DarcyFowlerASLA

As my family plants roots in Minnesota, I am
seeking to join a team whose culture of hard
work, continual learning, and strong family values
provides a framework for collaborative refinement
of ideas to positively impact social and climate
challenges through creative design solutions.

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CONTENTS
EXPERIENCE
05 Resume
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URBAN & CAMPUS
09 Nile
13 Hartsville
17 Michelin Campus
19 Lavatrici
20 Etilar
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SOCIAL
23 Atlanta
27 Hope Street Garden
COMMERCIAL,
WAYFINDING & DRAFTING
31 Wayfinding
33 Scroll of Honor
34 CD Excerpts
35 Commercial
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EXPERIENCE
Landscape Architecture Experience
Licensed Landscape Architect : South Carolina (License # LSA.1292)
Image Resource Group, South Carolina
Senior Project Manager / Landscape Designer
1 year
Project managed 2.6+ million dollar renovation/ re-branding project of 20 sites simultaneously with
5 general contracting companies, within budgetary restrictions and on time.
Team Lead on multiple projects; managed teams of 3-7 persons.
Created commercial landscape designs and of re-branding/ wayfinging packages.
Work with Permitting Offices, Building Codes, and Design Review Boards.
LEED GA
Project Manager / Landscape Designer
2 years
Architectural and Survey Documentation project: led and trained co-workers. 100+ location
project completed on time.
Creation of re-branding and wayfinging packages for Commercial Clients.
Created design intent drawings and construction documentation.
Designed healthcare, commercial and retail landscapes,
Collaborator on corporate landscape standards guide, commercial client.
Developed, co-authored a process & procedures manual for CAD drafting team.
Officina Arcitetti, Genova Italy
4 months
Landscape Architecture Intern
Created construction documentation; Code research/ reviewer
Landscape design collaborator with architecture team, commercial designs
Clemson University
Landscape Architecture BA, Horticulture Minor
Cum Laude, Dean’s List, National Honors Society, Alpha Delta Pi
Hard Skills:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
AutoCAD
Sketchup
LMS
Articulate
Audacity
MRP
Business Intelligence Tool
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Visio
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EXPERIENCE
Additional Professional Experience
Polaris Industries, Minnesota
Instructional Designer / Trainer (Current)
Instructional Designer (Articulate), including audio recording & overlay experience.
Presenter of course material in classroom setting (large and small audiences).
Project Manager of Training content development, execution, tracking and reporting.
Process and standard work developer within Supply Chain.
Supply Chain SME for implementation of new Learning Management System
3 years
Buyer: Cast/ Machine & Fabrication Components
Twice honored with Polaris’ Millionaire Club, (saved over a million dollars).
Negotiated contracts with suppliers.
Managed supplier/OEM relationship expectations (cost, quality,delivery,& flexibility).
Able to quickly learn the Polaris systems / developed training for new employees.
3 years
University of Wisconsin: Madison / Professional Development Training
Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Certificate
Cultural Training for Business
Negotiations
“Knowledge
is never wasted. Any
piece of knowledge
has a situation
wherein it can
be used to gain
an advantage in
acquiring your goals”
- Unknown
Strengths/ Soft Skills:
Project Management & Supplier/Vendor Management
Wayfinding & signage
International/ multi-cultural design with professional experience
Hard working, product driven, & team player
Highly organized
Negotiation, communication, & training
Analytical, creating data driven decisions & designs
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URBAN&
CAMPUS

URBAN&
CAMPUS
AQUAPOLIS
NILE, EGYPT
Aquapolis is an
urban revitalization
master plan project
along the Nile. This
objectives contained
a need to preserve
and resurrect
antiquities such
as the Avenue of
Sphinxes, increase
tourism, while
positively impacting
the local population.
Ecological restoration,
consideration of
agriculture, tourism,
and housing
improments required
deep site SWOT
analysis for a plan
that was mutually
beneficial
for all stakeholders.
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CAMPUS
AQUAPOLIS
NILE, EGYPT
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CAMPUS
SWOT Analysis and local
collaboration provided
guidance for design
parameters. Pedestrian
Nile interactions, visual
connections between
both banks, and
ecological improvments
such as bird
sanctuaries, vegatative
filtering (through man
made islands), guided
the river’s edge designs.
Strategic infill,
Archiological focus on
sphinx and temples as
well as improvements
to walkablity and
definition of spaces
heloped to define
the improvements to
the town. Gardens
and plazas added for
buffering tourist areas
from local population.
Watershed discance
constrains required
careful consideration
for agriculture buffering
the city from the desert.
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CAMPUS
REVITALIZE
HARTSVILLE, SC
The Butler High School
site is an integral
center of social life and
community improvment
within the Hartsville,
SC. This communcity
focal point encourages
ecological, economic,
safety, and neighborhood
enhancements throught
the sixth street cooridor;
creating a prominent
entrance into downtown
for all of Hartsville to
enjoy.
The master plan uses
the blending of social
and civic strengths with
energy of the retail
sector to provide a
design solution which
is sensetive to African
American historical sites,
with city /neighborhood
improvement needs,
affordable housing, and
revitalization.
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CAMPUS
REVITALIZE
HARTSVILLE, SC
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CAMPUS
Informed by input from the
community charrette and SWOT
analysis the master plan utilizes
the Complete Streets model,
designing for walk-ability, cpted,
and affordable infill as key design
strategies.
The Butler High School site design
strategy used programming,
building uses including senior
appartments, preschool and
outdoor play for adults and
children to accomplish the
blending of ages throughout the
communicty focual point.
Ecologh played a part in
the design requirment for
rain gardens needed for
the low country storm water
management.
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CAMPUS
MICHELIN CAMPUS
GREENVILLE, SC
Corporate campus
redesign project based
on the design strategies
of improving walk-ability,
re-route traffic for
pedestrian safety,
connectivity between
buildings, cafe, and
event areas (car show).
Employee requested
training and activivity
area with walking
trail. Additionally, to
emphasize a sense of
arrival, a main entrance
plaza was incoporated
into the campus design.
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CAMPUS
Lavatrici
Genova, Italy
Lavatrici is an Italian public
housing/ community master
plan created in collaboration
with architects. The cubelike
architecture proposal
was paired with urban
orchards and agriculture
blocks terraced atop the
mountainous location.
Public and private outdoor
spaces were created using a
central piatza with terraced
gardens and a park for
children overlooking Ligurian
coast. A finiculare ( outdoor
elevator system), ramps, and
stairs provided access to these
outdoor community spaces.
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CAMPUS
Etilar
Istanbul, Turkey
Etilar neighborhood park,
located in Istanbul Turkey is a
mix use park including a cafe
and retail spaces surrounded
by residential. Local design
requests were for pedestiran
friendly, blended ages
community space for all to
enjoy. Park features included
soccer play, amphitheater,
splash pad, converted
vehicle lane into pedestrian
promenade, and cafe seating.
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SOCIAL
IMPACT

Tourist Triangle
Social Land Use Conflict
Homeless Crescent

URBAN&
CAMPUS
Urban Core
Atlanta, GA
Tourist Triangle city redevelopment
zone within this redevelopment zone is
1000 units of subsidized housing and a
network of homeless uses.
Analysis of the historical redevelopment
showed a cyclical nature of
redevelopment that has negatively
impacted the lower income populations.
Due to the social issues arising from
this exercise, an additional mapping
exercise was performed, mapping
the social landscape of Atlanta’s low
and no income population within this
redevelopment zone.
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CAMPUS
Urban Core
Atlanta, GA
Design Solutions for this
newly mapped conflict area
included a 501C3 managing
many opportunities
including urban agriculture,
housing options, jobs,
donated day old goods
from restaurants, center
for support, and providing
storage for their goods
while on job interviews or
working.
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CAMPUS
The ‘homeless crescent’ as it became known as clarified in a
new way the use landscape and conflict of redevelopment
needs within the zone. T
Mapping the Homeless Landscape
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SOCIAL
Gardens as learning and living laboratories:
Food For Thought - Vegetables
(sponsored by middle school kids)
Sense or No Sense - Special Needs and Disabled
(sponsored by girls)
Nothing but Natives - All plant Native to SC
(sponsored by boys maybe ROTC)
Butterfly Garden - (sponsored by High School Boys)
Parterre - formal garden (sponsored Community in Schools)
Cut flowers - Tool to teach flower arrangements
( sponsored by Faith based organization and kids)
Pinwheels - Herbs & hand crafted tiles
Children's play area with split rail fence
(sponsored by After School Program Horticulture)
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SOCIAL
Hope Street Garden
DJJ Columbia, SC
Landscape Design Volunteer
worked in collaboration with
other ‘Friends of Juvenile Justice’
groups to design and implement
a garden within the facility. All
work done by the youth living at
the facility.
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WAYFINDING
&DRAFTING
COMMERCIAL

WAYFINDING
& DRAFTING
Wayfinding
Commercial,Healthcare, & Retail Clients
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WAYFINDING
& DRAFTING
Site survey, signage recommendation
package, source manufacturers and
implementation team, project manager
from concept to completed punch list.
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WAYFINDING
& DRAFTING
Scroll of Honor
Clemson, SC
Memorial to honor our military.
Plaza with bubbling water feature
and raised grass box seating.
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WAYFINDING
& DRAFTING
Construction Document Excerpts
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COMMERCIAL
Commercial Landscape Design
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COMMERCIAL
Planing plans, landscape designs,
construction documentation, and
collaborator on corporate new build
construction landscape standards.
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DARCY FOWLER ASLA
20867 GRAFTON AVE N
FOREST LAKE MN 55025
darcylesliedesign@gmail.com
218-452-0726