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OBSERVATORY THE HARBORAGE INTERGENERATIONAL CENTER THE QUEEN’S MIRRAGE THE SENTINELS DELANO’S TURN KILLA ORBZ NOAH’S P(ARK) PROFESSIONAL WORK
As a designer my goal is to create experiences for people and animals through the art of storytelling and design. I seek to create places that are imaginative, creative, unique, and inspire the people who would visit them.
SKY VIEWING MOUND
SECONDARY VIEWING MOUND LIGHTED PATHWAY
SEATING GLOB LIGHTS
Ps Hand Rendering
Civil3D
Adobe Photoshop
Clay Modeling
A soft light emerges from Manhattan City Park as the stars and galaxies glow in the night. Lights illuminate the winding pathway that runs through the park mimicking the heavenly bodies above.Visitors relax on viewing mounds or sit on benches and gaze upon the celestial show in the sky. When the sun rises in the sky and the stars fade away, light filters through the trees that surround the viewing mounds generating spectacular light and shadow. As the earth revolves around the sun and the sky changes with the rotating world, visitors can see the sky in all its phases. The park acts as an observatory that opens a window to the cosmos just beyond our reach.
Preliminary Study Model created to understand mound topography.
SEATING SKY VIEWING MOUND LIGHTED PATHWAY
LIGHT FILTERING TREES
SKY VIEWING MOUND
LIGHT FILTERING TREES
LIGHTED PATHWAY
Ps Hand Rendering
Clay Modeling
Adobe Photoshop
Watercolor
Photography
The tall grasses and wildflowers sway in the gentle breeze that blows across Marlatt Park in Manhattan, Kansas. Emerging from the sea of grass rises three skeletal forms resembling the ancient rolling hills of the surrounding areas. The mysterious forms offer refuge to the creatures, humans, and animals alike, that come to the prairie. Plants growing around the structures slightly camouflage the wire-frame form offering a sense of protection to the harborage from the outside forces that threaten it.Visitors are offered a filtered view to the ocean of land that lies beyond the skeleton form of the shelters. The harborage acts as a subtle fortress for observation in the unending elegant prairie landscape.
Clay Model used to explore different layout positions for the three structures
Study sketches used to investigate different texture applications and path configurations for structures.
SHELTER LOCATION
SHELTER MIMICS PRAIRIE LANDFORM
WIRE FRAME BLENDS WITH PRAIRIE
LIGHTING PLAN
GREEN ROOF
DRAINAGEWAY
RAIN GARDEN PARKING
Ps Civil3D
LIVE
Adobe Photoshop
SketchUp/Lumion
Live promotes healthy lifestyles for users of the site. Spaces on the site promote healthy eating, exercise, and places to rejoice in a meaningful existence.
Relator/Teamwork
LEARN
Learning provides users with different educational activities that take place around the site. Each generation has a unique perspective and can learn from each other.
PLAY
Play aims to foster a fun environment that is stress-free. The site offers a variety of opportunities that let all generations play and interact with one another.
SHARE
The site allows users to share their ideas of Live, Learn, and Play. Share also reaches outside the site and creates the sense of community throughout the area.
UNDERGROUND DRAINAGEWAY
SLOPPED WETLAND
3D model created using Lumion shows lighting for the Intergenerational Center.
INTERIOR RAMP AND SLIDE
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS DISPLAYED IN CHAMBERS
*PROJECT WAS CREATED FOR THE 2018 WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING’S IMAGINATIONS DESIGN COMPETITION TO SHOWCASE STUDENT TALENT ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERS
Ps Adobe Photoshop
Lumion
Relator/Teamwork
Ai Storytelling
Adobe Illustrator
Achiever
KSU Team Members: Mackenzie Wendling, Shelby Cook, Mackenzie Yeager, Me (Team Leader) Awards: Disney Imaginations Semi-Finalist
Long ago in the ancient land of Mesopotamia Amytis, the queen of Babylon, longed for her homeland of Media. According to legend, her husband, King Nebuchadnezzar II, built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to please the homesick queen. Today, any physical trace of the Gardens has vanished from the earth. Legends were all that was left of the Babylonian wonder, and no one knew if it really existed. However, after two millennia, the skeleton of the Gardens has finally been uncovered. Upon discovery, the memories of the garden spring to life and reveal themselves to curious adventurers.Vibrant visions of plants that once grew in the gardens fill the skeleton’s colonnades.Visitors who come to the Queen’s Mirage give power to the memories that were left in the structure. With each visitor who walks through the structure, more of the legendary garden is recovered. The Queen’s Mirage invites guests to come and discover a lost legend and bring an ancient wonder back to life.
The Queens Mirrage is an interactive experience that becomes more active as visitors move around the site. Guests travel up a ramp and activate lights and optical illusions of blooming plants.
CATENARY LIGHTING LIVE OAKS
SPANISH MOSS
MOVABLE HAMMOCK POLES
HAMMOCKS
CAFE SEATING
Ps Hand Rendering
Adobe Photoshop
Watercolor
SketchUp
Upon entering the city of Savannah, Georgia visitors are greeted by a legion of steady and robust oak trees. Ethereal Spanish moss hugs the twisting arms of the oaks, creating a delicate canopy as visitors stroll beneath the giant protectors of the city. Massive trunks are complemented by the gentle touch of the Spanish moss. A strange sensation covers the ground as if the trees and the moss have come to life as the sun shines through casting shadows.Visitors leave the city in the careful guardianship of the sturdy live oaks and eerie Spanish moss.
HAMMOCK GROVE STAGE
SCREENING
CAFE SEATING
SCREENING
SEATING
BRASS CAPPED HAMMOCK BASE
WARM LIGHTING
PROGRAMMABLE COLOR CHANGING LIGHTS
Cultural Public Art
Civic plaza gives the community of Delano a public gathering place.
Using art to show Delano’s Identity drove the concept of the design.
Street art is used to communicate Delano’s cultural identity.
Ai Sketch Up
Lumion
Adobe Illustrator
Relator/Teamwork
Civil3D
Achiever
KSU Team Member; Me, Caleb Wagner, Emilee Voigt, Mackenzie Wendling
Awards: New Horizons Award - Kansas APA, Student Honor Award- ASLA Central States Our concept stems from the overall idea of art. Art becomes the center of our project, being a universal element that can be applied to many different aspects. We brought in ecology, history and culture as three elements that art can utilize and can be seen throughout Delano. From this triangle of elements, with art sitting at the center, we decided on five mechanisms that we believe will help the community grow and move into the future: growing urban ecosystems, nursing public health, enlivening sensory experiences, storytelling the Delano narrative and cultivating urban farming.
Civic Plaza
Cultural Street Art
Riverfront Park Delano Boardwalk
Overview of Delano’s Riverfront design.
PORTAL TO LEVEL
Creation of maze in Unreal Engine 4.
CHARACTER PLAYER
Killa Orb placement and tracking range that senses and follows when the player runs past.
Unreal Engine 4
Adaptability
Intellection
KSU Team Member: Esteban Huerta
As part of an advanced studio done at Kansas State University, my classmates and I were introduced to Unreal Engine 4. Throughout the semester I self-taught myself to use the new, unfamiliar program. As part of our curriculum, we were tasked with creating a mini computer game. Killa Orbz is a single player, a third-person puzzle game where players explore multiple levels of colorful mazes while avoiding the Killa Orbz that follow the player around. If caught and hit by an Orb then the game is over, and the player must restart at level one. The mazes feature different brightly colored rooms that bend reality by slowing and speeding up time. Players must search through the mazes and find the portal to get to the next level before the Killa Orbz find you!
Process of creating the mini game in Unreal Engine 4.
Blueprint created in Unreal Engine 4 to program the game.
Ps Adobe Photoshop
Rhino
Relator/Teamwork
KSU Team Members: Shelby Cooke, Elsa Stoffel, Me Urban parks used to be designed as a social space and aesthetic experience for people. The parks of the future need to be resilient for disasters that are bound to happen (flooding, rising temperatures, water shortage, illness, etc.). Paying homage to Frederick Law Olmsted, the ‘father’ of landscape architecture, we have reinterpreted his idea of a single work of art into a living system that is made up of three different stages. While the park is in stage one, or the resting state, it provides a typical park experience. When the park transitions to stage two, it uses a series of underground aqueducts to sequester water when needed—this can be in result of underground pipes needing relief or in response to a disastrous event. The aqueducts underneath the grid of Manhattan will clean and purify the water as it travels to fill up the basins in the park to democratize the water for all. The potable water that fills the detention basins in the park molds to the landscape, creating different forms depending on the amount of water dispersed, abstracting Olmsted’s idea of “framing views.” When the water reaches a certain level in the basins, community gathering spaces emerge around poles that act as beacons to accommodate people in need. At stage three within the park, when the water reaches its full capacity of designed flooding, the primary paths and community spaces in the form of plazas float to ensure a continuous circulation. Emergency shelters are brought to the plazas, providing people with food, water, and a sense of community. Each stage of designed flooding creates a different experience for the visitors of Noah’s P(ark). In the future, urban parks should be an adaptable, living system that responds to human and ecological needs.
CONCEPT SKETCH
STEP ONE Water is taken from the coast or most flooded areas and cleaned and moved through aqueducts.
STEP TWO Basins in the P(ark) fill with clean, potable water from the aqueducts for the city.
STEP THREE Temporary shelters expand when flooded and shelters are flown in to community spaces in times of need.
STEP ONE: RESTING
STEP TWO:TRANSITION
STEP THREE: COMMUNITY
STEP ONE: RESTING
STEP THREE: COMMUNITY
STEP TWO:TRANSITION
STEP ONE
STEP TWO
STEP THREE
ROUNDABOUT DRAFT AT TRACE IN SAN MARCOS TX
Adobe Creative
Civil3D
Microsoft Office
Relator/Teamwork
Adaptability
Intellection
Responsibility
Achiever
LEGEND 1
OPEN PLAY
2
BALL FIELDS
3
AMENITY CENTER
4
EDUCATION CENTER
5
DIRECTIONAL TOWER
6
AMPHITHEATER
7
PLAZA
LA CIMA CENTRAL PARK IN SAN MARCOS,TX
RENDERING OF BELTERRA ENTRY IN AUSTIN,TX
ROUNDABOUT RENDERING AT TRACE IN SAN MARCOS TX
LUMION TRACE SIGN IN SAN MARCOS,TX
(316) 284-1377 mkdalke@ksu.edu 625 Stone Creek Dr, Newton, KS 67114