mccaslin corridor redesign

table of contentsweems neighborhood

geos neighborhood

mccaslin corridor redesign

the book nook parklet

the buff hut

center for sutainable practices

b-cycle data visualization

community garden GIS analysis

urban design 1

urban design 3

urban planning 5

urban design

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urban design

urban planning

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architecture 9

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Weems NeighborhoodLafayette, CO.

Michael Tavel Architects/ David Kahn Studio.

480 Unit neighborhood on a 80 acre site.

47% of site is open space and parks.

Mixture of housing types to allow for a diversity of income levels and lifestyles.

Compact and clustered development around pocket neighborhoods.

Net-zero energy building layout.

High-density development along transit line.

Buildings and landscape designed to enhance walkability and promote alternative transportation.

Neighborhood focused on aging in place, including small homes and senior apartments.

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City of LafayetteOpen Space

CSA Farm

Left Central Park

Horse Pasture

Right Central Park &Community Center

Pond

PocketPark

PocketPark

PocketPark

PocketPark

PocketPark

PocketPark

PocketPark

PocketPark

Proposed Site Plan: Building Layout:

Passive Solar Heating in Winter:

Example building typologies with front porch facing the street and garage access from rear alley.

Underutilized front, rear, and side yards are condensed to one big side yard. This allows for passive solar building orientation (illustrated below).

Green: Open Space and Parks.

Yellow: Variety of Single Family.

Orange: Duplex.

Orange-Red: Townhomes.

Red: Multifamily Apartments.

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Mixture of housing types, including dense single family homes, townhouses, duplexes, and cohousing.

Walkable streetscape including on-street parking, alley loaded garages, stoops and porches to activate the streetscape, and street tree raingardens to separate street from sidewalk.

Net-zero energy building design with buildings offset from each other to increase passive solar heating and cooling.

Brendan worked on the submitting the Final Development Plan for the first 30 units as well as designed the buildings and landscapes in Autocad and Sketchup.

Construction and site grading started in summer 2015.

Geos Net-Zero NeighborhoodArvada, CO.

Michael Tavel Architects/ David Kahn Studio.

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Aerial view of the Geos Neighborhood.

Single family building type. Townhouse building with 5 units.

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McCaslin Road RedesignLouisville, CO.

Project by Brendan Hurley and Anna Reynoso

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The Book Nook ParkletFirst Runner Up.

City of Boulder Design Competition.

Project by Brendan Hurley.

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3 Nook Parklet Example:

Game Board

Site Plan:

Little Free Library

Art Wall

Parklet Sign

Pear Ornamental Tree

Built-In Seating

Lavender

Received first runner up recognition in the City of Boulder Parklet Competition out of 44 entries.

Modular: Each piece of the parklet (called “Nooks”) can be swapped out depending on the number of parking spaces available.

Each Nook has a pedestrian-enhancing feature that can be combined with other Nooks to create a wide variety of pedestrian amenities.

The Center for Sustainable Practices is a proposal for a community oriented building that demonstrates different sustainable methods.

Program includes a cafe, community event space, classrooms, offices, courtyard, tool share program, and a community kitchen

Passive solar strategies include:1. User-operated louvers that block the hot summer sun during the day, but allows for maximum sunlight during the winter.2. Building overhang to help with shading.3. Trees along the streetscape help shade the courtyard and lower floor.

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Center for Sustainable PracticesDenver, CO.

Project by Brendan Hurley.

The Lama Foundation is a non-denominational spiritual retreat center located near Taos, NM.

Hermits and pilgrims from every religion and walk of life come travel to the Lama foundation for spiritual revitalization and can spend weeks in hermitages like the Buff Hut.

The design studio consisted of 16 students, and Brendan’s design was chosen to be built.

The hut design was inspired by the rich history and culture of Lama and designed to fit seamlessly into the beautiful New Mexico landscape.

The construction team of students built the Buff Hut over the summer. The walls and roof beams were prefabricated in Boulder.

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The Buff Hut Design/BuildLama Foundation. Questa, NM.

Concept designed by Brendan Hurley

Built by other students.

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Boulder B-Cycle Trip Data VisualizationBoulder, CO.

Project by Brendan Hurley. In order to make analyzing data easier, bikeshare ridership data was illustrated with these maps.

Each “B” is a bikeshare station, and the line thickness indicates how many one way trips were taken from each station.

The size of the circle above each station (shown below) is the amount of round-trips, where the check-in station is the same as the check-out station.

These maps helped plan new station locations based on popular routes and by showing where the most riders are heading.

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Phase I: 80 Acres

Phase I: 80 Acres

High DensityResidential Units

.25 mi Buffer

LegendVacant Parcels(.5-1 acre in size)

N0 1 20.5Miles

GIS Urban Garden AnalysisDenver, CO.

Project by Brendan Hurley.

This project focused on finding vacant parcels to start community gardens as a way to offer local food opportunities in lower income neighborhoods.

Different layers of data were combined to determine the community garden locations: parcel value, high density buildings, and vacant lots.

The light blue circles show a quarter mile radius walking distance around the high density housing to potential garden locations.

The image at top shows what a potential garden location site would look like corresponding with the GIS data.