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Market Connection A Youth Center for Creative Food Entrepreneurship
Annie Ledbury
University of Oregon- Portland Urban Architecture Program Regenerative Design Terminal Studio 2014 Professor Hajo Neis, with Vanessa Cass, Jim Pettinari, Josh Hilton, + Lloyd Lindley
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Table of Contents
the market connection context people urban design + landscape street design architecture structure + construction process + models
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The Market Connection What can design do to foster economic self sufficiency and rebuild postbankruptcy Detroit from the bottom-up? This urban design and architecture project strengthens the Eastern Market District with a creative food hub for youth that leverages all parts of the teaching power of the food system. The goal of this project is to create a district and building that catalyzes connections between: youth + opportunity people from the city + suburbs food products + buyers Eastern Market + residential areas + downtown • areas divided by highways • • • •
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Detroit, Michigan Midtown University & Hospital
New Center
Downtown
New windows + curtain wall facade 24x24” concrete columns with one-way cast in place concrete floors Shared atrium with steel bridges
Eastern Market District is located >1 mile northeast from the heart of classroom downtown, but classroom is isolated by vast highway overpasses and blighted vacant areas. Radial arterial corridors have potential to connect them.
Eastern Market
Context Map Key:
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youth center classroom catalyst project
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freeway
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faculty arterial corridors
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resource room
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sensory testing
foodlab marketing studio:
science lab suite: product testing
glass roof over alley
one-way mirror focus group equipment
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Existing Conditions The immense I-75 and Fischer Freeway interchange cuts the market district from New Center, Downtown, and nearby sports stadiums. To the south of Gratiot Ave, a major arterial, the street grid purposely disconnects from the old city fabric to insulate the Lafayette Park residential district from industrial uses and traffic. The residential area to the east of the market, formerly single family residences for German workers in the market district, is now mostly returned to prairie. A high school campus occupies some of this area. Many factories and industrial buildings near the former Grand Trunk Railroad are now vacant with the shift away from rail freight. New mixed-use development of these structures will benefit from adjacency to the Dequindre Cut, a partially redeveloped greenway bike path that leads to the river district. Key Youth center building site Existing market buildings Potential market related redevelopment: market garden, agricultural center, mixed use factory renovation
to suburbs
to New Town, Center Medical Campus, & Wayne State University
to residential zone to vacant residential zone
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Users + Design Student Walkable streets encourage connection with Lafayette residential zones across Gratiot Ave. Connected bike ways attract students to bike from downtown, medical and education areas, and east side.
Market Shopper Most shoppers arrive driving from medium to long distances from the city or suburbs
Market Worker Semi and box trucks for product delivery + shipping
User Needs: -Alternative school model with trade skills -Mentorship and young role models -Safe pedestrian passage -Alternative transportation Design Solutions: +Detroit Food Academy School +Mentoring, mixing space, and retail stalls +Pedestrian bridge as prototype +Cycle track connection to Dequindre Cut, BRT station +Detroit Bus company pickup zone , BRT User Needs: -Parking -Awareness from the highway -Diversity of goods, experiences Design Solutions: +Alley-bridge sequence +On-street parking +Diversity of retail scales, formal + informal User Needs: -Semi-truck access -Affordability -Loss of history Design Solutions: +Industrial sanctuary west of Russell St. keeps space affordable +Designated truck lanes with tree placement sensitive to turning radii
Food Entrepreneur This facility will attract entrepreneurs from around the city, so most will drive. Some may be open to bus or bike. Goods are delivered and those not sold on-site are shipped via freight truck
Hipster Artist Live-work reduces the need for transportation.
In the good-weather months, some hipsters like biking for fun and work.
User Needs: -Kitchen space and axillary resources. -Networking with other businesses -Customer exposure -Public education to improve perception of value of local food and the Detroit brand. Design Solutions: +Affordable shared kitchen space, marketing and lab testing facilities +Food product display wall in the atrium allow products become the architecture. +Mixing spaces at various scales provide places for accidental interaction between students, entrepreneurs, and customers. +Big garage doors and windows along the alley and atrium make production visible to customers without compromising kitchen HVAC and sanitary requirements. User Needs: -diversity of district uses -gritty, industrial feel in building and district -access to customers on occasion -housing options -flexible workspace Design Solutions: +Cycle track connection to Dequindre Cut, BRT station +Add density and diversity of uses for 24hour district +Live-work housing with shared gallery courtyard and entrance
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Urban Design The Eastern Market district is changing. It’s gritty character, creative clusters of activity, and adaptable historic building fabric is attracting new types of people. Urban design interventions can help connect these
groups. Sustainable design interventions connect new and existing users, improve transportation, and protect industry.
Lafayette Park Residential Art zone
Stormwater Boulevard + Retention Park
Dequindre Cut New Trail
Fine grained live/work/sell mix
Ford Football Field District Gateway
Industrial Sanctuary
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Urban Design Concepts
Wilkins St. Dequindre Cut
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Stormwater Boulevard + Retail Corridor
Mixed Live/ Make/Sell Creative Zone
Stormwater Retention Park + Dequindre Cut Access Reconnect Street Grid to Lafayette Park
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Urban Framework Plan
Use Plan Key: youth center for creative food entrepreneurship existing market buildings new ground floor retail / market bldg new residential new industrial new live/work/sell mix
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Retail corridors
proposed mixed use factory renovation
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parking structure
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Industrial sanctuary shed 2
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Insert Landscape
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1. Highway Buffer Walls:
planted green walls and trellises along concrete walls buffer noise, absorb carbon, provide habitat, and make driving nicer. commercial
sunken highway commer greenhouse cial sunken highway buffers greenhouse spire buffers spire
2. Green Corridors:
sunken highway buffers sunken highway buffers
new planters and street trees with connecting canopies signify certain streets as retail corridors and pedestrian + bike school garden green pass-throughs. green school garden bridge corridors corridors bridge
3. Stormwater Boulevard + Retention Park: Landscape courtyard
Insert courtyard bioswale planters channel water along
green corridors green corridors
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4. Convertable Parking Lot:
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5. School Garden Bridge: Insert Landscape market shoppers in the new alley
experience food production from below the viaquality Innovative solutions for how to mitigate stormwater, provide habitat, and improve this elevated rundistrict. by students. of life and pedestrian street experience in anmini activefarm industrial school sunken garden highway bridge buffers green corridors
6. Commercial Greenhouse Spire:
like the many cathedrals on Gratiot, an 80’ enclosed hydroponic greenhouse tower courtyard stormwater becomes a food district landmark. commercial insertion into boulevard + greenhouse green retention spire corridors park
existing sunken highway warehouse buffers
7. Warehouse Inserted Courtyard a new outdoor artist’s space unites the joint
courtyard between old and new building elements and insertion into+ big tree alle brings nature into the industrial. existing school garden convertable warehouse bridge parking lot green corridors
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7. 5. Street Design Extents
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Car + Truck Routes Users noted that freight access, weekend market parking access, and connection to the Dequindre Cut were important. These proposed routes preserve functionality of the industrial sanctuary’s essential delivery system, while allowing for safe passage for bikers and market shoppers. Clear signage will designate the routes at conflict points, at particular intersections as marked with a circle.
Route Plan Key: designated truck routes designated market parking route marked bike lane or protected cycle track below-grade pedestrian greenway
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Street Design This design improves district walkability by adding multi-modal transportation infrastructure, sensitive addition of landscape, and retail and community programming. The connection between the market sheds and the new alley is highlighted with brick cobblestone pavers. These continue into the buildings where the public enters: at the renovated edge of the Gratiot Central Market, and at the youth center’s atrium “mixing space.” This connection is further strengthened by an expansion of the existing pedestrian bridge with space for both permanent and temporary retail uses. Gratiot Ave. goes on a “road diet,” reducing from 7 lanes to 6. New street tree bumpouts, zebra striping and curb extensions for pedestrian crossings, and bioswales further slow down traffic. This new configuration adds shade and interest to the pedestrian Plan Key: bike lane/ protected cycle track pop-up shipping container retail new permeable cobblestone pavers existing buildings
experience, with built in stops for easy Bus Rapid Transit access that can be reconfigured for any light rail extensions in the future. A new protected 2 way cycle track on the south side of the road safely connects the Dequindre Cut green way to downtown and Eastside neighborhoods, avoiding the dangerous intersection with drivers exiting the freeway. On Russell St. new dense, mixed-use strip of buildings anchors the NW corner, replacing the blank brick wall surrounding the Brewery Park office complex.
Pop-up Pedestrian Uses
Convertable Parking Lot
bike repair structure covered bike parking
food cart docking station new pedestrian street
Shipping Containers New Pedestrian Retail Bridge
Freeway Below
Gratiot Public Space covered market alley new cafe with garage door to public space new gratiot central market entrance
Gratiot Central Market
outdoor restaurant seating movie screen/ digital art on existing brick wall bike parking
Stormwater Boulevard mid-block pedestrian crossing
Trinosophes Art Space + Cafe
BRT/ light rail stations bioswale cycle track Sculpture Garden23
Street Details
KET ALLEY
The addition of pedestrian infrastructure, transit, and other improvements in the public realm are the most effective way to catalyze the growth of the Eastern Market
district in the near term. These design recommendations can be implemented in part or as a system.
cafe + ace
new cycle track
protected cycle track
new bioswale
new semi-covered gathering space + movie screen
bioswale system
brt or light rail stations
movie screen + digital art
new slow pedestrian street
brick pavers at market axis
slow curbless pedestrian street
container retail on bridge
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green roof over ped. bridge
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Pedestrian Bridge As a result of the sunken highway system that cuts through Detroit and many other Michigan cities, pedestrian bridges are needed to connect safe walking paths between neighborhoods. These bridges are uncomfortable places because of their long narrow shape and tall chain link fences. They feel unsafe when poorly lit and far away from eyes on the street. At Eastern Market, the existing pedestrian bridge that connects the main market to my site next to the Gratiot Central Market is special. People
are already occupying it in the summer, selling incense, crafts, food, clothes, and other informal retail. This new pedestrian bridge connects the market sheds across the freeway, creates a sense of arrival for cars coming to the district from the suburbs via sunken freeway, and provides more places for the informal market to take root with pop-up shipping container retail.
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Connection to Market Sheds
Shed 2 Perspective Point
Bike lanes, truck lanes, and pedestrian streets work together. Trees and green interventions are incorporated with sensitivity to industrial uses. New bike repair and storage station, micro-retail, bus shelter along Russell street activate the street edge to the parking lot while leaving the lot flexible to cars or special event uses. Brick cobblestone paving along the pedestrian axis helps with wayfinding, and defines the pedestrian importance over cars and trucks. The architecture of the youth center complex combines old and new. The glass covering on the alley takes structural inspiration from the underside of the open air market shed 2. Youth Center
Gratiot Central Market
Perspective view highlighting the existing historic market buildings and their connection to the new youth center and improvements to Russell Street.
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Stormwater Boulevard The Detroit Future City plan called for an increase in “blue and green infrastructure.” This bold street design move replaces a lane of traffic with a massive bioswale system that connects underground for the length of Gratiot Ave, providing a pedestrian friendly sense of place to the major arterial. This system carries rainwater to a series of retention ponds and parks, including a new park that forms a new connection between the market and the sunken Dequindre Cut trail. The swale system provides a safety buffer for a cycle track. The track serves as a bike superhighway between the Eastside neighborhoods and downtown. Bus rapid transit/ future light rail stations are incorporated into the 10’ landscaped median.
Stormwater Retention Park
Trinosophes Art Space + Cafe
Gratiot Ave
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15’ sidewalk
10’ protected cycle track
new bioswale
new cycle track
5 lanes of traffic
new bioswale
Street section detail along south side of Gratiot Avenue.
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Covered Market Alley 40,000 people visit the historic Eastern Market District per weekend from the city of Detroit, the more affluent suburbs, Ohio, and Canada. These people are diverse, and many have an existing deep cultural connection to the building and the district. Others are looking for fresh goods, or a safe way to experience Detroit as a tourist. The green farm bridge physically connects the school and Gratiot Central Market’s new entrance along the alley. It frames the courtyard and provides a new elevated type of shopper interaction with the food they buy in the district. The rhythm of the new structural steel roof relates to that of the one-way concrete joist system that is exposed in the atrium of my building and ties the two experiences together.
Covered Market Alley
Brick cobble pavers (represented with red texture), strengthen the wayfinding of the sequence from the grand market structure, across the lot, bridge, alley, and Gratiot Street. This moment and turn the corner into the atrium of my building.
Perspective sketch shows the experience of being at the middle of the cross in the new covered alley on a market day. The stormwater boulevard and Gratiot Street outdoor cafe space and movie theater are seen in the distance.
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Youth Center for Creative Food Entrepreneurship ...a creative food hub for the future leaders of the Eastern Market district
Russell Street Youth Center, housing, and retail entrances. Existing brick warehouses contrast with new white infill.
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Architecture Concepts The design for the project had three parts: carve a new mid-block market alley that aligned with the new pedestrian bridge, parking lot, and historic market shed. To support this urban design-scale move, the youth center would fill in to the SW and complete the approach to the district Gr ati ot Av e.
along Russell as a vibrant main street. On the east side, the existing Gratiot Central Market, which is popular yet poorly designed, undergoes a renovation that opens up to the alley in summer months with oversized garage doors, a cafe, and new entrance at Gratiot Ave. Public spaces off of this main axis include the youth center’s atrium “mixing space”, and the Gratiot Ave. covered alley gathering space featuring outdoor seating and projection screen visible from cars en route to the district from the highway.
Renovate Gratiot Central Market
New Market Alley
Russell St.
Youth Center
Interwoven Programs Live/ Work Housing Penthouse
Renovated edge of Gratiot Central Market Commercial Greenhouse Spire Covered Market Alley + Community Event Space
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Shared Atrium: Mixing Space
Community Space Detroit Food Academy School
The atrium connects the market alley with Russell Street for shoppers, and Detroit Food Academy with FoodLab Studios via
Atrium Mixing Space
Entry + Mixing Space
FoodLab
bridges. Windows, product library shelves, and art walls showcase the “Made in Detroit” food system for users and public visitors.
View from 2nd floor bridge, looking east across atrium to the covered market alley and connection to new Gratiot Central Market entrance and stalls.
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Blurred Experience: Community + School + Work When not in use by the school, community groups can rent the auditorium or community room, which are both located just behind the Russell street facade. Large events can spill out into the gallery section of the atrium mixing space. The food-related displays here are prominent when viewed through at the main glazed entrance as a welcoming beacon to youth and community members on the street. The stair in the auditorium is also the main entrance for the school. This blurring between where the school begins, the public space, and the Foodlab facilities is a spatial embodiment of the Detroit Food Academy’s philosophy to integrate education with the real world. Students and FoodLabbers may also use the stairauditorium for informal group study or lunchroom.
Shared Auditorium + Community Space
existing retail
live-work public street entrance + gallery
community meeting room
school punctures through existing brick warehouse
multi-purpose auditorium with stair seating gallery display wall cobble pavers continue from alley into mixing space
Sectional model showing bridges, auditorium, and product display shelves.
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Materiality of Old + New The Eastern Market district’s gritty,historic industrial character is what makes it special. The youth center complex fills in the holes on this triangular block with new construction that interweaves with an underoccupied historic pistachio processing warehouse. Original retail tenants remain after renovation as social anchors to the site’s past. The formerly exterior, southern brick wall of the warehouse is celebrated at the heart of the school, separating the flexible studio spaces from more private classrooms and becomes an occupiable way finding device for mentors and visitors to the community auditorium and gallery.
Renovations to the western edge of the landmark Gratiot Central Market peels back the wall to let in light, and access the market from reoriented stalls that face the new alley with garage doors. The market’s historic Gratiot Ave. facade, featuring colorful oversized ads and terra cotta detailing, is retained and experienced in a new way as a gateway to the new pedestrian market alley and outdoor community gathering area. This zone’s location along Gratiot Ave draws life into the alley from the busy arterial that leads to downtown Detroit.
lightweight panelized curtain wall facade
courtyard at the joint between old + new buildings
renovated brick warehouse building white terra cotta rainscreen at school curved glass roof over new market alley existing retail to remain R
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Live-Work Gallery Courtyard The configuration of work units arranged around a central hardscaped courtyard and open space allows for efficiency and light for workspaces, as well as the semi-public access from the street through the entry lobby. Internal stairs through each work unit lead up to an open living loft space that has access to light and air from both sides, and with balconies that overlook the market and downtown skyline and park to the south. Flexibility and openness of these units is important for their ability to change over time, as the district shifts from an industrial to a mixed neighborhood. The third floor is partially in the old building, and the 4th is new penthouse construction, with a lightweight steel structural system and panelized curtain wall cladding system.
Floor 4: Housing Perspective Point
Floor 3: Workshops
Courtyard + Shared Gallery
Existing brick warehouse wall becomes the centerpiece for the shared gallery and flexible workspace at the heart of the 3rd floor live-work housing cluster.
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Shared Commercial Kitchen This view shows what it’s like to work in the shared commercial kitchen. There is a big window connecting across the atrium space with a view of the student’s studio space on the 2nd floor. The brick wall of the existing building is visible in the far distance, through the library and the student studio. This helps people to know where to go, and remember the history of the site. Exposed concrete columns, and floors are architectural grade and polished: both utilitarian, durable, and celebrating the new in contrast with the old historic brick. The school’s farm bridge is visible through the windows in the work yard, and visually connects growing back to processing.
Commercial Kitchen
The commercial kitchen is primarily used by FoodLab entrepreneurs, but also by Detroit Food Academy and is rentable to the public. The interesting activity of cooking and processing is visible to everyone passing by.
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Russell Street Facade
new curtain wall penthouse with white aluminum privacy panels and exposed steel structure
existing brick warehouse
terra cotta rainscreen
commercial greenhouse spire
glazed white brick
exst. brick
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Floor 1
Program Key: Detroit Food Academy Retail FoodLab Food Innovation Center Creative Workspace/ Marketing Studio Live-Work Residential Existing Building to Remain
Shared atrium with steel bridges
existing retail to remain
existing retail to remain
classroom
school retail
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entry gallery
admin nurse
mentor community conference room lounge presentation stair
media library + fabrication lab
retail
resource room
market stalls with garage doors, typ.
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student product design studio
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auditorium product display walls
school farm garden
new entrance, mezzanine, and gathering for Gratiot Central Market
shared atrium “mixing space”
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flexible office or retail
foodlab office
existing gratiot central market
glass roof over re-oriented alley
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cafeteria + break room
retail
cold storage
testing prep + cafeteria kitchen commercial kitchen suite
sensory testing
foodlab retail marketing studio: retail
restaurant kitchen
one-way mirror
restaurant
equipment
russell st. elevation
existing retail to remain
section model
glass roof over alley
cafe
science lab suite: product testing
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covered alley
public oudoor seating
restaurant patio movie/ digital art screen
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Floor 2
Program Key: Detroit Food Academy Retail FoodLab Food Innovation Center Creative Workspace/ Marketing Studio Live-Work Residential Existing Building to Remain
Shared atrium with steel bridges
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sensory testing sensory testing one-way one-way mirror mirror focus group
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Floor 3
Program Key: Detroit Food Academy Retail FoodLab Food Innovation Center Creative Workspace/ Marketing Studio Live-Work Residential Existing Building to Remain
Shared atrium with steel bridges
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admin courtyard nurse
shared gallery + work space
presentation stair work
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glass roof over alley
resource room
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student product design studio
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school farm garden
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testing prep + cafeteria kitchen
foodlab marketing studio:
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one-way mirror focus group equipment
commercial greenhouse spire
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section model
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Program Key: Detroit Food Academy Retail FoodLab Food Innovation Center Creative Workspace/ Marketing Studio Live-Work Residential Existing Building to Remain
Shared atrium with steel bridges
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resource room
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Structure The structural system for the new portions of the project is site-cast concrete. The floor system is one-way concrete joists. Concrete columns are 24” x 24” and arranged in a 30’x30’ grid. In all locations, the concrete is polished and exposed as flooring for easy cleanup, thermal mass, and simple industrial look. Additional fireproofing is not required. The underside is left exposed at the ceiling of the atrium mixing space auditorium. Other locations have a dropped drywall ceiling to conceal plumbing, HVAC, and other practical functions. This system, which is often used in parking structures, was selected for its flexibility over time. It is oversized to allow for highstrength future uses, such as a productive green roof. The ribbed joists allow for easy The shape of this ceiling also contributes to acoustic dampening. The structural system, along with glazing and window to wall ratio on the SW facade at Russell Street, is designed for thermal heat storage during cold winter months. Operational windows on this elevation allow for natural ventilation in hot and humid summer months.
existing brick warehouse wall is prominently featured
24”x24” exposed concrete columns
exposed one-way joist system at auditorium and mixing space
lightweight stainless steel bridge is hung from concrete slab roof
skylights in roof over atrium
One-way concrete joist system section and plan details, from Architect’s Handbook
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Wall Details
New Terra Cotta Wall Section
White textured terra cotta rainscreen cladding material at new school walls
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24” SITECAST CONCRETE OPEN WEB JOIST FLOORS
WHITE TERRA COTTA RAINSCREEN SYSTEM ON STEEL STUDS 30”X30” SITECAST CONCRETE COLUMNS BEHIND
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Process
Midterm mixing space rendering
Midterm model
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Atrium Mixing Space
Container Retail Pedestrian Bridge
Gratiot Outdoor Gathering Space
Final model
Shared Auditorium, School Entrance, Old Brick Wall As Wayfinding Device
Presentation Boards
Final Review
Midterm Review
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...thank you to family and friends, old and new, who supported me through this season of change. And especially to my Grandma, Barb Ledbury, who always inspired me to work with what I had, to live up to my promises, and do the best I could to build a better future for everybody.