Chau Tran
Portfolio
Content
1/ Post-zone Scenarios for Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
2/ Armature Urbanism Sao Paulo / Schindler Global Award 2017
3/ Masonry Design Competition Undisciplined CMU / Book
4/ Social Activator
5/ The Thick 2D Indeterminate Futures
6/ Work: CampauBanglatown Neighborhood Framework Plan
ca. 2630–2611 B.C
ca. 1417–1379 B.C
ca. 560–75
7/ Work: Breaking the Diagrams / Upzoning Framework for East New York
650–750
A.H. 755/A.D. 1354–55
ca. 1319
1581
16th century
ca. 1600
ca. 1711–56
1801
1804
8/ Work: Elements Research at the Met
ca. 1810–18
19th century
19th century
19th century
ca. 1905–15
ca. 2150–2010 B.C.
5th–6th century
second half 17th century
18th century
ca. 1780
19th century
probably 19th century
19th century
19th–20th century
19th–20th century
late 19th century
late 19th–early 20th century
1910
1915
1915
ca. 1923
1935–43
ca. 1184–1153 B.C.
ca. 6th–7th century A.D.
15th century style
second half 16th century
last quarter of 16th century
ca. 1675
1600–1700
18th century
18th or 19th century
ca. 1800
1882–84
second half 19th century
19th–20th century
late 19th–early 20th century
1900
ca. 1905
ca. 2458–2446 B.C.
ca. 2446–2389 B.C.
ca. 2353–2323 B.C.
ca. 2289–2255 B.C.
ca. 1981–1550 B.C.
ca. 5th century B.C.
380–362 B.C.
380–343 B.C.
332–30 B.C.
ca. 300 B.C.
dated 533–43
ca. 6th century
late 10th century
1350–1400
early 15th or 19th century
ca. 2381–2323 B.C.
completed by 10 B.C.
dated A.H. 1119/A.D. 1707
ca. 1478–82
1506–15
ca. 1547–48
1680
ca. 1682–84
1695–1700
ca. 1720 or later
1748
ca. 1768–72, with later additions
1765–66, remodeled 1769–71
1763–71
1766–69
1931
1933
9/ Drawings Sketches
1991
1933
1969–71
1989, printed 1991
1908–9
1915
1930–31
1931
Qianlong period (1736–95)
1765–67
1879–82
1905
2013
ca. 1774, with later additions
ca. 1785, with later additions
ca. 1810
1912–15
1989
CHAU TRAN
Newark, New Jersey 973-955-3622 chautrancmt26@gmail.com
EDUCATION
GPA 3.83 Master of Infrastructure Planning 09/2017 — 12/2018
GPA 3.83
WORK EXPERIENCES New York City Department of City Planning Assistant Urban Designer Manhattan, New York 06/2019 — present
Interboro Partners Urban Design Intern Brooklyn, New York 05/2018 — 02/2019
OPerA Studio Internship - Architecture Brooklyn, New York 12/2016 — 08/2017
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Internship - Architecture
Manhattan, New York 07/2016 — 11/2016
LeCavalier R+D Research Assistant Brooklyn, New York 05/2016 — 07/2016
Zoning for Coastal Flood Resiliency — I assisted the zoning planners at NYC DCP with updating the Flood Text 2 zoning framework for the New York City’s floodplain. Staten Island/Bronx Special Natural Resources Districts — I created layout and graphic for the homeowner's guide for the Bronx Special Natural Resources District. Campau/Banglatown Neighborhood Framework Plan-Detroit — I produced existing condition reports, community meeting presentations, and a 1:1000 scale plan drawing of Campau/Banglatown’s existing conditions and the 3 proposed frameworks: open space, mobility, housing and economic developments for the city of Detroit. Detroit Zoning — I worked on engagement tools for City of Detroit’s community and stakeholders’ zoning meetings. Residential and Commercial Projects — I worked on detailed construction documents, design development, as well as physical model making and site visit. East New York Neighborhood Study— I produced research materials for a presentation by OPerA Studio for the New York Build Expo in 2017. In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day Symposium — I helped the architecture curator Beatrice Galilee with organizing an annual architecture symposium at the Met, compiling research materials and directing volunteer groups to help at the event. Elements at the Met - Research Project — I helped documenting the elements at the Met by researching the museum’s archive and collection. Roof Garden Installation for Summer 2017 — I helped the curator and artist Adrián Villar Rojas with his design for the museum’s roof installation 2017. Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016 — I worked on a research project with professor LeCavalier for the Oslo Architecture Triennale — After Belonging: Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit.
HONORS | AWARDS
PROFICIENCY
Competitions
Architect Magazine — Studio Prize/Sloan Award 2019
Rhinoceros 5.0
Schindler Global Award 2019
First Honorable Mention — Mumbai, India with the NJIT’s Infrastructure Planning team Second Honorable Mention — São Paulo, Brazil with the NJIT’s Infrastructure Planning team
Sketchup
School of Architecture Medal Undergraduate - 2018 School of Architecture Thesis Award - 2018 School of Architecture Library Award - 2018 J Frank Peratoni Endowed Scholarship - 2017 KSS Architects Endowed Scholarship - 2016
Autodesk Revit
MoMA Young Architects Program 2018 — core team that helped professor Jesse LeCavalier’s proposal Shelf Life NJIT Design Showcase 2015,2016,2017,2018 Micro-unit Competition - NJIT — First prize - 2016
ESRI-ArcGIS
Schindler Global Award 2017
Scholarships & Awards 2015 — 2018
Exhibitions 2015 — 2018
VOLUNTEER WORKS 2015 — 2018
The Architectural League of New York — League Prize 2016 Alternative Spring Break — 2015, 2016, 2017 FIGMENT NYC 2015 — Art Festival at Governor Island
Vray AutoCAD Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop Language: English Vietnamese
Post-zone Scenarios for Ho Chi Minh City Thesis Project, Undergraduate Level Year 5, Spring 2018 Critic / Marcelo Lopez Dinardi
In my architecture thesis, I study the relationship of trade, infrastructure and manufacturing zones in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and conceive 6 post-zone scenarios for the city. Through understandign the context of trade, infrastructure and zone development in Ho Chi Minh City, the mixture of facts and fictions, realities and predictions, projections and speculations of the dynamic of developments in the city, I thought of six speculations to reconsider the zone’s with the frameworks and themes of infrastructure: energy, water, utilities, food production, productive landscape, open space, density, logistics and recycling as ways to rethink the city’s territory and locality.
SPECULATION 1- CANAL REPOPULATION AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY Condition: The removal of the canal slum population which makes up of 14,000 families that need to be relocated and provided for economic and social opportunities and relief in the transition period. The scheme is envisioned as a 10-20 years period to help with the transition period for the canal people while they are removed from the canal slums. Eventually, it is envisioned that the people populate the canal will have enough social and economic freedom, and support from the government to move into the permanent housings being constructed along the canal. By moving all canal slum (14,000 families), and making the zone an educational complex, and make part of the riverfront become a tourist zone, it helps generate money and work for students and canal people, and provide economic relief and mobility for them in the transition period.
SPECULATION 2 -WATER AS AN ARMATURE FOR GROWTH Condition: extreme flooding and water pollution issue makes the government decide to deal with water to alleviate environmental issues in the city. Water (river and canal) are channel into the zone, create a system that connect and open it to the neighborhood and surround. Water and landscape system to retain, slow down flood, and has a water treatment facility to treat polluted water. Water provides leisure and civic space, grow fish and food, transports people and goods and activities. The strategy involves diffusing the edges on site, by working with the buildings, open space, the river, and the street grid and a host of operations: step, absorb, cut, stretch, filter, and canopy. Water also infiltrate the self-built houses as a relief zone with play spaces and connect them to the riverfront. The streets now also converted to contain a system of bioswale to further slow down water.
SPECULATION 3 - FOOD PRODUCTION FOOD LOGISTICS AND CANAL ECONOMY This speculation considers productive landscape+food production+ open space and culture as an armature for growing and strengthen local food network and local vendor’s economy. This continues the prospect for canal people’s work in the economic mobility speculation. By employing locals and previous manufacturing workers to work in growing, producing, packaging, logistics in food production, culture and education, the project considers a network of productive landscape that infiltrate the buildings, open space, by the water, the neighborhood and along transport system. An open framework of farms allow for future’s farming needs.
SPECULATION 4 - ENERGY PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE Condition: Paris summit pressure Vietnam for clean energy reform, result in a boom in all new types of energy. The scheme is envisioned to be the future for some fragments in the zone, using utilities, energy and productive landscape as an armature to help remediate the zone and the guide informality growth. by the self-built houses are the supporting infrastructure, as the first step of intervention are telecommunications tower, water tower, and energy hybrid playground. Next to the house density are a complex/system of small data center, greenhouses, which feed fishfarm, telecommunications tower, open space. The zone also contain hybrid of farms, greenhouses and energy production complex, and a solar farm. Along the canal are the recreation and landscape/ walk zone, create a new public park inside the zone. Also along the canal is a system of solar-activated floating water purification system, and a logistics/data hub, using the energy from geothermal energy to heat the data center, whose excess heat further produce heat for the fish farms and greenhouses above.
SPECULATION 5 -LOGISTICS HUB, DATA CENTER AND POST-INDUSTRIAL PLAY-SCAPE Condition: the switch to services economy makes many heavy industry in zone 3 out of operation, turned into industrial park, and a zone of logistics and data center. A transport system serves as an armature that weaves through the whole complex of logistics, data center, playscape and connects people and the movement of goods. Along the transport loop is also a series of platform that connects and go down to the roof of the transport line. Attached to the transport loop is also a series of solar-powered lighting system, and a series of pods serving as hotels for tourists and workers. In the center of the site (fragment), below the data center is also a work-live zone, import/ export zone for goods and produces grown in the new reclaimed lots here. Marsh land system is utilized to revitalize the habitat here, growing different species, food, and serve as flood control. A complex of water treatment treats the contaminated river and canal here. Industrial complex such as thermal power plant and water tanks are also incorporated into the play-scape.
SPECULATION 6 - REMEDIATION, RECYCLE, RESTORE POST-INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE Condition: Pressure from the many stakeholders, especially the Ministry of Natural Resources pressure the government to move the heavy industry out from the zone. The zone is now converted into a system of recycling and remediative operations (waste, energy, trash, etc.), and channel the bio-products, heat and water to feed the productive landscape. Pollution and trash from the river are fed into the water treatment facility to treat the polluted water from the heavy industry on site. Contaminated marsh land is restored, treated and remediated with new technology that also remediate the soil, and harvest water. By channeling water inside to infiltrate the zone, it also allows the opportunity for productive landscape and floating operations on the water: solar farms, wind energy, fish farm, water collection, and green houses.
CONTEXT COLLAGES — HISTORIAL, SOCIAL, IDEOLOGICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, CULTURAL
Colonial Legacy
Social Transformation During Colonial Time
Production — Aspiration
Production Production Production
Urban Growth and Enclaves
Urban Growth and Zones
Realities
...and Contradictions
The City That We are Familiar With...
...and the New City | Bypassing
Armature Urbanismo The Schindler Global Award | Competition 2016/2017 Second Honorable Mention Year 4, Fall 2016 / Master of Infrastructure Planning Studio Critic / Jesse LeCavalier Contribution: board layout coordinator, designer
The departure of the CEAGESP market is treated as an opportunity to critically examine its assets and their impact, influence, and relationship with the site. The revitalization of the site begins by identifying existing resources, distinctive activities and convergences of energy. A framework of linked strategies induces growth and development during and after the market’s transition, and envisions a more dynamic site capable of openly involving its users as active participants in the production of the city. Operating through established socio-political mechanisms and at the infrastructural, architectural, and tactical scale, Armature Urbanism generates an interdependent system of physical, social, and cultural resources. An incrementally evolving infrastructural element, referred to as the Armature, becomes the driver of this new form of urbanism. The Armature is introduced as a conceptual tool, emerging through the connection of vacant lots and decaying properties selected for redevelopment and renovation to stitch together the remaining communities, activities, and assets on the site. At the infrastructural scale, the Armature provides utilities and services throughout the site, ensuring access to all emerging forms of urbanity. At the architectural scale, the Armature incentivizes growth and development of new hybrid programs while strengthening existing activities, and at the tactical scale operates as a framework for development of non-permanent human scaled interventions. The physical outcome of an Armature-based Urbanism is one with ramifications of resiliency for the site, fostering opportunity for growth, involvement, innovation, and cultural exchange through a hybridity of networks and spaces that enables flexibility and adaptability for the unpredictable nature of the city.
POTENTIAL MANIFESTATION OF STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
HYBRID CONDITIONS TO CULTIVATE COEXISTENCE Deploy residential mixed-use structures that host different programs and promote interactivity between various site users. ELEVATED HOTEL The elevated hotel allows for circulation to weave through the site from the opposite side of Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal. The covered plaza under the porous building creates market opportunities for tourists and locals to interact. The elevated hotel features balconies that overlook the Armature and roadway, and serves as an iconic attraction for the site, distinctly visible above the overpass.
Water Management
Electrical Bundle
Porous Pavement
Data Box Water Management
Water Management Electrical Bundle Data Box
URBAN PAVILION
“O” Court Offices
Along Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal, collaborative working offices for the incoming USP students and entrepreneurs are instituted, along with the O-Court retail shops and pavilions. The Armature runs adjacent to the lot, supplying an increase in density. Developers invest in the vacant land and provide a public square amenity; after investing in a dense area the developers then supply the Armature with a public park for the community.
Umbrella Dates
Lina Bo Mall
Pedestrial Bike Slope Sloped Park
Social Bike Parking
Electrical Bundle Data Box Water Management
EDUCATIONAL PAVILION An educational and recreational hub for the neighbourhood’s students, ranging from primary school kids to university students. The complex, with its meandering path, encourages activity and interaction while generating a place for gathering. Different scales of interventions provide amenities for both residents on site as well as the surrounding community.
Basketball Arena
Outdoor Game Pavilion
Indoor-Outdoor Educational Pavilion
Playground
Green Lounge
Skatepark
Vines Attack
FEIRA LEOPOLDINA To retain the existing spirit of the market, the integration and renovation of existing buildings is proposed to become absorbed by the Armature. The space is envisioned as a nexus of cultural and social interaction with mixed programs including retail, leisure, restaurants, and transit services.
Bike Share
Ecological Embankment
Food Truck Paradise
Electrical Bundle Data Box Social Interaction
Water Management
WAREHOUSE GYM An existing warehouse employs the skinning strategy and is stripped down to its framework, capable of providing lighting, sound, temporary cover, and other functions. An outdoor field occupies the space, creating a public athletic complex supported by the framework’s infrastructural capacities and supplied by the Armature’s pedestrian population.
Art Wall
Climbing Wall
Warehouse Gym Bike Charging Station
Sculpture Wii Park
Electrical Bundle Data Box Water Management
RIVER CONNECTION + WATER TREATMENT Through the use of an elevated system, the Armature extends across the river and connects to a water treatment facility, encouraging community engagement throughout the dispersed platforms and pockets overlooking the river and adjacent neighbourhoods.as an iconic attraction for the site, distinctly visible above the overpass.
Lookout Pocket
Water Basins
Treatment Platform
Elevated Pathway
Sediment
Rooftop Terrace
VILA BOĂŠMIA Warehouses are converted into mixed use clusters of locally-owned shops, cafĂŠs, and eateries serving the native artist and designer community. Visitors on the Armature encounter public installations and large artworks on display dotted between galleries and exhibition halls inserted into converted structures, while interspersed plazas and performance spaces create opportunity for spontaneous bursts of activity.
Food Kiosk
Elevated Plaza Outdoor Seating
Public Performance Scenic Overlook Art Roofscape Bike Sharing
Data Box Electrical Bundle Water Management
Pocket Parks
URBAN JUNGLE Located between Armatures, this mixed-use space combines recreation and retail with mid-rise residential. Retail on the ground with services lifted encourages passage through the open public space beneath, inviting a variety of uses.
Pocket Park
Rooftop Oasis
Porous Pavement
Plug-In Frames
LIVE / WORK / COMMUNITY CLUSTER
Tactical Density
Height Utilization
The aggregation of essential services within the site intends to achieve the coordination of systems and the efficiency of new hybrid typologies. The rules and regulations visualized in an Armature Urbanism can be deployed anywhere within the site and require a high degree of cooperation between neighbors and planning agencies of SĂŁo Paulo.
Allowable Street Coverage
Required Community Structure per x Units
Required Open Slots Per x Units
Dual-functioning Infrastructure
STUDENT + SENIOR + FARM COEXISTENCE This framework appropriates Elemental Housing. A frame is constructed, and then half of the spaces are used for living, while residents configure the remaining half for other uses. Next to the hydroponic farm is a community farm that serves the residents and also functions as a gathering space.
Hydroponic Farm
Adaptable Frame
Student and Senior Housing
Bike Charging Station
Agriculture Storage Bike Sharing Service
Community Farm Spring Festival
Student Workspace Drone Port Canopy
URBAN ABSORBER Picnic Patch
The Absorber typology temporarily provides retail and parking space, offsetting the businesses that are displaced by the removal of the CEAGESP market and absorbing the functions of buildings being renovated and moved. They are designed to flexibly accommodate changes in site use and to adapt gradually to the anticipated decline of vehicles, shifting from car sheds to multifunctional public spaces.
Cast Concrete Parking
Volleyball Court
Recreation Lot Social Bike Parking Parking Deck Gallery
Commercial Infill
PARK + BIKE HUB A large bike parking structure with sloped occupiable rooftops supports the increase in bike traffic along the Armature. Connection is available to bus transit for longer distance travels.
Social Bike Parking
Umbrella Date Pavilions
Slope Roof
Bus Stop Bus STop
TACTICAL URBAN INTERVENTIONS Non-permanent human scaled interventions that are easily implementable. These elements are deployed across the armature and provide a framework for development of program, density and activity.
Badminton Playground
Food Trucks
Food Plaza
Bus Library
Pixacao Art Scape
Multimodal Stop
RV Rest Stop
Bridge Overlook
Bike Share Service
Food Truck Paradise
Bridge Catwalk
Multimodal Stop
Algae Skin Office
Ecological Playground
CEAGESP Sports
Greenhouse Conversion
Solar Energy Collector
Bike Charging Station
Silo Residence
Drone Port Canopy
Farmer’s Market
Water Purification Basin
Water Treatment Overlook
Artist Exchange
Spring Festival
Sculpture Playground
Storm Management
Silo Festival
Silo Gala
Traffic Jelly
Food Cart
Car-Share Lot
Sculpture Park
Cultural Plaza
Rice Paddy Playground
Green Roof Platform
Skinned Warehouses
Zen Exchange
Interior Courtyard
MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDERS AS ACTIVE CONTRIBUTORS WHITE COLLAR WORKER The site had a strong business presence that needed to be preserved. Villa Lobos office park remained with its existing program. To enhance the commuting experience for the workers, new streets were introduced and transportation was modified to reduce traffic during rush hours.
CULTURAL PLAZA
DRONE PORT CANOPY
BLUE COLLAR WORKER The importance of the blue collar worker cannot be underestimated; this is an essential character for the construction and development of the phases of the site, responsible for maintenance and customer service. To facilitate his daily commute and navigate easily around the site new connections to the adjacent neighbourhoods were created.
BIKE CHARGING
BRIDGE OVERLOOK
ENTREPRENEUR To promote economic growth the site needed to become a resource for raising entrepreneurs, that become a catalyst for São Paulo’s economy. To host these activities incubator spaces were designed as individual or collaborative spaces to launch small companies, support warehouses for prototype production, testing and marketing.
CREATIVE DESIGNER
STUDENT
The site currently hosts several creative studios. This activity is enhanced by creating more spaces for design and collaboration between different disciplines. Open spaces in and out of the Armature become support for gathering and interaction.
VISITOR
The proximity to the University of SĂŁo Paulo ensures that students will no longer need to travel to hostels on the outskirts of the city; instead student, professor and senior housing is provided only four minutes away from the university. This ensures the safety of the students and brings life to the site.
SILO FESTIVAL
MULTIMODAL STOP
reg# 1792-974-3823
BADMINTON PLAYGROUND
SCULPTURE PARK
The site aims to become an attraction for people from different locations of SĂŁo Paulo. Visitors will enjoy the amenities of the site and be part of the new economy that will boost the status of Vila Leopoldina and adjacent areas, promoting new jobs and opportunities for informal pop shops and local businesses.
VILA BOĂŠMIA Warehouses are converted into mixed use clusters of locally-owned shops, cafĂŠs, and eateries serving the native artist and designer community. Visitors on the Armature encounter public installations and large artworks on display dotted between galleries and exhibition halls inserted into converted structures, while interspersed plazas and performance spaces create opportunity for spontaneous bursts of activity.
FEIRA LEOPOLDINA To retain the existing spirit of the market, the integration and renovation of existing buildings is proposed to become absorbed by the Armature. The space is envisioned as a nexus of cultural and social interaction with mixed programs including retail, leisure, restaurants, and transit services.
RIVER CONNECTION + WATER TREATMENT Through the use of an elevated system, the Armature extends across the river and connects to a water treatment facility, encouraging community engagement throughout the dispersed platforms and pockets overlooking the river and adjacent neighbourhoods.
URBAN PAVILION Along Av. Dr. GastĂŁo Vidigal, collaborative working offices for the incoming USP students and entrepreneurs are instituted, along with the O-Court retail shops and pavilions. The Armature runs adjacent to the lot, supplying an increase in density. Developers invest in the vacant land and provide a public square amenity; after investing in a dense area the developers then supply the Armature with a public park for the community.
SITE STRATEGY — FRAMEWORK TO GENERATE AN ARMATURE URBANISM INTENSIFY EXISTING RESOURCES Evaluate and prioritize existing resources on the site, strengthen current activity. Designate vacant lots for development.
Promote mixed-use and hybrid typologies to generate resilient urban activity. Facilitate new modes of work, live, and play through diverse, interdependent exchange and interaction.
CATALYZE ARMATURE GROWTH
EXPAND MULTIMODAL MOBILITY
Foster connections between renovated and repurposed structures; incorporate developing areas into evolving infrastructural network.
Connect to existing transit networks, enable newly emerging forms of mobility and establish efficient transportation hubs linked to the armature.
CULTIVATE ADAPTIBILITY
DIFFUSE SITE EDGES
Anticipate varying density scenarios and encourage flexible programming.
Local Worker (1/2 mile radius) Outer Worker
SPONSOR HYBRIDITY
Increase accessibility from Vila Leopoldina by activating street edge program.
SITE STRATEGY — MULTIMODAL MOBILITY CONNECT TO ADJACENCIES Integrate into the surrounding neighbourhoods to facilitate future growth and root the Armature into the urban fabric.
EXTEND STREET GRID Expand on existing street structure to increase site accessibility.
EXPAND BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN NETWORKS Promote environmentally friendly modes of transportation to reduce vehicular use.
IMPLEMENT CAR SHARING Alleviate traffic by creating opportunities to reduce vehicular use.
MERGE EXISTING AND NEW TRANSIT NETWORKS
OPTIMIZE TRANSIT SWITCH EFFICIENCY
Connect developing modes of transportation, such as an electric shuttle service, to existing city transit systems.
Link interchange points for rapid connection to alternate systems.
SITE STRATEGY — INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT TO SUPPORT OPPORTUNISTIC GROWTH RECLAIM UNDERUTILIZED LOTS
DEMOLISH UNDERUSED FACILITIES
Redevelopment of the site begins with acquisition of existing vacant lots, which become drivers of all successive site strategies. This initial step targets inactive spaces and proposes new functions and program in order for this fragment of the city to attain greater potential through reintegration of an Armature-based urban fabric. Phases are used to indicate the sequence of development not driven by a strict timelime or fixed-end product.
Vacant areas throughout the site are reclaimed and developed; simultaneous demolition of underused and deteriorating facilities clears the way for future Armature growth and new hybrid typologies, which will serve a multitude of site users.
Demolished Program Existing Program
Existing Program
Vacant Lots
Vacant Lots
ESTABLISH ARMATURE NODES
AMPLIFY NETWORK
With vacancies repurposed, older structures demolished or renovated, and Absorbers constructed, the Armatures begin to emerge. These bundled systems of infrastructure will provide connectivity between site components and resources, and support a hybrid urbanism. During the early stages of construction, two nodes of the Armature develop at the north and south ends of the site, linking to the Absorbers.
The next phase extends the Armatures toward the core of the site, stitching together renovated structures along the Armature’s route. Buildings are “reskinned” or combined, fusing them with site infrastructure and creating a series of interconnected public spaces throughout the network.
Armature
Armature
Emerging Armature
Emerging Armature
New Construction
New Construction
Renovated Program
Renovated Program
Demolished Program
Demolished Program
Existing Program
Existing Program
Vacant Lots
Vacant Lots
RENOVATE EXISTING RESOURCES
ABSORB AND CREATE URBAN ACTIVITY
Certain structures embedded with local knowledge and tradition are integral to the fundamental steps of site redevelopment and are targeted for upgrades. The concrete plant at the south end of the site is a key resource and will be tapped to contribute its materials to the large scale development of upcoming phases.
The intitial phase continues with the deployment of Urban Absorbers, new facilities that will function initially as large parking structures for expected increase in use. The absorbers are designed to flexibly accommodate changes in site use and to adapt gradually to the anticipated decline of vehicles, shifting from car sheds to multifunctional public spaces.
New Construction Renovated Program
Renovated Program
Demolished Program
Demolished Program
Existing Program
Existing Program
Vacant Lots
Vacant Lots
ACTIVATE GROWTH
DEPLOY MULTI-SCALE ELEMENTS
The Armature network progresses with the extension of the MLP building over the river, allowing residents of nearby Jaguare more convenient access to the site’s expanding resources, while residents within the site’s favelas are relocated to newly built housing in a participatory process. The Armature along the river, coupled with new purification basins within the existing waterway, becomes a crucial element in the preservation and restoration of the riparian landscape.
The final phase of redevelopment introduces large scale hybrid facilities including new housing, schools, civic center extensions, and mixed-use commercial spaces, as well as tactical scale interventions and infr astructural support. The construction and completion of these elements is facilitated by the Armature’s established physical and social infrastructure. Upon culmination of this phase, full site mobility and utilization is expected.
Armature
Armature
Emerging Armature
Emerging Armature
New Construction
New Construction
Renovated Program
Renovated Program
Demolished Program
Demolished Program
Existing Program
Existing Program
Vacant Lots
Vacant Lots
SITE STRATEGY — DIFFUSE SITE EDGES Modifications to the porosity of the existing boundaries expand access to the site’s interior and integrate it with its surroundings.
CONNECT ACROSS RIVER Formerly a dead zone, the river’s edge becomes activated as the MLP Armature extends across its body to the dense neighbourhoods of Jaguare. A new crossing coming in the form of an elevated framework encourages movement to and from the site by bridging over the existing bands of transportation infrastructure on either side of the water. The basin facilities within the river treat the highly polluted water as well as attract visitors and boost awareness of the systems that allow the site to function efficiently. This hybridized edge condition creates social connections and environmentally driven mechanisms.
STITCH NEW AND EXISTING The strategy utilized along Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal at the northeast edge of the site disintegrates the pre-existing barriers which denied Vila Leopoldina residents free circulation in and out of the CEAGESP Market. By extending the existing grid from the old neighbourhood to integrate the site with its context, programmatic interventions are designed to be more edge friendly and provide a high level of site porosity. Many new structures along Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal have been raised in order to create gateways past the perimeter and usher visitors into public spaces.
REVITALIZE CONNECTIONS The shorter edges of the site, along the north and south sides, welcome outlying transit systems and recreation spaces into the area as well as set the stage for potential Armature extensions to other spaces of the city and beyond. At the north end, the existing train station links up with the new shuttle system, extending the reach of public transportation to the core of the site. The south end repeats the patterns of the Parque Estadual Cândido Portinari with the Armature acting as an ecological pathway branching toward the river. The outward crawl of Armature Urbanism extending to the greater São Paulo region begins at the site boundary.
SITE STRATEGY — CULTIVATE ADAPTABILITY Anticipate varying density scenarios that encourage flexible programming.
Diagram Legend Armature Urban Contributor (Visitor)
STABILITY
FROM INSIDE OUT
The Urban Armature provides varying types of public space for users and acts as a conduit for site transit. Visitors, or urban contributors, utilize the three levels of Armature and foster growth of the local economy through their interactions with program. Clustered living spaces spread throughout the site make it possible for inhabitants to interact with visitors on a regular basis. Population density is high with multiple areas of intensity in and around the Armature with live, work, and play all blending together within a hybridized urban enivronment.
Local businesses build strength and housing expands. The Armature, once filled with open space and site transit, is filled with active shops and offices as resident living quarters take up the surrounding spaces. The site welcomes the return of urban contributors and the rise of socioeconomic prosperity.
URBAN AMPLIFICATION
CRISIS! POTENTIAL DOWNTURN
The Armature proves itself as an economic driver as the site experiences a greater number of visitors therefore accumulating higher income. This rise in economic well-being creates a larger workforce and work areas intensitfy in density and productivity. Inhabitants maintain their locations on site and also experience a rise in population.
BOOM! ECONOMIC UPSURGE The intensity of program is lost as densities and functions saturate the site. The armature is still defined by its high level of visitor activity and new dynamics are produced as hybrids blend even further. Population density is well beyond that of SĂŁo Paulo but the area still functions smoothly due to the flexibility of program and expandability of structures.
The natural flux in local and global economy coupled with any number of socio-political frictions puts Armature Urbanism to the test as unemployment rates rise and site tourism evaporates. Small clusters of work and living spaces maintain some of their integrity but as the environment deteriorates, conditions become unstable.
REGENERATION From economic driver to residential provider, the Armature makes a shift in function and program just before an economic recession. The structure and resources built into this urban anchor allows for the restructuring of communities within the site. The depletion of site visitors and the major decline in business activity leaves residents with very little. The infrastructure and connectivity of the Armature pulls locals together and breeds new housing typologies along with small, locally supported businesses within its periphery.
Urban Inhabitant (Local Urban Producer (Worker)
Organizational Bias Year 4, Fall 2016 Critic / Jesse LeCavalier Assignment 4: Crisis — Multiple Agencies Group work of 5| Duration: 2 weeks
In this phrase, agencies/organizations get together and develop a scheme that addresses the priorities of all agencies, together with the premise: climate change. Taking into account issues such as food shortage, energy shortage, and new modes of working, living, and recreation in 2040, the projects propose hybrid conditions of working, living, moving, and production of food. Ecological layers are also conceived to tie the hybrid fields together.
Existing Site Conditions
Residential Towers
Office Pods
Retails and
Housing
Markets Housing Pods
Elevated Housing
Hydroponic Farms
Recreational Pavilions On The Water
Housing On the Water Utility Facilities
First Iteration of Model showing vertical farms, cultural centers, mat housing, river and river recreational facilities, worker spaces, water and utility tower, and market halls.
Water Towers
Residential Towers
Office and Retail
Utility Facilities Housing and
Housing
Office Pods
Framework
Elevated Transportation
Housing
Algae Skin Office
Electric Tram Cultural Facilities Electric Charging Station
Existing
Cultural Facilities
Train Station
Commericial Spine
Second Iterations of the model showing hybrid conditions to promote co-existence such as living, working, utilities, transportation, cultural facilities, commerical facilities, etc.
Hydrohoods of To-morrow Schindler Global Award 2019 - First Honorable Mention with NJIT Infrastructure Planning Team Task: Project Coordinator, Project Development, Layout Designer
Hydrohoods of To-morrow revolves around the hydrohood—a new net-zero neighborhood unit that will equitably and sustainably shape the future of Mumbai’s Eastern Waterfront. The hydrohood concept reverses the trend of Mumbai’s unsustainable, inequitable, and ever-expanding water supply system, and in doing so, leapfrogs the development of a traditional, top-down distribution network to create a waterfront framework organized around smart and equitable water management. Our waterfront framework is anchored by five hydrohoods, each with its own mix of housing, workplaces, and public spaces that takes inspiration from the existing uses and practices currently found on site. While each hydrohood has its own character, all hydrohoods collect, retain, clean, and reuse water through bluegreen infrastructure. Our net-zero waterfront learns from existing practices of resource modesty and proposes a new hydrohood model that adds to the Mumbai housing stock, increases accessibility regionally and locally, improves environmental conditions, increases public open space, and creates educational and job opportunities for upward mobility.
Legend Hydrohood Boundary
High Density Along Stitches
“Resist” Waterfront Linear Park
New Open Space
“Delay” Linear Park
School as Neighborhood Center
Water Retention Areas
New BRT Stop
Mangrove Buffer Islands
New Development
Accessible, Equitable, and Sustainable Waterfront of To-morrow
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Walkable WATER centric Neighborhoods WATER centric Neighborhoods introduces new hydrophilic housing that serves a mix of income+lifestyles. Housing in proximity to jobs encourages people to walk more. Each Neighborhood has its own identity that builds off of what’s there.
Jobs + Schools within Walking Distance New Mixed Housing E-W stitches through the school
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This hydrohood can function as a catalyst for integration of sustainable and equitable water access in Mumbai. The hydrohood framework is based off four strategies. The first strategy establishes the hydrohoods based off topography where each serves as watershed areas. The second strategy establishes the walkable neighborhood that incorporates live-work and hydrophilic housing. Each neighborhood’s foci integrates transit, blue-green space, and schools that are accessible to all residents. Each neighborhood’s focii varies based off its economic identity. The third strategy proposes east-west connectors as stitches that increase mobility locally and regionally and create the opportunity for blue-green strategies. The fourth strategy proposes north-south spines through the site that bundle blue-green infrastructure and public open space with transit. These spines serve as a buffer and delay strategy for the flood-prone waterfront. The composite strategies delay, resist, store, and reuse stormwater. It delays along the spine, resists with the mangrove islands and buffered soft edge, stores in retention reservoirs, and discharges by the stitch.
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Provide Continuous Waterfront Path
Hydrohood of To-morrow Campaign The hydrohood of to-morrow campaign kicks off as an advocady process for the net-zero waterfront. The campaign features strategies for recycling, harvesting, and conserving water through new building types that collect, store and reuse water, and additional methods for harvesting water such as retention ponds, water tower, green roof, and water plaza, etc. The campaign serves as a guide for the community and a path towards an equitable net-zero waterfront.
A Net-zero Waterfront: Hydrohood Framework By utilizing the agency of the water management system in Mumbai as a driver for urban transformation and leapfrogging of traditional urban development, Hydrohoods of Tomorrow proposes an accessible, equitable, and sustainable waterfront for next generation Mumbaikars. We follow Paani, a girl who grew up in the hydrohood framework whose life is transformed by the Hydrohoods of Tomorrow proposal. She lives in the zoom-site hydrohood, where she lives in the hydrophilic housing, is able to walk to school, and can access the waterfront and the rest of the city through mass transit. This waterfront plan will take a generation to build but will begin by educating the public on resource modest water practices and the net-zero hydrohoods.
System Infrastructure: Material Concrete CoAD Masonry Design Competition Year 2, Spring 2015 Critic / Marcelo Lopez-Dinardi Design Team
This competition has two folds: the project and the build. The project asks to design a police station located in Perth Amboy (NJ), with the emphasis on the architectonic of masonry. The project features a connection from lower train station level to Elm street, and the systematic application of CMU on architectural elements through out the whole building. The build, however, is not conceived as a small scale representation, or a partial mockup of the project. CMU - the most common and cheap material in construction, was used as a starting point for architecture investigation into the construction of material, spatial perception, and the complexity and reality of things.
Plans of police station project
Diagram shows how system is applied throughout the building
Plans of police station project
System manifested in space and volume
System Overlaying on Section
System Overlaying on Site
Site
System Operation Diagram
Path for quick passage
Extracting and cutting part of the system to create slope
System Overlaying on Site
Site
System Operation Diagram
Diagrams show system application on geometry and architecture operations
Wall 5/5 Most Complexity
Wall 4/5 Intermediate Complexity Wall 3/5 Least Complexity Wall 2/5 Intermediate Complexity
Build diagram - wall complexity
Wall 1/5 Most Complexity
Build diagram - perception and visibility
Diagrams of the build - show the complexity and spatial perception the CMU walls
Diagram — CMU Cuts Matrix
Physical Model — Plexi Glass
The build - full scale (6'x8'x8') at NJIT-CoAD
Close up photos of the build
Undisciplined CMU NJIT CoAD Book Summer 2015 Editors: Marcelo Lopez-Dinardi, Pier Paolo Pala, Chau Tran, Yuliya Veligurskaya Task: Book layout
This book documents the efforts and outcome of the Brick build competition of the Spring 2015 studio. Shifting from the expected representation of the whole building, the focus was given to the exploration of the material parameters and cultural dimension of the project on the given site of a 6’ x 8’ x 8’ volume. The basic CMU was chosen due to its commonplace status in the construction industry stimulating unexpected readings including its cultural implications. The design process was not linear and it required simultaneous exploration and production through digital, physical, and analog methods. Primarily this publication documents the build or mock-up, however, it showcases the individual work of a group of students including the final selection from which this project was based. While the built project is meant to last a year, this book is a long-lasting record of the process that produced it and the varied realities that were provoked through it.
More at: https://issuu.com/marcelolopez-dinardi/docs/un-disciplined_cmuweb/1
The Thick 2D Indeterminate Futures Year 5, Fall 2018 Critic / Thomas Navin Final Project: Staten Island Site - Trash Talk!
The anaerobic facility and waste management site is situated in Fresh Kills, Staten Island, and explores the principles of landscape urbanism as an organizational system for the evolution of the agrarian culture and the hybrid programs. With proposition "from trash to food", the site is conceived as an extension of James Corner's Fresh Kills Park's design, with productive landscape lies at the heart of the programs. The landscape serves as an organizer for the site hybrid programs, proximity, relationships, and the determinacy/indeterminacy of its programs,and considers the phasing strategy, degree of indeterminacy in the landscape evolution. The project and programs grow over time to accomodate, grow and absorb future functions. In a large scale, the site will become part of the network of organic waste treatment, energy production, as well as site of food production and recreation.
Macro Scale
Macro Scale — Site Program, Stakeholders, and Input/Output Anaerobic Process
INPUT & OUTPUT IN RELATION TO CONTRIBUTORS FRESH KILLS, STATEN ISLAND
WORKERS’ FACILITIES
EMPLOY LOCAL WOKRERS WORKERS FRESH KILLS RESOURCE COLLECTION FOR COMPOST
EDUCATION
RECREATION
VISITORS
EXCESS/BIO PRODUCT
ACTIVITES INTEGRATED WITH FRESH KILLS PARK
LOCAL FARMS
FERTILIZER ANAEROBIC OPERATIONS ON-SITE FARMS TRAVIS NEIGHBORHOOD
RESTAURANTS FOOD
FARMER MARKET ELECTRICITY
NYC NEIGHBORS
Stakeholders and Input/Output Relationship
GRID
Site and Land Use
Stakeholders — Who Uses the Space?
Macro Scale — Site Landscape as Organizer of Programs in Time
Future Site Activities — Pedestrian path, anaerobic facility, hydroponic farms, platform farms, green houses, energy production
Future Site Activities — Remediation landscape, anaerobic facility, train yard, wind energy, platform farms, wooded area, and depestrian path
Site Phasing Strategy
PHASE 1: Layout nature structure, path and nature patches Add anaerobic facility and truck path.
PHASE 2: Start forming bike path to link farms. Farms: horizontal farm, large nature area, ecological patches. Start create platform farms (Agronica) structures. Create compost facility for farms.
PHASE 3: Create land form for recreation by water, major intersections, and within farms. Start some small recreation by water and planting by the river. Start farm and cooking, educational programs to attract people to site.
Site Plan Strategy
PHASE 4: Start operate energy generator facility and energy field. Farm: create stepping platform farms, expand platform farms, and green houses. Initiate "bosch" parking for cars.
PHASE 5: Create spaces for large festivals and events. Create water scapes and recreational activities by water. Restaurants operate by using organic food grown in farms. Start converting trash transfer train to carry, bring and distribute compost, food, and organic waste to the neighborhood.
PHASE 6: Grow hydroponic farm and algae culture by the water. Add more recreational nodes along pedestrian path. Expand pedestrian paths to link farms to recreational spaces. Create the Department of Sanitation of New York Loop educational programs.
Meso Scale — Building as Landform
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8. Digester Lab
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7. Ecological Picnic Area
4. Staff Conference
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Micro+Meso+Macro Scales as Related to Time
Hybrid program evolution in phases. Hybrid programs includes: anaerobic digestion facility, educational programs, productive landscape, transportation, recreation and park, and energy and compost production.
Work Experiences & Internship
Homeowners’ Guide Special Natural Resources Districts, The Bronx Urban Design Division - Role: Assistant Urban Designer Task: Graphic and Layout
The homeowner’s guide for the Special Natural Resources District (SNRD) in the Bronx is a concise document that informs homeowners about the new proposed SNRD rules, the process involved the Department of City Planning and the Department of Building submissions, and whether homeowners can develop their lots As-ofright. In essence, the guide also serves as an advocacy tool to help educate homeowers about the different natural features and how they can best preserve those features by understanding the multiple rules applied to their lots, including trees, biodiversity, lot coverage, hard surface area, and rock outcrop.
Pages from the Homeowners’ Guide I. INTRODUCTION
HOMEOWNER’S GUIDE
Special Natural Resources Districts — The Bronx
Special Natural Resources District - the Bronx Goal: balance preservation with development
Aquatic
New York City’s first SNAD was formed in December 1974 to balance the level of development with preserving natural features such as aquatic, biologic, botanic, geologic, and topographic features and included more than 3,900 acres in Staten Island. The SNAD within the Bronx is mapped as NA-2 along the Riverdale Ridge and is composed of parts of Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil, and Fieldston within Community District 8. The NA-2 area contains steep slopes, rock outcrops, and mature trees. In addition, the southwestern foot of the ridge includes marshes, and the shoreline of the Hudson River contains aquatic habitat that supports marine life. The SNAD is mapped primarily in low-density residential zoning districts characterized by detached single-family homes and community facilities on large parcels such as hospitals, senior care, educational and religious institutions, parkland and open space.
Botanic
Guiding Principles:
Topographic
The Proposed Actions would address the connectivity of the ecosystem in the natural areas by allowing eco-conscious development and creating connective corridors. The Proposed Actions are expected to result in more consistent ecological outcomes in terms of trees; ground cover planting; permeability; and preservation of steep slopes, rock outcrops, aquatic resources, old growth trees, and habitat across the special district. The clear, strict standards included in the Proposed Actions would result in fewer discretionary processes for small sites and lend predictable development outcomes
Geologic
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Robust rules with embedded design flexibility to respond to varied site conditions
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Requirements produce a predictable outcome
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III. I’M MAKING CHANGES TO MY PROPERTY... WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW?
Rules outline hierarchy of protection of natural resources, as needed
Natural Resources:
Zoning controls to manage natural features:
• • • • •
• • • • • •
Aquatic Rock Outcrops Steep Slopes Erratic Boulders Botanic
Lot Coverage Hard Surface Area Yards and open space Tree requirements Planting areas (gardens) Building height
What do I Need to Know about Trees? (ZR 143-13)
The proposed tree credit change will create a higher value on “old growth” trees to incentivize their preservation, support native species and trees planted in groups, require more trees to achieve clearer and more consistent outcomes. Trees enhance the local and regional ecosystem services, such as temperature regulation, purification of the air and water, storm water management
Tree
Helpful to Know
What do I Need to Know about Trees?
*Call an arborist to check the health of a tree
(Pg. 9,10)
*Call DOB if the tree is going to fall *Arborist can submit a letter to DOB confirming you meet tree requirements
Hard Surface Area Biodiversity
How Much Amenities Can I Have? (Pg. 13,14)
What Do I Need to Know Ground Cover Planting?
Applicability of biodiversity requirement to developments, enlargements and certain site alterations
(Pg. 11,12)
Rock Outcrop
Can I Disturb the Rock Outcrop?
Lot Coverage
(Pg.15,16)
How Much Can I Build on My Lot? (Pg. 13,14) Development
Horizontal enlargement
Tree removal
Hard surface area increase
Vertical enlargement
How do I meet tree number and tree credits requirement? Tree number and credits are calculated based on lot area. Tree number requires 1 per 1,000 sf of lot area, and 3 tree credit is required for every 750 sf of lot area
Tree
Biodiversity
Lot Coverage (Bulk)
Hard Surface Area (Bulk)
Rock Outcrop
Trees enhance the local and regional ecosystem services, such as temperature regulation, purification of the air and water, storm water management and flood mitigation, and preserve the neighborhood character. Trees also provide habitat and food for birds and other animals. Trees have social and economic benefit, including lowering energy costs and improving the value of property.
Ground level plants and understory vegetation play a critical role in the long-term health of forests, help the nutrient cycle by building up organic matter, and provide food and shelter to many insects and wildlife that help the larger ecosystem and human health.
Lot coverage is the area of the site covered by a building. Lot coverage affects the amount of site disturbance and natural features, including slopes, plantings, and open space.
Hard surface areas are all areas of the site covered by a building and any hard surfaces. It affects the amount of site disturbance and runoff and affects natural features, including slopes and plantings.
Rock outcrops in these natural areas are the oldest rock formation, called Fordham Gneiss, formed more than 900 million years ago and this bedrock is exposed at the surface in varying heights above the ground.
Front & rear yard planting rule
Other than tree number and credits, homeowners also need to meet front yard planting rule, which helps enhance neighborhood street character.
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Tree credit is the value given to every tree based on the caliper of a tree and whether or not the tree is a target species. Tree credit is used to calculate its relative value persuant to vegetation requirements.
15’
3’ Shrub Cover
Porch Ground Cover
Patio
No. of tree credits (lot width/10) (≤16 credits needed)
How are tree credits assigned?
Hard Surface Area Elements
Trees
15’ For lot with width > 40’:
40
Landscape Elements
Deck
Swimming pool
“Caliper” of a tree is the diameter of a tree trunk measured 4 feet 6 inches from the ground. Tree caliper is used to determine tree credits for newly planted tree and preserved tree.
No removal of tree (more than 6” caliper) within 15’ of rear lot line,
Walkway
Driveway or private road
Tree Caliper
IV. PROCESS When do I need to go to the Department of City Planning? Special Natural Resource District - the Bronx
What do I need to provide to the Department of Building?
If you answer Yes to the below questions, then you need to come to DCP for approvals, else go directly to DOB:
To demonstrate that zoning requirements are met, following professionals may be needed depending on the types of work you are planning to do on your property: Surveyor for submitting contour map Registered architect for builing and other related plans Arborist for tree requirement 62
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Is your property an acre or more?
sf.
Note: Bulk regulations such as lot coverage and hard surface apply. Any existing non-compliance will be grandfathered. The degree of non-compliance must not be increased. THEN COMPLY DOB Permit WITH required Ground (Y/N/Maybe) Cover
IF THE FOLLOWING OCCURS…
Riverdale
Are you in historic district and creating two or more lots or a new building?
Trees Fieldston
BUILDING OR ENLARGEMENT
Are you dividing your property into four or more lots?
HARD SURFACE AREA
Are you building a new private road?
TREES
Are you planning to disturb the rock outcrop more than 400 sf?
GROUND COVER
SITE ALTERATION
SUBDIVISION
Small Site: New building
Y
Y
Y
Small Site: Horizontal Enlargement ≥ 400 SF
Y
Y
Y
Small Site: Horizontal Enlargement + Vertical enlargement ≥ 20% floor area
Y
Y
Y
Small Site: Horizontal Enlargement < 400 SF and/or <20% floor area
Y
N
Y
Small Site: Vertical enlargement on small sites
N
N
Y
Large Site (1 acre or more): Horizontal Enlargements < 5000 SF, within 15' of existing bldg
N
N
Y
Small Site: New hard surface ≥ 400 SF
Y
Y
Y
Small Site: New hard surface < 400sf
Y
N
Y
Large Site: Modify < 10,000 SF within 15' of existing bldg
N
N
Y
Large Site: Modify < 400 SF beyond 15' of existing bldg (in 1 year)
Y
N
Y
Removal of 12 tree credits or more (equivalent to 4 trees 6 inch caliper)
Y
Y
N*
Removal of less than 12 tree credits (outside sensitive areas)
Y
N
N*
Removal of sick or dangerous tree
N**
N
N*
Changing the landscape element (e.g. wildlife garden to green roof)
N
Y
N*
Relocation/modification of erratic boulder, rock outcrop
Y
N
Y?
Retaining wall over 4 feet
Y
N
Y
Slope disturbance while creating a new driveway
Y
N
Y* Y
3 new lots on site < 1 acre, except in Historic district
N*: A permit may be required if in combination with other alterations N**: Must comply after one year
What Do I Need to Know Ground Cover Planting? (ZR 143-14)
The goal of ground cover planting rule is to ensure clear planting requirements that will enhance the biodiversity and ecological health of the community. Ground level plants and understory vegetation play a critical role in the long-term health of forests, help the nutrient cycle by building up organic matter, and provide food and shelter to many insects and wildlife that help the larger ecosystem and human health.
III. SINGLE FAMILY ENLARGEMENT EXAMPLE Existing : R1-2 District, 60’ x 100’ interior lot. Lot Area: 6,000 sf. One-story single family detached The Bronx, Base Protection Area How do I meet biodiversity requirement?
This is my lot and features on my lot: Lot Coverage: 13.3% FAR: 0.133 (allow 0.5) Total Floor Area: 799 sf. Hard Surface Area: 1113 sf.
Helpful to Know *Ground cover planting, if done per these requirement can be used to satisfy front yard planting requirements per 23-451. *Native plants use less water and requires lower maintenance. *To find native plant list, refer to link....
These are the changes I want to make to my property Enlargement: horizontal, 555 sf. Hard surface (driveway 10’ width, and walkway 5’ width) which disturbs portion of the rock outcrop. Horizontal enlargement 555 sf.
My house is in Base Protection Area, R1& R2 Lots
Trees
Existing Trees: 5 native trees Biodiversity Garden: N/A
needs 4 points
Lot Coverage Patio
Basic Garden
Wildlife Garden
Green Roof (Extensive)
Green Roof (Intensive)
Rock Outcrop
2.5% of Lot Area per point
2% of Lot Area per point
15.0% of Lot Coverage per point
12.5% of Lot Coverage per point
If I plant a basic garden I will need: 600 sf.
Do I need to go to CPC for review?
*Is your property an acre or more? *Are you in historic district and creating two or more lots or a new building? *Are you dividing your property into four or more lots? *Are you building a new private road? *Are you planning to disturb the rock outcrop more than 400 sf?
YES
If I plant a wildlife garden I will need: 480 sf.
If I plant an extensive green roof I will need: 900 sf.
If I plant an intensive green roof I will need: 750 sf.
NO
YES
NO
YES YES
NO NO
YES
NO
Applicability of biodiversity requirement to developments, enlargements and certain site alterations Walkway 5’ width
Portion of rock outcrop disturbed
Driveway 10’ width
I answer NO to all these questions, that means I can develop my lot as-of-right
So then what requirements do I need to meet in order to develop my lot As-of-right? Horizontal enlargement
Development
Tree removal
hard surface area increase
How do I meet biodiversity requirement?
New category of landscape element
Maximum Lot coverage: 25% | Maximum Hard Surface: 50% I refer to the application requirement table (pg. 5) to determine how tree and ground cover planting rules apply.
Biodiversity requirement is based on the zoning lot, lot area, and the landscape elements that homeowners choose to provide. The example below illustrates a lot in R1-2 district (6,000 sf) and 4 different ways homeowners can meet their biodiversity requirement:
Basic Garden (2.5% of Lot Area per point)
If I plant a basic garden I will need: 600 sf.
Alterations Relocation/ modification of erratic boulder, rock outcrop
Y
N
Green Roof (Intensive)
(2% of Lot Area per point)
(15.0% of Lot Coverage per point)
(2.5% of Lot Coverage per point)
Small Site: Horizontal Enlargement >= 400 sf.
Y
Y
Y
If I plant an intensive green roof I will need: 750 sf.
Small Site: New hard surface >= 400 sf.
Y
Y
Y
If I plant an extensive green roof I will need: 900 sf.
New York Ironweed
3’ Ground Layer
Shrub Layer
Trees
26“ caliper (6 credit)
15“ caliper (4 credit)
Different ground cover is determined by height. 15’
10“ caliper (3 credit)
Ground Cover
Witch Hazel
Shrub Cover
Sweetgum
Trees
(*For a recommended list of ground and shrub cover, go to Native Planting Guide, page 19-20)
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288 sf
House 19 sf
Rock outcrop disturbance < 50 % of aggregate area 5’
5’
10’
45 sf 48 sf 10’
Final Outcome — Puttting it all together: Propose:
Tree number (Lot area/1000)
Tree credit (Lot area/750)x3
Required
6
24
Existing
5
20
10“ caliper (3 credit)
Front yard planting rule: 40’/10 = 4 credits I meet this requirement!
50’
Driveway 10’ width
How many trees and tree credits do I need? How do I know how many tree credits I currently have? Tree credits depends on tree caliper (refer to tree credit diagram on page 9, 10) 15“ caliper (4 credit)
70 sf + 288 sf + 25sf = 383 sf. House 25 sf
Y?
Green Roof (Extensive)
Disturbance area < 50% of plan area
Plan
Horizontal enlargement 555 sf.
DOB Permit required Ground Trees Cover (Y/N/Maybe)
Wildlife Garden If I plant a wildlife garden I will need: 480 sf.
I enlarge my house and create a driveway, how much rock outcrop can I disturb? Area of disturbance to rock outcrop should not be more than 400 sf. in combined area in both plan and elevation of the rock outcrop.
I still need to add 2 more trees of 2” caliper to meet both requirement.
Lot Coverage: 1562 sf. FAR: 0.26 (max 0.5) Total Floor Area: 1562 sf. Hard Surface Area: 2180 sf. (36.3%)
Wildlife garden 480 sf.
Helpful to Know
Horizontal enlargement
- To find native plant list, refer to
link....
Removed Trees: 0 Preserved trees: 5 New trees: 2 Total trees: 7, credits: 24 Wildlife garden: 480 sf. (4 pts)
5 trees preserved 2 new trees planted
New driveway
Zoning for Coastal Flood Resiliency Zoning Division- Role: Assistant Urban Designer Task: Graphic and Diagrams, Presentation Making
NYC DCP is working on updating the new Flood Text for city-wide flood resiliency. Part of my work involves testing out different scenarios with development in the new rules, including height, setback, and slope conditions. Testing different zoning districts in different slope conditions helps inform how the proposed rules may affect building bulk, height and uses. The work I assisted the zoning planners informs the new definition of the reference plane, lowest occupiable floor, etc. and the nuances that zoning text may change to adapt to these emerging concepts.
Pages from the Reference Plane analysis
Zoning for Coastal Flood Resiliency
Reference Plane â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Measure fro
10ft and 5ft Reference Plane Analysis
Sky Exposure Plane Front Yard Line
Reference Plane Analysis
Base Plane
any level between curb level and s wall line level
Reference Plane Analysis
R3-2: slopping occurs parallel to street
R3-2: slopping occurs upward from th
Case Study 2 5 different zoning lots
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Reference Plane Analysis
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R3-2: slopping occurs parallel to street Curb Level
Base Plane
Case Study 1 1 zoning lot with 5 tax lots A Reference Plane measured from 1 zoning lot with 5 tax lots â&#x20AC;&#x201C; average curb level
B Grouping of building segments
Case Study 2 5 different zoning lots
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Lifting all building segments as High as last segment
Underlying Building Envelope Proposed Building Envelope Wet-floodproofed Space Reference Plane Design Flood Elevation
A Reference Plane measured from each zoning lot â&#x20AC;&#x201C; average curb level
Sky Exposure Plane (Height factor option)
B Stepping of each building segment
Street Line (curb level)
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13
Reference Plane Analysis
Reference plane = base plane from curb level
R3-2: slopping occurs downward from the street
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Reference plane = base plane from curb level
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Part of Neighborhood Existing Condition Drawing
Breaking the Diagram Winter Intership at OPerA Studio, Brooklyn | 2016 Task: research stage, design development and graphic visualization for the project reconsidering the new zoning law and policy in East New York, Brooklyn.
The project takes East New York's upzoning event as a starting point to reconsider what can be done better in East New York. Beginning with studying the new massing and facades along Myrtle avenue and Fourth avenue in Brooklyn, outlining different variations that zoning law can take shape in East New York. My role in this project is identifying the typology, problems associating with building massing that adheres to zoning law, and ideas of how to take advantage of the zoning guidelines into something more exciting and socially integrated.
East New York Location
Building Form Study
Streetscape and Facade Study
Initial Concept: New Typology with Work and Live Integration
Zoning Diagram
Block Variations in Relation to Zoning Law
Elements At the Met Summer Work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Summer 2016 Research Project Assisting the Architecture Curator — Department of Modern and Contemporary Art
This research follows an initiative by Beatrice Galilee - the architecture curator at the Met. The project appropriates The 14th International Architecture Exhibition directed by Rem Koolhaas with the chosen theme Fundamentals, which dedicated to the celebration of the contemporary, and looks at histories and tries to reconstruct how architecture finds itself in its current situation, and speculates on its future. The research provides an introspection into the Met's collection with the elements' various time frames, scales, materials, and cultural meanings, and aims to showcase the Met in its plethora of architecture collections.
ca. 2630–2611 B.C
ca. 1417–1379 B.C
ca. 560–75
650–750
A.H. 755/A.D. 1354–55
ca. 1319
1581
16th century
ca. 1600
ca. 1711–56
ca. 2150–2010 B.C.
5th–6th century
second half 17th century
18th century
ca. 1780
19th century
probably 19th century
19th century
19th–20th century
19th–20th century
ca. 1184–1153 B.C.
ca. 6th–7th century A.D.
15th century style
second half 16th century
last quarter of 16th century
ca. 1675
1600–1700
18th century
18th or 19th century
ca. 1800
ca. 2458–2446 B.C.
ca. 2446–2389 B.C.
ca. 2353–2323 B.C.
ca. 2289–2255 B.C.
ca. 1981–1550 B.C.
ca. 5th century B.C.
380–362 B.C.
380–343 B.C.
332–30 B.C.
ca. 300 B.C.
ca. 2381–2323 B.C.
completed by 10 B.C.
dated A.H. 1119/A.D. 1707
ca. 1478–82
1506–15
ca. 1547–48
1680
ca. 1682–84
1695–1700
ca. 1720 or later
Timeline of the Elements — Walls, Doors, Windows, Columns, Period Rooms
1801
1804
ca. 1810–18
19th century
19th century
19th century
ca. 1905–15
1931
1933
1991
late 19th century
late 19th–early 20th century
1910
1915
1915
ca. 1923
1935–43
1933
1969–71
1989, printed 1991
1882–84
second half 19th century
19th–20th century
late 19th–early 20th century
1900
ca. 1905
1908–9
1915
1930–31
1931
dated 533–43
ca. 6th century
late 10th century
1350–1400
early 15th or 19th century
Qianlong period (1736–95)
1765–67
1879–82
1905
2013
1748
ca. 1768–72, with later additions
1765–66, remodeled 1769–71
1763–71
1766–69
ca. 1774, with later additions
ca. 1785, with later additions
ca. 1810
1912–15
1989
Drawings and Sketches
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1. Still Life (pencil) 2. Still Life 2 (charcoal) 3. Still Life 3 (pencil) 4. Sleepy (pencil) 5. Art Class (pencil)
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