Graduate Landscape Architect- 2024 Portfolio

Landscape Architect / Architectural Designer

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Graduate

ANA GARRIDO

• 2021-2023

Master of Landscape Architecture MLA (Distinction) - Bartlett School of Architecture - University College London - London, UK.

• 2015-2020

Bachelor of Architecture BArch (Distinction) - Universidad de Monterrey - Monterrey, MX. (Equivalent to a UK part II)

• 2014-2015

Bachelor of Dance - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - Santa Maria, BR. (Incomplete)

• 2023

-Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize for distinguished work in History & Theory - Bartlett School of Architecture.

-Landscape Design Award for Distinguished Work in Landscape Architecture - Bartlett School of Architecture.

• 2020

-Cum Laude - Universidad de Monterrey -Exceptional Graduation Project - Universidad de Monterrey.

• 2019

1st Place in XX Architecture Biennal of Nuevo Leon (Student Category)Colegio de Arquitectos de Nuevo Leon.

• 2018

Scholarship for Study Trip to Tokyo, Japan - Universidad de Monterrey / Chiba University.

• 2015, 2016, 2017

Academic Distinctions - Universidad de Monterrey.

• 2016

The Best Student Design - Build Projects Worldwide 2016 - Archdaily.

education honors & awards work & voluntary experience languages

• Spanish (native) | English (fluent) Portuguese (fluent)

• Jan 2021- Sept 2021

Architect (Freelance) - (In)material. - Monterrey, MX.

• Aug 2019-Dec 2019

Editor and Collab in book publication - Río Ciudad Monterrey: Space Production, Ecology and Culture. Peter G. Rowe and Roberto Pasini

• Jun 2019-Aug 2019

Architectural Assistant (Summer Internship ) - SSA- Scandurra Studio Architettura - Milan, ITL.

• Jan 2019- Jun 2019

Landscape Construction Supervisor (Part time) - Universidad de Monterrey / DICO - Monterrey, MX.

• Jul 2018- Aug 2018

Voluntary Work with INAH towards the restoration of damaged heritage buildings after 2017 earthquake. - Oaxaca, MX.

• Jan 2018- Jun 2018

Editor and Collab in book publication - Post Urban Sites in Japan and Mexico. Shun Higashi and Roberto Pasini.

• Responsible

• Creative

• Engaged

• Detail-Oriented

• High-Quality Standards

• Eager to learn professional skills

• Photoshop

• Illustrator

• Indesign

• Lightroom

• Autocad

• Rhinoceros +Vray

• Sketchup

• Revit

• Lumion

• 3D’s Max+Vray

• Model making

• 3D Printing

• 3D Scanning

• Laser cutting

• Digital and Analogue Photography

• Visual communication

table of content

RECONNECTIVE LANDSCAPES - MLA

LANDSCAPE CHOREOGRAPHIES -MLA

LIVING LAB CENTRE -MLA

COL. ADOLFO PRIETO -BArch

pages 06-15

pages 16-23

pages 24-31

pages 32-39

reconnective landscapes:

Water ( or the lack of it ) as a force of ( destruction ) cohesion.

Advanced Landscape Design 2

Loma Larga Hill as an artery from which veins emerge to create a green/blue corridor that connects the city and the surrounding natural ecosystems.

Landscape Design Award for Distinguished Work in Landscape Architecture - Bartlett School of Architecture

Year after year, the amount of rain we receive in the city of Monterrey, Mexico, gradually decreases. The dry season becomes longer, and the temperature in summer and winter gets hotter. However, this is not a surprise, considering the speed of growth of the city and the measureless deforestation of natural areas. This project aims to catalyse the restoration of the natural water cycles in Monterrey through strategies for rehabilitating, stabilising, and reconnecting water and ecological systems that can be replicated throughout the city.

The focus is on Loma Larga Hill, a key area divided by two socially and

economically opposite communities with several conditions that make it an ideal site for reconnection. The project’s design aims to improve the hydric and ecological systems through methods for rainwater harvesting and collection.

An essential dimension of the project integrates the participation of neighbouring communities to preserve and maintain the area. Therefore, the project could be considered an oasis within the city where it is possible to educate about water conservation and how this benefits both the natural ecosystem and the communities.

Loma Larga Hill, Monterrey. MX.

Diptych: Overall proposal for the two sides of Loma Larga Ridge. (Left side: Monterrey and Right side: San Pedro)

submontane shrub

Texas Persimmon Diospyros Texana

Honey Mesquite Prosopis Glandulosa

Mexican Olive Cordia Boissieri

Barometer Bush Leucophyllum Frutescens

Huizache Acacia Farnesiana

Yucca Yucca Filifera

Texas Paloverde Parkinsonia texana

Maguey Agave americana

Creosote Bush Larrea Tridentata

Yellow Bells Tecoma Stans

Ocotillo Fouquieria splendens

Prickly Pear Opuntia Engelmannii

Straberry Cactus Echinocereus Stramineus

Black Willow Salix Nigra Marshall

Mexican Sycomore Platanus Occidentalis Mexicana

Quacking Aspen Populus Tremuloides

Native grass Bouteloua Curtipendula

production

riparian

plant strategy

The vegetation for the submontane shrub is to enhance the existing natural ecosystem.

As it is already an existing natural ecosystem, the role of the proposed vegetation will be mainly to improve the ecosystem and soil, supporting the current system except for completely degraded areas where it is suggested to revegetate and agricultural areas where new native species are introduced to the site.

landscape choreographies

Advanced Landscape Design 1

“A landscape will be invariably come across as many things to many people, sustaining innumerable perspectives, experiences, and lines of thought simultaneously and through time.”

Choreographies of the landscapeSally Ann Ness

LANDSCAPE CHOREOGRAPHIES

Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK.

This project explores how my on-site body experience shaped the way I perceived and approached the Southend coast by fluctuating between the edges of choreography and landscape.

Throughout the work, the constant contact with the site is highlighted, as the importance of being in the space only to observe and listen to what is happening around you. Although watching or listening to your surroundings in a contemplating way may seem trivial, it can awaken unexpected feelings as time goes by.

The design proposal takes the findings from my personal sensorial explorations as the Southend Coast undergoes cycles of rhythmic change. As the tide reaches its highs and lows throughout the day, time and body experience become the main design features for the proposal by producing an experimental performance to find ways to relate environmental cycles to human body experiences.

Landscape Choreographies: Southend-On-Sea. (Turn on the audio) (https://youtu.be/HeFfY2rC7VI)

10:30 The rain has calmed down, and the sun came out a bit. The force of the wind is the same, but without the rain is more bearable. I have started to feel hungry.

10:43 The rain has come again.

That day, I captured weather information each hour, took notes of what I saw and felt about it, sat and watched the birds, talked to people and moved my pinhole cameras around.

12:35 It’s time to change the paper of the pinhole. It will probably be the last one I use today.

12:44 A helicopter took off near here, and all the birds got up, which was interesting to see.

12:45 A flock has just returned to the site. The silence lasted only a few minutes, in which a plane and the sound of the wind moving the sails of the kayaks became the dominant sounds.

Diagram made from a collection of photographs taken during an 8-hour timelapse in Southend-on-Sea.

living lab centre:

a guide to soil remediation

Landscape Design 2

The Living Lab aims to test different solutions to the various problems existing in the park, and that could serve as a reference for other places having similar challenges. The lab system allows the creation of future scenarios, asking: What would happen if...?

DESIGN APPROACHSKETCH EXCERCISE

This drawings were made as part of an exercise to sketch as most ideas as possible using a set of rules. For example drawing with my eyes closed or with a combination of specific conditions from the site that allowed me to think of different results for each lab.

SKETCH EXCERCISE

Drawings made with the left hand

Drawings made with the eyes closed

3 minute drawings

10 min drawings based on a set of papers drawn randomly from bags containing proposed and existing site conditions.

THE PADDOCK COMMUNITY PARK

UK.

The Paddock has been a place for different activities over time, originally marshlands it has worked as mills, sports fields, and construction wasteland during the construction of the Victoria Line. In 2000 the space was opened again to the public, gaining the status of a community park, after being abandoned for nearly 40 years. However, as a result of the multiple (mis)uses, it currently has several issues that represent a hazard to the environment and the people.

One of the main problems is the invasion of Japanese Knotweed in several parts of the park, followed by the concern of asbestos contamination found in the ground, which doesn’t represent a hazard if the soil is not touched, nevertheless, makes it impossible to treat the Japanese Knotweed without messing with the soil. These challenges make the site ideal to transform it into an opportunity to test different methods to treat the issues.

With this project, I aim to create a living laboratory to test different and natural methods for soil remediation by converting the site into a natural lab that creates awareness about how using and discarding construction materials modify natural ecosystems.

Borough of Haringey, London,

Litter and Japanese Knotweed

Construction material covered in moss

Reference drawing to show the section below.

LAB 1

LAB 3

LAB 5

FINAL MASTERPLAN

Visitor

col. adolfo prieto

Landscape Design

Collaborative work- Carlos Huerta / Daniel Franco

We dare to imagine a city that although it conserves a little of its industry, has been able to completely eradicate the environmental pollution. A natural but also productive entity that reconnects not only flora and fauna but also social structures.

First Place in the XX Architecture Biennial of Nuevo Leon (Student Category)

ADOLFO PRIETO NEIGHBORHOOD

ADOLFO PRIETO NEIGHBOURHOOD

Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mx.

For the neighborhood-scale proposal, the naturalization of the Talavera River becomes the first point of focus to reconnect the neighborhood with other areas through a green corridor and underused spaces that are near to the tributary area of the river, which some of this lands turns into agricultural production and the first line of defense against floods.

Within the intervention of the neighborhood, it is opted for the biological reconnection through the transformation of green corridors and its prioritization

of the urban system, transforming certain local streets to pedestrian use, strategically located as a branch of the green vertebra system towards the interiors of the residential zones, differentiated by an exercise of topography and sunken terraces.

It is through the landscape palette that path environment and living spaces are marked, at the same time connected by recreational uses, production, and civic manifestation.

Typology 1 - Riparian vegetation

Typology 3 - Submontane Vegetation

Typology 2 - Transition Riparian/Submontane

Typology 4 - Urban Vegetation

Adolfo Prieto Neighborhood is testimony to the first peri-urban growth of the Monterrey metropolis. It is in this sense of great patrimonial value for the collective memory. Therefore it is essential to plan the future of these neighborhoods and thus avoid the extinction of their legacy.

Through the reading that offers to see the city as a landscape, it is possible to establish a sustainable and resilient path that rests on the main force that dominates our world, nature, taking advantage of its flows and morphs instead of constantly fighting against its dynamism.

The evolution towards a city of industrial processes made it more attractive to opt for the disconnection between the human being and the living entities that provide it, replacing this link with automated processes and mass production. It should be suggested that returning to this memory, to the mutualism between city population and living environment, makes sense in current times if the purpose is to have a more conscious lifestyle.

Urban Vegetation

Submontane Vegetation

Riparian Vegetation