SPRING 2012
STUDENT PROJECTS
BROADWAY: 1000 STEPS
STUDENT NAME
Edward Adams SCHOOL
Boston Architectural College STUDIO
Architecture & Advanced Landscape Architecture Studio PROFESSOR(S)
Maria Bellalta Blas Betancourt SITE
64th/Lincoln Center
Pedestrian Power In order to bring sustainability back to New York City, I am proposing tapping into its greatest resource, people. By using piezoelectric activated surfaces, energy can be harvested from people walking, driving, and moving throughout the city. Vibrations, impacts, and footfall can be transformed into clean energy to be used to power the City. I am proposing that the sidewalks at Lincoln Center and Broadway be fitted with energy activated technology. The energy harvested from this installation will be used to power streetlights, traffic lights, neighboring buildings, site amenities, and energy-efficient piezoelectric spatial design solutions. At Lincoln Center, there will be interactive surfaces where people will be able to experience the energy exchange first hand. People will be able to learn, play, dance, perform, and experience their own power.
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STUDENT NAME
Corey Beaulieu SCHOOL
Boston Architectural College STUDIO
Architecture & Advanced Landscape Architecture Studio PROFESSOR(S)
Maria Bellalta Blas Betancourt SITE
64th/Lincoln Center
Plan 1” = 50’
Eastern Elevation 1/8” = 1’
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Crystalline Park | Lincoln Square In the spirit of awareness breeding action, my proposal sheds light on the emissions from utilities — the end result of the energy a city uses. Buildings utilize tremendous amounts of heat; their heating systems generate harmful waste gases. Vehicles pollute the air that New Yorkers breathe with harmful exhaust. Using a crystalline formal language to describe the physical quantity of each type of by-product, my proposal seeks to both represent the emissions at their source, as well as utilize this bodily form to attempt to reduce usage. The form attached to the building captures the power of the sun to generate electricity for its interior; the trash bin at the corner becomes a solar compactor and potential compost container; and a tower-like form creates both a media wall for public interaction and houses a series of air filters atop a subway vent. Orchestrated around a High Line style park that stretches from Lincoln Square to Central Park, these crystalline forms create fragmented parts implying a unified whole symbolizing the notion that these emissions compound to become a very dangerous sum total. Accompanying the park is a visitor center and ticket booth, an outdoor amphitheater, as well as an outdoor garden.
STUDENT NAME
Sara Bourque SCHOOL
Boston Architectural College STUDIO
Architecture & Advanced Landscape Architecture Studio PROFESSOR(S)
Maria Bellalta Blas Betancourt SITE
64th/Lincoln Center
The SINK/SYNC The SINK/SYNC is immersed in the urban landscape, to help you experience urban ecology. SYNC into the local habitat with your smart device along the Habitat corridor on 63rd Street. Get alerts of migratory birds visiting the corridor as you walk to work. This streetscape will simultaneously act like a SINK by actively holding and filtering stormwater. Trees will absorb stormwater on the urban streets, and features such as permeable sidewalks and continuous tree pits will allow for water detention and infiltration. This will help reduce runoff and pollution of local waterways. The improved soil health will provide for a more extensive root system of trees, allowing for increased canopy coverage and habitat. This new streetscape provides an enhanced corridor for humans and wildlife spanning between Central Park and Riverside Park.
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STUDENT NAME
Matthew Gilman SCHOOL
Boston Architectural College STUDIO
Architecture & Advanced Landscape Architecture Studio PROFESSOR(S)
Maria Bellalta Blas Betancourt SITE
64th/Lincoln Center
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Natural Corridor for Broadway This design intervention is focused on decreasing vehicular pollution by adding a bike lane and integrating existing green spaces as a central path for pedestrians along Broadway. The pedestrian vegetated footpath would travel the existing vegetated islands along Broadway, and a bike lane is included on either side of the islands. I also propose the addition of a “hubway� public bicycle rental to promote clean transportation, entice visitors to Lincoln Center into using the bicycles, and facilitate North/South travel on the island of Manhattan. An important component of this project lies in the sectional nature of this design. Because of its modular nature, if this central path design is successful, it could be continued as far up or down Broadway as needed.
STUDENT NAME
Megan Lorenz SCHOOL
Boston Architectural College STUDIO
Architecture & Advanced Landscape Architecture Studio PROFESSOR(S)
Maria Bellalta Blas Betancourt SITE
64th/Lincoln Center
Awareness as Art Through observation and research of Lincoln Center and the surrounding neighborhood, I was compelled to propose a design that would showcase the beautiful existing buildings as if they themselves were works of art in a gallery. I accomplished this by creating a gridded structure, composed of steel beams and cables, over the entire block that houses the Lincoln Center. This structure would be completely open to the outside elements and contain various features within the frame, with the primary goal of drawing people into the plaza. The frame could support any number of installations, but namely it would include terraced gardens that overlook the band shell in Damrosch Park, trellises to grow produce to sell at the local farmer’s markets, tensioned fabric structures used for advertisement, elevated walkways that extend to outlying areas, and an elevated performance space above the fountain. The idea for an outdoor performance space came about after a meeting with the director of Lincoln Center. He spoke of the institution’s desire to present more non-traditional types of performance art. This space would accommodate those needs and allow attendees, and more importantly, passers-by to view the performance from all angles. In addition, while not being used as a performance space, the gridded infrastructure would provide a blank canvas to install various works in order to promote awareness of sustainable living in Lincoln Square.
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STUDENT NAME
Nancy MacDonald SCHOOL
Boston Architectural College STUDIO
Architecture & Advanced Landscape Architecture Studio PROFESSOR(S)
Maria Bellalta Blas Betancourt SITE
64th/Lincoln Center
The Silent Performance of Urban Trees Through an investigation and analysis of the Lincoln Center site, I have become interested in the relationship of the urban heat island effect and air pollution with public health issues and the quality of urban life. When contemplating the function of trees in the urban landscape, it is apparent that an opportunity exists to illustrate the importance of street trees, both as beautification elements in neighborhoods and also as essential components for maintaining viable and healthy cities. Too often, the work of urban street trees goes unnoticed. The design concept focuses on the demonstration of the work urban trees perform so that their functionality becomes visual and tactile. Drawing inspiration from initial reactions to Lincoln Center Plaza, I am intrigued by the visual perception that organic elements appear inert and conversely, structural components seem alive. Is there a way to create sculptural trees that could take on various forms to illustrate this conceptual idea? Siting of the pieces will be based on the findings uncovered during the analysis process. A sculpture could be placed along Broadway to exhibit the role of trees in decreasing airborne particulate matter. In the hottest spots and with the use of thermal indicating maps, a misting sculpture could be installed to demonstrate the cooling effects of urban trees.
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STUDENT NAME
Jay Sisam SCHOOL
Boston Architectural College STUDIO
Architecture & Advanced Landscape Architecture Studio PROFESSOR(S)
Maria Bellalta Blas Betancourt SITE
64th/Lincoln Center
Architectural Garden: Connecting the Urban Resident with Agriculture Food, shelter, and water are the most basic elements required to sustain our existence in every environment. Architecture has focused on creating shelter efficiently in dense urban environments, while agriculture has been outsourced beyond the city boundary, creating disconnect between urban residents and the food that nourishes and sustains them. This architectural solution explores the urban garden as a built environment and places it in the presently underutilized Dante Park, located at a central apex and circulation hub for Lincoln Center. The building engages the hurried New York resident as they quickly move across the site and attempts to direct their focus and attention to food growth, something perhaps more mystical and artful to the city resident then the performances at Lincoln center. This demonstration garden invites the urban dweller to take the part of the urban farmer in this food production by: planting a seed, sewing through soil, and even harvesting and eating the reward directly from the vines.
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STUDENT NAME
EttorĂŠ Spatola SCHOOL
City College of New York, Spitzer School of Architecture STUDIO
Landscape Architecture; Independent Study PROFESSOR(S)
Achva Benzinberg Stein SITE
64th/Lincoln Center
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Street Trees of 72nd Street Trees are a valued component of cities, providing shade, humidity, wildlife habitat and visual relief from the built landscape. Street trees serve as buffers between human beings and what is arguably a stressful physical environment. Much is expected of street trees, yet little is known about their physiological response to the urban environment. Street trees in New York City are exposed to a variety of environmental stress factors. Because of the way street trees are typically planted, in isolated small openings in the concrete, they often experience water deficits. Investigations of the tree environment at 72nd Street revealed that the immediate microclimate around the tree can be very different from the official weather report for that area. Variables such as which side of the street the tree is planted, the surrounding city structures, and the tree species all affect the water conditions for street trees.
STUDENT NAME
Melissa Brandt SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College STUDIO
Communication Arts “The Mediated Landscape”
Come One, Come all to Bowling Green The richness, as Brandt argues in her paper, is one major reason why people keep coming to Bowling Green Park. Brandt articulates that the contrast between the open space, the quaint local street, and the hustling and bustling offices offers pedestrians a great experience of urban exploration.
PROFESSOR(S)
Matthew Slaats SITE
Bowling Green
STUDENT NAME
Marianne Casas SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College STUDIO
Communication Arts “The Mediated Landscape”
Unknown Commencing from the perspective of a city dweller, Casas delves into the interaction between personal experiences and visual elements of an urban landscape – Bowling Green. Casas observes the story of Bowling Green through its images and typologies, and reflects on how these visual elements shape our urban experience.
PROFESSOR(S)
Matthew Slaats SITE
Bowling Green
STUDENT NAME
Joy Ferguson SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College STUDIO
Communication Arts “The Mediated Landscape”
Unknown In his work, Ferguson calls upon state-of-art photography technology to curate the interplay between the open space – Bowling Green Park – and its surrounding architecture elements. Moreover, he builds upon his findings to explore the spin-off influence of advanced technology and the built environment.
PROFESSOR(S)
Matthew Slaats SITE
Bowling Green
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STUDENT NAME
Lauren Hafley SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College STUDIO
Communication Arts “The Mediated Landscape” PROFESSOR(S)
Matthew Slaats
Time Lapse and Cinemagram – Creative Applications that Change Our Perception of Space and Time Hafley explores two digital tools that she believes assist people in changing their perception of space — the TimeLapse and Cinemagraph apps. Hafley argues that these simple digital tools can teach people about the transformation of a place over time. She notes that cameras all over the city could be used to create historic time lapse captures.
SITE
Bowling Green
STUDENT NAME
Jarrett Lyons SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College STUDIO
Communication Arts “The Mediated Landscape”
Bowling Green: A Hidden Landmark in a Historic City In his work, Lyons tries to reveal the essence of Bowling Green Park as an urban element from a historical perspective. He demonstrates the evolution of Bowling Green Park along its almost 400 year history, with the help of photographic technology and historic archives.
PROFESSOR(S)
Matthew Slaats SITE
Bowling Green
STUDENT NAME
Alessandra Marconi SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College STUDIO
Communication Arts “The Mediated Landscape” PROFESSOR(S)
Matthew Slaats SITE
Bowling Green
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Unknown Through observation, Marconi analyzes the usage of Bowling Green Park, which was largely affected by different weather and hours. Marconi argues that the park, despite its lower popularity, serves its traditional uses and is thought of as an active “place” in the neighborhood.
STUDENT NAME
John Napolitano SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College STUDIO
Communication Arts “The Mediated Landscape”
Unknown The natural environment is the main theme of Napolitano’s work focusing on Battery and Bowling Green Parks. He introduces three elements to inspect the framework of Bowling Green — nature, water, and the built environment. Napolitano documents many details of the natural environment of Bowling Green and illustrates with his personal experiences.
PROFESSOR(S)
Matthew Slaats SITE
Bowling Green
STUDENT NAME
Alanah Rafferty SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College
Unknown Rafferty created two videos at Bowling Green Park to observe the interrelations among park users, the built environment, and urban experiences.
STUDIO
Communication Arts “The Mediated Landscape” PROFESSOR(S)
Matthew Slaats SITE
Bowling Green
STUDENT NAME
Katherine Welsh SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College STUDIO
Communication Arts “The Mediated Landscape”
Bike Posts at Bowling Green To shed light on how the physical environment shapes our city, Welsh closely examines the placement, form, and underlying policy of the bike posts around Bowling Green. She discovers that every facet of bike posts was designed to have influence on how people act and live in the city.
PROFESSOR(S)
Matthew Slaats SITE
Bowling Green
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STUDENT NAMES
Melissa Best Nichole Davari Dominique Eidem Katie Manley Loren Morrissey Mackenzie Morrison Shahreen Uddin SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College STUDIO
General Studies, Environmental Science PROFESSOR(S)
Terry Morley SITE
Bowling Green
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Building History of Bowling Green Environmental Site Assessment/Due Diligence surveys, a common practice of recent property transactions, often involve researching building use and ownership history. By researching the site-use of an area, we can understand how the area was used, and determine if any environmental concerns exist. Students investigated the primary uses of buildings surrounding Bowling Green in an attempt to uncover unique or interesting environmentally related histories to bring to the public. The result was a brief historical review and history of the characteristic buildings that surround Bowling Green, major ownership exchanges and site uses.
STUDENT NAME
Victor Chiburis Kaleena Buchholz Kelsey Yucius SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College STUDIO
General Studies, Environmental Science PROFESSOR(S)
Terry Morley SITE
Bowling Green
Climate & Bowling Green The Urban Heat Island Effect is a phenomenon that affects many large urban areas. This occurs when large areas absorb incoming solar radiation (low albedo surfaces) and slowly release the heat overnight, thus increasing nighttime temperatures. Urban areas tend to have large surface areas with low albedo, and thus are areas with high heat absorbing capacity. Vegetation and high reflective surfaces help mitigate the heat island effect by reducing the amount of incoming solar radiation. Students researched current studies that quantified this effect as well as investigating how green rooftops and vegetation assist in reducing stormwater flow and surface temperatures. A second poster visually represented the expanding lower Manhattan coastline to show the increase since the 1650’s. The group then researched current estimates of storm surge and found a powerful image from LSU that models areas of potential inundation in lower Manhattan under a Category 2 hurricane.
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STUDENT NAME
Miguel Saavedra Morgan Campbell Isabella Yoshida Kiersten Amberg Austin Nelson SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College STUDIO
General Studies, Environmental Science PROFESSOR(S)
Terry Morley SITE
Bowling Green
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The Landscape of Bowling Green How is Bowling Green used today? How can we characterize the park? Students involved in the landscape group were first tasked with conducting an inventory of Bowling Green for the major themes of the Mary Miss project: Air and Food, Life, Waste, Water and Energy. Secondly, students documented how Bowling Green ‘fit’ within the larger landscape by identifying green-links to other natural areas nearby. Students completed the poster by incorporating their mapping results into an attractive map and placed Bowling Green within the Lower Manhattan green area complex. Other green areas include the 22-acre Battery Park, and the eight-acre City Hall Park, all located within one mile of Bowling Green.
STUDENT NAME
Melissa Aquiles Jessie Berg Sarah Biggs Brock Henderson Gerrett Keefe Brian Murray Jennifer Sabastiano Austin Sora SCHOOL
Marymount Manhattan College STUDIO
General Studies, Environmental Science
Natural History of Bowling Green What was Manhattan like before European settlement? What species inhabited lower Manhattan when it was ‘wild’? Were there streams, wetlands and forests or open clearings? Dr. Eric Sanderson’s Mannahatta project explores these questions in detail, and students used these resources to further research the landscape of the past. The overall theme of this group was to explore how the natural history of Bowling Green has changed since its use as a cattle market in the 1600’s. Students in this group also used information from Sanderson’s Welikia project to demonstrate the change in the natural landscape and to map the current tree species composition at the park. Students contrasted natural peregrine falcon habitat with structures now used by the resident falcon pair residing near Bowling Green.
PROFESSOR(S)
Terry Morley SITE
Bowling Green
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SCHOOL
MIT STUDIO
Object Geographies: Dis-assembly / Re-assembly Workshop in Art and Architecture PROFESSORS
Joel Lamere Azra Aksamija SITE
Canal Street
Object Geographies: Dis-assembly /Re-assembly Workshop Course Description The course explores the material manifestations of cultural globalization within an urban context, through the lens of small-scale artifacts and public infrastructure. More precisely, it examines how the production of space evolves from the friction between globalization’s two contradictory forces: homogenization and heterogenization. Thematically, the premise of the course is to raise the students’ awareness of their own position within larger environmental systems and socio-spatial contexts, emphasizing that we all are socially and environmentally defined individuals whose actions and modes of consumption, regardless how large or small they are, have an impact on the world at large. These concerns are explored though a balanced interweaving of theoretical research and practice in art and architecture. Methodologically, the course aims to investigate the boundaries and overlaps between art and architecture and architectural history/theory. The assumed paradigms that shape these disciplines have been criticized from perspectives of identity politics, visual studies, post-colonial criticism and other fields. Embracing the critique of cultural globalization within the fields of anthropology, geography and the visual studies, this course aims to challenge the existing canon of art and architecture, as well as the autonomy of their historical disciplines. The methodological aim of the course is to re-imagine the future of art and architecture by embracing the idea of disciplinary hybridity.
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STUDENT NAME
Juan Jofre
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SCHOOL
MIT STUDIO
Object Geographies: Dis-assembly / Re-assembly Workshop in Art and Architecture PROFESSORS
Joel Lamere Azra Aksamija SITE
Canal Street
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STUDENT NAME
Chris Miller SCHOOL
MIT STUDIO
Object Geographies: Dis-assembly / Re-assembly Workshop in Art and Architecture PROFESSORS
Joel Lamere Azra Aksamija SITE
Canal Street
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STUDENT NAME
Kelly Shaw
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SCHOOL
MIT STUDIO
Object Geographies: Dis-assembly / Re-assembly Workshop in Art and Architecture PROFESSORS
Joel Lamere Azra Aksamija SITE
Canal Street
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STUDENT NAME
Allegra Chen, Diana Feng, Hannah First, Emily Kim, Ye Eun Kim, Alexandre Lahaye, Amy Lai, Serena Lee, Vasilis Loizides, Connor MacGillivray, So Hee Seo, Yehlim Martina Shin, Tom Tran, David Vo, Shuyu Wen, Daniel Abbott, Gabrielle Bae, Kevin Chen, Maria Steffania Garcia Bendeck, Sabrina Gibson, Sophia Gonzales, Joe Gonzales, Patrice Hall, Jenny Jang, Min Kim, Tina Kothari, Julie Lee, Manny Nunez, Irene Pankow, Kanak Sethi, Natalia Maria Zurcher Pena, Selwa Abderrazak, Mary Adams, Elizabeth Bastian, Scott Bryson, Christine Cha, Hee Kyung Choi, Xintian Dong, Junyi Du, Deirdre Gaine, Susan Huynh, Seo Jung Kim, Adrian Kwak, Daniel Martinez, Tienyu Ning, Wan Po, Jessica Ross, Yingying Tang, Olivia Wong, Kendall O’Rorke, Daniela Casado, Jin Joo Hong, Seokwon Jang, Hyerin Kim, Stephanie Leone, Danielle Loeser, Lily MacGregor, Tanvi Malik, Maximilian Mueller, Joselyn Naves, Vito Nicholas, Jennifer O’Brian, Jamilla Okubo, Kathryn Rambo, Alyssa Renck, Jacob Wood, Katelyn Campo, Yaxing Chen, Sanjana Chimnani, Hye-Ra Choi, Samar Gul, Ru Guo, Bahar Iranpour, Doungjoon Jang, Lama Kaddura, Soo Ah Oh, Bjarni Sigvatsson, Ebone Spence, Alexander Svizeny, Joel Tschong, Yueping Wang, Patrick Woolf, Julia Yoon SCHOOL
Parsons The New School for Design STUDIO
Laboratory, Foundation, Fall 2011 PROFESSOR(S)
Jessica Corr Scherezade Garcia Michelle Laporte Emily Moss Phil Silva SITE
Bowling Green Canal Street 14th St/Union Square 23rd/Madison Square Park 42nd/Times Square
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Maps, Navigation Tools and Other Investigations of Five Sites Along Broadway In the Fall 2011 semester, five sections of a required Parsons Foundation course, Laboratory—a class which emphasizes research, conceptual thinking, mapping, and teamwork—collaborated with the BROADWAY: 1000 Steps project. Each section took one ‘hub’ along Broadway, and pursued site-based as well as academic research that was manifested in a variety of ‘maps.’ The students were encouraged to use Google map tools, but were also invited to create objects and installations in order to make issues of urban environmental sustainability more transparent and, ideally, more compelling, to the viewer. Students worked with a given list of categories as lenses by which to investigate their sites: land, water, energy, air, waste, and life. The ensuing explorations ranged from categorizing the quantity and type of waste in Union Square and revealing homelessness in the Madison Square neighborhood, to depicting the composition of the landfill in lower Manhattan and the dearth of green space in Times Square.
STUDENT NAME
Carina Adijanto, Amanat Anand, Karla Covell, Jin Ju Kim, Ted Kim, Annie Lee, Soo Lim, Mariam Lutfalla, Whitney Newton, Madison Stirling, Anna Tan, David Vo, Eric Wang, Sarah Whang, Belle Wu, Janet Yeung, Burcu Akan, Liz Bastian, Emmie Danza, Adrienne Faurote, Diana Feng, Deirdre Gaine, Carmen Ramirez, Paige Gilligan, Mayan Hennemeyer, Grace Lee, Anissa Meddeb, Devon Plaster, HaeLin Sin, Sherry Tsang, Matthew Wallace, Danielle Wang, Linda Zhuo
An Urban Environmental Art and Design Show for Union Square Park Students in a Sustainable City themed section of Laboratory — a required Foundation studio course that emphasizes systemic thinking and collaborative making — investigated the Union Square Park area for evidence of challenges in the realm of ‘sustainability.’ Their mandate was to observe, research, and bring to light, through art and design practices, an issue of sustainability relevant to New York City. The project would culminate in a one-day installation in Union Square Park.
Parsons The New School for Design
Students began their research by isolating a single object, natural or artificial, found in the Park, and identifying and analyzing the system(s) to which that object belonged: for example, Soil/Land, Air/Atmosphere, Flora, Fauna, Energy, Water, Transportation, Decomposition/ Decay, Waste. They then, in groups of 3, developed projects intended to educate, provoke, question, and magnify.
STUDIO
These projects included:
SCHOOL
School of Design Strategies, Laboratory, Spring 2012 PROFESSOR(S)
Emily Moss Lars Chellberg SITE
14th St/Union Square
The Metrocard Dress an investigation of plastic waste Small Matters a meditation on menus and other handouts Newspaper Tumbleweeds a time-based study of newspaper waste Ecototes canvas bags featuring the fauna of Union Square Earth Hour a tribute to this annual global lights-out event Endangered Species fragile flour-based stencils of NYC’s pollinators Forever a fashion branding campaign focused on non-biodegradables Gnomes a cheeky messaging campaign focused on recycling E-Waste Tower a sculpture of ubiquitous yet hazardous electronic parts
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STUDENT NAME
Howard Chambers Bland Hoke SCHOOL
Parsons The New School for Design STUDIO
Transdisciplinary Design MFA program PROFESSOR(S)
N/A SITE
64th/Lincoln Center
BROADWAY: 1000 Steps — A Bird’s Eye Perspective In the Spring of 2012, Howard and Bland participated in the BROADWAY: 1000 Steps project from a ‘birds eye view.’ We began our engagement by asking how we might contribute to BROADWAY: 1000 Steps to shift it from a centralized effort of Mary Miss Studio towards a distributed and collective effort — an enabling platform. Research Over the course of the semester, the work we completed consisted of weekly studio visits, participatory exercises, listening in on academic partnership calls, designing a collaborative passport, and presenting the project at an academic conference. We participated in many fieldtrips, as well as attending events and outings. The observational research methods were informed by grounded theory. We used a simple framework of prompts to note different aspects of conversations, meetings and field trips such as: • • • •
What process is at issue here? How do the participants think, feel, and act while in this process? When, why, and how does the process change? What are the consequences of the process?
Outcome From our research, we moved onto a design project that materialized as a passport. The goal was to connect student ideas generated during the semester, leveraging insights and fostering collaborative thinking.
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STUDENT NAME
Rachel Fawcett Suzannah Mayer Kate Zakowski SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio PROFESSOR(S)
Raymond Gastil Lisa Iulo Madis Pihlak
Connect // Columbia’s Engagement with Community + Environment The Columbia Engagement with Community + Environment team looked towards engaging the 125th Street Corridor from Amsterdam Avenue to the Waterfront, with new public spaces on the east and west, both focused on making environmental systems tangible and providing attractive new spaces for the community, and on strengthening the hub at its core with a new mix of university — and communityoriented development.
SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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STUDENT NAME
Rachel Fawcett SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
Gateway to Community This project proposes two buildings, one northwest of 125th Street and Broadway focused on university programming, and one southwest of 125th Street and Broadway focused on mixed-used, community-oriented programming. It aims to fulfill programs displaced by Columbia’s expansion including churches, and to give them an identity in the community. Sustainability Use streets to connect to waterfront Green building design: Minimize impermeable surfaces + maximize vegetation New public open space. Visual Excellence Allow for future growth Consistency in streetscape Lively urban atmosphere Mixed residential + commercial buildings. Context Complementary materiality to surrounding neighborhood New multi-generational arts and cultural facilities Affordable housing Gathering spaces + pedestrian access to destinations New home for displaced churches. Livability Create jobs Public open spaces for social, civic, + economic interactions Support local businesses Improve existing open space Opportunities for green-planted areas Revitalize West 125th Street.
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STUDENT NAME
Suzannah Mayer SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
125th Street Connection Corridor The West 125th Street Corridor, from Amsterdam Avenue to the Hudson waterfront, will be seen as a physical connection within the community. This connection will begin through improvi ng the environmental quality of the streetscape, with a focus on community safety, walkability, sustainability and appearance. These improvements will also increase economic opportunities while providing community amenities and encourage a more livable urban environment for the future. This project repurposes and redesigns two types of open space: the lawns at the base of a NYCHA Grant Houses building, and a traffic triangle formed by 125th Street’s diagonal route. The design adds to the city’s green infrastructure by harvesting rainwater, creates a refuge for residents and passersby, and uses native species to represent the ecological heritage of the site. • • • • • • • • • •
Encourage economic growth through business development Generate local support through creating local destinations Reconnect local businesses with the community through a greening process Decrease traffic speed to create a safer pedestrian experience Children’s Play Area Private Area Storm water/Wetland Observation Zone Topographic Mound Area Parking Tennis Courts
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STUDENT NAME
Aislynn Herbst Rebecca Hopkins Julie Thornton SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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Urban Equilibrium Seeking to highlight pleasant areas and reveal urban areas that exhibit potential to become more pleasant to create a balance within the urban fabric of Manhattanville and Columbia University’s campus. Linking the culturally diverse community of Manhattanville with Columbia’s campus. Using connections within the city to draw people toward already-existing attractive areas and improve upon areas of neglect. 125th Street draws a connection with the Hudson River and the revitalized park to draw people toward the water. Broadway and its subway are intimately connected, yielding unique opportunities for the urban streetscape but creating unhealthy amounts of noise. Already existing parks, such as Riverside Park, can be intimately woven into the urban fabric by embracing existing and expanding green space — making sustainability visible.
STUDENT NAME
Aislyn Herbst SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
Modular Connectivity Landscape Design Members of the West Harlem community have been at odds with Columbia University due to the school’s expansion into their neighborhood. The purpose of this design is to create modular connectivity throughout the neighborhoods. The spaces designed would all center off of a common theme based on the idea of concentric noise waves. The designs ultimately have four goals: to connect Columbia and the community, create “positive noise,” develop a Green Street, and link the community to West Harlem Piers Park. Creating positive noise can counteract the loud, negative noise emanating from the elevated subway. There are three main types of spaces created: gathering spaces, storm water demonstration spaces, and playgrounds.
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STUDENT NAME
Rebecca Hopkins SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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Cultural Living Spaces Driven by noise abatement, this project aims to dissipate harmful noise created by the elevated subway stop at 125th and Broadway. According to the Arts and Culture Committee, hubs and incubators for new media needed to be discussed for the Harlem area. Through the creation of cultural living spaces on site and development across the immediate neighborhood to highlight and increase visibility of culture zones, the project strove to create a useful, vibrant environment of healthy and pleasant noise — noise that does not eliminate the cultural buzz of New York, but diminishes the damaging noise levels radiating from this intersection.
STUDENT NAME
Julie Thornton SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
Community Language Center This project focuses on the connections and relationships between several forces existing in Harlem near 125th Street and the need for more effective communication between the surrounding communities. It creates a center dedicated to education and the learning of language. The goal is to maintain a relationship where members of the Manhattanville community can learn English while the members of the Columbia community can learn Spanish, potentially bringing the population of Columbia and the culturally diverse neighborhood of Manhattanville together. The concept focuses on the difference between “assimilation” and “acculturation.” Additionally, because of the proximity of the subway line, unhealthy and chaotic noise would be dissipated into “helpful” noise, such as language and the spoken word. Both communities would be interwoven both linguistically and culturally, while improving neglected areas and highlighting pleasant spaces within the neighborhood as well.
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STUDENT NAME
Justin Adamczyk-Delarge Naeemah Amir Hiroshi Kawakami Daniel Vivanco Mengjia Wang SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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Making Sustainability Tangible in Urban Context Addressing the community’s perceived lack of park space presented by CB9 representatives, this project introduces a series of “green” interventions. Isolated “islands” (park spaces that are visually connected to the community but difficult to access) and “bonsais” (inaccessible green spaces) are interconnected through a continuous Green Corridor that provides recreation space and habitat for improved biodiversity. The street section of Broadway is redesigned as a central Green Spine that improves pedestrian experience and collects/distributes storm water runoff. Bioswales are introduced to the east/west streets; these Green Streets connect all residents to the major parks (Morningside Park and the waterfront), cleanse storm water, and provide for a sensory engagement with the environment. Finally, the underutilized “residual” spaces are interconnected with Green Ribbons to create interior block connections. Building off a plan developed by Columbia University’s Urban Design Lab, the Green Ribbons connect ground level food production spaces to rooftop urban agriculture, establishing a strong relationship between people and their environment through food.
STUDENT NAME
Justin Adamczyk-Delarge SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
The Green Loop Addressing goals of PlaNYC 2030, this project creates an educational network through the implementation of a “green loop” bus system. The central median of Broadway is redesigned to accommodate bus stop waiting areas with covered bike parking and public restrooms that use captured rainwater to operate the facility. These stops also illustrate the cleansing of black water using an integrated living machine in which the user can see the flow of water from beginning to end. Storm water infrastructure is revealed while signage presents passers-by with fun facts to inspire more sustainable living. Each bus stop location has its own unique form of “green education.” Some educate the public on the reuse of water while others take the opportunity to educate people about urban agriculture. Both are done so through visuals and tangible means of education.
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STUDENT NAME
Naeemah Amir SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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Math and Science High School This design for the proposed High School implements urban farming into the curriculum as a means for teaching math and science. Conventional classroom spaces are redefined to establish more collaborative learning and interactions between the students and the community. A program such as urban agriculture and sustainability can connect the people to the environment, education, and the community at large. The introduction of urban agriculture to students’ own backyards and parks through hands-on learning becomes an extension of the school and fosters neighborhood growth and development. The school becomes a hub for progress and education throughout the community and its people.
STUDENT NAME
Hiroshi Kawakami SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
Symbolic Mountain Adapting the TASTEE site RFP to address CB9’s desire for artist housing and production/exhibition space, this project utilizes the Green Ribbon idea to create an iconic mixed-use building that will establish a new relationship between commerce, community, art, education, and the larger city. The goal is to provide new model for interior block development based on urban design principles and community needs following the green city master plan. The plan develops three zones: commercial, mixed-use, and residential. These zones and the surrounding environment are connected by vertical green ribbons enhancing the community through new programs that reflect community partners’ needs. Additionally, each green ribbon employs a catenary geometry to create a special space and a more nature-oriented scene in the existing urban environment. The structure becomes a SYMBOLIC MOUNTAIN for change in the community.
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STUDENT NAME
Daniel Vivanco SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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Urban Agriculture Stemming from Biophilia, an incubator for urban agriculture can help resolve the particular biophilic challenge of mending the current distant relationship people have with their food. The overall food production/distribution market has become an industrialized and unsustainable aspect of everyday life. By inserting the “farm� into the urbanity of New York, the communities of Morningside and Manhattanville can acquire an awareness and appreciation for their food production. Thus, better-informed decisions on food consumption will develop a future community that not only is food resilient but also one with a sustainable lifestyle.
STUDENT NAME
Mengjia Wang SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
Green Ribbon Linking Green Ribbon spaces to rooftop agriculture, this project is a combination of art installation and landscape design. The site activates an inner-block condition between 125th and a small park on 126th Street. The vision is to connect the upper level urban agriculture to the lower level green parks so the connection could be noticeable for pedestrians even on the ground level. A church food bank and neighboring program for school children serve as client/ users for this project. Through the development of an engaging and visually appealing green landscape design for various users across all age groups, the project can help to instill a communal value in shared urban green spaces and other green opportunities such as urban agriculture.
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STUDENT NAME
Clarissa Costa Lima Caitlin Delach John Paul Gonzalez SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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Broadway 1000 Steps: Designs for Incremental Urbanism The team’s approach began with analyses and proposals for improving the existing movement network, including bikeways, and responding to existing design proposals to make Montefiore Park a greater community resource. Envisioning a redesign of the park, one project proposed a new market building on the north, while another provided an adaptive reuse of a theater building, incorporating multiple existing and proposed programs. The hub at West 125th Street was reconceived as a gateway that offers education and opportunity for an active way of life.
STUDENT NAME
Clarissa Costa Lima SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
Community Marketplace Members of the community have high hopes for Montefiore Park and would like to see the area redesigned into a place for the community. The proposal is to reclaim the park and to create a community center. Broadway and Hamilton Place bound the park on both sides from 136th Street to 138th Street. The park has great potential to be an economic draw for the area. It is close to a transportation hub, the 137th Street subway stop, and young families are moving to the neighborhood. This newly redeveloped park would provide several things to the community: • A public outdoor space for community gatherings • Space for festivals and outdoor markets • A place for fruit and vegetable markets
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STUDENT NAME
Caitlin Delach SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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Creating a Neighborhood Center The Hamilton Heights district is a unique part of the city with low-rise residential housing that fills its streets. The old brownstone and tenement buildings create an environment of charm. The area, however, is a food desert with limited economic opportunities. The first phase of the project creates a pedestrian street along one side of the park, connecting the community. The proposed building creates a beacon for both the community and sustainability where this street and Broadway connect. The retrofitted theater becomes a community market and retail area while creating better sustainable practices for the expanding market by using cyclic sustainable measures.
STUDENT NAME
Kirsten O’Brien Ryan Orr Aaron Wertman SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
Integrative Communities The focus of the Integrative Communities urban design project revolves around the hub of West 125th Street and Broadway. This location is important because it is a convergence point of the strong arts culture of Harlem and the scientific nature inherent in much of Columbia University’s program. By focusing on the relationship of these two cultures, the project can better connect the communities of Harlem and Columbia. In addition to the collegiate connection being made between Columbia’s main campus and the Manhattanville expansion, there are two other important connections being made. The first is the green street and landscape design installations that connect Morningside Park and Riverside Park and engage local shops, residences, and the campus. The second consists of the visual cues and new architecture that connect the high-rise apartment complexes, West Harlem Piers Park, and other important community establishments along the waterfront. The Integrative Communities master plan fulfills the BROADWAY: 1000 Steps vision “to make sustainability personal, visceral, and tangible, so that city residents are empowered to take positive action.”
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STUDENT NAME
Kirsten O’Brien SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio
A Green Connection of Art and Science This project aims to create two visual/conceptual paths, one from the green open space of Riverside Park, and the other from the open space surrounding the Manhattanville NYCHA development, bringing the paths together at the elevated subway platform, representing the connection of the built environment to natural systems.
SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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The green connection from Riverside Park is characterized by planting features, street trees, benches, and bike racks strategically placed along a sweeping curve. The connection through the housing development resembles the flow of water, and connects to a rainwater collecting system providing cooling around the subway station. The final feature reconnects the area to the river through a series of water runnels embedded in the street and sidewalks. The interior of the station displays art. The walls of the station are painted, representing the train map, while the ground displays a collage of street signs and train stops. This information is represented as art but also helps show a larger connection of this area to the city.
STUDENT NAME
Ryan Orr SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
Art at the Heart A hub for the creation of science integrated art pieces was designed at the intersection of Broadway and 125th street to address the art aspect of the group’s urban design scheme. The program for the building developed around the need for artist studios and galleries within the neighborhood. The tectonics of the building were influenced by the nearby subway structure. The site, including the elevated subway stop, became a catalyst to create a connective, multi-level urban space. This urban space not only links internal building elements but also determines their spatial characteristics, creating an internal urban space. These spaces are anchored by pyramidal atriums that are alternatives to traditional airshafts. The form facilitates day lighting, the grounding of the subway and creates a critical response to typical solutions associated with these designs. Complexity is also added to these spaces through a reinterpretation of the ground floor. Acting not only has an active street façade, but also creating a secondary internal street, the building is able to connect across Broadway.
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STUDENT NAME
Aaron Wertman SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
New Leaf: Leaders in Environmental Action for the Future It is the goal of this phase of development to enhance the liveliness of the waterfront and existing establishments, while engaging and educating the community in the sciences surrounding climate change, sustainability, and environmental awareness. The Environmental Center is meant to act as a visual symbol of sustainability, leading by its own example. The building itself acts as a billboard to the city; a sustainability poster child implementing innovative green design techniques while promoting research and outreach programs. It is visible to those at street level on 125th, Amtrak passengers, the vehicular traffic travelling the Henry Hudson Parkway, and the traffic on the Riverside Drive Viaduct. This exposure is essential to the success of the project as a tangible symbol of sustainability, instilling a sense of pride and importance to the Harlem community to which this project belongs in cooperation with Columbia University and the science community. Responding to a community-based environmental action group’s desire for a visible headquarters, and positioning it at the nexus of Columbia’s future West Harlem/ Manhattanville campus, the thriving Fairway market, and Harlem Piers Park, this project both houses environmental education activities and communicates them to multiple audiences: pedestrians, train-riders, and drivers.
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STUDENT NAME
Amanda Laino Alison Pavilonis Kyle Schillaci SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
RATS | Recycling Abutting Transitional Spaces Don’t bring people to the recycling; bring the recycling to the people. With an interest in mobile, connectable, expandable architectures, we believe the answer to recycling is not allocating giant volumes of space for sorting and distribution but to create machines programmed to explore streets and buildings looking for the proper materials to satiate their desire. The successful mobile recycling center encourages the community to reduce their waste stream by crowd sourcing the service sector, and in return gives them something useful as a medium of exchange (i.e. art projects, discounts, etc.). Focus was placed on implementing autonomous robotic systems for waste collection, while exploiting the existing subway infrastructures for trash removal; effectively crowd-sourcing residents of New York to remove all garbage collection vehicles and greatly reduce the unsustainable waste cycle. In addition, the construction of a system of Inter+Median and urban void art galleries would be performed by mobile 6-axis robotic arms capable of retrieving recycled building materials from the adjacent waste stream system. Replicable digital practices and efficient community waste removal must become visible and interact with urban inhabitants. In addition, by utilizing small urban voids for recycled art exposure the members of the community can view their consumables’ rebirth.
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STUDENT NAME
Amanda Laino SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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Campus Connection Green Streets have many benefits to street life and diversity of urban environments, plants, and animal species. Green streets and Biophilic streets have been introduced to the areas surrounding the intersection of 116th street and Broadway and 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue to create a bird — and pedestrian-friendly ecosystem. The overall goal of the place making strategies is to provide an opportunity for engagement of the Columbia University, Barnard College and Harlem communities while promoting stewardship and sustainability. In addition, this Green Street provides a linkage across Columbia’s campus via “College Walk” between Morningside Park and Riverside Park facilitating improved social and recreational interaction.
STUDENT NAME
Alison Pavilonis SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
Waste of Spaces The main goal of the team’s urban design proposal is to bring awareness to the community by repurposing void spaces with new functionality, making recycling easy and accessible. By creating a new recycling program, it is necessary to design a strategy and space for this collection to happen. Unfortunately, space is exactly what the site is lacking. Because of this, this project chose to use the existing infrastructure to house and support a more systematic approach to solving this problem. The purpose of this project was to connect the recycling center to the existing subway station at 125th combining the functions of each of these systems.
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STUDENT NAME
Kyle Schillaci SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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Autonomous Collection Don’t bring people to the recycling; bring the recycling to the people. With an interest in mobile, connectable, expandable architectures, this project proposes that the answer to recycling is not allocating giant volumes of space for sorting and distribution but to create machines programmed to explore streets and buildings looking for the proper materials to satiate their desire. In the same way the ice cream truck anthem attracts young children to the streets, so should the call of the mobile recycling center; bringing communities out to engage in reducing their waste, and in return giving them something useful as a medium of exchange.
STUDENT NAME
Christopher Johnson Justin Konicek Rose Williams SCHOOL
Penn State
Repurposing Urban Spaces Repurposing Urban Spaces focused on the 125th Street Hub and its connections to existing park spaces and underutilized public spaces, from transitioning industrial areas, to alleyways, to renovated building courtyards.
STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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STUDENT NAME
Christopher Johnson SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio PROFESSOR(S)
Raymond Gastil Madis Pihlak Lisa Iulo SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
Repurposing Urban Spaces | Urban Heat Island The Goddard Institute, whose premises at 112th Street and Broadway go relatively unnoticed by passersby, is a leader in climate change research. The proposed design makes this cutting-edge research from the Goddard Institute offices visible and tangible on the street. In the proposed design, two intersections on Broadway — 112th and 125th Streets — are paired together to create awareness about the urban heat island effect while simultaneously implementing positive change. Around the intersection of 112th and Broadway, interactive digital screens targeted at pedestrians and motorists, provide information on the urban heat island effect and its implications on New York City, as well as live readouts of surface temperatures; light-colored roof surfaces and green roof surfaces, for example, reduce the effects of the urban heat island. Around the intersection of 125th Street and Broadway, the Goddard Institute’s research is visually and physically accessible to the public; green walls hanging from the aboveground subway structure repurpose this previously underutilized space. This mutually beneficial relationship provides the Goddard Institute with space to conduct its green wall research, while simultaneously engaging the public on this salient issue faced by modern urbanities. This pairing of informational screens at 112th Street and living screens at 125th Street engages the public on the urban heat island effect, while simultaneously creating measurable change.
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STUDENT NAME
Justin Konicek SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
Active [of] Use As a low-“cultural return� building, the taxi station on 127th street, adjacent to the Mink Complex, serves little purpose to the localized district. By claiming the footprint for a building and through-way, the new Green Cart Education & Storage Center will provide a critical connection between the Create @Harlem Green development and the Mink Complex inner campus. It is a catalyst for the act of active reuse through the area and West Harlem. Established in 2008, the NYC Green Cart program provides raw produce for the upper third of Manhattan. These carts are typically owned and run by area residents with a strong motivation to work for themselves. However, certified cart and fruit storage centers are typically in central Manhattan, two miles away from the legal vending zones. In this proposal, by reclaiming a West Manhattan taxi garage, the Green Cart program gains a new headquarters close to the action. Leasable cart storage and growing plots are available for vendors while affordable offices will simultaneously provide growing space for local businesses and former cart owners.
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STUDENT NAME
Rose Williams SCHOOL
Penn State STUDIO
Urban Design Studio SITE
112th St/NASA Goddard 125th St/Old Broadway
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4 Seasons in West Harlem: A New Kind of Festival Responding to community interest in the animation of public spaces and their support of increased cultural activity, this project envisions a flexible, portable system for generating cultural events and spaces throughout the district. The neighborhood spaces of CB9 will be changing over the next few years. In this state of transition, a design oriented towards the current residents is the most appropriate. These designs are quicker to execute than buildings and make underused spaces better organized. This is a different form of sustainability, promoting the continued utilization of space in a valuable way. This project promotes the needs called for by CB9 and therefore supports the current residents’ use of the area. The project sites become a great place for all types of people to mix, including existing and future residents and visitors. The connective tissue is the enhanced streets that include direct connection to the waterfront bike path.
STUDENT NAME
Heba Elmasry SCHOOL
Pratt STUDIO
Communications Design Special Project PROFESSOR(S)
Jean Brennan SITE
Bowling Green
What’s Beneath Your Toes? Manhattan’s diverse history offers an interesting context to explore our attitudes toward the environment. For my project, I decided to focus in particular on how the land physically changed and expanded — the what, how and why of the city’s landfill in lower Manhattan. The ‘What’s Below Your Toes?’ app is a scavenger hunt game designed for middle-school age children to explore their city and learn how much it has changed over the last few centuries. Players are led with questions and clues to a specific intersection. The site is marked with a stenciled symbol which both reveals the answer, and provides a QR code directing players to more information regarding the site. By exploring what’s literally below their toes, students can not only discover the history that is hidden beneath the ground, but also learn how their actions can positively or negatively affect their environment. From topics ranging from the illegal dumping of garbage to creative reuse of materials, students are given the chance to look at their environment from a new perspective, while physically connecting to their city.
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STUDENT NAME
Janice Rudan SCHOOL
Pratt STUDIO
Communications Design Special Project PROFESSOR(S)
Jean Brennan SITE
Bowling Green
Uncover Mannahatta Uncover Mannahatta examines the oldest park in New York, Bowling Green. The case study uses direct and secondary research to gain historical and cultural insight into the space while preserving the integrity of information and narratives. The project represents the memories and identities of the past societies with a humble approach. From the Dutch encounter to the Revolutionary War and onward to the present day, the landscape of Mannahatta continues to change. Today the area surrounding Bowling Green is utilized for trading, commerce, residential, industrial, tourism, transportation, public facilities and institutions. Through the ever-changing culture, populations and land usage, the tip of Mannahatta no longer wears the same face. However, there is a wealth of historical markers that may be used to promote inquiry, awareness, and social engagement to gain appreciation for the past, balanced by perspective and agency for the future. Uncover Mannahatta offers an opportunity to transform the city into a more historically aware social and cultural environment. This scavenger hunt game serves as a scaffold for engagement, educational tool for secondary schools, or an opportunity to connect locals and tourists. This project encourages a naturalistic relationship with the world using Lenape mythology and explores game mechanics, particularly role-playing techniques, to curate the city.
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STUDENT NAME
Lindsay Taylor SCHOOL
Pratt STUDIO
Communications Design Special Project PROFESSOR(S)
Jean Brennan SITE
Bowling Green
Walking Shorelines Bowling Green is a key area to consider as the origin point of Manhattan. Over the past 400 years, as the city expanded, the island has changed topographically — hills have been leveled, swamps drained and filled, shorelines altered. Discovering the extent of the expansion of the shoreline from Bowling Green was most impressive. I inquired to understanding how the composition and uses of the edge has been altered from sandy shorelines to wooden piers and slips, expanded streets via clean and garbage landfill, to a stone Bulkhead by the Dutch, English and Americans. I spent an afternoon tracing the approximate path of the 1609 shoreline around Bowling Green based on Eric Sanderson’s Mannahatta with neon colored duct tape, so that one could walk the path of that shoreline. This project has two components: the design for an app, design for a mobile applicaiton and a sculptural fountain. The proposed smart phone app would assist people in circumnavigating Bowling Green via the shorelines of four different eras, as well as provide insight on the culture of the era. The proposed sculptural fountain for Bowling Green would have stacked tiers corresponding to each of the historic shorelines’ shapes. Water in the fountain would rise and fall within the basin similar to a tide’s ebb and flow.
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STUDENT NAME
Lisa Marie Anastasio Elisabetta DiStefano SCHOOL
Pratt STUDIO
Communications Design Special Project PROFESSOR(S)
Jean Brennan SITE
Bowling Green
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Walk the Green The goal of this project was to organize and promote a walking tour of green spaces in lower Manhattan. The purpose of the tour is to get people out to exercise, but also to serve as a fundraiser for the maintenance, advocacy and promotion of public green spaces. This team produced two printable tour books for walking tours originating at Bowling Green: an east side tour book (24,000 Steps) and a west side tour book (25,000 Steps).
STUDENT NAME
Maria Barreix Radhika Unnikrishnan SCHOOL
Pratt STUDIO
Communications Design Special Project PROFESSOR(S)
SOUNDSTORY SOUNDSTORY is a smart phone app that simulates a new audio experience in public space. It is designed specifically to make the user’s journey from Battery Park to Bowling Green more pleasant, informative, and innovative. Along the way, users can listen to audio clips that create an environment to experience the space from a new perspective. The stories jump through time to further recreate the space. Listen and enjoy.
Jean Brennan SITE
Bowling Green
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STUDENT NAME
Iwona Alfred SCHOOL
Pratt STUDIO
City Planning: Parks & Open Space PROFESSOR(S)
Elliott Maltby SITE
23rd/Madison Square Park
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Rethinking Washington Square and Surroundings – Improving Environmental Sustainability and Functionality There are a few challenges that have been plaguing Madison Square Park, which are poor traffic, poor sense of public spaces, and poor water management. In order to provide a better experience of public space, Alfred proposed four different approaches to address these problems – water runoff management, stationary vegetation, surface improvements, and traffic safety.
STUDENT NAME
Graham Cavanaugh SCHOOL
Pratt STUDIO
City Planning: Parks & Open Space
Greenhouse Cavanaugh proposed to build an integrated greenhouse at the center of Madison Square Park, offering multiple services to local businesses and residents, such as farming fields, recycled energy, and a compost system. In Cavanaugh’s vision, public art that addresses urban sustainability plays an essential role in engaging the public.
PROFESSOR(S)
Elliott Maltby SITE
23rd/Madison Square Park
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STUDENT NAME
Ross Diamond SCHOOL
Pratt STUDIO
City Planning: Parks & Open Space PROFESSOR(S)
Elliott Maltby SITE
23rd/Madison Square Park
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STUDENT NAME
Isabel Meisner SCHOOL
Pratt STUDIO
City Planning: Parks & Open Space PROFESSOR(S)
Elliott Maltby
Bring to Light Lighting in Madison Square Park and the adjacent Broadway pedestrian plaza has not been designed with the human experience in mind. There is a disconnect between the lighting’s function and how and when people use the space. By creating a lighted urban environment with four different lighting installations, placed in select locations, Bring to Light seeks to reconcile the pedestrian experience and the built environment.
SITE
23rd/Madison Square Park
Through lighting that enhances human interaction and promotes exploration of the built environment, people may better understand their own impacts on the city and its people.
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STUDENT NAME
Stephen Miller SCHOOL
Pratt STUDIO
City Planning: Parks & Open Space PROFESSOR(S)
Elliott Maltby SITE
23rd/Madison Square Park
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Madison Square Rain Garden Madison Square Park – a lush enclosed space – stands in contrast to the broad, open crossing of streets and avenues on its western edge produced by Broadway. This space provides an opportunity to not only expand the pedestrian realm, as the Department of Transportation has already done, but slice open the city’s hard surface and expose the natural processes beneath. By highlighting the flows of water through “streams” of light on the walkways of the park, plazas, streets and sidewalks, New Yorkers will follow electronic drops of rainwater to green infrastructure that filters runoff while also providing a place to sit, relax and interact with water and other people. This installation will connect the enclosed space of Madison Square Park with the open plazas and surrounding blocks by encouraging pedestrians to deviate from their routine, linear paths and instead follow a route that mimics typically-ignored water flows in the space.
STUDENT NAME
Claire Nelischer SCHOOL
Pratt STUDIO
City Planning: Parks & Open Space
Untitled In this project, Nelischer primarily focused on reshaping Madison Square Park by altering physical elements. One of the main ideas was to improve the permeability of pavement and vegetation, since it would enhance the public plaza’s capability of managing storm water. Additionally, she intended to better integrate the pedestrian flow and gravitation through similar approaches.
PROFESSOR(S)
Elliott Maltby SITE
23rd/Madison Square Park
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STUDENT NAME
Melissa Umberger SCHOOL
Pratt STUDIO
City Planning: Parks & Open Space PROFESSOR(S)
Elliott Maltby SITE
23rd/Madison Square Park
Oasis Park Oasis Park is a vision for integrating Madison Square Park with the newly created pedestrian plaza along Broadway. The project is largely inspired by the legacy of waterways that permeated the Manhattan landscape prior to the 1800s. Interestingly, Viele’s 1874 historic “Water Map” of New York City shows Swift Creek flowing through Madison Square Park. Over time, as the city became more developed, the creeks disappeared, causing limited access to water and increased storm water management challenges. Currently, the park and plaza exist in a relatively open area of the city. The plaza’s beige flooring sticks out like a desert far from the East River and Hudson River. In addition, the pedestrian plaza suffers from storm water runoff at the north end of Worth Square. This presents an opportunity to recycle rainwater from Worth Square as part of a water network of runnels. As a nod to the park’s historic past, a projected overlay of the original map that communicates the waterway system can be shown over the great lawn. The runnels trace a scaled down grid system through the park and the historic creeks are amplified by plantings of the same water path. Oasis Park is an integrated park system that illustrates, preserves, retains, and reuses water.
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STUDENT NAME
Peggy Brennan SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II PROFESSOR(S)
Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan
Waste Heights Park A public park that allows visitors to walk through a single-stream recycling process facility to view the sorting of our daily waste products and to witness the beginning of its transformative process into new and reusable products. The project also proposed empty neighborhood sites as places for small businesses to redevelop and design new products from this recycling center.
SITE
168th St/Columbia Presbyterian
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Food 4 Thought
STUDENT NAME
Victor Badami
A hybrid built extension to the existing school overlooking the east side park that provides an urban garden for pedagogical (K-12 education) and neighborhood use as well as a space for community engagement and continuing education.
SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II PROFESSOR(S)
Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan SITE
168th/NY Presbyterian Hospital
STANDARD CLASSROOM UNIT:
section
scale | 1” = 8’
[ roof truss ]
support bracket I-beam column mullion double glazing
air return concrete
mullion
concrete slab section cut | 1” = 4’
[ water ]
concrete footer
food 4 THOUGHT
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UNIVERSITY of VIRGINA | school of architecture | studio VAN LEGNGEN + HANNEGAN | V.BADAMI II
grow local + eat healthy
N [ marie teresa middle school ]
[ P2 ]
[ P1 ]
[ L1 ]
[ open to below ]
[ P3 ]
[ reveal ]
[ EDGECOMB AVENUE ] [ P4 ]
ENTRY FLOOR
P | plots: [ P1 ]
trees/canopy
[ P2 ]
workspace
[ P3 ]
garden beds
[ P4 ]
vines + shrubs
[ demonstration rooms ]
concrete retaining wall
main lobby
[ L2 ]
display hall
[ L3 ]
commons
[ C1a ]
[ L3 ]
[ L2 ]
O | offices: [ O1 ]
section b
section a [ water collection pond ]
L | lounges: [ L1 ]
[ C1b ]
[ C2 ]
[ C3 ]
concrete retaining wall
administration
[ O2 ]
faculty offices
[ O3 ]
faculty lounge
C | classrooms:
[ O1 ]
[ C2 ]
small classroom lab
[ O3 ]
GROUND FLOOR
[ C1a +b ] lecture room
[ C3 ]
[ O2 ]
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[ promanade ]
model scale | 1” = 8’
food 4 THOUGHT grow local + eat healthy
STUDENT NAME
Mark Curry SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II PROFESSOR(S)
Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan SITE
Uniscape Wellness Park and Healing Habitat at 168th Street The Uniscape Wellness Park and Healing Habitat is a place of communication between neighborhood kids in the park and hospital children. Using a series of parallel modules and digital screens that provide different programs, including games and other media, children can play with and communicate with each other from these two diverse locations. The project creates new kinds of social experiences that can revitalize the lives of children both inside and outside the hospital.
168th St/Columbia Presbyterian
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STUDENT NAME
Roderick Cruz SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II PROFESSOR(S)
Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan SITE
23rd St/Madison Square Park
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Blurring Boundaries at Madison Square Park Comprised of variable prefabricated lightweight concrete pieces, this project is designed to create diverse constructions that may be used to accommodate the ongoing events in the Park. The portable pieces are designed to contain a layer of plant life as well as walking surfaces so that different combinations of enclosures and walkways may be custom designed to fit different needs while preserving the original groundscape of the park.
STUDENT NAME
Alejandro A. Garrido-Perez SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II PROFESSOR(S)
Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan
GYMNYC This proposal redefines the western edge of Madison Square Park by replacing the existing metal fence with a 3-dimentional bike and walkway to promote physical activity in people’s daily routines. In collaboration with Be Fit NYC and PlanNYC it connects the streets and bike lanes of upper Broadway to the southern part of the park and its subway and bus stops to the south. This project serves as the major proponent to strengthen and optimize the site as a versatile transit hub and an urban gym.
SITE
23rd St/Madison Square Park
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STUDENT NAME
Jessica Hays SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II PROFESSOR(S)
Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan SITE
168th St/Columbia Presbyterian
Urban UnEarthing At the intersection of Broadway and 168th Street in Washington Heights, my intervention introduces city dwellers to an underground landscape. The earth is compressed, shifting the ground plan downwards to reveal a section of the infrastructure hidden below. Most New York residents only consciously interact with the city surface and are oblivious to the perpetual activity beneath them. However, under Manhattan lie more than twenty-thousand miles of electrical cables, forty-thousand miles of gas lines and water mains, and one hundred miles of steam pipes. These pipelines, cables, and conduits intersect and weave around a rapid-transit system that transports more than five million riders each day. Negotiating five elements: schist, glass, translucent concrete, folded steel, and vegetation, this project displays these systematically organized and densely populated systems below the ground.
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The Loop at 165th Street, Washington Heights
STUDENT NAME
George Klett
This project creates a cross-island connection between the two perimeter parks along the Hudson and East Rivers at 165th street. It includes a pedestrian and cyclist friendly avenue connected to a new west side sinuous ramp structure that allows pedestrians and cyclists a safe and aesthetic journey down to the Hudson River below. The ramp floats over the obstructive infrastructure before it stretches out over the water and finally ends in the Hudson River Park where it connects to established bike and pedestrian networks.
SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II PROFESSOR(S)
Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan SITE
168th St/Columbia Presbyterian
WEST GREENWAY
165th ST CONNECTION
EAST GREENWAY
BIKE PATHS 1”=150’
Parkway
Railroad
165th St. + Bridge
165th ST CUT 1”=32’
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STUDENT NAME
Claire Lester SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II PROFESSOR(S)
Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan SITE
168th St/Columbia Presbyterian
Farm Facade Washington Heights is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Manhattan. National studies show that there is a strong correlation between low income and high obesity, heart disease, and cancer rates. Whether this relationship is causal or not I believe that having the choice to eat a healthy diet of fresh foods would better the quality of life in lower income areas throughout the city. While in Washington Heights I noticed that there was an obvious shortage of advertised, readily available fresh produce in comparison to more wealthy neighborhoods in lower Manhattan. I plan to develop a system of urban agriculture that could be applied to any portion of any city, and that will provide less expensive organic produce while drastically decreasing our cities reliance on imported food. I have designed planting modules that could be applied to both underused vertical and horizontal surfaces to grow fruits and vegetables. These cultivated surfaces will not only provide the benefits above but will literally re-liven the neighborhood of Washington Heights by creating more pleasing urban aesthetics and fresher air. This project will be applied in phases, with the ultimate goal to encompass the entire island of Manhattan.
TRACK AND SPROCKET DETAIL
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Cooking Lessons
STUDENT NAME
Jude Majali
This project proposes a series of lightweight tent structures and portable kitchens for preparing and serving simple meals to area residents during the day. The meal preparation is visible to the guests as a way of teaching diverse recipes for local clientele. By night the tent structures collapse to create a plaza of lighted vertical elements that give vibrancy to this otherwise wasted plaza adjacent to Madison Park.
SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II PROFESSOR(S)
Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan SITE
23rd Street/Madison Square Park
Madison square park
. aVE 5TH
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COOKING TABLES WINTER WALKING PERSPECTIVE
SUMMER COOKING TABLES WINTER
WINTER STREET PERSPECTIVE
WALKING PERSPECTIVE
SUMMER WINTER STREET PERSPECTIVE
STREET PERSPECTIVE
STREET PERSPECTIVE
SUMMER
SUMMER
1’=64”
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STUDENT NAME
Valeria Rivera Deneke SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II PROFESSOR(S)
Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan SITE
23rd Street/Madison Square Park
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A Tactile Edge Market meets Park with one tactile table along Broadway. An interactive table that stretches 8 blocks from Union Square Market to Madison Park, this vibrant linear construction provides spaces for daily fresh food carts, seating and social interactive spaces. A permanent structure in Union Square holds the fresh food carts at night and then transforms into shelter for small shops for the other transient retailers by day.
Eco-Transit: engage, exchange & explore
STUDENT NAME
O2
Fung Siang Tan Tai
The Eco-Transit hub is a self-sustainable public transportation hub that merges the subway and bus stations, at the same time offering space for bike parking. The main concept is based on maximizing carbon sequestration and rainwater harvesting, exchanging carbon dioxide, stormwater andAir rainwater into clean air and clean water. CClean This is achieved through the natural processes of the ecology planted in and around the station. These clean resources are then returned to the community and Madison Square Park. The common architectural element that runs throughout the station is a wall feature that combines the ecology, rainwater harvesting, plant watering system, bike racks, benches and applications for physical and digital interaction.
SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II CO2 and Other Harmful Gases PROFESSOR(S) Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan SITE
23rd Street/Madison Square Park
CO2 and Other Harmful Gases
Stormwater
Public Buses and Subways Stormwater
Plants
Plants Madison Square Park Rain Rain Water Harvesting
Rain Water Harvesting
H2O
O2 CClean Air
CO2 and Other Harmful Gases
Clean Water
Public Buses and Subways Stormwater
Plants Madison Square Park
Rain Rain Water Harvesting
H2O Clean Water
O2
CClean Air
CO2 and Other Harmful Gases
Public Buses and Subways Stormwater
Plants Madison Square Park
Rain Rain Water Harvesting
H2O
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STUDENT NAME
Jacob Tuzzo SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II
Cycle-to-Cycle Thru at Madison Square Park This project creates a public drop off, storage and bath/shower rooms for New York City cyclists who ride to work everyday. A bridge connects this island plaza to the bike lane on Broadway that creates a visual connection to the city while providing a safe crossing for both cyclists and pedestrians.
PROFESSOR(S)
Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan SITE
23rd Street/Madison Square Park
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Site Plan_ 1/32” = 1’
STUDENT NAME
Ashton Williams SCHOOL
University of Virginia STUDIO
Architectural Design II
Water Gardens at Madison Park This project proposes a series of water gardens that serve as overflow water containers during storms and rainy days in order to reduce the street water runoff that severely challenges Manhattan’s limited storm water management program.
PROFESSOR(S)
Karen Van Lengen Erin Hannigan SITE
23rd Street/Madison Square Park
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