Sara Brennan portfolio by Sara Brennan

Sara Brennan master of landscape architecture candidate . spitzer school of architecture . city college of new york

Sara Brennan 156 Adelphi St Apt 10 Brooklyn, NY 11205 (917) 603-6021 sarabrennan010@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Masters in Landscape Architecture candidate Expected graduation Spring 2014 Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture City College of New York New York, New York Bachelors of Psychology - Fall 2001- Spring 2005 Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana USA Awarded Louisiana Tech Outstanding Student Scholarship, Louisiana TOPS Performance Scholarship, and Jefferson Dollars for Scholars Scholarship, Member of Psi Chi Honor Society Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society

RECOGNITION

EXPERIENCE

2008 - 2011 Owner/Landscape Designer Live Oak Design, Stockholm, Sweden

Project budget range $20,000 - $800,000 Work focused on client centered design and project management. Sought to provide a personal, easily maintained, sustainable landscape with year-round interest. Lead every step of the process, from first meeting the client and gaining an understanding of their needs to delivering the design and complete package that the client is satisfied with. Acted as project manager during installation maintenance plans, writing specs, collecting bids, construction management, and inspections. Sub-contracted to multiple larger Landscape Design firms doing landscape design, maintenance plans, exhibit design for garden fairs, and blog/newsletter design & writing. Several projects published in Swedish Home and Garden magazines

2007 - 2008 Intern

2013 - NYASLA Scholarship Recognized for design excellence in preparation for comprehensive thesis studio

Garden by Anna, Stockholm, Sweden One a team of designers to design an award winning exhibition for Nordic Gardens 2008 (Scandinavia’s leading Garden Show)

2013 - Speaker at CELA annual conference “A Method for Re-Imagining National Parks”

Summer 2013 Intern (2 months)

2012 - Parks for the people Award of Excellence Van Alen institute and NPS

Summer 2012 Intern (3months)

2011 - Published studio project City Works 6, the sixth in a series of books which document the work of students from Spitzer School of Architecture.

Summer 2012 Intern (3 months)

SOFTWARE/SKILLS

Photoshop, illustrator, V ray Auto CAD, manual drafting Arc GIS Rhino3d, 3ds Max, model-making Indesign, Microsoft Office

Hoffman brandt Projects LLC

Andrew Zientek Landscape Architecture D.I.R.T. studio, Julie Bargmann

2005 - 2006 Pre-School Teacher

Mother Goose International Pre-School Stockholm, Sweden Led a class of 10 children ranging in age from 18 months to 2 years.

LANGUAGES

English- native language Swedish- professional fluency

STUDIO PROJECTS

The Experimental Forest City, (ongoing) thesis

Staten Islands, disaster relief, studio 5

Brooklyn Navy Yard, studio 3

Eco-Stich, a masterplan, studio 4

Finding Common Ground, studio 2

The Web, studio 1

Construction Documents PROFESSIONAL WORK SAMPLES

Swedish Stone Courtyard, professional work

Garden by the Baltic, professional work

Sara Brennan

Comprehensive Design Studio __Spring 2014 (ONGOING) This thesis project proposes that the expansive network of open space available in Cleveland becomes a new type of Experimental Urban National Forest. Incubators, laboratories and research facilities become a fundamental part of the city landscape, allowing for field exploration of the evolving interrelationship between city and the dynamic natural systems in which it sits.

01 The Experimental Forest City manufacturing decline

3,300 20,000 LOTS of vacant land

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ACRES of vacant land

Demolished Structures

Population Decline

1950: 914,808 #7 in US

Foreclosure Filings

2010: 396,815 #45 in US

connections river-rail-national park

center of the rust belt

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120

Miles 160

0.5

Miles 4

01 The Experimental Forest City . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2014

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vacant land parcels

major streets

land bank properties

industrial land use

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01 The Experimental Forest City . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2014

The Experimental Forest City

Cleveland Wilds Green City, Blue Lake

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01 The Experimental Forest City . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2014

EXPERIMENTAL TYPOLOGIES river/stream/riparian zone studies

wildlife habitat and study zone

urban carbon dynamics

long-term ecological research

watershed studies

urban forest growth/yield lab

Sara Brennan

Design Studio 5 __Fall 2013 A Disaster Relief Strategy for Staten Island By taking a more nuanced approach to managed retreat, communities will be provided with the option to “retreat to home.” STATEN ISLANDS plans for a new lifestyle in familiar territory.

02 Staten Islands

no end in sight IPCC projections 2050 and 2080 a closer look at the opportunities and constraints of the community reveal a community at risk with diverse vulnerabilities. MIDLAND BEACH

"The heartache of losing my home, the heartache “Sandy was just like the last straw that of losing my memories, the blood and sweat and tears that I put into this home, is didn’t even allow you to fool yourself into thinking it was OK to stay.”going to be healed by seeing trees and nature come back to that spot right there. And that's going to make me feel better." - Oakwood Beach resident - Oakwood Beach resident

“Oakwood Beach was fortunate to get a deal with the state. They made the Governor promise that there would be no development if they left - that the land would become a park. Here in Midland Beach we had to deal with the Mayor, who wouldn’t make that promise. For us, there was no deal.” - Midland Beach resident

02 Staten Islands . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2013

5 DEATHS

13 DEATHS

3 DEATHS

staten islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s southeast shore 23 of the 44 nyc sandy related deaths

02 Staten Islands . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2013

THE ISLANDS EMERGE catastrophic flooding turned into opportunity

02 Staten Islands . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2013

ARCHITECTURAL TEXTURE BEGINS TO BECOME MORE URBAN AS ISLANDS TRANSITION

AS SEA LEVELS RISE, FLOODING BECOMES EVER MORE FREQUENT UNTIL A CONSTANT CONDITION AT WHICH POINT THE COMMUNITY ADAPTS FROM CAR-CENTRIC TO BOAT-CENTRIC

ARCHITECTURAL TEXTURE EMULATES ORIGINAL NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER

VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINES INCREASE TO ACCOMODATE ISLAND POPULATION

WETLANDS BETWEEN ISLANDS ACCOMODATE OCCASIONAL FLOODING AND PROVIDE

Sara Brennan

Design Studio 3 __Fall 2012 Proposal for Brooklyn Navy Yard Development The Brooklyn Navy Yard wanted to develop an unused pier as new tenant space and gave specific sq footage for building footprints. This project introduces a creative collective studio space with restaurant and event space. The designs gives nod to the industrial past and builds upon the emerging ecologies that have developed on the site.

03 Brooklyn Navy Yard site inventory

proposed building program SHARED STUDIO SPACE GALLERY / EVENT SPACE

site location

OUTDOOR WORK / EVENT

SHARED STUDIO SPACE COLLECTIVE CREATIVE WORKSHOP

PRIVATE STUDIO SPACE SHARED STUDIO SPACE

BNY PUBLIC SPACE OUTDOOR DINING / RELAX

PRIVATE STUDIO SPACE RESTAURANT

site access/visual connections

SHARED TENANT SPACE PRIVATE TENANT SPACE

03 Brooklyn Navy Yard . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2012

site plan

zoom plan

192’

48’

03 Brooklyn Navy Yard . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2012

site inventory

site sections

studios/restaurant

shared and private studio space/collective creative workshop

studio space/gallery

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Existing Surfaces

Steel Grate

Existing Industrial Remnants

Steal Beams

vertical planting

Riprap

Rhus typhina L. Staghorn Sumac

Betula populifolia Marsh. Gray Birch

Parthenocissus quinquefolia Virginia Creeper

Spartina patens Saltmeadow Cordgrass

Symphyotrichum tenuifolium Distichlis spicata Salt-marsh Aster Salt Grass

Artemesia vulgaris L. Mugwort

Solidago canadensis L. Canada Goldenrod

ground plane

marsh planting

Crushed Gravel

planting palette

surface material

Concrete Aggregate

edge materials

Poured Concrete

accents

materials

03 Brooklyn Navy Yard . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2012

Symphyotrichum pilosum White Heath Aster

Sara Brennan 04 Eco-Stich, a masterplan

Design Studio 4 __Spring 2013 Proposal for Elizabeth, New Jersey A collaborative studio with MArch program. Reinvigorating economically depressed areas with a generative landscape infrastructure that stitches together communities while allowing for ecological and urban flux.

urban stressors become...

CATALYSTS FOR OPPORTUNITY flood zone high unemployment high vacancy

city wide green infrastructure economic incentives improved smart transportation

04 Eco-Stich . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2013

masterplan phasing

0 years before

25 years

10 years after

50 years

BASE colors

other colors for maps

orange as accent. use sparingly!

place to start...

green infrastructure LANDSCAPE INFRASTRUCTURE MASTERPLAN PROPOSAL

main street parkway stormwater management green roof wetland park open space

transportation

porposed bike lane proposed bus line pedestrian zone primary street secondary street

zoning

ZONING DISTRICTS MASTERPLAN PROPOSAL

residential adapted residential high density mixed use tax incentive commercial commercial / light industrial industrial urban wild green space highest vacancy area flood zone

04 Eco-Stich . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2013

masterplan zoning sections green buffer green industry zone residential mixed-use residential/commercial urban wild zone

site conditions section

04 Eco-Stich . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2013

LANDSCAPE TYPOLOGIES

neighborhood plaza site plan

Eco-Stich: a masterplan Elizabeth, NJ

Prepared by Sara Malmkvist Spring 2013

04 Eco-Stich . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2013

conceptual model- neighborhood scale

04 Eco-Stich . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2013

COR TEN STEEL SEATING WALL

materials plan

CONCRETE PAVERS

PERENNIAL PLANTING

TURF GRASS

CRUSHED GRAVEL

BELGIAN BLOCK PAVERS COR TEN STEEL PAVING

TURF GRASS

PERENNIAL PLANTING

COR TEN STEEL PAVING AND PAVILLION TURF GRASS PERENNIAL PLANTING PERENNIAL PLANTING

1 AR MIX SP, PV, VM

TURF GRASS

MIX SP, PV, VM

planting plan

1 AR MIX SP, PV, VM 1 QP

1 QP MIX SP, PV, VM 1 AG

1 AG

Sara Brennan

Design Studio 2 __Spring 2012 Proposal for Nicodemus National Historic Site A collaborative studio in conjunction with the Van Alen Institute and National Park Services’ “Parks for the People” competition. I developed usufruct land use policy agreements to establish the terms of nps and nicodemus residents.

CCNY Landscape Studio II

05 Finding Common Ground

Finding Common Ground

A Plan for Nicodemus National Historic Site

05 Finding Common Ground . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2012

Old First Baptist Church (NNHS)

Basketball Court

Virgil & Juanita Robinson House

Site of the former American Legion Hall

St. Francis Hotel (NNHS)

Alvin & Ada Bates House

Switzer Trailer (vacant)

Alvena Alexander Switzer Trailer

New AME Church

South Ave

Old AME Church (NNHS)

Hattie Craig Burnie House

Twila Berry

William Henry Napue House

Jerry Scruggs House (Florence Howard?)

Iva Lee Switzer

Washington Ave

Water Tower

Roberta Robinson Clarence & Yvonne Sayers

Site of former Ernestine’s BBQ Township Hall (current NPS visitor center)

Villas - Dennis Moore, Victor Williams

Municipal Garage Firehouse

Ace Williams House (abandoned)

Robert Brogden & Grandson

Charles Williams house (vacant)

Terry House

Municipal Sewage Lagoon

Parking Area

New First Baptist Church

Ernestine’s House Bernard & Ava Bates House

Crackerbox School

Playground

Orlando & Armatha Napue House Old First Baptist

Basketball Court

Church (NNHS)

Virgil & Juanita Robinson House

NPS Office/Library

Sarah Moore House (Val Williams?)

Parsonage

Site of the former American Legion Hall

St. Francis Hotel (NNHS)

Alvin & Ada Bates House

Switzer Trailer (vacant)

Alvena Alexander

Sylvester & Bertha Carter

Switzer Trailer New AME Church

Old AME Church (NNHS)

Adams Ave

Hattie Craig Burnie House

Twila Berry

Jerry Scruggs House (Florence Howard?)

Donald Moore Redd House

Nicodemus School District No. 1 (NNHS)

Iva Lee Switzer

Orlando & Armatha Napue House

Water Tower

Baseball Field Ace Williams House (abandoned)

Sarah Moore House (Val Williams?) Sylvester & Bertha Carter

Jefferson Ave

Donald Moore

Nicodemus School District No. 1 (NNHS)

Baseball Field

Madison Ave

Rosa Stokes House

Clementine Vaughn House (ruin)

Ola Wilson House (Nicodemus Historical Society)

Juan Alexander

Monroe Ave

Rosa Stokes House

Clementine Vaughn House (ruin)

Ola Wilson House (Nicodemus Historical Society)

Back 2 Your History

Maintance and labor Veryl Switzer/KSU Agriculture Camp Back 2 Your History

reinforce

Western Kansas Agricultural Research Center, Hays Western Kansas Agricultural Research Center, Hays

USUFRUCT AGREEMENT

First St

Second St

Third St

Fourth St

First St

Second St Sixth St

Fifth St

Third St

Jackson Ave

Seventh St

Fourth St

Juan Alexander

Fifth St

Sixth St

Parsonage

Bernard & Ava Bates House

Crackerbox School

Playground

Potential for partneships

New First Baptist Church

Parking Area

Ernestine’s House

Potential for partneships

Villas - Dennis Moore, Victor Williams

NPS Office/Library

oberta Robinson

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Site of former Ernestine’s BBQ

Township Hall (current NPS visitor center)

Municipal Garage Firehouse

Maintance and labor

the national park service asserts that the historical Partnerships significanceFor ofPerseverance the town is embedded less Veryl Switzer/KSU Agriculture Camp in the physical resource and more in the perseverance and continuity of this community. Robert Brogden & Grandson

Charles Williams house (vacant)

Municipal Sewage Lagoon

prevent

NPS For the future Relates to the past Engages with the present

RESIDENTS

Scale 1”=300’

The National Park Service asserts that the historical significance of the onal Park Service asserts that the historical significance of the town is embedded in the physical and more in the and have usufruct allows an less outside party to use resource the land owned by another wn is embedded less in the physical resource and more in the in any way. rights to the fruit of the land as long as the is not diminished perseverance and continuity ofland this community

perseverance and continuity of this community year one Scale 1”=4’

phase 1

activating the land and creating a more legible understanding of “town as park.”

year two Scale 1”=4’

05 Finding Common Ground . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2012

Sara Brennan 06 The Web

Design Studio I __Fall 2011 The studio prompted an intervention in the The Ramble in Central Park. Proposal was a web that had three main functions, play/climbing, fencing, and erosion control.

06 The Web . ccny studio . Sara Brennan . 2011

conceptual rendering. hand drawing. photography. wire.

Sara Brennan 07 SSA Construction Documents

Small scale design and construction document project__Spring 2012 Tasked with proposing a simple design to transition down a seldom used slope and provide additional seating areas for students of the Spitzer School of Architecture.

materials plan

City College of New York

Spitzer School and Aaron Davis Hall New York, NY

City College of New York

Prepared by Sara Malmkvist Spring 2012

Spitzer School and Aaron Davis Hall New York, NY

grading plan

grading zoom

MATERIALS PLAN- ZOOM IN

Sheet 2 of 10

Designer: Sara Malmkvist

Scale: 1/4”=1’

Spring 2012

City College of New York

Spitzer School and Aaron Davis Hall New York, NY

City College of New York

Spitzer School and Aaron Davis Hall New York, NY

GRADING PLAN- LAWN SECTION

Sheet 5 of 10

Designer: Sara Malmkvist Spring 2012

Scale: 1”=10’

GRADING PLAN- SLOPE SECTION

Sheet 6 of 10

Designer: Sara Malmkvist Spring 2012

Scale: 3/16”=1’

07 SSA Construction Documents . ccny . Sara Brennan . 2012

dimensions plan

planting plan

City College of New York

Spitzer School and Aaron Davis Hall New York, NY

DIMENSION PLAN

Sheet 4 of 10

Designer: Sara Malmkvist

Scale: 3/16”=1’

Spring 2012

City College of

Spitzer School and A New York, NY

CONSTRUCTION DETAI

Sheet 10 of 10

City College of New York

Spitzer School and Aaron Davis Hall New York, NY Key

Quantity

174

In accordance with ANSI Z60.1

Botanical Name Common Name Acer rubrum Red Maple Fothergilla gardenii Witch Adler Panicum virgatum rubrum Red Switch Grass

Caliper 9”

HT 27’

Spread 20’

Root

Comments

B&B 70” Ball

2’

12”

5 GAL

Spring

bright red flower cluster on bare branches early white bottlebrush flowers form on tips of branches

Plant 24” on staggered center

Plant Characteristics Summer Fall

Winter

scarlet to burgundy leaf color

PLANTING PLAN

flaming orange to twiggy, zigzag burgundy leaf color stems provide interest airy, beaded turns rich russet inflorescences rise color above green leaves

can stand all winter

Sheet 7 of 10

Designer: Sara Malmkvist Spring 2012

Scale: 1/4”=1’

Designer: Sara Malmkvi Spring 2012

Sara Brennan 08 Swedish Stone Courtyard

BEFORE

Landscape design and installation__Completed 2009, Stockholm, Sweden Lead designer and project manager Tasked with designing a more sustainable landscape by removing large sections of lawn and replacing these area with permeable paving and perennial planting

08 Swedish Stone Courtyard . professional work . Sara Brennan . 2009

BEFORE

Sara Brennan 09 Garden by the Baltic

Landscape design and installation__Completed 2010, Stockholm, Sweden Lead designer tasked with designing a landscape with a modern esthetic, creating childfriendly outdoor rooms that do not block the view to the waterfront.

09 Garden by the Baltic . professional work . Sara Brennan . 2010