Landscape Architecture Portfolio 2024 by lilyhollatz

LILY HOLLATZ LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2024

DESIGN STATEMENT Landscape architecture to me is a discipline of transformation and communication that reconnects us with the earth. Living in Atlanta during COVID, I observed job loss and food insecurity. Environmental injustice was clear as marginalized communities struggled to access the food they needed. I hoped for a future with accessible produce and environmental connection. Hearing about Landscape Architecture intensified my excitement. I hoped studying this would allow me to turn dreams of community gardens and healthier citizens into tangible projects.

Clear visual communication is vital. Stakeholders and communities need a tangible vision to invest in. Without community engagement, projects will be lost from institutional memory and collapse. Therefore, graphic representation that is clear, informative, and explains the ecological processes at work is crucial. Involving communities and reflecting their wishes in design and visualization helps ensure they will want to remain involved for years or generations to come.

My time at UGA solidified this choice, revealing a passion for the design process and community involvement through service-learning projects. School exposed me to the United State’s inequality and environmental injustice in another way. Learning about stormwater and wastewater infrastructure highlighted functionality gaps in marginalized communities, pushing me to focus on restoring waterways and implementing sustainable designs.

I aspire to work in green infrastructure, ecological restoration, and promting the use of native edible plants. I want to design to benefit communities and foster environmental care. In the future, I hope to contribute to cleaner, safer waterways, fostering engagement and happiness for all.

LilY HOL LATZ

EDUCATION

LBH27993@UGA.EDU EMAIL LILYHOLLATZ@GMAIL.COM

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

Skilled in

Horticulture Minor

Social and Emotional Learning

Certificate in Water Resources

Adobe Suite:

GPA: 3.83 / 4.0

Illustrator

University of Georgia — Anticipated graduation ‘25

InDesign Photoshop

Intern at St. George Village EXPERIENCE Botanical Gardens

St. Croix, USVI — Summer 2023 Identify plants and create maps of their location.

AutoCad Arc GIS Online Arc GIS Pro Esri StoryMaps Lumion

Assist in nursery renovation. Contribute to designing layout and lead visual communication of vendor location for annual festival.

SketchUp

Remove invasive specis, and debris on garden grounds. Sell plants during garden events.

Intern at Community Foodscapes

Extracirricular

Atlanta, GA — Summer 2022

Students for Equity in Environment and Design 2021 — Present

Complete client site assesments to contextualize residential designs. Install rain gardens, dry creeks, and selected plants. Identify native, edible plants best-suited for the property and design Create graphics to share with clients to promote business and naturally resilient planting practices.

Aerial Arts Instructor at Canopy Athens, GA — 2021 — Present Instruct adults and children through acrobatic tricks. Adapt plans and tricks to best suit many different physical capabilities.

Georgia Landscape Magazine Writer 2022 — 2023 GASLA Student Member 2021 — Present Canopy Studio Repatory Company 2022 — Present

REWILDING FUTURES PRELIMINARY GRAPHIC AND PROCESS OF VISUALIZING CHATTOOGA RESTORATION FALL ‘23 TO PRESENT COLLABORATORS ANNALIE PIENAAR, KARLA DE ALMELDA, KELSEY MARIE BRIOCH The Chattooga River was impounded in 1923, disrupting its confluence with the Tallulah River. A recent geomorphic reconstruction (Leigh et. al,., 2023) found the current 7km lake buried a confluence of two river reaches, one being a very steep reach, and the other being a lower gradient reach. Uncovering these areas and restoring the wild area of this river could bring more fisher-people, rafters, and nature enthusiasts to ultimately bolster the region’s ecological and economic health. Hopefully visualizations will help the community’s advocacy for Georgia Power to restore the river. To make the preliminary graphic on the third page, I took the topography profiles of the lake and river. In AutoCad, I roughly re-graded the lake into the river outlined in Lower Chattooga River Before Tugalo Dam (Leigh et. al 2023), and generated the two models shown on the right. I rendered this section cut of the model in Photoshop using pictures from a site visit. The final graphics will be based on a more accurate grading of the river. The accurate topography will be brought into Lumion and will focus southern portions where the dam is located, and the steep restored reach. A digital fly through video of the restored reach may also be included.

CHATTOOGA RIVER RESTORATION

Current reach of the wild and scenic Chattooga River

Map of the current reach of the Wild and Scenic portion of the Chattooga River and its location between the states SC and GA.

ELEVATION PROFILE OF EXISTING TUGALO LAKE

Based on information from Google Earth

ELEVATION PROFILE OF RESTORED CHATTOOGA RIVER

Based on profile shown in Lower Chattooga River Before Tugalo Dam, Leigh et. al 2023

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3D model of Tugalo Lake.

3D model of restored Chattooga River.

UNCOVERING Removing the dam will expose the bedrock channel carved by this ancient river.

IMPROVING Restoring the river will improve the water quality to an oxygenated, oligotrophic environment.

PRELIMINARY GRAPHIC OUTLINING BENEFITS OF THE DAM’S REMOVAL AND PROJECT CONSIDERATIONS

RETURNING Restoring the wild and scenic river will bring back the native trout population.

ADAPTING The Eastern Hemlock disease is present in the Chattooga area, so these trees cannot be included in future designs and visualizations.

HORTICULTURE WHITE HOUSE NATIVE GARDEN

FALL ‘22 Native plants are vital to restoring biodiversity and conscientiously designed residential landscapes are integral to the restoration of our environmental matrix. For this project, I designed solely with plants native to the southern appalachian climate of the house. I wanted to create a garden that served as a haven for local wildlife as well as the family calling it home. A rectilinear 45 degree grid was used to help create plant drifts that travelled across the lawn. I selected colors of red, orange, and gold that would carry through every season. Around the enclosed lawn are meandering paths that offer seclusion and peace of mind while still keeping room for play. The biggest challenge of the design was finding native plants that were in stock in nurseries. Many plants were eliminated or subsituted before the final list was created. The lack native plants available emphasized the importance of promoting an ecologically beneficial aesthetic in residential design.

PLANTING PLAN

ABOVE: This planting design tries to mimic the diverse woodland plant communities of the Southen Appalachian. It incorporates evergreens and deciduous plants for year-round interest. RIGHT: Species list and selected species highlight.

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SEASONAL PLANTING PLANS

Winter

Spring

Fall

Summer

TOP ROW: Winter (left), Spring (right), MIDDLE ROW: Fall, THIRD ROW: Summer. These shows the continuation of color and visual interest in every part of the year.

The seasonal wheel diagram shows how each of the 14 plants’ colors transform throughout the year. Reds are mostly prevalent in the Spring and golds are consistent throughout the Summer and Fall. Many of the plants are evergreen so the garden feels lush year-round.

COM COMMUNITY M UNITY MOSS SIDE COMMUNITY PROJECTS FROM SPRING 2023 MOSS SIDE COMMUNITY GORGIA SQ. MALL REDESIGN SPRING ‘23

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MOSS SIDE PLAN 1

Amenity area

Quadplex

Duplex

RS-5 variance lot

Pocket park

The Moss Side Community master plan shows an RS-5 variance lotting in tan. Community members will have shared pocket parks and an amenity area available to them.

MOSS SIDE COMMUNITY We first anaylsed the existing conditions. Using hydrology, vegetation, and slope, we determined areas’ suitability for development or for preservation. By preserving over a quarter of the site developers get a tax cut and residents get to enjoy beautiful and natural surroundings. We also looked at surrounding land use. This is a highly residential section of Athens, with most lots being RS-15. This is much larger than the RS-5 variance lots we propose. Two grocery stores (G) and one park (P) are nearby.

Land ideal for development (yellow), limited development potential (red), and preserve (green).

Hydrology of the site. The blue arrows show the flow toward the pond.

Hardwood trees (lighter green), mandatory preserve area within hydric buffer (dark green).

We also did vertical and horizontal road alignments for the main neighborhood roads. This required a lot of grading work, but helped us understand the limitations of proposed roads, and the conditions they must be under for success. The ultimate placement of these roads changed my designs a bit by making some parts straighter than I had originally envisioned. We maintained a wide right of way incorporating street parking, sidewalks, and street trees to align with Athen’s guidelines on beautiful and safe streets.

Flattest slope (yellow) to most steep areas (brown).

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NTS ROAD ALIGNMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD ROADS

Creates pocket parks, but limits vehicular access to homes.

Preserves more hardwoods and backs homes with alleys for access.

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COMMUNITY HORTICULTURE GEORGIA SQ. MALL REDESIGN FALLFROM ‘23 TOFALL PRESENT PROJECT 2022 WHITE HOUSE NATIVE GARDEN COLLABORATORS: EZRA LEWIS , NADEZHDA YANKSOVSKYY Native plants serve as vital architects in restoring biodiversity and fortifying intricate tapestrythe of our foodabandoned webs. These resilient flora, This the project re imagined largely Georgia Square local ecosystems, offerThe sustenance anddominated shelter to asite diverse Malladapted as a hubtofor high-density living. parking-lot was array of organisms, from pollinators to small mammals. Their role in converted into an area people would want to enjoy safely. The focus of the the intricate dance of the food web is unparalleled, providing a foundation fora design was the mall core. The core included terraced seating options and interconnected relationships that thriveIton platform for events or performances. is mutual also thedependence. convergenceResidential of the dry landscapes, when conscientiously designed with native plants, streams that run through the pedestrianemerge spines. as integral players in the restoration of our environmental matrix. By embracing indigenous flora, these domestic havens sanctuaries Storm water was incorporated into become the design with dry that extend the reach of natural habitats, fostering biodiversity and streams, bio retention, and two engineered storm water wetlands. The supporting a healthier, balanced ecosystem. Theboth influence of wellstreams were placed inmore the pedestrian channels, and followed the planned residential landscapes reaches beyond property lines, contributing natural topography of the site to meet at the mall’s core. There, any towater the broader mission human habitats with be theused natural cascades underofaharmonizing large circular surface that could for world. performances or events in the mall core. The core was intended to be an safe pedestrian space where residents, shoppers, and workers can converge and connect with others.

GEORGIA SQ. MALL PLAN

Mall core

Residential core

Reforested area

Stormwater wetland

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Umbrella seating

Wildflower mounds

Dry creek

Bridges

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CLOSE-UP OF MALL CORE CLOSE-U

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The design began with a pedestrian spine running throughout the mall.

The focus then became making the spine more fluid.

Two pedestrian cores were chosen to serve shoppers and residents

Perspective of the terraced seating area within the mall core.

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