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Shelby Meyers University of Oregon BLA Candidate 2016

Shelby Meyers Landscape Architecture Portfolio

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Shelby MeyersUniversity of OregonBLA Candidate 2016

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Table of Contents

Water Rite Sahalie Falls Trail Rings Redmond Highway 97 Technical Planter Details The Duck Fountain Soundscape Pockets of Pause Washington Jefferson Park BridgeOtsu Canal Resume

Cover Art and Design Philosophy

Process stems from the intersection of nature and humans, from the nuances in the meetings of needs. If one listens intently, they can hear what is inherent and essential in a site. The needed design is then illuminated and only as many steps away as the process requires. I approach landscape architecture through this understanding. I am not the designer of the site, but merely the listener. The listener of the process calling to be followed.

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Water Rite explores the essential characteristics of water and how its inherent purities allow humans and the environment alike to perform ablutions of dissolution. Located in a 300’ circular field, forty-eight welded steel rods hold hand-sized cloth, mirrors, and bells, and encircle an 8’x8’ mirror sitting flush with the ground. Participants chose objects to cleanse in the golden bowl at the center of the landscape.

Summer, 2015

Overlook Field School, Waverly, Pennsylvania

Water Rite

Photo by Roxi Thoren

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-Located at the Overlook Estate-Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted-Studied with Sculptor, Dee Briggs-Explored water productivity -Created land art Installations-Welding experience-Wood construction experience-Installation experience

Collaborated with Kyle Pollack and Colin Poranski

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Sahalie Falls Trail Rings guides state park visitors to each of the site’s notable natural features by creating human scale circular spaces made with the natural materials of the site.

Fall, 2013

Sahalie Falls, Oregon

SAHALIE FALLS TRAIL RINGS

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lava

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Koosah Falls

Sahalie Falls

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first sensory impressions of site geologically oriented site plan

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EXPRESSIVE SITE STUDIES

Initial, during, and post-design depictions of Sahalie Falls area explore my interpretive process of understanding materials, natural processes, and human intervention on the site.

post-design impressions of site

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L A V A C I R C L E THE CIRCLE SPACE

As the users meet each node

they are encclosed by the natural materials,

unable to comprehend where the space begins or ends

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W A T E R C I R C L E T R E E C I R C L E

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The addition of an access road and a community redevelopment plan for a portion of Highway 97 will support the improvement of Redmond by increasing human interaction, economic vitality, and native beauty, while still supporting efficient through-traffic.

Fall, 2015

Highway 97, Redmond, OR

Redmond Highway 97

Collaborated with Jane Jewitt, Wyle O’Neill, Nancy Pierce, Kate Tromp Von Holst

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Existing conditionscurb cuts off HWY 97

Add one-way backage and frontage road

to increase ease and access to businesses

Add two new signalized intersections to HWY 97

to reduce conflict points and add east to

west connection

Final CAD drawing of highway redesign

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Urban Commercial East

Scale: 316" = 1'-0"

STORMWATER PLANTERSONE WAY FRONTAGE ROADMULTIWAY BOULEVARD

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Add two way connection streets to divide large lots and create walkable

blocksto further increase access to businesses and

make walkable streets

Step back frontage road from main intersections

to reduce conflict points on HWY 97

intersections

Create park nodes at new intersections

to create places for interaction and

wayfinding

Final CAD section of highway redesignwith frontage road, stormwater plantings, and pedestrian areas

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The hand-drawn precedent drawings inspired the connections between

water, vegetation, and urban needs in my technical planter detail.

Winter, 2015

TECHNICAL PLANTER DETAILS

Axonometric section of concrete flow-through planter

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Plan and section of paved planter with Silva Cells

Plan and section concrete flow-through planter

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The Duck Fountain transforms a eutrophic concrete pool into an ecologically healthy stream. The design process involved collecting sound data, transforming the dissonant sounds into naturally pure sounds, finding materials and forms that produce these sounds, and forming a landscape that moves people melodically through the space.

Spring, 2014

Alton Baker Duck Ponds, Eugene, OR

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Pockets of Pause helps to revitalize the rundown industrial neighborhood of 22@ in Barcelona through the activation of historic nooks. These spaces are redesigned with a combination of natural olfactory vegetation and the neighborhood’s historic industrial materials.

Summer, 2012

22@, Barcelona, Spain (Study Abroad)

POCKETS OF PAUSE

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INDUSTRIAL BRICK AND LAVENDERSituated at the nexus of historic structures and green space, these small pockets will create a dynamic human space alongside the natural cycles of mediterranean herbs and rustic bricks and metals.

smell slow harvest pause reflect on history garden work understand give back

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smell slow harvest pause reflect on history garden work understand give back

Pockets of Pause

Green Space

Historical Structure

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The Washington Jefferson Park Bridge improves the state of the ground level city park by creating a vibrant culture on the bridge through additions of bike and pedestrian lanes, stormwater catchment with planters, lookouts toward local landmarks, and spaces for entertainment, agriculture, and commerce.

Spring, 2013

Washington Jefferson Park, Eugene, Oregon

WASHINGTON JEFFERSON PARK BRIDGE

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MULTI-FUNCTIONAL FREEWAYS

Activation of roads allows systems of transportation, urban forestry, safety, and recreation to flourish at all levels of the city.

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The Otsu Canal Project highlights the city’s forgotten history through designing plantings, granite paving, fountains, and lookouts to bring the people of Otsu to a central celebration of their city, their sea, their mountains, their history, and their technology.

Summer, 2014

Kyoto, Japan and Otsu, Japan (Study Abroad)

OTSU CANAL

granite paving

highlight water infrastructure

vegetate streets

lookouts and bridges

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Collaborated with Zander Chanin and Callan Roemer

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University of Oregon School of Architecture & Allied ArtsRobert D. Clark Honors College Bachelor of Landscape ArchitectureMinor in Architecture

Cumulative GPA of 3.70 Deans List

Study Abroad in Barcelona, Spain (Summer 2012)Study Abroad in Kyoto, Japan (Summer 2014)Study at Overlook Estate in Pennsylvania (Summer 2015)

Notable Courses: GIS, Water and the Built Environment, Urban Farm, ADA Ramp Construction Course, Building Construction, Environmental Control Systems, Human Context

Thesis research about Productive Suburbs in Southern California (Current)

Co-Designer of Whiteaker Community Market (Current)

Construction of ADA Ramp at Center for Advancement of Sustainable Living (Fall 2014)

Urban Design project with City of Kyoto and City of Otsu (Summer 2014)

Phase 1 Assessment of Eugene’s Millrace with University of Oregon and City of Eugene (Spring 2013)

Design Work

Education

Environmental Work Published research paper for historical monograph of the Northern Pauite Tribe (Fall 2015)

Ant Farm Collective (Current), Farm Internships at Masanobu Fukuoka’s Natural Farm, Shalom Hutte Natural Farm (Summer 2014), Grassroots Garden (Summer 2013), Aprovecho (Spring 2012)

Service Learning Trip to Umatilla Native American Reservation (Spring 2012)

Artist Work Published Photography and Poetry in Unbound Arts Journal (Winter 2015)

Hand Media displayed in HOPES 20 Art Gallery (Spring 2014)

Co-organizer of HOPES 20 Art Gallery (Spring 2014)

Skills Clear and Efficient WritingHand Drafting and SketchingAutocadAdobe SuiteSketchupRhinoMicrosoft OfficeGISEnvision (Agent-based Modeling)Watercolor and Colored PencilModel Making (Sketch and Refined)Basic ConstructionWoodworkingFarmingSculptureConversational SpanishCreative Writing

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Nature antedates all of arts and sciences, and without knowledge of nature, the history and development of man is incomprehensible. -John Nolen