2. mccaslin corridor redesign
table of contents
weems 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
urban planning 12
architecture 9
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3. 1
Weems Neighborhood
Lafayette, 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.
4. 2
City of Lafayette
Open Space
CSA Farm
Left Central Park
Horse Pasture
Right Central Park &
Community Center
Pond
Pocket
Park
Pocket
Park
Pocket
Park
Pocket
Park
Pocket
Park
Pocket
Park
Pocket
Park
Pocket
Park
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.
5. 3
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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 Neighborhood
Arvada, CO.
Michael Tavel Architects/ David Kahn Studio.
6. 4
Aerial view of the Geos Neighborhood.
Single family building type. Townhouse building with 5 units.
9. 7
The Book Nook Parklet
First 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.
11. 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 Practices
Denver, CO.
Project by Brendan Hurley.
12. 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/Build
Lama Foundation. Questa, NM.
Concept designed by Brendan Hurley
Built by other students.
13. 11
Boulder B-Cycle Trip Data Visualization
Boulder, 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 Density
Residential Units
.25 mi Buffer
Legend
Vacant Parcels
(.5-1 acre in size)
N0 1 20.5
Miles
GIS Urban Garden Analysis
Denver, 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.
