Landscape Architecture Portfolio - Andrew Marumoto
“Where you grew up often influences - Daniel
Winterbottom
Shades of grey, the screech to visit Obaasan. That my distaste for the rain that that would scream out to
It was not until I started to embrace and see the something that I celebrated I would hear its subtle song, the water in the pond, highlighting between the built form and Discovering my newfound to become a landscape brought a sense of uprootedness urban design, cultural landscapes, I apply this?” As I continue Vancouver: I wish do to so
your view of the world.”
screech of the windshield wipers, and the restless commute down Marine Way That weekly commute between sleepy shops and car dealerships developed that befell Vancouver. That distaste soon became a craving for colours: ones to the sky in protest for covering the sun.
started studying environmental sciences at Simon Fraser University that I began the beauty in the rain. The rain was no longer my enemy, instead it became celebrated as if it were calling to me. From the window of the Blusson Hall Courtyard, song, as it pattered against the glass. It would lure me outside as it danced against highlighting the evergreens that blanketed the courtyard. The relationship and the rain revealed to me the beauty behind landscape architecture.
newfound desire, I was led to the University of Guelph where I began my education architect. Being out in Ontario brought many opportunities; however, it also uprootedness: I began to miss the rain. Despite being uprooted, I learned about landscapes, and community engagement. All I could think was “How might continue my studies, I’m left yearning to return home, to design public spaces in so in hopes that someday, someone too might see the rain as I do.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ROZANSKI PLAZA AGRICULTURAL REED PARK
DOG PARK
SHADE GARDEN
NATURALIZED BASIN
PAVILION & VIEWING DECK
REED PARK
PROJECT
ACADEMIC OCT 16 - NOV 29, 2023
TORONTO, ON, CANADA UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
OBJECTIVE
Reed Park is the redesign of the Rees St. Parking Lot that addresses the discontinuity between Toronto’s Downtown and Harbourfront. Our park addresses those issues by being a naturalized urban park that responds to the demographics through site programming while connecting people to the water.
To redesign Rees St. Parking into an urban park with 24 hour four season programming, naturalized basin, pavilion, and multiple site amenities.
PROCESS
The process of coming to our final design was conducted by multiple site visits and analyses which informed our programming and led us to create a concept for our form.
Bordering the north end of the site is the Gardiner Expressway, and Lake Shore Boulevard. Both roads are urban highways that create a barrier between Downtown Toronto and the Harbourfront. To solve this issue, our group thought it would be best to draw people towards the Harbourfront with a naturalized urban park.
PROGRAM COMPATIBILITY
After conducting our site analysis, we built our program elements based off the demographics of the surrounding area. We then built a compatibility and suitability matrix to plan out our program elements before constructing a concept. We did this to ensure that our form followed the function of our site.
BUILDING A CONCEPT
When creating our concept, we felt the harbourfront lacked excitement as you passed the Gardiner Expressway along Rees St. To deal with that issue, we examined reinspiring the Harbourfront as a concept. This was expanded to the concept of rewilding after we researched the historical context of Toronto’s marshy shoreline. This brought us to the natural marshy form seen across the site from the general form to the small details such as lighting.
University of Guelph
AGRICULTURAL CAMPUS
ACADEMIC FEBRUARY 7 - APRIL 1, 2024
PUSLINCH, ON, CANADA
PROJECT
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
The Campbell Family Farm was once a cattle farm that was donated to the University of Guelph to become an agricultural campus. Our campus plan responds to the existing site conditions by adaptively re-using the existing buildings as a campus event space and cidery for Revel Cider. The campus also remains compact, leaving a majority of the site open for agricultural practices while preserving the existing conservation areas on site. Trails have also been incorporated across the site to invite the public to use the site.
OBJECTIVE
To create a long-term rural campus plan through multiple phases, while adaptively re-using existing built forms.
PROCESS
This project was broken down into two separate design phases. The first phase involved a design charette to find opportunities and constraints with land use planning. The second phase involved the refinement of our design interventions by breaking up the design into multiple phases.
PROGRAMS
AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, & Google Earth.
CONSTRAINTS
Environmentally protected area
Disjunction from the site
Watercourse
Marshland
OPPORTUNITIES
Enhance biodiversity
Topography
Walkability (2 minutes)
Low impact zone for development
MASSING MODELS
In the process of creating our design, we conducted a design charette: here, we used wooden blocks as massing models for the buildings we proposed on our site. We tested with multiple variations and building typologies to create a dense campus core that minimized our impact on the site. We also thought it would be best to place our campus between the two existing farms and in a spot that did not impede with the conservation area. We picked our location to minimize our risk of destroying habitat while also promoting walkability between the two farmhouses.
SITE PHASING
Adaptive re-use of a farm to a cidery.
Development of an LID trail system across the site.
Development of an agricultural campus.
Development of agricultural facilities.
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
Native fruit trees
Conservation area
Composting facility
Pollinator meadows
Raised walkway
Shelter beds
University of Guelph
ROZANSKI PLAZA
ACADEMIC JANUARY 10 - APRIL 5, 2024
GUELPH, ON, CANADA
PROJECT
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
To create a safer campus by reducing congestion along Trent Lane while adding open space, the University of Guelph has proposed the removal of the Rozanski Hall parking lot (a parking lot surrounded by the rear facades of multiple buildings). The redesign incorporates Low Impact Design (LID) principles for stormwater management and creates more open space by removing the whole parking lot and converting it into a pedestrian drop-off loop with a multi-event space.
OBJECTIVE
To create a working set of construction drawings.
PROCESS
I was tasked with creating a site plan approval package, existing conditions package, grading plan, layout plan, planting plan, detail drawing set, cost estimate sheet, and a complete package of all the construction drawings for tender. This project was broken down into multiple phases and completed over the Winter 2024 semester.
PROGRAMS
AutoCAD.
TSW
BSW
DISCLAIMER
All drawings from this spread onward do not follow a 1:200 scale. The drawings were originally intended to be printed on 24”x36” sheets. Drawings have been scaled down to fit on an 8.5”x22” spread.
Refer to the Existing
spot elevations; refer to Tree Management Plan (L3.0) for the
(L1.0) for
and removal of trees.
Drawing is not to be used for construction unless otherwise noted.
Contractor shall report any discrepancies between the drawings and site conditions prior to the commencement of work.
Contractor shall report any discrepancies between the drawings and site conditions prior to the commencement of work.
GENERAL NOTES:
Refer to Site Plan (L4.0) for site design information; TMP (L3.0) for the condition and handling of existing trees on site; Grading Plan (L5.0) for the slope percentages and direction, proposed and existing spot elevations in regards to planting beds; Layout Plan (L6.0) for the arrangement and dimensioning of all areas and surfaces.
All trees and shrubs are displayed at 2 3 of their mature size while all grasses and perennials are displayed at their mature size.
THE
FLOATING COMMUNITY
DESIGN BUILD JUNE 15 - JULY 15, 2024
DALS LÅNGED, SWEDEN
PROJECT
BENGTSFORS KOMMUN
The Floating Community is an experimental temporary project that was designed to be a community event space based out of Dals Långed, with the potential to travel along the Dalsland Canal through canal locks. The floating community is comprised of a multi-purpose event space/stage (The A-frame), a fire pit, and a stargazing raft: ideas that came from numerous community outreach events, meetings, and conversations with the inhabitants of Dals Långed.
OBJECTIVE
To create a prototype floating community event space, to experiment if a project of this nature would be suitable for a community such as Dals Långed.
PROCESS
The project was broken up into three phases, an initial idea development phase, a design phase, and a construction phase. Designs were created by hand sketches, 1:1 scale mock-ups, and scale models before being constructed and brought onto digital software.
During the initial idea development phase, gathered that the community needed a stage, a space, and a play structure to engage the fulfill this idea, my team was responsible for two interlocking rafts to create a stage/playscape connected; however, our idea with the playscape not received well by the community, and instead, design was chosen.
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
After receiving feedback from the community, I was on another team responsible for creating a multi-purpose event space. I was responsible for incorporating element from our previous design and adapting the form of a tent. During our design process, multiple sketch and scale models of our design, them with other designs, and then created a 1:1 for the community and our classmates to experience.
our team a lounging youth. To designing stage/playscape when playscape was instead, another
DEVELOPMENT
was placed multi-purpose the stage it to follow we made design, tested 1:1 mock-up experience.
PROTOTYPE TO PERMANENT
Two months after construction, the rafts have been used as a campsite for tourists, concerts, drawing classes, yoga, and swimming, and as an outdoor lecture space for Steneby Skolan (the local craft school). With the Floating community being a prototype, the rafts were originally scheduled to remain for two months; however, due to its use and success, the municipality of Bengtsfors has proposed to make the prototype into a permanent floating community space for Dals Långed.
FAVOURITE PASTIMES
PERSONAL NO DATE
MODEL MAKING
Building scale models has been one of my most meditative and rewarding hobbies. The process of cutting and cleaning the pieces; assembling the model; and putting in the fine details are all aspects that I enjoy with model building. Because of this hobby, I have developed an attention to detail and find that fine details matter when creating a cohesive design that reflects a concept in landscape architecture.
TRAVEL SKETCHING
This hobby started over the summer of 2024 to document my travels in Denmark and Sweden during a design-build field school. Spending a couple of hours sitting in front of a landmark and sketching it has been rewarding. Travel sketching has also been great for recalling the emotions and experiences I felt whenever I went out to sketch. I wish to keep practicing and using sketching as a tool in my professional career to document the context, use, and life of a site.
1 hour sketch of the Turning Torso residential building in Bo01 - Malmö, Sweden
2.5 hour sketch of a Slussvakt (canal lock) - Mustadfors, Sweden
1 hour sketch of the Saint Church in Gamla Stan
1 hour sketch of the Åmål missing my bus to Dals Långed
30 minute sketch of telecommunication equipment on a restaurant - Christiania, Denmark
1.5 hour sketch of a soon to be abandoned horseshoe nail factory - Mustadfords, Sweden
