Andrew CrozierU R B A N P L A N N I N G + D E S I G N

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Norfolk Naval Shipyard Master Plan

Yorktown Master Plan

Ensamble: ULI Hines Competition

Connections: Scioto Riverside Park

Re-imagining Static Structures

H.A.V.E.N Housing Survey: Ghana

Additional Skills

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My name is Andrew Crozier and I am an urban planner. Ever since I was a kid I loved

cities. There was just something about their energy that I found inspiring. Halfway

through my undergrad I discovered city planning and fell in love with it. I immediately

applied to graduate schools for city planning and attended the Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture for City and Regional Planning. While at OSU I

became passionate about creating beautiful, memorable, and enjoyable places

through urban design, place-making, and streetscape design. While working towards

my masters degree I worked as a Planning Assistant for the City of Dublin. This gave

me an insight on how planning projects navigate the politics of public scrutiny to get

approval. I also had the opportunity to travel to Asia and Africa where I experienced

different planning methods and cultures first hand. I now work for AECOM designing master plans for America’s Navy bases. With the experience I have gained I am ready to help shape great urban places that make people fall in love with cities the way I

did growing up.

Hello!

Favorite classes taken while at Ohio State

Site PlanningUrban DesignULI Hines Competition: Urban Design CompetitionPlanning Places with People In Mind (Placemaking)Innovation in Planning

Public Art Master PlanningLandscape Studio: Site Planning & Dynamic SystemsSustainability Studio: Milo-Grogan Sustainability Master PlanArchitecture Tour (Japan Study Abroad)Sustainable Planning (Ghana Study Abroad)

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Norfolk Naval ShipyardBackground: I worked with our studio’s Senior Planner to produce the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) master plan. The plan was reviewed by the installation’s planners, the Commanding Officer, and NAVFAC Mid-Atlantic. The plan was adopted in Feb 2016.

The Team: A Visioning workshop, which included a SWOT analysis and planning charrette, was facilitated by our AECOM team. After-wards the team began developing the plan.

My Role: I created all of the maps used in the plan. The maps analyzed land uses, environmental and man-made constraints, sea level rise, AT/FP setback requirements, green infrastructure, the transportation network, parking, and proposed projects. I also created therendered maps of the installation to show what the base will look like when fully built out.

I created promotional materialsfor the base including a brochure aboutthe plan.

Naval Support Activity Norfolk Naval Shipyard FINAL | FEBRUARY 2016

NAVY REGION MID-ATLANTIC

Naval Support Activity Norfolk Naval Shipyard

Installation Development Plan

FINAL | FEBRUARY 2016

While attending the SWOT/Visioning work-shop I took photos to document the char-rette process. These photos were used in the final master plan document to show the participation of major tenants and commands of the base. They show that the document was a collaborative effort with ampleparticipation of the installation’s major stake holders.

After the final draft of the master plan was approved by our clients, I created three sets of CDs to supplement the master plan. The first CD contained ArcMap GIS files for all the maps created for the plan as well as cleaned-up versions of all the shapefiles used to create the maps. The second CD included high quality PDF print versions of the mater plan and brochure. The third CDincluded the InDesign file and all images, fonts, and graphics used in the final master plan document. With these CDs our team provided a master plan that can be updated and edited by the installation as needed instead of supplying a static document.

Top: NNSY Master Plan cover.

Top Left: Illustrative site plan for NNSY St. Julien’s Annex.

Bottom Left: Hard copy deliverables provided to the client including a print out version of the master plan, a brochure, and a CD containing all GIS files, shapefiles, InDesign Documents, and images used.

Opposite Page: Illustrative map of NNSY main site.

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Environmental Constraints Flood Zones Storm Surge

Operational Constraints AT/FP Standoffs Composite Constraints

Existing Land Use Historic District Transportation Networks

Mapping Process: The Navy supplied the our team with a geodatabase populated with several shapefiles that detailed specific information about the base. These shapefiles included current streets and parking lots, current buildings, flood zones, instillation boundaries, piers and wharfs, environmental constraints, explosive arcs, and designated historic districts. Several of the shapefiles had to be edited due to them being out of date. I created the current condition maps with these layers.

For the future condition maps I had to create several shapefile from scratch in ArcCatalog and organized in a new geodatabase. The future condition layers had to include projects the installation approved. The installation provided site plans which I used to draft the projects into the GIS shapefiles.

The Design: The SW portion of the main site is home to most of the base’s barracks and recreational functions. The plan calls for creating a green, pedestrian friendly, and walkable environment for the sailors. The plan includes a complete sidewalk network, buildings oriented towards the street, street-scape improvements (trees, crosswalks), and the establishment of unstructured open space for leisure activities and stormwater management.

The Historic Gosport area of the installation creates a pedestrian friendly environment that celebrates the long history of the base by preserving as many historic structures as possible. The plan proposes that the area between the buildings is transformed from a sea of parking into greenspace to reduce stormwater runoff and the heat island effect. A permeable plaza with a bosque of shade trees was proposed between buildings 15 and 42.

Opposite Page: Map matrix created to show all the current constraints on the site that might influence or prevent development.

Bottom Right: Redesign of the SW portion of the Main Site of NNSY.

Top Left: Redesign of Gosport Yard area of NNSY.

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Naval Weapons Station YorktownBackground: I worked on the master plan for Naval Weapons Station Yorktown with the senior Planner in our studio as well as planners from the AECOM Arlington, Va office. The plan was approved and adopted in June 2016.

The Team: We interviewed major installation stakeholders, facilitated a SWOT/Visioning workshop, a planning charrette, conducted several site visits, and developed the Yorktown master plan.

My Role: I was charged with writing chapter 5 where I described the proposed projects, road realignments streetscape improvements, green infrastructure plan, and possible areas for future development. The plan called for two dense areas of development near Gates 1 and 3 where facilities are constructed in a walkable, campus-like environment where a majority of the facilities fall within a 5 minute walk radius. The two gate areas were connected by a multi-use path.

I helped to facilitated the SWOT/Visioning workshop and planning charrette the AECOM team did with the major tenants. I also was in charge of taking photos to document the

Top: Naval Weapons Station Yorktown Master Plan Cover

Middle Right: Future Land Use map included in the final document

Bottom Right: Proposed future land use and corresponding acreages for Main Site

and Cheatham Annex

Opposite Page: Illustrative Site Plan for Cheatham Annex

workshop. The photos were used in the final master plan document.

I created 4 different illustrative site plans that were used in the final document, brochure, and other promotional materials by the installation to promote the master plan.

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Bottom Left: Gate 3 parking and circulation study detailing road network,

sidewalks, nodes, and walking radii

Bottom Right: Gate 3 illustrative site plan. Yellow shaded buildings

represent proposed new construction

Opposite Page: Brochure for the master plan. Labels censored for

security reasons

I created all the maps used in the document. They were created with ESRI ArcMap and new project site plans were created in AutoCAD and brought back into GIS. The maps analyze land use, constraints, cur-rent and future road network, parking, green space, and infrastructure. I also populated several fields in the attribute tables in the maps that helped with our analysis of current and future conditions of the site.

I also attended conference calls and meetings with our client on a bi-monthly time-frame to provide them with project updates. I was on occasion called upon to lead these meetings without any other AECOM team members present. I also recorded minutes of these meetings and transcribed them. The minutes were checked over by the senior planner for quality control purposes and sent out to the client after each conference meeting.

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In addition to the master plan I also designed a brochure that the installation now uses to advertise the document. The brochure includes the vision statement developed by the tenants during the SWOT/Visioning workshop, a complete list of planning goals the document seeks to achieve, a summaryof what the document recommends to achieve these goals, and multiple illustrative site plans that includes annotations pointing out specific projects. The brochures were printed in house on 80 pound, semi-gloss paper and folded by hand.

Lastly, I created 3 sets of CDs required by the scope for the installation. Like the NNSY master plan, I created a Master GIS CD which included cleaned up shape-files and the original MXD maps, a PDF CD which contained high quality PDFs of the master plan document and brochure so that the installation could create more hard-copies, and a Master Information CD that contained the original InDesign document of the mas-ter plan and all photos, links, and fonts used. These CDs allow the installation to update and edit the document if necessary.

Ensamble: ULI Hines Competition

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Oak Tree Canopy

Aluminum & Steel Lofts

Amphitheater

UMC/VA Hospitals

Success Preparatory Academy

Lafitte Greenway

New Development

Existing Structures

Structured Parking

Louis Armstrong Park

Local Business Corridor

St. Louis Cemetery

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Top: Phasing Matrix showing the stages of development and each phase’s land use.

Left: Detailed site plan showing key areas, greenspace, and new construction.

Bottom: Info-graphic showing the benefits of reestablishing the Oak tree canopy along Claiborne Avenue.

Background: The ULI Hines Competition is an national urban design challenge for graduate students. I worked on a multi-disciplinary team of 3 planners, an architect, and a finance major to redevelop an urban neighborhood in New Orleans. Our goal was to revive the neighborhood while highlighting it’s locational proximity to downtown, the French Quarter, and the newly established Lafitte Greenway. Another challenge was to not gentrify the area and keep the neigh-borhood affordable for the current residence.

Historic Preservation: The final design saved over 159,000 s.f. of historic architecture and the new builds were sensitive to the surrounding setbacks, massing, and architectural character of the neighborhood. Shotgun houses were renovated and an old ware-house was retrofitted into market rate condos.

Sustainable Design: The design included over an acre of rain gardens to collect storm water, green roofs, and an amphitheater that doubled as a bioswale during rainstorms. The design added complete streets and over 2 miles of bike paths. The historic River Oak canopy that covered Claiborne Avenue was reestablished by planting over 50 oaks in bump-outs flanking the street. Lastly, the area under the highway overpass was converted into a pedestrian area lit by classic French chandeliers. An area under the highway near the greenway was designed to host a farmers market once a week, giving locals access to fresh, local foods.

Oak Tree Benefits Architectural Preservation Diverse Housing Stock

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UMC/VA Hospitals

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Inclusive Development: The proposal created a mixed-income neighborhood. This was made by keeping the commercial and res-idential units along Claiborne smaller, adding live-work units, and working smaller, work-force units into the larger residential structures near the greenway. The project not only has a mix of units but they are evenly distributed throughout the site.

Connections: One of the biggest challenges with designing this site was its proximity to so many things but it is cut off and isolated from these places and US I-10 cuts the site in half. We addressed this by bridging the gap under the highway by transforming the space into flex community space, contemporary lighting, rain gardens, bike paths, and new surfacing. The area established for the farmers market unites the two side of the site. Connections to the greenway and Canal street were emphasized.Connections

Massing Model & Greenway Interaction

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Streetscape Prototype: North Derbigny Street was redesigned using a complete street approach. New, wider sidewalks designed to ADA standards were installed on both sides. Traffic was limited to one through lane and two parking lanes. Sharrows were added to the street. New lighting and street trees were added to provide a more pedestrian friend-ly atmosphere. Building setbacks were set to no more than 5 feet (per zoning code) to maintain the building wall along the street.

A community plan was designed to guide development of the parcels we were not able to develop. In the plan we called for the re-designing of the local neighborhood streets running from Canal to the Lafitte Greenway. The new North Derbigny design was used as a prototype for these streets.

Bottom: Streetscape section detailing the North Derbigny Street design. It shows wide sidewalks, street trees, new LED lighting, and street parking. The section also shows the massing and character of the new infill developments. The building on the left is a new medical office that preserved a historic building in it’s facade. The shotgun houses and bungalows behind transition well into the residential portion of the neighborhood.

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Landscape Matrix

Transportation: The proposal is supported by a wide variety of transportation modes. A streetcar line runs along the south western boundary of the site. 2.1 new miles of bike paths link the streetcar line to the greenway via Claiborne Avenue and Galvez Street. Additional bike lanes are added along Bienville Avenue through the center of the site and a path is included in the design of the greenway. Additional bus stops are added along the more densely populated areas. New sidewalks built to universal design standards are constructed along all streets in the site.

Landscape: Most plant species we would deffer to a horticulturist for final selections but the project calls for plant types withspecific characteristics. Many of the plantings are located in rain gardens and bioswale so plants need to be water tolerant. Also we want the landscape to have colorand visual interest 12 months out of the year so we mixed plants that have different blooming periods so that the planting beds would provide a visually interesting landscape all year.

Top Left: Detailed site plan showing the new transportation network and how the different modes work together.

Top Right: Landscape matrix showing how the different plant materials will have different blooming seasons to insure 12 months of visual interest in the site.

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Connections: Scioto Riverside Park

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Left: Site plan of the proposed park

Right: Section cut

Site Plan Development: The main idea of the proposal was to connect the site to the surrounding neighborhoods. This was done by proposing a pedestrian bridge across the Scioto River to the Arena District. This made a crucial connection between these two sections of downtown that have been isolated from each other for decades. The plan also connected people to the river by bringing them down to the water’s level.

The site plan calls for 2 separate paths. A bike path located on higher ground and a walking path near the rivers edge. The lower walking path is designed to occasionally flood in the spring.

A multi-level wooden pier extends out into the river to provide access to the water. A large flight of stairs give a secondary option of getting down to the river. The hardscape of the stairs contrast with the naturalized banks on the wester section of the park. The park is designed to function differently during different flood levels and seasons.

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Re-imagining Static StructuresBackground: Several people have dealt with unsightly buildings with architectural wraps or art installations. The project’s goal was to go beyond that and look at structures such as parking garages that do not interact with the pedestrian realm and are treated as single function buildings. A parking garage in downtown Columbus, Ohio, was used as an architectural example for the project.

Analysis: The parking garage’s interaction with the pedestrian realm was looked at through 6 criteria. These criteria were used to fashion a more sustainable, interactive, and pedestrian friendly facade. They were also used to identify possible uses the structure could provide.

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Right: Map of downtown Columbus, Ohio showing the land area covered by

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Bottom: The 6 criteria used to design the new proposal for the parking garage

Final Design: The final recommendation for the parking structure renovation included structural alterations to decrease stormwater runoff. These alterations include mitigating runoff from the roof to window boxes planted with ornamental grasses, a green roof atop the stairwell tower, and the installation of so-lar trees to power the structure.

New wood veneers, red paint, screening unsightly architectural elements, and a mural done by a local artist will make the building a more aesthetic appealing structure.

A map of city services targeted towards the homeless as well as a drinking fountain will help a disenfranchised population in the area.

A digital wall that allows users to listen to local bands and see where they are playing will introduce locals and visitors to the city’s music scene.

Some of these upgrades can be financed by a local corporation. The business will pay for the upgrades in exchange for advertisement rights to the site.

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Public drinking fountains creates a more pleasant experience for pedestrians. They can also be used by the homeless population, ensuring everyone has

access to clean drinking water.

A map of downtown homeless shelters and food kitchens will provide critical information to some

of the city’s most vulnerable citizens.

Low maintenance ornamental grasses can be watered by runoff from the roof. The greenery also

softens the appearance of the structure.

The addition of natural materials, such as the woodveneers, soften the appearance of the structure and

add a unique visual element.

Columbus is known for it’s expressive murals in the Short North and bringing that sense of local

artistic expression can go a long way in improving blank walls.

An interactive, digital, touch screen can be usedto introduce pedestrians about local bands and

let them know where they are playing next.

Example The Music Box

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Screen unsightly architectural elements such as the ramps along the western elevation

The large roof allows for the placement of solar trees. The electricity from these can power the

building and excess can be sold back to the grid. Solar trees are more efficient and add a

sense of visual interest.

A graphic wall telling the history of Columbus music celebrates the local community and provides a sense of authenticity due to it’s location near the

Brewery District.

Rooftop vegetation helps mitigate storm water runoff and provides an interesting architectural

element. The plants and trees can also be usedby local animal populations as a habitat in an

increasingly urbanized area.

Remove or cover several hiding areas by designing defensible spaces. Create a clear line of sight.

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H.A.V.E.N. Housing Survey: GhanaBackground: The H.A.V.E.N housing survey was designed to collect basic demographic information on the village for the local government. The survey looked at; Housing types Housing size Housing construction/upkeep Renting vs home ownership Population density Access to water, sanitation, fuel, etc. Access to educational and medical facilities If they had livestock on their property

The survey was done in the Village of Afrancho in central Ghana. 50 surveys were completed in 5 days with the help of government officials who acted as translators. We mapped the homes surveyed so that all of the information collected could be turned into an attribute table and used as a GIS layer to show development patterns in the area.

GIS information was added by other groups working on water quality and health to help create a clear picture of the village’s conditions.

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Final Product: The final product was a working GIS layer that allowed the govern-ment to get a clear picture of the conditions in the village for the first time. The new layer also worked with another layer designed by the water quality group. The H.A.V.E.N survey analyzed where people got their water and the water quality survey analyzed which water sources were polluted. Together, these two layers allow the local government to predict e. coli outbreaks and coordinate an effective response to water born illness in the village.

House SurveyedLandmark (church, school, clinic)

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Additional SkillsSketchUp: Recreated a proposed building using engineering and architectural draw-ings. The entire building is to scale. After the massing was reconstructed I redesigned the facade with different materials, architectural detailing, and ornamentation to make the building more pedestrian oriented and detailed.

Top: Elevation of the proposed building showing how the structure’s massing was broken up with different materials

Bottom: 3D rendering of a commercial district. All buildings and architectural

details were created from scratch while the street trees and street lights were imported

from the SketchUp 3D Warehouse. The building on the far right is an accurate

recreation of the Postal Museum in Charleston , SC

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Model of Scioto Riverside Park designed in Landscape Architecture Studio 3D Modeling: As part of my Scioto River-

side Park project I created a scale model of the park proposal. The model was created out of carved chip board (representing terra firma), bristol (representing pavement), wood (representing infrastructure), and twisted wire (representing shade trees)

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