Browsing by Author "Osborn, Christina"

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    Buchanan County Public Library Conceptual Landscape Redevelopment
    Gilboy, Elizabeth; Watson, Kim; Ellis, Amber; Osborn, Christina (Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2006-05)
    Located in rural southwest Virginia in the county seat of Grundy, off of State Route 460 on the Levisa Fork River, is the Buchanan County Public Library, which serves the county’s population of 27,000. The library is not only a vital resource for books, periodicals, and audiovisual materials, but is a valuable historical archive and community center for the county. The library’s mission is to “meet the intellectual, practical, leisure, and other needs of the citizens of Buchanan County.” To that end, the library hosts guest speakers, technology workshops, numerous club and committee meetings, and many programs of interest for the community. Following the addition of a children’s wing, the library sought to create a campus that would support and enhance the library’s role as an educational and community center. Though the structure of the building is quite functional for community use, the landscape is overgrown in areas, has drainage and erosion issues, and in some areas the landscape is bare and unkempt. The Friends of the Buchanan County Public Library, seeking to address these issues and also improve the aesthetics and use of the site, enlisted the services of the Community Design Assistance Center (CDAC) to create a landscape plan.
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    Wong Park Design Remediation: Conceptual Master Plan and Plant List
    Watson, Kim; Alvey, Alexis; Galloway, Jason; Osborn, Christina (Virginia Tech. Community Design Assistance Center, 2007-05)
    Wong Park is a 9 acre urban park located close to the heart of downtown Blacksburg, Virginia. The park has several features that make it a key component in the community, including the historic Bennett House and acres of open space. In the summer of 2005, two detention basins were installed in the park to help mitigate the flooding problems in adjacent neighborhoods. These detention basins were built much larger than initially anticipated in order to accommodate the runoff for a 100-year flood. The CDAC team worked with town staff members to develop design alternatives for the detention ponds and the areas directly adjacent to the ponds.