SARAH
LARKIN LANDSCAPE
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SARAH LARKIN
Technical Coastal Resilience
1.570.872.6382 | sal5786@psu.edu
Community Development
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This garden as a part of the Rosedale Runo Reduction Project with Upstream Pitts urgh This project’s focus was to implement Rain ardens through the i ins urg and Homewood North neigh orhoods This ro ect s goa is to nd etter a s to utilize and keep stormwater in the cit o Pitts urgh The oster Pin e Garden was at the base of the 8th steepest street in the countr at a 32% incline. This garden as eatured in Public Source, a Pitts urgh digita ne s organi ation
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CHURCH GROVE KRATZERVILLE, SNYDER COUNTY, PA
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RGS Associates, Inc. York, Pennsylvania
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University Park, Pennsylvania This installment at Penn State is located West of campus. This area is between three engineering research ui dings and provides the students, professors, and asser s an o ortunit to re a sim atch grasses blow in the wind or pollinators buzz. This area of quiet fascination is for an eas menta regrou
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s the Mean High High ater MHH rises e and ten eet Pro inceto n is eaten a a the sea and sa t marshes of Massachusetts.
The site o Pro inceto n arrier is er crucial for the future of sea-level rise in this area.
Pre 1994 To better assess the site conditions, I dre ind contour dra ings to stud the site eatures and the a the ind tides and dunes interacted.
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Provincetown Barrier Herring Cove Beach, Massachusetts
At ten feet past the current MHHW, the west side of province town is underwater.
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studied near ears o aeria hotogra hs and atched the coast ine recede and the destruction and rebuild of the e isting ar ing ot
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Man coasta to ns are in danger o ecoming the ne Atlantis. Sea level is rising Pro inceto n Massachusetts is among those coasta cities that are at risk due to sea level rise. Here, I have included gra hics o the Mean High High ater (MHHW) level as of and increasing a ossi e e and ten feet. Without design inter ention Provincetown is artia under ater Provincetown Barrier o ers another scenario. Where the site is located, this ar ing ot has the potential to protect Provincetown from certain destruction due to c imate change
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This each side ar ing ot uses a Ha-ha wall technique to create a barrier between the beach and Provincetown.
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The sha e o the a as ins ired atterns made the ind and currents on the site The arge di ots a o or sand to co ect or uture stronger dunes
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Provincetown Barrier Herring Cove Beach, Massachusetts
s the sea e e rises the rogram o the site adapts. At a ten foot MHHW increase, the site is used as a boat aunch and shing ier
Post design inter ention ind contour dra ing Pro inceto n arrier is the main feature of this shoreline.
Man coasta to ns are in danger o ecoming the ne Atlantis. Sea level is rising Pro inceto n Massachusetts is among those coasta cities that are at risk due to sea level rise. Here, I have inc uded gra hics o the mean high high water level as of and increasing a ossi e e and ten feet. Without design inter ention Provincetown is artia under ater Provincetown Barrier o ers another scenario. Where the site is located, this ar ing ot has the potential to protect Provincetown from certain destruction due to c imate change
Retreat
Divide & Protect
Move road back to create space for improvement.
Create a division between shore and town.
Ecology & The Human Experience Allow for interaction ithout sacri ce
Scan to view walls changing o er time
Protect Portsmouth
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Mother Nature
Demolish as few ui dings as ossi e
Maintain access to the beach.
Do not intercept natural forces.
These conce ts came together to create a modu ar a design These modular walls would depart from each other to continue to protect Island Park.
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Changing Walls Island Park, Rhode Island
Modular walls line the coast of Island Park on the lowest elevation
Beach is still accessible for eo e to en o
hanging a s is a coastal resilience installment of modular walls built to adapt to nature over time. The modular walls are basic shapes with seams for installment on site. These seams are the areas where the wall will break. When sea walls fail, the ai rom the and side where water gets underneath and pulls it out from underneath shi ting and u ing to ard the ocean. With this in mind allows for hanging a s to ai eauti u and change into a di erent protection over time.
LEGEND Commercial Residential Higher Density Residential Green Space Civic Office Proposed land use for ran err To nshi addresses the current ragmentation issue
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Cranberry Green Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania
The ase o ran err Green would be disconnected, but this area is or offices and conferences. The hotel’s catwalk over Freedom Road copies the parallel and ridge into this green s ace
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ran err reen is a proposal to connect ran err To nshi Penns ania s it e ists ran err Township is ragmented ma or roads on three sides, these roads re ent a a i it rom neigh orhoods as well as miss an o ortunit to attract another ounger grou o eo e into the area ran err Green proposes a green corridor rom the north to the south of the cite to connect the people and neigh orhoods o ran err To nshi This project was or ed on as a grou and allowed me to urther m s i s as a team member and team leader.
am a senior stud ing andsca e rchitecture at Penn tate ith minors in ustaina i it eadershi and Recreation Par s and Tourism Management M ac ground in art and interest in the human e erience in orm m studies on creating out o the o so utions or the andsca e am assionate a out ma ing each idea di erent than the ast am not a raid to use e er mar er in the o and constant oo ing to e ore ne conce ts to urther m se and m or Most recent interned ith R ssociates in or Penns ania here earned a out the technica side o design Pre ious interned ith tream Pitts urgh on the Roseda e Runo Reduction Pro ect and assisted in the design o residentia rain gardens urrent designer
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SARAH LARKIN 1.570.872.6382 | sal5786@psu.edu