2. LAURA HANDLETON
laurahandleton@gmail.com
513-519-8787
91 W. 10th Avenue
Apartment B
Columbus, OH 43201
confluence
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Columbus OH | urban sports park
habitation
Salem MA | small scale installation
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green network
Brooklyn NY | flexible event space
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26tactical urbanism
Clintonville OH | complete streets implementation
material mosaic
Columbus OH | art center plaza
30miscellaneous
hand sketches | fabrications | cards and invitations
3. CONFLUENCE
Location: Columbus OH
Partners: Mariel Fink and Christa Radosavljevic
Date: Fall 2015
This project site is in downtown Columbus at the confluence of
the Olentangy and Scioto rivers. The large and neglected site is
also dissected by many roads, railroads, and highways. There is
no existing drainage strategy.
My group sought to create a space that was both aesthetically
engaging and ecologically functional. Inspired by the forms of
river deltas as a conveyor of water, the project works to improve
the site’s stormwater function through the carving of ravines
in the landscape. These same ravines act as a visual and phys-
ical connection to the river, while providing many interesting
formal and informal active programmatic spaces for visitors to
explore.
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7. MATERIAL MOSAIC
Location: Wexner Center Plaza, Ohio State Campus OH
Partners: Kara Sheetz and Kerry Gerich
Date: Spring 2015
The site of this project is the plaza outside the Wexner Center
for the Arts on the Ohio State University’s campus. The existing
plaza is not functioning properly; many of the trees have died
and the pavers are loose, cracked, or missing in many places.
Our assignment was to redesign the plaza with an emphasis on
detail design.
There are entrances to both the Wexner Center and Sullivant
Hall adjacent to the plaza, all at different spot grades. Our fi-
nal design is a series of interlocking terraces that bring people
through the different levels of the site. Various programmatic
elements and vegetation types fill the mosaic pieces.
Full construction document set available upon request.
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8. Wexner Center Plaza
project address
1871 N High St
Columbus, OH 43210
The Ohio State University N
client
project name
consultants
Garden Gestures
781 fifth Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
Concept Engineering
11 Marconi Blvd
Columbus, OH 43210
KKL
stamp
Phase:
9"
FOOTER OF RETAINING WALL TO EXTEND 36" PAST LOWEST GRADE FROST LINE
TOP OF WALLS CHAMFERED TO SHOW 4" (SEE SPECIFICATIONS)
4"
SOIL GRADE TO MEET EDGE 3" BELOW TOP OF WALL
3"
36"MIN.
ORTOFROSTLINE
SOIL TYPE (SEE SOIL DETAILS, SOIL PLANS, AND SPECIFICATIONS)
#4 REBAR AT 15" O.C. EACH WAY, 2" CLEAR
#4 VERTICAL REBAR 2" CLEAR, 18" O.C. CONTINUOUS
RETAINING WALL BETWEEN PLANTERS
SCALE: 3/4" = 1'-0"2
VARIES, SEE GRADING PLAN
1'-2 1/2" 1'-9 1/2"1'-0"
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FREE DRAINING AGGREGATE
COMPACTED AGGREGATE BASE COURSE
COMPACTED SUBGRADE
GRANITE PAVER, SEE DETAIL 2 ON L-6.1
36"MIN
ORTOFROSTLINE
4'-0"
4"
CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE
FOOTER OF RETAINING WALL TO EXTEND 36" PAST LOWEST GRADE FROST LINE
EXPANSION JOINT
#4 REBAR AT 15" O.C. EACH WAY, 2" CLEAR
BIORETENTION SOIL (SEE SOIL DETAILS AND SPECIFICATIONS)
10"
#4 VERTICAL REBAR 2" CLEAR, 18" O.C. CONTINUOUS
STRUCTURAL SOIL (SEE SOIL DETAILS AND SPECIFICATIONS)
140
RETAINING WALL ADJACENT TO HARDSCAPE
SCALE: 3/4" = 1'-0"1
3" DIAMETER DRAIN
VARIES,SEEGRADINGPLAN
9"
FOOTER OF RETAINING WALL TO EXTEND 36" PAST LOWEST GRADE FROST LINE
TOP OF WALLS CHAMFERED TO SHOW 4" (SEE SPECIFICATIONS)
4"
SOIL GRADE TO MEET EDGE 3" BELOW TOP OF WALL
3"
36"MIN.
ORTOFROSTLINE
SOIL TYPE (SEE SOIL DETAILS, SOIL PLANS, AND SPECIFICATIONS)
#4 REBAR AT 15" O.C. EACH WAY, 2" CLEAR
#4 VERTICAL REBAR 2" CLEAR, 18" O.C. CONTINUOUS
RETAINING WALL BETWEEN PLANTERS
SCALE: 3/4" = 1'-0"2
VARIES, SEE GRADING PLAN
1'-2 1/2" 1'-9 1/2"1'-0"
140
FREE DRAINING AGGREGATE
COMPACTED AGGREGATE BASE COURSE
COMPACTED SUBGRADE
36"MIN
ORTOFROSTLINE
4'-0"
FOOTER OF RETAINING WALL TO EXTEND 36" PAST LOWEST GRADE FROST LINE
#4 REBAR AT 15" O.C. EACH WAY, 2" CLEAR
10"
#4 VERTICAL REBAR 2" CLEAR, 18" O.C. CONTINUOUS
RETAINING WALL ADJACENT TO HARDSCAPE
SCALE: 3/4" = 1'-0"1
3" DIAMETER DRAIN
VARIES,SEEGRADINGPLAN
COMPACTED AGGREGATE BASE COURSE
COMPACTED SUBGRADE
GRANITE PAVER, SEE DETAIL 2 ON L-6.1
36"MIN
ORTOFROSTLINE
4'-0"
4"
CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE
FOOTER OF RETAINING WALL TO EXTEND 36" PAST LOWEST GRADE FROST LINE
EXPANSION JOINT
#4 REBAR AT 15" O.C. EACH WAY, 2" CLEAR
BIORETENTION SOIL (SEE SOIL DETAILS AND SPECIFICATIONS)
10"
#4 VERTICAL REBAR 2" CLEAR, 18" O.C. CONTINUOUS
STRUCTURAL SOIL (SEE SOIL DETAILS AND SPECIFICATIONS)
140
3" DIAMETER DRAIN
VARIES,SEEGRADINGPLAN
CONCRETE PAVER, SEE DETAIL 2
EXPANSION JOINT
COMPACTED SUBGRADE
COMPACTED AGGREGATE BASE
6"MIN
6"TYP.
36"MIN
ORTOFROSTLINE
6"
6"L. REBAR AT 15" O.C. EACH WAY
4" THICK CAST-IN-PLACE CONCRE
NEOPRENE TACK COAT OVER 3
4" T
PRECAST CONCRETE STAIR
#4 REBAR AT 15" O.C. EACH WAY,
3500 PSI AIT-ENTRAINED CONCRE
1'-0" 2"
36"MIN.
ORTOFROSTLINE
1'-2"
1'-2"
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9. GREEN NETWORK
Location: Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York City NY
Partners: April Liu, Katie Pettee, and Nevin Lesnoski
Date: Fall 2014
This project site was located within the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a
historically industrial and restricted area. My group’s assignment
was to create an event space. As a small scale intervention, I
created both market stall and planter modules which can be
moved with shipping container technology to create many dif-
ferent layouts in an area. This allows flexibility so the space can
function as an industrial workplace during the week and as a
market square, a street festival, or a park during event times. A
more permanently programmed square features a pavilion with
a green roof that functions as a park.
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10. Condition 1: Streets can be blocked off to become a market
Condition 2: Alley allows for a pocket park environment with a variety of layouts
Module 1: Planter Module 2: Market stall
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RENDERING: CRICKET VIEW
HABITATION
Client: Peabody Essex Museum
Location: Salem MA
Partner: Christa Radosavljevic
Date: Spring 2014
In the Peabody Essex Museum, there was a temporary ex-
hibit by Ohio State art professor Amy Young. It consisted of
a miniature museum inhabited by crickets. Museum visitors
could view the crickets through a large window or through
a camera which broadcasts to a screen within the museum.
Our assignment was to create a cricket-scale installation that
the insects could interact with. After many material studies,
we chose tulle and sandpaper because of the cricket’s ease
of movement on these materials. The hexagon motif repeat-
ed in the design was derived from the shape of the cricket’s
compound eye and was utilized to create interesting struc-
tures for the insects.
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13. cricket perspective
Installation view from webcam
SANDPAPER PATH CIRCULATION
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WEBCAM
TULLE CIRCULATION
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PATHS/CIRCULATION
WINDOW
WEBCAM
FOOD PLACEMENT DIAGRAM
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View from the installed camera
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14. TACTICAL URBANISM
Location: Weisheimer Road, Clintonville OH
Partners: Class collaboration
Date: Spring 2014
This purpose of this class was to explore best management
practices for complete streets including green infrastructure,
pedestrian friendly street design, bicycle accommodation, and
traffic calming, and then apply them to several streets in Clin-
tonville, OH. Our study included a high traffic road (Indianola
Avenue) as well as residential roads. The course culminated in
a tactical urbanism event where we constructed a temporary
demonstration of the solutions we planned and received feed-
back from the community. In this section I focus on Weisheimer
road, an underdeveloped residential street in a school zone.
One of our street schemes was recently adopted.
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15. No sidewalks No crosswalks No tree lawn Wide, unmarked street
Existing conditions Low cost scheme Medium cost scheme
High cost scheme
Images from the tactical urbanism event
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16. MISCELLANEOUS
Hand sketches
Sketches were completed during a month long architectural
study abroad trip to Europe. Ink on paper.
Fabrications
Completed during a fabrications course. The chair was built
using a CNC router and assembled on hidden dowels. The
mini-planters were built digitally in Rhino and fabricated on a
3D printer.
Cards and invitations
Completed with a combination of watercolor and ink on paper.
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17. YOU’RE INVITED
to the sixtieth
anniversary celebration for
Bob Bunnyand
Please join us on
May 14th, 2016 at 6:00
Stonegate Apartment’s clubhouse
7911 Stonegate Drive
RSVP to Margaret (513) 519-5922
or mhandleton@zoomtown.com
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