PORTFOLIO

SELECTED WORK 201 4 -2022

Jaclyn Tobia

2420 Atherton Street #1 Berkeley, CA 94704

T: 609.439.7290

E: jaclyn.tobia@gmail.com

EL ALISO MEMORIAL Los Angeles, CA

MODE PLAZA San Francisco, CA

FAIRGROUND PARK St. Louis, MO

TRELLIS SQUARE San Francisco, CA

WILD FIRE RISK East Richmond, CA

DWINELLE ANNEX Berkeley, CA

ISLAND ECONOMY Puerto Rico

WATER CATCHMENT Omaha, NE

CHANNEL PARK Oakland, CA

INTERIOR DESIGN Los Angeles & SF, CA

El Aliso, a Western Sycamore tree, was a witness to 400 years of land use changes, periods of coloni zation, and cultural shifts in historic core of Los Angeles. The tree marked the site of Yaagna, one of the largest settlements of indigenous people in the Los Angeles basin. The tree, which lived in adjacent to the Los Angeles River, was once part of forest of western sycamores in riparian habitat that flooded seasonally.

Link Union Station, a high speed rail infrasctructure project line as part of LA Metro, will have new run through tracks that pass directly over where the historic tree once stood. My site design propos al takes the footprint of the Link Union Station project study area, which will be razed, and proposes that 26 acres of land be given back to Kizh-Gabrieleno as part of the multi-million dollar project.

SERIAL

the relationships between the LA River, the highspeed

A series of sections

line, and the proposed

vegetation, topography, and hardscape.

PINEGRASS LAND ROWS DECOMPOSED GRANITE CONCRETE

WESTERN

PALO VERDE Parkisonia florida

SISKYOU BLUE Fetsuca galuca DEER GRASS Muhlenbergia rigens

JIMSON WEED Datura wrightii CALIFORNIA SAGE BRUSH Artemisia californica

CALIFORNIA LILAC Ceanothus CALIFORNIA BUCKWHEAT Eriogonum fasciculatum

Materials and the planting palette are climated adapted for the urban semi-arid landscape of downtown Los Angeles.

Park is

on

outsider’s

PLAZA

STATION

The design for Fairground Park aims to create landscapes that activate urban life, through transportation infrastructure, and landscape maintenance regimes, and public facing art and programming. Taking inspiration from the World Expo of ‘95 in Seville Spain, which funded infrastructure like light rail and new roads, a light rail station on site allows park visitors to arrive on avenues 250 wide, containing a variety of flowering trees and bushes. The main entry of the park brings visitors to the Garden and Pavillion of Material Culture, featuring a pavillion designed by Frank Gehry.

REFLECTIING POOL

GARDEN GALLERY

PAVILLION WATER CHANNEL

The garden of material culture is a place to experience a horticultural diaspora and contemporary art by people of color. Spaces are organized orthogonally to exhibit permanent works of art. Osage orange hedges, trimmed yearly, are maintained to enhance sculpture. A water feature and ground channel connects the gardens to the street, entry plaza, and the rest of the park.

Entry Plaza | Featuring: Maren Hassinger, “The Window”, 2021

Garden Gallery | Featuring: Charles Gaines, William Edmondson

Garden Gallery | Featuring: Osage Orange

FOREST

SHAPING

The design of the urban forest was completed as part of a team, with collaborators Ishita Chandra and Claire Geneste. The project tracked the growth and maturation of plant systems at seasonal timescales, and carried them forward through years and decades, to create interest at the experiential scale throughout the yearly cycle, as well as points of interest leading up to World’s Fair of 2055.

of an ecological design studio,

ENERGY PRODUCTION & TRANSMISSION

TRANSPORTATION HOUSING

LAND MANAGEMENT

FIRE RISK IN THE BERKELEY HILLS

THE “DIABLO WIND” DIRECTION IS AT A RIGHT ANGLE TO COASTAL MOUNTAIN RANGES AND TENDS TO BE FUNNELED BY MOUNTAIN PASSES AND CANYONS

WIND SPEED 45.4 - 66.6 mph 66.7 - 75.7 mph 75.8 - 85.2 mph 85.3 - 100.1 mph

- 133.6 mph

DRY AIR ACCUMULATES EAST OF MOUNTAINS AND A NET DEFICT OF AIR OCCURS WEST OF MOUTNAINS. WHERE AIR HAS THE OPPORTU NITY TO BREAK THROUGH OVER MOUNTAINS, VERY HIGH WIND SPEEDS CAN OCCUR

Overgrown Oak Woodland, aging electrical infrastructure, combined with topography that accentuates seasonal high speed diablo wind storms, makes for an extremely dangerous Urban/ Wild Edge. During the transition from dry season to wet season, a combination of high pressure along the Central California Coast can generate strong offshore winds. These easterly “Diablo Winds” seldom occur for more than a few consecutive days and average about 15 days per year. When these winds coincide with the dry season they greatly increase the risk of wildfire. Most of the major fires that have occured in the East Bay Hills are fanned by the Diablo Winds

OVERGROWN OAK WOODLAND

TOPOGRAPHICAL RIDGE URBAN WILD/INTERFACE

East Richmond Heights

El Cerrito

WILDCAT CANYON PARK

RichmondEast Richmond Heights

CANYON PARK

El Cerrito

San Pablo

San Pablo

DIABLO WINDS

HIGH WILD FIRE RISK

WILDCAT

INDIGENOUS STEWARDSHIP

~4,000 B.C. -

The Huchiun Ohlone stewarded the land that we now call the East Bay Regional Park system for more than 4,000 years. Prior to colonization, one of their few tools for managing resources was fire. Various ecosystems were managed with fire: Oak Woodland, meadows, grassland, wetland, coniferous forests (Anderson, 2005).

It is hypothesized that the primary reasons Native Californians on the coastal ranges used prescribed burns was to maintain various ecosystems and food sources. Landscape disturbance with fire allowed for the resprouting of native bunch grasses. (Keeley, 2002) There are countless accounts of Indian burning recorded by early Spanish and American explorers in the coastal ranges, not to mention the cultural accounts from various tribes themselves that have passed their traditional ecological knowledge through colonization. (Keeley, 2002)

California Indians burned in a mosaic pattern, to create a diverse range of patches to create availability of a variety of plants and materials for their robust culture. Burning created disturbance that allowed for increase in local travel, reduced high fire hazard during Santa Ana (Diablo) wind conditions, and to increase resources that were not present in shrubland without burning. Fire frequency was relatively high in most ecosystems, between 1 - 10 years, creating a patchwork of smaller low severity fires that created uneven ages of vegetation and therefore increased diversity. (Lightfoot, et. al. 2009)

HYPOTHETICAL INDIGENOUS

REGIME

INDIGENOUS STEWARDSHIP

MISSION PERIOD

AMERICAN/URBAN

that is the East Bay Regional Park (EBRP) system.

The United States created tax incentives and global market place interest on the island of Puerto Rico with Operation Boot Strap in 1947. The Common Wealth Oil Refining Company was a $25 million dollar investment in infrastructure, and part of an island wide economic re-structuring that happened during the middle of the 20th century. The cosmopolitan lifestyle and modern luxuries like cars and televisions were being heavily promoted on the island, and many U.S. companies chose to open factories on the alluvial planes of the island’s southern coast.

But, with the 1973 Oil Crisis and embargo, CORCO quickly went bankrupt. The region still feels the economic effects of the withdrawal of interest. Hurricane Maria also called attention to this - electricity was down out on the island for nearly a year due to the storm. Because the Island’s geography is extremely mountainous –the power lines and infrastructure for electricity that were partially installed by helicopter are extremely fragile and are in need of a major overhaul. The island of Puerto Rico has no oil known fossil fuels yet the island is dependent on them for modern life.

Colonialism, Global Trade, and Energy Infrastructure in the Southern Region of Puerto Rico

WATER IN TENSION

The “Water in Tension” map and sections explore the accumulation, restriction, and release of water in the urban landscape of Phoenix, AZ. These visuals call to at tention the scarcity of water in an arid landscape, and the orthographic precipitation flows that reservoirs and cities rely upon.

Within the urban core of Tempe and Mesa, a marsh created by run off from neighboring residential and industrial zones is home to rare birds, wildlife, and native riparian species. The marsh, a revitalized ecosystem that has occured by hapenstance, has acheived what other restoration projects in the area hope to.

“TEMPE MARSH RIPARIAN AREA THRIVES”

TEMPE

MINIMALIST WATER CATCHMENT

A topographical exercise in which we were given the site boundaries and volume requirements for a storm water catchment project and park system in Omaha, Nebraska. I utilized an orthogonal approach to solve the problem, and adjusted my designs to the logic presented by the site, to create a montage of forms and a clearing for pedestrian foot traffic.

The first semester studio project for Landscape Design was at the waters edge, on a piece of disturbed land. We were given the task of creating designs that elaborate on the concept of edge, move water, and create biodiversity. The final site plan produced in gr aphite shows the subterannean smaller grid structure that moves water, topographical forms are pushed and pulled by time. A pathway ta kes the form of a grid that guides pedestrians throughout the site. Lighter grey shows water at high tide, darker tones show water at l ow tide.

TRELLIS SQUARE | SELECTED DRAWINGS

The design for the new park at Natoma and 11th Street accommodates the efficiency of downtown while creating a space that prioritizes community, family, and relaxation.

Taking inspiration from highly functional urban spaces like Union Square in New York City and Theater Square in Rotterdam, the design is centered around an elevated platform and outfitted with custom furnishings. Two main axes of pedestrian traffic create efficient pathways through the park, yet these pathways also subtly guide the pedestrian to a humanistic realm that invites contemplation and relaxation; quite different from the world of fast-paced tech and business transactions. Our design is street and transit facing with multiple points of entry, inviting passersby to move through the site, sit and watch the comings and goings of the day, or participate in programmed events. Trellised gardens, bench seating, large planters, and rain water gardens also encourage visitors to wander through and spend time at the park.

The design is phased for usability throughout the construction period. First, the main pathways are placed, and the entire site is planted with a California perennial ground cover. The central platform is built, and trees are planted, followed by the amphitheater. Flexible open space, paving, and seating is next, and special details like tiled walls and trellis plantings.

site design for the Courtyard

accounted for -

provide

variety of programming. Traditional performer/spectator

stage/backstage

the stage

“THAMYRIS KITHARODOS” - SET DESIGN ALEXANDRA EXTER

Russia Cubist / Constructivist Set Design

DWINELLE ANNEX MATERIAL PLAN

TERRACOTTA

MATERIAL

DWINELLE ANNEX MATERIAL PLAN

BRICK PAVER DETAIL

INTERIOR DESIGN

CREEKSIDE

COMPLETED PROJECT

CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS

I completed a freelance kitchen rennovation last spring for a town home in Marin County, CA. The housing complex was designed in the late 80’s by architect’s William Turnbull & Associates. I collaborated with a friend on the drawings, Dan Bruinooge, and meet new vendors for cabinetry design & fabrication.

MARK HADDAWY

Spray Lane is a residential project in

was the project manager

directly with the client and taking di rection from the Principal Designer, Mark Haddawy.

built the collection of vintage midcentury furniture - including the Eros Table by Angelo Mangiarotti,

Chairs,

Sede

Nakashima

Table and Stillnovo Ceiling Pendant.

MARK HADDAWY INC.

Mark Haddawy’s historic restoration projects work to reconstruct and enhance the architects original vision. I assisted with sourcing custom finishes & textiles. We recreated the furniture and rug at the Elrod House (designed by John Lautner) in Palm Springs. I worked with the team to source select a stretch wool knit to recreate the custom sofa. We reproduced the living room rug working with Edward Fields, the original fabricators. At Case Study 21 (designed by Pierre Koenig), I sourced custom tile to recreate the interior fountain pictured above.

During my 4 year period working as the art director and marketing manager at Gerema Design, I collaborated closely with the Principal Designer to continually upkeep geremiadesign.com with newest project photography, press, and copy. In preparation for the launch of the current site in 2013, I comprehensively selected and edited images and copy on the entire site.

The 250 Cumberland Project was a comprehensive Interior Design project that was built from the ground up. I worked in collaboration with the principal designer to create a conceptual framework with images, artists, and textures. The client had Richard Serra prints in his art collection so we built the materials palette around those pieces.

CONCEPTS

We showed the client ideas for art and architectural interventions in the home. Plaster finishes and reflective metal sculpture were ideas that we later we executed. With research and sourcing, we found artists whose work filled out our vision.

ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTIONS: REFLECTIVE ELEMENTS

During the purchasing process,

kept an up to date

plan that was used to show the client our progress. We uesd the plan internally to make design decisions and source new art works where there were gaps.

Lederdam Wall Sconce

Pears

Turned

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