Portfolio - Downstream Strategies

landscape architecture portfolio
ecarlson@downstreamstrategies.com
570-506-1207
I believe we can transform minds, communities, and cultures through good design, design that is poetic, reponsible and dynamically responsive to the web of context. I pursue a career that will contribute to compassion and consciousness.. This
career will be marked with collaborative creativity, ecological fluency, and intrepid exploration that will only grow with wisdom
and finesse. I want to help people fall in love with landscapes that have been trampled or neglected, overlooked or desecrated. Maybe then, the frayed relationship between culture and land will have a chance to heal. Let’s see what happens.
Standing Forest
Design Intent: To facilitate a contemplation of the relationship between person
and place. First, to undercut the habitual estrangement between person and
place, this estrangement is exaggerated, thereby bringing this unnatural dichotomy the the forefront of one’s consciousness. Whilst engaging this stark
separation, these desired and unattainable locations draw our attention toward
a tangible sense of longing, wonder, or a contemplation of our relationship with
the place in which we find ourselves.
Affordable Co-Housing Plan
Proposed Connectivity Corridor
Spring Creek Watershed Affordable Housing Suitability Analysis
MarcellusGas: Land-Use Impacts on Loyalsock
Creek & Lake Mokoma Watershed
w/ Elliot Shibbley
exisiting 100yr floodlines
Lake Mokoma
full gas development
BMPs implemented
Expenses of Flood Damage
Existing : ~ $ 3 . 7 M i l l i o n
High Gas Development: ~ $ 5 . 8 M i l l i o n
BMP:~$1.6Million
Annual Revune from Gas Wells in Loyalsock Creek Watershed: ~
$16.5Million
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Planting Design
Enclosure & threshold
forest canopy
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enclaves
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depth & shadow
Ferns & moss
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loosely structured plantings
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6 February 2013
Planting Studio
Plan Schematic
Three Dimensional Schematic
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volume grants
visual relief
Canopy strata
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nooks
Ferns soften
edges of buildings and paths
Visual depth
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classroom &
pedestrians
Boulders: seating + visual
Curved benches interest
and path: slow &
direct
Clumping blocks
NW winter blustery winds
Hydrophile
plants around
existing drains
Capitalize on
summer breeze
and sun
Centerpiece:
upturned rootwad as a moss
garden
Cul de sac refuge with boulder
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Woodland Corridor
A transition in succession from the meadow to the woodland corridor allows the pedestrian to slow and absorb the calming forms of an eastern mesophytic forest. Both an escape destination and a path, the mixed
bed breaks the hard edges of the Earth Science and Engineering building, and creates eddies of space and energy. The native plant palette takes advantage of the contextual sun-richness, blocks the winter western
winds and invites the cool summer breezes. The corridor presents itself as a threshold with an intimate space to look and learn more closely about the plant community.
Plant Pallette
Trees & Sh rubs
Juniperus virginiana
Cornus alternifolia
Ilex opaca
Crataegus intricata
Diospyros virginiana
Quercus imbricaria
Hydrangea quercifolia
Hamamelis virginiana
Ilex verticillata
Amelanchier arborea
Isopyrum biternatum
Clematis virginiana
Monarda didyma
Aquilegia canadensis
Baptisia australis
Helenium autumnale
Dicentra exima
Penstemon digitalis
Stylophorum diphyllum
Athyrium filix-femina
Adiantum pedatum
Matteuccia struthiopteris
Asplenium trichomanes
Dryopteris filix-mas
Asplenium platyneuron
Brachythecium rutabulum
Equisetum sylvaticum
Ceratodon purpureus
Polytrichum juniperinum
Bryum argenteum
Dicranum scoparium
Forbs
Nyssa sylvatica
Ferns
Nosses & Equisetum
Vignette 1
Vignette 2
Creekside Concept Plan Plant Palette Examples
Trees
Flowering Plants
Grasses & Sedges
Red Maple
Pin Oak
Blue Star
Butterfly Weed
Blue Gamma Grass
Northern Sea Oats
River Birch
Black Birch
Zigzag aster
False Blue Indigo
Virginia Wild Rye
Purple Top
Largeflower Tickseed
Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Autumn Bentgrass
Ticklegrass
Plains Coreopsis
Purple Coneflower
Fox Sedge
Bristly Sedge
Blazing Blue Star
Bee Balm
Creeping Red Fescue
Purple Love Grass
Foxglove Beardtongue
Black-eyed Susan
Red Oak
Service Berry
Shrubs
Arrowood Viburnum
Red Chokeberry
Silky Dogwood
Gray Dogwood
Red Osier Dogwood
Elderberry
Spicebush
Winterberry
native meadow
Shaver’s Creek Amphibian
Outdoor Classroom (Built)
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Great Bend Tunnel
John Henry Statue
Picnic Shelter
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Big Bend
Engineering Bldg.
Entrance Kiosk
Bridge
Woodson House
Keaton Exhibit
John Henry Historical Park
Talcott, WV
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Pie Hollow Trail (0.4 mi)
John Henry East Trail (0.1 mi)
John Henry West Trail (0.3 mi)
Hungard’s Creek Trail (0.1 mi)
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Woodson House Trail (0.2 mi)
www.johnhenryhistoricpark.com
Community Design
Hinton Overlook
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You are facing west. Watch the ancient New
River flow north through the heart of
Appalachia to meet the Gauley River, the
Kanawha River, the Ohio River, and finally back
south to the Gulf of Mexico. Below, you’ll hear
the train heading either north along the New
River, or south west along the Greenbrier River.
Freeland projects in Summers and Tucker Counties.
Wetland & Stream Design
Park Design
HIGHLAND MEADOWS
PROMENADE PARK
DESIGN DRAFT BY: EMILY CARLSON
HIGHLAND MEADOWS
PROMENADE PARK
DESIGN DRAFT BY: EMILY CARLSON
Construction Documents
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