“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, is and remains imortal.� - Albert Pine
Photo by Nick Cronin
Photo by Nick Cronin
Contents Brownfield Rejuvenation Residential Design Analysis of Development Patterns Generating Public Awarness
Japanese Garden
Nick Cronin University of Kentucky| Landscape Architecture Address 187 Forest Park Road| Lexington KY 40503 Phone 859.806.5582 Email Nick.Cronin@outlook.com njcron2@uky.edu
Design - Build
Arc Stop The Blue Noodle Smart - Growth Community Crossroad Communities of Casey County Falmouth, KY Community Project Winchester Parks and Recreation Working Drawings Photo by Nick Cronin
Brownfield Rejuvenation Louisville Black Leaf Superfund Site
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After the contaminants are mapped and the pockets of high concentration are removed, the remaining soils are treated through natural biological processes. Once stable, the site becomes a keystone to the surrounding low-income community.
Public Health and Information Sciences
School of Education and Human Development
School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies
Park Hill Community Working Age Adults
High Speed Rail Technology Research
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Persue Higher Education
GED
Urban Agriculture Re Reasearch
Live Learn Workforce
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Revitalization through Community Education
The goal of the program is to provide a foundation of essiential knowledge and life skills. The Living Learning program partnership with the University of Louisville provides students of any age a safe living space and free education. In return, the students work for one of the businesses or industries on site. While this addresses a crucial need in the community, the students of University of Louisville gain valuable teaching experience, management skills, and assistance with engineering research to improve High Speed Rail technology.
Residential Design
2011
Analysis of Development Patterns 1900’s
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Working in small teams, this assignment challenged us to assess the built environments of Kentucky’s tourism regions. Utilizing GIS software, we compiled a vast spectrum of different layout patterns from the cities in our region. These patterns were catalogued and compared with the other tourism regions to create a booklet of Kentucky’s developmental typologies. In addition to gathering patterns for the booklet, teams were challenged to research the community issues of their region. After contacting several city planners and public officials and concluded that as commercial development occurs, it has decentralized community growth and isolated historic downtowns. Extrapolating these observations further, the team began to understand why the citizens have voiced concerns of a loss of town identity.
Rural Other Towns
37%
Population
1800’s
14%
Elizabethtown Shepherdsville
Louisville
1700’s
Leitchfield
Louisville Louisville 49%
28%
Region
2013
Generating Public Awareness
2012 INDEPENDENT PROJECT Through an outside opportunity with lexington's newest elementary school, this project presented an opportunity to lead a small design team of two 1st year landscape architecture students through the creative and technical process. While the project is still ongoing, the renderings we provided the client helped to secure a grant for project construction; which began in November.
Japanese Garden
Design-Build Community Outreach Project
Photoshop rendering
This class design competition consisted of working with The Early childhood Development Center at the University of Kentucky to provide plans and cost estimates for a creative shade structure. While this design was not selected by the client to be built, the project proved to be a fun oppertunity to see a design through to fruition.
Material 6x6 pressure treated wood 4x4 pressure treated wood 2x4 pressure treated wood 3/8" Galvanized Hex Bolt 3/8" Galvanized Cut Washer 3/8" Galvanized Nut 9" Strap Tie Box of galvanized nails 1/2" rebar 1x2 Gravel Quikrete Portland Cement Zinc Plated Corner Bracket
Size 12' 16' 10' 2" Ͳ Ͳ Ͳ 1" 20' 8' 50lb 94lb 6"x6"
Quantity 2 2 44 44 44 44 44 2 4 112 12 8 16
cost (per unit) $31.97 $15.97 $3.94 $0.82 $0.22 $0.22 $0.93 $15.68 $7.67 $1.97 $2.97 $9.84 $3.77
Total cost $63.94 $31.94 $174.68 $36.08 $9.68 $9.68 $40.92 $31.36 $30.68 $220.64 $35.64 $78.72 $60.32
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Lexington
2011
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Arc Stop
Lexington
2011
1st runner up in a design competition open to both professional and student entries. Three student design team The design encompasses the rich culture of the Southland community with contemporary sustainable design.
The Blue Noodle
Lexington
2009
Smart-Growth community
2011
The smart growth community is one project in a series of projects emphasizing the diffent steps of the design process. The design emphasizes the importance of building pacement, circulation, and open space to improve the health of the community. By comparing the codes of Lexington and Bern, Switzerland we determined how Lexington code is restricting designs that are more walkable and promote active lifestyles
Using the same 65 acre site with 1,446 residential units...
Comparing Codes:
Lexington, Kentucky Bern, Switzerland
Impervious vs. Green Previous
Suitability Map Suitable for Urban Agriculture
Suitable for Stream Daylighting Suitable for Residential
Suitable for Retail Suitable for Recreational Facilities
Suitable for Office
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Bicycle spaces
2,037 3,082
Car Spaces
2,610 1,691
Community Bike Storage Station
Map of data points locating each surveyed site
2011
Plan view created for all buildings surveyed
A recent UKLA graduate and myself were selected to conduct fieldwork during a two month summer internship through the Department of Landscape Architecture and Archeology. The survey and planning grant attempted to address a long-standing deficit in the number of surveyed historic resources in Casey County, Kentucky. This was a great oppertunity to further develop my photography skills, and inspired my interest in Historical Preservation.
cROSSROAD cOMMUNITIES of Casey County
Falmouth, KY community Project
2012 Working with the town of Falmouth, our class learned to work as a team to address community needs. Focus was placed focused on creating a layout that mixes commercial and residential developments, moves pedestrians away from the highway, and provides a variety of public spaces. After my internship, I’ve learned the best way to understand a community is to dive in! By meeting the locals and thoroughly exploring their town on my own, I was able to pinpoint critical issues that we would have otherwise missed.
Winchester Parks and Recreation Advertisement Creation
Winchester- ) & + 40 ) + 4 Aquatics
Facility Hours Monday - Friday: 5 5:30am-9pm
-Swim lessons for all levels -Water aerobic classes -Water arthritis classes -Scuba diving certification opportunities ties -Kayaking classes -Lifeguard training courses -Free community swim night the last Monday of every month
(pool closed from 1pm-3:30pm)
Saturday 7am-7pm (Pool opens at 9am) (P
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Sunday 12pm-6pm
-Rooms available for use -Pool and party packages -Scuba birthday party packages -Shelters available in our parks -Programming for Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops
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Sports and Fitness -Yoga for all levels -Volleyball -Little Kickers -Kickball, Dodgeball and Wiffle Ball -Cardio, Strength & Zumba Classes
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The University of Kentucky Healtrac initiative provided the basis for the 5th year Fall capstone studio. The goal was to design a layout for a proposed hydrotherapy center and complete a set of construction documents. Each student produced a layout plan, grading plan, pipe sizing, lighting schedule, planting schedule, and irrigation plan.
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References
Dr. Brian Lee blee@uky.edu 859.257.7205 Professor University of Kentucky
Vanessa Shepherd vanessa.shepherd@fayette.kyschools.us 859.381.3000 x 304041 Japanese Garden Contact Wellington Elementary
Janie-Rice Brother jrbrother@gmail.com 859.494.3718 Dept. of Archeology University of Kentucky