1. Terry Naranjo RLA
selected works

2. Education
Terry Naranjo, RLA Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, 1993
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Master of Landscape Architecture
North Carolina State University, 2012 (Expected)
Raleigh, North Carolina
Registered Landscape Architect
 State of North Carolina
 State of Michigan
 State of Tennessee
Terry Naranjo has 15 years experience as
a landscape architect. He has managed
and participated in a range of project Work Experience
types. His experiences include conceptual CLH Design, PA, Cary, North Carolina
program development, schematic design, Elam, Todd, D’Ambrosi, Cary, North Carolina
design development, construction AECOM, Raleigh, North Carolina
documents, municipality ordinance review, Design Plus Architects, Grand Rapids, Michigan
bidding, construction administration and Hawkins Partners, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee
project closeout.
Selected Project Experience
Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, GA***
Terry Naranjo, RLA Beaumont Baptist Hospital, Beaumont, TX*
504 Princeton Street Wake County Continuum of Care, Raleigh, NC**
Raleigh, NC 27609 Granville Medical Center, Oxford, NC
919.740.7825 Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge, Nashville, TN
Tennessee Titans NFL Stadium, Nashville, TN
*with Hawkins Partners, Inc
**with CLH Design, PA
***with HSMM/ AECOM
Activities
American Society of Landscape Architects
USGBC Triangle
Urban Land Institute Triangle Chapter

3. PROJECT TYPES GUIDING PRINCIPLES
 Academic/ Corporate Spaces  Collaborative/ Multidisciplinary Approach
 Institutional Landscapes  Listening and Client involvement to establish
 Government/ Civic/ Community Spaces goals and interpret a design vision.
 Industrial and Office  Developing design ideas that shape the conceptual
 Post Industrial/ Brownfield foundation of the site design.
 Mixed Use Environments  Solving problems with a high level of technical
 Parks and Greenways knowledge and creativity.
 Impart meaning into the designed landscape
by utilizing landscape forms in ways that express a
MUNICIPAL AGENCIES SERVED: connection with the site’s natural setting and
 Wake County layered cultural context
 City of Raleigh Planning  Celebrate the owner’s mission, product, people
 City of Raleigh Parks and Recreation Dept.  Incorporate art into the landscape
 City of Raleigh Public Works
 City of Durham Planning
 City of Durham Engineering
SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES
 City of Durham Public Works
 Town of Cary  Foster environmental stewardship through education
 Town of Apex  Rainwater Infiltration Systems
 City of Nashville, Tennessee  High efficiency irrigation systems
 City of Grand Rapids, Michigan  Preserve/ create wildlife habitat
 City of Goldsboro, NC  Cisterns for rainwater/ greywater
 Town of Mount Olive, NC  Green roofs and walls
 Town of Zebulon, NC  Drought tolerant plantings
 Wayne County  Native meadows/ No-mow zones
 NCDENR  Permeable Paving
 NCDOT  Low-voltage and LED lighting

4. Wake County Continuum of Care
Raleigh, North Carolina
Project Budget: $22.7 Million; Construction Schedule: Fall
2010; Client: Wake County
Tree Conservation Area Ordinance Calculations
Design Elements
 Celebration of entry and highlighting of
significant architectural work. Creation of a
dynamic counterpoint to the modern architecture
and materials of the building.
 Create a sense of arrival.
 Bold planting scheme to highlight the patterns
and rhythms of architecture.
 Create a functional pedestrian/ vehicular
experience that combines modern forms with
natural materials.
 Tree Conservation Area Plans
Main Entry Vehicular Circulator and Pedestrian Entry Plaza

5. Mixed Use Development Master Plan
Apex, NC
Mixed use site Master Plan for a 110 acre site in
eastern Wake County integrates variety of housing
types, commercial, office, and mixed retail spaces.
Design Elements:
 Integrated pedestrian connectivity
 Variety of spatial experiences
 Urban Edges
 Axial orientation
 Integrated natural areas
 Enhanced public realm
 Community gathering spaces

6. Corporate Facility Office Building
Durham, NC
Project Summary: Design Elements
The project involved coordination with the  Permeable paving hardscape
architect to develop an outdoor courtyard  Drought tolerant plantings
space to function as a permeable surface  Formal and informal seating options
and programmable pedestrian gathering  Site lighting and furnishings
space.

7. Memorial Hermann Baptist Beaumont Hospital
Beaumont, Texas
Project Summary
Site design of overall medical campus including semi-private open air areas for patients,
visitors, and employees that are both functional and therapeutic.
Radial patterns extend lines,
forms and materials of the
architecture.
Project Responsibilities:
Project management for landscape architectural services
Coordination with architect, civil, MPE, interiors
Design and detailing of hardscape and softscape elements
Specification of site furnishings and site lighting

8. Brownfield Development
Site Feasibility Study
Florence, SC
Mixed Use Option Stadium Option
Project Summary:
The two plans shown
explore options and
maximize potential for an
existing downtown
Brownfield site.
Mixed-Use Option
• Buildings form urban edge
 Pedestrian scale spaces
 Multiple axis alignments
 Outdoor dining areas
 Gathering spaces
Stadium Site Option
 Mixed use approach
 Pedestrian scale spaces
 On-street commercial
space integrated into
stadium structure
 Outdoor dining terrace
 Lawn-area seating

9. Tennessee Titans
NFL Stadium Campus
Nashville, TN
NFL stadium campus in a downtown setting; Situated on the
Cumberland River directly across from the Central Business
District of Downtown Nashville.
The architectural vernacular was inspired by the site’s industrial
heritage. Design elements celebrated the use of visible
infrastructure and basic materials of concrete and steel.
Project Summary:
 Pervious reinforced lawn parking detailing
 Urban forestry compliance documentation
 Design and detailing of pedestrian entry
gate plaza paving areas.
 Spot grading and drainage
 Site furnishings specification
 Central control irrigation system design.
Monumental ‘Found Art’ Installations
Spot Grading Plan at South Pedestrian Entrance

10. Primus Financial Center
Brentwood, TN
Project Summary:
This park-like courtyard setting for a corporate
client provides an outdoor amenity for
employees and visitors. Informal seating
areas and gathering spaces allow for an
interaction in a natural setting.
Design Elements and Responsibilities
 Pedestrian circulation system design
 Planting design
 Specialty paving detailing
 Mist fountain detailing
 Site furnishings/ lighting
 Courtyard hardscape design and details
 Seatwalls integrated with native stones

11. Shelby Street Bridge
Nashville, TN
The Shelby Street Bridge, opened in 1909 was closed to vehicular
traffic in 1999. It is now used as a pedestrian bridge linking Downtown
Nashville, Tennessee to the East-Bank Stadium Campus over the
Cumberland River.
Design Elements/ Project Summary
 Paving surface re-design and detailing
 Unification of the entire length of bridge through
paving pattern rhythms and repetition of forms
 Embrace the cultural history through the incorporation of public art.
 Ornamental overlook steel railing coordination with metal fabricator
 Coordination and detailing of wood pavers on
new overlooks.
Views toward Downtown Nashville
Ornamental Overlook Railing
Paving/ Overlook Layout Plan

12. Hilton Suites Park
Nashville, TN
Project Summary
This rooftop park occupies an
entire city block and covers
several hundred parking spaces
below. Design forms were
inspired by the adjacent
contextual architecture of the
Country Music Hall of Fame
and the Downtown Arena.
Design Elements
 Rooftop park
 Programmable public
gathering space
 Coordination with structural
engineer
 Inspired by adjacent
architectural forms and
geometry

13. Urban Townhomes
Nashville, TN
Project Summary:
This urban row-house project consists of 29 loft-style
condominium units capturing views to the Tennessee State
Capitol in Downtown Nashville.
Design Elements:
 Semi-private gardens that define
individual residences
 Simple plantings for low maintenance
and seasonal interest.
 Unify the entire length of building
 Automatic irrigation system
 Automatic entry gate detailing

14. Downtown Office Tower Streetscape Master Plan
Nashville, TN
Project Summary: Design Goals:
Street-level site master plan  Unify the entire pedestrian level campus
for an office tower in Nashville,  Respond to architectural rhythms
Tennessee's downtown  Help create a Corporate Identity
financial district.  Activate the pedestrian spaces
 Incorporate Cultural Heritage of Nashville
as ‘Athens of the South’
 Provide a gateway into the city
Existing Office Tower – 17 Stories
‘Court of Columns’

15. Dell Manufacturing Facility
Nashville, TN
Project Summary:
This corporate facility project needed a strong
yet subtle main entrance experience. A simple
plant palette was chosen to highlight the
architecture.
The architecture provides clues to inform scale
and rhythm.
Design Elements
 Large planting masses
 Bold landscape statements
 Visual connection to Architecture
 Pedestrian circulation system
 Site furnishing & Lighting
Pedestrian Entry Courtyard

16. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence
Fort Benning, GA
Project Summary:
The project involved coordination with the architect and civil
engineer to develop site plan elements which included a
large scale gathering courtyard for a LEED Certified
classroom building.
Design Elements
 LEED Documentation for site related points
 Creation of monumental scale pedestrian plaza
 Heat Island reduction, and water reduction
 Form generating site-design patterns developed
from careful study of architecture
 Sketch-Up modeling Radial courtyard off main dining hall for outdoor gathering
Pedestrian spaces in Central Courtyard
Sketchup rendering of Central Entry Courtyard

17. Interstate 95 -- Interchange Landscape Plan
Walterboro, SC

18. Shelby Bottoms Greenway
Nashville, TN
Project Summary:
Located along the Cumberland River in East
Nashville, the Shelby Bottoms Greenway provides
over 12 miles of paved and unpaved trails. The
site’s Native American heritage was interpreted with
symbols and signage.
Design elements
 Site sensitive parking lot configuration
 Walkway/ bikeway systems
 Riparian and upland native habitat plantings
 Way-finding signage
 Site furnishing specification
 Seating plaza and overlook design and details

19. Battle of Nashville Monument
Nashville, TN
Project Summary:
At the center of this Civil War and WWI
memorial is a re-creation of a sculpture
originally created by Italian Sculptor
Guissepe Morietti in 1929.
A new obelisk and 'Angel of Peace' which
sits atop; was newly carved out of solid
granite.
Design Elements
 Plaza and seat walls integrated into the topography
Reconstructed “Peace Monument”
Pedestrian circulation systems & passive
gathering spaces
 Interpretive signage

20. East Bank Greenway
Nashville, TN
Providing a pedestrian connection to the Cumberland River,
the East Bank Greenway is adjacent to the Tennessee Titans
NFL Stadium Campus.
Monolithic 'found-art' artifacts of the site’s industrial past were
gathered, preserved and integrated into the landscape.
Embedded directly into the concrete and earth, the relics allow
visitors to ‘discover’ historical evidence of an industrial
heritage.
Design Elements
 On-site post-demolition reconnaissance to recover
potential sculpture-worthy artifacts
 Coordination with artists, sculptors, and metal fabricators
 ADA compliant plaza layouts
 Fine grading, and detailing of hardscape elements.
 Site furnishing specification
 Lighting fixtures coordination
Monumental Scale ‘Found Art’ Installation
 Way-finding signage
Required Coordination with CSX Railroad

21. Creston Streetscape
Grand Rapids, MI
Master plan for this existing 3/4 mile roadway
corridor within the culturally diverse and historic
Creston Neighborhood in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Design Elements: Neighborhood Square
 Renovation of public realm of  Pedestrian scale spaces
streetscapes and public spaces  Public art
 Community charrette facilitation  Relocated Monument
 Traffic calming  Site furnishings
 On-street parking reconfiguration  Interactive at-grade fountain
 Central neighborhood ‘square’.  Outdoor café
Way-finding signage
 Public art locations Neighborhood ‘Square’
 Gateway considerations

22. South Shore District
Holland, MI
Project Summary:
This plan for an existing commercial
district creates an important link
between an historic neighborhood a
marina area/ shoreline greenway along
Lake Macatawa.
Existing Site Conditions
Design elements
 Streetscape enhancements
 Re-organized vehicular and
pedestrian circulation systems
 Parking lot re-configuration
 Public art location identification
 Outdoor dining terraces
 Community park
 District identifying gateways

23. Cottage Grove
Retirement Community
Holland, MI
Project Summary:
40 Acre site in West Michigan
on relatively flat site allowed a
symmetrical layout for this
planned retirement community.
Design Elements
 Program integration of
various housing types
including independent living,
assisted living, and hospice.
 Pedestrian circulation
system and walkable
connectivity
 Town ‘Center’
 Axial orientation
 Community Gardens
 Stormwater pond amenity
areas.
 Community gathering
spaces

24. Sunrise Assisted Living Care Facility
Grand Rapids, MI
Project Summary:
Creating an outdoor living experience for an assisted living facility.
Project goals include enabling social interaction through intimate
pedestrian gathering spaces and interaction with natural areas and
hands-on gardening opportunities.
Design Elements and Responsibilities:
•Coordination with architect and civil engineer,
MPE, and interiors.
•Submittals to Municipal planning agencies
•Site design and detailing of circulation systems,
hardscape, softscape and site amenities.
Project Budget: $4.5 Million
Client: Sunrise Assisted Living
Contact: Laura Hester, Davos Senior Living Group
810-571-0178

25. Resthaven Retirement Courtyard
Holland, MI
Project Summary:
A six-story building in a small existing
downtown setting had nowhere for
residents to sit and relax outdoors.
Two options were provided to
convert a concrete parking area into
a passive seating area with ‘Organic’ Option
plantings, benches, fountains and
hand-on planting beds.
Design Elements
 Provide semi- private outdoor
pedestrian space
 Integrate into existing downtown
streetscape.
 Intimate seating areas
 Allow for fellowship between
residents.
 Allow views into street
 Small community garden existing
 Responded to the architectural
patterns
Symmetry Option
Fountain

26. Gentex Corporate Headquarters
Zeeland, MI
Project Summary:
Site planning and design for a corporate facility addition
required a complete reconfiguration of vehicular circulation
and pedestrian patterns. The project involved the creation
of pedestrian gathering spaces and site amenities.
Design Elements
 Corporate ‘Front Door’ experience.
 Architectural forms inform site patterns
 The reflective of water, light, and glass
 Illuminated bands of recycled glass under-lit with
fiber optic lighting.
 Large scale tiered water feature and a reflecting pool
 Corporate identity signage

27. Chicago Drive Corridor Median -- Landform Study
Holland, MI

28. New Town Center Plan
Chengdu, China
Project Summary:
This plan is the central business
district of a larger community
that incorporated a golf course
and residential sections in an
active ‘sports themed’
development.
Design Elements
 Mix of themed uses including
hotel, coliseum, commercial
districts, and entertainment
districts and high density
residential areas.
 Central ceremonial plaza
 Selection of images that convey a
sense of cultural and spatial
understanding
 River Walk
 Vehicular circulation patterns

29. Brickbottom Competition
Boston, MA
Project Summary:
The competition sought redevelopment
strategies and design visions for the Proposed Site Plan
Brickbottom area of Somerville, MA near
downtown Boston.
Mass Transit
Design Elements
 Inspired by existing artist community
 Create an arts and entertainment campus
that celebrates cultural heritage Open Space
 Transportation and Infrastructure
 Development Density
 Community Connectivity
 Ecological / Environmental Issues Public Art
 History and Cultural Diversity
Existing Site
Proposed Site Master Plan Isometric

30. Terry Naranjo
504 Princeton Street
Raleigh, NC 27609
919.740.7825 T
tnaranjo.nc@gmail.com