Pocket Park Design
|Just around the block from Advanced Technologies Academy at 2501 Vegas Drive, there is an empty lot of land. One key feature about this area is the Radio Towers also located within this plot of land. Several schools around this area include an elementary school, Ollie Detwiler Elementary School, and two other high schools, Advanced Technologies Academy and Veterans Tribute. Given the fact that I’ve gone to the elementary previously mentioned and I am currently attending A-TECH, I know that a pocket park would enhance the community to a more friendly and attractive place. The pocket park would be designed differently to have grass and other vegetation, which will provide shade and such. I do not worry about the number of people visiting the area because there are children from schools and the proximity of homes will allow families to arrive to the park. In addition, the demographics throughout the 89106 zip code area, the ages between three years to twenty years old have a higher range than the senior population. This proved that there are a lot of families with more than three children, from first grade through high school.
Right across this area where the pocket park would be located is an apartment, where I actually lived when I attended my kindergarten and first grade of elementary school year. The absence of a fun and green area is why I want to place the pocket park on this location. However, I am going to keep the dry aspect of the whole area by surrounding the contour with rocks. Meanwhile, the same contour will have several trees to provide shade; however, the tree will not be within the grass given the fact that it is not a big area. An example of the trees I would like to place is the Glossy Privet tree. Finally, the outside of the park will have like a fence to separate the pocket park from the rest of the land plot, which could be an area for other businesses. What remains at the west side of the park could be designed to a parking space.
Within the pocket park, I wanted my design to have a playground for the children, while access for the older population I designed a walkway. The walkway will be made of Tennessee Chocolate Pea Gravel so that joggers can go in the mornings to run. Because the pocket park would be designed to have a walkway around the area for families or the playground, people of all ages will be welcomed. Something really makes this unique is the fact that it connects to the This pocket park should be adaptive to the atmosphere because there are many families in this community who are outside after school hours, which guarantees that the pocket park should be appropriate in this area.
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Cool! i like your opening statement!