LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
SHAEDON WEDEL
PORTFOLIO
CONTACT
e: scwedel@ksu.edu
c: 316.212.4182
in: @_.flat.creative._
li: linkedin.com/in/shaedonwedel
CONTENTS
Urban Design and Master Planning
The ReNew Circuit
Brownfield redesign and adaptive reuse in Norfolk, Nebraska
Professional Experience
Fletcher Studio Landscape Architecture & Urban Design
Dogpatch, San Francisco, California
Abstract Drawings
Fluid Abstract Emotive
Pen and paper
Professional Experience
Raymond Jungles, Inc.
Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida
AI and Collage
Personal Exploration
Artificial intelligence exploration, photomontage and collage work
Urban Market Design and International Competition
Lines of the Land
Street city market design in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
New Industry for New Identity
A DISTRICT FOCUSED ON RENEWABLE ENERGY CELEBRATES A NEW IDENTITY IN NORFOLK, NEBRASKA
The ReNew Circuit design focuses on creating new industries in the former Tyson Foods facility and Norfolk Livestock Market to introduce innovative renewable energy. The design also encourages the youth to return and stay in Norfolk.
The ReNew Circuit provides families with year-round activities, brings the Norfolk community together through the open public spaces, and shifts the community to being a leader in renewable energy through research and development of alternative sustainable energy sources.
Professor: Blake Belanger
Team: Shaedon Wedel, Nicole Beard, Chloe Gillespie, and John Thomas
MERIT AWARD
IN THE CENTRAL STATES
ASLA AWARDS 2021
FUSE 2021 OMAHA, NEBRASKA
MIXED-USE
HOTEL POWER PLAZA
CIRCUIT GREENS
ELKHORN PARK
FUTURE IN ENERGY RESEARCH OF NORFOLK
F.E.R.N FIELD
The ReNew Circuit
ROW HOUSING
COMMUNITY PARK
The ReNew Circuit design builds upon the advantages this site provides by introducing new housing opportunities, sustainable industries, and interactive amenities.
Aerial Created by Shaedon Wedel
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Provide learning opportunities for the public to observe how renewable energy is advancing and impacting their community. Fern Fields Perspective Created
Shaedon Wedel
Distributing Energy Through Tension
‘Tension’ is not bad. It is a way of understanding a centralized social and active point where people gather, pass-through, or activate a space. These sketches ask the question - how can the Circuit Greens park act as a space where the residents can be socially included, activating a space, and feeling a part of the community?
Spatial Definition for People and Place
Sketches to begin defining spaces prior to 3D modeling are important in understanding plans in schematic design phases.
Utilizing Existing Infrastructure New-build Square Footage New Build 457,000 sq ft Retrofitted 253,900 sq ft Current 450,000 sq ft Live-work Housing 79,300 sq ft FERN Discovery Center 160,400 sq ft FERN 182,970 sq ft Row Housing 154,790 sq ft
Provides interactive learning opportunities and play through collaboration with the FERN research center. FERN Discovery Center Perspective Created by Shaedon Wedel
Row Housing Provides Single-family Housing
The Solar Walk Pedestrian Corridor
Connecting Monroe Park and Elkhorn Way
Perspective Created by Shaedon Wedel
Model Created by Shaedon Wedel, Nicole Beard, Chloe Gillespie, and John Thomas
Power Plaza Model
Perspective Created by Shaedon Wedel
Fletcher Studio Landscape Architceture and Urban Design
JANUARY 2022 - AUGUST 2022
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA (IN-PERSON)
The internship experience at Fletcher Studio proved greatly valuable. The knowledge that I have retained has exceeded my expectations, and has prepared me for an entry-level position post-graduation. The experience has prepared me for project management phases of SD, DD, CD and CA. I am able to assist in distributing priorities in projects, such as tasks between team members, and preparing for approaching deadlines for primary consultants and clients request.
I partook in all phases of a project, including design charrettes, design development, construction documents and working in sheet-sets, budget meetings, and team meetings with clients and consultants. I have also developed a better design language and understanding of functional and unique designs by collaborating with and observing the team of talented designers.
Outdoor Playhouse with Planters, Planter Box, and Built with Natural Materials Rhino Model & Rendering Created by Shaedon Wedel
Concrete Ramp with Handrail Detail
The handrail was designed by project manager Natalie Martell. I drafted the detail in AutoCAD to include in the 100% CD submittal.
CAD Details Created by Shaedon Wedel
Material Plan
CAD Material Plan Created by Shaedon Wedel, Natalie Martell, and Anqui Zhao
Marin VMA Planting Plan
In collaboration with the Marin Parks and Rec, Fletcher Studio Coordinator Benjamin Heim, David Fletcher, Natalie Martell and I, a primarily native planting plan was developed for minimal water use.
Planting Plan
Created by Natalie Martell, Benjamin Heim, and Shaedon Wedel
Paving Studies for a
Traffic Table & Plaza
Rhino Study Model of Stone Walls
Drawings by Shaedon Wedel
Rhino Model by Shaedon Wedel
Ilustrative Site Plan for a Biotech Campus Masterplan
Illustrative plan made in Illustrator by Natalie Martell, Anqi Zhao, Ruochen Wang, and Shaedon Wedel
Fluid Abstract Emotive
THE DARK AGES REPRESENTED THROUGH PAPER AND PEN
In my art, I like to capture the beauty and emotions of characters. Dothe figuresrepresentmeinanemotional state?Dotheyrepresentyouwithan anxiousmind?
Anxious
Remembrance
What To Do
MAY 2021 - DECEMBER 2021
MIAMI, FLORIDA (IN-PERSON)
I nurtured my network and built relationships not only as co-workers, but as designer friends. I took risks by trying new hand, digital, and social skills. I experienced and engaged in clientfirm relationships, while coordinating professional engagement with consultants and contractors. I produced designs that solved problems through curiosity and research.
I presented ideas and received critical feedback from superiors with acceptance and understanding. I experienced projects from schematic design, design development, construction administration, and site-visit final production and implementation. I have grown into a more eager designer ready to tackle opportunities and challenges that will strengthen my skills and design abilities.
Concept #1
Concept #2
A Residential Streetscape Design
Concept #1 is attempting to slow traffic by having a thinner street width, resulting in a larger R.O.W. for street tree plantings. Concept #2 has a thin R.O.W. for two cars to pass. Both designs followed similar ground plane material and pattern.
Drawings on trace created by Shaedon Wedel
Raymond Jungles, Inc.
Beach Front Residential Garden
Along with drawing, I worked along Associates and Senior Associates in creating this hand-drawn and collaged plan in Photoshop. As alterations were made, and drawings completed, I would insert the drawings into Photoshop along with the masterplan. I would layer the new hardscape, paving, pathways, or plantings atop the plan. While completely hand drawn, this image was digitally created.
Drawings created by Raymond Jungles, Frank Hammond, and Shaedon Wedel Master plan digitally created by Shaedon Wedel
Residential Entry Steps and Decking Details
Terraced concrete steps with a terrazzo finish. The detail shows the connection of the pedestal to the grade beam, and how it is stabilized in the subgrade and compacted limerock base.
CAD Details Created by Shaedon Wedel
Hand-drawn Detailed Deck Studies
Detail hand-drawn studies created by Shaedon Wedel
3D Rhino Model of Residential Pool and Outdoor Living Space
The rhino model shows an in-ground pool with a pergola, changing stations, showers, outdoor dining, fire pit, and supplementary outdoor living spaces for the residents and guests.
Rhino model co-created with Matheus Gomes of RJI, Inc.
AI and Collage
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COLLAGE EXPLORATION
Using a Discord created by MidJourney, I inserted a text description following the code /imagine prompt. The text is then connected to a series of super computers running intense GPU’s that interpret your text description and generate highly detailed images.
I am taking my interest of AI and landscape architecture and attempting to research how to use this as a tool in the profession, such as 3D graphics, perspective studies, precedent imagery, planting concepts, paving studies, etc.
An example of the text prompt used to generate one of these images: verticalgarden,architecture, topography,sprucetrees,mounds, seatwalls,peopleenjoyinga pollinatorgarden,superrealistic,high definition.
AI Studies
All images on this spread reveal the power that artificial intelligence has in the design field and landscape architecture profession.
Lines of the Land
AN OPEN AIR STREET MARKET IN HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM
Lines of the Land is based on three pillars: fish market vendors, agricultural fields and the community. The Lines of the Land is a Urban Fish Market integrating an arching Greenway Bridge as the iconic element spanning above the market. The topographical forms and terraced agricultural fields surrounding Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam influenced the major design features presented throughout Lines of the Land. The layers provide sensory and physical experiences for the people.
The design expresses the agriculture landforms through organic geometry; an elevated greenway bridge to enhance the urban nature connection; and permanent vender booths for maximum use during anytime of day.
Professors: Blake Belanger and Jon Hunt
56 ENTRIES: 21 PROFESSIONAL AND 35 STUDENT ENTRIES FOR THE COMPETITION
SHORTLISTED IN AN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION
HOSTED BY UNI
The photomontage represents the labor, shipment, and local culture of locally produced coffee.
The Process of Coffee Production and Its Significance in Vietnam
GREENWAY BRIDGE
OPEN LAWN(S)
SCULPTURAL LANTERNS
ORGANIC SEATING & PATHWAYS
PATHWAY TO VENDORS
ADJACENT PROPERTY
ENTRY TO PARK
A A B B
PEDETRIAN BRIDGE
VISUAL FROM MARKET TO SEATING, HOW DO
Highlighting Different ‘Zones’ to Understand the Relationship Between the Greenway Bridge and Context
CANOPY, SHADE, UPPER, LOWER, VISUAL CONNECTIONS, ‘GREEN’
PEOPLE ACCESS?
HOW DO THE UPPER GATHERING SPACES AND LOWER GATHERING SPACES INTERACT? DIFFER?
Early Schematic Planting Sketch
Developing Sketches/Collage of the Greenway Bridge and Market Space
The process work for this project was the beginning of my sparked interest in the representation of process work and how it influences the final design.
Engagement on the Greenway Bridge
LANTERN LIGHTS/ SCULPTURED FEATURES
GREENWAY BRIDGE
LANTERN LIGHTS
UNDER-BRIDGE CANOPY
VENDOR BOOTH COUNTERS & ORGANIZATION
ORGANIC PLANTING, SEATING, AND PATHS
Programmatic Features
TREES, PLANTING, AND SCULPTURAL LANTERNS ON TOP OF THE GREENWAY BRIDGE TO INCREASE NATURE INTERACTION
THE LANTERNS ARE ALSO SCULPTURES THAT PROVIDE LIGHT FOR THE MARKET AT NIGHT
THE PAVING IS STRATEGICALLY DESIGNED TO GUIDE PEOPLE TO THE MARKET VENDORS, WHILE ALSO ALLOWING EXPLORATION THROUGHOUT
VENDORS SET-UP THEIR GOODS UNDERNEATH THE GREEN-WAY BRIDGE -- A UNIQUE SHOPPING EXPERIENCE FOR CONSUMERS
Sections through Context and Site
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE A-A B-B LINES OF THE LAND LINES OF THE LAND PLANTING & SEATING PLANTING & SEATING VENDOR BOOTHS & SCULPTURAL LANTERS ADJACENT BUILDING & PLAZA PLAZA SPACE VENDOR BOOTHS & SCULPTURAL LANTERS PLAZA SPACE RIVER & WALKING PATH 0’ 30’ 15’ 0’ 30’ 15’
Vendor Space Under the Greenway Bridge
SHAEDON WEDEL
e: scwedel@ksu.edu
c: 316.212.4182
in: @_.flat.creative._
li: linkedin.com/in/shaedonwedel
