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7056 Oakcrest Ct. Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739 chrisvalenzuela2@gmail.com (909) 782-1902
LOOKING FOR
INTERESTS
Full-time Job
Guitars/Music + Photography + Traveling + Plants
EDUCATION
SKILLS
California State Polytechnic University [2014-Present] -- Pomona, CA College of Environmental Design, B.S. Landscape Architecture - Graduation June 2018
Adobe Indesign Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator ArcGIS
WORK EXPERIENCE
Mariposa Landscapes, Inc. [ April 2014-Present] Landscape Maintenance, Researched and prepared plant maintenance booklets BMLA, Inc. [June 2017-September 2017] Internship Art and Landscape Fellowship Program [Sep 2016- May 2017] Guiding blueprint holders through the process of garden installation. Collaboration with artist Mel Chin. AWARDS + EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
UFCW Scholarship [2014-2017] City of Irwindale Scholarship [2014-2017] ACE Mentor Program Scholarship [2014-2017] CLASS Fund Scholarship [2017] Co-Design Workshop of Waterfront Space [Jan 2018] Honorary Credential: Yuehan Railway Cultural Park
Autodesk AutoCAD Microsoft Office Rhinoceros 3D Model Making
REFERENCES
Ray Senes Phone: (858) 248-0141 Email: rnsenes@cpp.edu Landscape Architecture Professor Kevin Slawson Phone: (949) 933-7605 Email: kslawson@edgelandstudio.com EDGE Design Group, Inc., Landscape Architecture Professor Andrew Wilcox Phone: (562) 412-0112 Email: aowilcox@cpp.edu Department Chair of Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona
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NEXUS: Urban Design in the Heart of Wuhan, China LA 402L SWA Collaboration Studio Instructor: Andy Wilcox Team: Nermeen Aboudawood, Shelby Herbel Location: Wuhan, China
ANALYSIS The project site is located in the Wuchang core district of Wuhan, Hubei. This district is the 5th most dense district in Wuhan. The site boundary is around 71 hectares which could potentially include about 140 football fields. The river’s edge is around 2000 meters long which has an existing ferry stop which is currently activated. The site has a few universities, elementary, middle, and high schools. There is a large industrial zone that takes up about a quarter of the site with an active railroad that travels north to south. The current ratio between park space and urban city context is about 25:75. The framed edge of the cities infrastructure framed the park as a linear strip that doesn’t extend out to the city’s grain. The demographics of the people occupying the site range from young children, college students, the working class, and the elderly. The people living within the site boundary are 99 percent domestic and 1 percent international.
Our goal is to utilize the sea wall as a SEAM between the river, park, and the urban fabric. Rather than a BARRIER.
REGIONAL CONTEXT
site boundary : 71 hectare wuhan population 2015 : 10.6 million wuhan population 2050: 12.3 million park to urban ratio : 25:75 river front length: 2000m
scale comparison: 140 football fields
URBAN CONTEXT SITE CONTEXT
YANGTZE RIVER
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NARRATIVE After weeks of exploring massing, densities, concepts, and typologies we finally arrived at a final, developed urban design project that will reinvent the image of urban waterfronts in Wuhan, China. We chose to tackle the issue of the three disconnective barriers by connecting the three barriers with three different infrastructure types: green, grey, and blue infrastructure. These infrastructures would all serve as “fingers� of the city, park, and river. The flood wall in our site was transformed by pushing and pulling different points of the wall to both bring the city to the park and the park to the city. We then graded both the edge of the urban fabric and the park to the top of the flood wall, thus rendering the flood wall invisible. This would then create a seamless transition from the previous three layers of disconnection. Once the flood wall was established, a simple street grid was established to further emphasize the connection of the urban fabric to the park and river. Once the grid was established, our massing began to take form.
CONCEPT SKETCH
Existing Street Grid
Existing Flood Wall
Proposed Street Grid
Proposed Flood Wall [RIVER] [PARK]
[CITY]
MASTER PLAN
DIAGRAMS Building Typologies
Existing Figure Ground
Park Typologies Proposed Figure Ground
Residential Park
Commercial Park
Wall Edge Park
Industrial Park
Water Flow
FILTRATION 3
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Circulation
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Water System
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UNDERSTORY FLOW
TAPESTRY OF FLOW LA 302L Santa Fe Studio Instructor: Ray Senes Team: Danqing Sun, Justin Sun Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Cisterns Swales Roof Water
THE HISTORY OF SANTA FE 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.
Contemporary
Acequias
Downtown Santa Fe Agriculture
Acequias
PLAN
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NATIVE PLANTING EDIBLE GARDEN EDIBLE GARDEN
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Section B-B’
DIAGRAMS +HP
Tree Canopy
Circulation
Lower Elevation
Gardens
Open Space
Swales
Garden Experiential Walk
Water Capture Water Flow
EDIBLE GARDEN
CULTURE OF DECOMPOSITION LA 401L Walt Disney Imagineering Studio Instructors: Kevin Slawson, Irma Ramirez Team: Bin Nakatani Location: Whittier, California
SITE
FINDING THE UNSEEN SPIRIT OF OUR PAST BELONGINGS FORGOTTEN AND IGNORED – As global populations and urbanization increases, so does our consumption and impact on our environment. Landfills serve as the spectacle of the effluent of our consumption. They are permanent blankets that hide certain snapshots of society, staying forever forgotten and ignored. IGNORANCE LEADS TO LAND DESTRUCTION – This ignorance then leads to accumulation of our consumption which then results to the destruction of our land and environment, with the increase of methane and greenhouse gas emissions. RECONSTRUCT THE MEANING OF THE FORGOTTEN – How do we reconstruct the meaning of the forgotten? By revealing the undiscovered value of it with the innovative use of waste. By establishing waste as both a cultural and productive product. A GROWING PROBLEM – In the most developed regions of the world, over 150 million tons of waste is generated per year with recycling rates not exceeding 30%. If nothing is done, waste will continue to accumulate and poison both our land and water.
NARRATIVE 1 2 3
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MUSEUM PLAZA
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AMPHITHEATER
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MEADOW
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EXPERIENTIAL WALL WALK
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COMPOST HUB
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ORCHARD WALK
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EXPERIENTIAL WALL WALK
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SCULPTURE WALK
I decided to focus on the concept of turning the decomposition of culture into a culture of decomposition. I focused on the reuse of material as both an experiential and interactive product. There are 4 walls throughout the site that showcase the alternative potentials of waste as an experiential product that can captivate users through its previously unseen beauty. The four walls are as follows: Illuminated Glass Bottle Wall, Recycled Paper Art Wall, Plastic Bottle Vertical Garden Wall, and Adaptive Community Art Wall. The concept of decomposition is prominent in the heart of the design. Here, users are provided green and brown waste, and a compost machine to manually generate soil on site that can then be used to spread throughout the raised gardens and orchard. This then leads into an amphitheater that connects to the end of the journey, a plaza that responds to the geometry of the museum and offers users a space of tranquility.
Wall Diagram
WALL 4 - EMPTY CANVAS FOR ARTISTS (ANY RECYCLED MATERIAL)
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Circulation
WALL 4 - EMPTY CANVAS FOR ARTISTS (ANY
WALL 4 RECYCLED MATERIAL) Adaptive Community Art Wall
5 WALL 3 - RECYCLED GLASS GABION (NIGHT ILLUMINATION)
WALL 2 - VERTICAL GARDEN (RECYCLED PLASTIC BOTTLES)
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WALL 1 - GLASS BOTTLE WALL (NIGHT ILLUMINATION)
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ILLUMINATION) WALL 3 Recycled Paper Art Wall
WALL 3 - RECYCLED GLASS GABION (NIGHT
GARDEN (RECYCLED WALL 2 WALL 2 - VERTICAL PLASTIC BOTTLES) Vertical Garden Wall
WALL 1 ILLUMINATION) Illuminated Glass Bottle Wall
WALL 1 - GLASS BOTTLE WALL (NIGHT
THE WALLS
Illuminated Glass Bottle Wall
Recycled Paper Art Wall
Plastic Bottle Vertical Garden Wall Adaptive Community Art Wall
COMPOST HUB/ORCHARD WALK
OTHER
WORKS
VISUAL COMMUNICATION Bionomic Furrows
ALGAE FARMING AGRICULTURE
Over the past decades, the Salton Sea has battled economic disrepair and environmental devastation. Through the exploration of parametric algorithms using the Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino, our team designed a series of croplands, salt marshes along the coast, algae farms, and wetlands. Wetlands are dispersd inland as well and blend in with the industrial economies of the site such as the croplands and algae farms. Our goal was to find and expose the juxtaposition of habitat and human industrial and agricultural activity and blend them into one environmental entity acknowledging both our advancement in tenchnology and wildlife habitat.
SALT MARSH
Section A-A’
WETLAND CANAL EXISTING SEA
A
Wetland
Salt Marsh
C
C’
D
D’
Algae Farm
Final Field Condition
PROCESS DIAGRAMS
B’
B Section C-C’
Section D-D’
Cropland
A’
Section B-B’
BIRD HABITATS
MACHINE CHOREOGRAPHY
AGRICULTURE
omi .5mi Playa
Mud Flats
Mid Water
1.5mi
3.5mi
Deep Water
Eared Grebe
American White Pelican
Snowy Egret
RECTANGULAR GRID
ESTABLISHED POINTS
NODES OF PINCH REACTION
NEW FIELD CONDITION
CAT 320B Excavator
Northern Shovler Double Crested Cormorant Burrwoing Owl
Taxonomy
Long Billed Curlew
RECTANGULAR GRID
ESTABLISHED POINTS
NODES OF PINCH REACTION
NEW FIELD CONDITION
CAT D6 Bulldozer Mountain Plover
American Avocet
Black Necked Stilts
Western Snowy Plover
G 5500 Trencher CIRCULAR FORM
PUSH AND PULL
STRETCH
Island
Salt Marsh
NEW FIELD CONDITION
Marbled Godwit
Dunlin Western Sandpiper
CAT D6 Bulldozer SUBTLE PULL
STRONGER PULL OF FORCE
MIRROR
NEW FIELD CONDITION
East Sandpiper
Cut Fill
Agriculture
Wetland
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