Landscape Architecture Portfolio by Jennifer Brunner

Landscape Architecture Portfolio

Jennifer Brunner

Landscape architecture is a combination of my passions. It involves art, design, environmental concern, sustainability, science, and social sciences. I feel the need to make a difference in the world and to better the lives of others, even in subtle ways. Landscape architecture allows me to pursue my interests and sculpt the spaces in which we live, work, and play every day.

Projects List

Gainesville Memorial Park

Process Park

Back Bay Fens

Cubic Construct

Territorial Exchange

The

26 Matrix

Personal

28 Work 3

Gainesville Memorial Park

Principles of Landscape Architecture A site design located on the northwest corner of W University Ave and NW 13th street, Gainesville Memorial Park serves as the social and cultural heart of Gainesville, Florida. Its purpose is to epitomize the essence of Gainesville’s history, culture, and surrounding natural features. Such features include springs, seepage streams, sinkholes, wetlands, and forests — all of which are symbolically represented in this park. The park serves as a relaxing space through the implementation of grading changes and tree cover to encourage lounging and quiet moments. It also is an activated space with the presence of a “spring” and a stream water feature for play, as well as a center plaza area for various activities and functions. Gainesville’s history is primarily memorialized with the existence of a timeline wall documenting some of Gainesville’s key moments in history that have made it the diverse and unique cultural hub it is today.

Site Synthesis

Concept Diagram

Grading Plan

Section A – A’ looks north from the southernmost part of the site. From left to right, is the timeline wall, undulating hills, sinkhole feature, wetland feature, and boardwalks. Section B – B’ faces north as well, this time from the

northern half of the site. From left to right is the outer sidewalk, the spring feature, hilly areas with pathways, and the opposite outer sidewalk.

Section C – C’ looks west and from left to right shows the wetland feature, hills, the stream feature, center plaza area, and more hills.

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Process Park Principles of Landscape Architecture Located on an abstract site in Gainesville, Florida, Process Park is a Culinary Institute and garden. Its primary purpose is to educate, but also to bring the community together in different gathering spaces throughout the park and to show the process of production and recycling. The institute itself is housed in two converted shipping container buildings and the gardens act as an outdoor classroom and supply much of the food and materials needed in the program. Runnels circulate through the park to provide irrigation and to lead visitors through the different outdoor rooms and spaces, each space dedicated to a specific type of food production or experience. Process park is all about educating, not only the institute students, but citizens of Gainesville, about food production, recycling, and the joys of clean and healthy living.

Looking north from within the large plaza area. From left to right, a runnel spills over and continues, people relax on the steps, and tend the gardens.

Also looking north, people experiencing the rooms of the garden, one of which is sheltered by a heritage oak tree.

looking east, someone walks along the outer sidewalk next to the bioswale, people enjoy the raised terrace and pergola, and someone harvests vegetables from the green wall.

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View of the Museum of fine Arts across the street from the main park area of back Bay Fens. The museum and its lawn are considered a cultural extension of the park.

Looking southwest towards the Museum of fine Arts, its lawn, the street, and the edge of the Fens.

Looking northeast from within the park. To the left is the community garden, first started as a victory garden, and to the right is the main waterbody of the Fens.

The rendering below shows the street front on the northern side of the park. The lines of the entire block were drawn in AutoCad and then brought into Sketchup to construct the three dimensional model. Finally, a perspective view of the Sketchup model was brought into Photoshop and rendered.

Urban Perspective - Back Bay Fens, Boston

Jennifer Brunner

Cubic Construct

Architectural Design 1

The goals of the cube construct were to explore space making within a cubic boundary and explore how systems can collaborate but be separate systems that rely only on themselves. Several particular words were used to explore the movement through space, including intersect, layer, wrap, and enclose. The cube itself consisted of poplar wood, basswood linears and Bristol paper. An axonometric drawing was also used for spacial communication.

Territorial Exchange

Architectural Design 1

The territorial exchange project combined spacial explorations with examining horizontal and vertical fields and systems. It also introduced thinking about human occupation into these spaces. Several words that were used to guide the planning of the model were field, itinerary, and place. The model was made of poplar wood, basswood planes, and linears. Shaded perspective drawings were used to show interior spaces.

The Matrix

Architectural Design 1 The objectives of the matrix project were to study systems within a field of infinite space, and to understand different scales of spaces within that field. The model was built with Plexiglas, brown chipboard, and sticky back paper. The drawings below were interpretations from three separate abstract paintings and were part of the process of generating the drawing at right. This drawing then became three dimensional and served as a basis for the model.

Personal Work I have always enjoyed art in all of its forms, but I am more inclined to photography and sketching in particular. Photography has been a favorite for me since I was a young child, and I have had the opportunity to practice and explore it in many parts of the US while travelling with my family.

Jennifer Brunner jbrunner@ufl.edu