![]() While developing the master plan, the design firm implemented a community engagement process that provided excellent baseline data for our research team to develop our assessment of the project’s social benefits. Our team was pleasantly surprised to learn how extensive the design firm’s baseline data collection was, covering aspects such as user perception, impervious surfaces, and property values. The P Street project was also unique in the amount of recorded baseline data. This gave us the opportunity to understand the working relationship between a remote design firm and a local firm, revealing the trade-offs that come with this approach. P Street’s redesign was undertaken by a remote design firm and then passed to a local Lincoln firm for construction administration. ![]() However, much of what we learned about the P Street project was beyond what we had experienced on site. ![]() With P Street located adjacent to the university, our research team was already familiar with the site, having visited and passed through on countless occasions. Tom Hanafan focuses on opportunities to preserve and restore riparian forest in a floodplain to withstand an immense, 500-year storm event.Īlthough we’ve observed many commonalities between these two projects, each has numerous unique aspects of its own. P Street focuses on runoff capture and reduced irrigation cost for roadside bioswales. Along with public access, stormwater management strategies are essential aspects of both projects. Both are public projects in urban settings with primary goals of transforming formerly unpleasant, underused spaces to grant increased public access. With both sites located in the Great Plains, participating in the Case Study Investigation program has given us the opportunity to provide recognition and visibility to innovative constructed projects in a region that typically goes unrecognized. Over the course of our study, we’ve discovered many commonalities between the P Street Corridor and Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park. Working on the post-occupancy study of both parks has been extremely beneficial in understanding how reclaiming underutilized sites can create high-performing landscapes. ![]() We are eager to shine a spotlight on the landscape performance of two Great Plains projects: P Street Corridor by Design Workshop, a revitalized downtown streetscape in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park by Sasaki, a waterfront redevelopment in Council Bluffs, Iowa. We have just completed our second year as undergraduates in the landscape architecture program and are excited to continue learning about landscape performance as Research Assistants under the guidance of Research Fellow Assistant Professor Catherine De Almeida. Participating in LAF’s 2018 Case Study Investigationprogram has been an incredibly informative experience for our research team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It let’s prospective students see what kind of projects are being created at the College and helps current students start building their portfolio and get them thinking about sharing their work digitally.From the Field: Shining a Spotlight on Landscape Performance in the Great Plainsīy Hannah LoPresto and Brandon Zambrano, BLA Candidates, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Undergraduate researcher Brandon Zambrano observes Tom Hanafan’s vegetation and bioretention capabilities during a May site visit. A custom feature built for the College site was the portfolio section designed to showcase high-quality student work. Working from design to development, we paid special attention to user flows making sure clear actions were always presented or related content was easy to find. The pages were designed around the content and we ended up with a set of templates that consistently present a story to the visitor and are flexible enough for future additions, from visual landing pages to internal pages with lots of text.Ĭhristopher Kollars was brought in to customize the code and implement the site design. The site goes fairly deep with several areas having sets of secondary and tertiary pages. We see students from a variety of programs making things with direct attention from the faculty. Energetic shots from student life set a very collaborative, hands-on tone. The site was designed to be very clean and open with a consistent type hierarchy, simple content blocks, and clear calls-to-action.
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