CONNOR KANE The Pennsylvania State University Landscape Architecture 2017 Undergraduate Portfolio
TABLE OF CONTENTS DIGITAL RENDERING AND PHOTO MONTAGE
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SERENITY - CONECPTUAL DESIGN 4 QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN SITE
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PENN STATE SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE 6 FLUIDITY OF TIME AND SPACE: CONCEPT 7 FLUIDITY OF TIME AND SPACE: MODEL 8 LANDSCAPE GRADING 9 ARTWORK 10 ARTWORK 11 PHOTOGRAPHY 12 PHOTOGRAPHY 13
Importance: • Thorough understanding of Photoshop • Ability to give hand rendered look in digital format • Understanding of shadows, reflection, and similar color palette
CITY GARDEN PHOTO MONTAGE
RENDERING AND PHOTO MONTAGE
INLET COVE PLAN RENDERING
Semester Fall 2013 Type Digital Rendering Software Illustrator, Photoshop, Hand Graphics 3
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
SERENITY: CONCEPT AND MODEL Space 3
Space 2
Design Intent: A mysterious approach through a woody oldfield, that leads to a meandering journey through intensely intimate tunnel of overhead vines. The narrowing of space 1 immediately opens up into an expansive meadow, with breath-taking views of Mount Nittany. Space 2 immediately invites the visitor to relax and take in the view, underneath the shade of sugar maples. Space 3 allows one to enjoy seclusion and serenity with its quiet and delightful culmination of the design.
Space 1
PERSPECTIVE SKETCHES
MODEL PHOTOGRAPHS
Sketch of Space 2
Photo of Space 1 Threshold
Semester Fall 2013 Sketch of Space 3
Type Digital Rendering
Photo of Space 2
Software Illustrator, Photoshop, Hand Graphics
Sketch of Space 2
Photo of Space 3
Materials Clay, Metal Wire, Chipboard Vegetation
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Importance:
Sketch of Space 1 Threshold
• Ability to model 3 dimensionally with 2 dimension sketches
Gardens On Parade Entry Plaza
Importance:
Administration Building
Event Center
• Thorough understanding of Illustrator
Woodland
Greenhouse
Couples Garden
Maintenance Buildings Visitor Center and Cafe
Horticultural Heritage Garden
Educational Building And Plant Shop Cistern
• Combining hand graphics with digital graphics
Sun and Moon Garden Children’s Garden
Cistern Celebration Green
Parking Garden
Restrooms
Senior’s Garden
Prairie
• Understanding of graphic symbols, color palette, and leader lines
Wetland
Swale Garden And Ridge
Savanna Pollinator Garden
Legend:
Queens Botanical Garden
Service Drop-off Garden Area
Public
Main Entry
Flushing, New York
Storm-water ManageVehicular
Private
Sheet Number: A1 Connor Kane
Woodland Barrier
Pedestrian
Not to Scale
CEDAR RIVER WATERSHED EDUCATION CENTER 8
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Sketch of Rattlesnake Lake
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The beautiful overlooks on site reinforce why this watershed needs to be preserved. Also, a major design intent was to incorporate these views
Salmon Sketch The salmon runs in Washington are a state pride, and the watershed preservation saves these fish.
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Heritage Court
Multipurpose Room
Sketch of Heritage Court Demonstration
Heritage Library
Sketch of the Forest Court
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Teaching visitors about the watershed. Goes back to the major design intent of water conservancy
The court’s Rain Drums. These Drums Symbolically Reflect The major inspiration of Native American History and Water In The Cedar River Watershed. Native Americans Philosophies on preserving Natural Resources greatly Inspired Jones & Jones
Rock Ledge Amphitheater
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Auditorium
Forest Court
Meeting Room
Sketch of Boardwalk
The boardwalk is an Axis That Leads visitors throughout the site. The boardwalk also protects the Visitor's from any in-climate Weather that would occur in the Wet climate of the Washington State area. The boardwalk also Responds to theMajor theme Of Water conservancy With a green Roof.
Exhibition Room
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4 Welcome Room Entry Court
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Restrooms
Water Conservancy
Preserving and not contaminating the watershed not only benefits humans, but also saves the local wildlife.
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Legend:
Sketch of trails
The beauty of the site are the trails and the ability to let the visitor experience and learn about the watershed without destruction of the environment.
Parking Lot Service Area
Service Building
Sketch of runnel Water
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Paved Surface
This sketch shows How water is taken From the green Roofs after being Cleansed and Purified And let into The watershed. The site uses a runnel to collect and v this water.
Outdoor space
Views
Vegetative Barrier-building Storm-water Education
Pedestrian Circulation
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SITE INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS
QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN
Semester
3
Spring 2014
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Type Sketch of the view into the site from a trail Sketch of small demonstration creek This sketch shows the incorporation of Natural water systems into the site.
Seen in the sketch is Rattlesnake Mountain In the Background and the educational center in the Foreground. Showing the Integration Of the site Into the natural environment. Also, the sketch Shows the Green roofs On most of the structures.
Cedar River Watershed Education Center Site Context And History North Bend, WA
Site Analysis & Inventory Software
Connor Kane Sheet Set: A2
Illustrator, Photoshop, Hand Graphics
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PROGRAM ANALYSIS
PENN STATE SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE Importance: • Ability to create useful info-graphics
• Understanding of fonts, color palette, and board layout LARCH 212 27 February 2014
The Penn State Sustainability Initiative & Research Potential
Connor Kane
The Beginning
48,783 742
buildings on campus (equivalent to 7 Empire State Buildings)
students enrolled in 2013
Sustainability is the simultaneous pursuit of human health and happiness, environmental quality, and economic well-being for current and future generations
19,791,958
13,000 students living on campus 12,166
square feet
sustainability Penn State University owns a series of comprehensive and economic links on
9,853
15,372
tons (equivalent to 1,516 elephants)
various aspects of research potential which include water management, waste recycling and energy usage. As one of the most famous state universities in the United States, Penn State’s vision is to embed sustainability as a fundamental value at the University through the development of sustainability literacy, solutions, and leadership.
tons of solid waste in 2012
Campus-wide Composting
(equivalent to 2,365 adult bull elephants)
65%
After the addition of
1,791
of our waste stream
additional tons of organic waste
75%
of our waste stream
U.S. Green Building Council is America’s Foremost organization dedicated to the advocacy and standardization of sustainability
Water usage On-Site
Waste Removal and Diversion
The O ce of Physical Plant oversees the recycling and waste management on the PSU campus. The College of Education is starting a new trend of reducing the numbers of water bottles and are encouraging students to use local water by installing hydration stations around campus
“Being Everywhere, All the Time”
University Park supplies over
ONE BILLION
Recycling at Penn State
Info-graphic stating the reduction, reuse, and recycling here at Pennsylvania State University
Energy Usage
World’s Energy Consumption Oil
3% 6% 4%
1%
Coal
38%
Natural Gas
23%
Nuclear Power
gallons of portable ground water annually to
41,000
Housing and Residence Life are purchasing energy and water
Did You Know? The amount of water used per year at University Park
24,ooo 21,ooo 18,ooo 15,ooo 12,ooo 9,ooo 6,ooo 3,ooo
Image showing the amount of recycling that occurs on just one afternoon
-- Education and awareness campaigns target those areas that are trailing or less robust.
-27% of the Fox Hollow drainage basin is impervious and generates less than 3% of surface runo for annual precipitation
Green Roof Layers
Growing Drainage, Aeration, Water Storage and Roof Barrier Insulation Membrane Protection Roo ng Membrane Structural Support
Type
Illustrator, Photoshop
Green Roofs Green roofs o er a way to not only positively e ect the environment but also create a space for people. These roofs are able to reduce air pollution and subsidize the storm-water management of a building.
Research Potential The Idea of Conservancy
Engaging the Community
Implementing Research
Why Research Matters
The University has invested around $10 million annually in Penn State energy conservation e orts for more than 8 years, which has led to an overall 10 percent reduction in energy use. The University has actually dropped its energy usage to 2003 levels, despite the fact that during that same time period the University added more than 1 million square feet of building space. This investment in energy e ciency will continue and is now complemented by programs to educate and engage employees and students in the responsible use of resources.
Penn State is home to 12 environmental student groups such as Eco-Action, Sustainability Coalition, Environmental Society, etc. These student groups allow for a relationship between the community and the sustainability initiative. This is vital to educating the college students and younger children alike.
Implementing and educating graduate and undergraduate college students with research will allow them to have greater experience in the eld. They would also have an opportunity to contribute to a data set for the Penn State Community to inevitably learn and understand more about the local environment.
Research allows for Penn State to continuously gain knowledge on the local environment. Research also engages the State College community about the natural systems and the importance of Ecology. By teaching and educating the local community more and more, environmental destruction will occur less and less.
Incorporating the community allows for greater change and greater awareness of the ecological and environmental e ects of their daily actions.
Figure showing the importance of linking families and the natural environment to implement sustainability
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2006-2012
Penn State has implemented this Sustainability Initiative to provide an overview of Penn State’s energy plans for the near and long term future, including an overview of the University Park campus’ energy use and related greenhouse gas mitigation strategy. LEED Structures One Gold,Two Silver, and Two LEED Certi ed buildings. These Buildings will reduce the air, water, light, and noise pollution on the environment.
Four Major Drainage Basins
Vegetation
Software
Before 2006
Natural Gas
There are environmental bene ts to switching to natural gas, as well as challenges. According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, burning natural gas generates signi cantly fewer emissions of carbon dioxide, and nearly all types of air pollutants, than coal. The University estimates a 37 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from its steam plants by switching to natural gas, which will improve air quality both on the University Park campus and in State College Borough. This reduction of 69,400 metric tons of carbon dioxide is an amount equal to the annual emissions of 12,400 cars or 5,500 average U.S. homes.
Spring 2014
Program Analysis
CO2 Graphic This info-graphic shows the amount pollution has been reduced since the implementation of the Penn State Sustainability initiative.
The Importance of Energy E cient Buildings
To further improve these numbers, student groups are doing waste audits and working on programs for diverting more waste.
Semester
Billions of gallons of treated wastewater is sprayed over 527 Acres of elds to circulate water back into the water table
Buses
Coal
TIMES Buildings
ONE BILLION GALLONS
is enough to ll the bowl at Beaver Stadium TEN
State College treats over 2,600,000 gallons of water per day
Natural Energy
The Pollution of State College Borough
heads on faucets and showers.
As of 2010, PSU recycled 59% of its waste (roughly 8,900 tons of material) with its entire campus-wide recycling program. “Penn State has the means and locations to recycle and compost 88% of its waste.” Recycling and Waste Management O ce
Hydroelectricity Pie Chart showing the heavy reliance of the world on fossil fuels and the importance of Sustainability
Vehicles
Composting Waste
people
Bio Mass
25%
Tons of CO2
The university uses 5,000 on-campus recycling bins to send as much waste as possible to the local Centre County Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), located 7 miles from campus, for recycling and reprocessing.
Science
Students Ecology
Venn Diagram showing the how students must be taught about environmental science and Ecology to gain a well balanced knowledge of nature
Sources: http://www.research.psu.edu/industry/11-29-12-archive-information-for-industry/theiron/spring-2010/penn-state-sustainability-initiatives-on-campus http://sustainability.psu.edu/ http://www.research.psu.edu/capabilities/documents/sustainability-leadership.pdf http://www.posttypography.com/case-studies/us-green-building-council-usgbc-leed/ http://www.opp.psu.edu/services/eng-resources/psu-initiatives.pdf http://sustainability.psu.edu/mobius http://sustainability.psu.edu/our-energy-future http://sustainability.psu.edu/live/what-penn-state-can-do/energy-environment/ad64 http://www.dwell.com/post/article/plant-green-roof-feed-70-chickens-and-lower-your-bills http://www.sustainableplant.com/home/sustainability-infographics/
Project Statement: In the words of Rebecca Krinke “A highly ordered and selected view of nature.. Bounded and restricted view, encourage a reflective mood.” My design is a minimalistic approach to visually represent a person’s typical day on campus with contrasting ideas, my design uses strategic and intentional use of contours and a secluded central space. The design will explore the ideas of time and movement and the difference in mundane expectation. All of these ideas define my space and ultimately enhance the visitor’s experience.
INSPIRATIONAL SKETCHES
Sketch of a ground plane centrally swallowed
Sketch of a spider web
Sketch of a the idea of mass contorting a ground plane
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
FLUIDITY OF TIME AND SPACE: CONCEPT
HAND DRAWN PERSPECTIVE SKETCHES
Sketch highlighting the texture and enclosure of the design
Sketch focusing on the contemplative experience of the design
Semester Fall 2013
Importance: • Ability to draw realistic sketches of designs
Type Conceptual Design Software
Sketch showing the importance of linear movement in the design
• Understanding of shadows, reflection, and perspective
Illustrator, Photoshop, Hand Graphics
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CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
FLUIDITY OF TIME AND SPACE: MODEL
Plan View of the Model
Photo showing the texture and contemplative experience Oasis of the design
Photo showing the intense enclosure of the Oasis
Semester Fall 2013
Importance:
Type Conceptual Design
• Thorough understanding of modeling techniques
Materials Clay, Chipboard, Vegetation
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Photo of the model showing what the walk to the design would feel like
• Ability to idealize a design through the modeling process
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• Understanding of line weight, line hierarchy, and Auto-CAD
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• Thorough understanding of Landscape Grading
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Side Walk
Porch
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February 26th, 2014
HPS
High Point of Swale
LPS
Low Point of Swale
Existing Contours
Spot Elevation FFE
Project 1 Larch 231
Trees
Swale Center Line Property Line
Proposed Contours
Building
5th Proposed Contours 5th Existing Contours
Finished Floor Elevation
LANDSCAPE GRADING
RESIDENCE IN STATE COLLEGE
PENN STATE LIFE SCIENCES MALL (1 0)
Existing Trees
Door FFE 10.50 (10.50)
1.50%
(9)
BW 10.28
TW 10.78
Stairs
3.41%
TS 10.13
6 Risers at 4" 7 Treads at 18" TW 10.78 BW 8.13
BS 8.13
BS 8.13
BW 8.13
BW 8.13
TW 10.78 BW 8.13
2.50%
BW 8.13 BW 8.13
Semester
2.36% DI 9.63
8.00%
Wall
TW 10.78 BW 8.13
TW 10.78 BW 10.13
BW 10.13 10.13
Ramp
BW 8.13
(6)
Spring 2014
10.13
BW 10.13
Wall
TW 10.78
10.50
Door
TW 9.25
(7)
10.20
Paved Terrace TS 10.13
(8)
10.28
TW 10.78
Wall
Lawn
Existing Tree Planter
BW 10.28
BW 10.28 BW 10.28
1.50% 10.13 BW 10.13
10.50
BW 8.13
FFE 10.50
1.50%
(5)
Type Landscape Grading
Lawn 10
(4)
DI 7.68 BW 7.68
BW 8.13
Sitting Wall
TW 9.25
TW 9.25
Software
BW 8.13
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Auto-CAD, Hand Graphics
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ARTWORK
MAYA PRINCESS Importance: • Thorough understanding of color palette • Able to draft realistic perspectives • Understanding of shadows, reflection, gradients, and depth •Shows the understanding of facial details to architectural details that show a true sense of knowledge of both
VACATION HOME
Semester Fall 20122013 Type Water Color, Pen, India Ink
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ARTWORK
THOMAS POINT LIGHTHOUSE
WEST-END BRIDGE
Semester Fall 20122013 Type Water Color, Pen, India Ink
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PHOTOGRAPHY
30 WITH A SPARK Importance: • Highlights knowledge of lighting on objects • Ability to capture split second occurrences, or still life • Understanding of perspective, focus points, and best location for the shot •Eye for detail and how to capture the object in innovative ways
THE BEAUTIFUL BRIDE
Semester Fall 2011-Spring 201 Type Macro, Portrait, Still Life Software Photoshop
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CHOCOLATE GOODNESS
THE IRON ADVENTURE
TEA PARTY
SPRING LIFE
PHOTOGRAPHY
DRAMATIC STAIRCASE
Semester Fall 2011-Spring 2014 Type Macro, Portrait, Still Life Software Photoshop
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