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Green Line Village Mixed Use Community Design 2018 Spring Semester Green Line Village is a mixed-use community that incorporates affordable town homes, apartment buildings, and a small commercial district into a naturalistic site found on Atherton Street, State College, PA. Green Line Village focuses on giving all residents their own outdoor sanctuary. The intent of the design is to progressively create multiple spaces that diffuse into each other. These user spaces range from private, semiprivate, semipublic, and public. The diffusion between spaces is achieved through a progression of planting and material choices as well as volumetric changes between spaces. The mixed use community design studio was a comprehensive semester long project that was developed in two phases and two scales. Phase one worked within the regional master planning scale developing the initial layout for the community. In phase two, a community space within the master plan was further investigated and designed.
Pedestrian Circulation
Vehicular Circulation
Commercial Circulation
Residential Buildings Commercial Buildings
Community Private Spaces Multi-User Spaces
Public Park Community Center
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Section showing the diffusion between semiprivate to semi public spaces through plantings and volumetric change.
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Section showing the diffusion between semiprivate and private to semiprivate and public spaces through plantings and volumetric change.
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Self-Sustaining Resilience Landscape System Village Design of Mang’ula B, Tanzania 2018 Summer Semester Abroad, Tanzania Since the Udzngwa Mountains were deemed a National Park in 1992, residents within Mang’ula B have experienced land use problems. A few of these problems include restrictions on basic living resource, which leaves residence unable to college dead wood or expand village agriculture, the annual flooding throughout the village due to the rainy season, and a population rise due to the development of the paved main access road. Self-Sustaining Resilence Lanscape System delves into and immediate problem within an unplanned developing nation. The project explores a relationship between economic analysis planning, sustenance planning, and basic stormwater management.
Adding more ground cover, shrubs, and trees increases macropores and micropores in soil for faster infiltration rates
Compacted soil and little root stucture causing water to sit on top of soil
Self-Sustaining Resilience Landscape System is intended to increase the resource means of individual household owners by introducing a planting plan model that can increase the availablility of food and fuel. The model is broken up into three different orders based on economic wealth inspired by Stalher’s stream order. The models include species of plants that will provide resources for everyday use and if applicable yields sold in the markets. The benefits of the model will not be exclusively to the homeowner but the entire village. The planting of trees, shrubs, and groundcover will allow higher water infiltration rates during the rainy season, lessening the flooding impact. This model will also create a decrease in the temperature index by lessening outdoor walking temperatures and indoor household temperatures through the introduction of more shade.
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The inspiration for project is the Stahlers Stream Order explaining the evaluation the hierarchy of streams from sources downstream. When two first orders mesh together they form a second order. When two second orders mesh together they form a third order. As you move up in the order, the volume of the water increases. This led to the establishment of three orders for the project with the same principles. Strahler, A. N. (1952), “Hypsometric (area-altitude) analysis of erosional topology”, Geological Society of America Bulletin 63 (11): 1117–1142
Overall canopy has increased creating more shade.
First Order Affordable Smallest planting volume.
especially during the rainy season.
Second Order Increased means Medium amount of planting volume.
When two affordable first orders mesh together they can create a second order that will cover the same amount of canopy density and root structure. When two second orders, increased means, mesh together they create the same volumetric level of canopy and roots as the tertiary order. This means you do not need to be in the tertiary order to achieve larger canopy coverage and increased root structures. Individually all homeowners of the orders gain food and fuel.
Tertiary Order Affluent economic standing. Largest amount of planting volume.
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Connective Corridor Transect GIS Ecological Response Fall Semester 2017 The purpose of the project is to reinstate fragmented forest to help diversify and strengthen habitats by developing green corridors and connecting multiple patches to larger and healthier forest areas. This also includes the development of green overpasses to connect patches caused by road infrastructure. This is achieved by creating a corridor transect that is manipulated through the watershed.
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The Connective Transect above is a four section transect that can be manipulated and developed throughout the watershed. It reinstates the corridor within the most prevalent land use areas that includes roads, suburban developments, and rural agricultural land. The section shown below is the entire corridor shown in plan, if it was straight.
The maps below show how development caused by urban sprawl and agriculture has fragmented the forest areas within the watershed. The density areas, State College and Bellefonte, contain the most roads as well as housing, causing the forest areas to diminish. Right outside of those town centers, agriculture has taken over causing the existing forest to become fragmented into three sections.
Road Network
Forest Areas
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Spring Creek Watershed Boundary
Spring Creek Watershed Boundary
Below is a master plan concept of how a connective corridor can be developed within the Spring Creek Watershed. There are four different sections in the corridor, roadway infrastructure, suburban infrastructure, rural infrastructure, and natural lands.
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Final research map shows the existing forest over top of a parcel land use map with roads. On top of the overlay is a weighted sum suitability map showing the most suitable land to build a corridor. This concludes three possible belts of corridors within the watershed.
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Internship AECOM Department of Transportation, Landscape Architecture June 2018 - August 2018
Concept Submission Concept Submission was a project submission that I assisted on with a lead landscape designer. We were tasked to create a playful visual landscape that would not allow pedestrians to walk through it. I assisted on creating concept designs, image boards, renderings, and figure models to portray our vision to the planning committee. The concept was to create landscape drumlins that represented the glacier drumlins that reside in the Boston Harbor.
The section above shows oscillating organic drumlins in relation to the rigid linear columnar trees. The building was provided by the AECOM Architecture Department. The section below shows the designed landscape in relation to the road and pedestrian sidewalk.
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Four Road Redesign, Bethlehem, Israel Four Road Redesign was a large-scale project intended to create more pedestrian and tourism friendly roads in Bethlehem, Israel that lead to Jerusalem. I was part of a team of over ten employees, which included civil engineers. I was tasked with fixing red-lines on construction documents, helping develop final construction documents, and assisting on the development of paving patterns for pedestrian plazas.
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Internship Brown + Sardina May 2016 - August 2017
New Enga Provisional Hospital New Enga Provisional Hospital, located in central Papau New Guinea, is a medical and residential complex. I was instructed to create three dimensional renderings based off of the final master plan drawings. The building layout was provided by the architects in a Sketchup file. The programs used to create landscape rendering include Sketchup, Rhino, V-ray, Landsdesign, and Photoshop.
The WALL Integration of Art in the Landscape Fall 2016 - Spring 2018 The WALL initially started as a landscape architecture visual communication project to learn Rhino in 2016. The prompt was to develop a modular wall that was 12 feet long and 8 feet high. The following year, 2017, in my Sculpture 3-D printing course I printed The WALL, which is displayed below. Two years later, during my spring semester of 2018, I finally was given the chance to construct The WALL in my Advance Sculpture class.
6” by 6” box
6 exploded, 6” by 6”, boxes positioned skewed towards each other
Single modular unit
Plan view of a single modular unit
In Spring 2018, The WALL was further conceptualized by a new concept of creating views. Each open faced box creates a mechanism to draw a perspective using the basic architectural way of drawing, single viewpoint and orthogonal lines. Each box represents a single view, but when all the boxes are put together they create an entire landscape. The WALL is 40 1’ x 1’ square open faced wooden boxes. The box faces were cut by a CNC router. The boxes are positioned either 3” behind or in front of the box before on the z-axis and positioned 6” to the left or right on the x-axis. Every box is held up by gravity. The final dimensions of The Wall is 8’ long and 5’ tall.
Catalyst Mediated Landscape Studio Fall 2018 Mediated Landscape Studio was a comprehensive semester long studio exploring what would happen to the town of Braddock, PA in 2050 within the visual media of film. The studio challenged students to learn new software programs, design a narrative, and create a visual landscape story for all the public to understand. Catalyst, a 13 minute pilot, drops you into Braddock, PA in the year 2050. The pilot opens up with a developers presentation of an extravagant new casino for the residents of the mill town. A young committee member of the town seems pleased with the proposal but tension unfolds as residents of the community voice their opinions. Watch: https://vimeo.com/album/5630832/video/308475388
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