M Scoppettone 2024 Portfolio

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Masters of Landscape Architecture, (2011-2014)

The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Bachelors of Fine Arts, Emphasis in Sculpture and Design, (2002-2007)

Sr. Green Infrastructure Planner- New York City DOT, New York, NY (2023-2024)

• Review of right-of-way green infrastructure design (including USWR, river daylighting, resiliency planning, ROW rain gardens, stormwater greenstreets, medians, etc.) from DEP to DOT.

Designer, Mapping- MTA New York City Transit, New York, NY (2022)

• Working with transit planners for bus re-design and graphical subway system mapping, GIS.

Head of Research & Development, Designer - Plant Group, New York, NY (2020-2021)

• Leading the research & development of environmental and agricultural technology. Including: IoT, products, UI/UX, mapping services, environmental sensors & data services, building systems analysis, urban policy analysis, architectural and landscape design, planting systems installation and build.

Project Manager, Designer- Abel Bainnson Butz, LLP, New York, NY (2016-2018)

• Design project management in-office and consultant management, full phase design for park, plaza, streetscape, rooftop, housing campus for The City of New York: DPR, SCA, DDC, DOT, EDC, NYCHA and private clients, CD’s, cost estimates, specs, proposals, construction admin.

Freelance Architectural, Landscape, & Urban Designer & Planner

- Architectural Designer- Valentino Pompeo Architects & Planners, Queens, NY (2019-2021)

º Commercial architecture, streamlining workflow, building code and zoning analysis.

- Designer, Educator- Clarkson University/ Beacon Institute For Rivers and Estuaries, Beacon, NY

º Placemaking Design- Clarkson Engineering capstone project instructor “client,” lead architectural designer. (2020-2021)

º Digital Exhibit- Systems analysis, info-graphics, mapping, web design, and branding. (2015)

- Community Planner, Designer- 5th Avenue Committee CDC, Brooklyn, NY (2018-2019)

º Coalition branding for Gowanus Neighborhood Coalition for Justice. Public meetings, engagement, oversight to Gowanus rezoning undergone by NYC DCP.

- Landscape Designer- Nancy Owens Studio, New York, NY (2015-2016)

º Aiding deadlines for NYC DPR designs, DD’s, CD’s, and visualization.

- Land Planner - Rodale Institute, Kutztown, PA (2014)

º Concept design, regional and local planning, agricultural land planning.

- Urban Designer - Relish, Cambridge Redevelopment Authority, Cambridge, MA (2014)

º Place-making concept design, presentation proposals, policy initiatives.

Urban Designer- Pilot-Projects, New York, NY (2015)

• Concept design, design development, CD’s, Competitions, Rendering, GIS mapping, etc.

Project Manager, Design Educator- DownCity Design, Providence, RI (2014-2015)

• Teaching middle-high school age: architectural design-build, public projects.

AGRICULTURE / GREEN TECH

PANDEMIC OUTDOOR LAB

Adaptive Reuse Tactical Lab 2020

HARVESTING INVASIVES

LAB TESTING VALUE OF PLANT OUTPUTS

STEAM + JOB TRAINING BUSINESS INCUBATOR

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plastic enclosure

raised-bed planters

aquaponic system

edible planting circles represent 6’ radius

Compost in enclosure

fruit trees

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY

FORAGING /

RESTORATION

Hot water tube to heater

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

BRONX POINT (Hip Hop Museum), NYC DPR (Marvel Architects, ABB with Max Scoppettone)

BETSY HEAD PARK

NYC DEPARTMENT OF PARKS & RECREATION ABB with Max Scoppettone

As consultant landscape architects of this $30 million ‘anchor’ park, my contribution was in community visioning, path system and general layout design taking into account community and city goals.

BETSY HEAD PARK

NYC DEPARTMENT OF PARKS & RECREATION ABB with Max Scoppettone

QUEENS BOTANICAL GARDEN CONCEPT

DESIGN

By Max Scoppettone through ABB

ROOF TERRACE CONCEPT DESIGN-

ABB Landscape Architects + SIte Planners

This concept design utilized a team of 5 designers and went through two iterations. My contribution was equally design, cut sheets for products and rendering.

PRIVATE CLIENT TERRACE DESIGN

ABB with Max Scoppettone

As part of the NextGeneration NYCHA program to preserve existing public housing, new outdoor advancements are part of the new policy. This proposal out lines some of these new approaches:

A Water Play Feature

B Basket ball Court

C Movie Screening Area

D Seating Area / Pergola

E Play Area

F Adult Fitness

PUBLIC HOUSING CONCEPT NEXTGENERATION

NYCHA ABB with Max Scoppettone

URBAN DESIGN

POPUP PROVIDENCE: Leave a Trace

(Project Manager: Max Scoppettone)

This built project through DownCity Design utilizes motion-activated LED strips lining the existing stairs in the plaza. As a person walks or skateboards by, the motion sensors will trigger a color animation coinciding with their movements.

POP-UP PARK WITH ART INSTALLATIONS

PATHS TO PIERS- PIER 42 (Hester Street, dLandstudio, design-build)

This conversion of a shipping pier was an interim use before a full redesign. From its 4 year duration, it was uses as a park, housed public art, and public programming.

PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN

By Max Scoppettone through ABB

ONE-WAY PROPOSAL / BIKE PATH CONNECTION (project in development)

Established by Jon Ford, this proposal is intended to make a critical bike path connection to a northern and souther path system in Providence. In attempt to not exceed the existing impervious footprint, a oneway street is being proposed. Opportunistically, the project may be able to address sediment problems from the hill to the west of the road as well as flooding issues.

Concept plan by Jon Ford

Concept street design by Max Scoppettone

STANDARD BRICK OR CONCRETE PAVER (policy in development)

In a proposal to the City Of Providence, The Federal Hill Commerce Association hired me to create a concept of this new plaza among other street improvements. Linking them with The Providence Preservation Society’, I initiated a new policy process to establish a standard paver for Atwells Ave. Providence’s famous Italian Neighborhood.

By Max Scoppettone

PLAZA FEDERAL HILL: CONCEPT DESIGN

MAPPING RIKERS’ REPLACEMENT

By Max Scoppettone through Urban Omnibus

Published for a series called “Location of Justice: Structures” in the Architectural League of New York’s Urban Omnibus online publication: urbanomnibus.net/2018/02/siting-rikers-replacements/

As part of an initiative through NYC Non Profit, Transportation Alternatives, for a safer intersection at Flatbush and Atlantic Ave. in Downtown brooklyn, I redesigned the traffic lanes favoring pedestrian safety as a result of my team’s “asks” for NYC DOT. This design was handed over to DOT at a community design workshop and considered in their final re-design of the most dangerous intersection in all of Brooklyn. It incorporates aspects of “interim urban design” or “placemaking” in the form of potted shad trees and painted lines in order to test the subtraction of traffic lanes. We also set up pop up events to encourage this interim use.

ARCHITECTURAL

Scoppettone

PUBLIC LOBBY LIVING WALL

DESIGNS

Max Scoppettone with ABB and MdeAS Architects

GRADUATE WORK

Urban Systems Model: by Max Scoppettone

ALTERNATIVE UTILITY DISTRICTS: AIDING INFORMAL DEVELOPMENT

COMPOST + METHANE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK-

As a depiction of a growing community of backyard food culture, empty lots, and alley culture this scene represents a development of local restaurant business. Through a transportation network of carts or trucks, all compost is gathered from these markets or BBQ’s to add to the compost-heat recovery facility. As methane gas is produced from the energy facility, it is transported to food trucks or emerging restaurants as equal trade.

ALTERNATIVE UTILITY DISTRICTS: LINKING TO FORMAL DEVELOPMENT

ALIGNING WITH A CITY-WIDE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY-

The Alternative Utility District is intended to coincide with a transit-oriented development (T.O.D.) The City of Philadelphia and UPENN generated for the Girard Ave. trolley corridor. Since the Alternative Utility District is situated as a branch of Girard Ave. the coinciding developments will bolster the economic growth of both the existing population’s businesses and the new businesses. This push and pull has the possibility of retaining existing populations and businesses as the new Improvements raise the property value or the neighborhood. This investigated a ethical growth strategy for maintaining diversity in a fringe neighborhood.