Rapson Hall East Courtyard Planting Plan
Project Description The Southeast courtyard outside of Rapson Hall on the University campus is designed to provide seasonal interest to those in the space, those looking into the space, and those...
View ArticlePanera Bread Plaza construction drawings
In Details class we were asked to redesign a plaza outside of Panera Bread on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis and create a full set of construction drawings for our design. My design removed the...
View ArticleVermillion Highlands Trailhead + Lone Rock Lookout
Project Description Vermillion Highlands is a 2800 acre future regional park. In our group I designed the trailhead and interpretive center, which were to be located on the top of a large hill. I...
View ArticlePeavey Park
In 2011, the Ventura Village neighborhood in Minneapolis approached the Metropolitan Design Center to help them reduce crime in their neighborhood park, which had developed a reputation for guns,...
View ArticleTriangle Park
Project Description As a design assistant at the Metropolitan Design Center in the summer of 2009, I was asked to analyze design alternatives for a small urban park in downtown Minneapolis. Triangle...
View ArticleWaste on Site
Project Description In this urban design studio project, site performance was offered as a “premise for restructuring both site- and regional-scale systems”. Working with this concept, I explored how...
View ArticleCapstone
Project Description In my capstone project, I experimented with the design process to investigate how a highly-layered urban riverfront site with a rich historic past could be encountered via a trail...
View ArticleUDA Greenways
Connecting Neighborhoods to the River with Greenways In 2012, the Metropolitan Design Center worked with the University District Alliance, a partnership between the University of Minnesota and the...
View ArticleEmbracing Winter in Peavey Park
Transforming a Neighborhood Park into a Winter Wonderland In Phase 1 of the Metropolitan Design Center’s work with Peavey Park in Minneapolis, we found that a busy park is a safe park – that is,...
View Article6th Avenue East Corridor Redevelopment Strategy
This project, completed while working at Cuningham Group, identified redevelopment strategies that would help a currently blighted and disinvested corridor in Duluth, Minnesota to fulfill their vision...
View ArticleHolland Neighborhood Small Area Plan
While a member of the Urban Design Studio at Cuningham Group Architecture, I played a key role in developing, designing, and writing the Holland Neighborhood Small Area Plan, which was approved by...
View ArticleChaplain Schmitt Island Master Plan
While an Urban Designer for Cuningham Group, I worked on a Master Plan for Chaplain Schmitt Island, a city-owned island in the Mississippi River near downtown Dubuque, Iowa. Making sense of the...
View ArticleRobert Street Renaissance Plan Update
Robert Street is a significant commercial corridor for the Twin Cities region that also serves as the spine of West St. Paul, a suburban community in the southeast metro. The character of the street...
View ArticleOxford Street Redevelopment Plan
Oxford Street is the main drag on the outskirts of the small farming town of Worthington in southwest Minnesota. While other nearby communities were shrinking, Worthington grew dramatically with a...
View ArticleSouth Boulder Road Small Area Plan
Louisville is a small town with a strong historic downtown that, like many suburban communities along Colorado’s Front Range, is growing rapidly. Along with being a popular commuter route to nearby...
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