CHRIS VALENZUELA Landscape Architecture Portfolio
CHRIS VALENZUELA 7056 Oakcrest Ct. Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739 chrisvalenzuela2@gmail.com (909) 782-1902
EDUCATION California State Polytechnic University (2014-Present) -- Pomona, CA College of Environmental Design, B.S. Landscape Architecture - Graduation June 2018
WORK EXPERIENCE
What is Landscape?
Landscape is a world full of hidden and revealed complexities and beauties. It is an invitation for the inhabitants of the earth to walk, notice, and be bravely curious. It is an ever evolving journey meant for further discovery. Landscape is a reflection of both natural processes and human existence. Last but certainly not least, landscape is a reflection of the mind and spirit of every individual on this earth we call home.
Mariposa Landscapes, Inc. (2014-Present) Landscape Maintenance, Resarched and prepared plant maintenance booklets Art and Landscape Fellowship Program (2016-Present) Guiding blueprint holders through the process of garden installation. Collaboration with artist Mel Chin.
AWARDS + EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES UFCW Scholarship (2014-2016) City of Irwindale Scholarship (2014-2016) ACE Mentor Program Scholarship (2014-2016) Member, Student Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects Member, Art and Landscape Fellowship Program Musician, Guitarist
INTERESTS Guitars + Photography + Traveling + Plants
SKILLS Adobe Indesign Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator ArcGIS
Autodesk AutoCAD Microsoft Office Rhinoceros 3D Model Making
REFERENCES Ray Senes (858) 248-0141 rnsenes@cpp.edu
Landscape Architecture Professor
Jean Yang
(310) 430-6546 jeanaliceyang@gmail.com
Landscape Architecture Professor Designer at Mia Lehrer +Associates
Robert Borthwick
(949) 246-0459 bob@bgb-inc,com
Landscape Architect Mentor
TAPESTRY OF FLOW STUDIO INSTRUCTORS
LA 302L Ray Senes
DATE
Winter 2017
TEAM
Danqing Sun, Justin Sun
LOCATION PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Rancho Viejo de Santa Fe, NM
Rancho Viejo, meaning “Old Ranch,” is a 21,000acre parcel in Santa Fe County, south of the city of Santa Fe and located 12.1 miles from the Santa Fe Plaza. This studio explores how to create a contemporary 21st century core commuity space within a recently built village. This project contains numerous complex goals spanning regionallyspecific economic, ecological, cultural, aesthetic and sociological issues. The specific place-making process put forth will add value to the life, health and soul of the community.
SANTA FE
ACEQUIAS
Investigating Water Santa Fe, New Mexico is a city rich in history and culture. Through our investigation of Santa Fe, we found that water is treated as gold and as the locals say, “Agua es Vida” (“Water is Life”). Acequias, man-made irrigation ditches that bring water from a river or stream to a parcel of land through unearthed culverts, thrived in the time where Native American tribes vastly populated the area and few acequias still exist today. In Rancho Viejo, cisterns are placed at each home in order to conserve water. The abstraction and communication of the importance of water and all its phenomenological qualities were important in our design.
AGRICULTURE
HISTORICAL MONTAGE
ACEQUIAS CONTEMPORARY
Be the Flow
Sections
As previously stated, water was our main concept moving forward with our design. Our intense process of this design consisted of moves derived from contextual values in order to enhance the experience and value within the plaza. The systems and processes of water, spefically in Santa Fe, inspired the framework of our design. Rivers have a main, large flow that branches out to different tributaries or vice versa, as tributaries all connect to one specific large body of water. The site contains one major flow where people move through, but this main flow has many attractions: educational, aesthetical, and programmatic at its sides.
Section B-B’
Placemaking Process Sketches Throughout this intense process, we went through a rigorous process of placemaking and form exploration. Everything was derived from the Santa Fe context and its historical values.
DRAWINGS
PROCESS
Section A-A’
Model
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3.
1. View of the community edible garden. A meandering pathway guides users through the area and varying edible garden heights accomodates an array of users.
MODEL
MODEL
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2. View of the transition between terraces. Each terrace offers different programs and a sense of journey for users as they walk up to the highest point of the site.
3. View of the community gathering lawn. This lawn is open to different programs such as farmers markets, movie watching, etc.
B
B’
A
PLAN
PLAN
Plan
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10’
Scale: 1”=20’
20’
40’
Silver Linkages + Exquisite Corpse STUDIO INSTRUCTORS
LA 203L Andrew Wilcox
DATE
Spring 2016
TEAM
Ernesto Gonzalez
LOCATION PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA This studio explores a design process that builds in complexity by layering information from a specific urban site along a specific alignment. The project aims to peel back the layers of local context to reveal the salient process at work that has the potential to shift a site. This studio strategy aims to be simultaneously local in action and global in example while challenging studio participants to inclusively consider landscape. New possibilities will be modeled, ecologies will be proposed and territories will be formed through resilient adaptation and the creative act.
Taxonomy of Emergent Spatial Types
PROCESS
PROCESS
In this project, we explored the fundamental site condition of the edge- the threshold between water and land; the condition where unlike bodies meet with maximum interaction. This ubiquitous site condition will be interrogated through the testing of typical fixed/structural program typologies adjusted by typical performative actions/operations as controlled by the specific lessons/rules/relationships of the site as revealed in the mapping project.
Sketch of Initial planting densities and progammatic potential
-1/2” Concave Slope +3 Walls +Field
-1/2” Uniform Slope +Observation Tower +Forest
+1/2” Convex Slope +Folded Plane Shelter +Forest
-1/8” Uniform Trench +Folded Lifted Plane Platform +50/50
+1/2” Uniform Slope +Elevated Path +Field
+Unconditioned Ground +Path +50/50
Mapping and Recon
INVESTIGATION
MAPPING
In the research and analysis phase of our project, we investigated, mapped and analyzed the critical systems, associations and alignments of the Silver Lake Reservoir and its context. In teams of two, my partner Ernesto Gonzalez and I mapped our assigned transect of the Silver Lake Reservoir. We looked at alignments that are above, within and below their image sites to identify opportunities, partners, beneficiaries and histories of the project alignment.
Silver Linkages + Exquisite Corpse In the final project, we were required to individually choreograph a set of assigned and derived programmatic pieces and performance criteria into the overall conditions of portion/bank of our transect. This phase included notions of broader planting/ capturing or opportunistic strategies and patterning in response to assigned program performance. This phase utilized programs that are simultaneously cultural and ecological, formal and informal, understood and misunderstood, indexed and poised.
“We are not outside the ecology for which we plan--we are always and inevitably a part of it. Herein lies the charm and terror of ecology” - Gregory Bateson
DRAWINGS
DRAWINGS
PLANTING STRATEGY
Section A-A’ This section drawing conveys the elevation of the overlook and the close proximity to the habitat of the Great Blue Herons. It also shows the relationship of human to the man made mounds.
This planting strategy drawing conveys the various densities and spaces of plant material, which is crucial to both the human and animal experience.
0’ 4’ 8’
16’
Scale: 1/16” = 1’ -0”
SCALE: 1/16” = 1’ -0”
Smooth Dynamic This textural drawing shows the concept of difference in degree. The dense plant material I have proposed have no meaning outside of their masses, thus they become one and are together to serve a specific phenomenological function.
Enclosed to Free This textural drawing conveys the openness of my proposal. One enters the Eucalyptus Grove, passes through the mounds, and then arrives at the open area of the outlook
DIGITAL SKILLS
DESIGN
CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS
Digital Skills TOOLS:
DIGITAL SKILLS
DIGITAL SKILLS
ArcGIS Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator
LAYOUT SKILLS
LAYOUT SKILLS
Visual Communication
Reading Bench
Our bench was inspired by the idea of movable modules that alter certain functions of the the entire piece in different compositions. These modules can be organized in a linear manner where one can lay down and take a break from school. The riser modules can also be organized around the ramp module so that people can dine or drink coffee and have a face-to-face conversation with a friend. Construction started with the inner frames of the risers, followed by the paneling. Once completed each module was applied with two coats of Golden Oak stain and water proof sealant.
BENCH
BENCH
Richland Elementary Construction Project
LIFTables
LEGEND
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SYMBOL
636
Chris & Nick
Grading Plan DESCRIPTION DIRECTION OF SLOPE
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EXISTING CONTOURS PROPOSED CONTOURS
NATURAL PRESERVATION AREA 6
LIMIT OF GRADING
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SAFETY NOTICE TO CONTRACTOR IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERALLY ACCEPTED CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES, THE CONTRACTOR WILL BE SOLELY AND COMPLETELY RESPONSIBLE FOR CONDITIONS OF THE JOB SITE, INCLUDING SAFETY OF ALL PERSONS AND PROPERTY DURING PERFORMANCE OF THE WORK. THIS REQUIREMENT WILL APPLY CONTINUOUSLY AND NOT BE LIMITED TO NORMAL WORKING HOURS.
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1. THE CONTRACTOR IS SPECIFICALLY CAUTIONED THAT THE LOCATION AND/OR ELEVATION OF EXISTING UTILITIES AS SHOWN ON THESE PLANS IS BASED ON RECORDS OF THE VARIOUS UTILITY COMPANIES AND, WHERE POSSIBLE, MEASUREMENTS TAKEN IN THE FILED. THE INFORMATION IS NOT TO BE RELIED ON AS BEING EXACT OR COMPLETE. THE CONTRACTOR MUST CALL THE APPROPRIATE UTILITY COMPANY AT LEAST 48 HOURS BEFORE ANY EXCAVATION TO REQUEST EXACT FIELD LOCATION OF UTILITIES. IT SHALL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CONTRACTOR TO RELOCATED ALL EXISTING UTILITIES WHICH CONFLICT WITH PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS SHOWN ON THE PLANS. 2. THE CONTRACTOR SHALL EXPOSE EXISTING UTILITIES AT LOCATIONS OF POSSIBLE CONFLICTS PRIOR TO ANY CONSTRUCTION.
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SITE DESIGN BASED ON RED ROCK CANYON VISITOR CENTER, LAS VEGAS NEVADA. ARCHITECT: LINE AND SPACE ADJUSTMENTS BY KEIJI UESUGI FOR ACADEMIC USE.
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Landscape Layout & Grading Plan
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GRADING NOTES
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Text
SHEET NUMBER
L-01
Wood Deck Details
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CHRIS VALENZUELA 909.782.1902 chrisvalenzuela2@gmail.com