Lewisville Park & Streetscape

A streetscape, a trail and a pond boardwalk on Summit Avenue in Lewisville, Texas

Illustrative masterplan of the Summit Avenue streetscape and park: the tree-lined avenue, the trail through the meadow and the wooded channel, and the pond with its boardwalk, among the planned housing — The final illustrative masterplan: the Summit Avenue streetscape, the trail through the meadow under the power lines, and the boardwalk at the pond

Project snapshot

My contribution

Role

Urban designer at Talley Associates: sketched layout iterations by hand, and modeled and rendered the site

With

Talley Associates’ design team, which presented the masterplan

Tools

Hand sketching • Rhino 3D • Lumion • Photoshop

Project details

Location: Lewisville, Texas
Firm: Talley Associates, Dallas
Clients: City of Lewisville and the developer
Project type: Streetscape, trail and park
Phase: Concept design
Year: 2019

00 Overview

In 2019, as an urban designer at Talley Associates, I worked on the concept design of a streetscape, a trail and a park on Summit Avenue in Lewisville, Texas.

I sketched a range of layouts to meet the vision and requirements of the city and the developer, and our team presented a masterplan. I also modeled the site and rendered it for stakeholders.

01 Design iterations

Layouts by hand

My sketch iterations worked out the layout of the project’s three parts: a streetscape spine along Summit Avenue, a trail along a power-line easement and a boardwalk at a pond, each with a character of its own.

Sketch iteration in ink over a faded print of the site plan and aerial: rows of trees along Summit Avenue, a path looping the pond, and the trail and its bridges along the wooded channel — FIG. 01Four of the sketch iterations, in pen and marker over printed plans of the site

02 Concept presentation

The site, its systems and the street

Our team presented the concept on February 25, 2019, with sheets on the site as it was, its natural systems and circulation, and a typical section of Summit Avenue.

Existing site aerial: open ground and a wooded channel west of Summit Avenue, a pond to the east, a rail line and neighborhoods around them — FIG. 02The site before design

Natural systems: meadow and wildflower mix, riparian buffer, the constructed water channel, wetland, the lake and preserved vegetation — Natural systems

Circulation: the trail, sidewalks, the boardwalk and vehicular routes, with bridges and view platforms — Natural systems

Typical streetscape section of N. Summit Avenue: sidewalks and landscape buffers on both sides, two roadways and a planted median within an 85-foot right of way, with street trees, lights and utilities — FIG. 04Summit Avenue in section

03 3D modeling & rendering

The park at eye level

To show stakeholders the park’s character, I modeled the site in Rhino 3D and rendered views of it in Lumion and Photoshop.