LAURA HANDLETONlandscape architecture portfolio

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laura handleton@gmail.com

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LAURA HANDLETON

75 West 10th AvenueApartment DColumbus, OH 43201

Columbus, OH storm water management system

Salem, MA small scale installations

Brooklyn, NY flexible event space

experiential geography hand sketches

tactical urbanism Clintonville, OH complete street implementation

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typography

water retention

basin

cistern

rain garden

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The assignment was to design a courtyard outside a campus residence hall based on a storm water management system. My design included a runnel and rain garden system to slow and manage the high water volume on site. The water flow is slowed and filtered by the runnels and rain gardens and ultimately deposited into a cistern to be recycled.

The courtyard is directly adjacent to a residence hall, so I constructed shelters where students could study outdoors. These reading rooms consist of a roof fitted with runnels, so run off from the building roof flows over the smaller shelter roof, creating a variable “wall” of water when it rains.

TRANSPARENCIES

Location: Ohio State University

The reading room roofs funnel water across it, creating a temporary wall and ambient noise effect through the wall of water.

Water from drainpipes is slowed by a runnel system and then filtered in a rain garden before entering the retention basin and being stored in the cistern.

Date: Spring 2014

site

Section B: stepped water retention basins

Section A: runnel system and reading room

Section C: large water retention basin and stepped patio area

10th Avenue

Residence on 10th

Parking garage

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Plan

cricket perspective

Installation view from webcam

STAIRS

TV

SCREEN

SANDPAPER PATH CIRCULATION

WINDOW

WEBCAM

STAIRS

TV

SCREEN

TULLE CIRCULATION

TULLE PATH

WINDOW

WEBCAM

STAIRS

TV

SCREEN

PATHS/CIRCULATION

SANDPAPER PATHENCLOSED MODULE BRISTOL PATH

WINDOW

WEBCAM

STAIRS

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FOOD PLACEMENT DIAGRAM

WINDOW

WEBCAM

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In the Peabody Essex Museum, there is an exhibit by Amy Young consisting of a miniature museum inhabited by crickets. Museum visitors can view the crickets through a large window or through a camera which broadcasts to a screen within the museum.

Our assignment was to create a cricket-scale installation that the insects could interact with. After many material studies, we chose tulle and sandpaper because of the crickets’ ease of movement on these materials. The hexagon motif repeated in the design was derived from the cricket’s compund eye and was utilized to make interesting shelters for the insects.

HABITATION

Client: Peabody Essex Museum

Partner: Christa Radosavljevic

Date: Spring 2014

Location: Salem, MA

Market stall modules being utilized as a farmer’s market

Map illustrating the locations of group member’s projects throughout the Navy Yard

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This project site was located within the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a historically industrial and restricted area. My group’s assignment was to create an event space. As a small scale intervention, I created both market stall and planter modules which can be moved with shipping container technology to create many different layouts in an area. This allows flexibility so the space can function as an industrial workplace during the week and as a market square, a street festival, or a park during event times. A more permanently programmed square features a pavillion with a green roof that functions as a park space.

GREEN NETWORKLocation: Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn, NY

Partners: April Liu, Katie Pettee,Nevin Lesnoski Brooklyn Navy Yard map:

green network installationDate: Fall 2014

Obstruct

Organize

Group

Contain

Disperse

Obstructing arrangement

Circulating arrangement

Grouping arrangement

Organizing arrangement

Containing arrangement

Dispersing arrangement

72’ street corridor

Perspective of market square area. This area features permanently programmed pavillion with a green roof used as a park space, as well as a more open ground level that allows flexibility in the arrangements of the modules.

found space converted to pocket park

traffic corridor parkingmodule modulesidewalk sidewalk20’9’ 9’ 9’12.5’ 12.5’

Three conditions exist in the design: a street corridor, a pocket park, and a permanently programmed market square. All conditions allow for multiple arrangements of the module system.

Permanently programmed market square area

Module 1: planter Module 2: market stall

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Condition 1

Condition 2

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No crosswalks No tree lawn Wide, unmarked street 1514

The purpose of this class was to explore best management practices for complete streets including green infrastructure, pedestrian friendly street design, bicycle accomodation, and traffic calming, and then apply them to several streets in Clintonville, OH. Our study included a high traffic road (Indianola Avenue) as well as residential roads. The course culminated in a tactical urbanism event where we constructed a temporary demonstration of the solutions we planned and recieved feedback from the community. In this section I focus on Weisheimer road, an underdeveloped residential street in a school zone. One of our street schemes was recently adopted.

TACTICAL URBANISM

Location: Weisheimer RoadClintonville, OH

Partners: Class collaborationDate: Spring 2014

No sidewalks

Existing Conditions:

Low cost scheme:

Medium cost scheme:

No crosswalks

No sidewalks

26’ road that functions as a yeild street

54’ right of way

Residential and institutional zoning

Low parking density

Painted crosswalks

Painted parking lanes

Painted crosswalks

Painted parking lanes

Sidewalks

Tree lawn

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High cost scheme:Painted crosswalks

Painted parking lanes

Sidewalks

Tree lawn

Storm water management bump-outs

The Weisheimer site had many undesirable characteristics to work with, from simple aesthetic problems to dangerous conditions for children. The low cost scheme uses simple paint to make crosswalks, as well as striped parking lanes which visually narrow the street and therefore slow traffic. The medium cost scheme adds sidewalks, which are necessary for a school zone. A tree lawn also provides a barrier between the street and pedestrians. In the high cost scheme, bump-outs manage the storm water in a sustainable way, solving the problem of terrible drainage on the site as well as providing more visual cues for drivers.

For this class we got the opportunity to test our ideas in a real event. We used an erosion control tube, chipboard, plant material, and chalk to simulate our ideas. We interacted with the community with positive feedback. During the two hour event, roughly 55% of the passing cars slowed.

Tactical urbanism event

9 am 3 pm

6 pm

LaTouretteLyon, France

Bunker 599Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Villa SavoyePoissy, France

Barcelona PavilionBarcelona, Spain

1918

MISCELLANEOUS

This multi-media project is an alternative way to analyze light and shadow conditions on a project site. Final product combines both digital and hand rendering.

Experiential Geography

Sketches were completed during a month long architectural study abroad trip to Europe. Ink on paper.

Hand sketches

12 pm

Typography pieces were drawn on watercolor paper or canvas with a combination of pen and watercolor.

Typography

Sketches

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