Anita Manitius Landscape Architecture Portfolio by Anita Manitius

ANITA MANITIUS

CONTENTS RESUME

SELECTED PROJECTS

Thesis : How to Build a Mountain

Gravel Pit Reclamation: Quarry Camping

Disrupted Horizons : OP Civ Studio

Radial Trails : Bike Park in Former Quarry

Edible Food Forest : Torontoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New High Park

Habitat Design: Bee's Nest

Wind Farm Study in B.C. (Undergraduate)

MODELS + EXHIBITIONS

TRAVEL + PHOTOGRAPHY

PROFILE

I am an emerging designer from Toronto, Ontario, finding myself in landscape architecture through dreams of connecting people to nature. My education has strengthened this passion and taught me how to work on a team, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and time management. Outdoor adventure pursuits have taught me efficiency, responsibility, attention to detail, confidence and risk taking. I now seek a position at which I can apply these skills to excel as a designer.

ANITA MANITIUS 1 Brule Gardens, Toronto | (802)989-4376 anitamanitius@gmail.com | anitamanitius.myportfolio.com

SKILLS

Plant knowledge Critical thinking and problem solving Photography and photo rendering Project management and organization Attention to detail Ability to work in high pressure situations Customer service experience Works well on a team Languages [Polish, French, Spanish] Digital architectural drafting Graphic layout and drawing Model making

SOFTWARE

Adobe Creative Suite [InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator] ArcGIS Suite [ArcMap, ArcCatalogue,ArcScene], QGIS AutoCad [Mac and Windows] Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, LANDS Vectorworks iMovie Mac OS X and Windows Operating Systems Microsoft Office Suite Digital Fabrication: CNC Milling, 3D Printing Google SketchUp

ASSOCIATIONS

American Association of Landscape Architects Membership Ontario Association of Landscape Architects Membership International Society of Arboriculture Membership

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Avid outdoor explorer: hiking, biking, skiing, kayaking. Food, health and wellbeing Travel: Poland, Iceland, Portugal, Utah, Vermont, B.C.

EDUCATION

Master of Landscape Architecture 2013-2016 GPA : A Daniels Faculty of Landscape, Architecture and Design. University of Toronto. Sustainability Management 2012- 2013 Courses at Ryerson University, Toronto. Bachelor of Science in Forestry in Natural Resources Conservation 2007- 2012 Faculty of Forestry. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Exchange Program. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia 2009 Neuchatel Junior College High School. Neuchatel, Switzerland 2006- 2007

EXPERIENCE

Freelance Landscape Design and Graphic Design 2015- present Toronto, Ontario, Cornwall, Vermont and Park City, Utah. Residental and commercial landscape design, and graphic design. Product Photographer and Designer, Website Assistance 2013- present 4bi9 Media. International position based out of Park City, Utah. Social Media Coordinator, Travel Researcher and Advisor. 2008- present Polimex Incorporated. Toronto, Ontario

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Project work included in “The Annual” 2016. Student Publication. John H. Daniels Faculty of Landscape, Architecture and Design. Toronto, Canada, 2016. “1:1” Built Exhibition for OpCiv Studio. John H. Daniels Faculty of Landscape, Architecture and Design. Toronto, Canada, 2015. “Beehold: Bee Habitat” Beneficial Biodiversity Symposium, Toronto Botanical Garden, Toronto, Canada, 2015. Invited. Ontario Stone Sand and Gravel Association, Extraction Site Rehabilitation Competition Entry. Toronto, Spring 2015 5

HOW TO GROW A MOUNTAIN: RETHINKING RECREATION Click in. Chose your line. Push off. Feel the wind against your skin. Hear the snow crunch beneath you. Breathe. Listen to the trees as you choose your adventure. Repeat. For some, skiing calls forth feelings of freedom and adventure. The exhilaration of floating atop soft, fresh powder is unmatchable. As a sport, skiing has the power to define people, create communities and shape landscapes. But the mountains where we ski are also the mountains from which we extract resources; and although the causes are different, the outcomes of these human interventions are often similar, leaving their marks upon landscapes. As we are left with a growing land mass of abandoned sites of extraction, this thesis proposes a low-impact model for ski area development and design. Taking Bradian, British Columbia as its test site, this thesis explores the possibilities of recreational landscapes that change over time, leveraging both techniques of extraction and remediation, including but not limited to responsible forestry practices, remediation strategies, and renewable energy. A strong emphasis is placed on the interplay between the roles of remediation and recreation in an extraction area with high potential for recreation. In an otherwise forgotten town, there are new adventures waiting to be had. My thesis stands as a direct challenge to the current trend in ski resort development - one that emphasizes size and luxury over sustainability and resource management. Project media: ArcGIS Suite, AutoCad, Rhinocerous, Sketchup, Google Earth, Adobe Creative Suite. Top: Map showing site at provincial scale; British Columbia. Middle: Regional scale: Lillooet- Squamish region 50 km site radius. Bottom: Concept diagram showing logging and recreation working together. Opposite page: New logging patterns creating unique ski/ bike experience .

802m Cadwallader Creek

Existing Cabin

ANALYSIS

SlopeAnalysis Analysis Slope

8-25% 8-25%

25-45% 25-45%

45-80% 45-80%

0-8% slope 0-8% slope

Aspect Analysis Aspect Analysis

Solar Radiation

Aspect Analysis

Most desirable for ski terrain Most desirable for ski terrain

North facing North facing

North Facing

North East Facing North East Facing

North East Facing

Less desirable but acceptable for terrain park Less desirable but acceptable for terrain park

South Facing South Facing

South Facing

West Facing West Facing

West Facing

East Facing East Facing

East Facing

North West Facing North West Facing

North West Facing

9am

12pm

3pm

Slope Analysis

South West Facing South West Facing

South West Facing

South East Facing South East Facing

South East Facing

8-25%

25-45%

45-80%

0-8% slope

0-8%

Aspect Analysis Most desirable for ski terrain

Top: Sectional diagram showing elevation and topography on site. Colour changes as elevation increases. North facing North East Facing East Facing Middle / bottom Left : Aspect analysis. Illustrating best potential for ski area to be. Less desirable buton acceptable for terrain park Middle right : Potential solar radiation on site: Impacting plant growth, potential energy harvest as well as snow retention the mountain. Bottom Right: Slope analysis: showing where the best ski-able slopes would be. Opposite Page: Mapping contaminants: Columns represent contaminant intensities and heavy metals found on site and correspond to period table below

North West Facing

INVENTORY

CONTAMINATION PROPOSAL

CONTAMINANT CAPPING SOIL PROFILE ELEMENTS

PHASE 1: Existing condition prepare for extraction. Determine new surface feature locations Selective logging occurs to allow for recreational use.

PHASE 2: Existing extraction: Logging. Dominant species stands: Douglas fir and trembling aspen

Diagrammatic section - axonometrics illustrating contaminant capping and site phasing strategies.

PHASE 3: Capping. New subsurface and new surface. Materials brought on site to cap contaminants contained below ground.

PHASE 4+ : Contaminants contained. New subsurface, new recreational features. New trees planted for rapid extraction.

TERRAIN PARK CONTAMINATION PROPOSAL

Locating contaminants: Proposed new landform typologies and their locations based on contaminant sample locations. At top: landform capping strategies. Middle: The Terrain park T-bar. Bottom : location of landforms corresponding to contaminant locations.

MODELS

This page and next: Thesis models. 3d printed terrain park landforms. Opposite page: 3d printed landforms floating on contaminants (orange represents contamination levels at that location) on laser cut topography. Mounted onto wall.

REQUIRES:

HIKER

MOUNTAIN BIKER

CROSS COUNTRY BIKER

EXTREME SNOW ANGEL-ER

SNOW SHOE-ER

CROSS COUNTRY SKIER

FREESTYLE -PARK RIDER

ALL MOUNTAIN SKIER

BACKCOUNTRY SKIER

TERRAIN

USER

SITE INVENTORY

No groomed trails

Mostly groomed trails

Skiing on natural landforms [not graded]

Maintained trails; groomed, graded.

Self accessed (hiking) or snowmobile, snowcat or helicopter

Lift accessed terrain

Highly maintained trails; groomed, graded, constructed features. Generally lift accessed terrain unless in backcountry (see backcoutnry)

Less intense topography. 1/3 uphill, 1/3 downhill, 1/3 flat

Any walkable topography (<80% slope)

Sometimes groomed trails (skating) sometimes non groomed (classic)

No maintenance.

No lift access. All human power.

No trails necessary No maintenance. No lift access. No machinery required. All human power.

Top: Tree Inventory and analysis. Examining the growth and harvest characteristics of dominant trees found on site. Bottom: Potential site users. Identifying potential visitors and participants of the site and their requirements.

Maintained trails similar to cross country ski.

Maintained trails similar to freestyle-park skier.

Roughly Maintained trails (generally).

Graded, some small features

Graded, constructed, several features.

Often lift access but not necessary.

No lift necessary

No lift access. Human power.

PROPOSED PLANS

Legend Cross Country Area

Big Mountain Recreation Area and Active Logging

Cross Country Trail Networks. Trails use old logging and mining roads to allow users to explore the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past in all seasons.

Terrain Park

Bradian Townsite Roads

Permanent Mountain Cabins Rope tows

Easiest Ski trails More Difficult Most Difficult

Mine shaft locations Contaminant Locations

Master Plan: All areas

All plans. Left: Master plan: Green areas depict different ski and logging strategies.

Town Plan: Bradian re-born. Renovating existing + new low impact infrastructure

BIG MOUNTAIN SECTION

Section: Ski trails dictated by logging patterns.

PERSPECTIVES

Summer perspective : Cross country bike trails brings visitors through abandoned sites and exhibits of natural regeneration.

Winter perspective : Snowboarder on Rope tow passing recently logged strip.

17 Winter perspective : Ski area between terrain park and Bradian base town

KEY SECTION

Section showing a cross country trail dimensions and points of interested encountered along the trail.

PHASING

Phase 1. The First Five

Phase 2. Ten Years

Phase 3. Fifteen Years

Phase 4. Twenty Years

Shelterwood + Selective

Patch + Selective

Total harvest: ~10,156 sqm

Total harvest area: ~ 20267sqm

Total harvest area: ~ 197128 sqm

Total harvest area: ~ 165421 sqm

Phasing of proposed forestry practices. Meant to create a gradient over time as sections are cut down and re-grown. Cut paths determined in order to not interfere with logging practices, and not along fall lines in order to minimize avalanche potentials. As visitors pass through different sections of the gradient, the19 experience different stages of harvest and growth - creating a unique recreational and educational experience.

QUARRY CAMP: REMEDIATION THROUGH CAMPING The aim of the project is to rehabilitate a gravel pit site to a seemingly natural and more exciting land use. The proposal seeks to answer questions relating to how we can regenerate a site over time using visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; waste to create a new, usable landscape.

HUMAN WASTE

FOOD RECYCLABLE CONTAINERS

FIREWOOD

PAPER + CARDBOARD

MATURE TREES

RENEWABLE MATERIALS: CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS

TAKEN OFFSITE

COMPOST

NON RENEWABLE/ NON REUSABLE

ASH + CHARCOAL

SAPLINGS

Other recycling

SOIL

This proposal is simple, financially viable, and provides income as well as new program and recreation opportunities. It could also be implemented immediately on site in the existing state. Camping and community events, such as a weekend winter fair, or community bonfire draw visitors to the site. Along with these events, compostable and recyclable waste is produced, which generates inputs for the soil and income for the property owners

NEXT SITE

Camping and associated activities offer a simple and effective means to remediate the site. Food and recyclable materials are brought to the site and collected over time, and compost and campfire residue [ash + charcoal] are combined into a soil amendment, which is spread across the rehabilitation areas.

Project media: ArcGIS, Rhinoceros, AutoCad Adobe Creative Suite. Top left: concept diagram: recreation can work with extraction and post extraction. Top right: Map showing site area (red), and other camping areas in Southern Ontario . 20 Bottom right: remediation through camping diagram - showing how waste can be used to remediate the site. Opposite page: Backpacking through rehabilitated quarry.

CONCEPT -PHASING DIAGRAMS

Diagrams: The machinery on site for excavation is used also to create unique campsites throughout the rehabilitation process to create the new land use of a camp-ground.

VISUALIZATIONS

Top: Quarry camping. Inside the pit perspective. Bottom: Quarry camping: Winter festival

DISRUPTED HORIZONS The focus of this architectural studio was on the effect of optical phenomena in civic spaces. Civic spaces are typically spaces in which citizens gather to engage in political and non political action. The studio incorporated research of optical phenomena and civic space typologies. I chose to explore the phenomena of perspective, mirror, and distortion in a public park in Toronto, to create a unique experience as one passes through or by the park.

The main goal of the project was to disturb and create the illusion of a false horizon throughout several key places in the park. In one corner, if a visitor stands in the right place, the vegetation lines up and creates a unique diamond pattern. In another corner, visitors look through a bright pink frame that defines the horizon; if seen from the opposite corner, the same frames work as mirrors and reflect the park back at the user; thus disturbing the horizon and view of the entire park. Finally, mirrors were proposed throughout one section of the park that would create the illusion of dismembered and floating trees. These phenomena working together spark several civic responses that were also explored in the project.

Project media: ArcGIS, Rhinoceros, AutoCad, Adobe Creative Suite. OP-CIV diagrams (top to bottom): Exploring optics, civics and how they might affect space in Christie Pits Park, Toronto. 1. Exploring civic assembly 2. Perspective Anamorphosis. Projected diamond pattern within park ground over comes together at one view points.

3. Horizontal Perception. Frames delineate horizon line from one direction, and reflect the park in mirrors from other directions. 4. Mirrors + Trees = dismembered trees

Distorted horizon through mirrors, colours, and patterns

PROCESS DIAGRAMS

Process diagrams (clockwise, from top left): Color block explorations, diamond projection, defining horizon, mirroring

VISUALIZATION

Perspective Play on mirrors

RADIAL TRAILS The premise of this studio was to question the relationship between form and function in landscape architecture. When designing natural systems, form is never without implication to function. The assignment took upon this challenge through formal exploration and pattern making. Although the project is siteless, it is designed to be a rehabilitation strategy for a gravel pit site. The driving force behind this project was inspired by the study of dendrology and the evocative form of tree rings. Trees are mesmerizing on so many levels, and are very inspirational in their outer forms. However, their inside layers are often overlooked. A red oak tree ring was chosen as my focus and abstracted. The radial pattern becomes a series of rules and each ring represents a layer in the landscape. The heartwood and sapwood (inner and outer rings) define the highest and lowest topographical areas. The spring growth becomes white and disappears into the landscape as trails and open spaces. The rings are highlighted and appear as radial outbursts from the center of the pattern. These rings represent berms increasing in height as the pattern moves outwards from center. The site is designed to be bike park and cross country ski area. Project media: Rhinoceros, Adobe Creative Suite.

Opposite page: Seasonal use of the site perspective

PROCESS

Abstract Plan and sectional topography model

PROCESS

Within the form of the tree ring layers of heartwood and sapwood overlaid with berms of the autumn and spring growth provide high and low typologies. The lows represent low elevation areas, less connectivity in the vegetation, a central dry pond which may flood seasonally and water tolerant vegetation. The highs represent the highest height opportunities of the berms and topographies as well as drought tolerant and higher growing species to enhance an illusion of height. The mid layers have the highest diversity among species both aesthetically and ecologically. The radial rules and abstractions are also brought into the social aspect of the space. As the pattern expands radially, the level of trail difficulty increases. The higher areas (the outermost rings) represent technically challenging trails for both cross country biking and skiing. As the berm height increases, so does the difficulty of trail. The trails on the outermost rings go through such high berms that the visitor may feel like they are riding through a canyon.

ROLL - IN

ROLLER / PUMP BUMP

Top: Model of site plan

SET UP JUMP

Bottom: Diagrammatic section : bike park jumps

MAIN JUMP

HIGH PARK : YOURS TO EAT This project proposes an edible park; one that offers various scales and types of agriculture. The majority of the site is a public food forest, much like a natural woodland but with edible vegetation. There are several designated areas for private agriculture, both commercial and individual, as well as a community raised bed garden by the waterfront. The design of this edible landscape incorporates a facilitated pedestrian pass from High Park, over the highway traffic to Sunnyside Park. Toronto needs a public edible park!

The urban agriculture movement has been globally revitalized in response to health, environmental impacts, and food security. The result of urban agriculture and local food production has touched the hands and taste buds of many in a very positive way. We are currently contributing to the demise of our ecological and economic systems, which can be partially solved through urban agriculture. In efforts to make Toronto a more sustainable city, we must lessen our dependency on imported and chemically laden food. Urban agriculture and local food production will help feed Torontonians, and at the same time fill the disconnect many feel when they shop for fresh produce.

Project media: AutoCad, Adobe Creative Suite.

Right: Plan and plant list. Bottom: Section showing community gardens

BEEHOLD Megachile Texana is a unique ground nesting leaf cutter bee species native to North America. Like many other ground nesting bees, their visible habitat is considered to be anything but beautiful by human aesthetics. The challenge in this project was designing a habitat suitable for the bee species, which humans could interact with and enjoy aesthetically. I designed a structure that serves as both a seat and as a habitat cover for ground nesting bees. The design provides ample bare soil or aggregate for bees to nest in as well as an aesthetically pleasing cover that can be used by humans to sit on. The seats are filled with various aggregate types and bare soil to allow for habitat construction below. There is a small opening at the side of the seat which allows the bees to fly in and out of the protected habitat. The hole faces the opposite direction of where the personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feet are to protect both the human and the bees.

Project media: Rhinoceros, Adobe Creative Suite, 3D Printing

Top: Megachile Texana. Right: Model of seat design. 3d printed Opposite page: Aerial perspective

DESIGN INTENT

To create a safe, identifiable habitat for ground nesting bees that people could seamlessly interact with.

MATERIALS + MANUFACTURING Manufacturing this habitat bench feature is simple and large scale production is feasible. A mold must first be created in the appropriate shape. A cast could be constructed from elastomer or wood. Second, the seat is cast in concrete Third, the item is transported to the site and filled with an appropriate aggregate-fill type.

Seat in acrylic model perspective in urban park to create urban bee habitat

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Top left and right: Detail and dimension drawings. Bottom: Seat in cement model perspective in urban park to create urban bee habitat

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MODELS AND EXHIBITIONS Selected models and exhibition pieces.

I have used models to explore and test possibilities, finds new ideas, and learn about scale, materials when designing landscapes. This collection of images showcases some of the models used in my design work. The scales, materials and topics vary greatly. Most of the models are hand made in combination with digital fabrication technologies such as laser cutting, 3d printing and CNC milling.

Project media: Various Select Models (clockwise, from left): 1. Exploring linear connections. 2. Assessing Queen Street West traffic flow 3. Creating landforms

Top: Disrupted horizons : Model of frames placed through park. One side is bright magenta, other side mirrored to disrupt perception of the park by reflecting it from one perspective. Bottom: Proposal for partially vegetated structure.

Select models (clockwise, from top left):1. Display of bee habitat at Toronto Botanical Garden. 2.Table design: concrete and walnut 3. Experimental planting 42 4. Proposal for disrupted horizons park with mirros + trees: creating displacement and dismembered trees using mirrors. 5. Abstract topography Thesis context model : Bradian British Columbia

This page and previous: OpCiv Studio Installation. Group project with Elise Hunchuck, Dakota Wares and Suhaib Arnaoot. Constructed black frame structure to create 43 central dark room and corridors. Using black-lights with reflective materials to create distorted spaces. Central room featured projection on series of scrims. OP techniques focused on: perspective, distortion, strobe.

SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHY Landscape architecture, as a field, has few boundaries and builds upon the ecologies, patterns, and forms of landscapes all over the world.

In order to be an effective, holistic designer, I believe it is helpful to travel to a variety of places to understand first-hand how ecological, hydrological and sociological systems function, and how places grow, flourish or fail. The following collection of images come from my travel experiences in New Zealand, Iceland, Hawaii, Colorado, Utah, and British Columbia. All of these locations have significantly influenced my work in landscape architecture.

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