Mike MadridUrban Planning & Design

Bio

Mike Madrid is an urban planning and development professional with specialized skill in graphic and urban design. Utilizing his professional experience in the fields of cartography, site design and transportation planning, Mike continues to look for challenging projects which he can further his understanding of the ins and outs of comprehensive and urban planning.

Mike has participated in a wide array of projects, ranging from public open space projects like the Downtown Denver Alleyway Master Plan to working on sustainable planning efforts with local governments on corridor-wide transportation plans along future FasTracks commuter rail lines all around the Denver Metro Region.

Originally from Orange County, California, Mike is an avid hockey goaltender, longboarder, and snowboarder, and enjoys online gaming and graphic design.

Mike earned a Master’s of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Colorado Denver and holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Design with a focus on Housing and Community Development from Arizona State University.

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Contact

phone: 714.724.6366e-mail: mikemadriddenver@gmail.com

resume: mikemadrid.weebly.comportfolio: issuu.com/mikemadriddenver/docs/mikemadrid_portfolio

Projects

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House Perspectives and Hand Drafting date: September 2006 - December 2007client: Student Projectlocation: Irvine, CA

My interest in design began back in high school, in a class called Architectural Drafting. In the three levels of the course over the next three semesters, I drafted separate sets of house drawings, including floor plans, electrical plans, site plans, elevations and perspectives.

All of these drawings were drafted and completed entirely by hand. The scaled floor plans were used to draw the elevation and perspective views, with the elevations being drawn to scale as well.

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Black Saddle Ranch

Black Saddle Ranch was a group effort in my senior year studio to develop any project of our choosing from team creation to the land acquisition stage and proposal in a week’s time. The project could be as small or large as we saw fit for the given time frame. My three person team decided to develop a 665-acre piece of vacant land in Queen Creek, Arizona into a residential development just north of the buttes overlooking the Superstition Mountains to the East. We developed an identity and branded the community, completed a proposed proforma and phasing for the development, and drafted a fully drawn out site plan in AutoCAD, detailing specific densities and lots available compliant to the zoning in this jurisdiction. After a board style presentation, our development was chosen as the strongest proposal.

date: October 2011client: Student Projectlocation: Queen Creek, AZ

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Ward Road Station Area Plan

My first studio project in graduate school was preparing a station area plan for the City of Wheat Ridge, and their end-of-line commuter rail station along RTD’s Gold Line, Ward Road Station. This was a semester long project involving site reconnaissance, future visioning exercises, goals and policies discussion, site planning, and rezoning. I was mainly responsible for the 3D graphics as well as the site plan, in addition to writing recommendations for implementation and policies. We presented our findings and turned over our research directly to planners from the city of Wheat Ridge to aid in the update to their Northwest Subarea Plan,

which was adopted in October of 2013.

date: December 2012client: City of Wheat Ridgelocation: Wheat Ridge, CO

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NORTH: Because Ward Road and 52nd Avenue are the northwest city limits for Wheat Ridge, the site abuts both City of Arvada land as well as unincorporated Jefferson County land. Land uses north of 52nd Avenue include Industrial/Office, Low-Density Residential, Medium-Density Residential, and Suburban Residential, as definedby thecityofArvada.There isamixofsingle-family homes, condominiums, and townhomes in the area north of 52nd.

EAST: East of Tabor Road is a small pocket of primarily single-family homes with a few duplexes and multi-family houses. A great majority of these houses were built in the 1960s. Further east of these homes is nearly 100-acres of vacant and unimproved land. To the northeast is almost exclusively single-family housing.

SOUTH: Between the TOD site and I-70 are two lakes, one publicly owned and one private. South of I-70 is mostly commercial with some residential and agricultural uses extending to the boundary of Clear Creek and three more large lakes. Southeast is a large retirement community.

WEST: The land to the west is primarily commercial along Ward Road, with a few large tracts of land worth noting. The Mt. Olivet Cemetery is southwest of this site and is roughly 400 acres in size. A large Kaiser Permanente medical building is also southwest of the site, as well as the current RTD Park n Ride. A middle school exists west of Ward Road along 52nd. Additionally, there is some single-family housing to the west and northwest of the site. Further north is a church and Van Bibber Open Space.

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Downtown Denver Urban Form Study

As a part of working in the redevelopment and infill development of a major city, it is important to understand the urban form and history of that city. In my Urban Spatial Analysis final project, groups were tasked to research and recreate specific sections of Downtown Denver, from the 1870s to present day. Using Sandborn maps and historical pictures from the Denver Public Library, my group was able to piece together what the urban form of Downtown Denver from 15th St. to 17th St. and California St. to Tremont Pl. may have looked like. We were also able to dig up historical information about the time eras we focused on and

technologies that may have influenced the urban form at those specific points in time.

date: May 2013client: Student Projectlocation: Denver, CO

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Boulder County Housing AuthorityAlkonis Project

At the Housing Colorado NOW! Conference in Vail, Colorado, I had the opportunity to take part in a three day charrette with a multidisciplinary team of design professionals from Colorado. Along with fellow graduate architecture and planning students, our team consisted of professionals in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, urban design, engineering, and finance to propose a cohesive plan for the Boulder County Housing Authority, the owner of the site. The site is located in Louisville, Colorado, just north of Louisville’s downtown core. Learning the constraints of our site drove our team’s vision and planning of the site, while working in the realm of reality thanks to our engineers and finance professionals. Our team pulled together a site plan, a perspective of the building massing, and street sections. At the end of our charrette, the graduate students of our group presented our results at the charrette session of the conference.

date: October 2013client: Boulder County Housing Authoritylocation: Louisville, CO

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Downtown Denver Alleyway Concept Plan date: May 2014client: Student Projectlocation: Denver, CO

My final studio project for graduate school in Denver involved the underutilization of alleyways in Downtown Denver, more specifically, Lower Downtown. The studio effort was done in conjunction with the Downtown Denver Partnership in their current work to improve the current conditions of alleyways along the 16th Street Mall. Our team effort involved auditing the alleyways for data such as number of dumpsters and windows, the alleyway’s pavement conditions, and the amount of lighting in the alleyways due to safety concerns. after presenting our data to stakeholders and business owners throughout Lower Downtown, our twelve student studio split up into three groups to develop pilot projects for a specific alleyway in LoDo to show three different ways a single alleyway can be transformed to better fit the attitude and spirit behind LoDo as well as Downtown Denver as a whole. The final presentations were given at a DDP event held in an alley in LoDo to better show the transformations alleys can have. Our data of alleyway classification is currently being used by professionals at Aecom to aide their efforts for the rest of Downtown.

Link to Final Presentation

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Contact

phone: 714.724.6366e-mail: mikemadriddenver@gmail.com

resume: mikemadrid.weebly.comportfolio: issuu.com/mikemadriddenver/docs/mikemadrid_portfolio