Czechowicz Portfolio by Allyson Czechowicz

ALLYSON CZECHOWICZ LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 11.11.2016

ALLYSON CZECHOWICZ

ADDRESS

2519 E 22nd St #2 Minneapolis, MN 55406

CONTACT

1+608.469.9328 ally.czechowicz@gmail.com

(7) THINGS ABOUT ME

I am a newly licensed Landscape Architect with 3.5 years of experience.

I feel called to this profession as a vehicle to affect change in a changing world; to create a legacy of health, vibrancy, inclusion, and beauty.

I am extraordinarily curious. This compels me to ask a lot of questions. It is a terrific learning habit.

I feel satisfied at the end of the day if I have gotten a little bit better. This requires a habitual practice of stepping out of my comfort zone.

I am looking for an opportunity to work in a vibrant and flowing outfit where I both sweat and laugh with my colleagues, listen and be heard, take ownership of my work, take risks, and continue to mature as a professional

For fun, I ride my bike, play flaneur in all urban and ecological areas, forage for and cook whatever is in season, rock climb, and go backpacking in places like Utah. I also sew, play volleyball and most other team sports, and occasionally install guerilla art projects.

STRENGTHS FINDERS LEARNER STRATEGIC IDEATOR INPUT INTELLECTION

MYERS BRIGGS

E - Extroverted N - Intuitive T - Thinker P - Perceiever

EXPERIENCE Project Designer, Stantec, St. Paul MN June 2013 - present Project Designer, Metro B, Minneapolis, MN 2011-2013 Field Ecologist, various locations (IA, WI, MI) 2007-2013

INVOLVEMENT Women in Landscape Architecture, Planning Committee 2012-present Urban Land Institute, Healthy and Resilient Cities Committee 2013-present American Society of Landscape Architecture Executive Committee, Professional Awards Jury Member 2013-2015 University of Minnesota Dept of Landscape Architecture Regular guest lecturer and reviewer 2013-present

HONORS ASLA-MN Cleveland Award for Emerging Young Leader, 2014 Women in Landscape Architecture Leadership Award, 2013 University of Minnesota ACARA Social Venture Challenge, 2x gold medallist, 2012 and 2013

EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts, Biology, French, Luther College, Decorah, IA, cum laude, 2005-2009 Masters of Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2010-2013

SKILLS ADOBE Photoshop Illustrator InDesign DRAFTING AutoCAD Civil 3D Land F/X 3D MODELING SketchUp Rhinoceros V-Ray GIS ArcMap/ArcCatalog GoogleEarth MICROSOFT OFFICE OTHER Photography/Video Talking to Strangers

MINNESOTA STATE VETERANS CEMETERIES with Stantec Consulting

Ritual

Cemeteries feel like a hold out in modern culture in the ancient way in which we spend time there. Master planning and implementing Veterans Cemeteries for the State of Minnesota has been an honor for me.

CONSTRUCTION LIMITS (TYP) TM 4

EXISTING BLACK SPRUCE BOG PN 1

OV 1 NO REVISION

L404 BV 3

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L910

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A COLUMBARIUM PLANTING ENLARGEMENT NOTES 1. FOR PLANT SCHEDULE AND DETAILS, SEE SHEETS L413-L415. 2. FOR TREE PLANTING LAYOUT, SEE L405.

PROJ. NO.

BID DOCUMENTS COLUMBARIUM A DETAIL PLANTING PLAN

MINNESOTA STATE VETERANS CEMETERY - DULUTH, FAI MN 08-03

MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

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PRINT NAME: TODD R. WICHMAN

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I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PLAN, SPECIFICATION, OR REPORT WAS PREPARED BY ME OR UNDER MY DIRECT SUPERVISION AND THAT I AM A DULY LICENSED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.

SEE SHEET PD 8

BID DOCUMENTS COLUMBARIUM DETAILS

PLANT BED (TYP) AG 4

MINNESOTA STATE VETERANS CEMETERY - DULUTH, FAI MN 08-03

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MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

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PRINT NAME: TODD R. WICHMAN

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I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PLAN, SPECIFICATION, OR REPORT WAS PREPARED BY ME OR UNDER MY DIRECT SUPERVISION AND THAT I AM A DULY LICENSED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.

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BID DOCUMENTS COLUMBARIUM DETAILS

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MINNESOTA STATE VETERANS CEMETERY - DULUTH, FAI MN 08-03

10 Rin BID DOCUMENTS PLANTING PLAN

MAY 5, 2016

LIC. NO.

THE CONTRACTOR SHALL VERIFY AND BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL DIMENSIONS. DO NOT SCALE THE DRAWING - ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS SHALL BE REPORTED TO STANTEC WITHOUT DELAY. THE COPYRIGHTS TO ALL DESIGNS AND DRAWINGS ARE THE PROPERTY OF STANTEC. REPRODUCTION OR USE FOR ANY PURPOSE OTHER THAN THAT AUTHORIZED BY STANTEC IS FORBIDDEN.

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PRINT NAME: CHAD G. DAVISON

LIC. NO.

44177

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PLAN, SPECIFICATION, OR REPORT WAS PREPARED BY ME OR UNDER MY DIRECT SUPERVISION AND THAT I AM A DULY LICENSED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.

DATE:

SIGNATURE:

PRINT NAME: TODD R. WICHMAN

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PLAN, SPECIFICATION, OR REPORT WAS PREPARED BY ME OR UNDER MY DIRECT SUPERVISION AND THAT I AM A DULY LICENSED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.

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MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

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MINNESOTA STATE VETERANS CEMETERY - DULUTH, FAI MN 08-03

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MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

PLANT BED (TYP)

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PLANTING ENLARGEMENT SEE DETAIL A/L412 WETLAND TO REMAIN

MAY 5, 2016

APPROX. EDGE OF EXISTING TREE LINE TO REMAIN

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PRINT NAME: TODD R. WICHMAN

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I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PLAN, SPECIFICATION, OR REPORT WAS PREPARED BY ME OR UNDER MY DIRECT SUPERVISION AND THAT I AM A DULY LICENSED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.

TURF GRASS SEED MIX (TYP)

BID DOCUMENTS COLUMBARIUM DETAILS

MINNESOTA STATE VETERANS CEMETERY - DULUTH, FAI MN 08-03

MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

NOTES 1. FOR PLANT SCHEDULE AND DETAILS, SEE SHEETS L413-L415.

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AN 5 PN 2

MAY 5, 2016

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PRINT NAME: TODD R. WICHMAN

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I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PLAN, SPECIFICATION, OR REPORT WAS PREPARED BY ME OR UNDER MY DIRECT SUPERVISION AND THAT I AM A DULY LICENSED LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.

PN 1

BID DOCUMENTS COLUMBARIUM DETAILS

L406

PD 2

MINNESOTA STATE VETERANS CEMETERY - DULUTH, FAI MN 08-03

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SEE SHEET

A question I have been asking our team lately is, “How can this columbarium design be more about being present in the space - and actually spending time there - versus just being a drop-off-my-loved-one-and-leave type of experience? Can we do more?”

MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Ring

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MUDD

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Design Documentation & Implementation

This project type is a true team effort for our Landscape Architecture group. I am contributing to the columbarium layout, leading the planting design, and own 28 layout and detail sheets of our most recent project near Duluth, MN. It is a real joy to build with quarried natural stone and to consider, for instance, which flashing detail will age most gracefully. Likewise, cemeteries are well maintained spaces; a contrast to the important albeit dollar-strapped public work to which I also contribute.

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BOSSEN FIELD PARK with Stantec Consulting

Mas ter Planning

Racial Equity

We master planned the 37-acre Bossen Field Park in south Minneapolis. This process was about balancing the need to update a city-wide recreational (softball) facility while also serving as a meaningful neighborhood park for the immediate community.

We had the opportunity to help MPRB pilot their first Racial Equity Impact Assessment. I spearheaded both an online engagement platform and voting clicker technology as part of that larger process.

Master Plan

RIDOR

OOMS LTER

ATHLETIC FIELDS

6 SOFTBALL FIELDS CONCESSIONS/ RESTROOM LIGHTING

ssen Field Park

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JULY 2015 / project# 193803068

Co n s t r u ct i o n Ad m i n i strati o n

I am leading the implementation of Phase 1 of this master plan as we speak. I am on site 2x/week on average, running a site meeting of up to 12 people including the client project manager and the construction team, and trouble shooting issues related to unknown conditions. A former wetland before being developed into a park back in the early 1950s, 3,000cy of contaminated material have been excavated and hauled away. Heavy utility conflicts have been numerous, in addition to incorrect survey data and grades tying in.

BOSSEN FIELD PARK BENCH

Inspiration 1

The MPRB project manager proposed a base vision of concrete benches on site. I took this and ran with it, feeling challenged to figure out how to make a cold material functional, comfortable, and aesthetically additive to the park.

Ins piration 2

A unique Elizabeth Close (first MN licensed female architect) shelter exists on site. Its roof line is especially dynamic and reminds me of art deco geometries I admire such as the vintage high heel image shown bottom left.

Be n ch D e t a i l ing

10"

NOTES: - CONTRACTOR SHALL PROVIDE (2) FULL SCALE BENCH MOCK UPS FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT'S APPROVAL PRIOR TO ANY MATERIAL ORDERING. - CONTRACTOR SHALL USE PLASTIC FORM LINERS - 1 PER BENCH; LINERS MAY NOT BE REUSED. - COLOR SELECTIONS: + CEMENT COLOR SHALL BE WHITE + AGGREGATE SHALL BE LIMESTONE "BUFF" (MOCKUP A) AND LIMESTONE "GRAY" (MOCKUP B) - BENCH SHALL BE CAST ALL IN ONE FORM. - ALL BENCH EDGES SHALL HAVE UNIFORM 1 2" RADIUS. - SKATEBOARD DETERRENTS SLITS SHALL BE CAST (NOT CUT). SLITS SHALL BE UNIFORM 3 4" WIDE BY 1 2" DEEP. SEE L8.02 DETAIL E.. - ALL RADIUSES SHALL BE 1 2 " UNLESS SPECIFIED OTHERWISE.

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TOP VIEW BOTTOM ELEVATION

1'-8"

(TYP) PRECAST SLIT

I carried the custom bench design through the detailing process, where I learned an immense amount about concrete (and its components) as a material, constructability, and the cost estimating of a custom element.

PRE-CAST SLAB CONCRETE BENCH - PLAN VIEW

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PRE-CAST SLAB CONCRETE BENCH - FRONT ELEVATION

2' PRE-CAST BENCH

6'-0"

#4 REINFORCING REBAR; 8" O.C.

1'-8 3/4"

(TYP) PRECAST SLIT 3 4"

PRECAST CONCRETE BENCH ON 1" LATEX GROUT

TOP VIEW (TYP) PRECAST SLIT ELEVATION

1'-8"

#4 REINFORCING REBAR, 8" O.C. TYP. 10" LONG 34 " DIA. STAINLESS STEEL THREADED DOWELS, (3) PER BENCH, CORE-DRILL AND EPOXY IN PLACE

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SEE L8.02 DETAIL D FOR BELOW GROUND DETAILS 4"

1'-8"

10" LONG DIA. STAINLESS STEEL THREADED DOWELS, (3) PER BENCH, CORE-DRILL AND EPOXY IN PLACE

8" CONCRETE SLAB TO BE 1'-0" WIDER THAN STONE BENCH ON ALL SIDES, TYP. MATERIAL AS SPECIFIED ON PLANS 4" LAYER SELECT GRANULAR BORROW AGGREGATE SOIL MIX, AS SPECIFIED UNDISTURBED OR COMPACTED SUBGRADE

4" 1'-8"

PRE-CAST SLAB CONCRETE BENCH - SIDE ELEVATION 0

SECTION: PRE-CAST SLAB CONCRETE BENCH MEETS GRADE 0

MPLS DOWNTOWN EAST PEDESTRIAN AUGMENTATION STUDY with Stantec Consulting

U rban Des ign

Minneapolis Public Works realized that with all the development arriving in Downtown East (DTE) due to the new Stadium, that they had an opportunity to leverage private investment to bolster a coordinated and robust public realm. Enter consultant.

Mapping

I mapped existing conditions sans planimetric data by bootstrapping data including an ortho, a Minneapolis streets book, bike and transit facility plans, and whatever proposed developer site plans I could get a hold of. This groundtruthed AutoCAD - Illustrator process resulted in a technical yet quickly legible Existing Conditions Maps.

Pedes trian & Bike Realm

Next, I translated an engineering diagram of which vehicular lanes Public Works decided to eliminate (opposite page) into new street sections. We made decisions about where this gained space was allocated to the pedestrian and bicycle realms by cutting multiple sections per block (for a total of 100+ sections) to frame up important decisions for the city such as, â&#x20AC;&#x153;on-street or off-street bike lanes/ways?â&#x20AC;? and to highlight proposed improvements.

Quick rendering of proposed improvements (above)

A Nature- Bas ed Par k

THE BLAINE WETLAND SANCTUARY MASTER PLAN & IMPLEMENTATION

The City of Blaine had 511-acres of remnant Anoka Sand Plain to develop into a nature-based park. We designed ~8 miles of varied trail experiences, including supportive elements such as wildlife viewing platforms and an interpretive center (opposite page) together with MSR architects.

with Stantec Consulting

The Blaine Wetland Sanctuary

LAKESIDE COMMONS PARK

OPEN SPACE MASTER PLAN

EAST LAKE PARK

Wetland Upland CONCEPT

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FUTURE PARK

SOUTH LAKE PARK

Habitat quality

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Lexington Ave NE

LEGEND Existing Trails Parcels Existing City Park Site 7 Boundary Potential Open Water Habitat Intrepretive Center Public Restrooms Parking Lot/Driveway Hard Surface Trail Soft Surface Trail (with hard surface alternative) Soft Surface Trail Wildlife Viewing Rare Plant Area Crane Nesting Area Hawk Nesting Area

Soils

109th Ave NE 0

500

1,000ft

Sept 2014 / Project #_193802777 #_

Final trail alignment

Mapping

The sensitive nature of the Anoka Sand Plain required that I map many combinations of the 30+ layers of GIS data to ensure the sanctuary’s design respected the its innate ecological features. The resulting design preferences ecological sensitivity in context of constructability, ease and cost of long-term maintenance, and available capital dollars (opposite page).

Entrance Site Des ign

I worked closely with the architects to communicate the driving forces of the sanctuary’s ecology, to ensure its spirit was expressed in both the siting and architecture of the interpretive center. Our design objective was to gesture to visitors, “Yes, come see us - but really, go be outside in this outstanding wetland sanctuary!”

Concept Sketch that led to final site design. Project contract being awarded as of 11/1/2016

Early model exploration with MSR Architects

BLAINE WETLAND SANCTUARY

THE NEXT NICOLLET My graduate thesis project

In my design proposal, I co-opted the (5) skyways that cross the Nicollet corridor to showcase the Next Nicollet’s new ecological “programs” as spectacle. I took inspiration from the potency that we experience on a fashion runway, where spectacle is made from new hemlines and pant cuts, which we phenomenally all adopt. I likened our current, prescriptive landscape aesthetic regime to what havoc the corset ran on women

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Now that we have become an urban species, we are compelled to harness urban ecosystems to improve sustainability and human health and strengthen our relationship to the natural world.

both physically and culturally for centuries. Like women desperately needed to be released from the corset, ecologies need to be released from outdated ideas about how they “should” look. Abandoning the “Nature - out there” mentality is likely key to this aesthetic acceptance and thus, a more ecological existence.

-MARK SIMMONS, PhD

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“N atu re ” v s “ E c o l o g y”

A ecology nerd to my bone, the research process revealed to me that “Nature” is entirely a cultural construct. Looking to our most urban and beloved spaces, why couldn’t a “Near-Nature” corridor exist in our downtown, especially at a cultural spine like Nicollet Mall in need of a revamped identity? To accomplish that, however, we need new ecological typologies.

My Des ign A pproach

My design approach came out my agenda to craft a gestural and verdant experience to shift a person’s experience on the NEXT NICOLLET of ecology and its place in the heart of downtown Minneapolis. Further, I wanted to inspire the use of challenge and imagination in urban design in inserting an ecology, which if sustained culturally, could become a key strategy for negotiating a more ecological existence.

T h e S wa t h : a n Urb an E c o l o g i c al Typology I created a series of new ecological typologies to help us as designers get past the largely aesthetic function of standard street trees and planters in our urban environments. The “Swath,” is an architectural facade that transforms a tamed, cold, granite and concrete corridor into a place that evokes a sense of wildness and psychologically prods the public to reimagine the place of ecology in urban environments, and perhaps their role in this environment as well.

The swath is composed of a steel lathes, arranged like window shutter lathes that aggregate dead plant matter. This system facilitates decomposition and thus soil formation (a function critical to an authentic ecology) and over time would support a thriving microbial community, pollinators, even nesting birds.

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Wha t this could f eel l i ke. . .