Churchill Recreation Center
- Period
- 2009–2010
- Firm
- MESA Design Group
- My role
- Project Manager, design through construction
- Disciplines
- Civic Recreation Landscape, Planting Design, Construction Documents
A MESA Design Group civic landscape project completed with the recreation-center architecture, engineering, arborist, and client teams. Work completed with MESA Design Group as part of multidisciplinary project teams.
Project imagery and photography courtesy of MESA Design Group.
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The landscape work reorganized the recreation center’s site, courtyard, planting, parking, and pedestrian connections through design development and a complete construction-document process.
MESA Design Group's role
Landscape architect from design development through construction.
My role
As project manager for MESA Design Group’s landscape scope, I led the project from design through construction. My responsibilities included design development, planting and material decisions, coordination with the arborist and technical consultants, construction documentation, issue sets, construction-phase coordination, and review of the work as it moved into implementation.
Design challenge
The project required careful coordination around an existing civic facility, mature trees, parking, drainage, lighting, planting performance, and construction documentation.
Approach
The design paired a clear site concept with detailed courtyard planting and alternative studies for landscape and parking. Coordination with technical consultants carried the work into an issue-ready package.
Result
MESA delivered design-development and 100% construction-document packages supported by site photography, planting studies, and hardscape details.
Looking back
Churchill represents the disciplined side of design: holding the concept together through hundreds of coordinated technical decisions.