Portfolio of Landscape Architecture

Path Network

Habitat

Street Trees

Public Spaces

Aaron Kraemer: Landscape Designer

Potential Green Roofs

Stormwater Streets

Red Hook

Prospect Park

Alma Del Mar Charter School New Bedford, MA Alma Del Mar is a Charter School in New Bedford Massachusetts. Under subcontract with HMFH Architects CBA designed the landscape for the project, including an entry plaza, and relocated play equipment.

Collaborating with the founding Principal, I designed several concepts for an entry courtyard where children can gather during pick up and drop off. I was also responsible for all final construction documents, and gained valuable Construction Administration experience.

Alma Del Mar School

The success of the project lead to HMFH hiring CBA for additional projects with me on the project team.

Entry Courtyard Concept Sketch: Sketchup & Hand Drawing

Colored Section Elevation: Entry Steps and Courtyard Planters: CAD & Photoshop

Professional Photos: Completed Entry Plaza

Alma Del Mar School

Construction Drawings: Entry Plaza

Toward a Greener Gowanus Brooklyn, NY

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Toward a Greener Gowanus is a multi-faceted project working to improve access, habitat, and remediate pollution along the Gowanus Canal. Major elements of the design include: a series of stormwater streets to mitigate CSO input; an esplanade that runs along the edge of the canal, and a series of barges which function as community space, exhibition space and food production.

Toward a Greener Gowanus

The largest open space adjacent to the canal features a hybrid poplar phytoremediation forest, where the trees are used to remove PAH’s and PCB’s from the soil.

Section: Green Street Type 1

Map: Green Street Network

In several areas along the canal the existing bulkhead has been removed in order to restore some of the native saltwater marsh habitat.

Section: Green Street Type 2

Section: Green Street Type 3 45”: Average annual rainfall in New York City M T W T F S S Once a Week: Average rate of combined sewer overflow events in New York City

3.3 Acres: Treatment area for one typical long block of Green Street Type 1 for a 1” Storm 2.3 Acres: Treatment area for one typical long block of Green Street Type 2 for a 1” Storm 2.7 Acres: Treatment area for one typical long block of Green Street Type 3 for a 1” Storm

Section/Perspective: Amphitheater at the former BMT power plant.

Sketchup and Photoshop

Esplanade

High Marsh Rarely subject to inundation

Intermediate Marsh Floods during spring tides

Saltwater Marsh Section: Sketchup and Photoshop

Low Marsh Floods during regular tides Gowanus Canal

Esplanade

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Installation of esplanade and design features outside of Public Place Dredging and capping of the Gowanus Canal Implementation 3-4 years after Phase 2, or when soils within design area are low enough in toxicity for human use.

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Installation of program barges Selective harvesting of hybrid poplars at Public Place Planting of meadow at Public Place.

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Clapp School / Fleming Field Park Woburn, MA Clapp School / Fleming Field Park in Woburn, Massachusetts is the reenvisoning of a steeply sloped site overlooking Horn Pond. The site is the former location of the Clapp school which has recently been demolished.

Entrance Gateway

Fleming Field

Working with the Principals at CBA, I assisted with a robust public participation process including several public meetings and community-wide surveys. We designed various concepts based on the feedback we received.

With input from the public and city officials we came up with a final landscape plan for the site.

I was part of a team at CBA that was responsible for all presentation graphics, concept designs, site grading, including an accessible path up a large hillside, and a Rhino model which was used as the basis for several Photoshop renderings to assist in the community presentations. The project is currently under construction.

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Rain Gardens Accessible Route

Picnic Grove Basketball Court Overlook Pavilion

Playground

Splash Pad

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Accessible Paths

Entrance Gateway

Bird’s-eye View: Rhino and Photoshop

View Looking Uphill: Rhino and Photoshop

Picnic Grove: Rhino and Photoshop

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Parking Area

City of Bridgeport Streetscape Guidelines Bridgeport, CT

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In late 2013, the City of Bridgeport Downtown Special Services District approached Artemis Landscape Architects to develop a set of streetscape guidelines and enhancements for downtown Bridgeport. On this project, I was responsible for data collection, GIS mapping, rendering, and assistance with report design and layout.

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The finished product is a 130-page booklet which has become the maintenance and improvement guidelines for the City of Bridgeport Downtown Special Services District. The project won a 2015 CTASLA Merit Award for Landscape Communications.

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Before and after images of the Broad Street Promenade. The rendering shows one of several proposed design interventions proposed in the report.

FOCUS AREA 2: BROAD STREET PROMENADE

FOCUS AREA 2: BROAD STREET PROMENADE

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To screen an adjacent parking lot and create pedestrian scale, green screens are proposed along the edge of the walkway. The panels are attached to steel posts with overhead angle extensions equipped with LED light fixtures providing fun, colorful lighting options.

The suggested removal of portions of the existing concrete walk, allow for new amenity strips of permeable concrete pavers that will add visual interest and disperse runoff from walkway surfaces. A proposed bio-swale between the green screens and the parking lot will further filter any runoff from impervious surfaces.

Bridgeport Streetscape Guidelines

The transformation of this area includes elements that will create a vital visual and physical connection between two primary streets in downtown Bridgeport, and direct visitors through the historic Arcade Mall.

A proposed blue glowing LED “wave� design embedded in the walkway, provides movement and an artful element to the long linear corridor, and recalls the seaside location of downtown Bridgeport.

These new amenity strips provide locations for benches and planters with colorful annuals.

Banners along the promenade complete the vision for this important pedestrian connection.

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A great opportunity for a pedestrian connection exists on a narrow strip of concrete adjacent to the Reads Artspace between Broad Street, the Arcade Mall and Main Street.

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NYC AIDS MEMORIAL · SAINT VINCENT’S HOSPITAL

NYC AIDS Memorial Design Competition New York, NY The AIDS Memorial Park and Museum at the St. Vincent’s Hospital site seeks to commemorate AIDS victims in NYC. A waterfall is used to split the plaza into contemplative space memorializing the dead and a playful side celebrating the lives of those affected

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Heritage Park Minneapolis, MN

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Heritage Park is a mixed-use, mixed-income, and mixed-density community located in North Minneapolis. The community has been designed, and the portion to the north of highway 55 has been built. My design, for the southern portion, is in response to criticism that the built northern portion is “too suburban”. I’ve incorporated stormwater catchment and treatment areas within the tree lawns of all streets within the develpment. The neighborhood features bridges for each house and apartments over these stormwater treatment areas and gives the area a unique neighborhood character. The project also daylights Basset Creek, which is currently located under Van White Memorial Boulevard.

Pruitt Igoe Design Competition St. Louis, Missouri

Pruitt Igoe Competition

Pruitt Igoe is the site of a former housing project on St. Louis’s north-side. It was demolished in the mid 1970’s and has remained vacant since, and a forest has filled in the site My design for the Pruitt Igoe Now design competition includes a large urban farm on the southern half of the site. This farm will provide jobs and food for local citizens.

I also chose to keep most of the existing forest, elevated boardwalks will bring visitors through this nature preserve and through designed wetlands that occupy the footprints of the former buildings. The wetlands provide additional habitat and show visitors where some of the demolished towers once stood.

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Maps & Diagrams Various Projects The images on this page represent a small sample of various maps & diagrams I have created either as a hobby or as part of larger projects. These maps were created using a combination of Adobe Illustrator and ArcGIS.

Flooding Risk: Toward a Greener Gowanus

Groundwater and Sewer Infrastructure: Toward a Greener Gowanus 17th Ave NE

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Monsignor Reynolds Playground Boston, MA Located in Boston’s densely populated South End Neighborhood, Monsignor Reynolds Playground provides neighborhood children a valuable place to play.

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Working with the Principals at CBA and the city of Boston, I assisted in the public participation process, including assisting in facilitating several community meetings and the preparation of presentation materials.

Based on the feedback from this process I assisted in the development and refining of the conceptual design.

Upon the selection of a final design for the park I completed all construction documentation of the project, including, layout, planting, grading, and construction specifications.

I also assisted in performing construction administration for the project.

Monsignor Reynolds

Professional Photos: Completed Park

Contact Information Intrigued by what you see? Want to learn more? Feel free to contact me to learn more about me, my work, aspirations, and passions. I look forward to hearing from you.

Aaron Kraemer 37 John Street #1 Chelsea, MA 02150 (612) 655-7641 aaron.kraemer@gmail.com