Landscape Architecture Portfolio by Darby Buckley

Darby Buckley landscape architecture portfolio

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s me, Darby Buckley, with my awesome classmates after a final critique in Fall 2017. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m currently in my third year in the Landscape Architecture undergraduate program. I love Landscape Architecture because I have a chance to improve the world in every detail of a project. This profession is a great opportunity for me to push the boundary of creativity while keeping the design feasible for every project. This is my portfolio with an assortment of my school projects. Enjoy!

Table of Contents

Places in the Making

Pupper Park

Rolling Hills Park

1 - 20

33 - 40

45 - 50

Friendly Farm

Construction Documents

21 - 32

41 - 44

LARC 411/311: Service Learning Valentine, NE

Places in the Making Valentine, Nebraska

In Valentine Nebraska, our vertical studio worked with the community and stakeholders to bring rural community prosperity through economic development, demographic renewal, and placemaking. Places in the making was a service learning project, dedicated to the community of Valentine, funded through the Rural Futures Institute. This was a semester-long project, that provided deep insight into inventory and analysis and the community process of a project.

Places in the Making Places in the Making being a semesterlong project, we had to separate it into three different phases. Phase 1 would look into literature and case studies to bring to Valentine. Phase 2 looks into Valentine specifically

and research the categories we felt important to know and understand. This leads into the framework of Valentine, and the decision process of projects and plans. Phase 3 was designing these projects pick beforehand. Pictured: me presenting Phase 1

Rural Community Prosperity Project: Places in City of Valentine Process Phase I: Research

Phase II: Asses

LITERATURE + CASE STUDY RESEARCH

PROJECT SPECIFIC DATA

R1a

R2a

R1b

Depth and Breadth

Research

- Placemaking Defined

- Discover

- Sense of Place

- Define

- Authenticity

- Categorize

- Quality of Life

- Organize

- Urban Design, Public Realm

- Diagrams

Wk 1

Wk 2

SCHEDULE Spring 2018

Regional, Local, Site - Multi Scala Approach, Methods and Tools

- Principles - G/O - Program

Data + Mapping + Analysis

Lenses

Analysis

Approach

R2b

Wk 3

Culture and History Mobility Environmental Systems Town Structure

Wk 4

Wk 5

Site Visit Week of Jan. 29th

Community Mtg

Pictured: community meeting process

Pictured: me talking to community members

the Making

ssing the Potential

R2c

I + Analysis II Public + Semi-public

Phase III: Priority Projects

FRAMEWORK AND APPROACHES Organizational Structure(s)

Research, Inventory, Analysis and Proposals

Districts

- Vision

Corridors

- Goals + Objectives

Places

- Overall Structure

Spaces

- Projects and Priorities

Wk 6

PLACEMAKING PLANS + PROJECTS

Wk 7

Test+Refine

A COLLECTION

Pictured: my group and I presenting Phase 3

Wk 8

Prototype Projects

- US Highway 20 - Main Street - City Park - Housing Development - 3rd Street Corridor

Wks. 9 - 16

Site Visit Week of Feb. 26th

Community Mtg

Site Visit Week April 30

Community Mtg

Places in the Making: Phase 1 - Research Through Phase 1 of the Places in the Making Project we learned what indepth research truly is and with that, we learned each of the principles listed below. This gave us a good understanding of how to move forward when designing and working with the rural community of Valentine.

1. Placemaking 2. Quality of Life - my role 3. Sense of Place 4. New Urbanism 5. Community Engagement

Places in the Making:

Phase 11 - Inventory and Analysis Before moving into Phase 3, or the design phase, of Places in the Making we needed to do inventory and analysis of Valentine. This included looking at

1. Culture & History - my role 2. Mobility 3. Town Structure 4. Environmental Systems. Pictured: me presenting Phase 2

Places in the Making: Framework for Valentine

Places in the Making:

Phase 111 - Introduction to Main Street

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Places in the Making:

Phase 111 - Inventory and Analysis Apart of the Main Street Team, I was joined with Brendan Schartz and Yitao Li. We worked together to understand Main Street through Inventory and Analysis. When starting inventory and analysis, we started at the site. First, we took measurements across the town and took plenty of pictures of Main Street along the way. Digging in deeper, we separated and categorized the inventory to do an analysis of the area.

We looked at the Vehicular Circulation, Pedestrian Circulation, Public or Private Parking, and the Vegetative Cover. We also looked at several other areas like land use and building quality on Main Street. This is on the next spread. The four mentioned beforehand are on this spread below. This set the needs and opportunities for Phase 3, or the design phase of the project. Pictured: my group and I taking inventory

Pictured: Main Street and A Street

Pictured: Main Street and 3rd Street

Main Street

Places in the Making:

8th Street

Phase 111 - Inventory and Analysis To understand how Main St. was currently organized, I created a land use map with untraditional colors. I then took an analysis of the properties of the retail district and accessed the store front and building quality. We then created a framework plan that divided Main St.

in 3 sections: North Park Way, Aventure Avenue, and South End with the South End Community Center to anchor Main St. Included with this was goals and objectives for the design of Main St. One being creative placemaking which was achieved through banners for Valentine.

7th Street

6th Street

5th Street

Highway 83

3rd Street

2nd Street

1st Street

A Street

B Street

N Highway 20

8th Street

Main Street

7th Street

6th Street

North Park Way

5th Street

Highway 12

Highway 83

4th Street

3rd Street

2nd Street

Adventure Avenue

1st Street

South End Community Center A Street

B Street

Highway 20

South End

Places in the Making: Phase 111 - North Park Way When moving on to a design of Main St. I was the leader of the North Park Way section. This was designed through the lens of the goals and objectives sent out earlier. Some goals being Safe and Efficient, and Sense of Place. To reach these goals, I looked at the street conditions of

the current streetscape, minimum - more street trees and light posts, medium - bump outs, street trees, and light posts, and maximum bump outs, street trees, light posts, and a boulevard. To achieved Sense of Place, mainly native plantings were chosen for the streetscape. Native Planting Palette

Main Street

6th Street

7th Street

6th Street

5th Street

Places in the Making: Phase 111 - Adventure Avenue The main core of Main St. was now Adventure Avenue. Brendan Schartz was the leader of this section of Main St. This exhibits Sense of Place through the materials proposed. The new boardwalk represented the outlawish history of Valentine and new planting native to Nebraska. Each material chosen was used throughout Main St. in

different languages to have continuity. A unique placemaking feature included in Brendan Schartzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renderings are Valentine Banners and Big Toothed Aspens as the main street tree. The design also focused on the safety of the pedestrian with bump-outs at the ends and mid blocks to influence cars to slow down and look for pedestrians.

Benches

Curb Extens

3 Street

‘Hot Wings’ Maple

Angled Parking Big-toothed Aspen Grove Boardwalk Walk-in Access

Main Street

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Mid-Block Bump-outs

Light Poles

Big-toothed Aspen Grove

Boardwalk

Pedestrian Bump-outs N 2nd Street

LARC 310: Advanced Design. Gering, NE

Friendly Farm In Gering, Nebraska our 3rd-year Landscape Architecture class took off to take an analysis and canvas the area for our new semester project. This site is a brownfield contaminated with lead and arsenic, with the unfortunate view of the railroad system. This contamination has come from years of recycling steel, batteries, and the train dumping trash. Our goal is to provide a new idea of this site to make the community feel more involved while also bringing in environmental, social, and economic benefits.

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is .87 miles away. Saying this, the junior high school is right around the corner; only being .75 miles away. The B&T Metals site is only 1.63 acres but can fit everything the residents would like to see. This also includes bringing some agribusiness in Gering like a free-range chicken farm. In relation to zoning, the city ordinances permits public parks as an exception for the Residential District.

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In this scale, it is mainly residential and has a few businesses in the area which include: 5 banks, 1 museum, 4 corporations, 4 businesses, and 5 churches. With this, the collection of crime rates has decreased around 28% for the years 2001 until 2015. Unfortunately, theft is the main crime. The walkability from the B&T Metals site is a hefty one; the closest service to the site, Roundhouse Park, is .40 miles away. The site is a food desert and the closest food service

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Stateline Producers Cooperative

5 banks Western States Bank

4 businesses Johnson Cashway Lumber

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Platte Valley Bank

Family Dollar

R St.

9th St.

First National Bank

roads/sidewalks railroad tracks buildings trees vegetation topography pond site boundary U.S. Bank walkability local business business churches sex offenders

8th St.

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legend

Capstone

First State Bank

2 food services Daily Grind Coffeehouse China House

Pictured: front entrance of site

Analysis of Site Landuse and Planning (done by me) B

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3rd St.

4th St.

5th St.

U St.

6th St.

7th St.

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Western Sugar Picnic Shelter 15’ x 28’

P St St.

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Basemap done by Ashley Rexroth and Keely Anderson

Permitted use for Residential Distrcit

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Community Garden 10’ x 30’

85 free range chickens or 1 cow 1.63 acres

4th St.

RUN OFF POND

55th St. St

5 Churches

Soccer Field 295’ x 150’

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Q St.

Gering Collectibles

1.15 Miles to closest grocery store

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B&T METALS SITE

7th St.

.75 Miles to local Junior High

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Sun drying sugar beets 52 15’ x 28’ plots ~ 12,480 beets

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Spatial Requirements for Site

Friendly Farm: Site Design neighborhood 165’ open 30’

neighborhood 175’ garden

buffer 270’ argiculture

road

10’ 50’ parking

area, is where volleyball and a chess game can be played. The community garden holds twenty different plots to rent out to the community. The Animal Area is the biggest area and holds the three goats, three sheep, and seven hens. On the right, there are diagrams representing how I organized the site into the three sections, the figure-ground of the buildings, the programs, and the circulation throughout the proposed site.

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The general site plan for Friendly Farm is separated into three sections: Parking Area, Human Area, and Animal Area. The Parking Area contains eleven parking spaces which include a handicapped parking spot and two rain gardens on the north and south side. The Human Area has two buildings, the picnic shelter, and the event center. Both these buildings are important and hold separate programs to each. By the picnic shelter, in the flexible play

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74,000 cb ft of contaminated soil

Soil, Topography, and Water

Pictured: myself presenting Circulation and Access

event area

community area

animal area

Organizational Structure and Figure Ground Pictured: class meeting

Alleyway

3rd Street

Parking Area

Picnic Shelter

Parking Area

Community Garden

Flexible Play Area

Main Walkway

Bridge

Barn

Event Center

Outside Event Area

Composting

Animal Area

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Friendly Farm: Renderings The experiences of Friendly Farm can be held in every season and any kind of weather. The compost exchange will run for the community to drop off trash in exchange for eggs. In the Human Area, there is a space for the event center, which includes a fire pit for these events and public uses. The community garden will be the responsibility of the community to care for and tend to. This will bring a sense of

Compost exchange perspective

ownership and help the community come together to take care of each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gardens. The Animal Area holds many animals and is used for an educational experience. This area will have community learning on agriculture and why it is important for todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s society. All these areas have more programs embedded into them to make the most use out of the space.

Overall perspective

Community garden perspective

Friendly Farm: Palettes The idea of Friendly Farm is to bring in social, economic, and environmental benefits with each program that is brought in. This proposal would have huge benefits to the City of Gering and to the community around the site. Some main benefits would be: cutting down maintenance price, providing 3-6 jobs that include: educating children, care for the animals, and care for the plants, creating a community center to gather and hold events such as

farms markets and weddings. Lastly, collect rainwater with every chance it gets with rain gardens, permeable paving, and water collection off roofs; all to take care of the plants and water the animals. This proposal would solve current and underlying issues with the site, with neutralization of the lead when capping the soil, placing chicken on contaminated soil, and planting sunflowers on it.

event area

community area

animal area

Organizational Structure and Figure Ground

Hardscape Palette

Plant Palette Permeable Paver

Previous asphalt

Concrete

Recycled wood

Black locust wood

Reused railroad ties

Barn

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LARC 210: Intermediate Design. Lincoln, NE

Pupper Park Downtown Lincoln, Nebraska has minimal green scape but encourages residents to live downtown. With 65% of Americans own a manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best friend; minimal green space and the growing residents will have to meet in the middle. This is my proposal project for P street Plaza.

Pupper Park: Context Ascent Tower is a landmark in Lincoln, Nebraska designed by the artist Jun Kaneko. Kaneko also designed Tower Square where Ascent Tower is at, located on P street. The landmark, Ascent Tower, can be seen from all corners of downtown Lincoln. The color of the tower stands out and at night the tower lights up the town from end to end. Location A is a viewpoint from campus looking down P street and Ascent Tower is peering from the street. Location

B is a view from walking down the street coming from the historic Haymarket. Location C is a nice view walking from another landmark, the Capitol. Ascent Tower can be seen clearly on P street and 14th street. Location D is another view coming from Antelope Valley. Kaneko, being an artist, seems to have his own organizational structure within the P street plaza. While the P street plazaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organizational structure is based off the buildings surrounding the area.

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Austin Arens and Jacob Jurgens Land Use Map

Landmark Views

Pupper Park: Site Design smaller dogs and one for bigger dogs. Owners tend to observe their pets, and with this comes the benches around each dog island. In this area there is plenty of food options and lack of seating outdoors. This design includes a public dining area for those that come from the food vendors down the street. Also, private dining for the restaurant in the plaza to be able to serve alcohol. Below are two sections I feel tells a story of Pupper Park.

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The basis of this design comes from the framework diagram that includes: circulation, access, and lines of force. Knowing this framework, I could work within these lines I have set up for myself and design. The idea of Pupper Park came from owning my own dog (Maggie) and not having a close area to let her run around downtown. She is a bigger dog and will unknowingly run over smaller dogs in the area. This is the idea behind two dog islands; one for

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Observation Area

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Private Dining Area

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Pupper Park: Palettes The hardscape palette for this design comes from the area within. This plan is on the left page. Each element has been seen throughout downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. Bringing these elements from the street is to make the park feel like home for pets and their owners. The softscape palette is a more subtle way of approaching the elements of Lincoln, Nebraska. This plan is on the right page. Two

common street trees are Thornless Honeylocust and Maidenhair Tree; which I have included in this design. The Sunset Maple will bring an extra amount of color to the park. Native grasses are throughout the park to bring that homage even closer to downtown. The ground covers were intentionally chosen for their blooming colors to make Pupper Park look and feel happy.

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Grasses Tuffed Hairgrass Deschampsia cespitosa

Little Bluestem Schizachyrium scoparium

Praire Dropseed Sporobolus heterolepis

Sideoats Grama Seed Bouteloua curtipendula

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LARC 330: Pupper Park Lincoln, NE

Construction Documents Learning the basics of construction documents has set a new standard for me to achieve in AutoCAD efficiency. In this section, I explore details of Pupper Park, planting plan with a planting schedule, materials plan with sections and elevations, and a simple grading plan.

Construction Documents In Fall 2018, our class explored our designs from Spring 2017 from being an abstract ideal to a more concrete setting. On this page, I show the grading plan (to the right), the materials plans (below), the planting plan (top right, second page), and the site layout plan (bottom right, second page). On the next spread of this section is the site details that are in Pupper Park. Analyzing the plan and details of Pupper Park in these different settings helps put

the construction side of design in a more clarifying light. The thought and consideration of every intent in detail bring excitement and life to a project. I feel that doing these construction documents of Pupper Park has put a gratifying end of the project that I have held dearly.

LARC 231: Site Engineering

Rolling Hills Park My first experience with grading landscape came to me in Spring 2017. This came with an assortment of worksheets at the beginning; leading towards our main project, Rolling Hills Park, which lasted around seven weeks. This project made me realize how essential learning grading is for making the landscape speak in an efficient way.

Rolling Hills Park In this project, we learned extensive grading and what goes into grading a site. Below is a process hand drawing of the site and above that is a finish cut and fill graph. This data was collected by laying a graph of intervals on the site and calculating each intersection - this is shown on the right. The main drawing is the final schematic design showing existing trees, contours, and ground

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covers. This also shows trees and ground covers that had to be removed because of the extensive grading. The final schematic design is on the next spread. A vertical profile of Rolling Hills driveway is shown on the right page as well. Overall, this project has taught me simple grading skills and better AutoCAD efficiency.

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Thank you! email: darby.n.buckley@gmail.com phone: 229.506.1313