Elevate 2019

JUAN MULLERAT, Assoc. AIA, APA, is the Founder of Plusurbia Design – a firm that specializes in land planning and city building. As a designer with over 25 years of experience, Mullerat has received numerous awards for his projects around the world, including the APA’s 2017 National Economic Planning Award for the Wynwood Master Plan and the 2015 Kinpan Design Award for Songhua Lake Design. In 2013 he was honored as the Urban Designer of the Year by the AIA in Miami. Mullerat has designed buildings, neighborhoods and cities in five continents and is currently dedicated to solving transportation, revitalization and housing issues through his firm and by lecturing at the University of Miami on health in the cities, urban revitalization and place making.

Christopher brings with him more than 15 years of landscape architecture, site engineering and construction implementation and management experience. Upon his completion of the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies Program at Rutgers University, Christopher pursued the integration of bold landscape design within a host of municipal and private sector engineering projects. Working closely with the engineers and related fields, he has consistently demonstrated how to effectively collaborate where site and landscape design problem solving creates new project type paradigms that ultimately lead to faster and more enthusiastic public approvals. Understanding the tenets of site engineering principles and their potential relationships to ecological functions enables Christopher to offer alternative landscape based solutions in addressing both common and complex site problems. Each of his several hundred projects within the New York City Tri-State area, demonstrates how his clear landscape design vision is intrinsically rooted in solving fundamental engineering problems for a broad range of project types that extend from single family residential to large scale commercial, institutional, industrial, medical office, and environmental remedial and restoration projects.

Scott brings over 30 years of wide-ranging experience to his role as Turf Design Studio’s Associate Director. Having begun his career in of landscape construction, horticulture, Arboriculture and bush regeneration, Scott expanded his knowledge into the associated disciplines of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design and as such provides a unique and blended skill set across project design and implementation. Spanning large-scale master planning, infrastructure, public realm, ecological and park projects both locally and abroad, Scott has worked across the majority of Turf’s key projects, including the London Culture and Education District, Central Park Sydney including One Central Park, Duo, Kensington Street and Spice Alley, Hyde Park, Central Barangaroo Masterplan, The University of Sydney Camperdown Public Domain, Taronga Zoo wildlife retreat, and the internationally acclaimed Sydney Park Water Re-Use Project. In addition to Scott’s commitment to ongoing education and professional development, he has served as guest lecturer for the University of Sydney and the University of NSW. Scott provides guidance and oversight across all Turf’s projects, and is currently leading the landscape and public domain works for Taronga Zoo Wildlife Retreat Project, Lend Lease Circular Quay Tower with Forster and Partners, Mirvac and Coombs Property’s 505 George Street Tower with Ingenhoven Architects, Sekisui’s Sanctuary Wentworth Point, and Hyde Park Museum Station upgrade.

Born in 1977 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana in 2004. Started architectural studio MEDPROSTOR (with J. Fischer Knap) in 2010. Rector of the University of Ljubljana awarded him for the recognition of important works of art in 2012. Since 2014 he is the assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana. For his work, he received several awards and recognitions. Awards: 2004 Plečnik student award for diploma thesis ‘Edvard Ravnikar’s Design Method’ (mentor Prof. J. Koželj) 2010 Plečnik medal for monograph publication ‘Edvard Ravnikar: Architect and Teacher’ (coauthors) 2011 Special recognition OJK (Organisation for steel structures in the Chamber of Commerce), for the effective use of steel in a sensitive urban environment (with coauthors) 2012 Plečnik award for Puppet Theatre in Maribor (with J.Kobe) 2012 European Prize for Urban Public Space 2012 for the conversion of embankments and bridges on the Ljubljanica (with coauthors) 2015 Jubilee Maks Fabiani recognition for Waterways on the Ljubljanica river (with coauthors) 2016 ZAPS Golden Pencil award for Rakova Jelša town park (with coauthors) 2017 ZAPS Golden Pencil award for Waterways on the Ljubljanica river (with coauthors)