This is a short video documenting the ephemera of light and shadows with the Mandeville Square model.

After making some changes to the previous design iteration, I settled upon my final plan. My main goals for the plan were to meet the design criteria outlined in the project statement which included: a dog park, a performance stage, recreation areas, small and large gathering spaces, parking, and temporal market areas. I also wanted the park to serve an ecological function through the use of planting. I utilized a mix pallet of native and naturalized plants that would act as water purifiers in the drainage swales. I also tried to provide shade and define gathering spaces through the planting plan.
Although the park design fell quite short at the review, I’m still proud of the amount of work I was able to accomplish. This project taught me some important lessons about the design process, and I can walk away knowing that I’ve gained some invaluable skills.

Final Plan
SitePlan

Perspectives

ParkLayout1

The folloing images are renderings of a my conceptual park plan for “Mandeville Square.” The first four images were rendered in Sketchup, and the remainder were rendered in Vue.

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Site map

Vegetation Map

Topography

Surfaces

Hydrology

Circulation

Building Typology

Building Program Use

This photosynth documents the large lot on site one, which sits between Mandeville St. and Spain St. just north of the levee wall.
Click on the red text below to view the photosynth
Site One:Mandeville Square Photosynth

The intent of this observation was to investigate the size relationships between our site and future program use. At the site we used flagging to mark out the dimensions of a basketball court, vendor spaces, sidewalks and parking.

In the site mock ups below, I used Sketchup’s photo match function to place a scaled model of a basketball court onto the site observation photos. This exercise gave me a better understanding of the space and size relationships between our chosen programs and the site.

Below is a link to my photoblog. Check back periodically as I will be updating the site frequently with new,or old, photos.

http://dbphotogallery.wordpress.com/

Deployable Wetland Cell

perspectives

plan_section

technology_diagram

water_circulation

gardensites

natural_fuse

The case study for my design is the Natural Fuse project by the Haque Design and Research Team.