DESIGN PORTFOLIO Preston Linck Bachelor of Landscape Architecture The Pennsylvania State University Works referenced from 2010 - 2013
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The work included in this portfolio has been completed between the Fall of 2010 and the Spring of 2013 (3rd year to 5th year) of my academic career at The Pennsylvania State University’s undergraduate program of Landscape Architecture. The past several years has allowed my work focus to graviate towards an integration of community design/planning with urban design. Added interest and appreciation additionally falls within categories of research, analysis, and planning.
Name: Preston Linck Email: plinck124@gmail.com Phone: 724.986.9653 Date of Birth: January 9, 1990 Address: 1450 Flagler Ave. Jacksonville, Florida 32207
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Index Projects
Research
Community Design
4 Mile Run Interpretive Sign pg. 41-42
Jersey Shore Sustainable Development pg. 3-4
Marcellus Shale Land Conversion pg. 33-36 Brownsville Urban Road Corridor pg. 5-8
Elmira Workforce Development Center pg. 11-12
Logan Triangle 13-20
Spring Creek Canyon pg. 37-40
Hill House Campus pg. 25-26
Planning
Urban Design
Troy Hill Citizen’s Park pg. 9-10
Messdorfer Feld 21-24
Kane Ross Parking Lot 27-30
Additional Interests Photography pg. 43-44
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Examining Sustainable Development Options: A Community Engaged Process
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Semester: Fall 2012
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Instructor: Mallika Bose, PhD
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Type: Community Design/Planning
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Allegheny Street
Purpose: Academic_Seminar Location: Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania
Borough of Jersey Shore
* 2013 PA/DE ASLA Student Award Description:
This project initiated a community engaged process to help the Borough of Jersey Shore adopt Green Infrastructure strategies as part of the community revitalization through sustainable planning/design practices. The project was conceptualized as a community engaged exercise with contributions from non-profit, regional government, local government sectors and community members.
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Jersey Shore Context Map
Objective:
The objective was twofold 1) to serve as the facilitator of a community engaged planning process focusing on green infrastructure strategies, and 2) to bring disciplinary knowledge and skills to help community members visualize the possibilities for their community through sustainable development practices.
Jersey Shore Community Visioning Exercise
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Seminary Street Existing Condition
Seminary Street Design
Seminary Street Design Plan
Seminary Street Design Elements
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Brownsville Urban Road Corridor
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Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Description:
Historically, Brownsville Road served as the life of Carrick, PA, with local taverns, churches and shops. Post industrial life has left the business district neglected and degraded, full of vacancies and unproductive storefronts.
Site Context Map
Objective:
The objective was to create a reconnection of the community to the downtown area through improving the environmental quality of the streetscape by focusing on community safety, walkability, resilience, and appearance. The end result would be an increase in the business district’s economic opportunities to provide community amenities and encourage a more livable environment.
Community Design Charrette
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Instructor: Ken Tamminga
The project focus centered on proposing design solutions that promote an enhanced quality of life that incorporates equity and resilience. Efforts were concentrated on a several block, mixed-use area as a demonstration for possible design interventions, including renewed streetscapes, possible infill solutions and a renovation and reuse plan of building stock, facades, and civic spaces.
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LEGEND Bar Recreation Shopping Cafe Business Restaurant Vacant
Building Typologies
Proposed Plan
Existing and Proposed Block Sections
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Existing Site
Proposed Renovations
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Concrete Wall Restoration
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Troy Hill Citizen’s Community Park Semester: Summer 2012 Company: The Penn State Center Advisor: Lisa Kunst Vavro, RLA Type: Urban Design Purpose: Internship Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Description:
Troy Hill Citizen’s Park is a 0.5-acre property located in the Troy Hill Neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The boundaries are defined by Claim Street,Hattaras Street, and Lager Street. The park is leased by Troy Hill Citizen’s Council since 1999 from The City of Pittsburgh and has been maintained by volunteers.
Objective:
Working with the neighborhood Citizen’s Council, the objective was to brain storm local needs for the community and then to follow up with a visualization of these ideas.
Existing Site
The visualization came in parallel to a phasing plan, beginning with simple objectives including basic clean up to more advanced implementation like the Black Locust boardwalk.
Proposed Plan
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Proposed Redesign
Existing Site Images
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Elmira Workforce Development Center Semester: Spring 2011 Instructors: Peter Aeschbacher & Sean Burkholder Type: Campus Design Purpose: Academic Location: Elmira, New York Description:
This project explored the reuse options available for an underused lawn space adjacent to the main educational building on the campus Elmira’s Academic & Workforce Development Center.
Objective:
The objective was to demonstrate sustainable design methods for students and instructors to engage through active educational and social experiences. These practices led to the design of a small semipublic community garden comprised of raised garden beds, manipulated landform, and social spaces. Additionally, the project demonstrates methods of organic gardening, small scale rainwater harvesting, and compost production.
Existing Site Images
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Design Section
Proposed Site Plan
Fabricated Container Design
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Logan Triangle Semester: Spring 2013 Instructor: Karen Lutsky Type: Urban Design Purpose: Academic Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Description:
Located in North Philadelphia is a 40 acre vacant swath of land. Subsurface coal ash has claimed the once standing development, which has now been collapsed into basements and buried below a shallow layer of soil. Remaining is a vast, barren, and windswept landscape of micro topography in the middle of a working class neighborhood.
Objective:
Through research of existing Philadelphia plans that demand for healthy living in the city, the objective has taken form in just that, to increase the quality of life and health of the immediately surrounding community. By discovering what the community is missing through research and analysis, program will take form by filling in the gaps that allow for the people of this community to live in a healthy body.
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site analysis
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coal ash locations
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1992
1997
2002
2012
concept modeling
topography concept
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rubble movement strategy
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soil movement strategy
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corridor phase 1
plan
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corridor phase 2
corridor phase 3
corridor option 1
corridor option 2
corridor option 3
view from community center roof
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Messdorfer Feld Semester: Spring 2012 Instructor: Johannes BĂśttger & Thomas KnĂźvener Type: Urban Design Purpose: Academic Location: Bonn, Germany Description:
A city operated farm rests on the fringe of the inner city of Bonn, bounded by residential neighborhoods. Currently, this property models a typical agrarian character while providing a passive circulation system.
Objective:
The goal was to maintain the functionality and productiveness of this landscape as a farm, while developing upon the existing skeletal path system to better represent a public landscape. Productive planting systems, terminal zones, and a revised circulation system layer upon the landscape in order to highlight the beauty of the functioning agrarian landscape.
Existing Site Conditions
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Site Form
Messdorfer Feld Proposed Plan
Site Circulation
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Existing Neighborhood
Existing Allotment Gardens
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Restored Forest Edge & Riparian Buffer
Trail
Restored Forest Edge
Poplar Farm
Trail
Path
Open Lawn Space
Path
Farm Land
Farm Land
Biomass Terminal, Edge Path, Open Lawn Space
Poplar Farm Path & Lookout
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Hill House Campus Year: Summer 2012 Company: The Penn State Center Advisor: Lisa Kunst Vavro, RLA Type: Planning Purpose: Internship Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Description:
Located in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, the Hill House campus serves as the home to several community resource centers. A newly implemented outdoor amphitheater has fueled continued design and planning efforts for a better connected, ecologically sensitive, and educational campus.
Proposed Site Design
Objective:
Through visible and educational demonstrations, the objective is to retain 95% of stormwater on site, which equates to rain events up to 1.2�. Ultimately, the goal is to serve as a future model for the City of Pittsburgh.
120,000 Gallons of Impervious Surface Runoff Green Space Asphalt Buildings Playgrounds Concrete Amphitheater *Numbers are in sq. feet
90,000 Gallons of Impervious Surface Runoff
Green Space Design Biofiltration Impervious Surface *Numbers are in sq. ft.
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Terraced Bioswale
Plaza Retention
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Kane Ross Hospital Parking Lot Semester: Summer 2012 Company: The Penn State Center Advisor: Lisa Kunst Vavro, RLA Type: Planning Purpose: Internship Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Description:
As the parking lot was set to be repaved, the city was looking for alternatives to traditional blacktop.
Objective:
Working at the request of the city’s sustainability manager, the objective was to visualize an alternative design for the parking lot in order to present to members of Pittsburgh Public Works. Through proposed bioswales and restructuring the parking stalls, the design seeks to retain 100% of stormwater at events at or less than 1�.
Existing Site Images
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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Impervious Surface = 98,594 sf.
10' 18'
Stormwater Retention = 0 sf.
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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Parking Spaces = 209
Proposed Site Plan
Parking Spaces = 219 Impervious Surface = 93,534 sf. Stormwater Retention = 15,742 sf.
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Goal = 16,366 sf. of Bioswales
= 96%
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Existing Parking Dimensions
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Existing Retention
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Existing Site Plan
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Proposed Retention
Proposed Parking Dimensions
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Parking Lot Redesign
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• Assume a 6” depth below grade for 24 hour infiltration with engineered soils & subbase (determined by soil tests) •Based on 1” rainfall (covering 90% of all annual rain storms)
9” Curb Cut
Grade Towards Swale
Parking Bioswale Scenario
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Projecting a Future Post Marcellus Shale Semester: Fall 2012 Instructors: Brian Orland & Dr. Tim Murtha Type: Research & Analysis Purpose: Academic Location: Sullivan County, Pennsylvania *EDRA Poster Selection 2013 Description:
The discovery of Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and its lucrative nature has led to unprecedented natural gas drilling activity. As a result land is being leased expeditiously, ultimately leading to landscape conversions. This project explored the future of possible social and environmental impacts of Marcellus Shale drilling on rural communities.
Objective:
Research was conducted in order to project future land scenarios with and without Marcellus Shale activity. By analyzing existing trends, it was possible to visually demonstrate alternative and more productive land scenarios that could be communicated to land owners. Land owners could be made aware that they have power to influence the future of the landscape and ultimately the local community through more informed decision. The research most significantly offers insight into utilizing Marcellus accelerated land conversion as an opportunity to better improve the community for a more positively resilient future.
Sullivan County History
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Farms Since 1925
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Farm Comparisons
Dairy Farms Since 1925
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Farms since 1925 - 2010
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Land Use Comparisons
Farms since 1925 - 2059
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Trending Land Conversion without Marcellus Activity
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2010
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Farmland Progressions 1939 Farmland
2010 without Marcellus
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1959 Farmland
2010 with Marcellus
2010 Farmland
2039 Farmland
2059 without Marcellus
2059 Farmland
2059 with Marcellus
Current Farm Practice
Trending Scenario of Abandoned Farmland
Trending Scenario for Future
Alternative Practice With Drilling - Managed Forest
Alternative Farm Practice Post Drilling - Managed Forest Alternative Scenario for Future - Managed Forest
Alternative Practice With Drilling - Energy Farm
Alternative Practice Post Drilling - Energy Farm
Alternative Scenario for Future - Energy Farm
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Spring Creek Canyon Semester: Fall 2010 Instructor: Dr. Larry Gorenflo, Neil Korostoff, & Dr. Timothy Murtha Type: Planning Purpose: Academic Location: Centre County, Pennsylvania Description:
The Spring Creek Canyon is an 1800 acre parcel of land centrally located within the Spring Creek Watershed. Currently owned by the Rockview State Correctional Institute, this land is recognized globally as a rarity for its unique communities of plants and animals, superb water quality, and geological phenomena. Currently, unsustainable agricultural practices and sprawl continue to fragment the landscape, jeopardizing the future of this cultural and ecological amenity.
Objective:
The objective was to restore the fragments of the landscape in order to revitalize biodiversity. Additionally, retaining this cultural amenity became a priority by introducing new hunting grounds, restoring stream banks, maintaining the class A fishing stream quality, and adding passive recreational biking and walking trails.
Existing Site Conditions
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Suitability Analysis Matrix for Forest Restoration
Site Conditions: Existing
Suitability Analysis Composite
Phase 1: Mixed Hardwood
Phase 2: Riparian Buffer
Phase 3: Maple & Basswood
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Full Site Section
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Site Sections
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4 Mile Run Demonstration Project: Interpretive Signage Year: Summer 2012 Company: The Penn State Center Advisor: Lisa Kunst Vavro, RLA Type: Research/Graphic Design Purpose: Internship Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Description:
Due to Pittsburgh’s combined sewer and stormwater system, the City has serious issues with flooding during rainstorms. As a response, the first bioswale in Pittsburgh was implemented in the Summer of 2012.
A Cleaner & Greener City The 4 Mile Run Bioswale Pittsburgh,PA
• Working with local partners for the Pittsburgh regio
This landscape is designed to make stormwater runoff an environmental and aesthetic resourc Rather than allowing all stormwater to enter storm drains, water is conveyed into the bioswale. Water is then filtered, removing silt and pollutants until it infiltrates back into the groundwater s
On-Site Section Detail
Objective:
This sign was designed and placed at the site in order to serve as an informative and educational sign to the ecological service that the site is doing.
The section above shows how water is conveyed into the bioswale, filtered of pollutants such as solids, nitrogen, and heavy metals by uptake or soil binding, and then recharged back into the ground. To the left side of the section, water is collected from the road and through curb channels. To the right side, water is infiltrated through the pervious concrete, where excess is channeled into the bioswa
A Special Thanks to:
Luke Ravenstahl, Mayor of Pittsburgh • Robert Kaczorowski, Director Department of Public Works, City of Pittsburgh • DPW Construct Corey O’ Connor, Pittsburgh City Councilman • Bryan Materials Group • TreeVitalize • International Union of Operation Engineers, Lo
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A. Bioswale Planting Palette Trees
Amelanchier laevis/Allegheny Serviceberry Magnolia virginiana/Sweetbay Magnolia
Shrubs
Clethra alnifolia/’Hummingbird’ Summersweet Ilex glabra ‘Shamrock’/’Shamrock’ Inkberry
Grasses
Calamagrostis acutiflora/Karl Foerster Carex amphibola/Creek Sedge
Ferns
Adiantum pedatum/Northern Maidenhair Fern Dryopteris erythrosora/Autumn Fern
Daylilies & Perennials
Hemerocallis ‘Double Gold’/’Double Gold’ Daylily Hemerocallis ‘Ruby Spider’/’Ruby Spider’ Daylily Liatris spicata/Marsh Blazing Star Monarda fistulosa/Wild Bergamot Rudbeckia ‘Goldsturm’/’Goldsturm’ Black-Eyed Susan
B. Ponding & Infiltration
Soil is graded to create a swale where water is able to be retained until it is able to infiltrate and recharge the ground water supply.
C. Bioswale Planting Mix
Along with native plants, the amended soil helps to facilitate water infiltration while reducing erosion and runoff.
D. Gravel Subbase
The gravel helps to reduce long term detention, filtering and assisting in the process of infiltration.
Allegheny Serviceberry Amelanchier laevis Hardiness: Zones 4 - 9 (-20 °F to -30 °F) Sun Exposure: Full sun to part shade Size: 15 to 40’ high and 15 to 35’ wide
E . Pervious Concrete
The pervious sidewalk allows for direct stormwater infiltration back into the ground. Excess runoff is directed into the bioswale. • Working with local partners for the Pittsburgh region •
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Photography Years: 2011 - 2013 Locations: Taken throughout my travels of Europe, the United States, and Mexico
Description:
A recent passion has become photography, and more specifically the photography of landscapes.
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