PortfolioDonna Freeman

01 Cave Springs Trails and Stormwater Management05 Dunbar School Garden 07 Deck Construction Details09 Morningside Neighborhood Design13 Tactical Urbanism Food Hub17 Museum Heirloom Garden

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Th e Cave Springs Trails and Site Planning Project was completed in cooperation with the Illinois River Watershed Partnership as an educational facility utilizing alternative storm water treatments and best management practices. Th e site includes a green wall, permeable pavements, wetland restoration and riparian zones that extend from the lake boundary in to the surrounding hills.

Cave Springs Trails and Stormwater Management

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Th e site study examined the benefi ts of increasing the number of trees by 340. Th e urban heat island aff ect will be reduced by 20-45 degrees, noise is reduced by 50%, and asthma rates fall to 25%. Furthermore, research has shown that adding trees can reduce traffi c accidents by 38%, crime rates by 25% and sick days by 11%.

Cave Springs Trails and Stormwater Management

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Water Collection

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UV Light

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Dunbar Urban Farm expanded a small existing school garden in to a highly functional, effi cient space through the addition of a green house, hoop houses, a canning and drying shed and composting facilities. Simultaneously, the design features a pear, apple and pecan orchard that serve to create space and provide shade for hot Arkansas summers. Fallen pecan shells form a tactile ground surface that serves to enrich the soil as it decomposes. An art wall weaves throughout the farm, hosting artwork and acting as a planter bed for herbs and other shade tolerant edibles. Th e gazebo acts as both a gathering place and a way-fi nding tool for site visitors.

Dunbar School Garden

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Organic Waste

Dry Waste

Compost

Farm stand Kitchen

Row Crops

Overhead Trellis with Honeysuckle

Raised Beds

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Drying Room

Native Garden

Apiary

Lawn/ Animal Yard

Outdoor Seating

Pecan Orchard

Small Trellis

Event Lawn

Apple Orchard

Pear Orchard

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Serviceberry Row

Shortgrass Meadow

Art Wall

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Crutcher Street

Sculpture Lawn

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Th e Boyer deck created a second-story free-standing deck to be used for entertaining purposes. It brings together an arts and craft s style in symbiosis with the existing house. Th e deck includes guard rails, integrated seating, an overhead structure and a level change.

Deck Construction Details

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Th e Morningside New Urbanism plan converts a 67 acre empty lot in to a high density, mixed-used development that would service the community of Fayetteville at large. Narrow streets, curving lanes, street trees and on-street parking act as traffi c calming devices while a continuous sidewalk network and sidewalk system provide for better pedestrian access.

Morningside Neighborhood Design

Low Density

Medium Density

Green Space

Mixed Use

High Density

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Th e Morningside neighborhood plan examines creating a mix of housing types and footprints to create a diverse neighborhood. Apartments, townhomes, duplexes and single family residents live within yards of each other. Parking is shift ed onto the street to minimize the impact of enormous parking lots on the microclimate and design aesthetics. A series of small parks and courtyards connect the area with a network of green space.

Morningside Neighborhood Design Block Plan

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Site analysis for the tactical urbanism project used on-the ground research to determine both perception of safety and space as well as the quality of views. While we both completed on-site analysis, the fi nal graphics were completed by myself.

Tactical Urbanism Food Hub

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High Maintenence Lawns

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Cold North Winds

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Largely vacant, the Mr. Burger Tactical Urbanism project employs largely temporary, aff ordable measures to revitalize an under used area directly north of the University of Arkansas campus. Th e design was completed with classmate Chelsea Kennedy and utilizes hay bale gardens, paint and plantings to form spaces and diversify the viewshed. Th e plan was drawn by myself and rendered by Chelsea while perspectives were completed by both.

Tactical Urbanism Food Hub

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Th e heirloom garden at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History recreates a historical vegetable and herb garden within the museum grounds that will serve both as a productive garden and an educational facility portraying historical techniques of food production, storage and preservation.

Museum Heirloom Garden

Bed ASpring*Asparagus offi cinalis ‘Mary Washington’ * Raphanus sativas ‘Early Scarlet Globe’ * Vigna unguculata “Mississippi Silver’* Brassica juncea ‘Giant Southern Curled’* Solanum melongena escluentum ‘Black Beauty’ * Solanum lycopersium ‘Beefsteak’

Summer* Vigna linguiculata ‘Red Ripper’ * Cucurbita ‘Dwarf Summer Crookneck’ * Beta vulgaris ‘Crimson Globe’ * Cucurbita maxima ‘Cinderella’ * Lactuca sativa ‘Bronze Mignonette’ * Citrullus lanatus ‘Black Diamond’

Autumn* Brassica olerecea ‘Early Snowball’* Brassica olerecea ‘Georgia’ * Spinicia olerecea ‘Giant Nobel’ * Daucus carota ‘Royal Chantenay’ * Brassica rapa ‘Seven Top’ * Pisum sativum ‘Sugar Snap Pea’

Winter* Cucurbita maxima ‘Sweet Meat’ * Pisum sativum ‘Green Arrow’ * Brassica olerecea L. ‘Brunswick’ * Lactuca sativa ‘Iceberg’ * Raphanus sativa ‘Black Spanish’* Cucurbita maxima ‘True Green Improved Hub-bard’

Bed BSpring*Asparagus offi cinalis ‘Mary Washington’ * Cucumis sativas ‘Boston Pickling Improved’ * Glycine max “Black Jet’* Abelmoschus esculentus ‘Burgundy’* Capsicum annuum ‘Large Red Cherry’ * Solanum lycopersium ‘Beefsteak’* Brassica juncea ‘Greenwave’

Summer* Zea mays ‘Country Gentleman’ * Helianthus annuus ‘Giant Greystripe’ * Pastinaca sativa ‘Harris Early Model’ * Cucurbita maxima ‘Jack Be Little’ * Lactuca sativa ‘Buttercrunch’ * Citrullus lanatus ‘Dixie Guard’

Autumn* Brassica olerecea ‘Igloo’* Beta vulgaris ‘Ruby Queen ’ * Raphanus sativus ‘Comet’ * Daucus carota ‘Nantes, Scarlet’ * Brassica rapa ‘Purple Top White Globe’ * Spinicea oleracea ‘New Zealand’

Winter* Cucurbita maxima ‘Hubbard, Chicago Warted’ * Brassica oleracea L. ‘Catskill’ * Brassica olerecea L. ‘Di Ciccio’ * Brassica olerecea L. ‘Long Islaand Improved’* Raphanus sativa ‘Black Spanish’* Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus

Bed BSpring* Raphanus sativus ‘Early Scarlet Globe’ * Brassica oleracea ‘All Seasons’ * Vigna unguiculata ‘Black Crowder’* Brassica juncea ‘Red Giant’* Solanum melongena var. esculentum ‘Black Beauty’ * Solanum lycopersium ‘Beefsteak’

Summer* Cucurbita pepo ‘Dark Green Zucchini’ * Beta vulgaris ‘Burpee’s Golden’ * Phaseolus ‘Potamic Pole Bean ’ * Cucurbita maxima ‘Connecticut Field’ * Lactuca sativa ‘Hanson Improved * Citrullus lanatus ‘Klondike Blue Ribbon Stripe’

Autumn* Brassica olerecea ‘Self Blanching’* Pisum sativum ‘Dwarf Grey Sugar Pod ’ * Spinacia olferacea ‘Bloomsdale Long Standing’ * Daucus carota ‘Imperator 58’ * Brassica rapa ‘Golden Ball’ * Spinicea oleracea ‘Dwarf Siberian Improved’

Winter* Cucurbita peop ‘Tabi Queen Acorn’ * Cucurbita moschata ‘Long Isalnd Cheese’ * Pisum sativum ‘Green Arrow’ * Brassica olerecea L. ‘Brunswick’* Raphanus sativa ‘Black Spanish’* Cynara cardunculus ‘Tenderheart’

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