Jeffrey Wertheim Landscape Architecture Portfolio Spring 2019

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JEFFREY R WERTHEIM

Landscape Architecture S e l e c t e d W o r k s Po r t f o l i o

JEFFREY WERTHEIM 201.739.1394 85 Baylor Ave Hillsdale, NJ 07642 jwertheim4@gmail.com

EDUCATION fall 2015 - fall 2019 fall 2018 - present may - june 2018

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | COLLEGE OF ARTS & ARCHITECTURE Bachelor of Landscape Architecture | Expected graduation: Fall 2019 Research Assistant | Wu, Hong Ph.D.

BARCELONA ARCHITECTURE CENTER Six-week summer study abroad

EXPERIENCE summer 2018

summer 2017

SQUARE ACRE STUDIO | INTERN

Aided in schematic design and design development, prepared construction documents, built a design development model, produced graphics for presentations, and attended a client meeting.

CLC LANDSCAPE DESIGN | LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION

Read and interpreted drawings, aided in design installation, and produced site progress reports as requested by company landscape architects and contractors. Types of work included patio and wall construction, site grading and drainage, and planting selection and design.

AWARDS december 2018 april 2018 april 2018

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march 2015

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY Student Leader Scholarship

DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Outstanding Service & Leadership The Brian Orland Award for Excellence in Geospatial Analysis and Design

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Eagle Scout

PROFICIENCIES

Adobe (Illustrator, Indesign, Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere) CAD (AutoCAD, Rhino, Sketchup) Microsoft Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word) Geographic Information Systems (ArcMap) Fabrication (laser cutting, physical modeling) Visualization (Lumion)

LEADERSHIP + INVOLVEMENT fall 2018 - present

april 2017 - april 2018

spring 2018 - fall 2018

spring 2016 - present

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDENT SOCIETY | PRESIDENT President of Penn State’s student ASLA chapter. Responsibilities include planning and organizing social and professional events, leading meetings, acting as a liaison to faculty, and overseeing all chapter functions.

LABASH 2018 | ENTERTAINMENT DIRECTOR

Entertainment Director for LABash 2018, a national conference for landscape architecture students and professionals. Responsibilities included organizing weekly meetings with entertainment committee members, bi-weekly meetings with faculty and staff, overseeing and orchestrating the rental of venues, organizing sponsorship and funding for the events, and helping in planning the entire LABash 2018 weekend.

ALPHA RHO CHI PROFESSIONAL FRATERNITY | VICE PRESIDENT Responsibilities included overseeing various chairpersons within the fraternity, helping to plan and organize social and professional events, and working with alumni and faculty to promote networking and engagement.

COLLEGE OF ARTS & ARCHITECTURE | ARTS AMBASSADOR

Responsibilities include attending bi-weekly meetings, organizing and hosting events, giving tours of our studios and housing options to prospective students, and spreading awareness of the arts at Penn State.

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CONTENTS

INFRASTRUCTURAL URBANISM Fourth Year Studio | Fall 2018 pp. 6-15

SITE GRADING Second Year Grading Studio | Spring 2017

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RECLAIMING URBAN ECOSYSTEMS Third Year Studio | Fall 2017

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6" CONCRETE CURB 1/4" EXPANSION JOINT 4" CONCRETE SLAB AGGREGATE BASE

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ARTS COURTYARD Third Year Materials Studio | Fall 2017 CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS SET

pp. 26-27 WORK DETAILS

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ELEVATED Second Year Studio | Spring 2017 pp. 28-31

FIBER OP[BRICKS] Third Year Materials Studio | Fall 2017 pp. 32-33

PHYSICAL MODELING Second Year Studio | Fall 2016 pp. 34-35

LIVING OUTSIDE THE BOX Third Year Studio | Spring 2018 pp. 36-45

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INFRASTRUCTURAL URBANISM Public Space & Urban Design Fourth Year Studio | Fall 2018

Located in the historic Strip District of Pittsburgh, the David McCullough Bridge (16th Street Bridge), is a historic structure that is currently used as an overhang for informal parking. This bridge has great potential to become a civic space in the coming years, due to the current and future development happening around the site and throughout the Strip.

My design combines civic and leisure spaces with passive and active recreation spaces. In addition to serving as a destination, the site will also be a new thoroughfare for cyclists and pedestrians, providing a car-free way to access the riverfront and Strip. Featuring an unprogrammed pavillion, updated and safer streetscapes, movable benches, heavily planted areas, lawn, exercise equipment, a skateboard halfpipe, bocce court, urban soccer field, and kayak rentals, this design strives to provide activity to a diverse range of people. In addition to those ammenities, there are various other small scale experiences to be had, from walking the plaza to finding a nice place to sit.

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Plan

Seating Kayak Launch

Lawn Steps Planted Berms Boardwalk 1” = 50’ - 0”

Proposed Residential Bridge Pier

Waterfront Pl.

Skateboard Halfpipe Bocce

Urban Soccer Bouldering Wall

Proposed Residential

Townhouses

Fitness + Exercise Area Planted Median

Process

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Above process drawings show circulation, key flows, and early programming ideas

Produce Terminal Movable Seating

Lounge Benches + Lawn

Cyclist Thoroughfare

Meadow

Pedestrian Movable Benches Thoroughfare on Rail Tracks

Smallman St.

Proposed Renovation

Proposed Renovation

Above process drawings show more circulation concepts, custom seating details, and riverfront connection

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Model

1” = 10’ - 0”

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Site Amenities

Lounge Bench

Urban Soccer

Bocce

Movable Benches on Railroad Tracks

Bike/ Scooter Rental + Share

Linear Bench

Section Perspective

Waterfront Sectional-Axonometric

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Grading Process

SITE GRADING

Residential Development Second Year Grading Studio | Spring 2017 Project involved a site containing eight proposed townhouses, along with an access road, turn around, sidewalks and parking lot. Responsible for full site grading, including planning and calculating all swales, walls, steps, sidewalks, and roads, while ensuring proper ADA accessibility throughout the site.

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RECLAIMING URBAN ECOSYSTEMS Infrastructure & Urban Design Third Year Studio | Fall 2017

State College, PA, is a small urban area in Central Pennsylvania, within the Spring Creek Watershed. The watershed contains many high quality streams, which are negatively impacted by State College’s urban sprawl, impervious surfaces, and outdated gray infrastructure. This design looks at ways to retrofit existing infrastructure to not only lessen the environmental impacts of the urbanized area, but to also increase greenspace. My approach involved selecting different types of stormwater management interventions, designing prototypes for them, and mapping/ planning where these interventions would work best.

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Spring Creek Watershed Suitability Analysis

Layers Analyzed

Composite Suitability Map

Slope

Land Use

Buildings

Impervious Surfaces

Roads

Population Density

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Site Selection

State College Extents of Development

Selected Site

Penn State Campus Atherton St. Business District

State College

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Green Infrastructure Treatment Locations

Streetscape Treatment

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Permeable Pavement

Stormwater Park

Rainwater Harvesting

Green/ Blue Roof

Master Plan + Treatment Opportunities

Hetzel St - S Garner St

S Garner St - Locust Ln

82 BUILDINGS

Locust Ln - S Pugh St

S Pugh St - S Allen St

Flat Roof Pitched Roof Pavement Streetscape

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Opportunity Legend

13 SEGMENTS

S Fraser St- S Atherton St

23 BUILDINGS

S Allen St- S Fraser St

Totals

82 Buildings/1,045,356 ft2 23 Buildings/100,288 ft2 15 Lots/233,128 ft2

13 Segments/268,852 ft2

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Pitched Roof Opportunity Downspout + Cistern

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Campus Plaza Third Year Materials Studio | Fall 2017

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Project included a brief site design, followed by extensive construction documentation. Focusing on landscape materiality and fabrication, this studio was based around the relationship of design and implementation, and how the two are inherently related.

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ELEVATED

Education Center Second Year Studio | Spring 2017 ‘Elevated’ is an educational campus on a 75 acre site, featuring 30 acres of agricultural land, a forest and meadow restoration, and four buildings. The design is heavily focused on connecting visitors with the landscape. This is accomplished through strategic interior and exterior connections, emphasis on key views both on and off site, and incorporating existing site topography and geology into the design. The interior and exterior connections include an indoor/ outdoor eating area, expo space, and classrooms. The elevated path, which makes a loop around an existing closed depression, was designed to highlight natural processes and serve as an educational feature.

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Typical Section

‘Elevated’ Loop

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Materials Section

INDIAN GRASS Sorghastrum nutans

LITTLE BLUESTEM Schizachyrium scoparium

PRAIRIE DROPSEED Sporobolus heterolepis

CONCRETE

BLACK CONCRETE

STAINLESS STEEL WIRE + RAILING

‘Elevated’ Loop

Plaza

STEEL GRATE PATH

FOX SEDGE

Carex vulpinoidea

FOWL MANNAGRASS Glyceria striata

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Process

FIBER OP[BRICKS]

Collaboration with Bryce Brucker + Frank Mader Materials Experimentation Third Year Materials Studio | Fall 2017 ‘Fiber Op[Bricks]’ is a material exploration, done in collaboration with Bryce Brucker and Frank Mader. First, we picked a common material, which was concrete. Once we selected concrete as our material, we wanted to experiment with light and translucency, and see how we could play with the idea of getting light through the material. Through various rounds of rigorous testing of different translucent materials, such as plexiglass and homemade bioplastic, we determined that the best option for translucency is fiber optic cables. From that conclusion, we tested different ways to pour concrete with fiber optic cables in the pour.

All team members contributed to the concept work, design and construction equally. Page 32 images were shot by Frank Mader, and page 33 images are my own.

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Frank Mader Photos

Results

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PHYSICAL MODELING Campus Plaza Second Year Studio | Fall 2016

Plaza design featuring linear seating, unprogrammed lawn space, and an artful rainwater design. Seating runs perpindicular to the main circulation path off site, meant to delineate movement and draw people into the site. An elevated pathway that moves seamlessly over a rain garden is meant to educate users about stormwater management, while not imposing on their movement through the site.

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LIVING OUTSIDE THE BOX Mixed Use Development Third Year Studio | Spring 2018

‘Living Outside the Box’ is a master-planned community designed for forward thinking individuals, and challenges the “normals” of the American housing market. This design looks to embrace and build off of the rich history that the former mobile home site contains. The design emphasizes and incorporates existing site conditions such as existing trees and topography, to minimize construction impact, and maximize canopy cover.

The existing roads and housing arrangements incorporated topography, so building off of this historic network can not only pay homage to the sites history, but also preserve much of the canopy cover. The proposed design features a streetscape facelift along the main road the site is adjacent to, a bus stop, bike fix station, retail space and a planted buffer to offset housing units from the main road. Inside the development, there is a community garden, hammock grove, pollinator garden, meadows and other planted areas, lawn space, and a community building featuring meeting area and start up space.

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Master Plan Massing Model

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Master Plan

Vehicular Circulation

Building-Topo Relationship

Private Space

Public Space

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1” = 50’ - 0”

Housing Typolegies

‘Slim Fit’ Neighborhood Perspective (typ.)

“Pocket Neighborhood” Perspective (typ.)

‘Slim Fit’ Neighborhood Section (typ.)

“Pocket Neighborhood” Section (typ.)

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Process

Refined Plan

New Streetscape

Bus Stop

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Main Road

Community + Public Plaza

Stormwater Basin

Resident Parking

Shipping Container Housing

Pollinator Garden Hammock Grove

Meadow

Orchard

Garden Storage

Community Garden Plots

Community Center

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Central Community Space Perspective RUBBER HOSE

14 GAUGE DOUBLE-STRANDED AND TWISTED GALVANIZED GUYWIRE

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2" x 2" x 60" CEDAR STAKE TYP.

36" x 36" UNILOCK PAVER 3" DEPTH SHREDDED MULCH

2" SAND SETTING BED

CU SOIL

TREED PLAZA

LARCH 335

Tree Planting Details

EES BUILDING UNIVERSITY PARK, PA

95% COMPACTED SUBGRADE

6" COMPACTED AGGREGATE RUBBER HOSE

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14 GAUGE DOUBLE-STRANDED AND TWISTED GALVANIZED GUYWIRE 2" x 2" x 60" CEDAR STAKE TYP.

GEOTEXTILE 36" x 36" UNILOCK PAVER 3" DEPTH SHREDDED MULCH

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STRUCTURAL SOIL PLANTING CU SOIL

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RUBBER HOSE 14 GAUGE DOUBLE-STRANDED AND TWISTED GALVANIZED GUYWIRE 2" x 2" x 60" CEDAR STAKE TYP.

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PERMALOC CLEANLINE EDGING

RUBBER HOSE 36" x 36" UNILOCK PAVER 14 GAUGE DOUBLE-STRANDED AND TWISTED GALVANIZED .25" SAND GUYWIRE 2" x 2" x 60" CEDAR STAKE TYP.

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STRUCTURAL SOIL PLANTING STRUCTURAL SOIL PLANTING

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Central Community Space Birds-Eye Perspective

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JEFFREY R WERTHEIM 201.739.1394 jwertheim4@gmail.com