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<br />) <br />) <br />-) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />) <br />} <br />) <br />) <br />) <br /> <br />: ~t. . f Calvin. Giordano ~ Associates. Inc. <br />,..", ~6 <br />f!'1:.:. <'.' .'.'" E X C E r I ION ^ l SOL II I ION S <br />'..::J _ ~~~.,f i <br />. '. <br /> <br />5TH AVENUE LINEAR PARK <br />Dania Beach, Florida <br /> <br /> <br />The site for the linear park is a 2-mile stretch of parcels that abut 5th Avenue in Dania Beach. The site <br />posed several challenges that needed innovative design solutions in order to successfully work. The <br />first of these was that the site was not continuous - it was a fragmented context interrupted by <br />repetitive street intersections and of inconsistent width throughout. The second is that the site has <br />different frontages - at times it is bound by residential properties' side fences, at times it is bound by <br />the front property line of homes and their driveway access, and at times it is bound by suburban-style <br />shopping centers. The third is that the area presently serves as the drainage swale for 5th Avenue, <br />and, because of the presence of West Lake Park's wetlands to the east of 5th Avenue, the soil had <br />poor percolation qualities and it best serves as retention areas. The budget and the context did not <br />facilitate engineered drainage solutions; therefore the park design had to account for solutions to <br />these as well. The result was a design that unified all the fragments of the park through a sightline <br />organization of gardens spaces: these were intimately scaled so they best related to the residential <br />scale and qualities, while it provided for a strategy that facilitated the provision of art at strategic <br />locations to create a unifying experience throughout. The drainage was resolved through the use of <br />sustainable strategies to site design. Water absorbing vegetation was placed, percolation was <br />increased and water retention areas were strategized to conform to the design so as to become a <br />design component and not an after-thought. <br /> <br />12-4941 Sunny Isles Beach Intracoastal Parks <br /> <br />Client <br />City of Dania Beach <br /> <br />Contact information <br />at time of project: <br /> <br />Orlando Dominic <br />Director of Public Works <br />1201 Stirling Road <br />Dania Beach, FL 33004 <br />(954) 924-3882 <br />dorlando@ci.dania- <br />beach.lI.us <br /> <br />Project Date <br />2007 <br /> <br />Services Provided <br /> <br />Landscape Architecture <br />Civil Engineering <br />Electrical Engineering <br />Survey <br /> <br />Project Manager <br /> <br />Tammy Cook-Weedon, <br />ASLA, RLA, LEED AP <br />