2012_Shannon Bronson

SHANNON B R O N SON

2501 19th St. San Francisco, CA 94110Email: [email protected]

Phone: 512.484.8602

Austin, TX

The Cogburn Family Foundation Architecture and Urbanism PrizeFor excellence during the ULI/Gerald D. Hines Competition, 2011

Graduate General Design Award of Excellence Texas American Society of Landscape Architects, 2011

American Society of Landscape Architects Honor AwardFaculty nominated, juried award given to graduate with most professional promise, 2011

National ASLA Honor Award “The Need for Place in Landscape Urbanism” SHIFT: Infrastructure, North Carolina State ASLA Journal, 2011

National ASLA Honor Award “Graft: A paradigm form Infrastructural Intervention” SHIFT: Infrastructure and Issue, UT Austin Architectural Journal, 2011

ASLA Student 5’x5’ Competition Faculty reviewed design build competition, 2008-2011Dallas Urban Lab ScholarshipRobert Leon White Memorial Scholarship

ASLA Student Member and Representative Organized chapter fundraising events and annual student 5’x5’ Design Build Competition

Graduate Student Council Scholarship Committee Representative

The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Landscape Architecture G.P.A. 3.73/ 4.0

2011

The Robert B. McMillan Foundation Prize for Fine Arts Full support for students excelling in Fine ArtsHonorable Mention The University of Puget Sound Senior Art Thesis ExhibitionThe Wheelock Center Solo Art Exhibition, The University of Puget SoundThe University of Puget Sound Organic Garden Club Vice PresidentMaui Coastal Land Trust Forest Restoration Intern at Ola Honua in Kipahulu, MauiTeaching Assistant Sculpture Fundamentals Year long assistant to Professor Michael Johnson

The University of Puget SoundB.A. Studio Art. Sculpture and Drawing

Tacoma, WA 2005G.P.A. 3.35/ 4.0

Design Experience

SWA GroupLandscape Designer

-Prepared 100% Design Development Auto CAD package and marketing presentation for a residential tower plaza in Chengdu China.-Completed PD Permitting package for two large mixed-used urban agricultural and office parks in San Jose, CA-Submitted the chosen scheme for a large historic preservation and mixed use mall and office tower landscape in Beijing, China. Deveoped to 100% Schematic Design.-Provided production and illustrative diagrams and renderings for large urban planning and agricultural project’s 100% SD package and presentation.-Collaborated to create legible graphics and comprehensive descriptions of a project in Jianxu, China which was awarded a 2012 ASLA National Honor Award.-Prepared 100% CD package for Courthouse in Butte County, California.-Lead SWA Group’s Summer Internship program.Tasks ranged from orchestrating the admissions process to developing the design challenge, gathering large amounts of data, networking with jurors and leading the students.-Provided support for numerous projects in the office as needed. Quickly integrated with teams to support deadlines with CAD work, 3D renderings, illustrative and writing skill on international and domestic projects.

09/11-11/12

SWA GroupDesign Intern

-Analyzed and understood the complex issues of Vallejo, CA through site visits, research, and charettes-Recommended urban planning, urban design and landscape architectural solutions that influence current discourse on the cities ‘ future design-Developed weekly schematic designs for condominium tower properties in Dalian, China, and a plaza space for Hewlett-Packard Development Co.-Contributed to large scale model and site plans for canal and wetland redevelopment in Jiaxing, China in collaboration with SOM architects-Researched design images and created AutoCAD, SketchUp, and hand drawings in support of client meetings

06/010-08/10Sausalito and San Francisco, CA

San Francisco, CA

-Individually designed, built and installed sculptural interiors for retail and residential clients-Executed projects with an aesthetic of reused material, found objects and hand craftswomanship-Self-managed sales, estimates, budgeting and billings

Self-Employed 06/07-05/08San Francisco, CA

-Implemented planting design and documentation for 100% CD set of large residential development in Houston, Texas-Developed accepted conceptual design for small rural park in Austin, TX.

TBG PartnersLandscape Design Consultant

06/11-09/11Austin,TX

-Independently designed, built and installed interiors and window displays for the entire store-Sourced eclectic materials and plants, and built one-of-a-kind displays within monthly budget requirements-Managed design teams and interns for major design installations such as holiday and seasonal store changes

AnthropologieDisplay Designer

05/06-06/07San Jose, CA

-Independently designed commercial green roof and residential properties from schematic development to detailing-Drafted designs in AutoCAD, rendered presentation drawings by hand and presented designs to clients

Madrono Landscape DesignDesigner

San Francisco, CA 03/08-05/08

Design Skills

ComputerAutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Word, Excel, Sketch UpForm Z, Rhino, 3D Studio Max, Laser Cutting

Analog- Model making, presentation drawings, quick sketching- Group leadership, public speaking, research, writing

Exhibitions & Service

Alemany Community Farm Volunteer 4.5 acre farm dedicated to urban agriculture and education

Golden Gate Park Shakespeare GardenRedesign for Parks Department and donors.

Kingsland Community ParkDesigned Vision Plan for a three acre community park

Plant SF VolunteerPromotes permeable landscape as sustainable infrastructure

Tacoma Contemporary Exhibition, Tacoma, WA (2006)Panamonica’s Gallery Exhibition, Tacoma, WA (2005)SOLO Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (2005)The Kickstand, Tacoma, WA (2005)Cafe DiBartolo, Oakland, CA (2005)

Interests

YogaDrawingCertified SCUBA DiverLong-Distance RunningDanceLearning FarsiImprov Comedy

Education

References

Hope Hasbrouck, M. Arch., M.L.A. [email protected] [email protected] 415.2931507Michael Samarripa, SWA Group Associate

[email protected] 512.475.9212Jason Sowell, B.Arch, M.L.A.

[email protected] 415.836.8770Justin Winters, SWA Group Associate

SHANNON B R O N SON

2501 19th St. San Francisco, CA 94110Email: [email protected]

Phone: 512.484.8602

02.P Beijing Finance Street SWA Group Client: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

01.P Aviation Plaza SWA Group Client: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

03.P Nanhu: Farm Town in the Big City SWA Group Client: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill2012 American Society of Landscape Architects National Honor Award Analysis and Planning

01 Expanding the Span: The Graft as a Paradigm for Infrastructural Intervention2011 American Society of Landscape Architects National Award of Excellence Communications

2011 American Society of Landscape Architects Texas Graduate General Design Award of Excellence02 The Highland Mall: Inside-Outside

03 Movement as Structure in Reimer’s Ranch

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01Aviation Plaza

100 % DD PackageClient: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

Chengdu, China

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Working alongside a Senior Associate I prepared plans, sections, details and renderings to support a 100% Design Development Set in the course of a four month period. Here I learned the process of preparing construction packages-sheet order and set up, proper annotations to convey information to multiple consultants and the appropriate amount of information to include in this scope of project. The following spreads highlight the range of drawings I prepared in support of this submittal, though I was responsible for the whole set.

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石材铺装石材铺装,石矮墙与邻近鋪装对齐

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CSWADI 中国建筑西南设计研究院866 N Tianfu Boulevard,Chengdu, China 610041成都市天府大道北段866号

Local Design Institute:当地设计院:

32 Renmin East RoadChengdu, China

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01.PBeijing Finance Street: Daji Hutong Development

100 % SD PackageClient: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

Beijing, China

This project superimposes a large mall and office towers on the vernacular landscape of the Beijing “Hutongs” or alley way houses to develop unique boutique retail, climbing landscape terraces, a large urban park, and a special pedestrian thoroughfare linking them all together. I am currently working with two principals, a senior associate and one staff to conceptualize the place. I developed the chosen scheme for the pedestrian link, and documented it in a 100% SD submittal. I also developed a scheme for the large urban park that proposes richly vegetated mounds in the center of a large urban fountain that changes character from riparian to formal as it weaves its way around the park.

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1. Event Lawn and Art Boques

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金融街-大吉片公建项目

金融街（北京）置地有限公司

Financial Street – Daji Public Building Project





301 Battery St. 2 M NorthSan FranciscoCA, 94105


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3 Water Pavillion at Riparian Edge

Nanhu

100 % SD PackageClient: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

Jianxu, China

The Nanhu Planning Project is an ASLA Award Winning master plan to reconnect stagnant canal systems, reconfigure traditional housing layouts to attract a more town center setting and imagines three major parks, each with distinct character. I worked on the 100% SD package by contributing renderings, diagrams and helping produce the extensive CAD set. I also assisted with the teams’s award winning ASLA submittal. We are currently in DD for on of the residential areas and are proposing a network of storm water cleaning that is at once performative as well as definitive of the place. I am helping with the CAD set and explanatory diagrams.

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01 Landscape City: Infrastructure’s Role as Connective Tissue and Ecological Place

The Dallas Urban LaboratoryInstructor : Professor Dean Almy

Lancaster Road and Interstate 20, Dallas, TX

The expanding population in Dallas, Texas and proposed rail infrastructure has positioned development pressure towards the riverines of the Trinity River. In addition, ongoing initiatives have planned for the reactivation of the corridors and meanders as a part of a linking hike and bike trails to alternative transportation. This proposal aims to construct an integrated and performative landscape structure to support these connections.New typologies of open space that support programs for health, recreation, and play are proposed to transform the urban core into a family friendly environment. They are dispersed to promote social equity throughout the city, and to mediate between the enormous scale of transportation infrastructure and the urban neighborhoods the bifurcate.

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Landscape as Connective Tissue: Equitable Flow Throughout the Site

Street connects to larger riparian circuit and provides safe and sensorally vivid walk to transit stops

Storm Water Network

Walkable Street Network Programmed Riparian Circuit Connections to Underserved Neighborhoods Riparian Corridor Intact

Green Street Hierarchy

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Landscape as Ecological Place: Active Living Streets

Transect through Active Living Street

Transect as Active Living Street Connects to Main Plaza

View of the Community Pool and Children’s Yard within the Active Living Street The street is imagined as a highly programmed linear strip to support neighborhood activity while maintaining multi-modal connectivity

The Active Street links into a major public plaza that is the threshold between residential neighborhoods, the university campus, and transit.

Active Living Street Cross Section

Movable Seating and Quiet Arboretum

Student/ Affordable Housing Storm Water Capture Transit Stop Cafe Dining/ Retail Main Street

Main Plaza: Student Union Structural Lawn Dining Area

Active Living Street

Transit Stop Outdoor Eating Decks and Cafe Dining Bocce Courts Childrens Play Yard Community Pool Active Arboretum and Flexible Play Space

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Seating

Pedestrian Circulation

Plaza to Street Connection

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Tree Cover

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Expanding the Span: The Graft as a Paradigm for Infrastructural Intervention

Comprehensive Landscape StudioInstructor : Jason Sowell, Partner Britta Johanson

The Continental Bridge, Dallas, TX

Published: “SHIFT” Infrastructure, NCSU’s ASLA Journal + Issue 11, UT Austin Architectural Journal

The Trinity River in Dallas, Texas is currently undergoing a large transformation. The river’s cyclical floods have exacerbated the divide between the downtown and the city’s southern and western periphery. A former liability in terms of flooding and development loss, the river system is being re-engineered into a series of flood storage wetlands and recreational park known as the Trinity River Corridor Project. This process reprograms the bridges and levees in order to provide the surrounding neighborhoods access to a unifying urban greenway.The Continental Bridge is scheduled to be transformed from a dangerous auto thoroughfare to a pedestrian, bicycle and light rail bridge. Our investigation proposes the grafting of two additional platforms onto the eastern landing of the bridge. This expansion creases to navigates users across barriers of levee, freeway, flood walls, and an expanded toll way to connect the river promenade via access ramps, stairways and elevator.

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2011 National ASLA Student Honor Award Communications

Dallas Urban Lab Master Plan

Proposed Development

Downtown Dallas


West Dallas

Trinity River Corridor Project

The Continental Bridge

Calatrava Bridges

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View 1: Looking South East from the Continental Bridge

View 2: Looking North West from the Continental Bridge

Trinity River (Wallace Roberts and Todd Proposed Trinity River Park) Dallas Urban Lab Master Plan and View to Dallas Skyline

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Circulation Viewsheds

Compression and Release Programmatic Bands

Proposed Trinity River Park

Continental Bridge

Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

Regional Context The Graft Site Context

4. The Northern Platform tilts to allow seamless access from the bridge level to promenade level.

1. The Continental Bridge structure is imagined as the rootstock to which platforms are attached.

2. Platforms shift to safely connect multi-modal transit from the bridge level across highway, levee and parkway barriers to the Promenade.

3. The Northern Platform rotates to allow gathering and views to the Trinity River Park.

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Trinity Overlook and Ramp to Promenade

Market Place Corridor

Fountain Place

Retail and Dining Edge

Program OrganizationFormal Organization

Site Plan

Trinity River Park

Promenade

Auto Parkway

Levee


Grafted Platform

Continental Bridge

Site Model

Programmatic Bands

Vegetation Structure

Lighting

Paving

Drainage

Grading

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Fiber Optic CordsCor Ten SteelSpider Clips

The Crease as Frame: Railing SystemGlass Panel

Blue Slate

Revealing the Structure: Elevated Vegetation Poles Fountain Place is defined by creasing ground plane

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The Highland Mall in Austin, Texas is an example of an iconic mid-century American shopping mall that is rapidly in decline. It features all the elements of a mall of its era: a monumental structure sealed from the outside that includes decorative fountains, food court, escalators, anchor stores, and expansive parking lots. This model allows shopping, walking and eating and bears some responsibility for the aggressive expansion of automobile dominated culture and transportation infrastructure over the last 50 years.

The Highland Mall is located on a new Metro Rail stop, a short distance from the Mueller development and within five miles of downtown Austin. A proposal to expand the existing trail system would further link the site to the greater Austin community.

This proposal for the re-design of the Highland Mall re-imagines the mall condition as a diversely programmed matrix with on-site water capture, multi-modal connections, and a hub for community enrichment.

The Highland Mall, Inside-Outside

Advanced DesignInstructor : Hope Hasbrouck, Partner: Britta Johanson

Highland Mall, Austin, TX

Graduate General Design Award of Excellence, Texas ASLA 2011

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Highland Mall Inside-Outside

Site PlanSite Diagrams

Daylighted creek restores native plants and wildlife to formerly 95% paved area

New branch of the popular Austin Community College

Hierarchy of paths connect visitors to city wide trails and amenities across the site

Wraps around new mall buildings providing retail access and spectator space

Hosts a wide variety of competitive and community recreation

Result from folding the old mall and increasing density along a calmed Airport Blvd.

Restricted vehicular access prioritizes pedestrians and bicycles

Tucked under retail boardwalk and in small lots across the site

Riparian Restoration ACC Campus

Pedestrian circulation Retail boardwalk

Performance Space New Buildings

Vehicle Access Parking

Austin, Texas

Texas, USA

I-35

MOPAC (Loop 1)

US-290

Travis County

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Changing the LANDSCAPE scrape peel

Changing the ARCHITECTURE cut fold

Existing ConditionsHighland Mall is sealed from the

Step 1Determine cut lines to open

Step 2Remove building along cut lines

Step 3Fold buildings and diversify program

ResultNew buildings + contemporary “Landscape Theater”

Section through basketball courts, competitive track, retail boardwalk, underground parking and new Austin Community College building

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A group of mature Live Oak trees dating from the 1970 construction of the mall are incorporated into the new plan be relocating them to the ACC campus quad where they frame paths, shade a great lawn and give identity to the place.The rest of the site features native grasses and trees that require little irrigation and provide ample shade.

Existing Tree Plan

Section through Austin City College Campus

Section through Roller Girl Amphitheater

View from retail boardwalk overlooking track, basketball and skate park View from Roller Girl Amphitheater across riparian zone to Highland Mall

Site sections indicating program adjacencies and diversity (above) Highland Mall materials palette featuring high performance recycled competition surfaces, native plants and trees, and limestone (below)

ACC Restored Creek

Residential CourtyardSkate ParkTrack and Field

Playground Pools

ACC Campus Locations (Highland Mall Proposed)

Planting Plan

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04.SMovement as Structure at Reimer’s Ranch

Design and Visual Studies in Landscape Architecture IIInstructor: Kira Applehans

Reimer’s Ranch, Austin, TX

Aldo Leopold states that the land cannot be merely thought of as soil, but instead must include the soil, plants and animals. The movement of these forces shapes the land, and their occupation creates unique senses of place. Because “man-made changes have effects on the land that are not intended of foreseen,” human movement through the site must be sensitive, yet still allow freedom to engage the landscape in spiritually captivating ways. This design invites uses to participate in the movement of water, prairie management and plant movement. Its paths hearken to animal movement, its nodes are inspired by animal homes, and it creates insertions for humans to delicately stretch the possibilities

River bank

Oak savannah

Big boulder river bank

Canyon

Eroding river banks

Ecotones

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Site PlanSite DiagramsSite Sections

Tree Farm

Campgrounds

Water Amphitheater

Parkour Platforms

Parkour Platforms

Performance Platform

Fire Viewing Platforms

Fire Viewing PlatformsArtist Residency& Performance

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View of observation platforms along running paths

Tree Farm

Post-Oak Savannah Burn Plot

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phase 1: develop paths and remove ashe juniper

phase 3: build major structures and continue clearing

phase 2: build platforms and burn cleared plots

phase 5: additional platforms and orchard, continued clear and burn

phase 4: burning of cleared plots and continued cleaning

phase 6: final platform built and burn

Removing Ashe juniperThough a native species, Ashe juniper has become invasive due to human influence. Buffalo and fire were historical controls on the plant, but have been eradicated and suppressed respectively by rapid urbanization and development in America. The dominance of Ashe juniper is a form of desertification because it out-competes native grasses that capture rainfall and whose extensive root network cleanses the water before it reaches the aquifer. This design incorporates a process of removing the trees that mimics the movement of buffalo and fire across the site. Burn plots are cleared of the trees and subsequently burned to discourage seedling growth. This allows enough time for native grass seeds to re-establish dominance in the ecosystem.

The design uses the cleared trees to construct viewing platforms to observe the burns and gather in the landscape. It also houses a educational tree farm which grows native Texan trees and collects seeds for future propagation.

Viewing platform

Burn plots

Native Tree Farm

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