THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PERMIAN BASIN ODESSA MASTER PLAN

Ten Eyck Landscape Architects

PLANNING & ANALYSIS

Hired to create a new vision and landscape master plan for the 600-acre UT Permian Basin campus in Odessa, our team focused on the enhancement of the campus’s native ecological story prior to it becoming a West Texas ranch dotted with oil wells. We established new entries and signage to campus, redesigned the existing four-acre quad, developed the Bright Stars Memorial, and created a trail system that follows ephemeral water through the site, connecting students and community residents to the native ecosystems. Floodwaters from adjacent lowlying streets are slowed and captured on campus to create ephemeral playa lakes and arroyos, which in turn help establish a shortgrass prairie ecosystem, the habitat of native wildlife like the Northern Harrier and Burrowing Owls.

Halff Associates

TRINITY FOREST SPINE TRAIL PLANNING & ANALYSIS

From near the iconic White Rock Lake spillway, the Trinity Forest Spine Trail will connect Dallas neighborhoods to existing and programmed trails along both sides of the White Rock Creek corridor as it meanders southward toward its confluence with the Trinity River. Finally, hundreds of thousands of south and southeast Dallas residents will gain new access to greenways, nature and linear park spaces. This thoughtfully landscaped and engineered alignment enables an entire quadrant of Dallas that’s historically had limited access to nature trails for recreational or purposeful trips. Pathways to the Lawnview and Lake June light rail transit (LRT) stations extend both intermodal and recreational opportunities to an area of Dallas that’s traditionally been woefully underserved.

COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL REGIONAL PARK MASTER PLAN

TBG Partners

COMMUNICATION

“The goal of the Columbia County Regional Park Master Plan was to provide a recommendation for a robust regional park that considers the public’s goals while serving as the sports and recreational cornerstone of Columbia County and the north central Florida region for years to come.

With roughly 467 acres to work with, the complex will include 12 flat fields that include four premier fields and one championship field, zipline and ropes course in the existing ravine, tournament ready 18-hole disc-golf course, eight lighted tennis courts, ten lighted pickleball courts, six lighted outdoor basketball courts, onsite RV park, splash pad and playground, builtin maintenance and administration facilities “all while protecting and celebrating the pristine habitat in which the program is nestled.”

MESA Design Group

Zinc House Farm Experimental Video Communication

The Zinc House Farm Experiential Video is the product of a collaborative design process that resulted from the innovative use of digital modeling and animated video to illustrate and communicate the project in a compelling manner. The video conveys the design in a simple, easy to understand format that viewers will both readily understand and champion. The video is grounded in the Pattern Language Master Plan originally prepared as a road map to unify a range of project goals and objectives. It illustrates how the design incorporated these patterns into an exciting agritourism node; capable of serving a wide demographic in an atmosphere that enhances guests’ understanding of sustainability, sound building practices, and farm to table practices by curating an authentic experience.