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CONTENTSEASTWOODHILL ARBORETUMUNITED STATES CAPITOL STORMWATER PLAN HOPE COLLEGE MUSIC BUILDINGCHURCH OF THE RESURRECTIONEMERSON LOGISTICSB.H. WHIPPLE FEDERAL BUILDINGMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY TRIBUTEMUSCOGEE CREEK NATION MUSEUM THE MALL YOU ARE HERETABL’EAU NICOLLET MALL VISION PLAN

EASTWOODHILL ARBORETUMGisborne, New Zealandwith Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

Recently designated the National Arboretum of New Zealand, Eastwoodhill is poised to serve as an increasingly critical resource to conserve our world’s forests. The master plan proposes a new organizational structure for developing the collection with greater scientific rigor and while creating opportunities for more compelling educational narratives.

A summary of the Master Plan is available at the Eastwoodhill Arboretum website.

DATE: June 2009 - June 2010SIZE: 328 acresRole: Production Lead

Eastwoodhill’s shared latitude with developed areas of the Northern Hemisphere make it an ideal location to serve as an arboreal ark for forest species threatened by climate change, invasive species, and other dynamic environmental conditions. Organization of the collection by ecoregion allows the growing collection to address specifically threatened ecological communities.

Soil conditions, microclimate, slope, and solar aspect guided organization of the collection to accommodate the range of unique conditions required by plants from each ecozone. A survey of the arboretum’s specimens allowed for identification by geographic origin. Trees under three meters were flagged for transplanting to increase the density of plants within each ecozone.

Rerouting of trails on area with slopes >15% initiates a new trail system that allows for greater access to remote areas of the arboretum. A link trail, supported by a shuttle and new gardens at each stop, introduces hierarchy to the trail system. Each stop along the trail is paired with secondary, accessible loop trails that feature plants from unique ecoregions.

The plan locates each link trail stop on the border of two ecozones, which are designed to feature unique issues in global forest conservation. At the intersection of the Nearctic (North America) and Australasia ecozones, the forest structures of each ecoregion are planted side by side, and highlight the diversity inherent in each.

MILLER CENTER FOR THE MUSIC ARTSHolland, Michiganwith HGA Architects & Engineers

A new music building for a liberal arts college sits between an urban downtown and a verdant, historic campus. To mediate between the two, the building landscape includes a large event plaza and gardens designed to accommodate a variety of academic and event programs, while introducing whimsical details and opportunities for student and faculty collaboration.

DATE: September 2012 - October 2013Role: Lead Landscape ArchitectSIZE: 2 acres

October 16 2012N Scheme 4: RadialHope College Music Building

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October 16 2012N Scheme 1: Stepped TerracesHope College Music Building

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October 16 2012N Scheme 2: Linear Walls / RampsHope College Music Building

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October 16 2012N Scheme 3: IslandsHope College Music Building

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Early diagrams (left) explore contextual campus relationships, site conditions, programming, and circulation requirements, leading to sketch design concepts (right) intended to introduce a variety of approaches to

form, accessibility, and integration with building architecture.

The final site plan is augmented with whimsical details, including a subtle piano key paving pattern, and cast stone cap walls designed to deter skateboarding.

CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTIONLeawood, Kansas with HGA Architects & Engineers

The expansion of Church of the Resurrection will add 4,000 new seats to one of the nation’s largest places of worship. Set on over 60 acres in suburban Kansas City, site design for the church balances the need for 1800 new parking spaces with the creation of new, intimate sacred spaces and a 1/3-mile prayer walk. The project involves extensive research of Methodist history and symbology, and a novel approach to creating safe passage for pedestrians among a sea of cars.

DATE: April 2013 - PresentRole: Lead Landscape ArchitectSIZE: 63 acres

EMERSON LOGISTICS CAMPUSEden Prairie, Minnesota with HGA Architects & Engineers

3 TREE PLANTING 1 PERENNIAL PLANTING2 SHRUB PLANTING

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1. FABRICATOR TO PROVIDEENGINEERING AND SHOP DRAWINGSFOR APPROVAL PRIOR TOFABRICATION.

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BENCH, REFER TO L900

2' BAND AROUND ALL PLANTINGS OF 3"-6" TRAP ROCK

EXISTING CURB

SEAT WALL MEETS BUILDING CORNER, 1 EXPANSION JOINT

BLEND CURBLESS DROPOFF WITH EXISTING CURB

2' MAINTENANCE STRIP AROUND BUILDING OF 3" - 6" DRESSER TRAP ROCK

3/4" DRESSER TRAP ROCK (DECORATIVE ROCK #814)

EDGING, REFER TO SPEC. 321540

PEDESTRIAN LIGHT BOLLARD, REFER TO 321540

3" - 6" DRESSER TRAP ROCK (EROSION CONTROL ROCK #818)

1" - 4" DRESSER TRAP ROCK (DRAIN FIELD ROCK #815)

PLANTED AREA

REVISION HISTORY - THIS SHEET

CP-3 EHO SHELL

EXTERIOR/HVAC/OFFICE RENOVATION (EHO)PROJECT 2

2 ENLARGED LAYOUT AND MATERIALS PLAN: MAIN ENTRY

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ENLARGE LAYOUT ANDMATERIALS PLANS: EASTFACADE AND MAIN ENTRY

B.H. WHIPPLE FEDERAL BUILDINGMinneapolis, Minnesota with HGA Architects & Engineers

THE MUSCOGEE CREEK NATION MUSEUMOkmulgee, Oklahomawith HGA Architects & Engineers

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Situated in the center of the Muscogee Creek National Capitol grounds, the campus design for a new museum transforms a neglected creek bed into a restored wetland that honors Muscogee landscape traditions. The site program called for earthen levees to protect museum artifacts against 500-year flood events. Sculpted levees create independently-programmed temporal islands.

DATE: August 2010 - March 2011SIZE: 40 acresRole: Designer

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ceremonial plants referred to in legends and observed at creek annual busk, observed by benjamin hawkins, “sketch of the creek country in the years 1798 and 1799.” legends refer to a time before the muskogees had knowledge of these plants - they were learned in their eastword migration. this suggests that muskogees migrated from a place where these plants were not used, probably west of the region where they were common

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tobacco(nicotiana sp.)one of four sacred plants learned of on the “king of mountains”

red root / prairie willow(saliX humilis)one of four sacred plants learned of on the “king of mountains”

corn(Zea mays)

carolina golden rice, sweet potatoes, beans, cowpeas, squashes, pumpkins, watermelons, grapes, blackberries, mulberries, strawberries, apples, plums, chestnuts, pecans, hickory nuts, black walnuts, acorns, sunflower seeds, peach-es (introduced from persia), and other crops

yaupon(ileX vomitoria)used for ceremonial “black drink” - a highly caffeinated emetic tea

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cardinal flower (lobelia cardinalis)

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nightshade family(solanum nigrum)

rabbit basket string(potentilla canadensis)

wormseed (chenopodium ambrosioides)

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scribner’s panicum(panicum oligosanthus)

button-snakeroot(eryngium aquaticum) one of four sacred plants learned of on the “king of mountains”

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eastern red cedar(juniperus virginiana)in yuchi folklore, cedar is the tree from which you can successfully kill a wiZard

sweet bay (magnolia virginiana)

A survey of sacred plants and species that thrive in both Okmulgee and Muscogee native lands provide a foundation for the campus planting palette.

A 15,000sf plaza frames a large circular water wall. Dozens of variations of plaza designs were tested relative to crowd sizes and integration with site earthworks.

Variation between one- and five-year floods cause extreme changes in the landscape. An earthen mound transforms into a floating island, reminiscent of the Muscogee creation legend’s tortoise. The tortoise’s shell, floating in water, habitable land on Earth.

THE MALLDocumentary Film, 2010

Part historic documentary, part propaganda, and part cartoon, The Mall recalls the political and design history of Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall while speculating on its future.

The Mall won first place in a National Great Green Spaces documentary competition hosted by the National Building Museum.

You can watch it here:http://vimeo.com/9488942

DATE: March 2009Role: Producer/Director

EARTH ON STONE ON EARTHFlashpoint Gallery, Washington DC

Exhibited at Washington D.C.’s Flashpoint Gallery, Earth on Stone on Earth presents eight green roof demonstration gardens, each an exploration of green roof benefits and performance. Poems lit from within each pedestal accompany the roofs with meditations on environmental activism. A diurnal cycle of light, sound, and video activate the gallery, as the roofs both thrive and decay during the one-month installation. The roof shown to the left compares three traditional roofing types to demonstrate relative heat absorption.

LEFT: Demonstration gardens completed during the exhibit proposal include a reconstructed tree and a garden of verse and found objects.

RIGHT: Roof gardens explore seasonality, habitat creation, rooftop agriculture, and a cost-benefit analysis of green roofs vs. traditional roof systems.

The exhibit includes writing inspired by performance burials. Above, collaborators are temporarily buried in Prospect Park and Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

THE MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY TRIBUTESt. Paul, Minnesotawith HGA Architects & Engineers

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GOLD & BLUE STAR GARDENS

Winner of a national design competition, the Minnesota Military Family Tribute Memorial honors the sacrifices and losses of military families through two gardens. The memorial links two gardens with an allee of sugar maples, which situates the memorial with Cass Gilbert’s original capitol master plan. Anticipated construction of the tribute will begin in 2014.

DATE: November 2010 - PresentSIZE: 1.8 acresROLE: Designer, Graphics and Layout

The first garden features a gold star table to honor those who have lost family members in service. The second garden features stones quarried from Minnesota’s 87 counties, each engraved with a letter from a family member during times of conflict.

YOU ARE HEREMinneapolis, Minnesotawith Peter Sowinski

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A finalist in the 2013 Creative City Competition, YOU ARE HERE proposes an urban wayfinding strategy via a giant meta-map of Minneapolis. The map

combines existing site elements with chalk, paint, and illuminated sculpture to create a playful launching pad for pedestrian exploration of the city.

DATE: March 2013Size: 1 acre

Role: Lead Designer

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Left: A giant red arrow and colorful thumbtacks mark popular downtown destinations and invite visitors to explore city via the giant map.Below: Maps of key areas of downtown are illuminated from the top of each tack.

Left: Each map focuses on a key pedestrian area of downtown and displays walking times and pedestrian amenities.

Right: A cost estimate and construction documents detail sculptural elements designed to withstand a summer of activity and support structures that minimize impact on the plaza lawn and a subterranean parking structure.

28 CREATIVE CITY CHALLENGE YOU ARE HERE

FEASIBILITY & SPECIFICATIONSARROW ELEVATION3/4” = 1’

30” FLUORESCENT LIGHT FIXTURE

ASSEMBLY COVERED IN FROSTED RED PLEXIGLASS

24” FLUORESCENT LIGHT FIXTURE

12’x12’ CROSS BRACE

TWO MOUNTING PLATES: BOTTOM PLATE THREADED ROD WELDED TO PLATE & TO 3” ANGLE W/ STEEL BLOCKING

1.5” X 1.5” STEEL TUBE FRAME

Left: Sidewalk decals distributed throughout downtown invite pedestrians to interact with YOU ARE HERE’s digital maps, which track the movements of participants, create a database of downtown destinations, and display these locations in an augmented reality viewer.

Right: Dashed lines of engineering tape cover paths to major destinations throughout the city, linking YOU ARE HERE with all of downtown, and creating opportunities to engage passers-by.

TABL’EAUJardins Metis Competition Entry, 2013

Depletion of global aquifers is one of today’s greatest environmental challenges, especially so because aquifers are largely invisible from the Earth’s surface. The Tabl’eau garden reimagines mimetic and miniature garden traditions to address this challenge. Shifting ground planes reveal a subterranean water table, wherein visitors see their own shattered reflection. A sapling forest distorts scale, making the water table enormous among a sea of trees. The art of the garden, revived, portrays this fragile resource.

Date: February 2013Role: Lead Designer

NICOLLET MALL CONCEPT PLANMinneapolis, Minnesota

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The Nicollet Mall Concept Plan proposes key changes to activate the street, from system-wide transformations (a curbless street and a four block extension to connect Nicollet to the Mississippi River), to small-scale interventions (infrastructure to support farmer’s market tents and street vendors). The plan is supported by an economic

analysis designed to build support among local businesses and government officials. he above diagram relates total construct cost to anticipated return on investment.

The NIcollet Vision Plan extends the street from the Walker Art Center to the Mississippi River, linking a network of parks and strong anchors to support a diverse range of yearround activities.

LIVE MUSIC

PARADES / FESTIVALS

ATHLETICS

FAIRS / MARKETS

PER BLOCK 24 Trees20 Pedestrian Lights0 Benches750sf Raised Beds8 Bike Stalls

TYPICAL BLOCK 35 Trees33 Pedestrian Lights6 Benches1600sf Surface Beds16 Bike Stalls

Enclosed bus station

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Staggered program retains serpentine flow

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PROPOSEDA proposed layout simplifies pedestrian circulation and eliminates “pinch points” created by unanticipated surface interventions (outdoor cafes, kiosks) in the original serpentine street design. The new layout dramatically increases the amount of vegetation and pedestrian amenities for the entire corridor – converting a transit-way into a green linear park.

The redesign proposal increases the amount of pervious surface by over 400%(9,688sf to 36,140sf)

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Elimination of the right-of-way curvature allow for a consistent width on both sidewalks and additional, designated spaces for pop-up vendors and cafes. Consistent decorative paving across the pedestrian and bus right-of-way and a reduced curb create a living street where pedestrians and cyclists have priority over vehicles while respecting current code requirements.

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Updated street infrastructure (dedicated hooks to fasten event tents, water and electric outputs) provide support necessary for food services and increase vending options, which provide a tactical intervention designed to enliven areas of long, blank facades. These minor changes are designed to attract small vendors, create activity and a welcoming environment, and eventually attract larger redevelopment investment.