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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.