kyle kearns 2013 urban planning portfolio

7/29/2019 Kyle Kearns 2013 Urban Planning Portfolio

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Contents

Re-Development Design Studio

Greenfeld Design Studio

Infll Design Studios

GIS Work

Writing Sample

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Re-Development Studio Pleasant Ridge, OH

Site Aerial View Current Conditions

In working with the community of Pleasant Ridge, as a studio, we broke up into several dierent groups to analysiseas for inll development as well as develop a master plan for the community. My group of two other people selectused area along Montgomery Rd., near the business district, a run down apartment complex with poor circulation afamily neighborhood lacking pedestrian connection that was safe.



Proposed Land Use/Circulation

As a studio we conducted a study of Pleasant Ridge using GIS Data, Census Data and Community input in order to

which areas each group were to focus on. After analyzing the various dierent aspects of Pleasant Ridge we were tour recommendations in three phases, how this would aect the trac and what the new land uses would look like

Proposed Circulation (Adobe Illustrator) Proposed Land Use (Adobe Illustrator)

Re-Development Studio



Master Plan (Adobe Photoshop)

The master plan highlights the areas we choose as our focus areas for our location. The rst phase consist of widesidewalks and making the residential areas more accessible to the library, business district and community center.phase takes vacant lots and corner stores converting it into a mixed-use area with a green space stretching the whthird and most ambitious phase takes a failing apartment complex and converts it into a mixed-use complex, mos




Phase 1: Streetscape Improvements

Site Plan (Hand Drawn) 3-D Renderings (Google Sketch-up)

Here is the renderings of the proposed streetscaping suggested along Ridge Ave. that takes cars and pedestrians Okaley/Hyde Park area. The proposal would better suit these roads for pedestrians through better lighting and widin order to promote more walking to the business district of Pleasant Ridge.




Phase 2: Mixed-Use Business District Improvements


The second phase takes several under used or vacant properties as well as some corner stores and vacant buildin

places them with a mixed-used multi-family area. Across the street is an elementary school newly renovated and thas well as the park would better serve the community both after school and during school extending the business done more block.




Phase 3: Adaptive Re-use


Finally, the third and most ambitious phase is to take an already existing apartment complex and re-work the existibetter provide access as well as add more uses to the area. The area surrounding the complex is crumbling consiscorner stores and run down carry out restaurants. The goal is to further extend the life of Pleasant Ridge as well asnect the neighborhood to surrounding neighborhoods.




Greeneld Design Studio Complete Renderings


One the rst full scale projects given to us involved taking a hypothetical client and creating a city as a studio, eacgroup being assigned to a certain area, or their neighborhood. The area was completely undeveloped except for acenters and outdoor shelters. Above is the nal product of my groups area which consisted of mixed-use, single fahousing as well as single family detached housing with a park and several other amenities.



Parking Lot Infll Proposal

This is a hypothetical design in downtown Cincinnati near the newly built Horseshoe Casino. Currently there is a sulot there, and the task at hand was to develop an inll project to overtake the surface parking lot. The design aboveuse complex comprising of residential, oce, retail and entertainment land uses.

Inll Design

Site Plan (AutoCAD &Photoshop) 3D Rendering (AutoCAD &Photoshop)

Profle Rendering (AutoCAD &Photoshop)



Suburban Infll Design

Working with Anderson Township in a joint program with the Township Planning Department and the School of Planto develop a plan and design alternatives to add to the Township’s housing stock. They wanted to develop a systemattract young families and professionals to their Township in order to keep up with the surrounding areas. The abovproposed condo development within an existing neighborhood, attached to a main road in the township.

Inll Design

Site Plan (AutoCAD &Photoshop) 3-D Renderings (Goo



GIS Work & Analysis Various Projects

Transportation Analysis Devou Park, KY Demographic Analysis

This was apart of an overall analysis for the greeneld studio. We

has to do an overall site analysis before we were assigned ourspecic area to develop.

Along with an analysis of West Price Hill, we ha

numbers we found there to Cincinnati as a who



GIS Work & Analysis Various Projects

Circulation Analysis Anderson Twp., OH Zoning Map And

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Legend

Best Connection

Average Connection

Poor Connection

Out of Area

Highway

Sherwood Boundary

Anderson Boundary

Buildings

Currently as a studio we are working with Anderson Township to

see how we can increase residential uses in a built out suburb ofCincinnati. This is apart of the initial analysis for circulation within Anderson Township.

Of our selected area for Anderson Township, th

zoning that exist with in our neighborhood.



Writing Sample

Currently, the power grid within Panka only uses one source of power that isn’t a fossil fuel, that being the power p

in Karnafuli, Panka’s biggest man made dam and only hydro plant. Increasing the renewable energy supply within Pbecome a main priority in adding power to the power grid. In order to ease in to the switch to renewable energy anbe started to test the possibility of adding solar and wind power to already existing power plants within Panka.

Given that Panka gets 250 to 300 sunny days a year, not including rainy days, solar energy provides promise

sustainable future. The goal is to add forms of renewable energy to already existing power plants within Panka in o

duce overall fossil fuel usage of these particular plants by 15% within ve years of installation of the solar power. Tthat we will base this initiative o of will be based on a power plant in Palisade, Colorado, named The Cameo StatiPlant. The power plant reduced its coal usage by 5% equating to roughly 350 tons of coal a year. It reduced coal uheating the water before it went to the boiler in order to cut down on the heating process of the water (Turner, AlexBeat). Below is a diagram of the process that will model the ventures within Panka.

Initially the installation of solar panels will be small in order to test the eectiveness of adding solar panels to existipower plants, but given that the tests are successful, the size of the solar farm will increase. At a cost of $4.5 millio1 MW solar farms will be installed in two dierent coal or natural gas plants in Panka to test the eectiveness of thinstallation. After the results come back it will then be decided if expanding these technologies will be benecial in cost eective energy to Panka.

Another option to consider is combining these renewable energy technologies with gas powered plants. Gepioneered a hybrid power plant that combines natural gas, wind power, and solar power. The renewable sources obe used one of two ways; either to feed directly into the power grid, or to supply the plant with energy in order to ru

ciently. The plant will be able to provide 530 Megawatts of energy and be 70% ecient, a number that is almost uthe energy sector (Yirka, Bob). Although the investment is steep in price reaching $1.5 billion dollars, the investmencan pay itself o in time. Below is a diagram of the hybrid power plant....

Above is an portion of a plan developed through a class related to energy planning in Third World Countries. We tocal city based of a city in India, renamed Panka. This particular portion of the paper discusses the implementation plant to be constructed to help meet the growing energy demand in the city.

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