Joseph Bondi LArch Portfolio 2024 by Joseph Bondi

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JOSEPH BONDI

JOSEPH BONDI LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND PLANNING P

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Landscape Design, Development Planning, and Project Managment with a background in Materials Procurement, and Production Planning. Candidate for Master of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania.

EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA M.L.A. Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Anticipated Graduation 2025

LANDSCAPE DESIGNER | PORT Urbanism, Penn Praxis Philadelphia, PA | September 2023 - Present

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY University Honors Program Bachelor of Science Supply Chain Management Minor in Biology Sept. 2014 - Dec. 2018

SOFTWARE GRAPHIC PRESENTATION Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Lumion After Effects Animation DESIGN & DATA ArcGIS Autocad Rhinoceros 7 SketchUp Microsoft Excel

Schematic design and documentation for rural civic park and greenway in Washington, PA. Part-time role held while enrolled in MLA coursework. Also responsible for public space design, 3d modeling, material selection, and design visualizations. DESIGN FELLOW | Penn Praxis, Farm of the Future Philadelphia, PA | May 2023 - Present Design and research fellow primarily tasked with developing novel planting schematic designs for ‘working buffer’ and silvapasture systems on PennVet’s campus. Scope included campus-scale planning, riparian buffer, and livestock pasture/cropfield design. SPECIALIST / PROJECT MANAGER | Epicenter Green River, Utah | January - September 2022 Project Manager for public park design & construction. Responsible for finalizing concept design, schematic design, and leading construction. Included irrigation and outdoor classroom design, volunteer coordination, and plant selection. LANDSCAPE DESIGNER | Bishop Land Design Quincy MA | March 2019 - April 2020 Assisted in planning, design, visualization, and construction documentation for several constructed or in-progress public projects throughout the US. Involved in or led community engagement efforts, planting design, material selection, and wayfinding for public sculpture landscape in Fargo, ND.

COMMUNITY-BASED WORK Design to Thrive Fellow | Penn Praxis Philadelphia, PA Board Member | Epicenter Green River, UT Americorps Vista | Community Rebuilds Moab, UT

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PUBLIC PARK DESIGN/BUILD CIVIC SPACE DESIGN RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN/BUILD ECOLOGICAL CERTIFICATION RESIDENTIAL + COMMERCIAL DESIGN FIELD WORK

PEARL BAKER PARK ROLE

Project Management + Construction Supervision Planting Design Concept + Schematic Design Material and Vendor Sourcing

Located adjacent to the site of Epicenter’s Affordable Housing Development, Canal Commons, Pearl Baker Park offers an intimate, interactive space that is conductive to learning, sheltered by mature cottonwood trees in a residential neighborhood. It features an outdoor classroom, native & edible plantings, and custom play space.

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PLACE-BASED DESIGN The Pearl Baker Park design was derived from careful study of the existing ecological niches and plant communities that occur in the high desert around Green River. The alluvial rock used in the dry stack walls around the park is derived from the historic vernacular building style of the area + sourced from a local quarry.

SPACE TO LEARN The design of Pearl Baker Park includes an outdoor classroom/ ampitheater structure that will serve the public schools of Green River for outdoor learning and programming. The space was designed with intensive input from local educators and is slated to be completed in the summer of 2023.

SPACE TO PLAY The various natural play structures at Pearl Baker Park were designed and built out of existing locally available materials, most prominently from cottonwood tree logs that had to be removed during the initial site preparation for safety concerns.

CIVIC SPACE DESIGN

ROLE

SODBUSTER SCULPTURE LANDSCAPE Planting Design + Construction Documentation Hardscape Design + Material/Vendor Selection Concept + Schematic Design/Visualization Community Engagement

The newly designed landscape at Fargo Public Library is the first phase of a larger project, the new Fargo Civic Plaza. BLD and the City of Fargo are now defining opportunities to implement the vision outlined by Downtown InFocus; to create a new Civic Plaza between City Hall, the Main Public Library and the Civic Center. Sodbuster Landscape benefited from an accelerated design process and fasttracked construction, due to concurrent commitments by the Plains Museum and the city to create a permanent home for the sculpture by fall 2019, the date that its restoration was complete.

PROGRAMMATIC DESIGN Through rigorous community engagement and polling on what the people of Fargo would like to see implemented in a new civic plaza, BLD was able to design a space that added value to the urban and social fabric while incorporating infrastructural and ecological improvements. Different options for program were presented in public meetings to determine the final design of the space.

CONSTRUCTION + PLANTING DESIGN Responsibilities for this project included planting design, construction documentation of planting, paving details, and sectional construction drawings. Enaged as landscape designer from concept design to finshed construction.

ECOLOGICAL DESIGN/ RESEARCH

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NEW BOLTON CENTER ‘WORKING BUFFERS’ Planting + Working Buffer Design Experimental Research Design Pasture + Cropland Research Campus Planning

In partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, Penn Praxis has proposed several potential designs for campus-wide ‘working buffer’ schemes that protect the upper watershed system that runs through the New Bolton Center’s campus + working farm. In this initial phase, the Praxis team developed several silvapasture schemes that aim to demonstrate the potential of integrated tree crops into pasture as a dual watershed protection feature and potential economic benefit to farmers in the region. The schemes are sited in a currently fallow pasture that will host pilot test plots to be researched by the vet school and Stroud Water Center.

RESIDENTIAL DESIGN/BUILD

WALKER RESIDENCE LANDSCAPE RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN/BUILD

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INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR

Project Management + Client Engagement Full Concept, Schematic, + Construction Design Material + Vendor Sourcing Full Construction + Planting Install

Complementary to a newly constructed home in a unique walking/ biking-only neighborhood in Moab, Utah, the Walker Residence Landscape was a closely cooperative design effort between designer and client. The design + planting selections derived from the culmination of the designer + clients lived experience with the specific parameters of the Colorado Plateau climate. Design + Construction completed as Independent Contractor in Spring/Summer 2022.

RESIDENTIAL DESIGN/BUILD

THE LIVING BUILDINGS ON MILL CREEK ECOLOGICAL CERTIFICATION ROLE

PROJECT LEAD, DESIGN + BUILD Project Management Full Concept + Schematic Design Certification Documentation + Adaptive Plan Full Construction + Planting Install

The Living Homes on Mill Creek are four single-family homes located in Moab, engaged in the certification process of the Living Building Challenge. In addition to a variety of specially designed systems aimed at Net Zero Energy usage within the homes, a landscape based on plant communities and ecological processes extant in the reference biome, was implemented adjacent to the four homes, dedicated to the re-establishment of a native and productive micro-ecology.

ADAPTIVE PLANNING + DESIGN Responsibilities for this project included project management, concept & construction documentation, implementation, and maintenance planning. I generated all LBC documentation, including the Adaptive Plan, Urban Agriculture, and Stormwater documentation. In the course of this project, I successfully advocated Moab City Engineering to permit a pilot green infrastructure component in the detention basin located on site.

ARROYO CROSSING AFFORDABLE HOMES + COMMUNITY REBUILDS OFFICE RESIDENTIAL + COMMERCIAL DESIGN ROLE

LEAD DRAFTSPERSON + PLANNING

Full Construction Documentation as Lead Draftsperson Site Planning for Community Land Trust Housing Living Materials Selection + Construction Planning Fully Permitted Residential + Commercial Construction

In partnership with the Moab Area Community Land Trust, Community Rebuilds has designed and built Low-Income scaled, natural built affordable twin homes. Located on a planned community land trust development, these homes achieve the design standards set forth by CR and the MACLT, including passive solar design, strawbale & cellulose insulation, recycled materials, greywater stubouts, and rigorous energy efficiency. [Top + Bottom Left] -

The Community Rebuilds new ADA office is a hybrid strawbale structure currently under construction (2021) using a variety of natural building techniques, including adobe floors, strawbale & cellulose insulation, lime plaster exterior, waddle-and-daub interior walls, and tadelakt bathroom plasters. The building is designed to be multi-functional, serving as an experimental canvas for natural building techniques and materials - and intended to transform into a 5-bedroom residential housing when it’s use as an office is no longer needed. [Bottom Right]

ACADEMIC WORK

MULTI-SPECIES ANDADROMY IN THE DELAWARE RIVER SYSTEM LARP 502

INDUSTRIAL ANADROMY PHILADELPHIA, PA LARP 502

Located on the banks of the Delaware River in North Philadelphia, the design of this public space was heavily informed by a rich narrative of place. Artistic legacies of the shad fishery & working landscape by Thomas Eakins and others took the forefront of inspiration and formal logic of the park. Overlayed atop this motif, multiple elements of ecological infrasturcture are designed to fill out this onceagain productive landsape. A hatchery system for native, and anadromous shad will be placed at the banks of their present and historical migratory route, to ensure their presence for generations to come.

PARK ORGANIZATION Through an evolving series of form studies into the object of the seine net, an organizational logic emerged from the shape and movement of not just the net, but the act of seine-netting itself. Varied topographical conditions emerged that have been layered atop another to serve their optimal function.

PANORAMIC VIEW + TROPHIC WEB DIAGRAM At its overlook and promontory, the park provides its visitors with an expansive view of the ecological infrastructure system of hatchery basins. Sweeping outer pathways reconnect the nearby residents to the Delaware River - and the legacy of this river as a working landscape.

MODELING ESTUARY HYDROLOGY MAURICE RIVER, NJ LARP 7400

In this course, ‘Baywatch: Mediated Environments’, we sought to model the complex hydrologic conditions of a freshwater estuary condition at the mouth of the Delaware Bay. Through the simuation tool AQUAVEO, we were able to create novel visualizations of these difficult to understand systems and test iterative design interventions.

SUB-AQUATIC VEGETATION PRESERVATION

This speculative design-research project seeks to create a protective zone for the establishment of eelgrass vegetation. The design implementation of the breakwater system would provide a stable source of eelgrass plant material for potential future restoration efforts.

RIVER POINTE RE-IMAGINED PORTLAND, PA LARP 601

Relocalizing Lehigh imagines a future for the Lehigh Valley that leverages its unique ability for adaptive re-use into a framework based around adaptive regeneration. The Relocalizing Lehigh framework plan emphasizes the shift in the region’s agricultural output towards climate-resilient/ regenerative practices (diversified multi-crops, incentives and tax breaks to improve cover-cropped residential lots, symbiosis between warehouse and agricultural land use); economic stimulation (processing of local food supply within disinvested and highly populated areas of the valley on previous industrial sites resolving the tension between greenfield and brownfield re-development); intra-regional connectivity (bike and hike trail system that taps into existing moments of agriculture/public park adjacencies and becomes a case for preservation) and increased food security and stability.

INDUSTRIAL CAMPUS FEATURES A network of inset, high character stormwater management courtyards with worker leisure and ecological function prioritized. Coordinated manufacturing capacity built to service localized supply chains and material produced onsite.

PARK ORGANIZATION The framework plan of the entire site supports riverside recreational access and connection to existing water activities and trails. Existing agricultural land will be converted to intensively managed cropland that is designed specifically to accomodate regionally specific crops to be processed on-site.

DELAWARE RIVERFRONT INDUSTRIAL PARK The former coal plant site along the Delaware River will be transformed into a mixed-use industrial park and riverfont trail/recreation area. A large gathering lawn with ajacent river access will allow for community celebration.

TIMBER PROCESSING + MODEL FORESTRY HUB The Timber Processing and Model Forestry Center contains native tree and silvapasture nursery, woody debris processing, recycling, and mulching, and a lumber mill and construction materials manufacturing facility.

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