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
2014
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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RIO HONDO
Run-off Rule
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
THE NODE RULE
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Rules: Graffiti Rule Node Rule
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
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Circulation
Site Plan Crowded + Empty
Spontaneous
Linger
Obsorb Convey
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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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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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CHANCELLOR’S
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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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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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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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CHANCELLOR’S
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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Cultural Program
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Raccoons ossu Bats outhern lligator i ard Ca ree Frog
Raccoons ossu Bats outhern lligator i ard Ca ree Frog
Red Wing Blackbird Frogs
Cali ornia owhee Cotton tail rabbit nna u ingbird
Red Wing Blackbird Frogs
Burrowing Owl Cotton tail rabbit Kangaroo Rat grasshoppers Burrowing Owl Cali ornia owhee
Cotton tail rabbit Kangaroo Rat grasshoppers
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Cotton tail rabbit nna u ingbird Raccoons ossu Bats outhern lligator i ard Ca ree Frog
ountain ion eer Co o es bobcats
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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Grounded
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PLAN A FRAMING SCALE: 1/8"=1'-00" 20'
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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
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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
SECTION A-A'
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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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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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