East High Street model, Hamilton Ohio, 2012 ("the preview")

Greetings all,

I apologize for yet another delay in posting.  I've been caught up in the next 3D sketchup model and admittedly I can bury myself in these things very deeply.

This post is a break from what I thought would be the blog format of looking at the past models, reviewing them and highlighting anything learned since then.  Instead, we're skipping around in the listing taking a brief and informal look at the most recent model, East High Street, Hamilton Ohio.  The reason for the switch, demand from others, which goes to show what could happen if you just ask me.

Hamilton Crossings 3D Model Part 4 - Follow Up

Previously on Planner 47 Blog

Hamilton Crossings was uploaded and reviewed (the relevant part can be found here)

And now the follow up.

Hamilton Crossings 3D Model - Part 1

Model: Hamilton Crossings Retrofit
Location: Hamilton, Ohio
Original Completion Date: February 2010

This is the second of two 3D model projects for Route 4 shopping centers.  The other model, Hamilton Plaza (wrap up found here, follow up here), was completed before this one.  Overall, for Hamilton Crossings I wanted to keep some consistency with Hamilton Plaza while still trying some design and facility variations.

Hamilton Plaza Follow-Up

Follow-Up

This is the "last thoughts" portion of the post.  I score the model and give a brief explanation why it received said score.  I also thought it would be amusing to give awards (and/or anti-awards) about notable items within the model.  This includes things caught myself or comments from others that have viewed the model.  There is also a Final Score which ranges from 0 to 10, whole numbers only and they are relative to the entire line of 3D models created.  A final note, this type of review post might be expanded to other topics in urban planning, design and architecture, and other related items.  It all depends on what I come across or what others bring to my attention.

And so, without further delay...

Hamilton Plaza 3D Proposal (Part 2)

Previously... on the Planner 47 blog

Its basically some origin story, just go look at the previous post to catch up already.

And now... the continuation.

The Hamilton Plaza 3D model overall:

It falls in line with the "suburban retrofit" type of thinking though on a basic level when taken as a whole.  Buildings are perpendicular to the existing shopping center and brought to the point where it resembles an urbanist development.  The buildings extend to the street in question, State Route 4 and amenities for walkability and bikeability are accounted for.

Looking at the south most building

Looking from the lighting "park to art" at the next northern building