catherine dan landscape architecture | design portfolio
FEATURES
01
SPATIAL REPRESENTATION
Professional Visualization
[p.3]
02
OCCUPIED SPATIAL UNIT
Spatial Construction
[p.7]
03
CAMPUS REDESIGN Reimagining the Landscape
[p.11]
04
TOPO COLLAGES Graphic Exploration
[p.13]
05
WOOD CUBE TEXTILEscape
[p.15]
01
SPATIAL REPRESENTATION CLASS: LA 1581 | Introduction to Visual Communication
for Design
ADVISOR: Kevin Finch
The practice of professional visualization by utilizing computers and digital programming skill to simulate the design process with a higher level of detail and accuracy that creates images that straddle the line between realism and representation. Learning to accurately represent designs in reference for future professions and strengthening the legitimacy of being a designer through the quality and believability of imagery.
03
This imagined garden floor plan is spatially realized using programs such as Twinmotion and Photoshop to add various textures and dimension. Inspired by modern garden design, the use of scarce vegetation and concrete walls and pathways emanate a sense of minimalism.
04
05
RENDERED SITE PLAN
First Perspective View Live Painted with a Landscape and Beach Palette
06
Axonometric VIew Live Painted with a Landscape and Beach Palette
02
OCCUPIED SPATIAL UNIT CLASS: LA 1111L | Design I: Figure-Ground Laboratory ADVISOR: Nina Briggs
Occupied Spatial Unit (OSU) is an abstract spatial construction that can be occupied and/or activated by people moving through it or pausing within it. Its purpose is to invite people to experience the landscape in different, perhaps even unexpected or surprising ways.
07
Our OSU is a hub of rejuvenation, providing a connection between campus and the Voorhis Ecological Reserve. A majority of foot traffic past our site consists of commuters traveling between campus and the parking lot, so our target demographic are those who use the parking lot area as a get away from campus life. In terms of design features, we concluded that our OSU needed to provide seating and shade. This was reflected in the folded shade structure, and the terraced bench. We used a toned down matte black to prevent the structure from getting too hot from the sun.
3D Render Imagined OSU design with perspective color
08
Human Occupation Elevation Collage Exploration of how pedestrians would occupy the constructed OSU
SOUNDS
09
VIEWS|WIND
Conceptual Sketch Final Conceptual Design of OSU named “The Wedge”
Human Occupation Collage Collage Exploration of how pedestrians would occupy the constructed OSU
10
03
CAMPUS REDESIGN CLASS: LA 2261 | History I: History of Landscape Design ADVISOR: Steve Cancian
Campus Redesign of Cal Poly Pomona’s campus quad inspired by European Monarchy and Enlightenment, utilizing design concepts such as: formal plantation of geometrically aligned trees, garden plans that would make the experience of the garden feel enlarged to a monumental scale, and the incorporation of intricate designs at a compact scale.
11
Redesign Features: 4 designated lawns for leisure with low hedges for privacy, bosquets of symmetrical trees for shade and aesthetic arrangement, axial arrangement with a central water feature, embellished lawns, hedge planters with assorted flora, light colored gravel paths, the driving of axes into indefinite boundaries, erasing all visible garden boundaries
REDESIGN SITE: UNIVERSITY QUAD
Conceptual Sketch Depicting the various possible layouts
12
RENDERED SITE PLAN
04
TOPO COLLAGES CLASS: LA 1121L | Design II: Topographic Form Laborator ADVISOR: Nina Briggs
A graphic exploration in scale – the monumental scale of Dante’s View – to further explore relationships between theory, materiality, form, everyday experience and imagined space.Demonstrating awareness of the landscape as public space, where physical proximity is observed, nine of Michael Sorkin’s ‘TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THINGS AN ARCHITECT SHOULD KNOW’ are researched, translated and inserted into the topography via collage.
13
14
05
WOOD CUBE CLASS: LA 1111L | Design I: Figure-Ground Laboratory ADVISOR: Nina Briggs
Considering TEXTILE as a woven fabric-like condition for solid-void studies in 3D, Including the analog and digital construction and diagramming of wood joints, and examining the field conditions thereof, using the spatial terms for 2D and 3D weavings..
15
16 3D Render Wood Cube Exploration of figure ground composition
3D Render Wood Cube Exploration of figure ground composition