PROJECT 1
ROXBOROUGH POCKET PARK
6170 Ridge Ave, Philadelphia, Pa 19128
DESIGNED AT
Ruggiero Plante Land Design
Designed as a budget friendly community gathering space, the Roxborough Pocket Park took advantage of the Philadelphia Water Department Stormwater Management Incentives Program by incorporating voluntary Stormwater BMPs into the project design. This allowed the local development organization to provide the Roxborough community an atmospheric outdoor space that would be economically beneficial to the local businesses, residents, and city at large. Utilizing a comprehensive series of stormwater treatment methods, including permeable pavers, vegetative plantings providing shade and bio-infiltration, along with a subsurface retention system, the new Roxborough Pocket Park can as it's name suggests, take advantage of an already small space by doubling up the Stormwater Management Facilities within the overall function of an outdoor community space.
The design objectives for the park were to include a flexible outdoor gathering space with the ability for the community to host small scale events and to allow outdoor sitting space for a future tenant of an adjacent commercial business, while also providing a safe pedestrian access route to the commercial corridor of Roxborough from a busy parking lot. I was tasked with taking a conceptual scheme and preparing construction documents as well as applying for the grant money and obtaining the necessary permit pre-requisites. These documents detailed the installation of everything from the stromwater management system to the light fixtures and plantings
PROJECT 2
DWELL AT SECOND ST
1300 N 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
DESIGNED AT
Ruggiero Plante Land Design
I picked this project up about halfway through the design process for the site. I was given the conceptually approved design plans and I was tasked with taking the project through it's technical design and to project close out. The goal for our designs was to obtain as many LEED credits as possible to obtain LEED silver certification at a minimum.
Due to the scale of the apartment buildings and presence of a parking garage and pool, our available areas for Stormwater Management were limited. We incorporated a number of bio-retention planters to help reduce the footprint of a subsurface infiltration basin that would be necessary to treat the large volume of water from such a large site.