Kyle O'Konis | Landscape Architecture Portfolio

Kyle O’Konis

ma sters of landsc ape architecture university of california, berkeley

CO N T E N TS Francisco Park

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Ivanhoe Reservoir

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Elysian Valley G ateway

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Fresh Futures Bayview

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Reveal + Revitalize

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Par ticle Wave

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Book Design

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Ground Up Journal

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Website Design

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Mixed Media

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Resume

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3rd year

F R A N C I S C O PA R K russian hill, san francisco la 203 | fa ll 2014 | fi nal proj ec t H ow d o p eop le use sma ll communit y p ar ks i n the 2 1 st c ent ur y ? Sit uat ed in a decommis s ioned re ser voir, Fra nc isc o Pa rk is me ant to revi talize a n d rec ha rg e t he Russian H ill communit y. Thi s d e sig n t a ke s a d va nt a g e of the mi croclimate from th e exist ing inf ra st ruc t ure to cre ate a produc ti ve l a n d sc a p e t hat c a n br i ng the communit y to get her over new rit uals and new tra di tions .

RECHARGE

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Orchard Benches Terraced Seating Ag Beds Cafe Overlook Existing Stairs Farmer’s Market

ADA paths non-ADA paths

Overlook + Views

The architecture of bridge is inspired by the water flumes that brought water to the old reservoir.

An overlook provides 180 degree views from the Golden Gate Bridge all the way to Berkeley across the bay.

Plum and Persimmon Orchard

Both plum and persimmon trees are planted in the grid to provide a hardy productive landscape that will create a variety of experiences throughout the seasons.

Random variation in planting breaks the rigid grid pattern of the planting.

The orchard trees are planted on top of old roof support footprints that are still visible.

Orchard Seating

Birds Eye view of Site

3rd year

IVANHOE RESER VOIR silver lake, los angeles

la 2 0 3 | fa l l 2 0 1 4 | st ud io p rojec t Wi t h t he c o n str u c t ion of new st ora g e t hat will repl a ce the iconic S ilver Lake and I van h o e re se r vo irs , t here i s a c a l l to reima g ine t he re ser voi r s a s a public s p a ce that uti lize s the recre at io n al an d ecol ogi c a l p ote n ti a l of t he wat er st ored on s ite. I n thi s de s ign, an i s l and i s pl a ce d at t h e ce n t e r of t he I van h o e re se r voir t o a c t a s a d e st ination poi nt for vis i tor s . Wi th a vegetated m aze , an u n d e r wat e r p at h, b o ats , a n d a swimming d oc k , t his de s i gn al lows for exci ting and var i ed p athways t o t h e ico n ic isl and.

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Pedestrian Bridge Raft Launch Berm Underwater Path Island Swimming Dock ‘The Maze’ Marsh

Birds Eye view of Site

A pedestrian bridge spans across both reservoirs and allows visitors to get closer to the water and wildlife habitat.

Concrete Planted Island

Swimming Dock Trysting Tree

Marsh

The Maze Floating Pathway

Berm

The main path to the island sits 1 foot below the water’s surface to provide a novel (and wet) experience.

(1) In the ‘maze,’ native California vegetation varies in height which extends the experience and provides a novel experience.

(2) The island has no paths and is a blank slate.

Desire lines (shown in white) will form over time and provide an interesting visual record of a visitor’s journey.

(3) An underwater light installation adds visual interest and will create an evening destination.

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2nd year

E LY S I A N V A L L E Y G AT E W AY e l y s i a n v a l l e y, l o s a n g e l e s la 2 0 2 | s p r i n g 2 014 | st ud io p rojec t 2 N e st l ed b e t we e n a sof t - b ot t om p or t ion of the L . A . R i ver and H ighway 5, E lys ian Va l l e y i s a p ote n ti a l hot sp ot for neig hb or hood a cce s s to the L . A . r iver. With pocket p a r k s stre wn a c ross t he neig hb or hood, Elys ian Val le y G ateway p ar k will a c t a s th e ma i n h u b for a c c e ss t o t he r iver and also provi de impor tant communi t y sp a ce t h at w i l l s h owc a se loc a l a r t ist s and wi ll also be fun for chi ldren.

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Gateway to Park Overlook Art Sculptures Playground Terraces Brick Path L.A. Greenway

( 1 ) A b r i c k p ath c onnec t s t he st reet to the r iver.

I t v isu a l l y a n d c onc ept ua lly rep re se nts the zanj a m a d re s - b r i c k wat er c ha nnels t hat brought water from th e L A r i ver t o surround ing c ommunitie s .

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( 2 ) R i p a r i a n veg et at ion is p la nt ed a long the p ath and at th e G atewa y t o hint at t he L A R i ver be yond.

A new civic space for the Elysian Valley neighborhood extends the pocket park system alongs the river and brings both art and play to the L.A. River.

The p ath c u ts t hroug h t he i nd u str i a l se c tor a nd f unc t ions a s an i m p o r ta n t pub lic p romena d e w i t h ve n d o r s a nd b enc he s .

Vi s i to r s c a n a l so ob ser ve t he i nd u str i a l a c ti v it y at c lose p rox i mi t y.

Birds Eye view of the LA River portion

2nd year

F R E S H F U T U R E S PA R K b a y v i e w, s a n f r a n c i s c o

la 2 0 2 | s p r i n g 2 014 | st ud io p rojec t 1 Bayview has the highest infant mortality rate in all of CA because of lack of access to healthy food and stress. This plan provides a space for community urban agriculture that ties into public transit along 3rd Street and also provides a free clinic for Bayview women with an adjacent healing garden.

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Size of adjacent buildings Map of free clinics for women across San Francisco.

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Proposed Bus Stop Existing Grocery Store Community Urban Ag Community Market Space Clinic + Courtyard Public Healing Garden

Section through healing garden

Section through whole site shows connection between urban ag side and healing garden

View of urban agriculture from Muni

Community Ag space through Muni window

2nd year

R E V E A L + R E V I TA L I Z E pe t aluma, c alifornia la 2 0 1 | fa l l 2 0 1 3 Situated on the historic Petaluma River, this master plan revitalizes downtown Petaluma and the adjacent residential areas by revealing important ecological processes and increasing habitat area. The site sits on the confluence between freshwater and saltwater and as a result there is very important habitat that needs to be preserved. In addition, many houses in the area sit on the 100 year flood plane so the flood plane was widened.

FRESH SALINE

100 year floodplain

Pers pective of the Petaluma river - floodplain was widened to prevent houses flooding

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Air pollution near freeways in San Francisco, CA

with J oe Burg, Elaine La guer ta , and G rant Saita Background levels

Particle wave is a prototype installation that uses a string of LEDs, sensors, and Arduino microcontroller to reveal spatial and temporal changes in air pollution in the urban environment.

200 m 300 m The ultimate goal of the project is to create an array of poles that could be installed in vacant lots near or other sources of urban air Backgroundfreeways levels Arduino Uno & Breadboard pollution.

Air pollution near freeways in Oakland, CA

Air pollution near freeways in San Francisco, CA

Air pollution near freeways in Oakland, CA

Background levels

PARTICLE WAVE PARTICLE WAVE PARTICLE WAVE PARTICLE WAVE PARTICLE WAVE PARTICLE WAVE

Go here to see a video of our prototype: http://tinyurl.com/l4uw8x7 200 m 300 m

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Air pollution near freeways in Oakland, CA

POLLUTION LEVELS NEAR MAJOR ROADS

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Air pollution near freeways in San Francisco, CA

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POLLUTION LEVELS NEAR MAJOR ROADS

Arduino Uno & Breadboard

POLLUTION LEVELS NEAR MAJOR ROADS

Background levels

Background levels

Air pollution near freeways in Oakland, CA

Air pollution near freeways in San Francisco, CA

Air pollution in O akland (lef t) and San Francisco (right)

PARTICLE WAVE

Air pollution near freeways in Oakland, CA

Arduino Housing

Wind Sensor: $17.00 Sensor Housing

Wind Sensor: $17.00 200 m

Arduino Uno & Breadboard

Sensor Housing

Air Pollution Sensor: MQ-135 $13.60

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300 m

Pollution near highways

Arduino Uno & Breadboard

Wind Sensor: $17.00

Arduino Uno & Breadboard

Sensor Housing

POLLUTION LEVELS NEAR MAJOR ROADS

100 m

Strand of 25 RGB LEDs $39.95

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100 m

Arduino Uno & Breadboard

POLLUTION AND WIND

POLLUTION LEVELS NEAR MAJOR ROADS

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WIND SPEED

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Air Pollution Sensor: MQ-135 $13.60

Air Pollution Sensor: MQ-135 $13.60 levels Background Arduino Housing

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WIND SPEED

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300 m Background levels

Air pollution near freeways in San Francisco, CA

Arduino Housing

WIND SPEED

Arduino Uno & Breadboard

POLLUTION CONCENTRATION SECTION 1” = 1’

Acrylic Tube d=3” h=6’

Arduino Housing

Arduino Housing

POLLUTION CONCENTRATION SECTION 1” = 1’

Strand of 25 RGB LEDs $39.95

Air Pollution Sensor: MQ-135 POLLUTION $13.60

Sensor Housing

Wind Sensor: $17.00

WIND SPEED

Acrylic Tube d=3” h=6’

Wind Sensor: $17.00

CONCENTRATION

WIND SPEED

Sensor Housing

POLLUTION AND WIND

SECTION Air Pollution Sensor: MQ-135 1” = 1’ $13.60

Air Pollution Sensor: MQ-135 $13.60 WindofSensor: Strand 25 RGB LEDs $17.00 $39.95

Arduino Housing

Sensor Housing

POLLUTION AND WIND

Air Pollution Sensor: MQ-135 $13.60

ELAINE LAGUERTA | GRANT SAITA | JOE BURG | KYLE O’KONIS

Wind Sensor: $17.00

Sensor Housing

Acrylic Tube d=3” h=6’

P O L L U T I O N C O N C E N TSECTION R A T1”I =O1’N

WIND SPEED

Arduino Housing

POLLUTION CONCENTRATION

SECTION 1” = 1’

Strand of 25 RGB LEDs $39.95

Strand of 25 RGB LEDs $39.95

POLL SECTION 1” = 1’

BOOK DESIGN

coming July 2015

(UC Pres s)

d e sig n e d cove r an d all g rap h ic s in b o o k

Below: selection of graphics from book Stream Groundwater well Treatment Facility

Redding

Hydrologic Region Sacramento Valley Delta San Joaquin Basin Tulare Basin

Chico

Distribution System

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Subregions

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Groundwater well

Sacramento

Stockton San Francisco

Modesto

FRIANT-KERN CANAL Fresno

Bakersfield

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G R OUN D UP JOURNAL

M A R K E T I N G

e di t o r-in-c hie f (I s s u e 03 + 04)

GROUND UP

As the Editor-In-Chief of GROUND UP: ISSUE 03 + 04, I am responsible for every part of the production of the journal, including the marketing, call for submissions, grant writing, website maintenance, budget, meetings, and the design of the cover and layout of the issue.

ISSUE 3: HERE

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Here is a common term, a workhorse word, a place to set the coffee. Yet Here need not be so narrow.

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Here can be defined by a finger pointing at a spot on the ground, or by a hand sweeping across the night sky. It deals with memory and matter, time and action.

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G R Oissue UN P 04 D OUTU WEST call for submissions GROUND UP is an annual print and web publication created by students in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. It is intended to stimulate thought, discussion, visual exploration and substantive speculation about emerging landscape issues affecting contemporary praxis.

Here delineates places, the people who inhabit them, and the processes that shape them. It is as much myth as it is material.

OUT WEST For centuries the West was seen as the home of the future, and the Bay Area, at the edge of the North American continent was its terminus.

At any moment, Here may be a mosaic of contradictions: now and then, universal and particular, endemic and invasive, living and inert. It can signify a moment distilled, or a sequence across time.

GROUND UP ISSUE 3 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Call for Submissions Issue 03 poster and postcard designed with Eden Ferry

Over 80 cities now line the San Francisco Bay, each built on shifting sands and tidal flats, migratory populations and modernization. Here, thick fog and dry diablo winds meet over unrelenting grids, and fault lines lacerate the landscape, unseen and foreboding. As this dynamic landscape cycles through moments of abundance and scarcity, the once glittering boom town continues to reinvent itself.

SUBMIT BY JANUARY 5TH, 2014

In Issue 04, we take our last theme, Here, and narrow its focus to the Bay Area. What does it mean to live and design in a place where flux is stasis? What are the consequences of today’s rapid, unchecked growth on near and distant futures? How will the Bay Area's trademark innovators, activists, and prospectors shape its real or imagined landscapes?

VISIT WWW.GROUNDUPJOURNAL.ORG TO SUBMIT

GROUND UP is an annual print and web publication created by students in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

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A new frontier is upon us. Ground Up Issue 04 invites you to explore it.

SUBMISSION CRITERIA We are soliciting printable media up to 2500 words with accompanying graphics. Shorter entries of 500-1000 words are highly encouraged, as are design proposals, either speculative or built. We welcome video submissions for the journal’s online component, and encourage novel forms of written and artistic expression.

GROUND UP will accept submissions until February 2, 2015. Notification of selected entries will be made in March.

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Call for Submissions Issue 04 poster designed by Eden Ferry

Brand integration at events

Call for Submissions Issue 03 package targeted authors

www.groundupjournal.org

Postcard series for issue 04 call for submissions

P U B L I S H I N G HERE

Cover designed with Catherine Schy

GROUND UP ISSUE 03

ISSUE 03 : HERE

Designed layout with Eden Ferry and Catherine Schy

WEBSITE DESIGN

previe w t h e we b sit e at : ht tp :/ / j uicebox m o n st e r. b u sin e ssc at alyst .co m

will launch 2/2015

JUICE BOX MONSTER

de s i g n e d w i th E la ine La g uer t a

campaign for a cleaner watershed

Partnered with The Watershed Project, we designed a website for kids and their parents to learn more about waste in the watershed. The website is interactive, fun and is not overly didactic--while also providing an important resource for parents. We created the Juice Box Monster brand and icon so that The Watershed Project can use these images for the rest of the waste reduction campaign.

JUICE BOX MONSTER campaign for a cleaner watershed

YLE O’KONIS + ELAINE LAGUERTA

KYLE O’KONIS + ELAINE LAGUERTA

UC BERKELEY

FALL 2014

UC BERKELEY

FALL 2014

D I G I TA L C O L L A G E S

“Bayview: History Repeating” Digital Collage | 2014

H E A R S T G R E E K T H E AT E R spring 2013

cre at e d w i th M a riel St einer

Portion for CNC Router

Concept Diagram

Portion for Laser Cutter

MODEL MAKING

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Pen + Watercolor | 2012

Bits of Nature | Pencil + Pen | 2010

Pencil | 2012

Pen + Watercolor | 2012

KYLE O’KONIS

EMAIL: kyleokonis@gmail.com

Educational Experience

Leadership

University of California, Berkeley (3rd year) Masters in Landscape Architecture, expected May 2015

GROUND UP JOURNAL UC-Berkeley Landscape Architecture Department Journal Editor-In-Chief: 2013 to present ASLA 2013 Communications Award

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources and Environmental Science, May 2009 - Human Dimensions Concentration Dean’s List: Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008

Awards Graduate Fellowship: LAEP - UC Berkeley

Lincoln University in Lincoln, New Zealand Semester abroad in Environmental Studies School, Spring 2008

Skills

Professional Experience

AutoCAD, 4 years experience Very proficient in digital drafting

GSI, 8/2013 to present ESPM 50: Culture and Natural Resource Management ESPM 155: Sustenance and Sustainability Studio GSI, Summer 2013 + Summer 2014 [IN]LAND Summer Institute Summer design studio for beginning landscape design students Conducted desk critiques, pinups Led a beginning AutoCAD + Photoshop workshop Assisted students with media integration into studio projects Project Coordinator, 11/2009 to 8/5/2010 Chicago Public Schools, Business Services Managed all operational aspects of instructional support options Assisted high schools with materials ordering process Assisted with technology and computer help for entire team SCA Environmental Education Intern, 5/2007 to 8/2007 Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Led groups of children ages 4-10 in environmental activities

TEL: 847.323.9939

3D Modeling, 3 years experience Rhino 3D: Very Proficient Google Sketchup: Proficient Adobe CS6 Suite, 8 years experience Very proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign Microsoft Office,12 years experience Very proficient in MS Word, MS Excel References Linda Jewell Professor of Landscape Architecture UC Berkeley ljewell@berkeley.edu Haven Kiers Landscape Architect and INLAND Coordinator havenkiers@gmail.com Jennifer Brooks Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects brooks@berkeley.edu

KYLE O’KON I S kyleokonis@gmail.com 1.847.323.9939