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Beth Clausing Landscape Architecture Portfolio Summer 2015
513-265-2353 clausing.11@osu.edu e.m.clausing13@gmail.com
Education:
Experience:
Beth Clausing
Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture Minor in Society and the Environment The Ohio State University
May, 2015 Columbus, Ohio
Landscape Architecture Intern Neigborhood Design Center Creating a Public Art Master Plan with neighborhood input Marketing brochures for communities
May 2014-Present Columbus, Ohio
Sales Representative/Cashier Bzak Garden Center Helped customers pick plants, worked with deliveries Assisted in the office
May 2013 – August 2013 Milford, Ohio
Seasonal Maintenance Technician June 2011 - Sept. 2011, June 2012 – Aug. 2012 Glenwood Gardens, Hamilton County Parks Cincinnati, Ohio Collaborated with Maintenance team in efficient upkeep of the park, specifically working on the beds. Organized all the plants in the green house.
Activities:
Awards:
Secretary Philippus United Church of Christ Handled all incoming calls and all mail and visitors. Formatted and printed all papers for the services.
June 2010 - August 2010 Cincinnati, Ohio
Fundraising Chair SCASLA Participate in fundraising activities Volunteer at parks to help clean up Attended LABash 2013, & 2014, ASLA Conference 2014
Fall 2011 - Present Columbus, Ohio
Member Alpha Omnicron Pi Fraternity Participate in service, philanthropy and recruitment events Serve on multiple committees
Winter 2012 - Present Columbus, Ohio
Honors Status at The Ohio State University Provost Scholarship Dean’s List Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013
Skills:
Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino, AutoCAD, Microsoft, Hand Drafting, Sketching, Woodworking, Photography, Videography, Model Building, Site Analysis, Research, Communication, Presentation, Traveling 2
References:
Available upon request.
Table of Contents
Confluence pg. 8-11 CFAES Relocation to the River pg. 12-15 Franklinton: Connections pg. 16-23 Symantec Headquarters Master Plan pg. 24-25 Study of Material: Courtyard Retreat pg. 26 - 29 Wexner Center pg. 30 - 31 City Beautiful Cleveland Mall pg. 32 - 35 Sports In the City
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Confluence Park: Water & Urban Life
Following our analysis of water processes, mechanical investigations and Columbus Recreation & Parks public pool visits, the site selection process identified sites that had existing prolific water systems and conditions. We chose the Confluence site due to our interest in its prime location. The site is an intersection for environmental, social and economic factors. Our desire behind the project was to create a way to introduce Columbus back to its rivers and encourage independent exploration with water. We chose to re-appropriate the existing site materials while maximizing accessibility for all species. We chose to introduce a series of literal and figurative thresholds as a method of challenging the existing site boundaries. We worked to enable and cultivate native flora to inhabit the site over time rather than prescribing habitat. Our site design was driven by hypernature nodes that were surrounded by minimal intervention thresholds. Hypernature being a forcibly accelerated natural process, while minimal intervention being simple augmentation or subtraction. We focused on construction, deconstruction and reassembly within the site for materials. Created moments of curated curiosity, and prescribed pathways that allow for different interactions with the rivers by all. We had three strategies to accomplish our design drivers. Exploration relating to the mud flat, boardwalks, the new building program, facilitated view sheds and the recreational facilities. Proliferation relates to the curated botanical basins, agricultural rows, and the storm water canal. Reintegration relates to the deconstruction and renewal of the asphalt parking lots, the rebar field and the existing boathouse. To explore these areas we created a system of circulation to draw the user to various areas and create jumping off points for further exploration, specifically in the cultivated areas of the site around the buildings, along with on the mudflat and in the riparian areas.
Section through Hypernature Cultivation Context Diagram
Model photograph
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Site Plan, Long Term Design Conceptual Implementation
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Section through Wetland Hypernature Cultivation
Sections through time: Possible Growth Patterns - Year 0
Sections through time: Possible Growth Patterns - Year 5
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Inundation Level Diagrams: High Inundation
Model Photograph
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Inundation Level Diagrams: Low Inundation
Reconnecting to the River:
College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Science Relocation I focused on:
• Sustainable design – energy saving • Unifying - Connecting back to the rest of campus • Water and how it interacts with the site I wanted to keep the general large & tall building in the center of the site, using the precedent of St. Johns arena as the general shape, and the library should be a central focus in an academic site. I have the open space towards the center of the site and have the buildings along the edge. I also made the buildings shorter towards the river and getting taller as you move east along Woody Hayes or Lane Ave. I have five basic vegetation strategies that are on the site. Tree lined or bordered walkways and streets, open green space, wetlands along the river with boardwalks across the water, a string lighted entry corridor, and roof gardens. There are also test plots down near the river on the hill banks and some on the roofs of different buildings to address different locations and how that affects the plants growing habits. I addressed the needs of the different fields of study within the College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Science, by locating Cannon Drive to serve more buildings as a service route and extending the route into the parking garage to also help service more buildings. The building footprints and orientation was thought about to work with sunlight and to accommodate the current needs of the college, such as making space for animal arenas and maintenance for different pieces of farm equipment. All in all I incorporated the goals of the college and the some of the current conditions of the site into my final design along with connecting the area into the larger university unit.
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Final model photograph
Final model photographs
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Rendering from Woody Hayes Bridge
Diagrams showing Central Building Importance and Main Circulation
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Diagrams showing existing and proposed water flow through the site Lines: Water Flow, Outlined Shape: Body of Water
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Rendering from the Blackwell - looking at site circulation Diagrams showing Existing and Proposed Materiality Grey & Black: paved surfaces and buildings, Green: vegetation
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Grey: Centrally located attraction, Red: Circulation paths
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Franklinton: Connections
Connections between our site and the surrounding area, focusing on connections to the river and the park. While creating public and private space through figure ground and vegetation massing. An overlay of connection lines off each building help to inform paved vs. unpaved areas. The vegetation provides a clear connection to the river and the adjacent park.
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Site Plan
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Charcoal drawing from a site visit photo
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Black Venus by Mark Bradford, inspiration for the project
Levee Section
Systems Diagram: Buildings
Systems Diagram: Paved Surfaces & Structures
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Systems Diagrams: S
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Photographs of final model
Storm Water Management
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Systems Diagram: Vegetative Strategy
Housing Sense of Place Section
Systems Diagram: Comprehensive
Protecting Tomorrow: A Bastion of Growth
Symantec’s Thirty year Master Plan
We spent the first half of the semester researching Symantec, and the Central Ohio region to find a place that would fit the needs of the company’s growth that fell outside of the 270 beltway as a group project. At the end we had decided on a site that fit the company and allowed for future growth and development. For the second half of the semester it was individual work to further understand what was currently happening on the site we chose and to do a thirty year master plan design of the site for Symantec’s new headquarters.
Symantec is an internet security company based in Silicon Valley. Over the years of being a company, they have grown by buying up companies and adapting their software rather than creating their own as they did at the beginning of being a company. Recently they have released half of their upper management level as a method of restructuring the company under the new CEO Steve Bennett. As a company, they strive to focus on a few key areas: Intelligence, protection, organization, innovation, leadership, and internationality. Keeping all of these aspects in mind and remembering the history of how the company was built up was kept in mind when looking for a region, picking the site, and creating the master plan. The company is looking for a fresh start with room to grow that allows them to get back to the original focus of the company. The company currently has 3,000 employees in the headquarters and 500,000 square feet of office space, those needs will double in the next thirty years. For regional analysis, we looked at environmental elements, economics, population density activities and attractions, social demographics, transportation and development within a twelve county region in central Ohio to find the ideal place for Symantec’s new headquarters. Researching these, we discovered the areas you can see on the map to the right, and were able to identify the area that was the best overall. Below the map is a list of the criteria we used while scoring the five sites we looked into that allowed us to find the best fit of a site for Symantec’s headquarters. Each category was scored between five and one, the site with the highest score is the one we chose as being the best fit for the company.
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Ideal Site Location
Environmental Elements Social Demographics Economics Transportation & Development Population Density Activities Atractions Ideal Site Location
Score Card Price Acreage # of Parcels Commercial Zoning Site Improvements Building Height allowed Percent Covered allowed Ease of Access Setting/ Natural Features Visibility Distance to Airport Distance to Attractions Total 17
With the idea of protection in mind, a site along Alum Creek with a ravine down the center and along the backside was chosen.
With the idea of security in mind, the building mass took the shape of a ca activity to be centralized and connections to be formed across.
Abandoned Amphitheatre
Office Park
Polaris Parkway
Restaurants & Stores
Floodplain Ravine
I-71
Pond Ravine
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Residential
astle or fort allowing the
While adding some of the other program to the site I established the public areas towards the front, while the programming aimed at serving the employees are along the east and west edges.
Office Park As these main ideas come together in design the overall building mass has been reformed to allow a grand entry that looks towards the ravine, which the corporate buildings are centered around.
Alum Creek
Office Park To fit all of the parking on the site after finding the placement of the buildings, it got pushed to the edges and split between the east and west side of the site for even access to the office space. 19
Corporate Entrance
Employee & Service Entrance
Office Space - dark purple, 1,0 Innovation Areas - light purple, 100 sq feet o feet of space Data Back-up Center - light pin feet of space Parking Daycare - yellow, 27,500 sq feet of spa
Employee & Service Entrance
Circulation Diagram
Corporate Master Plan Beth Clausing | Landscape Architecture Portfolio | Symantec Master Plan | Protecting Tomorrow: A Bastion of Growth | Autumn 2013 20
000,000 sq feet of space, room for 6,000 people of space Learning Center - dark pink, 37,500 sq nk, 7,500 sq feet of space Gym - red, 30,000 sq - orange, 1,960,000 sq feet of space, 6,100 spots ace Dining Areas - blue, 60,000 sq feet of space
Stormwater Management Diagram
Programmatic Diagram
Vegetation Diagram
Playtime Fun
Urban Bosque
Front Yard
In the Meadows
Setting the Scene Central Connections
Recreation Greens Land of Hills
Protecting the Location
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Meditation Zone
Innovation at Camp Preserving the Ravines Sense of Place Diagram
Central Connections Across the Ravine
Meditation Zone and Innovation Centers
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Birds Eye views across the site from the East looking West (below) and the West looking East (above).
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Study of Material: Creating A Courtyard Retreat
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In this design we focused on bringing out the natural beauty of each material, while working with what each material is capable of creating. This exercise helped to understand what is possible with different materials when designing a space. I picked a more formal approach and tried to use each material to create space within the courtyard as a whole, while allowing them to play off of the strengths of each other.
Final model photographs
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Wexner Center Plaza:
Updating Eisenman Construction Documents
We looked at the redesign of this plaza through a series of construction documents as a method of trying to fix some of the structural and storm-water issues the plaza faces in light of new technology.
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City Beautiful: Cleveland Mall Renewal
We looked at the history of the City Beautiful Movement as it impacted cities around the country and the globe, while considering possible redesigns for the Cleveland Mall as the downtown area is in a period of renewal looking to connect to the original proposed design for the space. We chose to analyze the space looking specifically at the vegetation through sections (left image) and finished our own design of the space’s vegetation with comparative sections (right image).
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Penn West: Mastering Athleticism
After examining successful parks around the world, recreation in the surrounding area and analyzing the site as a class, I chose to create this master plan for adding a park and series of sports fields to the Columbus downtown landscape. I wanted to focus on activating the edges with the group oriented activities, while creating an escape from the city along the river. The site was graded to match the master plan, while strengthening the character of individual spaces, while the circulation throughout the site helps to tie each area together.
Existing Infrastructure Diagram
Figure Ground Diagram
Circulation Diagram
Hydrology Diagram
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“Essence Of� Diagram
Trees and Turf
Phasing Diagram
Phase 4
Stepping Up
Phase 1
Land of Adventure
Phase 2
Rolling Hills
Phase 3
Phase 2
Urbanites Take the Field
Vegetation Strategies Diagram
Riparian Forest
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Riparian Forest
Prairie
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Athletic Programming Diagram
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Sections Diagram
Section A
Section B
Section C
Section D
Section E
Section F
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Model Photographs
Model Photographs
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