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BRIAN HORTON // FRAME OF DESIGN//
SIXTYNINE SEVENTY // THE SPACES BETWEEN
PARK(ING) DAY // URBAN TRANSFORMATION
OMNIBUS STUDIO // HORSETOOTH RESERVOIR
Salt Lake City // Utah Page // 3
Fort Collins // Colorado Page // 11
Fort Collins // Colorado Page // 15
MORGAN LIBRARY // CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS
SKETCHES // RECORDING LANDSCAPEPage // 22
PHOTOGRAPHY // FRAME OF DESIGNPage // 23
Fort Collins // ColoradoPage // 19
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Sixty-Nine and Seventy is the number of two city blocks incorporating twenty acres in downtown Salt Lake City. In 1847 the Church of
Latter-Day Saints’ created the Plat of Zion, the first city plan that laid out a grid system in the Salt Lake Valley. The Plat of Zion
included wide thoroughfares, large blocks subdivided for the use of self-sustained farming, and public squares.
The city boasts a stunning natural setting, cultural amenities, a vibrant retail core, and a thriving
business community. However, it lacks connection between these elements. Salt
Lake City is increasingly conscious of its environmental impact and exploring the
city’s development through design. Redevelopment of this area is not
the design of new buildings, but about the relationships
between them and the interconnectivity of the
blocks in the greater context.
Project Statement
Analysis Location Precedents
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The Satellite image from Bing Maps displays the importance of water for communities and farming in the arid regions of the South West.
The high salinity and mineral content of the Great Salt Lake creates a large range of water colors in the evaporation ponds.
Elaborate patterns of Navajo blankets are symbolized utilizing paving patterns and replicated using native stone as pavers.
Streamlining of the Mormon Meteor, a Bonneville racecar, inspired smooth flowing landforms throughout the site. It resembles the wind swept sandstone that creates the desert landscape.
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Salt Lake City
Landform Clay allowed me to discover the flow of the site and create a landform to represent the river.
Working Model
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Development by DesignLarge towering buildings create manmade canyons in the urban landscape while the streets perform as veins resembling rivers carving the canyons of the South West. Yá’át’ééh Park parti is a long turf line resembling a river running through a canyon. Nonnative vegetation represents the riparian areas of rivers throughout the desert landscape. The surrounding xeric grass pallet characterizes the monotone arid desert, and also creates a catch basin for storm water management for the surrounding buildings. Pedestrian walk on native stone pavers and cedar symbolizing the materials that built Salt Lake City. Sketchup, Maxwell, Photoshop
Gravel bed
Snow holding areaRock buffer strip
Prepared soil mixture
Overflow control structure
Dwarf Purple Coneflower
Fragrant Blue Hosta
Golden Fleece Goldenrod
Sedge
Spangle Grass
Swamp milkweed
Tufted Hair Grass
Turk’s Cap Lily
Bio Swale
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Yá’át’ééh originates from the Navajo language meaning hello. Physical connections as well as cultural connections are represented in the site. Native materials show the connection to the landscape and the native people of what is now Utah. Yá’át’ééh welcomes all demographics to experience the site creating a new identity for the citizens of the region.
Define a Culture
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Our goal was to transform a parking spot into a Park(ing) space, thereby temporarily expanding the public realm and improving the quality of urban human habitat. . -John Bela, Landscape Architecture Days, 2012
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Seating Details
Proposed Rendering
Cubes were used to create seating for the park. We wanted to explore people’s interaction of movable seating in a small space. Benches were built using recycled pallet wood creating a design challenge from limited materials and a maximum board length of 20”.
Sketchup, Maxwell, Photoshop
We create a space that welcomed people to the park and also stimulated interaction. Through the whole process it contributed to a much larger idea of a community. Park(ing) Day allowed us to break the traditional mold of what a landscape is and explore what it can become.
Proposed Plan
Project Statement
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Movable SeatingPotted Grasses
Bike Rack
Potted Tree
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.-John Muir
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Four dams were constructed in 1949 along the Dakota Hogback geologic feature creating Horsetooth Reservoir. The heavily engineered Hogback is complimented by the arching bridge. During the night the bridge is illuminated separating itself from the landscape. The infrastructure becomes more than a road; it becomes a sculpture.
Center Overlook Platform Elevation
Sculpting the West
Facing east towards Fort Collins, the rectangle platform resembles the built urbanization of Fort Collins.
Elevating the road off of the ground plain of Reservoir Ridge Natural Area reduces the impact on the ecosystem. Restoring the ecosystem promotes animal migration and safer vehicular movement as Fort Collins population increases.
AutoCAD, Rhino, Flamingo, Photoshop
The shape of the central overlook platform is designed around existing Ponderosa Pine Trees. The Overlook Utilizes the topography to frame views of Fort Collins and Horsetooth Rock.
Surrounding a large Cottonwood, the lowest platform creates the opportunity for people to interact with the water of Horsetooth Reservoir. It creates an access point to the north beach, fishing, swimming, and boating activities.
West Recreation Platform
Central Overlook Platform East Overlook
Platform
North County Road 23 Bridge
Model of Proposed Plan
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The thing that’s important is not something called design; it’s how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life. - Dan Kiley
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The Morgan Library Courtyard is designed to enhance the existing space by playing off the geometry of the building. A depression in the courtyard manipulates the space to create a more intimate feeling for the students in a very exposed space. The elevated Water feature creates white noise and separates the space into three distinct areas.
Project Statement
East Perspective
Details
Fountain Waterfall
Fountain Tree Planter
North Stairs
Sketchup Maxwell Photoshop
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Great designs are demonstrated through the details of construction. My landscape installation experience allows me to fill in the gaps spanning from design development, Construction details, and the installation phase.
Design Development
AutoCAD, Photoshop
Elevation
SKETCHES // RECORDING LANDSCAPE
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BRIAN HORTON // FRAME OF DESIGN