Urban Design Portfolio

Portfolio

Elizabeth Day

Table of Contents

(1) Urban Design Studio I

(2) Urban Design Studio II

(3) Community Design Lab

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I Cal Poly Course Description: Exploring elements and pronciples of environmental design. Understanding the form and character off the designed urban environment. Introduction to problem analysis and problem solving in environmental design. Implications of design decisions and solutions on urban context. Assignments

of object, project and system scale in an urban context.

Project Description: The development of an urban design proposal for the parcels at the intersection of

Humbert and Victoria Street in San Luis Obispo.

Background: The developer wants a project with three intergrated components: a residential component, a commercial/office component, and a small public park/plaza component. The site covers approximately 275,882

square feet (6.33 acres)

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Project Description: Develop urban design projects for the parcels around the

intersection between El Camino Real and Santa Rosa Road, in order to generate South Gateway

to the City of Atascadero.

Cal Poly Course Description: Applications of basic design fundamentals and skills to the design of

environments through design excersises applied to planning. Problem analysis and problem solving skills

as applied to environmental design issues.

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Project Description: Preform a series of urban design conceptual studies in Los Osos to help them

develop ideas for the general plan.

Background: Los Osos is an unincorportated community with a population around 16,000 located at the

the Estero Bay, 10.6 miles east of San Luis Obispo and 2.3 miles of south of Morro Bay.

Cal Poly Course Description: Urban design theories and methods related to planning and urban development. Intergration of circulation, environmental, land-use, and design aspects. Infill or new development projects at the scale of a neighborhood, large PUD, complex circulation

corridor, small town or planned community.