justin panganiban landscape architecture + urban design portfolio

JUSTIN PANGANIBAN

Landscape Architecture + Urban Design Portfolio

JUSTIN PANGANIBAN6262 27th Ave NE, Apt. 1

Seattle, WA [email protected]

SCHOOL & EMPLOYMENT2014-PresentUniversity of WashingtonSeattle, WAMaster of Urban Planning/Master of Landscape ArchitectureCertificate in Urban Design

2010-2014University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, CABachelor of Arts in Landscape Architecture, Highest HonorsMinor in City and Regional Planning & Minor in Sustainable Design

Jun 2015 - PresentAlta Planning + DesignSeattle, WAPlanning and Design Intern

Sep 2014 - Jun 2016Department of Urban Design & Planning, University of WashingtonSeattle, WAGraduate Research and Teaching Assistant

Jun 2014 - Sep 2014San Francisco Planning DepartmentSan Francisco, CAPavement to Parks/Living Alleys Intern

May 2013 - Aug 2013Transportation Sustainability Research Center,University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, CAUndergraduate Student Researcher

Apr 2012 - Jun 2012Institute of Transportation Studies,University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, CAUndergraduate Research Assistant

PUBLICATIONS & HONORSCitywide Assessment of Parklets & Plazas: Summary of data collected for Summer 2014 Public Life Study. Panganiban, J., & Abad, R. San Francisco Planning Department: Pavement to Parks Program. 2014.

Living Alleys Market Octavia Toolkit. Winslow, D., Look, J., Kim, J.Y., Panganiban, J., Hrushowy, N., Varat, A., Chen, G. et al.San Francisco Planning Department, San Francisco Public Works & San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority. 2014.

Near-Term Transportation Energy and Climate Change Strategies: Interregional Transportation Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Strategies.Finson, R., Shaheen, S., Panganiban, J., Matz, M., Galczynski, M., Barth, M., & Boriboonsomsin, K.Transportation Sustainability Research Center, UC Berkeley & Center of Environmental Technology, UC Riverside. 2013.

May 2016 Myer Wolfe Endowment

May 2016 Matsutaro Kawaguchi Endowed Scholarship in Landscape Architecture

Apr 2015 Edward B. Sand Memorial Scholarship

Sep 2014 Graduate School’s Top Scholar Award

May 2014 H. Leland Vaughan Memorial Fellowship

May 2014 American Society of Landscape Architects Certificate of Merit

May 2014 Orinda Garden Club Scholarship

Apr 2014 Departmental Citation in Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

May 2012-2013 Gadsby-Trudgett Scholarship for Landscape Architecture

JUSTIN PANGANIBAN

TABLE OF CONTENTS

01 Cascade P-Patch

02 Making the Cut

03 Festival Island

04 Tsunami Memorial

05 Post-Freeway Park

06 Publications

01Cascade P-PatchLocation: South Lake Union, SeattleType: Community GardenCourse: Community Design StudioInstructor: Eric Higbee

From the course syllabus:

Places of urban agriculture have numerous benefits: they cultivate healthier lifestyles, strengthen communities, teach stewardship, and provide economic opportunities. As landscape architects we have an important and unique role to play in the developing urban agricultural movement. We can apply our landscape architecture skills to help design dynamic urban agriculture spaces that contain multiple functions and ecological benefits, build community through the design and build process, and reveal and educate communities about natural processes and cultural histories. Urban agriculture is rich with the potential to create successful urban public spaces.

Design statement:

Food, play, and active transportation are all unique assets to Cascade, a neighborhood situated in the heart of the rapidly evolving South Lake Union district. With the existing Cascade P-Path community garden located in close proximity to greenspaces for diverse play and a multimodal transportation network, there is an opportunity for health and wellbeing to be incorporated into future thinking of urban agriculture in the area. Focusing on varioius health intersections allows for desires expressed by the gardening community to also meet the needs of Cascade’s most health vulnerable populations: elderly, food insecure households, medical patients, youth, and the homeless.

ACTIVETRANSPORTATION

FOOD

PLAY

LAKE 2 BAY LOOPBICYCLE

NETWORK

KING COUNTY METRO

P-PATCH

GIVINGGARDEN

YMCA

FARMERS MARKET

SEATTLE STREETCAR

PLAYGROUND

PLAYFIELD

HEALTH &WELLBEING

GREEN STREETS

RESTAURANTS

SPORTS

CASCADE P-PATCH

Pocket Path Typologies: Slow Food

Snacking Pocket Path

Habitat Pocket Path

Rain Garden

Pocket Path

This pocket path provides urban forgaing opportunities amongst berry bushes and fruit trees.

This pocket path allows watching rainwater move gently into an edible bed of drought- and wet-tolerant plants.

This pocket path allows for observing urban wildlife, including pollinators and other small creatures.

Berry Bushes

P-Patch

Fruit Trees

Rain Garden

Habitat Garden

Outdoor Kitchen

Herb Planters

Tables and Chairs

Education

Water Feature

Playground

Playfield

Basketball Court

Bike Corral

Bike Path

Storage Lockers

FOO

DPL

AYAC

TIVE

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ANSP

ORT

Increase physi

cal

activity Reduce

injury Increase acce

ss to

healthy fo

od

Improve air a

nd

water quality

Minimize

climate

change effects

Decrease m

ental

health str

ess

Strengthen so

cial

fabric Provide fair a

ccess

to livelih

ood

Metrics adapted from Center of Disease Control and

Prevention’s Built Environment and Health Initiative

Measuring Holistic HealthThe Center of Disease Control developed a BEHI Initiative that focused on the relationship between built environment and health. Having a diverse range of environmental, socioeconomic, and physiological BEHI objectives allows for meaningful, locally relevant design decisions.

Re-Aligning Food, Play, and Active Transportation

PLA

YFI

ELD

P-PA

TCH

HARRISON GREEN STREET

THOMAS GREEN STREET

PLA

YFI

ELD

P-PA

TCH


THOMAS GREEN STREET

PLA

YFI

ELD

P-PA

TCH


THOMAS GREEN STREET

Alignment 1Confluence

Alignment 2Wraparound

Alignment 3Perpendicular

PLA

YFI

ELD

P-PA

TCH


THOMAS GREEN STREET

X

Existing Circulation Alignment

Illustrative Site Plan

HABITAT GARDEN

FRUIT BOSQUE

CHILDREN’S GARDEN

PARKING

CISTERN

10’ x 10’ GARDEN PLOTS

RAIN GARDEN

BERRY GARDEN

SHED

LOCKERS & STAGE

CASCADE PEOPLE’S CENTER

ARTFUL CISTERN

SWALE

OUTDOORSEATING

ADABEDS

COMPOST

BIKE CORRAL

SCULPTURELAWN

CASCADE PLAYFIELD

MIN

OR

AV

EN

UE

PO

NT

IUS

AV

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UE

THOMAS STREET

Illustrative Site Section

High Bush Blueberry, Raspberry

Holstein Apple, Beauty Plum, Kaki Persimmon

Oregon Ash, Sough Sedge, Salmonberry

Fireweed, Honeysuckle, Siberian Pea

Rain Garden Pocket

Fruit Bosque

Snacking Pocket

Habitat Pocket

IBC Tote Typologies: Playing with WaterReuse of IBC totes reflects Cascade’s industrial character , as well as the P-Patch’s reputation for innovative stormwater management tools.

Plant Palette

PROPOSED PROJECT1232 HARRISON STREET

PROPOSED PROJECT1230 HARRISON STREET

FRUITBOSQUE

EDIBLE RAINGARDEN

SCULPTURELAWN

GARDENPLAZA

RAINWATERPLAZA

BICYCLEPLAZA

IBC Tote Rainwater CollectorsStacked totes can collect and move rainwater into various cisterns across the site, as well as irrigate plants.

IBC Tote PlantersIndividual totes can be planted with herbs, trees, and flowers, and moved around to create outdoor rooms.

IBC Tote GatewaysStacked totes can become wayfinding tools to identify gateways into the P-Patch, and may be lit up at night.

1 2 3

1 2 3

Case Study: Roosevelt Plaza Park H2OAs a low-cost, temporary placemaking strategy for collecting water, repurposed IBC totes function as water tanks, sculptural pieces, planters, and lighting (often simultaneously).

02Making the CutLocation:Lake Washington, SeattleType: MappingCourse: Landscape Urbanism StudioInstructor: Ken Yocom


In layman’s terms, cartography is commonly understood as “the art, science, and technology of making maps.” More officially, it is defined as, “the science and technology of analyzing and interpreting geographic relationships, and communicating the results by means of maps.” Noticeably, the second definition does not include art as a primary foundation for map-making. For many, the making of maps has shifted to an entirely analytical enterprise, empirically grounded and devoid of creative license. Yet, this approach, disregards past practice, essentially flattening their history and meaning. In this way, maps are no longer reflections of social construction and cultural influence that relay power and knowledge. Others have challenged this notion, urging the viewer to read between the lines of what is displayed to challenge the ‘facts’ of the display, so that we can begin to understand how maps, like art, are culturally stratified, a “particular human way….of looking at the world.”

Design statement:

In commemorating the centennial of the lowering of Lake Washington in 1916 (which had significant biophysical and socioeconomic impacts in the Puget Sound region), I chose to use mapping to explore underrepresented stories of Chinese labor. The lowering of the lake requires a major shifting of earth material, and Chinese laborers in the 1900s were inextricably tied to earth. Through the labor contract system, they were involved in major earthwork projects that included railroad building, regrading, and cutting and filling of Seattle’s landform. However, due to racial tension, their role in these engineering marvels have not been acknowledged.

Participants approach a modular grid of boxes. Boxes containing earth material are areas of Seattle that were modified by earthwork projects in the early 1900s.

1. Approach Participants excavate into the boxes to reveal the stories of Chinese labor undernearth, shifting earth around and depositing them in containers.

2. Excavation

Red Clayhighest fertility

visual, oral, writtenmultiple sources

Soilhigh fertility

written storiesmultiple sources

Sandlow fertility

few text sentencessingle source

Ashlowest fertility

no documentationspeculative

Seattle Subdivided into Grid

Top Layer:Earth

Bottom Layer:Story Collage

Seattle Subdivided into Grid

Top Layer:Red ClayBottom Layer:Imagery & Text

Colors and texture of earth-filled containers indicate the fertility of information regarding stories of Chinese labor. Underneath is a collage of stories and information I gathered.

3. Revealing Stories

Top Layer:Soil or SandBottom Layer:Text

Top Layer:AshBottom Layer:No Story Found

Detail: Storytelling Modules

Case Study: Correlation DrawingSoil samples from all five boroughs of New York City were collected over a span of fifteen years and placed in boxes that expose the beauty, variety, and complexity of the earth they contain. It reveals the relationship between dirt and design.

03Festival IslandLocation:Elliott Bay, SeattleType: Event SpaceCourse: Art and Landscape StudioInstructor: Laura Haddad


Islands possess a sense of isolation and individuality. They can be vividly out of sync with their surroundings; even distinctly strange and unconventional. Arriving at an island can feel like stepping back or forward in time. This project is an opportunity to break away from old orders and introduce visionary, catalytic, possibly utopian, possibly dystopian, techniques of manipulating systems and phenomena of landscape. Like much art, the islands will be small in size but large in the impact of the messages they seek to transmit. They should be conceived as compact platforms for enacting transformative difference on a societal scale. The islands will be about the territory within their boundaries; but just as important will be their engagements with the human and natural systems in which they float.

Design statement:

Inspired by the term “cultural embroidery”, I designed a floating makerspace and festival grounds that physically and metaphorically stitches together different traditions of making: arts, crafts, music, etc. Conceived on a barge akin to the shipping barges docked in Elliott Bay, the intention of the space is to facilitate greater multicultural exchange at Seattle’s waterfront, which it currently lacks due to physical and cultural barriers of access. With materials from different geographies and people of Seattle coming onto the barge, the space also serves a repository for culturally valuable materials to be stored, displayed, and remembered.

EMBROIDERY

STITCH

PATCH

FURNISHINGS

FOUNDATIONS

GROUND TEXTURESConnections

Material + Culture

Interconnected Cultural Fabrics

Connecting + Defining Spaces

Connecting Built Structures

Connecting Social Interactions

LIBRARY

WORKSPACE

MARKETPLACEExchanging Material + Culture

Utilizing Material + Culture

Storing Material + Culture

Ribbon (Circulation)

Stitching (Connections)

Barge (Platform)

Waterfront Context (from Waterfront Seattle, 2012-2014) Pier 38/39 Docking Site

Program Diagram

Textiles define function and stitches connect textiles together. This embroidery metaphor is implemented as a strategy to integrate various practices of making. Patchwork design interventions are used within three programmed spaces that engage with material crafts in different ways. Stitching patterns are used to create furnishings, textures, and structural elements for tying these spaces together.

Site Embroidery Elements

Case Study: Waterfront Pool BargeThe pool barge was part of the larger Waterfront vision of using a recreational floating landscape as an anchoring yet inherently mobile element of the waterfront experience.

Patchwork (Material + Culture)


Illustrative Site Section

Site Plan KeyA - MakerspacesB - Ribbon WalkC - Arts MarketplaceD - Sensory Garden

E - Fabrication ShopF - Gathering SpaceG - MakerspacesH - Arts Marketplace

A

B

C

D

E G

H

F

Perspective: Marketplace Perspective: Fabrication Shop Perspective: Makerspace

DISPLAY BOARDFully upright, the wall panel can be used as a partition to create

more private enclosure or as a board for mounting artwork.

BINAt adjustable angles, the wall panel

can be a bin for storing different raw materials and art materials.

SHELFFully lowered, the wall panel becomes

horizontal surface space.

Function

COLORED CORKPanels

CEDARFrame

COLORED CONCRETEFooting

CROSS STITCHLake Washington

Shoreline

BLIND HEM STITCHShip Canal Shoreline

CATCH STITCHPuget Sound Shoreline

Site Details: Flex Patchwork Wall

Island Flows & Exchanges

Material

Pattern

After our individual site design process, our studio envisioned a future scenario in which all our festival islands were floating out in Elliott Bay. We imagined the types of material and energy exchanges our islands might make, how they might compete and cooperate in order to survive, and how they might influence mainland systems in the process. The following diagrams illustrates how our islands would operate as an archipelagos system based on the type of exchange that is made.

04Tsunami MemorialLocation:Sutro Baths, San FranciscoType: MemorialCourse: Case Studies in Landscape DesignInstructor: Karl Kullmann


On March 11, 2011, an undersea megathrust in the Pacific Ocean triggered the Tohoku tsunami. The resulting wave devastated a swathe of coastline in east Japan, killing 20,000 people and wiping entire villages from the map. The wave made its impact as far away as California, with one person swept away from a beach. The Japan disaster followed a recent glut of devastating tsunamis. Memorials are being designed and constructed in many of the directly affected regions. A tsunami memorial in San Francisco will give many who were affected a place in which to pay their respects and to not forget.

Design statement:

Sutro Baths is a dramatic coastal landscape with its own destructive history: a fire in 1960s ravaged a public bath house, leaving remnants of its destruction amidst a backdrop of crashing ocean waves, cypress trees, eroding cliffs, and coastal shrub. The power of nature as both a destructive and healing force over mankind is evident in this landscape. Sited within the ruins of the bath house, the tsunami memorial serves as a focal point for loss, grief, and recovery for all those affected by natural disasters in the last decade. The infrastructure of the pools in the Sutro Baths plays a key role in the site’s history, but has been submerged and deteriorated over time. Through the act of palimpsest, the memorial design utilizes the pools’ lost yet iconic form, overlaying new circulation, infrastructure, materiality, and experiences regarding the tsunami. The result is a landscape where past informs present and conversely, present informs past.

Context Map: Sutro Baths

Context KeyA - Land’s End TrailB - Sutro BathsC - ParkingD - Cliff House

A

C

B

Bath House Remnants Sutro Baths Circulation

D

Perspective: Entrance Chamber

Perspective: Processional Staircase

Perspective: Inner MemorialMuseum

Smaller Pools

Pump Room

Outdoor Catchpool

Entrance

Spectator Seating

Main Pool

Past outlineCurrent remains

Informal walkwayFormal walkwayWalkable ruinsStairs

Inner Memorial View

Stair View

Entrace View

Site Plan KeyA - Entrance ChamberB - Outer Memorial | TunnelsC - Inner Memorial | PiersD - Collective Space

A

B

CD

Pier/Water Rise Interaction

WATER = < 2 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL WATER = 2 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL WATER = 3 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL WATER = 4 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL

The Inner Memorial consists of five boardwalks that extend into the water. The boardwalks vary in length and height, based on the level of engagement that visitors want to have with the ocean. Based on the tide level, piers fill up with water, creating reflection pools that serve as a reminder of both the site’s history and nature’s power.

Illustrated Site Section

LANDSCAPE SEQUENCE

INNER MEMORIAL: PIERS OUTER MEMORIAL: TUNNELS ENTRY CHAMBER

Sheltered from the waves and shaded by coastal trees, the chamber is a calming point of departure.

An elevated tunnel with highwalls takes visitors into the Inner Memorial. It is a dynamic echo chamber that captures and amplifies the ocean waves, serving as the first reminder of nature’s overwhelming presence through the power of sound.

The power of nature is fully experienced, with the dramatic sounds and sights of the ocean, as well as the backdrop of hills, immersing visitors with its overwhelming presence. The walls of the Inner Memorial are etched with prayers that glow in the night, serving as a beacon of hope and memory in the darkest times of day.

05Post-Freeway ParkLocation: Market-Octavia, San FranciscoType: ParkCourse: Case Studies in Landscape DesignInstructor: Karl Kullmann


The city block bordered by Octavia Boulevard, Fell, Laguna, and Oak Streets, has had a difficult recent history. Originally an intact residential block within a similar urban fabric, the properties on the site wre demolished in the 1960s to accommodate off/on ramps servicing the freeway that was constructed over Octavia Street. Due to structural earthquake damages and a changing tide in attitudes toward inner city freeways, the double deck structure was systematically removed. Having lain fallow for several decades, local activists cut open the gates and appropriated the formerly embargoed site for urban agriculture in 2010. However, this farm is only temporary. We will explore an alternative future for the site: one which acknowledges the violence reaped onto it by the freeway, but one which seeks to explore the possibilities latent in the site as we find today.

Design statement:

The park proposal pulls inspiration from San Francisco’s unique city grid, symbolically bringing the streets onto the site itself in order to reflect the city block’s history as something emerging from decades of destructive and creative transportation history. The park is a testament to the power of public engagement: it was local residents who reclaimed the streets from the private automobile in the 1900s, who transformed a vacant block into a thriving community asset in the 2000s, and who will bring new life to a public space that serves the community at large.

Context Map: Market-Octavia Neighborhood

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C

D

Perspective: Recreational Functions

Perspective: Social Functions

Perspective: Commercial Functions

Context KeyDark Grey - Commercial TransitMedium Grey - ResidentialLight Grey - Neighborhood CommercialTeal - Public Space


Context: 5 Minute Walkshed Context: Neighborhood SlopeA context analysis of zoning and walkability reveals a lack of amenity-rich recreational spaces within a 5-min walkshed. The study site also sits at the base of a steep hill, limiting access to neighborhood spaces and services for users with impaired mobility. Therefore, the park should balance many different park programs to fill siginificant activity gaps.

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B

C

D

EF

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Site Plan KeyA - Urban AgricultureB - Table TennisC - Performance VenueD - Dog ExerciseE - BasketballF - MarketplaceG - Outdoor PatioH - Playground


Axes & Access Points Walking/Jogging Circuit

B


Bird’s Eye View

A dog park is a key amenity for nearby residents, many of whom live in a household with one or more pets. While many nearby greenspaces are dog-friendly, there is no dedicated dog park within walking distance.

Table tennis is a unique amenity to the city. Low concrete partitions are adorned with mural art and can be flexibily used for seating, yoga, etc.

Community agriculture is something that is treasured by neighbors, evidenced by the success of Hayes Valley Farm. Room is allocated for planting and sheds.

COMMUNITY GARDEN

TABLE TENNIS & ACTIVITY HUB

DOG PARK

Site Circulation

Wheelchair Access

Vegetation

Raised Seating

Paths

Site Elements

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CITYWIDE ASSESSMENT OF PARKLETS & PLAZAS SUMMARY OF DATA COLLECTED FOR SUMMER 2014 PUBLIC LIFE STUDY

Report prepared by: Justin Panganiban

Robin Abad OcubilloSeptember 2014

TOOLK

IT

Citywide Assessment of Parklets & Plazas: Summary of data collected for Summer 2014 Public Life Study. Panganiban, J., & Abad, R. San Francisco Planning Department: Pavement to Parks Program. 2014.

AbstractSan Francisco’s Pavement to Parks Program aims to transform parking spaces and street intersections to new and easily reversible public spaces such as parklets and plazas. These temporary spaces are typically outfitted with amenities such as tables, seating, landscaping, bicycle parking, and public art. These new spaces help to achieve heightened neighborhood interaction, enhanced pedestrian safety and activities, use of non-motorized transportation, and support for local businesses. This study evaluates the effect of parklets and plazas on street life and public response to these new types of spaces. Data collected will also help the program further understand how parklets and plazas are currently serving the needs of users who visit these spaces, and if these spaces are achieving the goals built into the initial vision and expectations for Pavement to Parks projects.

Living Alleys Market Octavia Toolkit. Winslow, D., Look, J., Kim, J.Y., Panganiban, J., Hrushowy, N., Varat, A., Chen, G. et al.San Francisco Planning Department, San Francisco Public Works & San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority. 2014.

AbstractThis toolkit is a resource for community members and designers to develop and implement living alleys. The toolkit includes 20 design tools, as well as example prototypes, to give community members a range of options and inspiration for creating living alleys in the Market Octavia Plan Area, though much of this information is applicable to alleys throughout San Francisco. In addition to the design tools, constraints and opportunities are discussed so project designers and residents can understand the full breadth of the project.

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