Portfolio 2018

DAVID MAZER Portfolio

Rhode Island School of Design Master of Landscape Architecture

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RAMOND JUNGLES, INC.

Design and Graphic Works

Landscape Design Staff 2014 - 2015 1

BAL HARBOUR SHOPS - CORRIDOR Retail Renovation, Miami Beach, Florida The Bal Harbour Shops are in the process of renovating their existing retail shops, followed by a significant expansion.

Below are existing corridors to the shops, in which I designed several proposed design iterations, including custom ground and floating modular planters, which are adapted as lighting systems depending on each individual corridor condition.

Left: Outsourced rendering Below: Existing corridor conditions to renovated

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Shown above is an option for floor planters. To the right are oval shaped pendulum planters which are modified to create appearance of jewel-like lighting systems.

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THE RALEIGH HOTEL Historic Hotel Renovation, Miami Beach, Florida The Raleigh Hotel is about to undergo major renovations. A new space is shown in section below which will include an exclusive club, pool and other amenities. I was asked to design a custom shower for the pool area and a gate and fence system for the new design.

TERRACE SECTION - N.T.S. 7

ARRIVAL ENTRY

HOTEL & RESTAURANT

HISTORIC POOL

TERRACE & PRIVATE CLUB

Plan by Raymond Jungles

THE RALEIGH HOTEL Custom Shower Design Through a process of multiple iterations, three main concepts were presented to the client, and used for the design documents.

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THE RALEIGH HOTEL - GATE SYSTEM A Mordern Tribute to Art Deco A gate and fence system, at varying scales, were designed for the pool, terrace and exterior ranging from 4’-5” high to a 25’ expanse. The modern design was highly inspired by the architectural elements of the hotel itself, as well as the Art Deco period.

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THE WOLSONIAN MUSEUM Greenwall Proposal, Miami Beach, Florida Raymond Jungles Inc. was asked to present multiple options for an exterior greenwall. My proposals were based on the patterns of local coral as well as on the form of different philodendron leaves.

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NATIONAL ASLA SUBMISSION Miami Beach Residence, Florida As part of the national ASAL awards submission, I was asked to realize Raymond Jungles design in plan, using Photoshop for a private residential project.

Plan by Raymond Jungles

Photos Copyright by Raymond Jungles, Inc.

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NATIONAL ASLA SUBMISSION 1111 Lincoln Road Mall South Beach, Florida The second project chosen for the ASLA as submission was the Lincoln Road Mall project.

Photos Copyright by Raymond Jungles, Inc.

Plan by Raymond Jungles

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Lakeside Drive A Residential Landscape A series of sections were craeted from CAD and Photoshop for rendering, included in a client presentaion.

Plan by Raymond Jungles

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MIAMI RIVERWALK An Urban Commercial, Residential Deveoplemnt and Community Park

JOSE MARTI PARK

Raymond Jungles Inc., CG Miami River LLC, Kimley Horn, Kobi Karp, Coastal Systems Int., and Berow Radell & Fernandez MIAMI RIVER

Raymond Jungles was chosen to redesign several city blocks and a large urban park, working alongside architects, civil engineers and several other government agencies in a large scale redevelopment adjacent to the Miami River.

I illustrated the sections for the park and building complex on the following pages.

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RESIDENTAIL + COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Plan by Raymond Jungles

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MATHEWS NIELSEN LANDSCAPE ARCHITCTS

Graphic Works

BOGARDUS PLAZA A New York City Park

Mathews Nielsen, DDC, DOT, Friends of Bogardus Garden

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Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects was chosen to recreate Borgardus Plaza in collaboration with New City Department of Construction and Department of Transportation, Friends of Bogardus Garden and the local community. Gathering feedback through a series of community meetings and working with several site constraints, Mathews Nielsen is arriving at a design solution after multiple iterations.

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Named after architect James Bogardus, Bogardus Plaza is located in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan where Reade and Chambers Streets meet West Broadway. Initially a traffic island, the plaza over the years has been transformed into a garden, first with the planting of London Plane trees and more recently the closing of Hudson Street to vehicular traffic.

Project Objectives: - Merge the plaza with the existing green space - Create a neighborhood focal point and gathering space - Define a space for community events - Enhance pedestrian safety

Community Board Meeting Worksession feedback

Signe Nielsen at a Community Board Meeting HWPLZ012M - BOGARDUS PLAZA BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN FEBRUARY 27, 2014

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BOGARDUS PLAZA PLAN

READE STREET

BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN

Bio-retention Planter

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CONSTRAINTS DIAGRAM

WEST BROADWAY

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2.5’ - Elevated Stage

Movable Table and Chairs Trash Receptacle

M20 BUS STOP

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This page - diagrams provided by MNLA

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PROGRAM DIAGRAM

Drinking Fountain Potted Planters Cut Granite Cobble Modular Egg Seating Concrete Pavers

1. Fire Truck Access Route and DEP Water Offset 2. Critical Root Zone 3. Existing Trees

1. Subway Access and Pedestrian Circulation 2. Central Gather Space 3. Understory Planting

Proposed Trees

Wayfinding Sign Concrete Sidewalk

Existing Trees

M22 BUS STOP

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SITE SECTION

10’ Wide Walkway 35

Low Planter

Movable Tables + Chairs in Fire Access Lane

Elevated Stage

Garden with Existing London Plane Trees, added Flowering Trees + Understory Planting

West Broadway

This north view perspective with Hudson Street in the background illustrates the range of uses of the plaza including moveable site furnishings and the platform feature.

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VOLUNTEERS PLANTS

Our Native Urban Ecology - selected thesis pages

Landscape Architecture Department Winter/Spring ~ 2013 39

Statement Plants that volunteer themselves within our hostile urban conditions are the only true native flora to our cities, a readily available resource and an opportunity we cannot afford to waste. These plants are that we call weeds are all too slowly gaining acceptance in our landscape. My thesis is an investigation, exploration and demonstration of their immense benefits and resiliencies within an industrial site located in Brooklyn.

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PLANTING STRATEGY

Groundwater Line

Groundwater Line

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Planting Strategy - Ground Preparation

Succession of Plants

The soil on the site will improve over time by way of specific soil building, and more general vegetation. Compacted soil will be left untouched along the perimeter of the meadows and woodland, as well as moments within the pavement garden. Within other areas of the site, the top soil will be dug up and loosened , starting as shallow as 2 to 6 inches, to as deep as 6 feet to reach ground water.

The planting strategy for the site will be sparse and allow for secession over time. In the first season woodland, meadow and wetland will be arranged in a grid, which will allow for cataloging of plants which were placed and observation of those which have filled in.

Conditions have been created to allow for a range of moist, well-drained and dry soil conditions, creating varying ground condition to appeal to a wide variety of species. By the end of the first season the original grid formation will start to dissolve and a more natural and random growth will occur. Several seasons will allow for the original plantings to blend-in entirely.

Site Location The site is situated in the northern portion of Brooklyn, NY, located on the water’s edge within the neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. The site surrounds the Bushwick Inlet and is bordered by the East River on the West.

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Existing site conditions, this is a view looking over the inlet to the south towards the tank farm

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The Darlington Legend

THE DARLINGTON A Hybrid Park for the Public and Horticultural Study The Darlington is named after William Darlington who was an early advocate for marginalized plants in the mid 1800s. Peter Del Tredici references him several times since his observations remain highly relevant over one hundred and fifty years later. Darlington and others including John Josselyn in 1671 with New-England’s Rarities, were aware of many of the benefits and cautions of volunteer plants, while planners, designers and have been painstaking slow in researching and implanting pioneer plants. As we move forward in re-thinking and re-designing our cities for current future conditions, we must not forget the past and others who came before.

Design Concept + Intent: The concept of this hybrid park is to create a place where plants can be studied and displayed with a focus on public awareness and engagement.

Several of the most of extreme conditions already exist on the site with ground conditions of the site starting with the soil which is polluted, compressed and nutrient deprived. A majority of the site is comprised of urban landfill. During construction concrete and pavement on site will be reused for retaining walls and rubble piles. Additional urban conditions will be introduced within the site which will involve making cuts into the pavement, installing piles of various sized rubble and aggregates, providing vertical growing surfaces, grading the topography to permit wet to dry ground conditions, creating a constructed wetland and fencing off areas.

The site contains a series of explorative investigations which demonstrate the resiliencies and highly productive nature of dozens of urban pioneer plants. These extreme conditions found on site are typical of any northeastern city which can no longer support the flora that once thrived there centuries ago.

We continue to plant trees in our parks that require regular maintenance and our street trees often do not live long, if they survive at all. Most of the general public, landscape architects and other plant specialist view most pioneer species as a nuisance. Rather than allow these overlooked and marginalized volunteer species to be an indicator of dereliction and neglect, this park allows for these plants to be the feature, celebrating their performance under a variety of typical urban conditions.

Accessibility will be encouraged throughout the site with a few exceptions. Zones of the woodland will be fenced off for durations of 10 to 20 years and a small section of the pavement garden will not accessible. These fenced off areas will only be accessible to birds, and successional plants. These zones will not be maintained during the fenced-off durations, allowing for pioneer plants to truly volunteer themselves, so that a datum of succession may be observed and studied.

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The Woodland

North Entry

11. North Meadow 12. Middle Dock 13. Central Entry Building and Seating area 14. Existing Inlet Vegetation 15. Inlet Boardwalk

16. Truck Relics 17. Facility Building 18. South Meadow 19. Cafe and large Seating area 20. Moss Garden 21. Aspen Grove 22. Resource and Educational Building 23. Tank Gardens 24. South Dock and Oil Tank relic 25. Fringe Wetland 26. Wet Feet Plantings 27. Indoor and Outdoor Nursery 28. Unplanted Area

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Longitudinal Section

The Bushwick Inlet

View Tower + Seating North Meadow

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1. The North Entry and seating 2. Rubble Piles 3. Oil Tank relic and Shipping Container Planters 4. Woodland Zone 5. Pavement Cuts with Tree Species 6. Pavement Garden 7. Calyer St. Entry 8. Aggregate Piles 9. Seating and North Dock 10. North Seating area and Viewing Tower

Aggregate Piles

Existing Volunteer Plant Species

Outreach Programs Central Entry + Seating

Tank Garden Area

Indoor/Outdoor Nursery

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North, Middle and South portions of the Site The Bushwick Inlet is currently both a working and a post-industrial site. At the southern Williamsburg end the ground is saturated with petroleum and currently occupied by Bayside Oil, and warehouses and vacant lots occupy the northern Greenpoint portion of the site. The oil tank farm will be remediated by way of a constructed wetland, with pollution cleansing plantings, and the northern Greenpoint portion will feature a broad program of grasses, meadows, shade plantings and wooded zones, with a focus on soil building. There is seating throughout the site, and several paths cross both sections of the site, while a singular path connects the upper, middle and lower sections.

Upper Site The upper grounds provide several planting opportunities using shipping containers, pavement garden, rubble piles and concrete slab walls. The soil primarily consists of landfill, with a compacted and degraded top layer of soil rising six feet above the groundwater. The building at Quay and Franklin streets, occupies the site where the USS Monitor was built and launched during the American Civil War. Located in this portion are the woodland and meadow conditions, the pavement garden, and reuse relics, including one of two oil tanks turned on its side to function as a dramatic entry to and framing of the site. Other repurposed relics include: shipping containers used as large planting beds, a partially demolished building at the water’s edge offering views of the city and of the site, and a cafÊ with indoor and outdoor seating. The outdoor seating is surrounded by a formal arrangement of American Elms, deliberately in contrast to the rest of the site. A sunbathing dock is also situated at the upper edge of the site.

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Middle Site:

North Meadow

The middle section of the site features the Bushwick Inlet, which has been severely transformed from its original size, function and shape. The inlet is the last remaining fragment of what was a creek that met the East River, which once supported a salt marsh at its outlet. This is where most of the existing volunteer plants have been left unmanaged, and will remain primarily undisturbed.

These plants are only bisected by the pathway created to bridge both the upper, middle and lower portions of the site. Any resilient species will be resituated elsewhere within the site.

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Central Entry Building and Seating

Wet Feet Plantings

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South Dock

Existing Inlet Vegetation

Existing Inlet Vegetation

Tank Gardens Inlet Boardwalk

Moss Garden Cafe

Truck Relics

Seating

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South Meadow

Wetland plants will be planted in more abundance along the sheltered inlet’s edge. As one moves through the site from the north portion towards the inlet, passing though the meadow visitors will come across the second of three docks that extend over the East River and the inlet. This will allow visitors to not only view Manhattan across the river at a series of locations on site; but also to see and experience the site from the water’s edge, providing an up-close opportunity to engage in the wetland.

The north entry to the site

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Render with Rhino and Photoshop

Each level contains a series of planting beds

The first floor has a cafe, seating and a planting bed

The Viewing Tower The Viewing Tower offers views of both the city and of the site. Planting beds located on each floor keep attention on the volunteer plants. The abandoned building has had its walls removed and is open to the elements with the exception of the first floor which is surrounded by glass windows and has a cafĂŠ. Outside, adjacent to the tower is a seating court. With the tables and chairs removed, this space is flexible and can accommodate various events.

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Visitors enter an opening to each tank garden which has a thin planting bed that traces each out ring.

Another in entry leads to the central planting bed which contains a variety of volunteer planting.

The Tank Gardens: The lower site will have a large oil tank featuring a moss garden. Shade will be provided by the tank itself and by the canopies of trees placed in a large central plant bed within the tank. Three additional tanks will have built-in planting beds around their interior as well as a deeper central planting bed. The tanks operate as both relics and repurposed structures, where visitors experience the vegetation by walking through the outer and inner walls of the tanks.

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THE BIO-REEF Oyster Habitat and Wave Mitigation Systems

Landscape Architecture Department Fall ~ 2012 61

BIO-MIMICRY + STRUCTURE

The Bio-Reef was informed by marine life, sea walls and wave mitigation systems. Bio-mimicry was essential in the process, while manufactured forms influenced how the reef could perform. Above are a few of the dozens of sketch and process models. A combination of skeletal and marine life forms merged to derive the final form.

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Bio-Reef Strategy The Bio-Reef system I propose is a strategic artificial reef system that creates habitat for oysters, other marine life, while mitigating wave impact. There are two modular systems, one designed for salt water ponds and another for offshore placement at a larger scale. The design is based on investigations of form found in constructed wave barriers, skeletal structures and marine life.

Form + Function

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Oysters will inhabit the reef changing the form over time

High Tide

Low Tide

OCEAN BIO-REEF

POND POND BIO-REEF BIO-REEF

The Bio-Reef is designed to mitigate wave action, as waves hit the reef its force is diminished. The reef acts as a porus wave barrier and helps protect the shore in a major storm event. The reef is fabricated from fiber reinforced concrete. The absence of metal reinforcement ensures the Bio-Reef will not rust and enable it to hold up to the demanding task of wave mitigation.

The initial task of the Bio-Reef is to create a habitat for oyster, which in return creates habitat for other marine fauna and flora. Over time as the oysters occupy the reef, the form will transform, becoming a partial enclosure. The reef itself is only a skeletal armature which reaches completion as the oysters grow around it.

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BIO-REEF WATER FLOW DIAGRAM

RHODE ISLAND

South Kingstown

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Site 1 Judith Point Pond

Site 1 Site 2

Block Island

Judith Point Pond deployment pattern - Bio-Reef are not shown to scale

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East Matunuck State Beach

The Bio-Reef performs differently based on its scales and location. While the larger ocean reef acts as a barrier and habitat the pond reef ’s main objective to provide habit for the oysters and other pond biota.

East Matunuck State Beach deployment pattern - Bio-Reef are not shown to scale 69

The Ocean Bio-Reef in deployment after installment, before being occupied by oysters Rhino, V-Ray and Photoshop 71

ORBITAL HABITATS

A Series of Digital Explorations

Digital Media Department Winter/Spring ~ 2012 73

Virtual Orb Formations This illustrated series is modeled after a concept of an architectural form as narrative, during a course taken outside of the landscape architecture department. This series was first rendered in Rhino, followed by V-Ray and finished in Photoshop.

Rhino, V-Ray and finished with Photoshop

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Abandoned Structures The basic concept was to create an interior space that could be occupied. Here are shown constructed structures which have been abandoned in an African grassland and re-occupied by wildlife.

Rhino, V-Ray and Photoshop

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Tijuania Estuary Park - Concept Rendering

Rhino, V-Ray and Photoshop

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