Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lose & Associates
In fall 2006, the Parks and Recreation Department of DeKalb County, Ga., decided to build three community centers for residents, but there was just one problem--the department had not built a new facility in more than 20 years. With the help of a local project management company, Silverman Construction Management, and a construction manager,Brasfield & Gorrie, the department set out to hire three firms to design the facilities.
Lose & Associates, a landscape architecture, architecture and civil engineering firm from Nashville, Tenn., was awarded the Redan Recreation Center project. Located in the eastern part of the county, the recreation center is a 23,000-square-foot facility within Redan Park. The park, with tennis courts, a Frisbee disc-golf course and softball and football fields, is heavily used. Lose was asked to master-plan the project with the following criteria:
- Provide connectivity for pedestrian circulation to the various amenities, with a series of future paved- and wood-chip walking trails