Adrian Porter Graduate Design Portfolio

ADRIAN PORTER | PORTFOLIO

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BIOGRAPHY Adrian Porter is a graduate of USC’s Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism (MLA + U) at the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture. Adrian is focused on working for an Urban Design/Landscape Architecture firm, emphasizing public projects, site design, and construction and materials. Currently,

Adrian is placing a large emphasis and commitment to working with 2D and 3D digital workflows, through drawing and drafting software such as Adobe Photoshop and AutoCAD, as well as 3D modeling software like Rhino, Grasshopper and Twinmotion. He has many

skills in geographic information systems (GIS) which is due to his

interest in working in large scale urban environments, where spatial

ADRIAN PORTER Landscape Architecture and Urbanism

data analytics are critical to any informative design process. While Adrian has experience with large scale landscape projects, he

hopes to work closely within construction and materials, paying deep attention to each and every design element. Adrian’s life experience

MLA +U

so far, living on four different continents has instilled in him a strong

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principals of diversity and inclusion have allowed him to make the

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most of these varied experiences.

curiosity and global outlook. Cultural adaptability and respect for

EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

Landscape Architect | Intern

Masters Degree 2021 -2024

Tom Stuart Smith | London | Summer 2023 Scope of Work - Design / Planting Plan / Construction Documentation / Site Visits / Presentations / Renders / Garden Installation Projects - Maggie’s Cambridge / Turville Heath Home / Edinburgh Center For Music

Landscape Architecture and Urbanism (MLA + U) | GPA 3.72 /4 University of Southern California - School of Archtecture (LAAB Accredited)

Bachelors Degree 2016 - 2020

BA - Environmental Science & Sociology | Honors Cum Laude St. Lawrence University

Architectural Designer | Intern

SKILLS

Scope of Work - Design / Graphic Design / Construction Documentation / Site Visits / Site Analysis / Renders / Planting Plan / Garden Installation / Materiel Study Projects - Great White Venice Restaurant / Great White Mellrose Restaurant

Fabrication:

Great White | Los Angeles | Summer 2022

Mountain Access

Wood Working & Lamination Molding & Casting

Laser Cutting CNC Routing 3d Printing

Software:

Yellowstone Club | Montana | 2021

Advanced

Intermediate Lumion Revit Grasshopper Vray

Sustainability Consultant | Intern

Adobe Suite Rhino 7 Autocad Twinmotion Arc GIS EmberGen

Scope of Work - Mountain Operations / Guest Services / Mountain Knowledge / Site Visits / Site Analysis / Renders / Planting Plan / Garden Installation / Materiel Study Projects - On Mountain Assistance / Concierge

Sea Going Green | Amsterdam | 2019

Scope of Work - Environmental Analysis / GIS Analysis / Social Media / Site Analysis / Blogs / Attended Climate Conferences In The Hague Projects - Bali Surf Tourism / Croatia Yacht Week

REFERENCES

ACHIEVMENTS Dezeen Magazine Online Publication ULI Hines Student Competition Esri User Conference Student Candidate Outstanding Sociology-Environmental Studies Senior Major Award

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Alison Hirsch, PhD, FAAD Associate Professor at USC School of Architecture E: alisonh@usc.edu Shankar Kothapuram Senior Associate, Tom Stuart Smith E: Shankar@tomstuartsmith.co.uk Esther Margulies, RLA, ASLA Director, Graduate Programs In Mla + U E: emarguli@usc.edu P: (1) 213-364-7397

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UNIVERSITY S T U D I O PROJECTS This portfolio showcases selected work from USC’s Landscape Architecture and Urbanism studio’s, along with professional and competition work.

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Pages: 14 - 19 Year: Spring 2022 Instructor: Takako Tajima Course: Macarthur Park Reimagined | Studio 541BL

Pages: 26 - 39 Year: Spring 2024 Instructor: Alison B. Hirsch Course: The Other California: loss, labor, liberated futures in CA’s heartland | Advanced Design Research Studio

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Pages: 06 - 13 Year: Spring 2023 Instructor: Arrousiak Gabrielian Course: Edible Matters | Studio 542bBL

Pages: 19 - 25 Year: Fall 2021 Instructor: Alexander Robinson Course: Introduction to Landscape Architecture Design: Translations & Dialectics | Studio 541

Capture Project.

Crocker Plaza : Redesigning a Forgotten Piece of USC.

Heart of a Hometown: Future Proofing a Farm Town Through Post Industrial Design.

Landscape Architecture Internship for Tom Stuart Smith | Architecture Internship for Great White

HINES Urban Design Student Competition | ESRI ArcGIS SUBMISSION

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UNIVERSITY

Palagos Park: Multi benefit Storm Water

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CAREER

Prevention Through Landscape Strategies

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COMPETITION

Resilient Fields: Enhancing Crop Disease

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Selected works

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01. Resilient Fields : Enhancing Crop Disease Prevention Through Landscape Strategies Project Description

Year: Spring 23’ Course: Studio 4 of 6 – Edible Matters Professor: Aroussiak Gabriellian, PH.D.., FAAR Publications: Dezeen Magazine - USC School

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When it comes to reducing pathogen burden and avoiding the chances of stripe rust spreading throughout the Central Valley, there has been only one singular solution towards its prevention. Breeding programs, many of which have been operated by only a handful of companies, create gene-resistant varieties able to withstand the disease.

However, over prioritization of breeding programs as the only means of defense has allowed for spatial and temporal assemblages to become vulnerable to disease spread if gene resistance were to fail. This project looks at other landscape methods of stopping disease spread, such as wind breaks, topography, and species diversity, in order to create a stronger system of disease evasion and mitigation.

Project 01 | Resilient Fields 2.

1. Elements of Design Detailing the various programmatic elements such as crop production, wind breaks, and recreation

2. Site Plan & Tools for Design In order to create the form, site data was collected on wind velocity / direction, and humidity; all variables impacting pathogen spread and therefore influencing crop configuration.

Thus, the eventual design was determined based on these principles.

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Through analyzing disease causation throughout 3 standard variables; Host, Environment, and Pathogen we begin to see the multi-scale dependencies that influence plant pathology. Host analysis is concerned with the spatiality and uniformity of genetics within crop cultivars. Through GIS analysis we begin to see global trends where each primary crop’s fractional proportions per grid cell have become dangerously

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high, meaning less genetic diversity and crop variety within the region. This creates a genetic vulnerability amongst crops as low genetic variety allows crop pathogens a higher chance of infection (refer to pathogen diagram). Secondly, Environmental analysis is concerned with the future implications of climate change on latitudinal shifts of temperature dependent fungal and oomycete pathologies. Stud-

ies show that driven by global warming pathogen burden will decrease throughout the tropics and increase further to the polls. Lastly through understanding the life cycle of currently one of the world’s most dangerous pathogens, Wheat Stem Rust, we understand the spatio-temporal patterns that promote pathogen burden within industrial agricultural conditions.

Project 01 | Resilient Fields 3.

3. Perspective Perspective render showing the open air research lab which grows and studies a diverse selection of wheat varieties in order to diversify genetic resistance to mutating stripe rust.

2. Conceptual Model Model exploring the question of what if you took the Jeffersonian grid associated with Agriculture in California, and created a 3 dimensionality to it’s logic.

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Project 01 | Resilient Fields 2.

1. GIS Map Detailing not only the spatial homogeneity in wheat production but the temporal singularity of the crop.

2. Perspective Showing the wind tunnel design which sinks into the sub grade

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2. Fluid dynamic systems testing - Studies various forms of wind breaks to see how the prevailing winds travel along these barriers.

1. On Site Analysis Data Hygrometer testing of wind velocity and direction in order to understand how fungal spores carrying the strip rust pathogen spread into the valley.

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Project 01 | Resilient Fields

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3. Rearranging the Jeffersonian grid - Sketching out a new spatial arrangement that considers the wind data collected.

4. Plan - Visual representation of wind testing on new design.

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02. Palagos Park : Regrading for Multi Benefit Storm Water Capture Design Project Description For our second semester (1st year), our studi o focused on redesi gni ng MacA rthur P ark, a hi stori cal l y ri ch and cul tural l y si gni fi cant pi ece of Los A ngel es’s l andscape.

Fi rstl y, w e researched precedents effecti ve i n thei r gradi ng and drai nage methods, not onl y for their effi ci ency i n usi ng w ater on the si te but al so for the overal l desi gn choi ces i nfl uenced by the type of gradi ng.

Year: Spring 22’ Course: Studio 2 of 6 – Macarthur Park Reimagined Professor: Takako Tajima

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S econdl y, we del ved deeper i nto si te-speci fi c research of the types of ‘ everyday urbani sm’ observed throughout the park and the surroundi ng communi ty.

U nderstandi ng how space i s used , both formal l y and i nformal l y,

pr ovided essent ial inf or m at ion on how t o cr eat e and m aint ain t hese oppor t unit ies f or ever yday ur banism wit hin our r eim agining of t he sit e.

Last ly, we m oved int o r egr ading and r edesigning t he par k.

It was cr it ical f or m y design t o im plem ent a t opogr aphic st r at egy t hat consider ed not only pr esent day st or m wat er m anagem ent but also t he f ut ur e eff ect s of clim at e change.

The out com e was a r egr ading t hat cr eat ed over 20 pools f unct ioning as const r uct ed wet lands dur ing m ajor st or m event s, which could be r epr ogr am m ed t o cr eat e oppor t unit ies f or ‘ever yday ur banism ’ dur ing dr y per iods.

Project 02 | Palagos Park

1. Conceptual Sections - through a physical and digital workflow I explored how different landscapes determine how water is navigated from surface runoff to discharge into the ocean or aquifer.

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1. Leventritt Shrub & Vine Garden Topography Model - Before designing for MacArthur park it is important to study historical precedents which understand storm water runnoff and site grading.

2. Section

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Project 02 | Palagos Park 3. Axonometric - Showing circulation, program, storm water runoff and green space.

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Cycle

Drain Inlet

Amphitheater

Drain outlet

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Wetlands

Picnic

Drain to Ocean

4. Everyday Urbanism Sketches - Studying the site adjacent to the park is critical to understanding program and the needs of the surrounding community.

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Selected works

1. Final Design Topography Model

2. Section

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Project 02 | Palagos Park 3. Persepective - Rain event used to clean water from surrounding drainage area.

4. Persepctive - Dry event Reprogrammed for recreation

5. Section - Showing the ephemeral ponds

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03. Crocker Plaza: Designing For A Forgotten Piece To USC Project Description

Year: Spring 22’ Course: Studio 1 of 6 – Dialectics and Translation Professor: Alexander Robinson

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In the studi o cours e, we lear ned a com pr e hensi ve method fo r designing landscapes.

We expl ored H erber t Sim on’s concept of desi gn as a proces s of “ t r anslat ion, ” wher e w e took the i dea of ‘t r anslat ion’ t hr ough the vari ous stages of design. We pr act iced transl ati ng betw een diff er ent dr awing and model i ng techni ques, which helped us de vel op a cri ti cal under st anding of how space i s navi gated and landscapes ar e m ost ut i l i zed. The fi nal project involved r edesign i ng a di sregarded cor ner of t he cam pus, C rocker P l aza, w i th a design t hat r eignit es the l andscape by int egr at ing m or e gr een space, enhanci ng aest het ic appeal, and fosteri ng communit y engagem ent .

Project 03 | Crocker Plaza

1. Model Making - Constructing maquette models to understand site design

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1. Rendered Plan

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Project 03 | Crocker Plaza

Crocker Plaza

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DIMENSIONS PLAN WITH SECTION

1. Rendered Section

Section elevation of Crocker Plaza and dimensions plan

SECTION:1/4"=1-0' DIM PLAN:1/4"=1-0'

1. CAD Section

1:8 Section Elevation

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1. CAD Site Plan

2. Perspective

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Project 03 | Crocker Plaza

PLANTING PLAN

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1. Planting Plan

DETAILS

2. Construction Details

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04. Heart Of A Hometown: Future Proofing A Farm Town Through Post Industrial Design Project Description Located an hour s out h of Fr esno, Hur on is a smal l agri cul tural t own of appr oxim at ely 6,240 resi dents. Am ong t hese 6, 754 resi dents 95.7% ar e Lat ino or Hispanic, w i th 32.1% fal l i ng below t he pover t y line.

Tow ns l i ke H uron and it s cit izens have a cri ti cal rol e i n making up t he labor needed for the agri cul tural indust r y in t he st at e.

W hi l e such tow ns ar e cr ucial t o t he 40 billion dol l ar i ndustry, they ar e of t en disr egar ded outsi de of the labor t hey pr ovide.

Year: Spring 24’ Course: Studio 6 of 6 – Advanced Research Project Professor: Alison Hirsch, PH.D., FAAR

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Thi s proj ect aim s to st r at egically navi gate the const r aint s im posed by the current econom ic, envir onm ent al, and soci al l andscapes exper ienced in smal l agri cul tural t owns in t he Cent r al Val l ey. Layi ng a plat f or m f or diver sif ying economi es, creati ng r esilient envir onm ent al i nfrastructure, and r ecent er ing t he m oder n A meri can farm town, Hur on and it s r esident s may be better adapt ed t o t he 21st cent ur y.

Project 04 | Heart of a Hometown

H U RO N •Population: 6,240 (2022) 43,664 median household income • 63.6 percent of Huron’s employed population worked in agriculture, significantly higher than the county wide rate (8.8 percent).

•57.6% of residents have citizenship (25% of farmworkers in state) •636,084 Land Area in Square Miles

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Selected works

1. Aerial Imagery - Drone footage capturing existing site conditions with industrial food processing facilities on the left and scrap yard on right.

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Project 04 | Heart of a Hometown

2. Satellite Imagery - Capturing abandoned industrial agriculture zone.

3. Diagram - Detailing existing ownership of site.

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2. Graphics - Showing the main goals for phases 1 and 2.

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REMEDIATE

EDUCATE

CONNECT

PRESERVE

Huron’s post industrial sites, creating an environmental community asset, while improving the health and wellbeing of the town.

Local resident’s on conservation techniques in order to create job transitioning from agriculture into conservation & preservation.

The center of town to the conservation area through a bike path, allowing easier accessibility and connectivity between the town and it’s surrounding conservation zones

Conservation area for future generations, future proofing the town and the economy against agricultural decline.

Project 04 | Heart of a Hometown 2. Aerial Render - Phytoremediation project on abandoned scrap yard.

4. Isometrics - Showing preparation process for existing site conditions.

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Selected works

1. Axonometric - Showing inside design of ‘Mercadito’, children’s play area, and courtyard.

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Project 04 | Heart of a Hometown

2. Perspective - Render showing new design of Mercadito and exterior area.

3. Perspective - Render showing new design of Mercadito and exterior area.

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1. Map - Showing distance from center of town to critical preservation zones & bike path to Arroyo Pasajero conservation area.

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2. Imagery Sections - Field Imagery of the proposed bike path route to the conservation area.

Project 04 | Heart of a Hometown

3. Chunk - section chunk showing a portion of the bike path with proposed dimensions.

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Selected works

1. Perspective - Night rendering of the reconverted wharehouse into a public art gallery.

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Project 04 | Heart of a Hometown

Wharehouse Facility converted into public art gallery space.

The shell of the wharehouse is maintained along with the existing concrete, which forms the public square in front. The inside is converted into an art space, highlighting local artists in the area.

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Program

1. Phase 3 Plan & Call outs

Selected works

Phase

3. Sequence Diagram - Form finding for the downtown framework.

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Project 04 | Heart of a Hometown 3. Axonometric - Illustrating the third densification and urbanization phase for the farm town.

4. Mayor’s sketches for the downtown.

4. Program Diagram - Showing the massing and volumes of each new building for phase 3.

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05. PROFESSIONAL WORK Project Description These projects were completed during two separate design internships. While working with Tom StuartSmith, I contributed to numerous projects across the United Kingdom. Much of my work involved graphically translating Tom’s designs into measured CAD documents and rendered plans. Site visits allowed me to better understand effective planting design—one of Tom’s most cherished and respected aspects of his projects—and the construction process.

Year: Summer 23’, Summer 24’ Designs: Edinburugh Professor: Alison Hirsch, PH.D., FAAR

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The scale of these projects ranged from small garden designs, such as the Maggie’s Project, to larger residential projects, which featured prairie and meadow planting schemes on the outside and more selective plant schemes, including vegetable gardens, on the inside of the residence. The Great White project focused more on the structural components and construction of the restaurant.

Most days, I was on-site taking measurements and paying close attention to implementation, particularly when it came to the pergola, which later became one of the most successful and appreciated parts of the outer dining area.

P r o f e s s i o n a l W o r k | To m S t u a r t S m i t h

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^ 1:180 N 2. Edinburgh Music Center - Plan detailing the new renovations and conversion of the Edinburgh Music Center, containing public gardens and courtyard.

Drawing Contributors: Yaniv Korman, Adrian Porter Concept & Design: Shankar Kothapuram, Tom Stuart-Smith

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Selected works

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1. Turville Heath Rendered Plan - Residential landscape plan for Turville Heath. A fenced garden opens up to sprawling meadows and a picturesque landscape of scattered trees.

Drawing Contributers: Adrian Porter Concept & Design: Honor Reekie, Tom Stuart-Smith, Adrian Porter

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Proposed landscape plan

P r o f e s s i o n a l W o r k | To m S t u a r t S m i t h South woodland planting character and ex - Chelsea hazels

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2. Maggie’s Cambridge - Cancer Center in Cambridge which offers a variety of different planting schemes, aimed to heal, soot, and comfort the patients as they go through treatment.

Drawing Contributors: Adrian Porter Concept and Design: Ed Shackleton, Tom Stuart Smith

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Selected works

GREAT WHITE | DESIGN INTERN 2022

1. Modeling Outside Patio & Built Product - Much of my work was the design and implementation of the pergola, using restored white oak beams that intersect wooden slates to create a shaded yet open design, which allows wind and sun to pass through each of the vertical slats.

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GREAT WHITE LARCHMONT

Professional Work | Great White

2. Final Product - The pink plaster design and Mediterranean planting, along with an open street-facing patio, are meant to emulate a more inviting, Southern European concept for dining.

3. Graphic Design

GREAT WHITE LARCHMONT

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06. COMPETITIONS Site Plan

Project Description

Year: Spring 23’ - 24’ Professor: Esther Marguiles, Guang Ping, Jared Edgar

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Submissions features a range of projects from various design competitions.

Included is a collaborative urban design competition where teamwork and shared vision played a crucial role in developing innovative urban solutions.

Additionally, you’ll find my individual entry for the Arc GIS competition, which involved detailed analysis of atmospheric and hydrological flows in California’s Central Valley. These projects highlight my ability to work both collaboratively and independently, showcasing a diverse skill set and a dedication to thoughtful design.

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Competition | Esri User Conference Candidate

Maps - Arc GIS maps tracking atmospheric and hydrological flows in the central valley.

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Selected works

SEATTLE SUPERNOVA Regenerative Urban Energy For Sustainable Living

The ULI Hines Student Competition Teams of five students pursuing degrees in at least three different disciplines have two weeks to devise a development program for a real, largescale site in a North American city.

Teams provide graphic boards and narratives of their proposals including designs and market-feasible financial data.

Team: Anya Avdayan Viraj Gupta Tom Hicks Adrian Porter

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Project Value: $1,857M Project Cost: $1,404M Debt: $787m Equity: $520M Public finance: $99M

Unit Total: 2,781 Affordable Units: 805 (29%) Market Rate: 1976 (71%) Total Gross Floor Area: 3,764,344 sq ft Avg. FAR: 11.

Regional Forces adn Local Challenges

Competition | ULI Hines

Design Strategy

Site Plan

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