Matthew Poot - Landscape Architecture Portfolio

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO MATTHEW POOT // 2017

I bring international experience into my practice a “architect, with an emphasis on local context and th

with projects across multiple scales. I am passiona the benefits of a landscape based approach to com that require interdisciplinary collaboration and

With time, I have expanded my focus from traditi landscape design to give attention to the potential infrastructure, civil projects, and urban deve

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Curriculum Vitae ........1

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TRANSPORTATION

Ramfjord E8 Highway ........2

WATER

Hydro-Agricultural Infrastructure in Mali ........6 Mortensnes Stormwater System ......12

ARCTIC

Svalbard as Fluid Territory Studio ........9

SCHOOL

Recirculating Aquaponics ......15

RESIDENTIAL

Fossil Landscapes ......16 Woodsworth Green Roof ......17

BUILT PROJECTS

Selected Works ......18

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MAP@terrandesign.ca Stormsgate 6, 5006, Bergen, Norway

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CURRICULUM VITAE MATTHEW POOT, MNLA Focus

landscape + urbanism + infrastructure + water + agriculture

Education

Oslo School of Architecture and Design Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture, 2016 University of Toronto Honours B.A., Urban Studies ; Environmental Policy & Practice , 2011 Royal Conservatory of Music Gr. 10 Piano Diploma; Gr. 3 History & Theory Diploma, 1990 - 2003

Publications

Deepening Shallow Form: Renegotiating Landscape and Infrastructure in the Sahel Beyond Ism: The Landscape of Landscape Urbanism, Conference Proceedings, 2017 Cities, Infrastructure, and Nature: A Vision for Urbanism Tvergastein, vol. 7, 2016

Professional

Smedsvig Landskapsarkitekter Jan- April 2017 Landscape Architect Worked on a range of projects from housing developments to urban park projects. I gained valuable experience in practical aspects of landscape design, and insight into the type of deliverables needed for different phases of projects from concept through to detail design.

Modern Arbor, Hobart, Australia Jan - July 2014 Arborist, Climber Continued developing arboriculture knowledge and technical skills required to handle complex projects in dense urban areas, as well as unique projects working with heritage trees and risk management in national parks.

Urban Arborist, Toronto, Canada 2012 - 2014 Arborist I helped deliver competent tree care to residential, commercial, and municipal clients across Toronto, including emergency services during 2013 ice storm.

Fossil Landscapes, Toronto, Canada 2005, 2007 - 2012 Construction, Gardener Worked in all aspects of landscape construction, including: surveying, grading and drainage installation, carpentry, masonry, and planting. Managed maintenance division in 2009 - 2010 seasons, working independently and supervising a small crew. Planted and maintained annual and perennial gardens, while providing tree care for select clients.

Planning Department, City of Vaughan, Vaughan, Canada Fall 2010 Student Planner

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Prepared report for city council while completing internship. Researched economic impact of agri-food sector within city and province. Developed strategies for improving viability of agricultural producers to safeguard productive land and valuable ecosystem services by using existing policy tools provided for within the official plan.

Awards

University of Toronto Award for Student Engagement in the Arts, 2010 Arcosanti Foundation (Arizona) Frank Lloyd Wright Scholarship, 2010

Experience

Maintenance Division, Tromsø Municipality, Summer 2015 Minister of Music, Faith Lutheran Church, Toronto ON, 2010 - 2013 Manager, Clean Car Automotive, Toronto, ON, 2005 - 2007 Trumpet Teacher, Pine Street Arts, Woodbridge, ON, 2006 Automotive Technician, Mr. Lube, Woodbridge, ON, 2004 Driver & Dispatch, Jasper Taxi, Jasper, AB, 2004 Cook, Pusateri’s Fine Foods, Toronto ON, 2003 Cook, Royal York Hotel, Toronto ON, 2004 Cook, Board of Trade, Woodbridge ON, 2001-2002

Training

Autocad Fundamentals 2D, George Brown College 2013 Aquaponics Seminar, Toronto, ON, 2013 Dry Stone Walling Workshop, Caledon, ON, 2011 Basic Welding, Mechanical Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto 2011 Arcology Workshop, Arcosanti, Arizona,USA 2010 Permaculture Ontario Workshop, Owen Sound, ON, 2010 Group Facilitation for Planners, UofT, 2010 EcoNest Natural Building Workshop, Fergus, ON, 2009 Culinary Management, Humber Collegiate, Toronto, 2003-2004

Software

Adobe CS ArcGIS AutoCAD Sketchup Word

Volunteer

Aquaponics Program, Don Mills Collegiate, Toronto, Canada 2011 - 2013 Designed, built, and maintained an aquaponics food production system in cooperation with green technology program at the school, running student workshops on construction, hydroponics, aquaculture, and design.

Hart House Board of Stewards, Univeristy of Toronto 2009-2011 Board Member Acted as member on the executive decision making body for Hart House, and its Committee on Budgets which serves 40,000 students. Worked to ensure fiscal responsibility for the $400k clubs budget,cmaintaining dedication to student programming.

Hart House Music Committee, University of Toronto 2008 - 2011 Student Chair Sat as chair for 3 years, working to promote a sense of community on campus through music, responsible for internal program direction and event planning and student outreach Tanzania Youth Alliance, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Summer 2007 Worked with local agency to develop outreach program for the dissemination of HIV/AIDS related information in city schools. Also used practical experience to assist in coordinating the renovation of a small community centre in the nearby village of Kunduchi.

DOMESTICATED LANDSCAPES AVALANCHE PROTECTION FOR THE E8 WINTER 2015

This project works with plans produced by the Norwegian road agency (Statens Vegvesen) fo avalanche protection measures on a proposed Western alignment of the E8 which passes throu Ramfjord. Due to the mountainous character of the Fjord, the new highway route requires a num of avalanche protection measures, and suggests pushing the new road out into the Fjord whil simultaneously excavating the mountainside in order to ensure safety for road users.

Rather than camouflage the engineering efforts, this project seeks to reveal the interplay betwe humans and their environment, and to express it more openly in the landscape. These concep models worked with this concept of emphasizing the major modifications of the landscape an bringing them into the experience of travelling the E8.

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Compared to the 8 meter maximum width of the existing road, constructions for the new rout would be 185 meters at their widest, creating an entirely new landscape which tame the dang of previously uncontrollable natural forces like the avalanche. The traditional approach of highw construction seeks to minimize the visual impact of the road construction and protection measu hiding the relationship between human intervention and natural forces.

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This project proposes a series of concrete “ribs� which mark the true extents of the total road measures in the mountainside. For drivers, the ribs create a rhythm while moving at speed m through an altered landscape. Those moving on foot can use access points on the shore espe to a lookout from the highest rib at the most extreme width, relating scale

Driving North: The sudden appearance of concrete ribs work to reveal the relationship between natural forces and infrastructure m

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ACCESS THE FJORD : The meeting between remnants of the old shorline and new terrain are the focal point coming from the water

REVEALING INFRASTRUCTURE REVEALING INFRASTRUCTURE

This model shows the new road and its protection measures in relation to the pre-esxisting terrain The intervention works to reveal the accurate field of operation for the engineering of mountainsides and seashore.

This makes visible a more honest picture of the relationship between people and their environmen for road users and those living in Ramfjord.

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DEEPENING SHALLOW FORM LANDSCAPE & WATER INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE SAHEL

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This project looks at the role landscape architects can play to work with com challenges related to climate change and its effects on hydrological resou aross the Sahel region in Africa. Defined by its climate, and precipitation le between 150mm and 650mm per year, the Sahel alternates between extre dry conditions for 6-9 months, and a short rainy season with large fluctuat between yearly rainfall.

With a large number of rapidly urbanizing areas, extreme pressures are be placed on the water resources as infrastructures divert and use water to en this growth. This project works to suggest how forms of infrastructure can cultivated and developed to provide resilient and mutually supportive serv which can satisfy both social and natural needs without compromising ecol quality and cultural traditions.

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The project focuses on the Inner Niger Delta, a seasonally flooded 25,000km2 wetland fed by the Niger river, in an area which has only 200-600mm of rain per year. Upstream agricultural irrigation projects are placing an enormous pressure on this vital resource, and often marginalize the local people in favour of producing export based crops for distant urban centres.

Using a wide array of mapping tools, scientific research, reference projects, and expert interviews, the mapping process worked to identify the underlying physical structure which shapes the natural processes that define the Sahel and its ecological systems.

A landscape based approach emphasizes the relationship between physical elements of the environment, and social processes of rapid urbanization which are putting extreme pressure on vital areas like the Delta.

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SHIFTING AWAY FROM MONOFUNCTION & MONOCULTURE

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THE ANTHROPOGENIC WATERSHED Similar in its properties to a natural watershed, this plan uses the constructed boundaries of an irrigation sector to frame the proposal for an alternate strategy to hydro-agricultural infrastructure systems.

Interventions focus on expanding the range of functions and services supported by the existing infrastructure. This strategy works to increase biological diversity and ease tensions between sedentary farmers and nomadic herders who have had their traditional social practices of land sharing agreements upturned by modern production.

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CORRIDORS Primary and secondary drainage canals become multi-functional shelterbelts with staggered plantings of nitrogen fixing Acacia trees that provide shade in the dry season, and fruit producing Jujube trees shading the path during the rainy season.

Low shrub cover provides fodder for grazing animals, making the corridors a means for incorporating the local traditions of transhumance, and reducing soil degradation from animal movement over croplands.

WETLANDS The irrigation system has created a series of permanent wetland pockets within the drainage systems which present new opportunities to establish closer ties between agriculture and ecology. Wetland bird species act as a natural form of pest control for farmers, with diets mainly of insects and small rodents.

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SUPPLY LINES This section illustrates how the different growing zones are demarcated by planting along the primary and secondary supply canals making the strategic aspect of infrastructure visible, with a commercially oriented planting scheme.

FROM PHYSICAL LANDSCAPE TO DIGITAL TE THE PRACTICE OF SCIENCE IN SVALBARD FALL 2015

As part of a research based studio, I explored the unique history of scientific exploration that is central to the discovery and inhabitation of Svalbard.

One of the central research goals was to explore how the expansion of techniques and technologies over time effects the personal experience of being in, seeing, and personally exploring the extreme landscape of the archipelago.

These conceptual models are based on intersections of different investigations on a shared theme of exploring the hidden dimensions of landscape, both in its cultural and physical history, and in its present state as observed in real time.

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following the trajectory of a helicopter for 60 minutes scanning glaciers with radar 09:58 - 10:58 - 07.05.15

tracking only scientific satellites which passed over Svalbard in 24 hours 17.06.15

7 days aboard the research vessel Helmer Hanssen as it collects samples 10.09.15 - 16.09.15

the trajectory of glaciologist Jack Kohler over 30 days of data collection 10.04.15 - 10.05.15

This map was created in arcGIS and Illustrator using an overlay of different trajectories of research vehicles on sea, land, air and low-earth orbit with their relevant timescales which show how heavily observed and studied Svalbard has become, beginning with the original expedition by Willem Barents in 1596.

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Science has worked to reveal the invisible dimensions of landscape, and make the remotenes

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LESS IS MORTENSNES STORMWATER MANAGEMENT FALL 2014 The

community of Mortensnes, in the northwest of Tromsøya, is currently having its aging infrastructure upgraded and replaced.

This project brings stormwater treatment & management into an open network of swales, retention areas, rivers and ponds which are paired with a new series of bike-lanes and nature paths.

Rather than continue to pipe stormwater underground and then treat it, the proposed solution creates a multifunctional, robust and resilient infrastructure which is able to absorb the initial surge of large storm events that can overwhelm hard infrastructure systems based on pipes and pumping stations.

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PRIMARY TREATMENT: LARGE SOLID FILTRATION

By reducing road width on selected streets from 8 to 6.5m, a network of 1-way streets are created to establish a permanent safe spaces for active transportation. This also creates a series of horizontal catchment swales for the new stormwater infrastructure that works with the sites steep topography to limit the accumulation of flows and prevent flooding. Car access is still maintained, but traffic flow is re-organized.

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SECONDARY TREATMENT: RETENTION AREAS 100 year storm 50 year storm Yearly Melt/Flood event

A system of swales and surface retention areas work in both winter and summer conditions to create a cascading system of water management which has higher capacity, and lower risks of failure.

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TERTIARY TREATMENT: POLLUTANTS

The neighbourhood stormwater network exits into a series of artificial rivers, which also function as nature paths to improve access, while the storage ponds and streamways treat road-based pollutants through bioremediation

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Working with TEK10 regulations for water management, the technical aspects of this strategy ca a portfolio of options for both homeowners, and the Kommune which can be implemented to cre a stormwater system that eliminates current and future flooding issues, and improves the aesthe of the neighbourhood through simple vegetation along swales and retention areas.

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STORMWATER DISCONNECTION Rain Cassettes allow for the majority of stormwater to infiltrate on site, minimizing loads on municipal drains

THE 1.5 WAY STREET Dividing the 6.5 meter road by colour improves the safety for pedestrians and bicycists, and still leaves room for a swale up to 1.5 meters wide. With a semantic re-arrangement of space, the car is forced to yield rather than the person, while still having a safe margine of road space to easily pass other motorists and busses.

DON MILLS COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE RECIRCULATING AQUAPONIC SYSTEM 2012 - 2013 Developed from a research project in a 4th year Green Infrstructure course, I worked for 2 years to acquire funding, design, and build this food-producing system in an unused storage room inside of a Toronto highschool. This combined aquaculture and hydroponics into a single system known as aquaponics, where fish waste is re-used by plants, creating an efficient means of producing food in artificial environments.

From start to finish, I developed and ran a series of workshops which led students at the school through construction techniques, design challenges, and started weekly in-school farmers markets to sell the fresh produce and generate revenue to pay for maintenance and operational costs.

The first harvest of fish was used alongside the produce at a renowned fine dining establishment in Toronto, George Restaurant, where I used my connections to help coordinate the annual dinner for the administration of the school board using tilapia fish, herbs, and vegetables from the system.

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FOSSIL LANDSCAPES RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPES 2006 - 2012 Over a number of seasons I worked on all aspects of construction with a team of talented individuals to transform designs into built form. From working with plans in initial site surveys, grading, drainage and material selection, to the build out of projects with concrete, steel, stonework, carpentry and planting, I developed a strong understanding of physical materiality of design choices, as well as the practical challenges involved with complex environmental factors on a small scale.

With some additional unique projects working for the television and film industry, I became trusted to deliver fine detailing work due to patience and committment to quality craftsmanship that ensured demanding clients were satisfied.

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WINDRUSH CRESCENT

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RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPES 2006-2012

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BERESFORD AVENUE

WYNDERMERE STREET

WOODLAWN AVENUE

WOODSWORTH CO-OP COMMUNITY GREEN ROOF PROJECT 2013 Situated on the 11th story of a cooperative housing building in downtown Toronto, I was contracted to help build, plant, and supervise the work in an urban environment which provided a number of logistical and technical challenges.

Through this project, I gained a better understanding of the challenges in both plant and material selection for green roof construction in urban areas which experience long winters, as well as hot summers and the associated technical challenges.

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TEAM PROJECTS

MOBILE SAUNA - 2014

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DRY STONE WALL WORKSHOP - 2011

KNOT- A MODEL FOR PUBLIC SPACE - 2010 DRY STONE WALL FESTIVAL

WALK-IN CINEMA, TIFF - 2015

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