Downtown Park
Urban Linear Park & Public Realm — Livermore, CA
Project Details
Project Overview
Key Contributions
As a landscape designer on the project, I contributed across concept development, site planning, and visualization, including:
- Developing early site layouts to organize the linear park spine, connection points, and relationships between the theatre, science museum, housing, and adjacent streets.
- Assisting with refinement of circulation and program diagrams to balance play areas, lawns, plazas, and the Veterans Memorial within a compact urban footprint.
- Supporting the production of illustrative plans, diagrams, and presentation graphics that communicated the park’s connective role and public-realm improvements to stakeholders.
- Coordinating iterative adjustments to layout, planting zones, and interface conditions based on team feedback, redlines, and evolving project requirements.
Historic Rail Alignment Study
Site analysis combined historical research and environmental studies to establish a clear framework for the new downtown park. Archival maps and records of the former Central Pacific Railroad corridor were overlaid on current parcel data to reconstruct the historic rail alignment, which informed the “ghost railroad” concept that structures circulation and key nodes.
Sun & Shade Study
Seasonal sun and shadow conditions mapped across the site to inform program placement, comfort, and the character of key park spaces.
Concept Exploration
Path alignments showing different horizontal alignments in order to inform circulation
Preferred Concept Design
The final preferred concept for Veterans Park, Livermore CA.
