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andrewpschlesinger.com | 609 828 2941 | andrewpschlesinger@gmail.com
PASSION Earning degrees in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies, I have identified my design passion as the interstitial space between landscape architecture and agriculture as a means of producing beautiful and bountiful landscapes with higher site functionality. After successfully building an urban agriculture program from the ground up, I seek to join an innovative landscape architecture firm where I can further build my design foundation as I work on a variety of projects and earn my accreditation. Thank you for taking the time to review my portfolio. Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions and I look forward to working with you soon.
EXPERIENCE Elijah’s Promise | New Brunswick, NJ Urban Agriculture & Design Director | June ‘16 - Present • Direct Promise Agriculture as a growing network of urban agriculture sites growing 1,000 pounds of local food annually while engaging over 350 residents in workdays and workshops. Develop and implement master plans for participating sites. Partners include RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers University. • Acquire over $750,00 in grant funding while overseeing management of major grant projects including design and implementation of the Kresge Foundation’s FreshLo Mercado Esperanza Project. • Manage agency’s graphics including production of project renderings and booklets, event fliers, quarterly reports, website content, social media posts, and branding guide. New York Restoration Project (NYRP) | New York, NY Landscape Design and Construction Internship | June ‘15 - September ‘15 • Oversee on-site specifications approval process for installation of garden irrigation system. Prepared plans and construction documents for site improvements at multiple project sites throughout New York City. EDUCATION Rutgers University | New Brunswick, NJ | 2016 • Master of Landscape Architecture • Skills in Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, SketchUp Pro, Rhino 3D, Arc GIS University of Vermont | Burlington, VT | 2012 • B.S. Environmental Studies, Sustainable Design • Permaculture Design Certification
REFERENCES Dr. Laura Lawson Rutgers University Dean of Agriculture & Urban Programs ljlawson@sebs.rutgers.edu (848) 932-8010
Richard Alomar Rutgers University Landscape Architecture, Assistant Professor richard.alomar@rutgers.edu (848) 932-5266
PROJECTS 1. Promise Agriculture
A network of sites growing food and community. Page 4
2. Summer Elevated
A flood-tolerant landscape for the Jersey Shore. Page 10
3. Bridging Kinkora Yards Redefining the urban fabric of a historic factory town. Page 16
4. Paw Paw Bosque
A native fruit with a tropical palette. Page 22
5. Provision Plantings
Revealing a story of cultural survival through food. Page 24
6. Addendum
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PROMISE AGRICULTURE New Brunswick, NJ
Promise High Tunnel
Promise Agriculture has developed into a successful program with three sites that collectively produce over 1,000 pounds of produce annually for food insecure residents, engage over 350 residents through workdays and workshops, and provide garden space and urban agriculture education to residents in two municipalities. Sites include Good Earth Garden in Highland Park, Promise Garden in the heart of downtown New Brunswick, and Promise High Tunnel at Rutgers University.
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Promise Garden continues to develop as a premier urban agriculture hub in the heart of downtown New Brunswick. In Spring 2018, the Promise Agriculture team is installing a Therapeutic Herb Garden (below) with lavender, rosemary, and other seasonal herbs and pollinator-friendly flowers as a passive recreation space for residents and gardeners to enjoy. Promise Garden demonstrate a variety of small-scale, intensive food production methods as the site develops toward its Master Plan (next spread). We are proud to partner with Rutgers University, RWJBarnabas Health, and community partners as we expand our agricultural site network as a new model for food security and preventatiive care in New Jersey.
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SUMMER ELEVATED Brigantine, NJ
Summer Elevated is a flood-tolerant residential site design for a reconstructed post-Sandy, summer house in Brigantine, NJ. Blending the vernacular of Charleston’s architecture with Brigantine’s dune landscape, this design creates a planting plan fusing ornamental trees and shrubs with native dune grasses and salt-tolerant species. The proposed site plan sits on a property that experienced over 4 feet of flood water surge on October 23, 2012. Native dune grasses are interspersed through the site, creating a salt-tolerant and low maintenance landscape representing protection against storms and providing landscape resilience against the precarity of future storm surges.
Flood Level Map: 10/23/12
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Cross sections examine the contour changes moving from grassy dune periphery zones to the manicured and mowed entrance with postage stamp green. These studies also explore how the proposed landscape plan minimizes the potential disconnect between living space and landscape, resulting from the elevation of living spaces above the first floor garage to the second and third floors. Fast growing evergreen shrubs and small trees flank the house’s exterior while the dune’s elevation rise works to soften the ground plane and draws one’s eyes toward the front entrance’s low, formal, planting. The result is a combination of an “orderly and messy landscape” and a shore house built from the ground up to survive and bloom for summers to come.
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BRIDGING KINKORA YARDS Roebling, NJ
This project focuses on designing the next great chapter for Roebling’s historic neighborhood, Kinkora Yards. Located across the tracks from Roebling’s downtown, this proposal addresses the current issues separating Kinkora Yards from Roebling’s core and the need for building additional housing. It posits a massive dwelling unit named “Kinkora Yards” that crosses the town’s tracks along with commercial and community flex spaces.
Inspired by Teddy Cruz’s approach to density, this building brings crucial housing and services to Roebling’s growing population. The housing proposal works to mollify socio-economic differences across the two sides of town, reflects the industrial scale of the factories that once made Roebling the suspension bridge capital of the world, and develops critical infrastructure for the town’s next successful chapter.
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“REDEFINING DENSITY AS AN AMOUNT OF SOCIAL EXCHANGES PER ACRE, AS A SYSTEM OF CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC INTERACTIONS”-TEDDY CRUZ Redefining Density as Social Exchanges
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PAW PAW BOSQUE Highland Park, NJ
Existing Conditions of Space for Paw Paw Bosque
The Paw Paw Bosque Project worked with home owners in Highland Park, NJ to identify a native tree that would produce fruit which could not be bought at the supermarket. The project involved the design and installation of bosque along with future phasing of additional edible landscaping spaces for this client and their food producing backyard.
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EatScapes is a certified 501 c(3) nonprofit which works to design, install, and maintain edible landscape projects for residential and community partners. EatScapes combines principles from Permaculture and Landscape Architecture to design projects such as this featured installation that conjoins function and beauty for residential sites.
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The Whim Estate is a historic landmark reflecting the brutal legacy of sugar plantations in St. Croix, USVI. This project reveals a story of cultural survival which West African enslaved peoples expressed through the foods that they planted and ate for survival at the Whim Estate. Research explored historic Provision Grounds, 400 square foot plots responsible for growing nutritiously dense foods to sustain the West African population on the plantation.
Provision Ground’s Provision Ground Planting Palette Planting Pallet Whim Estate Design Proposal Rutgers Landscape Architecture
Working with Whim Estate’s Executive Director, this project focused on designing a master plan for inclusion of provision plots and updated garden spaces to reflect the complex history of Whim. Proposed design shows how plants like the Yam enabled Africans to endure slavery, and to retain the roots of rich African food traditions in USVI. Provision plots were also used to grow excess produce for sale at the island’s Sunday market, a revenue generating opportunity which led to a number of enslaved Africans purchasing their freedom from Whim’s master and moving to the island’s Freegot or “Free Black” neighborhood.
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Maize - Corn, large
Dioscorea sp Large grain, annual; nat mesoamerica. rich in ca fiber, vitamins
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Black Eyed Peas
Vigna unguiculata Annual legume native to west Africa; contains proteins, carbs, fiber, vitamin K, B, A.
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Abelmoschus esculentu Mallow family; native to ca, goo is soluble fiber, v antioxidants, folate
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Dioscorea sp Perennial herbacious vines native to Africa, rich starch, yeard-round supply, protein
Zea mays var. indentata Large grain, starch native to Africa, annual; mesoamerica. rich calories, fiber, vitamins
Nicotiana tabacum Used as a stimulant, native to Americas, historically smoked in peace pipes, ceremonially
Ipomoea batatas Perennial herbacious vines native to Americas, complex carb, fiber, beta-carotenoid
Telfairia occidentalis Tropical vine native to Nigeria, perennial, fruit is inedible, seeds are high in protein.
Solanum tuberosum Perennial tuber native to the Andes. A carbs/starch with balanced vitamins/minerals.
Echinocystis lobata A sweet, annual vine native to Americas?, contains amino acids, water, vitamins
M. esculenta Perennial woody shrub, tuber; native to South America, rich carb, grows well in wet sites
Amaranthus cruentus sp Amaranth family, native to Africa, rapid growth, 8’ tall annual, used as potherb
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ADDENDUM
ST. CROIX DESIGN JOURNAL A Foray of Quick Sketches My design journal is an important tool for sketching and developing conceptual ideas. These sketches emerged during a studio project working for the National Park Service in St. Croix, USVI. Visiting Christiansted’s historic Crucian neighborhoods, these 3-minute sketches demonstrate my ability to quickly capture the character and color palette of a project site in the former Danish West Indies. Returning to the studio, these interpretive sketches aided in recounting Christiansted’s iconic streets, architecture, neighborhood colors, and island ethos. This process speaks to my approach to design one which begins with a rigorous series of sketching as the fodder for computer aided design.
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CD SET EXTRACTS Greenlab Courtyard Project
Planting Schedule Key Trees AR NS
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LANDSCAPE DESIGN PORTFOLIO andrewpschlesinger.com | 609 828 2941 | andrewpschlesinger@gmail.com