J. John B.ondi

C O L L E C T E D W O R K S
2019 - 2025

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL + BUILT WORKS

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_YH LAB
_Port Urbanism
_Penn Praxis
_Epicenter
_Community Rebuilds
_Bishop Land Design
_Independent Design + Build

CHINATOWN STITCH PILOT PARK[s]

\.25

Senior Designer
_YH LAB

The Chinatown Stitch Park is a major infrastructural investment in the heart of Philadelphia’s Chinatown, covering the arterial highway i676 with a cap over three city blocks. YH LAB was engaged to create a series of ‘pilot park’ interventions in the area of the eventual stitch park, that both generate community interest and involvement in the future park, but also prototype the eventual permanent fixtures of the Stitch Park.

Category
Design-Build, Urban, Professional, Public Space

PEARL BAKER PARK

\.22

Project Lead Designer
_Epicenter

Located adjacent to the site of Epicenter’s Affordable Housing Development, Canal Commons, Pearl Baker Park offers an intimate, interactive space that is conductive to learning, sheltered by mature cottonwood trees in a residential neighborhood. It features an outdoor classroom, native & edible plantings, and custom play space.

Category
Design-Build, Rural, Professional, Public Space

‘ WORKING BUFFERS ’

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Design Fellow
_Penn Praxis

In partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, Penn Praxis has proposed several potential designs for campus-wide ‘working buffer’ schemes that protect the upper watershed system that runs through the New Bolton Center’s campus + working farm. In this initial phase, the Praxis team developed several silvapasture schemes that aim to demonstrate the potential of integrated tree crops into pasture as a dual watershed protection feature and potential economic benefit to farmers in the region.

Category
Design-Build, Design-Research, Ecological Design, Professional

LIVING BUILDINGS AT MILL CREEK

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Project Lead
_Community Rebuilds

The Living Homes on Mill Creek are four single-family
homes located in Moab, engaged in the certification process of the Living Building Challenge. In addition to a variety of specially designed systems aimed at Net Zero Energy usage within the homes, a landscape based on plant communities and ecological processes extant in the reference biome, was implemented adjacent to the four homes, dedicated to the re-establishment of a native and productive micro-ecology

Category
Design-Build, Design-Research, Ecological Design, Professional

WALKER RESIDENCE

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Lead Design + Build
as Independent Contractor

Complementary to a newly constructed home in a unique walking/biking-only neighborhood in Moab, Utah, the Walker Residence Landscape was a closely cooperative design effort between designer and client. The design + planting selections derived from the culmination of
the designer + clients lived experience with the specific parameters of the Colorado Plateau climate. Design + Construction completed as Independent Contractor in Spring/Summer 2022.

Category
Design-Build, Residential, Professional

SODBUSTER LANDSCAPE

\.19
Landsape Designer
_Bishop Land Design

The newly designed landscape at Fargo Public Library is the first phase of a larger project, the new Fargo Civic Plaza. BLD and the City of Fargo are now defining opportunities to implement the vision outlined by Downtown InFocus; to create a new Civic Plaza between City Hall, the Main Public Library and the Civic Center. Sodbuster Landscape was iniated to create a permanent home for the sculpture by fall 2019, the date that its restoration was complete.

Category
Professional, Public Space

collected works.

J. John B.ondi