bridget hake
landscape architecture portfolio
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After the Rain | Joshua Tree National Park | Pen & Watercolor
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
Building Up Coralville, Iowa
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First Christian Church Manhattan, Kansas
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Design + Build Manhattan, Kansas
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JC Harmon High School Kansas City, Kansas
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First Street Forward McCall, Idaho
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Laissez (UNFAIR)e LA + Iconoclast Competition
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Building Up
Building up community, economy, and terrain in a worn-out district Coralville, Iowa | Student Team Design Project | 2018 Coralville’s Southeast Commercial District is an area that, due to massive frequent flooding disasters, has been neglected and is seeking creative design solutions to bring it back to life. Building Up is about working on three levels to restore the district. To build up the community, the design includes the integration of mixeduse housing with public transportation, neighborhood events, and a connection to the greater Coralville area. To build up the economy, businesses of all types and sizes are brought together in the district. Finally, to provide maximum protection from future flooding, the terrain will be built up and all proposed buildings will sit 1’ above the 100-year flood plain, allowing residents and developers to move in with safety and future security in mind. This project was an all-around team effort. Each member participated equally, and in every step of the project from concept to final production. My contributions include early concept design, technical drawings, modeling, mapping, research, and the production of final renderings. The images shown here are my own.
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Set within the central four blocks, the Market District includes a colorful overhead sculpture, an open lawn, and a variety of plaza spaces for the community to enjoy.
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First Christian Church Community Center
Encouraging social interaction with the addition of a community center and public space
Manhattan, Kansas | Individual Construction & Design Project | 2017 First Christian Church has an opportunity to develop a location in the emerging Grand Mere neighborhood of Manhattan, Kansas as a beacon for new residents to gather and share their beliefs. The church has proposed a community center in the area to support a growing suburban population and become a focal point for play, cooking, parties, education, and other social activities. The site will be reseeded with native prairie grasses and wildflowers to bring back the insects and wildlife after construction. The design will also feature an educational prairie garden, rain gardens, a children’s playground, a patio, and a green roof. This center will be a hub for making connections, restoring bonds of neighbors, and living a more sustainable life.
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A restorative prairie meadow at the community center provides a beautiful recreation experience and will become a place to teach and learn about native ecosystems.
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Entry Sign - Plan 3/4” = 1’-0”
Entry Sign - Elevation 3/4” = 1’-0”
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Entry Sign - Section Detail 3/4” = 1’-0”
Retaining Wall - Section Detail 3/4” = 1’-0”
Foam site topography model
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COBB Memorial
Honoring the life of Grover Cobb, radio, and its foundation in Kansas
Manhattan, Kansas | Team Design + Build Project | 2017 Our class had the honor of redesigning a memorial space on the Kansas State University campus for Grover Cobb, a former senior vice president of the National Association of Broadcasters and founding member of KAB radio in Kansas. In 1976, a year after his passing, a memorial was constructed under one of two radio towers on campus. Over the years, the memorial has been mistreated and has fallen into disrepair. The class, under the direction of Professor Chip Winslow, worked with the Kansas Association of Broadcasters to redesign and restore the memorial and participated in a dedication of the space for his relatives and friends in radio. My participation in this project included early design drawings, concept generation, site surveying, drawing and compiling construction documents for the bar top tables, and work time in the shop cutting and cleaning materials.
BUILD TEAM LEADERS Richard Thompson & Lawson Endicott
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Photograph by Mackenzie Yeager
Photographs by Dede Brokesh & Elsa Stoffel
2018 Parking Day has become a new tradition for the Landscape Architecture department at Kansas State. Our goal is to spread awareness about the current uses of public space. So much of our space is devoted to parking, so for one day we have the chance to show our community the potential power of activating this space with seating, food, fun, and people. As the Vice President of our ASLA student chapter, I had the opportunity to be our project manager for the event, which included student team recruitment; scheduling; hosting design workshops; reaching out to local business sponsors; getting supplies; building the installment; and coordinating with other departments within our college to encourage their participation. My goal is for our message to reach more people and to grow the event into something bigger than just our college designing parklets. It should truly become a community event.
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Park(ing) Day
Taking back public space for the good of a community Manhattan, Kansas | Team Design + BuildProject | 2018 13
Green Thumb: JC Harmon High School
Creating an environment that fosters community and education
Kansas City, Kansas | Architecture & Landscape Architecture Collaborative Design | 2018
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Green Thumb is a direct response to the students at J.C. Harmon High School. The school rests on a large site whose narrative and character does not reflect the community surrounding and inhabiting it. The design returns turf grass to its former native prairie, provides new opportunities for circulations and recreation, and introduces new wetland zones to handle stormwater and serve as learning models for environmental classes. Green Thumb provides spaces for private learning as well as small and large group settings. Places like the main courtyard, where the landscape begins to weave into the architecture, can become a unique icon of the school that makes students proud to call it their own. Most importantly, the design fosters an environment that supports learning while maintaining a balance between school, leisure, and play.
Many students currently eat breakfast and lunch at school in a cramped, single-room cafeteria. New outdoor dining allows them to stretch and relax during the long school days.
Providing outdoor learning environments and leisure spaces give students variety in their daily lives; a balance of work and play helps to keep them focused and motivated.
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First Street Forward
Reimagining the 1st Street corridor of a small resort town
McCall, Idaho | Individual Planting Design Project | 2017 McCall is a small, winter tourist town in Idaho that lies between two national forests. Due to extreme changes in population during popular tourism seasons, the new design for First Street must accommodate these shifts while prioritizing personal interactions. Each area of the design contains features elements to reduce stormwater runoff and winter snow storage. The new streets, walks, park, and seating options provide space for gathering, highlight views to the natural surrounding landscape and allow visitors to experience the site at mutiple levels.
Complete Street
Bioswale Boutique Hotel
Private Hotel Courtyard
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Public Park
Creating complete streets that are safer for pedestrians and bicycles as well as cars was imperative to the renovation of 1st Street.
First Street
Overflow Parking & Winter Snow Storage
The town’s residents have expressed a desire for a new boutique hotel in the center of town. The space may be split between the private use for the inn, and public space for a small park that can directly connect visitors to the lake.
Boutique Hotel Pedestrian Plaza
Green Roof
Public Park & Private Courtyard
Nature Walk
Nature Walk
Payette Lake
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Laissez-(UNFAIR)e
A post-disaster, anit-vision for New York’s beloved public space
LA+Iconoclast Competition |Team Design Project | 2018
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Nearly four decades ago, in 2018, New York City’s iconic Central Park was attacked. In the aftermath of disaster, usage of other urban parks skyrocketed. Simultaneously, land values surrounding Central Park plummeted. Amid growing frustrations and civil unrest, powerful forces gathered at City Hall. Expert city planners, architects, engineers, developers, scientists, and economists hastily assembled the Central Park Renewal Plan, an ambitious call for democratic spaces, ecological systems, and an imposed beauty. Ecological megastructures, hailed as “the genesis of a new architectural age,” were fitted into the urban landscape, offering vertical layering of park space to combat existing problems with air quality, stormwater management, and sustainability. Developers provided the needed support for an expanded Central Park and the self-sustaining designs were praised for their technological initiatives. Despite the intentions of urban planners, Central Park became increasingly divided and exclusive. What was intended to be public space was elevated and fewer and fewer members of the community could access the green space within the park. As the park deteriorated at sea level, developers shifted their focus towards the sky, quadrupling the green space within the park by layering ecosystems amidst a series of high-rises. The new one-of-a-kind tourist destination hit net-zero energy shortly after its completion and visitors from around the world came to embrace its commanding views and highly programmed spaces. Olmstead’s vision of Central Park was deemed “underutilized open space” and the elite praised the new plan as a “collaborative recreational experience” that “fully immerses visitors in the sublime landscapes of today.”
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By using a comic-style of storytelling, our team is able to highlight the absurdity of this proposal for Central Park. The primary goal of our design is to be a cautionary tale about the power of design, especially in the wrong hands.
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bridget hake
Kansas State University MLA Anticipated Graduation 2020
bhake07@ksu.edu 402.968.4163
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