Alexis Kellner Portfolio 2022

ALEXIS KELLNER

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2022

AB OU T ME

I remember the walk through the forest path to my childhood getaway, “Sneaky Beach,” like I still walk through the pine and oak trees dripping with Spanish moss daily. My childhood butterfly gardens and frequent nature center visits taught me from an early age of the connection of my backyard landscape and the ecosystem surrounding me. After experiencing the aftermath of the BP oil spill while living in Florida, my passion to care and protect the environment around me grew exponentially. It was that passion that led me to the field of Landscape Architecture, which allows my creativity, problem solving skills, and passion for protecting the planet to cohesively work as one. I strive to value the natural landscape and work to restore the ecosystem around us, while being able to incorporate enjoyable and inspirational experiences within my design, so more people have the opportunity to connect to their surrounding landscape.

TAB LE OF CONTENTS

1 EAST SIDE LEARNING COMMONS

2 COLLEGE SQUARE PLAZA

3 THE HIVE COMMUNITY

4 RIVERS AND RAILROADS

5 MODULAR HOMES

6 WCAA CULTURAL CENTER & GROUNDS

7 HILL STREET RESIDENCE

8 DAVIS RESIDENCE

East Side Learning Commons Project Type: Education/Public Park Location: Athens, GA Client: East Side Public Library Project Duration: 3 weeks Programs Used: Photoshop, GIS, AutoCAD, Illustrator The East Side Learning Commons site is a multifunctional space that serves the East Athens community in numerous ways. From providing greenspace to providing educational opportunities, the site has the potential to make a lasting impact on the residents surrounding it. For the early education center, there is natural play equipment and teepees paired with a unique landscape to inspire playfulness and creativity throughout the site. There is an outdoor amphitheater and a connecting trail that uses plant species and topography to represent the upper piedmont into the rolling hills and riverbanks of the plains of Georgia. For library users of the site, there are two cafe seating areas: an upstairs overlook with a pergola and an area outside the library coffee shop connected to the terraced seat wall. For the youth in the area there is a basketball court, life sized chess, pavement marked games.

For the community and library users alike, there is a community garden and a sensory garden to stroll through in the rear of the site. Transportation to and through the site includes a breezeway with a pickup and dropoff line for the school, parking in the front, and an additional lot in the rear.

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Section A-A’ Section through the mound, upper and lowe pavilion, and the in ground seat walls.

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EAST SIDE LIBRARY

CENTRAL WALKWAY MOUND ENTRANCE

Section B-B’ Section of the “Woodland Walkway,” detailing the progression from the blue ridge to piedmont plantings.

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Over the last two years, the pandemic has dramatically changed the public’s view of outdoor spaces, particularly in urban centers such as college square. This design was inspired by the movement of transforming streets and parking spaces into urban parklets for the public to enjoy. The design features are derived from the history of the site and of Athens, with elements of the north oconee river, railroad industry, and the native trees and wildlife that once inhabited the space. The riverlike bioswale through the center of the site collects and treats the stormwater that passes over the paving areas and provides visual interest to users on site. The stage on site consists of twelve units on wheels that can split apart into individual seating units when not being used for performances. The track that these units sit on are train tracks that tie into the history of the railroad industry in athens. The cafe seating is dispersed throughout the site to ensure optimal seating for users visiting one of the many eateries encompassing the square, as well as wide walkways for comfortable travel through the plaza. The north end of the site has an open area reserved for a service entrance that also doubles as a venue for farmers markets or other pop up events to take place. The once vehicular focused site, is now a prime space for pedestrians to walk freely throughout and use as their own urban oasis.

KEY 1. CAFE SEATING AREA 2. RIVER-ROCK BIOSWALE 3. DETACHABLE STAGE / SEATING 4. RAIN GARDEN 5. SUNKEN TURF SEATING AREA 6. HIGH TOP / BAR SEATING 7. RETRACTABLE BOLLARDS 8. OPEN VENUE SPACE / SERVICE ENTRANCE 9. RAISED PLANTERS 10. RAISED PLANTERS WITH SEATING

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Project Type: Public Plaza Location: Athens, GA Project Duration: 6 weeks Programs Used: Photoshop, AutoCAD, Sketchup, Lumion

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Section A-A’ Section through the central cooridor of the site, highlighting the raised seating and cafe space.

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SectionB-B’ Section through the central bioswale and movable stage.

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Perspective of the Movable Stage This shows the moveable stage/ seating looking towards the UGA campus.

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Perspective of the Sunken Turf Area This perspective of the turf seating and rocky bioswale was built in Sketchup and rendered in Lumion.

Perspective of High Top and Cafe Seating Shows the seating areas outside of the restaurants in the plaza.

The Hive Community Project Type: Community Development Location: Athens, GA Project Duration: 6 Weeks Programs Used: Photoshop, AutoCAD, Sketchup, GIS, Illustrator The Hive community contains eight homes placed centrally on the site with access to the wide range of community amenities on the property. With the eight homes proposed there will be a balance of intimate and public spaces with opportunities for community engagement and socializing. The farm area, owned by each neighbor, is combined to increase the social interaction between the community as well as to maximize efficiency with the time and resources needed for its upkeep. The public spaces created provide a wide range of flexibility for the various neighborhood events taking place, from an outdoor concert to a fall festival with apple picking. Hosting large scale events with the community garden is a way to involve the outside area, generate revenue for the garden’s upkeep, and create a sense of pride in the upkeep of the community.

The design of the homes and the public and private outdoor spaces provide connection to resources like the lake and garden to create harmony between the spaces with a consistent palette.

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1. Community Center 2. Swamp Paver 3. Natural Playground 4. Boardwalk Trail 5. Vertical & Horizontal Wetlands 6. Orchard and Farmland 7. Amphitheater 8. Potential Community Market 9. Greenhouse and Raised Planters 10. Patio with Kitchen 11. Solar Panel Sculpture Garden 12. Back-in Parking Spots

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Natural Playground Perspective This playground is designed to incorporate elements and textures of the surrounding landscape into a playscape.

Wetland Pavers Perspective This pathway provides users with an interactive and educational path through the wetland on site.

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Section A-A’ Section of the community center, connecting boarwalk , and homes.

Section B-B’ Section of the wetland pavers and contructed wetlands.

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Detail of the Wetlands on Site Context map with important African American historical landmarks around the town identified.

Horizontal Flow Constructed Wetland

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Rivers and Railroads Project Type: Urban Plaza Location: Athens, GA Client: Students of UGA Project Duration: 2 Weeks Programs Used: Photoshop, AutoCAD Athens, GA has been home to a wide variety of industries and subsequently the communities that form because of them. From the mill to the railroad to the music industry, the city has flowed through a variety of community phases. The site contains elements from these periods of time and brings them together to show the layers of history that have taken place here.

There is a river-like form pergola with pebble seats below for students to gather around while enclosed by the mounds on site. The paving pattern is a radial pattern, similar to the spokes of a train wheel or a mill. The mound shapes on site are abstracted from the delta like patterns of water drainage existing on site. They have been exploded to move people through the site in the same way water has been draining through it. The site has two points of entry, one by the Tanner bus stop and the other by the Thomas Street Sculptural building to draw in foot traffic from students traveling through campus or waiting for the bus.

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Site Plan Section detailing the parking deck and connecting amphitheater and bridge along the river.

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Process Graphics Shows the process of combining key features of Athens, GA into a site design.

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Halycyon: Modular Homes Project Type: Container Home Competition Client: UNYT Project Duration: 3 weekend long charrette Programs Used: Photoshop, Rhino, Illustrator, GIS, Lumion Modular homes can provide students with a balance of indoor and outdoor spaces. Pockets in the space are created by the Tetris style stacking of the containers and create interesting spaces and views to walk through on each floor. The first and third floors on site function as the bedroom and study spaces for individual students. Each student has access to a window with a view outside of their bedroom above their study area. The second floor on site includes the living room, kitchen, and bathroom for the students to use as a common area. This floor has direct access to the large patio extension outside of their container. This patio connects all the modules and provides a large area to host student gatherings or a place to hang out with a group of friends. There is a ramp along the interior of this space that provides ADA access to the second floor and creates a central focal point. The paving pattern used is a further continuation of the Tetris style blocking that the container configuration is based off of.

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1. Shaded Outdoor Patio 2. Overlook 3. ADA Ramp to Residential Patio 4. Raised Plant Bed 5. Tetris Pattern Pavement 6. Residential Patio

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Exploded Axon Here, you can see the interior layout and furniture in relation to the windows , walls, and height of the space.

Vacant Lots in NYC (left) and Process Graphics (right) The vacant lots were used to run configuration studies for ideas about container configuration. The final layout was inspired by a 3D rendition of tetris.

Esri, HERE, Garmin, (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS user community

CAD Floorplans of Module Dorms These floorplans show the 1st and third floor as bedrooms (each having two bedrooms) and a central living space.

Walker County African American Cultural Center & Grounds Project Type: Museum Grounds Client: Walker County African American Historical Alumni Association Project Duration: 8 weeks Programs Used: Photoshop, Illustrator, GIS The project in Lafayette, GA is centered around the creation of the African American Cultural Center and Grounds being created by the African American Historical Alumni Society, who we met with during our community outreach. On site there are plant beds surrounding the site to buffer the surrounding parking lot.

The progression of planting on site exemplifies moving from the valley to the mountains in Walker County through the use of native trees and shrubs. Visitors of all mobilities can enter the site through the front of the site and are moved through outdoor exhibits first before entering the building. The progress fountain on site, also sketched here, stems from ideas of growth, time, and overcoming hardship. The materials of the key features on site are drawn from the geology of Walker County, using stone such as granite, black shale, limestone, and sandstone taken from the region.

Draft of site Plan

Drawing of the “Progress Fountain”

Community Input Meeting

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Precedent Research Fieldtrip

Transect of Lafayette, GA Context map with important African American historical landmarks around the town identified.

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1. Way of the Rail LaFayette was home to an important stop for railroad companies, mostly to and from Chattanooga. Among these was the Central of Georgia Railway, which had a rail network throughout the state.

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LaFayette’s position in the North Georgia mountains and plentiful access to water made it an adavanteous position for Native American tribes as well as early American settlers.

A historically African American church in LaFayette

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4. Hill City Elementary School c. 1940s Hill City Elementary is one of the first African American elementary schools in LaFayette, providing a valuable resource for the black community in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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5. Steele St Church of Christ

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This LaFayette church is home to a multifarious age range of believers.

Through Facebook records, we discovered numerous community events to spur outreach and interaction such as the Fishers of Men Fish Fry put on in summer of 2016.

Education was vital to early African American communities. The Dewberry School was 1 of 242 Rosenwald schools in Georgia.

E.D. and Marion Ward are pictured here. E.D. was the first African American principal in Walker County post school-integration.

8. A Rural Identity A city of only 7,107 people, the rural context of LaFayette is important to creating a tight-knit community.

Hill Street Residence Project Type: Residential Location: Athens, GA Project Duration: 4 Weeks Programs Used: Photoshop, AutoCAD, VRay This site is in the heart of Cobbham, Athens first suburb, and is full of historic sites, a variety of homes, and within walking distance to some of Athens’ most popular food havens. I designed a home for a client with a secondary dwelling attached to the back. There is a large open area for entertaining in the back. Two connecting patio areas define the outer edge of the main craftsman style home, complete with an outdoor grill area and hydrangeas lining the pathway. The front patio allows for a more secluded space from the secondary dwelling and is an ideal spot for the clients to enjoy some of their favorite pastimes: bird watching, drinking a morning cup of coffee, and reading on the porch. A variety of pollinator friendly florals line the property to provide a variety of colors and to attract birds, bees, and other species to liven up the garden for the resident’s viewing pleasure. The secondary dwelling, located over the three-car garage, has its own attached patio with a stone path through the woodland area to connect it to the rear lawn. The lawns on site provide the ideal space for entertaining and the round driveway allows for ample parking. Each residence gets their private outdoor area which provides the perfect balance of the private and open spaces.

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Perspective of Home This perspective shows the front porch, patio, and street plantings.

Rain Garden Detail Detail of the rain gardens on site.

Grading Plan of the Site Shows the grading on site, moving water from the house and impervious surfaces to the rain gardens on site.

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Davis Residence Project Type: Residential Planting Location: Athens, GA Client: Mrs. Davis Project Duration: 6 weeks Programs Used: Autocad, Photoshop, Hand Rendered (markers) The Davis residence is in a large Athens neighborhood filled with a wide variety of plantings and a bad case of suburban deer grazing. A wide range of pollinator friendly florals for the façade and shade friendly plants for the wooded pathways were chosen to satisfy the clients wishes. The dense plantings at the front of the house will give the Davis’s the wild garden aesthetic they were hoping for while also providing an educational experience for the children as pollinators come to visit and peak the children’s curiosity. The back seating area provides a secluded and shaded space with a view to the front lawn, where the children play. The woodland path provides a shaded walk to the front yard as well as an area for the children to experience the various plantings or climb a tree as Ms. Davis is tending to the garden or relaxing. The site is a flexible space that is able to adapt when guests pass through an area all while providing visual interest with the diverse palette of colors and textures.

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1. Butterfly garden 2. Seating area 3. Residence 4. Shaded plant bed 5. Driveway 6. Open lawn

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Perspective of Front of House Perspective showing the polinator friendly flowers along the front of the house.

Perspective of the Shaded Garden Shows the intimate shaded side garden with seating, looking out to the open front lawn.

Planting Sketch Shows the texture combinations of the plantings on site.

Shaded Vegetation

Planting Plan and Plant Palette Planting plan for a residential home with a shaded garden and loose and wild butterfly garden.

Fine textured fern Low growth flowering shrub Texture Studies Shows the studies for plant selection based on texture.

Upright, dark green, tall, evergreen shrub Medium growth shrub, light green color Fine textured fern PLANT SCHEDULE QTY

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SHRUBS: 13 Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Endless Summer’

Garden Hydrangea

3 gallon

Vision Landscaping

14.00

182

GROUNDCOVERS, VINES, & HERBACEOUS PLANTS: 19 Aspidistra elatior

Cast Iron Plant

1 gal

Vision Landscaping

5.50

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Baptisia pendula

White Wild Indigo

1 gal.

Goodness Grows

12.50

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Carex flacca ‘Blue Zinger’

Blue Sedge

1 pint

Classic Groundcovers

2.68

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Dryopteris erythrosora

Autumn Fern

1 gal.

Goodness Grows

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Echinacea purpurea

Purple Coneflower

1 gal

Goodness Grows

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Farfugium japonicum ‘Giganteum’

Giant Leopard Plant

1 gal.

Goodness Grows

12.50

275

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Muhlenbergia capillaris

Pink Muhly Grass

1 gal.

Vision Landscaping

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Perovskia atriplicifolia

Russian Sage

1 gal.

Cofers

12.99

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Physostegia virginiana

Obedient plant

1 gal.

Goodness Grows

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Rudbeckia fulgida ‘goldsturm’

Black-eyed Susan

1 gal.

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Saxifraga stolonifera

Strawberry begonia

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4,869.04

Saxifraga stolonifera

Aspidistra elatior

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Dryopteris rythrosora

Full Sun Florals

Farfugium japonicum

Echinacea purpurea

Perovskia atriplicifolia

Rudbeckia fulgida

Baptisia pendula

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