NPA NATHAN PATRICK AARONS

Landscape Architecture PORTFOLIO

Nathan AaronsUniversity of Georgia

College of Environment & Designnadawg89@uga.edu

selected

Projects

UGA Environmental Design Building

Aycock Residence Master Plan

Garden of My Own

Dream House

Caldwell Corridor Redesign

UGA Environmental Design Building

For this project, I was given the task to redesign UGA’s new Environmental Design Building. The building was just opened in the Fall of 2012 but the landscape was left in its’ pre-development stage. I took a curvilinear approach with the walkways and decided to show off some of the school’s identity by creating a series of rain gardens and implementing some porous pavements. The planting material will be most-ly native species that show off the South’s planting palette.

Athens Georgia

Aycock Residence

The Aycock Residence project was one of my favorites be-cause I got to design it for an actual client and there was a possibility that they make implement a few of my design elements. The clients wanted the design to focus around an outdoor patio space where the could entertain guests, a naturalistic amphitheater, and an area for an outdoor bath-tub/shower where they could enjoy the outdoors yet remain hidden from their neighbors. I created a large stone out-door patio with a two-tiered water feature and added on to the existing shed to make the bathroom. The tub would be next to double doors that could be opened up in the Spring and Summer months but could also remain closed in the cooler months. I decided to use boulders to create the am-phitheater with a small stage for entertainment purposes.

Athens Georgia

Garden of My OwnRoswell, GA

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For this project I was given the freedom to take an event that means something to me and design a space to signify that. Every Thanksgiving my family and friends get together to play a football game. The problem is we always had to travel to find a space to play it. I de-cided to change my existing backyard in Roswell, GA in to a place to play that football game. I moved the existing re-taining wall to fit the space and created a series of berms to give it a “stadium-like” effect. I also put in a few 18” seat-ing walls to resemble bleacher seating. This project wasn’t meant to be installed anywhere, but to allow me to show off

Dream House Atlanta, Georgia

This was an earlier project where I was given a piece of land in Atlanta, GA and told do de-sign my dream house on it. My idea of a dream house included a long, windy driveway that ended to a medium sized house. I included a large pool and a tennis/basketball court to meet my athletic needs. I put a pond in the back yard with a dock for a small fishing boat and a series of trails that meandered through the woods.

This project centered around redesigning the cor-ridor behind the College of Environment & Design’s old building, Caldwell Hall. The existing corridor ends in a small parking lot which makes parking and turn-ing around very tough to do. I designed a round-a-bout to make that easier as well as added raised walkways throughout the road to slow down cars and to make the space more pedestrian oriented.

Existing Conditions

Caldwell Redesign

Athens Georgia