MARIA OLSEN
The Pennsylvania State University Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
RESUME: EDUCATION: The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania •Attending a five year degree program with a focus in Landscape Architecture •Graduation with Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA), May 2017 •Minors in Geography and Environmental Inquiry.
NAME:
Maria Olsen
ADDRESS:
320 S. Fraser St. State College, PA 16801
Akademie für Internationale Bildung (AIB) gGmbH (Academy for International Education) Bonn, Germany •Attended Fall 2016, studying Landscape Architecture •Study abroad required for Graduation credits. •Collaboration program with Texas A&M University with a focus in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
PHONE:
516.813.6476
CERTIFICATIONS & CREDENTIALS:
EMAIL:
MariaAshley122@gmail.com
National Occupancy Competency Training Institute (N.O.C.T.I) •Certification in Architectural Drafting
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Linkedin.com/in/mariaolsen122
SKYPE:
MariaAshley122
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Associate •Credential that denotes general knowledge of green design, construction, and operations.
ACTIVITIES: Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity: Professional Co-Ed Fraternity for Architecture & the Allied Arts •Executive Board Treasurer Spring 2014-Summer 2016 •Professional Events Chair: Fall 2013 ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects) •Student Member
AWARDS & HONORS: Contributor to 2016 ASLA Student Design Award: •Dan Kiley Landscapes in Bartholomew County, Indiana and Planting Typologies at the Miller Garden and North Christian Church Gerald R. Claps Career and Technical Center(GC Tech), Levittown, New York •Graduation with a Career and Technical Endorsed Diploma, June 2012 •Attended a two year Architectural Drafting course, September 2010-June 2012
PERSONAL STATEMENT STATEMENT Landscape Architecture; many will tell you that to design landscape architecture is to design outdoor environments, but I view it as something more. I view being a landscape designer as an opportunity to shape people’s experiences with the environment while also educating the public. Minors in Geography and Environmental Inquiry have allowed me to further my studies in how people interact with their environments and how these interactions are the foundations for communities and development. My aspirations for my career in landscape architecture is to work within the public sector. I have a strong interest in community development and planning. This career path allows me to utilize my education in social dynamics and geographical studies as well as my design curriculum. I hope to work for a company or firm that encourages sustainability. Recently, I earned my LEED Green Associates Credential in order to further me in my studies of sustainable design. I hope to earn an AP credential in Neighborhood Development soon. All these things considered, I am eager to learn and to see myself grow in the field of landscape architecture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
LOWER SCHUYKILL GARDEN FESTIVAL AND LEGACY PLAN: PHILADELPHIA, PA PAGES 1-4 URBAN LANDSCAPE CATALYST PHILADELPHIA STUDIO, 2015 LARGE SCALE URBAN PLANNING AND LEGACY PLANNING WITH ERIC TAMULONIS OF WRT
NEIGHBORHOOD NODES: HOME GROWN NODES: BONN,GERMANY PAGES 5-10 BONN, GERMANY DESIGN STUDIO-3.94KM, 2016 DESIGN WITH INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
URBAN COMMUNITY TIES: STATE COLLEGE, PA PAGES 11-14 DESIGN AND THEORY IV: SITE AND COMMUNITY DESIGN, 2015 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: UNIVERSITY PARK, PA PAGES 15-18 DESIGN AND THEORY II: INTRODUCTION TO ISSUES OF PLACEC , 2014 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FOCUS
LINES OF CONNECTIVITY WITHIN WATERSHED 263: BALTIMORE, MD PAGES 19-24 BALTIMORE ECOSYSTEM STUDY DESIGN STUDIO, 2016 ECOLOGICAL PLANNING AND URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN TECHNIQUES WITH LARRY GORENFLO
THEORY, DETAILS AND OUTSIDE INSPIRATIONS PAGES 25-26
LOWER SCHUYKILL GARDEN FESTIVAL AND LEGACY PLAN: PHILADELPHIA, PA GARDEN FESTIVAL PLAN
LOWER
SCHUYLKILL
FRAMING THE FUTURE THROUGH THE PAST CONCEPT The Lower Schuylkill has many opportunities for development in the future. But until this land is claimed for the purpose the City of Philadelphia, it lays vacant and delapidated. The proposal for this design would provide this site with a purpose while also prepping the land for the eventual design through the use of the garden festival and a legacy plan. By pairing the theme of the growth of public spaces through time and the expansive definitions of public park, it is possible to create a garden festival that expresses the importance of public space while being highly interactive..
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LEGACY PLAN The legacy plan stands to serve as community molding and creates the infrastructure necessary to repair these brownfield sites. By keeping the main structures of buildings, circulation and public spaces, the garden festival serves as the foundation for a newly developed area. In this case, the garden festival create new park space, maintains the botanical area as well as providing housing for those that were removed during the construction of the garden festival site.
CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT
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CONTEXT
CONCEPT
Control
Kevin Lynch Public Space Motivators Sense
Access
Fit Vitality
Open Space Pleasant Ground Recreational Park
Reform Park
Sustainable Park
Philadelphia Southwest Philadelphia Region Kingsessing Neighborhood Eastwick Neighborhood Proposed Garden Festival Site
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Defining the Sustainable Park: A Fifth Model for Urban Parks
Galen Cranz Classifications of Park
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NEIGHBORHOOD NODES: HOME GROWN NODES: BONN,GERMANY Residence Program Make Up of Dransdorf
DIAGRAMMING
Transportation Access
Green Spaces Kleingartens
22%
Households
31%
Family
6%
Couples
8%
Singles
MARIA OLSEN MADELEINE CRUZ ANNAMARYA ROJAS BREANNA-LYNN MONTALVO
International Garden
78% Housing Types
Dransdorf Housing Population under 25
Tram/Train Bus Rail line Roads
GREEN SPACES
~35%
GROUP SITE SELECTION
BONN TANNEBUSCH
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Friedhof Dransdorf
BONN DRANSDORF
Grünzug Bonn Dransdorf
Kleingarten -anlage Am Wasserfeld AndreasSchönmüller
Access to Markets
Institutions
Commercial Sector Statistics Sales & Service Establishments 60.2% Whole-sale & Construction 15.6% Auto-Motive Industry Based 24.1%
Markets Rail line Roads
Schools Churches Municipal Rail line Roads
BONN NORDSTADT
BONN ENDENICH
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BONN WESTSTADT
CONCEPT In order to better understand the needs of Dransdorf and Endenich, I completed an extensive study that expressed what was lacking in these communities. Dransdorf and Endenich manifest their community’s character in unique ways. Dransdorf boasts strong community ties through its wide variety of nationalities and family values, but its commercial sector proves to lack in essential elements. Its warehouses and car based industry do not create outdoor spaces for gathering as well as there being a lack of food infrastructure. Its citizens are currently seeking more space for outdoor recreation and gardening as well. Endenich boast a large student population. Although its commercial sector is high functioning in part due to the students there, the same student lack essential recreational space. I hope to address this need for fresh foods as well as create outdoor community spaces that encompass the ideals of accessibility, environmental interaction and community involvement through the creation of a farmer’s market, educational area and community garden plots. This can be accomplished through this design. A farmer‘s market paired with community gardens and educational areas can serve these communities best.
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Community Garden
Circulation
Primary Circulation Secondary Circulation Tertiary Circulation
Farmer’s Market
Educational Area
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The image to the left, is a representation of the farmer’s market. This is a response to the community of Dransdorf lackinng adequate access to fresh foods and super markets within walking distance. Located within the farmer’s market is a plaza space meant to be used by the venders that come with fresh foods to be sold to locals. Also present within this area is a Cafe, which will be run by the community and provide a placec where those who are in the educational areas or community garden a place to sit and relax. The farmer’s market area is surrounded by a curved boardwalk that incorporates seating and interactive spaces for locals to gather and use as social space. This area can also hold events for the locals such as Christmas Markets or community meetings.
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The community garden is represented by the image to the left. It will provide more lots for the locals to grow their own crops whether for their own personal
use of to sell at the farmer’s market. There are several different sized lots in order to have variety for different expertise level garderners. In this community, garden plots are a commodity and are highly sought after. Lastly is the educational area which you can see on the bottom right of the page. This area is meant for the surround school in order to have outdoor classrooms and opportunities to learn about the outdoors. There is an international library in this area to provided books for the 37+ different nationalities in Dransdorf.
Community Garden
Farmer’s Market
Educational Area
Along side the learning aspects of the educational space, there are also more growing plots and recycling areas in order to teach the children about proper recycling.
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URBAN COMMUNITY TIES: STATE COLLEGE, PA
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VEGETATION TRANSITION EXISTING VEGETATION CONCEPT Threads are the small wonders that bring some many aspects of life together. Whether it be literally or figuratively, threads play a large part in our lives. By using this concept at the North Atherton site, I was able to create a functioning community that not only caters to its residents but the community surrounding it. The interweaving program elements elegantly symbolize the threads of the community.This exaggerated line work creates many opportunities for unique spaces. Utilizing the built environment resulting from the broad swaths of “thread”,promenades that tie the site together perpendicularly were created. The community set up itself creates a functional environment from the struggling artist to the family man and his three kids. This space was woven to provide for a lifetime.Although most of the site is medium to high-density housing, there is a cohousing development that pays homage to the original occupants of this land. The development located at the south end of the site reveals self organized commons and spaces that allow residents to live and thrive together.
INTERACTIVE NODES REMAINING VEGETATION
PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION PROPOSED VEGETATION
VEHICULAR CIRCULATION
PUBLIC SPACE
PROGRAM RELATIONSHIPS
COMBINED VEGETATION
SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION FIGURE GROUND
STRUCTURES
HOUSING DENSITIES Recreation Housing Corridor Restoration
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CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
The main idea behind this design is to place the Center for the Environment into the site without altering the true identity of the site. This is accomplished through the juxtaposition of the free flowing organic forms of the natural environment and the rigid geometric elements of the man made environment.
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CFE PLANTING SCHEDULE Origin:
Botanical Name:
Common Name:
Height:
Life Cycle:
Quantity:
2’-5’
Perennial
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Prairie Planters: Native
Andropogan virginicus
Broomsedge Blue Stem
Native
Asclepia tuberosa
Butterfly Weed
1 1/2’-2’
Perennial
57
Native
Asclepia verticillata
Whorled Milkweed
1’-3’
Perennial
126
Native
Erigeron annus
Eastern Daisy Fleabane
3 1/2’
Perennial
107
Native
Rudbeckia hirta
Blackeyed Susan
1’-2’
Perennial
58
2’
Perennial
66
Rain Garden: Native
Carex stricta
Tussock Sedge
Native
Iris versacolor
Blue Flag Iris
2’-2 1/2’
Perennial
126
Native
Lobelia siphilitica
Great Blue Lobelia
2’-3’
Perennial
290
Native
Onoclea sensibilis
Sensitive Fern
3’-4’
Perennial
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Image Sources:
http://www.nathankramer.com/garden/plants_single.asp?id=1287 http://www.baylake.org/community_interest/groups/BLIA/PlantGiveAway/GreatBlueLobelia.jpg http://www.americanmeadows.com/blue-flag-iris-seeds http://www.sharonfoc.org/sightings/tussock_sedge.html http://elstika.com/beautiful-black-eyed-susan-free-desktop-pictures.html#.U18fI_ldV8E
http://photos.jstechs.com/Tennessee/9-Eastern-Daisy-Fleabane.html http://minnesotaseasons.com/Plants/whorled_milkweed.html http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Butterfly_Weed_Asclepias_tuberosa_Umbel.jpg http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1391330
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LINES OF CONNECTIVITY WITHIN WATERSHED 263: BALTIMORE, MD
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THEORY, DETAILS AND OUTSIDE INSPIRATIONS PLANTING TYPOLOGIES: QUINCUNX Gleditsia triacanthos (Honey Locust)
FALL
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WINTER
SPRING
SUMMER
MODEL MAKING Site Models Using Found Objects and Clay
DIY PROJECTS Dining Room Chairs
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CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS & DETAILS
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THANK YOU
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