Jennifer A. SandovalLANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE + URBAN DESIGN

Jennifer A. Sandoval phone: 505-934-5913 mail: 1520 N. Davidson St. Charlotte, NC e-mail: JenSandoval19@gmail.com

AboutMy interests within the fields of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design include; streetscapes, parks and green spaces, urban redvelopment and infill, civic space, integrating landscape architecture in therapeutic and healthcare design, and urban rivers and waterfronts.

Education2012-May 2015: Master of Landscape Architecture- with Distinction Certificate Urban + Regional Design University of New Mexico

2007-2011: Bachelor of Arts: Fine Art, Minor Management University of New Mexico

Employment-Site Designer I-Intern, ColeJenest & Stone, Raleigh, NC-Media Assistant/Intern, Planning Dept., Bernalillo County, Albuq. NM

Software Skills

Adobe Creative Suite Autodesk: CAD, Civil 3D

Microsoft OfficeGIS

SketchUP

Organizations 2015 - Current ASLA Member

2011-2015 UNM Student ASLA Member 2013-2014 President

2012-2013 1st Year Chair

Exhibitions/Competitions/Conferences2015 All Over The Map Exhibition @ Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM2014 NOMA Between Spaces Competition, New Orleans, LA-First Place2014 CABQ Iconic Public Art Competition, Albuquerque, NM-Finalist2014 ASLA Annual Conference, Denver, CO2014 Design Futures Forum @ Tulane University, New Orleans, LA2014 Competition Team Member Reanimate The Ruins of Detroit, Packard Plant, Detroit, MI2014 Community Event Planning + Facilitation, International District, Albuquerque, NM2014 Heart of The City Exhibition @ 516Arts, Albuquerque, NM

NO.9Conceptual Design

LUCKY 13Iconic Art Competition

INTERSTITCHINGUrban Design Interventions

DESIGN YOUR COMMUNITYDesign Game

-ALBERT EINSTEIN

POWER UPDesign Competition

TECHNICALSite PlanPlanting Plan

GRAPHICSRenderings

$2 A POPEdible Flower Popsicles

NO.9:Photoshop::Illustrator::InDesign::Physical Model Building::AutoCAD

Downtown Albuquerque is in need of an iconic project that puts the city on the map. This urban park design is intended not only to create a single iconic piece of art, but also a create a place where locals can take in the sunshine, stroll through, or meet up with friends right in the heart of the city.

Inspired by the local annual Balloon Fiesta, the design includes a total of 9 installations representing the 9 districts of the downtown area. There are 8 smaller geodesic “balloons”, 1 large observation tower “balloon”, a series of planters, shade trees, and a splash pad to cool off in the hot summer months. The smaller “balloon” structures double in function for solar power collection capabilities, which is used to power the park at night.

conceptual design +construction details

Lucky 13:SketchUp::Photoshop::Illustrator::InDesign::Hand Rendering::Physical Model Building

iconic art competition

Building from and re-working the core idea of the previous project (NO.9), Lucky 13 was submitted 1.5 years later for a competition submission.

Albuquerque is the 32nd largest city in the United States, but its downtown skyline lacks an iconic emblem worthy of its emerging status. “Lucky 13” installation’s primary structure gives a striking symbol to Albuquerque’s downtown. 12 other similar structures are located throughout the Albuquerque metropolitan area. In total the piece is comprised of 13 total structures, with their shape drawing from the iconic hot-air balloons that grace the sky’s of Albuquerque every October. The total of the 13 structures draw from the first Balloon Fiesta event held in 1972.

The primary structure, or observation tower, soars 350-feet in the heart of downtown Albuquerque, and is sited at Civic Plaza and adjacent to the Convention Center. The design features a bar/café and event space, a viewing gallery for special art and cultural exhibits, and a dynamic observation deck. The base of the observation tower activates Civic Plaza by offering shade, a small amount of retail, and a queuing area.

The 12 smaller balloon structure installations range in height to mimic the flight patterns of the hot air balloons that famously take off, land, and fly across the Albuquerque sky every October. Located in each of the 9 Albuquerque Districts at current transportation hubs and stations, where high concentrations of pedestrian traffic are currently occurring or might occur if a city-wide transportation system was implemented. The installations also serve as mini-plazas that offer shade and digital news centers.

Functioning as more than just art, the installations are made of aluminum geodesic frames, which support the glass panels that form the “envelope” of the balloons. The glass panels use new energy technology of Solar Windows™ to collect the near 278 days of solar energy that Albuquerque is exposed to. The solar energy powers both the LED illumination glow of the balloons at night and the digital information centers. Located at the pedestrian level on the poles of the structures, the digital information centers incorporate features such as speakers for music, alerts and warning systems, wireless hot spot capabilities, electronic device charging stations, digital signage and way-finding, advertisements (to generate revenue), digital civic bulletin boards and news centers, and real-time digital bus schedules. The observation tower which will be most iconic of the 13-part installation, enables visitors to inhabit one of the structures via glass elevator (3) and take in the majestic and unique 360° views of Albuquerque from 350‘ above ground in the heart of the downtown core.

GLASS ELEVATOR (3)

LED PROJECTION SCREENS -movies -digital art

BAR/CAFE (rental space)

GALLERY SPACE

OBSERVATION DECK

LED COLOR ILLUMINATION

DIGITAL INFORMATION CENTER

SOLAR GLASS -translucent fabric (alt.)

350 feet

ALUMINIUM -pole -frame

PERSPECTIVE OF DIGITAL COMPONENT OF THE “LUCKY 13” INSTALLATIONPERSPECTIVE LOOKING EAST AT CIVIC PLAZA “LUCKY 13” INSTALLATION

“LUCKY 13” INSTALLATION LOCATIONS

District 1 + 3: Central + Unser Transit Hub

District 5: NW Transit Hub

District 2: Montano Transit Station

District 2: Central + Rio Grande Transit Station

District 2: Civic Plaza

District 1 + 3: Alvarado Transit Hub

District 2 + 4: Montano Transit Hub

District 4: Balloon Museum

District 8: Hoffmantown Church

District 9: SW Transit HubDistrict 7: Uptown Transit Hub

District 6: Nob Hill Transit Station

District 6: International District Transit Station

INTERSTITCHING:Photoshop::Illustrator::InDesign

Often in the existing urban environment there are many leftover, sometimes ugly or neglected interstitial spaces. The overshadowed spaces exist as a multitude of disconnected pieces in the fabric of the city.

Downtown Albuquerque’s Second Street is filled with these interstitial spaces that provide opportunities waiting to be exploited. Urban components and districts such as a housing district, a designated bike boulevard, an entertainment district, an urban farm, and an artistic culture are currently in need of being pulled together.

This design is intended to value, nurture, and connect these existing components through a series of interventions based on interviews of people found throughout the downtown area. This series of linear interventions along the Second Street corridor connects users from the Rail Yards to the downtown core by connecting existing pieces of incoherent urban fabric while providing various types of destinations for all age groups and encouraging continual cycles of use, which foster vibrant and bustling cities.

urban design interventions

process work

[dead-end alley] [outdoor stage] [parking lot + vacant building]

[bikinglot +convenient

store]

Downtown Albuquerque needs “more outdoor events”

Downtown Albuquerque needs “all age events”

Downtown Albuquerque needs “tourist attractions”

[fenced urban farm] [accessible public space and urban

farm]

[under used facade] [parklet]

Downtown Albuquerque needs “more people”

Downtown Albuquerque needs “more open market events”

[sitting on the floor] [a place to sit with shelter]

[abandoned courtyard] [playground]

rail yards

Downtown Albuquerque should be “children friendly”

Downtown Albuquerque needs “more art”

Design Your Community:Photoshop::Illustrator::InDesign::AutoCAD:GIS

This thesis project was a small demonstration of the power and possibilities of alternative methods to engage the public more actively and meaningfully and improve public meetings. This project morphed over a year and a half and was stregthened using literature and case study research methods. Benalillo County employees who took the time to participate in the tests expressed their enthusiasm with the idea of using a game to engage the public. Hopefully by introducing some of the Bernalillo County employees to an alternative idea, the game increases their curiosity to use different or new methods to more effectively engage the public and other stakeholders in their future public processes. Their brief though informative responses demonstrated that there is an interest and openness to explore possibilities to improve the public processes. Games help to improve the problems of lack of interest, lack of meaningful input, lack of diversity, and lack of trust in the community input found in current public processes. The game provides tangible initial design concepts that can be used in the first step of the design process. This project adds to the toolbox of community members, design professionals, and government agencies to use to accomplish real change through a format that provides clear communication, empowerment, and shared understanding.

design game

PROVIDE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS

A TOOL

TO EDUCATE ENGAGE WORK WITH END USERS

-ALBERT EINSTEIN

design game Digital Game Prototype: Stop motion video screen shots

Game being tested by Bernalillo County (NM) employees

Game Board Diagram

Game Pieces: Cards

Game Pieces: Program Elements

Power Up:AutoCAD::Photoshop::Illustrator::InDesign

design competitionPartners: Fang Ding, Carly Piccarello

car + road = vibrationvibration = energyenergy = POWER UP

pop-up aluminum tent

steel ladder trellisbrass cymbal chandelier

In its current state the US-90 underpass between O.C. Haley and St. Charles in New Orleans, Louisiana is a barrier and ‘dead zone’ that physically separates the Central City + Garden District neighborhoods from Downtown New Orleans in the Central Business District neighborhood.

Power Up is about physically and socially reconnecting these neighborhoods by serving as a seam to bring the individual pieces of the city fabric together. Elements such as market space, green space, performance space, a transportation hub, and public leisure space, run the 3 block length of the underpass. Power Up serves as an engaging civic junction that attracts urban dwellers and Big Easy tourists alike.

From the ground plane and large concrete pillars, to the ceiling, Power Up draws on elements typically found in an interior environment, and places them in and onto the industrial infrastructure of the US-90 underpass, Power Up uses the US-90 freeway vibrations for electricity to power a massive, musical chandelier and galaxy of LED lights that hang from industrial infrastructure of the underpass. Other amenities such as kinetic louvered-blind market stalls, vertical green walls on existing concrete columns, and a manicured, carpet-like ground plane are used to humanize the industrial infrastructure for all visitors of the US-90 underpass.

The underpass transformation turns the space from a barrier to vital component to the city of New Orleans.

market stallreflection pool

the big easy swing locker bench

cord = piezoelectric transducer

single cymbal = LED light source

double cymbal = sound

noise + shadow + ceiling drainslogic

noise + location : chandelier placementceiling

sunlight + access + drainage : ground plane pattern

floor

kit of partskinetic blind market stall

fire water escapeladder trellis

energy swings

power pack storage pillar

water + paving + green strips

locker benchcymbalchandelierinstallation

aluminum pop-up tent

LED lightinstallation

stage

vibration

electricity

sunlight + access + drainage : ground plane pattern

aluminum pop-up tent

vibration

electricity

church mission

park + ride news station parking

dairy

offices

greenspace

full-servicepublic restrooms (4)

lockerbench (72)

benchreflectionpools

caretakerquarters

play space (4)

mainhallwayconcretesurface

market/parking stall (96)

performancestage (3)

pop-up aluminumtent (28)

Professional Work:site plan, planting plan, renderings

AutoCAD::Photoshop::InDesign

site plan, planting plan, renderings

$2 A Pop:

This final project was an open-ended project with a task of representing what the high desert means to me. I created edible floral popsicles with flowers that grow in the high desert. Along with the popsicles is a recipe and a brief blurb about the high desert.

THE HIGH DESERT is a place where a designer needs to be CREATIVE, SMART, and SENSITIVE when designing. It’s not only a place for PRETTY drought-tolerant plants, but a place where plants can be USEFUL and even EDIBLE. Just remember, sometimes you have to be patient because the high desert is a place where over TIME plants in the landscape can surprise you.

edible floral popsicles

Thank You Jennifer A. Sandoval

ASLAMaster of Landscape Architecture

Urban + Regional Design Certificate

JenSandoval19@gmail.com505.934.5913