Juan Prieto

DRIFTING

curiosity and knowledge

juan prieto department of landscape architecture landscape architecture portfolio cal poly pomona

DRIFTING

curiosity and knowledge

juan prieto department of landscape architecture landscape architecture portfolio cal poly pomona

Personal Resume 6-7 Itinerary 8 Preface 9

In Motion

Lines of Development 11-13

- graphy 14

Reactive Planes 15

Revelatory landscape 16-17 Perpetual Emergence Rio Hondo 18-29

Construction

Grounded

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Build 50-54

INDEX

Habitat is Everywhere

Chancellor’s 30-45

JUAN C. PRIETO

education

5415 Olivewood Ave. Riverside CA. 92506 951-313-7349 jcprieto33s@gmail.com

2013 - Present

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Bachelor of Science: Landscape Architecture ( Expected 2017 )

professional experience 2008 - Present

Color Landscape (Riverside, CA.) Project Manager / Designer Design / Build Project Manager with 7 years experience managing / directing functional teams of technical experts to analyze, process, and implement landscape improvements. Recognized for leadership in planning, scheduling, definition of scope of work, and deliver projects on time.

expertise Project Management Problem Identification / Resolution Team Building / Leadership Business / Project Strategy and Direction

intern 2010-2011

San Antonio Tree Service (Riverside, CA) Worked with professional arborist and learned to maintain the health, safety and aesthetics of trees while applying arboricultural techniques. Participated in all phases of tree care management, including ground and or aerial pruning of trees.

relevant experience 2014

ENV Outcomes: Outcomes to Showcase Cal Poly’s ENV Alumni’s Professional Achievements Volunteer / Designer

In a team, we were able to design 10 multi-functional benches using little to no financial resources and donated material. The benches have an area to sit, but also serves as a pin-up board that would showcase the work by alumni.

JUAN C. PRIETO

2015

Spurce: Pitzer Multi Species Commons (Claremont, CA) Volunteer / Assistant

exhibitions + lectures / curated + hosted 2014

Beginnings: A Showcase of Architecture, Graphic Design, Landscape Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning Design Work.

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Outcomes: Outcomes to showcase Env Alumni’s Professional Achievements

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Jeremy Rosenberg ( Lecturer ): Under Spring - Voices + Art + Los Angeles

awards 2015

Takeo Uesugi Scholars Scholarship

2016

Don Brinkerhod Landscape Architecture Scholarship

competitions 2015

National Collegiate Landscape Competition:

ASLA involvement ASLA Student Chapter Affiliation ASLA National Member ASLA Student Chapter Advisor and Mentor ASLA Student Chapter Executive Assistant

2015

skills Adobe Suite AutoCad GIS Software Microsoft Office Rhino V-ray

Top 10 finisher

5415 Olivewood Ave. Riverside CA. 92506 951-313-7349 jcprieto33s@gmail.com

A far reaching ecological initiative that engages and transforms Pitzer College’s thirty-four acre campus.

itinerary August - November 2016

Los Angeles / Italy

Landscape Architecture Study Abroad School: Santa Chiara Study Center in Castiglion Florentino

June - August December - January Spring 2017

GRE exam seeking internship

June 2017

graduation

June 2017

seeking part time/full-time job

August 2018

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seeking summer internship

grad school

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

Stan Allen architect

Luis Callejas architect

James Corner

landscape architect

Leon Schidlowsky

Chilean-Israeli composer and painter

This portfolio finds its roots from a diverse range of influential thinkers: Stan Allen, Luis Callejas, James Corner, and Leon Schidlowsky. 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, 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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In Motion

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Lines of Development. Drip. Series 1-3. Ink on paper.

In these series of drawings I was most interested in the idea of points and lines as notational devise that could assimilate motion in the form of drip, wind, and mirror. .

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Lines of Development. Wind. Series 2-3. Ink on paper.

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Lines of Development. Mirror. Series 3-3. Ink on paper.

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-graphy A combining form denoting a process or form of drawing, writing, representing, recording, describing, etc.,

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Reactive Planes. Surface Explorations. Wire Mesh + Plaster. Digital Photography 2013 The contemporary American Landscape is comprised of layerd complex geographies and it is because of collisions and layering of relationships. Implicit in these pages is the notion that the designed landscape can become a remarkable process of how undesigned landscapes might become sources for the future.

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Fig. Above Design Palette: Force / Shift / Rotate

REVELATORY LANDSCAPE

Datums as reactive planes

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Digital Deformation Series

Topographical explorations of a rigid surface.

Studies reveal an elastic surface assuming the existence of a force being applied and proposes a shifting principle which governs its mechanical behavior.

REVELATORY LANDSCAPE Scrim Veil — Black Rectangle — Natural Light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Credit Robert Irwin Photograph, Warren Silverman, 1977

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Perpetual Emergence

El Monte, CA

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 strech of channelized concrete river located in Los Angeles, prepares the ground for opportunities and conditions for future events.

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The Rio Hondo recognizes the collective nature of 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.

RIO HONDO

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SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS

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Node Rule

Strawberry Field Rule

Crack Rule

Poop Rule

Traffic Rule

Wind Rule

Hobo Rule

Airplane Rule

Weed Rule

Run-Off Rule

Nest Rule

Trash Rule

Ant Rule

Dog Rule

Trail Rule

Dog Rule

Trash Rule

Run-off Rule

Audubon Rule

Path Rule

Node Rule

Trail Rule

Flood Rule

Whittier Narrows Rule

Wind Rule

Strawberry Field Rule

Shade Rule

Threshold Rule

Waterman Rule

Audubon Rule

Threshhold Rule

Biker Rule

Neglection Rule

Flock Rule

Pollution Rule

Algae Rule

Algae Rule

Sign Rule

Dam Rule

Column Rule

Trash Rule

Harmony Rule

Shopping Cart Rule

Crack Rule

Waterman Rule

Advertizement Rule

Turn-around Rule

In-n-Out Rule

Crossover Rule

Nest Rule

Fence Rule

Fence Rule

Poop Rule

Shade Rule

Rock Plant Rule

Turn-around Rule

Graffiti Rule

Land Fill Rule

Column Rule

Airplane Rule

Maintenance Rule

Dam Rule

RIO HONDO

In-n-Out Rule

Matrix

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THE ROCK PLANT RULE

RIO HONDO

THE WIND RULE

THE GRAFFITI RULE

NARROW RULE

THE ALGAE RULE

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Rules: Algae Rule Land Fill Rule

Rules: In-n-Out Rule

Rules: Node Rule Existing Alignments

DICHOTOMIES: Slim / Wide

Dichotomies: Slow / Fast

Dichotomies: In / Out

Dichotomies: Soft / Hard

Dichotomies: High / Low

NORTH SCALE: 1” = 1000’

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Blooming + Seeding

Site Fluctuation

Red: Seed Dispersal Green: Seed Accumulation

RIO HONDO

Circulation

Site Plan Crowded + Empty

Spontaneous

Linger

Obsorb Convey

Filter

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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RIO HONDO Emerging Ecologies It is through time that different species will emerge and inhabit the channel at different rates from others and that the alignment will fluctuate over time.

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RIO HONDO

Habitat is Everywhere UC Riverside, Chancellor’s Residence

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.

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Flora of The Region

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Andropogon gerardii Big Blue Stem

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Bothriochloa barbinodis cane bluestem

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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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Eriogonum fasciculatum Adenostoma fasciculatum Chamise Eugene California Buckwheat

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Adenostoma fasciculatumRhus ovata Sugar Bush Chamise Eugene

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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

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Existing Habitat

5 mile radius

45% increase

Habitat Capacity A 45% increase in habitat is revealed through a series of reginal mappings and tactical strategies. With an understanding of existing ecological systems and cultural impacts, three strategies were cultivated from these analitical drawings.

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CHANCELLOR’S +++++++++++++++++++++ Strategies Fig. 1 Corridors: Are elongated patches, fields, and or clearings. Fig. 2 Patch: As spatial units. Patches are surrounded by matrix and be connected by corridors. Fig. 3 Matrix: Patches and corridors are embeded into the matrix.

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Red Wing Blackbird Frogs

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Burrowing Owl Cotton tail rabbit Kangaroo Rat grasshoppers Burrowing Owl Cali ornia owhee

Cotton tail rabbit Kangaroo Rat grasshoppers

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Burrowing Owl Cotton tail rabbit Kangaroo Rat grasshoppers

Site Capacity Fig: Avove Illustration of the Chancellor’s residence capacity for a diverse range of ecosystems working together. Drawn by student, Antonio Martines.

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CHANCELLOR’S Page is Under Construction Please email for further information.

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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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BUILD

BUILD

The Living Cube

LA332L

Department of Landscape Architecture, Cal Poly Pomona. Glenn Matsui. Winter 2016.

Shams Khoram / Robin Slovak / Juan Prieto

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BUILD

Living cubes are modular systems that combine multi-functionality into three units. The units can be placed in any space, rearranged in any order, or nested together for minimizing storage space. Our design intent was to be simple, practical, and timeless. By avoiding unnecessary elements, our team was able to create a strategic design that provides various seating arrangements that serve human function.

LA332L

Department of Landscape Architecture, Cal Poly Pomona. Glenn Matsui. Winter 2016.

Shams Khoram / Robin Slovak / Juan Prieto

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BUILD

DRIFTING

In Closing juan prieto landscape architecture portfolio jcprieto33s@gmail.com

Drift A driving movement.

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“The art movement in France in the 1950s and 1960s known as the Situationist International believed strongly in the potential of ‘drifting’ through a city as a means of identifying oneself more closely with a sense of personal and political liberty. Motion through urban space was considered a revolutionary act one which one undertook personally, making notes as one drifted, unfolding secret hidden meanings in the traversed city. Immersive video games also enable this type of drifting, games often build randomness into the rules of play and the abstraction of the board or screen can paralell the structures and activities of everyday city life.” -The Situationist International and the Theory of the Derive

DRIFTING Washington City, Utah Landscape. Photo by Arnold J. Franco

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