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San Jose Rotary PlayGarden

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Initially envisioned by Rotarian Julie Matsushima, who recognized the disparity of play spaces often isolates children with special needs, had a desire to witness her twin granddaughters play together. As one was born with cerebral palsy, this became the catalyst to use her platform as past president of the Rotary Club of San Jose to have the PlayGarden’s construction be the focus of the Centennial project. It also wonderfully serves as a centennial gift to the community.
The San Jose Rotary PlayGarden is the city’s first all-inclusive play space opened in May 2015, featuring a variety of dynamic and fun play structures designed to be used by all abilities, and even surpassing ADA requirements. Beautifully nestled in the Guadalupe Gardens adjacent to the Guadalupe River, it promotes fun and connection to the surrounding ecology, while empowering the entire community to play, discover and connect with one another. The park facilitates play spanning from the tentative to the robust and allows for repose as well as activity—children can engage by rotating, swinging, sliding, climbing, spinning, and bouncing with equipment and elements that vary in kinetics and tactility. Elements such as sand, water, and a wheelchair-accessible carousel stimulate different types of play within an encouraging collaborative layout.
The 5-acre PlayGarden is situated alongside a tributary of San Francisco Bay and directly in an airport flightpath, features an estuarine slough-shaped motif, with imagery of waving grasses, flowing water, and animals moving with ease through water and air. The sinuous, unbounded nature of an aquatic environment mirrors what the design seeks to evoke: physical motion, and the sense of possibility inherent in long vistas, water, and flight. Part of the park’s legacy involves the use of staff and volunteers with special needs to help with maintenance. The Santa Clara County Office of Education and San Andreas Regional Center also support programming at the facility for their clients. The Rotary Club is also funded by community donations.
HMH provided landscape architecture services to enhance its inviting nature.
 

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Regnart Creek Trail

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The Regnart Creek Trail, envisioned in the City’s 2016 Bicycle Plan, provides a tremendous opportunity for off-street bicycle and pedestrian connections in an urban environment. Positioned along a 12’ access road, the project will re-purpose the existing Valley Water maintenance road with an 8’ decomposed granite trail. The project includes upgraded roadway crossings, a prefabricated bike/ped bridge and relocation of a maintenance ramp extending into Regnart Creek. HMH completed the Feasibility Study and is concurrently performing Environmental Clearance, Detailed Design and Permitting activities. The project, which abuts dozens of private back yards, has been controversial in the community. HMH has carefully balanced the needs of the community, the impacts to nearby residents and the requirements of Valley Water to deliver this complex project.

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Golden Oak Park

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Golden Oak Park is part of the multi-phase residential Urban Oaks project located in San Jose. The concept for Golden Oak Park overlays ideas found in nature through biomimicry and blends them with inspiration borrowed from the natural California landscape. The theme represents the interconnectedness of the 3 separate realms (Living, Understory and Canopy) while also allowing each realm to be designated spaces that provide multiple active/passive spaces for residents. A central, and reoccurring design form is the hexagon, which represents the structure of the Carbon molecule. Chosen for its importance and inspiring structure, for without Carbon life on earth would not be possible.  The hexagon form and Carbon inspiration can be found throughout the park on several scales and formats. The center of the park features a specimen native Oak tree surrounded by the different micro-climates and environments that trees create as they mature. The active areas of the understory, the whimsical and playful nature within the canopy and the passive and calming serenity found above the canopy.  Through these inspirations the park offers plenty of amenities and features. Some of the amenities include, playgrounds, circuit training stations, TRX and multi trainers for strength training, gathering and dining plazas, corn hole gaming area, a social gathering circle and a large raised open lawn supporting passive or active uses. Brilliant colors and bold organic forms through the use of natural and custom elements tie the park together to celebrate the role carbon plays in making life on earth possible.
 

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Stevens Creek Promenade

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Located in San Jose, this 10-acre project is part of Fortbay’s visionary Urban Village Mixed-Use Signature Project as defined in San Jose’s Envision 2040 General Plan and the recently adopted Stevens Creek Urban Village Plan. The project is a mixed-use transit-oriented development that includes approximately 233,000 SF of Class A office/R&D space, 10,000 SF of retail, and approximately 110.5 units per acre housing while also addressing the requirements and objectives of a Mixed-Use Signature Project. The site is a significant milestone for Silicon Valley because it will provide additional jobs, both market rate and affordable housing, shopping, and interactive open public spaces while being integrated into the City of San Jose’s vision for multi-modal transportation infrastructure in the corridor that will improve the movement of people and vehicles.
In addition to the housing, job opportunities, and transportation benefits, the project will also be designed to the latest energy and water efficiency standards while implementing drought-tolerant landscape features throughout the site.
Learn more about the project here.

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Thomas Barrett Park

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Thomas Barrett Park is a one acre park that includes a children’s play area, picnic area, open turf area, pathways, tree area for shade and a small restroom.

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Mercado Park

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This multi-purposed 3.5-acre park will be a central gathering landmark for the Market Park neighborhood. Together with nearby small parks and trails, the future Mercado Park is part of a significant open space network for a planned 3,600 residential units, offices and retail facilities.
For the future Mercado Park, HMH designed a large, central, multi-use lawn area bordered by a variety of amenities: tot lot, playground, BBQ and dining areas, and a parkour course. The lawn typography is stepped to create broad amphitheater-like seating. A native planting area contains both a hummingbird garden and a Zen-inspired mediation garden. HMH has infused the park with local history through sculptures, artifacts and the design of a main plaza. Inspired by San Jose’s once-dominant agricultural orchards, HMH utilizes a grid of trees on the park’s plaza, which frame tables, seating, lawn sports courts and barbeques. HMH landscape designers incorporated community input into the park design.
View the park concept utilizing augmented reality software.
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Learn more about the 120 acre transit oriented development.

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Willow Glen Spur Trail at Falcon Court

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Conforming to the Monroe Staging Area trail segment, the Reach 4 expansion provides safe off-street passage for trail users from the staging area to the Cabrillo Avenue on-street trail segment.  The project faced several site specific challenges.  Providing access for maintenance vehicles, appropriate drainage, planting, irrigation, trail, traffic barriers and curb all within a 14’ section was one of the largest challenges to overcome.  The 14’ section occurs at a critical point of the trail between San Tomas Expressway and residential property lines.  Ultimately, the trail width was reduced at the critical point to accommodate the necessary design elements in the safest, most functional and aesthetically pleasing way possible.
Wayfinding elements including a trailhead sign and decorative paving mark the trail access point from Cabrillo Avenue. A grassy swale provides both drainage and lushness to the landscape strip while tall Tristania trees provide visual screening to the neighboring residences.

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Parque de los Pobladores

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HMH Civil Engineering and Landscape Architecture staff worked with Steinberg Architects to prepare a construction plan set, including landscape plans, for the City’s construction permit approval for a redesigned and slightly expanded public park.  As part of the City’s “Pavement to Plazas Program,” this area provides a place to sit, relax, and meet others in a dynamic downtown location adjacent to art galleries, restaurants and other venues.   The site is situated on 0.2 acre parcel with public street boundaries of South First Street, William Street, South Market Street, and Reed Street in the downtown area called SoFa (South of First Area).
Newly constructed park improvements included landscape improvements as well as other features to complement the existing granite park signage and public art structures.  A part of this improvement project was the closure of a small portion of South First Street adjacent to the site to expand the park area.  Polished granite benches for seating, on-site lighting upgrades, and new walking surfaces contributed to the pleasant experience of visiting this park and viewing the public art commemorating the founding settlers of the Pueblo San Jose de Guadalupe.
Colorful groundcover, native plantings and a colonade of trees were planted to add color and visual aesthetic to this outdoor place.  Drought tolerant plantings along with and stormwater control improvements make this a project that is efficient in water management and also an interesting destination for downtown residents and visitors.

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St. Elizabeth Park

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Working with the City of San Jose, HMH provided design and construction document services for a new turnkey park in a high density infill residential project. Amenities include a new playground for multiple age groups, a large open turf area and a picnic area with two custom arbor structures.  Sitting areas and game tables are placed in key areas with one being located near a large oak tree that was preserved on site. Services included idea and concept generation, schematic and conceptual design, construction documents and construction observation.  HMH provided Planning, Landscape Architectural, Civil Engineering and Land Surveying services for this project and played a key role in community involvement.

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Coyote Creek Trail

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The Coyote Creek Trail borders the Market Park master planned transit community and is part of a significant open space network for the site’s planned 3,600 residential units, offices and retail facilities. Working with KB Homes, San Jose Department of Public Works, and The City’s Recreation and Neighborhood Services, HMH designed and created construction documents for an extension of the trail north of Berryessa Road.
Consistent with The City’s Coyote Creek Trail Master Plan, this quarter-mile link will serve as an access point to more than 600 residences when the north side of Berryessa Road  (formerly Flea Market parking area) is fully developed. A gateway monument and specialized pavement identifies the entry to this portion of the multi-use trail.
HMH designed the extension along with a regional stormwater retention basin and a biotreatment basin, the first application of large stormwater treatment in the San Jose Area. The treatment area borders the west portion of the trail, which, along with the creek banks, creates a rich nature setting for walkers and bicyclists. Canopy trees and an access road into the sites north of Berryessa Road border the east portion of the trail. HMH also coordinated riparian migration, or preservation of the creek vegetation zone, with H.T. Harvey & Associates.
Learn more about the 120 acre transit oriented development.