Landscape Architecture Portfolio

emmery pau

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

SELECTED WORKS

As a third year landscape architecture student minoring in horticulture, I am passionate about connecting people with plants. I am especially drawn to planting design, community-centered landscapes, and fostering environmental stewardship through design and education.

In my free time, I love exploring the outdoors, whether I am hiking or just observing. I also enjoy baking and crafts, which keep me continuously inspired.

EMMERY PAU

CONTACT

(217) 461-1250

empau6@gmail.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmery

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Major: Landscape Architecture, Minor: Horticulture 2024-2025

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY

INVOLVEMENT

TREE COMMITTEE - member

GARDEN COMMITTEE - member

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS

STUDENT CHAPTER - member

Major: Computer Science 2022-2023 2025 2024-2025 2024-2025

REWILDING

URBANA

CAMPUS

COURTYARD

URBANA, IL

FIRESTONE

PEAKS PARK

ELSEWHERE

URBANA, IL

FRANCE

01 rewilding urbana

LOCATION: URBANA, ILLINOIS

This project highlights the re-establishment of urban connectivity in a previously underutilized space. The site is sandwiched between a busy road, restaurants, wine library, and an impervious parking lot. This design maximizes its prime location potential and puts great emphasis on greening the community through the implementation of various biodiversity-supporting gardens. This revitalizing space successfully creates new pedestrian connections, introduces phytoremediation, provides food-growing opportunities, and capitalizes on nearby local businesses.

INTEGRATION

envisions how non-human and human species could interact

ISOLATION

represents the current site conditions of lack of ecology support explores the site’s potential to support and protect living species

conceptual sketch refining concepts

ASYLUM

MASTERPLAN PERSPECTIVES

02 campus courtyard

LOCATION: URBANA, ILLINOIS

This courtyard makeover aims to transform a neglected space into an appealing area that provides a sense of place for students. The site is located near a popular bus stop, but it lacks accessibility, visibility, and nature, and is overall unwelcoming. This design works to combat those issues by creating opportunities for socialization, contributing to a more resilient campus environment, and extending seasonal use.

SITE ANALYSIS

SITE IS ADJACENT TO POPULAR BUS STOPS (CIRCLES). NEAREST CAFES (SQUARES) ARE 3, 6, 8, MINUTES AWAY.

STUDENTS WAITING FOR BUS CONGEST SIDEWALKS.

APPROXIMATELY SIX OUT OF THE NINE MONTHS THAT CLASSES ARE IN SESSION ARE BELOW 60 DEGREES.

LIMITED SEATING & SHELTER AT BUSY BUS STOPS.

MASTERPLAN

DAVID KINLEY HALL

03 firestone peaks park

LOCATION: URBANA, ILLINOIS

This project began with a photocomposition, which represents the past, present, and future characteristics of the site. The triangle site has historically always been urban: it held a flatiron building and Texaco gas station in the past, and now exists the Firestone Auto Care building. In order to combat the deep layers of rubble and gasoline in the soil, this design uses Firestone-roof-shaped mounds that encapsulate layers of brick and concrete to provide places for nature to take over.

PHOTOCOMPOSITION

MASTERPLAN SECTIONS

PHYSICAL MODEL

04 elsewhere

LOCATION:

FRANCE

The Chaumont-Sur-Loire International Garden Festival held the theme of “Once Upon a Time, in The Garden” for the year of 2025. This design encapsulates the feeling of being told a fairytale. “Once upon a time” signals the reader or listener to enter a world of imagination. “Once upon a time” is a mindset.