Rachel Burand - Landscape Architecture Portfolio 2015

RACHEL BURAND

MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

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CONTENTS 04 RESUME

SELECTED PROJECTS

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Intertwine St. Paul, Minnesota

14 Flux

New Orleans, Louisiana 16

Wild Rice Duluth, Minnesota

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Ribbon Park Oregon City, Oregon

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EDUCATION

Master of Landscape Architecture (2015)

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN - 2015 ASLA Merit Award - Founders Fund Graduate Fellowship in Landscape Architecture - Study Abroad: The Netherlands and Istanbul, Turkey, spring 2014 - Sigma Lamda Alpha Honor Society. GPA: 3.74

Bachelor of Arts; Environmental Studies, Electronic Arts (2010)

Linfield College, McMinnville, OR - Linfield College Trustee Scholarship; SPURS National Honor Society - Honors Thesis: “Green Roofs: Feasibility in Small Towns.”

- Study Abroad: Galapagos, Ecuador, fall 2008 - Cum Laude Honors. GPA: 3.71

Rachel Burand bura0037@umn.edu

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

Adobe Dreamweaver Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop AutoCAD

ESRI ArcGIS Google SketchUp HTML & CSS Microsoft Office Rhinoceros

AMERICORPS TRAINING

Community Development Community Involvement Data Management

Grant Writing Meeting Facilitation Project Management

EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, The Trust for Public Land, St. Paul, MN (Jun 2014 - May 2015)

Created GIS maps for potential land acquisitions and project impact analyses. Designed urban youth farm for local elementary school. Wrote monthly e-newsletters for TPL’s 700+ subscribers highlighting current urban park projects.

Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (Aug 2013 - Dec 2013)

Assisted professor Kristine Miller in teaching LA 1201 Learning from the Landscape. Graded student work and led review sessions.

Graphic Designer, Computer Pundits Corp., Bloomington, MN (Apr 2012 - Aug 2013)

Lead role in creating print and web media. Consulted with clients on website design. Built websites using HTML, CSS, & Javascript.

Great River Greening [internship], St. Paul, MN (Sep 2011 - Apr 2012)

Created fundraising event programs, invitations, posters, and informational brochures.

Visited ecological restoration project sites to document progress for brochures.

Special Projects Manager / AmeriCorps RARE (Resource Assistance for Rural Environments), Port of Cascade Locks, OR (Sep 2010 - Aug 2011)

Designed, implemented, and managed landscape plan for art installation in public park.

Created, planned, and implemented Cascade Locks Community Garden. Assisted in planning/permitting process for various community and economic development projects.

Redesigned and managed website.

Web Design Assistant, Timbercon Inc., Lake Oswego, OR (Nov 2009 - Apr 2010) Edited product photos, created webpage designs, designed product datasheets.

Assembled and edited news releases.

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INTERTWINE

Initial Concept Sketches

St. Paul, Minnesota

INTERTWINE

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

Intertwine is a proposal for a freeway lid to reweave the fragmented Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The freeway takes up one of the largest footprints in the Twin Cities, but is underutilized. This system moves cars and goods, but also cuts through neighborhoods (blocking access to goods and services) and spurs health issues from poor air quality (heart disease, cardiac arrest, asthma). One of the most controversial locations chosen for Interstate 94 was the diverse and close-knit Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul. Rondo, home to St. Paul’s largest African American population in the 1960s, lost 650 homes when I-94 was built. The community still gathers for the annual Rondo Days Festival, but the freeway remains a massive barrier through a once vibrant and walkable neighborhood.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

How can the freeway be redesigned to create connections within the Rondo neighborhood?

How could the freeway better provide pedestrian access to goods, services, and green space?

How can the freeway be transformed from a detriment to air quality and public health into an example of health improvement?

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Maxfield School: 1/4 mi Walkability

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Jeremiah Program: 1/4mi Walkability

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Nearest Park: 1/4mi Walkability

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PROPOSAL: 1/4 mi Walkability

Fully Enclosed Lid Section

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Maxfield Elementary

Frontage Roads narrowed to 25’

Bioswale

Nature-based Playground

I-94 Tunnel (16’ Height)

Community Garden

Existing Grade

Walking & Bike Paths

Residential

Lid/Tunnel Entrance at Residential Level

Reconnected Streets & New Businesses

Mixed Use Buildings

Existing neighborhood is now within walkable distance to grocery, affordable fitness center, health clinic, pharmacy, job skills training lab, and more.

Sloped extensive green roofs to absorb pollutants, filter air, and buffer noise

2nd and 3rd Floor Residental Units

Skills Used: Hand Drawing, ESRI ArcGIS, Adobe Illustrator, Google Sketch Up, Adobe Photoshop

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CONNECT Strategies to improve connections along and across I-94 by redesigning underutilized space A. Filling in the roadside adds up to 100 feet of functioning space. A dense spruce stand slows pollutant laden air coming from vehicle exhaust, causing particulate matter to drop from the air column as it slows.

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C. Pedestrian bridges are widened, and the slope allows enough soil depth for plantings, improves user experience, and controls stormwater.

D. At the freeway lid entrances is an overhead vegetated structure which extends visual green space for those above and help transition drivers’ eyes when entering and exiting the tunnel.

C Pedestrian Bridges

Bioswale Walk Bike Pin Oaks

20% Slope

Walk Bike 20’ Sides New Parkway

Interlocking Concrete LOW AIR F Block Retaining Wall Living Wall

Drainage Strip

I-94

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B On and Off Ramps Blue Spruce

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Suspended Virginia Creeper and Steel Structure Native Clematis

Living Wall Drainage Strip

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MAXFIELD ELEMENTARY

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UNIVERSITY VICTORIA

GORDON PARKS HS

C CARTY PARK CAPITOL HILL & BEN MAYS

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

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D Overhead Vegetated Structure Ped Bridge

Interlocking Concrete Block Retaining Wall

Regional Plan: Connections across and alongside I-94

CENTRAL HS

ST. PAUL TECH COLLEGE

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Skills Used: ESRI ArcGIS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

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Blue Spruce

I-94

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ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

B. A short bridge over on/off ramps maintains traffic flow for both vehicles below and pedestrians above.

A Parkway & Vegetated Air Filtering Buffer

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Year-round Community-Based Programming

The Trail System Pin Oak Blue Spruce

The Jeremiah Program

Sumac

Permeable paver walking/ running paths 2-Lane biking paths

Filling in the unused space along the freeway and narrowing the wide frontage roads allows for a parkway with walking and biking paths, and lush vegetation to help absorb and slow particulate matter in the air, absorb noise, and create usable green space. The Jeremiah Program benefits from this new connection to nearby colleges and newly proposed health clinic, grocery store, fitness center, surrounding the freeway lid park.

Skills Used: Google Sketch Up, Adobe Photoshop

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Freeway Lid Site Plan

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INTERTWINE

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

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KEY: Chatsworth Pedestrian & Bicycle Bridge Overhead Vegetated Structure & Tunnel Entrance Health Clinic & Pharmacy Extensive Green Roof Walking & Biking Paths Concordia U. After School Program Center Job Skills Training Lab Community Art Studio & Gallery Cafe/Coffee Shop 2nd & 3rd Floor Residential (48 Units, 1BR & 2BR) Ventilation Stacks

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JEREMIAH PROGRAM

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CONCORDIA AVE

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Patio/Outdoor Art Studio w/ Movable Tables/Chairs Community-Made Sculpture Park (sculptures in dark purple) Picnic Table Area Teaching Garden (Separate Gardens per Grade Level & Gathering Circle) Natural Fitness Playground Community Garden with Raised Beds, Orchard Trees, & Tool Hub Great Lawn Covered Pavilion Affordable Community Gym Hardware Store Restaurant Grocery & Community Commercial Kitchen

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MAXFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ST. ANTHONY AVE

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FUTURE RONDO MUSEUM N FISK ST

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CONCORDIA AVE

A 2-block freeway lid park promotes health and access through engaging programming, new connections, and features that equip this neighborhood for a resilient future. At the ends of the lid, the street grid is reconnected and proposed mixed-use buildings house the services lacking in this area. The park itself offers a variety of programming, which is connected to the neighborhood through biking and walking paths in all directions.

Skills Used: AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

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Garden and Playground Space for Elementary School Students

The Teaching Garden

Nature-based fitness playground

Maxfield Elementary School

2nd Grade Garden

INTERTWINE

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

4th Grade Garden

Recycled rubber tile gathering circle

The curriculum at every grade level at Maxfield Elementary (currently a designated priority school adjacent to I-94) is engaged with the park.

Designated garden space for grades 1 through 5 can be designed and planted by students and teachers each year, creating ownership of the space while engaging kids in a hands-on, dynamic, yearround learning experience. A central gathering space (shown above) offers opportunities to build leadership and collaboration skills as older students begin to serve as mentors to younger students.

Skills Used: Google Sketch Up, Adobe Photoshop

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Year-round Community-Based Programming

The Sculpture Park Snow & ice sculptures in winter Neighborhood- and studentbuilt sculptures

Outdoor art studio

A sculpture park located on the west side of the freeway lid park is collaborative effort between Maxfield Elementary students, Jeremiah Program residents, and residents throughout the neighborhood. A permeable paver patio serves as a flexible space for its adjacent businesses as well as an outdoor art studio. Community-built sculptures would be located throughout a mix of shaded and sunny areas, pathways, benches, and picnic areas. Snow and ice sculptures in winter would create a dynamic, ever-changing space.

Skills Used: Google Sketch Up, Adobe Photoshop

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FLUX

New Orleans, Louisiana This proposal was created in collaboration with Nicole Ponath (MLA), Jonathan Cowgill (MURP), and Sam Anderson (MURP) for the 2015 ULI Hines Competition.

The FLUX development plan in the Tulane/Gravier and Iberville neighborhoods favors public space, education, and commerce to facilitate a healthier, more prosperous, and resilient community. Creating a flexible space along the I-10 underpass allows for the activities like rock climbing to be offered alongside market stalls featuring farmers and small business owners. The overall vision allows for change and innovation in this historic area, which, like the city itself, is constantly in flux.

FLUX incorporates 3 principles:

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

1 Embrace the rich cultural history of the Claiborne Corridor as inspiration for the future.

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2 Invest in community education.

3 Create value for longtime residents and newcomers alike.

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FLUX

Lafitte Greenway

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Claiborne Neighborhood School (K-6) Schoolyard Vegetable Garden 3 Senior Housing & Community Center 4 Townhomes 5 Pocket Park 6 Existing Single Family Homes 7 Apartments with Ground-floor Parking 8 Lafitte Greenway Coffee Shop 9 Claiborne Jazz Club 10 Gravier Cemetery Tours 11 Local Pop-Up Business Shop 2

Bienville St. Bistro Iberville Tool Rental Shop 14 Claiborne Hardware Store 15 Cafe du Monde II 16 Dental Offices 17 Specialty Medical Clinics 18 Canal St. Hotel 19 Claiborne Market (Underpass) 20 Climbing Wall (Underpass) 21 Winn-Dixie Grocery 22 Louis Armstrong Pedestrian Bridge 12

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I-10 Underpass as an Activated Space Street trees, elevated boardwalk, and elevated buildings for flood mitigation

Vegetation absorbs stormwater & traffic noise

Existing cemetery

Road converted for 2-way traffic

Vertical gardens

208 new parking spaces over permeable pavers

Climbing wall beneath I-10

Space for music performance

One-lane road

Permeable paver parking

Elevated boardwalk

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Proposed Claiborne Market beneath I-10

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market vendors

activated and enlivened space creates sense of community

daily farmer’s and artisan’s market beneath I-10

underpass mural by local artists

Skills Used: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

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WILD RICE

Duluth, Minnesota This proposal was created in collaboration with Sam Daley (MArch) and Rachel Kerber (MLA) for the 2014 Design Duluth Studio.

This project proposes wild rice as a catalyst for resiliency in Gary-New Duluth. Stormwater interventions along a critical runoff corridor lead to Mud Lake, a rare spot along the St. Louis River ideal for wild rice habitat and year-round low-impact recreation. Wild rice harvesting is supported by a boat house, tamarack grove for pole-making, and amphitheater for teaching and gathering. The launch dock lifts in winter to transform into a warming hut for those cross country skiing, snowshoeing, or visiting the ever-changing ice chain sculpture walls.

WILD RICE

DULUTH, MINNESOTA

Overlooking Wild Ricing Activities on Mud Lake from the Boat House Roof

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Causeway

Tobacco Ritual Paddleboarding Wild Rice Harvesting

Tamarack Grove Mud Lake

Kayaking

COR-TEN Edging

Wild Rice

Oliver Bridge

Basalt Path Roof Deck

Winter Recreation on Mud Lake

Lifted Dock Warming Hut Frozen Rain Chains (Ice Wall)

Ski Rack

Cross Country Skiing

Snowshoeing

Harvesting Tamarack at the Boat House

Winter Rain Chain Detail (Ice wall suspended from dock) 12” Metal Cleats drilled into Wood Dock

Tamarack branches harvested for wild rice canoe push poles

Rain Chains suspended from cleats Frozen Mud Lake 0

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Winter Dock Lift (Warming Hut) Detail

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Mud Lake

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Rain Chain Ice Wall

Dock

Suspension System

Skills Used: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

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RIBBON PARK Oregon City, Oregon

RIBBON PARK

OREGON CITY, OREGON

Just 13 miles south of Portland, this 23-acre industrial site in historic Oregon City lies along the Willamette Falls, the second largest waterfall by volume in the nation. The strong industrial legacy ended in 2011, when the Blue Heron Paper Co. closed its doors for the first time in decades.

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The proposed Ribbon Park (created in collaboration with Shannon Sawyer, MLA) utilizes existing buildings and structures on site and reinvents new spaces that connect vegetation, human experience, industrial relics, and ecological systems. Each space is connected visually through a winding yellow ribbon composed of specific vegetation blooming yellow throughout the year as well as industrial relics painted their original yellow color. Outdoor spaces take advantage of existing structures to create garden rooms, sculptural elements, stormwater filtration devices, and various moments to experience the river, falls, and industrial history of the site.

Ribbon Park Site Plan WILLAMETTE FALLS

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WILLAMETTE RIVER

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Stormwater Filtration Silos

The Woolen Mill: an industrial remnant as garden and gathering space

Stormwater runoff flows into silos & cisterns on site

HISTORIC MILL PHOTOS Green roof

Filled with rock to filter water

PACIFIC MADRONE

YELLOW MONKEYFLOWER

Vegetated swales surround filtration tanks Filtered water enters river

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Coffee Shop

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Column Garden

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Mill ‘O’ Com Ctr

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The Woolen Mill

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The Clearing

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Sky Garden

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Salmon Fishery

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Falls Overlook

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Lagoon

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Salmon Eatery

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Bluff Bridge

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Hawley Brew Co.

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Sulphite Plant

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Falls Gallery

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Falls Market

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Lamprey Cafe

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Chip Load Garden

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Reuse Center

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Lawn/Flex Space

The Column Garden: salvaged support columns become a centerpiece for river viewing

VINES ON REPURPOSED BUILDING COLUMNS

WILLAMETTE RIVER VIEW

Skills Used: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

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The Grid: a water filtration building becomes an elevated garden

RIBBON PARK

OREGON CITY, OREGON

FIRST GLIMPSE OF WILLAMETTE FALLS

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SEDUMS

REPURPOSED WATER FILTRATION BUILDING BLUE WILD RYE

The Falls: the yellow ribbon trail ends with a view of the spectacular Willamette Falls

A permeable paver path winds through dense forest to meet the top of the Grid (left). Reuse of the Blue Heron Water Filtration Plant provides opportunity for an elevated garden and walkway with views of the river. The path continues visually with Blue Wild Rye planted amongst sedums.

The yellow ribbon culminates at Willamette Falls (above) by opening up into a swath of yellow vegetation planted along the rocky outcrop basalt river bluff edge. Unaccessible to the public for decades, this proposal provides a soulful and poetic pathway to experience the mist and the grandeur of this waterfall at the end of the Oregon Trail.

Skills Used: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Laser Cutting, Model Making

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RACHEL BURAND

bura0037@umn.edu