SUPPAK+ Portfolio Pongsakorn ‘Tum’ Suppakitpaisarn
MLA Candidate, University of Georgia, expected graduation 2013
Ascending Photograph Hong Kong, 2010
Jade Curtain Photograph Hong Kong, 2010
TABLE OF CONTENT
RESIDENTIAL DESIGNS City Home Comfort Dream Home Healthy Residence
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PARKS AND RECREATIONS Learning Community Prairie Retreat
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COMMUNITY DESIGNS Future Land United Neighborhood
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ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNS Integration Scientific Decisions
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TRANSPORTATION DESIGNS Parking Retrofit The Way We Would Wander
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COMPETITIONS Flourish-Nourish 23-24 Telling Tales 25-26 The goal of this project was to design a landscape for a conlight. For the health of the residents, I added 275 feet track dominium complex in the middle of a congested city. The wrapping around the garden. Fixing Future 27-28 basic requirements were to follow Thai environmental law that specifies the minimum amount of green space per acre, and of course we want to maximize the recreational area and parking for the residents. Given the architectural base plan, I created a playground and a sidewalk connecting to the swimming pool, used trees to frame scenic view from which the residents can see the canal, and placed a sculptural design at the entrance. For the rooftop garden that has an overlook toward the ocean, I used the trees to shelter people from wind and sun-
I achieved the client’s desire to mix eastern and western architectural influences by using ornamental elements such as fountains, doorways, fence posts, and decorative wall textures with the accents from both cultures.
1 CITY HOME COMFORT
type Professional
Team-Interdiscipline
project organization City Home Phuket Supalai co.Ltd Phuket, Thailand
Bangkok, Thailand
The goal of this project was to design a landscape for a condominium complex in the middle of a congested city. The basic requirements were to follow Thai environmental law that specifies the minimum amount of green space per acre, and of course we want to maximize the recreational area and parking for the residents. Given the architectural base plan, I created a playground and a sidewalk connecting to the swimming pool, used trees to frame scenic view from which the residents can see the canal, and placed a sculptural design at the entrance.
role year - Junior Landscape 2009 Architect
For the rooftop garden that has an overlook toward the ocean, I used the trees to shelter people from wind and sunlight. For the health of the residents, I added 275 feet track wrapping around the garden. I achieved the client’s desire to mix eastern and western architectural influences by using ornamental elements such as fountains, doorways, fence posts, and decorative wall textures with the accents from both cultures.
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2 DREAM HOME
type Academic Individual
project organization Wallace Residence University of Champaign, IL Illinois,
year 2009
Champaign, IL
This residential project took place in Champaign, IL. The client wanted an ease of maintenance, year round aesthetic interest, and a welcoming feel. I experimented with a few concepts, and came up with a simple design that optimized the space in his 2,000 square feet backyard. The front porch accommodates casual acquaintances, while the back porch welcomes the close neighbors and visitors who would like to spend more time to enjoy the scenery.
In the process, I incorporated the Sims3 game into the design by constructing the house and garden into the virtual world and allowing the client’s character to live and move around the space.
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3 HEALTHY RESIDENCE
type Academic Individual
project Barnes and Long Residence Champaign, IL
organization University of Illinois
year 2010
Champaign, IL
My agenda for Barnes and Long residence sounded simple at first: to respond to the residents’ needs. The residence consists of five members of different ages and lifestyles: the grandmother with a wheelchair, two environmental friendly working parents who need to host social events, and two small daughters. I designed this space with three layers of their needs in mind: health, social contacts, and environment.
To help release the constant pain for the grandmother and regenerate the energy of the parents, I created the nice outlook from the window into the yard for them to enjoy. I provided the space for the social events and contacts with the neighbors with the extended front porch and the barbecue area on the back. To reduce their carbon footprint, I added in the defined prairie area, the vegetable gardening zone, and the compost area in the backyard.
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4 LEARNING COMMUNITY
type Academic
Team Analysis Individual Design
project MLK Park Urbana, IL
organization University of Illinois
year 2009
Champaign, IL
Martin Luther King Park, as analyzed, functions as a buffer between the entrance of the city of Urbana, the surrounding community, and Martin Luther King School. With its unique function, the park design has to function well for the neighborhood, the city, and the school/ With this goal in mind, I divided the park into three sections: the plaza and play space, the gathering space, and the active recreational space. While the active recreation can serve the students of Martin Luther King School and people in community to be healthier. The passive recreation and gathering space brings people together. The plaza area tells the story of the community and bring children to enjoy adventurous playground and the nature play area.
I introduced native plantings in the Martin Luther King Park redesign in order to reduce water usage and to create a unique experience in this dynamic green space.
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5 PRAIRIE RETREAT
type Academic Team
project Eco-ducation Urbana, Illinois
organization University of Illinois Champaign, IL
The Eco-Ducation is a neighborhood park in Urbana, created for recreational and educational purposes that integrates the prairie plantings. Our goal led to a design that aims to ‘educate,provide habitat, beautify, and inspire,’ as Scheler, a scholar in planting design lays his agenda upon. Educate: The design informs people about prairies and sustainability. The Rootball Interpretive Center displays the prairies from roots to tips. Provide Habitat: The southwest quarter of the design is dedicated to provide habitat for birds and small mammals. The rolling prairies will also be a food supply for insects,
role - Design Schemes - Master Plan - Graphics
year 2010
Beautify: The plant palette of the design provides allseason interest. Never once in a season that the field would turn into an undesirable ‘weed patch.’ The selection of plant mass is color-oriented, which give an organized feel to the entire design. Inspire: This design is also for people and community . In every corners, the social spaces are provided for usage and interactions. My role in this design is to develop the design and create perspective graphics.
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6 FUTURE LAND
type Academic
Team Planning Individual Detail
project 2050 Community, Urbana, Illinois
organization University of Illinois Champaign, IL
Our mission as a team was to plan for community fifty years in advance on a land that is now the 16 acre pomology research farm at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We wanted to introduce to the site a new way of living that had more green space, more local food production, and as little carbon footprint as possible. For individual detail elaboration, I selected the south eastern corner of the community, where there are variations of housing, transportation, and life style. I placed the orchard in the center of this area for production and to encourage a peaceful lifestyle. Toward the east side are more condensed, younger residents in there 20-30s are welcomed to the modern lifestyle adjacent to the monorail station and the business district.
role - Design Schemes - Master Plan - Detailed plan
year 2009
Each of the housing design aims for one principle: to optimize the green space. I made a transition between the private to semi-private to public green space to encourage the residents to come outside, meet the neighbors, and bond as a strong community.
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7 UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD 2010 SASAKI DAY DESIGN COMPETITION FINALIST
type Academic Individual
project Songsville, Chicago, IL
organization University of Illinois,
year 2010
Champaign, IL
Songsville is a community design project with in achievable price that locates in the middle of the city. The developer company requires this approximately 6-acre site to contain at least 34 housing units, 80 parking spaces, and a preschool for 100 children. The project aims to create a strong and positive relationship between neighbors to create a healthy community. To encourage residents to meet more often and generate social interaction, I aligned the doors of the residences, added sidewalks, and applied the courtyard into the design.
I included three major green spaces to the site: a rain garden at the low point of the site to manage storm water, the community garden, and the active recreational cafe that the community can gather.
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8 INTEGRATION 2011 SASAKI DAY DESIGN COMPETITION FINALIST
type Academic
Team Analysis Indivisual Design
project Integration,
Urbana, Illinois
organization University of Illinois Champaign, IL
Intergration is the project that combines the existing of nature and human together. The intention of the design is to restore a fraction of what once was the great oak grove. By returning the oaks into its home, the animals will come back and the ecosystem will start to flourish again. Another focus species is the eastern screech owl. By bringing back the oaks, the terrance of the forest open up enough to allow the owls to exist. The owls would also get rid of rodent problem around the city.
role - GIS analyst - Team leader
year 2011
Finally, human is the important part of this design. By inviting people into the education and exposure of nature, human tend to grow to love the nature and thus try to safe it. This is the reason why we provide the educational area for people in the north east corner of Crystal Lake Park.
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SCIENTIFIC DECISIONS
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project organization State Botanical University of Garden of Georgia Georgia Athens, GA
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To create a scientific based design and make an optimal design decisions, technology takes an important part in creating a visual communication and possibility calculations. In this project, I took part in the project for State Botanical Garden of Georgia. I had a responsibility to analyze the visual quality of the site and create the suitability map to present to the stockholders.
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Tum Suppak LAND 6030 Professors Vick and Calabria Fall 2011
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The analysis was preceded in an overview manner. This process would only show the accessibility of views through the topographical data. Throughout the inventory, 7 layers of spots of interests were selected. Each group, throughout simple survey from the designers in LAND6030 class studio, shows some significant visual impact. That is, people tend to notice these points of interests regardless of their preferences. These information was processed via ArcGIS analytical tool and was represented in the suitability map ranking the possibilities those were yet to unfold.
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10 PARKING RETROFIT
type Academic Individual
project organization State Botanical University of Garden of Georgia Georgia Athens, GA
year 2011
Athens, GA
After the data accumulation phase, I selected the State Botanical Garden of Georgia main parking lot site to design in detail. The agenda of this project is to retrofit the main parking lot. I aimed for the new design to be environmental friendly, cost-effective, and ready for the construction of the new Natural History Museum and the proposed Porcelain Museum.
With those goals in mind, I partially kept the original asphalt to reduce the construction cost, while changed some parts that needed to be regraded into permeable pavement. I expanded the parking possibilities by 50 spots and created the drop off area for school buses. The rain garden was designed to manage the stormwater runoff for the parking lot and the paved streets nearby.
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11 THE WAY WE WOULD WANDER
type Academic Team
project Transportation Oriented Design Athens, GA
organization University of Georgia, Athens, GA
With the project to connect the city of Atlanta and Athens via the rail system, the College of Environmental Design, University of Georgia, requested for the collaboration between environmental planning and landscape architecture students to create a campus design based on the transportation agenda. Our team main goals are to create a transit stop that embraces the opportunity for light rail transportation system, campus connection and expansion, and the new wave of ecological urbanism. With the site of student residence and the sports and recreational center, we redesigned the residential buildings, create a train station from the expansion of the recreational facilities, and strengthen the green corridor running across the site.
role - Team manager - Detail Design - Graphics - Technical Trainning
year 2011
Throughout the process, I helped the team established the team goals, came up with the structural schedule, researched the precedent studies, designed and illustrated site details, as well as operated the technical training for teammates.
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12 FLOURISH-NOURISH
type Personal Individual
project Trinity Ave Farm Atlanta, GA
Trinity Avenue Project is the design competition for an empty space across the street from the Atlanta City Hall, GA. The major wanted to create an urban space that contains agricultural and educational experiences for the local citizens. The team has created a sophisticated design that is aesthetically pleasing and functional. The design responded well with the tectonic quality of the site, while allowing many types of growing and harvesting to take place. This design, if built, will be a community spot in Atlanta that draws the citizens altogether.
role - Graphics
year 2011-2012
I participated in this team project as an illustrator. Using the existing sketch up model for architectural assemble, I add planting layer to the model and proceed to render by hand, adding life and detail to the project.
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13 TELLING TALES
type Personal Individual
project Who Gave Big Bob the Belly? Seoul, Korea
organization CJ Illustration Award
These images are a part of an illustration series â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Who Gave Big Bob a Belly?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; It is the story about the child obesity in the United States. In the story, I explained how the surrounding factors can contribute to child obesity and discussed how to alter those factors to prevent and solve the obesity issue. I constructed the series as an entry to the CJ Book Awards Illustration Competition 2010 in Seoul, Korea.
year 2010
The inspiration for these illustrations come from a group discussion with Professor William Sullivan under the effect of built environment to health.
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14 FIXING THE FUTURE
type Personal Individual
project FarmArt,
anywhere, USA
organization role year Metropolis - Concept sketches 2009-2010 Competition 2009 - Design Diagrams - Hydrological analysis
This project is an entry for the Metropolis Annual Design Competition 2010. The theme is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;One Design Fixes All:â&#x20AC;&#x2122; a design solution to alleviate the environmental issues across the world and can be applied anywhere. During the preliminary stage, my team conducted extensive researches to solve the local food production problem and storm water drainage issues. We consulted many resources including an engineer and a horticulturalist. We discovered our solution by creating a vertical garden on a parking lot lamp post. The post uses the water from parking lot storm water drainage to water the vegetables on top of the lamp post. Because we are using a hydrophobic system, there is no soil required.
Our group sketched rough designs and built the virtual models with SketchUp to study the form and scale. We submitted the model along with a series of Photoshop renderings, Adobe Illustrator diagrams explaining how the system works, and AutoCAD drawing of the invention. In the last page of the submission, we included the cost-effective calculation report to show the benefit of our project in 20 years after the construction.
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Pongsakorn ‘Tum’ Suppakitpaisarn (217)502-3906
670 West Broad Street Athens, GA 30601
psuppak@gmail.com
Education
University of Georgia, MLA, expected graduation May 2013 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BLA 2011 Technical skills include: ArcGIS, AutoCAD, GoogleSketchUp, Adobe PhotoShop, InDesign, and Illustrator
Experience Department of Community Affairs, University of Georgia branch Graduate Design Assistant, Spring 2012- current ● Redesigned sites upon request for ‘Main Street Project’ and ‘Better Hometown Project’ in Georgia ● Generated SketchUp graphics and Photoshop rendering for presentations Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand Visiting Instructor, Summer 2011 ● Co-designed Landscape Architecture 5 year Curriculum ● Defended and presented the curriculum among faculty members of Chiang Mai University ● Instructed in Basic Landscape Construction section of Senior Landscape Contracting class ● Co-reviewed preliminary undergraduate thesis ● Arranged workshops in public speaking, graphic presentation, and creativity management ● Organized Landscape Architecture Open House, raising the awareness of the program Supalai Public Company Limited, Bangkok, Thailand Landscape Architect Intern, Summer 2009 ● Participated in designing residential grounds and gardens ● Designed the lighting system and irrigation lines for condominium ground ● Ensured the materials selected for construction were within budgets
Awards and Honors American Society of Landscape Architecture Student Merit Award, Illinois Chapter, 2011 Sasaki Day Design Competition Finalist, 2010 and 2011 Humanity, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advance Collaboratory (HASTAC) scholar and writer, 2010 Wadsworth Scholarship, 2009
Professional Memberships American Society of Landscape Architects, student member, 2010-present American Society of Landscape Architects, Student Chapter, 2009-present
Activities and Community Services Georgia Society of Landscape Architecture (GSLA) Graduate Students Representative, 2011-2012 Organized, planned, and invited people to participate in GSLA activities University of Georgia Landscape Architecture Magazine Editing Crew, 2011-2012 Advocated article submissions, edited, and organised magazine articles North Oconee River Charette, 2011 Participated in design workshop, made design decisions, and presented the outcome in public