Landscape Architecture Portfolio by Andres David Quinche

Andr Ã©s dAVID QUINCHE Landscape Architecture Portfolio Harvard Graduate School of Design

CURRICULUM VITAE Andrés D. Quinche

EDUCATION

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

08/2015 Present

Harvard University | Graduate School of Design

09/2017 12/2017

2017 Platform GSD | Harvard GSD

08/2008 06/2012

Ohio State University | Collage of Arts and Sciences

06/2016 08/2016

2016 Doebele Community Service Fellowship

MLA I - Master of Landscape Architecture I MUP - Master of Urban Planning

Bachelor of Arts, B.A. International Relations & Foreign Policy (graduated with honors)

Nomination of submittal of project works for Harvard GSD’s annual publication and exhibition. Submitals include work projects for Dredgescape: Phytoremidiation in South Boston.

Recipient of the Harvard’s Community Service Fellowship, awarded to graduate students seeking to bring design and planning skills to a non-profit or government organization during a summer internship.

EXPERIENCE 01/2018 01/2018

108 Pleasant St, Apt 1 Cambridge, MA 02139 aquinche@gsd.harvard.edu 571-383-9770

06/2017 08/2017

06/2016 08/2016

12/2014 12/2015

05/2013 12/2014

09/2012 05/2013

Design Intern - Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architecture | Chicago, IL

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 08/2016 present

Deans Diversity Committee | Harvard GSD

08/2017 present

Co-President of Queers in Design | Harvard GSD

08/2016 05/2017

Communications Director of Harvard Urban Planning Organization | Harvard GSD

Responsible for setting a number of initiatives and implementation strategies to promote diversity within the schools body, curriculum, faculty and community.

Design Intern - Surface Design, Inc. | San Francisco, CA

Worked and supported staff on multiple stages of design; from initial design development, to model prototyping, construction documentation, planting, and multiple site visits. Responsible for supporting in the design of multifamily mixed-used projects, large urban parks, and residential spaces.

Responsible for setting a number of initiatives and implementation strategies to promote diversity within the schools body, curriculum, and representation.

Summer Fellow - Office of Planning | Washington, D.C.

Worked directly with the office’s urban design team and spent the majority of the summer focusing on two large initiatives. The first initiative involved research for an update of the city’s building code regulations, and the second initiative comprised research for developing strategies to maintain and manage over 350 small parks.

Associate - 100 Resilient Cities Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation | New York, NY

Responsible for supporting city relationship management team by facilitating core activities such as city onboarding, agenda setting workshops, and city resilience strategies in 100RC’s 12 Latin American cities. Additionally assisted the City Relationship Team with oversight, management, and monitoring of city progress; as well as with evaluation and assessment of city strategy deliverables.

Responsible for setting a number of initiatives and implementation strategies to promote diversity within the schools faculty body, curriculum, and representation.

LANGUAGUES English (native proficiency) Spanish (native proficiency) French (professional working proficiency)

Associate Project Manager - CGLA Infrastructure, Inc. | Washington, D.C.

Promoted to lead the Latin America and Caribbean practice of the organization. Executed a number of initiatives and leadership forums. Under the supervision of the Managing Director, directed two other associates to continue with the company’s business development, project research, and key consulting initiatives. Led the programming and operations of the Leadership Forum series, managing $150k to $300k.

Remittances, Development, Financial Inclusion - The Inter-American Dialogue | Washington, D.C.

Conducted quantitative and qualitative research on a number of projects, white papers, and policy pieces related to international remittance networks and migration patterns from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.

SOFTWARE Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) Sketch Up AutoCAD Rhino ArcGIS Windows Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) Grasshopper

URBAN PARK | COLLAGE FOREST Harvard GSD Core II • 2017 Instructor: Danielle Choi

LANDSCAPE URBANISM | DREDGESCAPES Harvard GSD Core III • 2017 Instructor: Pablo Perez-Ramos

LINEAR PARK | A NEW WATERFRONT FOR HARVARD UNIVERSITY Harvard GSD Core I • 2016 Instructor: Danielle Choi

URBAN PLAZA | RE-KNITTING CITY HALL PLAZA Harvard GSD Core I • 2016 Instructor: Francesca Benedetto

PROFESSIONAL WORK | SURFACE DESIGN Surface Design, San Francisco • 2017

SKETCHBOOK

collage forest Harvard GSD Core II â&#x20AC;˘ 2017 Instructor: Danielle Choi

Re-envisionion Frankling Park, in Boston through urban forestry takes a radical approach to the conception of the large urban park. This new typology seeks to engage the community with its surrounding through the vegetal. The project enhances entrances, creates a multi-sensorial experience, and promotes economic and social development through the agricultural forest and numerous orchards, and groves.

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Zelkova Grove Amelanchier Plaza

Pinus strobus Pinus rigida Tilia cordata Acer saccharum Amelanchier sp. Malus sp. Malus sp. Zelkova serrata Pseudotsuga menziesii

Coniferous Forest Sugar Maple Farms Apple Orchards

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Larix decidua Picea rubens Tsuga Canadensis

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Orchard Plaza - Plan

Forest Walk -Plan

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Orchard Plaza - Section

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Forest Walk - Section

Scale 1”=8-0’

dredgescapes: PHYTOREMEDIATION FOR NEW URBAN CONDITIONS Harvard GSD Core III â&#x20AC;˘ 2017 Instructor: Pablo Perez-Ramos Team: Carson Booth & Isabela Brostella

The city of Boston, finds itself at the crossroads of both tremendous opportunity and continued threats. A hot real estate market, paired with rapid economic growth has sparked a development boom over the past few years. These recent development opportunities, inevitably lead to questions of resilience and equity. Given that climate contingencies continue to become ever present e.g. Hurricane Harvey in Houston and Hurricane Irma in Florida, and given that income gaps continue to widen since Reagan, e.g. and with continued conversation around tax cuts. As designers, it is imperative that we ask ourselves, what spaces we want to leave behind, and for whom? The current decisions made today, will have long and lasting effects on the future of the city and its inhabitants. The site of our inquiry, is the physical manifestations of these changing thresholds. Sitting between industry, infrastructure, and old and new urban fabrics - it is the perfect ground for a new urban manifesto. One which seeks to completely reimagine the way cities are constructed, one in which landscape architecture takes the leading role, and one that takes advantages of the material manifestations of rapid global trade and port expansions nationwide. Our project aims at; first cleaning a highly polluted site through a robust phytoremediation strategy; second utilizing dredge materials from the Boston harbor expansion and from a number of other port expansions along the east coast to construct new topographies, which react to climate contingencies, and third; create the physical framework for the future construction of new urban fabrics, that particularly address growing housing needs. This infrastructural and engineered landscape, although measured, analyzed, and constructed with detail, will ultimately have intangible emotional connotations (phenomenological) and will trace the physical manifestations of globalization, urbanity, and ecology.

Contextual Analysis: Dredge Operations and Infrastructural Significance

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SEA LEVEL RISE (5 FT.) SEA LEVEL RISE (7 FT.) 2050 SLR + STORM SURGE

2050 PROJECTED LOSS: $52 BILLION

2100 SLR + STORM SURGE

HURRICANE HARVEY LOSS: $40 - $50 BILLION

CATEGORY 2 HURRICANE

CATEGORY 1 HURRICANE

CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE

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Overall Site Plan - Year 32

Platform Construction Through Time

Focused Plan

SECTION I

YEAR 0 TOP SOIL PLANTING

SECTION II

SECTION I

YEAR 2 DREDGING

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YEAR 4 SECTION II TRAILS

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THINNING BUILDING CONSTRUCTION URBAN TREES PLANTNG

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YEAR 16 RECREATIONAL SPACES COMMERCIAL SPACES

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YEAR 32

N Scale 1”=120’

SECTION II

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Sections Through Time: Phytoremediation, Platform Construction, and Urbanity Year 8

Year 16

Year 32

Scale 1”=40’

a new waterfront for harvard university Harvard GSD Core I • 2016 Instructor: Danielle Choi

This project sought to reconceptualize the littoral edge of the Harvard campus along the Charles River. Re-imagining an underutilized space as a new center for the University. The river’s edge is therefore a liminal zone between water and solid ground, “town and gown,” major roadway and public park. It is simultaneously a destination and connection, a site for vast and slow velocities, a terrace towards the new city expansion in development. The Charles River Dam was constructed in the early 1900s to prevent growing pollution along the Charles River and to provide open space to a rapidly expanding city. Since then a number of successive expansions in the 20s, 30s, and 70s have lead to the more than 20 miles of public space along its shoreline for all of Bostonians to enjoy. Harvard University was also finalizing its plans for a $1 billion dollar expansion into Allston, with the creation of a new science and engineering complex, bringing more faculty and students to that site. Therefore, the project sought to contextualize itself within this dynamic environment and had as its main goals to: 1) better integrate Harvard Square and the North Campus with the Allston expansion; 2) bring new uses to land that is not meetings its full potential; and 3) maintain the linearity of the Charles River Reservation as continuous esplanade for all the public to use.

Overall Plan

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Detail Plan/Section B

Detail Plan/Section C

Planting Palette

Platanus x acerifolia + 10

VE MEMORIAL DRI

Cornus florida

Tilia Cordata

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Sweet Fern

Helenium autumnale

EDGE + SECTION DETAIL B

Comptonia peregrina

Rosa palustris Swamp Rose

Blue Vervain

Verbana hastata

Helenium autumnale

Common Sneezeweed

Swamp Rose

Rosa palustris

Rosa palustis

EDGE + SECTION DETAIL C

Rosa palustris

REKNITTING BOSTON’S URBAN FABRIC Harvard GSD Core I • 2016 Instructor: Francesca Benedetto

This project primarily focused on working in the third dimension, the vertical or z axis; to redistribute the topography that currently exists in Boston’s City Hall Plaza, in order to reconnect and, in the process, re-conceptualize Boston’s most important civic space.

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Professional Work Work completed for Surface Design â&#x20AC;˘ Summer 2017 San Francisco, California

Worked completed for summer internship with Surface Design and Winter Externship with Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects. All design work presented has been completed by Surface Design and Hoerr Schaudt team members, while renderings, and drawings were completed by me. (Rights) Project: 100 + 150 N Wacker St - Chicago, Illinois Developed planting plan and renderings for corridor between two office buildings in downtown Chicago.

Project: SJ Santa Clara Tower San Jose, California

Project: 100 + 150 Wacker St Chicago, Illinois

Project: University of New Mexico - Smith Plaza Albuquerque, New Mexico

Sketchbook 2015 - 2018 Collection of sketches and collages

As a designer I am particularly interested in the way that collage uses the pictorial and textual representations of recognizable objects. When two or more objects are placed next to each other, their representations may lose their autonomous meaning by creating a new collective. These new collectives may at times challenge the status quo, use humor or irony to prove a point, or they may undermine concepts of authenticity and originality. Therefore, collage works as an ironic and playful treatment of a fragmented subject, the breakdown of high and low culture hierarchies, and the undermining of concepts of authenticity and originality.