Katherine Thomas Environmental Design Work Samples

Selected Design and Architecture Works 2023

Design Project: The Ohio State University Roof and Patient Drop off Location: Columbus, Ohio Project Type: Health Care

Roof Garden Render

Roof Planter Seat and Canopy Render

New Tower Roof Seating Space Render

Roof Colour Site Plan

The prestigeous Ohio State University needed Rooftop Garden that served as a communal space adjacent to the cafe inside and a view from the VIP patient rooms, while most importantly works as an emergency fire exit. The site’s design intent is to create a serene space where patients, family, and staff can find peace or gathering space.

Meanwhile the Patient Drop off on the main level serves mostly as functional in its interface with the roads and Rain Canopy. It includes planting islands, a sculpture garden, Seating areas, and an Emergencies Lane through the middle. The client emphasized lower maintenance plantings while still providing aesthetic appeal.

Sculpture Garden Render

Landscape plan Bird’s Eye View

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Roof Garden Planting Specifications

Roof Garden Planting Seat Render

Planting Diagram for LST-1 (NTS)

Penstemon digitalis Deschampsia cespitosa 'Northern Lights'

Planti

Sedum 'Autum Fire'

Lavandula angustifolia

Aronia melan 'Low S

Plant Schedule

Plant

LST1 Deschampsia cespitosa `Northern Lights` / Northern Lights Hair Grass Penstemon digitalis / Beard-tongue Sedum x `Autumn Fire` / Autumn Fire Sedum

3,016 sf 1,881 784 209

LST2

3,489 sf

PLUG 4" POT #1

60% @ 12" oc 25% @ 12" oc 15% @ 18" oc

LST2 Aronia me

Design Project: Tsinghua University Qingdao Hospital Location: Quingdoa, China Project Type: Health Care + Education

Garage Level Sunken Garden Illustration

Landscape Promenade Concept Illustration

Planting Zones Vehicular Circulation Pedestrian Circulation

Rendered Site Plan

People-oriented and medical experience is one of the core design concepts. It meant Patients were treated as Welcome Guests, bringing utmost consideration of the user experience of patients, medical staff, logistics people, researchers etc., This also means we needed to rethink the operational model and approach within the landscape and how it reacts to all the different facilities it corresponds to. The Landscape Spaces ranged from rooftop healing gardens, zen gardens, and garage level Sunken Gardens.

Architectural Zones

The Tsinghua University Qingdao Hospital, located in a seaside resort city, design aims to build a facility which has an international advanced medical concept, provides comfortable and pleasant medical experience for patients, and integrates the latest approach to medical technology. The Client wished to further stitch the relationship between Medicine and Research.

This resulted in a large site of 345,500 square meters that included; Teaching Facilities, Research Facilities, General Hospital, Infectious Disease Center, International Hospital, Maternity Unit, Specialty Clinics, Specialty Hospital, Shared Services Buildings, and Housing.

Specialty Hospital Tower Section

Hardscape

Landscape Elements Axo Explosion

Summer Shade Diagram

Winter Shade Diagram

Green Roof

Building Levels

Tree Canopy

Ground Level Softscape and Sunken Gardens

Design Project: Makkah Gate City Location: Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia Project Type: Urban Planning and Civic The plan for Makkah Gate City Design is grounded first in ethics and spirit, only then physical form. It is located in the most holy place, within the Makkah precinct in close proximity to Masjid-al-Haram and the Kaaba. The client asked for a thoughtful city plan balancing the old and new characteristics of the region’s culture, in order to create a successful city appealing for the younger generations.

Its order reflects the unique spiritual traditions and religious community that Makkah manifests -- its humility, dedication, spiritually, generosity and sense of community both regionally and globally. Its plan reflects the organic quality of the traditional villages of Makkah and the human scale of its sikka, baharat, mosques, and souks. Its infrastructure takes advantage of next generation technology while expressing timeless urban forms.

Within many aspects of this design is the The North South Regional Park, it interlinks with the two East West Regional Parks, extending recreation, outdoor play areas that are strategically placed across the urban plan to enable accessibility to shaded outdoor venues for families and their loved ones within all the villages. Those parks are inspired and are in the direction of the Qibla.

North + South Parkway Colour Plan

Urban Master Key Plan

1.6 m

3.25 m

4m

5m

6.12 m

7.43 m

9.7 m

14.3 m

Transit Hub and Plaza Detail plan

Transit Hub and Plaza visualization

Souk Al Jami Space Detail plan

Souk Al Jami Space Render

Transit Hub and Plaza visualization

Design Project: Makkah Gate City

Design Project: Westchester Medical Center Tower Location: New York, USA Project Type: Healthcare Medical tower expansion including 300 extra beds and parking and circulation access to existing Medical Hospital in New York. Coordinated with Civil engineers and previous architects to create the best entry ways and drop off locations with the limits of the steep topography surrounding the building. The design included a Zen pebble garden underneath the opening of the tower to create a serene and welcoming entrance for workers and visitors.

100% CD Package Hardscape Enlargement

Design Project: Eemar North Coast Resort Location: Cairo, Egypt Project Type: Master Planning

Pool Planting Seat Render Pool Section

Neighborhood Promenade Section

Neighborhood promenade Render

Beach Resort Neighborhood masterplan and design located along the North Coast of Egypt. The Design is to make a high end beach oasis to pull in luxury clients. The neighborhood offers a range of activities from leafy promenades to full beaches all in easy walking, biking, or vehicular access to its residents. The curated planting palette and destinct lush planting serves as this resorts identity putting it apart from neighboring resorts.

SD Planting Planting Typology

SD Hardscape Paving Expansion

Hardscape Strategy

Design Project: Elmor Stout School Junior and Senior Campus Location: British Virgin Islands Project Type:

Site Plan Concepy Collage or Court Yard

Building Views and Context

Building Views and Context

In September 2017, Hurricane Irma caused severe destruction in the British Virgin Islands, particularly Tortola.

Elmore Stoutt School’s Junior and Senior High School Campus was flooded and flattened, and students temporarily relocated to trailers. HDR’s Design 4 Others (D4O) team, working with Construction for Change, developed a master plan to revitalize the campus and provided design drawings for replacement facilities. The plan emphasizes a walkable and open campus, with courtyards serving various purposes and a central courtyard with a retaining basin for flood prevention. The new two-story buildings are designed to withstand high winds and utilize local materials. They feature well-lit corridors for circulation and the display of students’ artwork, fostering a sense of community.

Design Project: London Circadia Location: London, United Kingdom Project Type: Student Project

Bridge Approach Illustration

Key Jetty connector Design

Key Site and other connected sites

Bridge Approach Illustration

This Student project is a response to adult sleep statistics in London, and the general lack of sleep and down time anticipated in the year 2050. It featured strategically placed jetties alongside public parks along the Thames to create a system of boats that can be used as sleep or nap pods. Taking advantage of the river movements to facilitate sleep. The surrounding parks of the jetty locations use tactical plantings to aid relaxation and signify the nap jetties through sensory and visual attributes. The biophillic advantages lush aesthetics for the Jetty landing spaces, create different relaxation zone where one could almost believe they aren’t in London anymore but nearing a detached dream scape.

Site Plan and Key Points

Concept Image

Concept Illustration

Prompt and Concept Developent

Experiential Story board through Landscape Path

Design Project: Hand Sketches and Mood Board for Shoot Proposal Location: New York, New York Project Type: Freelance

The Concept

The Pose

The Sketch

The Look

Design Project: Personal Works