Jack Conley Urban Planning Portfolio
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Hand Drawn Work
Hand Drawn Work
Scaled Drawing of DAAP Building and Daap Studio
This layout presents scaled drawings of the DAAP building on the left and our studio room on the right. The building map highlights key hallways, stairways, and collaboration spaces, while the studio map showcases walking areas and personal workspaces. Together, they illustrate how design fosters interaction and creativity in the DAAP environment.
Campus Building Footprint and Passageways Map
The left map highlights key passageways, emphasizing pedestrian routes and accessibility across the area. The right map shows building footprints, revealing the layout and density of structures. Together, these maps provide a view of movement patterns and organization
Hand Drawn
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Campus Analysis
This map illustrates sidewalk walking speeds across the University of Cincinnati campus. Data collected along key routes shows variations in pedestrian movement. Slower speeds are observed on slopes, stairs, and crowded paths. These factors, along with peak times, affect walking efficiency. The map highlights how terrain and congestion impact pedestrian flow across campus.
Campus Imageability
This imageability map of the campus highlights key elements that shape how people perceive and navigate the area. It depicts the edges that define campus boundaries, prominent landmarks for orientation, and important nodes where activity converges. The map also distinguishes districts, color-coded for clarity: academic areas in blue, recreational spaces in green, and residential zones in orange. Together, these elements offer a comprehensive view of how the campus is organized and experienced.
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Campus Analysis
The three renderings depict sidewalk walkability across campus, measured by walking speed. Each rendering highlights how factors like slopes, stairs, and pedestrian traffic slow movement in certain areas. These visualizations provide insights into where campus terrain and congestion impact pedestrian flow the most.
Clifton Court
Staircase
Digital Maps
ArcGIS map of campus
This ArcGIS map of the University of Cincinnati highlights walking paths (orange), building footprints (white), and the tree canopy (green). The paths create an interconnected, accessible network, while the buildings represent academic, administrative, and residential facilities. The tree canopy adds natural beauty and shaded areas, reflecting the university’s commitment to functional and environmental design.
AutoCAD Contrasting Maps
These two AutoCAD maps of the campus both depict building footprints and pathways, but with contrasting color schemes. The differing colors help to emphasize different visual aspects of the same layout, offering distinct perspectives on the campus’s structure and flow. This contrast enhances the clarity and understanding of the spatial relationships between buildings and pathways.
Digital Maps
ShortVine District
Building Use Map
Sketchup Building Analysis
This building use map highlights a well-planned urban area with a mix of public services, commercial spaces, and residences. Key services like the post office and fire station are easily accessible, while the commercial zone features shops, restaurants, and grocery stores. Mixed-use buildings and surrounding residential areas create a lively, walkable community.
Northside Building Age
This building age map of Northside highlights its historic mixed-use core, featuring structures dating back to 1865. Surrounding it are industrial buildings from the 1940s to 1970s, which lack walkability and building potential. This emphasizes the need for revitalization to enhance connectivity and engagement.
Digital Maps
Northside Floor Drawings
This floor drawing envisions a transformed area around the Northside Transit Hub while preserving the historic charm of Hamilton Avenue. Plans include mixed-use developments seamlessly integrated with a riverside park, featuring fountain plazas, dog parks, and public gardens throughout the site. Enhanced street safety measures, such as protected bike lanes and crosswalks, are incorporated alongside a traffic circle to alleviate congestion at the busy five-way intersection. This design promotes a vibrant, community-focused environment that encourages both activity and accessibility while honoring the area’s rich history.
Digital Renderings
Uptown/Downtown Bike Trail
This bike trail connects downtown to the Uptown campus area, providing a vital route for cyclists. The trail elegantly bridges over Calhoun and McMillan Streets, ensuring safe passage across busy intersections. It meanders through Inwood Park and Jackson Hill Park, offering scenic views and recreational opportunities along the way. Additionally, the trail follows Rice Street and Sycamore Street, creating a seamless link that enhances accessibility and promotes active transportation between the urban core and the campus community.
Digital Renderings
University of Cincinanti CCM Circle and Main Entrance
Two renderings depicting the environment in places around campus. CCM Cirlce is pictured on the left showing ample walking space, a bus stop, and a roundabout. While Campus’ Main Entrance Walkway is pictured on the right, showing a car-free area for pedestrians to enjoy.
Uptown Bike
Uptown Bike
Digital Renderings
Pleasant Ridge Block View
This rendering illustrates a typical block in the Pleasant Ridge neighborhood, highlighting its natural surroundings and low-density development. The area features spacious plots with ample greenery, reflecting its suburban charm. The rendering helps identify the types of buildings that would best fit the neighborhood’s character, emphasizing designs that blend with its open, residential feel and preserve its natural landscape.
Pleasant Ridge Block Side View
Pleasant Ridge Block Top View
Digital Renderings
Pleasant Ridge Town Center
Plan to redevelope area along the Montgomery Road BRT line. This plan includes bus lanes, a bus stop plaza, and a mixed use building with shops and apartments
Pleasant Ridge Town Center
Top View (Above) and current view of site (Left)
Pleasant Ridge Town Center Side View
Digital Renderings
Ridge Road Elevation Map
Cross-sections and Elevation
Cross-sections and elevation drawings provide valuable insights into the area we are working in by visually representing building heights, styles, density, and the surrounding streetscape. These drawings offer a detailed view of the vertical dimensions of structures, helping us understand how buildings relate to one another and the environment. They also reveal important aspects of the streetscape, such as sidewalk width, street furniture, and tree placement, contributing to a better understanding of how the area functions for pedestrians and vehicles.
Hamilton Ave Cross-section
William P Dooley Bypass Cross-section
Ridge Road Elevation Map
Elston and Central
Traffic Circle
Personal Work
Elston and Central are two major roadways on Chicago’s Northwest Side that converge at a narrow, congested intersection. By utilizing the adjacent abandoned lot, space has been created for a traffic circle. This traffic circle is designed to reduce vehicular congestion while integrating accessible walking and biking infrastructure, improving overall flow and safety for both drivers and pedestrians.
Ohare International Airport Blue Line Improvements
The plan aims to significantly improve transportation connectivity between the CTA Blue Line and O’Hare International Terminal. It envisions a seamless transition where passengers can step off the train and walk directly into the terminal, eliminating the need to backtrack. This streamlined connection will also reduce the number of transfers, allowing most travelers to reach their destination with just one train ride instead of two. This improvement will enhance convenience and efficiency, making travel to and from O’Hare more straightforward and accessible.
Personal Work
O’Hare Blue Line Station
The Blue Line station I designed for O’Hare International Terminal features a modern, glass-roofed structure that emphasizes both safety and accessibility. Key safety measures include automatic doors that separate the tracks from the platform, ensuring a secure environment for passengers. The station is connected by bridges over Highway 90, providing direct access to the terminal and linking to the parking garage on the opposite side. With ramps and elevators leading down to the platforms, the station ensures full pedestrian accessibility, offering a seamless, user-friendly transit experience for travelers.
