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S A R A H PAT E Ma ste r of L and s cape Architec ture Unive rsity of Virg inia | 2 0 1 9

S A R A H P AT E 500 West Main Street, Apt. C Charlottesville, VA 22903 (225) 328-1881 sep3se@virginia.edu https://issuu.com/sarahpate

REFERENCES

Julie Bargmann UVA School of Architecture (434) 466-0938 jlb6t@virginia.edu Leena Cho UVA School of Architecture (434) 243-4322 lsc7t@virginia.edu Gregg Bleam Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect (434) 924-6456 gb@gbla.net SKILLS

Proficient AutoCAD Rhinoceros 3D Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign ArcGIS Vectorworks SketchUp Laser cutting Woodworking Working Knowledge Adobe After Effects Revit Grasshopper CNC routing V-Ray

E D U C AT I O N

Charlottesville, VA May 2019 Berkeley, CA Aug. 2015 Memphis, TN May 2013

Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate University of Virginia IN[LAND] Summer Studio, completed with distinction University of California, Berkeley B.A., summa cum laude, Studio Art, Minor: Urban Studies Rhodes College

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cambridge, MA January 2019 Charlottesville, VA May 2018 - Aug 2018 Seattle, WA January 2018 Charlottesville, VA July 2017 - Aug 2017 New Orleans, LA January 2017

Reed Hilderbrand Extern Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect Intern Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Extern Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect Intern Spackman Mossop Michaels Extern

Baton Rouge, LA Sept. 2015 - Aug. 2016

Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana Restoration Program Assistant

Memphis, TN May 2013 - Sept. 2014

Ben Butler, Sculptor Fabrication Assistant / Studio Manager

A S S I S TA N T S H I P S

Charlottesville, VA Jan. 2019 - May 2019

Foundation Studio IV Bradley Cantrell

Charlottesville, VA Aug. 2018 - Dec. 2018

Foundation Studio III Elizabeth Meyer

Charlottesville, VA Jan. 2018 - May 2018

Foundation Studio II Teresa Galí-Izard

Charlottesville, VA Aug. 2017 - Jan. 2018

Racialized Topographies Research Elizabeth Meyer

Vicenza, Italy June 2017 Charlottesville, VA Aug 2016 - May 2017

Architectural Drawing + Site Reading Charlie Menefee Fallow Cities Research Julie Bargmann

HONORS

2016 - present

Robert A. Dailey Scholarship, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, UVA

2018

Richard Guy Wilson Prize for Excellence in the Study of Buildings, Landscapes and Places, Awarded for Foundation Studio III project “Turn Park”

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Best in Show, Juried Student Show, Clough-Hanson Gallery William Bruce ’11 Award for Outstanding Paper in Art History Apollonian Award, Presented by Rhodes College Art Dept.

P U B L I C AT I O N S

2018 - 2019 2015

Editor, lunch vol. 13: Mischief –– UVA’s student-run design research journal Thomas, Elizabeth, Sarah Pate, and Anna Ranson. “The Crosstown Initiative: Art, Community, and Placemaking in Memphis.” American Journal of Community Psychology 55.1 (2015): 74-88.

CONTENTS 07 Design Studios Elsewhere: Baltimore, MD Breakline: Charlottesville, VA

Heck of a Lot: Richmond, VA Turn Park: Meadowlands, NJ 47 Planted Form + Function Maple-Beech Forest

Planted Form, The Grove

The Hallways, A Monk’s Garden 53 Drawing + Modeling

Ira Keller Fountain Park: Portland, OR

Sacred and Mundane: Vicenza, Italy Cherry Hothouse: Sanssouci, Italy Moonlight Towers: Detroit, MI Urban Wilds: Charlottesville, VA

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Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect

ELSEWHERE a dirt factory and brickworks for the city of Baltimore

Fall 2018 Critic: Shiqiao Li Each year in late winter, approximately 1.5 million cubic yards of sediment are scraped from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, piled onto barges, and shipped to certified containment facilities on the city fringes. There, the dredge accumulates—an unseen, unlovely counterpart to the city’s working waterfront.

Part dredge amendment facility, part greenhouse, part brickworks, and part beach, this complex is a bricolage of Baltimore’s odds and ends. It pairs industrial-scale operations with domestic practices, spaces of production with places of pleasure, the weight of earth with the feeling of floating. Here, the dredge is transformed and transported—given back to the city that misplaced it.

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A P O R T C I T Y | Sites of extraction and disposal in Baltimore

D R E D G E C YC L E S | Patterns of removal, storage, and (proposed) distribution

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Public Greenhouses Microbiology Labs (above) Soil Storage Cells (below) Walled Gardens / Sunken Squares Brick Beach Persimmon Grove Brick Kilns / Molding Workshop Public Brickyard Dredge Amendment Warehouse

WA L L E D G A R D E N S Rammed earth walls form a series of subterranean-like alleys and squares on the north side of the site

ORANGERIE Portions of the squares are used as temporary storage for plants grown in amended soil

SUNROOMS Part of the greenhouse facade opens directly to exterior gardens, allowing people to pass freely between inside and outside

F LO AT I N G L A B S Microbiology labs are suspended from the steel truss system, creating a sense of privacy for employees while also allowing room for plants to grow

DREDGE DISTRIBUTION Amended dredge is stored in the basement of the greenhouse, allowing easy access for soil scientists, local contractors, and home gardeners

S I T E CO N T E X T | The complex is situated between Domino Sugar’s tanks of blackstrap molasses and the Masonville Dredge Containment Facility.

B A LT I M O R E ’S O D D S A N D E N D S | Early studies explored the materiality of waste products in the Inner Harbor.

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P U B L I C B R I C K YA R D S Molded bricks are stored to dry in a harbor-side courtyard

CO M M U N A L K I L N S A set of five bottle kilns provide community members with opportunities to fire their own bricks

E L E VAT E D G R O V E Persimmons are planted a level above the pedestrian path, creating elevated and informal public spaces

B R I C K B E AC H Misfired bricks are used as the primary material in the construction of a tidal public beach

BREAKLINE a t e m p o r a r y p a v i l i o n f o r U VA’ s a r c h i t e c t u r e s c h o o l

Fall 2017 Critics: Seth McDowell, Sami Rintala, Dagur Eggertsson Team: Esteban Chavez, Andrea Gomez, Leah Grossman, Calvin Heimberg, Madelyn Hoagland-Hanson, Yudou Huang, Hutch Landfair, Cong Nie, Jiayue Peng, Kira Rosenbaum, Jingyi Shin, Todd Stovall; work shown is my own unless otherwise noted Designed and constructed during a three-week workshop, this pavilion examines the idea of “tolerance” as both a material condition and a social disposition. Aside from its screws, the pavilion was constructed exclusively out of reclaimed lumber from a Virginia farmhouse. The irregularity of this found material demanded a specific structural system—one that could account for (and, in some instances, celebrate) material defects, uneven sizing, and looselyjointed material. The resulting pavilion encloses an existing set of concrete stairs and reflects them into a second series of wooden steps. Together these two sets of stairs form a central gathering space on UVA’s Architecture School North Terrace.

Following the construction of the pavilion, a small team of students, including myself, measured each component of the structure and then re-modeled them in digital space. These drawings preserve the character of this temporary pavilion while also challenging the typical gap between digital drawing and physical construction.

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*catalog by L. Grossman and S. Pate; details by M. Hoagland-Hanson, L. Grossman, E. Chavez, and S. Pate

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A S - B U I LT | Plans, elevations, and details were drafted after construction, and reveal the pavilion’s irregularities and imperfections.

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H E C K O F A LOT parking lots for a rainy day

Spring 2017 Critics: Montserrat Bonvehi-Rosich and Alexander Wall Partner: Leah Grossman; work shown is my own unless otherwise noted This project proposes a rule-based system for the oft-neglected—yet highly-trafficked—spaces of surface parking lots. Sited in downtown Richmond, Va., the project began with an understanding that these seemingly discrete surfaces are, in fact, linked hydrologically. The core of the design is a logic that addresses how water, people, and cars move through and occupy these spaces. This logic, in turn, results in a system of varied surface conditions that channel, absorb, and reroute stormwater, create temporary public spaces, and use the car as an active agent in building a new landscape.

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surface parking lots within 1/4 mile of Main Street

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parking lots connected by hydrology and topography

a matrix of surface area and slope

L eg end watershed boundary urban stream order urban stream order parking lot superlot site James River exposed rock * map by L. Grossman and S. Pate

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LOT LO G I C | A series of designed rules guide the movement of water, pedestrians, and cars. : by the block

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D O W N TO W N R I C H M O N D | Existing overlaps in hydrology, topography, and pedestrian networks suggest potential sites for intervention.

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PAV I N G D E TA I L S | A variety of pavement types creates a mosaic surface across the superlot.

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T U R N PA R K a series of strange gardens in a machinic wilderness

Spring 2018 Critics: Leena Cho and Alexander Wall Partners: Maddie Hoagland-Hanson and Ru Wu; work shown is my own unless otherwise noted Situated at the intersection of 19th century writings on nature and aesthetics, 20th century infrastructure, and 21st century environmental concerns, this project is an exuberantly speculative response to the proposition that the Meadowlands of New Jersey become the first National Park for climate resilience.

Our proposal combines a large-scale management plan for the area’s marshes with a sequence of public gardens. Using strategies of prescribed burning and dredge placement, the management of the marsh follows ecological principles of disturbance. The gardens, on the other hand, mix picturesque garden typologies—the rockery, the fernery, the rose garden—with the sublime qualities of the iconic New Jersey Turnpike and the vast, reedy Meadows.

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Gravel Turnpike Trail

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A C E N T U R Y I N V I E W | Calendars on varying scales explore how management practices, bloom cycles, and spectacle events overlap.

*calendar by M. Hoagland-Hanson and R. Wu

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D I S T U R B A N C E R E G I M E S | Catalogs, diagrams, and fieldwork demonstrate how storm disturbance plays a critical role in estuaries.

fire in the upland

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increased primary production enhanced seed + berry production in fire-adapted plants most non-woody species top-killed fire-intolerant species mortality decreased biomass enhanced blooming in shrubs + forbs increased deer, muskrat + waterfowl browsing Pinus rigida crown resprouting Pinus rigida stem production “burst�

Pinus rigida basal resprouting Pinus rigida seed release Myrica pensylvanica resprouts from rhizomes Typha latifolia resprouts from rhizomes Juncus roemerianus resprouts from rhizomes Spartina alterniflora resprouts from rhizomes Phragmites australis resprouts from rhizomes

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enhanced root production in some species charcoal-stimulated ectomycorrhizae growth

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increased wave action stresses vegetative cover

storm scour knocks down vegetation uprooted vegetation can become floating detritus

flood flush of cold rainwater saltwater flooding in upland zones biomass removal increased predation increased benthic organism activity floodwater drawdown vegetation regime shifts

wrack deposition plant damage + uprooting

enhanced root growth in marsh grasses (dependent on sediment accretion) increased turbidity seed, root mat + propagule redistribution localized erosion localized accretion

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*fieldwork and research by M. Hoagland-Hanson, S. Pate, and R. Wu

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T H E CO A S TA L R O S E G A R D E N Surrounded by stands of loblolly pine, wild roses flood the Vince Lombardi interchange in mid-summer, followed by beach plums in early autumn at the peak of the burning season. Access from the Fernery through the Hackensack Arches, perennially draped in Confederate Jasmine.

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Vince Lombardi Rest Stop

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T H E VA N I S H I N G C H E R R Y ESPLANADE A very long goodbye: five hundred Sargent cherries marching bravely into the marsh until they lose themselves in the rising tide. In spring, a tunnel of blossoms leads to the infrastructural grotto beneath one of the remaining portions of the decommissioned western spur.

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T H E R O C K E R Y AT LY N D H U R S T L A N D F I L L Cast-off rubble from the turnpike teardown forms crumbly peaks and valleys around a slow-moving stream, while alpine herbs and hardy flowers make their home amid the mayhem.

Views of Manhattan and the nearby Forbidden Isle, where a small forest flourishes in seclusion.

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TETERBORO WILDERNESS AREA A lone lookout in an ocean of marsh, the Teterboro Fire Tower is the primary watchpoint for the northern quadrant.

Expansive views of burns in progress and the Moonachie Heron Rookery to the east. Access via the Washington Avenue Traverse and surrounding service trails.

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*plan by S. Pate and M. Hoagland-Hanson; palette by M. Hoagland-Hanson

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PLANTED FORM AND FUNCTION with Coleston Burrell, Julie Bargmann, Teresa GalĂ­-Izard Opposite: Textural collage for a garden design.

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M A P L E - B E E C H F O R E S T | Measured plans, soil sections, and plant palettes for a quadrant of forest in the Virginia Piedmont.

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P L A N T E D F O R M | Studies of the various manifestations of a “grove.�

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T H E H A L LWAYS | A semester-long garden experiment testing planted form, seasonality, and procession.

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S A M P L E PA L E T T E | Groundcover plants and planted form for the old field.

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D R AW I N G A N D M O D E L I N G with Leena Cho, Charlie Menefee, Michael Lee, and Julie Bargmann Opposite: Diagrams of Halprin’s Ira Keller Fountain Park.

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V I C E N Z A | A 5-week drawing course on the daily rituals, sacred spaces, and urban form of the Veneto region.

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C H E R R Y H OT H O U S E | Model exploring the structure and seasonality of 18th-century hothouse technology in Sanssouci, Italy.

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M O O N L I G H T TO W E R S | Analytical model of Detroit’s 19th-century “moonlight tower” lighting system.

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U R B A N W I L D S | Fieldwork that attempts to draw the unfamiliar; below are “riverbank” drawings from Charlottesville’s Woolen Mills.

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PROFESSIONAL WORK with Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect Opposite: Model trees for UVA’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers.

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