Portfolio 2017

Juan Prieto 2017

Landscape Architecture Portfolio

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Selected Works Volume 002

Juan Prieto

Landscape Architecture Portfolio

FUNDAMENTALS

I’m not sure where I am going – if I knew where I was going, I wouldn’t be doing it…

CONTENT

ABOUT Biography Preface

SELECTED WORKS Urban Design In the Great Northeast Mosaico/Preservation Ecological Infrastructure Residential/Habitat is Everywhere Technical Drawings

BIOGRAPHY

Currently, a minority increasingly needs to be many minorities - a mixture of species. This many faceted minority is targeted yet able to move quickly and able to adapt over and through time. I am this minority hoping to become a designer in a world of ever changing circumstances. I value the versatility, skillful dexterity, and the open mind required of a competent designer. I have made a promise to myself and the world to leverage my commitment to becoming a citizen of this country with the thinking and writing required in my education in landscape architecture. My commitment will grind away any obstacle I face and create new relationships that only strengthen my resolve. I relish the truth and know that I will always acknowledge things that I do not know, and seek to discover those things that I did not know. I am Juan Prieto, a dexterous minority of one, skillfully seeking to design landscapes that reveal ideas and possibilities of versatility and adaptation.

PREFACE “…I’m not sure where I am going – if I know where I was going, I wouldn’t be doing it…” – Frank Gehry

This portfolio finds its roots from a diverse range of influential thinkers: Stan Allen, Luis Callejas, James Corner, and Leon Schidlowsky and many others. These individuals have encouraged me to skew my understanding of landscape architecture, but not the fundamental idea. This ‘skewing’ has forced me to bend the rules while acknowledging the fundamentals of landscape architecture practice. It has forced me to see landscape as more than deterritorialized world.

While designing, one core area is always under my consideration, the unknown unknowns: There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns.

That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know,

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stated by United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, realigning what it means to question: who can question, and what it means to question. An active discussion that is often being played in the back of my mind: with no ground to anchor to, my understanding of this statement is weak, but it’s always in motion. Only in the act of constructing these drawings: the process of only revealing the “simplified” only makes me question the idea of analyzing what we already know. Maybe the answer to all of our questions is sitting right under our nose. Who knows?

We have become blinded for the moment. Our goal should not be to build but to destroy; in order to one day rebuild. This rebuilding will confidently show signs of weakness, tentative choices, and ideas being lost and hidden in the shadows. The cultural

connections will be plentiful. But my approach, curiosity, willingness to question, the mastery of craft in order to know how to comprehend and where to explore are the true power of my thoughts.

Hinted in these drawings varying in scale from scale less, ecological urbanism, residential, to construction you will find that these ideas were pushed from the early stages of my career as a landscape architecture student. I leverage a commitment to forward thinking, the will to keep learning, and forming structural relationships within the world we call home. I understand that implicit in these drawings, is a non-conventional way of doing things, but the overall key to understanding the development of my work to its next degree is to continue this journey with a diverse visualization and experience both

academically and practical. It is a lifetime goal to one day attend a graduate program to further develop my ideas A response to my personal experience as a landscape architecture student, this small volume brings alive my interpretation of exhuming a body of ideas through representation, contingency, and speculation – a distinct vocabulary often viewed with a negative connotation. I accept the reality that these ideas may not be successful nor practical but they are mine. I urge you to take a look.

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URBAN DESIGN IN THE GREAT NORTH EAST We envision the Apron to be the catalyst for the city on the track, the APRIN. By creating a city on the race track’s edge, horse racing and legacy are interwoven into the urban fabric of everyday life.

URBAN DESIGN: THE APRIN Location: Woodbine Race Track, CA Size: 684 acres Collaborative Studio: SWA Laguna Beach Group Size: 4 Members

If one looks at a typical apron adjacent to the race track, some distinct opportunities or characteristics can be discovered. Woodbine’s apron offers a spacious area that allows one to stay close to the action and right next to the rail.

The apron also offers an opportunity to access the infield. A day at Woodbine race track is not complete without experiencing at least one race up close and personal. The majority of the apron are accessible by anyone who wishes to enter the thrill and excitement. By keeping this in mind and adapting the design to it, so that the final results combines certain unity with an identity that could not be experienced anywhere else.

The APRIN can be seen as an intelligent way to bring the city up front and personal to the apron. The urban mass of most cities consist of dense high-rise development. Building big is not however our intent with building a unique city that establishes identity around the legacy of horse racing. The concept is not new, as Identifiable neighborhoods such as Yorkville, Distillery District, Kensington Market, and even major streets such as West Queen St. in Canada have already successfully embraced

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Identity

Celebrate

the typology and become the celebrated precedents of urbanism. The best of these combine the strict order of the grid or the block, with the disorder and diversity of individual infill, thus creating a strong foundation for long lasting and lively neighborhoods.

The woodbine race track is defined by the apron surrounding the race track vulnerable to ecological corridors, public transportation and education. Maintaining these connections means maintaining the site’s strongest feature (the race track). The ecological corridor acts an identity band that encloses the commercial and entertainment development of the site. The blocks are oriented in a regular grid (east to west) according to sun light, and the race track providing connections between blocks. These blocks are then diversified with different heights, widths, and functions of buildings. Prominent buildings are internally connected as key points for orientation. Within the buildings, what is normally dead space becomes active over time.

The results of this vision is a differentiated city consisting of an apron surrounded by the legacy of horse racing.

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Master Plan By extending the Aprin’s edge our group was able preserve the legacy of horse racing and provide a window into to Woodbine’s vision.

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The proposed organization and distribution of cultural and commercial urban development are strongly aligned and threaded within the extension of the APRIN.

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Infield Access Service Access Urban Densities Nature Access Parking

Carlingview Dr.

Block Density Diagram

1: IDENTITY HUMBER RIVER QUEEN’S PLATE DR.

Neighborhood Distribution

MIMICO CREEK

2: EXTEND TRANSIT STATION

Proposed Road System

TRANSIT STATION

3: CONNECT

Proposed Preservation Fabric

Proposed Public Transportation Route

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Street Types 1. The broadest and most open are the large streets lining the large green open spaces, which serve as urban connectors.

2. The second street type: the smaller scale commercial and residential streets occasionally open up to allow through passage.

3. Pedestrian laneways cut through the mixed use and residential fabrics, allowing for more intimate ways of navigating the urban fabric.

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Building Typology New block typologies allow for a variety of unique urban spaces and permeability of the public realm.

High-, mid, and low-density typologies encourage a rich diversity of demographics.

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Retail + Office

Residential + Mixed Use

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Porous Edge The building typology along the Aprin’s edge is perhaps more about the idea of urban activators.

Pavilions could acts as retail pavilions that populate exterior urban spaces such as, plazas, squares, and perhaps street edges. Adding more of a human scale to the dynamic of the race track. By adding buildings that are low-rise terraced with courtyards, the roofs themselves become active and lively landscapes that are designed strategically adjacent to the race track. Lastly, we considered commercial, office, retail, and hotel programs that are tall (vertically) with and identifiable profile to increase daylight to open spaces and to reinforce the street corridors.

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Infield The infield establishes a recreation hub for the city. The infield is defined by spaces for formal and informal activities that occur all year round.

MOSAICO/PRESERVATION To provide the city of Castiglion Fiorentino a contemporary solution to its primary circulation issue while doing it in a manner that respects its geographical context and history.

MOSAICO Location: Castiglion Fiorentino, ITALY Size: 239 acres Population: 3,200 Group Size: 4 Members

The citizens of Castiglion Fiorentino value the richness that their mosaic landscapes offer. As an economic catalyst the agriculture industry plays a huge role through crops, crop byproducts and agritourism. This provides the foundation for communities past and future. For the future, the community will need to address geologic change and hydro-logic challenges (geologic and hydrologic change as well as preserving nostalgia) in the valley.

As Castiglion Fiorentino grows, the citizens envision an experience that celebrate these historic roots.

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Master Plan 1. View Deck 2. Open Lawn 3. Pavilion 4. Rainwater filtration System 5. Parking 6. Vineyard Walk 7. Olive Walk 8. Historic Aqueduct 9. Recreation 10. Community Garden

Master Plan The master plan was developed through multiple iterations and concepts that lead to a final plan.

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Water Flow Studies The sketch to the left is an investigation that informed the movement and process of bioremediation that plants will undertake to filter contaminants.

Site Plan Storm Water Feature Basin

Section Studies By getting a sense of the scale and proportion to its context I was able to achieve this only through hand sketches.

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Reusing The idea that by emerging people into a space that is unfamiliar will evoke a sense of appreciation to its surroundings. In theory, people of all cultures and ages could enjoy such space in a meaningful way that references its historical context and geographical region.

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ECOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE Momentum seems to be the best word to describe the channelized river of Rio Hondo, inspired by ChileanIsraeli composer and painter. His compositions a lot like Lawrence Halprin explores on the experience of the physical environment. Mapping, not merely static space or forms, to create landscapes; this was fundamental to the understanding and an interest in process and change in the designed environment.

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PERPETUAL EMERGENCE Location: San Gabriel Valley Basin Area: 143 miles sq.

Length: 16 miles Group Size: 2 Members

Landscape is capable of structuring the city in ways not available to practice such as politics, art, biology, or advertising. Yet because of its capacity to reveal cultural and ecological concepts, it can also contribute to something that technical disciplines, such as engineers cannot.

Infrastructure works not so much to propose a specific landscape typology on a given site, but to construct the site itself. Infrastructure, such as the Rio Hondo, a five mile stretch of channelized concrete river located in Los Angeles, prepares the ground for opportunities and conditions for future events.

the city and allows for the participation of multiple relationships. These relationships could support local events, such a heavy rain storm, while maintaining overall continuity. This project proposes an extensive catalog of strategies that already exist to accommodate irregular opportunities in the landscape.

Although static in and of itself, these opportunities organize and manage complex systems. Some may overlap and some may change, both of which tend to produce a field condition that disrupt the overall infrastructural system to become managed.

The Rio Hondo recognizes the collective nature of

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Cell Morphology The basic building blocks of a channel in the form of a cell - the active site for rapid passage within the channelized river bounds. The sequence is intended to optimize the speed in which water will travel, and is limited primarily by the direction and travel in which the angle of the channel responds.

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Plan Rendering Showing Morphology + Direction Variations

Perspective Rendering Showing Morphology Variations

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Blooming + Seeding

Site Fluctuation

Red: Seed Dispersal Green: Seed Accumulation

Circulation

Site Plan Crowded + Empty

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Program Application We propose, instead of a finalized plan, a series of phases in which to install our structural, ecological, and cultural program that suggests the perpetual development of the alignment.

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5 mile radius

HABITAT IS EVERYWHERE The University of California, Riverside (UCR) Chancellor’s Residence, a threshold to the expansion of new ideas, teaching, and community leadership. Consisting of more than 32,000 sq. ft. on the eastern edge of UCR, it contains within its boundaries, an abundance of diverse plant communities and a significant wildlife habitats.

HABITAT IS EVERYWHERE Client: UCR Chancellor’s Residence Location: University of California, Riverside Size: 32,000sf.

Group Size: 8 Members

The University of California, Riverside (UCR) Chancellor’s Residence, a threshold to the expansion of new ideas, teaching, and community leadership.

Consisting of more than 32,000 sq. ft. on the eastern edge of UCR, it contains within its boundaries, an abundance of diverse plant communities and a significant wildlife habitats. Because of its context and unique topography, the site lends itself to both a home and an environment for all living organisms.

We hope that Habitat is Everywhere, with its size, context, and changeling but powerful opportunities for the site, will serve as model for the UC Riverside and the rest of Southern California.

As we take lead on this remarkable opportunity of this site, we would like to offer the current and future Chancellor’s Residence and the community a glimpse of the many ways we can re-imagine this extraordinary residential space. Habitat is Everywhere will become an ecological network of

infrastructure directly supporting local species of fauna, flora, and humans of the region. Viewing humans as information-based organisms who want to know, who want to explore, and want to take action.

UC Riverside can be seen as a living + breathing organism that is constantly evolving, growing, and adapting to the new environment. With the help of professors + faculty/staff and professionals from Mia Lehrer + Associates who volunteered their time, and the final master plan it yielded, are the first steps towards transforming the way we see habitat and provide unique and distinct possibilities. We hope this master plan will provide you with a vivid image of our thoughts and imagination for the future and the place we call home. + Box Springs Mountain Park

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Site + Botanical gardens

+ Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Park

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Existing Habitat

5 mile radius

45% increase

Contextual Analysis A 45% increase in habitat is revealed through a series of regional mappings and tactical strategies. With an understanding of existing ecological systems and cultural impacts, three strategies were cultivated from these analytical drawings: 1. Flora, 2. Corridors, 3.

Program.

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Grassland

Andropogon gerardii Big Blue Stem

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Bothriochloa barbinodis cane bluestem

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Woodland + Forest

Quercus agrifolia Coast Live Oak

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Juniperus californica California Juniper

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Alluvial Fan Sage Scrub

Eriogonum fasciculatum Sambucus nigra California Buckwheat Mexican Elderberry

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Riparian Woodland

Platanus racemos California Sycamore

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Eucalyptus tereticornis Cattail

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Meadow

Typha latifolia Cattail

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Arundo donax Giant Reed

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Coastal Sage Scrub

Eriogonum fasciculatum Adenostoma fasciculatum Chamise Eugene California Buckwheat

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Chaparral

Adenostoma fasciculatumRhus ovata Chamise Eugene Sugar Bush

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Phacelia stelaris Star Phacelia

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Berberis nevinii Nevin’s barberry

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Erodium macrophyllum Roundleaf stork’s bill

Strategy Diagram

The concept of ‘Habitat is Everywhere’ is derived from three main strategies, such as corridors, patches, and connectivity. Corridors are elongated patches, fields, and or clearings. Patches as spatial units connected by corridors. Patch size can effect spatial habitat and resource availability. Patch shape and orientation also play an important ecological role. Lastly, a connectivity strategy usually involves corridors, and networks and describe how patches are connected in the landscape.

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1. Proposed Entryway 2. Proposed Architecture Mod. 3. Event Lawn 4. Citrus Walk 5. Wildflowers Patch 6. Residence Parking 7. Public Parking 8. Coyote Overlook 9. Nature’s Pavilion 10. Eco-Pool 11. Permeable Bridge 12. Botanical Access Trails

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Citrus Walk

Living Walls as ecological corridors

Section 3: Entry to the Residence and Exterior

Coastal Sage Plantings

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Wood Deck

Intimate Space

Welcoming Entry

Meadow

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Open Lawn

Event Space

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FOYER 7'-2" x 14'-2" STOR. 4'-6" x 13'-6"

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LAUNDRY 7'-10" x 12'-0"

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KITCHEN 20'-4" x 23'-2"

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wildflower garden

DINING ROOM

GARAGE 23'-8" x 31'-7"

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BEDROOM 14'-2" x 15'-9"

DINING ROOM 19'-7" x 30'-0"

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LIVING ROOM 28'-0" x 32'-0"

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PROPERTY L 15'-0" x 40'-0"

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pool

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office

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laundry

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bathroom

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195 ft2

dining room

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extended transition path

sage garden

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Ecological Corridors

Ecological Program

Edges / Topography

Hand Sketches These drawing exhibit my personal interest and passion for hand drawings and problem solving.

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Human Corridors

Cultural Program

Patches

Residence Welcoming Area

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TECHNICAL DRAWINGS The following chapter summarizes my personal understanding and capability of grounding a project to B the final detail. I have always had a curiosity for wanting to LS-03 know how things are designed and put together.

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12 4"x8" PANDEROSA PINE JOIST 13 4"x10" PANDEROSA PINE BEAM 14 4"x4" PANDEROSA PINE POST DEPENDING ON DECK HEIGHT ABOVE GRADE 15 8"x8"x10" PREFABRICATE POURED CONCRETE PIER 16 CONCRETE FOOTING

SEE MANUFACTURER'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS 20 GALVANIZED POST CAP WITH BOLTS 21 STRAP ANCHOR AS POST BASE ATTACHMENT 22 95% COMPACTED SUB-GRADE

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in this portfolio. My education in landscape architecture does not end on graduation day, it is the beginning of a new perspective on the world and vision in which I am passionate about. With a degree in Landscape Architecture I now have the skills required to work along side others who share the same passion as I do.

Thank you for taking the time to review selected works exhibited

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