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Carrie Yap
Urban Design Portfolio MSc. Urban Design with Distinction B.A. Urban Studies and Geography contact email: yapcarrie.s@gmail.com twitter: CarrieSyap Linkedin: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/ carrie-yap/78/681/514/
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URBAN DESIGN & PLANNING
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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ADDITIONAL WORK
a. Urban Design & PLANNING
Analysis
MCA Experiencing Spaces Understanding the Existing place SWOT
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strategies
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Master planning
Street Hierarchy Green Space Hierarchy Block Plan Strategy Foundation Master plan
Coding Street Sections Visualizing 3D Modeling
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Analysis
The analysis section explores the skills typically required within an urban design project. Its purpose as a section is to understand the place in question from the historical, current, environmental, political, or social point of view.
Legend Area Social Interaction Social Imagineability Social IRestoration
Kinetic Sensory Threshold *Negative experiences are hatched or zig-zagged and in the same colour
MCA
MCA or multiple centrality analysis is a tool developed by the University of Strathclyde. Its purpose is to understand the centrality of a street network (pedestrian or vehicular) based on a system of nodes and segments. Four types of maps are produced from the MCA: global closeness, local closeness, betweeness, and straightness which each serve thier own purpose.It is a useful tool for not only understanding the current environment but the effect a change to an environment may have. Tools: Arc GIS and Python
Experiencing Places This analysis strategy is based off the tehniques of Gordon Cullen and Kevin Lynch. It explores how different demographic groups may perceive a space whether it be positive or negative.
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Lack of connectivity due to built form (cul-de-sacs)
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Low enrollment at St.John’s T primary
whelming vehicular activity
Houses front one another rather W than the street
Drawing the existing place Understanding the current built environment is important because it determines what changes need to be made and how they should be done.
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SWOT is an acronym for “strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats”. After the built environment is understood it is an important that maps out what is working and what is not based on all the evidence gathered.
Ped Shed
Ped shed or Pedestrian Shed measures the walkability of an area baseed on a 200m and 400m radius from an identified node.
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Once the built environment is understood, strategies are developed to determine what should occur next in the process. Strategies consists of both long-term and short-term strategies.
Street hierarchy
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Queen Street train station
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Foundation Masterplan
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Master planning
The act of master planning is essentially a long-term vision/strategy for what a place will look like in the future. It is a detailed version of the strategies outlined previously
Master plan
Local street-low density Public pavement width: 1.6m Street width: 5.8 m Street Type: Local Road/ Woonerf Front Garden: 3.1 m
Public pavement width: 2.9 m Street width: 0 m Street Type: non existent before
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Coding-Plot based urbanism
Street sections
Hand drawing
Visualizing-Rendering
3D models
Community Development
Tactical Urbanism
Tactical urbanism are small changes to an area that produce a long term effect. It is an economical method of testing changes to a place
1 2014 Papercity exhibition
Papergirl YYC
Papergirl Calgary is the “art of giving”. It is a grassroots initiative that uses art as a tool for community development and education. At the core of it, it is about making art accessible to everyone.
Every year, Papergirl Calgary has an annual call out to artists to submit their work. The work is exhibited free to the public in an effort to achieve the papergirl mandate of “making art accessible to everyone.”
2 2 2014 Artist trading card event
Papergirl YYC hosted an artist networking event in the form of artist trading cards. Artists had the chance to be creative and meet other artists. This was our chance to expand Calgary’s artistic community.
3 2014Giftervention “make art while giving art”
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Papergirl YYC hosted their annual giftervention, where donated art from the exhibits are given randomly to people on the streets. This year, we decided to make a chalk trail with our bike in an effort to raise awareness about public art and Calgary’s new cycle track.
Additional Work
Jane’s walk leader
In 2013, I hosted a walk named “Sex and the City: A female perspective of Calgary’s inner city. Using the theories of Jane Jacobs, we analyzed Calgary’s streets from the perspective of a young urban female and discussed examples of good and bad street design and what can be done to improve it.
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Spacing magazing competition finalist
Infographics
Laneways are one of the most underutilized spaces in the urban landscape. As Parkdale undergoes increasing real estate pressures, affordable space for community uses and small businesses is becoming scarce. Lane N Queen E Lansdowne in Parkdale has been identified as a site with the opportunity to provide services and revitalize the community.
Parkdale Neighbourhood Improvement Area
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The Laneway Garden Market design reclaims an underutilized laneway in Parkdale by installing 20 dual-functional garden plots / market kiosks. The area extending from the corner of Queen St and West Lodge Ave into the laneway is transformed into a community garden on weekdays and a pop-up market on weekends. The vision is to provide accessible and inclusive space for surrounding residents. The Garden Market presents opportunities to educate residents about urban agriculture and build capacity for local entrepreneurship. It is a place for interaction, connection, and empowerment. Laneway Garden Market: A commmunity opportunity!
BUILD OUT AREA
West Lodge Ave
Lansdowne Ave. Queen Street West
about PARKDALE South Parkdale is home to a high concentration of low-income and marginalized populations. It is an inner city neighbourhood in one of Toronto’s Neighbourhood Improvement Areas. Within 300 m of the laneway site are three Toronto Community Housing buildings with a total of 800 units. More than 400 seniors live in these buildings, representing a need for an accessible public space and supported programming.
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Lansdowne Ave.
Laneways are one of the most underutilized spaces in the urban landscape. As Parkdale undergoes increasing real estate pressures, affordable space for community uses and small businesses is becoming scarce. Lane N Queen E Lansdowne in Parkdale has been identified as a site with the opportunity to provide services and revitalize the community.
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The Laneway Garden Market design reclaims an underutilized laneway in Parkdale by installing 20 dual-functional garden plots / market kiosks. The area extending from the corner of Queen St and West Lodge Ave into the laneway is transformed into a community garden on weekdays and a pop-up market on weekends. The vision is to provide accessible and inclusive space for surrounding residents. The Garden Market presents opportunities to educate residents about urban agriculture and build capacity for local entrepreneurship. It is a place for interaction, connection, and empowerment. Laneway Garden Market: A commmunity opportunity! Ownership of this space may fall under the the local community organizations that exist in the area including Greenest City, Parc, or West Neighbourhood house. A partnership with the local existing businesses is also recommended.
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West Lodge Ave
The Laneway Garden Market was a submission to the NextCity Toronto Competition. The project was shortlisted as one of the Top 30 Projects across Canada.
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Two rows of garden plots / market kiosks extend from Queen St along West Lodge Ave and continue into the laneway. The dual garden-market design creates opportunities for urban agriculture as well as small businesses. The low-cost wood materials make the design affordable and feasible to implement. The waist-height garden plots allow residents, particularly seniors to enjoy upright gardening without
corner of Queen St West & West Lodge Ave. risks to their backs. A total of 20 plots together creates a community garden and fosters a sense of shared responsibility. The removable tabletops transform the plots into temporary market kiosks that can be used by gardeners, artists and other local vendors on days of pop-up farmers and artisan market. The collective pop-up market addresses the needs for affordable retail space in Parkdale and helps to build a stronger local economy.
view of the laneway, looking west from West Lodge ave
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DIRECT ACCESSIBLE CONNECTION
Direct pedestrian route is incorporated in some provided through the planters to function as laneway between pedestrian rest stops. Lansdowne Ave & West Lodge Ave while maintaining vehicular access for local traffic. Flat unit pavers of contrasting colours provide for barrier-free connection and at the same time highlight the pedestrian realm. Seating is
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RESTAURANT PATIOS
Existing restaurants are restaurants along the encouraged to extend south side of the their businesses outdoor garden market. by participating in the garden market. Opportunities for exterior patios are identified behind existing
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A variety of place making components are added to the laneway which include decorative overhead lighting, way-finding signs, and a community mural along the empty walls. The mural presents opportunity to engage and train residents and to develop a community vision for the garden market.
COMMUNITY GATHERING SPACES The corner of Queen Street and West Lodge Avenue is a place for sitting, playing, meeting, gathering, and people-watching. It creates a gateway and promotes an inclusive environment, where community interaction and connectivity take place. The gathering
around garden plots also presents opportunity to educate residents about environmental issues and healthy living as part of the local urban agriculture initiative.
YAP HOUSE
The YAP HOUSE is a small boutique millinery shop. I embarqued on this journey as a personal means to release my creative energy. I have trained with millners from Australia, Singapore, and in the upcoming year in New York. This shop is currently in its infancy but I have participated in a few exhibitions and am featured as a a “Missing Chapters story� with the Asian Heritage Foundation.