CONTENTS:
LEFTOVERS
project type: reclamation
CERNER CENTER
project type: regional and community planning
SWITZER NEIGHBORHOOD FARM project type: pro bono
BNIM INTERNSHIP MASTERS REPORT
project type: research and participatory design
LE FTOVE RS DENVER, COLORADO PROFESSOR JESSICA CANFIELD LAR 648: MILE HIGH WATER
Estimates indicate by 2050 there will be a 20% gap between water supply and demand in the South Platte River Basin. Adequate water storage along Colorado’s Front Range is of primary concern. One storage strategy, currently in use, are gravel lakes. Gravel lakes are the reclaimed byproduct of open pit gravel mining. Current gravel pit reclamation methods -- line the sides with an impermeable membrane, fill with water, and enclose with a perimeter fence -- provide little social, environmental, and economic value. Using the idea of a Continuous Productive Urban Landscape as a framework (Viljoen, 2005), the new gravel lakes system will: increase water storage capacity, boost groundwater recharge, connect adjacent habitat patches/ existing land reserves, intensify regional biodiversity, implement local agriculture, and include a variety of passive and active recreation opportunities. (right) The continuous productive urban landscape reclaims rejected landscapes while infusing social equity.
PROJECT TYPE: TOOLS:
RECLAMATION GIS, GOOGLE EARTH, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, AND INDESIGN
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(above) The proposed gravel lake storage network extends 17 miles from Commerce City to Brighton.
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+10 , 0 0 0 ACR E S FOOD PRODUCTION ZONES
(left) New reclamation practices promote groundwater recharge. (right) Site systems under the three categories Water, Ecology, and Food framed design strategies for the gravel lake chain.
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CERNER CENTER K ANSAS CIT Y, MISSOURI P R O FE S S O R S B L A K E B E L A N G E R , JASON BRODY, AND HOWARD HAHN LAR 646: CIT Y ECOLOGIES
Public-private partnerships will revitalize Kansas City’s downtown core by developing a strong foundation for future businesses and improving quality of life for city dwellers. Densifying the area south of the I-670 cap will generate connections to activity centers. In addition, multimodal transit opportunities and linear civic spaces will increase both citizens’ and businesses’ investment in the community and downtown area. Kansas City is currently home to three Fortune 500 companies, two of which are located in Overland Park, an outlying suburb. Since many of Kansas City’s businesses are opting to locate in the suburbs, the downtown must establish a low-risk environment to entice business investment. A successful corporate center will double the downtown population while maintaining a high quality of life.
(right) Primary and secondary pedestrian corridors reconnect the downtown core and the crossroads district.
PROJECT TYPE: TEAM: TOOLS:
COMMUNITY PLANNING CAMMIE CHRISNTER AND ANNE HUNDLEY PEN AND INK, GIS, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, AND INDESIGN, SKETCHUP
(above) The team envisioned a network of green roofs at the onset of the project.
civic corridors funnel pedestrian traffic from major cultural centers
(above) This diagram illustrates the fusion of four team projects from the City Ecologies studio.
understanding civic space through building massing scenarios (left) Quick massing studies generated civic corridors and land use strategies. (right) Residential green roofs improve quality of urban living in downtown Kansas City.
SWITZE R FARM K ANSAS CIT Y, MISSOURI PROFESSORS JESSICA CANFIELD AND LEE SKABELUND L A R 410 : P L A N T I N G D E S I G N
Located in Westside neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, the Switzer Neighborhood Farm is home to an economically diverse population and resides on a brownfield. An abandoned school flanks two sides of the site, and a library and community center are directly adjacent. Switzer Neighborhood Farm has very limited funding and no direct access to the water system for irrigation. The design of the Switzer Neighborhood Farm has three elements that lead to a rich Westside communitiy: multifunctionalism, educational opportunities, and biodiversity. The site hosts a variety of special events and daily educational experiences, bringing in a large, diverse crowd from the neighborhood. Children and seniors alike can participate in gardening, and a mentor program connects these two age groups.
(right) The community center at the base of the south slope promotes gathering, education, and play.
PROJECT TYPE: TEAM: TOOLS:
PRO BONO CAMMIE CHRISTNER ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR, AND INDESIGN
(right) Children in the Westside Community attend 29 different schools. The average fourth grader has a vocabulary of 1,000 words, compared to a 10,000 word vocabulary of a fourth grader from Johnson County, southwest of Westside.
715 students in K-12 schools 627 students in public K-12 schools 88 students in private K-12 schools
71 students continue to undergraduate colleges
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= 10 students (approximately)
onions
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tomatoes
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Annual Water Requirements For Garden Plants
Water Requirement per number of Planters
Type of Plant
40 Planters
(Number of Rain Barrels) 50 Planters 60 Planters
70 Planters
(above) The butterfly garden requires four components to attract butterflies: sources of water, rocks to rest on and sunbathe, scaly bark, and nectar. (left) Water requirements for common garden vegetables (and other numerical data concerning precipitation) was equated to basketballs to enhance community understanding. (right) By centralizing educational and cultural spaces on the challenging slope, the garden picks up a new identity (not to scale).
BNIM INTERNSHIP K ANSA S CIT Y, MISSOUR I SEVEN MONTH INTERNSHIP L AN DS C APE - PL AN N I N G S T U D I O
As I progress through the studio sequence I am further developing my design process, which formed the framework of skills I took with to my internship. Class projects are grounded in theoretical circumstances, and expose MLA candidates to a small segment of the project timeline. During my internship I began to grasp the larger series of events (from targeting future clients to bidding, addendum, and construction administration). While on internship I learned how to use Revit for Autodesk. I used Revit to coordinate the landscape architectural construction documentation with the architectural, mechanical electrical, structural and plumbing drawings. I also worked closely with urban planners while putting together comprehensive plans for neighborhoods, cities, and regions, developing both graphics and diagrams. (right) Digital landscape renderings by author for a design proposal in New Orleans and the Bloch School of Business at University of Missouri-Kansas City. (far right) Zone-wide concept plan by author for Manheim Park, a neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
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MASTERS REPORT CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO DR. HUSTON GIBSON, PROFESSOR KATIE KINGERY-PAGE, AND DR. MICHAEL WESCH
Designers have failed to address rapid urbanization in developing countries, resulting in makeshift spatial forms and sporadic, seemingly random settlement patterns. These highly-organized urban clusters are home to 1 in 6 people worldwide; and by 2030 the number of people living in slums is expected to double from 1 billion to 2 billion (Smith, 2011, p. 3). Extreme levels of poverty fostered in these communities causes deficiencies in a child’s development, who are often without access to a formal, structured education system (UNDP, 1999, p. 28). My master’s project proposes a typology of sustainable landscape amenities for Mexican public spaces that positively impact the development of children living in informal shanty town developments. Infusing public spaces with purpose and fostering learning environments that teach children critical thinking and problemsolving skills will encourage creativity, dreams, and life aspirations. (right) Auto-ethnographic study route map. (far right) Student-generated workplan for individual research, through March 2013.
MORE ABOUT ME I am many things: first and foremost, I am a daughter and a sister; but beyond that I am a thinker and a leader. I am human: I recognize my limitations and immerse myself in other’s knowledge. But most importantly I am a designer, which I believe affords me the unique opportunity to take risks boldly, imaginatively respond to complex problems, and serve others positively through landscape architecture. I view design professions as an outlet for social advocacy, using landscape architectural design as a means for creating culturally acute and contextually appropriate public spaces. As an emerging landscape architect I am most looking forward to advancing public interest design initiatives in everyday practice. Designers have an irreplaceable role in the assault against poverty, water access issues, social injustices, and much more. I too plan on providing quality design services to nontraditional clients, fostering a pathway to a more socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable world.
(above) After learning how to use a pottery wheel at Camp War Eagle and teaching campers throwing basics, I enjoy sharpening my pottery skills. This sketch is from a motion mapping exercise.
(right) At Better Block KC, landscape architecture and planning students helped stage a new, pedestrianfriendly streetscape for one day. I helped co-organize the event. Photo by Jessie King.