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| Completion Date: | 2008 | ||
| Location: | Lone Tree, Colorado | ||
| Description: |
Set within the new community of RidgeGate in the City of Lone Tree, Colorado, Design Concepts is helping to design and create the community's first neighborhood park on a 5.7 acre piece of land. Under the direction of Rampart Range Metro District, the park will continue the RidgeGate vision of celebrating the union of nature and the surrounding built environment. RidgeGate is described as being a genuine community that provides the vibrant, interesting, people-oriented, mixed-use environment of an urban setting combined with the advantages of suburban life. The location of the park will help connect people from the urban areas to the more natural areas via a trail system that runs down the center of the linear park. City Park will be located immediately north of this neighborhood park with a mixed use of commercial, retail and residential. The property to the south of the park will be developed as a community park with athletic fields and the recreation center and an adjacent school. Further beyond the community park the trail continues and winds up the natural bluff to an overlook seating area.
Program elements for the neighborhood park include the 12' wide trail with connections, an age-separated playground, seating waysides along the trail, picnic shelters within a plaza area, sodded play areas for informal play, signage, native landscaping, and integrated art elements. A main focus of the park will be the playground area. This area will emphasize the contrast, transition and connections of the natural environment (flora, fauna and materials native to the region) and the man-made environment. Play areas will be divided into an older age play area with a climbing wall and slide, spinners and less traditional play equipment. The younger age play area will include a more traditional play structure with animal climbing boulders, swings and a water table. A plaza with a shade shelter will sit within the two play areas and provides a central gathering area for parents and caregivers to supervise and socialize. The park will be enhanced with native and low-water plantings to compliment the surrounding landscape of the neighborhood while minimizing the use of water and maintenance resources. Plantings will emphasize the regional character as well as the seasons, and highlight park entrances and gathering areas through color, texture and form. |
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