2022 Professional Portfolio

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Highly knowledgeable and dependable Landscape Designer with 2 years of experience under his belt.. Extensive skills in all areas of landscape architecture, from concept develoment to construction Administration.

Experience Connect One Design, Basalt/Aspen, CO Landscape Designer

Project Scope: City Planning, High End Residential, Sustainable Design 2021-2022

Innovations Design Group (IDG), Orlando, FL Landscape Designer

Project Scope: Theme Park Design (Universal Studios), Casinos, Resorts 2018

MKSK, Indianapolis, IN Intern Project Scope: Campus Design, Urban Design, Planning 2017

Education Ball State Univeristy, Muncie IN

Bachelors in Landscape Architecture - BLA Minor In Interior Design Thesis: Connecting Columbus, Indiana 2013 - 2018

The Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN

Land FX

Interior Design 2010-2012

Volunteering

Leadership Awards Exhibitions

Hobbies

CAP 2017 Commencement Junior Marshal Muncie White River Cleanup Crew Leader 2014-2017 Muncie Living Lightly: Sustainability Fair, 2014/2015 INASLA Annual Conference, 2015/2016 National ASLA Annual Conference, 2015 Student Chapter of ASLA Ball State – Vice President, 2017-2018 Student Chapter of ASLA Ball State – Marketing Chair 2016-2017 ASLA National Member GSA: National Student Design Competition: New San Francisco Federal Building Plaza, 3rd Place GSA winning entry - Allegro CAP Year in Review Showcase @ Muncie Makes Lab, Feb. 2018 Allegro - Ball State Glue v.14 Article - Magazine 2018 Allegro - Studio LA401 Exhibition Hiking, Kayaking, Jazz, Saxophone, Craft Beer, Skiing, Plant Hoarding, Art

Professional Work 2018-2022

Professional Experience

Morindoo Base Camp - Historic Glamping Resort

Client: Morindoo Horse Ranch Location: Töv Province, Mongolia Landscape Architect: Connect One Design Architect: Architectural Squared Size: 2.47 Acres

Located an hour outside of the capital city of Ulaanbaatar on the Mongolian steppe, this 2.47-acre site is home to a simple horse trekking outfit with aspirations to create a more permanent and glamorous base of operations. Connect One Design’s site plan honors traditional Ger (Mongolian yurt) layout and orientation (entryways always face south).

Structures and amenities are arranged to shield from prevailing northwest winds, while maximing views of sunrises and sunsets over the distant hills. The entrance experience begins at the main road as guests are shuttled past grazing horses, gain sight of the outstretched arms of the Gers, and finally glimpse the main lodge and other ranch amenities. In addition to the site plan, Connect One provided a fly-through animation and rendered stills the client can use to attract investors interested in funding camp construction and expansion.

Professional Experience

Basalt River Park and Development - City park, History, Commercial and Residential

Client: Town Of Basalt, CO Location: Basalt, Colorado Landscape Architect: Connect One Design Architect: CCY Architects Civil: Sopris Engineering BRP completion: 2022 BRP + Development: TBD C1D engaged with the Town of Basalt’s Parks Open Space and Trails (POST)committee to envision the park as the Town’s active recreation core and eventually developed the “Eddy Out” concept that imagined the directional force of the river breaking off and swirling into the park both as a metaphor for activity and a representation of form. The concept also reflects on Basalt’s history with regards to geology, river ecosystem, mining, locomotives, and agriculture. A generous plaza, marked with the colors of the area’s native rock and swirling with the energy from the eddy, invite users to dapple in park life from its comfortable edge. Circling inside the eddy is a grand lawn and a coke-oven shaped bandshell that serves the town’s growing performing arts scene. Dispersed play features activate all areas of the park and include a climbing wall inside the bandshell, willow forts, slack lines, hammocks, river-edge shaded picnic areas at boat pull-offs, stacked hay bales, a berm slide, and a self-activating year-round misting feature that runs along the uplifts of a linear basaltic sculpture. This Park activates old town Basalt in a much larger way and creates a gathering space for large concerts, events and overall fun. The development adjacent also houses: shopping, townhomes, commercial space, food, and a community center to further the community of the existing downtown scene.

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Lakota Canyon Development - Affordable Housing, Community Planning, New Development

Lakota Canyon Ranch Client: New Castle, CO Location: New Castle, CO Landscape Architect: Connect One Design Architect: Z Group Completion: Ongoing

Deep in the Rocky Mountains, just past Glenwood Springs, lies a small town called New Castle where an existing housing development built around a golf course continues to expand. This project although still conceptual offers more than just housing and begins to expand on the sense of a community. Allocating affordable housing in the Roaring Fork Valley is next to impossible being that Aspen is just up valley, so many workers have been pushed further and further down valley. A good portion of folks have already set up roots in New Castle, as affordability becomes more and more less... “affordable”. This project allows for people to live further down valley while not excluding common necessities such as Starbucks, Brewpubs, Plaza Gathering spaces, and Walkability. Lakota Canyon is a project that hopes to bridge the gap that is the housing crisis and create a sense of place that isn't as dispersed as the people who live down valley and work up Valley.

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6’ attached sidewalks 9’ on-street parking single family homes with garage 12’ driving lanes 2 story townhomes w/ garage parking on ground level

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public park space possible shared use parking for mixed-use 2 story commercial building

3 story apartme buildings

2 story commercial building possible medical offices; 3 stories w/ tuck-under parking park space w/ playground & lawn space parking for apartments 3 story apartment building stormwater detention area

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Academic Work

2013-2018

Academic Experience

_Allegro: San Francisco Student National Design Competion - 3rd Place

Third Place – “Allegro,” by Dan Kaiser This entry proposes an intervention that blurs the distinction between art and landscape. The formally aggressive intervention is inspired by sound waves and the existing building’s form, combined to create seating and play space that is intended to transform the space at night. The inclusion of relevant case studies was useful to understand the design intent and feasibility of this proposal. The design refines the café building to maintain the original urban design intent of having a strong, well-defined corner, while also addressing the proposed new plaza design. The jury commends the creativity and quality of this visually stimulating proposal, which creates the potential for success whether people occupy the space as intended by the proposal or not.

-Thom Mayne, Morphosis Architects + Judging Panel

Academic Experience

USS. Indianapolis Memorial Location: Indianapolis, IN Team: Dan Kaiser, Alyssa Babb, Ashlee Mcquarters Roles: Lumion+Graphics/Design: Dan CAD/Design: Alyssa Plants/Design: Ashlee

Little bit of History... The USS Indianapolis is known in the military as one of the most horrific sea disasters this country has ever seen. On July 30th 1945, the ship was making its way to aid the war effort in Guam when it was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sank within minutes. Only 316 of the 1,196 men on board survived. It’s thought that within the days after it was torpedoed the men on board suffered from dehydration, salt poisoning, and shark attacks.

For years now, this memorial has been questioned, vandalized and thought to have a better location in the Indianapolis American Legion Mall. This design is centralized along that idea, but also allows for a bigger impact as the current design lacks space and effect. As a group of three we came up with the idea to sink the memorial like the ship itself. Surrounded by a wall of water 6’ tall, the impact and reflection allow for a more controversial view and brings attention to a memorial that most people have disregarded along the Indianapolis Canal walk.

Not only is this new design impactful, but also completely accessible by ADA standards allowing folks to actually enjoy this memorial.

Selected Works 2013-2022

#CAPFTW2014

Drawn while walking through Historic Lincoln Park, IL. 7”-10” Sketchbook

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Drawing from the eary atmosphere of Julianne Swartz’s: TERRAIN, this abstraction is of the sound as well as the mood.

3”x 4.5” -pocket sketch book

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Inspired by strawberries, surrealism, and a dream

Sketch of Henry Moore’s Large Arch Sculpture, Columbus Indiana 4.5”x 6” -pocket sketch book

Student Chapter of ASLA Ball State Applefest 2016 Poster Seattle Boardwalk

3”x 4.5” -pocket sketch book

Every year our chapter held a Department get together that usually expanded to the whole college because of how popular it was. During the 2016-2017 I was the Marketing chair and poster maker.

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Wetlands Walk John Craddock Wetland Nature Preserve, Muncie IN sketchbook

_melt Inspired by my ever changing music playlist I decided to make another cover.

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Jupiter, FL Dan Kaiser

References Elise Wolf (Party Wolf)

Connect One Design Landscape Architect, Project Manager ew@connectonedesign.com (970)-355-5457 Ext. 7

Elyse Hottel

Basalt City Council Member Connect One Design eh@connectonedesign.com (510)-541-8329

Molly Somes

Connect One Design Landscape Designer ms@connectonedesign.com (970)-692-4227

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