Roberto Astudillo Selected Works
EDUCATION
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - School for Environment and Sustainability Master of Landscape Architecture, 2019 Interesting Coursework: Landscape/Urban Ecology, Urban Planning + Design, Architecture, Real Estate Development, Urban Theory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bachelor or Arts in Earth, Society and Environment Sustainability, 2013 Concentrations: Science of the Earth Interesting Coursework: Entomology, Science of Cities, Middle Eastern Cultures, Atmospheric Sciences, Geology, Molecular and Cellular Biology
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
This portfolio includes selections of projects that were completed during my studies at the University of Michigan. These projects highlight my interests and approach as a sustainable designer. Each project translate peer-reviewed literature and studies from academic journals like Landscape and Urban Planning, Frontiers in Psychology, the Landscape Journal, and various others towards design decisions. These projects demonstrate my interests in design/scientific research, admiration of urban environments, and concern to promote design interventions that benefit the greater good, both socially and ecologically.
Studio-MLA - Los Angeles, CA Spring Break Extern (March 2019) University of Michigan: Landscape Ecology, Perception, and Design Lab (Joan Nassauer) Research Assistant (September 2017 - December 2018) SWA Group - San Francisco, CA + Dallas, TX Summer Program Intern (June 2018 - August 2018) Village of Wilmette Urban Forestry Intern (June 2017 - August 2017)
HONORS + AWARDS
LAF Olmsted Scholar (2019) Landscape Architecture Faculty Award (2019) Rackham Independent Research Award (2019)
SKILLS
Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Audition Adobe Premier
AutoCad Rhino 6 SketchUp ArcMap + Pro QGIS
ACTIVITIES
Design Competitions: HUD Affordable Housing (2019), EPA RainWorks (2018), Hines Real Estate Development (2017) Organizations: Student ASLA (2017-), Student ASLA UMICH (Member 2016 - 2019) (Treasurer 2018-2019), International Association for Landscape Ecology (Student Member 2019-),
William Johnson Travel Research Award (2018) Jim and Beth Carlsen Real Estate Award (2017) Academic Leadership Fellowship (2016) Hand Graphics Grasshopper Revit Lumion Office Suite
College Bound Opportunities (2007-) Interests: Music, Art, Cooking, Urban Ecology, French, Spanish, History, Maps, Walking + Cities, Science (Especially: Entomology, Geology, Ecology, Mammalogy)
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CONFLUENCE
For the Resilient and Dynamic Campus Stormwater Master Plan Ann Arbor, MI
CONNECTION
Sustainable Neighborhood Plan for the Tetuan Area Neighborhood Plan Madrid, Spain
EVOKE + PERSIST
Urban Design as a Catalyst for Cultural Preservation and Community Dynamics Neighborhood Cultural and Preservation Plan Detroit, MI
CITING WATER
Features of our Present, Artifacts for the Future Coastal Resiliance Plan San Francisco, CA INTRODUCTION
CONFLUENCE
For the Resilient and Dynamic Campus Class/Studio: Urban Stormwater Project Location: Ann Arbor, MI Instructor: Joan Nassauer Team Members: 21 (19 MLA, 2 MS/ME) Role: Principal Project Leader + Designer
The North Campus Research Center (NCRC) at the University of Michigan symbolizes the height of the American Suburban Campus. With an excess stormwater capacity, the site represents an opportunity to rehabilitate Millers Creek, a stream suffering from the sprawl of Ann Arbor’s north-side area. Through the use of sensor/control technology, we employed ideas in responsive systems to harmonize a new relationship between nature and data-driven design. In doing so, we proposed re-establishing historic habitats that support regional flora and fauna while developing a living-learning laboratory that embraces ideals of the SMART Campus. The NCRC Master Plan attempts to become a Case Study of responsive landscapes for conventional suburban typologies searching for cost-effective, SMART futures in the Climate Change Anthropogenic Age. This project incorporates cutting edge technologies that have captured the imagination of the future of Cities. These technologies include: Autonomous Vehicle Technology, Real-Time Data Monitoring of Landscape Health, and the use of energy technologies as artistic elements.
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Confluence
“The Dynamic Wet Meadow”
Using sensor control technology, stormwater is slowed and treated allowing the conditions to construct thee historic Michigan Wet Meadow System and activates a natural space for others to enjoy.
The Analysis
The Proposal
Smart Systems + Urban Ecology + People
A Degraded Urban Creekshed
OUR SITE SITS IN THE UPLAND OF THE MILLERS CREEK WATERSHED
Responsive Landscapes, Supporting Urban Ecologies IMPERVIOUS
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[PHOSPHOROUS]
[SUSPENDED SOLIDS]
Suburban development in the Millers Creek Watershed has carved a depression at a gradient of 54 feet per mile. This has led to low insect diversity, poor aquatic habitat, high conductivity, and high erosion.
Sensors + Stormwater Source: Kerkez Lab
Cultural Ecologies Replicating the Michigan Southern Wet Meadow Ecosystem Confluence
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Green Rd
Huron Pkwy Plymouth Rd.
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The Wetlands Atlantis NCRC West Exploratorium NCRC East The Meadow M-Tropolis NCRC Transit
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500 ft
Controlled Networks 3
Confluence
1000 ft
1500 ft
Demonstrations
Floodable Landscapes
Valve and Controls
Piped Networks
Wet Meadow
SMART Stormwater
Urban Ecologies
SMART Campus
Existing
Phase I: 2020
Phase II: 2030
Confluence
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CONNECTION
City Neglect Years of neglect from the city and poor managment has left empty parcels occupied by illicit activities. New construction has favored market development over social needs.
A Sustainable Neighborhood Plan for the Tetuan Area of Madrid Class/Studio: Exercising Urban Sustainability Project Location: Madrid, Spain Instructor: Maria Arquero de Alarcan Team Members: 6 (1 MLA, 5 M.Arch) Role: Landscape/Urban Designer + Co-Team Leader
After years of neo-liberalist policies by the city, the social needs of this disenfranchised neighborhood have been ignored in favor of market rate housing. Following the Spanish Housing Crisis, construction in this area has slowed, leaving many parcels as construction sites for years, limiting the vibrancy of this community. Our group project focused on 6 sites + the street for: • Mixed-Use Affordable Spaces • Complete Street Interventions to Allow Access to the Large Park Area • Ecological Landscape Types of Urban Conditions • Social and Ecological Development Centers • Defining Area Sustainability by Rebuilding Community Gathering Spaces • Participatory Design + Municipal Input through Community Interviews and Surveys Our final project was presented to the Madrid City Government as a potential solution for the city’s sustainability plan and initiatives.
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Connection
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Stormwater Flow Parcels of Interest 2012
2017 Roadway Changes
Potential Green Areas
INTERVENTIONS Los Jardines Community Garden Spaces for Locals
The Aquatheater Using Topography for Community Spaces
Inner Parks Mitigating Heat Island Effect with Green Space
The Hub Recreational + Community Center
The Groundwords Commercial Spaces for Retail Services Facing the Park Slope
Street + People-scapes Making Paseo de la Direccion Porous between the Neighborhood and Park
Connection
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EVOKE + PERSIST
Urban Design as a Catalyst for Cultural Preservation and Community Dynamics
CHANDLER PARK NEIGHBORHOOD
Class/Studio: Urban Design Project Location: Detroit, MI Instructor: Mark Lindquist
The decline of Detroit’s population led to the demolition of countless buildings, leaving tracts of empty land. These removals not only erased urban blight, but also a sense of place in the community. Concurrently, demographics are changing as the elderly population continues to increase in age and numbers. This becomes an opportunity, not to construct a new neighborhood, but to support the strength and creativity of residents with the tools to continue Detroit’s narrative of: innovation, production, and creative collaboration. This becomes an intergenerational space, where retirement is redefined, collaboration is second nature, and experience is generated through: culture, ecology, and design. Project Narrative What is presence? What is invisibility? What is relevant? On the shoulders of ruin, we remember experiences. On the ideas of diversity, we grow, we innovate, we build the future. Through the spirit of Detroiters, we show the world a new resilience.
AREA
SITE MACK
DOWNTOWN
BELLE ISLE
DETROIT RIVER ALFRED
DICKERSON
KERCHEVAL
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Evoke + Persist
THE IDEA
Once a city of 2 million people, Detroit today is home to about 700,000. Vacancy has forced the demolition of thousands of structures, leaving the city with swaths of neglected green space. Built on the shoulders of innovation and a legacy of manufacturing, the city of Detroit experienced both a prosperous and reactionary history. This projects aims to incorporate open land as part of everyday routine while preserving and celebrating histories those who call(ed) this neighborhood home, catalyzed by a unifying theme of design and manufacturing that symbolizes and built the image of Detroit. CONNECTIONS
OPPORTUNITIES
ROOTS OF MEMORIES:
A NEVER ENDING STREAM OF PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE MOMENTS + VALUES
Roots of Memories
Memories of Past, Present + Future
The photographs of present and past residents provide visitors a glimpse of the neighborhood identity while also reminding future generations of achievements and struggles.
LANDFORMS
“RIBBONS”
Pictures and historical moments will be displayed on “currents” spanning from parks into the vacant parcels, thus becoming incorporated into green spaces. “Currents” metaphor the many rivers of the Michigan Landscape.
DESIGN PLAY MODULES: Continuing the narrative of innovation and industry, this playground concept focuses on modular equipment that continues this legacy to the next generation of creators.
GREENING MACK AVE
ANALYSIS - Incorporating the Vacant Urban Form of the City
Versitile Play Modules
Modular Playground to Imagine Spaces Evoke + Persist
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THE WEB: An Embrace of Vacancy LAKEVIEW
COPLIN
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GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE Design-Play!!!
The Crossing
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The Plaza
The Album
MACK AVE.
The Gathering
The Indoor Farm Open Green Spaces
STREET TREE PLANTERS
Shared Road
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THE NEIGHBORHOOD CATALYST
“THE CELLS” Creators Space + Labs
“THE HONEYCOMB” Hardware/Supplies Store + Residential Converted Parking
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40 ft
“THE POLLEN” Vertical Farm + Market
RETENTION STREET PLANTERS
GREEN ROOF + ARCHITECTURAL DETENTION
Mack “Album” Park “THE HIVE” Collab-Living
Commercial Innovation Space Green Space
Evoke + Persist
RAIN CHAIN PLANTER
DETENTION PLANTERS
“Maker-Space” Playground
Residential
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CURBSIDE REMOVAL
60 ft
STREET PLANTERS
“THE SWARM” Shared Manufacturing
Green Interventions
The city of Detroit has a combined sewer system and an aging infrastructure needing repair. The excess vacancy allows the region to use a multifuctional approach to stormwater management. By considering the level of impervious soils found in the site context, vacant lots have the potential to serve as bioretention areas, while streetscape and built amenities provide minimal infiltration capacities and important responses to bioclimactic conditions.
LOGISTICS PARKING SUCCESSION
2018
2020
2025
2040 New Open/Built Space Conventional Parking
People Flow Intercepts
Bike Traffic
SMART Shuttle/Mass Transit
Vehicle Logistics
Service Corridors
Vibrant Vacancies
Co-Op/Share Space
CAR CO-OP
INTERVENTIONS
Continued investments in autonomous vehicles rethinks parking needs. By embracing vacancy, pedestrian corridors provide dedicated access to these green “webs” for potential recreation. Using ideas in Routine Activity Theory, by connecting vacancy to daily routes, greater acceptance is a potential opportunity.
EV Parking
P: The Album Park FLEX STORAGE
A place to celebrate the many events in the city’s history, struggles, and successes and expressions of its citizens.
SMART SHUTTLES
Sculpture Corridors
Complete Streets
Arbor-Scapes
Connected Stormwater Network
Vibrant Vacancies
SECTION A-A’: The Corridors Evoke + Persist
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CITING WATER Features of our Present, Artifacts for the Future
Class/Studio: SWA Group Summer Intern Program 2018 Project Location: San Francisco, CA Role: Summer Program Intern
The run down municipal pier in San Francisco provides one of the few beach access for the city. Rising sea levels are making the city more vulnerable to tidal surge damages. This provides an opportunity to address the meaning of the pier and how to prepare a major city for climate resiliency. This space celebrates the cultural history of the Aquatic Park Maritime Museum through the inspiration of the past generations of artists and how their muse of water will have a lasting impact on our changing world and urban ecological systems.
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2050
Project Narrative
The role of water plays an intricate role. As water begins to take new boundaries with the aide of sea level rise and the increasing rains continue to transport urban pollutants, this becomes an opportunity to reexamine their relationship.
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Citing Water
FISHERMANS WHARF AREA
WETLAND PIER ISLANDS
AQUATIC PARK COVE
SCULPTURE PARKS SITE
Expected King Tide
AQUATIC PARK MUSEUM
BEACH
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A Soft Edge Approach - Rising sea levels will affect coastal infrastructure. This plan provides a wetland coast, inviting nature + softening urban edges. INSPIRED BY WATER, FOR THE NEW REALITY The artistic legacy of Aquatic Museum from the Federal Arts Project (1939) inspires a new relationship with changing shorelines.
“Mural for Aquatic Park”
By Hiller Hiler Maritime Museum in San Francisco
The New Coast - Landscape will react to changing tides and sea levels, making this an ever-changing experience where each day provides a different place.
Citing Water
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INSPIRED LANDSCAPE BY DYNAMIC ARTS B’ IV
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Sea level rise will force the landscape to adjust with the tides, providing new opportunities for space as the relationship between the coast and the land changes. 13
Citing Water
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SARGENT JOHNSON ROCKS PARK
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CLEVELAND WATER FRONT
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HILER SCULPTURAL GARDEN
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AQUATIC PROMENADE TUNNEL
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ROOSEVELT WATER GARDEN
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WETLAND STEPS
A: Beasts in the Garden
Expected King Tide
The Platforms: A shared space between Humans and Sea
Sculptures of Aquatic Beasts
Sculptural Garden Space
Pedestrian Aquatic Garden Sensory Way
B: Dynamic Sea-Scapes
Expected King Tide
Community Sculpture Displays
Lawn Ripples
Aquatic Monuments
Pedestrian Corriodor to Fort Mason Area
Multi-functional Walkways
Floating Wetlands and Habitat Space Citing Water
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Thank You! Roberto Astudillo (847) 532-8302 astudil@umich.edu Additional Work
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