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DANIEL SCHEIR WORK SAMPLES2019
The graduate design studio in the spring 2019 semester tasked students with creating conceptual redesigns of various public schoolyards in Los Angeles County. The student designs aim to support to following categories:
• environmental health and social justice• student academic success• student physical activity levels• student and staff mental health and well-being I chose to focus my project around improving the physical health of Solano students and community. Situated directly adjacent to the 110 freeway, the students and community are negatively impacted by air and noise pollution. The presence of the freeway also creates a physical division through the center of the community.
My schoolyard redesign creates a valued amenity to the students and community by providing enticing recreation, community connection, access to healthy foods, and mitigation of damaging air and noise pollution.
THE NEST (Solano Avenue Elementary)A Schoolyard Design for Physical Health
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FREEWAYCHALLENGE COURSE
RESTREST UNSTRUCTURED PLAY
Section AA
CONNECTION (Huntington Gardens)
In the first year of my MLA program at Cal Poly Pomona I took an elective course where students were tasked with creating preliminary designs for an expansion at The Huntington Gardens. The upper plateau area at the Huntington will soon be developed to accomodate for an authentic 16th century magistrate’s compound that was donated from Japan. Students were paired up in groups of three to four people and conducted design charettes with decision makers and stakeholders at the Huntington. Key elements that all groups were encouraged to include in their design of the upper plateau were the inclusion of a new Korean garden, and an East Asian Cultural Arts Center. The goals of our design were to connect the Japanese, Chinese, and Korean gardens with water and smooth transitional pathways. To utilize the philosophies of yin yang and feng-shui to create unity. Lastly, to encourage cross-cultural activities through the integration of the East Asian Cultural Arts Center.
Some of my role in this project involved conceptualizing the layout of the cultural arts center and figuring out how to integrate the building into the landscape. I also created section perspectives, and a number of perspective renders to further illustrate our concepts. At the end of the quarter, each group presented their designs to a group of donors, board members, and other stakeholders at the Huntington.
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The first semester design studio in the second year of Cal Poly’s MLA program involved student participation in the International Geodesign Collaboration (IGC). The IGC is a forum for conceptualizing, planning, and designing for large-scale, long-term, and multi-system changes that will impact our global landscapes in the near future. In groups of three or four, students conducted extensive research and proposed preliminary planning and design solutions for ecological and social issues identified in the Los Angeles Basin. Employing Carl Steinitz’s geodesign framework, students performed representation and process models at the regional scale. Questions and criteria were posed and mapped through evaluation models to ultimately determine areas of high suitability for focus in the second half of the planning process. After neighborhood selections were made, students once again conducted
representation, process, and evaluation models to understand the social and ecological functions of the area.
From this information, students were tasked with proposing suitable innovations that would address the major issues affecting their neighborhoods and the ten infrastructure systems laid out by the IGC..Lastly, impact studies were conducted to measure the mitigation, adaptation, and co-ben efits from proposed innovations.
Through our regional selection criteria, my team decided to focus on a coastal neighborhood including the City of Santa Monica, and communities such as Venice, Marina del Rey, and Mar Vista. The work from the entire semester was organized into a poster format given to us by the IGC coordinators. .
CAPTURE THE COAST (West L.A.)Planning for Future Scenarios
Low Suitability
Medium Suitability
High Suitability
LEGEND
Secondary SWG
Primary SWG
SWG Origin
SWG Terminus
Ballona Wetlands
Redondo Beach Marina
L.A. Harbor
L.A. River Estuary
The Rose Bowl
Cal StateLos Angeles
Cal StateDominguez Hills
Dodger Stadium
Hansen Flood Control BasinBrown’s Creek
Cal State Northridge
Bob Hope Airport
The Getty
L.A.X.
Arcadia WashEaton Canyon
201510
Km
50 2.5
SUITABILITY ANALYSIS
Total Corridor Length
Number of Added Trees
GHG Reductions
2020
40,294
1,790 3,564 9,215
80,193 207,333
(ft)
(MT CO2)
2035 2050
2,544 5,065 13,098
Equivalent To
2,805 Cars Taken off the
Road for a Year
Linear Greenway Corridors
Total Capacity
GHG Reductions
Water Storage Tunnel
21.6 Million
When Re-Used For Irrigation In Our Neighborhood
Equivalent To350,533MT CO275,061 Cars Taken off
the Road for a Year20 Million
Gallons / Day
(Gallons)
Total Canopy Area
GHG Reductions
2020
250,000 480,000 1,000,000
(m²)
(MT CO2)
2035 2050
Equivalent To
63,000 120,000 273,000
58,000 Cars Taken off the
Road for a YearSolar Canopy Parking
Metro Stops
Greenway Corridors 2020
Greenway Corridors 2035
Greenway Corridors 2050
Areas with Silva Cells2020 & 2035
Areas with Silva Cells2050
Public Parks
LEGEND
Secondary SWG
Highway
Primary SWG
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
10
405
2
1
1
90
Venice BeachBallona Wetlands
Santa Monica Pier
Va Medical Center
Museum of ToleranceRancho Park Golf Club
Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica Municipal Airport
University of California, Los Angeles
4Km
3210 .5
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
Diversion Facility
Secondary SWG
Highway
Primary SWG
Water Storage Tunnel
Areas with Modular Wetlands2020 & 2035
Areas with Modular Wetlands2050
Public Parks
LEGEND
10
405
2
1
1
90
Venice BeachBallona Wetlands
Santa Monica Pier
Va Medical Center
Museum of ToleranceRancho Park Golf Club
Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica Municipal Airport
University of California, Los Angeles
4Km
3210 .5
ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE
Solar Canopy Lot Clusters2020
Solar Canopy Lot Clusters2035
Solar Canopy Lot Clusters2050
Public Parks
LEGEND
Secondary SWG
Highway
Primary SWG
10
405
2
1
1
90
Venice BeachBallona Wetlands
Santa Monica Pier
Va Medical Center
Museum of ToleranceRancho Park Golf Club
Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica Municipal Airport
University of California, Los Angeles
4Km
3210 .5
The final design project during my Winter quarter design studio during my first year involved doing a site design for a 3.2 acre lot in Los Angeles’ historic Lincoln Heights neighborhood. A collegue and I worked together to create this conceptual design.
The class was instructed to design a public park to address the lack of green space in Los Angeles while serving as a performative node that contributes to the clean up and management of the area’s urban runoff. The list of required programs for our design is as follows: Biofiltration of urban runoff into the LA river, Retention of Captured/Filtered water to offset in-situ water usage, Public Park, Exhibition Space, Educational Space, Transit/Parking, Restroom, Comfort Station,Gathering Space.
Through research I found that the area surrounding the site had a large population of people experiencing homelessness and low income families without access to good transportation. I also discovered that there was no access to fresh food within walking distance of the area. From these discoveries I proposed to design a foragable landscape that could both serve the under served people living in the area while maintaining an appealing aesthetic.
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2 Million
3 Million
4 Million
5 Million
6 Million
7 Million
8 Million
Black WalnutOliveCherryCurrantsGooseberryTomatoesCucumbersBell PeppersLettuceBeansSquash
CALO
RIES
GROWING SEASON PRODUCTION
Each growing season produces enough food to feed 27 people every day for the following season.
PLANT TYPE
27
Forageables
Crops
19,858,271Total Kcals
THE HIVE (Lincoln Heights)A Park Design for Food Equality
