Strategic action plan to integrate design research + practice
Six month strategy development process with Perkins + Will global research lab leaders in ten disciplines, design principles, and senior strategists culminating in an action plan to integrate research from formal labs into practice domains, including urban design, healthcare, and campus planning. Planned and hosted cross-office convening in partnership with global head of research.
Western Port Area Neighborhood Plan
Locational analysis of health, socio-economic, ecologic, land use, transit, and community development conditions and trends for Duluth, Minnesota site area and broader metro region. Work in partnership with Minneapolis stakeholders to evaluate and propose urban design features and guidelines to increase resilience at five catalyst sites and throughout the broader project boundaries. Performed in context of LEED-complementary RELi AP training.
District design for 20' of sea level rise
UC Berkeley design studio final project for 675 acre site in San Rafael, California: demographic, environmental, and economic analysis followed by the development of a phased vision for 3 feet, 5 feet, and 20 feet of SLR. Design drivers included strategies to use housing as water management infrastructure and improve community health through climate mitigation, stakeholder engagement, adaptive design, and hazard preparedness.
Urban Health Equity Seminar
Co-facilitation of an ongoing transdisciplinary seminar for faculty, professionals, and graduate students whose work lies at the nexus of public health and city planning. Participants partner on applied research and program evaluation across departments in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and College of Environmental Design.
Adapt to thrive
Identified and co-led authorship of winning Van Alen Institute competition bid to reimagine West Palm Beach, Florida sponsored by the West Palm Beach Development Authority. The Request For Proposals required a new framework for the urban core and waterfront to be adaptive to changing populations and economies and supportive of human wellbeing at an individual and community level.
Design Review for resiliency
Partnered with Resiliency Taskforce principal and analytics team to evaluate all projects submitted for Perkins + Will's internal "Design Excellence Annual Review" to ensure design quality, performance metrics, and achievement of resilience objectives across 26 offices and practice areas. Review of urban design + planning projects and technical and special studies completed in 2016.
Ecological Factors in Urban Design
District design for 140 acre site in San Leandro, California. Evaluation of ecological context and projections. Development of design guidelines to serve social, economic, environmental, and human health. Analysis of cut and fill needed to balance water storage and development plumbing with existing land mass. Recreational and habitat spaces balance a dense, mixed use urban environment with regionally unique housing typologies.
Health Impact AssessmentS
Application of procedures, methods and tools to evaluate urban projects for their potential effects on population health and the distribution of those effects through both micro and macro lenses. Assessments of projects in Oakland, California; Bogota, Colombia; and Port-Au-Prince, Haiti were executed to evaluate the changes in health that may be reasonably attributable to proposed transit and housing development projects.
funding strategy for design research
Analyzed funding streams and set up Perkins + Will's partner 501c3, Area Research, to be registered as a recipient of National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, and other government grants. Collaborated with transportation planners, urban designers, and landscape architects to strategize development pathways for internal projects on neuro-architecture and a collaborative study with transit and engineering partners on public realm design implications for autonomous vehicles.