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A L E X T I DW E L L A L E X T I DW E L L P O R T F O L I O P O R T F O L I O

Alexander Tidwell's BLA Student Portfolio

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Student of Landscape Architecture at the University of Georgia's college of Environment and Design

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A L E X T I DW E L LA L E X T I DW E L LP O R T F O L I OP O R T F O L I O

T A B L E OFT A B L E OFC O N T E N TS C O N T E N TS

PAGES: Residential: 1-2 Commercial: 3-5 Mixed-Use: 6-8 Large Scale: 7-8

Recreation Parks: 9-11 Golf Course Drawings: 12-15 Addtional Project: 16-17 Resume & Contact info: 18

RESIDENTIAL RESIDENTIAL DESIGNDESIGN

Montgomery Residence

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The Montgomery residence is located in the southern mountains of Tennensee and has a river that fl ows through the property. The de-sign consists of many layers of plant materials that will provideinterest throughout the four seasons.A fl agstone path that leads to the already developed backyard.

Hand Drafted and Hand Rendered Fall 2010

Infi ll Housing Neighborhood- Athens Georgia

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Plan View Housing Plans

Bishop Crossing is located off of Clover Street and Oglethorpe Avenue in Athens, Georgia. The infi ll housing neighborhood contains 12 housing units within the four acre site. The large community garden invites the public to cross through the neighborhood to see the beautiful fl owers blooming.

AutoCad Drawing & Hand Graphics Spring 2011

COMMERCIALCOMMERCIALCAMPUS CAMPUS DESIGNDESIGN

Caldwell Corridor- Athens, Georgia

3Hand Gaphics and Hand Rendering Fall 2010

The design of the Caldwell corridor currently consists a route to get to the Founders Garden and the Business School. The redesign was developed to allow more leisure space for students and faculty. The design has large planting beds with tables nearby. An outdoor gallery display boards thatallow students to hang work and promote landscape architecture.

Caldwell Corridor- Athens, Georgia

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Circle Gallery Section

Student Sitting Area Section

Axon of Circle gallery

Hand Gaphics and Hand Rendering Fall 2010

Photoshop ImageryBefore After

Caldwell Corridor-Circle Gallery

5Photoshop Rendering & AutoCad Planting Plan Fall 2010

CaldwellCircle Gallery with dis-play boards to post studentsworks

Planting plan of Caldwell Corridor

LARGE-SCALELARGE-SCALEDESIGNDESIGN

Station Crossing

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This brownfi eld site, located off of North Chase Street in Athens, Georgia, has been abandoned for many years but has become a valuable piece of real estate. A railroad located on the south end of the site leads to Atlanta. This access would allow residents to be able to travel easily and also to save money on transportation. Also being located in a mixed use community allows the residents to live, shop, and eat close to home

AutoCad Drawing & Hand Rendered Spring 2011

Brownfi eld Mixed Use

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Station Crossing at the heart of the property, contains a mix of retail and apartments with a communty frountain and park area. The train station and parking deck is located on the south end of the site.The site has largeplanting bedswith tables

located in the middle of the mixed use section. A lin-ear fountains leads into the communty fountain and directs users to the center of the site.

Main strip in the city market

City market Corridor

AutoCad Drawing & Hand Graphics & Rendering Spring 2011

Conservation Neighborhood

8Autocad Drawing and Hand Graphics Spring 2011

Oak Grove- Athens, GeorgiaThe Oak Grove conservation neighborhood was designed to protect tress and open space. The neighborhood has tight lots with access to the well wooded community space. The community has trails and road ways to connect each house to the open and wooded area of the neighborhood.

PARK PARK DESIGNDESIGN

Urban Park- Atlanta GA

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Located of Northside Drive in Atlanta, Georgia, this small urban park stretches out over four acres. The site is near three metro area colleges and many apartment complexes. The park contains a path that mea-sures at one-fi fth of a mile, making an easy walking trail in the center of Atlanta

AutoCad Drawing & Photoshop Rendering Fall 2011

Lumpkin Woods- Athens GA

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Circulation Map

Hand Graphics Fall 2010

The Concept map shows important site features and usability. The map consists of a bubble diagram for open areas, buildings and concert venue. It also shows vehicle and pedestrian circulation.The map also shows the need of barriers to block sound and poor views.

Concept Map

Lumpkin woods was redesigned in order to re amp the park and invite more pedestrians to utilize the park on an everyday bases. The park needed to contain a space for tailgating, a small concert venue, a picnic area and an administative building.The park also needs several spaces for sculptures and art installation.

Lumpkin Woods

Sculpture Park- Athens, GA

11Hand Drafted and Hand Graphics Fall 2010

Lumpkin Woods Park is located in the heart of the University of Georgia campus in Athens Georgia. The Site is mostly used by students trying to make it to class.The redesign of the site consist of many sculp-tures and a green building for meetings and students events.

Perspective Concert venue Building Section

GOLF COURSEGOLF COURSEDESIGNDESIGN

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Existing Wetlands- South Carolina, Low Country

Conceptual Golf Course Layout

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Individual Shot Layout

Pro ShotAverage GolferLeft HandedBeginner

Hand Drafted and Hand Rendered Fall 2011

Fairway and Green ConceptHand Drafted and Hand Rendered Fall 2011

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Golf Course Concept

Golf Course AutoCad Draft

15 AutoCad Drawing Fall 2011

AutoCad Drawing/ Hand Rendered Fall 2011

ADDITIONAL ADDITIONAL PROJECTSPROJECTS

CONCENTRATION

Malus ‘Radiant’- Crabapple Tree

The goal of this project was to takeone word and show the defi nition of the word into design on the one acre site. The design has low concentra-tion of trees starting in the northwest corner of the site and moving to-wards the southeast corner of the site, the trees become closer together as a higher concentration ending at one tree.

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Athens Pocket Park- Athens Georgia

The Athens city pocket park was designed to give the community a place to visit during a busy day to relax and enjoy a cup of coffee. The park was designed with a stage far local bands to play smooth soft music. The site consist of an open grass plains to give space for visitors to throw a football around. The site has a low shrub maze that allows one to site by the rushing water fountain in the middle of the maze.

Parking Day- Athens, GA

An Annual event in which local groups dedicate one day to making metered parking spaces into temporary green spaces. The Goal is to raise awareness for the need of more parks in urban areas.

This park was designed to complement the formal aspects of north campus of the University of Georgia. The items used in the design are completely recycled.

Group Hand Drafted and Hand Rendered Fall 2010

17 Photoshop Poster Fall 2010

Contact Information:

Alex [email protected] [email protected] Braselton HighwayLawrenceville, GA 30043