BLAKE WOODRUFF URBAN PLANNING PORTFOLIO
ABOUT Introduction I’ve always had a strong passion for Urban Planning and Design. However, I wasn’t aware that I was interested in Urban Planning till someone defined it for me. I wasn’t sure if I should go into the field of planning or focus more in the field of design, but after dialogue with planners I learned I could have both. I was humbly and joyfully accepted into the School of Planning. I plan to obtain a Master’s in Landscape Architecture or Community Planning. I want to work with neighborhoods to create community through strategic design and planning. I love the large spread umbrella of opportunities and fields accessible through Planning. I have interests in all aspects of Planning, really. Economics, transportation, design, zoning, law, revitalization, politics.
Future Urban Planner, Urban Design Cincinnati, Ohio
Contact 107 E University Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45219 (513) 302-8653 woodrubd@mail.uc.edu https://www.linkedin.com/in/blake-woodruff/ 2
RESUME Education
Work History
Skills
Interests
Bachelor of Urban Planning GPA 3.53 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Expected Graduation April 2023 National Society of Collegiate of Scholars (NSCS), Dean’s List, DAAP Ambassador, Cru UC Clermont College Batavia, OH Dual-enrollment program for college-ready high school students. College-Credit Plus (CCP), Dean’s List, LOOK to Clermont Leadership Program Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, Cleveland, OH • Planning Intern • General Work: Graphic design, data analysis and visualization, research, city branding. • Skills: Adobe Creative Cloud, SketchUp, Excel, GIS.
GPA 3.83 September 2016-April 2018
January 2020 – May 2020
Bad Omelet Screen Printing, Cincinnati, OH • Graphic Designer • General work: Creating digital art and logos for companies and events. • Skills: Adobe Illustrator — self-taught, vinyl printing, and hand-pulled printing.
January 2015 - Present
Kingdom Productions, Inc., Cincinnati, OH • Scenic Department Artisan • General work: Creative signage and facades for amusement parks and zoos. • Skills: painting, carving, sculpting, sanding, and maintenance.
February 2018 - June 2018
Advanced: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Microsoft Word, SketchUp Intermediate: GIS, V-Ray, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel Basic: AutoCAD, HTML Cognitive: Big-picture, organized, team-player I have passionate interests in Graphic Design, Urban Design, Community-Focused Design and Historic Preservation. Working closely with communities to improve the community therein. I love the scenery and rest National Parks provide. I also, have an interest in politics and world issues. Clifton Strengths: Relator, Deliberative, Restorative, Intellection, Context Enneagram Institute: 5 & 9
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Projects
Overview
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About
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Comfort on Campus at the University of Cincinnati 2018
Resume
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Fischer Homes Site 2019
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Table of Contents
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East End Cincinnati, OH 2020
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Graphics
Personal Projects
Steeples of Over the Rhine 2019
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Renderings with SketchUp 2015, 2019
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Imageability Map | Over the Rhine 2019
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Photography 2014-2019
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PLAN 1011 | Assignment 3B | Imageability Map Blake Woodruff
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CITY HALL VETERANS PARK POLICE STATION
Mapping 2018
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COMFORT ON CAMPUS Introduction
Process
Overview Individual project Bachelor of Urban Planning, University of Cincinnati Description Process of putting together a presentation which highlights the problems and solutions to comfort and enjoyment on campus. Objective Learn what aspects of campus are comfortable or enjoyable and apply those aspects to improve uncomfortable areas on campus, Process Sourcing, interpretation, and application of crowd-sourced information on University of Cincinnati’s campus. Digital Skills GIS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adibe InDesign, Hand-drawn Sketches.
Sourcing Students circle areas as comfortable/uncomfortable by color to create a source map. Green-comfortable Brown-uncomfortable Hand-drawn
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Interpretation Three visual maps were produced to show the results of map (left).
University of Cincvinnati Thematic Map Blake Woodruff | PLAN 1055 | Assignment 3
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Visual 1 Most literal interpretation of the source-map. Hard to read and visually too busy to convey the information. Blue-comfortable Red-uncomfortable GIS, Adobe Illustrator
Enjoyable Uncomfortable Both
Visual 2 Most generalized interpretation of the source-map. Only buildings that were important were included. Easy to read, but too generalized
Visual 3 Utilizes a system ranging from light blue to dark blue, light blue representing least comfortable and dark blue representing most comfortable.
Green-comfortable Brown-uncomfortable
Easy to read, keeps the information in-tact while simplifying it.
Hand-drawn, edited in Adobe Photoshop
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COMFORT ON CAMPUS Final Presentation
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Less Comfort
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College Drive | Cramped Space
How do you take what makes Main Street highly comfortable and apply that to College Drive to improve its comfortability? 1. A path with a flowing natural design reminiscent of Main Street. This would begin to allow College Drive to open up and feel more walkable and pedestrian friendly. 2. A shared brick roadway, no sidewalk, like that of Main Street so that cars, bicycles and pedestrians feel safe sharing space.
Main Street | Human-Centric Design
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FISCHER HOMES
SITE PLAN
Introduction
Analysis
Overview Individual project Bachelor of Urban Planning, University of Cincinnati
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Objective Largely residential attached homes for single-family with a very little amount of mixed-use and a large nature preserve that serves the community within the site. Process Analysis of the sites deveolpable land, visualizing the site, and lastly planning the site.
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Description An eighty-acre site looking to be developed by Fischer Homes. The site is zoned in three portions that create opportunites for unique districts.
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Site Analysis An experimental and abstract representation of site analyses. Key factors include, winter/ summer sun and wind, water, tree canopy, “flat� land, noise, and roadways.
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Site Plan Design Process Most literal interpretation of the source-map. Hard to read and visually too busy.
Land-Use Commercial Mixed-Use Residential Institutional Greenspace-Active Greenspace-Passive Streets/Paths Arterial Collector Local Pedestrian Environment Creek Trees
N First Draft Largely influenced by site analyses and topography maps. Organic road layout shaped by topography and view-sheds.
Second Draft Abstract layout of land-uses. Looking at a grid layout, rather than a natural organic street layout. The green-space corridor is more complete than other aspects.
Third Draft This draft reflects the zoning-code more accurately like setbacks and road-with. A mixture of grid and organic road layouts define different land-uses.
FISCHER HOMES
SITE PLAN
Final Site Plan Land-Use
Attached Housing I 16 units, 1,000 ft2 Attached Housing L 32 units, 1,000 ft2 Attached Housing S 48 units, 1,000 ft2
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Final Site Plan Design
Fischer Homes Final Proposed Site | Blake Woodruff
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RESILIENT EAST END Introduction
Guiding Principles & Strategies
Overview Group project. Individual work shown. Bachelor of Urban Planning, University of Cincinnati
RESILIENCE
Description A project that focuses on the vulnerable East End neighborhood within Cincinnati. Focus on Built Form/Environment. Objective Providing Solutions to make the East End more resilient, especially in terms of flooding.
Retreat
Leave.
Adapt
Adjust.
Quasi-Wetlands & Small Levees
Riverfront Park
Wetlands
Detention Ponds
Native Vegetation
Permeable Surfaces
Process Create guiding principles and strategies to define success. Digital Skills GIS, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Hand-drawn Sketches
Protect.
Fortify
RESISTANCE
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Riverfront Park Plan
MARINA
WETLANDS / RETENTION POND
A marina provides an improvement and Swinging benches provide seating enlargement of current boat club that and views which are currently resides on the water here. underutilized or nonexistent along this portion of the riverfront.
PUBLIC SEATING
Multi-use stairs are similar in style to those of serpentine-wall.
STAIR SEATING
A wetland detention pond provides protection for the Garden District and a place for stormwater runoff to gather. All three guiding principles of Retreat, Adapt, and Protect were used in this design. 15
RESILIENT EAST END Highlights
A marina provides an improvement and enlargement of current boat club that resides on the water here.
Swinging benches provide seating and views which are currently underutilized or nonexistent along this portion of the riverfront.
Multi-use stairs are similar in style to those of serpentine-wall.
Benefits include: 1. More room for boaters. 2. Protected docking. 3. Functional Boat ramp
Benefits include: 1. View-sheds 2. Seating 3. Communal gathering space.
Benefits include: 1. View-sheds 2. Seating 3. Communal gathering space.
Precedents Key locations which influenced and inspired the park.
Dayton, Kentucky Marina. Source: Google
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Smale Park Swings. Source: Google
Solstice Steps, Cleveland. Source: Google
Guiding Principles & Strategies
A wetland detention pond provides protection for the Garden District and a place for stormwater runoff to gather. All three guiding principles of Retreat, Adapt, and Protect were used in this design. Benefits include: 1. Protection 2. Stormwater and flood-water collection 3. Wetlands habitat. Educational for school-field trips.
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STEEPLES
OVER THE RHINE
Introduction Overview Individual project Bachelor of Urban Planning, University of Cincinnati Description Absractation of steeples in Over the Rhine. Objective Minimal map of some aspect of Over the Rhine. Process Map out religious centers in Over the Rhine, pull out those with steeples. Digitally recreate the steeples from images. Digital Skills GIS, Adobe Illustrator
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Steeples
Over the Rhine Blake Woodruff
BROOKLYN BRANDING Introduction Overview Individual Piece Planning Intern / Graphic Designer Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, Cleveland, Ohio. -
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“Traditional/Timber” Signage Style Captures the traditional style found throughout parts of the City of Brooklyn with added timber to capture the natural side of Brooklyn found in the Big Creek Reservation.
Description New branding and wayfinding signage for the City of Brooklyn’s (Cleveland, Ohio) Master Plan. Objective Create signage that brings an identity to thhe City of Brooklyn within the Civic Center. Process Signage created in Adobe Illustrator, exported to Adobe Photoshop for added landscape elements (not shown). Digital Skills Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
CITY HALL VETERANS PARK POLICE STATION ESTABLISHED 1950
“Modern Traditional” Signage Style Captures the traditional style found throughout parts of the City of Brooklyn with modern elements to signify a more future-focused Brooklyn.
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MAPPING Introduction
Mapping in GIS
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Overview Individual project Bachelor of Urban Planning, University of Cincinnati
Blake Woodruff | PLA
Description A collection of maps focused on certain aspects of the University of Cincinnati’s campus. Objective Communicating certain aspects of campus through different methods. Digital Skills GIS, Hand-drawn, edited in Adobe Photoshop.
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Base-map Visually showing keys aspects of a base-map as simply as possible. GIS.
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Pathways Topography
Hand-Drawn Maps Three maps exploring building footprints, paths/linkages, and imageability on campus.
PLAN 1011 | Assignment 3B | Imageability Map Blake Woodru
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Paths Major: Minor:
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Building Footprints Detailed outline of building footprints on campus based off of GIS base-map (left).
Paths/Linkages Very literal interpretation of paths/linkages on campus.
Imageability Implementing Kevin Lynches 5 aspects of place on campus.
Hand-drawn/traced, edited in Adobe Photoshop.
Hand-drawn/traced, edited in Adobe Photoshop.
Hand-drawn/traced, edited in Adobe Photoshop.
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RENDERING Introduction Overview Personal Project Description Rendered theoretical mixed-use community. Bird’s-eye view, section, and overview in the view of a parallelogram. Objective Explore the tools and possibilities in Sketchup and V-Ray Digital Skills SketchUp, V-Ray.
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Renderings
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PHOTOGRAPHY Introduction Overview Individual project Personal Project Description Photos mainly featuring National Parks, towns, and nature. Digital Skills DSLR Camera, edited in Photoshop
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Acadia National Park
Nature | Landscape
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PHOTOGRAPHY Landscape
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Nature | Macro
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THANK YO U 107 E University Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45219 (513) 302-8653 woodrubd@mail.uc.edu