Portfolio Fall 2020

2545 Dennis St. Cincinnati, OH 45219

Emily Pietrantone

(440) 667 - 9143 pietraey@mail.uc.edu

COLLEGE

Table of Contents

Year Three: Summer 2020:

Making the East End Resilient

Title Page

Street Sections

Phasing and Funding Year Two: Fall 2019

The Steps on How to Plan a Site

Title Page

Conceptual Plan

Proposed Zoning Plan

Proposed Overall Plan

Year One: Spring 2019

Analysis of Over-The-Rhine (OTR)

Title Page

Impressions Map

Imageability Map

Site Development Reccomendation

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Year One: Fall 2018

Analysis of Safety on Campus

Sensability Map With Examples

Infographic

Sensibility Map HIGH SCHOOL

Excel TECC College Preporatory Program 2015-2017

Revit ‘She-Shed’

Prosthetic Hand Project

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Page 10-11 Page 12 Page 12 Page 13

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ABOUT ME

EDUCATION

I am a fourth year at the University of Cincinnati and this is my third year in Urban Planning. I originally came to the University of Cincinnati to study Civil Engineering but I have found my true passion for Urban Planning.

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH B.S. in Urban Planning Minor in Real Estate Certificate in Professional Communication

GPA 3.27 May 2023

Mayfield High School, Mayfield Heights OH Diploma

GPA 3.4 May 2017

Excel TECC CADD Engineering Technology, Mayfield Heights OH Diploma

GPA 4.0 May 2017

I grew up in a small suburb about 30 minutes east of Cleveland. In high school, I attended a college preparatory program called Excel TECC where I was in the CADD (Computer Aided-Drafted Design) program. While I was in this program I fell in love with drafting and data analysis.

I hope to continue my education by pursuing a Master’s in Community Planning through the University of Cincinnati. At the time of graduation, I will also have a certificate in Professional Communication and a minor in Real Estate.

EXPERIENCE Planning Design and Construction, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH Renovations Co-op/Intern January 2020 - December 2020

•Assist in development of phasing plans

•Make changes to existing plans in AutoCAD

•Prepare renderings through Revit

Residential Education and Development University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH 2017 – Present Head Resident Advisor, Resident Advisor and Desk Assistant

•Head Resident Advisor beginning Fall 2020 (lead team of 15 people)

•Prepared packages for students to retrieve in a timely manner

•Assisted residents with lock-outs and maintenance requests

•Transition residents into college smoothly

•Prepare programs focusing on diversity, leadership, community, etc.

SKILLS

•Adobe Creative Cloud Programs •AutoCAD •ArcMAP/ArcGIS •Microsoft Office Programs •Revit •SketchUp

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COLLEGE YEAR 3

How to Protect the East End, Cincinnati from Flooding My fourth studio focused on making the East End, Cincinnati resilient. The East End is located eat of Cincinnati right along the Ohio River. This makes the area very prone to flooding. My focus was to create a plan to separate the existing sewer system.

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WHY? Cincinnati has a very old water management system.

The current infrastructure will need to be replaced very soon. Instead of replacing the existing system, money should be directed towards separating a new system and implementing green infrastructure.

PROS: - Long-term solution - Increases capacity for sewage to go to treatment plant - Decreases wastewater in river, leads to cleaner water going into river - Green infrastructure beautifies street-scape CONS: - Costly $$$ - Long-term project - Stormwater is no longer sent to treatment plants

PROPOSED

EXISTING

Separate Sewage & Stormwater System

WALWORTH AVE.

On Walworth Ave. the existing median will be replaced by a bioswale, as shown in green. The sewer systems will be separated. Allowing stormwater runoff to go directly to the river or wetland. This area was meant to change as little as possible on the surface.

This graphic was created in Adobe Creative Cloud Programs.

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EXISTING PROPOSED

EXISTING PROPOSED

Sidewalk

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10’ 10’ 10’ 10’

To River/Wetland To Treatment Plant

RIVERSIDE DR.

GLADSTONE AVE

This was created by getting a section line from Sketchup and then taking it into Adobe Creative Cloud Programs

This was created by getting a section line from Sketchup and then taking it into Adobe Creative Cloud Programs

In addition to separating the wastewater and stormwater systems, two bioswale will be added on Riverside Dr. The road will be modified to allow the bioswale to be adjacent to the sidewalks on either side. Effectively taking up the space that is currently used as bike lanes.

Sidewalk

To Treatment Plant

Trail

To River/Wetland

Bioswale

5’ 10’

To Treatment Plant

Parking

Sidewalk Bioswale

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20’

Driving

Driving

Parking

Sidewalk

10’ 5’ 8’

Railroad Tracks

To Treatment Plant

10’ 10’

Parking

Sidewalk Bike Lane

5’ 10’

Driving

Driving

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Bioswale

atment Plant

Bike Lane Parking

r/Wetland

10’ 8’ 5’

Sidewalk

tment Plant

In addition to separating the wastewater and stormwater systems, a bio-swale and trail will be added in place of the existing railroad.

Smaller streets like this without room to expand will still benefit from the separated system even if green infrastructure is not put in place.

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PHASING: PHASE 1: Everything south of Riverside Dr. This allows for the area most vulnerable to flooding to have some alleviation for storm water.

PHASE 2: Area in light blue. This is the area north of Riverside Dr. that is not highly elevated to protect from flooding.

PHASE 3: Area shown in orange. This area is elevated and is not as high risk for flooding. Phases 1 and 2 would alleviate some risk of flooding while phase 3 waits to be completed.

FUNDING: Referencing North East Ohio Sewer District’s funding plan, funds for this project will come from a variety of locations including: -Bonds

-Impervious surface tax -Grants -Investors Most often, funding does not come from the federal level for these projects. According to NEO Sewer district representative, most funding comes in the form of bonds.

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The larger the area of impervious surfaces the larger sum of money that the developer will pay towards the sewer project. In theory, the larger the area of impervious surfaces the more stormwater run-off there is on a site. This tax also makes it financially beneficial for developers to implement pervious surfaces on their sites.

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COLLEGE YEAR 2

Steps on How to Plan a Site

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My third semester at the Unversity of Cincinnati my studio focused on the steps it takes to plan a site. From researching the site and its respective zoning codes to creating a proposed plan.

The site that my class was given is outlined in red.

The site is located in Middletown, Ohio which is about a 45 minute drive from the University of Cincinnati campus.

Legend

Proposed Buildings Existing Buildings Outline of Site Proposed Trees Existing Trees Active Greenspace Planned Lots Natural Existing Land Water Parking Water Lot Lines Sidewalks Pathways

The site was located just east of the major highway I-75 and just west of a Fischer homes development.

This map was created with an underlay of an ArcGIS map which was then converted into a hand drawn conceptual map.

Then finally converted to an Adobe CC Illustrator file.

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Legend

Water Greenspace Tree Canopy Commerical/ Office

Instituional Mixed Use Residential Parking

Traffic Flow Existing Buildings Pathways

Conceptual Plan

Overall

This map hows a conceptual plan for the site. Planning out zoning districts based on the existing zoning ordinance and comprehensive plan for the area. My goal for the site was to make a ‘park-like’ setting. I focused on separating the types of uses on the site so the residential area was quiet and not disturbed my the commercial area near the highway west of the site. Another aspect to consider on the site was the changes in topography. By using a topographic map as a base I was able to plan around large changes in topography.

This overall plan was the final product from the conceptual plan, I was able to modify the plan t lots, buildings and greenspace. These changes w conceptual plan for Middletown as well as zonin car to pedestrian based modified the plans road

This map is hand drawn over a base map that was created in ArcGIS. 8

This map was created with Adobe CC over a base

Legend Mixed Used Commercial High Density Residential Medium Density Residential Low Density Residential Institutional Commercial/Office Site Outline Active Greenspace Natural Existing Land Water Parking Water Sidewalks Pathways

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e site planning studio. Taking pieces from the to account for changes to square footage of parking were made so the plan would be in line with the ng ordinances. Additionally, turning the focus from dways.

emap that was created in ArcGIS.

Land Use Plan This map shows the proposed zoning for the site. The goal was to one large neighborhood center at the northwest and then have a smaller center just south of the main center. With the addition of mixed use buildings pedestrians become the focus of the area.

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COLLEGE YEAR 1

AN ANALYSIS OF OVER-THE-RHINE

My second semester of Urban Planning focused on an area of Cincinnati known as Over-The-Rhine (OTR).

OTR has been a key factor in the growth and decline of Cincinnati from the very beginning. Throughout the semester, analysis was been done to understand OverThe-Rhine deeply. As planners, we must understand the people of an area to create projects that impact those within it correctly. Each student picked a site to revitalize in the area.

This map was created with ArcGIS using data from CAGIS.

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In order to help visualize my original perceptions of Over-The-Rhine an impressions map was made. The impressions map is meant to give a basic interpretation of the area. The focus is on what areas stood out or made an impression.

This map was made by using ArcGIS and drawing over a printed map with markers.

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Based on Kevin Lynch’s The Image of a City this map was created to help understand how observers look at Over-The-Rhine. Lynch had a five-year study that helped to understand how users understand surroundings in consistent and predictable ways. It was found that in each mental map created by an observer five elements where used: paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks. This map uses those five criteria to show OTR. This was created using ArcGIS and the Adobe Creative Cloud Programs.

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The top image shows the original elevation of the Kroger site. Where the bottom image shows the elevation of the rest of the street. In order to fit both images on the page, they are not in the same scale.

But, it is still shown how drastically different the Kroger site’s elevation is compared to the rest of the street. The proposed redevelopment plan moved the building forward in order to keep the same elevation as the rest of the street. This helped increase uniformity on the street and allowed for a better feel of the street. These were created in AutoCAD and then edited in the Adobe Creative Cloud programs.

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COLLEGE YEAR 1

AN ANALYSIS OF SAFETY ON CAMPUS

Throughout my first semester at DAAP I worked on a project surrounding the idea of safety on campus.

This graphic use colors dark red-brown, tan and light blue to show various levels of safety.With the dark red-brown indicating where someone would feel the least safe and the light blue indicating where someone PLAN 1011feel Emily Pietrantone would the safest.

Each Shilpa Mehta October 12 2018 sketch was used to represent examples of safe and unsafe spaces on campus.

University of Cincinnati Sensability Map: Safety

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Adobe CC Programs. Each area shown in vignettes are hand drawn.

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In order to determine what can make a space feel more or less safe, I focused on the idea of encloser. Using the same coloring as the last page with dark red-brown being the least safe and light blue being the safest. As this infographic shows, the more enclosed space is the more uncomfortable a space will feel. This comes from the natural human desire to want to be aware of your surroundings.

This piece is a hand drawn gradient taken into Adobe CC programs to become a graph.

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This sensibility map was created to show a different perspective of safety on campus. In this map, each viewshed on campus was drawn. The more the viewsheds overlap, the safer the area would be. So, the darker red indicates the safest areas on campus where the light pink is the least safe space.

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HIGH SCHOOL

FOUNDATIONAL WORK IN REVIT, AUTOCAD AND SOLIDWORKS

During my time at Excel TECC CADD, I also learned several programs including Revit. This page shows my semester final of my senior year in the program. The project was to create a ‘man-cave’ or ‘she-shed’ and include everything we would like in one. The class was given restrictions including how large it could be and a few minimum interior requirements. Since I am always working on something and I love to cook, I made sure mine had a small business nook and a full kitchen.

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Before coming to the University of Cincinnati I was apart of a postsecondary program at my high school called Excel TECC CADD. This program focused on Engineering and Architecture. While I was in this program I had the opportunity to create a prosthetic hand for a recipient in my neighborhood. The hand is completely 3-D printed and works with the bending of the wrist. My recipient Manny lives in a neighboring city to my hometown and was 10 years old at the time of the creation of his hand.

He was born without fully developed hand and this hand allowed him to participate in things he always wanted to.

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After Manny was awarded with his hand, the design of the hand went to several competitions and even to Germany. The design was awarded first place at the SkillsUSA Ohio competition and then went on to win fifth place at the national SkillsUSA competition. This photo shows former President Obama and the former Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel seeing the hand at the largest trade fair in the world that is hosted in Munich, Germany every year. The created of the 3-D printer that was used to make the hand (MakerGear) took the hand to Germany to show how 3-D printers can impact others.

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