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Grid + NeighborHood = ProtoHood
Using the Manhattan Grid to organize the ingredients of healthy communities to reinvision a new neighborhood at the current site of Hudson Railyards.
Com
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Site Context
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Site Influences
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Ri v
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Javits Center/Convention
Unrealized parcel
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Unrealized parcel
M i d t o w n
U n r e a l i z e d
Chelsea Neighborhood
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Healthy Community Ingredients Iconic Ingredient Pedestrian Scale
Social Articulations
Spacial Articulations
Ability to access economic, environmental
Pedestrian friendly spaces like urban
and cultural resources via walking
plazas, neighborhood scale streets, pederstrian paseos
Economic Activity
Activity that is both day and night
Variety in retail experiences, retail that is geared towards day and night, high end and neighborhood scales
Environmental
Bringing people back to their environment,
Stormwater system that plays itself out in
Engagement
allowing them to engage with and learn from
park system which mimics local hydrologic
their surroundings; engagement of all senses
activity
Economic and cultural activities that include
Neighborhood scale retail which speaks to all
all neighboorhood members
members of the community, i.e. cultural
Social Inclusion
cuisine
Social Capital
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Building a sense of respect and
Stewardship of landscape areas, i.e. park
ownership of and for surroundings
system
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Spatial Typologies Social Programming
Spatial Qualities
Icon/Example
Collector Retail Street Vehicular and pedestrian scale
70-90’ Road width
5th Avenue
Datum for space heirarchy
15-30’ Sidewalk width
Manhattan
Two Story Retail/Economic Activation
15-40 Story vertical height
Urban Plaza Pedestrian scale
Pedestrian traffic only
Grafton Street
Day/Night activation
35-50’ Walk width
Dublin
Variety of activities
Retail spilling into walkway
Neighborhood Retail Street Neighborhood scale retail opportunities
Vehicular and pedestrian traffic
Anywhere Chelsea/The
Economic and culturally inclusive
30-40’ Road width
Village
Mom/Pop stores
10-20’ Sidewalk width
Manhattan
Pedestrian access through blocks
Pedestrian traffic only
Downtown Minneapolis
Keeping “eyes and ears” on landscape areas
20-40’ Paseo width
Minneapolis
Social capital building
Semi-private pedestrian traffic only
Jackson Heights
Reduces municipal maintenance cost
60-70’ Common landscape area
Queens
Paseo
Intrablock Stewardship
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Placemaking: Following the Grid
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Collector/Retail Street
Collector Street used as datum to organize and advertise the variety of spaces. Design and programming is consistent with current 11th Ave. Bustling/ busy.
Urban Plaza
Placement is in center of site to create the economic heart of the neighborhood. Higher end retail opportunities. Bustling/busy.
Paseos
Opening up existing blocks and allowing access, light and sonic penetration. Placing “Eyes” on the Intrablock Stewardship areas. Layout is consistent with existing grid. More quiet.
K-12 School
Cultural Center
Provides learning for all children. Stewards both the Park and the Marshland Area
Park
City wide draw. Anchor for the Urban Plaza. Treats all stormwater runoff through a microcosm of local watershed. More quiet.
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City wide draw. Anchor for the Urban Plaza.
Neighborhood Retail Street
Economic and culturally inclusive. Mixture of retail and residential at the first floor, with retail above. Least busy of urban spaces.
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Intrablock Stewardship
Semi-private areas of which each block takes “ownership.” Quiet more peaceful than other spaces. Layout is consistent with the existing grid. More quiet.
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Master Plan
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Land Use as Product of Placemaking Fifteenth +
Fifth-Fifteenth
Third-Fifth
Open Space
Second
Neighborhood Retail Retail Cultural/Institution
First
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11th Avenue: Collector Retail Street
25-40 Story building height
Seating areas w/ awnings
20’ Sidewalk w/ street trees
80’ Road width
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Urban Plaza
3 to 7 Story buildings
25’ Vertical first floor building setback
Enhanced paving
Retail spilling into plaza
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Neighborhood Retail Street
7-15 Story buildings
Retail spilling into sidewalk 20’ Sidwalk width w/ street trees Front yard planters w/ flowering trees
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Paseo
3 - 7 Story building height
30 - 50’ Paseo width
Trees at Residential Areas Retail spilling into paseo at Urban Plaza
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Intrablock Stewardship
15 + Story building height
60 - 70’ Common landscape area
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Common landscape area stewarded by residents, aiding in storm water cleansing
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Model in Context
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The Next Steps
1. Additional research, analysis and design of architecture in urban placemaking
2. Articulation of secondary spaces, i.e. school, park, cultural center
3. Intrablock stewardship areas and their role in the storm water system, i.e. park and marshland
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