Location:  Rocklin, CA

Landscape Architect:  DDG Landscape Architects, Inc.

Architect:  Katerra

Status: In design.  Construction winter 2017.  

Rocklin Gateway is a 6.5 acre brownfield redevelopment housing project located on the cusp of the historic Quarry District in Rocklin, California.  DDG Landscape Architects served as the project landscape architect.  The site is bordered by an active rail line to the north, light industrial to the east, retail to the west, and within a 10-minute walk of Rocklin's Amtrak station.  The project showcases the use of reclaimed granite boulders, inspired by the adjacent quarries in Rocklin that supplied granite material for the reconstruction of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and the State Capitol buildings in Sacramento.

The project features a quarter-acre nature-based adventure play area to inspire exploration and suggest abstracted scenes in nature from views by surrounding three-story garden-style architecture.  Granite boulders, stepping stones, logs, and dry creek bed swales become sculptural play elements in lieu of traditional playground equipment.  The project promotes outdoor living with several shaded lounge areas with movable cafe-style seating, fire pits, petanque courts, and an architectural vocabulary that references nearby historic railroad, quarry and mill structures.

The site is stitched together by strands of bioswales, flowthrough planters, and raingardens that receive and treat runoff from adjacent roofs and paved surfaces.

Sustainable Features:

Innovative stormwater conveyance and treatment of all impervious surface runoff.

Nature-based adventure play area.

Brownfield recovery.

Native & adapted plants & wildlife habitat.

Low water use / drought-tolerant planting.

Recycled / reclaimed materials (granite)

(While employed at Mayer/Reed)

Location:  Portland, Oregon

Landscape Architect:  Mayer/Reed

Executive Architect:  SERA

Design Architect:  CO Architects

Role: Project Manager (Jon Dykhuizen) while employed at Mayer/Reed

Three educational institutions, Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon State University, and Portland State University, come together in a LEED Platinum certified facility to create a new multidisciplinary approach to higher education by facilitating collaborative teaching environments and promoting cutting-edge research. The new $295 million complex transforms a brownfield industrial site into the first piece to establish the design framework for the new Schnitzer Campus expansion while serving thousands of students, faculty and patients on a daily basis.

The site is located adjacent to a new bridge over the Willamette River and a transportation hub where bus, light rail, streetcar, walkways and bikeways intersect.  The entire site design is constructed over several levels of underground parking and lab space.  

Sustainable Features:

LEED NC Platinum Certification.

18,300 sf Eco Roof.

Innovative stormwater conveyance and treatment of all impervious surface runoff over structure in weathering steel trays.

Brownfield recovery.

Alternate transportation.

Native & adapted plants & wildlife habitat.

Low water use / drought-tolerant planting.

(While employed at Mayer/Reed)

Location:  Portland, Oregon

Landscape Architect:  Mayer/Reed

Architect:  Holst Architecture

Photography:  Sally Schoolmaster

Role: Project Manager (Jon Dykhuizen) while employed at Mayer/Reed

Project Awards:  

2013 American Society of Landscape Architects, National Chapter Honor Award
2012 American Society of Landscape Architects, Oregon Chapter Award of Excellence

LEED Platinum Certification

Narrative:

Bud Clark Commons was implemented as a piece of Portland’s Plan to End Homelessness and improve social sustainability.  A major design emphasis was to move away from the existing paradigm of similar facilities by creating a de-institutionalized environment that fosters an atmosphere of peace, tranquility, and healing while showcasing sustainable green building practices.  The design of the communal outdoor spaces seeks to embody these goals.  The LEED Platinum Certified facility hosts a 90-bed men's shelter, 130 low income studio apartments, and a day center with counseling and social services accessible to the public.

Sustainable landscape components include ecoroofs on the 2nd, 3rd, and 9th floors, and an elaborate connected matrix of stormwater treatment showcasing rainwater as it cascades down from courtyard and roof surfaces above through bronze tube spigots into weathering steel flowthrough planters and infiltration basins.  

The 16-foot wide courtyard gate plays a key role in the project identity as a monumental piece within the neighborhood and was designed to represent inspirational quotations and proverbs identified during community and stakeholder workshops.

Sustainable Features:

LEED Platinum Certification.

Eco Roof.

Innovative stormwater conveyance and treatment of all impervious surfaces over structure in weathering steel trays.

Brownfield recovery.

Native & adapted plants & wildlife habitat.

Low water use / drought-tolerant planting.

Social sustainability.

Location:  Walnut Creek, CA

Landscape Architect:  DDG Landscape Architects, Inc.

Status: Under construction

This master plan and design of a half-acre property looks for opportunities to strengthen the connection of indoor living areas to the garden through careful extension of architectural lines, a framework of terraced garden spaces that transition from redwood forested slopes down to the home, and increased transparency of the building exterior.  A new contemporary pool, bocce court, sport court, children's play area, and edible garden fit within the site framework.

Location:  Concord, CA

Landscape Architect:  DDG Landscape Architects, Inc.

Status:  In design

Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

(Design consultant to NBWLA)

Location:  Los Angeles, CA

Landscape Architect:  Nelson Byrd Woltz

Architect:  Frederick Fisher And Partners Architects

Role: DDG Landscape Architects served as a consulting member of the Nelson Byrd Woltz design team

In concert with renovations to the adjacent historic library and student commons building, DDG Landscape Architects, Inc. worked as a consulting member of the Nelson Byrd Woltz design team to re-envision an appropriate space that navigates topographic constraints, facilitates anticipated levels of increased student activity, outdoor learning program needs, and respectfully completes the historic campus armature and framework established by noted landscape architect Beatrix Farrand and architect Myron Hunt in the 1930's-1950's. 

Innovative stormwater conveyance strategies and bold drifts of native plantings look to the regional landscape typology of arroyos for inspiration of form and massing, while conserving water resources.

(While employed at Mayer/Reed)

Location:  Portland, Oregon

Landscape Architect:  Mayer/Reed

Architect:  SERA

Role: Project Manager (Jon Dykhuizen) while employed at Mayer/Reed

University Pointe is located on the Portland State campus at a Max lightrail and bus transit hub serving as a gateway to Portland's City Center.  The 17-story mixed-use facility hosts apartment-style student housing, ground-floor retail, lecture halls, and student services.  Key sustainable landscape features include over 25,000 sf of extensive ecoroof surface covering the 2nd, 3rd, 16th, 17th, and 18th floor roofs to insulate the building, manage stormwater runoff, mitigate urban heat island effects, provide wildlife habitat and contribute a softening urban aesthetic visible from overlooking units and West Hills residents. The u-shaped high-rise building cradles an interior ground-level raingarden courtyard that functions as a "garden room" hosting student activity and visibly showcasing rainwater as it cascades down from the roof surfaces above to a series of connected bioswales that treat and detain stormwater prior to entering the SW 5th Avenue storm system.

The project was designed to LEED Silver Certification standards.

Sustainable Features:

Designed to LEED Silver Certification standards.

25,000 sf extensive Eco Roof.

Innovative visible showcasing of stormwater conveyance and treatment of all impervious surface runoff to interior courtyard bioswales.

Environmental educational component.  

Alternate transportation.

Native & adapted plants & wildlife habitat.

Low water use / drought-tolerant planting.

Ross, CA

DDG Landscape Architects, Inc. worked closely with the owners to realize a vision that overcomes tight spatial constraints and creatively sculpts the site grading to maximize usable space, privacy, and flexibility for entertaining and outdoor living.

Construction of the elegant reflective/ wading pool and surrounding terrace began in 2014.

Marin Co., CA

Stinson Beach Residence is a home situated on a spectacular site enveloped by dramatic views of the adjacent Pacific Ocean and Mt. Tamalpais Watershed.  DDG Landscape Architects, Inc. participated as a consulting member of the Nelson Byrd Woltz design team, collaborating with architecture and engineering team members to shape a project aspiring to the highest standards of environmental sustainability, including net-zero water.  A palette of regional materials are used in concert with rich planting combinations inspired by native coastal plant communities.  Stormwater is artfully harvested, showcased, and conveyed to large scale cisterns for the recharge of building systems and evaporative cooling features.

(While employed at Mayer/Reed)

Location:  Richland, Washington

Landscape Architect:  Mayer/Reed

Architect:  TVA Architects

Role: Project Manager (Jon Dykhuizen) while employed at Mayer/Reed

The Tri-Cities Research District Master Plan vision encompasses 292-acres of land identified as an Innovation Partnership Zone (IPZ) by the State of Washington.  The main goal was to create the most sustainable energy research district in the nation.  It was the first large scale master plan in the country to use the Cascadia Living Site & Infrastructure Challenge as a guiding principal.  The plan utilizes a variety of progressive planning, sustainability, and land use strategies to accomplish this goal and create a new live/work/play community.  The master plan design team brought together a diverse owner’s group to work towards a shared vision.  The results were documented in a Master Plan & Design Guidelines Report.  

As project manager for Mayer/Reed, Jon's role was the design and incorporation of sustainable strategies throughout exterior amenities and intensive collaboration with the multi-disciplinary design team to establish the site framework. 

Sustainable Features:

Cascadia Living Site & Infrastructure Challenge guidelines.

Net-zero energy/ Net-zero water.

Eco Roof.

Innovative stormwater conveyance and treatment.

Brownfield recovery.

Greywater & blackwater reuse.

Alternate transportation.

Native & adapted plants & wildlife habitat.

Low water use / drought-tolerant planting.

(While employed at Mayer/Reed)

Location: Vancouver, Washington

Landscape Architect:  Mayer/Reed

Role: design team member (Jon Dykhuizen) while employed at Mayer/Reed

Four national design teams were invited to participate in the design competition for the Vancouver Community Connector, a 14-acre landscape bridge or freeway cap over the Interstate 5 just north of the Columbia River.  The project design mission was to reconnect the two sides of the City of Vancouver that were historically severed by Interstate 5 while providing a regional amenity and serving as an important gateway/identity piece entering the state of Washington.  Mayer/Reed led a team composed of landscape architects, architects, urban planners, engineers and artists to extend the urban fabric of a bustling downtown Vancouver and embrace the historic Fort Vancouver National Site.

The team’s concept was inspired by lenticular cloud formations of the Cascade Mountains and the history, culture, and dramatic landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

Concord, CA

This half-acre residential master plan aspires to harvest all stormwater runoff from impervious roof and paved surfaces to be repurposed for the irrigation of new plantings from native mixed forest, chaparral, and grassland plant communities of the region.  A connected series of garden follies are gracefully sculpted into the existing topography, strung together by a ribbon-like network of garden paths navigating dramatic slopes.

(While employed at Mayer/Reed)

Location:  Beaverton, Oregon

Landscape Architect:  Mayer/Reed

Role: Project Manager (Jon Dykhuizen) while employed at Mayer/Reed

The design team proposed strategies to transform an automobile-oriented district to a walkable one stitched together by a connected fabric of creekside trails, parks, plazas, and green open space amenities.  The team worked with stakeholders to revisit city identity, unearth opportunities to daylight piped stream segments, and plan a network of pedestrian and bicycle corridors to connect residential neighborhoods to the urban core and provide a catalyst for redevelopment.  The green open spaces and parks are sited and designed to address flooding issues and accommodate seasonal inundation while providing space for recreation in the summer months.  The stream segments are split up into districts that respond aesthetically to the character of adjacent neighborhoods from creekside retail in urban areas to wetlands and wildlife habitat in rural zones.