

CHARLOTTE
ERIC M ZAVERL
URBAN DESIGN
Urban Design Places for People
“WE MUST COME TOGETHER AND GRAB THIS GOLDEN TICKET TO REDESIGN AN EVEN GREATER HOME. A HOME THAT DRIVES COMMUNITY — NOT CARS — TO THE CENTER OF OUR EVERYDAY LIFE.” - John Zimmer Lyft Co-founder
“THE GENERAL THEORY OF WALKABILITY EXPLAINS HOW, TO BE FAVORED, A WALK HAS TO SATISFY FOUR MAIN CONDITIONS: IT MUST BE USEFUL, SAFE, COMFORTABLE, AND INTERESTING.” - Jeff Speck,
Walkable City
Eric M Zaverl
Experience APPLE INC
Urban Design
e.zaverl@me.com 443≈668≈4040 makeCLTgreat.com
Community President - South End Neighborhood Charlotte - (2013 - 2015)
Land Use and Neighborhood Art Project Committee head. Led community day projects including the creation of a neighborhood garden and adopted street clean up. Advocated for Rail Trail projects, safe street crossings, bicycle parking at neighborhood businesses. Represented neighbors on the
South End steering committee.
Mecklenburg County Livable Communities Charlotte - (2013 - 2015)
INVENTORY AND VISUAL MANAGER - (2005 -
2013) Led a team of ten people at the store in Southpark overseeing daily operations, including merchandising, inventory, visual standards, shrinkage and team member performance. Perform annual team member reviews. Responsible for over a million dollars in inventory while maintaining inventory accuracy above 99%. Consistently recognized as a Significant Contributor with a rating of a 4 out of 5.
CORPORATE RETAIL TRAINER
- (2008 - 2010) Trained staff at new Apple stores across the East Coast including high profile stores in Christiana, Delaware and Georgetown, Washington D.C. Served as a liaison between construction, new store staff, and retail operations at each new store opening week. Mentored employees and acted as a consultant at numerous existing stores which resulted in improved inventory results. One part of a dual role that is both challenging and highly demanding on my time and resources.
Education The University of North Carolina - Charlotte Master’s Degree in Urban Design - August 2016 The University of Scranton - Scranton, Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems - May 2002
Table of Contents  
Architecture Projects - Charlotte/Charleston - 2015
NODA - 36th Street Station- Charlotte - 2015
South Park City - Charlotte - 2015
 
University City Campus District - Charlotte - 2016 Master Plan Form Based
ULI Hines Student Competition - Atlanta - 2016
Connections: People, Nature, Places and Events - Rio de Janeiro - 2016
Architecture Projects 

Waterfront Park - Charleston, SC
Pavilion Environmental Education Center
Views from the Pavilion EMZ
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Charleston, SC - Waterfront Park 

Plan View of Park and Building
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NODA - 36th Street Station
Site Plan Scale: 1” = 50 feet
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Multi-Use 50+ Acre Site  
Site Model scale: 1 inch equals 50 feet
36th Street Station -
Section through Light-Rail Station
Section through Squares and Green way
This project was a team assignment in the ďŹ rst part of the Fall semester 2015 at UNC Charlotte. The goal for each group was to master plan a site for mix-use and for a variety of housing incomes. The majority of the site was residential with a limited commercial development nearest to the light-rail stop. The design concept was centered around connections to the rest of NODA neighborhood and a series of Savannah squares. EMZ
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SouthPark City 

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Union Square
SouthPark City The SouthPark City project was an assignment in the second half of the Fall semester 2015. The goal of the project was to program the site with elements of the Uptown area of Charlotte creating an edge city. The site area was just north/northeast of the SouthPark Mall. Design was guided from five Livability Principles that originated from the class. The finished work included a BRT network, protected bike lanes, and substantial amounts of open public space.
Neighborhood Diagram
Legend Cloverfield Road Neighborhood Park Avenue Neighborhood Bryant Park Neighborhood Market St. Neighborhood Union Square Neighborhood
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Street Sections 

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Perspective of BRT Station and Main Commercial Hub 

Building Perspective Highlighted in Red
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University City Campus District Station Place  
This neighborhood is where students and the public come together. In the spirit of mixed urban design and the 8 to 80 cities design principles, Station Place combines work, live, play and learning. The Station Plaza is home to restaurants, bars, cafes, and neighborhood retail amenities. There are a variety of housing options from apartments, townhouses, duplex stand alone, and micro- apartments. Square footage ranges from 300 sq ft to 3,600sq ft providing housing choice. The community is home to a new STEM school, adult continuing education campus for UNC Charlotte, and lifelong learning block. Working on inner twining the public with the University is the major achievement of Station Place. Adding over a million square feet of campus housing and classrooms, 1000 homes and apartments, and thousands of square feet of commercial retail and oďŹƒce, Station Place is where you can walk, bike or ride the train to a higher dream of living. EMZ
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Station Place 

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Concept Diagram
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Light Rail Stop - Station Place
Station Place


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ULI Hines Student Competition EMERGING INNOVATION  
North of Varsity [NOVA] brings opportunities for a diverse and livable neighborhood to Midtown. Public space, social activities, and innovation come together to foster partnerships between institutions, emerging businesses, innovators, and ideas. The NOVA neighborhood physically bridges Georgia Tech, Emory Medical University, and the private sector, providing an innovative platform for the human experience. The existing site lacks public space, retail, and most of all places to live. NOVA oers a livable community containing a wide variety of uses and activities for its users who work, live, learn, and share their experiences in this new district. NOVA, surrounded by many innovative institutions, serves as a platform for crossdisciplinary collaboration between the public and private, institutions and business, and professionals and residents. This physical overlapping in diverse users fosters connections and an opportunity of shared knowledge as NOVA emerges into the innovation leader of Atlanta. EMZ
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ULI Hines
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Connections: People, Nature, Places and Events This speculative plan creates connections to nature through the creation of public spaces, which blur the boundary between the built and the natural form. It creates physical connections over manmade obstructions to reduce the boundaries between people and the places they inhabit. It brings activities and events from inside and outside closer together by incorporating a mix of forms of public spaces. Most of all, it brings people options of where to live, where to work, where to play and how to move between those aspects of life in a seamless natural landscape populated by people and the events they hold, all in hopes of creating a better place and a better life. EMZ
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CONEXÕES TERRESTRES: Interweaving People, Nature, Places and Events (GROUND CONNECTIONS)
Public Space Sections After examining Barra da Tijuca and performing research and analysis, the overarching question to answer was “How can this area become a more connected place and not just in the near future but decades from now considering the uncertainties of sea rise and climate change?”
Typologies of Form and Use
EXTENDED
Extended
Retail Plaza
CONNECTED
Currently, the area of Barra da Tijuca is separated into specialized functions of use, each separated by an exceptionally non-pedestrian friendly landscape of roads and highways. The public realm is limited to malls and shopping centers reached only by automobile. Absent are the networks of pedestrian spaces and byways that populate the more accessible and successful city landscapes of the world. The HPBM OPX JT UP VUJMJ[F UIF DPODFOUSBUJPO PG PõDF BMPOH XJUI UIF CPPN in population in the region to help foster the creation of a center of public activity. Recognizing that this alone will not fully accomplish the goal of connecting elements, both physically and culturally, transit connections would be needed to allow easier movement for the people as well as activated natural landscapes that extend connections between the people and the natural landscape that surrounds them.
A1
A2
WITH-IN
Leblon Street Grid
B1
C1
Stargazing Art Class Nature/ Science Class Field Trips Summer Camp
B2
C2
B3
C3
SOCIAL
A3
Tailgating Picnics Sporting Events Yoga Class Recreation / Leisure Meditation Tai Chi CULTURAL Theater Concerts Civil Engagement Art Shows/ Classes
A4
Water
Public spaces/ Amenities
B4
U1
Public Ground
Site Context and Green Connectors
FIGURE GROUND - BLOCK STRUCTURE
Market Fairs Pop-up Kiosks Food Trucks Restaurants EDUCATIONAL
This speculative plan creates connections to nature through the creation of public spaces, which blur the boundary between the built and the natural form. It creates physical connections over manmade obstructions to reduce the boundaries between people and the places they inhabit. It brings activities and events from inside and outside closer together by incorporating a mix of forms of public spaces. Most of all, it brings people options of where to live, where to work, where to play and how to move between those aspects of life in a seamless natural landscape populated by people and the events they hold, all in hopes of creating a better place and a better life.
Barra da Tijuca Block Typologies
Within Events COMMERCIAL
Leblon Figure Ground
Water Green Space Marsh land
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Curvilin
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Combined Functions
C
Green Connectors
Plaza
Highway Mono Rail
Canal
C4 Elevated Path
Bicycle Path
Existing Office Buildings
Playgrounds
Protected wetlands
C5
Pocket Parks
Existing Shopping Mall
Dog Parks
A
Community Gardens C6
Existing Residential Towers
Transportation Hub
Urban Agricultural
Outdoor Classrooms
B
Monorail Lagoa
near
Retail Strip
Cross-Site Connector Systems
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ELEVATED PEDESTRIAN PATHS
Planned Residential Development
Planned Pedestrian Connetions
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ELEVATED RAIL
Site Photographs
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SIDEWALK NETWORK
Costa Master Plan
Regional Natural Parks
Notable Regional Programs
Notable Local Programs
Connection Systems
02 Green Connector Natural Canal Riverwalk Major Canal System Regional BRT Route Local BRT Route Monorail
BRT LINE
Monorail Station BRT Station
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Water
Defined Green Spaces
Marsh land
BICYCLE LANES
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Multi-Modal Mixed Use DNA - A
Parkway Bridge DNA - B
Mixed Use Riverwalk DNA - C
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Speculative Plan 

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DNA and Views
Multi-Modal Mixed-Use
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