The Fabric of Hazelwood

Site Photos

Restored roundhouse building

Recycled planting bed material

Recovered Mechanical pieces from historic buildings on site

The site features the contrast between soft vegetation and a hard industrious past

Inventory and Analysis

Base Map

This Basemap illustrates the site boundary and highlights the surrounding area.

Building Foot Print Map

The building footprint map indicates the location of legacy buildings as well as the state of surrounding buildings.

Physical Geology

The physical geology map shows the contours, slopes and spot elevations.

Water Shed Map

Hazelwood is located in the Monogahela River Basin.

Demographics

Conceptual Phase

The concept that I based my design on was the fabric of hazelwood. The community is one that was once stronger and closer than it is today. There is so much potential to make this community tight knit once again. Through the design process I homed in on the idea of using the history and culture of the community to stitch it back together.

Zoning Maps

These maps show the usage of the buildings, open space, and streets.

Zoning Sections

These sections show the building usage by floor.

Masterplan

The masterplan exemplifies the relationship between the existing neighborhood and the proposed plan. The proposed design creates pedestrian paths between buildings into various private and public greenspaces. there are also multiple green streets and parks that stitch this new development into the existing and historic neighborhood. The legacy buildings on site are featured in the site design by using greenspaces to draw attraction to them.

Bird's Eye View

This view of the site explains the placement of the main park, street greening, and multiple green spaces throughout the park. The connecting paths between buildings are also visible from this perspective.

Hazelwood Park

This park deign is split into four main quadrants, focusing in the center on a plaza and reflecting pool. The park is across the street from the community center, so it focuses on being a third place. Here people can gather to play sport, have family reunions, work, bike, and play. The play area is an inclusive playground focus on the notion of circular play. This type of play is inclusive of children with physical and cognitive abilities.

Street Scape

This streetscape is focused on providing safety to pedestrians but also functions for buisnesses to host event, restaurants to have outdoor seating, and people to toll the streets and look around.

Sections

The first section is of the street scape above and the second is of the play area in the park.

Street Scape Perspective

Circular Play Perspective

Water Table Detail

This construction detail is an example of an accessible play feature in the play area. There is a hand pumped well and then the water runs down the table and spills into a drain and is recycled. the water can be replaced, treated or a filter could be installed.

Plant Palette

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