DANIELLA MONCAYO

PORTFOLIOLA 252L - SPRING 2016

STUDENT OF CAL POLY POMONA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

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Contact 951 317 0545

Daniella_moncayo_DM@yahoo.com

Personal Information• Current student at Cal Poly Pomona, studying Landscape Architecture• Skills: - Dedication to all my responsibilities and working hard to make a successful and passionate team - Able to problem solve in a stressed environment while maintaining a calm and efficient demeanor

Job Experience Michaels Craft Store

• Position: Kids Club Craft Teacher, Sales associate • Employed for 1 year and experienced on register, making bank trips, answering customer questions, teaching kids craft class every Saturday morning,• Learned how to help out every part of the team with a positive attitude.

PacSun

• Position: Stock lead/Sales Associate• Employed for 7 months, and successfully handled all the shipment that came in through the store and presented the new product to customers • Organized the back of the store during the week so managers could easily keep track of incoming clothing, as well as organized the visual floor plan of the store.• Top seller in the County three times by helping every customer out efficiently.

Panera Bread

• Position: Cashier, Busser, Server, Dishwasher• Employed for one year, motivated and successfully experienced all positions in the cafe.• Enthralled to help out every team member to create a positive flow during busy hours.

Recognitions• PacSun- Three time Top seller in the district• High school- Leadership “Husky” Award, City of Corona excellence in Art Award, Dance Choreographer of the year.• Michaels- Friendly, Fast service member, motivated teacher of the week, Kids Club• Panera Bread- Team member of the month, Positive Customer Reviews

BIOGRAPHYDaniella Moncayo, an aspiring Landscape Architect student at Cal Poly Pomona.

Every Sunday requires a new hiking trail, and family close by. I enthrall with being outdoors and meeting new people because it has brought me to new opportunities in life that have stretched my limits to not be afraid of what lies next.

Laguna Beach is always a go to for a beautiful day out, as well as any hiking trail at Skyline, Forest Falls, Mt. Rubidoux, or Idyllwild.

I enjoy sketching while on hiking trails, and love to focus on the negative spaces as I sketch. Starting with the negative can compromise a beautiful positive in the end of the sketch. I also enjoy drawing with small steps through sketching as it allows me to get attached to what I am drawing, and gives my drawing a character towards the end as well.

I have gone through several life challenges that have pushed me through finding a way to stay strong in the worst times. I always like to stay smiling, start dancing, and keeping my head up through all projects in school, all dance performances or competitions, and all jobs I have carried.

Team is a very big part of my life with not only my close family, but with peers around me. I love to be motivated by those around me, however, I also love bringing new ideas or new methods to challenge myself to be a strong individual. I believe that trial and error within a team creates the most positive and motivating team.

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PERSONAL STATEMENT

As an aspiring Landscape Architect, my desire as a designer is to investigate a site or a concept with my dance, and mu-sical background. There is an energy within each landscape that exists very easily in the dance realm as well as music. Alongside, both have an impact with the energy the design will ultimately provide for its appropriate audience. Within dance, I have studied an Urban style for 5 years with a college dance crew called Natural St8. Every practice we create a challenge and we overcome it as a team, such challenges can be running two miles in 15 minutes without leaving any members behind. These challenges and accomplishments we make as a team make the traveling from city to city worth it as we push ourselves to move as one team.

I also have studied Modern Dance at Cal Poly Pomona and have taken the challenge of comparing the body to the space around me to an extreme. This dance enables the body to experience emotions that connect you to such things like the floor, the air, the negative and positive spaces the body creates, as well as such things like lightness and darkness.

Within my enthrallment through music, for 10 years, I have learned music can move not only the body, but emotions with memories. This concludes a theory that everyone has a different experience with everyday objects, the way that everyone has a different experience tied to their favorite everyday song. Stairs, people in New York walk them going down the subway to their eight to five job with a mug of coffee, as for I remember the experience of walking through the hospital throughout my years at Kaiser Hospital in Riverside, California. The emotions that drive people to music is their experiences in life, and there can never be a wrong emotion, much like there can never be a wrong design in landscape architecture. There can be a flaw in flow, or technical issues with drainage, lighting, etc. However, I love to challenge myself within every song I hear to find the artists experience, emo-tion, with the object or subject they are implying on.

Landscape Architecture is a song, a dance through space and as designers of the space, I desire to uplift experiences, and draw an audience in with an open mind to what every other person’s story is, whether that be through music and dance, or through my experience with programs including: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Rhino, AutoCad, and Bridge. I would like to design with keeping in mind the energy that will be provided for the audience. Within a world with such high technology, interaction and emotions towards each other are fading, and as an aspiring landscape architect, I hope to be a part in opening the audiences mind to enthrall with every little moment they have.

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SKETCHESWithin these include scanning hand drawnimages, and dropping them into Photoshop.

RIVERSIDE, CA Within these sketches, I used a few different materials such as pen (line weights sixe 0.5, 01, 03, and F Pens. Using a few different pens with a variation of hatchings showed the shadowing of the buildings.

Alongside, the capturing of detail was portrayed just enough so that the viewer is able to have a feel for the charac-ter, and space that is provided.

The process of these images consisted of drawing the site in my sketch book, taking a picture of the site, and bringing both the images to the computer to render in Photoshop.

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UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO, CA

This was one of the quads within the camps, and consisted of the crooked house that was “magically” landed on top of the sketched building.

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This image was step one (photograph) alongside step two which was the sketch of the bridge at UCSD.

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UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO, CA

This image was created on a class field trip to San Diego. The process of this image consisted of photogrpahing sites on the campus, and later sketching the photograph. After sketching, there was a render within Photoshop to have the drawing overlay the image so that the color from the image is slightly seen.

This image consisted of requirements of random objects, and the challenge was making them all flow well together. Dead sun flowers, a cloudy sky, angry pedestrian, and a toddler were quite difficult to render. My technique going into it was to take my own photographs of certain things and make them black and white, so that there no need to focus on every added image, rather, the story of the whole image.

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LURIE GARDENS CHICAGO, IL

Through this project I designed a plan view as well as a section according to this park in Chicago Illinois. The plan view was one of my first mapping out of a site, and with several fixes of line-weight, color, and scalings, I was able to complete a site plan. The colored rendering allowed the plan view to have some character, however the line weighted plan view allowed for the audience to see all of the technical connections of grass and water,alongside trees and hard scape.

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GIANT HYSSOP

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AGASTACHE

ARUNCUS ‘HORATIO’

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LURIE GARDENSCHICAGO, IL

Within Lurie Gardens consists of several plants that vary through the seasons. With this playful section view of the park, the viewer is able to see the colors this park offers to its visitors. This diagram executes all four seasons from summer to winter, and portrays a different story within each season to bring the diagram into a personal connection with the

GIANT HYSSOP

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CERUS CANADENSIS

PRUNUS SARGENTII

ASCLEPIUS SYNACA

CAMASSIA CUSICKII

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RENAISSANCE FAIR CAL POLY POMONAPOMONA, CA

Through several renderings with Photoshop, my partner and I created a fair for the Graduating class of 2016. To throw in several fun activities at this fair, we created a music stage that was located in the main castle (in the middle of the quad), a ferris wheel, camping out areas to hang out with friends by the bonfires, hot air balloon rides, several food stands, and ziplining from rooftop to rooftop.

This project focused on the creativity as well as perspectives that one could create within a site. This challenged my ability to add several layers without making the image look completely distorted.

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These were two more perspectives within the fair that captured a moment between two different groups. Both were around sunset (when the event starts) and allows the viewer to feel welcomed into the event.

As for the night perspective on the left, it captures both the fun and success these graduates had throughout their time in college. Now, these gradutates who have enjoyed the event, and are esctatic start the adventures of adulthood.

UPDATED JUNE 2016