BRYAN COVARRUBIAS PORTFOLIO
2018-2021
BRYAN COVARRUBIAS CONTACT CELL:
(626) 421-3933
EMAIL:
BRYANCOVARRUBIAS11@GMAIL.COM BRYANC2@CPP.EDU
LOCATION: 18537 E ARROW HWY B106, COVINA CA 91722 WEBSITE:
https://portfolium.com/bryancovarrubias
EDUCATION CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF POMONA | 2017 - PRESENT BACHELORS OF SCIENCE IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE MINOR IN STUDIO ARTS
MONROVIA HIGH SCHOOL | 2013 - 2017
SKILLS ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE:
ILLUSTRATOR | PHOTOSHOP | INDESIGN | LIGHTROOM | PREMIERE RUSH
RHINOCEROUS 3D AUTOCAD MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD | POWERPOINT | OUTLOOK
PROCREATE CONCEPT DESIGN HAND GRAPHICS
LANGUAGES FLUENT IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH
OTHER PRESIDENTS HONORS LIST DEANS HONORS LIST
RESUME
ABOUT ME MY NAME IS BRYAN COVARRUBIAS IM A 22 YEAR OLD MEXICAN-AMERICAN LANDSCAPE ARCHITETCURE UNDERGRAD STUDENT. I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT DESIGN AND I AM SEEKING TO FURTHER MY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES THROUGH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND SHOWACSE MY ABILITIES AND CREATIVITY THROUGH MY DESIGNS TO BETTER MAINTAIN AND EXPAND SPACES THAT ENABLE THE USERS AN INTIMATE EXPERIENCE NO MATTER THE SCALE.
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discovery asobiba
遊び場
CHILDREN’S NIWA CONCEPTUAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN
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bosque garden
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kāihuā paraíso
DESCUBRE BOTANICAL GARDEN
GARDEN OF VARIATION
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rhi zone
ENGAGING SYMBIOSIS
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art + photography DRAWINGS SCULPTURES PHOTOGRAPHY
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discovery asobiba 遊び場
CHILDREN’S NIWA at the JAPANESE FRIENDSHIP GARDEN SAN DIEGO CONCEPTUAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN SPRING 2021 Discovery Asobida 遊び場 (Discovery Playground) focuses on the idea of play within the natural elements in the earth. From wooden structures, water elements and rock gardens, play within the garden will enable children to explore and learn about their surroundings within the traditional Japanese elements exhibited in the environment. Creating interactive natural “playgrounds” within the garden and educational spaces such as the Water Rock Pond, Butterfly Garden and Edible Encounters. Incorporating Japanese planting elements that are easily adaptable to the Southern California climate and engaging those into the learning programs throughout the Japanese Garden.
vision statement To provide an immersive and educational environment that embraces the Japanese culture through its collaborative spaces and accessibility through discovery and play. Exploring the environment that inspires the children and the child within all of us to appreciate the beauty of nature and allow a space to relax, reflect, play, learn and explore.
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bosque garden
DESCUBRE BOTANICAL GARDEN SPRING 2020
Bosque Garden displays the ideas of a woodland garden with engaging forms that allow for discovery. The landscape reflects on the way people can perceive nature throughout the change of elevation. As one immerses themselves into the garden from ground level, they experience the surroundings of an array of diversity within the planting. Emerging from mounds, one is able to sense the vast habitats that these plantings bring such as the butterfly mound and the hummingbird hills. Becoming aware of your surroundings through the garden, one is able to reflect on the purpose of these plants and what they bring to humans. Through an educational exploration, the Bosque Garden provides the necessary experiences to learn about the biodiversity within the woodland garden. The outdoor classroom creates an effective resource, surrounded by the fragrance garden, creating a calming environment that guides one into thought about learning. The Descubre Botanical Garden emphasizes the ideas of shade, accessibility, and education which reflects upon the impact of the Bosque Garden, shaded by the variety of tree canopy, accessible through the opening paths that guide you through the garden, and learning about the diversification throughout the garden, creating an intimate and explorative human experience in the Bosque Garden.
DESCUBRE BOTANICAL GARDEN SITE CONTEXT
“Descubré” meaning discover in Spanish inspires the visitor to do exactly that. Descubre via immersion, exposure, and learn-ing. Reviving the projected Irvine botanical garden site while engaging visitors through innovative, intimate, and sustainable design is our way of creating an explorative human experience through performative envir onments and specialized ecological design
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The Great Park Neighborhoods brings together the communiity along the OC Great Park. The residential area allows for two lane streetswith a width of 40 feet that connects to the OC Great Park main roads.
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The Great Park Bikeway extends though the OC Great Park, connected to the Historical Timeline. At a width of 12 feet, the bikeways allow for multi lanes that enables bicyclists to move freely through the park and surrounding areas.
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The Bosque Trails connects the residents on the Great Park Neighborhoods as well as visitors to the Great Park. With 4 to 6 feet wide pedestrian trails and 11 foot wide bike trails, the Bosque Trails helps connect those that visit to the natural California native landscapes.
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GREAT PARK BIKEWAY BOTANICAL GARDEN SITE
Great Park Blvd. is one of the main connecting roads in the OC Great Park. Although the street does have a pedestrian sidewalk, it can only be found on one side of the road. The multilane 80 foot wide street is the only form of connection to the Botanical Garden Site.
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The Botanical Garden site appears to only be accessible through the Great Park Blvd by vehicle only. Due to no bikeways, trails, or pedestrian walkways and crossings along the site, the Botanical Garden Site lacks accessibility for everyone and its surrounding areas.
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ARACELY FONSECA |BRIAN ESPINOZA | BRYAN COVARRUBIAS
Palm Court Arts Complex is filled with 54 Canary Island Date Palms but provide little to no shade in the plaza.
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The Bosque Trails provides Soutern California native plants such as Coast Live Oak trees, and Western Sycamores but still displays a lack of full cover for shading.
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Throughout the Great Park, there is a lack of trees and shade but where there are trees, they seem to be in areas that are not accessible to pedestrians and display no shaded areas.
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In the Botanical Garden site and its surrounding areas, there appears to be no sign of trees. The lack of trees in this area greatly affects the site and how one might perceive it.
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hydrozone hydrology topography Throughout the Bosque Garden, medium to low water use plants are used in order to maintain a woodland garden that can adjust to the Southern California climate. The topographical changes allow for water runoff to drain within the surrounding vegetation. The changes in elevation create exciting methods of traversing through the woodland garden. This allows for an immersive experience with unique views throughout the garden.
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kāihuā paraíso GARDEN OF VARIATION SPRING 2020
Kāihuā Paraíso (Blossom Paradise) demonstrates the ideas and inspiration from the modern landscapes of Roberto Burle Marx and the tranquil landscapes of the Chinese Gardens. With an approach of avant-garde and modernism, this form creates a landscape dynamic of how one travels through the garden. Within the garden, there are moments of elevation changes through mounds and depressions which allows for areas for sightseeing or gathering spaces There is no necessary path that takes you to one space but instead allows you to travel in any direction to any point whether you go through, up, down, over or around the landscape. The ideas of peace and tranquility within the garden stems from the Chinese Gardens. Creating spaces for meditation and relaxation, the Kāihuā Paraíso Garden creates a rhythmic form and frames the natural landscape as well as creating a visual and sound experience within the pond that stretches to the shore of the walkways. Allowing exploration with a series of spaces that have a unique gathering area such as the Bamboo Enclosure in the middle of the pond, the Rock Fountain at the center of the garden, and the Succulent Garden Bridge, these features are just some of many key design spaces in the garden which allow for social interaction as well as a learning experience within the ecology in the Kāihuā Paraíso Garden
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rhi zone
ENGAGING SYMBIOSIS FALL 2021
Because riparian environments are crucial sources of life for 80% of vertebrate species, especially in arid parts of the west coast, our project RHI-ZONE, aims to reactivate the soft bottom condition of the built river channel and remediate spaces for riparian/wetland wildlife habitat via series of interventions that activate the channelized landscape.
BRIAN ESPINOZA | BRYAN COVARRUBIAS | RAMON NAPOLES
WALNUT CREEK WATERSHED SITE PLAN
The San Gabriel Watershed is host to many biological communities within Southern California. This project aims to strenghten and repair the ecosystems by providing adequate soil and water remediation with the help of a few built interventions.
Within the site, we can divide it into its three riparian zones. Showcasing where we can strategically locate our interventions of the habitat activation areas, insect intersections and the bird habitat structures along with the appropriate vegetation and distances from the stream.
RIPARIAN ZONES
Many plants within these riparian zones with flowering clusters allow for insects to feed off their nectar as well as provide habitat throughout the site. The attraction of these plants brings insects such as ladybugs, lacewings, and wasps that eat pests such as aphids, mites and caterpillars which act as an alternative to chemical pesticides.
native species blooming periods for insects
BIRD MIGRATION PATTERNS The ecosystems within riparian communities harbor one of the largest bird communities within arid and semi arid areas in western United States. Because riparian vegetation makes up less than .5% of total land area in California, it is critical to conserve habitat within these riparian areas for resident birds in the West.
BIRD HABITAT VARIATIONS The bird habitat structures can come in a variation of styles that can be placed throughout the landscape. Constructed from recycled wood pallets and pieces, they would provide nesting and feeding grounds for local birds within the riparian habitat.
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art + photography
DRAWINGS | COLLAGES
SYMBIOSIS SERIES
PARASITISM
UNTITLED 2021
COMMENSALISM
UNTITLED 2021
COMPETITION
I would describe my art as abstract contemporary. I enjoy drawing and painting whatever comes to my brain. I like to express myself through the use of crazy shapes and colors and even working with mistakes and turning them around to create something that I enjoy.
art + photography SCULPTURES
RECLINING FIGURE
CONCEPTS
TABLE CONCEPT
LIGHT SERIES
WONDERFOLD
MALIBU 2021
CANYON PARK FOREST
RED ROCK CANYON
art + photography PHOTOGRAPHY WATERSHED COUCH
Photography has always played a role in my life. I love to take pictures everywhere at anytime whether thats through my phone or any camera that I have, I like to capture moments with my friends or places I’ve traveled to and frame everything through my view. DEATH VALLEY
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BRYAN COVARRUBIAS LANDSCAPE DESIGNER
ADDRESS 18537 E ARROW HWY B106 COVINA, CA 91722
CONTACT (626) 421-3933 bryancovarrubias11@gmail.com bryanc2@cpp.edu