2501 19th St. San Francisco, CA 94110 Email: shannonpz@gmail.com Phone: 512.484.8602
SHANNON B R O N SON
2501 19th St. San Francisco, CA 94110 Email: shannonpz@gmail.com Phone: 512.484.8602
Design Experience SWA Group
Landscape Designer
Education San Francisco, CA
09/11-11/12
-Prepared 100% Design Development Auto CAD package and marketing presentation for a residential tower plaza in Chengdu China. -Completed PD Permitting package for two large mixed-used urban agricultural and office parks in San Jose, CA -Submitted the chosen scheme for a large historic preservation and mixed use mall and office tower landscape in Beijing, China. Deveoped to 100% Schematic Design. -Provided production and illustrative diagrams and renderings for large urban planning and agricultural project’s 100% SD package and presentation. -Collaborated to create legible graphics and comprehensive descriptions of a project in Jianxu, China which was awarded a 2012 ASLA National Honor Award. -Prepared 100% CD package for Courthouse in Butte County, California. -Lead SWA Group’s Summer Internship program.Tasks ranged from orchestrating the admissions process to developing the design challenge, gathering large amounts of data, networking with jurors and leading the students. -Provided support for numerous projects in the office as needed. Quickly integrated with teams to support deadlines with CAD work, 3D renderings, illustrative and writing skill on international and domestic projects. Austin,TX 06/11-09/11 TBG Partners Landscape Design Consultant
-Implemented planting design and documentation for 100% CD set of large residential development in Houston, Texas -Developed accepted conceptual design for small rural park in Austin, TX. Sausalito and San Francisco, CA SWA Group Design Intern
-Analyzed and understood the complex issues of Vallejo, CA through site visits, research, and charettes -Recommended urban planning, urban design and landscape architectural solutions that influence current discourse on the cities ‘ future design -Developed weekly schematic designs for condominium tower properties in Dalian, China, and a plaza space for Hewlett-Packard Development Co. -Contributed to large scale model and site plans for canal and wetland redevelopment in Jiaxing, China in collaboration with SOM architects -Researched design images and created AutoCAD, SketchUp, and hand drawings in support of client meetings San Francisco, CA Madrono Landscape Design Designer
06/010-08/10
03/08-05/08
-Independently designed commercial green roof and residential properties from schematic development to detailing -Drafted designs in AutoCAD, rendered presentation drawings by hand and presented designs to clients San Francisco, CA Self-Employed -Individually designed, built and installed sculptural interiors for retail and residential clients -Executed projects with an aesthetic of reused material, found objects and hand craftswomanship -Self-managed sales, estimates, budgeting and billings San Jose, CA Anthropologie Display Designer
-Independently designed, built and installed interiors and window displays for the entire store -Sourced eclectic materials and plants, and built one-of-a-kind displays within monthly budget requirements -Managed design teams and interns for major design installations such as holiday and seasonal store changes
06/07-05/08
05/06-06/07
SHANNON B R O N SON Design Skills
2011 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX Master of Landscape Architecture G.P.A. 3.73/ 4.0 American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award Faculty nominated, juried award given to graduate with most professional promise, 2011 Graduate General Design Award of Excellence Texas American Society of Landscape Architects, 2011 The Cogburn Family Foundation Architecture and Urbanism Prize For excellence during the ULI/Gerald D. Hines Competition, 2011 National ASLA Honor Award “The Need for Place in Landscape Urbanism” SHIFT: Infrastructure, North Carolina State ASLA Journal, 2011 National ASLA Honor Award “Graft: A paradigm form Infrastructural Intervention ” SHIFT: Infrastructure and Issue, UT Austin Architectural Journal, 2011 ASLA Student Member and Representative Organized chapter fundraising events and annual student 5’x5’ Design Build Competition ASLA Student 5’x5’ Competition Faculty reviewed design build competition, 2008-2011 Dallas Urban Lab Scholarship Robert Leon White Memorial Scholarship Graduate Student Council Scholarship Committee Representative Tacoma, WA 2005 The University of Puget Sound B.A. Studio Art. Sculpture and Drawing G.P.A. 3.35/ 4.0 The Robert B. McMillan Foundation Prize for Fine Arts Full support for students excelling in Fine Arts Honorable Mention The University of Puget Sound Senior Art Thesis Exhibition The Wheelock Center Solo Art Exhibition, The University of Puget Sound The University of Puget Sound Organic Garden Club Vice President Maui Coastal Land Trust Forest Restoration Intern at Ola Honua in Kipahulu, Maui Teaching Assistant Sculpture Fundamentals Year long assistant to Professor Michael Johnson
References Justin Winters, SWA Group Associate Michael Samarripa, SWA Group Associate Hope Hasbrouck, M. Arch., M.L.A. Jason Sowell, B.Arch, M.L.A.
jwinters@swagroup.com msamarripa@swagroup.com hhasbrouck@austin.utexas.edu jsowell@austin.utexas.edu
415.836.8770 415.2931507 512.475.7994 512.475.9212
Computer AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Word, Excel, Sketch Up Form Z, Rhino, 3D Studio Max, Laser Cutting Analog - Model making, presentation drawings, quick sketching - Group leadership, public speaking, research, writing
Exhibitions & Service Golden Gate Park Shakespeare Garden Redesign for Parks Department and donors. Kingsland Community Park Designed Vision Plan for a three acre community park Alemany Community Farm Volunteer 4.5 acre farm dedicated to urban agriculture and education Plant SF Volunteer Promotes permeable landscape as sustainable infrastructure Tacoma Contemporary Exhibition, Tacoma, WA (2006) Panamonica’s Gallery Exhibition, Tacoma, WA (2005) SOLO Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (2005) The Kickstand, Tacoma, WA (2005) Cafe DiBartolo, Oakland, CA (2005)
Interests Yoga Drawing Certified SCUBA Diver Long-Distance Running Dance Learning Farsi Improv Comedy
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Aviation Plaza SWA Group
Client: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
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Beijing Finance Street
Client: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
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Nanhu: Farm Town in the Big City
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Expanding the Span: The Graft as a Paradigm for Infrastructural Intervention
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The Highland Mall: Inside-Outside
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Movement as Structure in Reimer’s Ranch
SWA Group
SWA Group Client: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill 2012 American Society of Landscape Architects National Honor Award Analysis and Planning
2011 American Society of Landscape Architects National Award of Excellence Communications
2011 American Society of Landscape Architects Texas Graduate General Design Award of Excellence
SHANNON SHANNONBRONSON BRONSON
Aviation Plaza Client: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill 100 % DD Package Chengdu, China
Working alongside a Senior Associate I prepared plans, sections, details and renderings to support a 100% Design Development Set in the course of a four month period. Here I learned the process of preparing construction packages-sheet order and set up, proper annotations to convey information to multiple consultants and the appropriate amount of information to include in this scope of project. The following spreads highlight the range of drawings I prepared in support of this submittal, though I was responsible for the whole set.
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32 Renmin East Road Chengdu, China Architect: 建筑设计:
SOM
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP One Front Street San Francisco, CA 94111
Local Design Institute: 当地设计院 :
CSWADI 中国建筑西南设计研究院 866 N Tianfu Boulevard, Chengdu, China 610041 成都市天府大道北段866号
Consultants: 顾问:
SanFrancisco Sausalito Laguna Beach Houston Dallas Los Angeles Shanghai
55 New Montgomery Street, Suite 888 San Francisco CA, 94105 Issued For: 图纸发行: 编号:
石材铺装,
石材铺装带 P-4, 延伸至产权红线
石矮墙与邻近鋪装对齐
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Description:
100% SCHEMATIC DESIGN 50% DESIGN DEVELOPMENT 100% DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
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2011.08.05 2011.11.18 2012.01.18
SHANNON SHANNONBRONSON BRONSON
Sichuan Aviation Plaza
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Seal & Signature: 图章及签名:
Sheet Name: 图名:
石矮墙与邻近鋪装对齐
石材铺装,
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Beijing Finance Street: Daji Hutong Development Client: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill 100 % SD Package Beijing, China
This project superimposes a large mall and office towers on the vernacular landscape of the Beijing “Hutongs� or alley way houses to develop unique boutique retail, climbing landscape terraces, a large urban park, and a special pedestrian thoroughfare linking them all together. I am currently working with two principals, a senior associate and one staff to conceptualize the place. I developed the chosen scheme for the pedestrian link, and documented it in a 100% SD submittal. I also developed a scheme for the large urban park that proposes richly vegetated mounds in the center of a large urban fountain that changes character from riparian to formal as it weaves its way around the park.
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金融街（北京
SHANNON BRONSON
商业街石材铺装 2
石坐墙 入口水景
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石矮墙
301 Battery St. 2 M San Francisco CA, 94105
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入口水景
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商业街石材铺装 2 石坐墙 N (TRUTH NORTH)
石矮墙
商业街石材铺装 2
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Water Pavillion at Riparian Edge
SHANNON BRONSON
Nanhu Client: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill 100 % SD Package Jianxu, China
The Nanhu Planning Project is an ASLA Award Winning master plan to reconnect stagnant canal systems, reconfigure traditional housing layouts to attract a more town center setting and imagines three major parks, each with distinct character. I worked on the 100% SD package by contributing renderings, diagrams and helping produce the extensive CAD set. I also assisted with the teams’s award winning ASLA submittal. We are currently in DD for on of the residential areas and are proposing a network of storm water cleaning that is at once performative as well as definitive of the place. I am helping with the CAD set and explanatory diagrams.
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Landscape City: Infrastructure’s Role as Connective Tissue and Ecological Place Instructor : Professor Dean Almy The Dallas Urban Laboratory Lancaster Road and Interstate 20, Dallas, TX The expanding population in Dallas, Texas and proposed rail infrastructure has positioned development pressure towards the riverines of the Trinity River. In addition, ongoing initiatives have planned for the reactivation of the corridors and meanders as a part of a linking hike and bike trails to alternative transportation. This proposal aims to construct an integrated and performative landscape structure to support these connections. New typologies of open space that support programs for health, recreation, and play are proposed to transform the urban core into a family friendly environment. They are dispersed to promote social equity throughout the city, and to mediate between the enormous scale of transportation infrastructure and the urban neighborhoods the bifurcate.
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Walkable Street Network
SHANNON BRONSON
Landscape as Connective Tissue: Equitable Flow Throughout the Site
Programmed Riparian Circuit
Connections to Underserved Neighborhoods
Storm Water Network
Green Street Hierarchy
Street connects to larger riparian circuit and provides safe and sensorally vivid walk to transit stops
Riparian Corridor Intact
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Vehicular Circulation
Plaza to Street Connection
Seating
Sub-surface Structures
SHANNON BRONSON
Arboretum
Active Living Street Cross Section
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Pedestrian Circulation
Kiosks
Tree Cover
Bocce Play Yard The street is imagined as a highly programmed linear strip to support neighborhood activity while maintaining multi-modal connectivity
View of the Community Pool and Children’s Yard within the Active Living Street Transect through Active Living Street
Pool
Arboretum Movable Seating and Quiet Arboretum
Transit Stop
Outdoor Eating Decks and Cafe Dining
Bocce Courts
Childrens Play Yard
Community Pool
Active Arboretum and Flexible Play Space
Transect as Active Living Street Connects to Main Plaza Main Plaza: Student Union
Student/ Affordable Housing
Structural Lawn
Dining Area
Active Living Street
Landscape as Ecological Place: Active Living Streets The Active Street links into a major public plaza that is the threshold between residential neighborhoods, the university campus, and transit.
Storm Water Capture
Transit Stop
Cafe Dining/ Retail Main Street
Riparian Connection
SHANNON BRONSON
Expanding the Span: The Graft as a Paradigm for Infrastructural Intervention Published: “SHIFT” Infrastructure, NCSU’s ASLA Journal + Issue 11, UT Austin Architectural Journal 2011 National ASLA Student Honor Award Communications Instructor : Jason Sowell, Partner Britta Johanson Comprehensive Landscape Studio The Continental Bridge, Dallas, TX The Trinity River in Dallas, Texas is currently undergoing a large transformation. The river’s cyclical floods have exacerbated the divide between the downtown and the city’s southern and western periphery. A former liability in terms of flooding and development loss, the river system is being re-engineered into a series of flood storage wetlands and recreational park known as the Trinity River Corridor Project. This process reprograms the bridges and levees in order to provide the surrounding neighborhoods access to a unifying urban greenway. The Continental Bridge is scheduled to be transformed from a dangerous auto thoroughfare to a pedestrian, bicycle and light rail bridge. Our investigation proposes the grafting of two additional platforms onto the eastern landing of the bridge. This expansion creases to navigates users across barriers of levee, freeway, flood walls, and an expanded toll way to connect the river promenade via access ramps, stairways and elevator.
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Dallas Skyline
The Graft
Site Context
Calatrava Bridge (In construction) Dallas Urban Lab Master Plan
Continental Bridge
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Regional Context
Levee
Downtown Dallas
West Dallas
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Dallas Urban Lab Master Plan
Vegetation Structure
Grafted Platform
Trinity Overlook and Ramp to Promenade Market Place Corridor
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Fountain Place Retail and Dining Edge
Lighting
SHANNON BRONSON
Formal Organization
Site Model
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Paving
Auto Parkway Promenade
Site Plan Drainage
Trinity River Park
Programmatic Bands
Grading
Ground plane
Structure
The Crease as Frame: Railing System
Revealing the Structure: Elevated Vegetation Poles
Blue Slate
SHANNON BRONSON
Fiber Optic Cords Cor Ten Steel Spider Clips
Fountain Place is defined by creasing ground plane
Glass Panel
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Transect
SHANNON BRONSON
The Highland Mall, Inside-Outside Graduate General Design Award of Excellence, Texas ASLA 2011 Instructor : Hope Hasbrouck, Partner: Britta Johanson Advanced Design Highland Mall, Austin, TX
The Highland Mall in Austin, Texas is an example of an iconic mid-century American shopping mall that is rapidly in decline. It features all the elements of a mall of its era: a monumental structure sealed from the outside that includes decorative fountains, food court, escalators, anchor stores, and expansive parking lots. This model allows shopping, walking and eating and bears some responsibility for the aggressive expansion of automobile dominated culture and transportation infrastructure over the last 50 years. The Highland Mall is located on a new Metro Rail stop, a short distance from the Mueller development and within five miles of downtown Austin. A proposal to expand the existing trail system would further link the site to the greater Austin community. This proposal for the re-design of the Highland Mall reimagines the mall condition as a diversely programmed matrix with on-site water capture, multi-modal connections, and a hub for community enrichment.
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ACC Campus
Daylighted creek restores native plants and wildlife to formerly 95% paved area
Pedestrian circulation
Retail boardwalk
Wraps around new mall buildings providing retail access and spectator space
Hierarchy of paths connect visitors to city wide trails and amenities across the site
US-290
I-35
New branch of the popular Austin Community College
Performance Space
New Buildings
MOPAC (Loop 1)
Hosts a wide variety of competitive and community recreation
Travis County
Austin, Texas
Vehicle Access
Result from folding the old mall and increasing density along a calmed Airport Blvd.
Parking
Restricted vehicular access prioritizes pedestrians and bicycles
Tucked under retail boardwalk and in small lots across the site
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Highland Mall Inside-Outside
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Grading Plan
SHANNON BRONSON
Precedents BACKDROP PERFORM
Changing the LANDSCAPE
scrape
peel
SPECTATE
01 03.S Changing the ARCHITECTURE
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Existing Conditions Highland Mall is sealed from the
Step 1 Determine cut lines to open
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Step 2 Remove building along cut lines
Step 3 Fold buildings and diversify program
Result New buildings + contemporary “Landscape Theater�
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Section through basketball courts, competitive track, retail boardwalk, underground parking and new Austin Community College building
Demolished Buildings
Section through Austin City College Campus
View from retail boardwalk overlooking track, basketball and skate park
View from Roller Girl Amphitheater across riparian zone to Highland Mall
Section through Roller Girl Amphitheater
SHANNON BRONSON
Planting Plan
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Existing Tree Plan
ACC Campus Locations (Highland Mall Proposed)
ACC
A group of mature Live Oak trees dating from the 1970 construction of the mall are incorporated into the new plan be relocating them to the ACC campus quad where they frame paths, shade a great lawn and give identity to the place. The rest of the site features native grasses and trees that require little irrigation and provide ample shade.
Playground
Track and Field
Pools
Restored Creek
Skate Park
Residential Courtyard
Site sections indicating program adjacencies and diversity (above) Highland Mall materials palette featuring high performance recycled competition surfaces, native plants and trees, and limestone (below)
SHANNON BRONSON
Movement as Structure at Reimer’s Ranch
Instructor: Kira Applehans Design and Visual Studies in Landscape Architecture II Reimer’s Ranch, Austin, TX
Aldo Leopold states that the land cannot be merely thought of as soil, but instead must include the soil, plants and animals. The movement of these forces shapes the land, and their occupation creates unique senses of place. Because “man-made changes have effects on the land that are not intended of foreseen,” human movement through the site must be sensitive, yet still allow freedom to engage the landscape in spiritually captivating ways. This design invites uses to participate in the movement of water, prairie management and plant movement. Its paths hearken to animal movement, its nodes are inspired by animal homes, and it creates insertions for humans to delicately stretch the possibilities
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River bank
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Oak savannah
Big boulder river bank
Canyon
Eroding river banks
Ecotones
Site Plan
Site Diagrams
Campgrounds Parkour Platforms
Fire Viewing Platforms
Tree Farm Performance Platform
Artist Residency & Performance
Water Amphitheater Parkour Platforms
Fire Viewing Platforms
SHANNON BRONSON
Site Sections
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Though a native species, Ashe juniper has become invasive due to human influence. Buffalo and fire were historical controls on the plant, but have been eradicated and suppressed respectively by rapid urbanization and development in America. The dominance of Ashe juniper is a form of desertification because it out-competes native grasses that capture rainfall and whose extensive root network cleanses the water before it reaches the aquifer. This design incorporates a process of removing the trees that mimics the movement of buffalo and fire across the site. Burn plots are cleared of the trees and subsequently burned to discourage seedling growth. This allows enough time for native grass seeds to re-establish dominance in the ecosystem. The design uses the cleared trees to construct viewing platforms to observe the burns and gather in the landscape. It also houses a educational tree farm which grows native Texan trees and collects seeds for future propagation.
SHANNON BRONSON
Removing Ashe juniper
phase 1: develop paths and remove ashe juniper
phase 2: build platforms and burn cleared plots
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Viewing platform
Burn plots
View of observation platforms along running paths
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