Landscape Interventions

(Over-The-Rhine, OH)
(Milan, MI)
 1 COLOR WALL
11 POOL BOUNDARY
1
2 POOL ENTRY +
LOCKER ROOMS +
STORAGE
4 2

EXISTING PLAN
3 CONCESSION
4 25 METER POOL +
DIVING WELL +
5 3
WADING POOL
10
9 5 FOUNTAIN WALL

EXISTING SCHEME WITH POOL INSERTED

6
6 BASKETBALL COURT

7 SOUND GARDEN

8 PLAYGROUND
7
8 9 OPEN GREEN SPACE
10 GRASS WITH STONE
INLAY
11 DOG PARK

NEW SCHEME WITH EXISTING POOL LOCATION

7

NEW SCHEME WITH NEW POOL LOCATION

SCALE: 1”=50’-0”
^ NORTH
WASHINGTON PARK + FINDLAY
MARKET AXIS STUDY
A strong axis is formed by the
relationship of Washington Park and
Findlay Market via Pleasant Street.
The proposed design of Washington
Park embraces this connection with
an entrance that reinforces a
powerful axial movement from one
public space to another by means of
the dense urban fabric between.
The axis continues through the park,
only interrupted by the grand lawn,
most significant community gathering
space of the proposed design. At this
moment, the individual must elect to
engage the open green space and merge
with it and its activities or circumvent it by
following the path that sculpts its
perimeter. At all times, however, a visual
axis remains present.
WASHINGTON PARK DIAGRAMATIC PLAN
The design of Washington Park consists of two major axis and
numerous nodes of circulation that help to form a relationship
between the park’s green space and the surrounding urban
fabric. It is crucial for the park’s design to reinforce the impact of
its context. Washington Park is surrounded by many culturally
significant venues including Music Hall, Memorial Hall, and the
future site of the School for Creative and Performing Arts. The
park’s surroundings all have a direct effect on both its capacity as
a part of the neighborhood and an urban green space.
Historically, the park has been a major nucleus for the community
of Over-The-Rhine. The softening of its boundaries and
simultaneous strengthening of its physical connections with the
community, thereby generating cultural and contextual value,
will achieve the re-establishment of Washington Park’s bond to
its environment.
 MILAN MICHIGAN
Development Plan
2007

1. Strip mall 12.

2. Single family 2.
units
3. Multi-family units
3.
4. Country club
a. Tennis courts 1.

b. Basketball 7.

courts
5. Bike/pedestrian 6.
path 11.

6. Mixed use:
a. Residential 8.
(2+3)
b. Commercial 13. 9.
7. Fountain
5.
8. Parking
9. Woods 4.
10. Meadow/prairie
11. Agriculture
12. Stores
(separate units) 9. 10.
13. Winter sledding
hill

FLOATING PLATFORM
A wide path unifies community and diversifies out-
door activities. Bikers walkers runners boarders
collide in the democratic path space. Winding
through diverse landscapes [meadow, forest, town]
the plot is unified through activity. The developed
area, though small in size utilizes principles of
urban development to maximize preservation through
compacting human impact. A city within the country.
Each environment serves as a buffer from the adja-
cent typography; A sledding hill created from
displaced earth terminates the town + in- BIKE PATH
troduces the path, existing forest
protects the meadow, the town
buffers the natural environ-
ment from the highway.