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AFTER #SANDY_ON THE WATER'S EDGE
REGENERATING NEW YORK'S WATERFRONT
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME A#S 2013 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER WORKSHOP_NEW YORK CITY New York. July 9-‐30 Organizer: ESARQ-‐UIC. School of Architecture. International University of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain DIRECTOR: OSCAR CARRACEDO GARCÍA-‐VILLALBA. PROFESSOR OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE. DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE COORDINATOR: ROSA MUNAR QUETGLAS. PRATT/UIC
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AFTER #SANDY_ON THE WATER'S EDGE. REGENERATING NEW YORK'S WATERFRONT ...................................................................... 4 A#S DESIGN FOR RESILIENCE. MAKING THE RED HOOK WATERFRONT SECURE ............................................................ 5 THE A#S WORKSHOP. INCUBATOR FOR THE DESIGN AND DEBATE OF IDEAS ................................................................ 6 A#S METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPLES ................................................................................................................................................. 7 A#S PROGRAMME AND ORGANIZATION ............................................................................................................................................ 10 CALENDAR. DATES AND EVENTS................................................................................................................................... 13 PARALLEL ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................................................... 25 Visits to firms .......................................................................................................................................... 25 Visits to Projects ..................................................................................................................................... 26 Input Sessions and Lectures.................................................................................................................... 27 Site Visits................................................................................................................................................. 29 [RAMP] Activities .................................................................................................................................... 29 ARTICLES AND BOOKS................................................................................................................................................... 31 A#S USEFUL INFORMATION................................................................................................................................................................ 32 Pratt ID Services and Rules ..................................................................................................................... 33 Door Access............................................................................................................................................. 33 Library Privileges..................................................................................................................................... 33 Print and Copy Services .......................................................................................................................... 34 Access PRATT Gym.................................................................................................................................. 34 NYC Museums Free Admission ............................................................................................................... 34 Around Pratt. Information about Fort Green ......................................................................................... 35 Information about Red Hook .................................................................................................................. 39 PARTICIPANTS..................................................................................................................................................................................... 41 STAFF .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 43 Guest Lecturers....................................................................................................................................... 46 MATERIALS ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 49
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AFTER #SANDY_ON THE WATER'S EDGE. REGENERATING NEW YORK'S WATERFRONT The consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly evident and increasingly devastating for millions of people around the world. More and more, higher temperatures are generating more droughts, increasingly violent storms and heavy flooding that affect settlements and urban and rural areas. All this
implies the destruction of homes, workplaces, food resources, and the unfortunate loss of lives. A simple glance at the world's largest cities shows us that ten of the fifteen largest, such as Bangkok, Shanghai, Bombay, Cairo and New York, are settled in low coastal areas vulnerable to rising sea level. As an example of this serious situation of human agglomerations, the most optimistic predictions estimates that the area in the Mekong delta in the Gulf of Thailand, where 17 million people live, will be flooded in the coming decades in more than a third of its surface.
In the case of New York, several predictions foresee the rise in sea levels and the increased frequency of violent storms. Predictions estimate that the sea level will rise between 1 and 9 meters during strong storms, affecting much of the urban area of the city of New York and several million people.
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Sandy effects in the area of New York
A#S DESIGN FOR RESILIENCE. MAKING THE RED HOOK WATERFRONT SECURE A few months ago Hurricane Sandy hit New York, destroying more than 900 buildings, significantly damaging at least 12.000 more and flooding streets and public spaces. One of the areas affected by the hurricane was the Red Hook neighborhood in southern Brooklyn. Despite this unfortunate circumstance, this situation confronts us to a new challenge and at the same time, a new opportunity to reorient the neighborhood's and the city's future in a sustainable manner. The Red Hook neighborhood has an important productive industrial waterfront where industry, residence, open spaces and heritage elements of the nineteenth century are mixed together.
A#S will focus on the southern part of the district, specifically in the area bounded by the Gowanus Expressway, the mouth of the Gowanus Canal and the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. The discussion will focus on the proposed relationships and connections between the district and the waterfront. The scenario that arises as a premise will maintain the productive character of the area and the existing environment, taking into account the social, cultural, economic and morphological conditions that define the identity and the substrate which gives identity to the neighborhood and its residents. Thus, the approaches of A#S for the Red Hook waterfront regeneration will be tackled through urban renewal strategies and architecture prototypes in accordance to an environmental approach.
The Red Hook neighborhood at the mouth of the Gowanus Canal
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THE A#S WORKSHOP. INCUBATOR FOR THE DESIGN AND DEBATE OF IDEAS In order to address the neighbors needs after Sandy, the Pratt Institute’s Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development has developed an Institute in Disaster and Resiliency Planning and Design, a suite of activities, studios and workshops to be initiated in the summer of 2013, called the “Recovery, Adaptation, and Mitigation Programs [RAMP]”. As a part of [RAMP], A#S will cooperate with the Institute facing the threat and impacts of climate change.
Students will work together to turn risks into opportunities, addressing the challenge to create neighborhoods and cities more livable, friendly and resistant to adversity.
A#S aims to reinvent and anticipate a city that takes into account the future effects that climate change will generate. The challenge is to rethink the water's edge and the adjacent 'urban thickness' against possible sea level rises and extreme weather events resulting from climate change.
Therefore, A#S wants to be a platform to discuss ideas and projects for the solution of the relevant urban problems of the Red Hook Community. A#S wants to generate a wide range of solutions for which students will explore their own sensibilities while facing complex problems specific to waterfronts.
A#S invites students to think about the urban project in productive industrial areas and its compatibility with residential tissues.
Rising Currents. MOMA proposals for the NYC waterfront
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A#S METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPLES The studio will work with the concept of Resilience Urban Design and Planning and the opportunities that disaster recovery create to address long-‐term urban issues and to to adapt to the challenges of climate change. Although considering population growth and the consequent development,
A#S will work in terms of
regeneration, urban renewal and punctual and selective urban repair, avoiding urban extensions or "tabula
rasa" strategies. We will encourage mixed-‐used proposals that resist gentrification and the strong pressures to convert factory sites to housing, and a special care will be given to neighbors and social and environmental issues, as well as to the manufacturing base that once characterized Red Hook.
A#S understands Resilience no only as a "defensive" concept and a reaction to address problems arised from climate change but mainly as a pro-‐POSITIVE attitude for remastering the future of the city, a pro-‐POSITIVE attitude for Resilient Cities.
Design and Planning for resilience and climate responsible cities requires a shift in our understanding of what constitutes good urban design and planning. Designing cities around automobile transportation or zoning for single uses is no longer economically, environmentally, and culturally viable.
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To address the changes and challenges for resilient urban design and planning, A#S will follow some basic
principles for a Resilient Red Hook:
1. Propose reasonable density and compacity. Locate density areas in safe and secure places. 2. Use the infill stratregy and complete the city. 3. Conserve identity and significant elements of the neighbourhood’s structure to promote the sense of belonging to the neighborhood. 4. Diversity of uses (mix-‐uses), users (incomes, ages and races), housing options (building types), and public spaces. 5. Provide the needs of daily living, within walking distance (500 m radius).
14. Anticipate areas of refuge and safe rooms. Use public buildings in protected areas. Provide areas of refuge with open spaces that can be used as helicopter landing areas, distribution points and for emergency housing. 15. Use green roofs for food production, to reduce stormwater loading and cooling the city (reducing energy consumption). 16. Use rainwater harvesting systems to provide water for irrigation, toilet flushing or cooling/heating systems and even for drinking (with filtration) in the event of water supply interruptions.
6. Provide spaces for food production and for self-‐sufficiency.
17. Use porous pavements and green infrastructure to reduce storm loading.
7. Restore, conserve and enhance natural systems and areas of environmental significance
18. Protect infrastructure. Install below ground protected galleries for electric,
(wetlands, floodplains, urban forests...). Maintain their physical continuity. 8. Connect neighborhoods. Use streets and public spaces systems to create a continuous civic pattern for connecting. 9. Use coastal linear parks and recreational areas as parts of a levee system and as emergency evacuation routes 10. Promote a shared infrastructure system (flood protected) that serves multiple uses. Create emergency evacuation corridors. 11. Provide residents with multiple transportation options promoting public transport systems 12. Prioritize pedestrian systems (walk & bike) as the preferred modes of travel. Use the public space systems 13. Locate basic services (hospitals, schools, medical and emergency response services...) in protected areas and close to emergency evacuation corridors.
communication, gas and water lines. 19. Promote renewable energy systems (solar and wind). Configure grid-‐connected systems independent from the main supplies and provide them with backup generators and batteries so that they can provide emergency power. 20. Implement a distributed infrastructure system (including power supply, water supply, pumping stations and communications) to provide these critical services during emergency periods. 21. Use demolition waste for levee banks. Use suitable waste matter and earth to built landscapes. 22. Develop building types and urban forms with passive systems to maintain survivable thermal conditions, natural ventilations, highly efficient envelopes and passive solar design. 23. And obviously, promote the active participation of community members, at all scales.
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Although participants will raise their own questions from the analysis, and will have to answer them with their own projects, A#S will be generally framed in the following questions for a Resilient Red Hook:
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How to design the area to affront future storm surge?
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How to design the water's edge?
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How to design connections between the neighborhood and the water?
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How are these connections defined?
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How to design the area to keep the industrial activities, jobs and heritage?
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How the collective sphere can contribute in the neighborhood's productivity?
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How to built services and facilities in the neighborhood for the low-‐income families? Where should
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How to retrofit public housing to become energy independent?
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How and where we build? Where should new housing be located? What alternative types should appear?
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How can we create neighborhoods and buildings that are both resilient and sustainable?
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How can neighbors participate in the collective project of the neighborhood?
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A#S PROGRAMME AND ORGANIZATION ∗
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The studio will be organized in three phases: PHASE 1 -‐ Reading, understanding and interpreting Red Hook -‐ Proposing a new scenario PHASE 2 -‐ Planning and strategies -‐ Making the plan and detecting the projects PHASE 3 -‐ Urban projects, specific actions and low impact development for sustainability and resilience During the 3 phases students will work in teams of 5/6 members to propose a multi-‐scalar and comprehensive proposal for the Red Hook waterfront following the principles mentioned before.
PHASE 1 (see calendar) -‐ Reading, understanding and interpreting Red Hook_Proposing a scenario During the first phase, participants will map and analyze Red Hook understanding its complexity and drawing conclusions on the different studied issues. Conclusions will refer to: •
Form of the territory and form of the water -‐ Topography and bathymetry.
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Understanding the invisible territory -‐ Historic shoreline and wetlands, the layer underneath the existing city
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Flooding maps -‐ Incidence of flooding in the neighborhood (houses, people affected...)
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Public spaces (planning maps), open spaces (public not planned), vacant spaces (private)
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Mapping public properties a main land owners.
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Accessibility -‐ Connections between local streets and city infrastructure. Street hierarchy
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Streets -‐ Types and measures. Potentiality of the streets to be transformed.
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Program and activities might be subject to changes
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Mobility -‐ Pedestrian mobility (bike routes & pedestrian routes). Public transport (bus+subway stops) and walking distances.
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Uses & Activities -‐ Location and spacial distribution. Relation between accessibility/mobility and retail and local activities. Relation between accessibility/mobility and industrial/productive activities
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Residential tissues -‐ Location and types. Accesibility and relation with public transport.
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Urban block -‐ Size, size of plots, building typologies (heigh, depth)
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Facilities and services: Which ones do we find? Which ones are missing?. Size and Capacity and who
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Population: Mapping densities, age distribution (old & young residents), race distribution. Income distribution. Car ownership
From the interpretation and conclusions of the analysis of these issues, each group will arise with one/several questions or hypothesis to develop. This phase will finish with a scenario proposal arised from different questions. This scenario, that will be presented and discussed with other groups on the first pin-‐up session, will be the base to be developed during the next phases. PHASE 2 (see calendar) -‐ Planning and strategies -‐ Making the plan and detecting the projects During the second phase teams will define their scenarios in a comprehensive physical structural plan for the whole neihborhood dealing with the relationship between the waterfront and the inner parts of the neighborhood. This structural plan will detect strategic and opportunity areas for mitigation and adapation that will answer to the questions arised and to the different aspects studied in phase 1. Participants will have to define their strategies and programs for the different opportunity areas in coherence with the deficits arised from the analysis and with prioritization to the community perspective (in response to the needs, demands and wills expressed by the neighbors).
Red Hook, industrial identity and the Sandy effects
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Phase 1 and 2 will be presented and discussed in the mid-‐presentation. Participants will have to explain how do they will face phase 3. PHASE 3 (see calendar) -‐ Urban projects, specific actions and low impact development for sustainability and resilience In Phase 3 participants will develop specific projects for prototypical situations. Projects will be developed at different scales showing the complexity in the relationship between the neighborhood and its waterfront. These specific actions will take into account the principles of the workshop, working towards a sustainable and resilient neighborhood. Due to the inputs received in the mid-‐presentation, all the necessary modifications to the structural plan should be done during this phase so as to maintain the coherence throughout the project. The whole project will be presented to a jury in which the community will be represented. Deliverables Each group will explain their project with the following materials:: • • • • •
Video (1 minute max.) Power point presentation Model/s (the model should be thought to be dismantled and transported) 3 A1 panels (minimum) with special emphasis to views and renders. 2 A4 text with a structured and coherent explanation of the project
Presentations will be discussed team by team Assessment In order to get the certificate all the participants will have to attend at least to the 90% of the whole workshop (team work, activities, sessions...). Participation within the group will be considered.
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CALENDAR. DATES AND EVENTS
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PARALLEL ACTIVITIES
Visits to firms
FV1_July 9th_13:00 •
Future Green Studio_David Seiter _www.futuregreenstudio.com
18 Bay Street Brooklyn, NY 11231 (Red Hook)
FV2_July 11th_17:30 •
SOM_Laura Ettelman_ www.som.com
14 Wall Street, 24th floor
FV3_July 16th_19:00 •
Thread Collective_Gita Nandan_ www.threadcollective.com 117 Grattan St, Studio 205, Brooklyn
FV4_July 19th_16:00 •
HOK_ Kenneth Drucker_ www.hok.com 1065 Avenue of the Americas 6th Floor. building sits between 40th and 41st, entrances are
available on either of these side streets. FV5_July 23th_19:00 •
Matthew Baird Architects_Maria Milans del Bosch_ www.bairdarchitects.com 325, Hudson St. 9th floor
FV6_July 26th_19:00 •
WXY Studio -‐ architecture + urban design_Claire Weisz_www.wxystudio.com 224 Centre Street, 5th Floor
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Visits to Projects PV1_July 9th_14:00 •
160 IMLAY_David Seiter_http://futuregreenstudio.com/portfolio/project/160-‐imlay/ 160 Imlay St Brooklyn, NY 11231 (Red Hook)
PV2_July 10th_19:00 •
High Line (with GSAPP-‐Columbia students)_Alejandro de Castro_ www.thehighline.org Gansevoort St. South entrance High Line
PV3_July 12th_17:00 (TBC) •
Pioneer Works_Dustin Yellin_www.pioneerworks.org 159 Pioneer St. Red Hook, Brooklyn 11231
PV4_July 12th_18:00 (TBC) •
Linda Tool Green Roof_Paul Mankiewick_www.hvcnyc.com/projects/view/4/ 163 Dwight St, Brooklyn
PV5_July 19th_9:00 •
LaGuardia Airport Redevelopment Project_Li Pei Wang_www.panynj.gov LaGuardia Airport Central Terminal Building
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Input Sessions and Lectures IS1_July 9th_9:00 •
Introducing Red Hook_Ron Shiffman_Room 111 Pratt
Professor Ron Shiffman is head and leader of RAMP (Recovery, Adaptation, Mitigation and Planning), the Pratt Institute’s response to Sandy. In this starting session he will introduce us to the essential social and economic issues about Red Hook, examining varied steps to adapt and protect New York’s many building types, saving historic structures and adding to the resilience of entire neighborhoods. IS2_July 9th_16:00 •
Industrial Red Hook_Greg O'Connell_Warehouses Red Hook_www.redhookwaterfront.com
Greg O'Connell, is the chairman of the Red Hook Civic Association and one of the main land owners and developers of the neighborhood. Mr. O'Connell has a profound knowledge about Red Hook's strong industrial character, since he has done an intensive work for the conservation of the neighborhoods identity. He will explain us his philosophy about the importance of keeping the neighborhood character and "creating a mix of small business and light industry as a counterbalance to the rapacious residential gentrification of Brooklyn". IS3_July 10th_9:00 •
Community Perspective. Restore Red Hook_Gita Nandan_Room 111 Pratt_http://restoreredhook.org/
Gita Nandan is an innovative architect and one of the Advisory Board Members of Restore Red Hook organization. As a Red Hook neighbor Gita is also deeply rooted in the community through her involvement with Added Value Farm. Gita, as the representation of the Red Hook community, our client, will explain us their point of view as well as their needs, demands and wills. IS4_July 10th_10:30 •
Rising Currents dLAND STUDIO_Susannah C. Drake_Room 406 Pratt
Susannah Drake is the principal of dLand Studio. For the MOMA's Rising Currents exhibition dLandstudio partnered with ARO to develop a concept around “urban ecology” that mediates the effects of storm surges and climate change. Susannah will explain us their proposal for Downtown Manhattan called "A New Urban Ground”, "a possible model for new civic approaches to storm and sea level rise resilience". She will also explain us their ideas for the Gowanus Canal Sponge Park and Canal Pilot Street.
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IS5_July 11th_14:00 •
Commuity Planning Studio_PSPD Students_Room 111 Pratt
Student running the Community Planning Studio will explain us the conclusions arised from the assesstment and the scenario phases of their workshop. They will present us their synthetic mapping, vulnerabilities, opportunities and possible conceptual approaches for rebuilding the Red Hook neighborhood. IS6_July 12th_9:00 (TBC) •
Water Quality_Paul Mankiewicz_Room 111 Pratt
P. Mankiewicz examines the environmental planning implications of practices and technologies relating to water management, and prepares architects to identify and promote more sustainable practices for managing both drinking water and wastewater. Particular emphasis is placed on the science of water and on recent innovations in water quality management including bioremediation, watershed planning and a natural waste water systems. IS7_July 15th_9:00 •
City & Water_Rosa Munar_Room 111 Pratt
The City & Water input session will analyze the history and the identity of Red Hook throw the city-‐water relationship. The review will go from the first Dutch colonist settled to the productive industrial waterfront in our days. The purpose is to identify the different layers of history and understand the unique character of the neighborhood. Rosa will also give us an approach to the planning and zoning of the area. IS8_July 15th_10:00 •
Rebuilding Red Hook_Deborah Gans_Room 111 Pratt
The focus of this session is rebuilding at the scale of the neighborhood. The premise is that the individual property benefits through its integration into this larger socio-‐economic and environmental order; and, conversely, that the city benefits from an intermediate scale that capitalizes on existing social and physical infrastructures. The goal is to develop strategies for rebuilding that address historical problems simultaneously with the new ones, and, consequently, produce a more integrated and equitable environment.
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IS9_July 15th_16:00 •
Wetland and Waterfront Planning_Carter Craft_Room 111 Pratt
C. Craft will focus on the basic function of urban waterfronts and wetlands, from both a land and water perspective. Through this session we will
look at land use and water quality, including existing conditions and trends, as well as the regulatory frameworks that influence how these areas
are operated, maintained, developed, and protected. This session will examine shoreline and water quality conditions, and will consider
waterfront developments, working waterfronts and natural waterfronts.
IS10_July 22nd_9:30 (TBC) •
Waterfront Justice Project New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-‐EJA)_Juan Camilo Osorio_Room 111 Pratt
The Waterfront Justice Project has the purpose to reform the City Waterfront Plan (Vision 2020) and include the designations called Significant
Maritime Industrial Areas, or SMIA’s. The SMIA’s are considered zones with heavy industrial and polluting infrastructure uses. Red Hook is one of
the six SMIA’s in the city, having the potential risk of contamination exposure during a storm surge like hurricane Sandy. Juan Camilo Osorio will
explain us all the facts about this area.
Site Visits
SV1_July 9th_10:00 •
Neighborhood Tour with David Seiter and Ron Shiffman (see map on next page)
SV2_Boat Tour_July 9th_17:30 •
NY Water Taxi to Manhattan. This tour will show us the Red Hook waterfront, façade and skyline as well as its relation with water
[RAMP] Activities For program details visit: http://www.pratt.edu/academics/architecture/sust
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ARTICLES AND BOOKS •
Watson, D. Design for flooding: Architecture, landscape, and urban design for resilience to climate change. New York: Wiley. (2010).
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Coyle, Stephen. Sustainable and resilient communities: a comprehensive action plan for towns, cities, and regions. Hoboken, N.J. John Wiley & Sons. (2011)
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Farr, Douglas. Sustainable urbanism: urban design with nature. Hoboken, N.J. Wiley, (2008)
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University of Arkansan Community Design Center; Huber, Jeff. LID Low Impact Development. A design manual for urban areas http://www.bwdh2o.org/wp-‐content/uploads/2012/03/Low_Impact_Development_Manual-‐2010.pdf
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A#S USEFUL INFORMATION When?
July 9-‐30
Where?
Pratt School of Architecture. Brooklyn/Manhattan. New York Higgins Hall 61 St. James Place Brooklyn, NY 11238
Accommodation at Pratt
Leo J Pantas Hall (see map)
www.pratt.edu/student_life/campus/campus_housing/campus_residence_halls/residence_overview/leo_pantas/
The Client
Restore Red Hook (http://restoreredhook.org/)
Information
www.aftersandyworkshop.wordpress.com aftersandyworkshop@gmail.com www.facebook.com/aftersandyworkshop
Organizer
ESARQ-‐UIC School of Architecture-‐International University of Catalonia
Participant Universities
Pratt Institute New York National University of Singapore International University of Catalonia
Organizational issues • • • •
Participants will pay the needed travel and accommodation costs and agree to be present on July 9, 2013 at Pratt School of Architecture. Late arrivals or early leave will not be accepted. Participants are personally responsible to obtain all legal documents and permits to travel and stay in USA, the University does not have responsibility in this matter. Participants have to arrange insurances individually for the whole period of stay, the University does not have responsibility in this matter. All the participants will have to bring their own laptops, personal computers and any material they need to do their work.
Accreditation •
All participants who meet the minimum conditions of assessment will get a diploma endorsed by the Pratt School of Architecture, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the ESARQ-‐UIC.
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Around Pratt. Information about Fort Green
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Information about Red Hook
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PARTICIPANTS
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STAFF
Oscar Carracedo García-‐Villalba (Director) Oscar Carracedo is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture of the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he teaches urban design and planning at the graduate level and at the Master of Urban Planning (MUP). Oscar Carracedo received his M. Arch in Architecture and a M.S. in Urban Design and Planning with distinction from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia-‐Barcelona Tech (UPC), where he is also Ph. D. candidate at the Urbanism and Territorial Spatial Planning Department (DUOT). He is also Post-‐graduate from the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) Before assuming his position of Assistant Professor, Carracedo taught Urban Design and Planning at the School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB, UPC), at the International University of Catalunya (UIC), and at the La Salle School of Architecture (ETSALS, Universitat Ramon Llull, URL). His teaching experience was in both the graduate and the master level inside the Master in Urban Design and Planning (MPU-‐UPC), where he was also the coordinator, the Master of Integrate Project in Architecture (MPIA-‐ ETSALS) and in the Master for Regenerating Intermediate Landscapes (RIL) , where he was also coordinator and responsible of the Urban Sustainability area. Professor Carracedo has been invited to many universities -‐Columbia University (New York), Massachussets Institute of Techology (MIT-‐Boston), Pratt Institute (New York), Faculty of Architecture of Ljubljiana, the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV)-‐, where he has been involved in different courses, workshops and lectures. Carracedo is also author of a vast number of articles and books on Urbanism. Carracedo is also co-‐founder of CSArchitecture, where he has developed numerous master plans, urban projects, public commissions and awarded competitions, going from the territorial to the architecture scale.
Rosa Munar (Coordinator) Rosa received her Degree in Architecture from the International University of Catalonia in 2010 and is a candidate for the MS in Urban Environmental Systems Management at Pratt Institute. She works to understand architecture from a social and environmental standpoint. Rosa has worked as a Chair Graduate Assistant at Pratt, where she helped earn a Green Infrastructure Grant for rooftop monitoring from the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. She has worked as a Teaching Assistant for two classes, Managing Water Quality and Green Infrastructure Design/Build and as an NYC Environmental Justice Alliance Fellow. In this fellowship, Rosa helped El Puente with research and advocacy for its Waterfront Justice Project. Rosa won GreenHomeNYC’s Design Challenge in 2011 for her design, Re-‐Plant Furniture.
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Alejandro de Castro Mazarro
Alejandro de Castro Mazarro is Adjunct Assistant Professor, and Program Coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Laboratory, at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) of Columbia University. His research explores the conflicts and potentials of architectural design practices using problem-‐solving processes. On this topic, De Castro Mazarro has taught the graduate seminars “Formalism and Informality in Latin American Architecture” and “Designer Species”, and co-‐taught urban planning studios at GSAPP, Columbia University. He has also taught the curso livre “Práticas e Projetos” at Escola de Cidade in São Paulo, and lectured at Universities in New York, Charlottesville, Sao Paulo, San Juan, Cambridge, Morelia, and Madrid. De Castro Mazarro is also co-‐founder of the architecture office Buro-‐A, which has developed competition awarded projects and public commissions in Spain such as a Civil War Museum in Seville, a Bank Headquarters in Madrid, and dining facility prototypes in Cádiz. Previously, he participated in the fit out and renovation on site of the Center of Audiovisual Resources of Cambodia, as part of the building technical management team at the French Embassy in Phnom Penh. De Castro Mazarro received his B.Sc. in Architecture and his B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Seville (Spain), and holds the Advanced Architectural Design MSc. Degree, and the Advanced Architectural Research Certificate, from GSAPP.
Eduardo Rega Eduardo Rega lives and works in New York. He completed the Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design with Honors for Excellence in Design from Columbia University. He received his professional degree with distinction from the University of Las Palmas in Spain. Currently, he is an active PhD student at ETSA Madrid under the direction of Juan Miguel Hernández León. Eduardo is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University (GSAPP) and an advanced studio critic at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has previously taught as an Associate in Architecture in the Introduction to Architecture Program at Columbia University. In the past he has been Teaching Assistant in Architectural Design I & II in the Barnard and Columbia College Architecture Program. Eduardo has lived and worked as an Architectural designer in Copenhagen, Porto, Madrid and Las Palmas. He curates events like Menage a Trois in New York and Versus in the School of architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), and is involved in various editorial projects. He is interested in architecture as a form of translation, understanding the field in its subjection to the actants of each specific context through diverse means of representation: from graphical to political.
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Leonidas Trampoukis
Leonidas holds a Master of Science in Architecture from Columbia University in New York and Aristotle Polytechnic University in Greece. Leonidas has been project leader at international acclaimed architecture office of FREE -‐ Fernando Romero based in New York and Mexico City, and gained extensive experience working in New York at Skidmore Owings & Merill. Leonidas is Principal of LoT office for architecture. LoT’s work includes Cubic Housing, awarded Best project of the year in Greek Architecture awards 2012 and a new School for Aurinkokivi, Finland, awarded a Mention at the recent international architecture competition. Leonidas’ work has been widely published and presented in exhibitions worldwide, most importantly at the Venice Architecture Biennale, (2004), and the Biennale of Young Greek Architects, (2010, 2012). He has been guest jury at design studios and thesis reviews at Columbia University, Pratt Institute and NYIT.
Katerina Kourkoula
Kourkola received her Bachelors of Science from the Bartlett School of Architecture (U.C.L.) , her Bachelors and Maters of Architecture from The Cooper Union. She has been awarded the The Irma Giustino Weiss Prize for demonstrating exceptional potential for future achievement. She was also awarded the AIA School Medal and The Certificate of Merit for the excellence in the study of Architecture and was a recipient of the AIA Heritage Ball and the Onassis Foundation Scholarships. Katerina is an Adjunct faculty at the Cooper Union where she has been teaching design studio since 2011.Katerina has worked for Henley Halebrown Rorrison Architects in London, Lot-‐Ek in NY and has collaborated with Divercity architects in London and Kokkinou-‐Kourkoulas architects in Greece. Since 2008 she has been working on her own residential projects in Greece and renovation projects in NY. Her work has been publicized in the New York Times, Eoculus, Contract Magazine and NY1, and in exhibitions in New York, Athens and Barcelona.
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Guest Lecturers Carter Craft, Master of Urban Planning, New York University Wagner School of Public Service. / B.A. in Economics Carter Craft is Director of Programs and Policy for Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, leading coalition building and advocacy efforts to support greater public funding for the waterfront. He is also principal of Outside New York, a small consulting firm that provides a broad range of services including project management, program development, waterfront planning, communications, and fundraising. Current clients include the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, Randall’s Island Sports Foundation, NYC Swim, and Ver Nautica/ The Ferry Lab. Previous clients included the Red Bull Air Race – New York / NJ (2010) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands’ “Holland on the Hudson” Celebration (2009). Carter is a licensed Captain, and serves as a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute, Adjunct Professor at Fordham University, and co-‐Chair of the Harbor Education Subcommittee of the full Harbor Operations Committee of the Port of New York and New Jersey
Deborah Gans, (BA Harvard, M.Arch Princeton) Deborah Gans is a full professor in the Architecture School at Pratt Institute. She has also taught as visiting critic at Yale University. Deborah Gans is an editor of Bridging the Gap: Rethinking the Relation of Architecture and Engineering, which was honored by the AIA International Book Awards, of The Organic Approach and of Extreme sites: Greening the Brownfield. She is author of The Le Corbusier Guide, now in its third edition. Deborah is also the Principal of Gans studio. Gans studio's executed projects include industrial and graphic design, and architecture. Their continuing work on alternative forms of housing includes disaster relief housing for Kosovo, a transitional housing system for Common Ground Community and a community based planning and design project for New Orleans East funded by HUD that will culminate in the construction of a model block. Their prototype for a Roll Out House was shown in the United States Pavilion of the Venice Biennial 2008. Current projects are a master plan for The Graham School in Hastings-‐on-‐ Hudson New York. Their design work has been widely published and exhibited at IFA Paris, RIBA London, The Rosenbach Museum Philadelphia, The Van Alen Institute, The Architectural League of New York and the Venice Biennial.
Gita Nandan, Architect. M.Arch. – University of California / B.Arts, Architecture History – University of Michigan Gita Nandan believes in sustainability as a holistic and supple design approach, integral to all aspects of design and construction.. She also puts her beliefs into practice as an architectural educator. Her pedagogical approach focuses on an integration of academic studies and hands-‐on tactile learning to explore and understand the built environment and our place within it. Thread collective explores the seams between building, art and landscape, not only as disciplinary boundaries to be blurred, but as spatial edges, rich with design opportunity. A broadly defined notion of sustainability, existing site characteristics, and the sensory experience of the user further inform and strengthen our design process. Multi-‐disciplinary, the firm values collaboration and has worked with artists, industrial designers, musicians, and dancers, in addition to other architects. thread collective is committed to integrating sustainable principles in every aspect of their design process.
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Greg O'Connell, The Greg O'Connell Organization The O’Connell Organization prides itself on being a family-‐owned and operated business. Founder Greg O’Connell, still runs the organization alongside his wife Elizabeth, and sons Michael and Gregory Jr. Greg started out in the NYPD as a detective. While fulfilling is obligatory duties as a police officer, he began to acquire and renovate properties in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn one by one. Starting with only a cop’s salary and his amiable charm, Greg has built an organization which today owns and operates over 80 properties in the Cobble Hill, Columbia St. Waterfront, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope and Red Hook areas of Brooklyn, NY. Over the past four decades, Greg has also made himself an involved leader in the borough by promoting values of community service, a good work ethic and humility. The O’Connell Organization is a family owned and operated real estate development business with over 150 properties in New York State. Over the past 45 years, the organization has rehabilitated dozens of residential and commercial properties in the Red Hook, Columbia Street Waterfront, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill areas of Brooklyn, including the revitalization of Red Hook’s Civil War era properties known as the Merchant Stores Building, The German American Stores Building, The Beard and Robinson Stores Building and The Red Hook Stores Building. As the original pioneers for the preservation and redevelopment of the Red Hook Waterfront, the O’Connell Organization is committed to the well-‐being of the community and the cultivation of vibrant and diverse local businesses, arts and culture. The mission of the Greg O'Connell Organization is to acquire, redevelop and manage property while preserving its historic value and utilizing its inherent attributes for the betterment of the community, ensuring that Red Hook is considered one of the premier waterfront destinations in New York Harbor. Supporting the local community is a core part of thier business model. They have provided free spaces to the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Red Hook Rise, Dance Theatre, Water Front Museum, etc. They have also made it a point to support organizations such as Red Hook Initiative, Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation, The Preservation League of New York State, Red Hook Flicks, The Red Hook Criterium, Cobble Hill Health Center and The Red Hook Community Justice Center, Brooklyn Workforce Innovations and the Pratt Center for Community Development.
Juan Camilo Osorio, Policy Analyst Juan Camilo Osorio is NYC-‐EJA’s Policy Analyst. He is also a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute’s Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development (PSPD), introducing graduate students to qualitative and quantitative urban planning research. Before joining NYC-‐EJA, he was a Senior Planner and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst at The Municipal Art Society Planning Center, where he used spatial information to support research and advocacy on community-‐based planning, urban design and historic preservation. Before moving to New York, he worked with the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center, a non-‐profit agency based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, using GIS to study systematic and procedural impediments to fair housing in the central and western regions of that State. He received a master’s degree in regional planning from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a professional degree in architecture from the National University of Colombia, Bogotá.
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Paul Mankiewicz, Ecological Engineer. Ph.D., City University of New York Dr. Paul Mankiewicz received his doctoral degree from the City University of New York/New York Botanical Garden Joint Program in Plant Sciences. He is the founding director of the Gaia Institute and has served in this role since 1987. Under his direction, the Gaia Institute has taken on a number of challenging problems in applied and theoretical biogeochemistry and ecology, from urban watershed restoration to landfill and mine remediation. Solutions to these problems in all cases involve the transformation of elements of the waste stream into ecological resources.
Ronald Shiffman, City Planner. FAICP, Hon. AIA Brooklyn R. Shiffman is a city planner with close to 50 years of experience providing architectural, planning, community economic development and sus-‐tain-‐able devel-‐op-‐ment assis-‐tance to community-‐based groups in low– and moderate income neigh-‐bor-‐hoods. In 1964, he co-‐founded the Prat-‐tIn-‐sti-‐tute-‐Cen-‐ter for Com-‐mu-‐nity and Envi-‐ron-‐men-‐tal Devel-‐op-‐ment [PICCED] and served as Direc-‐tor until 2003. Ron is now a full-‐time fac-‐ulty mem-‐ber in the Grad-‐u-‐ate-‐Cen-‐ter for Plan-‐ning and the Envi-‐ron-‐ment at the Pratt School of Archi-‐tec-‐ture. He recently received two pres-‐ti-‐gious awards: Rock-‐e-‐feller Foundation’s Jane Jacobs Life-‐time Achieve-‐ment Award and the Amer-‐i-‐can Plan-‐ning Association’s National Plan-‐ning Pio-‐neer Award. Author as well as a tenured pro-‐fes-‐sor at Pratt Institute’s School of Archi-‐tec-‐ture, he chaired Pratt’s Depart-‐ment of City and Regional Plan-‐ning from 1991 to 1999. He served on the Plan-‐ning Com-‐mis-‐sion from 1990–1996. Imme-‐di-‐ately after Hur-‐ri-‐cane Kat-‐rina, Ron worked with Tulane and Cor-‐nel-‐lU-‐ni-‐ver-‐si-‐ties to orga-‐nize plan-‐ning pro-‐fes-‐sion-‐als and edu-‐ca-‐tors and is presently orga-‐niz-‐ing Pratt Insti-‐tute School of Architecture’s coor-‐di-‐nated effort to assist in the rebuild-‐ing effort after Sandy enti-‐tled “Rebuild, Adapt, Mit-‐i-‐gate and Plan” [RAMP].
Susannah C. Drake, Architect. Principal of dLandstudio Susannah C. Drake is the Principal of dlandstudio pllc, an award winning multidisciplinary design firm that includes landscape architects, urban designers, sculptors, scientists and architects. dlandstudio’s recent public projects include "A New Urban Ground" designed in collaboration with Architectural Research Office for the Museum of Modern Art’s Rising Currents Exhibit, the Gowanus Canal Sponge Park, a public open space system designed to absorb and remediate urban storm water, the Brooklyn Bridge Pop-‐up Park, a temporary waterfront open space that attracted almost two hundred thousand visitors over six weeks of operation in 2008, the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls in Lilongwe Africa, and the security for the New York City Police Department headquarters in lower Manhattan. dlandstudio is a State and City certified WBE.
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MATERIALS Indian Villages, Paths, Ponds and Places in Kings County. 1946
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New York. City 1770
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Stiles Map of Brooklyn, New York. 1867
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1879 Currier & Ives. Brooklyn
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1866 Brooklyn
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1896 Bay Ridge and Red Hook Channels.
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1913. Brooklyn
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NYC Region
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Red Hook neighborhood
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Flooding areas
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Flooding areas
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Sandy flooded areas
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Flooding areas after Sandy
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Land uses
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Land uses
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Land uses
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