Charlton Jenks Portfolio 2021

P O R T F O L I O

C H A R L T O N

J E N K S

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

SELECTED WORKS

2019-2021

SUMMARY Dedicated landscape designer passionate about place-making. Currently working directly under licensed landscape architect specializing in resort style planning as a destination. My completed work includes many conceptual designs for communities as well as creating project profiles for clients using mainly hand rendered and 3D modeled deliverables.

EDUCATION

DAVIS COLLEGE, WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY - MORGANTOWN, WV, USA + Bachelor of Science: Landscape Architecture May 2020 + GPA: 3.7 + Teaching Assistant Spring 2019 LARC 251: Landscape Architectural Design + Teaching Assistant Fall 2018 LARC 120/520: Landscape Architectural Drawing & Communication I

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

CHARLTON JENKS

CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTS, INC. - BRIDGEPORT, WV, USA STAFF CONSULTANT / LANDSCAPE DESIGNER (July 2020 – current) + Assist licensed landscape architect to prepare community and regional comprehensive master plans + Prepare and supply marketing materials for team presentations + Contribute to site grading schematics NORTHERN WV BROWNFIELDS ASSISTANCE CENTER - MORGANTOWN, WV, USA TECHNICAL ASSISTANT / DESIGNER (Oct 2019 – May 2020) + Assist in completing project profiles including data collection, site inventory and analysis as well as participate in community visioning activities and events to create designs for communities that deal with pollutants of brownfield WV NURSERY AND LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATION - MORGANTOWN, WV, USA DESIGN INTERN (May 2019 – July 2019) + Prepared conceptual landscape design proposals for West Virginia University’s Evansdale Campus ALL-IN-ONE-LANDSCAPES - MORGANTOWN, WV, USA LANDSCAPER (May 2018 – July 2018)

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

+ Perform grounds keeping and building maintenance duties as well as some retaining wall construction experience

2020 LAF OLMSTED SCHOLAR NOMINEE (Honor Date May 2020) + The LAF Olmsted Scholars Program recognizes outstanding student leadership ASLA CERTIFICATE OF MERIT (Honor Date June 2020) + Recognition shows that ASLA views these students as responsive and willing to work with others; self-motivated and responsible; and skillful in design (i.e. exploration, discovery, synthesis, and representation of landscape architecture design) SIGMA LAMBDA ALPHA HONORS SOCIETY (Honor Date Spring 2019) + Scholastic honor society that recognizes academic achievement among students in the field of landscape architecture

crj0008@mix.wvu.edu

WVU STUDENT SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PRESIDENT (August 2019 – May 2020) + Guide and facilitate the goals of the club, run club meetings, and delegate tasks as necessary for the WVU Landscape Architecture program

PHONE

MILLER CREATIVE WRITING AWARD FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (Honor Date Spring 2018)

EMAIL

(480)-823-0748 LINKEDIN

Charlton Jenks INSTAGRAM @charlyonjstudio

PRESIDENTS LIST (Honor Date Fall 2018)

HIGHLIGHT OF SKILLS

Hand Drawing

Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)

AutoCAD, Civil 3D,

Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint proficiency Graphic Design

SketchUp, Lumion, VRay ArcMap, ArcGIS Online

Business Development

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Twin Peaks

Grand Vue

Lower Hill

Stonewall Resort

Boat House

Norwood Park

Memorial

Resort Expansion

Development

Lakeside Cottages

Community + Tiny Home Villiage

Redevelopment

Flower Icons represent flowers found in the U.S. state of each project. 01 Twin Peaks Memorial located in Arizona displays the Gaillardia Arizona Sun Perennial. 02, 04, and 06, all found in West Virginia, present state famous West Virginia wildflowers. 03 Lower Hill Development is located in Pennsylvania exhibits the mountain laurel flower, which is also PA’s state flower. 05 Boat House Community + Tiny Home Community flower is found in Florida, representing the state flower: the Orange Blossom. Lastly the miscellaneous category is labeled with a branch, with the idea of subdividing various projects into one portion.

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Twin Peaks Quarry Memorial Wash Shade Structure

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PROJECT TYPE Landmark Memorial Abstract Design

2018

One remaining peak is half0the 0.25 size 0.5 it once was, now covered in tailings.

Old peak was obliterated over approx 40 years of quarrying.

Quarrying Process

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PROJECT YEAR 2020

PROJECT OVERVIEW To the west of one of Arizona’s major cities lies the remnants of mans harsh removal of natural resources. A natural landscape blemished by an abandoned quarry stripped of its natural resources. This fault in the natural landscape is known today as the Twin Peaks quarry (Rillito Cement Plant quarry or Rillito Quarry). The Twin Peaks quarry is a limestone and shale operation previously owned and operated by the Arizona Portland Cement Company. This quarry used the limestone to commercially produce concrete aggregates.

This environment wasn’t always a hole in the ground. It was actually two small mountains neighboring each-other but just one peak remains. The quarry’s name gives a clue to what happened to the other; one of the twin peaks was slowly carved away and eventually leveled in the quarrying process.

This designs aims to evoke the memory of the mountain that once was, providing a quiet, beautiful, and massively scaled place for contemplation and recreation.

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LARC 451 Landscape Architectural Design II

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Users traversing through trail system along edge of quarry will experience CORTEN pylons that guide visitors through space. The left pylon steadily decreases in size from beginning to end of quarry edge trail to represent how the second peak was carved away over the last 50 years. The trail delineation is designed from the base level contour of where the second peak originally belonged.

Our goal is to evoke the memory that there were once twin peaks where the current quarry exists.

This will be done through sculptural imagery, landscape reclamation, and subtle allusions to the sites history.

Through this intervention, users will experience the harsh remnants of man’s removal of natural resources during their visit.

Park Entry Garage buried in tailings

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The parking structure will be built and tailings will be moved north to cover structure, creating a more cohesive experience. Tailings shifted north to expose landscape.

This exposed rock and soil will be re-graded to move water from wash efficiently and throughout the space, creating naturalized denderic drainages and re-introducing hydrology to the existing limestone crusher mechanism.

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CUT THROUGH TAILING & REDIRECT WASH

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The quarry park entry will be established through a naturalized process of redirecting the existing wash into the site rather than around it. The current wash moves water around site as quarry tailings block the natural hydrological process.

Interposing the wash will begin conditioning the landscape fabric and re-introduce topsoil once again to trigger redevelopment of the sites natural vegetation. Tucson’s monsoon season will bring a heavy amount of rainfall during sporadic times of the year to fill this area with rainwater.

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Garage hidden in tailings to create cohesion within site

COR-TEN overhead structure as well as etching on ceiling of structure replicates shape of the peaks that once existed. The perforations in the ceiling of the structure manifest usable light that is reflected into the space on the adjacent surface when illuminated by the evening sun.

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Mountain Footprint Sequence The ring shape adjacent to the existing peak includes historical quarry allusions to the now missing second peak. This includes a trail circumnavigating around the footprint of where the second peak lied. This trail system is created from a land bridge created from existing tailing from around the site. This portion of the design also cuts into the tailings where they cover up the existing mountain to show where the ground level used to be.

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The concrete structure transfixed within the tailings will exhibit the barren landscape that is left from the quarrying process.

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The mountain footprint sequence bridge takes users to the actual location of the peak of removed mountain.

Park Trails Existing Limestone Structure

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Trail System The site includes a accessible trail circulation system with the inclusion of one and two track walking and bike trails. Trails are accommodated with signage and pylons with a location map to help guide users through the levels of trails. Water fountains, bike racks, and engaging topography from existing quarry are also found within trails also Trail leads to mini park with existing limestone crusher structure with added vegetation from wash. Trail system is partially lit up at night.

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G R A N D V U E P A R K R E S O R T E X P A N S I O N C H A R L T O N

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Attractions & Entertainment Eco-Tourism

PROJECT LOCATION Moundsville, WV

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PROJECT OVERVIEW Overlooking the Ohio Valley, Grand Vue Park is a multi use resort style destination in northeast West Virginia. Our team at CEC in collaboration with a local architecture firm OMNI Architects was hired to propose potential expansion interventions within the existing park. Our master plan proposal provides mapping for three zones including an RV park/ lodging expansion, snowflex/ restaurant amenities, and wedding event/ overlook area. CEC has since began the engineering process on the RV park (see zone 2) that all started with multiple hand drawn sketches. Below is the marketing material used, supplied by one of our engineers.

EXISTING CONDITIONS Grand Vue Park 2017 Arial

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PROPOSED MASTER PLAN Grand Vue Park Expansion

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The zone 2 lodging expansion facilitates proposed shelters, bathhouses, full hookup RV spaces, golf cart rental spaces, yurts, and basic camping spaces.

CEC is providing the planning and schematic design for this area. A concept has been finalized and the site design schematics are currently being created.

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Lodging Expansion

The snowflex expansion area is outfitted with a new restaurant concept with a wrap around deck, a snowflex (artificial tubing/ winter sports installment), expanded parking, a valley dam lake, and walking trails.

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Snow-flex Expansion

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ZONE 3 Overlook Expansion

ZONE 3 The new event venue/overlook area contains: Parking Lot Expansion Grading Detail 4 Season Enclosed Venue Covered Outdoor Venue Seating for 125 Separate Overlook Deck New Public Access

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The Hill District Birds Eye View Strong Edge and Core Contrast Urban Forest

PROPOSED DESIGN STRATEGY

Strategies for mixed-use development will have an important role in reestablishing the Hill District. The first building layout strategy will create a strong edge for site. Edge development includes raising base of buildings, and programming integral parts of edge.

Strategy 2 will creates a natural environment in the sites core over a time frame of 40+ years, re naturalizing the space and facilitating storm-water runoff as well.

Let nature overtake - return core to nature and create contrast between built and natural elements. This creates a secluded urban forest that filters the Hill Districts storm-water as well.

COURSE

LARC450 Advanced Landscape Architectural Design II

PROJECT TYPE Urban Design Landscape Matrix

PROJECT LOCATION Pittsburgh, PA

Push development to edges of site enclosing space to create sense of enclosure

Base of buildings raised a distance off the ground to encourage users to enter the space

Edge programs based on context of the site and underground parking added

Building heights based on surrounding existing building heights, scaling proportionately with their sizes

CORE Progression Let nature overtake - return core to nature and create contrast between built and natural elements. This creates a secluded urban forest that filters the Hill Districts storm-water as well.

PROJECT YEAR 2019-2020

PROJECT OVERVIEW Once a booming cultural connection to downtown, the Lower Hill District in Pittsburgh, PA was has been reduced to a gravel wasteland of a parking lot over the last 50 years. The Hill District was the cultural center of African American life in the city of Pittsburgh, as well as a major center of Jazz. Despite this significant cultural impact of the area, the area was slated for redevelopment, displacing over 8,000 residents and 400 businesses for a Civic Arena. This severed the Hill District from surrounding neighborhoods which caused dramatic economic decline. The Hill District never recovered, as much of the Hill District today is still deteriorating.

This project aims to transform the barren site into an evolving strong core-connection between the Upper Hill District and Downtown by strategically focusing on emphasizing the stark contrast between nature + built elements, creating a matrix to predict core growth, and enhancing surrounding streetscape.

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Lower Hill Master Plan

BASKETBALL COURT

PRIVATE COURTYARD

RESIDENTIAL BLENDS IN WITH SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD GREEN SPACE -FARMERS MARKET

HOTEL PLAZA

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RAIN GARDEN KEPT EXISTING ROADS MADE INTO GREEN SPACE

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OPEN GREEN SPACE -CONCERTS -FESTIVALS -EVENT SPACE

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PUBLIC CAFE/ RESTURAUNT SPACE

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Lakeside Cottages Final Master Plan

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Trailhead and parking area - the main trailhead will be utilized for ADA accessibility for the passive park and be between 4’-6’ wide with wider areas to allow passing of wheelchairs.

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West Virginia native wildflower meadow as the entrance to the park.

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Blackberry and Raspberry thicket for fruit picking and wildlife attractor.

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Native Blueberry patch

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Mowed greenspace for passive events

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Wetland boardwalk trail

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Gathering area

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Sycamore grove hammock area

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Lake edge trail to access cottages - singletrack

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Courtesy Docks

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Breaking ground for cottage positioning

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PROJECT TYPE Hospitality Tourism

PROJECT LOCATION Roanoke, WV

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Construction of wetland trail began November

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PROJECT OVERVIEW As Stonewall Resort expands, the demand for more housing and lodging accommodations is needed. The passive park at Stonewall Resort utilizes natural design elements to create an immersive visitor experience, bringing the individual closer to local wildlife and plants while maintaining the existing wetland and surrounding ecosystem. An ADA accessible trail weaves through a series of programs, including a wildflower meadow, a wetland board walk, a Sycamore grove, and a series of decks overlooking the Stonewall Jackson Lake. Benches and open spaces allow visitors a chance to relax and observe the sights and sounds found on the Northern end of the Resort. This collection of natural environments attracts a diverse collection of birds, insects, and small animals, allowing users to view these creatures in their natural habitat.

Birds Eye View Concept Digital Hand Rending

The design development process included arrangements of cottages and trails, sketching over 8 conceptual arrangements total throughout the process. The expansion is already underway, breaking ground to place the cottages.

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Boat House Community + Tiny Home Village Final Master Plan

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Development of this small body of water details a series of tiny home accommodations. A promenade allows residents and visitors of the community to navigate the walkable domain. The south side of the site is connected to the boat house community through a series of trails. The south side tiny homes are not permanent as local regulations allow them only to be mobile. This lessens the impact of on the local environment. Mangrove trees are also preserved on site as they capture and store large amounts of carbon which are essential in the environments carbon sequestration.

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Legend 1 Parking Lot 2 Welcome Center 3 Greenhouse 4 Playground 5 Docked Boat Tiny Home Community 6 Paddle Board Dock 7 Restaurant/Bathhouses 8 Bridge to Island 9 Fire Pits 10 Sauna 11 Pool 12 Gathering Area 13 Tiny Home Villiage

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PROJECT TYPE Tiny Boat Home Community Paddlers on the still body of water

Communities & Neighborhoods Hospitality

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Welcome Center

PROJECT OVERVIEW Fifty six percent of Americans said they would live in a tiny home, according to a survey conducted in late 2020 by IPX 1031. Whether they function as extra rooms, guesthouses, office space, or vacation stays, they have become a compelling trend for homeowners and tourists alike. Tiny home villages hold potential to transform communities forever. As low costs and versatility have surged the popularity of tiny homes, many developers have decided to take on projects to develop properties and invest in the idea. A client contacted me via Fiverr and freelance hired me to help them design a tiny house community in Liberia, Florida. This project is extremely unique, as the existing site conditions contain one lone body of water next to a larger lake.

In order to produce a habitable community the client proposed a tiny boat home prototype that would be docked on the small body of water. During design development, we decided on the different amenities that went along with lakeside communities. The project is still underway as of March 2021 and edits to drawings are being made every week to further the process.

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Liberia, FL

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Existing Conditions Site is a currently a neglected park

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Fairmont, WV

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Added Vegetation (Typ) Multi-Use Active Ball Equipment Shade Structures (Typ) All Inclusive Play Structure Music Wall & Walk Music Space/Amphitheater Safety Fencing Surrounding Park

Redevelopment of the Norwood Park in Fairmont West Virginia details an all inclusive, all accessible playground design that meets ADA standards. In September of 2020, members of the Fairmont City Council were presented with the city’s tax increment financing district projects, which included accessibility upgrades at Norwood Park This project required the formation of a team of experts that included an occupational therapist, physical therapist, speech pathologist, engineering and architecture. The conceptual designs created and presented secured a win over competitors in a local project bidding, ensuring the projects development to our firm and securing funding.

This project will be transformational to the region and will serve as a template for park redevelopment projects that are designed to be universally accessible by disabled and able-bodied individuals.

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COMMISSIONS/FREELANCE WORK

GARDEN PLAN (2021) HAND RENDER

SACRMENTO CA PLANTING PLAN (2021) HAND RENDER

ATLANTA GA RESIDENTIAL LAYOUTS (2021) HAND RENDER

WEDDING VENUE CONCEPT (2021) DIGITAL HAND RENDER

C H A R L T O N

2019-2021 PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS / MARKETING MATERIALS

J E N K S 2 0 2 1 RESTAURANT BARGE RE-PURPOSED (2021) DIGITAL HAND RENDER

BMX PARK (2021) HAND RENDER

MARINA RESTAURANT RE-PURPOSED (20210) DIGITAL HAND RENDER

UKV DICKINSON WELCOME CENTER (2020) DIGITAL HAND RENDER

HORSE RV PARK (2021) DIGITAL HAND RENDER

UKV CABIN CREEK RV PARK & BOAT RAMP (2020) HAND RENDER

WVNLA 2019 DESIGN SELECTION (2019) PHOTOSHOP RENDER

MINGO COUNTY WV. PRIVATE AIRSTRIP LODGING (2020) SKETCHUP TO LUMION TO PHOTOSHOP

CHUPAROSA COLLECTIBLE BOUTIQUE LOGO (2020) HAND RENDER

Miscellaneous projects range from commissions, freelance work, project highlights, various marketing materials, and personal artwork from 2019-2021. Featured also is a bubble diagram from a regional comprehensive plan written and illustrated for the Upper Kanawha Valley in Charleston West Virginia. This 114 page document identifies missing tourism attractions in the area between Charleston, WV and the New River Gorge, WV. Our teams vision serves as a catalyst for tourism growth in this area, providing master planning and design development for interventions along the Kanawha River as well as the surrounding landscape.

ATTACK ON TITAN (2020) DIGITAL HAND RENDER

CONCEPT BUBBLE DIAGRAM Our design team strategically evaluated existing locations and attractions to create a bubble diagram that simulates relationships between the critical components of the Upper Kanawha Valley. This begins the process that will categorically shape the future of The Valley.

Blue Creek Rail Trail

4x4 Off-road Excursion

Welcome Center

Mammoth Preserve

LINK INFO: https://issuu.com/cjenkscec

KANAWHA RIVER Welcome Center

Gauley Bridge

CONCEPT BUBBLE DIAGRAM FOR THE UPPER KANAWHA VALLEY (UKV) (2021) HAND RENDER

The Valley (2021) Regional Comprehensive Plan

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

SELECTED WORKS

2019-2021