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CHICAGO FIT ULI competition, Honorable mention ChicagoFIT leverages the existing competitive culture of both athletics and local businesses to create a development that builds community and social equity. This new development will attract ambitious talent to the bourgeoning tech industry on Goose Island. It will provide the benefits of social networking, teamwork, and competitive games to engage Chicago’s workforce, especially those in the Tech area. By weaving friendly competition and exercise into the fabric of urban development, and subsequently lifestyles, ChicagoFIT will improve publichealth, create community through good natured competitive interactions,bridge divides between often polarized neighborhoods, and increase the taxbase, while attracting a younger workforce. Urban design and Real estate developent Spring 2017, Two Weeks contribution: 25% Team leader Development area: 38.3 acre
SportsFIT leverages the existing competitive athletic culture of Chicago. The city of Chicago supports a wide variety of professional sports teams that rivals any city in the United States. Chicago also has a rich history of Athletic clubs that have provided a space for professionals to compete and socialize. SportsFIT aims to provide the average Chicagoan space to create his or her own athletic community. The retrofitted Fleet and Management building will be at the center of ChicagoFIT as an Athletic Club, managed by LA Fitness. The Athletic Club will provide a space for residences and members to compete during the winter months, exercise, and socialize. The overall development will include several courts and playing fields that can be rented out and will have programmed competitions for the different companies within the development. The site will provide spaces for cyclist, basketball teams, soccer teams, football teams, tennis players, and softball leagues. It will also leverage the river to provide spaces for recreation and additional courts, along with greenspace for community use. RIVERFIT leverages the North Branch Chicago River as a key opportunity for development and recreation. The proposed development follows a central axis that ends at the recreation space along the river. The public space along the river provides a potential interchange for the future extension of the 606 and the ChicagoRiverwalk. Along with utilizing the river, ChicagoFIT will remediate the site where needed, and proposes a network of stormwater bioswales and cisterns to protect the river from existing contamination due to the sites industrial past. CommunityFIT leverages the existing culture of Chicago as well as the assets of the proposed development to encourage social interactions and networking. The development will be built around a central corridor and plazza that provides a space for the ChicagoFIT community and surrounding neighborhoods to gather, celebrate and compete. The development will provide a variety of spaces for restaurants, bars, and coffeeshops to attract both visitors and residents.
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Land Acquisition and Selling Strategy There are two pieces of land that need to be acquired: the Fleet and Facility Management site (Block F), and Block F on the west side of the river. Although Block G will not have new development until Phase Three, it would be wise to purchase it in advance in case the property value rises. We plan to complete the purchase of both lands in year 0, and start the brownfield remediation process. Block C, Block E and Block G, the existing properties of WCI, as well as the newly-purchased Block Seven will generate revenue and relieve some of the financial burden at the beginning of the project. Block H is currently owned by WCI. However, the block was across the river, and was not well connected with the main site spatially. Therefore, we think it would be better to sell it to the government for public investment such as the extension of 606 within the block. In return, WCI can get some tax credit when purchasing the Fleet and Facility site.
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River City U rban D esign for The N ew A rea of D eq ing H igh-Speed Rail Station The project is located near a westland with densified water net. A new high-speed railway station will be located in this area. That becomes a new development possibility for the whole area. The design is focused on creeating green system and environmental path to generate one mixe d-used community as well as a transportation core. Focusing on creating strong relationship between nature and the built-environment, several storm-water related technology was implemented. The planning is focused on define future lanscape design and architectural design pattern. Type: U rban P lanning and U rban D esign L ocation: D eq ing, China Contibution: D esign Concepts, Model building, P lan Rendering
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Bird View of the Project
Rebuilding Memory Regeneration Design of Architecture and Landscape along the crossing road in Datong the Ancient City The innovation design faced serious problems as the ancient city has being destroyed, and the new constructions ignored the history. Inspired by the memories of citizens, we came up with the idea that the new city should reestablish the spaces connecting to such memories. With flexible land use policies for the land owners, traditional yards and routes are created in modern forms. The new design offers both the city and residents unique chance of cultural and economic development. The relationship between modern roads and historic context is the most critical topic. By widening the pedestrian sidewalk and adding green space along the street, we generated a 4-lane road instead of six-lane, which is the current situation. The crossing area of the streets has civic historic buildings. So the traffic volumes are guided along the specific buildings. Summer 2015 3 months Contribution: 25% Total building area: 63.5 hectare
Traditional historic architectural types and historic courtyard types
Historic context: cross roads, corners and blocks
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Living in Parks Stormrm Water Design and Learn frm Savannah The design is based on a flooding issue place. Based on a thorough investigation of Savannah wards and cells, a design strategy of using community parkes beome the solution of storm water problems. The combination of urban design ideas and lanscape architecture design solution offers the place new energy as well as walkable community and public places. Site area:40 acres Contribution: Individual Work Length: 8 weeks Type: Urban Design and Landscape architecutre design
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One of the main accomplishments of the conceptual plan is to increase the street connectivity from a few entrance to many intersections, extending street grid from Downtown. Also, we remain the two buildings and a symbolic tree with square, as a way of respecting its history. These remnant buildings can serve as a community space. Taken motif from here, we conceit of similar scale fenced public squares in terms of junction among mixed neighborhood. less than 40 feet in width between buildings, are as much a part of a cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s street network as larger streets. While they may not carr heavy loads of through traffic, they provide access to properties and are often integral parts of the non-motorized street network.
There are three types of park. One is to slow the water down, the second is to let the storm water going throug. The third is to detain the water when the big raining. All the related pavements, and types of trees are serving for the stormwater purpose. While they also serve for differn activities and strong connection to the neighborhood.
The street design with various of trees and pavement. They have different lanes for vehicles, pedestrians, street ast well as leading places. The elements that make up city streets, from sidewalks to travel lanes to transit stops, all vie for space within a limited right-of-way.Very small streets, less than 40 feet in width between buildings, are as much a part of a cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s street network as larger streets. While they may not carr heavy loads of through traffic, they provide access to properties and are often integral parts of the non-motorized street network.
Data Analysis The flowing two GIS analyses discussed about the transportaiton accessibility and environmental flooding issues. Connecting the data analysis with physic and demongraphic issues would assist problem-solving projects from physical design projects to social demographic problimes.
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impact topography on urban form
Take Atalanta as an Example Urbanization Density
Atlanta is located along the low foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, which makes it a fairly hilly region. The north and west suburbs have significantly higher elevations as compared to the other regions, with the average elevation being around 1000ft. Apart from elevation, relief features play a major role with how a city’s population is distributed. Studies show that human population is mainly concentrated in areas with a flatter topography. However, that is in contrast to what we see in Atlanta.
Overview of the Geography As shown in the DEM map, the center of the city has higher elevation, while low elevation area concentrate around river valley in north and southeast of the Atlanta. Another feature is the existence of multiple rivers and branches, which pose threat of flooding and require special attention. Building Footprint in High Slope Area This map identifies building footprints in areas of slope higher than 15 and 30 degree, which are considered area of high slope. As shown in the map, most of the buildings in area of slope larger than 30 are in the downtown and midtown area, and that in 15 to 30 degree ae around creeks. Moderate slopes. Gentle grades of less than about 10% (a one foot rise over 10 feet) are the easiest to build on. Between 15% and 20%, you should plan to spend more on grading and the foundation, which will need to be higher or stepped down on the low side. This is a good slope for walk-out basement. Steep slopes. Much above about 20%, you may have to do more extensive earth moving and soil stabilization to create workable grades and prevent erosion. Cut and fill operations can get costly, especially if you have to truck in additional fill. The cost of fill varies greatly depending on what is nearby and accessible, so don’t make assumptions here — get estimates.
The density in the city mostly follows the elevation pattern, with higher elevated areas having higher density. The slope/aspect however does not seem to have had much effect on distribution. We also see When going into further detail, we can see that residential areas are mostly concentrated in the central, highly elevated regions, so they’re not in danger of being flooded. The other buildings, which include commercial, residential, institutional, etc, are spread throughout the region, so the ones on the periphery come directly under the FEMA flood zone (need to confirm this). Footprint within Flood Zone Since most of the buildings were built before the regulation on floodplain came out, there are plenty of constructions within flood zone, mainly around creeks in the north and middle-to south, as shown in the zoomed-in maps. Households within flood zones are required to have flood insurance. To put it simple, floodplain is not a suitable site for buildings. According to the Floodplain Management in Georgia, the floodplain shall perform its natural function – if possible, keep it as open space. Other compatible uses: recreational areas, playgrounds, reforestation, parking, gardens, pasture, and created wetlands.
The major factor in deciding Atlanta’s layout was transportation, as we can see from the city spreading outwards from where the railway lines are. The suburbs came later along with the automobiles. Topography does not seem to have played a major role with density but we still see a relationship between the two.