Anna Hooker Design Portolio 2013 - 2016
Anna Hooker Ball State University
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Minor in Social + Environmental Justice a ih o o ke r @ b su .e d u +1 3 1 7 6 0 8 7 5 5 9
Selected Projects 01 M St. Park, NoMA
N oMA, Washi ngton D .C . Fall 2013
02 Frank W. Thomas Residence Oak Park, IL Spring 2015
03 Prairie Creek Ecology Center Munci e, IN Fall 2014 + Spring 2015
04 Indiana Dunes Parkway Indi ana Lakeshore Fall 2015
05 The Nature Conservancy B row n C ounty, Indi ana Fall 2015
Fall 2013 Parks & Open Space Design Studio
M St. Park, NoMA NoMa, a Business Improvement District in Washington, DC, is a fast-growing and exciting neighborhood. Thousands of people now live and work in the area. Once an industrial sector, NoMa is now being made home by an active, social group of young professionals. It is important to celebrate the novelty of the neighborhood through relevant design techniques. The M St. Park incorporates modern materials and design to create a comfortable yet interesting urban park space for the workers and residents of NoMa.
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Washington, D.C. consists of a network of angular streets and roads...
this angular geometry can be applied to the site to create conversing buildings and an engaging diagonal urban space.
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white slab benches
cafe seats
granite water feature
20’ sidewalk
seating lawn
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The final design for the M St. Park is an embodiment of the fast-paced young professionals living and working in the nearby buildings. The site is minimal and streamlined, providing multiple uses while simultaneously allowing passersby to travel through effortlessly. Grassy lawns and ample shaded benches provide lounging spaces for neighboring workers and residents alike, while flexible cafe seating serves customers of the facing restaurants as well as businesspeople on a lunch break.
schematic site plan
Spring 2015 Planting Design Studio
Frank W. Thomas Residence 1
For the residential design of the Frank W. Thomas House, the designer is also the client. The Oak Park Historic Review Committee requires accomodation of two off-street vehicle parking spaces, and states that structures such as the original house and garage can not be altered. With these regulations considered, an upgraded front yeard and a functional back yard space have been designed for a single resident. Multiple programmed outdoor “rooms� are incorporated in the design to make the relatively small yard feel more spacious. Varying levels of activity and socialibility have been designed for, so that the user could interact with the space in many different ways.
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1 Main Garden Entry The main garden entry is this set of stairs, which are connected to the covered terrace that wraps around the West and North sides of the home.
2 Patio The patio is an entry point from the adjacent stair case. A grill and dining table make the space great for having over and entertaining friends and family.
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3 Japanese Rock Garden Japanese rock gardens imitate the intimate essence of nature, not its actual appearance, and to serve an aid to meditation about the meaning of life.
4 Reading Nook The furthest corner of the yard is a space designed to feel enclosed and removed from the home, where one can sit and sketch, read, or simply relax.
5 Greenhouse A greenhouse is constructed to allow for year-round growth. Inside, a wide range of plants are cultivated, from edible plants to herbs to tropical potted plants.
6 Lawn Dogs are a member of this family, so space for them to run and play is necessary. A good-sized lawn will allow them to stay active, and is open for other uses as well.
rendered site plan
Outdoor rooms are created by steps. On the left, the Japanese rock garden requires a step up into the space, framed by Serviceberries on both sides and a dark wooden backdrop. The next room is stepped down, creating an enclosed atmosphere.
Planting beds surround the patio space, bringing in life and color. The dining table makes a great place to sit around and hang out, while the overhead canopy creates the perfect amount of shade in the warm Oak Park summers.
The planting palette assembled for this project was selected based on form, texture, and color. Perennials and ornamental trees flowering in cool-toned hues were chosen to develop a sense of calmness within the yard. Grasses with feathery, light textures were incorporated within the perennial planting beds for their complementary colors and textures. Evergreen trees were selected for their screening capabilities in the front and back yard spaces, while ornamental Serviceberry trees help enclose spaces in the backyard.
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dwarf alberta spruce
american arborvitae
russian sage
wood’s purple aster
bowles’ golden sedge
fair maids of france
mexican feather grass
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Fall 2014 Community Design Studio Spring 2015 Planting Design Studio
Prairie Creek Ecology Center Prairie Creek Ecology and Retreat Center is a focal point of a large-scale redesign project, located at the existing Prairie Creek Reservoir and on the surrounding lands. Programs are divided into three different buildings: the retreat center, the conference hall, and the ecology center. The Center is surrounded by wildlife restoration biomes, including a wetland, and prairie, a meadow, and natural woodland. Nearby university Ball State has a range of ecology and environmental management programs, so the built wetlands and prairie lands along with the reforestation efforts will become an outdoor lab for legitimate ecological research to be done in.
The planting design for the grounds of the Prairie Creek Ecology Center compliments the edges of the walkways and plazas, adds life to building faces, and brightens the entry to the building. Rows of trees line walkways to create attractive, comfortable walks to and from the buildings and the rest of the Prairie Creek attractions. A plant palette has been carefully chosen including as many native plants as possible, to celebrate the natural ecologies and attract wildlife not only to the surrounding habitat areas but to the framing plant beds.
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The represented part of this project stemmed from group work done in the Community Design studio. From there, a refined plan and planting design were created to further the ideas that were started with the previous schematic planning.
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1 Retreat Center The Retreat Center consists of 40 rooms, which can be rented out in groups for summer camps, retreat trips, and other various activities.
2 Waterway Site Entry This is the main pathway that comes through the entirety of the Prairie Creek site, off of the Waterway Walk, and brings patrons to the Center.
3 Conference Hall The Conference Center can be rented or reserved by any group for conferences, meetings, and other purpose. Different room sizes provide the right space for any group.
4 Solar Aquatic System This Solar Aquatic System Lab is accessible to all visitors of the Prairie Creek Ecology Center, and gives opportunity for an exciting educational experience.
5 Ecology Center The Ecology Center is home to classrooms and research labs, which can be used by grade school visitors as well as students of Ball State visiting the site to research in the habitat research areas.
6 Entry Plaza The Entry Plaza, located between the dropoff and Ecology Center, is spacious enough for groups to congregate before embarking on adventures throughout the rest of the Prairie Creek site.
7 Vehicle Drop Off For convenience, the vehicle drop-off is located next to the Entry Plaza, so that parents and buses can drop off visitors at the front of the Prairie Creek Center.
* Patio Spaces Two patio spaces are outdoor rooms reserved for patrons of the Prairie Creek Center. Plant beds and trees screen views and enclose the cozy spaces.
The patios located between the buildings can be used by visitors of the Center to sit, eat, and relax. Blue Star and Tufted Hair Grass create a physical enclosure, while a group of Serviceberries help create a visual barrier, making the patios feel like comfortable outdoor rooms.
This section, located in front of the Conference Hall, illustrates the visual layering of plants in the planting beds that frame the walkways. The wide plant beds against the lawn side of the plaza add an incredible amount of visual interest, even for visitors looking out from the windows.
illustrative site sections
The main entry paths to the site converge at the plaza in front of the Prairie Creek Ecology Center. Both paths, leading from the parking lot and the southwest entry of the larger site, emerge from tree-lined shade and are greeted by colorful perennial plantings. Along with the those in the bed in front of the building, plants have been chosen to attract birds and butterflies.
A row of Redbud trees, nestled in a bed of flowering groundcover, mimics the curve of the Solar Aquatic system, attractively lining the walk from the main entry plaza. The secondary entry path, which comes directly through the larger site, meets up in front of the Conference Center. Cutting through the large layered planting bed, this pathway makes for a beautiful entrance.
Fall 2015 Regional Planning + Design Studio
Indiana Dunes Parkway The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is home to a wide variety of ecosystems. The purpose of the Indiana Dunes National Parkway is to draw attention to and highlight specific ecosystems found in the Lakeshore area. These ecosystems, like most, are subject to intense pressure by human activity. It is important, therefore, that these unique and special ecosystems should be protected. The National Park Service believes that education and exposure to natural ecosystems promotes protection and consideration of these habitats. Thus, the Indiana Dunes National Parkway highlights the ecosystems found throughout the Lakeshore, subsequently increasing public awareness of these natural ecosystems while providing protection and opportunities for research. The Parkway also resolves logistical concerns related to the parkway including problematic intersections and the rerouting of commercial and commuter traffic. This project was done as a group, and was presented as a 40-page booklet; the following pages have been pulled directly from that book. All section drawings were created by other group members, but the rest of the text and imagery was generated personally.
CONCEPTUAL PARKWAY MAP The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Parkway follows US-12 between Gary and Michigan City taking it past the ecosystems the Parkway would showcase. Running adjacent to the Parkway on the northern side of the road (except near the industrial areas, where it moves the south side for some time) will be the expanded Calumet Bike Trail. The Parkway and the Trail together help to unite the trails, South Shore railroad line, communities, and ecosystems that make up the region. Trailheads and South Shore stations are marked on the map along with the expanded Calumet Trail and the Indiana Dunes National Parkway. The stars indicate where pull-offs have been proposed. These function as nodes for the showcasing of ecosystems as well as providing connection points to existing trails and attractions. Also shown on this map are the areas where traffic will be rerouted to limit the presence of commercial traffic on the Parkway. These areas are further explained later on.
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DEMONSTRATION GARDEN PULL-OFF This pull-off showcases woodland, wetland, and grassland by connecting to the Cowles Bog Trail. When guests pull off of the parkway, they can park and get out of their cars to walk a short educational loop, traverse the longer hiking trails, sit at the shelter, or access the bike trail. The parking lot, shelter, and restrooms are between the rail road and the parkway, but the educational loop and hiking trails pass under the rails in a small pedestrian tunnel. On the other side of the parking lot, the pedestrian overpass allows the bike trail to cross over the parkway and continue on the other side.
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Cohesive and material=appropriate signage was designed specifically for use along the Parkway. Large informational signs would be located at pull-offs, allowing visitors to quickly locate themelves along the Parkway. These signs would also integrate QR technology, connecting users to more information. Smaller trail markers and other placemaking signage were designed for use along the bike and pedestrian pathway.
Here, the landscaping improvements, custom lighting, + overhead entryway signage are prominently displayed; similar conditions would be found at both the Gary and Michigan City entrances.
To provide interesting views while also informing visitors about the ecology of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Parkway, a series of connected panels displaying the succession of the dunes will be implemented. The panels are made of steel, namely corten steel.
The design of the monumental signage, illustrated here, led the design of all other parkway signage. The weathered steel celebrates both the natural elements of the surrounding ecosystems + the steel industry.
Fall 2015 Engineering III
The Nature Conservancy
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Anna Hooker Ball State University
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Minor in Social + Environmental Justice ai hook er@bs u.edu + 13176087559