Junior Year Portfolio

John Montefour The Pennsylvania State University Landscape Architecture Portfolio

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

—Michael Jordan All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

—Walt Disney

Personal Statement Since I was young I had the dreams of becoming an architect. After stumbling across the field of landscape architecture, my dreams shifted. After discovering the major and choosing to attend Penn State’s program I found a place to grow a passion for the work I do in school, as well as an optimism for the possibilities I may achieve after I graduate.

I crave the opportunity to learn daily. I have made myself known among my peers, and I have become a respected student among faculty. Although I developed a love of landscape architecture, I did not simply become good at the work I produced; I failed countless occasions, to the point of almost transferring. However, I succeed now because I did not allow myself to surrender and abandon my dreams. I have pushed myself harder and farther than I thought possible so that I may succeed.

My passion for the field has predominantly showed through my urban environment projects at both the planning and site scales. Creating systems and networks is fascinating to me, which I hope to excel more as I begin to entertain the idea of a graduate career in Urban Planning and Design. This portfolio is a collection of my favorite projects, all the way back to my first design project as a freshman.

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Landscape Systems Analysis and Design Closing the Gap - Centre County, PA

Design Implementation Construction Documentation Planting Plans Grading and Stormwater

Issues of Place: The Waterfront Connecting The Waterfront - Philadelphia, PA Victorian-Era Transformed - Bellefonte, Pa

Visual Communication and Design Luxury Through Nature - State College, PA Freshman Year Renderings Internship Summer 2018 Projects

CLOSING THE GAP Date: Fall 2018 Type: Landscape Systems Analysis & Design Location: Centre County, PA Description:

Within the Spring Creek watershed, the gap between parks limit society’s interaction with them. This also forms a gap between people and the environment.

Closing the Gap is a master planning project that links several parks in the more urban areas of the watershed. The project has waterfront access as the link among the parks, as well as new bike routes to link communities.

The master plan also has proposed three new parks within the gap, all having different design goals based on their location.

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Ginkgo Greens

Entry Courtyard

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Innovation Park Gateway

Rolling Meadows Trail

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Project Analysis: Analysis for Closing the Gap included many layers of data that carried weight to help decide which location would be best suited for the design I was proposing. One of most important layers that began my analysis is the Park Fragmentation map. This is the data that revealed the gap in parks and green spaces within the watershed.

Bike Route Typologies

Park and Trail Signs

Bike Routes & Signage: The bike routes create strong links between the surrounding neighborhoods with the proposed corridor and parks. The types are based on the areas they are located. The lanes are equipped with signage, lighting, and rain gardens or bioswales to capture runoff.

One of the major issues with park connectivity is unity and cohesion. Part of my design intention was to create park and trail signs that would be located at every park and significant trailhead. These signs would help to reinforce the idea of being in the same park and greenway system.

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PROJECT PROPOSAL

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Date: Fall 2018 Type: Landscape Systems Analysis & Design Location: Centre County, PA Description:

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Historical Markers

Ecological Restoration

Trailheads

ADA Accessible

TRAILS & CORRIDORS

Educational Signage

Water Access Parking

PARKS & GREEN SPACES

Picnic/Gathering Space

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People and Nature

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Attention to Water

Waterfront Interaction

Connect to the Urban Fabric

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CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION Date: Fall 2018 Type: Design Implementation Location: State College, PA Description:

The goal of this project was to begin forming a design to create a plaza space in the arts college with certain requirements. As the semester progressed, iterations of details would reveal if the design was feasible. The end result was a whole construction document set with details and cross sections.

This project helped to develop an understanding of materiality and composition of project designs for realistic construction.

Tree Protection Fencing

Rain Garden Section

Sidewalk Curb

Seating Wall and Footer

Light Fixture with Footer

Curb Cut & Detectable Warning Strip

Shrub Planting

Deciduous Planting

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Evergreen Planting

Demolition Plan

Lighting Plan

Landscape Planting Plan

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LANDSCAPE PLANTING PLAN Date: Summer 2018 Type: Design Implementation Location: Wilkes-Barre, PA Description:

This project was one of the major projects that I was assigned to complete during my internship with McLane Associates. It is a foundation plantings and interior landscape plan for a Marriott Fairfield Inn hotel. I worked with a wide range of colors and textures that compliments the color and design of the hotel that will be built. A large piece of this project was to account for the unique zoning and SALDO requirements of the township as well.

SALDO & ZONING REQUIREMENTS ASSUMED ZONING DISTRICT : PDZ (Plan Development Zone)

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SALDO: (1) 14 trees of 1 21 inches minimum caliper (2) Trees are in all parking lot islands to provide maximum shade (3) Interior Landscape Islands: 1835.10 sq. ft.

Perimeter Buffer Landscape: 19985.15 sq. ft. = 21820.25 sq. ft. (48.9%) (4) Pollution tolerant species provided (5) Appropriate tree species have been provided (6) Interior landscape required (109 spaces)

ZONING: Zoning regulations stated in 300-19 Landscaping regulations. have been met and specified as needed in the Landscape and Site Notes, found on sheet L-1.

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GRADING & INTRO TO STORMWATER Date: Spring 2018 Type: Design Implementation Location: State College, PA Description:

Emphasizing the importance of grading comes early at Penn State. This project is the final project of the semester. It involved grading steps, parking lots, driveways, swales, FFEs, a mounded buffer, and a road convergence.

This design implementation class created a base for grading and stormwater, which is again taught in a later studio course. Part of the class involved learned Earthwork on Civil3D to help understand the cut and fill of our grading.

Earthwork Cut & Fill

Cut & Fill Report

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CONNECTING THE WATERFRONT

Regional Analysis

Date: Spring 2018 Type: Issues of Place: The Waterfront Location: Philadelphia, PA Description:

This project was a phased project, beginning with analysis, then master planning , and finally a focus area with details. The design was an Olmstedian approach to contrast the grid of Philly. The main focus of the design was to promote people’s interaction to the water and their environment. The focus area embraced the linear layout of Philly, creating an interactive space that people can use. The design also has several types of programming for different ages.

Bio Swale Section

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Courtyard Terraces

Site Master Plan

Focus Area

Site Cross Sections

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VICTORIAN-ERA TRANSFORMED

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Date: Spring 2018 Type: Issues of Place: The Waterfront Location: Bellefonte, PA Description:

This project is the first attempt I made at a connecting landscape. The design took the basic ideas of Victorian-style architecture, which is prominent in the surrounding areas around the site. I then applied them to landscape principles, with colorful blooming plants, elegant shapes and curves, and a radial-structured amphitheater that spreads the design throughout the park.

The design also extended to a vacant dog park upstream, and a new riverwalk downstream.

Radial Event Space

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COMMON NAME

BLOOM COLOR

Salix nigra

Black Willow

Off-white

Betula nigra

River Birch

Green, Brown

Acer rubrum

Red Maple

Red

Quercus rubrum

Red Oak

Yellow, Orange

Cornus florida

Flowering Dogwood

White, Pink

Lindera benzoin

Spicebush

White, Yellow

Kalmia latifolia

Mountain Laurel

White, Pink

Viburnum acerifolium

Mapleleaf Viburnum

White

Asclepias incarnata

Swamp Milkweed

Pink, Purple

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae

New England Aster

Pink, Purple

Eutrochium maculatum

Joe-pye Weed

Pink, Purple

Lobelia siphilitica

Blue Lobelia

Blue, Purple

Lobelia cardinalis

Cardinal Flower

Red

Linking to Context

Geometric Plant Pattern

Site Cross Sections

Spring Creek Perspective

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LUXURY THROUGH NATURE Date: Fall 2017 Type: Visual Communication & Design Location: State College, PA Description:

The design for this project was to rework a sheep farm that would have 4-H camps, farm shows, and other Penn State agriculture programming. The design focused around creating a more sustainable landscape that linked the two severed woodlots through elevated corridors. This created new spatial arrangements for the sheep, people, and ecology on site. The design also worked to capture some of the history of the site through the proposed architecture.

Major Concepts Diagram

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Site Master Plan

Event Space Perspective

Corridor Underpass

Event Space with Barn

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INTRO TO DESIGN & VISUALIZATION

Photoshop Plan

Date: Fall 2016, Spring 2017 Type: Visual Communication & Design Location: State College, PA Description:

These projects are the finals of each section of my freshman year. The two handdrawn renderings and the color perspective are from my first semester, where I was taught rendering techniques and visual skills.

The rendered plan is my first design project.

The design worked to unify the existing water tower and woodlot on site, as well as create various experiences through landform and vegetation. The site had various user groups to accommodate.

Hand-Drawn Plan

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Photoshop Perspective

Hand-Drawn Perspective

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Thank You

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