Landscape Architecture
| Academic Design Portfolio 08-12
HELLO My name is Jonathan Alarcon and I welcome you to my design portfolio. I’m a recent Cal Poly Pomona graduate with a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture and what you will see in the following pages is the work I did and all the things I learned in my studies in the landscape architecture program at Cal poly Pomona. Please, I invite you to take a look, flip through the pages and I hope you like what you see.
THANK YOU.
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ABOUT ME Resume
DESIGN AESTHETICS
Spatial & Surface Fusion
LOS ANGELES
Occupation of Space
TEMECULA
Infrastructural Wilderness
CHINO
Infrastructural Wilderness
PACOIMA
The Sublime Wasteland
LOS ANGELES
Landscape Urbanism
Hello.
jonathan_lrcn@yahoo.com
Languages
Education
(909) 331-9336
2007-2012
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture Graduated June 2012 with 3.7 GPA
Fluent in Reading, Speaking & Writing English & Spanish SPANISH ENGLISH
PROFILE Hello, I’m a self-motivated, determined individual and a meticulous observer with wide open eyes and a hyper-curious mind. Now a landscape designer and loose from the tendrils of the college ecosystem, I’m out into the world ready to practice what I learned in my long 4 years of education eager to continue my daily journey of discovery to satisfy my hunger for experience.
Community Service
Skills
Cal Poly Pomona Farmiscapes
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Seasonal volunteer, crop harvest, management and irrigation systems maintenance for seasonal crops. Dec. 2011, July 2012
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2007 FRESHMEN YEAR
General Education courses taken at Cal Poly Pomona.
YEAR IN 2008 FIRST LA PROGRAM
LA 101L - 102L Design Principles & Aesthetics.
Weekly Tutor & Playground Volunteer, English-Spanish translator for English Language Learners grades K-7. Jan. 2008-May 2008
YEAR 2009 SECOND IN LA PROGRAM LA 241L - 243L Plant Identification.
Work Experience Internship 2011-2013 Los Angeles Department of Public Works Landscape Architecture Unit under the management of principal landscape architect Mie A. Joness
Duties and Responsibilities: - Document and Plan ďŹ ling - Product Research - Assistance on project concepts - Assistance on drafting - Environmental Graphic Design
Seasonal Position Aug-2013 - March 2014 Land-Lab Landscape Architecture & Environmental Design under the management of principal landscape architect Neil Hadley
Duties and Responsibilities: - Product Research - Assistance on concept and schematic design phases including plans and concept graphics - Production and revision of construction/planting plans & construction documents/ details 60%-100% submitttals.
YEAR 2010 THIRD IN LA PROGRAM
LA 341L - 342L Planting Design LA 331L-333L Construction
References Neil Hadley Owner/ Principal Landscape Architect LLA # 4654 LandLab Landscape Architecture & Environmental Design 702 Wrelton Dr San Diego, CA 92109 (858) 336-0450 nhadley@land-lab.com www.land-lab.com
Noel Vernon, ASLA Associate Dean of Landscape Architecture College of Environmental Design California State Polytechnic University Pomona 3801 West Temple Avenue Pomona, CA 91768 (909) 869-2663 ndvernon@csupomona.edu
Mie A. Joness Supervising Landscape Architect Architectural Engineering Division County of Los Angeles Public Works 900 S. Fremont Ave. 8th Floor Alhambra, CA 91803 (626) 458-2569 mjoness@dpw.lacounty.gov
Andrew Wilcox, ASLA Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture College of Environmental Design. California State Polytechnic University Pomona 3801 West Temple Avenue Pomona, CA 91768 (909) 869-6943 aowilcox@csupomona.edu
YEAR 2011 FOURTH IN LA PROGRAM
LA 403L Landscape Urbanism
8TH 2012 JUNE GRADUATION
Bachelor’s Degree in Landscape Architecture
SPATIAL AND SURFACE FUSION The Hybrid In this exercise we uncovered the theories and principles defining the origins of shapes and patterns that are generated by human and biological systems. Through a series of pool concept models we modified and composed shapes into 3-Dimensional constructs. The pool and its context are a means of applying multiple geometrical conditions to a topographical condition. From points and marks which move toward lines and field conditions and ends with a hybrid<>compound condition. These surfaces are intentionally scale-less and abstract to allow for multiple operations of trimming, cropping, shaping while accepting enigmatic shapes and forms from found objects. As students we explored everyday objects and looked closely to geometric relationships, biologic and organic qualities that supply a source of curiosity and complex systems. Thus we have the hybrid pool both symmetrical yet organic, both organized and ambiguous.
Points Lines Radii Fields Space
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TOPOGRAPHICAL MORPHOLOGY Emotive States Marking The Landscape In this exercise we uncovered the dynamics of the visual field as a series of shared rules, facts and casualties that describe the structure of how under the human condition, we perceive objects on a field in 2-dimensional formats. The position of a mark or line on the given field will cause retinal-perceptual and physicaltactile reading-response as movements in a direction, a suggestion of weight and depth. The faculty prior to your beginning the assignment of drawing will illustrate rhese concepts. We previewed words and expressions related to the arts, design and the sciences that are used regularly in describing processes and methods of discerning and making landscapes. We took our emotive lines and 2-D drawings and developed physical 3-D representations of expressive landscapes.
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Design Aesthetics
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LA Los Angeles Historic State Park Los Angeles Historic State park is located on, 1245 N. Spring St. in Los Angeles California. The park seeks commodity specially for its close range to China Town and the historic Union Station. The design intent of this project was to design based on four spatial typologies that can explain most conditions of landscape occupation. These conditions are both physical and perceptual strategies that engage moments Above, Below, Within and Away from the surface or landscape. These four typologies provide the physical foundations for the prolonged engagement of landscape both physically and psychologically. Each of these spatial types will be poised for a different size group; 1 person, 5 people, 50 people, and 100 people.
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OCCUPATION OF SPACE
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LA HISTORIC STATE PARK SPRING 2009
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PEDESTRIAN ACCESS Paths for jogging made of decomposed granite.
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The designer’s intent for this existing feature of the site is to use the hill as a vantage point to look into downtown LA’s skyline.
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TRAIN TURNTABLE MARKER
This is the exact location that marks the train table where trains would change course. In this case, the location is simply marked by a concrete coin that serves as a timeline of the site.
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TRAIN TRACK MARKER
This small feature of the park marks one of the old train routes and mimics the train tracks. I thought I could explore this point in the site and offer a different experience to the visitor.
FLOWER GARDEN
An iconic feature of the site can be expanded to be a multiuse space for the surrounding neighborhoods.
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TEMECULA After more than four decades since the first wineries were established, the Temecula Valley has become recognized as Southern Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading wine destination. It has more than two dozen wineries and more than 3,500 acres of producing vineyards. The wine industry has grown considerably since then and increasing numbers of nonresidents are visiting the area. Students were asked to produce a landscape schematic site design of the Botanical Community Garden located within the City of Temecula Wine Country. The design intent would address various issues, opportunities and constraints including but not limited to: creating a sense of community, sustainable ideology such preservation of native planting, water and energy consumption, waste management, urban ecosystems, recycling programs, greenhouse gas emissions, social justice, human living and well being.
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Photo Credit: Eric Haley, graduate student in the MLA program at Cal Poly Pomona
THE BOTANICAL GARDEN
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TEMECULA BOTANICAL GARDEN winter 2011
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A 15 acre site, located in the Temecula Wine country, is under consideration for a Botanical & Community Gardens including a Demonstration Garden of drought tolerant plants. The project is initiated by board members of the Southwest Botanical Garden to introduce back to the site some of the features of Riverside county landscape that are rapidly disappearing.
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LEGEND Glen Oaks Fire Station will be A The remodeled as shown in the plan. Existing residences expands on the
B north side of the site.
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C coverage of California Buckwheat blue stream & a riparian buffer D A run through the north of the site
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SOIL SAND GRAVEL ROCK
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OVERFLOW OUTLET PLASTIC LINER GEOTEXTILE
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TERRACE OVERFLOW PIPE
Agave Attenuata
Pinus Pinea
Teucrium x lucidrys
Lav. angustifolia
Salvia clevelandii
Alnus rhombifolia
Quercus lobata
Bougainvillea var.
Rosmarinus officinalis
Thymus proecus
Lav. stoechas
Salvia furman's red
Juglans californica
Ribes sanguineum
Buxus Japonica
Salvia clevelandii
Vitis vinifera
Salvia chamaedryoides
Salvia greggii
Platanus racemosa
Rosa californica
Cupressus semp.
Syzygium pan.
Wisteria sinensis
Salvia chiapensis
Salvia Gregii Salmon
Populus fremontii
Salix lasiolepis
Infrastructural Wilderness
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Safari Anim a
Metal Cactu ltures cup sS
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African Lapa Village
AFRICAN GARDEN
Garden Close-Up
Garden Area Map
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DESERT GARDEN
Acanthus mollis
Aloe Barbarae
Aloe Striata
Cycas revoluta
Agave Marginata
Cephalocereus senilis
Opuntia violacea
Aloe Africana
Aloe Ferox
Arbutus Unedo
Dracaena Draco
Agave shawii
Echinocactus Engelm.
Parkinsonia X Des.
Aloe Arborescens
Aloe plicatilis
Ceratonia Ciliqua
Euphorbia resinifera
Agave vilmoriniana
Echinocactus grusonii
Prosopis Phoenix
Aloe Bainesii
Aloe polyphylla
Crassula arborescens
Rhus lancea
Arctost. Densiflora
Opuntia microdasys
Yucca whipplei
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CHINO Located behind the Prado Dam, the Prado Wetlands is a property in Riverside County that consists of 2,150 acres and that is currently owned by the Orange County Water District. Within this property are approximately 465 acres of constructed wetlands, which have proven to be efficient in reducing nitrogen levels in the Santa Ana River water. The water passes through a system of 50 shallow ponds that have been used to remove nitrogen in river water with the use of cattail and bulrush to remove approximately 20 tons of nitrate a month in the Santa Ana River that recharges the Orange County groundwater basin, and is mainly made up of tertiary treated wastewater from upstream dischargers and storm flows, natural run-off, and rising ground water in the winter season.
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INFRASTRUCTURAL WILDERNESS
_PRADO BASIN WETLANDS
spring 2011 Prado Basin Wetlands - 29 -
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EXISTING VALUES & RELATIONSHIPS Habitat The intent of this project was to Investigate the “unknown” by structuring the constructed and the mythic adaptations of ecologies within the Prado Basin, Chino, CA. The studio examined the potential of the area behind Prado Dam in order to construct appropriate and site-determined frameworks of ecological, cultural, real issues. The explored strategies then were visualized as landscapebased systems of cultivated and distributed temporal events across the existing site.
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Infrastructural Wilderness
Original Format: 36”x72”
As students, we developed project programs that address the core issues that have emerged through the process of research, landscape analysis and mapping. Specific to this site is the issue of preserving the habitat for endangered species of the Arroyo Chub and the Least Bell Vireo. As part of our proposed programs each group or individual had to take this into consideration.
MURAL OF FUTURE INFRASTRUCTURES Azolla As illustrated in the infographic, one of my proposed infrastructures for the Prado Wetlands is the introduction of Azolla. Azolla is a small water fern that has shown to have so many benefits over the world through different uses. With the main intention to introduce the fern as feed for the Arroyo Chub, with some intense and deep research, I stumbled upon the serendipity of the plethora of benefits that it would bring to the Prado Wetlands. Azolla can be introduced as a green fertilizer for various crops, such as rice, green feed for poultry and cattle, and used for mosquito control. All these benefits could function simultaneously, if provided the right site, and in combination of other infrastructures expanding the useability and functionality of the existing wetland infrastructure. As illustrated above and in conjunction with the previous infographic on the proposed infrastructures, this mural gives a graphic representation of the potential of azolla as an infrastructure and is multifunctionality to both the habitat in Prado and the local communities that surround it. Azolla can contribute to increasing yields in crop production, mosquito population control and its possible eridication, increasing yields in inexpensive organic feed and restoration and conservation.
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MAP OF THE FUTURE
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This infographic is a map that shows the conceptual frameworks proposed for the Prado Wetlands.Each framework is placed in relation to the topographic features of the site as well as the movement of water coming in from the Santa Ana River on the East. Each framework is dependant of each other and their significance to Prado Wetlands is based in the habitat and the surrounding community of the Prado Wetlands.
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BOARD CLOSE-UPS
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PACOIMA In the Golden State of California lies Los Angeles County and within these boundaries lies San Fernando Valley, a valley buried in a manufactured wasteland of landfills, scrap yards, foreclosures and toxicity. But what makes this place so toxic, so dead, so muerto? The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of southern California, United States. In this project my teammates, Yorvin Moreno, Rene Orta and myself explored this wasteland and experimented with the medium of film and animation to document the current conditions. We acted as directors, camera men, producers and editors as well as designers that proposed possible solutions to existing problems and expand on its future.
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The Sublime Wasteland
THE SUBLIME WASTELAND
_SAN FERNANDO VALLEY winter 2012
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USING FILM FOR SITE DOCUMENTATION Title: Esta Muerto - Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dead Duration: 0:05:30
A Film by Jonathan Alarcon, Yorvin Moreno & Rene Orta
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Phytoremediation Sites Existing Parks & Green Spaces Sunshine Canyon Park
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PHYTOREMEDIATION + SEASONAL CHANGES
SEA THRIFT
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Proposed Plants: Heliantus annuus Brassica juncea
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Proposed Plants: Heliantus annuus Brassica juncea
Proposed Plants: Heliantus annuus Brassica juncea
Thlaspi caerulescens
Thlaspi caerulescens
Thlaspi caerulescens
Thlaspi caerulescens
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Sunshine Canyon Landfill
For 50 years, Sunshine Canyon Landfill has been handling the waste of Los Angeles City and County businesses and residents. In 2009, the City and County landfill operations were combined by Republic Services. Our Proposal takes advantage of this opportunity and the geological location to increase energy production and expand recreational space for local residents and influence tourism.
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Present Landfill used
The Wasteland TheSublime Sublime Wasteland
for waste disposal
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Gas-to-energy plant built by Republic
2018 Solar
Farm built (Proposed)
2045 Regional
Park built (Proposed)
Landfill has enough space to last for the next 27 years.
Sources: sunshinecanyonlandfill.com
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LA “District 9” is located at the edge of Lincoln Heights where Downtown’s industrial buildings meet suburbia. In an interdisciplinary collaboration with architecture students, Leo Rodriguez and Demitria Nelson and landscape architecture students Luis Gomez, Chris Gregory and myself, we developed a proposal in response to the existing conditions and needs of the site. Our proposal aimed towards keeping the industrial identity of the site, improve environmental conditions and the revitalization of LA River which would work in conjuction with a bioswale system to treat toxic industrial runoff within the site and increase housing density. We proposed to keep the existing UPS Distribution Center, and re-purpose its 9.2 acre rooftop for urban viticulture establishing a symbiotic relationship and a local wine culture and for Downtown LA.
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Landscape Urbanism
LANDSCAPE URBANISM
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MARY JANE’S LANZA BROS. PLACE E. AV MARKET WIN R A D
GENERAL RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT
Lofts and homes account for most of the housing
20%
LAND USE
Industrial sites include junkyards auto shops, metal finishing, a carpet factory & restaurant equipment company
MILAGRO CHARTER SCHOOL
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North
125 & UP
Household income in thousands of 2000 dollars HISTORY
1882
1917
1920
EASTSIDE BREWERY
George Zobelein buys LA Brewing Co. and founds the Pabst Blue Ribbon Brewery.
PROHIBITION ACT Founded in LA by Italian immigrant Santo Cambianica.
1929
Cambianica asked for permission from the Catholic Church to continue operating his winery for communion wine & continues as the last winery in LA.
LANZA BROS. MARKET & DELI
Founded by Italian immigran & operated as a family mark serving Lincoln Heights for o
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1987 THE BREWERY ARTS COMPLEX Artists could rent live/work space in industrially zoned buildings. Rented only to artists is the policy to this day.
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nts ket & deli over 75 years.
CHINA TO
1998 UPS DISTRIBUTION CENTER Sells its facility in Soto St. and builds its new facility in Lamar St. next to San Antonio Winery
2009 ALBION DAIRY PARK In October City of LA buys the Swiss Dairy Distribution Center on Albion Ave. as the new site for a riverfront park. The dairy’s last day of operation concludes in 2011.
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1 LA RIVER TERRACES 2 RIVERFRONT HOUSING 3 MAIN STREET SUITES 4 WINE FERMENTATION 5 SAN ANTONIO WINERY 6 UPS ROOFTOP VINEYARD 7 LANZA BROTHERS MARKET 8 COMMUNITY CENTER 9 UPS PARK 10 THE LOOP North
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Landscape Urbanism
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LA RIVER : FILTERING TISSUE 4. Cat Tail Filters: Nitrogen Petroleum Arsenic
2 2
MISSION JUNCTION
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5. Soft Rush
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Filters: Phosphorous Cadnium Copper
LA R
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PLAN SCALE
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Freight Train Line Passes in and out of the service yard along LA River.
Bioswale Buffer Filtrates surface runoff prior to collecting in terraces.
Bikeway An alternate route that connects to Downtown LA.
Terrace 1: Cat Tail Phase 1 of the 3-step runoff filtration process.
5
Terrace 2: Bull Rush
6
Terrace 3: Soft Rush
7
White Alder
6. Bull Rush Filters: Lead Aluminum Chromium
Second phase in the runoff filtration process.
Final phase of the 3-step filtration process.
Riparian tree used for site restoration and biofiltration.
8 Metro Rail Line
Red & Gold Lines move in & out of downtown LA.
7. White Alder Filters: Arsenic Cadnium Chromium
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RIVER TERRACES
PLANTING MEDIA
1 PUMICE
7 SOIL
2
CELL BASE
3 8
2 3 6 4
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SECTION A-A
SCALE: NTS
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Freight Train Line
3
Bikeway
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Terrace 3: Soft Rush
7
Metro Rail Line
2
Bioswale Buffer
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Terrace 2: Bull Rush
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Terrace 1: Cattail
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Diverted Runoff Pipe
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Landscape Urbanism
Existing Conditions
Proposed Intervention The proposed terrace system is intended to treat the toxic runoff on site by using cattail and rushes to filter the water from metals and chemicals such as lead aluminum and chromium before they wash-off to the river.
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URBAN VITICULTURE
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The method of grape production for wine heavily relies on how grapes are planted to produce the most yield. Our intention was to increase surface area for the growth of more vines while also allowing easy harvest. To reduce the weight on the roof we proposed the use of lightweight materials that could also last with minimal maintenance.
CLO VE
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GRAPE PRODUCTION
We proposed to keep the UPS Distribution Center within the site and repurpose its 9.2-acre rooftop for urban viticulture, establishing a symbiotic relationship between the UPS, the existing San Antonio Winery and LAnza Brothers Market. We see the opportunity to create a local wine culture which will bring people into the site, establishing it as as a new social hub for downtown Los Angeles.
Establishing an Urban Symbiosis
UPS DI CEN STRIBU TER T 9.2 ION ACR ES
COLUMN & THRUST BULDING FRAME REINFORCEMENT
8 ft.
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Plan of structures for wine production.
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SECTION A-A
#4 REBAR
SECTION B-B
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Landscape Urbanism
50 Feet 100 Feet
36”x36”x36” WOOD BOX
STRUCTURE WEIGHT 115 LBS.
ISOMETRIC VIEW
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