LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Fun fact: I originally double-majored in Business and Landscape Architecture!
While my passion for sustainability lives on, it was my architecture experience that shaped my creative mindset and entrepreneurial spirit. It taught me how to think like a self-starter, balance budgets, obsess over the details, and embrace feedback—all skills I carry into every project today.

STRUCTURE MODEL

The structure design is a building (with walls that define/contain space) with gaps to let light in and views out. Ex: are gardens, museums, houses, sheds, and pergolas.

The exploration of this model was the design of a building, being limited to only cardboard but various patterns to manipulate how structural elements look to achieve unique effects that fit in a spatial framework.

The representations were cardboard to represent walls, stamping/curve design on the cardboard to add structural element and texture, copper/bronze represents the floor of the spatial area.

The assigned focus was to be in free form(no right angle corners and no no perfect circles) , no side friendly (people cannot be see in from any sides), and many nodes (must have 3+ gathering spaces).

LANDFORM MODEL

Landform design is part of the earth’s terrain; hills, mountains, and valleys.

The exploration of this model was contour lines (a continuous line that does not cross, end, and branch out but returns to make a closure with itself on the page). My focuses were edges, height of walls compared to the people (scale), space, gateways, corridors, shadows, and nodes.

The representations were cardboard as the landform and the cut edges represent the individual contours.

The assigned focus was to be in rectilinear form, all sides friendly (people can enter from all sides), and 3 nodes (3 large gathering spaces).

GARDEN/PLANT MODEL

A good garden/outdoor model is designed for commodity, delight, and firmness.

The exploration of this model was the design of garden space and working with different plants; how to use plants to create a gathering space, barriers, and create lighting.

The representations were the green section(ground herbs) to represent grass that can be walked on or puppies to run around on, the deep red section(ground herbs and seeds) represents soil with the trees(tree branches and various plants) spaced out to create an edge that still allowed light to shine through, and the cardboard strips in the center node represent seating/benches.

The assigned focus was to be in circular form, one side friendly (people can only enter from one side and cannot be seen from the 3 other sides), and 1 node (1 large gathering space).