Architectural Thesis "Restabilzing a Suffering Township from Prevailing Big-Box/Sprawl Attitude"

Restablizing a Suffering Township from Prevailing Big-Box/Sprawl Attitude

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Hanley Rd

A Declaration about the Performance of Architecture & the Role of Architecture in Culture

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Alexander F. Gault Design Thinking Fall Semester 2016 Prof: Antonio S. Martin TA: Ben Arenberg Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design

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Table of Contents: 1. Discourse (research on movement and houses) “Time Timing Analogy” “Time Timing Precedents” 2. Context (mapping the past, present & future) “Sprawl as Time Timing” “Disintegration of Residents Beyond the Defined”

3. Speculation (solving the big-box problem) “Plan for Vertical Condition” “Ephemeral Tower” 4. Program (an architecture plan) “Culture of Thoughtful Exchange” “Places Previously Inaccessible” “Vertical Retail” 5. Appendix (precedents, drafts, assignments & photos) 6. Bibliography (works cited)

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DISCOURSE

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TIME TIMING ANALOGY

TIMING

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“Time Timing Analogy�

Timing is the spacing of events. It is the thing happening that fills a space temporarily.

It occurs in a moment. It’s an impermanent trace. Timing is about people moving. Tracking peoples movement is timing. Separately, we have Time; the progress of events. Time is a permanent mark on a landscape. It is the forward linear progress of events. Time is the sequence events take place; the duration, or the intervals between them. Time is a scar, scrape, scratch, tag, target or meter. Buildings are also a measure of time.

The relationship of time to timing is one understanding of architecture. Humans move through time and space with exact timing. A majority of our timing occurs in buildings.

Buildings can last a long time or a short time depending on the need. I argue there is less need for permanence. With shifting tastes and technology impermanent architecture can serve current needs for limited terms then morph or dissolve. Human timing is in flux. Embracing temporary as permanent is accepting our shifting lives. A short-lived space may cost less, construct faster and promote experimentation.

In history, world fairs, expos, galleries and pavilions consistently attract substantial attention for often venturing into bold forms maybe not appropriate for permanent buildings.

Freedom from constraints is what creates the most fascinating inventive structures. The strategy of ephemerality can even suggest greater political and social cohesion.

The tactics to execute said structures lie in flexibility.

Various layouts and configurations form a cohesion which changes for our timing over time. Then the project is sustainable, while also addressing the realm of emotion and sense.

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Hanely, MO : planned growth = Good

Ladue, MO: random sprawl = Bad

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“Sprawl as Time Timing”

In St. Louis County the condition of urban “sprawl” is common.

These past decades the term sprawl has become shorthand for poorly planned growth. The consumer foci steals residents’ precious open space, and mars’ the landscape with ugly, large-scale development. Big-box was moving through time at a rate that rushed the timing.

The fast-growing retail chains entered into the Hanley corridor, a slow paced community, and destablized the residential culture.

Walmart, Home Depot and Menards large critical mass based on consumerism left a stain of cookie-cutter shopping centers.

The timing of development outpaced the time of growth and therefor the township is left with poor edge conditions, no well-defined centers and clearly separated homes.

The left hand page shows “Time” as neighborhoods in the Hanley Corridor. They are planned growth. “Timing” is the sprawl of Ladue, Missouri where a scramble for land has occured without planning leaving poor civic life.

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The Gateway Arch was built over a historic area through massive clearance. It is a form of sprawl.

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Art Hill has avoided a conflict with time. It is a site that has adapted to sprawl.

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CONTEXT

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Hanley

Corridor Urban Condition Diagrams

(A) Pre-sprawl

(D) Peak consumerism

(G) Residents return

(B) Sprawl

(E) Intervention neccesary

(H) Boundaries shrink

(C) Big-box economy

(F) Re-binding neighbors

(I) Strong neighborhood, just 1 vertical retail

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“Disintegration of Residents Beyond the Defined” The condition of the housing pre-economy was unified and coherent. Consumerism has caused a divide in the neighborhood of Hanley.

What distribution strategies can work to repair a post-consumerism culture in the Brentwood/Maplewood neighborhoods?

The first condition apparent is the expanding of the industrial corridor to accommodate big-box retail stores.

The expansion occurs on top of the Hadley Township, a historically African-American neighborhood east of Hanley Road and south of Highway 40 (Interstate 64).

Hadley Township was founded in 1907 as a company town for Evens-Howard Brick Works, which built houses for its employees, many of whom had migrated from the South. It became one of the only places blacks could buy or rent homes west of the St. Louis city limits, and it was developed as a separate community.

This “bouncing” occurring is the ‘alien’ retail shopper entering the neighborhood temporarily. There is no trace or mark of their movements. Often the shopping occurs in an hour or two and they leave the neighborhood until next week when they repeat the same actions.

This question raised about how big-box and small-town can get along. It may require a taking over of the residential into the commercial area. Shrinking the retail corridor could foster more interaction across

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Hanley

Corridor Before Big-Box

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This layered map shows the original fabric of the neighborhood Pre-1950. Highway 64 is in place but named Interstate 40. Small residential homes line the entire east of Hanley Road. The industrail and rail corridor is present to the west of Hanley.

The area shown by the ‘sanborn fire insurance map’ is eventually taken over by consumerist sprawl.

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In 2010-2015 the big-box sprawl has pushed back all homes east of Hanley. Along with the mega stores comes a massive influx of parking lots and traffic congestion.

These retailers are all chain stores with no unique contribution to the neighborhood.

The single level retail store has a large enough footprint for an entire block or two in many cases.

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Layering the big-box stores over the ‘sanborn fire insurance maps’ the damage done to the historic Hadley neighborhood is visible.

Residents were forced out of homes to make way for material goods. Our neighborhoods, people, and history must take precedent over buying things. The big-box take over is happening in other parts of the United States too. In St. Louis the effects detrimental in the worst possible way. The return of the township would be a key step in saying what we value as a society and what role architecture must play to not be harmful to the citizens.

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Here we see edge conditions blocked by walls and fences. If the big-box stores were distributed vertically these boundaries would dissolve. Can the edge be temporary.

What does the fence mitigate? The current boundaries are defined but can be hidden. If the big-box were to break down into smaller boxes would it fit in the context of the historic area. Is this reinvision even desired by the residents or do they juxtapose everything with retail. Every building in this area needs to respond meaningful to its surrounds or face isolation in the site.

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SPECULATION

“Plan for Vertical Condition: Ephemeral Tower” Carrying the discourse and context a step further is to speculate how to apply the “Time Timing Analogy” to the Hanley corridor. For instance, when the Big-box stores go away there will be a greater potential for social cohesion among the residents. Containing the sprawl attitude means to gather up all the marks on the landscape and begin to stack them.

Vertical theory begins to demonstrate the benefits of high-rise buildings. The built form upwards may be rejected but when the approach is taking urban design precedence over the architectural form-making the outcome is then a more social and habitable environment.

Stacking Big-box stores one on top of another gives the net-gross area of these mega-marts back to the residents of the historic neighborhood. The investment to build upward is a strategy to restablize the suffering township. The tall tower is a declaration about the performance of architecture and the role of architecture in culture.

Seeing this proposition not as (facade, elevator core position, main and escape staircases, riser duct locations and structural grids) but as the tactics of repairing the urbanistic consequences of Big-box sprawl.

The inevitable land grab occurred and there were consequences to the citizens. This growth to the sky could render a healed Hanley.

A 33-storey skyscraper with a typical floor plate of 20,000 SQ FT. = 654,000 SQ FT. (4 Big-Boxes)

is equivilent to

15 acres of land in the Hanley Township given back to the people.

4,360 persons could have 150 square feet each.

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The 33 story skyscraper could have an adaptable floorplan to become things other than Big-Box retail. Since citizens’ needs change over time perhaps the tower is arranged on a ‘number’ and ‘letter’ axis. Floor “V22” for instance sells recycled resources, where “T20” is a think-tank space, and “P16” could serve as refugee housing. The program can plug in/out any time.

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PROGRAM

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The back of Mendards Mega Mart denies Hanley Township views and access. The physical wall is an undesirable edge condition for residents and not appropriate architecture for an integrated community.

Mendards’ giant wall

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Big-Box Hanley Site

PROPOSED PROGRAM an ephemeral vertical retail?

Proposed 654,000 SQ FT Site: Vacant 6_acre tract at the //>>Highway //>>Beginning of South Hanley Road //>>Eastern terminus of Eager Road Auxiliary Towers: “Parking” Tower “Delivery” Tower “Merchandise” Tower “Multi-Use” Tower //>>City of Richmond Heights //>>Brentwood //>>Maplewood //>>Hanley Industrial Corridor 1/2_acre building footprint each.

“Joann Bailey lives with her husband one block east of Hanley Rd. in the Hadley Township area, just as she has done since 1964. A retired accountant, she loves where she lives, she loves her modest but well kept and attractive home, she desperately wants to stay, but she may be forced to leave.

Her front window displays a sign reading “Stop Eminent Domain Abuse”, as do the homes of a few other neighbors on her street. But when the Richmond Heights City Council voted to approve the redevelopment of the entire Hadley Township area on Monday, it was clear that if Mrs. Bailey and her neighbors don’t come to an agreement with the developer, the City will use Eminent Domain to force them off their property so that the 60-acre development can move forward.

“Money is not what I want.” says Bailey, “Money is not the issue over my home.” But if the City of Richmond Heights has their way, Bailey’s home will be removed to make room for a parking lot, while others in her neighborhood will have their homes removed to make room for… more expensive, privately owned homes.

The area is one of the first suburban areas in St. Louis developed by African Americans. Indeed, they paid for the original construction of the streets in the neighborhood. The 2000 census indicates that more than ½ of the 1,300 African Americans in Richmond Heights (total pop.

9,800) live in the Hadley Township area. It is an historically African American neighborhood, and today, the property values, or at least the current sale value of the homes, are a small fraction of those neighborhoods around it, where homes go for $130 – 300 K. The homes themselves may not be particularly valuable, but the property is a in a prime location for large scale retail development: Adjacent to the 40/Hanley interchange, across the street from recently built Best Buy, Sports Authority, and Home Depot stores, and right next to the year-old THF developed Wal-Mart /Sam’s Club monstrosity.

The City, as recently as a year ago, told Bailey that she would not be asked to leave her home. Since then, Bailey has paid for a new 30-year roof and re-paved her driveway. Recently the City and Developers have been assuring Bailey and other residents that they will be given first crack, and pre-purchase discounts, on the new $200 – 250K homes.

But as retirees, Bailey and her husband live on fixed incomes, (as do some of their neighbors) and are concerned they won’t be able to afford the annual property taxes. Bailey says, “We don’t want to give it up, where are we going to find what we have here?”

Missouri Constitution Bill of Rights Section 28 states: That private property shall not be taken for private use with or without compensation, unless by consent of the owner, except for private ways of necessity, and except for drains and ditches across the lands of others for agricultural and sanitary purposes, in the manner prescribed by law; and that when an attempt is made to take private property for a use alleged to be public, the question whether the contemplated use be public shall be judicially determined without regard to any legislative declaration that the use is public.

Following the U.S. Supreme Courts decision in Kelo vs. City of New London, Governor Matt Blunt established a commission to study new guidelines for use of eminent domain. The commission delivered a report in December that recommended that “The public benefits of economic development, including an increase in tax base, tax revenues, employment, or general economic health, standing alone, shall not constitute a public use.” It is likely that legislation that follows these guidelines will be enacted in August of this year.

Bailey spoke to the City Council and assembled citizens at the Monday meeting before the vote was taken. She pointed out that Maplewood, a city with significant fiscal problems, had just passed an ordinance that prevents the use of eminent domain for private use. She begged the City Council not to take her home. The Council said nothing. Less than an hour later, they voted to approve the Michelson development.

The Michelson plan leaves a few homes which are east of a creek, the Conrad proposal had an option of leaving the same homes. I certainly feel for people that thought they could enjoy retirement in their homes to find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.” -ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH

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APPENDIX

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Hanley Rd

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(East Hanley Road) Mendards Mega Mart destroyed 4.5 acres of historic houses to build their store displacing many elderly residents set to retire in the neighborhood. The Mega Mart then put up a wall in the back to block and ignore the remaining residents.

(ABOVE) My proposed site could be taken over by cars and parking lots if not acted upon soon.

The 6-acre tract is For Sale and could fall into the bad typology of Big-Box. (BELOW) West Hanley Road has similar poor edge conditions.

Architects are not addressing what happens when a historic neighborhood butts up against chain retailers.

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Time \ˈtīm\

wikipedia- the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. Time is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience. Time is often referred to as the fourth dimension, along with the three spatial dimensions. merriam-webster dictionary- :the thing that is measured as seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, etc. :a particular minute or hour shown by a clock :the time in a particular area or part of the world.

architecture dictionary- Time limits or periods stated in the contract. A provision in a construction contract that “time is of the essence of the contract” signifies that the parties consider that punctual performance within the time limits or periods in the contract is a vital part of the performance and that failure to perform on time is a breach.

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Timing tim·ing \ˈtī-miŋ\

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wikipedia- Timing is the time when something happens or the spacing of events in time. “Timing” also means the tracking of time when an event is happening in time. Good timing is having waited for the right moment to match parts that belong together.

merriam-webster dictionary- :the time when something happens or is done especially when it is thought of as having a good or bad effect on the result. :the ability to choose the best moment for some action, movement, etc.

architecture dictionary- n/a lat e m id d le su cce e d i n g

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Trace \ˈtrÄ s\

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wikipedia- n/a

merriam-webster dictionary- : a course or path that one follows :a mark or line left by something that has passed; also footprint :a sign or evidence of some past thing; also vestige :the intersection of a line or plane with a plane.

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transparent and suitable for tracing

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wikipedia- n/a merriam-webster dictionary- :a boundary land :something (as a line, notch or fixed object) designed to record position. :sign, indication :an impression made on something.

architecture dictionary- See ‘stains’, ‘landscape’ and ‘tattoos’ Frontier territories or districts.//Signs used to distinguish- and identify- a thing.//Signs of manufacture (symbol, logo or icon).// Incisions, signs, stamps, imprints, patch, paintings, or tattoos of different sizes and scales, permanent or ephemeral

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Ephemeral ephem·er·al \i-ˈfem-rəl wikipedia- from greek-ephemeros, literally ”lasting only one day”, is the concept of things being transitory, exisitng only briefly. Because different people may value the passage of time differently, “the concept of ephemerality is a relative one.”

merriam-webster dictionary- :lasting a very short time

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React re¡act \rÄ“-ˈakt\

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wikipedia- n/a merriam-webster dictionary- :to behave or change in a particular way when something happens, is said, etc. :to change after coming into contact with another substance :to change in response to a stimulus : to move or tend in a reverse direction

architecture dictionary- containing substances capable of reacting chemically with the products of solution under ordinary conditions of exposure; in some cases causes harmful expansion, cracking, or staining.

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intent--> size --> material -->program An intent to build always occurs from a neccesity. Through the process material, size, layout, etc. are all considered simutaneously to materialize the intial need. When the inital need changes the brick and mortar cannot.

The permanence of a space is too rigid for impermanent needs.

Old Versions of the “Time Timing Analogy” combined with context work. OCTOBER 4, 2016

CONTEXT

ALEX GAULT “Time Timing Analogy”

Timing is the spacing of events. It is the thing happening that fills a space temporarily. It occurs in a moment. It’s an impermanent trace. Timing is about people moving.

Tracking peoples movement is timing. Separately, we have Time; the progress of events. Time is a permanent mark on a landscape. It is the forward linear progress of events. Time is the sequence events take place; the duration, or the intervals between them. Time is a scar, scrape, scratch, tag, target or meter. Buildings are also a measure of time.

The relationship of time to timing is one understanding of architecture. Humans move through time and space with exact timing. A majority of our timing occurs in buildings. Buildings can last a long time or a short time depending on the need. I argue there is less need for permanence.

With shifting tastes and technology impermanent architecture can serve current needs for limited terms then morph or dissolve.

Human timing is in flux. Embracing temporary as permanent is accepting our shifting lives. A short-lived space may cost less, construct faster and promote experimentation.

In history, world fairs, expos, galleries and pavilions consistently attract substantial attention for often venturing into bold forms maybe not appropriate for permanent buildings. Freedom from constraints is what creates the most fascinating inventive structures. The strategy of ephemerality can even suggest greater political and social cohesion.

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The tactics to execute said structures lie in flexibility. Various layouts and configurations form a cohesion which changes for our timing over time. Then the project is sustainable, while also addressing the realm of emotion and sense.

1 Brentwood is an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis, located in St. Louis County, Missouri. The population was 8,055 at the 2010 census.

Time is the permanent mark of the many pre-1950 houses, whereas Timing is the movement of big-box retail stores from 2000 onward.

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Old Versions “Spawl in Ladue” OCTOBER 4, 2016

CONTEXT

ALEX GAULT “Time Timing Analogy”

Timing is the spacing of events. It is the thing happening that fills a space temporarily. It occurs in a moment. It’s an impermanent trace. Timing is about people moving.

Tracking peoples movement is timing. Separately, we have Time; the progress of events. Time is a permanent mark on a landscape. It is the forward linear progress of events. Time is the sequence events take place; the duration, or the intervals between them. Time is a scar, scrape, scratch, tag, target or meter. Buildings are also a measure of time.

The relationship of time to timing is one understanding of architecture. Humans move through time and space with exact timing. A majority of our timing occurs in buildings. Buildings can last a long time or a short time depending on the need. I argue there is less need for permanence.

With shifting tastes and technology impermanent architecture can serve current needs for limited terms then morph or dissolve.

Human timing is in flux. Embracing temporary as permanent is accepting our shifting lives. A short-lived space may cost less, construct faster and promote experimentation.

In history, world fairs, expos, galleries and pavilions consistently attract substantial attention for often venturing into bold forms maybe not appropriate for permanent buildings. Freedom from constraints is what creates the most fascinating inventive structures. The strategy of ephemerality can even suggest greater political and social cohesion.

The tactics to execute said structures lie in flexibility. Various layouts and configurations form a cohesion which changes for our timing over time. Then the project is sustainable, while also addressing the realm of emotion and sense.

2 Ladue is an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis, located in central St. Louis County, Missouri, United States The site is an example of random timing. The spacing of houses is impermanent, there is no progress of time only a trace of families deciding to build in the suburbs V.1 OCT. 4, 2016

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A synthesized coherant space is combining elements to form a single and unified entity. Variations of the entity also exist. The limitless configurations to a space capture the invisible realm of senses and emotions.

A synthesized coherant space is combining elements to form a single and unified entity.

Variations of the entity also exist. The limitless configurations to a space capture the invisible realm of senses and emotions.

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A synthesized coherant space is combining elements to form a single and unified entity.

Variations of the entity also exist. The limitless configurations to a space capture the invisible realm of senses and emotions.

A synthesized coherant space is combining elements to form a single and unified entity.

Variations of the entity also exist. The limitless configurations to a space capture the invisible realm of senses and emotions.

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Configuration con·fig·u·ra·tion \kən-ˌfi-gyə-ˈrā-shən wikipedia- In mathematics, specifically projective geometry, a configuration in the plane consists of a finite set of points, and a finite arrangement of lines, such that each point is incident to the same number of lines and each line is incident to the same number of points.

Configurations may be studied either as concrete sets of points and lines in a specific geometry, such as the Euclidean or projective planes, or as a type of abstract incidence geometry. merriam-webster dictionary- :relative arrangement of parts or elements: as (1) shape (2) contour of land (3) functional arrangement :something that results from a particular arrangement of parts or components :the stable structural makeup of a chemical compound especially with reference to the space relations of the constituent atoms. architecture dictionary- the spatial arrangement of wood particles, chips, flakes or fibers used in particleboard, fiberboard, etc.

f or m con t ou r

con f or m at ion con f ig u r e sh a p e

con f ig u r at ion

c o n st e l l a t i o n

Symmetry, subdivision of parts and compositions all rely on arrangement of parts. Alternative designs stem from the recomposition of exisitng geometries. In static architecture the large number of parts require a fixed solution which leads to a degree of problems in the space after the intial occupation and shifting by its inhabitants. We call this the space-planning problem

1. (Right) Knights of Columbus

building by Kevin Roche in New Haven, CT is an effective building because it pushes circulation and all systems to the structure. The rest of the open floorplate is open for persons to use. (Left) The Sears Tower building in Chicago is a tower built of many other towers. My ephemeral retail tower could work in with the same strategy.

2. Torre David by En-

rique Gomez and studied in publication by Alfredo Brilemburg is an example of ephemeral architecture.

3. Vertical Theory by

Ken Yeang is an ellaborate study on why it is smart to build up instead of out. And once that decision to build up is reached the strategy and tactics to execute the design are shown in a variety of formatinos.

The vertical stacking can save so much space at ground level.

Ken Yeang sees the skyscrapper as “a vertical extension of the city.�

4. Aldo Van Eyck published these

words and diagrams to remind readers about the role of people in architecture. By building big-box and displacing citizens we are not serving the people. Architects must improve the environmental conditions around them, not make it worse. Stacking retail and returning the footprints of mega-marts to citizens will provide a culture of thoughtful exchange.

5. (Right) blur building by

Diller Scofidio Renfro, shows the senses being disoriented from entering the place. (Right) Is the Bruxelles ‘58 Expo. The fair was designed as a master plan of structural pavilions. (Left) Tiananmen Square changes shape and grows according to the required use. All 3 scenarios are about master planning flexible space to serve the people.

6. Caspar David Friedrich painted

this German landscape about the contemplation of nature and divine creation of life. When the big-box stores enter our neighborhood the territory becomes obsessed with buying goods and people begin to miss out on the wonders of life and the earths natural beauty. In my design thinking I am to bring back this connection with slow time.

timing

time

Wallace Stevens wrote this poem about the way we perceive things.

One person may perceive the Hanley corridor as a mega-shopping center and others may see it as an monstrosity to the built fabric.

7. This is the Herzog & Demuron parking garage in Miami Florida. The ‘le corbusier masion domino’ typology is applied to a parking garage. The use of the garage adapts to its clients needs. It can be a parking garage in the morning and transform into a dinner gallery at night. This flexible typology applies to my design thinking in that I’d like my vertical retail to operate in a similar flexible manner.

This is the typical Hanley corridor house removed from its surrounding context. When the big-box stores move in the houses will get displaced. What are appropriate locations for the displaced residents?

If the parking lots take over the houses, perhaps the houses should take over the streets.

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worlds fairs

olympics/ expos

pavilion structure

adaptive re-use

consumer foci

Through the Fall 16’ semester assignments were prompted as questions and exploration exercises. Complimentary readings went with each task and each week material was re-worked.

Through the Fall 16’ semester 4 booklets were created prior to the creation of the final DT booklet. Discourse, Context, Speculation and Program were explored as seperate, but related, topics and finally combined and re-organized into a final draft.

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