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R E S U M E + P O R T F O L I OL A U R E N B A R R Y
LAUREN E. BARRY28 Carroll Street #1
Brooklyn, NY 11231
lbarry@project-plant.com
347.452.3215
OWNER/PRINCIPAL DESIGNERPROJECT PLANTBROOKLYN, NY 2009 – PRESENT
Established Project Plant to fulfill my desire to
have a lead role in design and be more hands
on in construction. I currently design, build and
maintain residential landscapes in New York
City and Long Island. Recent projects include
two rooftop terraces in DUMBO, gardens and
playhouse with greenroof in Park Slope, gar-
dens for a brownstone in Cobble Hill, gardens
for a summer home in North Haven and design
and installation of planter boxes and seasonal
displays.
DESIGNERDLANDSTUDIOBROOKLYN, NY2008 – 2010
Project designer for MoMA’s Rising Currents Ex-
hibition, Metropolitan Home’s Showtime House,
Gowanus Canal Sponge Park, Raising Malawi
Academy for Girls, SUNY Purchase Green Roof,
Brooklyn Bridge ‘Pop-up’ Park, Brooklyn Bridge
Mitten Rink, Emerson Place Condominiums, and
16 Sidney Residence. Developed water manage-
ment plans, produced construction drawings
and graphics through all design phases, built
digital and physical models, researched specific
design products and technologies, and provided
cost estimates.
E X P E R I E N C E
FREELANCE DESIGNERWE DESIGN, LANDGARDEN +GREAT ECOLOGY NEW YORK, NY2010 – 2011
WE DESIGN: Project designer for Phoenix
House Westchester Campus Courtyard, Shelter
Island Residence, New York City Terrace and
NY Horticultural Society’s ‘Sustainable Yard’s:
Overlooked Assets’ conference. Developed
informational and graphic material for all
projects and provided cost estimates. Served
as company liaison for community meetings and
other informational sessions.
LANDGARDEN: Assisted in meeting competition
and RFI deadlines by preparing renderings and
other presentation documents.
GREAT ECOLOGY: Created public access
master plan design and provided research
and calculations for a hydropumping plan for
a brownfield site on the Raritan River in New
Jersey. Developed graphics ranging from fully
rendered perspectives to diagrammatic plans
and sections. Designed conceptual grading,
layout and planting plan for a brook restoration
in Tarrytown, NY.
MLA 2009University of Arizona
BS ASTRONOMY 2005University of Arizona
BA PHYSICS 2005University of Arizona
EDUCATIONCONTACT
DESIGNERRADER + CREWSBROOKLYN, NY2011 – 2012
Worked on a wide range of landscape projects
from campus walks and plazas at Brown Univer-
sity and Rockefeller University, to ‘Navy Green’,
an Urban housing development in Brooklyn, to
the Zen Mountain Monastery in upstate NY, to
private country and city residences including
NYC rooftops, a Hudson River estate, and
family homes in New York and New Jersey.
Produced construction drawings and provided
construction administration. Other primary tasks
included grading, planting design, stormwater
management calculations, creating presentation
graphics for client meetings and tree tagging at
nurseries.
R E S
RESEARCH ASSISTANT - HYDROLOGYU.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYTUCSON, AZ2005 – 2009
Performed fieldwork for the Land-Subsidence
and Ground-Water Storage Monitoring project in
the Tucson Basin. Took gravity measurements
to determine subsurface water mass with
corresponding GPS measurements to determine
surface elevation at specific benchmarked
positions in order to evaluate land subsidence.
Collected, analyzed and entered data for the
Lower Colorado River & Yuma Well Inventory
projects for GWSI (Groundwater Site Inventory);
a database of water level measurements,
well construction information, driller’s logs,
and ownership information for individual wells
used to construct subsurface hydrologic
models created to provide a framework for
the establishment and redevelopment of water
policy within the southwestern United States.
DESIGNER/RESEARCH ASSISTANTTHE DRACHMAN INSTITUTETUCSON, AZSUMMER 2007
Participated in “Building Healthy
Neighborhoods,” a community outreach
project aimed at improving the quality of life
in low income neighborhoods surrounding the
University of Arizona. Worked with targeted
neighborhoods to develop and update
neighborhood plans, researched and developed
strategies, and designed infrastructure to
facilitate healthy lifestyles such as greenways,
pedestrian and bicycle paths, and parks.
PRIVATE GARDENERINDEPENDENT/SANDRA BOWMAN GARDEN DESIGNLONG ISLAND, NY2000 – 2005
Private gardener at residences in the North
Fork and Hampton areas of Long Island, NY.
Specific projects have included the construction
and maintenance of Japanese moss gardens,
woodland gardens, formal English-style
gardens, knot gardens, parterres, and small-
scale construction such as walkways and
retaining walls.
COMPUTER APPLICATIONSAdobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe
Illustrator, Google Sketch-Up Pro, AutoCAD,
ArcGIS, Trimble Geomatics Office, MS Word, MS
Excel, MS Powerpoint.
OTHERModel making experience, proficiency in hand
graphics, 10+ years of hands on garden design
and maintenance.
S K I L L S E T ACHIEVEMENTS2010 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LAND-SCAPE ARCHITECTS (ASLA) Award of Honor, Analysis and Planning, for
Gowanus Canal Sponge Park; dlandstudio,
project designer.
2009 – 2010 MoMA, YOUNG ARCHITECT’S PROGRAMRising Current’s Exhibition Team Member; Lower
Manhattan: A New Urban Ground.
2009 AIA NEW YORK STATEAward of Merit, Unbuilt, for Gowanus Canal
Sponge Park; dlandstudio, project designer.
2009 ARIZONA ASLAAward of Excellence, Analysis and Planning
Student Collaborative, for Biosphere 2.1
– Catalyst for Sustainability.
2009 BSA/AIAUrban Regeneration Award for Gowanus Canal
Sponge Park; dlandstudio, project designer.
2009 THE CHICAGO ATHENAEUM:MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNAmerican Architecture Award for Gowanus Canal
Sponge Park; dlandstudio, project designer.
2008 NEW YORK ASLAAward of Merit, Unbuilt, for Gowanus Canal
Sponge Park; dlandstudio, project designer.
2008 ARIZONA BUILDERS ALLIANCEPortfolio Competition Winner
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS2009 Outstanding Design Master’s Report
2008 1st Place, 5th Semester Studio
Competition
2007 1st Place, Individual Project
U M E
R E S I D E N T I A LW O R K
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS TOWNHOUSEDLANDSTUDIO 2008 – 2010
This Brooklyn Heights Townhouse brings
minimalism to the outdoors while featuring
unique details such as a water wall fountain
fueled by roof runoff, a reclaimed teak fence
with protruding bench, and an arbor with a chain
mail curtain and swing.
While at dlandstudio, I built a 3-d digital model,
conducted a shade study, researched plant and
building materials, created paving and fencing
patterns, calculated a water budget, and
produced construction drawings for this project.
PARK SLOPE TOWNHOUSEPROJECT PLANT2010 – PRESENT
This once unorganized, elongated Brooklyn
backyard was transformed into a striking
modern garden by transplanting existing
vegetation and bringing in new plants and
shrubs placed specifically to emphasize the
strong geometries created by an existing
bluestone path.
Bold colored bulbs and perennials were added
to brighten the once drab space. Boxwoods
were planted in groups to provide year-long
structure. Liriope was used in the same manner
providing a deep green contrast to surrounding
materials. A perennial garden blooms a sea
of red tulips in spring and transforms into a
meadow-like wildflower garden in summer. In the
back patio area, blue Mexican beach pebbles
were hammered into the joints of locust slab
pavers and a tall hedge provides screening
from a heavily used neighborhood easement.
An upper level terrace features an herb garden,
other edible plants and drought tolerant
sedums.
BEFORE
IN PROGRESS
PARK SLOPE PLAYHOUSEPROJECT PLANT 2012
Designed and constructed for a very special
little girl on her 2nd birthday, this custom
playhouse has a greenroof, built in swing,
vintage Vermont slate chalkboard, and a sliding
back barn door with a view to the neighbor’s
chicken coop. The idea of a child given a gift,
being more excited about the box than what
was inside it, was the concept behind this
design. As seen from the terrace above, when
not in use, the playhouse looks like a simple
garden structure set in a seasonally changing
meadow, but when in use, it comes alive.
Brightly painted shutters and doors pop open
making this structure the coolest neighborhood
hangout.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS PLANTERSPROJECT PLANT 2012
When brought onto this project I was given
swatches of brightly colored fabric used in the
overlooking parlor level of this Brooklyn Heights
brownstone and asked by the client to come up
with a planting design to suite her style which
she described as ‘tropical zen’.
A perennial combination of painted fern,
creeping jenny, and clematis was mixed with an
annual variety of dahlia, dichondra, euphorbia,
and the tall, broad leafed spikey crinum to
achieve what I interepreted the client’s vision
to be.
DUMBO ROOFTOP TERRACEPROJECT PLANT 2012
A low budget, low maintenance design was
created for a constantly travelling couple
looking to give their terrace a facelift. At their
request, I was given the fun challenge of only
being allowed to use fake plants.
Custom ipe planters were built with inner
supporting frames to hold faux boxwood
hedges. An area rug was cut from high quality,
plush astro-turf. Modern outdoor furniture was
chosen and select pillows were reupholstered
with brighter colored fabric to brighten things
up.
NAVY GREENHOUSING DEVELOPMENTRADER + CREWS 2011-2012
Encompassing an entire city block, this project,
across the street from the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
was once a vacant lot. The landscape portion
was designed to link together new mixed use
housing.
I was brought onto this project toward the end
of the design phase/beginning of construction.
I attended meetings with the client and
contractors as the project manager. I amended
plant plans to cater to client’s last minute
changes, travelled to nurseries in Pennsylvania
and Long Island to tree tag, provided assistance
to contractors, and oversaw the placement of
perennials, shrubs and trees.
GARRISON RESIDENCERADER + CREWS 2011-2012
Adjacent to the Hudson River in Garrison, NY
the landscape of this vacation home features
a maze garden, a games lawn, an orchard,
sitting terraces, a tennis court, covered walks,
a poolscape, scenic trails, a sitting area with
a view to West Point in the distance and many
intimate smaller gardens.
I was brought onto this project in it’s later
phases to provide construction administration,
create planting designs, and draw sketches to
give to the contractors for custom features. I
spent much time onsite placing plant materials
and coordinating with the landscapers.
WESTHAMPTON BEACH HOUSESANDRA BOWMAN GARDEN DESIGN2000 - 2004
While working under master gardener Sandra
Bowman, I assisted in the design of beds,
borders and annual displays in planter boxes. I
also served as forewoman for installations and
seasonal maintenance as well as organization
and preparation for special events held by the
client. This four-season landscape focuses
on using massings of native trees, shrubs,
grasses and perennials, especially along the
periphery, to maintain the integrity of the natural
environment and extremely sensitive ecology
present along Dune Road. The pool area is
surrounded by a mixture of perennials, annuals,
and ornamental shrubs bringing a burst of color
and liveliness to where the client’s family spends
much of their time.
NORTH HAVEN SUMMER HOMEPROJECT PLANT2010
Designed and built for a family with ecclectic
taste and desire for lots of variety, this
garden is a contemporary take on english
country style. Limited to a deer-proof planting
pallette, shrubs and perennials introduced to
the site include magnolia, boxwood, eastern
white pine, osmanthus, juniper, lamb’s ears,
foxglove, lavender and a variety of sages. Stone
pathways were built at certain thresholds. The
existing front retaining wall was demolished,
allowing more space for a border garden. Two
cloud-like parterres were added planking the
existing T-shaped pool patio to create a formal
atmosphere for entertaining.
BEFORE
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P L A N N I N GP U B L I C
LOWER MANHATTAN: A NEW URBAN GROUNDDLANDSTUDIO + ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH OFFICE2009 – 2010
Sea level is predicted to rise at least 2ft by
2050 and 6ft by 2100. As part of MoMA’s
Young Architects Program’s ‘Rising Currents:
Projects for New York’s Waterfront’ Exhibit,
Architecture Research Office and dlandstudio
were asked to propose design interventions for
lower Manhattan to account for this dramatic
change which could submerge 61% of the land
south of Canal Street.
Lower Manhattan: A New Urban Ground unites
existing and new infrastructure with harbor
ecologies to create a more responsive and
adaptive urban environment. As the only
landscape architect team member, I performed
water management and ecological calculations
to develop new urban ecologies of upland,
maritime forest, freshwater and saltwater
wetlands, designed new water-accepting and
distributing street typologies, and collaborated
in graphic production and the construction of a
large physical model.
RARITAN RIVER BROWNFIELDGREAT ECOLOGY2010 – 2011
Great Ecology conducted extensive fieldwork
and ecological research to come up with a
mitigation plan for a brownfield site located on
the Raritan River in New Jersey in an area where
there is minimal access to the waterfront.
I was brought in to synthesize their research
and conceptual design to form a public access
master plan. I sited trails, facilities, parking,
way-finding signage, gathering areas, vistas,
bird blinds, footbridges, boardwalks and a boat
launch and created supporting presentation
graphics.
Later in the design process I provided Great
Ecology with groundwater flow calculations for
a proposed Phytopumping area. I researched
and specified appropriate tree species and
calculated their pumping capacities to reduce
and prevent groundwater mounding in a walled
portion of the site.
ENHANCED UPLAND BUFFEREMERGENT MARSH
INVASIVE SPECIES BUFFER
OPEN WATER
EMERGENT MARSHISLAND FORESTED WETLAND
EMERGENT MARSH
OPEN WATER ENHANCED UPLAND BUFFER
EMERGENT MARSH
OPEN WATER
OPEN WATERDETERIORATED PAVEMENT AND RUBBLE ASPHALT CAP
VERTICAL SCALE EXAGGERATED: 5X
VERTICAL SCALE EXAGGERATED: 5X
VERTICAL SCALE EXAGGERATED: 5XSECTION 3 - PROPOSED MITIGATION DESIGN
SECTION 3 - TYPICAL MITIGATION DESIGN
SECTION 3 - EXISTING CONDITIONS (Hartman’s Pond)
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POTENTIALPARKING AREA 1
POTENTIALPARKING AREA 2
POTENTIALOFFSITE BOAT LAUNCH
POTENTIAL NATIVEPLANT CENTER
POTENTIAL CENTRALGATHERING SPACE
POTENTIALVIEWING PLATFORM
POTENTIAL COMPOSTINGBATHROOMS
POTENTIAL TRUCKTURNAROUND
POTENTIAL OBSERVATION SHELTER AND
ECO-DOCK
POTENTIALVISITOR KIOSK
POTENTIAL ACCESS ROAD
LEGENDBird BlindGathering Space
Woodchip Path
EnvironmentalSignage
FootbridgeVista
Crushed Stone PathBoardwalk
MITIGATING THE WATERSA STUDY OF REMEDIATION AND DESIGN FOR THE GOWANUS CANAL
Plagued by over a century’s worth of industrial
pollution and combined sewer overflows (CSOs),
the Gowanus Canal, located in Brooklyn, New
York, faces problems such as poor water quality
and clarity, which has led to severely degraded
aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. To make
matters worse, the area surrounding the canal
is facing increasing development pressures and
is currently underserved by public open space.
As it was determined early on in this project
that land-based mitigation and development
plans would not provide a holistic solution
due to land ownership issues, a solution that
focused on designing directly on top of the
waterbody seemed appropriate. As the focus
of my master’s report, this design was two-fold.
A modular floating treatment wetland system
was developed employing different methods of
bioremediation. The system was then applied
onsite forming a remediation park. In later
phases of the design, the system was used to
bridge water-based connections where land
based obstructions occurred to prospective
development plans such as dlandstudio’s
Sponge Park and a series of constructed
wetlands proposed by the US Army Corps of
Engineers.
The floating treatment wetland system includes
zooremediation modules featuring the native
eastern oyster (with each adult oyster capable
of filtering up to 50 gallons of water a day),
phytoremediation plots with native intertidal veg-
etative marsh species, floatables containment
basins, in addition to human components such
as floating walkways, seating and lighting.
BIOSPHERE 2.1CATALYST FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Originally developed in the late 1980’s to
research and develop self-sustaining space
colonization technology, Biosphere 2 is a wholly
unique facility, housing 4 biomes inside an
enormous enclosed glass structure. However
its original purpose has been outlived and the
site is now being re-imagined as a research
facility for global climate change and unique
tourism experience by the University of Arizona.
As such, the new mission states that the facility
should serve as a center for research, outreach,
teaching and life-long learning about Earth, its
living systems, and its place in the universe.
With aging facilities and a site poorly designed
for visitor experience, a strong need existed
for an updated vision and master plan to define
future possibilities and support the new mission.
Biosphere 2.1 – Catalyst for Sustainability is
an ambitious program designed to support and
further the new Biosphere 2 campus mission.
A catalyst speeds up chemical reactions by
increasing the rate at which molecules collide.
Similarly, the new Biosphere 2 campus is
designed to facilitate and increase the rate
of sustainable technology development and
knowledge innovation and implementation
by increasing the opportunity for interaction.
Interaction between researchers and the
Biosphere 2 facility, scientists and citizens,
academic disciplines, business and cutting edge
research, and Biosphere 2 and the surrounding
community.
Site arrival is realigned through an existing berm
to create a more direct and memorable arrival
sequence, flex space is added to accommodate
festivals, demonstration areas are included as
well as attractions such as a planetarium (the
largest in the world seating 500+ visitors), and
a Caribbean cafe, a theme based on one of the
biomes. Sustainable design features such as
green roofs, water harvesting, solar, and wind
energy features are located throughout the site.
In addition, a number of symbols are embedded
into the landscape as a means of formally
representing and interpreting fundamental
catalysts and structures in nature that help
sustain life. Peptide bonds which help form
amino acids, chlorophyll, water and the bonded
structure of the Biosphere were abstracted to
create a connection between public spaces and
important molecular processes for visitors.
RAISING MALAWI ACADEMY FOR GIRLSDLANDSTUDIO 2009 – 2010
Located in Lilongwe, Malawi, the Raising Malawi
Academy for Girls is a 100-acre campus
soon to be home to 500 schoolgirls. The
concept behind the site master plan draws on
cultural and ecological weaving to integrate
site elements with stormwater management
techniques, agriculture, and garden design
to form a robust and opportunistic living and
learning environment.
As a project designer, I participated in all
phases of the design process with the exception
of construction management. Individual
contributions to this project included performing
geophysical analyses from a regional to
a site-specific scale, product research,
grading, path and paving design, creation of a
stormwater management plan including sizing
and placement of water harvesting swales,
relocation of treatment wetlands and relocation
of facilities in relation to natural watercourses
on site.
GRADING + STORMWATER MANAGEMENT
PAVING STUDY + BRICK LAYING CEREMONY
ANDRE BROOKRESTORATIONGREAT ECOLOGY2011
Expanding on Hudson River Walk Park designed
by RGR landscape architects, Great Ecology
was asked to lead the restoration of a nearby
brook adjacent to a Metro North commuter
parking lot. Beginning with a rough sketch of
a plan focused on exposing interior islands,
I developed a conceptual layout, grading,
and planting plan keeping in mind the initial
intent of the lead designer while maintaining
practical grading limitations within an intertidal
zone. Following this I produced hand rendered
graphics for display to the Village of Tarrytown
community.
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SUNY PURCHASE GREENROOFDLANDSTUDIO2009
Renovation plans for the SUNY Purchase
Visual Arts Building called for the addition of
a greenroof. A concept was created that took
advantage of the elevational hierarchy of the
rooftop, which provided platforms for plant
palettes carefully selected to showcase a wave
of colorful blooms across the seasons.
Although the greenroof is not occupiable, it
provides visual interest from within the building
where black rooftop had previously dominated
views of the forest encompassing the campus.
Inherently, the greenroof helps to manage
stormwater, increase energy efficiency, and
attract wildlife.
The final bid set includes a combined layout,
materials, and planting plan as well as detail
drawings.
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