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noun ter·rain \tə-ˈrān also te-\ a (1) : a geographic area (2) : a piece of land (3) : ground b : the physical features of a tract of land c : a field of knowledge or interest ~Merriam-Webster
The annual terrain publication captures and celebrates progressive work being done by the Kentucky Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (KYASLA) to further landscape architecture in Kentucky; recognizes non-landscape architect leaders who make substantial contributions to our community in the spirit of the profession (through the Grady Clay Award); and highlights award winning projects throughout the state. The intention of this publication is to annually highlight and promote what is most impactful to the practice and our communities. This is a publication for landscape architecture professionals, local leaders, future landscape architects, and anyone else who experiences landscape. The quality of our future is dependent on thoughtful use of our land. We start the conversation with terrain...
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About terrain 2016-17 KYASLA Sponsors Table Of Contents
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About KYASLA Public Awareness Mentor Program Creative Studies Tour
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2017 KYASLA Awards Jury Introduction
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Built Work Produce Park - Honor Award Iroquois Park North Overlook - Merit Award
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Planning and Analysis West Louisville Outdoor Recreation Initiative - Honor Award
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Communication 36 Miles: Revealing the Ohio - Honor Award
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Student Work Southland Drive - Honor Award [Re]Newing American Playgrounds - Merit Award
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Presidents Award Firm of the Year - CARMAN
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Grady Clay Community Vision Award David Karem
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KYASLA Advocacy
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KYASLA 2017 Platinum Sponsor University of Kentucky Landscape Architecture
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2016-17 KYASLA Executive Committee v
Creative Studies Panel
Winter Social
Advocacy Day - Capitol Hill
Bernheim Forest Day
10 Parks That Changed America
Sustainable Sites Symposium
2016 KYASLA Conference
Park(ing) Day
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2016 Awards Gala
ABOUT
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Instagram: KENTUCKYASLA Twitter: @KentuckyASLA www.facebook.com/KYASLA/ www.kyasla.org The Kentucky Chapter seeks to represent and further the aims and policies of the American Society of Landscape Architects through legislative advocacy, public outreach, membership development, and contributions to the community. Currently, the Chapter consists of 110 members and is led by a 12-member Executive Committee that acts as the decision-making body for the organization. Over the years, the Chapter has made significant contributions to the advancement and protection of landscape architecture in Kentucky. Recent, significant contributions consist of stronger partnerships with the University of Kentucky through initiatives like the Creative Studies Program and participation in Chapter activities like the KYASLA annual conference; and project tours of landscapes of significance such as Parklands of Floyd Fork and Bernheim Forest.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
The Chapter has been extraordinarily successful as an entirely volunteer based organization, and continues to grow the relevance of landscape architecture within the state. However, the presence of landscape architects as leaders on many of our states largest projects remains limited. By growing our membership and volunteer base, we can better position a future led by landscape architects who now, more than ever, need to be the guiding influence of our built environment. To get involved, please contact KYASLA President – Kristin Booker (kbooker@booker-design.com)
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/ Mentor Program
In early 2017, the Kentucky Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects launched a pilot mentorship program in partnership with the University of Kentucky, Department of Landscape Architecture. This program creates opportunities for students to receive advice and mentorship from local professionals. These interactions might include meeting for coffee, help with student work, and advice with job placement. This program is set in place to accomplish three main goals:
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Desire to create more of a face-to-face connection between the students of the department and our local professionals. Understanding that some of this coordination and correspondence will be digital, the ultimate goal is to get students interacting with professionals on a deeper level than they may previously have been exposed to.
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Recruit local professionals to engage with one student in open dialogue through email, lunch meetings, or occasional design reviews.
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Semester long interaction between students and professionals.
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The Creative Study Tour was first introduced in 2014 to supplement a creative thinking course at the University of Kentucky entitled Living on the Right Side of the Brain. This course challenges students to explore their creative thinking process through the framework of metacognition (thinking about thinking). Over the past three years small groups of landscape architecture students have traveled across the country to meet and talk with creative individuals in a variety of disciplines, thus exposing them to the value and power of creative thinking. The meetings are typically informal and explore the themes of person, place, and story. Discussions are generally interactive and at times revealing on many levels. Basic subjects relative to a participant’s story, their current work, lessons they have learned about their creative process, etc., are all common elements, but often the discussion opens a window into their creative spirit and way of being. As the Creative Study Tour continues to evolve so does the documentation component. The first two trips were captured through books created post trip. With support from KYASLA the 2016 trip was captured by a videographer who was hired to document the experience from the student perspective. 7
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2016 KYASLA HONOR AWARD
Every year the best projects across the state are recognized and set apart as superior professional design. These projects are awarded Honor.
MERIT AWARD
Projects given the award, Merit, display good design and characterize environmental responsibility. The jury may award any number of entries in any category this distinction.
STUDENT AWARD
PRESIDENTS AWARD
GRADY CLAY
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The Student Award recognizes good design and students currently working towards a landscape architecture degree. The jury may award any number of Honor and Merit awards in this category.
The Presidents Award recognizes any individual, firm, or organization that makes outstanding contributions to the success of the chapter through service, advocacy, or membership development.
The Grady Clay Award is a state honor given to an individual who sustains and strengthens Kentucky communities across the state.
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/JURY Susan Hatchell, FASLA
Susan Hatchell, FASLA, is the principal of an eponymously named firm in NC and a past-president of ASLA.
Andre Johnson, AIA Collaborative, innovative and award winning architect located in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Ben Monette, ASLA Ben Monette is senior landscape architect with Andropogon Associates.
Beth Nooe, Urban Designer and Planner Beth Nooe is a planner and works in the Urban Design Center for the City of Raleigh.
Art Rice, ASLA Art Rice is Associate Dean and Professor of Landscape Architecture in the College of Design at North Carolina State University
Mike Welton, Journalist Mike Welton is a writer and serves as the Architecture and Design critic for the News & Observer in Raleigh.
Thank you to the North Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for serving as jury committee on this year’s awards!
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PATRICK HENRY LANDSCAPE ARCHITETURE
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GRESHAM, SMITH AND PARTNERS CITY COLLABORATIVE HONOR Built Work AWARD Louisville, KY Produce Park is the result of a pilot project initiative to address vacant and abandoned property reuse strategies across Louisville, Kentucky. Produce Park is a 0.17 acre pocket park constructed in Spring 2016 on three formerly vacant lots in one of Louisville, KY’s most economically depressed communities, the Russell Neighborhood. Produce Park is the result of an innovative public engagement process called RSquared (Reuse and Revitalize). RSquared is a comprehensive umbrella initiative aimed at using four key elements, Education, Engagement, Empowerment and Implementation to sustainably reduce blight and vacancy among Louisville neighborhoods. This process included interactive workshops, strategic walking tours, and temporary chalkboards installed on vacant properties asking the community to finish this sentence, “This vacant lot could be…” This engagement captured hundreds of ideas over the course of a few weeks and truly informed the end result, Produce Park. This process began as a neighborhood planning exercise and it was imperative that tangible action be seen within the community. Over the course of only one year, RSquared turned a community vision into a built reality. This process is now being held up as a precedent for public engagement and how planning level work can result in tactical implementation projects and shows that with thoughtful partnerships and collaboration, implementation doesn’t have to take years.
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RSquared-Strategic Walking Tour
Produce Park Ribbon Cutting with the City of Louisville
Produce Park Ribbon+Cutting with principles the City of Louisville Green infrastructure stormwater
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RSquared Community Visioning
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Produce Park, Completed Construction
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Jones Landscape Architecture
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MERIT Built Work AWARD Louisville, KY
The North Overlook is located in Iroquois Park which is one of three flagship Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks in Louisville, Kentucky. Designed in the late 1890’s, Iroquois Park is noted for its rugged terrain, hilltop scenic overlooks, stone outcroppings and mature old-growth forest. Designed with circuit drives, bridle trails and pedestrian paths, this peaceful forest refuge is much intact today. The North Overlook, seen on historic 1920’s images as a large gravel turnaround at the end of Downhill Road, had always permitted access for cars, however, problems with congestion and parking at the overlook spurred damaging results on the surrounding hillside and vegetation over subsequent years. The Olmsted Parks and Parkways Master Plan of the late 1990’s recommended the complete elimination of cars from the overlook area. In 2012, the process began to re-design the North Overlook with the removal all hardscape paving at the overlook itself and closing off of Downhill Road to cars. The design team developed a plan that addressed certain goals with solutions that are sensitive to the surrounding historic landscape, yet ADA accessible for all abilities. Construction was completed in October 2016 through major community and non-profit support and funding. The removal of cars at the overlook required a change in park user behavior which comes with its challenges. However, as those park users continue to visit the newly re-designed overlook, many are in agreement realizing the benefits of a place without cars!
“ Well put together, ..money is well spent in the details.” – NC ASLA Awards Jury
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North Overlook at Iroquois Park Looking over the City of Louisville
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HONOR Planning & Analysis AWARD Louisville, KY
The West Louisville Outdoor Recreation Initiative envisions that all children and their families have hope for a better future through connection to nature and the outdoors. This initiative seeks to benefit residents of West Louisville and Portland by creating expanded opportunities for children and families to experience nature within their own neighborhoods. The initiative supports Mayor Fischer’s community goals and complements existing park master plans by making recommendations for new park infrastructure that reflects current thinking about positive impacts resulting from greater connection to nature and nature-related outdoor activities. The ideas within this master plan establish a comprehensive series of physical recommendations in support of ecology, history, programs/events, activities, and behaviors. The well-planned design and management of these urban parks can further the goal of providing a neighborhood parks system in which spending an hour or a day at the park is an experience of opportunities for both individuals and groups engaging in expression, selfdiscovery, and recreation, one in which natural spaces provide opportunities for both individuals and groups to engage in expression, self-discovery, and recreation. Today’s renewed consciousness about the impact of urban parks on our health and wellness has promoted more nature based play opportunities, convenient access to nature, and inclusive design for all that benefit urban populations.
“ Important project for social equity.” – NC ASLA Awards Jury
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Pedestrian Circulation Master Plan
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GRESHAM, SMITH AND PARTNERS
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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE HONOR Communications AWARD Louisville, KY Louisville has forgotten about the Ohio River. As one example, this major environmental resource was awarded the most polluted river for the 7th year in a row in 2015 without public outcry. A critical cultural and economic icon, the river currently exists in a small, fragmented state in many Louisvillian’s minds. This fragmentation has led to a significant disconnect from the river and any true cultural interaction or acknowledgment of its historic ecological functions. What was once a main buffalo crossing point, a site for afternoon paddle boat rides and Sunday baptisms, the Ohio River has tragically become little more than an industrialized super highway. Today, public perception of the river is either narrowly focused or even misinformed—seen only as a nuisance that brings regular flooding and destruction or the staging area for a fireworks show happens there once a year. As such, there has been limited public interest in the overall health of the river as well as the sociological and cultural issues related to the river’s impacts on our community which vary dramatically along the 36 Mile river edge. “36 Miles: Revealing the Ohio” sets out to explore the full 36 mile river edge by documenting the juxtaposition between historical moments in time when the river shaped our city and those when our city began pushing back and shaping the river. The intent of this effort is to educate and begin to build a network of advocates for a better future for the Ohio River.
“ Great project, ..very well done, exhibits exceptional quality and depth of work.” – NC ASLA Awards Jury
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Opening Pop-Up Style Exposition for the 36 Miles Collaboration
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Documentation of the role major transportation infrastructure has played in fragmenting Louisville’s neighborhoods from the Ohio River
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Exploration of Reprogramming Louisville Flood Infrastructure as Connective Public Space Systems.
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HONOR Student AWARD Work Rakeem Bradshaw Azar Daneshvarnejad Morgan Dunay William Hodges Edward Lannom Andy Lodder Michell Lyonette Brian Roach Ben Turner Instructed by: Carolina Segura
Southland Drive “Retro-Fitting the Retro” is a design project focused on reenvisioning a car-centric strip mall in Lexington, Kentucky. This project aims to improve upon the vehicular dominated corridor and lack of green space in the area by providing welcoming and shared public space. The project started out with a Design Week collaboration of 85 students from the Interiors, Historic Preservation, and Landscape Architecture departments whose sole task was to develop analysis data and big ideas for Southland Drive. After Design Week ended the project continued with the Landscape Architecture students forming three teams and developing master plans that were focused on redesigning the corridor to improve the communities experience within the space. Some of the ideas proposed were implementing green space, rethinking the road and pedestrian networking, and developing public event spaces.
“ Phenomenal presentation.. Graphics are superb!” – NC ASLA Awards Jury
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UKLA CLASS OF 2016
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MERIT Student AWARD Work Wes Griffith Instructed by: Chris Sass
Historically, American playgrounds served as local “safe spots� for children, focusing on crime prevention, character building, and exercise. In the early 1970s, a new character of playgrounds emerged due to growing concerns of risk and injury, resulting in a shift of safety regulations leading to the overuse of under-stimulating, modular play equipment. To challenge the present-day standards, a matrix was developed using child development norms and then applied to Dogwood Park in Lexington, Kentucky. The designed playground will educate and challenge a child every time they enter the space due to constant changes to the environment with more cost effective equipment that will further benefit children in their physical, emotional, social and cognitive development.
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“ Well-researched and clear project narrative.. good explanation of process” – NC ASLA Awards Jury
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/ CARMAN FIRM OF THE YEAR
CARMAN, established in 1980 by John L. Carman, RLA, FASLA, is a landscape architecture, site planning and civil engineering firm with offices in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky. CARMAN has been providing planning, design and engineering services for both the public and private sectors across Kentucky. The firm’s comprehensive approach and desire to create sensitive designs where people can work, play and live has made CARMAN a local leader in the design field. As a validation of the breadth of their experience with the built and natural environment, CARMAN and their staff have been honored with numerous KYASLA design awards throughout their history. For over 30 years CARMAN has worked to make landscape architecture a profession that Kentucky values, including commitment to organizations such as ASLA, CLARB, ULI on a state and national level. Over the years staff continue to advocate and further the profession by playing a vital role in KYASLA’s executive board. All CARMAN staff are members of ASLA, including the administrative and civil engineering staff. As a means of advancing professionalism, continuing education, advocacy for ASLA, and professional networking, CARMAN periodically sponsors attendance to ASLA Annual Meetings such as Chicago and New Orleans in the recent past.
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CARMAN principals: Kevin Warner, Chris Howard, John L. Carman
Second Line Celebration, ASLA National Meeting, New Orleans, 2016
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GRADY CLAY AWARD
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GRADY CLAY
Grady Clay - Landscape Architecture Magazine
The Grady Clay Community Vision Award is named in honor of Grady Clay, Jr., the internationally acclaimed writer and urbanist. The award is an annual, statewide honor for those who are improving the quality of life for Kentuckians by offering design vision and creative solutions that sustain and strengthen Kentucky’s vibrant communities.
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David Karem
Waterfront Park, Louisville, KY
David Karem earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. He then went on to earn a law degree from the University of Louisville. He served four years in the state House of Representatives before spending 29 years in the state Senate. David first became involved in the redevelopment of Waterfront Park in 1986, when Waterfront Development Corporation was created by Kentucky General Assembly to lead and effort to transform the Ohio River waterfront in downtown Louisville from unattractive industrial areas and brownfields to a world class park. As the Director of Waterfront Park, David has been involved from the beginning, leading the selection of the parks master planner (Hargreaves and Associates) and implementation of the first three phases.
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Today, the Waterfront Park is made up of three phases and totals 85 acres, which hosts over 150 events a year. In addition to many special events, the park is visited by 1.5 million visitors a year and serves as a tourist destination for the region. In 2014 USA today named Waterfront Park as number six on its list of top ten riverfronts in the country. The park is also a major economic development magnet, spurring commercial and residential development around and within the park. David Karem’s leadership represents the aspirations of the profession, which is to give the highest and best use to land, celebrating the connection between people and landscape. Waterfront Park is an example of what strong leadership and persistence can create.
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KYASLA
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On February 8, 2017 ASLA members engaged at our state capitol for our annual Blitz Day. Legislative advocacy is vital to the protection of the law that allows landscape architects to practice. Additionally, this affords landscape architects the opportunity to educate our state leaders on the importance of landscape architecture and it’s relationship to a growing economy and creating better quality of life for all. Throughout the day we were able to meet with over a dozen state senators and representatives engaging in conversation to discuss the importance of landscape architecture to our states economy and quality of life.
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#BlitzDay2017 meeting with our State Representatives in Frankfort, KY. From left to right: Jon Henney, Josh DeSpain, Kevin McCalla, Kristin Booker, & Tony Barrett
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PRESIDENTS
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Past-President
President
President-Elect
Louisville Metro Parks Louisville
TAYLOR SIEFKER WILLIAMS
Booker Design Collaborative Louisville
Josh Despain, ASLA, PLA RossTarrant Architects Lexington
John Swintosky, ASLA, PLA D. Amin Omidy, ASLA, PLA Kristin Booker, ASLA, PLA
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Design Group, LLC Louisville
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VP Membership Services Carter Dickerson, ASLA Viox & Viox Covington
At-Large, Emerging Professionals Chair Jared R. Kaelin, ASLA Gresham, Smith & Partners Louisville
VP Professional Development Maren Lane, ASLA Hyphae Louisville
At-Large Chris Sass, ASLA University of Kentucky Lexington
Treasurer Sarah Kopke-Jones, ASLA Jones Landscape Architecture Louisville
At-Large Sarah Abplanalp, ASLA Booker Design Collaborative Louisville
Secretary Spencer Heuke, ASLA Heritage Engineering Louisville
Advocacy Chair Kevin McCalla, ASLA RossTarrant Architects Lexington
At-Large, Public Relations Chair Erin Hathaway, ASLA CARMAN Lexington
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