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Net Zero Energy Use Restroom Facility at City Park
Parks & Gardens was contracted by the City and County of Denver to provide on-call landscape architecture services. As a result of the 2007 City Bond Referendum, parks throughout the city were targeted for a variety of improvements, ranging from restoration of historic landscapes to system-wide restroom improvements.
The City and County of Denver’s Department of Parks and Recreation developed a Master Plan that includes design for a new, prototypical, restroom facility and identifies need for new or replacement facilities throughout the Parks system. Parks & Gardens developed site plans (four are shown on the right) for seven of the new facilities including: Sloans Lake, Rosamond, Garland, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, Ruby Hill and City Park.
Each plan is unique in that the programmed uses in the park that attract the greatest number of users are seldom, if ever, found in proximity to major utilities. This circumstance creates an exceptional condition in our urban context more comparable to conditions found in State Parks or in rural areas generally.
That condition has resulted in a series of site plans that show proposed facilities that are sometimes remote from existing utilities in order to be near the greatest number of park users.
Other issues including public safety, accessibility and site grading to minimize disturbance to existing facilities also drove the individual solutions.
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