Timothy Marten Design Portfolio

2. “The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but
we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
- Wendell Berry -
Frost: Ithaca, NY 2008

3. Site Design
Planning
Thesis
Technical & Built Works

4. Section 1 : Site Design
Ecology & Technology Discovery Center
Champaign Public Library
Allerton Environmental Education Center
Emquion Lodge & Master Plan
University of Illinois Research Park

5. Ecology and Technology Discovery Center
Field House
Plaza
Study Model
Museum
Atrium
Prairie Roof Wetland
The University of Illinois place in
the Champaign and Urbana, com-
munities often creates edge condi- Water Play
tions that encourage community
tension and poor integration to both
the physical and social fabrics of the Analysis
community. This short exploration
project sought to create a site that Concept
could offer both facilities and an en- Diagram
gaging edge on the northern bound- Program
ary of campus. The proposed design Diagram
incorporated a elements based on
the exploration of science, technol-
ogy and the environment, utilizing
water as a explorative medium.

6. Section Thru: Prairie Roof & Atrium
View Looking North From Wetland
Section Thru: Water Play Streams
View Looking East From Entry
Birds Eye View
Section Thru: Atrium and Wetland
Section Thru: Museum and Wetland LA 537 ~ 2008

7. Champaign Public Library
SRVC.
Prairie Plaza
Library
Cafe
Terrace
Concept Diagram
Entry Court
Bioswale
Water Flow Diagram
Wood
Lot
The Champaign Public Library is the
largest public work project that the
City of Champaign has undertaken in
nearly 25 years. The Library project
was an investigation of public land-
scapes, community and sustainabil-
ity . Critical design components in-
cluded water management, creation
and definition of place and space.

8. Section Thru: East Side
View of Terrace
Section Thru: Terrace
View of Entry Court
Section Thru: Bioswale Section Thru: Prairie Plaza
Section Thru: Wood Lot View Looking North From Prairie Plaza
LA 537 ~ 2008

9. Allerton Environmental Education Center
Prairie
Woodland
Wetland & Education Bldg
By Dipti Gladahall Wetland
Savanna
Cafe Court Prairie
By Dipti Gladahall
Education
The Robert Allerton Park is a 1,517 Mait. Yard Center
acre estate located near Monticello,
Illinois on the Upper Sangamon Ex Garden
River. Donated to the University of Buildings
Illinois in 1946 the former country
manor and farms have, over time,
evolved into a retreat, learning
center and a historical treasure.
The proposed Environmental Edu-
cation Center builds upon existing
programs and incorporates exist-
ing structures while sitting new Woodland Wet Lab Barn
structures to meet facility and staff By Dipti Gladahall
needs. The Education Center seeks
to imbue Ecological Design principles
and modalities with the existing site
heritage and forms.

10. New Education Bldg
Ice
House
Mait.
Barn Great Lawn Main
Pavilion
Wet Lab Barn
Cafe &
Conference
Wetland Wetland Diagram
Green Room
Pavilion
House
Formal
Office Gardens Section Thru: New Education Building
Section Thru: New Education Building
Section Thru: Site Looking East
Section Thru: Site Looking West UP 494 ~ 2006

11. Emiquon Lodge and Master Plan
Lodge Building Plan
The Nature Conservancy Emiquon Ecotone Planning
project is restoring approximately
1,000 acres of uplands and 6,000
acres of wetlands environments to Lodge Site Plan
their pre-settlement makeup along
the Illinois River near Havana, IL. The
Emiquon Lodge will provide the TNC
with facilities for engaging the public
and scientific community as well as
offer an in-depth opportunity to con-
nect and explore the landscape. The
lodge site plan provides space for
collection gardens, trails, resorted
landscapes teaching and interpretive
areas.

12. Sketchbook Concept Section
Lodge Planting Plan
Concept Plan
LA 452 ~ 2005

13. University of Illinois Research Park
Storm water Ampitheater
Concept Sketch
Road & Drive Edge Concept Sketches
The Research Park at the Univer-
sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
houses 50 technology based compa-
nies, employing almost 1,000 staff.
The Research Park was established
to encourage industry collaboration
with the University of Illinois re-
searchers, faculty and students. This
project reexamined the phase one
master plan for of the Research Park.
The redesigned master plan looks
to link the proposed facilities and
landscape in a more symbiotic way
encouraging the flow of ideas and
movement through the landscape.
South Phase Illustrative Plan Phase 1 & 2 Plan

14. LA 453 ~ 2006

15. Section 2 : Planning
University Of Illinois South Farms
Sawgrass Community Redesign
Ember Orchards Community Plan
Curtis Road Interchange Master Plan

16. University of Illinois South Farms
South Farms Quad Sketch by Jihung Jung
1. Proposed ACES South Quad
2. Cow Calf Farm
3. Beef & Sheep Farm
4. Swine Metabolism Center
5. Swine Isolation Center
In 1999, the University of Illinois, 6. Swine Farrowing Center
initiated a plan to create a “new” 7. Swine Finishing Center
8. Transgenic Swine Center
South Farms research complex that 9. Poultry Farm
would: 10. CVM Swine
1) Replace outmoded facilities 11. CVM Equine Center
12. Dairy Farm
2) Acquire additional 13. Feed Mill
3) Stay close to campus 14. ACES Storage Barns
4) Integrate crop, animal, and envi- 15. Algae Farm
16. Organic Farm
ronmental research and education 17. NRES Orchard
5) Capture operational efficiencies; 18. Illini Plantation
19. Cottonwood Plantation
6) Use best management practices 20. Crop Sci. Large Plot Fields
7) Improve safety 21. Crops Sci. Research Plots
8) Remain a good neighbor 22. Native Pasture
23. Tame Pasture
While excellent conceptual goals, 24. SOY FACE
there was no actual plan integrated 25. Miscanthus Research
the concepts into a functional South 26. Apiary Research
27. Wildlife Research Lab
Farm ecosystem. Recognizing this a 28. State Research Ponds
multidisciplinary project team devel- 29. Digester & Living Machine
30. Composting Center
oped a design plan for a sustainable 31. Denitrification Wetland
agroecosystem research center. Our 32. Infiltration Zone
design was an ecosystem approach 33. Depressional Wetland
34. Wind Turbines
utilizing the site’s Upper Embarras 35. Police Training
River watershed as an ecosystem 36. Dynamic Testing Lab
boundary. 37. UIUC Warehousing
38. Historic Buildings

17. Model Close Up
HEC-HMS Hydro Modeling
Sustainability Calculator
The plan developed in three phases. Phase 1 incorporated intensive
surveys of the biological, physical, infrastructure, and cultural attributes.
Phase 2 identified interacting on-site processes. Phase 3, integrated physi-
cal and process information into a agroecosystem design plan. We created
a sustainability calculator to determine the effectiveness of plans while GIS
spatial planning and modeling in created tile drainage maps and integrated
hydrological modeling. We constructed a LIDAR based physical model to 4 x 5’ - 2’ Contour Topographic Map
explore and convey physical dynamics of the watershed. LA 434 ~ 2007

18. Sawgrass Community Redesign
Land Use Diagram
Proposed Community Model
A proposed subdivision develop-
ment was studied, redesigned and
modeled to assess and incorporate
alternative physical planning modali-
ties. Intrinsically this project encour-
aged understanding the physical
effects of interdependent, indivisible
actions and imperfect foresight. My
proposed redesign increased density,
integrated parkland, natural land-
scapes, and alternatives for waste
and stormwater management. Storm Sewer Plan Sanitary Sewer Plan UP 503 ~ 2007

19. Ember Orchards Community Plan
Ember Orchard is a theoretical,
planned unit development on 160
acres, incorporating new urbanism,
agrarian picturesque and colonial
revival architecture. Housing den-
sity and open space requirements
laid out design guidelines and land
convents.
LA 334 ~ 2005

20. Curtis Road Interchange Master Plan
Completed in 2008, the Curtis
Road Interchange in Champaign,
IL created significant development
and planning pressure on the com-
munity. The initial plans cited a
need for sustainable and integrated
development. The Curtis Road
Interchange needs to form a unique
identity from, blending a matrix of
housing and lifestyle options, as Suitability Analysis
well as commercial and biological
capacities while complimenting the
existing commercial and residential
fabrics. The Curtis Road Interchange
also needs to integrate and compre-
hensively connect into the region
through transit and a ecological and Land Use Diagram
greenway systems. This plan also
aims to control the intensity and
direction of growth both within the
site and Champaign’s Southeast
urban edge.
Regional Plan

21. Section Thru: Typical Boulevard
Section Thru: East Site
Land Use Sketches
Section Thru: Greenway Mixed Use Program Diagram
10yr Economic Proforma Site Flood Hydrograph
Detail
Sketches
UP 494 ~ 2008

22. Section 3 : Thesis
Dudley Smith Farm
Illinois Farm Sustainability Calculator

23. Dudley Smith Farm: Thesis Elements
The Dudley Smith Farm and Dudley
Smith Initiative intend to make ag-
riculture sustainable. However, this
vision cannot be realized without
Bioregional Analysis creating and exploring new farm-
Contextulize ing models as well as teaching and
developing leadership.
Listen
The Dudley Smith Farm is a 226-
Stakholders
acre University of Illinois research
Identify & Define farm that has a strong endowment
Illinois Farm and vision but has yet to develop
Sustainability
Calculator
the farm to create and explore new
Assess models for the region it embodies.
Systems Devlopment The master plan for the DSF creates
a nested hierarchy of farm scales.
Concept Proposal Image while scientifically assessing and
Dudley Smith Farm
modeling proposed designs and farm
Process Diagram Master Plan
scales.
The conversion of land for industrial
agriculture and its increased ecologi-
cal footprint has created conflict in
both the social and environmental
10 Acre Farm
realms. “Agriculture does not exist in
isolation but as a part of a broader
human culture that values and sus-
tains many things. Agriculture that
destroys biodiversity, wilderness, en-
vironmental quality, human freedom
and happiness will probably not be
sustained.” McIsaac (1994)
30 + !0 Acre Farm
226 Acre Farm

24. Section Thru: Alley Crop Orchard
Section Thru: Treatment
Wetland
Food Forest Diagram
Flow Diagrams
South to North Section Farm Dorm & School House
Southwest to Northeast Section

25. Dudley Smith Farm: Thesis Elements
Crop Interface Screen
The Illinois Farm Sustainability Calcu-
lator (IFSC) is an open-source spread-
sheet-based computer program de-
signed to evaluate the sustainability
of any farm—real or envisioned—in
the state of Illinois. Users input data
from their farm including soil infor-
mation, crop production area, soil
nutrients, tillage, the number and
type of animals raised, livestock diet,
energy sources, building energy use,
hauling distances etc. The model
takes these inputs, combines them
with data concerning crop productiv-
ity, CO2 sequestration and emissions,
energy use for tillage and buildings,
alternative energy production, ect.
From these parameters, IFSC pro-
duces final balances for animal feed
production vs. consumption, energy
production vs. consumption, carbon
sequestration vs. carbon emission,
and nitrate runoff. It also calculates
crop yields and indicates how many
people the farm can feed. In other
words, IFSC allows its user to discover
whether or not their farm is sustain-
able. IFSC is dowloadabpe for free. Farm Interface Screen

26. Final Balance Analysis
Detailed Balance Analysis
Ruminant Interface Screen
Swine Interface Screen
IFSC has been used as ateaching
tool at allied insituiton since 2009
and it being retooled of use by
researechers in Karnataka, India
Poultry Interface Screen
as of 2011.
Detailed Balance Analysis

27. Section 4 : Technical & Built
Temple Buell Hall Water Feature
Road Alignment
Max & Betsy Mitchell Residence
Blue Ridge Community Park
Sandra Knorr Residence
Phil & Dana Harris Residence

28. Temple Buell Hall Water Feature
Bridge Detail
Site Plan
Catwalk Detail
This construction design project
sought to envision a solution for a
sunken courtyard adjacent to the
building housing the School of Archi-
tecture, Urban planning & Land-
scape Architecture on the University Study Model
of Illinois campus. The proposed de-
sign integrates a water feature and
participant engagement with storm
water treatment methods.
Water Wall Detail
LA 243 ~ 2005

29. Road Alignment & Grading
LA 342 ~ 2004

30. Max and Betsy Mitchell Residence
The Mitchell residence is a design
project offered as part of a fund
raiser. This project was taken to a
contracting phase and initial phased
construction.
2006

31. Blue Ridge Community Park
Blue Ridge Park, located in Seneca
South Carolina is a community park
development that served both an
elementary school and public hous-
ing neighborhoods. This project was
a constructed with collaboration be-
tween, City of Seneca and Clemson
University. This project was complet-
ed as part of a internship in 2003.
2003

32. Sandra Knorr Residence
The Knorr residence is a project that
I carried through from the design,
construction and post occupancy
phase. The site included a set of
pocket and transition gardens be-
tween mixed perennial gardens and
naturalized edges accounting for
a flood prone stream. Featured in
garden walks in 2004 & 2006
2004

33. Phill and Dana Harris Residence
The Harris residence is a project
that I carried through from the
design, construction and post
occupancy phase. The project
incorporated a significant in-
vestment in design and develop-
ment of hardscape to address
site and previous construction
limitations.
2004

34. Vly Pointe HOA
Vly Pointe HOA, is a phased in-
provment plant incompassing four
phases. These drawing reflect an
intal phase of creating entry gateway
and community idtentiy in a chalang-
ing and narrow setting.
2011

35. University of Albany East Campus
The University of Albany East Cam- at the public health teaching building
pus houses much of health sciences a new entry was need. This landscape
teaching and research infrastructure was constructed as a visual cue for a
as part of a capital improvement plan primary entry.
2010

36. Timothy Marten 518-878-5231
TEMarten@gmail.com
Professional Objective My research and academic objectives have worked towards understanding and
implementing socially and environmentally sustainable design and planning in the
built, rural and natural environments. My background in both landscape architecture
and regional planning has cultivated design, planning, analysis, project management
skills, proficiency with many current design tools as well as a dedicated work ethic.
I am seeking to employ and further develop my academic research and professional
background within the landscape architecture or planning fields.
Education University of Illinois: Masters of Landscape Architecture 2009
Concentration: Ecological Design and Technology
University of Illinois: Masters of Urban Planning 2009
Concentration: Environmental and Ecological Planning
University of Illinois: Bachelors of Landscape Architecture 2006
Concentration: Environmental Design
Kishwauakee Community College 1999 to 2000 & 2001 to 2003
Awards & Achievements NYDEC Be Green Professional 2010
LEED AP 2009
Dudley Smith Initiative DS- Synergy Research Grant 2008
Graduate Travel and Research Fellowship 2008
Sasaki Award: Sustainable South Farms Master Plan 2008
PIA-Permaculture Design Certified 2008
Illinois Landscape Contractors Association Scholarship 2000

37. We abuse land because we regard
it as a commodity belonging to us.
When we see land as a community
to which we belong, we may begin
to use it with love and respect.
Aldo Leopold,
Nature provides a free lunch, but
only if we control our appetites.
William Ruckelshaus
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, for insecticided grain, For
strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain. Amer-
ica, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines
with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
George Carlin
Howes Cavren: Howes Cave, NY 2009