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SUPPAK+PortfolioPongsakorn ‘Tum’ SuppakitpaisarnMLA Candidate,University of Georgia, expected graduation 2013

AscendingPhotograph

Hong Kong, 2010

Jade CurtainPhotograph

Hong Kong, 2010

The goal of this project was to design a landscape for a con-dominium complex in the middle of a congested city. The basic requirements were to follow Thai environmental law that specifies the minimum amount of green space per acre, and of course we want to maximize the recreational area and parking for the residents.Given the architectural base plan, I created a playground and a sidewalk connecting to the swimming pool, used trees to frame scenic view from which the residents can see the canal, and placed a sculptural design at the entrance.For the rooftop garden that has an overlook toward the ocean, I used the trees to shelter people from wind and sun-

light. For the health of the residents, I added 275 feet track wrapping around the garden. I achieved the client’s desire to mix eastern and western architectural influences by using ornamental elements such as fountains, doorways, fence posts, and decorative wall textures with the accents from both cultures.

TABLE OF CONTENT

RESIDENTIAL DESIGNSCity Home Comfort 1-2Dream Home 3-4Healthy Residence 5-6

PARKS AND RECREATIONSLearning Community 7-8Prairie Retreat 9-10

COMMUNITY DESIGNS Future Land 11-12United Neighborhood 13-14

ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNSIntegration 15-16Scientific Decisions 17-18

TRANSPORTATION DESIGNSParking Retrofit 19-20The Way We Would Wander 21-22

COMPETITIONSFlourish-Nourish 23-24Telling Tales 25-26Fixing Future 27-28

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CITY HOME COMFORT

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year2009

role- Junior Landscape Architect

organizationSupalai co.LtdBangkok, Thailand

projectCity Home PhuketPhuket, Thailand

typeProfessionalTeam-Interdiscipline

The goal of this project was to design a landscape for a con-dominium complex in the middle of a congested city. The basic requirements were to follow Thai environmental law that specifies the minimum amount of green space per acre, and of course we want to maximize the recreational area and parking for the residents. Given the architectural base plan, I created a playground and a sidewalk connecting to the swimming pool, used trees to frame scenic view from which the residents can see the canal, and placed a sculptural design at the entrance.

For the rooftop garden that has an overlook toward the ocean, I used the trees to shelter people from wind and sunlight. For the health of the residents, I added 275 feet track wrapping around the garden. I achieved the client’s desire to mix eastern and western architectural influences by using ornamental elements such as fountains, doorways, fence posts, and decorative wall textures with the accents from both cultures.

DREAM HOME

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year2009

organizationUniversity of Illinois,Champaign, IL

projectWallace ResidenceChampaign, IL

typeAcademicIndividual

3.4

This residential project took place in Champaign, IL. The client wanted an ease of maintenance, year round aesthetic interest, and a welcoming feel. I experimented with a few concepts, and came up with a simple design that optimized the space in his 2,000 square feet backyard. The front porch accommodates casual ac-quaintances, while the back porch welcomes the close neighbors and visitors who would like to spend more time to enjoy the scenery.

In the process, I incorporated the Sims3 game into the design by constructing the house and garden into the vir-tual world and allowing the client’s character to live and move around the space.

HEALTHY RESIDENCE

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5-6

year2010

organizationUniversity ofIllinoisChampaign, IL

projectBarnes and LongResidenceChampaign, IL

typeAcademicIndividual

My agenda for Barnes and Long residence sounded sim-ple at first: to respond to the residents’ needs. The residence consists of five members of different ages and lifestyles: the grandmother with a wheelchair, two environmental friendly working parents who need to host social events, and two small daughters. I designed this space with three layers of their needs in mind: health, social contacts, and environment.

To help release the constant pain for the grandmother and regenerate the energy of the parents, I created the nice outlook from the window into the yard for them to enjoy. I provided the space for the social events and contacts with the neighbors with the extended front porch and the bar-becue area on the back. To reduce their carbon footprint, I added in the defined prairie area, the vegetable gardening zone, and the compost area in the backyard.

LEARNING COMMUNITY

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year2009

organizationUniversity ofIllinoisChampaign, IL

projectMLK ParkUrbana, IL

typeAcademicTeam AnalysisIndividual Design

Martin Luther King Park, as analyzed, functions as a buf-fer between the entrance of the city of Urbana, the surround-ing community, and Martin Luther King School. With its unique function, the park design has to function well for the neighborhood, the city, and the school/ With this goal in mind, I divided the park into three sec-tions: the plaza and play space, the gathering space, and the active recreational space. While the active recreation can serve the students of Martin Luther King School and people in community to be healthier. The passive recreation and gathering space brings people together. The plaza area tells the story of the community and bring children to enjoy adventurous playground and the nature play area.

I introduced native plantings in the Martin Luther King Park redesign in order to reduce water usage and to create a unique experience in this dynamic green space.

PRAIRIE RETREAT

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9-10

year2010

role- Design Schemes- Master Plan- Graphics

organizationUniversity of IllinoisChampaign, IL

projectEco-ducationUrbana, Illinois

typeAcademicTeam

The Eco-Ducation is a neighborhood park in Urbana, created for recreational and educational purposes that in-tegrates the prairie plantings. Our goal led to a design that aims to ‘educate,provide habitat, beautify, and inspire,’ as Scheler, a scholar in planting design lays his agenda upon. Educate: The design informs people about prairies and sustainability. The Rootball Interpretive Center displays the prairies from roots to tips. Provide Habitat: The southwest quarter of the design is dedicated to provide habitat for birds and small mammals. The rolling prairies will also be a food supply for insects,

Beautify: The plant palette of the design provides all-season interest. Never once in a season that the field would turn into an undesirable ‘weed patch.’ The selection of plant mass is color-oriented, which give an organized feel to the entire design. Inspire: This design is also for people and community . In every corners, the social spaces are provided for usage and interactions. My role in this design is to develop the design and cre-ate perspective graphics.

FUTURE LAND

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11-12

year2009

role- Design Schemes- Master Plan- Detailed plan

organizationUniversity of IllinoisChampaign, IL

project2050 Community,Urbana, Illinois

typeAcademicTeam PlanningIndividual Detail

Our mission as a team was to plan for community fifty years in advance on a land that is now the 16 acre pomology research farm at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-paign. We wanted to introduce to the site a new way of liv-ing that had more green space, more local food production, and as little carbon footprint as possible. For individual detail elaboration, I selected the south east-ern corner of the community, where there are variations of housing, transportation, and life style. I placed the orchard in the center of this area for production and to encourage a peaceful lifestyle. Toward the east side are more condensed, younger residents in there 20-30s are welcomed to the mod-ern lifestyle adjacent to the monorail station and the business district.

Each of the housing design aims for one principle: to optimize the green space. I made a transition between the private to semi-private to public green space to encour-age the residents to come outside, meet the neighbors, and bond as a strong community.

UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD

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2010 SASAKI DAY DESIGN COMPETITION FINALIST

13-14

year2010

organizationUniversity of Illinois,Champaign, IL

typeAcademicIndividual

projectSongsville,Chicago, IL

Songsville is a community design project with in achiev-able price that locates in the middle of the city. The devel-oper company requires this approximately 6-acre site to contain at least 34 housing units, 80 parking spaces, and a preschool for 100 children. The project aims to create a strong and positive relationship between neighbors to create a healthy community. To encourage residents to meet more often and gener-ate social interaction, I aligned the doors of the residences, added sidewalks, and applied the courtyard into the design.

I included three major green spaces to the site: a rain garden at the low point of the site to manage storm wa-ter, the community garden, and the active recreational cafe that the community can gather.

INTEGRATION

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2011 SASAKI DAY DESIGN COMPETITION FINALIST

year2011

role- GIS analyst- Team leader

organizationUniversity ofIllinoisChampaign, IL

projectIntegration,Urbana, Illinois

typeAcademicTeam AnalysisIndivisual Design

15-16

Intergration is the project that combines the existing of nature and human together. The intention of the design is to restore a fraction of what once was the great oak grove. By returning the oaks into its home, the animals will come back and the ecosystem will start to flourish again. Another focus species is the eastern screech owl. By bring-ing back the oaks, the terrance of the forest open up enough to allow the owls to exist. The owls would also get rid of rodent problem around the city.

Finally, human is the important part of this design. By inviting people into the education and exposure of na-ture, human tend to grow to love the nature and thus try to safe it. This is the reason why we provide the educa-tional area for people in the north east corner of Crystal Lake Park.

SCIENTIFIC DECISIONS

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organizationUniversity of GeorgiaAthens, GA

projectState Botanical Garden of GeorgiaAthens, GA

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To create a scientific based design and make an optimal design decisions, technology takes an important part in cre-ating a visual communication and possibility calculations. In this project, I took part in the project for State Botanical Gar-den of Georgia. I had a responsibility to analyze the visual quality of the site and create the suitability map to present to the stockholders.

The analysis was preceded in an overview manner. This process would only show the accessibility of views through the topographical data. Throughout the inven-tory, 7 layers of spots of interests were selected. Each group, throughout simple survey from the designers in LAND6030 class studio, shows some significant visual impact. That is, people tend to notice these points of interests regardless of their preferences. These information was processed via ArcGIS analytical tool and was represented in the suitability map ranking the possibilities those were yet to unfold.

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PARKING RETROFIT

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year2011

organizationUniversity ofGeorgiaAthens, GA

projectState Botanical Garden of GeorgiaAthens, GA

typeAcademic Individual

19-20

After the data accumulation phase, I selected the State Botanical Garden of Georgia main parking lot site to design in detail. The agenda of this project is to retrofit the main parking lot. I aimed for the new design to be environmental friendly, cost-effective, and ready for the construction of the new Natural History Museum and the proposed Porcelain Museum.

With those goals in mind, I partially kept the original asphalt to reduce the construction cost, while changed some parts that needed to be regraded into permeable pavement. I expanded the parking possibilities by 50 spots and created the drop off area for school buses. The rain garden was designed to manage the stormwater runoff for the parking lot and the paved streets nearby.

THE WAY WE WOULD WANDER

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21-22

year2011

role- Team manager- Detail Design- Graphics- Technical Train-ning

organizationUniversity of Georgia,Athens, GA

projectTransportation Oriented DesignAthens, GA

typeAcademicTeam

With the project to connect the city of Atlanta and Athens via the rail system, the College of Environmental Design, University of Georgia, requested for the collaboration be-tween environmental planning and landscape architecture students to create a campus design based on the transporta-tion agenda. Our team main goals are to create a transit stop that em-braces the opportunity for light rail transportation system, campus connection and expansion, and the new wave of ecological urbanism. With the site of student residence and the sports and recreational center, we redesigned the resi-dential buildings, create a train station from the expansion of the recreational facilities, and strengthen the green corridor running across the site.

Throughout the process, I helped the team established the team goals, came up with the structural schedule, re-searched the precedent studies, designed and illustrated site details, as well as operated the technical training for teammates.

FLOURISH-NOURISH

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projectTrinity Ave FarmAtlanta, GA

typePersonal Individual

23-24

year2011-2012

role- Graphics

Trinity Avenue Project is the design competition for an empty space across the street from the Atlanta City Hall, GA. The major wanted to create an urban space that contains ag-ricultural and educational experiences for the local citizens. The team has created a sophisticated design that is aesthet-ically pleasing and functional. The design responded well with the tectonic quality of the site, while allowing many types of growing and harvesting to take place. This design, if built, will be a community spot in Atlanta that draws the citizens altogether.

I participated in this team project as an illustrator. Using the existing sketch up model for architectural as-semble, I add planting layer to the model and proceed to render by hand, adding life and detail to the project.

TELLING TALES

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25-26

year2010

organizationCJ Illustration Award

projectWho Gave Big Bob the Belly?Seoul, Korea

typePersonal Individual

These images are a part of an illustration series ‘Who Gave Big Bob a Belly?’ It is the story about the child obesity in the United States. In the story, I explained how the surrounding factors can contribute to child obesity and discussed how to alter those factors to prevent and solve the obesity issue. I constructed the series as an entry to the CJ Book Awards Illustration Competition 2010 in Seoul, Korea.

The inspiration for these illustrations come from a group discussion with Professor William Sullivan under the effect of built environment to health.

FIXING THE FUTURE

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27-28

role- Concept sketches- Design Diagrams- Hydrological analysis

year2009-2010

organizationMetropolis Competition 2009

projectFarmArt,anywhere, USA

typePersonal Individual

This project is an entry for the Metropolis Annual Design Competition 2010. The theme is ‘One Design Fixes All:’ a design solution to alleviate the environmental issues across the world and can be applied anywhere. During the preliminary stage, my team conducted exten-sive researches to solve the local food production problem and storm water drainage issues. We consulted many re-sources including an engineer and a horticulturalist. We discovered our solution by creating a vertical garden on a parking lot lamp post. The post uses the water from parking lot storm water drainage to water the vegetables on top of the lamp post. Because we are using a hydrophobic system, there is no soil required.

Our group sketched rough designs and built the virtual models with SketchUp to study the form and scale. We submitted the model along with a series of Photoshop renderings, Adobe Illustrator diagrams explaining how the system works, and AutoCAD drawing of the inven-tion. In the last page of the submission, we included the cost-effective calculation report to show the benefit of our project in 20 years after the construction.

Pongsakorn ‘Tum’ Suppakitpaisarn(217)502-3906 670 West Broad Street Athens, GA 30601 [email protected]

EducationUniversity of Georgia, MLA, expected graduation May 2013University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BLA 2011Technical skills include: ArcGIS, AutoCAD, GoogleSketchUp, Adobe PhotoShop,InDesign, and Illustrator

ExperienceDepartment of Community Affairs, University of Georgia branchGraduate Design Assistant, Spring 2012- current ● Redesigned sites upon request for ‘Main Street Project’ and ‘Better Hometown Project’ in Georgia ● Generated SketchUp graphics and Photoshop rendering for presentationsChiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, ThailandVisiting Instructor, Summer 2011 ● Co-designed Landscape Architecture 5 year Curriculum ● Defended and presented the curriculum among faculty members of Chiang Mai University ● Instructed in Basic Landscape Construction section of Senior Landscape Contracting class ● Co-reviewed preliminary undergraduate thesis ● Arranged workshops in public speaking, graphic presentation, and creativity management ● Organized Landscape Architecture Open House, raising the awareness of the programSupalai Public Company Limited, Bangkok, ThailandLandscape Architect Intern, Summer 2009 ● Participated in designing residential grounds and gardens ● Designed the lighting system and irrigation lines for condominium ground ● Ensured the materials selected for construction were within budgets

Awards and HonorsAmerican Society of Landscape Architecture Student Merit Award, Illinois Chapter, 2011Sasaki Day Design Competition Finalist, 2010 and 2011Humanity, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advance Collaboratory (HASTAC) scholar and writer, 2010Wadsworth Scholarship, 2009

Professional MembershipsAmerican Society of Landscape Architects, student member, 2010-presentAmerican Society of Landscape Architects, Student Chapter, 2009-present

Activities and Community ServicesGeorgia Society of Landscape Architecture (GSLA) Graduate Students Representative, 2011-2012Organized, planned, and invited people to participate in GSLA activitiesUniversity of Georgia Landscape Architecture Magazine Editing Crew, 2011-2012Advocated article submissions, edited, and organised magazine articlesNorth Oconee River Charette, 2011Participated in design workshop, made design decisions, and presented the outcome in public