Landscape Architecture Portfolio - Stefan Molinaro

STEFANMOLINARO

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I am a second year Masters of Landscape Architecture student within PennDesign at the University of Pennsylvania.

My studies and work placement have given me the opportunity to be involved and to learn about a diverse range of aspects in urban design and landscape architecture. From this experience I have gained a valuable skill set and knowledge base.

I am an aspiring landscape architect and urban designer with the desire to use landscape architecture as an armature to shape the urban fabric to be resilient in a risk filled world. I am a fast learner, a hard worker, a listener, a communicator, a leader, and a team player. In my spare time I enjoy cycling, snowboarding, running, photographing, and playing soccer.

Since 2010, my interest and fascination with design has grown exponentially. Through classes and my internships I have become more motivated to design social spaces that are environmentally sound and that make a positive impact on the lives of others. My design motivations emphasis resilience, risk management, habit recovery, social infrastructure, and social impact through landscape architecture. With this ambition, I want to do whatever it takes to better myself and the spaces I am tasked to design.

During my studies I have become skilled in a number of CAD programs including Rhino, Photoshop, AutoCAD, InDesign, and Illustrator. All of these are demonstrated in the following projects.

The projects chosen demonstrate my interests, creativity, design skills, graphic communication, and knowledge base. All of the images and products within this portfolio have been produced by me unless stated.

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) 2015-present

Reztark Design Studio (Cincinnati, OH)

2018 Masters of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Candidate

University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) 2010-2015 2015 Bachelors of Urban Planning Dean’s List 2010-2014 2015 Professional Practice Excellence Award

Jan. 2014-May 2014 Full-time Planning Intern Tasks: Create concept sketches and 3D models with SketchUp, create and compile graphics from research, prepare presentations, and coordinate work to team members.

Acquired Skills: Improved experience with architecture, leadership ability, and knowledge of sketching and rendering principles.

Town of Buena Vista Planning Department (Buena Vista, CO)

SKILLS + INTERESTS Rhino and Grasshopper

Competitive Soccer

AutoCAD

Snowboarding

Photoshop

Hiking

Illustrator

Mountain and Road Biking

InDesign

Running

GIS

Furniture Development

SketchUp

Photography

Computer Rendering

Traveling

Hand Drafting

Language (fluent): English

Model Building

Planning Intern May 2013-Aug. 2013 Full-time Tasks: Construct and render concept designs with SketchUp, edit and create mapping using GIS, Illustrator, and InDesign, and worked concept site plans and development plans for project applications.

Acquired Skills: Improved skills of SketchUp, GIS, and improved knowledge of municipal code and a municipality’s process.

“Stefan was able to meet stringent deadlines while juggling other large projects at the same time, all while maintaining a calm, professional and cheerful attitude and appearance. He was extremely flexible in accepting the projects.”

-Dee Miller, Planning Director

Calthorpe Associates (Berkeley, CA)

(beginner): German

TRAVEL EXPERIENCE Independent Study of Urban Public Spaces: Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland Cross-country, non-profit cycling tours: California, Canada, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin - Northern Tier Route Leader 2016

MEMBERSHIPS Professional + Academic: American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), American Planning Association (APA), Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Non-profit Services: Bike the US for Multiple Sclerosis (BTUSFMS)

Northern Tier Route Leader 2016, Trans American Full Rider 2015

Design Intern Sept. 2012-Dec. 2012 Full-time Tasks: Create and render various base map diagrams with Illustrator, edit AutoCAD plans and street sections, edit project reports with InDesign, and construct and render 3D models with SketchUp. Acquired Skills: Improved skills in AutoCAD, SketchUp, Illustrator, and InDesign.

“Stefan is confident, takes initiative and tried solving problems by himself before asking for assistance . He required very little monitoring and asked appropriate questions.”

-Samantha Chundur, Project Manager

Street-Works Development (White Plains, NY) Design Intern March 2012-June 2012 Full-time Tasks: Professionally construct and render plans, elevations and sections with Photoshop, InDesign and hand skills, and create 3D models using SketchUp. Acquired Skills: Exceptional skills in SketchUp, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

“Stefan was a pleasure to have here at Street-Works, and will be a vital asset to any firm he co-ops with. He shows great promise in becoming an excellent designer.”

-Nisha Prasad, Planner

CONTENTS Third Quarry | Lehigh Valley, PA (601 Studio) Social Embankment | Philadelphia, PA (502 Studio) Consumption Garden | Philadelphia, PA (501 Studio) Rolling Park | Pittsburgh, PA (Media II) Topographic Design and Analysis | (Workshop) Capping Fort Washington Way | Cincinnati, OH Pedestrian Ecosystem | Cincinnati, OH Arc Tangent | Cincinnati, OH Furniture Design | North Smithfield, RI Assorted Travel Photography - European Independent Study of Public Spaces

THIRD QUARRY A Third Space Within the Removed Semester: Fall 2016 Critic: David Ostrich

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The goal of this project was to create a resilient community that was experiencing significant loses in the economy due the heavy reliance on the quarry industry. At the same time, I was motivated to provide a regional support network of habitats for struggling fauna of the region. With the community aspirations to create nature based placemaking, promote habitat conservation, and to bring forth economic revitalization, I hybridized these goals into the quarries to be the third spaces of the region. The following works is the journey of research based design I performed in order to create this kind of space for the community fauna of the region.

Regional Analysis: Struggling Fauna and Conceptual Programing

53 Aneides aeneus / Green Salamander 54 Etheostoma spec. / Darter 55 Ichthyomyzon greeleyi / Mountain Brook Lamprey 56 Minytrema melanops / Spotted Sucker 57 Notropis dorsalis / Bigmouth Shiner 58 Noturus miurus / Brindled Madtom 59 Percina bimaculata / Chesapeake Logperch 60 Percina evides / Gilt Darter 61 Phoxinus erythrogaster / Southern Redbelly Dace 62 Pseudemys rubriventris / Eastern Redbelly Turtle 63 Scaphiopus holbrookii / Eastern Spadefoot

43 Amia calva / Bowfin 44 Crotalus horridus / Timber Rattlesnake 45 Culaea inconstans / Brook Stickleback 46 Emydoidea blandingii / Blanding’s Turtle 47 Ichthyomyzon bdellium / Ohio Lamprey 48 Lampetra aepyptera / Least Brook Lamprey 49 Nocomis biguttatus / Hornyhead Chub 50 Plestiodon laticeps / Broadhead Skink 51 Umbra limi / Central Mudminnow 52 Umbra pygmaea / Eastern Mudminnow

39 Cryptotis parva / Least Shrew 40 Glaucomys sabrinus / Northern Flying Squirrel 41 Myotis sodalis / Indiana or Social Myotis 42 Sciurus niger cinerus / Delmarva Fox Squirrel

36 Myotis leibii / Eastern Small-footed Myotis 37 Neotoma magister / Allegheny Woodrat 38 Sorex palustris punctulatus / Southern Water Shrew

31 Lasionycteris noctivagans / Silver-haired Bat 32 Myotis septentrionalis / Northern Myotis 33 Sorex palustris albibarbis / Water Shrew 34 Microtus chrotorrhinus / Rock Vole 35 Winter Bat Colony

15 Ardea alba / Great Egret 16 Asio flammeus / Short-eared Owl 17 Bartramia longicauda / Upland Sandpiper 18 Botaurus lentiginosus / American Bittern 19 Chlidonias niger / Black Tern 20 Cistothorus platensis / Sedge Wren 21 Empidonax flaviventris / Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 22 Falco peregrinus / Peregrine Falcon 23 Ixobrychus exilis / Least Bittern 24 Lanius ludovicianus migrans / Migrant Loggerhead Shrike 25 Nyctanassa violacea / Yellow-crowned Night-heron 26 Nycticorax nycticorax / Black-crowned Night-heron 27 Rallus elegans / King Rail 28 Setophaga striata / Blackpoll Warbler 29 Spiza americana / Dickcissel 30 Sterna hirundo / Common Tern

11 Asio otus / Long-eared Owl 12 Circus cyaneus / Northern Harrier 13 Pandion haliaetus / Osprey 14 Chaetura pelagica / Chimney Swift

1 Catharus ustulatus / Swainson’s Thrush 2 Fulica americana / American Coot 3 Gallinago delicata / Wilson’s Snipe 4 Podilymbus podiceps / Pied-billed Grebe 5 Protonotaria citrea / Prothonotary Warbler 6 Accipiter gentilis / Northern Goshawk 7 Cistothorus palustris / Marsh Wren 8 Gallinula galeata / Common Gallinule 9 Tyto alba / Barn Owl 10 Ardea herodias / Great Blue Heron

Slate Belt Community 64 Acipenser spec. / Sturgeon 65 Acris crepitans / Northern Cricket Frog 66 Alosa mediocris / Hickory Shad 67 Ambystoma laterale / Blue-spotted Salamander 68 Ameiurus melas / Black Bullhead 69 Catostomus catostomus / Longnose Sucker 70 Chaenobryttus gulosus / Warmouth 71 Clonophis kirtlandii / Kirtland’s Snake 72 Coregonus artedi / Cisco 73 Enneacanthus obesus / Banded Sunfish 74 Erimystax x-punctatus / Gravel Chub 75 Etheostoma exile / Iowa Darter 76 Etheostoma pellucida / Eastern Sand Darter 77 Gasterosteus aculeatus / Threespine Stickleback 78 Glyptemys muhlenbergii / Bog Turtle 79 Ichthyomyzon fossor / Northern Brook Lamprey 80 Ictiobus cyprinellus / Bigmouth Buffalo 81 Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum / Eastern Mud Turtle 82 Lepisosteus oculatus / Spotted Gar 83 Lepomis megalotis / Longear Sunfish 84 Lithobates sphenocephalus utricularius / Southern Leopard Frog 85 Lota lota / Burbot 86 Lythrurus umbratilis / Redfin Shiner 87 Notropis spec. / Shiner 88 Noturus spec. / Madtom 89 Opheodrys aestivus / Rough Green Snake 90 Phoxinus eos / Northern Redbelly Dace 91 Pseudacris kalmi / New Jersey Chorus Frog 92 Pseudotriton montanus montanus / Eastern Mud Salamander 93 Sistrurus catenatus catenatus / Eastern Massasauga 94 Ambystoma opacum / Marbled Salamander 95 Anaxyrus fowleri / Fowler's Toad 96 Carphophis amoenus amoenus / Eastern Worm Snake 97 Clemmys guttata / Spotted Turtle 98 Glyptemys insculpta / Wood Turtle 99 Heterodon platirhinos / Eastern Hognose Snake 100 Lithobates pipiens / Northern Leopard Frog 101 Terrapene carolina carolina / Eastern Box Turtle 102 Thamnophis sauritus / Eastern Ribbon Snake 103 Agkistrodon contortrix / Copperhead 104 Notropis chalybaeus / Ironcolor Shiner 105 Acipenser oxyrinchus / Atlantic Sturgeon

Community Programing Habitat Programing

Park Space Hunting Trails Connections Rock Climbing Water Access Nature Watching Shrub Cliff Ground Underground Cavity Tree Town Floating

Portland East Bangor Roseto Bangor Pen Argyl Wind Gap Town LAKE / PONDS SHORE-LINE SWAMPS WETLANDS MARSHES BRACKISH MARSHES FRESHWATER MARSHES SHALLOW MARSHES DENSE MARSHES WET GRASSLANDS DRY GRASSLANDS DENSE GRASSLAND OPEN GRASSLAND PRARIE OPEN WOODLAND DECIDOUS WOODLAND MIXED CONIFEROUS WOODLAND WOODLAND CLIFF

Community Needs Struggling Fauna of Pennsylvania and Corresponding Habitat Needs

NATURE BASED PLACMAKING

HABITAT CONSERVATION

ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION

Regional Analysis: Struggling Fauna of Focus NEAR THREATENED

CHIMNEY SWIFTS

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Urban Development

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Breeding Habitat (Summer) Concentration of Nesting Forest Corridors

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Habitat Range Forest Corridors

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LEADING THREAT: HABITAT LOSS

Elevated Moist Areas

Regional Analysis: Quarry Catalog and Analysis The Slate Belt is home to a wide variety of habitat conditions, but the expansion of human settlement has lead to significant habitat loss. The quarries are centrally located to many towns and are adjacent or contain numerous environmental conditions fauna generally would want for nesting, feeding, or breeding areas. The quarries are large tracks of land that can house both community and environmental needs, starting with the Bangor Quarries.

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The Bangor quarries are ideal for refugee habitat and serving the nature based placemaking needs of the community. Starting with Bangor Quarry, a patch system of habitat conditions can serve has refugia habitat for struggling species. An interconnected system of trails and programs spread throughout the quarries can connect these habitats and towns to the larger adjacent systems such as other quarry towns and the Appalachian Corridor and Trail.

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Primary Path

Dry Grassland Patch

Secondary Trail

Freshwater Marsh

Tertiary Trail

Mixed Woods Patch

Existing Network

Shrub Patch Slope Remediation

PLAN COMPONENTS MASTER

MIXED WOODS PATCHES

SHRUB PATCHES

GRASSLAND PATCHES

SLOPE REMEDIATION

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INTERSECTION OF GROVE

FLORA SUPPORTED:

WARM SEASON GRASSES

COOL SEASON GRASSES

Big Bluestem Sand Bluestem Little Bluestem Switchgrass

Virginia Wild Rye Canadian Wild Rye Reed Canary Grass

Sand Love Grass Indian Grass Eastern Gamagrass

SHRUB Sumac Blackhaw viburnum Nannyberry

Allegheny blackberry Flowering Raspberry

NESTING INTERVENTIONS Wood and Twig Cutting Piles Bird Houses Standing, Dead Tree Trunks

GRASSLAND + CONIFEROUS EDGE FAUNA SUPPORTED:

BIRDS Dickcissel Upland Sandpiper Short-eared Owl Barn Owl

Northern Harrier Loggerhead Shrike Chimney Swift Eastern Meadowlark

MAMMALS Bobolink Ring-necked Pheasant

Cotton Rabbit Least Shrew Northern Flying Squirrel

1:10 REPTILE / AMPHIBIAN Eastern Spadefoot Eastern Hognose Snake Eastern Ribbon Snake Copperhead

Eastern Box turtle

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Pie-billed grebe Osprey American Coot Northern Harrier

Night Heron Marsh-Wren Wilson’s Snipe Black Tern

Great Egret Common Tern King Rail Least Bittern

MAMMALS Common Gallinule American Bittern Great Blue Heron Chimney Swift

Water Shrew

REPTILE / AMPHIBIAN Wood Turtle Leopard Frog Bog Turtle Timber Rattle Snake

Atlantic Sturgeon Fowler’s Toad Worm Snake Spotted Turtle

STUDIO MODELS Studio III: 601 Semester: Fall 2016

SOCIAL EMBANKMENT Public Space as Protection Semester: Spring 2016 Critic: Karen M’Closkey The Social Embankment project aims to bridge the two edges of this part of Philadelphia, the city to the Delaware River. This project primarily relies on becoming a large, but subtle topographic embankment that would be part of a larger system of soft and hard walling along the Delaware. This initiative would be a catalyst for a resilient waterfront that would protect the city, while be an adaptable public space.

Street Edge Conditions Reed Street

Dickinson Street

Tasker Street

Bus Stop

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Columbus Blvd Bike Lanes

East Coast

Greenway

River Edge Conditions

Pier 60

+8 ft Rise +6 ft Rise +4 ft Rise +2 ft Rise MHW**

Combined Sewer Outfall

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Inundated Industrial Sites

Current 100 Year Flood Zone

2100 Flood Zone

Inundated Public Spaces

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Dense Canopy w/ Groundcover Light Canopy w/o Groundcover Development Zone (Undeveloped) N

Lawn Wetland Growth Zone

Wetland Growth Zones and Piers

Dense Forest Cover and Freshwater Marsh (Existing MHW Levels)

Light Canopy and Built Pier (Existing MHW Levels)

Light Canopy and Landfill Pier with Dense Canopy (Existing MHW Levels)

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Marsh Growth Zone at Current MHW and +2 Ft of Rise Meadow Marsh Between Pier 57 and 60 (Current MHW)

Meadow Marsh Between Pier 57 and 60 (+2 Ft MHW)

STUDIO MODELS Studio II: 502 Semester: Spring 2016

CONSUMPTION GARDEN Connecting Brewerytown with the Schuylkill River Semester: Fall 2015 Critic: Nick Pevzner Through a museum of consumption, Glendinning Rock Garden becomes a unique connector between Brewerytown and the Schuylkill River. The main moments emphasize a different type of processes focusing on anchoring, clearing, and filtering. Through these processes, consumption is either enabled, accelerated, or inhibited through the performances of humans, animals, and vegetation.

Triangulation and Site Analysis

Rail Bridge

Splitting Walls

Secluded Creek

& Broken Walls

Edible Garden

Contrasting Overlook

ROLLER PARK

Topographic Playscape Concept and Analysis (Media II)

Semester: Spring 2016 Professor: Keith VanDerSys Through Rhino and Grasshopper, I am exploring how to develop a playscape that emphasizes on iterative topographic manipulations.

Working with existing site constraints and other programmatic restrictions, the process involves analysis of the movements towards a overall programmatic goal. The park’s multifaceted conditions provide for various programs oriented towards rolling activities.

Circulation

Mountain Biking Forests Forested & open hills for Mountain Biking can occupy and shape.

Informal Lawns Open lawns providing space for informal activities of the community

Obstacle Parks Hard surfaced obstacle areas for skateboarders, bikers, & rollerbladers

Stage / Event Spaces Seating / Observation Structured and open seating slopes for observes of adjacent activities

Hard surfaced and lawn staging areas for events of the community

EXISTING SURFACE

PATTERN SKETCH

CREATE PATHS FROM PATTERN

SIMPLIFY & ADJUST PATH ON MESH

LANDFORM CURVES

CREATE MESH FROM PATH & LANDFORM CURVES

2’ MESH CONTOURLINES

MTB PARKS

SKATE PARKS

HARD SURFACE SEATING

STAGING / EVENT SPACE

LAWN SEATING

OPEN LAWNS

TERRAIN SLOPE ANALYSIS

TERRAIN ELEVATION ANALYSIS

SURFACE RENDERING

05.09.16

MEDIA II - Spring 2016

PLAYSCAPE

VanDerSys - LARP 542-001 & -002

TOPOGRAPHIC DESIGN AND ANALYSIS Workshop I & Workshop II Group Project #1 Landform Model

Topototto

LARP 512-001 Workshop II

Team:

Hallie Morrison Stefan Molinaro Melissa Flatley

SITE PLAN

SCALE 1” = 20’

20’

NORTH

Semester: 2015-2016 Professors: Sally Willig, Cora Olgyay

The Workshop series exposed me to a series of grading, ecological, and water management challenges in an effort to build the skills necessary to perform such tasks in the future. The following works are from those explorations.

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SOIL PROFILES OF WILLISBROOK PRESERVE

Stefan Molinaro LARP-511-Ecology and Materials Sally Willig, Rebecca Popowsky, Kate Farquhar Exercise 03: Soil Profiles: Piedmont 2015 October 26

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Soil Map—Chester County, Pennsylvania

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SAMPLE 5

39° 59' 58'' N

39° 59' 58'' N

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Natural Resources Conservation Service

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Web Soil Survey National Cooperative Soil Survey

Ag 0” to 9” Silt Loam

Ap 0” to 10” Gravelly Loam

BAg 9” to 17” Gravelly Sandy Clay Loam

Bt 10” to 42” Gravelly Clay Loam

Water Table about 12”

C 42” to 68” Gravelly Loam Btgx 26” to 38” Gravelly Clay Loam

Btg4 30” to 40” Clay C 40” to 60” Loam

Water Table about 80”

Water Table about 80”

R 68” to 78” Bedrock

C 60” to 64” Gravelly Silt Loam

C 60” to 64” Gravelly Silt Loam

SAMPLE 5 GdB - Gladstone

Btg 17” to 26” Clay Loam

Btg1 9” to 18” Silty Clay Water Table about 12”

Btg2 18” to 25” Clay

SAMPLE 4 CpA - Cokesbury

Btg3 25” to 30” Clay

Bt 7” to 23” Gravelly Clay Loam

Bc 36” to 60” Clay Loam

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SAMPLE 3 WaA - Watchung

Ap 0” to 9” Silt Loam

A 0” to 7” Silt Loam

SAMPLE 2 ChB2 - Willisbrook

Bt 9” to 36” Silty Clay Loam

Ap 0” to 9” Silt Loam

SAMPLE 1 CwB - Conwingo

Water Table about 12”

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Soil Profiles of Site

CAPPING FORT WASHINGTON WAY Green Roofs and Facade Studio - University of Cincinnati Semester: Spring 2013 Professor: Virginia Russell The project is comprised of four separate bridges that improve the connectability of downtown Cincinnati and the city’s Riverfront that has been divided by the Fort Washington Way. The project provides more green, public space for the city, while also providing environmental and health benefits of a green roof. For this project, individual students had to explore the designing and planning of a green roof either over an existing or nonexistent structure. My research and data was provided by the Cincinnati office of Parsons Brinckerhoff, who lead the highway reconstruction years ago. From their data, I formed this design and plan of the proposed spans.

The green bridges are islands surrounded by a sea of gray and glass. This postmodernistic design gives the city a unique space that provides green cover over a gray vain of the city. Architectural elements such as the stage, the buildings, and the seating are combined with the vegetation in way that makes the elements sprout from underneath its green surfaces.

OVER-THE-RHINE’S PEDESTRIAN Studio ECOSYSTEM VI - University of Cincinnati Semester: Summer 2014 Professor: Danilo Palazzo In an effort to revitalize the depreciating neighborhood of Cincinnati through various methods and public art, my team of five focused on the pedestrian system of Over-the-Rhine. Part of an overall plan developed by the various teams of the studio, this component focuses on the pedestrian ecosystem of the area through the renovation of vacant buildings and lots, refurbishment of the abandoned alleys, and enhancement of the neighborhood’s pedestrian connections. The following are the pieces I contributed to the design and planning of the project. Each alleyway and enhancement would create a more diverse and interesting experience through public art, wayfinding, and various uses.

Between renovating vacant buildings and repurposing the alleyways and adjacent vacant lots, the pedestrian ecosystem is enhanced. With unique access to spaces, events, or means of travel, one can choose different options to get from point A to point B while experiencing diversity during their journey.

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Landscape Architecture Studio I - University of Cincinnati

Semester: Summer 2014 Professor: Jose Castrejon The focus of the project was to sustainability design a residential landscape. While serving the needs of a hypothetical client and their needs, I drafted several bubble diagrams and sketches of a sustainable landscape. One of the requirements of this project was to plan, draft and render a design within the eight hour class.

FURNITURE DESIGN Time Frame: 2006-2010 Personal Interest Although time and travel has kept me away from woodworking, the following furniture represents an early interest for designing and constructing. Due to my constraints, this is an interest I have not ventured into for several years, but this is something I would enjoy doing again. My projects grew along with my experience as I began with a small sliding lid box. My next project was a standard cabinet with a chalkboard panel. Lastly, my experiences lead me to create a large end table among other products. These projects began with 2D planning and eventually unfolded into 3D objects. The images are also representations of my earlier interest in photography

EUROPEAN PUBLIC SPACES Independent Study University of Cincinnati Semester: Fall 2014 Supervisor: Alex Christoforidis For four months, I took on the initiative to outline and perform an independent study focusing on urban public spaces of Europe.

The experience took me through old and new, small and large spaces. I analyzed, sketched, and recorded my experiences of the spaces and how people navigated to and through the spaces. My main form of recording was through photography. A report was conducted at the end compiling my notes and documentation.

I performed a repeatable method, which I hope to expand as I travel and design public spaces.

Lindenhof / Zurich, Switzerland

Superkilen / Copenhagen, Denmark

Place des Vosges / Paris, France

SkogskyrkogĂĽrden / Stockholm, Sweden

Vigeland Park / Oslo, Norway

Tempelhofer Park / Berlin, Germany

Piazza Navona / Rome, Italy

Phone: +14015758474 Email: stefanm@upenn.edu