All current work is owned by the clients of my employer, Stantec Consulting, and may not be posted here. I apologize for this inconvenience. More information can be found in the "Experience and References" section of this site. Projects at Stantec which I have worked on include:
Truckee Meadows Water Authority: landscape design for TMWA headquarter building
NDOT (Nevada Depart. of Transportation): Streetscape for McCarran Blvd.
NDOT: Streetscape for Pyramid Way
NDOT: Streetscape for Bearing Blvd.
NDOT: I-80 interchange in the City of Fernley, G-19 round-a-bout
City of Sparks Memorial Park: A half block down-town memorial site.
City of Reno Virginia Lake: A 2 1/2 acre lakeside park
City of Reno Meadow Wood Mall: landscape redesign for seven building addition, attached and unattached, including parking, etc.
City of Reno RETRAC: landscape design for the five block pedestrian way created by the covering of the downtown rail lines.
Washoe County, Sun Mesa Park: A 3 1/4 acre sub-division park site constructed around a detention basin
Fernley Commercial Site: Landscape design for a ten acre shopping center
Foothills of Fernley: Design Guidelines for a hundred+ acre subdivision, presentation boards, entry landscape
Sage Hill Development: landscape design for 19 unit SF subdivision with revegetation
Cosmos Properties: Presentation boards for new subdivision
Ivory Residence: A small scale residential project
The following examples are from Graduate work only. New work, which cannot be posted, includes initial proposals, site investigation and inventory, code review and application, illustrative graphics, concept design submittals, client reviews, autocad 2005 construction documents, planting plans, irrigation plans, water use calculations, cost estimates, and hand graphics.
Children's Hospital Redevelopment
In five years, the Denver Children's Hospital will be vacating its current site and relocating to a new hospital complex on the outskirts of Denver. They leave behind an 18-acre site less than a mile from Denver's CBD and firmly couched within a vibrant residential and retail neighborhood. How this site will be redeveloped to accomodate the changing urban fabric is the crux of this design. My team based the final design on new urbanist principles with an overall density of 45 - 50 d.u. per acre, 15,000 sqft of retail, and enough office space to meet current market demands with the potential to meet future needs from a neighboring secondary hospital complex. I presented the final project to the APA 2003 conference in Denver, CO. More images soon.
Through a partnership between the University of Colorado and Denver Public Schools, a few students each year are selected to redesign existing public school grounds. The philosophy behind the program is to introduce educational landscapes into the community. These landscapes bring the classroom outdoors by creating sundials, sensory gardens, math walks, bilingual signage, and many other learning-oriented features. As public grounds open to all (after school hours) they also become outdoor forums and community spaces in underserved neighborhoods. Munroe Elementary, designed by me and implemented by GPD Land Design, is currently in its final phase of construction.
I had been thinking of the many ways in which patches of wilderness could be connected across streets, city blocks, or even miles of suburban landscape. Simple bridges could be built, or tunnels constructed under roadways, so that fauna could freely cross. This Spotlight Moth Bridge was one solution to bridging gaps of great distances. It makes use of a simple food chain. Spotlights, sequentially timed to turn on and off at hour intervals, draw moths from the surrounding wilderness matrix and into inner-city parks. Following the moths come bats, spiders, hawks, and rodents. This allows for isolated inner-city patches of "wilderness" to become populated with greater diversity than pigeons and bluegrass can provide.
Lafayette, a bedroom community of Denver, has set aside 70+ acres for the creation of a large community park. The site is currenly used as a buffer between low density housing and Boulder County Open Spaces. This model is a detail of part of the larger plan. In this design much of the remaining space has been set aside for natural growth.
In conjuction with the Children's Hospital Development plan, a one block park was situated within the heart of the design. In accordance with Denver's historic grid, the park measured approximately 400x200 feet. This park was a sole effort and included open space, a playground, seating and shelter areas, and a highly planted shaded rambles. Serving a broad range of possible visitors in a small space was a unique constraint which led to unique solutions.
This page contains a few simple pencil drawings. Please note that resolution, contrast, and brightness is a bit off- pixels are not the best medium for pencils.
This project was a research oriented exploration into American fast food chains and their impact upon the landscape. The project linked final product to land use- for example, how much land is consumed in order to produce one McMuffin. The figures are startling. From Denver consumption alone during one year, Subway Sandwich Company, uses almost twice the acreage of land as the city itself, (much of which must lie fallow or remains polluted from industrial farming practices of insecticide and fertilization over use.) The Fat Back Tax was a study of a simple tax placed upon fast food chains which would be used to purchase marginalized parcels of land within the Denver Metro area. The end result provided a massive regreening of the city within a few years at minimal cost to the chain stores. As a chain uses land, so should they provide land.
This is one of several maps based on in-depth research into some of America's dominant fast food chains. The purpose of these studies was to investigate and uncover the vast network of connections which allows you to buy a cheeseburger in Denver made with beef from Iowa, bread from Oklahoma, lettuce from Florida, cheese from Wisconsin.... etc, etc, etc. The landscape implications, from farming to highway transportation is staggering. Did you know that McDonald's lobbyists have secured millions of your tax dollars for upkeep of their primary trucking routes?
Just southeast of Boulder, Co. a new 225-SF, 300-MF housing division is being built off of McCaslin Road. This ArcView designed preliminary plan adheres to the concepts of New Urbanism while minimizing environmental impact. All collector roads are based upon topography and run along the ridge lines to reduce necessary grading. Using the power of GIS data, historic waterflows are monitored, while detention of water is maintained through tree planting- a medium sized tree will detain 310 gallons of precipitation a year! 94-percent of the units fall within a ten-minute walk of commercial zones while 98-percent of the units border open space areas.
The graphing of the Platte River was one of my first forays into computer generated mapping. I constructed a device which would map the flow of the river: an eight foot copper framework supporting a free swinging axis. One end of the axis dropped into the river while the other end held a soft lead pencil which would scrawl the waves of the river upon large sheets of paper. The device yielded some beautiful figures which were then used as design overlays as secondary ordering systems.
This folder contains computer aided drawings which have no other home. They are from a variety of projects, some from scholastic work, some from recent projects. ACAD, Photoshop, and Illustrator were the primary tools. Due to screen resolution some images may be blurry.
All images copyright January 1st, 2004 may not be used without express permission.
Virginia Lake Park
Virginia Lake Redesign. This project focuses on the 2.5 acre parcel on the southwest corner of Virginia Lake in Reno, Nevada. The park design has gone through numerous itterations with a final design approved by community participants in late 2003. Throughout the year of 2004 I had the opportunity to draft the construction documents and illustrate the public presentation boards. The park is currently under construction with a scheduled opening date of June 2005.
Sun Mesa Park is currently under final review and should be entering bid and construction later this year. The park is situated within the confines of a 3.2 acre stormwater detention basin. The design was predicated upon the need to keep structural items of varying complexity at varying levels of potential storm events within the detention basin. Play fields are within the 5 year event zone, the loop trail is within the 10 year event zone, and all structures are within the 100 year flood zone. This stratification of structure in relation to stratification of event is an idea with more interesting implications... if we but have the time to explore them.
In five years, the Denver Children's Hospital will be vacating its current site and relocating to a new hospital complex on the outskirts of Denver. They leave behind an 18-acre site less than a mile from Denver's CBD and firmly couched within a vibrant residential and retail neighborhood. How this site will be redeveloped to accomodate the changing urban fabric is the crux of this design. My team based the final design on new urbanist principles with an overall density of 45 - 50 d.u. per acre, 15,000 sqft of retail, and enough office space to meet current market demands with the potential to meet future needs from a neighboring secondary hospital complex. I presented the final project to the APA 2003 conference in Denver, CO. More images soon.
Through a partnership between the University of Colorado and Denver Public Schools, a few students each year are selected to redesign existing public school grounds. The philosophy behind the program is to introduce educational landscapes into the community. These landscapes bring the classroom outdoors by creating sundials, sensory gardens, math walks, bilingual signage, and many other learning-oriented features. As public grounds open to all (after school hours) they also become outdoor forums and community spaces in underserved neighborhoods. Munroe Elementary, designed by me and implemented by GPD Land Design, is currently in its final phase of construction.
I had been thinking of the many ways in which patches of wilderness could be connected across streets, city blocks, or even miles of suburban landscape. Simple bridges could be built, or tunnels constructed under roadways, so that fauna could freely cross. This Spotlight Moth Bridge was one solution to bridging gaps of great distances. It makes use of a simple food chain. Spotlights, sequentially timed to turn on and off at hour intervals, draw moths from the surrounding wilderness matrix and into inner-city parks. Following the moths come bats, spiders, hawks, and rodents. This allows for isolated inner-city patches of "wilderness" to become populated with greater diversity than pigeons and bluegrass can provide. 
Lafayette, a bedroom community of Denver, has set aside 70+ acres for the creation of a large community park. The site is currenly used as a buffer between low density housing and Boulder County Open Spaces. This model is a detail of part of the larger plan. In this design much of the remaining space has been set aside for natural growth.
In conjuction with the Children's Hospital Development plan, a one block park was situated within the heart of the design. In accordance with Denver's historic grid, the park measured approximately 400x200 feet. This park was a sole effort and included open space, a playground, seating and shelter areas, and a highly planted shaded rambles. Serving a broad range of possible visitors in a small space was a unique constraint which led to unique solutions.
This page contains a few simple pencil drawings. Please note that resolution, contrast, and brightness is a bit off- pixels are not the best medium for pencils.
This project was a research oriented exploration into American fast food chains and their impact upon the landscape. The project linked final product to land use- for example, how much land is consumed in order to produce one McMuffin. The figures are startling. From Denver consumption alone during one year, Subway Sandwich Company, uses almost twice the acreage of land as the city itself, (much of which must lie fallow or remains polluted from industrial farming practices of insecticide and fertilization over use.) The Fat Back Tax was a study of a simple tax placed upon fast food chains which would be used to purchase marginalized parcels of land within the Denver Metro area. The end result provided a massive regreening of the city within a few years at minimal cost to the chain stores. As a chain uses land, so should they provide land. 
This is one of several maps based on in-depth research into some of America's dominant fast food chains. The purpose of these studies was to investigate and uncover the vast network of connections which allows you to buy a cheeseburger in Denver made with beef from Iowa, bread from Oklahoma, lettuce from Florida, cheese from Wisconsin.... etc, etc, etc. The landscape implications, from farming to highway transportation is staggering. Did you know that McDonald's lobbyists have secured millions of your tax dollars for upkeep of their primary trucking routes?
Just southeast of Boulder, Co. a new 225-SF, 300-MF housing division is being built off of McCaslin Road. This ArcView designed preliminary plan adheres to the concepts of New Urbanism while minimizing environmental impact. All collector roads are based upon topography and run along the ridge lines to reduce necessary grading. Using the power of GIS data, historic waterflows are monitored, while detention of water is maintained through tree planting- a medium sized tree will detain 310 gallons of precipitation a year! 94-percent of the units fall within a ten-minute walk of commercial zones while 98-percent of the units border open space areas.
The graphing of the Platte River was one of my first forays into computer generated mapping. I constructed a device which would map the flow of the river: an eight foot copper framework supporting a free swinging axis. One end of the axis dropped into the river while the other end held a soft lead pencil which would scrawl the waves of the river upon large sheets of paper. The device yielded some beautiful figures which were then used as design overlays as secondary ordering systems.
This folder contains computer aided drawings which have no other home. They are from a variety of projects, some from scholastic work, some from recent projects. ACAD, Photoshop, and Illustrator were the primary tools. Due to screen resolution some images may be blurry. 
Virginia Lake Redesign. This project focuses on the 2.5 acre parcel on the southwest corner of Virginia Lake in Reno, Nevada. The park design has gone through numerous itterations with a final design approved by community participants in late 2003. Throughout the year of 2004 I had the opportunity to draft the construction documents and illustrate the public presentation boards. The park is currently under construction with a scheduled opening date of June 2005. 
Sun Mesa Park is currently under final review and should be entering bid and construction later this year. The park is situated within the confines of a 3.2 acre stormwater detention basin. The design was predicated upon the need to keep structural items of varying complexity at varying levels of potential storm events within the detention basin. Play fields are within the 5 year event zone, the loop trail is within the 10 year event zone, and all structures are within the 100 year flood zone. This stratification of structure in relation to stratification of event is an idea with more interesting implications... if we but have the time to explore them.