The parks and open space tracts at Redmond Ridge East UPD provide the full-range of neighborhood recreation amenities.The 6-acre Bristol Park features climbing rocks and play areas for various age groups, amphitheater-style seating for watching little league practice, picnic areas, enclosed dog park, and tennis, basketball, and volleyball courts. A generously proportioned park picnic shelter becomes a multi-purpose community landmark, linked architecturally to the prominent entry kiosk and other neighborhood monuments with the use of a distinctive stone-clad pilaster element. Numerous pocket parks throughout the community provide tot lots and smaller play courts within easy walking distance of neighborhood centers.
Communita|Atelier provided design documents and construction administration services for over ten acres of open space tracts, buffers and stormwater facilities.These open space tracts contain a mix of native shrubs, conifers and deciduous understory trees supplement the existing plantings within and around native growth retention zones.Groves of conifers are incorporated into the parks, in order to blur the edges and reinforce the idea that these open spaces are tied to the surrounding native landscape. Grassy berms dotted with groves of River Birch and Douglas Fir are the signature plantings along street edges, shaping views and framing access points to and from the parks.
