Anneke Hoskins & Connor Minzes | Rekindling Queensgate

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REKINDLING QUEENSGATE

A STUDY IN PUBLIC SPACE, WALKABILITY, AND MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT ANNEKE HOSKINS & CONNOR MINZES

During the urban renewal phase of the 1960s, the west side of Cincinnati, Ohio was razed to the ground and irrevokably separated from the urban core of the city by Interstate 75. The area west of the highway was then re-imagined as a bustling warehouse district that could make money for the city. What we got instead was an empty warehouse district that many people have no reason to go over to, unless they are visiting a museum. Our urban plan adresses this issue and more as we work to re-kindle the community of the area alongside a city wide transit plan and multimodal station.

STUDY OF CINCINNATI

EXAMINING ELEMENTS THAT MAKE THE EXISTING URBBAN FABRIC

CORRIDOR CUTS

URBAN CORE FIGURE GROUND POPULATION DENSITY

EMPLOYEES PER SQUARE MILE

ROADWAYS

RAIL AND AIR

SOCIOECONOMICS

DEMOGRAPHICS

PROPOSED STREETCAR

PROPOSED METRO TRANSIT

URBAN CENTRAL LOCATIONS

GREENCOVER

LANDMARKS & WALKABILITY

CURRENT FIGURE GROUND

HISTORIC FIGURE GROUND

PROPOSED FIGURE GROUND

PAST TRANSIT

ROADWAYS

PREVIOUS VS EXISTING GRID

LOCALIZED ACTIVITY

FIVE POINTS OF INTERVENTION RESULTS OF THE URBAN STUDY

Population density is focused around The creation of the highway the urban core and to the Northeast decimated half of the urban core. Metro Transit density reflects population density

The Ohio River and watershed ecology is very industrialized, ruining the habitat.

Recreate the urban fabric of the past to reconnect with Over-the-Rhine Create ecological habitat through the creation of park and open space along the waterlines.

Currently our station site, Union Terminal, is the Cincinnati Museum Center Remove the museum program to new buildings nearby, creating a museum district.

Greencover in the urban core reflects a void Add urban park space into the fabric to bridge neighborhood divides

URBAN PRINCIPLES

DESIGN EXTRACTED FROM INTERVENTION

PROPOSED TRANSPORTATION DESIGNING TRANSPORT FOR A CITY DOUBLING IN SIZE

DESIGNING GREENSPACE

Our Cincinnati Metro system is based of a study done for the city in 2002 that unfortunatley never came to fruition. The proposed system would first bring back the streetcar and incline systems. The routes connect to the major healthcare center of “Pill Hill”, the two largest universities, Newport, KY, and the West Side/Price Hill. This is an attempt to make the Cinccinnati hills more traversable without a car. The light rail/subway system then connects the spread out Cincinnati suburbs with the urban core, allowing easier access to downtown for people living outside of the city. The routes also offer direct connection to the CVG airport from our multimodal transit site.

In our study, we found that greencover was lacking in the urban core, especially in the west side and along the waterways. We went about mitigating that in the Urban Core in two ways. First, we brought greenspace back into by creating parks. Lincoln Park in front of Union Terminal and expanding Laurel Park over I-75 along Ezzard Charles Drive. Second, our “complete street” plans introduce flora at a human scale, easy to interact with. As for the waterways, our proposal includes a return to green along Mill Creek and a portion of the river. The new Mill Creek Park includes a levee separating the wetland habitat area from the more traditonal park space. This levee would allow for some flooding, as a natural cycle for the habitat.

DESIGNING DENSITY

ZONING COMMUNITY

The grid that exists on the west side currently is designed for large trucks and huge warehouses. It is unfriendly to the pedestrian and difficult to navigate without a map. To re-define the urban scale of the Queensgate area, we looked at the density that was removed in the 1960’s and attempted to use that block size as a scaling factor. The result was a walkable district that visibly shifts between commercial, multi-use, and residential zones making wayfiding much more feasible.

In order to create a feasible community, we separated areas into different programmatic “zones”. The type and size of building that would go into that zone was determined solely by the program. Using that idea, we studied the Cincinnati zoning guidelines that separated by type of building. These guidelines included minimum & maximum lot size, setbacks, height limit, and fire breaks. This was used to create the overall massing that is shown below with the urban plan.

USING THE SCALE OF THE GRID OF THE PAST TO REURBANIZE

CREATING HABITAT AND URBAN RELIEF FOR THE COMMUNITY

STUDIES IN TECHNICAL AND PROGRAMMATIC ZONING TO CREATE A COHEASIVE COMMUNITY


URBAN PLAN

CREATING HABITAT AND URBAN RELIEF FOR THE COMMUNITY

COMPLETE STREETS

A HUMAN SCALE RESPONSE TO TRANSIT

EZZARD CHARLES

THE BOULEVARD LEADING TO THE STATION

EZZARD CHARLES

DALTON AVE

A DIRECT INTERFACE WITH THE STATION

DALTON AVE


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