Amy Ladka

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

Hello, my name is Amy Ladka, and I am currently a Landscape Architecture major at University of Florida. My interest in Landscape Architecture draws from my love of nature and art. The summer before tenth grade, I auditioned to attend the visual art magnet program at Dillard Center of the Performing Arts, a performing arts, technology, and visual arts magnet school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and I was accepted. I learned a lot there about space in the form of sculpture and drawing. I also learned much about mixing colors, and about the elements and principles of art and design. I left Dillard in eleventh grade to attend College Academy at Broward College Central Campus in Davie, Florida. It is a collegiate high school in which a select group of students have the opportunity to graduate with a dual high school dipoma and Associates Degree. On June 23, 2011, I graduated high school with an Associates of Liberal Arts.

IIt turned out quite fortunate that I decided to attend College Academy; it was there that I chose my major to be landscape architecture. In these early years, I teetered back and forth between biology, out of a strong desire to work with animals, and to make enough money to live off of, and something else. After my discovered hatred of Chemestry, and much research of careers that matched my interests, I happened upon landscape architecture.

These three projects: the cube, the matrix, and the "Room and Garden," were done in my Design 1 class, a class that all architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture students are required to take as their first real college introduction to how to deal with space. The most important concepts learned were flow and connectivity, namely, creating matrix. We also learned about hierarchy, datum, and balance.

Amy Ladka

2/3/12

I had to design a theoretical park for a sculpture museum, culinary school, or a performing arts school. Guess which one I chose....

Residential

Mixed Use

Commercial

Green Space

Education

VehicularCirculation

Pedestrian Circulation

Amy Ladka

Gainesville, Fl13th St. and 2nd Ave.

SITE ANALYSIS?SYNTHESIS

Ugly Buildings - Block View

Religious

Noise

Big, blank ugly wallOpportunity for sculptural wall

Ugly Eroded Sidewalks; Remove

Commercial Area: Opportunity for Pedestrian-Friendly Entrance

Heavy Circulation Near Residential Area by Cars;Prime Entrance

Nice Bricked Walkway;Incorporate into Concept

Crosswalk from School;Great opportunity for Main Entrance

My design for University Square, Gainesville, Florida at 13th Street and University Avenue.

SECTION B

SECTION A

SECTION A: LOOKING NORTH

SECTION B: LOOKING WEST