1. MARK SAUER
Portfolio Urban Design & Physical Planning 2011

3. Contents
03 Contents
05 Portfolio 2011
07 Quotes on Quality
09 Design Work
10 Sustainable Block: Neighborhood Cohousing
11 Site Planning: Florida
12 Collinwood Recreation Center
14 Fondy Market: A New Urbanist Approach
15 Mt. Carmel Redevelopment
16 Mary Emery Center Apartment Building
17 Valencia Hollow Revitalization
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5. Portfolio 2011
The work in this portfolio is a collaboration of the past
seven years of my academic and professional life in the
study and practice of urban planning. The majority of
the work was done under planning professionals and
professors, however there is a great deal of overlap be-
tween the practices of urban planning, architecture, and
other design and development fields. As a result, there
is a wide variety of work from master planned projects
to detailed hand renderings.
My portfolio is a look into some of the work I completed
as both a students and an intern at various times and
places throughout my education. It is meant to commu-
nicate my graphic abilities as an urban planner as well as
showcase my professional presentation style.
In this regard, I believe that the design of the portfolio is
as important as it’s contents.
Mark Sauer
Master of Urban Planning, 2011
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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7. Quotes on Quality
An email I received from the president of Kimley-Horn An email sent by a senior landscape architect and proj-
& Associates ect manager at Kimley-Horn & Associates to a poten-
“Congratulations on your recent extra effort/teamwork tial future co-op employer
award/ I appreciate your commitment to helping the “...Mark has co-oped for a second time with us down in
team. Our ability to exceed our goals requires us to go Sarasota. He became an asset to the team and has a
above and beyond our normal duties from time to time. work ethic unparalleled among interns. I couldn’t rec-
Your willingness to do this is an important part of out ommend anyone more highly for an internship position
success. Thanks again.” with your firm. If you don’t have an internship position,
I would recommend that they start one and get Mark
as their first intern, the experience will be rewarding for
everyone.”
An email I received from the Planning Manager, City of
Milwaukee, Department of City Development
“Nice work on the Metro Place review and comparison
to the approved detailed planned development. It dem-
onstrated that you pay close attention to detail, which
is greatly appreciated. Thank you.”
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9. Design Work
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign SketchUp, 3D Stu-
dio Max, ArcGIS, AutoCAD, Hand Rendering
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10. Sustainable Block:
Sustainable Block: Neighborhood Cohousing
Neighborhood
Cohousing
The goal when designing this block was to
achieve an active community in which sus-
tainability, affordability, and green building
all exist.
A design revolving around cooperative
housing resulted in common facilities, resi-
dential management, shared open space,
and a nonheirarchical participatory process
by the residents. These are some of the
characteristics that make cohousing both
affordable and sustainable.
Green building techniques are found on the
site through solar roofs, roof gardens, and
thermal heating and cooling provided by
the hillside, which some buildings are built
in to.
The perspectives were rendered from a
SketchUp model I created.
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11. Site Planning:
Site Planning: Florida
Florida
The Fruitville Corridor was a site planning
attempt at recreating the public greens of
Savannah while introducing a new street
grid and preserving the ecologically sensi-
tive adjacent bird sanctuary.
Mammoth Grove is a site plan I laid out
which incorporated over 800 single fam-
ily lots and a waste water treatment facility
while retaining fifty percent of the site for
open space and retention.
Lake Walk-In-The-Water Ranch, or Lake
Weohyakapka as the native’s know it, is a
development project in southern Florida.
Along with the main planner, I assisted in
the layout and rendering of the project.
Unique features of the project include sen-
sitivity to existing wetlands, the creation of
an inland marina and canoe lake, and a fish-
ing village consisting of fifty cottages and
over 100 townhomes.
I rendered these graphics using Photoshop.
The graphics are hand drawn conceptual
plans that I digitized and then took into
Photoshop to render.
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12. Collinwood
Collinwood Recreation Center: Collinwood, Ohio
Recreation Center
This project was based on the conversion
of an existing Big Box retail store to a Com-
munity Recreation Center. While the walls
and roof of the Big Box were removed, the
original existing shell remained as a frame
for the new reuse design.
The perspectives (right) were the main mar-
keting graphics for the presentation to the
Community of Collinwood, in Cleveland,
Ohio. I created the perspectives after I digi-
tized the master plan and floor plan, creat-
ed by the lead architect. That process takes
shape on the following page.
I generated the series of perspectives, on
page 13 (SketchUp), to illustrate our trans-
formation from a Big Box to a Community
Recreation Center. Each slide adds a new
room, or space, as the squenece moves to
the final building schematic.
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Collinwood Recreation Center: Collinwood, Ohio

14. Fondy Market:
Fondy Market: A New Urbanist Approach
A New Urbanist
Approach
The Fondy Food Market is a seasonal market
in inner Milwaukee. The surrounding neigh-
borhood suffers from vacancies, blight, and
disinvestment. As a result, there is a food
desert in the neighborhood nine months of
the year.
One strategy for revitalization of the neigh-
borhood is to develop around the Fondy
Food Market and introduce a year round
grocery store as an anchor tenant adjacent
to the market.
This site plan strives to create a new, mixed-
use neighborhood surrounding a commer-
cial, yet civic use. It also provides multiple
affordable housing typologies and oppor-
tunity for social interaction at numerous
public plazas and parks. The new urbanist
approach also retains an urban main street
character along North Avenue.
These graphics were conceptualized on
trace, digitized in AutoCAD, and rendered
in Photoshop and SketchUp.
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15. Mt. Carmel
Mt. Carmel Redevelopment: Union Township, Ohio
Redevelopment
The Mt. Carmel neighborhood perspective
is a graphic I completed as part of the Down-
town Mt. Carmel Redevelopment Project in
Union Township, Ohio. This rendering gives
the client a birds eye view into the develop-
ment proposal.
This graphic was completed using Auto-
CAD, Photoshop, and hand graphics. After
completing the linework for the develop-
ment in AutoCAD, I printed it, traced it (add-
ing the trees and roof lines) and scanned it
back into a digital format. From there I was
able to take the image into Photoshop for
the final rendering.
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16. Mary Emery
Mary Emery Center Apartment Building: Cincinnati, Ohio
Center Apartment
Building
This project was completed using 3D Stu-
dio Max. The goal of the assignment was to
produce a series of rendered images as well
as a short fly-through which showcased the
building’s main features and architectural
significance.
The Mary Emery Center Apartment build-
ing is located in historic Over-The-Rhine; a
neighborhood just north of downtown Cin-
cinnati, Ohio.
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17. Valencia Hollow
Valencia Hollow Revitalization: Cincinnati, Ohio
Revitalization
Revitalization and redevelopment of the
Valencia Hollow area focused on the pro-
motion of a safe, affordable community
through sustainability that foster economic,
environmental, and social diversity. It was
the goal for this area to become populated
to its fullest capacity and exist as a healthy,
residential neighborhood.
These graphics were key pieces of the fi-
nal redevelopment proposal because they
illustrated how this neighborhood could
grow stronger through infill development
and strategic planning.
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18. Portfolio 2011
Mark Sauer
Master of Urban Planning, 2011
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee