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Miranda Cochran, a Texas Tech University student, hopes to run her own landscape architecture business one day. The senior is excited about acquiring valuable insight on managing a company through her internship at One Specialty this summer.
“I’d like to do high-end residential and business, and I’d like to do parks, “she says of her future business. “And that’s one of the reasons why I picked One Specialty because they are more along the lines of what I want do one day.”
During her internship, Miranda, a landscape architecture major, will do a variety of activities such as accompanying One Specialty officials to meetings with clients, assisting with measurements on projects, doing 3-D modeling for projects using the software program SketchUp and more.
“I’m really looking forward to getting to know how a firm works and just getting to experience the different aspects of business and the things One Specialty does,” she said.
Miranda possesses experience in residential landscaping and designing, hand drafting and rendering, risk management design, and computer drafting and rendering. An in-class assignment she worked on with a peer at Texas Tech was selected to be featured at Gibson Park, which is adjacent to the National Heritage Ranching Museum on campus. They re-designed a space where 11 bronze statues of longhorn steers stand at the park’s entrance.
“It’s one of my favorite places and having a chance to create one of their spaces is really awesome,” she said.
Miranda and her classmate conceived a design that made the area around the statues safer in order to protect park visitors from the statues’ pointed horns. Their re-design includes plant buffers that serve as risk management to protect visitors from the horns, foot trails that are reminiscent of walking on cow trails through native rangeland, realistic grasses and shrubs, and educational signs that discuss the history of the plants.
Miranda said the project was both challenging and a good learning experience. The project helped cultivate her creative thinking and communication skills.
“When we worked with the people at the Ranching Heritage Center, I had to learn how to convey my idea to people not in landscape architecture and help them understand why it’s a good idea,” she said.
The museum is in the process of implementing the project design at the park.
Miranda is a member of the Student American Society of Landscape Architecture at Texas Tech. She is also earning a minor in horticulture. Miranda will graduate in May 2016.
Her hobbies include hunting, fishing, nature photography and creating floral arrangements.
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