landscape architecture portfolio

Nellie MoggeBLA

2012

Local Road

Public Transit Pickup

Walking, bike path

Elevated bike path

filtering stream

Pell Farm Community Design Site ContextSite PhotosMaster Planby: John Palarz, Nellie Mogge, Shaun Loomis, Soojung Kim, Stepha-nie Salinas

Southeast Urbana, IL.

The design consists of a variety of types of housing with pocket parks scattered throughout. Each neighborhood is located near the greenway which also links up with city streets, bike lanes, and bike paths. The concept was to provide adequate housing while also having nature be always closeby.

Prairie FarmGreenway Orchard Parking

Community Park

Row Housing

Lot DescriptionsSingle family home

Senior HousingCommercial

ChurchGrocery Store

DrugstoreGas StationDaycareElementary School

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Windsor Road

To Meadowbrookwb

Philo Road

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Commercial, Retail

Recreation, open space

Residential

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University of Illinois

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Pell Farm

Champaign

Green Space1. Wheatfield Park Tennis Courts Playground2. Elementary School Baseball (3) Basketball Playground Soccer3. Windsor Swim Club Tennis Courts4. Community Park Playground Open Space Pavilion

Community DesignPell Farm Community Design Urbana, Illinois

*Concept development and autocad linework done by Nellie Mogge

Concept Site Context and Research Master PlanDesign Challenge: For this team project, the objective was to create a design for a unique and sustainable community develop-ment while working within the limitations of the current site conditions.

The goal is to provide numerous and various types of housing with easy access to green-ways and parks. The concept is to create a residential com-munity that is self-sustaining while also connected to the greater Champaign-Urbana region. Site context revealed a close proxim-ity to a lot of commercial establishments but it was decided to include some commercial elements in this design as well. In the small commercial area are local shops, a grocery store, and recreation areas. It was important to this design to keep a lot of amenities on-site and accessible so there is also a com-munity ride-share program with trolley stops throughout the neighborhoods. Bike lanes run through all of the neighborhoods as well and connect with city streets. While there are pocket parks scattered throughout, an impor-tant design decision was to create one unify-ing park which will define the community as a whole. Another large element is the farm located at the south end of the site, where food can be produced for, within, and by the community.

Local

Regional

Pell FarmIndividual Master Plan - Community FarmConcept Master PlanA challenge with farming is generating interest and hav-ing a constant work base. This farm would be run independent of the community by a team of experienced professionals. Members of the community would be invited and encour-aged to volunteer and/or work there.The concept is to provide the community with a farm so they are able to grow their own food or purchase it from within their community. This conincides with the overall goal of creating a self-sustaining community.

Vehicle Bridge Section Farm Section

Urban DesignDowntown Champaign plaza Champaign, Illinois

Concept Site context and research Master PlanDesign Challenges: Activate this currently vacant space in downtown Champaign, Illinois. The intent is to provide an interesting and inviting plaza that will act as a thoroughfare, provide an area to rest,and a space for recreation during both day and night.Ample seating and seasonally interesting vegetation will attract people to this space, as well as quality paving and lighting materials. The center feature is an accessible green roof shel-ter/mound. Its’ playful nature will be attractive for children who can play on and under the structure. Daytime: The seating provided will atrract people working downtown during the day as a place to rest or eat lunch. The green roof shelter will provide visual inter-est for the M2 building located across the street.Nightlife: There is plenty of seating provided to attract a lot of people from surrounding bars and restaurants. Ad-equate dark-sky approved lighting is also provided so that people feel safe in the space at night.

Downtown Champaign PlazaGreen Roof shelter and detailsDetails Site plan perspective Plant SelectionThese details represent the overarching con-cept to provide an enjoyable, recreational, and green space which would be accessible and active at all hours of the day.Sculptures in the plantings add visual interest. They also match the surrounding downtown artistic culture.The water feature doubles as a retention basin to capture and store runoff from the green roof. IDA Approved Dark Sky friendly landscape light-ing is present on the YG Financial Group wall to make the space usable during evening hours.

Dark Sky LightingSculptures Seat Wall Green Roof ShelterWater Feature

Water Feature

Green roof section - day

Seating Section - evening

Under roof - evening

Permeable Pavement Plantings: Sedum, grass mix

LiveRoof System

Sugar MapleServiceberry

Green roof designKrannert Native Roof Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Urbana, IL.

Concept Site Context Master Plan

Plantings based on Illinois Habitats

Classificationsa. Central Limestone Gladeb. Midwest Dry Sandstone Cliffc. North Central Dry Limestone Dolo-mite Prairied. Midwest Sand Barrense. Midwest Dry Limestone Dolostone Clifff. Midwest Limestone Dolostone Talus

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Design Challenge: Propose a design for a green roof atop the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The design had to first consider structural limitations and load-bearing re-quirements before making design decisions. A particular find-ing which affected the final design were pillars found in the architectural documentation which would be able to support a greater load.An individual challenge was a design decision to only include native plants.A major challenge of green roof design is finding plants to use that are native. By virtue of being on a roof, the hardi-ness zone is altered because the plants are going to be subjected to warmer and more severe temperatures. There are certain habitats in Illinois, though, that contain condi-tions similar to those found on a green roof. These include prolonged exposure to direct sunlight, extreme drought, and shallow to no soil profiles. The plants that exist in these habi-tats are extremely resilient and adaptable species, making them a perfect choice for green roofs. Using the habitat tem-plate approach, each area of the roof was classified based on its’ conditions and then plants were chosen based on this classification.

Analysis and Research

PSF

Pillar Locations

Shade StudyN

Groundcover Grass Off - Site Tree Foliage

Planting Diagram

Elevation

Ground Plane

1st Level

2nd Level

3rd Level

Habitat Descriptions1. Central Limestone Glade

2. Midwest Dry Limestone - Dolos-tone Cliff

3. Midwest Lime-stone - Dolostone Talus

4. Midwest Dry Sandstone Cliff

5. Midwest Sand Barrens

6. North-Central Dry Limestone - Dolomite Prairie

Prairie/Grassland: Midwestern Thin-Soil Tallgrass Prairie

Rocky Uplands (Glades, Rock Barrens, Outcrops, and Alvars): Interior Highlands Carbonate Glades and Barrens

Cliffs, Talus, Buttes, and Badlands: Eastern Dry Acid Cliffs

Cliffs, Talus, Buttes, and Badlands: Eastern Dry Alkaline Cliffs

Cliffs, Talus, Buttes and Badlands: Eastern Alkaline Talus

Prairies/Grasslands: Midwestern Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie

Green Roofs and Facades: A Habitat Template Approach, Lundholm

PSF, Pillar locations, and a shade study determined plant selection and loca-

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Areas where there are pillars under-neath were found to be able to sup-

port a greater load

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PSF, pillar locations and shade studies Color Analysis

“Green Roofs and Facades: A Habitat Template Approach” Lundholm

Krannert native roofConstruction documents

All plants listed are native species of Illinois Broadcast seeding shall be of equal ratio based on specificied area.

Master Plan and Planting ListMaster plan and planting list Green roof sections

Krannert native roofDesignPerspective rendering Section - plant community on mound

Mounds of substrate are placed above pillar locations. This allows plants to extend root depth and reach taller heights.

Commonly used plants throughout habitats

Central Limestone Glade HabitatPhotoshop rendering displaying the plant community on this area of the roof.

Habitat Description:An assortment of plants originally found on rocky uplands, such as glades, rock barrens, outcrops, and alvars. “This community occurs on gentle to steep slopes of hills, knobs, ridges, bluffs along streams, and broad terraces. Aspect is variable, but the community is generally best developed on southern and western exposures. Parent material is lime-stone, cherty limestone, dolomite, or calcareous shale which is exposed at the surface, resulting in a very shallow, well-drained substrate. Soils are neutral to alkaline, shallow to moderately deep, and contain a homogenous misture of rock fragments of various sizes.”The mounds shown in this rendering (#3, 4) are planted with Flowering Spurge, Biennial BeeBlossom, Little BluestemHoary Puccoon, Yellow Indiangrass, Purple Threeawn

Cedar boardwalk Sculpture Piece-Corten steel

Schizachyrium scoparium Asclepias tuberosa Sorghastrum nutans Solidago nemoralis

Regional Design - Natural areas managementHollow Habitats in Allerton Park Mahomet, Illinois 2012 Level 3 Sasaki Day Awards Finalist

Site LandcoverThe concept behind the design interventions for Robert Allerton Park comes from a respect for the natural systems taking place in this floodplain forest as well as a desire to improve accessibility to these natural areas in a safe way. Since Robert Allerton stopped being a steward of the park, natural processes have taken over and the only areas which are still maintained are the formal ar-eas. Interventions to be made at this point involve reinviting the public to areas other than the formal areas and making these new areas safe for public access through improved signage and mile markers. The park shall continue to exist and provide an abundance of habitat for native flora and fauna which require snag and den trees for their livelihood. This pre-serve will represent a lost habitat in Illinois due to development and the public shall be invited to experience and view it for years to come.

Stewardship mile markers bike trail on Allerton Road Activate unused spaces New levels of immersion

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Elevation

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Floodplain Immersion Scenario 1Views

Scenario 1 allows for the greatest level of immer-sion It is situated on the north side of the site, close to the road and entrance which will attract the most visitors. The large lookout structure is appropriate here away from the river because it will require less maintenance and will not contribute to erosion. GIS analysis also directed the placement because a view through the sparse tree canopy will be possible. Finally, this area is also one of the highest in the park, allowing for interesting views above and through the canopy.

Hollow HabitatsSite analysisState, regional, site Prairie

Prairie findings:

A soil analysis re-vealed that the soils surrounding the remnant prairie in Al-lerton Park are more suitable for prairie than they are for the woody vegeta-tion that is currently growing there. The prairie is also quite small and uninviting in terms of human interaction.

GIS Application

Allerton Park houses thousands of snags, however a few areas were extracted through research and GIS layer reclassification to represent areas within the site that would have the least amount of snags.layer reclassification to represent areas within the site that would have the least amount of snags.

Areas with the lowest frequency

of snag occurrence

Stream buffer 100 ft.

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Extractions - least likely areas for snags to occur

Raster Calculator

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Reclassified layers based on likelihood of snag occurrence

Analysis was based on the following criteria:

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Final Results/SOILS

Soil type:Lawson Sawmill DarwinSoil parent material: Sandy to clayey alluvial sediments on bottom-lands

Final Results/hydrology & slope

GIS Raster Calculation

Allerton Park houses thousands of snags, however, a few ar-eas were extracted through research and subsequent GIS layer reclassification to repre-sent areas that have the least amount of snags. GIS raster calculation was used to deter-mine those areas where the least amount of snags would occur on the site.

The following criteria affect the presence of snag and den trees: Slope, aspect, vegetation type, hydrology. These were given classifications and put through the calculation.

Stewardship mile markers bike trail on Allerton Road Activate unused spaces New levels of immersion

taken onsite around final output location

The GIS analysis led to an unexpected finding. The area which was calculated to have the least likelihood of snag occurence also appears to have a sparse tree canopy, compared with the rest of the site. A site visit revealed this to be true.

Analysis focused on lo-cal context, the remnant prairie, and snag and den trees. Mahomet, Piatt County, Illinois

Siteanalysis

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Hollow HabitatsSnag and Den tree habitatsPhotos from site visualized with researchAnalysis of old photos and historical research tells us that the majority of the forest in Allerton is about 80-100 years old. The forests’ of Allerton are also the ideal place for snags to occur. Old growth forests contain trees more that 100 years old plus seedlings, saplings, shrubs, and pole-size timber. Also present are a full measure of dens, snags, rotting logs, and abundant mast production to support a variety of wildlife. Snags are essential habitat components that are utilized for nesting, roosting, and foraging. American beaver (Castor canadensis) ponds, open wooded swamps, rivers bordered by hardwoods, and other riparian or wetland areas where snags are plentiful provide valuable habitat. Similary, trees killed by flooding as well as those bordering lakes, marshes, and other frequently flooded areas support red-headed woodpecker populations.

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Hollow HabitatsResearch based designFloodplain Goals and objectives Prairie

1. Address the issues with scale that now face the park based on the changes that have occured over time. a. Implement improved signage along trails with mile markers every 0.5-1 miles. b. Update the trail signs with improved materials so the maps are legible. 2. Address the lack of immersion into interesting natural areas. a. Design small to large scale immersion features that allow people to better with interact natural areas, including the floodplain and prairie. 3. Reintroduce a sense of stewardship in the park a. Invite community members through improved ac-cess. b. Add a new parking lot specifically for the prairie area. Prairie: to be expanded slowly by girdling the trees, followed by managed removal.

Scenario 1 allows for the greatest level of immer-sion. It is situated on the north side of the site, close to the road and entrance which will atrract the most visitors. The large lookout structure is appropriate here away from the river because it will require less maintenance and will not contribute to erosion. GIS analysis also directed the placement because a view through the sparse tree canopy will be possible. Finally, this area is also one highest in the park, al-lowing for interesting views above and through the canopy.

Scenario 2 would achieve three goals: -Activate the meadow space through a pathway. -Appeal to short term visitors coming from the north end of park, near the formal area. -Provide an interesting sculptural feature for visitors to continue Robert Allerton’s legacy.

Scenario 3 - a stone path walkway through a shallow part of the river. It allows for more interaction with the river while not being obtrusive.

New savanna border - 50 years

Time Series Sections

Elementary class in prairie - utilizing bus parking and new prairie trail

Parking Lot with bus, vehicle, and bike parking

Rain Garden Design

Trellis Design

Portable LandscapeDesign goal: Create a portable landscape to be sent via postal service to Munster, GermanyMedium: stringProcess:The process began with speculations on how to “send” a location, or elevational point.Concept: Visually representing one’s place on earth through the active performance of measuring distance. What does elevation look like?

Champaign, Illinois Munster, Germany

Portable LandscapeDesign goal: Create a portable landscape to be sent via postal service to Munster, GermanyMedium: stringProcess:The process began with speculations on how to “send” a location, or elevational point.Concept: Visually representing one’s place on earth through the active performance of measuring distance. What does elevation look like?

Champaign, Illinois Munster, Germany

Champaign, IL. Munster, Germany

Steel rod bent into a star shape sat atop a curved glass brick wall. Suction cups were put on at the bent corners for stability and protection of the glass. Hanging off of each protruding end of the star was a

piece of ice in either a triangle or cylinder shape. Frozen inside each ice form was one end of a thin piece of beading wire. A loop on the other end of the wire allowed for the ice to be hung off of the rod.

Sitting on the floor below each ice form was an aluminum can which created noise with each ice drip. The artists used towels to clean up the water which splattered outside the cans onto the wood floor.

Interior landscapes

Boneyard Arts Festival UIUC Landscape Collective110 W. Main St., 2nd Floor

LA 336 Nellie Mogge, Christopher CarlSaturday April 9th 7-9pm

Maintenance - the dripping of the ice had to be maintainedover the 2 hour time period of the show. When the aluminum cans were filled with water, the desired dripping noise was no longer present. The cans needed to be carefully monitored and periodically emptied to maintain the desired sound. Cleaning up the areas where water had spilled out of the cans was also a necessary task. This is similar to landscapes where we enjoy their temporal qualities butforget to take into consideration the maintenance and care that went into their construction. This situated ice event was a concentratedinstance of this type of phenomenon seen in many landscapes today.

Public structured perception

Landscape architecture

Wonder

Edward L. Ryerson Traveling Fellowship“Advances within the European green roofing industry: Practices, Policy, and Design”7 week fellowship through Europe to study green roofing practices and attend Swiss green roof tour Selected work from final project

Travel Route Swiss green roof tour travel route

Stuttgart, Germany Atop the Rathausgarage green roof

Small scale elements can be added to a green roof which prove to enhance the biodiversity and provide more habitat.

dead wood

humus large rocks chopped china reed

variable substrate levelsmounds of local gravel

Water local material-lava, pumus rock variability in plantings

Following the Swiss tour, my green roof pursuits, with helpful tips from Green Roof Safari, led me to Munich and then Stuttgart, Germany. In Stuttgart, I was delighted at the way the landscape itself aided in the apprecia-tion of the many green roofs throughout the city. The rolling hills covered in vineyards and the many lookouts allow for a clear view of the city’s green direction.

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Stuttgart green roof examples

��the city. Also, Stuttgart is in the middle of a massive railway and urban redevelopment effort, Stuttgart 21. It is highly controversial as well as expensive, costing roughly 4.1 billion euros. However, this as well as the city’s general green attitude explains the great amount of green roof projects throughout the area.

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Through the use of the various lookouts throughout the city, I was able to analyze some projects through a birds eye perspective. This project, for example, shows how certain areas of the roof were predetermined for accessi-bility in the architectural design stage. Thinking of a green roof from the beginning allows for a more symbiotic relationship between roof and structure, outside and inside, landscape and interior. The intensive roof garden seen in the middle photo was obviously a forethought prior to architectural decisions and construction. The needs of the landscape coincided with the needs of the structure and a much more integrated design emerged. ��

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Semi-intensive or extensive roof soil layer depth: 16-32 in.

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Insulation: Foamed waste glass

water barrier: root-proof polymer bitumen

shotcrete

approximation, NTS

Earth House Deconstructed

� ��design. With so many ways to green a roof, which way is best? On the one hand, there is the manufactured ap-proach utilizing various technologies versus the totally natural approach using local soil and substrate. In cities, though, nothing is natural or local anymore with all of the construction and transportation of materials. There-fore an approach using local soils would not be appropriate. For this reason, I hesitate to classify each project as good or bad, or rank it on a scale from 1 to 10 because each project is unique and as I stated previously, comes ��-��

Firstly, a change in the terminology based on a green roof’s achievement of the above Best Practices would separate some of the “greenwashed” projects from those that actually provide some sort of ecological advantages. Greenwashing occurs when the only aim of the project is to provide a green roof for the idea of having a green roof. The goal is to have some sort of vegetation growing on the roof but only for aesthetic and ��most green roofs in general. The separation of the terms would allow for there to be incentives for the design and installation of these ecoroofs, thereby encouraging their promotion and proliferation.� ��product. Sustainable installation and maintenance practices are important as well. An example of a sustainable installation practice would be like in the case of the BVB tram depot where they trucked in bales of miscanthus and simply layed it down on the roof as a layer of substrate. Sustainable maintenance practices would be those roofs which require little to no irrigation or do not require annual mowing. In the case of the Rathausgarage in Stuttgart, the cuttings that are trimmed from the vegetated roof are then returned to the company manufacturer (such as Zinco) and later recycled as fresh cuttings on a new roof. Local material usage is an especially impor-��ecology, is already being required in new green roofs in Basel, Switzerland. There are many simple ways as outlined previously of designing for an increased amount of habitat and biodiversity. Can a green roof be the impetus for subsequent creative ecological design? Through the separation of ��-quires more creativity at the architectural design phase. If the design of ecoroofs came with more incentives, we could see a lot more ecoroofs as well as much more interesting pieces of ecological architecture. In the future the importance of providing a habitat has the potential to override and alter certain architectural decisions. The architecture we will see coming out of this time period will be representative of green roof mandates and eco-logical consciousness. The emergent architectural style of this time will therefore be representative of people’s eco-minded values and beliefs.

Freiburg - Rieselfeld

My next stop on my journey was to the small new village of Rieselfeld, located just outside of Freiburg, Ger-many. Freiburg, a city well-renowned for its status as the German green capital, founded the new district in 1992. It was originally aimed at young people in an effort to discourage suburban sprawl. Development started in 1993 and all of the houses are low energy, equipped with green roofs, photovoltaics and solar heating. It is an interesting urban design case study in its’ own right but in terms of green roofs, it is an interesting display of the types of architecture that are following green roof mandates. (7,8)I was originally curious as to how green roofs were altering or directing architecture. By including green roofs in the building design from the beginning, how does this alter the rest of the architectrual direction? The struc-tures in Rieselfeld all have a similar goal and therefore they all end up with a somewhat similar appearance. Also, since the district is composed almost entirely of extensive green roofs, the structural image based on load bearing capability will be similar throughout.

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Potentials of green roofs

Growing Power InternshipSelected Work, Sketchup, Photography Milwaukee, WI. & Chicago, IL.

Site Assignment Aquaponics Iron Street Vermiculture Grant Park

VermicompostingVermicomposting

Vermicomposting on Iron Streetor worm compost, is the final product of the breakdown of organic material by worms. Growing Power uses worms to create a nutrient-rich, organic fertilizer and soil conditioner that they use on all of their growing beds and as a value-added product to sell.

I was instructed to fix the current vermicompst-ing “worm tea” catchment system to capture the tea so it could be successfully utilized rather than go to waste. Since the worms bins need to be watered daily to keep the worms cool, excess water in the form of “worm tea” seeps out of the bins and onto the floor. In an attempt to capture this nutrient-rich material, Growing power created a worm-tea catchment system using a plastic sheet secured under the bin. This sheet was not secured properly and tea was getting caught in the system. The solution that two other interns and I found for this problem was first to secure the plastic with pieces of wood lath and screws. We then watered the bin to see where water was draining to and cut a hole here. A bucket was placed under the hole and we were able to successfully harvest buck-ets of tea.

I was given the task during my time in Milwaukee of transplanting watercress between aquaponics systems. This was done by taking a handful of the plant from a system where the plants were becoming woody and overcrowded. Then, I tore off the roots to promote new growth and put this in another system. Pea gravel was used to stabilize the new planting. Watercress is an indicator of water quality and does not like to live in murky water. This filter feed plant essentially “cleans” the mucky water that is being circulated from the fish tank below. It is highly valued in the culinary world and a very good cash crop for Growing Power.

Edible Border PlantingAsparagus fern, edible marigolds, amaranth, purple flowering kale, sunflowers, cardinal runner beans, dusty miller, zinnias, pumpkins

Sketchup rendering of the fixed vermicompost bins used to capture “worm tea,” which is used to fertilize plants. This was my initial work assignment at Iron Street. We fixed them by securely fastening a sheet to the bottom of the system which would drain into a bucket.

Produce here needed to be har-vested three times a week. The beds themselves required intensive main-tenance because of their high profile location.

For my internship, I was stationed in Milwaukee for 3 weeks for training and Chicago for 7 weeks for work. At the training, I learned about all of the methods that Growing Power uses to provide fresh, local, and sustainable food to people in the community. Once I got to Chicago, my primary site assignment for the summer was on Iron Street. My responsibilities includ-ed daily farm maintenance, to include watering, planting, transplanting, har-vesting produce, and maintaining the vermicomposting systems seen to the left. My other site assignment was at the urban agriculture potager located in Grant Park. Here, we would plant, transplant, and harvest produce for the farmer’s markets.

Landscape Design InternshipHursthouse, Inc.Drafted and rendered residential design

Landscape Design InternshipHursthouse, Inc.Additional drafting and rendering details

landscape architecture portfolio

Documents

selfsustaining community

sustainable community

pell farm commercial

bike lanes

illinoisconcept site

bike paths

current site conditions

important design decision