Elliot Bellis

ACADEMIC WORK 2024

SKILLS

ISA Certified Arborist

Rhino/AutoCAD/Revit

Enscape

Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Animate)

ArcGIS

Microsoft Office

Elliot Bellis

UBC MASTERS STUDENT; LASA CO-PRESIDENT; ISA CERTIFIED ARBORIST

BIO

Elliot grew up in Skagit Valley in Washington State where he fostered a deep connection with the land. His experiences range from large scale urban forest planning to microscale mycological connections where he aims to integrate fungi into the field of landscape architecture. He aims to reconnect people with lost relationships held with the land through community empowerment, particularly for marginalized communities.

WORK EXPERIENCE EDUCATION

Teaching Assistant

University of British Columbia

September 2022 - Current

Sustainability Scholar

University of British Columbia

May 2023 - September 2023

Urban Forester and Arborist

Diamond Head Consulting

CONTACT

t: 780-263-1097

e: ebellis33@gmail.com

a: Vancouver, BC

July 2020 - August 2022

Urban Forestry Curriculum Coordinator

University of British Columbia

September 2019 - August 2020

Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)

Current student

University of British Columbia

September 2022 - May 2025

Bachelor of Urban Forestry (BUF)

University of British Columbia

September 2015 - May 2020

AWARDS

LACF University of British Columbia Scholarship 2023

Tracy Penner Memorial Scholarship in Landscape Architecture 2022

THE EPICENTRE TRAIN WRECKLAMATION OAKBRIDGE PARK THE GROUNDING GARDEN DESIGNING WITH THE SENSES THE TECHNICAL

01 02 03 04 760 2 1 GABION WITH RECYCLED AGGREGATE FROM SITE 150 COMPACTED CRUSH METAL BRACKET W. SPIKE DRAINAGE PIPE DECORATIVE 1 : 20 2 Gabion seatwall - section 04 05 06

The Epicentre

Responding to earthquake grief through landscapes of community care.

Vancouver is overdue for an earthquake. Can community centers become memorial hubs before and after an earthquake to respond to natural disaster anxiety? As one of 25 disaster support hub locations, we looked at a redesign of the Yaletown Roundhouse Community Centre as a pilot project with Mountain View Cemetery to facilitate spaces for grief through multigenerational engagement.

Studio:

Noora

Partner: Frances Ramsey

Cemetery Futurisms Hijra & Christan Oaks

SUPPORT HUB PLAN 5

REBUILDING THE COMMUNITY NOTE WALL

BEFORE

AFTER EARTHQUAKE

SUPPORT HUB SECTION

TRAIN WRECKLAMATION

How can a community center act as a leader in the climate crisis, working to clean the soils, air, and waters from the larger downtown core? How might we challenge current narratives of the historical railway and work to create a new story as a community?

This ongoing project aims to utilize the existing railway as a tool for site remediation and ecological stabilization. Cars built in the woodshop clean existing soils through a remediation train, providing an educational experience using the methods of rhizofiltration, phytoextration, phytostabilization, phytovolitation, and phytotransformation.

Group: Liam Doll & Frances Ramsey

LARC 503 | Comprehensive Studio Nicky Bloom & Jergus Oprsal

(RIGHT) ECOSYSTEM SITE ANALYSIS SKETCHES

CONCEPT SKETCHES

In our comprehensive project, I’ve enjoyed the concept phase the most and illustrating our group’s design ideas. My favorite part is seeing the vision come to life through design and taking my group members ideas and illustrating them through words and images.

PLANTING CONCEPT PLAN

CONCEPT SECTIONS

OAKBRIDGE PARK

Oakbridge Park will extend a living bridge between old and new residents of Oakridge, implemented across several phases to accommodate increasing density in an evolving neighborhood. The park will foster a multi-level exchange between people and the surrounding natural environment, facilitate connections through shared experiences, and celebrate spaces for a full spectrum of emotions while providing a climate-resilient landscape that will grow alongside future generations.

LARC 503 | Studio II

Daniel Roehr & Maren Mcbride

Group:Sam Kohlmann, Kaitlin Wiebe, and Taylor Legere

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

1. Bridge between nature

• Serve as a stopover for access to other greenspaces by wildlife and pollinators in Vancouver

• Weave together a diverse urban forest canopy and provide access and education for community members

• Facilitate connections between people and nature across various scales

2. Bridging old and new neighbours

• Provide welcoming amenities and programming to engage and connect the existing community with new neighbours of Oakridge

• Create year-round spaces for connection across various levels of programming

3. Bridge for a changing climate

• Increase ecosystem services provided by current vegetation including carbon sequestered, air pollutants removed, and runoff captured

• Select plantings based on climate resiliency

• Share education on climate adaptive trees and plants

4. Bridging spaces across a spectrum of emotions

• Ensure spaces can accomodate a range of emotions through optimization of open and intimate spaces

• Spark moments of reﬂection through beautiful spaces

• Provide moments to pass through quickly and areas to stay and play

PERSPECTIVES

PLAN 14

PLANTING PLAN

In every project, I’ve created our group’s planting plan. My favorite part of design is selecting the planting typologies, as I believe this is a critical component of site design.

CONCEPT SKETCHES

(RIGHT) UNDER THE BRIDGE PERSPECTIVE

The Grounding Garden

In cities, anxiety disorders are on the rise, especially in children. The 5,4,3,2,1 grounding technique asks an anxious person to remain present by locating five things they can see, four they can touch, three they can hear, two they can smell, and one they can taste. Nelson park, located in central downtown Vancouver by a hospital and elementary school, embodies a place of constant movement with opportunities to pause.

The Grounding Garden responds to a question:

How might a garden design help people relieve anxiety using the 5,4,3,2,1 grounding technique?

LARC 503 | Studio II

Daniel Roehr & Maren Mcbride

PLANTING PLAN 19

EMBODIED PERSPECTIVES

SITE MODEL

Building simple cardboard site models has been one of my favorite parts of the design process. Testing ideas and getting to play in a 3D world helps me embody what the site might look like.

DESIGNING WITH THE SENSES

How can designers embody their five senses to see the landscape and ultimately see themselves?

The landscape lives within us, through our senses and ability to perceive. I see no separation from nature, that nature is within us and is us. I learned from Daniel and fellow classmates how to draw landscape using my five senses which has freed me to using the art of the quick sketch to relay my concepts and ideas to students and faculty.

LARC 582 | Seeing Environment

Daniel Roehr

REDESIGNING VANCOUVER’S TREE PITS

Throughout my time at UBC in the Urban Forestry program and working with the City of Vancouver’s Engineering & Urban Forestry departments, I’ve dreamed up brighter and more ecologically friendly futures for tree pit design. This project looked at the approach from a visual assessment, looking at a simple redesign that favors better conditions for a tree, understory, and invites community members to interact.

REDESIGNING VANCOUVER’S TREE PITS

THE TECHNICAL

VISIONING A PERMEABLE PAVER

MATERIALS: Moss, clay, cardboard, Enscape, Rhino

FREEWAY PARK, SEATTLE

- CENTRAL PLAZA

Lawrence Halprin and Angela Danadjieva Seattle, Washington 1976

Elliot Bellis

Lawrence Halprin and Angela Danadijeva’s 5-acre Freeway Park utilizes a vast network of cast-in-place concrete across the park’s three distinct plazas. In the Central Plaza, the hydraulic system of an intricate fountain designed to mimic the Olympic Mountain range has fallen into a state of disrepair. Within the Plaza’s water feature, ‘The Canyon’, lies a nondescript and boarded up window, once providing visitors with a view of the highway. My project explores the boarded up window in the context of the vast system.

Danadjieva’s 5-acre network of cast-inthree distinct hydraulic system to mimic the fallen into a state ongoing park redesign.

‘The Canyon’, up window, once the highway, between water and city. boarded, suggesting architect’s intended ‘nature’. The park (e.g. built concrete end of an era. My of the boardedthe context of cascading into a pocket nestled inlanes.

1 Exploded axonometric Copy 1 VIEW TO I-5 FREEWAY NOT VISIBLE Axonometric 3 Copy 2 Copy 2 3 Axonometric 3 Copy 2 Copy 1 Copy 1 WINDOW TO FREEWAY DISCONNECT WITH CURRENT 'FREEWAY' 2 WINDOW TO FREEWAY DISCONNECT WITH CURRENT 'FREEWAY'

up window is disconnected from current freeway

to freeway in relation to ‘The Canyon’ fountain Window boarded up with chain link fence View to I-5 freeway not visible FREEWAY PARK - CENTRAL PLAZA THE EXETER I-5 EXPRESS (UNDERGROUND) 2 FREEWAY PARK - CENTRAL PLAZA A1.06 - Diagram of window placement FREEWAY PARK - CENTRAL PLAZA Designed by: Lawrence Halprin & Angela Danadjieva Seattle, Washington Modelled by: Elliot Bellis 2 Axonometric 3 Copy 2 WINDOW TO FREEWAY DISCONNECT WITH CURRENT 'FREEWAY'

Boarded

Window

WATERFRONT LANDING PARK

Detailed design of a bioswale system. Partner: Kevin Wong

150 MM [6"] MAX PONDING DEPTH 470 95 MM [3 3/4"] DRAIN ROCK COMPACTED NATIVE SUBGRADE NON-PERFORATED OVERFLOW PIPE AREA DRAIN 75 MM [3"] MULCH MINIMUM 305 MM [12"] RAIN GARDEN SOIL MIX [SEE RAIN GARDEN SOIL MIX SPECIFICATIONS ABOVE] 100 MM COMPACTED AGGREGATE BASE METAL EDGE RESTRAINT W. METAL STAKE MIN-SUMP DEPTH 455 MM [18"] PLANTING ZONES SEE PLANTING LIST TABLE 1 1 2 3 STANDARD CONCRETE PAVER 75 mm [3"] RIP RAP 3 1 MAX SLOPE REFER TO CIVIL FOR CONNECTION. SEE PLAN FOR LOCATION. 20 MM BEDDING SAND scale:As indicated L114 Bioswale detail 0001 Waterfront Landing Park drawn by:KW & EB Squamish, BC 1 20 2 Section - Bioswale detail Common Name Scientific Name Spacing (on center) TABLE 1 - PLANTING LIST FOR BIOSWALE Zone 1 2 3 creeping snowberry kinnikinnick Oregon iris slough sedge spike rush slender rush red fescue tall fescue blue oatgrass Arctostaphylos uva-ursi kinnikinnick Iris tenax Carex obnupta Eleocharis spp. Juncus tenuis Festuca rubra Festuca arundinaceae Helictotrichon sempervirens Gaultheria hispidula 6 inches 12 inches 12 inches 6 inches 4 inches 6 inches 6 inches 12 inches 6 inches/seed RAIN GARDEN SOIL MIX SPECIFICATIONS ADAPTED FROM THE CITY OF NORTH VANCOUVER'S STORMWATER MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ON RAIN GARDENS 60-70% sand (2mm or finer particles) 10-20% clay and silt fines 15-20% organic material Ensure mix is well-blended Avoid compaction of the underlaying soils

WATERFRONT

Detailed design of a seating planter. Partner: Kevin Wong

760 2 1 75-100 MULCH GABION WITH RECYCLED AGGREGATE FROM SITE (MIN 6") ROCK CRUSH IN FILTER FABRIC 900 MIN GROWING MEDIUM 100 DRAINAGE GRAVEL 150 COMPACTED CRUSH COMPACTED SOIL METAL BRACKET W. SPIKE DRAINAGE PIPE METAL BRACKET W. SPIKE 900 DECORATIVE PEBBLES FILTER FABRIC GABION FINISH GRADE WITH GRASS 730 LENGTH REBAR SPIKE EMBED IN CRUSH 1450 65 1675 RECYCLED IPE WOODEN TOP (FSC CERTIFIED) 100 150 500 205 430 100 175 400 CORTEN STEEL RETAINING WALL scale:As indicated L110 Seat wall detail section, elevation 0001 Waterfront Landing Park drawn by:KW & EB Squamish, BC 1 20 2 Gabion seatwall - section 1 : 20 3 Gabion seatwall - elevation

LANDING

PARK

Thank you for your time. The work I do is to celebrate my inner child who always loved plants and share my joy with the world in hopes others will feel connected to the land too.

Elliot, age 3