Haarbauer Landscape Architecture Portfolio

GRIFFIN HAARBAUER

Landscape Architecture Portfolio

770-757-7116

gwh68811@uga.edu

www.linkedin.com/in/ghaar

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Adobe Suite

AutoCAD

Lumion

SketchUp

Vectorworks

GRIFFIN HAARBAUER

2023 Resume l Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, University of Georgia

Expected Graduation May 2023

• Minor in Horticulture

• University of Georgia Honey Bee Lab Assistant

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Xanthe White Design, Intern

May-August 2022 — Auckland, New Zealand

• Personally organized all details for internship abroad

• Learned and taught Vectorworks to coworkers

• Made significant contributions to over 20 projects including residential designs and large scale revegetation in all stages of development

Alex Smith Garden Design Ltd., Intern

May-August 2021 — Chamblee, GA

• Actively contributed ideas for topics including design refinement, drainage strategies, hardscape and planting plans

• Created construction documents, preliminary landscape plans, and illustrative plans for client approval using InDesign, Photoshop, and AutoCAD

• Implemented designs with installations and maintenance teams

Private Garden Maintenance

2009-Present — Marietta, GA

• Spent 13 years curating personal 3/4 acre garden

WORK AND LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

Sousaphone Section Leader, Redcoat Band

2021-Present

• Lead and organize rehearsals, instrument transportation, and performances for a team of thirty people

• Collaborate with directors and leadership team to ensure smooth operation of band program

• Instituted method of individualized teaching to accommodate both new and experienced tubists

Waiter/Host, Xengo Fusion Kitchen and Sushi

2017-2019 — Marietta, GA

• Developed acute sense of time management while speaking with customers, running food, and coordinating table management with staff

DESIGN STATEMENT

I am a third generation gardener and have spent my entire life deeply tied to the outdoors. Landscape architecture is an avenue for me to pursue that fascination and help other people achieve that same connection. To that end, I design to the human experience first. The best gardens are immersive; designed to be moved through and sat in as much as looked at. Every garden should have its own element of unique magic that can be replicated nowhere else.

As I design, I also balance two of my passions, plants and pollinators, to further enhance the human experience. I have grown up around plants, and am both in love with and endlessly fascinated by their inexhaustible varieties and individual quirks. I don’t believe I will ever tire of exploring their potential for seasonal and annual variation. My affinity for pollinators goes beyond their incredible environmental benefits. With their unique sounds and unceasing motion, I believe insects add an irreplaceable layer of life and focal interest to any landscape.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Studio Design

Atlanta Residence 1

Atlanta Residence 2

Construction Documents

Farmstead

4. 20.

Professional Work

Personal Interests 24.

Personal Garden

Music, Painting, and Writing

Xanthe White Design Alex Smith Garden Design Ltd.

Studio Design

Model created in SketchUp and rendered in Lumion.

Atlanta Residence 1

Residential Garden and Planting Plan September 2022

Atlanta, Georgia

This project began as an effort to site a new piece of New England style architecture on an existing one acre lot in Atlanta. The clients were very open to the creative direction of the design as long as it contained a pool, a lawn for their kids to play in, and a pullout for guest parking.

After some initial grad analysis, the final design provided three distinct outdoor areas lush with vegetation to complement the rustic architecture. The front yard consists of a dense shrub garden to complement the front yards of other Buckhead residences and a meandering step stone path through the garden to the front door for guests to appreciate the experience. An outdoor patio in the back yard steps directly onto a formal pool terrace hosting a wonderful view of a custom sculpture flanked by two pairs of decorative columns. After stepping down several stairs, the back yard transforms into an informal cottage garden with a series of goat paths around a unique asymmetric lawn and a custom pavilion offering an alternative seating location with an entirely different atmosphere.

Illustrative Plan and Sections inked by hand with Photoshop rendering on iPad.

Meandering Step Stone Garden Path to Entrance

Circular Pullout With Planted Island For Guest Parking

Emphasis on Autumnal Hues and Bloom Colors to Complement Existing Pines

Focal Boulders Harden Entry Garden

Decorative Stone Veneer Columns

Brass Sculpture with Sandblasted Travertine Marble Plinth

Underplanted Pleached Hornbeam Screens

Custom Pavilion to Match Architecture

Cottage Garden Emphasis on Blue and Purple Foliage

Stacked Gray Limestone Firepit

Gate to Resident Motorcourt

Steps to Cottage Garden

Formal Pool Terrace With Poolside Lounge

Custom Pavilion and Outdoor Seating Area

Sculpture and Columns on Axis With Patio

Asymmetric Play Lawn

Firepit on Axis With Sculpture and Pavilion

Goat Paths Through Woodland Garden

Gravel Overflow Terrace Cutting Garden in Full Sun

PLANTING PLAN

In order to maintain a full bloom season and unique focal points, the planting plan required dozens of species in a planned, natural-esque scheme. To increase availability and cut costs, the softscape would be installed in phases and likely consist of a mix of under 1-gallon pots and plugs.

The front yard was designed with a mix of traditional Southern shrubs and native alternatives with striking autumn hues and orange and red bloom colors. With designed exceptions, the scheme gradually builds in height from the edges of the beds while maintiaing sight-lines from the windows and building the upper plane with serviceberries and witch hazel.

The pool terrace utilizes a much more formal planting structure and incorporates a variety of whites into the reds already present in the front yard. Winterberry hollies offer unique winter appeal while Schizophragma snakes along the support posts on the outdoor living space. A pair of dogwoods flank the pool lounge.

Atlanta Residence 2

Residential Garden and Grading Plan September 2022 Atlanta, Georgia

This residence posed both a challenging design and grading puzzle. The property had a number of distinct characteristics and the client a number of specific requirements which further complicated the process. The existing architecture was an unusual one-story ranch house on a relatively steep slope. The client requested to add a two-story carriage house and a deck extension while retaining the existing pool, which unfortunately wasn’t on axis with anything. The client also asked that the driveway be regraded for a shallower entry sequence.

Reconciling these requirements was difficult, but the final result was a pleasing geometric design which relied on simplicity to elegantly transition between various axes on site. The driveway pullout was expanded to double as an entertainment area and a series of shallow, deep steps on axis with the carriage house bring users from the lawn to the pool deck.

Illustrative Plan inked by hand with Photoshop rendering on iPad.

Simple Lawn Framed by 4 Trees

Shallow Turf Risers to Pool

Expanded Driveway Pullout Doubles as Entertainment Area

Pergola-Covered Patio and Outdoor Fireplace Centered on Pool

Maximum 3’ Retaining Wall Allows Shallow Driveway Ascent

Construction Documents

A large part of the College of Environment and Design’s studio curriculum has consisted of CD project components as well as an entire class devoted to technical documentation. Largely through AutoCAD, I have had several years’ experience in

creating grading and drainage plans, planting plans, furniture and material plans, construction details, and pavement details. Along with AutoCAD, I have also taught myself Vectorworks, which I believe is a vastly superior program for planting plans.

STONE VENEER COLUMN - SECTION STONE VENEER COLUMN

STONE VENEER COLUMN ELEVATION PLAN SECTION

PARKLET PAVING, PLANTING, AND FENCE - SECTION

ALUMNI PLAZA GRADING AND DRAINAGE PLAN

Farmstead

Rural Master Plan

November 2022

Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia

Chattahoochee Hills is a planned rural community southwest of Atlanta. In keeping with community design guidelines, this project consisted largely of an effort to site five one acre lots on a gorgeous 46 acre property. Other than setback, septic field, and “rural character” requirements, the client had minimal existing creative direction.

The design process began by identifying key focal points on the site, namely a large hilltop, a copse and a pond; and key constraints such as the steep gradient. The grade quickly became an asset used during the road design to manipulate a series of horizontal and vertical curves to utilize the existing focal points. Other site features were modelled on the English countryside.

All Houses Have 1-Acre Lot, 2-Car Garage, Septic Field, Rear Lawn, Gravel Driveway, and Capitalize on at Least One Focal Point

Footpath System Connects All Houses and Areas of Interest

Existing Barn Repurposed as Community Gathering Spot

Existing Pasture

Hedgerows Create Distinct Spaces and Areas of Interest

Photos From November 2022 Before Construction

Illustrative Plan inked by hand with Photoshop rendering on iPad.

Hilltop Folly of Ruined House with Freestanding Chimneys for Community Fires

Model Property Shown in Subsequent Page

Gravel Road with Allee Entrance

Existing Hilltop Copse Expanded to Create Varied Walking Environments

Pergola Creates Vista and Intimate Seating on Diagonal Axis with Sunroom

Boulder-flanked Groundcover

River Directs Patio Views to Pond

Garden of Penisetum and Betula

MODEL PROPERTY

Like the Farmstead community, the model property takes heavy inspiration from the English countryside and adapts those characteristics to seamlessly blend with the Southern aesthetic. After winding down a gravel driveway, the front yard utilizes a seed mix to

Illustrative Plan inked by hand with Photoshop rendering on iPad.

Winding Gravel Path Through Meadow Creates Experience From Parking to Door

Kitchen Garden With Drainage

Pipe Raised Beds and Split Rail Fence

Breezeway From Carriage House to Main Structure

bring assorted flowers and seasonal color into the existing tall grasses. The back yard is elevated slightly above the landscape with a ha-ha wall to accommodate for the steep slope of the site and transition from planned to natural.

Custom risers embedded into landscape transition from planned to natural.

Airy contemplation garden centers on custom wooden slat bench protruding from boulder.

River of groundcover focuses views across ha-ha wall and into landscape.

Stacked split-rail fence preserves rustic character and brings meadow into kitchen garden.

Airy Contemplation

Professional Work

Xanthe White Design

Internship

May-August 2022 Auckland, New Zealand

Over the summer of 2022, I was determined to spend time working abroad, both as an opportunity to experience other parts of the world and to immerse myself in design styles and methods of implementation which I wouldn’t be able to find at home. I found an amazing opportunity to achieve those goals with Xanthe White and her team in New Zealand. After organizing visa, travel, and lodging details, I spent several months working on gardens across the New Zealand. Xanthe fosters a plantsfirst mentality which matches my preferred style, and I quickly grasped and enjoyed working with a completely unique subtropical plant palette. With Xanthe, I was exposed to a range of design styles which I wouldn’t have otherwise learned.

As one of Xanthe’s employees had just left for a three month honeymoon, I was given several of my own personal projects, all in various scales and states of completion. Beyond managing my own projects, which included a concept design, a detailed planting and pergola plan, site analysis and planting selection for a 4 acre revegetation, and running client presentations for all three, I also completed project elements for other people in the office. These included site analyses, concept designs, sketches, planting plans and selection, and layouts in the field. The field layouts comprised another particularly enjoyable and valuable experience as I organized thousands of plants in areas including city gardens, coastal vacation homes, and rural mountain gardens.

Planting plan made in Vectorworks, contains 32 species.

Arbor Tunnel

Simple Lawn

Vegetation Layers Gradually Build Up to Fence and Make Space Feel Larger

Concept design created in consultation with others. Rendered by others.

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MOUNT WELLINGTON

This project in Auckland consisted of synthesizing a tiny and irregular property with a regular geometric house. The clients, a young couple, were also enthusiastic vegetable gardeners and requested ample space for productive gardens. A simple lawn and layers of vegetation resolved the transition from house to fence while an arbor tunnel shielded views of the compost and brought magic to the design.

Sketch drawn in Photoshop from SketchUp reference.

Relocated Trash Bin Corral

Gravel Car Park With Decorative Cobble Bands

Kitchen Garden in Raised Wooden Beds

Relocated Clothesline

MATAKANA VALLEY

This Matakana Valley property sits on over 22,000 square meters (6 acres) including a low-lying pond and mountainside leptospermum forest. Most of the site is overrun with crocosmia, ginger lily, and eucalyptus. The clients wanted to revegetate the site with a planting mix comprised largely of native vegetation with highlights of exotic

show-stopping species. The clients also wanted a bayou inspired aesthetic in the wetlands around their pond and a connecting theme of year-round autumnal colors. After dividing the site into zones of soil quality, drainage quality, and sun exposure, a list of over a hundred species was compiled to make up the backbone for a revegetated matrix.

Deep Shade Full Shade

Dappled Shade Partial Shade

South_Facing Wooded Slope

East-Facing Wooded Slope

North-Facing Wooded Slope

East-Facing Ecotone

Ecotone

Woodland Bush Islands

Manuka-wooded slope with dense wheki and mamaku understory

Ecotone

Transitional zone of shrubs and nikau

Ephemeral Wetlands

Minimally vegetated sseasonal wetlands

Meadow

Raised clay meadow overgrown by crocosmia

Floodplains

Sunken meadow interspersed with wheki and overgrown by crocosmia

Over 110 species recommendations created for every zone in consultation with others.

WOODLAND RECOMMENDATIONS

Existing Vegetation

Turf

Raised islands with Cordyline, grasses, and ginger lilies

Turf lawn interspersed with encroaching shrubs

Eucalyptus Woodland Bush

Minimally sloped gum tree forest with non-native understory

Sparse Ecotone and Bush

Sloped transitional zones of dense shrubs and non-native woody vegetation

15 Recommended Exotic Species with Seasonal Interest Points and Sun Preference

18 Recommended Native Species with Seasonal Interest Points and Sun Preference

5 Recommended Epiphytes

Alex Smith Garden Design Ltd.

Summer Internship

May-August 2021

Chamblee, Georgia

Over the summer of 2021, I had the opportunity to work as an intern for Alex Smith Garden Design Ltd, a high-end design-build-maintain firm which operates across the American Southeast. The internship gave me the opportunity to learn from extraordinary designers, contractors, and plantspeople. Over the summer, I rendered tree conservation and hardscape calculation plans, drew preliminary landscape designs and several illustrative plans, created construction details, designed several artistic fence gates for contractor approval, sourced and purchased plants from nurseries, and got first-hand field experience working with both the maintenance and installations teams.

Working with Alex Smith and the other wonderful people in his company has changed the way I perceive the industry and equipped me with a wide array of new skills. My plant palette has expanded to include not only flora that grows well in the Atlanta area, but also many plants which can thrive in diverse areas from coastal Georgia to the mountains of North Carolina and Missouri. I am significantly more competent in AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign, and even in hand graphics. I’ve gained an appreciation for the work required to fully realize a design and a good working knowledge of the roles of the many contractors who work together to complete a project.

Plan inked by hand with Photoshop rendering from existing design.

Initial concept drawn by hand and rendered in Photoshop for client approval. Plan not to scale.

Impervious takeoff performed in AutoCAD.

Plan drawn with hand linework and Photoshop rendering from existing design. 0 feet

Personal Interests

PERSONAL GARDEN

2009-Present

Marietta, Georgia

Maintained and Designed With Charla Haarbauer

Working in my garden has been one of my most consistent joys, and nothing makes me happier than watching plants grow and mature. When my family moved into our house in 2008, we inherited a truly astounding garden skeleton. In the ensuing twelve years, we molded the yard into a personal paradise, replacing almost every plant which was there originally. Gardening has given me unique opportunities both to make active design decisions and watch the results of those decisions grow and mature as well as to connect with my family in my preferred environment.

October2021

May2020 May2020

Personal Interests

Music, Painting, and Writing

I have always had a deep connection with music, and I’ve grown and refined that connection through my tuba. Creating music with an ensemble, along with gardening, has been one of my most enjoyable pursuits. I love working within an ensemble to create a unique experience for everyone who can hear it, myself included. My musical interest also extends into marching band, an activity which frequently requires over twenty hours a week of commitment, where I continue to meet my desire to create music and have found many of my closest friends.

I also have a distinct interest in writing. I’ve spent my entire life with my nose in books, and my interest in fantasy has inevitably led to my running games of Dungeons and Dragons. I love the opportunity not only to create entire worlds and stories, but also to realize those worlds with good friends who get to have active influence in the events that occur. The game means a great deal to me, both as a creative and social pursuit. I have recently started painting miniatures for tabletop use as well, an activity which I thoroughly enjoy both for the tangible results and therapeutic process.