Landscape Architecture Portfolio

John Kalamaja

L a n d s c a p e A r c h i t e c t u r e Po r t f o l i o 2021

Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas | 2019

About Me Full-time student, designer, and avid outdoorsman striving to spend any and all time in the outdoors.

Love for nature has been enstilled in me ever since I was small and has only strengthened since. I chose to study landscape architecture because it gives me the ability to recreate experiences that I have had in nature, and design those experiences for others. Other than my design related strengths, my most valuable ability is my passion for people.

Everyone brings something to the table in terms of design from professionals to community members.

Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas | 2019

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Norfolk Brownfield Redevelopment Visioning

Worked in collaboration with city officals and community members to design adaptive resuse strategies for the redevelopment of a brownfield in Norfolk, Nebraska.

Street City Vietnam, UNI Design Competition

The competition called for a fish market design for Thu Thiem, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Vietnam’s past narratives inspired urban design strategies and strengthend the design outcomes.

Commemoration Plaza

An urban plaza design that transforms an empty lot into a dynamic and welcoming place that commemorates the Rio Grande Rift.

Reimagined Garden

Kansas State University, a naturalized garden’s redesign reflects post-modern land art and transforms the space.

Construction Documentation

Series of construction documents and details for Edwards Hall at Kansas State University.

Northeast Community Park Redevelopment

An underutilized park, in Manhattan, Kansas, is redesigned to best fit future environmental conditions. This design provides space for interaction between neighboors.

Ferris Wheel Farmers Market

Great Lawn

The Stockyard aerial view of the two major spaces: Nebraska Adventure Park and the Great Lawn.

Nebraska Adventure Park

The Stockyard Norfolk, Nebraksa

To help attract and maintain a population of new residents and young professionals to Norfolk, mixed-use development engages people by providing various amenities and activities. The Stockyard provides public and private spaces for residents and the local community. This new development provides young families with housing near jobs and green space for children to play. Great Lawn and Bison Brewery provide places for social interaction among community members and vistors. By connecting the Stockyard to downtown and the Cowboy Trail, the community will continue to grow strong as young families find their home in Norfolk.

Group Members: Anna Rader, Conan Brennan, and John Kalamaja

Map showing the study area location compared to other ammenities of Norfolk.

Graphic created by Anna Rader.

Above: At the site analysis stage of The Stockyard development, a pedestrian connection between our study area and other ammenities of Norfolk (like downtown and the Elkhorn River) were identified.

Right: Identified existing elements on site reveal a staple in Norfolk’s past. The buildings that are highlighted in blue are perserved and redeveloped. The covered structure is proposed to be a farmers market and the brick building is transformed into office space.

Perserved building within the existing stockyards.

Graphic created by Anna Rader.

Proposed 1st Street Redevelopment map.

Graphic created by Anna Rader.

Above: Graphic showing the route of the proposed streetscape design within Norfolk. 1st street will connect the development with existing amenitites of downtown Norfolk and the Cowboy Trail.

Right: The streetscape design includes a sidewalk as well as a bike lane to accomadate the bike traffic from the Cowboy Trail. The streetscape also includes plantings on both sides of the street to create a barrier between the sidewalk and road which increases comfort and the snse of safety for pedestrians.

Existing 1st Street streetscape.

Proposed 1st Street Redevelopment design

Photomontage created by Anna Rader.

NORFOLK SURVEY REPORT MIND MAP

DESIGN PROCESS The Norfolk community was invited to participate in the design process from conceptual idea meetings to final design reviews. At the beginning of this process, the design team first reviewed community comments (from a survey distributed at the beginnning of this project) to identify their key visions for the site. A mind map based on the survey was drawn to narrow down programming objectives.

The team developed a series of bubble diagrams and conceptual forms at masterplan scale. Key elements were identified and formalized shapes emerged as the bare bones of the design. Once the formal design was finalized from a conceptual standpoint, smaller spaces, such as the Nebraska Adventure Park, were designed with overarching geometries.

Conceptual bubble diagrams.

Created by design team.

NEBRASKA ADVENTURE PARK The Nebraska Adventure Park is one of the main community spaces in The Stockyard. The park’s design was inspired by the ecoregions in Nebraska. Precedent research identified means to abstractly represent these ecoregions. The ecoregions are all distinctly different which allows visitors to have a variety of experiences in the different zones of the park. These ecoregions influenced the programing and plantings of each zone to make it feel as if your emersed within that ecoregion.

Precedent study for the Nebraska Adventure Park.

Ceated by Anna Rader and John Kalamaja.

Ferris Wheel

Pedestrian Corridor

Large Promonade

The Great Lawn looking is the hub of The Stockyard with the Ferris wheel being the focal element.

Ceated by Anna Rader and John Kalamaja.

THE GREAT LAWN The great lawn is the main green space within the development which is primarly used as a large gathering space for residents and the surrounding community. The Great Lawn is designed to be used for many different activities such as: concerts and well designated locations for food trucks.

Large promanades flank all sides of the great lawn to accomadate for all the pedestrian traffic as it is the hub of The Stockyard.

The Great Lawn contains a ferris wheel which as the focal element is a response to the community’s desire for an amusement park. Shops flank the Great Lawn to provide extra space for merchants. The lawn is designed to accomadate large sculptures to allow local artists to display thier work.

The Great Lawn provides space for many types of recreational activities.

Ceated by Anna Rader and John Kalamaja.

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Plan of The Stockyard.

Ceated by Anna Rader.

Moveable Garage Doors

Market Flex Space

Farmers Market

Farmers market utilizing the retractable doors to create comfort environment within the market.

Ceated by Anna Rader and John Kalamaja.

Above: The Farmers Market is located in the perserved stockyard building on site. The building is modified with retractable doors so it can be used in all seasons. The doors create a commortable environment in summer or winter months. This space is designed to hold a variety of vendors from farmers to food truck owners to sell their products with ease.

Left: The pedestrian corridor spans throughout the entire development and connects the three major spaces: the Farmers Market, the Great Lawn, and the Nebraska Adventure Park. This corridor is expressed on the facades, with glass, on the buildings to vertically highlight the corridor. The corridor is expressed on the ground plane with changes in paving materials like brick.

Pedestrian corridor connecting the main spaces.

Ceated by Anna Rader.

Bison Brewey nightlife and recreational activities.

Ceated by Anna Rader and John Kalamaja.

Shade Structure

Performance Space

Recreation Lawn

NEBRASKA ADVENTURE PARK The Nebraska Adventure Park is a public park that is located on the southern end of The Stockyard for kids and families in the development as well as families from the city of Norfolk.

This park is comprised of six different spaces each with a unique activity and experience.

Norfolk Plaza, the Trampolines, Running Logs, Play Mounds, Splash Pad, and the Bouldering Walls are all inclusive spaces for people to play and relax while being in the outdoors.

These spaces are very unique in that each has a different feeling and reveals a different ecoregion of Nebraska.

Nebraska Adventure Park Plan.

Created by Anna Rader and John Kalamaja.

NEBRASKA ECOREGIONS

To tell the story of how Norfolk relates to the rest of the state of Nebraska, the design replicates how the Elkhorn River and the Cowboy Trail span across the state. The four main ecoregions: loess hills, wetlands, sandhills, and badlands are in order from east to west as you would encounter them driving across the state of Nebraska.

The Nebraska Adventure Park is designed to be a nature-based play. The ecoregions were used as inspiration to create the abstract forms for the nature-based play. For example, hills and rock forms of the sandhills and badlands were abstracted into the rolling mounds and boulders for play and relaxation. This method was also applied to the other ecoregion features.

NORFOLK

Nebraska Adventure Park ecoregions Diagram.

Created by Anna Rader.

Hidden Courtyard

Contemplation Corridor

Fish Market

Unvieling the Forgotten within the context of Thu Thiem.

UNI Design Competition

Street City Vietnam: Unveiling the Forgotten Thu Theim, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

The new master plan of Thu Thiem, Ho Chi Minh City will transition the city from old and outdated to a more modernized scene. To relate to this transition, Unveiling the Forgotten is inspired by past narratives of Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnam. The design is based on the Khmer Empire which was one of the first civilizations and the most powerful in southeast Asia. By referencing the Khmer Empire’s orthogonal infrastructure, like the complex cannal system, the overall geometries of the fish market were designed. The orthogonal form was expressed in layers to define spaces and create different sensory experiences in each space. The baray, a large reservoir, was abstracted to be the organizing element within the fish market which also made it a focal element.

Photomantage technique was used as a conceptual idea development tool for Unveiling the Forgotten.

S HO RT L I ST E D AN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION HELB BY UNI 56 ENTRIES: 21 PROFESSIONAL AND 35 STUDENT ENTRIES

Landscape architect Pierre Belanger said that landscape architects need to recognize past narratives of a place. So, through research of Vietnam history, the ancient Khmer Empire in southeast Asia and Vietnam was revealed. This civilization was known for their extensive stormwater managment and infrastructure.

Orothogonal ground plane design.

Comtemplation Corridor at night with lights highlighting the baray within the fish market.

Area lights designed at the ends of the benches light the Gorge while drawing the visitor’s eye upward through the allee of trees thus making one feel as if emersed within a rift.

Commeroration Plaza Albuquerque, New Mexico

The Rio Grande River runs through the heart of Albuquerque and is one of the major natural features in and around the city. The Rio Grande River sits in the Rio Grande Rift which is a series of gorges that are created by a combination of horsts and grabens. These landforms carved the landscape in which the Rio Grande flows. The rift was formed by tectonic plate movement which caused cracks along the landscape. The land between these cracks shifted downwards. This shift is the inspiration behind the design and is represented with the different colored pavers. Black paving bands span the site and are broken in The Gorge, the centralized space, as a metaphor for the abrupt shifting movement. In The Gorge, pavers were different colors to create a sense of visual of movement for visitors. The Gorge is enclosed by the allee of trees. The vertical height created by the trees allows vistors to experience the similar qualities of a rift, moving through a landscape.

Entry point showing the volume and size of the Gorge.

Above: The Gorge, which is centralized space, can be seen from any point on site by the trees surrounding the space. An allee of trees is used to define the space and enhance the user experience by creating similar experinces within a rift.

Left: The ground plane is a primary feature of the design, gray pavers are strategically positioned within the black bands. The overall paving pattern tranisitons from solid lines to mixed.

Black bands spanning the site accompanied with concrete pavers to further emphasize the movement of the shift.

The Gorge

Seating Planter Box

The Clandestine is a more intement space for social interaction.

As a visitor enters Commeration Plaza, one encounters a series of small walls which were designed to define spaces, access points, and to exaggerate the black bands that span across the site. The Clandestine, a private secluded space for people to have intement social interactions.

Black paving bands, when entering into the Gorge, are designed to visually break away to repersent a downwards movement of the shift. This design aesthetic is designed throughout the plaza to differentiate the Gorge as the primary feature.

The Commemoration Plaza provides space for permanent and moveable seating elements. Walls throughout the site may be used as benches for visitors to use while visiting the space.

Small walls forming entrances and spaces.

Black bans shifted downward in the Gorge.

Walls being used as seating elements and vertically emphasizing the black bands.

Commeration Plaza Plan.

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Aerial perspective of the Reimagined Garden overlooking the encroaching meadow.

Reimagined Garden Manhattan, Kansas | Kansas State University

Reimagined Garden is a redesign of an existing naturalized garden on Kansas State University’s campus. The design reflects the post-modern land art style; a theory to art that proposed the act of making was more important than the art itself. This design theory has four major characteristics: telling a story through words and images, balancing the ideology that less is more, juxtaposing nature with man-made materials, and harmonizing functionality, sustainability, and aesthetic qualities.

Reimagined Garden takes these qualities of post-modern land art and translate the story into form. The story behind the design focuses on the idea of natural systems versus urban development. In reference to the Tuttle Creek Dam, Manhattan, Kansas, the design symbolizes a naturalized meadow breaking through a barrier and overtakes an urban plaza. As a metaphor on how people cannot control mother nature and how it will always pervail even in an urban development.

Group Members: Dylan Ramage, and John Kalamaja

Encroaching Meadow

Quenched Plaza

Encroaching Meadow starting to overtake the Quenched Plaza Created by Dylan Ramage.

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Limestone Blocks

Plaza being overtaken with limestone from the dam forming the urban plaza.

Above: Landforms are designed to portray water as if breaching a dam and flooding the urban landscape.

Limestone blocks, used to mimic a dam, are washed away. In the plaza, the scattered block are used as seating elements.

Tuttle Creek Dam.

Left: Tuttle Creek Dam, adjacent to Manhattan, Kansas, is located on an active fault line which heightens the risk of water breaching the dam.

Concept of stacking natural systems over an urban plaza to create the design.

Natural Systems vs. Urban Development

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Edwards Hall is located on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, ANNOTATED SITE PLAN Kansas. The existing site had extensive stormwater management problems due ISSUE DATE: 07/2020 to steep slopesDECEMBER/ and existing stormwater infrastructure. The task was to develop REVISIONS: a solution for aDESCRIPTION potential building and to redirect stormwater while exhibiting MARK DATE stormwater management strategies. For Edwards Hall, a series of construction documents were created, a annotated site plan, grading plan, dimensional control plan, and planting plan. Details also accompanied the construction documents for small elements on site. Details were made for four elements on site, a wood deck, retaining wall, paving, and screening wall.

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Construction Documentation - Details A series of details were accompained with the construction document set. The task was to create a series of detials for: a wood framing structure, retaining wall, paving, and a screening wall for Edwards Hall.

When creating the details for Edwards Hall, four majoir elements had to be considered: functionality, visual design, material selection, and fabrication. These considerations were important as it infulenced the design of the detail and visual apperance of that component.

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LPS 1064.55

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HPS 1073.82

INV - STORM DRAIN INVERT

TC 1069.69 BC 1069.19

AD

INV 1073.73

TC 1079.39 BC 1078.89

RIM 1069.76 INV 1067.43

TW 1068.86 TW/BW 1068.86

TC 1068.35 BC 1067.85

TC 1070.38 BC 1069.88

TC 1071.12 BC 1070.62

1069.41

1068.96

TC 1068.43 BC 1067.92

LP 1067.66

1068.35

TC 1070.76 BC 1070.26

TC 1073.54 BC 1073.04

TC 1074.94 BC 1074.44

TC 1075.53 BC 1075.03

TC 1070.62 BC 1070.12

TC 1073.18 BC 1072.68

TC 1074.39 BC 1073.89

TC 1075.23 BC 1074.73

1075.00

LP 1073.86

1067.92

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TC 1072.37 BC 1071.87

TC 1069.59 BC 1069.09

LPS 1068.76

TC 1070.76 BC 1070.26

TC 1072.12 BC 1071.62

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TC 1071.64 BC 1071.14

TC 1071.93 BC 1071.43

1070.00

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LPS 1069.76

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TC 1068.75 BC 1068.25

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SWALE FLOW LINE

TC 1072.44 BC 1071.94

AD

1068.0

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2.2%

TC 1069.62 BC 1069.12 RIM 1069.73 INV 1067.94

AD

1069.00

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TC 1069.70 BC 1069.30

TC 1071.31 BC 1070.81

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TC 1071.50 BC 1071.00

TC 1071.77 BC 1071.27

TC 1071.95 BC 1071.45 RIM 1070.57 INV 1069.05

TC 1072.18 BC 1071.68

TC 1072.36 BC 1071.86 3%

TW 1079.00

LP - LOW POINT

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TW 1082.50

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HPS 1071.00

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TC 1070.00 BC 1069.50

TC 1070.29 BC 1069.79

TC 1070.47 BC 1069.97

TC 1070.69 BC 1070.29

TC 1070.88 BC 1070.38

1071.00

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BW 1069.13

1069.27 1069.35 1069.50

1069.27 1069.35

1069.03

1069.41

HPS 1069.68

1070.58

1070.88 TC 1071.44 BC 1070.94

TC 1071.86 BC 1071.36

BW 1069.09 1069.00

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1071.44

1071.54 HPS 1078.81

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TC 1069.03 BC 1068.53

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1071.44

TC 1069.41 BC 1068.91

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TC 1069.84 BC 1069.34 HPS 1069.68

HPS 1070.58

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TC 1070.02 BC 1069.52

TC 1070.29 BC 1069.79

TC 1070.46 BC 1069.96

TC 1070.79 BC 1070.29

TC 1070.97 BC 1070.47

TC 1071.15 BC 1070.65

D

TC 1071.28 BC 1070.78

10

69

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Final grading plan for the potential redevlopment of Edwards Hall.

Top of the Rock

Wetlands

Proposed redesign of Northeast Community park overlooking the expanded wetlands.

The Overlook

Northeast Community Park Manhattan, Kansas

Northeast Community Park is located in the Flint Hills, Kansas which is one of last remaining tallgrass prairies in the country. Climate change is a prevelant factor changing the Flint Hills ecosystems. Coalescence is a combination of drought and rain gardens to best fit for the future environmental conditions. The design is inspired by the Flint Hills ecosystem and represent those elements in an abstract way. The gathering space includes a shade structure that can provide space for various gatherings. An interactive nature-based play area includes boulders and tree logs.

A nature trail is designed on the preimeter of the site, through a grove of trees, and along the edges of the drought and rain gardens.

Group Members: Dylan Ramage and John Kalamaja

Top of the Rock Drought Garden

Eye-level perspective of the nature-base play ground.

Created by Dylan Ramage.

Wetlands Above: Top of the Rock is a nature-based playground which is inspired by the limestone deposits on the higher elevations of the Flint Hills.

Top of the Rock contains a rock pile and logs for children to play on and interact with natural elements.

Right: The Wetlands is an expansion of the existing bioswale on site and includes water loving plants that are typically found in the lower elevations of the Flint Hills.

Bridge over the extended bioswale.

Created by Dylan Ramage.

The Overlook

Bioswale Top of the Rock Wetlands

The design is based on the Flint Hills ecoregion and the pre-existing swale on site; which represents the erosional aspect of the Flint Hills. At one point in time the Flint Hills ecoregion was underwater which uncovered limestone layers. This is represented in the design by the hillside seating. The drought gardens are higher on the site which is to represent the drier and arid environment of the cuestas. The rain gardens are lower which represents the wet climates where springs, trees, and water-loving plants are commonly seen.

Plan view of the proposed garden design.

Created by Dylan Ramage.

Tuttle Creek State Park Manhattan, Kansas| 2018

THANK YOU John V. Kalamaja 402.983.4334 | jkalamaja@ksu.edu 1005 Rogers Drive Papillion, Nebraska 68046