A Design Portfolio
Lindley Harmon
Contents Introduction.......................................................................................................................1 Community Design...................................................................................................................................... 2
Development on Tillotson.................................................................................................................3 Bainbridge Island.................................................................................................................................5
Park And Open Space Design..........................................................................................6 Seattle Waterfront..............................................................................................................................7
Main St., Muncie.................................................................................................................................10
Atypical Design........................................................................................................................12
Living Wall.............................................................................................................................................13
Technical Design......................................................................................................................16 GIS Northern Indiana.......................................................................................................................17
GIS Internship, Minnetrista..........................................................................................................19 GIS Conference Poster Submittal 2011..............................................................................21 Belle Residence Regrading...........................................................................................................22
Introduction
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This portfolio is a compilation of my works throughout my college career. Most of these are assignments that were given to me by professors, but some are done just for my pure enjoyment. As the years progressed through my college career I experienced many changes in styles of drawing, the way I described and wrote things, and in the way I viewed the world as a whole. This seems evident in my designs, especially to myself, and I believe every step along the way and every change made to my drawing and design style was for a better result. Every design in this book was a learning experience, and one that I am very grateful for. I hope that with this book, a subtle understanding can be taken of my character and my personality. In every design there is a hint of me as a person, and it can be seen if looked at through observant eyes. In my collegiate career there have been ups and downs, highs and lows, and goods and bads, but I embrace them all wholeheartedly. Without those stepping stones, I would not be where I am today. I believe I have blossomed as a designer, and have adopted all encouragement, criticisms, and praise with grace.
Community Design
The following projects represent the training and experience I have received in the area of community design. They incorporate smart growth techniques, large community storm drainage, green streets, and housing development variety. The projects have a central focus on safe pedestrian design and good economic development in both the commercial and residential zones.
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Development on Tillotson
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This was one of our first large scale development projects. The goal of this project was to redevelop an unused plot of land along Tillotson road in Muncie, Indiana and create a community with several layers of living situations. I created two major boulevards with the premium lots facing a park space that would be used to control runoff from the entire site. There is also a focus on creating pedestrian safe crossings and minimizing vehicular and pedestrian traffic conflicts.
There is a transitional area between the premium lots and townhouses that is filled with single-family homes. The townhouses line the commercial core and a boulevard running to the park. The elevations show the feel of the streetscape and the perspective shows what the alleyways are intended to look like. My main goal in this project was to merge housing types and varieties without creating indifferences between lot owners or renters.
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Bainbridge Island
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At the end of September of 2008 the Landscape Architecture 301 studio took a trip to Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. There was a stop on Bainbridge Island. The class was asked to develop a plot of land near the center of the island. It was to be developed into a community, including some commercial development. I created several “cores� of houses, each with a central open space. Three of the housing cores line the drop to a forested marsh that I chose to keep preserved.
Park and Open Space Design
An abundant amount of my projects that I have been assigned are in the area of park and open space design. The project represented here depicts my abilities at organization and graphic representation. The focus area of most of my park designs is accommodation. In my designs I incorporate a variety of activity destinations and areas for relaxation.
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Seattle Waterfront
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The Seattle waterfront project was given to us in our 5th year as our final studio project. The idea behind the project was to bring the people of Seattle to the water, and the water to the people. This was a group project, and this was my contribution to the group project. I designed a pier and boardwalk in the most southern part of the whole site, which happened to also be the most culturally linked area to Seattle’s history. The top perspective is of the boardwalk, and the bottom perspective is of the pier I designed for the site, which included a culture center and museum.
I also designed the road that runs through the whole site along the waterfront. I designed it as a boulevard type street, with two lanes of traffic going both ways. In the center of the boulevard, trees and lighting elements alternate. Down the left side of the street is a bicycle lane, separated from traffic by a tree filled median. The bike lane is also lowered 3 inches from the pedestrian walkway to prevent pedestrians from walking into the bike lane. On the right side of the street a pre-existing rail line runs from north to south, which we utilized as a street car line.
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My individual site plan is shown here. The site plan connects to a larger master plan in which my two other group members designed sites. The plan shows the boardwalk that runs along the store fronts, the created boulevard along the waterfront, and the historic pier plan. Also, the painted design for the ferry pier is shown in this plan. The idea was the inner city pedestrian would be drawn to the park by the use of water features within sight lines.
Main St., Muncie The Muncie Main Street project was assigned to us in fall semester of 2010. The goal of this project was to redesign Main Street in downtown Muncie to invigorate and promote growth downtown, and also to increase pedestrian activity. My main concept was to create a waved street, which in turn created larger sidewalk spaces that could be used for pedestrian gathering. The waved nature of the street is intended as well to decrease the speed of vehicular traffic. A grid system of trees is lined throughout the entire street area and surrounding park area as a unifying element to the design.
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Master Plan
Layers Diagram
Section
The site plan and the layers diagram shown here show the grid system of trees that is laid out across the space. The waved design of the sidewalk and street can also been seen in the plan. In the section, the paving and plant materials are shown, as well as sizes of spaces in relation to human scale. The section shows the smallest size of a sidwalk along Main Street in my design, and also shows the largest size. The smallest point of sidewalk space is 5’ shown on the right, and the largest point is 20’ shown on the left.
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Atypical Design
The following design is an out of the ordinary, unconventional design. It is a design that may be seen more often in future years, or a design that is meant to be temporary. In this design I used my creativity to create a piece of art with the textures, colors, and types of plants used. These, along with the actual lines, shapes, and patterns in the design, were an integral part of the plan as a whole.
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Living Wall In this project we were asked to choose a site, within the architecture building, that we believed was “lost� and needed to be used or reclaimed. I chose a wall within the architecture building adjacent to the sloped glass ceiling because I knew it would provide the most amount of light. Each floor on the architecture building has a balcony to an atrium, and this wall can be seen from all floors. Each floor is also color coded, and the design and plant choice reflected this.
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The goal of this space was to reclaim it by creating a more interesting personal experience within the space. There are hardscape and soft scape features added. Four large stripes come across the space and reflect the colors of the floors which they connect with. Some of these stripes are continued on into a hardscape feature reflecting the wooden board installation in the basement. The yellow stripe continues outside, split by the windows, and into the exterior space on the rooftop.
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Top View
There is also a glass overlook in the center of this same stripe which allows access for users from the interior space to look and feel the plants on the wall. In the basement there is a lighted overhead plane reflecting the rest of the design. This was added in order to reduce scale to a human level. This particular site also connects to two other areas, a balcony and an interior space which were designed in conjunction with two peers to allow this space to connect into theirs fluidly.
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Technical Design
My technical design capabilities start dating back to high school. Auto CAD classes were what I enjoyed the most and were my influence to pursue a design career. I began GIS training junior year, and completed a semester long project using GIS alone. I also had the liberty of completing a GIS internship. Auto CAD and GIS are both important tools in the architectural world and I am fortunate to have acquired an abundant amount of experience and instruction in both programs.
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GIS Northern Indiana
As for the graphic aspect, we chose to overlay the GIS map that had the most influential information with several techniques to help strengthen our ideas. We used circles and numbers to show our individual sites, lines and arrows to show trails and connections, and asterisks to show important nodes. In this manner we were able to take an intricate mapping system that a person with no training would have a hard time understanding, and turn it into a concept map that is easily understood by all people.
This was our final project combining all of our GIS training we received during the fall semester of 2009. We were given a very large scale site, and while working in groups, we constructed a list of set goals and objectives that we wanted to accomplish on the site. Working with these goals and objectives we created several information laden GIS maps and several concept maps to use together in order to create our final product. The theme of this particular concept was “We’re respecting our planet, while
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Park Suitability
Urban Suitability
Goal#1: Provide physical linkages between the major towns throughout Noble and surrounding counties in the region to physically and culturally connect them through diversified experiences. Objective: Create a network by locating potential trail heads and utilize existing abandoned and active rail lines, highways, and proposed trails. Goal#2: Protect the environment, sensitive ecosystems, and wildlife corridors. Objectives: Provide a Greenbelt and Park System, Locate in natural wildlife corridors, Preserve sensitive areas, Use as flood control/drainage method (Boston Emerald Necklace) Goal#3: Provide cultural/historical connections in order to preserve the agricultural roots of the region/ lifestyle and heritage. Objectives: Reclaim industrial parks for recreational use, Highlight agricultural lands through celebration, Use greenbelts and green corridors to decrease storm water/runoff from agricultural land. Goal#4: Increase existing youth recreational areas by 25%. Objectives: Provide seasonal recreational opportunities, Locate potential lakes (ice skating), Locate sites for snow boarding, Cross county skiing, Lakes (summer: skiing, etc.), Provide convenient access to youth-related recreation, Locate areas of high-density youth, Locate schools/ YMCAs adjacent to youth, Locate parks near youth, Locate existing urban recreation Goal#5: Strengthen and expand the local economy to ensure a stable and prosperous future for its residents. Objectives: Contain Development using Smart Growth techniques, Create Zoning Areas that allow development and light industries to have minimal impacts on adjacent properties, Promote organized economic advancement, Require new businesses and light industries to locate in areas where satisfactory public, facilities already exist and in areas zoned for those particular uses, Ensure proposed industrial sites are well-suited to the surrounding uses.
protecting our roots�. We focused on creating interesting trails with different experiences. These trails would promote exercise, provide connections between existing communities and were located along old pre-existing rail lines. Each trail led to a different area, and each trail has its own unique experience. This keeps the trails interesting, and makes people want to keep going, rather than getting bored and not getting the full experience.
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GIS Internship, Minnetrista I completed a 14 week long internship with Minnetrista in Muncie. During this internship I was given many tasks, but my main goal during the internship was to enhance and complete a basemap that was started by other interns. I completed the basemap to the most intricate level of detail that GIS allows. I added walls, trees, planting beds, curbs, parking spaces, new additions to the trail in the campus, and small details such as parking bumpers, rocks, and arbors to the map.
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I also did work with a GPS system and using that to locate unmarked trees on campus. I used a mobile GPS called a Trimble and located more than 100 unmarked trees on campus. I also added their scientific and common names into an attributes table on their layer. The image at the top of the page shows the unmarked trees in the nature area of Minnetrista campus, they are shown as purple dots. I marked the locations of many utilities on campus, through measurement and aerial photography interpretation for lights and drains.
GIS Internship, Minnetrista
GPS Work
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Poster, GIS Conference ‘11 The GIS Conference for 2011 was held in Muncie. There is a poster design contest for the conference and this was my submission. The poster is a graphic representation of my internship and what I learned or did during it. It shows my experiences with custom map making, GPS and Trimble use, and making scale dependent maps for mobile viewing. All this is in addition to my main goal of the internship which was to update the basemap for Minnetrista campus.
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Belle Residence This is a project for an engineering class that was taken fall semester of 2008. In the prompt we were given an existing building with an existing landscape, then had to regrade the landscape to accommodate rainfall for the area, and to redirect runoff in a way that was appropriate. We also were required to include a play area, a garden, and a shed. In my solution the shed and the garden were placed together in the north-west corner of the lot.
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