Goals

1.Create a gathering space for the community.

2.Create habitat for birds and butterflies with native plants.

3.Increase connections in the neighborhood with paths, platforms, and possibly a stairway.

4. Provide views of the valley with elevated platforms and seating areas.

Process

Final Design submitted for Public Works Approval

Based on the aspects most desired by and voted on by the neighborhood, we combined everything into one final plan for the permitting process with the city.

Community Design Iterations 2

With feedback from community meetings, we designed three options to be voted on with varying types and amounts of plaza space, benches, tables, and paths.

Community Challenge Grant Submission

Due to the discovery that a sewer pipe runs beneath the centerline of the site, paved areas had to be removed and replaced with decomposed granite and benches were moved off center to retain easy access for maintenace by the city. Trees can not be planted because their roots may damage the pipe. The stairways was alos moved off to one side of the drainage channel to allow for maintenance. The opposite side of thehillside will be a large pollinator garden. Below is a perspective view, the master plan, a cross section, and a plant palette.

Community Feedback Iterations

During our first community cleanup, we learned that the neighbors were wary of stairs connecting to pasadena. Some other ideas were rain garden basins along the slope to replace the channel, bringing in sandstone boulders from the area, and a history park. Here are three variations with different stair layouts and two retaining the existing drainage channel.

Promotional Sketch

A sketch to generate interest in the community through printed flyers. It features a community gathering space, a series of lookout platforms with seating and a native plant garden.

Stairway and Platforms

A digital model was constructed exploring possible form for a stairway and lookouts.

Ramps

Through a digital model, we discovered that ramps would take up too much of the hillside leaving no space for a garden, stairway, or for a community gathering area.

Initial sketch

A quick sketch including a stairway and ramp posted on nextdoor,

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