divided among four land owners. The PA Game Commission plans on turning their section of the parcels into breeding and hunting grounds for white tailed deer. Penn State plans on making their sections research plots for the College of Agriculture. Benner Township is going to make riparian buffer zones in their small part of the land. The PA Fish and Boat Commission plans on continuing their protection of the stream and their use of the land for fish 0.8 0.4 0 0.8 Miles hatcheries.
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Penn State University Benner Township Fish and Boat Commission Restricted Areas
Park Masterplanning
Roads
EcoAgriculture Research and Maintenance Building
Third Year Fall Semester
Restored Forest Trail to Fisherman’s Paradise 8 9 7
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This Trail Restricted to Hunters Only 5 4
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White Pine
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Site History Deer Enclosure Hatchery Pennsylvania Grassland Restoration Site Geography Spring Creek EcoAgriculture Conservation
Canadian Hemlock
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Sweet Gum
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Black Cherry
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Restricted Area by Hatchery
Common Witchhazel
Pennsylvania Grassland
Deer Enclosure Fence
American Sycamore
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Benner Spring Fish Hatchery
Inkberry Holly
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The final part of the project was to come up with an alternative plan for the canyon that would preserve the biodiversity. My analysis proposed that the canyon should be turned into a nature park. The main goals for Spring Creek Canyon Park were to conserve as much natural habitat as possible, restore any removed forest, but also restore natural grassland and some of the agriculture land. Another important part of the park was to create a natural riparian buffer along Spring Creek, as shown in section. The Spring Creek Canyon Park features an Education Center as the starting point to the site. Another feature of the park is the Eco-agricultural fields; these fields are meant to educate farmers and the community on how you can grow healthier food without harming the natural environment. The restored Pennsylvania Grasslands, Forest, and Riparian Buffers are examples of habitat on site. And the site also offers a trail network and hunting grounds for the community.
Black Willow
Maintenance Building
Spring Creek Canyon Park
River Birch
Restricted Area Education Center and Parking Lot
Restricted Area by Private Owners
Elderberry
Conserved Forest
Section Not to Scale
Section A
Restored
Restored
Conserved Dry-Oak Mixed Hardwood Forest
Mixed Hemlock/ White Pine Forest
Dry-Oak Mixed Hardwood Forest
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Design Aspects of a City in a Park Waves of Grain Greenroof on Mixed and R2 Apartments
Recreation:
Waterfall Plaza
Parking Lot with Underground Level with Swale
recreation. Water Filtration:
Street Swales
Recreational Lawn Roof on Mixed Use Apartments
Cozy Nook Greenroof on Mixed Use Apartments
Bus Stop
Stairs to Upper Terrace Lawn Roof East Beaver Woonerf
The Great Grass Ramp
Greenwall Plaza Heritage Oak Plaza
as part of a water recycling system.
Parking Lot with Underground Level
Main Entrance to East Beaver Park
Playground Basketball Court Picnic Pavilion Climb and Play Mounds Mesic Meadow Grey Water and Storm Water Filtration Wetland
Merging of City and Park: Where the urban fabric and the green network collide.
Hetzel Street
High Street
Keller Street
Community:
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City in a Park
Boxwood Student Housing Duplexes with Communal Green
Surface Parking Lot
Student Resident Parking Alley Network
Walk of Two Worlds Roof Sourwood Student Garden Housing Duplexes with Communal Green
Bridges Between Greenroofs on Mixed Use Apartments
On-Street Parking
Basswood Family Housing Duplexes with Community Garden
Surface Parking Lot with Swale
Third Year Spring Semester
Dogwood Community Garden
Dogwood Family Housing Duplexes
East Beaver Park Trail
100’ 50’
Rain Gardens Community Lawn with Wetland Pier
City in a Park
East Beaver Avenue
The design intent behind the City in a Park was to create a district in State College that functions as a part of the town of State College but has the aesthetics and amenities of a park. This site is the collision of the urban fabric with the natural environment. We arranged the vegetation and buildings to create spaces that promote community and a sustainable lifestyle. This idea is not only applicable to the street level, but also to the elevated realm of our building roofs. The network of green spaces provides a backbone for our residents to forge connections while remaining close to the environment. It breaks the barrier of city parks being in their own designated boxes and instead explodes the park throughout all aspects of the city.
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City Masterplanning
Bioswale Street Plantings
The Great Green Ramp
Bioswale Street Plantings
Waves of Grain Greenroof
City in a Park
Cozy Nook Greenroof
Third Year Spring Semester
Shopping on Street Level
The City in a Park was part of our Neighborhood Design Studio. In a group of four we were given the site of East Beaver Avenue in State College. My group decided to take a creative spin, yet still make it functional as a community. We created a network of green roofs as a second world above the new and more pedestrian friendly Beaver Avenue. There is a large ramp wrapped around the buildings giving access to the roofs. The park on the east side of the site is for community use and various green spaces along the walkways to create a green infrastructure on the ground and elevated planes.
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Woonerf Plaza
Walk of Two Worlds Greenroof
Road
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Cozy Nook Greenroof
4’ 2’
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Greenwall Plaza
The Great Green Ramp
Wetland
Bioswale Street Plantings
Pedestrian Bridge
Mesic Meadow
vegetation
Soil Layer Entrance to Underground Level
Surface Lot
Waterline Raw grey water input from buildings Gravel Layer Waterproof Membrane 1’
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Historic Church
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Open Event Space
Bus and Tram Stops
Part of Section A
Section B
Neumarkt in Koln, Germany Fourth Year Spring Semester Redesigning Neumarkt was the pinnacle project for my semester abroad in Bonn, Germany. It was a group effort between me and partner Jennie Ryan. Neumarkt is one of Koln's largest squares and serves many event purposes throughout the year, considerably the largest being the home to Karneval, bringing millions of people to the city. The new Neumarkt allows for remaining open space for the city's events, but also creates an urban intimate space with triangulated topography. The traffic island problem is solved by moving all the traffic to the south side, installing a new u-bahn stop, and adding a bike lane for commuter traffic. This design is a place of connection and urban renewal.
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Urban Design
Urban Topography Plaza
The Pennsylvania State University Arboretum Fourth Year Fall Semester The final exercise for fourth year stormwater studio was to design an artful rainwater installation at The Pennsylvania State University Arboretum. This installation is an artistic interpretation of the natural flow of rain water through stream beds. As the rainwater brings streams to life, it falls along a series of moss covered boulders and terraces to create small waterfalls. This installation takes the rainwater from the pavilion roof and cascades it over a series of terraces that channel it forward into the bio-rentention garden where it is infiltrated. The bench is provided to allow onlookers to contemplate on dry or rainy days when the beds are in full effect.
Waterflow Model
Rain Gutter
Cascades
Seating
Bio-Retention Garden
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Orthographic Drawing First Year Fall Semester The Snowy Pines Housing Complex was a design I completed in my first year at Penn State. It was an extensive hand drafting project that was rendered completely in pencil. The assignment was to design my own housing complex and plantings within a predetermined layout. This final product was chosen as a model for our re-accreditation exhibit.
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Hand Drawing
Energy Innovation Centre Quick Charette Fifth Year Fall Semester The Energy Innovation Centre town homes were designed during a Pittsburgh charette to explore an idea and produce visuals quickly. I chose to create a collaborative live and work environment for the new centre's interns. This new and innovative live work cooperative space creates a place for the Energy Innovation Center to foster new relationships between the interns and the centre's partners, creating an environment to live, work, network, and socialize. During the day the outdoor spaces serve the entire center for events and lunch breaks. At night, it is the intern's space to relax, work, and learn from each other. Living and working with the other interns from different companies and organizations gives them the opportunity to collaborate new ideas and new technologies that uphold the ideals of the Energy Innovation Center.
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Internship Work Fifth Year Summer Internship At Donald Pell Gardens I was responsible for hand drawing all the base maps for our designers Paul VanMeter and Donald Pell. After the initial design phase I had to redraw them with the planned plantings in a simple form for client approval. Several times I was also asked to quickly hand render small plans and quick perspectives for the client to properly understand the space. Managing, drawing, and editing our material details for construction was also a common task.
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Hand Drawing
BALTIMORE 1950
HOUSING UNITS 1,404,600
949,708 BALTIMORE TODAY 621,342 MARYLAND 1950 2,343,001 MARYLAND TODAY 5,928,814 POPULATION 621,342 30 MINUTES
UNEMPLOYED 106,584
HOMES OWNED 144,475 1 Building represents 50,000 Housing Units
BUISNESSES 12,089
MEDIAN HOME VALUE $161,300 2.48 PEOPLE
LABOR FORCE 1,404,600 1 Person Represents 100,000 People
65+ Years
FULL TIME LAW ENFORCEMENT 3,470
U.S. Average 273.7 per 100,000 persons
OFFICERS PER 1000 RESIDENTS 4.68
1 in 318 People Is a Sex Offender
MARYLAND AVERAGE: 2.73
Violent Crime 795.9 per 100,000 persons
MEAN COMMUTE TIME
MEDIAN INCOME $40,803
Property Crime 519.6 per 100,000 persons
FIRMS 42,272
U.S. Average 213.6 per 100,000 persons
1 Sign represents 2,000
AVERAGE BALTIMORE HOUSEHOLD
0-9 Years 11.8%
55-64 Years
Black
Male
12.3%
White
10-17 Years 11.1%
31.4%
9.1%
47.1%
52.9%
12.6%
14.1% AGE
12.3%
SEX
Female 25-34 Years
35-44 Years
ETHNICITY
RACE
Asian 2.5% Multi Racial 2% Native American .4% Pacific Islander .1%
16.7%
67.4%
63.6%
White
18-24 Years
45-54 Years
28.2%
Other
4.4% Hispanic or Latino
Foreign Born Not Attained 20.4%
8.9%
BACHELORS OR HIGHER
HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS
English Only
79.6%
Earned
73.9%
Below
23.4%
26.1%
FAMILY LANGUAGE
83.7%
Earned
Multi-Lingual
7.4%
POVERTY LINE
Not Attained
76.6%
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Baltimore Maryland's Demographics Fifth Year Spring Semester In the Baltimore Ecological Study studio the first third of the semester was a group compilation for inventory and analysis. Each student chose a topic and had to present their findings about Baltimore to the class. My topic was demographics. I compiled the above graphics to represent the different user groups and classes of Baltimore to help us better understand our user group for later projects.
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Donald Pell Gardens Re-Branding Fifth Year Summer Internship A major part of my internship became the re-branding of our garden company. Graphic design has always been an interest of mine and the knowledge of the adobe suite allowed me to assist our company in re-doing their logo, business cards, t-shirts, and anything else that carries the Donald Pell Gardens brand. By the end of the summer I was their official graphic designer and handled any of their promotional materials.
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Atlas Benefiting the Penn State Dance MaraTHON Fifth Year During my final year at Penn State I served as the Graphic Design Captain for my organization, Atlas. Atlas is the highest fundraising organization collecting money for the Penn State Dance MaraTHON that benefits pediatric cancer patients through The Four Diamonds Fund. This year's THON total set new records raising over 13.3 million dollars. As graphic design captain I was responsible for creating all logos, letterheads, and promotional material for the organization. The largest assignment for the year was designing the merchandise for all 300+ members. Another accomplishment was being chosen to represent Atlas as a dancer for THON, where I stood for 46 hours as a symbol for children that are fighting cancer.
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Health-Pro Realty Group Fifth Year Pursuing my interest in graphic design I have recently become the graphic designer for Health-Pro Realty Group creating all advertisements, promotional materials, and sale fliers for the company.
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Lasercutter Model of Heritage Park Plaza Second Year Fall Semester For my computer design studio I was given the case study of Lawrence Halprin's Heritage Park Plaza. I recreated the plan of the site and my own section in AutoCAD. Then as a four person group we used lasercutters to create a scaled model of a piece of the site.
Digital Model of the West Campus Quad Treed Plaza Detail Third Year Spring Semester Along with the planting plans for planting implementation, see the planting design section of my portfolio, we were required to create a digital model of the soil structure for the treed plaza. This model was made in Sketch Up, but I also have since learned Rhino and touched on 3DS Max.
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West Campus Quad Third Year Spring Semester In my planting implementation studio we had to design four areas on campus for the engineering quad; mixed border entrances, a treed plaza, section of forest restoration, and a place for prairie restoration. Not only did I have to design these spaces, but I also had to create a complete planting plan with labels, species key, management plan, and final cost estimate for the entire quad. This plan is the overall planting plan for the Engineering quad.
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Planting Design
West Campus Quad Third Year Spring Semester In my planting implementation studio we had to design four areas on campus for the engineering quad; these are zoomed in detail planting plans and schedules for the Mixed Border Entrances for the engineering buildings.
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Pavement Section with Wall and Planter
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1/4” Mortar Joint Red Brick Pavers Grey Limestone Pavers 1/2” Bituminous Setting Bed Cast in Place Concrete Slab Compacted Aggregate Base Compacted Subgrade
Plaza Material Details Third Year Fall Semester For material implementation studio, a simple campus site was given with a basic grade. The focus of the project was to create materials details and professional construction documents. All of the plans and details were created and labled in AutoCAD.
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Final Grading Implementation Project Second Year Spring Semester The final project of my grading implementation studio was the culmination of a semester spent learning how to properly grade a site. I chose the location of the buildings and their elevations and parking lot elevations to grade the site according to ADA regulation and acceptable slopes.
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The Pennsylvania State University Center for Sustainability Fourth Year Fall Semester The final project for my senior stormwater implementation studio was a semester long comprehensive project that focused on designing a new Center for Sustainability at The Pennsylvania State University. The semester was spent grading the land to hold and process all the stormwater on site. The final project is the combination of all the semester's exercises including; initial grading, bio-retention, infiltration basins, pipe location and sizing, and parking lot design. The final product was a package of construction drawings for a hypothetical implementation.
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Ashley Reed The Pennsylvania State University Landscape Architecture Class of 2014 814.494.2903 ashley.calin.reed@gmail.com 322 Railroad St. Apt A Lilly, PA 15938
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