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I can understand that, and while yes it is different, maybe something that you could do to help the viewer understand the relationship that you are expressing a little more, is to make a reference to the experiential aspect of both music and landscape architecture. Something to bridge the bridge the gap between the two.

State Highway has a detail for curb cuts, with a concrete flume -ish thing. But this, as said before, will concentrate the flow and then you have to look at putting in rip rap or some other energy dissipation device, which may not be attractive. A depressed curb, will allow sheet flow and still maintain edging for pavement. On parking spaces…[Read more]

ashish,

Looking good buddy…. What does the cover have to do with the rest of the portfolio???? needs a little more coherence…. But overall great graphics. GOOD LUCK

Congrats to a fellow Dawg.

What type of job are you looking for? High design, design build? Municipal? Your portfolio should reflect the job needs.

Thanks, I will check into Almere

You could go completely curbless and sheet flow into planting which will reduce the concern for erosion through certain strategically placed “inlets” unless you are trying to hold grade in some areas…Another interesting thing to think about it a plant list or materials as far as a detail for infiltration and treating the run off. Good luck!…[Read more]

The graphic work and presentation of it is interesting in a good way, I love the color that is in the presentation, but it can be a little overwhelming. The biggest issue that I have with it though, what is the connection between the audio tape to begin and end the portfolio? There maybe a good reason for having it but at a quick glance it doesn’t…[Read more]

My gut feeling:
Lots of skill but the presentation is frenetic. No unifying design to hold it together.

can you create a style that can take us through your many varied incarnations without becoming those incarnations?

Nice.

The overall layout is very nice, though it might overwhelm some of the landscape work a bit. There are a lot of font sizes, but I think it all works pretty well.

I’d like to see a little more ‘build-up’ of your hand sketches/process drawings–if nothing more than to illustrate your personality and how you might think. Although I like the…[Read more]

Jason,
Everything you said about concrete vs. local stone is true. I prefer local stone. But urbanite, which is blocks of broken concrete from old roads or buildings, is still a good alternative if there is no local stone available. It ends up in the landfill if it isn’t reused.
http://www.terranovalandscaping.com/blog/2007/02/07/90/

Those Dutch firms seem to be quite adept at getting their work into print, don’t they? I’ve been to Holland several times and I really can’t think of many examples. You might want to explore the new town of Almere…I think its Zuid-oost polder…better look that one up. I visited there because I wanted to see how the Dutch did new towns. What I…[Read more]

the problem is people do not use LOCAL stone, they want greek marble, french limestone, lunar moon fragments, or rose quartz, or xyz exotic granite… concrete can provide those “exotic” looks with materials that are already available. The question was to find other alternatives to quarried stone, I agree that if you can find a responsible quarry…[Read more]

Yeah, I’m going to definately look into local quarries that our office can specify stone from.
However, I did look up Vulcan and they do a lot of aggregate extraction here around LA and it’s pretty bad. There is a whole website and community uproar about their company.

http://www.saveourcanyon.org/

So I guess this really comes down to what Jason…[Read more]

And on the lighter side of this discussion, The Onion weighs in…http://www.theonion.com/articles/geologists-we-may-be-slowly-running-out-of-rocks,17341/

In all seriousness, working with a local stone supplier that you trust is what has worked for me when using natural stone. I love the concrete comments though. There are so many things that can…[Read more]

I think that, depending on where you are, natural stone IS the sustainable choice. If quarried locally, there is minimal transportation costs, especially when you consider that any concrete product is an amalgamation of many materials, each needing transport and refining. The process to create concrete is also very carbon intensive, as the cement…[Read more]

I agree with Bob. Recycled concrete is probably the best option. It’s called urbanite. Here’s a link that to an article on it: http://blog.sustainablog.org/the-recycled-post-industrial-green-building-material-urbanite/
Stone found on site is even better, but there’s no guarantee it will be flat enough to work as paving stone.

Ahh, it seems the ‘finding a balance’ arguement works here. Until we stop buiding roads, highways, bridges, houses, shopping malls, schools, churches and other buildings and structures, places like this will exisit. I’d venture to say that hardscape applications of quarried materils is a very low, single diget percentage of all quarried materials.…[Read more]