Mary Vélez Landscape Architecture Portfolio 2020

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mary vĂŠlez landscape designer


mary vĂŠlez marymelissavelez@gmail.com 443. 257. 5968

school University of Virginia Master of Landscape Architecture

Colgate University Cum Laude

work Charlottesville, VA

STIMSON Studio

2016 - 2019

Landscape Designer

Hamilton, NY 2012-2016

B.A. Environmental Studies

Harvard University GSD

Cambridge, MA

Career Discovery Program

2015

Sea Education Association Trans-Atlantic Sailing Expedition Student + Crew Member

National Outdoor Leadership School Student

Woods Hole, MA 2015

Strait of Georgia + Vancouver Island, CN 2013

Cambrid July 2019

Freelance Web Designer

Charlottes January 2019

Shimp Engineering, P.E. Galifrey, L.L.C

University of

Center for Design and Health Assistant to the Director

Spring 2017-Spri

SCAPE Landscape Architecture

Manhattan, Ne

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Extern

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates

San Francis

Fletcher Studio

Janua

Extern

Colgate University Outdoor Education Trainee; Senior Educator

Brooklyn, Ne

Win Summ

Intern Extern

Hamilton, Ne

Fall 2013 - Spri

references

skills

Nyunny Kim, Senior Associate

Leena Cho, Assoc. Professor

Modeling and Prototyping

U.Va School of Architecture 434 924 6448 office lsc7t@virginia.edu

Carpentry, Welding, Casting, Woodworking, CNC Routing, Laster Cutting, Ceramics

ArcGIS, Rhin AutoCAD, S

Professional Time Management, Presentation and Public Speaking, Collaboration, Zoom, GoTo, Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint

Hand Drawing, Wa Charcoal; Adobe In Illustrator, AfterEffe Photoshop; FinalCutP

Michael Van Valkenburgh Assoc. 718 243 2044 office nkim@mvvainc.com

Justin Shimp, Client

Principal and Founder Shimp Engineering 434 227 5140 office justin@shimpengineering.com

Zaneta Hong, Assoc. Professor

U.Va School of Architecture 434 691 8983 office zhh7z@virginia.edu

Mapping and

Video and Visua


research

dge, MA 9-present

sville, VA 9-present Virginia

ing 2019

ew York

nter 2019

Indigenous ways of knowing and representing place

University of Virginia

TA MLA Foundation Studio IV

University of Virginia

Fall 2018 - ongoing

Brad Cantrell + Andi Hansen

Spring 2019

TA MLA Foundation Studio III

University of Virginia

Beth Meyer + Emma Mendel

Fall 2018

Profs. Brad Cantrell, Jim Igoe + Lecturer Emma Mendel

University of Virginia

Plant - people relationships

Fall 2018

Profs. Sean Lally + Lucia Phinney

Human hair

University of Virginia

Prof. Zaneta Hong

2017-2018

University of Virginia

New Delhi monsoons

Fall 2017

Profs. Inaki Alday + Pankaj vir Gupta

sco, CA

ary 2017

ew York

TA History of Landscape Architecture Jeremy Foster

ew York

nter 2018 mer 2018

assistantships

Colgate University

Indigenous farmers + commercial banana plantations

TA Lessons of the Lawn Peter Waldman

RA Ghana sewage + stormwater Prof. Nancy Takahashi

Univeristy of Virginia Spring 2018

University of Virginia Fall 2017

University of Virginia Fall 2017

Spring 2016

Prof. April Baptiste

Enslavement and agriculture Prof. Craig Marin

Sea Education Association Fall 2015

ing 2016

honors Drafting

noceros, SketchUp

alization

atercolor, nDesign, ects and Pro, VRay

engagement

Bill Millsap Fellowship, Spring 2019 Fellow, Financial award for research on Indigenous ways of knowing; Dallas Architecture Exchange

University of Virginia 2017-18 Student Representative to Faculty MLA Program

Hamilton, NY 2013-16 Community Organizer Students for Divestment

“Two Truths Talking,” Video, March 2019. Selected Entry, An Exhibit of Inclusionary Practice, U.Va Honorable Mention, Madison Lane Visual Arts Prize, U.Va

Baltimore, MD 2017 Volunteer Creative Alliance

Madison, NY 2012-14 Volunteer Leader Madison Elementary School Art CLub

LUNCH Journal vol. 14, Spring 2019 Forthcoming, “A Language for Living Things” Sole author; 3,000 words + drawings


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Through the act of design, my work seeks to tune the way that humans communicate with and learn from the world around them.

This body of inquiry perceives sites as connected, landscapes as agential, and the future as an opportunity to develop alternatives. With the belief that curiosity is essential to work, a range of materials, scales, approaches and techniques are unified under an inquiry into radical inclusivity. Each project is met with an intuitive attention to the systems of landscapes, both imposed and emergent. From maintenance routines to sedimentary regimes, from material lifespans to the rhythm of public space, my work explores the role landscape architects have in building communication between living things.

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p 11 ga for + fi

Spring 2018 Profs. Leena Cho + Alex Wall

Fall 2017 Prof. Julie B

The Meadowlands is the new American landscape. We call attention to its materials and their impending inundation under sea level rise; a present/future rich with opportunity, not disaster. We invite all lives to revel and take part in the careful deconstruction, redistribution, and reconstruction of the urban fabric within the zones of sea level rise. edges and boundaries soften. A National Park that consumes and generates itself wastes nothing, forging novel intimacies and unruly spaces.

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waving, bristling, white noise. sit et your anxious fingers pluck the ress the wooly leaf. The wind es on their long stems; just watch ch the pale leaves reveal their . One step. One more, two more. akes you in among its own, silver shimmers over shiny surfaces. eyes, tilt your head back, lift your sun. And breathe.

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p 15 techno intimacy Fall 2018 Profs. Sean Lally + Lucia Phinney

Proposing other ways of knowing plants. Questioning Euro-Western epistemologies through Indigenous ontologies. Why do we relate to plants primarily through a relationship of extraction? What are the effects of this relationship on our world? Modeled on Indigenous relationships between place and people forged over generations, the concept of technointimacy relies upon quotidian tools coupled with real-time environmental sensing, artificially constructing an intimate relationship between plants and people that returns agency to the ground. Publication forthcoming, LUNCH vol. 14.

p 21 two truths talking Fall 2018 Prof. Emma Mendel Prof. Jim Igoe

Why and how do we know what we know? When comparing Euro-Western epistemologies with Indigenous ways of coming into being with the earth, what truths emerge? Using physical models, two versions of truth converse, creating a fusion that degrades and generates simultaneously.


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vicenza, italy

professional work

Summer 2018 MVVA Internship

Studying how to see, understand, and represent the intersections of space and daily life. Strengthening hand drawing skills and the ability to disassemble and reassemble structures to build comprehension of construction processes and material behaviors. Sunlight, gelato.

Summer 2018 MVVA Internship

2019 STIMSON Studio

Developing the skills necessary to create designed and built projects. Communicating with professional teams, constructing models, conducting material research, and strengthening graphic skills within large inhouse teams.

Applying design conc details and site pl Developing permitting by Army Corps of Eng private farm in Sapphir


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Spring 2018 Prof. Beth Meyer

Spring 2018 Prof. Emma Mendel

Pinning authors and texts on one another to trace trends through contemporary theories of modern landscape architecture. Diagramming surgically in order to create richer and deeper understanding.

Exploring messy concepts through precise and speculative modeling. How does sediment settle, swish and stick at the fatty edge of land and water? How can we model these processes and leave room for imagination in a tangible object?


p 01 stuff matters The Meadowlands is the new American landscape. We call attention to its materials and their impending inundation under sea level rise; a present/future rich with opportunity, not disaster. Created with Karl-Jon Sparrman and Lynn Zhang, all drawings shown are my own.

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human + non-human lives

material of the urban fabric

deconstructed urban fabric

human and non-human lives

a park whose edges are alive testing + learning recursively formation of human and non-human publics


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OF MATERIAL FLOWS IN THE MEADOWLANDS

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DECREASE

beach feeding artifical island construction insurance costs

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SEA LEVEL RISE

CLIMATE + WEATHER

INTENSE + UNPREDICTABLE STORMS WATER WARS

POPULATION GROWTH

INCREASINGLY CYCLICAL PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND WASTE CREATION INCREASINGLY POOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE RELATIONSHIPS

GLOBAL POLITICS

UNSTABLE GAS PRICES UNSTABLE NATURAL RESOURCE EXTRACTION

GLOBAL ECONOMY

INCREASINGLY LARGE SUPERTANKERS INCREASINGLY LARGE INCOME GAP

LOCAL POLICY

NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE DECONSTRUCTION

international aid emergencies storm debris home loss coastal reconstruction flooding

international + civil war readily available fresh water disproportionate impact on developing nations

waste dumping mixed-stream recycling practices disposable clothing landfilling and incineration

nationalism fake news tariffs + taxes international best practice influences alaskan oil drilling municipal transport systems cheap gas car driving disastrous results risky business practices raw material costs synthetic material innovation resources for future generations dredging waterway expansion wetlands desperation activism spatial divisions

construction debris vehicle traffic wetlands

URBAN + SURBURBAN SPRAWL CHANGES IN WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

construction debris vehicle traffic interaction with the Meadowlands wetlands

landfilling incineration recycling international waste exporting

DEMOLISH CONSTRUCT RELOCATE DEPOSIT RINSE TRANSPORT DEMOLISH CONSTRUCT RELOCATE DEPOSIT RINSE TRANSPORT DEMOLISH CONSTRUCT RELOCATE DEPOSIT RINSE TRANSPORT

town of Little Ferry town of Secaucus industries + warehouses imported sand + sediment tide gates sea walls

town of Little Ferry town of Secaucus warehouses cars trees sediment furniture construction debris ammunition + weaponry water tanks plastic cisterns plastic water bottles

leachate plastics paper glass clothing shoes food waste

CONSTRUCT TRANSPORT

industrial waste chemical by-products smog, smoke, soot, dust machine parts dirty water

EXCAVATE TRANSPORT

tar sands fracking water dredge spoils contaminated oil booms, wattles + fascimes

DEMOLISH EXCAVATE TRANSPORT

off-gases machine parts industrial waste chemical by-products

DEMOLISH CONSTRUCT DEPOSIT RINSE

off-gases machine parts industrial waste chemical by-products

RELOCATE

fast food wastes clothing waste e waste agricultural pesticide runoff

DEMOLISH RELOCATE DEPOSIT RINSE

cement rebar asphalt gravel dirt

CONSTRUCT EXCAVATE RELOCATE

industrial waste chemical by-products smog, smoke, soot, dust machine parts construction debris dirty water construction tarping + fencing asphalt + cement debris sewage food waste

CONSTRUCT DEPOSIT

incinerator ash dredge spoils shipping containers + pallets recycling chemicals


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micro pebbles

micro plastic tidal wetland

residential - inland industrial - wet edges

fill for construction

increasingly risky expansion

sea level rise +02’ de/re construction of industrial structures

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waterlogged sediment

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ground up asphalt type 01

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viscous light brown liquified sediment under phrag-mat

bits of broken phragmites

decaying wood splinters

waterlogged sediment

indentation from thick phragmites mat

ground up asphalt type 01

asphalt type 02

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micro pebbles

rotting greenish mud

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Projecting a future for the closed NJMC E-1 landfill.


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Envisioning Teterboro airport as a landscape of flooded productivity.


p 07 garden for losing + finding Exploring planted form and function through a chosen narrative of a path leading to a cemetery through three increasingly introspective garden experiences. Instructor: Julie Bargmann Course: Planted Form and Function II 2018


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Collaging bouquet to lay on graves; testing plant textures.


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p 11 techno intimacy Represented through animation, reciprocity between plants and people is developed through the use of technologies that mimic Indigenous ways of understanding the earth. How can we change the way we understand, live with, and care for plants? Instructor: Sean Lally + Lucia Phinney Course: 3rd Year Research Studio 2018

Link to animation

A wooded parkland in typical EuroWestern maintenance regime.


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A wooded parkland in technointimate care.


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techno - intimacy

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EURO-WESTERN MAINTENANCE REGIME SUMMER

FALL

WINTER

SPRING

INTIMATE TECHNO INTIMATE

ALIENATED


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TECHNO-INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPREGIME

SUMMER

FALL

WINTER

SPRING

HIGH TECH

LOW TECH


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Quotidian gardening tools meshed with finely tuned sensors that relay real-time data to users.


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User-driven app receives real-time data generated in field and produces predictive maintenance models

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p 17 two truths talking Animating oral histories and ontologies; degrading what seems concrete by telling two versions of truth based on Coast Salish and Euro-Western ontologies. Course: EcoTech III, Emma Mendel Course: Indigenous Landscapes, Jim Igoe 2018

Link to animation

Sturdy models of concrete and glyercin are cast with paper; the fragility and durability of materials is tested under the pressure of fire.


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Animation stills depicting two truths colliding.


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p 23 STIMSON Studio Site plan and design for 450-acre private farm in Sapphire, North Carolina, from concept phase and schematic layout to construction documentation. Principal: Stephen Stimson 2019-2020


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Bridge crossing, from concept sketches to construction documention. All design concept is team-produced; drafting and representation work shown is my own.


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KEY PLAN:

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Modeling kayak take out area design; testing spatial configurations of an emergency vehicle turn radius, ADA acessible kayaking entrance, and planting strategies in grouted rip rap.


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p 34 theory poems Pinning authors and texts on one another to trace trends through contemporary theory of modern landscape architecture. Diagramming surgically to develop layered and richer context. Instructor: Beth Meyer Course: Contemporary Theory of Modern Landscape Architecture Spring 2018


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material tests: constituent parts

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what things can catch other things? what material properties influence slipping or settling?

material tests: constituent parts

what things can catch other things? what material properties influence slipping or settling? high roughness; high sediment retentionretention medium roughness, high sediment

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What things catch other things? What material behaviors influence slipping versus settling? At the sticky edge of land and water, boundaries are eroded and novel ecologies emerge. Instructor: Emma Mendel Course: EcoTech III Spring 2018

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medium roughness; low sediment retention

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high roughness; high sediment retention high roughness; high sediment retention

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material tests 02: medium sediment

how do different types of small sediments mix with each other? how does a liquid carry them + distribute them?

skin is createdof by rapid cooling of liquid skin is created by rapid evaporation liquid

skin is folded upwards, showing liquid portion remaining

skin is perturbed; folds upwards; shows hot liqud remaining underneath

air bubbles are trapped

air bubbles are trapped within heavy, cooling, viscous glycerine

suspended sand + sedimentsuspended are solids are drawn towards each other in center drawn towards one another in center

suspended material self-contains, creating its own borders suspended sediments self-contain, creating its own borders

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