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TABLE OF CONTENTS P. 04
Al Sultan Hotel
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New Sub-Urbanism: Hutto Traditional Neighborhood
Baghdad, Iraq Austin, Texas
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Waller Creek District Masterplan: Dramatize Eco-Cultural Connections Austin, Texas
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The Terraces: Mount Baker Station
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Columbia Boulevard
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The Park at Othello
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Functional Plants Selection for Soil and Design
Seattle, Washignton Seattle, Washignton Seattle, Washignton Austin, Texas
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Al-Sultan Hotel The new Al-Sultan Hotel complex will be a highrise hotel, conference center in modern Baghdad. Rising in a crowded urban context, the design aimed to maximize floor usage to house various functions, a restaurant, multi-purposed hall, grand entrance, a bakery, and a conference center. The main body consists of ten floors of luxury and a variety of rooms (in size and layout). The goal of this new commercial center is to become a symbol of Baghdad’s rebirth as a modern city. It is a place for gathering and recreation, a place to conduct business venues of the emerging Iraqi economy. This project is to increase employment profile, it is an employer of several hundred construction workers, and after construction will employ several hundred more citizens in an ongoing capacity.
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+ Ground Floor Plan
+ Typical Floors (1,2,3,7,8,9) Plan
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+ Typical Floors (4,5,6) Plan
+ Basement Plan
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+ South Elevation + West Elevation
+ Perspectives
+ Rooftop and Penthouse Plan
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New Sub-Urbanism Hutto Traditional Neighborhood Hutto is recognized as one of the fastest growing cities in Texas. The SmartCode that was adopted by the city is specifically designed to accommodate this inflow of new people and organizing them into safe, walkable communities instead of the apartment complexes. The SmartCode is designed to traditional family home neighborhoods or large combat urban sprawl, and preserve as much of the landscape as possible. For this reason, parks and playgrounds are required features, as well as tree lined streets and strict landscaping standards that are friendly to pedestrians and cyclists.
Hutto
Austin
+ Regional Networks
+ 100 Years Flooplain
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Area of Development A
School
+ Developer Ranch and Residence
Area of Development B
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+ Street and Parkings
+ Buildings Footprint
+ Green and Open Spaces
+ Tree-Lines Streets
+ Walkable Pathways
+ First Phase Plan
N + New Sub-urbanism Traditional Masterplan
400 ft
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T5
N 200 ft
The SmartCode provides an effective tool for Hutto to add traditional neighborhoods to the lifestyle choices that it has to offer. Instead of the single product residential subdivisions built next to large blocks of apartment buildings and a retail strip center, the form-based traditional neighborhood development builds a variety of single and multi-family residential products, neighborhood office and retail spaces, schools, churches, parks and playgrounds within a five to ten minutes walk of each other. The design aims to have various levels of density. The center of the development will be most dense, with up to 20 residences per acre, versus about four per acre in a neighborhood of single family homes. Residences will be mixed with businesses, and the perimeter will be more rural with land designated for parks. Plans call for residences to be within a quarter-mile of community features, including businesses, schools, civic centers, and parks. Strict zoning helps ensure property use to the overall vision.
+ First Phase Plan
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+ T5 Residential Plan
New Suburbanism using SmartCode is all about diversity and choice. Building choices that have been zoned out of existence by suburban governments for the past 40 years are available again. + T5 Residential 2nd Floor (Top) and 1st Floor (Below)
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Waller Creek District Masterplan Dramatize Eco-Cultural Connections UT Austin
MLK Jr. Blvd
I-35
San Jacinto Blvd
Austin Light Rail Alignment
Lady Bird Lake
+ Waller Creek Context Map
Waller creek is a small creek in the eastern part of downtown Austin next to I-35. Because this area has been historically prone to flooding, the city is planning to build a tunnel that would divert the water from Waller creek beginning at Waterloo Park to exit just to the west of the mouth of the creek into ladybird lakeshrinking the floodplain and allowing for more intensive redevelopment in that part of town. A downtown creek is a potential amenity to the growing city, water will be then pumped back through the creek from Ladybird Lake which not only allows the city to control the water levels, but is also expected to improve the water quality within the channel itself. The design aimed into looking at the interesting relationship between biophysical (ecological) processes of a watershed and cultural value which has led to the overarching goal of “Dramatizing Eco-cultural Connections�.
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It is a commanding ideal to highlight the relationship between the elements of the city and the creek, allowing the union of the ecological and the cultural to create something exciting and beautiful-from which is where the drama emanates. To achieve the goal, thinking about the site was structured within the framework of describe the two elements of riparian system and urban system as an “Urban Ecotone” which is set as a “Stage” The proposed Waller Creek Urban Ecotone can be further broken down into elements: Water edges, corridor edges, vegetative ecotone, paths, and platforms. The programmatic opportunity is to choreograph multi-faceted interactions which are not only between urban infrastructure and riparian system, but also of the users within and across the ecotone and between users in general.
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Cultural+Ecological Stages Outdoor Classes
+ Perspective Waller Creek in 4th Street: Eco-Cultural Stages
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LANDMARK NETWORKS
LANDUSE : OFFICE
LANDUSE : COMMERCIAL
LANDUSE : RESIDENTIAL
LANDUSE : MEDICAL
LANDUSE : GREEN SPACES
LANDUSE : ADMINISTRATIONAL LANDUSE : T.O.D.
LANDUSE : CULTURAL
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Administrative Subdistrict Plan MLK Jr. Blvd and E 11th St.
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Music Subdistrict Plan E 11th St. and E 5th St.
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100 YEARS FLOODPLAIN
WATERSHED RADII WALKING DIS ILE TAN 5M CE 0.2
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Transit Oriented Subdistrict Plan E 5th St. and E 1st St. Lady Bird Lake Subdistrict Plan E 1st St. and Lady Bird Lake 50’ Wide Green Street 60’ Wide Green Street 80’ Wide Green Street
T.O.D. 1/4-1/2 MILE CIRCLE
GREEN STREETS
Waller Creek District Masterplan
BIKE AND WALKING TRAILS
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Red River St
I-35
MLK Jr. Blvd
Frank Erwin Center
Texas Capitol
12th St
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Waterloo Park
A San Jacinto Blvd
11th St
Trinity St
+ Administrative Subdistrict Plan MLK Jr. Blvd and E 11th St.
+ Green Open Lawn
Ecotone Boundary
+ Bikes and Walking Trails
Waller Creek
+ Existing Trees
+ Street Tree Lines
Green Roofs
Ecotone Boundary
Adminstrative
Green Walls
Travel Lane Trinity St.
Sidewalk (Width Varies)
Outdoor Picnic Area Vendor Space Benches & Tables Retaining Wall
Terraces (Stormwater Garden)
Sidewalk (Width Varies)
Travel Lane
Red River St.
Medical Facilities
Tree Lines
Section A-A
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11th St
B 7th St
B Neches St 5th St
Red River St + Music Subdistrict Plan E 11th St. and E 5th St.
+ Green Open Lawn New Buildings
Ecotone Boundary
Waller Creek
+ Bikes and Walking Trails
+ Existing Trees
+ Street Tree Lines
Ecotone Boundary
Green Roofs Hotels
Public Parking
Green Walls
Travel Lane Neches St.
Resturants
Sidewalks (Width Varies)
Trail
Outdoor Picnic Area and Vendor Space Tables and Benches Community Orchard Retaining Wall
Travel Lane I-35 Frontage
I-35 Local Farmers Market
Section B-B
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San Jacinto Blvd
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Trinity Red River St
1st St
+ Transit Oriented Subdistrict Plan E 5th St. and E 1st St.
+ Green Open Lawn New Buildings
Ecotone Boundary
Waller Creek
+ Bikes and Walking Trails
+ Existing Trees
+ Street Trees Lines
Ecotone Boundary
Roof Garden
Residential Adminstrative
Travel Lane Sabine St
Outdoor Picnic Area Vendor Spaces Retaining Wall
Local Urban Farm Organic Food Vendors Eco-Cultural Stages Biocells
Travel Lane I-35 Frontage
I-35 Local Food Share Market
Section C-C
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I-35 Frontage 1st St
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Waller Creek District Masterplan 0.0
+ Lady Bird Lake Subdistrict Plan E 1st St. and Lady Bird Lake
+ Green Open Lawn New Buildings
Ecotone Boundary
+ Bikes and Walking Trails
Waller Creek
+ Existing Trees
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+ Street Trees Lines
Hotel
Ecotone Boundary
Community Orchard Extended Watershed Outdoor Theatre Wetland Embarkment
Board Walking Outdoor Picnic Area
Biocells Biofiltration Plants
Terraces Stormwater Garden
Section D-D Retaining Walls
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Lady Bird Lake Ecological Riparian Zone Flood-Control Tunnel Exit
Adminstrative Zone Government Offices Flood-Control Tunnel Input
Perspective b: Waterloo Park
Local Hospital Medical Zone
Perspective a: Lady Bird Lake
Austin Downtown Extension Central Business District Zone
Austin Light Rail System Mixed-Use Development Transit Oriented Zone
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Wetland Embankment
Board Walking
Perspective a: Lady Bird Lake
Vegetated Embankment
Waterloo Park for Leisure
Perspective b: Waterloo Park
Several keys that act as Ecotone which we can better develop to define the district: + Water Edge: activated for drama + The Path: allows movement through the site + The Platform: where drama is staged + Vegetative Ecotone: reconnect street trees, thickened riparian zones, and vegetated plazas + Corridor Edge: contributes to the corridor experience and condition of which locally impact environmental quality
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The Terraces Mount Baker Station
View from The Terrace: Deck Enterance from MLK/Bayview
“.... One specific station site, Mount Baker, is particularly promising as a forerunner for what Seattle can achieve. Located three miles southeast of downtown, the Mount Baker station lies in the heart of an economically and ethically diverse neighborhood. The area around the station currently consists of commercial uses with large parking lots, two heavy-traveled thoroughfares, and single-family detached residential neighborhoods, yet the city and Sound Transit are hopeful that local residents and developers will realize a higher and better use that capitalises on the new availability of mass transit.� 2011 ULI competition Brief
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+ Mount Baker and Beacon Hill disconnection caused by vehicular traffic and lack of sense of place
+ Reconnecting neighborhoods through pedestrian friendly decks crossing over vehicular traffic
+ Attracting green links and community togetherness through the terraces
+ Connecting Neighborhoods The site is seperated from adjacent neighborhoods due to drastic topography. The design goal is reconnecting the site to its context.
The design is looking at transit networks and hubs as site catalysts for reconnection and tailoring the site with its context. + Transit Networks as Site Catalyst
The Olmsted Park is located to the north of the site. It is essential to connect the new addition to the historical green system. + Connecting Olmsted Park System to Terraces
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+Shopping/Walking
+Biking/Walking
+Working/Walking
+Transit Hub/Walking
+Living/Walking
+New Traffic Flow
+Gathering/Walking
+Green Connection
Mount Baker Station Masterplan
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+ Arial View: Linking Mount Baker Station to Retail to The Terrace Community
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+ Land-use: Deck Level
+ Land-use: Ground Level
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+ Local Cafes on Rainier Plaza
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+ Phasing (Buildout, Land-use, Square Footage, Residential Units)
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Columbia Boulevard Columbia city station is located in a unique area, where major historical LAKE WASHINGTON BOULEVAD boulevards, the Cheasty (west) and lake Washington (east) boulevards and Olmsted Emerald necklace (north) are within walking distance yet disjointed in LAKE WASHINGTONarea adjacent to the station. The design goal is to link these two with a boulevard that runs along the proposed development, parallel to MLK way and light rail alignment, the proposed boulevard is to create a walkable space SAYRES MEMORIAL PARK for people to gather, meet and interact as well as to bring awareness of mature and historical landscape in the area. The design intent is to connect with GENESEE PARK the parallel commercial armature RAINIER PLAYFIELD which extends from Seattle downtown area; this will introduce COLUMBIA CITY FARMERS’ MARKET new employment and job opportunities.
MOUNT BAKER PARK
MOUNT BAKER STATION
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JEFFERSON PARK GOLF COURSE
JEFFERSON PARK
CHEASTY BOULEVARD
+ COLUMBIA CITY STATION
Columbia Station Mapping Opportunity
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+ Connections
+ Blocks
+ Buildings
+ Green Urban Systems
+ Urban and Green Spaces
+ Street Tree Lines
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Columbia StationBUSINESS CENTER LARGE RETAIL|RESIDENTIAL|MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT Columbia Boulevard PARKING GARAGE LOW -MEDIUM INCOME HOUSING LOCAL URBAN FARMERS’ GARDEN The Park at Columbia Station MULTI USE LAWN | PLAYGROUND LARGE RESIDENTIAL | RETAIL DEVELOPMENT The Groove Water Harvesting Garden 5- Business Center 7- Large Mixed-use Development Retail Residential Parking Garage 8- Low-Medium Income Housing 9- Local Urban Farmers’ Garden 10- Multi-use Lawn 11- Large Residential | Retail Development Columbia Station Mixed-use Development Masterplan
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RETAIL
PARKING GARAGE
PARKING GARAGE
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PARKING GARAGE 10’ TRAIL
40’ S ALASKA ST
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PARKING GARAGE 40’ S TAMARACK DR ST
RESIDENTIAL
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PARKING GARAGE
40’ S ANGELINE ST
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SOLAR PANEL
SOLAR PANEL ENERGY SUPPLY LOCAL RUNOFF COLLECTION
COLLECTION + SIDEWALK BIOSWALE
LOCAL RUNOFF COLLECTION
TRANSIT MEDIUM TO LOW INCOME RESIDENTIAL HOUSING DAILY URBAN FARMERS’ VENDORS ACTIVITIES DETENTION+RETENTION COLUMBIA CITY BOULEVARD THE GROVE LANDSCAPE ACTIVITIES
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LARGE RETAIL | MIDDLE TO HIGH INCOME HOUSING PARKING STRUCTURE SIDEWALK BIOSWALE
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WEEKLY URBAN FARMERS’ MARKET PLAYGROUND MULTI-USE LAWN
LARGE RETAIL| RETAIL|HIGH INCOME RESIDENTIAL HOUSING
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OFFICE O FFIC CE
RESIDENTIAL S PARKINGG GGARAGE G 25’ TRAIL
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PARKING GARAGE GARAG 40’ COLUMBIA BLVD. W
10’ TRAIL
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RESIDENTIAL
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RETAIL
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40’ 33RD AVE S
40’ COLUMBIA BLVD. E
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PARKING GARAGE
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WIND RAIN
RAIN RAIN RAIN
ENERGY SUPPLY
RAIN
ENERGY SUPPLY
SOLAR PANEL
SOLAR PANEL
LOCAL RUNOFF COLLECTION
TRANSIT ACTIVITIES LANDSCAPE ACTIVITIES
COLLECTION + SIDEWALK BIOSWALE
LOCAL RUNOFF COLLECTION
LOCAL RUNOFF COLLECTION
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CHEASTY BOULEVARD JEFFERSON PARK GOLF COURSE
COLUMBIA CITY STATION
PARKING STRUCTURE LARGE RETAIL | MIDDLE TO HIGH INCOME HOUSING
LOCAL PARK
WEEKELY URBAN FARMERS’ MARKET
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Columbia Station Mixeed-use Development Perspective | Looking North
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The Park at Othello
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Othello Station Neighborhood design emphasis on regional and local connections that have the potential to create a central park at Othello station, surrounded with a new mixed-use development which works as a linkage with already existed development at corners of the park. The mixed-use development is bordered with service-parking and a low to medium residential development. These layers of multi-scale and density development are connected with networks of transit, pedestrian and bike pathways. The goal is to create a park that a premier retail and residential destination, bringing together a transportation and pedestrian focused family neighborhood environment where neighbors gather, dine, shop and live. The Station at Othello Park will have retail suites at street level.
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John Little Sr. Park Van Asselt Playfield Memorial Park Chief Sealth Trail
+ Othello Station
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+ Potential Opportunies-Connect Othello Public Square Mixed-use Development Services and Parking Low Density Town Homes
+Program Distribution
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Sidewalk Bioswale
To MulƟ Use Lawn
Weekly Urban Farmers’ Market
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High Income ResidenƟals Retail Oĸce 10’
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Local Urban Farms
Middle Incomed ResidenƟals Green Parking
The Park at Othello StaƟon
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Mixed Use Development
Daily Urban Farmers’ Market Large Retail
FILTERATION SYSTEM
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Sidewalk Bioswale
Middle Incom ResidenƟals Green Parking
Sidewalk Bioswale
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The Park at Othello StaƟon
mixed-use development middle income residenƟal retail
Local Urban Farms Daily Urban Farmer’s Vendors ProducƟve Landscape
Weekly Urban Farmers’ Market and vendors Courtyards provide natural light and ventelaƟon to the lower level areas
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Canal Pervious Surface
Green On-Street Parking
Tree Planter
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Sidewalk section
Recreation and Ecological
The Park at Othello
Sidewalk section
Collecting water into
Retail
Biofiltration Strips
Water Quality
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Othello Streetscape Improvement
+ Social interactions by combining retail, entertainment, residential, offices, and hospitality features in true mixeduse fashion + Physical interaction with architecture and natural elements (Selecting local flora and fauna of the Pacific Northwest)
gathering
urban farmers garden
entry plaza
residential
organic food antique shop art show
retail
lunch study
gathering
art show
office
trail
open lawn
study running trail event
bus stop
office cafe
entry plaza
plaza
green corridor
trail
art show
retail
residential
gathering
trail green corridor
open lawn
event
trail
bus stop seating areas
cafe
trail organic food antique shop
retail
entry plaza
green corridor study
bike lane
office event retail cafe open lawn
private garden
resturants
gathering
athletic training
+ Street tree lines to generate a sense of security walkability, and visual comprehensiveness and continuity + Paving materials proposed are human-friendly in scale and texture
resturants farmers market organic food
retail bus stop
seating areas
resturants
farmers market organic food
public library
concerts
public art
+ Introducing multiple uses to reflect healthy Othello neighborhood residents
civic promenade
athletic training
festivals cafe sport gym resturants yoga civic promenade
organic food movies
bike lane
connective corridor retail
office
lunch organic food gateway koisk
+ Streetscape 1- S Myrtle St.
bike lane
lunch gateway koisk
residential
public library
sport gym
office
green parking
lunch organic food gateway koisk
connective corridor
pedestrian friendly crossing
gathering plaza connective corridor
civic stage movies
bike trail
people watching
residential
private garden
people watching
festivals public art
concerts cafe yoga resturants organic food
festivals public art
concerts
hike trail bike trail
yoga
office green parking
lunch gateway koisk
seating area
connective corridor
+ Streetscape 2- S Othello St.
Streetscape 3- Trail
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Wooden Seat
Angular Stone 1 Inch Limestone 1/2 Inch Glue
PVC Pipe for Rainwater Disposal Rainwater Collection Canal
1 Inch Colored Asphalt Reinforced Concrete Slab w/ Metal Mesh Substrate Mixture Reinforced Concrete Structure Foundation Base
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Filling Gutter 4 Inches Diameter PVC to Flush Rainwater Limestone 1/2 Inch Glue
PVC Pipe for Rainwater Disposal Rainwater Collection Canal
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Acer Rubrum PVC Pipe for RainWater Collection Mulching Compressed Soil and Root System
Stainless Steel Safety Bolt Anchor Bolt
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Phasing + 1st Phase Residential 0-1 Year
+ 2nd Phase Retail, Office, and Mixed-Use 0-2 Years
+ 3rd Phase Hotel and Recreation 2-4 Years
+ Full Projection within 4 Years
+ Retail 33% SF 5062a00
+ Office 8% SF 129700
+ Mixed-Use 36% SF 551700
Zoning
+ Residential 6% SF 96200
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Community Grove Othello Station
Tree Line Street Park at Othello
+ The Park at Othello-Looking North
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Functional Plant Selection for Soil and Design
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The site is located on E Dean Keating street, north of the University of Texas at Austin campus. It is 224’ by 560’. The site has a Travis-Chaney Association. The soil formation in alluvium, and its taxonomic class is deep, acid, loamy soils overlying old alluvium. TravisChaney Association consists of smooth, gently sloping and gently rolling soils that occupy high terraces along rivers. The Chaney soils are generally less sloping than the Travis soils, and they occupy the ridges and valleys. Travis Soil makes up about 28% of Travis Association, and 14% of Chaney Association soils, and 58% of the Dougherty, Altoga, Lewisville, Wilson, Burleson, Houston Black, and Hornsby association. Typical Pedon Chaney soils have a surface layer of pale-brown to very pale brown fine sandy loam, while the next layer is mottled, dark-red clay.
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This association is used mainly for pasture or wooded range. Some of the soils are gravelly, and they are stripped to a depth of 8-10 ft for this gravel. Vegetation and plants used are flowers as Bluebonnet, Buttercup, Primrose, Horsemint, Indian Paintbrush, Mexican Hat, Phlox, Standing Cypress; shrubs as Eastern Redbud, Eastern Redcedar, French Mulberry, Persimmon; grass, vines and vegetables; and trees as Blackjack Oak and Post Oak. The streetscape design and planting is responding to the soil characteristic and is in two sections: The median where proposing bioswale with vegetations to remediate run off pollutants; and the sidewalks where proposing plants can absorb the pollutants from air; shrubs and plants which are decidious for seasonal changes, and Texas native.
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8’ Planter
14’ On-Street Parking
6’ Bike Way
14’ Street
14’ Median-Bioswale
14’ Street
6’ Bike Way
14’ On-Street Parking
8’ Planter
16’ Walkway
Two Storey Building
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Habit Sidewalks
Median Median Sidewalks
Size
Water Use
Light
Soil
Moisture soil
CUPERRACEAE Juniperus virginiana Eastern red cedar
Tree
36-72 ft
Low
Sun Part Shade
Dry
Sandy Loam
FABACEAE Cercis canadensis Eastern redbud
Tree
12-36 ft
Low
Shade Part Shade
Moist
Well Drained Soil
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Shelterbelts, and in many cultivated varieties for ornament Attracts: Birds, Butterflies Larval Host: Olive butterfly
Have Fragrant Flowers Attracts: Birds
VERBEACEAE Callicarpa americana French mulberry
Shrub
3-6 ft
Low
Part Shade
Moist
Sandy Loam
Considerable value for edge landscapes. Good understory shrub. Easily propagated and requires little maintenance Attracts: Birds, Butterflies
Tree
12-36 ft
Low
Sun Part Shade
Dry
Well Drained Soil
A well-shaped, small tree has striking trunk and branches. Fruits attract birds, deer and peccary Flowers attract butterflies Larval Host: Gray hairstreak, Henrys Elfin butterfly
FAGACEAE Quercus stellata Post oak
Tree
36 - 72ft
Low
Part Shade
Dry
Sandy Loam
Wildlife: Nesting site,Substrate-insectivorous, birds, cover, fruit-mammals, fruit-birds Attracts: Birds, Butterflies Larval Host: N. hairstreak, Horaces duskywing
FAGACEAE Quercus marilandica Blackjack oak
Tree
72-100ft
Medium
Part Shade
Dry
Sandy Loam Acid-Base
Wildlife: Nesting site,Substrate-insectivorous, birds, cover, fruit-mammals, fruit-birds Attracts: Birds, Butterflies Larval Host: N. hairstreak, Horaces duskywing
FABACEAE Lupinus texensis Texas bluebonnet
Herb
1-3ft
Low
Sun
Dry
Sandy Loam
Often planted by Texas highway departments. Absorbs toxic substances from water, air, soil Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Hairstreak butterfly, Elfin butterfly
Medium
Part Shade
RANUNCULACEA Ranunculus hispidus Buttercup
Herb
ONAGRACEAE Oenothera deltoides Fragrant primrose
Herb
0-1 ft
Medium
Sun
LAMIACEAE Monarda bradburiana Horsemint
Herb
0-1 ft
Medium
Sun
Moist
Loam
SCROPHULARIACEAE Castilleja coccinea Indian paintbrush
Herb
0-3 ft
Medium
Sun
Moist
Sandy Loam
Attractive, Blooms ornamental, Color, Showy Use Wildlife: Standing cypress attracts hummingbirds Nectar-Hummingbirds
Herb
0-3 ft
Medium
Sun
Moist
Sandy Loam
Color, Attractive, Blooms ornamental, Wildflower meadow,Perennial garden, Rocky hillside, Patio pot plant Wildlife: Nectar-Bees, Nectar-Butterflies, Nectar-insects, Seeds-Granivorous birds, Deer will eat this flower
Herb
0-3 ft
Low
Sun
Wet
Clay Loam
Herb
3-6 ft
Medium
Dry
Sandy Loam
ASTERACEAE Ratibida columnifera
Median
Plant Benefit
EBENACEAE Diospyros texana Texas persimmon
Sidewalks Sidewalks
Attract
Sandy Soil
Sandy Soil
Mexican hat POLEMONIACEAE Phlox maculata Phlox
Native, weak-stemmed, highly variable species. Buttercup is typical of swamps and marshes All are pollinated by flies and bees Often planted by Texas highway departments. Absorbs toxic substances from water, air, soil Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Hairstreak butterfly, Elfin butterfly Attractive, Blooms ornamental, Color, Showy Wildlife: Standing cypress attracts hummingbirds, Nectar-Hummingbirds
Often planted by Texas highway departments. Absorbs toxic substances from water, air, soil Attracts: Butterflies Larval Host: Hairstreak butterfly, Elfin butterfly
Median POLEMONIACEAE Ipomopsis rubra Standing cypress
Sun Part Shade
Attractive, Blooms ornamental, Color, Showy Use Wildlife: Standing cypress attracts hummingbirds Nectar-Hummingbirds
Median
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RONI ABONA
MsUD, MArch, BArch roni.abona@utexas.edu Roni Abona | Architecture and Urban Design Portfolio
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