katia dayyat's portfolio (in progress)
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Cal Poly Landscape Architecture Undergrad PortfolioTRANSCRIPT
Katia DayyatLandscape ArchitectureUndergraduate Portfolio 2013
Table of Contents:
Senior Capstone Civic Park Re-Imagined
Cultural Landscapes San Lorenzo Seminary Piedras Blancas LIght House
Interdisciplinary A New Vision for Cal Poly
Design Theory Campus Market Way
Zeitgeist The Facebook Experiment
Civic Park
Senior Capstone 2013
Re Imagination
Civic Park
Senior Capstone 2013
Re Imagination
Senior Capstone is urged to be a project of personal importance, as well as a project which would help shape the kind of designer we would like to grow into. My goal with this project was to begin to grow into the kind of designer who creates significant, intimate yet very sensory places, connecting the physicalities of our natural world to the users.
Walnut Creek California is home to over 60,000 people, and has designated over 16 city parks and open spaces totaling over 2,000 acres. Civic Park was the first designated city park, and you must go all the way back to the late 40’s to truely understand it’s history. Today, it has become a side park to a bustling and growing downtown area labeled the East Bay’s center for shopping and dinning.
The goal of this project was originally to create a revitalized park. It morphed into becoming a sensory garden, stimulating the senses of smell, sight and sound in different areas while connecting it to the new Library on the south side. It slowly grew into a concept for the only completely ADA accessible park in all of Walnut Creek.
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The Reading Round: The concept of this specific area of the Senior Capstone revolved around the sense of Smell. The concept that smell is an enveloping and encompassing sense. Many people associate memories with smell, and the goal of this is no different. Execution of the Reading Round involved the use of fragrant plants. Vines of jasmine, mounding forms of sweet pea and cascading walls of rosemary circle around the users, highlighted by a dark sweet shade tree for shade.
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Silence and Chimes: The concept of this specific area of the Senior Capstone revolved around the sense of Sound. The goal was to play with the action of hearing sound, as well as complete silence. This was done in multiple ways. First, outside noise is blocked out by Laurel bushes and native trees, these coverings would also have hidden chimes in the branches.The idea is the separation from the site in this laby-rinth would stress the importance ofthe chimes and the breee rocks them. Yet the site will also be quiet from the outside noise.
Senior Capstone
Process
Process, to me, has seemed to become one of the most important tools for design communication, and site understanding. From site analysis, to bub-ble diagrams and schematics, it all helps to communicate to the client, the users and a general audience your design proccess and point of view, as well, and if not more completely than a final drawing.
Soils Analysis: info fromUSGS
Observed Noise Analysis
Senior Capstone
Schemat ics
Transition from the diagramatic phase to the sche-matic phase for the capstone project. This proccess took over 6 concept diagrams and blended similar ones into three different schematics. The schemat-ics were then used and blended to create the final base plan shown earlier.
ZeitgiestGarden St . Design
The Physical Facebook: 3rd Year Studio Fall Facebook has given the world an interactive, alternate reality. It has become how we connect, how we spread the word, how we get our news and our gossip. But what if it was real? Anyways, facebooks concept of ‘wallposts’ comes from people writing on each others dormitory walls. Featuring mounding blue planting beds, hidden walls to ‘creep’ on people as well as interactive walls and pop up stage area, the goal is to create a physical facebook. Move and write on walls, post events and peo-ple watch. The technologically savvy, culturally forward zeitgiest point of view, situated in the middle of San Luis Obispo’s downtown.
Zeitgiest
