Contact Information: Gates Kielty 1320 Aaron Road North Brunswick, NJ, 08902 732-789-7968 gateskielty@gmail.com References: Dean Cardasis 201-446-6017 director@jamesrosecenter.org cardasis@larp.umass.org C. Timothy Baird 814-441-4466 ctb3@psu.edu Karen Lutsky 414-573-0252 kol2@psu.edu
Middle Branch Master Plan - Baltimore, Maryland
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Coal Plant - Ashtabula, Ohio
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Neumarkt - Kรถln, Germany
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Hydrology Garden - State College, Pennsylvania
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Planting Design - University Park, Pennsylvania
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Center for the Environment Grading Plan - University Park, Pennsylvania
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Urban Design Baltimore, Maryland Project Completed Spring 2014
Project Statement: The City of Baltimore has conducted a great amount of research relating to its ecology, which has been compiled in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES). Students were tasked to utilize these studies and incorporate them into their designs in order to remediate the Middle Branch site within Baltimore.
Concept: To mend the landscape around and within the site through ecological stitches that will remediate the water quality of the bay, habitat, air quality, and tree canopy while also providing program to provide education to the public about how the ecological stitches are performing to mend the site.
Master Plan Rendered by Luke Zeller
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Baltimore releases 3,547,309 kilograms of nitrogen yearly into its harbors. The city itself looks to lower that amount to 2,419,983 kilograms of nitrogen yearly. n s Falls
This was a collaborative project done by myself, Boxia Wang, and Luke Zeller. Each of us focused on a stitch that would remediate the landscape in some way. My focus was the wetlands that we would implement on site in order to clean the bay water that is being polluted by stormwater outfalls.
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The design proposes adding 216,796.3 square feet of constructed wetlands that will have a more permanent potential function in the bay in order to remediate its waters and provide habitat to animal and plant species.
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Root System to act as habitat and pollutant uptake Spartina alterniflora Smooth Cordgrass
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Urban Design Ashtabula, Ohio Project Completed Fall 2013
Project Statement: Ashtabula, Ohio’s First Energy Coal Plant is to be decommissioned, and thus this industrial land has the potential to be reused. 1. Existing Jetty 2. Coal Plant 3. Main Road through Site 4. Railroad through Site 5. Lake Shore Park
8 The plant is capable of generating 244 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power 180,000 homes.
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9 Concept: Accessible Energy To convert the site which once produced dirty energy which is inaccessible and harmful to the environment into clean energy, which is accessible, social, and ecologically beneficial.
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Railroads - Potential to reuse as pathways through the site.
Power Plant - Potential to continue to use as an energy producing plant.
Transformers - Potential to put back into use as electrical transformers to put produced energy into the grid of Ashtabula.
Jetty - Brings water into the shore. - Extremely shallow. Piezoelectric
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Proposed Conditions Piezoelectric Sensors - Energy sensors placed beneath pathways on site.
Wind - Utlizing sheer size of site and adjacent water as space to place turbines. - Placed in areas where wind is likely to be strongest. Solar - Solar energy where no shadows would be cast.
Biomass - Can be placed where solar and wind cannot be.
Aquatic Biomass - Use of jetty and its shallow waters to put in wetland vegetation.
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Energy Generated On-Site Piezoelectric Sensors: 9 mW Wind Turbines: 85 mW Solar Panels: 3 mW Total: 97 mW Total is equivalent to generating approximately 40% of electricity that the coal plant generated.
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13 Biomass Energy Produced On-Site Miscanthus Biomass: 4,103 mW/h Poplar Biomass: 10 mW/h Total: 4,113 mW/h
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Urban Design Collogne, Germany Project Completed Spring 2013
16 Project Statement: Neumarkt in Collogne, Germany is essentially a pedestrian island surrounded by heavy vehicular traffic. My peer Sunho Kim and myself aimed to reconnect the island to it’s surroundings while also allowing for the carnival rides and markets to take place in the marketplace.
Neumarkt as an Island Heavy Vehicular Traffic
Proposed Plan Rendered by Sunho Kim
Section through Site done by Sunho Kim
17 New Program: Water feature area added to west side of the site, close to a children’s day care. Meant to act as a source of entertainment for them, while also assuming the formal characteristics of the buildings around them.
Cultivated intimate area designed to provide more intimate spaces for visitors to use to sit and eat a snack taken from the proposed kiosk, or to rest after their travels from the underground metro.
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Garden and Hydrologic Design State College, Pennsylvania Project Completed Fall 2012
19 Project Statement: Big Box retail stores will be going out of business in the future. It is likely that because of this, our site will become a place for residential development. Some of these future residents may include families with children. Studies done by Richard Louv explain that modern day children have started to develop “nature-deficit disorder� with the growing use of video games and computers by children.
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Concept: To get children outdoors by connecting the space to its surroundings and rather than having equipment for specific types of play, instead provides different types of natural settings for imaginative play.
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Shrub maze comprised of shrubs with berries.
Boardwalk over bioretention ponds for education.
Sandy soil forested area for hide and seek.
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Planting Design Construction Documents University Park, Pennsylvania Project Completed Spring 2012
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Project Statement: Create a planting design for west campus at University Park in Penn State. Understand how to make these designs into construction documents with soil calculations, tree notes, and plant schedules.
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Site Grading University Park, Pennsylvania Project Completed Fall 2012
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Project Statement: Grading plan done for an environment center proposed to be on Penn State’s campus.