CASE STUDY:
SALVATION ARMY KROC CENTER
RECYCLING LAND
Salvation Army is a 87,000 s.f. highly diversified community center offering recreational facilities, job training, and educational and spiritual programs for the Germantown and Nicetown neighborhoods. The project location, a 13-acre contaminated brownfield, was an industrial site and parking lot. After site analysis and contamination review, Andropogon developed a comprehensive landscape approach to accommodate the new site and facilities. The project includes an urban farm, synthetic turf field, playground, and a network of rain gardens and cisterns. Andropogon’s plan for the Salvation Army presents one of the most comprehensive sustainable landscape approaches in the City of Philadelphia through a combination of water management techniques and site waste recycling strategies.
PREPARING GROUND
REVISITING ECOLOGY
FOSTERING SOCIAL FRAMEWORKS
RECYCLING LAND
‘THE LAND RECYCLING [ENCOURAGES THE] PUBLIC SECTOR CLEANUP OF CONTAMINATED, VACANT OR OTHERWISE UNDERUTILIZED PROPERTIES AND RETURN THEM TO PRODUCTIVE USE’ -PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
HTTP://WWW.PORTAL.STATE.PA.US/PORTAL/SERVER.PT/COMMUNITY/LAND_RECYCLING_PROGRAM/20541
FOUND CONDTIONS
NON-DESCRIPT REMNANTS ACTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE
EMERGENT NATURE INDUSTRIAL LEGACY
PREPARING GROUND
NEARLY ALL OF THE SITE’S EXISTING PAVEMENTS WERE REUSED ON-SITE, SAVING $575,000 IN DISPOSAL FEES. THIS PREVENTED 17,500 TONS OF MATERIALS FROM ENTERING LANDFILLS.
WHAT DO 17,500 TONS OF BUILDING MATERIAL LOOK LIKE?
30’
1 CUBIC YARD
ON-SITE MATERIALS ASPHALT 2,692 CY
RAIL BALLAST 375 CY
12,495 CUBIC YARDS OF ON-SITE MATERIALS KEPT:
1 CUBIC YARD
AGGREGATE STONE 7,022 CY
CONCRETE 2,406 CY
EARTHWORK STRATEGY CUT
IMPERVIOUS SURFACES
-
0’-1’
1’-2’
2’-3’
4’+
FILL
WITH ON-SITE MATERIALS
+
0’-1’
1’-2’
GRADE
2’-3’
4’+
A PERFORMATIVE PLATFORM
INFILTRATION / RECREATION
PARKLAND
ATHLETIC TURF
LAYERED ECOLOGIES
CARLAND
RAIN GARDEN
PARKING RUNOFF / EDGE
BIOSWALE
PARKING LOT RUNOFF
BIOSWALE
SECTION STRATEGY UPLAND
REVISITING ECOLOGY
HOW MUCH STORMWATER STAYS ON SITE?*
100 YEAR STORM
64% 97% 98%
10 YEAR STORM
2 YEAR STORM
*MULTIVALENT LANDSCAPE: THE SALVATION ARMY KROC COMMUNITY CENTER CASE STUDY // MARY MYERS
ECOLOGICAL VALUE
INCREASED ECOLOGICAL QUALITY BY
34X
THAT OF FORMER SITE
*AS MEASURED BY THE PLANT STEWARDSHIP INDEX: MULTIVALENT LANDSCAPE: THE SALVATION ARMY KROC COMMUNITY CENTER CASE STUDY // MARY MYERS
ECOLOGICAL VALUE
15,293 LBS OF CARBON DIOXIDE
SEQUESTERED BY THE 562 NEW TREES AND SHRUBS PLANTED ONSITE*
*AS MEASURED BY TREE BENEFIT CALCULATOR SALVATION ARMY KROC COMMUNITY CENTER // LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION
FOSTERING SOCIAL FRAMEWORKS
LAYERED VALUE
PARKING IMPOUNDMENT
BEFORE
SALVATION ARMY COMMUNITY CENTER
OUTDOOR PAVILION RECREATIONAL FIELDS
URBAN AGRICULTURE
PLAYGROUND RAIN GARDENS PERVIOUS PARKING
AFTER
‘BIG IDEA’ REVITALIZING AN UNPRODUCTIVE INDUSTRIAL SITE
MULTI-LAYERED LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY / COMMUNITY / CITY
PROVIDING SOCIAL SERVICES TO A PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY
ENCOURAGE LANDSCAPE LITERACY
‘WHAT MAKES IT SPECIAL IS THE CONVICTION THAT EVEN PEOPLE OF SMALL MEANS DESERVE THE BEST’ -INGA SAFFRON, INQUIRER ARCHITECTURE CRITIC / MARCH 25, 2011
POSITIONING
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