g. dominic malacaman
g. dominic malacaman dominic.malacaman@gmail.com 716 238 1851
Skills Digital AutoCAD Illustrator Photoshop InDesign After Effects Rhino Grasshopper ArcGIS Pro
Analog Model-building Hand-rendering Freehand sketching
References Valerie Aymer RLA Associate Professor of the Practice: Cornell University vea3@cornell.edu
Education Cornell University | Aug 2019 - | Ithaca, NY Candidate for a BS in Landscape Architecture, Class of 2022 Cumulative GPA: 4.0/4.0 Dean’s List Fall 2019 - Spring 2020, No Impact LA Scholarship Recipient
Northeastern University | Sep 2017 - Apr 2019 | Boston, MA Candidate for a BLA in Landscape Architecture, Class of 2022 Cumulative GPA: 3.93/4.0 Dean’s List Fall 2017 - Spring 2019, Honor’s Scholarship Recipient
Experience Restoration Ecology Teaching Assistant | Aug 2020 | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Organized and created learning materials, quizzes, and ArcGIS workshops. Individually met and assisted students regarding comprehension of course material and development of final projects.
CU-ASLA Undergraduate Secretary | Apr 2020 - | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Created agendas, meeting minutes, and action items for the student executive board. Organized virtual departmental events to promote positive studio culture and academic development in the Fall 2020 semester.
LABash Vice Director | Sep 2019 - | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Communicated with companies, firms, and landscape architecture programs regarding sponsorship opportunities for the 2020 LABash Conference. Planned the shift to the virtual 2021 LABash Conference through organization and coordination between various subcommittees.
Scott Bishop ASLA
Design Intern | May 2019 - Aug 2019 | Bishop Land Design, Boston, MA
Founding Principal: Bishop Land Design sb@bld.partners 339.205.5618
Created design materials including renderings, construction documents, value engineering options, and client presentations. Constructed and proposed studies for various design options through research, design software, and physical model-making.
ACADEMIC Seneca Lake Islands
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Topographic Architectures
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In / Voluntary Transience
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East Boston Walking Tour
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PROFESSIONAL Downtown Christmas Market
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Oneida Plaza
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PERMEABLE BRIDGE SENECA LAKE ISLANDS Spring 2020: Cornell University
This project sought to redefine the land/water boundary at two separate ends of Seneca Lake. Through a series of analytical mappings and diagrams, I proposed a series of islands which create a physically and conceptually permeable bridge connecting two sites vastly differing in both program and experience. Island typologies, program, material, construction, and floating mechanisms were all considered to create a gradient of experience between the two sites.
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Site Analysis: Dichotomous Sites
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Concept Diagram: Programmatic Gradient
Concept Diagram: Permeable Bridge
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TOPOGRAPHIC ARCHITECTURES PRECEDENT + SPECULATION Spring 2020: Cornell University
This project considered the blurred edge between architecture and topography, beginning with precedent studies. These projects were examined solely through sectional representation, using line and/or tone as the primary means to convey spatial depth and material without a reference plan. I chose to study the Igualada Cemetery designed by Enrique Miralles and Carme Pinรณs, using tone, shadow, and material to represent depth. Precedents were then translated into student design speculations of topographic architectures represented using the same sectional strategies and through sequential massing operations.
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RESET-tlement
IN/VOLUNTARY TRANSIENCE Fall 2020: Cornell University
This series of drawings are from the first phase of a studio regarding Indigenous landscapes. We began with a three week period of personal reading, research, rediscovery, and representation of indigenous pasts and presents, focusing especially on the Haudenosaunee and the Gayogohono people. With this background, I wrote and represented a narrative of movement, transience, and impermanence split into mirrored halves: voluntary/cultural and involuntary/colonial. Haudenosaunee notions of spatially insignificant borders, impermanent settlements, and transient interpretations of landscape are presented in direct contrast to settler-colonial actions of settlement destruction, forced diaspora, and illegally claiming land. I used various methods of representation to represent time and transience, including overlays, animation, and temporal sections.
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CONTACT: “David rose early and went fishing in the creek, and caught some trout. We saw that there were eight or nine huts across the river. The Tutelars, who have moved up here from the Susquehanna, have begun to form a town on that side, and expect soon to have some more of their nation here.� Cammerhoff 1750
CONFLICT: Sept. 25th, 1779. Marched this Morning at 6 o’clock, and encamped at an Indian Town 3.5 miles above Cayuga Lake; the Town appeared to be consumed, supposed to be Burnt by a Detachment from Genl. Sullivan’s Army. The soil equal to or Rather Superior to any in the country., through which runs several Fine Streams of Water. Colonel Henry Dearborn 1779
COLONIAL: COREORGONEL (Where We Keep Pipe of Peace): Cayuga Indian Village Iroquois Six Nations Destroyed by Sullivan’s Army September 24-25, 1779 State Education Department 1932 13
Seneca Gayogohono Onondaga Oneida Mohawk Tuscarora
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1770: Gayogohono sovereignty
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1779: Sullivan expedition, Gayogohono diaspora
1780: Resettlement to reservations
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1841: New York illegally claims Gayogohono land
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PT. 1: SEPARATION
WALKING TOUR EAST BOSTON
Fall 2018: Northeastern University
This project is a part-archival research/part-creative writing piece for a History in Cities and Landscapes class at Northeastern. It is based on a concept of “relational landscapes” as presented by Don Mitchell, resulting in a designed walking tour of a part of Boston which represents relational landscapes. I chose to write about the neighborhood of East Boston, running parallel narratives of connection/isolation, the history of immigration, as well as exploitation by the mainland of Boston. The project also explores the interactions between the marginalized communities and the city, with immigrants being affected by the neighborhood’s continuous narrative history. It views each resulting protest, intervention, cultural paradigm and shift as products, natural successors to history, and never the final iteration or change of the city. PROJECT LINK: https://landscapes.northeastern.edu/ dom-malacaman-storymap/
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BOSTON COMMON CASTLE ISLAND BOSTON HARBOR
PT. 2: ERASURE
LOGAN AIRPORT/WOOD IS GOLDEN STAIRS PARK/IMM IMMIGRANTS HOME ON M
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MOST HOLY REDEEMER CHU MAVERICK SQUARE EAST BOSTON ECUMENICA
PT. 4: REDEFINITION
EAST BOSTON GREENWAY ORLEANS ST. DEVELOPMENT ICA WATERSHED
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CHRISTMAS MARKET RENDERINGS
Summer 2019: Bishop Land Design
Project Team: Scott Bishop, Brian Park, Dominic Malacaman While working at Bishop Land Design, these renderings were created as marketing materials for the Downtown Market of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Along with creating Photoshop renderings, the project team designed the themes and potential experiences within the Christmas Market based on precedent research of traditional European winter markets, elements of Grand Rapids, and client feedback.
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ONEIDA PLAZA CONCEPT DESIGN Summer 2019: Bishop Land Design
Project Team: Scott Bishop, Michael Sadler, Brian Park, Dominic Malacaman Bishop Land Design worked with the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin to conceptualize a new community plaza for an existing empty lot. Stormwater infiltration, parking requirements, and Oneida tradition were all considered within project phases. In addition, a bench/fence/ canopy structure was designed from available leftover timbers the Menominee Forest of Wisconsin. My role in the project team included design and typology studies for the “fench� canopy structure as well as conceptual rendering for initial design iterations and client presentations.
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Fench Studies
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