Urban Designer, Associate
Company: Sasaki Associates, Inc.
Location: Watertown, MA
Posted on: October 28, 2014
Job Description:
Sasaki Associates, Inc. seeks Urban Designer, Associate in
Watertown, Massachusetts. Duties: Participate in large scale land planning, downtown
revitalization and urban design, new community planning, as well as
institutional and campus site planning projects. Conceive, design,
and communicate master plans and cityscapes. Provide drafting,
graphic illustration, and color rendering services to firm clients
as well as prepare presentation-quality illustrations by free-hand
sketches and computer-aided design. Conceptualize and diagram
alternative concepts while analyzing and ensuring project
compliance with applicable regulations. Perform varied planning,
traffic, and environmental analysis, including zoning, density
analysis, site/land planning, feasibility analysis, and
developmental impact assessment. Prepare project reports and
supporting graphics, tables, and charts. Develop project designs in
all phases of assigned planning and urban design projects.
Communicate with project managers, senior landscape architects/urban designers, clients, and other project personnel
regarding various aspects of project development. Collaborate on
urban design and planning concepts for large-scale mixed-use,
commercial and open space projects. Prepare open space/urban form
designs, implement works contracts, and conduct related studies and
research. Education and Experience: Masters degree in Urban Design, Urban Planning, or Architecture
and 2 years of experience in mixed use urban design and planning.
Also requires: Demonstrated expertise in performing quantitative analysis to
execute calculations for Floor Area Ratio (FAR), density
requirements, zoning requirements, and mixed use zoning
requirements. Demonstrated expertise performing all aspects of city planning,
including quantitative methods, visualization of data, density
analysis, zoning requirements analysis, and real estate development
analysis. Demonstrated expertise performing CAD design using AutoCad,
SketchUp, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Demonstrated expertise interfacing with clients, commercial
developers, and city planners throughout all phases of urban
planning and design. Demonstrated expertise performing small and large (100+
hectares) multiple use land planning in international markets. Position requires international travel up to 15% of the time Please email your resume to resumes@sasaki.com and reference
14371-000027 in the subject line.
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