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BACHELOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, 2021

TANNER J. PREWITT

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contents 4 ................................................................. First Year Program | 2016-17 Miller House and Garden Drafting Exercise Downtown Muncie Infill Project Flat-to-Fat Adobe Workshop Chicago Field Trip Project How Things Join[t] Together Music Design Theory Suitcase Urbanism

20 ......................................................................... Second Year | 2017-18 Revisiting the American Rest Stop Architecture Building Installation The Centennial Project Urban Park Design Sustainable Park Design Community Park Design

34 ............................................................................. Third Year | 2018-19 The Village at Cardinal Downs The Lyndenbrook Experiment Pocket Park Project In Memoriam: Iowan Gothic Memorial Landscape Design The Re-Centennial Project Campus Woodland Project

50 ................................................................................ Fourth Year | 2019 Regional Planning

54 .............................................................................. Fifth Year | 2020-21 Urban Infill Project Undergraduate Thesis Project

[CAP 161] Miller House and Garden Drafting Exercise Nihal Perera, Meg Calkins, Janice Shimizu Columbus, IN

American banker J. Irwin Miller commissioned Finnish-American architect Eero Sarinen to design his mid-century modern home in Southern Indiana in 1953.

American landscape architect Dan Kiley completed work on the estate’s grounds.

This exercise consisted of hand-draft floor plans, planting plans, elevation drawings, and axonometric studies of the original hand drawings. Color was later added in Photoshop or with colored pencils.

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[CAP 162] Downtown Muncie Infill Project Dan Woodfin Muncie, IN

Students chose between five historic facades in downtown Muncie for a handsketching and drafting exercise. Only the facades were to remain; students could program their building as they saw fit.

Two elevation drawings, one longituidnal section cut, one perspective drawing, and a set of floor plans were submitted on a single presentation board. In this project, the 1888 Building became a micro-winery and cafe, with a lofted second floor.

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[CAP 162] Flat-to-Fat Adobe Workshop Dan Woodfin

Students selected a simple, every-day object and disassembled it in Adobe Photoshop. Their task was to reassemble the object digitally in Photoshop and Illustrator, creating an assembly diagram of the flat scan and fattening it. The nasal decongestant medicine box on the next page was a simple, rectangular form that illustrated this assemblage.

Folding Diagram

Flat - to - Fat

Folding Diagram

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[CAP 101] Chicago Field Trip Project Lohren Deeg, Sean Burns Chicago, IL

Students were instructed to observe, photograph, and sketch Chicago’s urban environment during the annual field trip.

Upon returning to school, these urbanist collections would serve as a template for a chessboard. The following game represents Chicago’s downtown, pulling pieces to the center. Each piece pays homage to Chicago designers like Mies van der Rohe, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Daniel Burnham.

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KING QUEEN ROOK

KNIGHT BISHOP PAWN

[CAP 101] How Things Join[t] Together Study Sean Burns

Also called “the appendage project,” students were tasked with examining spatial relationships and connections. The study began with a solid plaster mass cast in a box mold. This mass was whittled to create voids where wooden dowels and blocks retrofitted the former solid. Key forms were finally tesselated with paper media for a light study to understand architectural principles of order and design.

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[CAP 101] Music Design Theory Sean Burns, Dan Woodfin

Students constructed music boxes, alternatively called “space pods” with specific dimensions. Inside the box, students interpretted classical music selections as architectural forms. The following box replicated Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Op. 125 with jagged, stacatto lines; breathy, woodwind mylar planes; and crescendo cavities. The red ribbon in the following drawing traces the tempo of Beehoven’s symphony.

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[CAP 102] Suitcase Urbanism Lohren Deeg, Malcolm Cairns, Rachel Kavathe Muncie, IN

For their final project, students unpacked their First Year projects and repacked them as urban design principles. These principles were to transform Muncie for 2050. The following project’s suitcases consisted of greenways, tesselations, riverine design, mixed-use residential typologies, parkland, the Arts, and modernism. Muncie became a metropolitan entity on the banks of the White River.

PEDESTRIAN

CONNECTION

URBANISM

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[LA 201] Revisiting the American Rest Stop Travis Rice, Robert Benson Cedar Rapids, IA

Students approached the American rest stop as a destination and not a utilitarian need. Located outside Cedar Rapids, this project took inspiration from the city’s rich Eastern European immigrant history, while drawing on the rural architectural motifs of E. Fay Jones. Here, Gothic elitism superceded Iowan agrarianism, allowing classical styles to dominate rustic origins.

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THE NAVE

THE BASILICA

THE PALACE

THE TOWER

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[LA 201] Architecture Building Installation Travis Rice, Robert Benson Muncie, IN

Students revitalized a rooftop garden on the second floor of the Architecture Building as an embodiment of design language. In this particular installation, a series of glowing orbs and plexiglass prisms have been fitted on a grid of steel mullions like the structutral details of the building. Organic forms and architectural details speak to the various design disciplines within the college.

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[LA 201] The Centennial Project Travis Rice, Robert Benson Muncie, IN

To celebrate the university’s centennial, students re-programmed a piece of land near the Applied Technology building on the southeast side of campus. In this particular project, Beneficence, the university’s cherished guardian, receives a sister: Genesis. She serves as the harbinger of beginnings, marking a new urban typology on campus by reactivating underused pedestrian corridors and spaces.

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[LA 202] Urban Park Design Peter Ellery, Natalie Yates Charlottesville, VA

Students programmed a blank city plaza template surrounded by commercial and residential uses. In this iteration, Conflict Park pays homage to Charlottesville’s colonial history in the wake of the 2017 Unite the Right protest. It draws on the rustic motifs of Piedmont with ambulating pathways, native grasses, shade trees, and a boardwalk over a babbling brook. it reminds users of their shared roots even in devisive times.

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[LA 202] Sustainable Park Design Peter Ellery, Natalie Yates Muncie, IN

Students visited the former Ball Glass manufacturing facility, now a brownfield holding onto the only standing structure: a batch tower. In this project, Clockworks Park revitalized the space, providing a local farmers’ market and timepiece-inspired designs. Sustainable initiatives were achieved with vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT) positioned in the retrofitted batch tower to harvest energy.

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[LA 202] Community Park Design Peter Ellery, Natalie Yates Muncie, IN

Students worked with the Whitely Neighborhood in Muncie to convert an old woodland into a community center.

Inspired by the religious roots and the community’s desire for a farmers’ market, Eden’s Song embraces orchard and permaculture landscape practices to create a vibrant environment focused on healing the earth. A circulating community art installation enriches the center as it sustains a community.

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[LA 301] The Village at Cardinal Downs Malcolm Cairns, Colby Gray Muncie, IN

Students were given a vacant University property along McGalliard Road. They were tasked with planning a mixed-use community in the site with New Urbanist principles and in compliance with local ordinance. This village is centered on a downtown typology of retail and multifamily housing. Several single-family housing typologies radiate from this center, with open space segmenting what would have been a traditional suburban plat.

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Additional designers include Richard Meagher, Mia Simmons, Darius Chargalauf, and Maritza Tello-Telles.

The Lyndenbrook Experiment

Tasked with combatting invasive consumerism, students formed teams and began to redevelop the North McGalliard corridor. The team experimented with a traditional Main Street typology seen in many American small towns and alternative transit-oriented development.

Malcolm Cairns, Colby Gray Muncie, IN

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[LA 302] Pocket Park Project Susan Tomizawa Muncie, IN

Students were presented with a square garden plot to thematically design.

This pocket park – Garden Moderne – is based on the design styles and motifs of the Art Deco period. Monolithic forms, linear movements, sleek geometry, and ornamentation are hallmarks of this period.

Textured and colorful plants, rectangular plots, and water feartures honored Art Deco, often seen as an architectural style and less so as landscape architecture.

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[LA 302] In Memoriam: Iowan Gothic Susan Tomizawa Cedar Rapids, IA

Students were asked to revisit a former project and update it with newer design skills. This memoriam returned to Cedar Rapid’s Iowan Gothic rest stop, where it sits in ruin. Ruderal plantings have overtaken the cathedral complex. Iowan agrarianism taking hold of Gothic elitism. It becomes a reliquart to antiquity and to the persistance of prairie landscapes.

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[LA 302] Memorial Landscape Design Susan Tomizawa 2019 Indiana ASLA Student Design Award Indianapolis, IN

Students relocated the U.S.S. Indianapolis Memorial to the American Legion Mall in downtown Indianapolis. The sinking of the cruiser is the single greatest loss of life in U.S. Navy history. Coupled with the tragedy was the cruiser’s mission: delivering the atomic bombs that would end World War II, and General MacArthur’s planned-invasion of Japan. This park unites these trinitarian events, bringing into question current political opinions on denuclearization.

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[LA 498] The Re-Centennial Project Ann Hildner Muncie, IN

Students were once again asked to revisit a former project and update it with newer design skills. In this elective, the Centennial Project was revitalized. Essentially stripped of its original design intent, Genesis now sits in a placid wooded landscape.

Grandeur gives way to practical use, with diagonal pathways ferrying students to class and plaza space for functions within Applied Technology. Genesis still watches, but her purpose is sublime.

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[LA 498] Campus Woodland Project Ann Hildner Muncie, IN

Students transformed the University’s protected woodland into an immersive campus experience. Christy Woods underwent a complete master planning exercise, including tree inventory and plant analysis. Working with the Natural Sciences Department, landscape architecture students were able to make the best suggestions possible for the continued viability of this oak-hickory woodland.

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[LA 401] Regional Planning Chris Baas, Jim Sipes 2020 Indiana ASLA Student Design Award Finalist Portage County, Indiana

Additional designers included Jake Senne, Sarah Bisch, and Brant Hile.

Student teams conducted extensive studies of the Indiana Dunes National Park with field trips and GIS data. This data informed planning a scenic byway through northwestern Indiana, linking environmental, recreational, and cultural programs across the lakeshore.

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[LA 403] Urban Infill Project Ann Hildner, Dr. Kirsten Barry, Craig Farnsworth Muncie, IN

Architectural designs were completed by Maria Moore.

Landscape architecture students and their architectural partner worked on an urban infill project through various neighborhoods of Muncie. This team proposed a wellness center and recreational trail in Whitely. Initiatives included net-zero systems, stormwater management, and therapeutic landscape plantings.

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iv. recreational trail approach

[LA 404] Undergraduate Thesis Project Malcolm Cairns, Natalie Yates, Chris Marlow 2021 ASLA Student Design Awards Submission Washington, D.C.

Students completed a comprehensive project in sixteen weeks, starting with research and conceptualization and ending with constuction documentation. Projects ranged in size and scope, guided by a thesis advisor and studio instructors. The National Mall Expansion Plan is one of the largest thesis projects completed in the Landscape Architecture Department. It reinvented the National Mall as a political tapestry for future generations.

THESIS STATEMENT

The National Mall is an example of a post-conflict landscape. Its perception as a hallowed ground of nonpartisan, sociopolitical relationships has troubled the present political atmosphere. A controversial history infuses dialogue surrounding national park design, memory devices, and urban conflict. The National Mall Expansion Plan allowed monumentality to reckon with uncomfortable topics and celebrate forgotten figures.

The re-planned Mall needed to be a democratic and

educational space informed by historiography, analysis of existing conditions, and responses to post-politicization.

It needed to look beyond partisanship and nostalgia to envision a retrospective space accepting of the nation’s past and its people.

The National Mall Expansion Plan explained how pluralism might have pushed for the Mall’s creation, but homogenity damaged its perception today. It explored the history behind the National Mall’s master planning, from its plotting in the 18th century to its fierce securitization in the 21st century. It also outlined lessons learned from studies of post-conflict landscapes, gentrification, and monumentality, then using that knowledge to understand how events like those on June 1, 2020 and January 6, 2021 happened in a democracy.

Finally, it detailed how the Mall is a space built upon tradition and nostalgia: an American identity rooted in conservatism and comfort. It not only served as a design framework for the Mall, but also as an ideological template for future post-conflict landscapes.

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In the last century alone, apolitical contradictions in the United States have largely been reduced to policy issues.

With each new presidential administration, the hope for progressive change diminishes as crises compound. At the intersection of race, class, and socioeconomics, a series of insurgencies have exercised their anger against the establishment. These insurgencies often take place in historically-significant landscapes, spaces designers call “post-conflict landscapes.” They have become a representation of larger social disorder in the United States glossed over by nostalgia.

A Bloomberg photojournalist captured this aerial photograph of the General Robert E. Lee Memorial in Richmond, Virginia during the 2021 racial justice movement.

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Political cartoonist Harrison Freeman illustrated the Lafayette Square purge on June 1, 2020 for New York Magazine.

Hammers Museum, a culture and art gallery in Los Angeles, California, featured this illustration of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a panel discussion about the attack on January 14, 2021.

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Spring 2021 The National Mall, c. 2021

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The National Mall Expansion Plan, c. 2070

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i. the re-shored tidal basin

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ii. east capitol street urban corridor

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iii. the new national world war two memorial

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iv. the amended thomas jefferson memorial

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