McRae MLA Portfolio 2016

Projected Stream Morphology : Dominant channel has migrated as braids redefine the floodplain and accessibility.

IANitsMCRA E MLA PORTFOLIO

916 254 9421 imcrae@berkeley.edu

Educational Technology Services SENIOR COMPUTER CONSULTANT: Trained and managed teams of student consultants in software proficiency and customer service

Academic Talent Search

LAB TECHNICIAN: Determine the effectiveness of pheromone treatments as an alternative to pestides in both orchards and vineyards

Melis Laboratory | Algal Biofuels

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE: Designed and conducted bioreactor scale-up experiments to determine feasibility of commercial application

Lair of the Bear

ART TEACHING ASSISTANT: Mentored junior high and high school students in drawing and painting

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Welter Laboratory | Agricultural Entomology

ART DIRECTOR: Taught water color and ceramics to summer retreat attendees

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Infinity Video Systems

VIDEO ANALYST: Provide on-site consultation and real-time telemetrics to IndyCar teams for race strategization

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Prof. Hindle | Patents

GRAD STUDENT RESEARCHER: Explore evolution of technologies and define innovation within field of Landscape Architecture - prototype development

Prof. Dronova | Heat Islands

GRAD STUDENT RESEARCHER: Study how urban park compositions create cooling effects and provide a suite of ecosystem services

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GRAPHIC DESIGN DIGITAL MEDIA SALES & CUSTOMER SERVICE EARTH & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

IAN MCRAE 916 254 9421 imcrae@berkeley.edu

EDUCATION

PROFICIENCIES

Environmental Sciences Design Painting and Sketching Building and Fabrication Minimalism Problem Solving Outdoor Exploration

Drawing Modeling

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

Painting

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY | expected 2017 Candidate for Masters in Landscape Architecture Current GPA - 3.95

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY | 2010 Bachelor of Science in Molecular Environmental Biology Minor in Forestry and Natural Resources

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REFERENCES

MISSION STATEMENT

Kristina Hill

Weaving together the different disciplines to execute a vision is what I do best and who I am as a designer and creative thinker. My mission is to holistically integrate science and planning into landscape architecture to create multi-faceted designs that provide both ephemerally rich and ecologically robust environments. I have practiced art for my entire life and believe that landscape architecture is the means by which to merge my passion for both art and science.

PUBLICATIONS Acknowledged by H. Kirst & A. Melis (2012) Assembly of the Light-Harvesting Chlorophyll Antennae in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Requires Expression of the TLA2-CpFTSY Gene. Journal of Plant Physiology.

Acknowledged by H. Kirst & A. Melis (2012) Truncated photosystem chlorophyll antennae size in the green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii upon deletion of the TLA3-CpSRP43 gene. Journal of Plant Physiology.

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kzhill@berkeley.edu Associate Professor Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley

Anastasios Melis

melis@berkeley.edu Professor Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley

Illustrator Photoshop InDesign Sony Vegas (Video Editing)

Flora & Fauna ID Field Measurements ArcGIS Remote Sensing

Dave McEntee

dave@infinityvideosystems.com CEO / Founder Infininty Video Systems Mill Valley, CA

AutoCad Rhino

ADVANCED

PASSIONS

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CONTENTS OAKISLANDISH

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SWELL//SCAPE

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Lake Merritt | Oakland, CA la201 | fall 2015 | Kristina Hill Studio

75 Howard | San Francisco, CA la200b | spring 2015 | Walter Hood Studio

THE CLAREMONT MEANDER Claremont Hotel | Berkeley, CA la200b | spring 2015 | Kristina Hill Studio

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Stormwater Infrastructure as Living Laboratory, Habitat, and Human Space

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West Meadow | UC Berkeley, CA fall 2015 | epa rainworks competition WILLOWS

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ALDERS

food supply for native wildlife

Imagining ways in which habitat resilience and flood mitigation improvements can act also as investment in future generations for the region’s students and citizens.

Birdseye Looking NorthWest

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In significant flooding events, UNBOUND’s Retention Basin is capable of taking significant strain off of the local urban stormwater infrastructure, becoming an off-limits spectacle in the process

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OAKISLANDISH Lake Merritt | Oakland, CA la201 | fall 2015 | Kristina Hill Studio Lake Merritt is a unique metropolitan site that lies at the confluence of stormwater and sea-level rise, a scenario to be further exacerbated by future climate change. Working with a partner, we recognized that the lake serves as the central node of a larger network that connects the community to faunal, floral, and fluvial systems. Utilizing ‘Island Theory’ we created a series of interconnected nodes, each serving a different purpose such a recreation, stormwater, and habitat, to weave together a holistic solution that extends beyond the lake shore.

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TRESTLE GLEN BASIN

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Pergola Lagoon

LEVEE AND TIDAL ISLANDS

BIOSWALE

Bioswale

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Recreation Field

RETENTION POND

Retention Pond

833 FT

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ROADS

Roads

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SEA-LEVEL RISE Urban Context

Population Density

Pedestrian Access Income

Public Transit

Phase 1: 2025

Phase 2: 2050

Phase 3: 2075

Vegetation Cover

Watershed HABITAT

HABITAT

HABITAT

PARKLANDS

PARKLANDS

SEA LEVEL PROTECTION

SEA LEVEL PROTECTION WATER INTERVENTIONS

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CONCEPTUAL MODELS

Field studies of how landform can create both place and capture water

A study of the relationship between objects and shore typology

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PROPOSED CONTOURS:

EXISTING CONTOURS:

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SWELL//SCAPE 75 Howard | San Francisco, CA la200b | spring 2015 | Walter Hood Studio As part of a proposed condominium project at 75 Howard, a new public space will be created in front of the development. The location of the site sat just two blocks from the bay, which drove the design to reconnect the condominium to the Embarcadero waterfront. The design sought to highlight the juxtaposition of the city and the bay by creating two polar and adjacent spaces. One represented the the bay by creating a tidal inlet with a wetland whose waters rose and fell with the daily tidal cycles. The other was a sunken basin to capture stormwater, representing the city and the terrestrial realm with its seasonal mediterranean climate.

Annual volume of rainfall on site ~20 inches / year

Daily change in tidal height ~ 6 ft 10

The concept embodied in this design was that of a wave wrapping around a peninsula and breaking upon the shore; the swell undulating as it rolls across the site.

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THE CLAREMONT MEANDER Claremont Hotel | Berkeley, CA la200b | spring 2015 | Walter Hood Studio The Claremont Hotel is a historic hotel at the foot of the Claremont Canyon and Berkeley Hills. It is also situated on Berkeley’s original walking path network that provided shortcuts and connections for pedestrians to easily reach streetcars, business centers and other places of activity. However with the growth of the city, the path network has been heavily disrupted as was revealed through sectional studies of the path that stretched well beyond the extent of the hotel site. From the analysis, a common landscape grammar was created and sought to stitch the broken path back together to provide for both hotel patrons and the greater public.

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SITE ANALYSIS: A study of captured moments both in section and photograph 15

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UNBOUND

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Stormwater Infrastructure as Living Laboratory, Habitat, and Human Space

aquatic & terrestrial habitat

UNBOUND West Meadow | UC Berkeley, CA Incised Creek Channel falll 2015 | epa rainworks competition

The campus ecosystem health is a reflection on the institution holistically. Providing for more ecosystem variation and resilience will ensure future generations of s tudents are more likely to experience our region’s threatened wildlife.

Existing

The project site is a reach of the North Fork of Strawberry Creek, a heavily degraded and artificially channelized creek running through the UC Berkeley campus. The design sought to holistically address manifold challenges, weaving together goals in restoration ecology, climate change adaptation, stormwater management, and academic and cultural utility of the site. This new mosaic rooted in stormwater management and native ecology envisions a multifunctional and floodable space - a critically needed and compelling ‘evolutionary aesthetic’. My graphic contribution was the sectional Wall and Overlook Graded Floodplain Protective Berm perspectives illustrating how the sites evolves with time.

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ALDERS

Imagining ways in which habitat resilience and flood mitigation improvements can act also as investment in future generations for the region’s students and citizens.

Birdseye Looking NorthWest

Storm events over a 1.5-year recurrence interval exceeds the current capacity of the downstream culvert, threatening critical infrastructure

WILLOWS

food supply for native wildlife

Proposed

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SEDGES

to enhance

In significant flooding events, UNBOUND’s Retention Basin is capable of taking significant strain off of the local urban stormwater infrastructure, becoming an off-limits spectacle in the process

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SECTIONS IN PHASE : Interventions in creek channel activate a newly accessible floodplain SECTIONS IN PHASE : Interventions in creek channel activate a newly accessible floodplain

: U N B O U N D : U N B O U N D Stormwater Infrastructure as

Stormwater Infrastructure as Living Laboratory, Habitat, an Living Laboratory, Habitat, an

Since campus development began in the late 1800s, the creek has been constrained by a series of check dams, culverts, and retaining walls - leading to severe channel incision, dramatic reduction of riparian buffer zone width, and regular drainage infrastructure failures.

Incised Creek Channel Incised Creek Channel

Existing Existing

The design re-establishes variation and connectivity in native ecotones by expansion of the floodplain and a major vegetation palette overhaul. Imagining the site as a valuable node of human interaction and observation of nature will catalyze the site and showcase seasonal rhythms.

Wall and Overlook Wall and Overlook

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Graded Floodplain Graded Floodplain

Protective Berm Protective Berm

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1' MIN 1 41 STAINLESS STEEL HANDRAIL, BRUSHED FINISH

2'-10" FROM TOP OF NOSING TO TOP OF RAIL

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CERAMIC TILE 21" x 5" x 6" WATER LEVEL WATER PUMP 3 4"

Ø WATER SUPPLY 2" Ø OVERFLOW PIPE WATERPROOF EPOXY COATING CONCRETE WITH REINFORCING REBAR - SEE REF DOCUMENT

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UC BERKELEY LA 121: DESIGN IN DETAIL ELEMENTAL INNOVATIONS

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FROSTLINE COMPACTED SUBGRADE

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Russian Hill, like Nob Hill, was urbanized realtively late, in the second half of the nineteenth century, by wayward Russian eskimos who chose its heights as ideal sites for their homes. This tradition was perpetuated and Russian Hill remains today an eskimo dominated neighborhood. The varied architecture, from igloo to Humbolt County “log” cabins, hippie co-ops and the occasional gothic rock group, all create a boisterous atmosphere of diverse, and bustling housing developments, longing for the clamor and agitation of the city.

Some houses built in the early century can float in mid-air on their towering clouds after the streets were levelled and eliminated.

The painter Bob Ross has rendered this energy in his painting “Happy Trees,” in which he expresses all the strange beauty of this urban landscape.

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‘Barrel of the Prism’ - oil on canvas - 18” X 24”

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Field Studies - Corcovado National Forest, Costa Rica

‘Curious Complexities’ - oil on canvas - 18” x 24”

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