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Fibonacci Sequencea sequence of numbers in which each number equals the sum of the two preceding numbers

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The site is a one acre lot designed around the word “Sequence.”My idea was to use the Fibonacci sequence to effectively convey my word throughout the one acre site. I started by laying out the trees in groups that followed the sequence. I followed the Fibonacci sequence by making the sequence count down to counter the tree sequence which was increasing in the number of trees while the topography was decreasing in height. The topography effectively displays the sequence. This, along with trees takes the idea of the Fibonacci sequence and creates Sequence Park.


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The Fibonacci sequence is seen twice in the master plan. The tree sequence starts where the topography sequence ends. This allows for two sequences that meet in the middle creating a more interesting visual for the park overall.

Aerial view of topography showing the Fibonacci sequence.

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The section-elevations show the interaction of visitors in the site. The tiered topography allows for natural seating throughout the site and the trees provide shade on a summer day. The trees shown demonstrate that the fewer tree sequence is on the higher elevation. The sections are exaggerated to show the amount of changes in topography.

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The site is composed of four different areas: the school, gym, open space, and the existing nature trail and wooded area. The open space, where the design is proposed, currently consists of trailers and an existing baseball field.

The community of Oxford, GA asked the University of Georgia Metropolitan Design Studio to create a master plan addressing certain areas of the town and the connection between the town and Emory College at Oxford. The linkage between community and campus directly affects the quality of life for Oxford. Using the same stylistic components, human scale, and community interaction within the campus limits will help create a more desirable community that successfully unites the town and college.

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The historic Oxford communities were created based on the location within the town or the events that happened in these areas. Each one has played a significant part in Oxford’s history. For the concept of the open space located behind Palmer Stone Elementary, each circular greenspace represents a historic area of the community. The site will also function as a bioswale.

ShakeragStudents and residents throughout Oxford came to this area not only to hang out but also to do their laundry. The area represents a washboard which will be an amphitheater for seating and education use.

The HillThe Hill is the highest point of Oxford. The entire town can be viewed from the peak. This area will be a hill located on the northern end of the bioswale overlooking the site and providing a shaded area.

River HillThis area was named after the Rivers Family and their estate located in southern Oxford. This will be used as a dry rock bed between two hills guiding the water into the detention pond.

PeasvilleKnown as the local hangout. During the weekends, older kids would socialize in this part of town. It will serve as another detention pond on the southern portion of the site in addition to providing tiered seating.

TexasThe site was said to be so far away that it was like going to Texas. This area will be planted with ornamental grasses and serve as a large detention pond.

CampusOxford College is filled with large trees and quad areas. The site mimics the large quad and brick paved pathways located on campus.

DowntownPart of downtown is Highway 81. Since Oxford does not have a distinct downtown area, this site will become an “environmental highway” and an entrance into the site.

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The perspective shows a view from the south of River Hill looking back toward the school. The area will be open and planted with trees. People can enjoy this space due to its size and shade provided by trees.

The entrance of the park starts on the west side of the Masterplan with the Downtown corridor. This provides an entryway into the largest area, the quad from Oxford College campus. Peasville, a low point, is located between Campus and River Hill and will act as a detention pond to catch runoff. River Hill will act as a dry bioswale. On the far east side of the plan, Texas will act as a detention pond planted with large or ornamental grasses. Together these historical communities will provide both a link to the rest of Oxford and serve an environmental purpose and educational opportunity.

The section elevation is standing south of Peasville looking north. The elevation shows how the bioswale will be possible with the existing slope. River Hill will play a crucial part in controlling the flow and transistioning into the Texas detention pond.



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Common school design is composed of an asphalt area littered with plastic standard playground that fulfill the needs of certain age groups. The amount of money school systems spend to asphalt those areas for only one to two uses a year is outstanding. The possibility of avoiding this and providing a playground with multiple purposes can increase our playground design

innovation. This site is the front lot of Alps Elementary School. The school asked for a integration of a playground and a community garden. Currently, school community gardens are used as an educational tool that are put to the side and utilized when the teachers, administration, or curriculum sees fit. The idea is to give the children a daily exposure to the community garden

and to integrate its use in their play. By creating a non-traditional playground that utilized rainwater collection and gives the ability to water their own garden, it gives the children a sense of pride to “maintain” their playground. Incorporating play and education will put aside the difference between learning and playing.

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First are the colored hexagons which are the movable features to the playground. They are able to be manipulated and climbed on by the children. These will also serve as a rain water collection method. The spongy material will act as a natural rain water holder until they are used to water the planters around the site.

The white components are the fixed playground component which also have planters built in to them. These will be a different heights allowing for a versatile playground that the children can create by using the movable pieces. Everyday their playground can and will change making the site their own.

The planters that surround the playground are set up in a way to maximize the amount of plants the students will be able to maintain. With such a large number, the importance of this component to the site is enhanced. The planters are also aligned to make sure when the children approach the playground they will have to walk through them increasing the desire to interact with this component.

Planters within the fixed playground will exist as pollinator gardens to attract animals such as bees and butterflies for the children to interact with.



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Gym mats are made of a sponge material that can be rolled up and even stood up. This design inspired the individual shapes that will make up the playground. The sponge material will act as a rain water collection device.

The design will include a device for students to manipulate the object and roll it through to release the water it has stored to maintain the plants in their garden.

Each structure will also include text to incorporate an educational component as well as a visual component for the children to relate what object goes with what planter.

Color and height of each individual structure will be deemed by the type of vegetable it represents as well as the amount of water necessary. The chart represents a variety of crops and their water needs based on highest to lowest.

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The Hexagon is a shape that exists naturally. The shapes, when grouped together remind us of a honeycomb. The stability and large amount of points make it a viable shape to center playground equipment around. The shape creates a puzzle effect for children to fit together to form their own area. One is the stable structure that will act as larger hexagons formed together to create different level platforms. The other area is the moveable pieces which will be smaller and will act as not only a way to collect rain water, but to distribute the water to the existing planting beds around the playground site.




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Caldwell Corridor connects the BLA and the MLA buildings at the University of Georgia. The area between these two is rarely used because of lack of seating. There are two entry ways that allow you into the site. Overall, the site’s planting beds are mostly bare. Because these are the Land-scape Architecture buildings, the site needs to convey what is being taught in each respective building. The area was made for the use of the students who are in these buildings, yet the site is hardly interacted with.

The plant selection is based on color and scale. The planting beds are intended to create small spaces that visitors can interact with. Purples and pinks are used to visually attract visitors so they will engage and interact with the site. Scale is used to create shaded areas around the edge and in the deep interior of the site. During the summer months this will be a welcoming amenity.

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The planting beds were inspired by the lack of fluidity existing in the site. Rather than a straight path, the elliptical bed pattern creates a more interesting walk through. The beds also create a sense of privacy as most of them are able to be interacted by visitors with either benches, grass areas, or shaded areas. The beds were also extracted from a larger image of a footprint. I wanted accessibility to the site from all angles. The inspiration of the footprint came from the basic idea of what I was trying to accomplish, movement. I wanted visitors to stop to admire, interact, and enjoy the space provided and have a desire to walk through it on their way to class.

Footprint that inspired the planting beds. The footprint represents the openness, fluidity, and the walkability the space creates.

Aerial view of the site and the adaptation of the footprint into the planting beds.

The beds’ elliptical shapes makes for more interesting pathways through the site. The point at the end of the bed is softened with the planting of the Arizona cypress in order to create a more approachable walkway.

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Larger evergreen shrubs such as the Arizona cypress border the edges of some of the planting beds to keep the idea of small spaces to be utilized by visitors. During the winter months the planting will also provide visual cues to keep the site active and continue to have the visitor engaged no matter what time of the year. Caldwell Corridor is already a site with heavy traffic, but by using visual cues such as scale and color, the site creates an active experience that will be interactive all year long.

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Our project focused on the design off of the Beltline between City Hall East and Fourth Ward Park. We were given one week with a partner to come up with a design that could connect the Beltline to the surrounding areas. We then presented the project in front of Pond Ecos for critique. The site challenges were the connection between the park, Masquerade, and the future use of City Hall.

We focused on three areas. The first area of focus was the potential train station and connection to City Hall. The second was the existing parking lot and the possibility of a mixed use area connecting Fourth Ward Park. The third was the Masquerade club and incorporating it into the site as well.

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We took area one and created a two phase train stop. During phase one it will serve as a train stop and market place to get people off the train and to explore the site. During phase two it will act as a train stop as City Hall becomes City Market. The connection to the next two areas is accomplished by a pedestrian bridge that crosses over North Avenue. Area two is a mixed used area that mimics the design of Historic Fourth Ward Park. The middle section is set into the ground just as the park is, but serves the purpose as retail instead of a body of water. The third area is an arboretum which keeps with the continuation of having an arboretum throughout the Beltline and provides a buffer between the park and Masquerade.

The image below explains the mixed use area. The ground floor and the floor underneath it serve as retail areas. The two upper floors provide residential opportunities.

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The section shows part of the arboretum and its connection to the Masquerade. The Masquerade’s outside is redesigned to give a inviting and cleaner look while keeping the feel the club desires. The arboretum will also include sculptures giving Atlanta more public art and reason to engage the area.

This section is the light rail station that will also serve as an open market until City Hall is turned into City Market. The station will provide outdoor seating and an indoor area for multiple uses.

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Phase two of the station will focus on City Market that will supply retail and offices. This will generate more opportunities to use the entire site during the evening and late night hours.

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The site provides easy access to both levels of retail. The two raised areas are residential starting with the second floor. This will provide affordable housing with multiple amenities within walking distance.

The site mimics Historic Fourth Ward Park with its curvilinear design while taking the area that serves as a body of water and making it a retail shopping plaza.

The area provides large open spaces for public use which will give them more flat grass areas than what the park already provides.

This area will be heavily planted with trees to connect to the arboretum and to supply shade during summer months. This hub will also bring visitors from the exist-ing park and future City Market and serve as a nice medium of both.

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Baxter Stree lighting focuses on three main areas: the area between Hancock and Collins, Milledge, and by campus. These three areas are centralized and have adequate lighting allowing visitors to use the site late at night. The problem lies in the connection between these areas. With poor lighting or lighting specifically designed for vehicular use, pedestrians do not feel safe or have no desire to walk the distance in between these well lit areas. By using infrastructure Baxter Street can gain a sense of place while also giving a solution to an ongoing problem.

The master plan focuses on the area between Milledge and Collins. This area is composed of housing, businesses, and a high school. Currently, the street’s only lighting infrastructure are the large overhang lights that are intended specifically for vehicular use. The master plan is only a part of this overall scheme as the structure itself that emits the lighting is the focus. The structure has ability to not only provide lighting but to give a solution to multiple problems a pedestrian has on Baxter Street.

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Current ConditionsLight pollution and lighting provided mainly for vehicle use discourages pedestrians from using the street corridor.

Traffic CalmerProviding a tunnel effect to slow down traffic and create a safer environment for the pedestrian.

ShadePedestrians are given a shaded walk throughout the corridor encouraging use in the summer months.

Light PollutionControlling the way light is emitted will cut down on expense and effect of lighting. Providing specific lighting for both vehicular and pedestrian use will encourage walking at night.

HydroelectricityTaking advantage of rainwater runoff passing through turbines, located underneath the curb gutter, to generate lighting giving the corridor a sense of place at all times.

Community UseUtilizing the services existing along the street to potentialy personalize each pole to create an active community involvement.

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As water runs down the street, small turbines mimicking water wheels will begin to turn generating energy to power blue LED lights giving rain a functional purpose in lighting Baxter Street. This will create a soft but noticeable change in the look and feel while driving in the rain. By utilizing current technology with water turbines, Baxter Street can also become a destination during rainfall truly creating a site used 24/7.

At night the tunnel effect can be fully felt as the street lights will be directly above emitting light to night time travelers. This will also continue to encourage the driver to slow down as the lighting

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on the sidewalks will encourage more night time pedestrians. The primary function of the lighting is to make sure vehicles and pedestrians have an adequate amount of lighting when utilizing the site at night.

By incorporating the community into the project, the lighting will take on the identity of an art installation as each individual structure’s design will create a much larger impact on the overall look and feel of Baxter Street. The streetscape can be tailored to events such as sports, AthFest, pep rallies, farmer’s market, car shows, and the many more events Athens has to offer.

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Bachelor of Landscape ArchitectureExpected May 2013College of Environmental Design (CED)The University of GeorgiaAthens, GA

5192 Catalpa KnollAcworth, GA, 30101

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P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E

Spring 2012The Center-City of Covington, GA The University of Georgia, CEDWorked with ten other students for The Center in Newton County, GA in conjunction with the 2050 Plan.

Fall 2011Service Learning Project-The University of Georgia, CEDAthens, GAWorked with Hill Baptist Church by designing a pollinator garden, storage shed, and advising themon the use and installation of a cistern system.

A F F I L I A T I O N S

2012-PresentMember of the American Society of Landscape Architects2011-2013Member of the Georgia Students of Landscape Architecture2011Participant on the “Family Feud” game show2008-2009President and Participant on the World ChampionUniversity of Georgia Odyssey of the Mind team

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