Portfolio_2022 by Fatema Ali Tushi

portfolio | 2022 FATEMA ALI TUSHI

Contents Academic Projects 01_ Lubbock Canyon Lake Trails System : Revitalizing the Body, Heart, Soul of the City 02_ Designing for curiosity: Reimaging CDRC outdoor learning environment 03_ Synergy Courtyard Design: An expression of combined value of Art, Architecture and Landscapes 04_ Artist Hub: The Creative Industry Professional Projects 01_ Master Planning of Rangpur Cadet College: Designing the building Considering the Existion Siuation

01. Lubbock Canyon Lake Trails System : Revitalizing the Body, Heart, Soul of the City (Priority Experience)

Project statement: The Lubbock canyon Lakes region is home to many city parks and open spaces. The city’s recent efforts to improve the area have enhanced existing opportunities for existing infrastructure by providing new services, resilience, and mobility. Through this project, with the collaboration of professional expertise and outside partners like HAFF and associates, we have learned the understanding of landscape scenarios explored innovative solutions using natural resources. The primary objective of the studio was to establish details and in-depth perception of the issue and then use that interpretation to visualize environments that improve renaming to improve connectivity between various canyon lakes and parks in an unfinished greenbelt network.

Context: park + community

LARC:6415_COLLABORATION (STUDIO VI) PROJECT TYPE: GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL STUDIO ASSIGNMENT CREDITS: 4.00; PROJECT YEAR:2021 STUDIO FACILITATOR: DANIEL PHILLIPS, JARED HORSFORD During the year, like a pandemic, the urban park became more than ever a place of calm, safe gathering, escape, and exercise. Therefore, these green spaces were vital in ensuring that they could get outside, explore natural features and interact with wildlife. That is very important for both the mental and physical wellbeing of a community or neighborhood. Through this redesigning of the Lubbock canyon lakes district, this project aims to bring the local people from the neighborhood of Lubbock city down to the park. With proper planning and events like Friday Art events, downtown music festivals, and such things, involving the community, the site will provide a plethora of experiences for many different users. For a local out for running jogging, quick exercises, people from further afield wanting a peaceful nature excavation or a romantic moonlight walk, or for kids wanting to meet their friends and take advantage of the open space and play in the wilderness -- there should be something for everyone.

Proposed Trail System:

Context: farmland + wild

Vehicular/ATV

Art

Community Connection

Scenic

Hiking/Biking

Shared Use

Context: residential + industrial

Context: highway crossing + lake

Contextual Boundary Map

Trail system

FEMA Flood Plain

Priority Experience Trail system Travel Trail: The travel trail allows for fluid connection for various types of transportation. Meaning cars, cyclists, the infamous lime scooters, runners etc.

Legends

Slope analysis Map Adventure Trail: The adventure trail is the more challenging of the 3. The change in topography and material make this trail more appealing to cyclists, bikers or hikers. The path was chosen with the intent to not only allow people to venture out but also get their heart rate up through mild exercise.

ACTIVITY ZONING

Perceived Districts

Scenic Trail: The trail is designed to be easily accessible and navigable, so that all users may be able to experience the serene landscapes of the canyon lakes. This trail can express this experience through viewing platforms, and trailheads that guide you through the native landscape that surrounds the canyon lakes.

Node analysis

General Section

Scenic Trail

Travel Trail

Adventure Trail

Landmark Node

NATURE HUB

DINBAR LAKE REDESIGN FAT EMA ALI TUSHI LARC 6415

Site Entry

Study area 3 | Individual Node Design

4. 2.

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Primary Trail

Secondary Trail

Tertiary Trait

1. Bioretention Basin 2. Camping sites 3. Bird Watching Tower 4. Parking 5. Elevated deck 6. Wild life habitat zone 7. Adventure trail 8. Bridge

Nature Hub Site

Site - 3

Site - 3 Zooning for the site

Detail 01

Site - 3

Detail 02

Nature Hub Site

Site - 3

Zooning for the site

ng for the site

Zooning for the site

Rainwater and storm water is collect in the depressed garden bed

Plants and soils break down pollutants Elevated pathway for the uninterrupted ecosystem

100 Years Flood Plain

Bio retention swale

Water filters through soil and pollutants are removed Clean Ground water is recharged through the soil towards the lake

Figure:Bioretention Zone details

Figure: Perspective view

REPARIAN ZONE

Dunbar Lake

02. Designing for curiosity – Reimaging CDRC outdoor learning environment

“A creative playground is only half creative space; it’s also a creative attitude. And we’re changing as much as we’re changing spaces“ ---- Jay Beckwith, 1973 Children should change the places them, create compositions, bring them together, separate, take a piece of them, and re-install the missing part.

Can design of a space encourage children’s curiosity? Which design elements may afford behaviors related to children’s science/STEM learning?

In these project, by developing a reimagined CDRC outdoor learing environment (OLE), tried to answer these question. To encourage outdoor play and learning activities, this design tried to integrate the site according to the children’s learning experience through play. Can design of a space encourage children’s curiosity? Which design elements may afford behaviors related to children’s science/STEM learning?

The Aim of the project was: - Developing a behavior mapping protocol - Develop a systematic observational tool to measure children’s curiosity and related learning behaviors.

Reviewing the articles: - Assessing a Children’s Zoo Designed to Promote Science Learning Behavior through Active Play: How Does It Measure Up? - Teaching Science During the Early Childhood Years - Best Practice Indicators for a Model Outdoor Learning Environment - The Design of Landscapes at Child-Care Centers: Seven Cs - My Place by the Bay: Prepared Environments for Early Science Learning

Designing for curiosity – Reimaging CDRC outdoor learning environment

Manufactured Play Unit

Lawn

Swing Sets

Play House Sand Play Area

Play Mound

Garden

Sand Play Area

Storage

Play House

Primary Pathway

Secondary Pathway

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Science None Learning Observing

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Science NoneExploring Learning

Experimenting

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Observing Cause & effect Exploring

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Experimenting

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Cause & effect

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Painting Playing music (with instrument located in site) Other(related to art & music)

Play with water Play with gravel Play with wooden chips/log/sticks Play with dirt/mud/sand Play with leaves, acorns Other(related to sensory oriented)    

Sitting down Standing

None

Functional Play

Music &Art

Types of pathways and zonings: Existing

Play Categories (Behavior Settings)

Sensory Play

Playing soccer Playing tag or keep away Playing basketball Other(related to activities with rules)

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Constructiv  e Play  

Games

Dramatic Play

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Digging Building a sandcastle, fort, or dam Gardening Playing with LEGO Other(related to building)

Roleplaying(pretending) Playing with petrol pump Playing with steering wheels Playing with the smallsized kitchen and house Play with plastic toys (doll…) Other(related to pretending) Types of pathways and zonings: Designed

GARDEN (TO GIVE THEM COLORFUL AND SENSORY EXPERIENCE, FRAGMENT OF COLORFUL FLOWERS, AND SEASONAL PLANTS GIVE THEM BOTH, VISUAL AND SENSORY EXPERIENCE)

STONE PEBBLE PATH BESIDE LARGER TREES TO GIVE THE A SENSE OF PRIVACY AND SECURITY

WOODEN TEXTURE AND PATTERN CHANGES TO BREAK THE MONOTONY MAZE FOR KIDS TO PROMOTE THEIR PUZZLE SOLVING CAPABILITIES

PARBOLA ROOF TO GIVE THEM PLAYFUL EXPERIENCE OF LIGHT AND SHADOW

SEMI-SHADED SITTING FOR READING, SITTING AND DRAMATING PLAY OR PRETEND PLAY

PAINTING, CRAFTING, WOODEN WORKSHOP ZONE FOR KIDS TO EXPLORE THEIR CREATIVITY AND FOR OUTDOOR LEARNING, FROM THE NATUREAL PLANTS

RAMP WITH A WOODEN DECK FOR A PLACE TO SIT, PLAY AND CLIMB

COLOR PATTERN FOR LEARNING BASIC COLOR, FOR GIVING THEM PLAYFUL EXPERIENCE

SAND, WOODEN CHIPS, BARKS, LEAVES, ACORNS, SEEDS, STONE FOR KIDS TO PLAY WITH NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE NATURAL SETTINGS TO EXPLORE THEIR CREATIVITY AND CONNECT WITH NATURE

HERB, PERENNIAL PLANTS, EDIBLE PLANTS, VEGETABLE GARDEN AREA, ANNUAL PLANTATIONS FOR CHILDERN TO GROW AND ALSO A SMALL SEMI-OPEN KITCHEN BESIDE, SO THAT THEY CAN PREPARE FOOD UNDER ADULT SUPERVISE SWING, AND SLIDING FOR KIDS TO GENERATE MOTOR SKILL ACTIVITIES

Functional Play

Constructive Play

Functional Play

Sensory Play

2. 3.

•Dramatic Play

Sensory Play

Functional Play

Constructive Play

Functional diagram (Zooning)

8 LEGENDS:

1. Flower Garden Area

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2. Sunken Space (like an amphitheater)

3. Play House for Dramatic Play area 4. Maze Play area (for the children to explore their curiosity)

5. Semi-shaded area (to provide a sence of light and shadow) 6. Sitting, reading, doing creative thing like art or playing instruments or music 7. Functional Play area 8. Tree-house Play area for Climbing, sitting, observing, and reading books sitting on the deck 9. Vegetable Garden area 10. Small kitchen area for preserving and making the foods as a to give them a sense of responsibility 11. Functional Play area

Plan of CDRC

Semi Shaded space to play with the Light and Shadow, with different height of the parabola Light and shadow play is an amazing way for children to explore the world around them Act as a stage for Drama activities

- Small rectangular Planks for children to hop and jump - Encourage children to achieve greater distance in their hops by hopping over obstacles such as hoops or small cones - Introduce the use of the arms to generate power

The school is child’s 2nd home, as they spend their maximum time here.. After coming from home all those home sicknesses and sorrows and sad feelings can me enlighten by the color and smell of the flowers..

Moving into the garden with the tunnel, connecting two spaces ..

Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama)

American Basket Plant

Eysenhardtia texana

Lonicera albiflora

Wisteria frutescens

Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly weed)

Glandularia bipinnatifida (purple Prairie Verbena)

Post evaluation of behavioral analysis:

CRDC Informal Behavior Settings

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Dramatic Play Sensory Play Functional Play Constructive Play Games Play

The methodology of this post occupancy evaluation is divided in three parts. 1) Focus on the understanding the current pathway, and activity and movement behavior 2) The current condition and quality of the space and how to improve it? 3) How the children, faculty, caregiver use and perceive this space, move through the space and how they use it. 4) Lastly, what is their preference.

03.

Synergy Courtyard Design: An expression of combined value of Art, Architecture and Landscapes

Synergy Courtyard Design An expression of the combined value of Art, Architecture, and Landscapes

Concept - Synergy Creating Spaces

Minerva Italica

Value: $600,000 Height: 83” Weight: 825 lbs. Pedestalsize:30”

Creating Activities

Apoxyomenos

Creating Affordances

Artist: Lysippos Value: $650,000 Height: 78” Weight: 825 lbs. Pedestalsize:27”

Creating Movement

Fiorenza

Artist: Flemish sculptor Giambologna Value: $650,000 Height: 49.5” Weight: 225 lbs. Pedestal size: 11”

The Minerva Italicais a Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of between the 5th and 4th century BC. It has also been called Minerva Vaticana because it is currently kept at the Vatican Museums.

Colleges and Universities by design are memorable places, and students often develop a strong place attachment. The Concept of place also includes numerous sculptures/ artifacts found on campus that constitute its material culture.

Apoxyomenos, the “scraper”, is a bronze statue by the sculptor Lysippos. It represents an athlete. Lysippos’s work is innovative because it breaks with the traditional frontal pose of Greek art.

The statue portrays Aphrodite as she is born from the water, as described by so many artists.

The main goal is to produce a collaborative design for a common courtyard space to house and display the statues/ sculptures. These sculptures are pieces of extraordinary work of the artists and Texas Tech University is taking immense pride to exhibit them in the Courtyard space of the Art and Architecture buildings. The details of the Sculptures are as follows:

Synergy, also mentioned as Synergism in certain publications originates from the Greek word, Synergos, meaning working together. It is defined as an abstract concept that refers to a combined value or a result that arises from the sum of individual and interacting parts.

Synergy of Spaces

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At present – the courtyard is visually divided in two spaces.

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Break the rigidity of the geometric lines and shapes.

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Focusing on the mean center.

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Transformation using the organic grid.

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Flexibility in the design.

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Visual connections.

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Sub divided zones for activites around the sculpture court.

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Synthesizing the connection of individual spaces to create a larger courtyard

Minimalistic Landscape and Lot of Bricks paving in the Courtyard space.

Existing Site Analysis & Issues Positive Aspects: - Adequate sunlight. - The Scale and proportions of the courtyard.

Negative Aspects: - Movement pattern - Visual connectivity - The space is around the courtyard is all platonic - No Outdoor activity - No gathering space - Hard landscape

The Courtyard is highly an inactive space because there are no affordance, activities, sculpture and landscapes which gives this space an identity. Moreover, the rigidity of geometric lines and hard paving materials makes it monotonous.

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Aerial View of the Courtyard Space

Fiorenza

AREA 459.65 sq. ft.

Minerva Courtyard

395.61 sq. ft.

Minerva Italica A

Fiorenza Courtyard

Apoxyomenos Courtyard 463.28 sq. ft

Synergy Courtyard

1429.68 sq. ft.

Concrete

6155.3 sq. ft.

Brick

912 sq. ft.

Vegetation

1664 sq. ft.

Apoxyomenos

Surface - Sand Floor •Athlete workout in sand and rocky stone areas. Background Random Rubble Stone Masonry •Stones represented the outdoor settings and natural workout space. 360-degree movement Movement •Pathways and benches to sit and gaze around the sculpture.

Apoxyomens Court Conceptual Section

Native Plants and Species Plantation •Plant species found on the TTU are used in the landscapes.

Section CC’

Fiorenza Court Conceptual Section

Surface – Edge of river or stream Floor •Fiorenza is bathing along the river. Background Random Rubble Stone Masonry •Stones represented the outdoor settings and nature environment. 360-degree movement Movement •Pathways and benches to sit and gaze around the sculpture. Native Plants and Species Plantation •Plant species found on the TTU campus are used in the landscapes.

Section BB’

Surface – Outside Art building - Brick Area Floor • Minerva the goddess of wisdom is raised on platform 3’ feet above ground to make significant and respected from the rest of other sculptures.

Background

Random Rubble Stone Masonry with Native trees

• To hide the Ventilation shaft and to create low height stone walls as ruins.

360-degree movement Movement •Pathways and benches to sit and gaze around the sculpture. Native Plants and Species Plantation •Plant species found on the TTU are used in the landscapes.

Movement 360-degree movement •Pathways and benches to sit in the outdoor setting area.

Plantation Native Plants and Species •Plant species found on the TTU campus are used in the landscapes.

Sculptor Studio House

South elevation

West elevation

04. Artist Hub

Project statement: ARTIST HUB is a place where artist explore their creativity, far away from the city’s busy life, noice and pollution. More of a like, moving towards nature, lost into the woods where only noice will be a sounds of birds, wind, water. The site is surrounded by water, natural ecosystem is already present in the site so the material has been collected from the site makes the site more sustainable and environment friendly. The structure is made by brick morter but the detailing and the elevation treatment has been done by brick and woods. furthermore all the material has been collected from the site.

A place or thing that forms the effective center of an ARTIST activity, region, orHUB network is called “HUB” So, ARTIST HUB can be termed as the Centre for activity for the Creative Industry.

Bird watch tower

Sculptor Studio House

South elevation

West elevation

Building details of: Workshop & Watch tower

Watch tower

Detail 02 Ground floor plan

1st floor plan

2nd floor plan

3rd floor plan

4th floor plan Workshop Building Floor Plan

Detail 02

Workshop Elevation

Bird watch tower

View from Under the Bridge

Workshop Perspective

“A place isolated from the world, a place of tanquility, meditation, where art and creativity is the only religion and when you enter through into the place where only music is the sound of the breeze and birds song is the only song, you instantly feel a sense of intrigue and stillness fall all over you.”

Teacher’s Community Building

Photographer Studio House 4 Studio House in each Building x 2

Different level has diffrent Terrace to give the Maximum Exposure towards nature. Open to nature and local material for low cost maintanace and environment friendly. Window and doors made of wood and bamboo which is the recycle material from the site. Ground floor left open for grass and vegetations, so that no vegetation can be unharmed.

Photographer Studio House

Plan at 7’

Plan at 12’

Elevation

Plan at 17’

Section

Painter Studio House 5 Studio House in each Building x 2

Painter Studio House - Each has individual balcony with outdoor studio house to enhance the creativity - Minimum footprint hasbeen considered in order to minimize the footprint for each and every building - Some pocket scapce with courtyard has been created to give a cultural coutyard for social meetings and gatherings.

Exibition & Gallary (Elevated Courtyard space)

Exibition Floor Plan

Administration & Museum

First floor plan

Ground floor plan

Beside the lake, to enjoy cool breeze and the River-Side called “Nodir

Ghat”.

Public Community Space

symbolizes the origin of rituals and performances in pre colonial Bengal. BotTala also signifies the great tradition of open oratory, poetry, music of Bengal and symbol of public space that belongs to none in specific but to all in general. BotTala calls for participation from all spheres of cultural activists and citizenry of the artists to engage, encourage, promote and support a new era in theatre activism and towards creating a new phase of cultural solidarity through BotTala.

(Bot-tola)

BotTala – a performance space antonym with ‘Bengal Opus for Theatre Technology’. It is an open space for performance that

Amphi-theatre (for Arranging Lecture series or Big Gathering Space like Mela for Mass Group of People)

Physical Model

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT

01.

Master Planning of Rangpur Cadet College: Designing the building Considering the Existion Siuation

Master Planning & Designing the Administrative building of Rangpur Cadet Colloge Designing the building Considering the Existion Situation Lead Architect: Khandaker Shabbir Ahmed Location: Rangpur Cadet College, Rangpur Client: Bangladesh Army

Master Planning and designing of Administrative, Academic, Library , Auditorium building design

Master Planning & Designing the Administrative building of Rangpur Cadet Colloge Designing the building Considering the Existion Situation Site Boundary of Rangpur Cadet College

- without disturbing the nature, considering the existing trees -with trying to utilize the maximum usage of land -considerring the existing Field

Building Function: Administrative, Academic, Library Site placement & Design Consideration Academic Building

Connections

Modular design Spaces can be arrange with user’s need

cla

Entry Points

Admin Building

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Auditorium

Building Function: Administrative, Academic, Auditorium

Entry Gate

Auditorium Complex

Library Building

Building Function: -Housing

-Officers Quater -1st Class Quater -2nd Class Quater -3rd & 4th Class Quater

Building Function: Housing, Officers/Adjutants class Quarter

Building Function: Housing, 2nd class Quarter

Building Function: Housing, 1st class Quarter

Designing the building Considering the Existing Situation Building Function: Cadet House Cadet House is where the young cadets spend their time socializing and resting. How-ever, according to their daily routine, the time from coming to their room, taking a show-er, and getting dressed to go to the next activity is minimal and challenging to give them organized space to use the maximum output of minimum space. Due to mosquito prob-lems in the rural area, the argonomics for properly hanging the mosquito net have been designed to protect them. The shoe rack for the students to organize the shoes has been designed to not worry about where to put them. Even the light for the bookshelf has been considered while designing the space.

Residential Block Residential Block Service Block Amenities Block

SURVEILLANCE

ADMINISTRATION

Cadet House Propose Living Structure

Designing the building Considering the Existing Situation Building Function: Canteen

Designing the building Considering the Existing Situation Building Function: Ration Store - 1

Fatema Ali Tushi

Lubbock, Texas 79406 ▪ (931) 547-0616 ▪ ftushi@ttu.edu

Contact 310 Frankford avenue, Ashton pointe, apt # 108, Lubbock, Texas, USA Postal code - 79416

(931) 547-0616 ftushi@ttu.edu

Education Graduate program: Master's in Landscape Architecture Texas Tech University Year: 2021-2022 Grade: 3.6 out of 4 Research Assistant Professor Chair Eric Bernard Lubbock Park Master Planning Undergraduate program: Bachelors in Architecture University American International University Of Bangladesh (AIUB) Year: 2009-2014 Construction Project Management (Online Course) Columbia University In the city of New York

Research Assistant for Lubbock Park Project at Texas Tech University,

developing and evaluating Lubbock's future planning opportunities and problem finding. Along with an assistantship, pursuing a Master's in Landscape Architecture and expect to graduate in June 2022. I am an experienced Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the architecture & planning industry. I am skilled in landscape planning and designing, Site planning, Client Relations. Strong arts and design professional with a BArch focused on Architecture from American International UniversityBangladesh (AIUB) and have five years of experience as an architect. Later on, I pursued an MLA - Master's in Landscape Architecture at Texas Tech University, and my interest in Landscape Design is Sustainable Design, Parks, Comprehensive Planning towards green and sustainable development. I have a research interest in Blue-Green Infrastructure, Low Impact Development, and Floodwater management. My goal is to develop a better world towards environment-friendly and sustainable solutions.

Experience Graduate Research Assistant

Texas Tech University (Jan 2021 – Present)

As a master's student of Landscape Architecture, I am currently working on Master Planning for Parks and recreational projects for Lubbock using ArcGIS Pro, spearheaded by the Department Chairperson of Landscape Architecture Department, professor Eric Bernard. The research group considers low-cost, low-impact development and environmental resilience.

With the help of advanced software called ArcGIS earth and ArcGIS pro, LP360, PCSWMM and EPASWMM, SWMM CAT is studying the current condition. Furthermore, propose a solution for flood water that will improve the current state of Lubbock city. From empirical studies, Green Infrastructure and Blue-Green Infrastructure are ingredients for solving flood water challenges, rainwater management, and sustainable landscape solutions.

This period was a worthwhile opportunity that added a new aspect to my interpersonal experience and competencies in the landscape architecture field helped me gain exposure, insight, expertise, and hands-on experience in a realtime work environment.

portfolio | 2022 FATEMA ALI TUSHI