Date of Graduation

2013

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Type

MLA

College

Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design

Department

Landscape Architecture

Committee Chair

Peter M. Butler

Committee Member

Carrie A. Moore

Committee Member

Ron Dulaney Jr.

Committee Member

Patrick F. Kirby

Abstract

This thesis project consists of a design approach to the former Beaumont Glass site and the adjacent sites, a total of 14.6 acres. The city of Morgantown and its downtown area are in need of demonstrations of sustainable development practices and mixed use design. The project design and development focus on site inventory and analysis, historic quality of the site, needs of the community, and stakeholder expectations. The applied design strategies are based on sustainable development, interpretive design, brownfield reclamation, phytoremediation technologies, and stormwater management. The vision of this project is the creation of an overall conceptual masterplan based on the site’s historical context, which can influence private or public development processes and decision making for the future of the Beaumont site and its adjacencies. The project has been named Beaumont Glassworks Concept Park due to the site’s strong glass manufacturing heritage. Products of the design process include land cover maps and cross sections created in AutoCAD and ArcGIS; three dimensional models generated in ArchiCAD; and photo-rendered images produced in Artlantis.

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