Nashville Urban Design Program Summer 2016

University of Tennessee, Knoxville College of Architecture + Design

Nashville Urban Design Program Summer 2016 The Neuhoff Cultural Campus: Projecting Its Future Potential

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Thomas K. Davis FAIA

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DESIGN REVIEW CRITICS

PRELIMINARY DESIGN REVIEWERS Tara Armisted Keith Covington Lee Davis Gina Emmanuel Hunter Gee Chad Grout Fuller Hanan Ben Mosley Linda Orsagh Justin Wallace Taylor Wells

Tara Armisted Landscape Architect Common Ground ESA Architects Centric Architecture Smith Gee Studio urbangrout Smith Gee Studio Carnell Mosley Architects Neuhoff Metro Planning Department Hastings Architecture Associates

FINAL DESIGN REVIEWERS Sheila Dial Gary Gaston Chad Grout Fuller Hanan Ben Mosley Linda Orsagh Ron Yearwood Jason Young

Hastings Architecture Associates Nashville Civic Design Center urbangrout Smith Gee Studio Carnell Mosley Architects Neuhoff Nashville Civic Design Center Director, UTK School of Architecture

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INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS The University of Tennessee, Knoxville College of Architecture and Design Nashville Civic Design Center (NCDC)

SPECIAL THANKS Gary Gaston Chad Grout Linda Orsagh Ron Yearwood

Johanna Coetzee, MaryKate Leitch, + Amy St. John Austen Barrett, Anna Katherine Biggs, + Aaron Wright Torie Buche, Mara Caoile, + Josh Murray Brittany Peters, Journey Roth, + Ruxin Tao Anthony Traylor

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Nashville Urban Design Program Summer 2016 Neuhoff Campus Development Design Problem Statement Student Involvement

"Slaughterhouse Revived: Neuhoff, the Former North Nashville Meat Packing Plant, is in for a Grand—and Ironic—Makeover"

by Liz Murray Garrigan "The Late Neuhoff Philanthropist Stephen McRedmond Saw Life Where Others Saw Only a Killing Floor"

by Christine Kreyling "Speaking of Water ..."

by Mike Byrd "The Artisinal Movement, and Ten Things That Define It"

by Grant McCracken “The Secret Formula for Creating a Makers District”

by Thomas Frey "Nashville's Massive Old Slaughterhouse Reenvisioned as Riverfront Destination"

by Tony Gonzalez Existing Conditions - Buildings Documentation

PRECEDENTS

Torpedo Factory Art Center Marathon Motor Works Westbeth Artists' Residence Armour Yards Cummins Station Ponce City Market Goat Farm Art Center Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

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Austen Barrett, Anna Katherine Biggs, + Aaron Wright Johanna Coetzee, MaryKate Leitch, + Amy St. John Torie Buche, Mara Caoile, + Josh Murray Brittany Peters, Journey Roth, + Ruxin Tao Anthony Traylor

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UNDEVELOPED NORTH SITE

ANIMAL HOLDING PEN

SLAUGHTERHOUSE

NEUHOFF PROPERTY

CUMBERLAND RIVER GREENWAY CUMBERLAND RIVER

GERMANTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD

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NASHVILLE URBAN DESIGN SUMMER PROGRAM 2016

NASHVILLE URBAN DESIGN PROGRAM SUMMER 2016 at the Nashville Civic Design Center Thomas K. Davis FAIA, Professor and Nashville Summer Program Director PROGRAM OVERVIEW During Summer 2016, the School of Architecture once again offered an urban design program based at the Nashville Civic Design Center (www.civicdesigncenter.com), to the synergy and mutual benefit of the College and the Center. This is an extension of the 16-year long partnership between the two entities. A two course sequence comprising Summer Session One and Two—an urban design studio and a directed research course—will be taught over a 10-week period from June 2 - July 6 and July 7 - August 9. Each session constitutes six credit hours. Students from the University of Tennessee are encouraged to enroll in both sequential sessions for a total of twelve credit hours, but students may elect to take one course alone. The program is targeted for undergraduate architecture students rising into their fourth or fifth year.

The Nashville Urban Design Program utilizes Metropolitan Nashville and Middle Tennessee as a laboratory to visit and experience the issues and opportunities confronting the region, including examples of its most interesting historic and contemporary architecture and public spaces.

THE NASHVILLE CIVIC DESIGN CENTER The urban design program was located at the Nashville Civic Design Center in the heart of historic downtown Nashville, and the studio will observe and participate in the ongoing public activities of the Center as a “think tank” and as an educational environment. The faculty member teaching the summer program is the former Design Director at the NCDC from 2004-2008. From contacts made during this experience, the faculty member is able to draw on a broad range of distinguished public officials, architects, planners, and developers from Nashville and Middle Tennessee during pin-up design reviews and workshops.

PROGRAM CURRICULUM Summer Session one was comprised of ten students enrolled in ARCH 496: Urban Design Vertical Studio.

This course addresses urban design projects responding to specific Greater Nashville conditions, with exploration of urban issues in understanding and making the city’s architecture. Student investigations analyze cultural, physical and environmental influences on architectural form, space and structure.

Summer Session Two was ARCH 465: Directed Research. With a faculty member’s scholarship, each student works on a specific topic or project related to that faculty member’s area of expertise, research, scholarship, or creative activity. The product seeks to become a publication OVERNIGHT FIELD TRIP One of the highlights of the Urban Design Program is an overnight field trip to Columbus, Indiana, long considered a North American mecca of modern architecture and modernist landscape, as well as a vibrant “Main Street.”

From left: Mara Caoile, Anthony Traylor, Amy St. John, Ruxin Tao, Torie Buche, Anna Katherine Biggs, Professor T.K. Davis, Aaron Wright, Journey Roth, Brittany Peters, Austen Barrett, MaryKate Leitch, + Johanna Coetzee | Not pictured: Josh Murray

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N E U H O F F C A M P U S D E V E L O P M E N T D E S I G N P R O B L E M S TAT E M E N T Our summer school problem is to revisit and extend the late Stephen McRedmond’s vision for the Neuhoff slaughterhouse site in East Germantown just north of downtown Nashville. This neighborhood is now teeming with new development, and in close proximity to the new ballpark, the Cumberland River, and its adjacent west bank greenway. In addition to the McRedmond property, we may also incorporate a site directly to its north to design your own proposals. This site is currently under option for development by Tribridge Residential out of Atlanta.

Current plans include 250 residential units and 20,000 square feet of commercial space.

The south portion of the site has a master plan for residential buildings and a “International Center for Living Watersheds,” designed by Neil Denari, both of which we may assume in place as an advocacy. During the past decade or more, architects Greg Pasquarelli and Lebbeus Woods, as well as public artist Mel Chin have also contributed master plan proposals for Neuhoff.

We will work in teams of three students per team, with sub-components of the proposals developed as urban architecture by each individual team member focusing on a component. Coordination and communication within each team will be of primary importance.

The program will not be prescriptive, but rather general, open for interpretation by each team. Stephen McRedmond’s vision is perhaps best summarized in two brief articles from the Nashville Scene, available off a Google search: "The late Neuhoff philanthropist Stephen McRedmond saw life where others saw only a killing floor" by Christine Kreyling April 7, 2011 "Slaughterhouse Revived” by Liz Murray Garrigan March 21, 2002 Excerpting from Christine Kreyling’s homage upon Stephen McRedmond’s tragic death: “Only a visionary would look at derelict buildings with a blood-red past and see a future nature lover’s green. That was Stephen McRedmond.

The Neuhoff meat-packing plant witnessed the slaughter of 14,000 animals a week before its closure in 1977. The 700,000-square-foot complex—that’s three Super-Walmarts—dates to 1906 and stands by the Cumberland six blocks north of the Metro Courthouse…

My first visit to the 17-acre site … by then the structures were pretty much shells, albeit still manifesting their sturdy German heritage ….

As (McRedmond) saw it, architecture like this wouldn’t ever be built again. He had a chance not merely to save it, but make it a locus for creative practices. Stephen painted for me a picture of a village focused on the arts and ecology, with mixed-income housing, perhaps a restaurant and brewery, and a research center devoted to the river and water-quality conservation…

The first step was NCAP. In 1999, Stephen founded the Nashville Cultural Arts Project … The non-profits goals was to bring together new ideas in art, architecture and environmentalism to reinvent and revitalize—not just Neuhoff, but the neighborhood of East Germantown and maybe Nashville itself…

In 2000, the renovation of the “pink” building provided space to stage events …

The Great Recession slowed progress, but Stephen kept pushing. He installed a 2,600-square-foot green roof employing plant types from central Tennessee’s endangered cedar glades. He designed the “Poet’s Garden,” a small outdoor performance space paved and planted within an old storage contained. Neuhoff also became a magnet for other arts entities: the Nashville Jazz Workshop, Actor’s Bridge Ensemble and the Butcher Shoppe recording studio of John Prince and David Ferguson ….

Perhaps more transformative than specific build-outs, however, was Stephen’s capacity to inspire.”

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"SLAUGHTERHOUSE REVIVED: Neuhoff, the Former North Nashville Meat Packing Plant, is in for a Grand—and Ironic—Makeover" Written by Liz Murray Garrigan March 21, 2002

(Source: http://www.nashvillescene.com/news/ article/13006915/slaughterhouse-revived)

There’s an odd justice to the idea that a place where animals once were slaughtered, sometimes with sledgehammers to their heads, is becoming a village of forward-thinking entrepreneurs, a poster child for new urbanism and a haven for enlightened vegetarians. But that’s the evolution of the former Neuhoff meat packing plant, an assortment of old pink buildings in the North Nashville neighborhood of East Germantown totaling an astonishing 700,000 square feet. The complex was first built in 1906 and continued expanding until 1950. When is closed in 1977, it became a shell of a place, except for the abundant piles of trash—and we’re talking dozens of semi-trucks full—inside its solid brick and concrete walls.

It became a haven for the homeless as well. In fact, when the current group of owners were deeded the property at the end of 1998, they found a few residents on the rambling 14-acre campus along the Cumberland River. There was a nude bather and an acupuncturist. And—judging by the withered five-leafed remnants—an agriculturist of sorts had made use of the favorable lighting on the building’s rooftops. Another frequenter, Jerry, still spends time there, and has even been appointed his own garage space in the former cattle intake area, where he parks his old red truck. As the owners see it, these characters are part of the city’s fabric—people worth embracing, not nuisances to shoo away.

Most of the trash inside the buildings has been trucked away, and one of the buildings has been completely renovated, becoming a large, well-lit sort of lecture hall, where nonprofit organizations, neighborhood groups and other outfits generally trying to improve Nashville’s cultural or social spirit have been welcome to gather or party. Germantown residents recently convened to hear Michael Berkley of Growild nursery discuss landscaping with native plants. The Tennessee Environmental Council has its annual Green Tie patrons’ party there, and the Cumberland River Compact meets there to discuss water quality issues.

The idea is to discriminately develop the property like a kind of village—with mixed-income housing, retail, perhaps a restaurant and brewery, a healthy dose of artistic influence and, not least of all, an aim toward social good. Already, the site is home to the Nashville Jazz Workshop and the Nashville Cultural Arts Project (NCAP), the latter an in-house organization devoted to developing the kinds of programs and events that will help make the Neuhoff campus an integral part of the city’s cultural life.

Internationally renowned artist Mel Chin, for example, is on the board of directors, both for the Neuhoff development and NCAP. His involvement speaks to the kind of look, feel and impact the owners are after. As a public artist, he specializes in merging the aesthetic with the social and has been involved in projects all over the world, “insinuating art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes and toxic landfills,” as one bio of him puts it.

“How does the built environment affect the social is what I am interested in,” Chin days, adding that the Neuhoff developers are offering reduced rents for tenants who operate outreach programs in north Nashville.

“We want it all to be very organic,” say as Stephen McRedmond, whose family owns the project and who is the key Neuhoff developer. He says there’s even a possibility that the campus could be home to an ecological research center, focusing on river and water quality issues. It is, after all, right on the Cumberland River. And, says Chin, “That’s a big issue in the world today—water.”

More broadly, the successful development of the Neuhoff site—located just six blocks from the Metro Courthouse—would become another important piece of Nashville’s redevelopment puzzle. More specifically, it would be a substantial boon to Germantown. The city also plans a greenway along the river, right beside the plant. Park users would no doubt rather see the Neuhoff-to-be than the shadow of run-down industrial architecture that it is right now.

“You don’t know how much I hope this thing works,” says at-large Metro Council member Leo Waters, who just built, with wife Helen, an elaborate home a few blocks away in the heart of Germantown. He also worked at the Neuhoff plant as a teenager. “I’m confident that if anybody can make it work, they can,” he says of the McRedmond family. “They have been so active and connective with the neighborhood. I think you’ll find that

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most people in the neighborhood are supportive and are truly salespeople for the project.”

Not least importantly, the development will mean saving—and resurrecting—a part of Nashville’s seemingly dwindling historic landscape, albeit one that most people in Nashville have not only never seem, but have never even heard of. The Neuhoff campus is, to be accurate, a sort of concrete parenthetical on Nashville’s cityscape—for most, it’s out of sight, and for even more, it’s out of mind.

“This architecture will never be built again,” McRedmond says of the German-built industrial site. “And you only have one chance to save it.”

Sadly—and stunningly, really—there is very little history about the former Neuhoff Packing Co. and the site where it used to operate, in part because private companies simply didn’t get much attention or media coverage during the early part of the 20th century. Neither the Metro Historical Commission nor the Nashville Reading Room has traditionally valued industrial architecture.

There is, however, an oral history to be told by the few remaining Nashvillians who spent their working lives on the killing floor, in the maintenance shop, in the packing department or as management. They remember a busy, bustling and, by its very nature, grotesque operation that, at its height, employed just over 1,000 people.

German immigrant Henry Neuhoff started a meat packing plant with his brothers in St. Louis before moving to Nashville in 1987—Tennessee’s Centennial year. He and his wife settled in the Germantown neighborhood, building a home on Sixth Avenue North in 1904. It still stands today, next to the Mad Platter restaurant, and is home to attorney Bill Hollings.

Neuhoff incorporated his Nashville business in 1906, and by 1930, the company had expanded to Atlanta. He sold in on January 1, 1931, for a reported $2.5 million, plus inventory, to a national meat packing business, Swift & Co., which maintained the Neuhoff name. Neuhoff himself, meanwhile, went on to become a sort of early-day Monroe Carell, buying up and operating several parking lots in downtown Nashville. In that business, he was once heard to say, “I don’t have to worry about inventory.”

Neuhoff died in 1964 in Dallas, Texas (where his sons had followed in his meat packing footsteps), but not without having made a lasting impression on Nashville. He donated the land for St. Henry Church on Harding Road, and some for his descendants are in Nashville today, including great-grandson Henry Neuhoff, who moved here from Dallas in 1990. He and his wife Helen’s 16-year-old son in Henry V. “My husband was the same age moving back to Nashville as his great-grandfather was moving to Dallas,” Helen Neuhoff says, adding that the Dallas Neuhoff business was sold in the late 1970s.

In Nashville, as well, Neuhoff Sr.’s former business stopped cold in 1977—one of several plants across the country that Swift & Co. shut down at the time.

The Neuhoff Plant wasn’t the only such operation along the Cumberland River in the first half of the 20th century and beyond. There were Werthan, Jacobs, the Baltz Brothers and others in the area, which is why Germantown at one time was known colloquially as “butcher hollow.” Cattle and pigs populated pens and lots all up and down the area surrounding Second Avenue North, which was then essentially stockyards.

“The thing that struck me is how much activity was going on there,” says Waters, one of the youngest Neuhoff alumni, who grew up at the nearby Cheatham Place housing project. “As a young boy, four or five of us would get together and roam around down there. I was always fascinated by all the things going on—cattle hollering, trucks roaring. I remember it being sort of like one of those things you saw on TV, the Westerns with all the cattle drives coming into Texas.”

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was covered with pens.”

As a 17- and 18-year-old, Waters worked summers at Neuhoff, known for being a fair employer with relatively good pay. He made $1.90 an hour, starting out in the maintenance department defrosting the coolers, considered one of the better jobs at the plant.

“On the killing floor, it would get to be 120, 130 degrees,” he says, “and in the coolers, down in the 30s.”

But he was later transferred to perhaps one of the worst jobs in the whole operation—the hide cellar. “After they skinned the cattle—someone would pull off the hide still warm, and they’d drop it down a chute into a cellar—the hide went into a vat, and we’d paddle it with brine. We’d pull them out wet, bloody, salty, everything else, then we’d fold them and store them for several months before loading them into the railroad cars.”

Waters remains struck by the sense of community he found there, despite the harsh working conditions. “The thing it did for me is make me aware of the sense of camaraderie. The second thing is that it really motivated me to go to college.”

Former Neuhoff employees remember that before the 1960s, the plant, like society, was officially segregated, with separate dressing room space for white and black workers. (There remains at least one door inside the Neuhoff complex, reading “White Men’s Toilet Room,” that serves as a reminder of the nation’s racist past.)

But, interestingly enough, the workers weren’t so enthusiastic about segregation. They spent breaks together and felt a kinship. Today, the Neuhoff Association of former employees still convenes every two months at the Madison Family Restaurant on Gallatin Road. “We usually have between 30 and 80 show up,” says former Neuhoff employee James Scott, who now owns Scott Sales co. “Back in those days, people who worked together were a lot closer.”

Former Neuhoff laborer John Rucker, who eventually became a personnel executive there, remembers that blacks and whites may have been segregated before segregation ended, but the 88-year-old says that the business itself didn’t discriminate based on race. “The black people had dressing rooms, and the white people had separate dressing rooms,” he says. “But the blacks were some of the most skilled workers, and their pay reflected that.”

In fact, the company was considered to be a top Nashville employer, Rucker says, perhaps not on a par with DuPont, but certainly a close second. Rucker went to work there in 1934 and retired more than four decades later when the plant closed. In fact, he was literally the company’s last employee, responsible for closing all the employment records for the business.

The plant’s demise was gradual. Lena Doss and Mamie Flanigan both left at the end of the 1960s, after more than 20 years’ service, when the Neuhoff plant stopped producing what was known as “table ready” meats.

“Some of the girls who had to keep working were transferred to the killing floor,” Doss remembers, “and I wouldn’t do it. I had my children grown and through school. You do what you have to, but I didn’t have to.”

When the Neuhoff Packing Co. finally shut down, Rucker says, it “did not go broke. It just wasn’t making the margins it was expected to make.” While it would be almost impossible to confirm, Rucker, who had access to the company’s financial records claims that the net profit the year the plant closed was around $4 million.

“The margin of profit in the meat industry was just very small, sometimes 3 or 4 cents on the pound.”

In the early 70s, he says, the plant’s average weekly slaughter numbered 10,000 hogs, 2,500 calves and 1,500 lambs. Not only was the meat sold, but so was the leather—and the blood, which was used in fertilizer and hog feed. “We used to say that we saved everything but the squeal,” Rucker says.

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closed the operation, the Baltz Brothers bought the plant and the remaining inventory. About a decade ago, the Baltz family gave the McRedmonds an interest in the property as part of an agreed payment on debt.

In 1998, the property came into the McRedmond family in full, with principal owners now being Stephen McRedmond, sister Anita Sheridan, and brother Louis.

“It was a mess,” Stephen says. “It was the biggest mess you’d ever walk through, but we were drawn to it, and we saw a reuse for these structures.”

His family isn’t the only one. While the site remains very obscure in the scheme of Nashville’s offerings, it has its well-placed boosters. Among them is Mayor Bill Purcell, who occasionally shows up unannounced—and is welcome to, McRedmond says—to tour the building with visitors.

“The thing about it is it’s just an incredible space, which is unlike any other space in the city,” Purcell says, adding that he met with the McRedmonds just last week to get an update on the project. “They know that we’re open to being helpful as much as we can.”

To pull off what the McRedmond family has in mind will take a change in mind set for Nashville’s bureaucrats.

That’s because the mixed-use situation the developers envision would be impossible under the city’s current, and sometimes illogical, codes and zoning rules. At one point a few months ago, for example, there was talk of building a school on a field at the Neuhoff site. Ultimately, though, the Neuhoff developers also see a restaurant and brewery. While children can be educated a stone’s throw from a liquor-serving establishment, there’s a metro rule saying that they can’t be that close to a business serving beer. This is just one of many such obstacles.

But Metro planner Robert Eadler, who’s working on design plans for the neighborhoods around downtown, says that the developers may be bolstered once the Metro Panning Department finishes its work. “If they want to do mixed use, then they might have to seek a rezoning, and of course what will be important is if our plan shows mixed use.”

Former worker Mamie Flanigan says half-joking that “they out to just bulldoze the old ugly thing into the river.”

But at-large Metro Council member Chris Ferrell says there’s a constituency in Nashville for saving what now amounts to industrial blight and transforming it into the kind of livable, workable environment the Neuhoff developers have in mind. “I think there is a significant amount of demand—people who want to live in an urban setting close to downtown with cool amenities.”

In the end, Waters says, this is all about neighborhood and community, which explains why Purcell is so interested in the place. “Neighborhoods. That’s his catchphrase,” he says.

Waters adds that it will take some time for the property to develop into something that will see an investment return, and even McRedmond himself says it could be 10 years before its completely finished. It may take that long, Waters says, to get people to rally around the concept of “industrial creative” use, as Mel Chin describes it.

(Source: http://www.nashvillescene.com/news/article/13006915/slaughterhouse-revived)

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"The Late Neuhoff Philanthropist Stephen McRedmond Saw Life Where Others Saw Only a Killing Floor" Written by Christine Kreyling April 7, 2011

Only a visionary would look at derelict buildings with a blood-red past and see a future in nature lover’s green.

That was Stephen McRedmond.

(Source: http://www.nashvillescene.com/news/ The Neuhoff meat-packing plant witnessed the slaughter of 14,000 animal a week before its closure in article/13037945/the-late-neuhoff-philanthropist1977. The 700,000-square-foot complex—that’s three Super-Walmarts—dates to 1906 and stands by the stephen-mcredmond-saw-life-where-others-saw-onlyCumberland six blocks north of the Metro Courthouse. My first visit to the 17-acre site was not long after the a-killing-floor) property came to the McRedmond family in 1998.

By then the structures were pretty much shells, albeit still manifesting their sturdy German heritage. On that cold, misty day, my dog coursed joyously through vast, tile-lined halls, scenting bloody ghosts. I stumbled over heaps of unused bacon wrappers and softball trophies won by workers past.

Stephen McRedmond saw beyond relics of the killing industry. The less imaginative—and less brave—among us, aspiring to quick profits, would’ve called in the bulldozers. But McRedmond—I can only think of him as Stephen—was determined to reclaim Neuhoff.

As he saw it, architecture like this wouldn’t ever be built again. He had the chance not merely to save it, but make it a locus for creative practices. Stephen painted for me a picture of a village focused on the arts and ecology, with mixed-use housing, perhaps a restaurant and brewery, and a research center devoted to the river and water-quality conservation.

He didn’t quite get there. Stephen’s terrible and untimely death last week-- shot by a nephew who then turned his gun on himself, over what has been described as a legal dispute—has left all of those who care about our city’s nature and culture reeling. But in the time he had, he did a lot.

A generous, gregarious teddy bear of a man, quick to laugh but brimming with infectious enthusiasm for his causes, Stephen had definite ideas—and ideals—about Neuhoff’s reclamation. “We want it all to be very organic,” he told the Scene in 2002. By that he meant growing the site through collaboration between everyone from the neighborhood activist to the global-scale thinker. And he wanted the process to be as rewarding as the product.

The first step—after rubbish removal—was NCAP. In 1999, Stephen founded the Nashville Cultural Arts Project with his sister, Anita Sheridan; two longtime friends, Mel Chin, a renowned conceptual artist, and filmmaker Helen Nagge; and Kathy Grainger, the decades-long CPA for his family firm McRedmond Bros., a manufacturer of farm feed and grease. The non-profit’s goal was to bring together new ideas in art, architecture and environmentalism to reinvent and revitalize—not just Neuhoff, but the neighborhood of East Germantown and maybe even Nashville itself.

In 2000 the renovation of the “pink building” provided space to stage events. Drawing on Chin’s wide-ranging contacts in the international design community, the NCAP team brought to Neuhoff a succession of cuttingedge architects, urban designers, artist, curators and theorists of the arts to present their work. But these “Outta Site!” programs were a mere part of Stephen’s purpose.

“Stephen thought if young, avant-garde architects—he couldn’t afford established stars—saw Neuhoff, they might want to do a project there,” says Gary Gaston, design director at the Nashville Civic Design Center.

“And they all fell in love with the stie—and wth Stephen’s energy.”

The first participant, Los Angeles—based Neil Denari, designed a sustainable master plan for Neuhoff.

Another speaker, Greg Pasquarelli of New York’s SHoP Architects, designed Neuhoff’s first new building, a bold remake of the former animal holding pen.

The Great Recession slowed progress, but Stephen kept pushing. He installed a 2,600-square-foot green roof employing plant types from central Tennessee’s endangered cedar glades. He designed the “Poet’s Garden,”

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a small outdoor performance space paved and planted within an old storage container. Neuhoff also became a magnet for other arts and entities: the Nashville Jazz Workshop, Actor’s Bridge Ensemble and the Butcher Shoppe recording studio of John Prince and David Ferguson.

Perhaps more transformative than specific build-outs, however, was Stephen’s capacity to inspire.

“When I came to Nashville just out of architectural school, I felt, like most young designers, that you had to go to New York to do anything interesting,” Gaston explains. “But then I met Stephen. He told me his plans for Neuhoff, invited me to get involved, made me want to stay here. Stephen showed me that you could start in Nashville and engage the world.”

If Neuhoff was Stephen’s yin, the yang was the McRedmond farm compound. Stephen grew up there and returned when he came home from Boston in 1978. In the ensuing decades, he planted hundreds of streets and work relentlessly to clean the waters of Mill Creek, which runs through the 70-acre site. With his partner, Matthew Cushing, he designed and built a house there.

Thus it was supremely fitting that Stephen’s family and friends gathered at the farm last week to remember him. They told moving and funny stories, sang songs, and pledged to continue his vision.

But the best tribute to Stephen wasn’t by word or sound. During the service—beyond the crowd, past the coffin, through the still leafless branches of a massive oak—a great blue heron could be seen down the slope by the stream. It beat is huge wings, then lifted, flying."

(Source: http://www.nashvillescene.com/news/article/13037945/the-late-neuhoff-philanthropist-stephenmcredmond-saw-life-where-others-saw-only-a-killing-floor)

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"Speaking of Water ... " From the blog Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest Originally posted to Mike Byrd's Twitter stream, October 24, 2006 (Source: http://enclave-nashville.blogspot.com/)

One of the plans for the development of the Neuhoff Complex in East Germantown includes establishing an “International Center for Living Watersheds.” According to Neil Denari Architects: ”The mission of the Water Center is to educate the public about how the precious element of water is collected, used, and often wasted in our contemporary world. Founded by the Cumberland River Compact and sited at the Neuhoff Development north of downtown Nashville, the H20 Center is a living model reflecting the scapes of both the natural and built environments. As a visitors and educational center, the programs include exhibition spaces, a 100 seat lecture hall, offices, a riverfront café/library, and a store for selling merchandise related to the phenomena of water and urban ecologies.

But most importantly, the green roof and its soft undulating geometry literally captures rain water to irrigate the rooftop plant material and to channel water into various pools and small wetland ponds. The low profile building allows the visitor to reflect on the runoff, recycling, reclamation, and consumption of water. Even during dry times, the building circulates both gray and clean water around the interior and exterior spaces, creating a descriptive process of how water moves and is collected.”

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR LIVING WATERSHEDS proposed by Neil Denari

NEUHOFF CAMPUS MASTER PLAN proposed by Neil Denari

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NEUHOFF CAMPUS AXONOMETRIC RENDERING proposed by Neil Denari

NEUHOFF CAMPUS RENDERING proposed by SHoP Architects

NEUHOFF CAMPUS RENDERING proposed by Neil Denari

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"THE ARTISINAL MOVEMENT, AND TEN THINGS THAT DEFINE IT" In Anthropology of Contemporary Culture Written by Grant McCracken, CultureBy November 9, 2006

The artisanal movement has come to cheese, salt, bread, pickles, quick serve restaurants, chocolate, beer, olive oil, ice cream and stoves. Yes, stoves.

In 2004, several bread makers lost sales, including Private labels (-5.6%), Interstate Brands, George Weston, (Source: http://cultureby.com/2006/11/the_artisanal_m. Sara Lee and General Mills (-14%). Sales for La Brea Bakery, on the other hand were up 38.7%. html) LaBrea Bakery calls itself “America’s Great Artisinal Bakery.” Here’s the way they tell the story.

Back in 1989, LaBrea Bakery changed the way people ate bread in Los Angeles. Those beautiful artisanal loaves for centuries in Europe had yet to make their way to the states. The only bread available was the flavorless, squishy white rectangle that came pre-sliced in a bag. Little did we know that when we began producing our crusty varieties such as olive oil, walnut or rosemary that we were about to embark on an American bread revolution.

It’s the anthropologist’s job to see cultural components of this trend. I think there are 10 of them. The artisinal movement is composed and driven by.

One: A preference for things that are human scale.

If once we delighted in the sheer scale of a consumer society, now we want things made in tiny batches. In the place of Morton Salt that comes from some vast industrial process, some of us prefer artisanal salt. Pam bought salt recently that came with a talkative, four color, brochure. Geez, I wondered, what is there to say about salt? Plenty, apparently. The first paragraph reads: The production of premium sea salt takes time and attention to detail. Each small batch of sea salt requires weeks of hand panning and grading to produce the perfect grain. Our quality is a testimonial to the artisan nature of this age old craft.

I have had a team of ordinary language philosophers working on the last proposition for several days now.

No one can make head nor tail of it.

Two: A preference for things that are hand made. Sorry, hand panned!

If once we delighted in machine manufacture, now we want things made by humans. The weird things here is that things that were handmade, especially things that bore the mark of manual manufacture, these were contemptible. One of the nastiest things we could say about a gentleman in the 16th century is that he made his wealth by dint of manual labor. Indeed, the first thing a gentleman did was remove his family from all proximity to industry.

In the contemporary version of this notion, it is as if we believe that artisans are “free range,” happier in their work and more likely to deliver quality. (This too is stuffed with dangerous assumption. The philosophers just looked at me when I asked for exposition).

Three: A preference for things that are relatively raw and untransformed.

The nobility of early modern and modern Europe owes something to the hippie revolution of the 1960s, a moment in which Adele Davis encouraged people to protect their food even from the interference caused by light! (I had a girlfriend in the 1970s who kept everything in the fridge in a brown paper bag. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that the light went off when you closed the door.) No transformation was the best transformation. The closer food was to its natural, uncooked state the better.

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Four: A preference for things that are unbranded.

This is really an odd one for we are still a culture that treats brands as navigational devices in a turbulent culture. But now cheese from a farmer’s market is better for the fact that it is not branded. This too takes a full circle, for in 18th and 19th century America, consumers were buying from barrels. Brands came in as a welcome innovation.

Five: A preference for things that are personalized.

The best example here perhaps is the farmer’s market. We are no longer buying from a vast supermarket that has contracted with agribusiness. Now we want to see the face of the man who grew the food and shake his hand. We prefer to deal with a small retailer, someone who calls us by our first name, and knows our tastes so well, he sets things aside awaiting our arrival on Saturday morning. It is as if we have declared war on anonymity. It is as if we are attempting to “re-enchant” the world with personalization. (The term is Weber’s.)

Six: A preference for a new transparency.

It is as if we want to know, or to know of, all parties who grow, transport, sell and resell the food on our table.

This is not the same as wishing to live in a personalized world. This is a matter of disclosure. We know where our food has been. This is one of the things that drives the slow food movement and the Alice Waters Chez Panisse regime.

Seven: A preference for things that are “authentic.”

There is an idea that the food chain has been poisoned by artificial notions of food, and that only a return to “authentic” menu items, foodstuffs, and cooking methods can save us. The James Beard website praises “an artisanal movement that’s bringing back flavors of a world untainted by Wonderbread and Kraft singles.”

Eight: A preference for things that have been marked by locality.

This is in a sense the new branding. If we prefer cheese that is unbranded, all cheeses threaten to become one. Locality, which may or may not make a difference to taste, is commandeered and pressed into service.

Here is Sally Bany, co-owner and brand manager for the west coast chocolate company, Moonstruck.

“We add chili pepper to it and it becomes a conversation piece for the sales person. ‘Have you tried this particular chocolate. It has these flavors because it is grown in this region.’ People learn where in the world it came from, the variety and taste characteristics.”

Nine: A preference for the new connoisseurship.

Artisinal products are not without a certain claim to sophistication. Artisinal salt, cheese, bread, these are all better than their non-artisinal equivalents, and any discerning palate can tell this is so.

There is, in other words, a kind of connoisseurship at work. But it is a roomy connoisseurship. Unlike French wine, there are no rules and regs that constrain how something is served, how long is must breathe, or the food with which it may be eaten. There are no real demands for reverence. Artisinal foods can be served and

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eaten in any way. No special forks required.

Artisinal food allows us to be discerning without actually requiring us to learn anything. We get to be special without being specialized. To this extent artisanal food helps play out our expressive individualism.

Ten: A preference for the simplified.

All of the properties that help to make something artisanal are seen to simplify the product, the producer, the act of buying and the act of consumption. Artisinal is the enemy of artifice and complexity. It returns us to a simpler world. There is to this extent a certain nostalgia about the artisinal. It harkens back to another time, another world. Never mind that the happy world of honest artisans engaged in unalienated labor only in the mind of the Marxist history. We can harken after it anyhow.

Artisans may or may not have made the new “artisinal” cheese, bread and salt in our kitchen. But our culture certainly had a hand in their production Acknowledgements: Bill O’Connor, CEO, Source /Inc. Paul Rogers. 2004 Special Report: U.S. State of the (Candy) Industry. Candy Industry.

Carol Ness. 2006 Slow Food Movement has global outreach. Farmers, producers share knowledge at Italy convention. San Francisco Chronicle. October 30, 2006.

(Source: http://cultureby.com/2006/11/the_artisanal_m.html)

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“The Secret Formula for Creating a Makers District” Written by Thomas Frey

The demise of local retail stores has been painful to watch. Empty storefronts and weed-infested parking lots (Source: www.futuristspeaker.com/2015/03/blue-print- has been painful to watch. So if I told you there was an immediate way to turn this around, wild that catch your attention? for-a-makers-district) The whole transformation in thinking started with a short visit on Saturday to “The Source,” an artisan food market inside a former 1880’s brick foundry in Denver’s River North District.

Located far away from most retail, I quickly became enamored with how this eclectic mix of 15 shops could attract a packed house on a cold wintery day in February to an industrial part of town.

This brief experience caused me to spend countless hours over the following days researching similar developments around the country. For me, the collision course of intersecting trends in retail has been a fullblown obsession. (Just for the record, obsessions are underrated.)

To summarize briefly: The first shopping mall was born in Edina, MN in 1956. After peaking in 1990, there have been no malls built in the U.S. since 2006.

Big-box retailing was born in 1962. That’s the year when Wal-mart, K-Mart and Target all opened their first big stores. After 50 years of putting mom and pops out of business, big-box retailing is now struggling.

In 1994, Jeff Bezos launched Amazon as an online bookseller. Twenty years later it has emerged as the primary reason big-box stores are shutting down.

In 2005, MAKE Magazine published it first issue, signaling the beginning of the makers movement. Words like “handcrafted,” “home gown,” “authentic,” and “artisinal original,” suddenly enters the public lexicon.

With the retail stores closing, consumers are left with fewer options for out-of-the-home forms of entertainment, and a pent-up demand for meaningful experiences.

The collision course of trends is creating the perfect storm for the next retail revolution- Maker Districts.

A maker district can be best described as a cross between an artist colony, farmer’s market, woodworking shop, music festival, bakery, brewpub, and brainstorming session all happening in the same place. It’s all that and more.

Here’s why I see Maker Districts entering your lives in a big way.

Planning a Maker District It’s no longer good enough to see a painting, people want to witness the artist painting it! Being “Authentic” goes far deeper than buying a limited edition copy “signed by the artist.”

Walking through an active, vibrant shopping district where people are baking bread, spinning pottery, brewing beer, making jewelry, cutting and designing stained glass, decorating cakes, molding with pewter, and sculpting with clay, will give every visitor their own one-of-a kind experience.

In addition to the sights and smells, having musicians performing mood-stirring music will help establish a different character and flavor with every visit.

In this environment, creative people are both the entertainment and the proprietors of the shops.

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Not only will this be a showcase for talent, it will attract audiences that are creative as well.

Makers Take Center Stage All of the shops in a Maker District need to support the idea of “making the products being sold.” Small, intimate storefronts ranging from 600 to 1,600 square feet, built around niche verticals will enable them to focus their resources.

Every storefront needs to be a local enterprise. No franchises or national brands.

Restaurants will be the anchor tenants, and various other food shops will add essential ingredients to the mix. Freshly made food helps intensify the smells and ambiance of the shopping experience of the shopping experience. Possible food-related shops may include: • • • • • • • • • • •

Restaurants Cookie shops Home made candy shops Home made ice cream Pretzel shops Bread bakeries Donut and sweet roll bakeries Meat markets Fudge shops Custom health food makeries Custom health food makeries

In addition, to restaurants and food shops, there should be a number of drink shops ranging from coffee shops to breweries. Options in this area will include: • • • • • •

Coffee roaster, brewers Tea cutters, brewers, and mixers Smoothie and protein drinks Hand crafter beers Cideries Distilleries

Legalized marijuana states like Colorado and Washington will soon see similar prohibition-ending efforts spreading across the nation. This will open the door for shops such as: • • • •

Artisan marijuana Weederies Food lacing shops Custom edibles

In addition to consumables, creators of any number of hand-made products will find a welcome reception in this environment.

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Handbags, backpacks, and carrying cases Clay sculptures, bronze sculptures, and etchings Pottery, basket weaving, and woodworking

Adding to the mix will be next generation hyper-personalized product makers.

As an example, BoXZY just introduced an unusual fabrication machine with 3D printer, and a laser engraver.

The CNC mill can shave and refine aluminum, hardwood, and plastic into small intricate deign, while the 3D printer can fabricate many complex shapes. The laser engraver is perfect for searing names, logos, and even photos into wood, cardboards, leather, and plastic.

Support Services Complementary to the maker community on the main floor, will be a variety of support services that can be added to 2nd and 3rd floors of the building. These might include Designer and fabricator services Architects, landscape designers and interior decorators Maker spaces and other educational support facilities Co-working and business colonies Final Thoughts Talent attracts talent, and creative genius will inspire other creative genius.

Even though a newly opened Maker District will have merchants scrambling to make their businesses operational, they will also be inspiring a new generation of young people with their energy, focus and enthusiasm.

Maker Districts will be the community catalysts for a host of other ventures. Creative people provide the spark of imagination, and local evangelists will help promote ingenuity and inspiration to virtually every other aspect of the community. A sleepy, uninspired town can be instantly transformed into a community known for its brilliance. Out of every Maker District will come the uniqueness that every town, village, and city has been seeking.

Most of the elements already exist. The breakthrough innovation of a Maker District will be in how they are incentivized and assembled into a highly respected place in their community.

(Source: www.futuristspeaker.com/2015/03/blue-print-for-a-makers-district)

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"Nashville's Massive Old Slaughterhouse Envisioned as Riverfront Destination" From Nashville Public Radio News 90.3FM WPLN Written by Tony Gonzalez July 12, 2016

(Source: http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/nashvilles-massive-old-slaughterhouse-envisioned-riverfrontdestination#stream/0)

The old Neuhoff slaughterhouse in Nashville could undergo another phase of redevelopment.

The brick building on the edge of the Cumberland River has been described as a dilapidated castle. And to some, it looks haunted. But the old Neuhoff slaughterhouse is getting a fresh round of attention this summer for possible redevelopment.

The complex has lurked on the fringe of Nashville’s popular Germantown neighborhood since 1906.

It grew until the 1950s, but the departure of the meat industry in 1977 has allowed vines to run rampant over its red and pink bricks and trees to sprout on the roof, six stories up. The vegetation peeks up, visible from a nearby greenway, when crossing the Jefferson Street bridge, and from the river.

“If you look at it from the other side of the river it looks like Frankenstein’s castle,” said T.K. Davis, architecture professor at the University of Tennessee. “It’s actually a lot larger building — the slaughterhouse — than people realize. It’s the size of three super Walmarts … 600,000-square feet.”

This summer, Davis assigned his students to study the plant’s history, tour it from top to bottom, and envision its future through dozens of new renderings.

That’s generating some buzz at the same time that the property owners — the McRedmond family — have hired a local architect to craft an official redevelopment plan.

Looking over the elaborate student designs last week, Linda McRedmond Orsagh lingered at one that depicted an entire wall of windows with a panoramic view of the downtown Nashville skyline, just 2 miles to the south.

“This gives me hope,” she said.

A Cautious Family Rekindles Its Vision Orsagh said the family has no debt on the property, allowing them to move carefully on redevelopment.

“But now we know we can’t keep muddling along. We want it to be something,” she said. “We don’t want to sell it to somebody to tear it down."

That’s not to say the property is vacant. A small fraction has been in use for more than a decade as part of a longstanding vision of creating a campus for arts, culture, research and social enterprises.

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Tenants include the Nashville Jazz Workshop, Peter Nappi luxury leather goods, offices for nonprofits like Tennessee Craft, and a garage that’s popular for music videos and photoshoots (it has attracted the likes of Stevie Wonder, Nicole Kidman, Garth Brooks, and Slipknot).

“Everything that’s rentable is rented,” Orsagh said.

Yet the bigger vision has been on hold since the death of its leading proponent, Stephen McRemond, who was murdered by a relative in 2011.

“We didn’t know what we wanted to do. But we knew we don’t want to sell it,” Orsagh said. “My goal has been not to make big mistakes.”

She said fixing the biggest buildings — the slaughterhouse and the holding pen — will take major investment.”

As seen from the east bank of the Cumberland River, along Cowan Street, the roof of the old Neuhoff plant is a mix of plateaus adorned with greenery.

Yet Orsagh said she is feeling pressure to act, especially with taxes and insurance costs mounting. There’s also encouragement in the form of explosive development all around the property in Germantown, including the adjacent land.

She said the family has been fielding a couple dozen inquiries each month for years. Lately, there’s been interest and visits from Metro officials, the music and fashion industries, and even prominent chefs from as far away as Ireland.

All of them are drawn to the enchanting old buildings on the water’s edge.

“Everybody loves it, but you can’t do it until you spend a lot of money and do it up to codes,” Orsagh said. “It’s like everybody wants a date with you.”

Students Sketch Out A Vibrant Village In the early days of redeveloping Neuhoff, around 1999, Stephen McRedmond made a point to invite prominent architects for an on-site lecture series. That vision has, in a way, come full circle this summer through the UT architecture students who were assigned to “revisit and extend” his vision.

(Recommended reading: 2002’s “Slaughterhouse Revived,” by The Nashville Scene.)

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Davis, the professor, asks students to tackle a Nashville project each year. He and other local architects and urban planners lend advice, and the students are encouraged to think big.

The students also get to work out of the Nashville Civic Design Center, which showcases their work in displays and through publications — and which happens to have had close ties to the McRedmonds and Neuhoff for years.

An aerial rendering shows landscaping and the feel of a campus for Neuhoff.

“As you come across that bridge and you see this castle-looking structure you’re just really drawn to what could be there,” said student Austen Barrett. “That’s the way were are supposed to look at it: there’s so much potential in this space.”

Yet the tour was also intimidating, several said.

“For me, it was pretty dark, and I could really tell that it used to be a slaughterhouse,” said Aaron Wright.

On paper, student ideas include an amphitheater and beer garden, microhousing units made of reused shipping containers, rooftop dining with panoramic views, and even a pedestrian bridge over the Cumberland (which has appeared in other urban plans).

“I think of this campus as almost the American (version of) The Academy in Rome,” said student Josh Murray.

“Think about people with shared interests and shared values, and maybe very different artisans — living here, working here, seeing each other doing their work.”

And in presenting their ideas, it was common to hear a description like the following from student Mara Caoile: “While the slaughterhouse is more retail-oriented, we envision the holding pen to be more akin to a museum or a gallery space.”

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A three-dimensional image strips away the slaughterhouse bricks to add windows and light.

This sense of grappling with the site’s fascinating-but-delicate past pervaded the presentations, especially as they took into account parts of a building that had been dedicated to storing blood, or animal tongues.

As Davis reminded his students, the architecture of Neuhoff was designed with slaughter in mind.

“There used to be some pretty horrific things that’d gone on here. That sense is still there,” said Wright, the student. “To embrace that, in a way that is not morbid, I think it would be something that’s pretty cool.”

And it wasn’t just the students embracing the metaphor.

Jason Young, director of the UT school of architecture, applauded one design (see below) that “gutted” as many bricks as possible to create a glassy and light-filled building.

“I think it would be compelling to kind of slaughter that building … clean out its organs,” Young said. Young

This rendering by UT students shows a view from the river, with the slaughterhouse reimagined as a glassy mixed-use development.

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and Davis also implored students to think about the trade-off between renovation costs and potential. In some cases, a building might require major repairs, but could lead to the creation of a “sublime space.�

In his remarks, Young compared investing in the Neuhoff slaughterhouse to the labored process of carving out the finest cut of meat.

(Source: http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/nashville-s-massive-old-slaughterhouse-envisioned-riverfrontdestination#stream/0)

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RESEARCH EXISTING CONDITIONS SLAUGHTERHOUSE DOCUMENTATION

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SLAUGHTERHOUSE first floor

SLAUGHTERHOUSE second floor

SLAUGHTERHOUSE third floor

SLAUGHTERHOUSE fourth floor

SLAUGHTERHOUSE roof plan

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RESEARCH EXISTING CONDITIONS ANIMAL HOLDING PEN DOCUMENTATION

ANIMAL HOLDING PEN basement

ANIMAL HOLDING PEN first floor

ANIMAL HOLDING PEN second floor

ANIMAL HOLDING PEN roof plan

ANIMAL HOLDING PEN south elevation

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RESEARCH EXISTING CONDITIONS ANIMAL HOLDING PEN + SLAUGHTERHOUSE DOCUMENTATION

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SLAUGHTERHOUSE river elevation

SLAUGHTERHOUSE section a

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RESEARCH EXISTING CONDITIONS SLAUGHTERHOUSE DOCUMENTATION

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RESEARCH EXISTING CONDITIONS SITE PHOTOS

EAST GERMANTOWN OVERVIEW

NEUHOFF COMPLEX

AXONOMETRIC OF EXISTING BUILDINGS ON SITE

RIVERFRONT VIEW

VIEW OF ADAMS STREET LOOKING OUT TO DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE

VIEW OF DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE FROM THE SITE

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PRECEDENTS TORPEDO FACTORY ART CENTER ALEXANDRIA, VA

Located in Alexandria, Virginia, The Torpedo Factory Art Center was originally built in 1918 as the official U.S. Naval Torpedo Station after the First World War. The factory sits on the Potomac Riverfront, and is only a bridge across from the nation’s capital, Washington D.C. Torpedoes were manufactured and maintained here from 1918 to 1923, and briefly became a munitions storage until it resumed the production of torpedoes at the start of the Second World War. After the war, the demand for torpedo manufacturing ceased and it became a storage facility for various important relics such as congressional documents, valuable dinosaur bones, art objects and even old German war films. By 1969, the Torpedo Factory was bought by the city of Alexandria from the federal government. About five years later came local art league president Marian Van Landingham, who proposed for the old Torpedo Factory to become studio and maker spaces EXTERIOR VIEW http://catalystreview.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Torpedo-Factory.jpg for artists.

The Torpedo Factory Art Center was opened to the public in 1974, but it wasn’t until the reopening in 1983 that the Art Center underwent a complete building overhaul.

The Torpedo Factory Art Center currently has 82 studio spaces, 7 galleries and 2 workshop spaces, and various special programs that involve the community and local artists alike.

HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH OF TORPEDOES ON SITE http://theclio.com/web/ul/21631.44601.jpg

SOURCES

HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH OF DOCK ON SITE https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/U.S._Naval_Torpedo_Station_-_Alexandria,_Virginia.jpg

INTERIOR STUDIOS https://liliannemilgrom.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/torpedo-facto-

INTERIOR MAIN SPACE http://bristolrising.com/idea/artist-studios/torpedofactory/

HISTORIC TORPEDO ON DISPLAY http://bristolrising.com/idea/artist-studios/torpedofactory/

Torpedo Factory Art Center Website http://www.Torpedofactory.org Extraordinary Alexandria http://www.visitalexandriava.com/listings/torpedo-factory-art-center/33/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_Factory_Art_Center

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PRECEDENTS MARATHON MOTOR WORKS NASHVILLE, TN

In 1884, The Southern Engine and Boiler Works opened in Jackson, Tennessee, providing gasoline engines and boilers for industrial use. As automobiles continue to become a highly demanded commodity during the industrial revolution, an engineer from the Southern Engine Boiler Works aspired to propel the company to a new venture. William Henry Collier accepted this challenge, and in 1910, he relocated to Nashville in search of a bigger facility. The company later changed its name to Marathon after the high demand and the boom of their manufactured automobiles. However, due to unprecedented financial complications, Marathon Motor Works was shut down in 1914.

In 1986, entrepreneur Barry Walker was in search of a larger work space for his business, the Ingenuity Shop, which builds audio/video consoles and computer workstations. It was then when he discovered the old remains of the Marathon Motor Works, isolated and EXTERIOR VIEW decaying, which had then become a breeding ground for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_Motor_Works illegal drug trade. Despite all of this, Walker’s vision did not waver. He believed that the next generation of creative minds would inhabit and rejuvenate this space. Currently, the remainder of the massive building is filled with a variety of small businesses representing trades such as architecture, photography, film production, graphic design, and creators of everything from moonshine to marshmallows. The live venue Marathon Music Works and Nashville’s progressive radio station, Lightning 100, are also located in this complex and continues to generate the creative spirit Walker has envisioned.

OTIS JAMES MEN’S FASHION http://thebigplate.com/otis-james-nashville/

SOURCES Live Auctioneers https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/top-news/general-interest/historic-marathon-village-rises-from-rubble-in-nashville/ Marathon Village Website http://marathonvillage.com/

“I BELIEVE IN NASHVILLE” MURAL http://bleubirdvintage.typepad.com/.a/6a00e554f1ae938833019b-

VINTAGE MARATHON AUTOMOBILE AD http://www.earlyamericanautomobiles.com/images/amer463.jpg

Nashville City Paper http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/lifestyles/industrial-revolution-how-marathon-village-became-creative-district-top-tourist-a Venture Nashville http://venturenashville.com/histories-unfolding-maker-entrepreneur-barry-walker-marathon-village-cms-992 Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_Motor_Works

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VINTAGE MARATHON AUTOMOBILES ON DISPLAY http://marathonvillage.com/Marathon%206-2013.jpg

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PRECEDENTS WESTBETH ARTISTS’ RESIDENCE MANHATTAN, NY

The Westbeth Artists’ Housing complex by Richard Meier in the West Village of Manhattan is one of the first few examples of adaptive reuse that repurposed an old building complex, previously occupied by the Bell Telephone Laboratories, into a non-profit housing and commercial complex.

The concept behind the reuse was to create a thriving, self-sufficient community of artists, living and working in the same space. The complex is comprised of 13 buildings, and it occupies a whole city block, just west of Greenwich Village. The massive steel-and-concrete structures offers views of the Hudson river in the west, and Upper and Lower Manhattan.

The program involves large and small commercial spaces, gallery spaces, film, photography, dance, and artists studios, and theatrical facilities. The courtyard that is cut from two floor levels becomes a key space that STAIR LEADING TO COURTYARD brings in the community together, but also connects it to http://www.richardmeier.com/?projects=westbeth-artists-housing-2 the urbanscape. The semi circular steel balconies that jut out from the apartments engage the private spaces with the open courtyard.

On December 8, 2009, Westbeth was added to the National Registrar of Historic Places.

COURTYARD https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/img_7937.

SEMI-CIRCULAR BALCONIES http://www.richardmeier.com/?projects=westbeth-artists-housing-2

INTERIOR OF APARTMENT UNIT http://www.richardmeier.com/?projects=westbeth-artists-housing-2

BUILDING SECTION http://www.richardmeier.com/?projects=westbeth-artists-housing-2

PLAN http://www.richardmeier.com/?projects=westbeth-artists-housing-2

SOURCES Richard Meier Website http://www.richardmeier.com/?projects=westbeth-artists-housing-2 Westbeth Website http://westbeth.org/wordpress/about/history/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbeth_Artists_Community

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PRECEDENTS ARMOUR YARDS ATLANTA, GA

Named after the Armour Car lines in the 1900s, the Armour Yard is a rail yard in northeast Atlanta, which sits between Buckhead and Midtown. Today, there exists a rail yard for Norfolk Southern freight trains, and since 2005, a maintenance facility for the MARTA, whose red and gold line passes through the yard.

Real estate development firm Third & Urban has taken the frontlines of the re-envisioning of this industrial district to a refreshing new urban hub. Through an assemblage of seven warehouse buildings, the new master plan involves mixed-use development apt to the rebranding of the site as the Sweetwater Design District. The concept of the developers stemmed from the bourgeoning market entailed by TAMI tenants (a.k.a. tech, advertising, media, and information) that has redefined business and financial districts in the west coast. These office complexes are defined as “airy, approachable campuses in urban settings with a focus on community and quality of life.� MAIN STATION PROSPECT RENDERING Some aspects of the new program within the Sweetwater http://marathonvillage.com/Marathon%206-2013.jpg Design District include a coffeehouse, live music venue, restaurant, fitness studio, bike rentals and jogging trails.

The project is foreseen to be completed by mid 2016.

OFFICE SPACE RENDER https://whatnowatlanta.com/update-new-renderings-details-released-

SOURCES Armour Yard http://armouryards.com/armour-yards-campus/

SITE MAP http://armouryards.com/

MAIN STATION CONCEPT DRAWING https://whatnowatlanta.com/update-new-renderings-details-released-

Curbed (Atlanta) http://atlanta.curbed.com/2015/8/5/9933556/armour-yards-vision-sweetwater-brewery What Now Atlanta https://whatnowatlanta.com/initial-plans-filed-for-massive300k-square-foot-amour-yards-project/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armour_Yard

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RETAIL SPACES https://whatnowatlanta.com/update-new-renderings-details-released-for-armour-yards-project/

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PRECEDENTS CUMMINS STATION NASHVILLE, TN

William J. Cummins, and other investors of the Wholesale Merchants Warehouse Company, built Cummins Station, a modern warehouse next to the Union Station complex in 1906-1907. This five-story structure is the first reinforced concrete building in Nashville. Many well-known Nashville companies, such as H.G. Hill and Cheek-Neal Coffee (Maxwell House Coffee), used this warehouse facility.

In the early 1990s the complex was renovated to an arts and culture district, that hosts artists and artisans from the local area and internationally. Each year, The Cummins Station hosts two artists in residence, and provides them converted train cars as studios for free. Among the amenities of the Track 13 Gallery within Cummins Station include art studios, an exterior courtyard, and the Community Arts Program Library.

The Station also celebrates the works of students from MTSU, TSU, Vanderbilt University, and Watkins College BUILDING EXTERIOR AND DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE of Art. Cummins Station also provides dynamic and http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/blog/2015/10/reshaping-downtown-three-reasons-to-keep-an-eye-on.html flexible spaces for office and retail businesses. Adjacent to the site are the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Union Station Hotel, and other notable spots

ORGANIC VS. MAN-MADE https://s3.amazonaws.com/test.classconnection/830/flashcards/400830/jpg/salginatobel_bridge_mg_4074.jpg

SOURCES Cummins Station Website http://www.cumminsstation.com/unique-environment/index. html Nashville Downtown http://www.nashvilledowntown.com/go/cummins-station

BEFORE RENOVATION http://mzarch.com/work/cummins-station

STREET PERSPECTIVE http://mzarch.com/work/cummins-station

RETAIL FRONT http://mzarch.com/work/cummins-station

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PRECEDENTS PONCE CITY MARKET ATLANTA, GA

The Ponce City Market, which opened in 2014, is one of the hottest new destinations in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2 million square foot, mixed-used development was previously a retail store, warehouse and regional office for Sears, Roebuck and Co from 1926 to 1987. It was also bought and occupied by the city of Atlanta in the early 90s to serve as the City Hall East. Located in the historic Old Fourth Ward, this complex was envisioned to be developed with the adjacent Belt Line and the Historic Fourth Ward Park, to unite the four neighborhoods that meet in this area and revitalize the Ponce de Leon Avenue corridor.

The program envisioned for the complex was imagined to create a destination in Atlanta that are among the likes of Pike Place in Seattle, or the Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco. Ponce City Market was officially opened in August 25, 2014, with flexible market spaces, a central food hall with a plethora of hip dining experiences, retail EXTERIOR STREET VIEW and office spaces, and even an apartment complex. The http://www.poncecitymarket.com/our-story/ Virginia Highland, Poncey-Highland, and Midtown are all in walking and biking distance from the Ponce City Market, which makes it easily accessible to tourists and residents alike.

FOOD HALL

http://www.poncecitymarket.com/our-story/

SOURCES Access Atlanta http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/lifestyles/what-youneed-to-know-about-ponce-city-market/nnkyc/

“THE FLATS� APARTMENT COMPLEX

OFFICE SPACES

http://www.poncecitymarket.com/our-story/

http://www.poncecitymarket.com/our-story/

Ponce City Market http://www.poncecitymarket.com/our-story/ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponce_City_Market

EVENT SPACE AT NIGHT

http://www.poncecitymarket.com/our-story/

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PRECEDENTS GOAT FARM ART CENTER ATLANTA, GA

The Goat Farm Arts Center in West Midtown, Atlanta is a destination for all things visual arts, performance arts and even science and technology. This 10 acre site is comprised of a complex of nineteenth century industrial buildings that was occupied and expanded until the 1930’s. The building complex started out in cotton related machinery, and by the Second World War, it manufactured ammunition and mortars.

It was in the early 70’s that it first was visualized as a community for local artists to inhabit, but it wasn’t until 2009 when real estate developers Anthony Harper and Chris Melhouse truly embraced the vision. Harper envisioned that by transforming this old, industrial complex into a space for arts and culture, it would entice people to become a part of this undeveloped real estate.

Currently, this center for visual and performing arts houses about 450 different artists, researchers, and even start-up companies. The program is comprised BUILDING FACADE of exhibition halls, a library, an on-site organic farm, http://photosbysoto.com/wp/atlanta-goat-farm/ an education center, and a 5,000 square foot space dedicated to contemporary dance and studios for artists.

The Goat Farm Arts Center also hosts more that 150 exhibitions and performances annually.

SPECIAL EVENTS VENUE http://clatl.com/atlanta/the-goat-farm-arts-center/Loca-

SOURCE Atlanta.net http://www.atlanta.net/things-to-do/goat-farm-arts-center/ Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/goat-farm-leads-atlantasarts-scene-2013-6 Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_Farm_Arts_Center

LIVE MUSIC VENUE http://www.twelve21gallery.com/2012/the-goat-farm/

HISTORIC MEMORABILIA http://blog.freepeople.com/2014/05/goat-farm-arts-center/

SPECIAL EVENTS VENUE https://www.starchefs.com/cook/photos/2012-starchefscom-atlanta-rising-stars-vip-reception-goat-farm-arts-center-atlanta-ga

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PRECEDENTS MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART NORTH ADAMS, MA

The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, located in North Adams, Massachusetts, is a visual arts and performance arts center that was born out of the ruins of an old factory complex from the industrial era.

The site is located between the north and south branches of the Hoosic River, which accounts for the rich history of different manufacturing industries that has once thrived here. The factory is comprised of 26 red brick building complexes, which during the late 1700s and early 1800s, were an assemblage of different industries such as wholesale shoe manufacturers, saw mills, brick yards, ironworks, and machine shops.

By the late 1800s, however, the complex was occupied by the Arnold Print Works company which manufactured cloth and textiles, and even supplied for the Union Army during the Civil War. By the time of the Second World War, the factory complex was purchased by the Sprague Electric Company to manufacture and research high-tech EXTERIOR FACADE http://www.roomfulofteeth.org/news/2014/8/7/mass-moca-2014 weapons.

In the late 80s, the Williams College Museum of Art was looking to expand their gallery spaces to house larger exhibits. Led by Thomas Krens, and Cambridge architecture firm Bruner Cott & Associates, the old factory complex was redeveloped as the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Though the museum does not have permanent collections, MoCA has one of the largest exhibitions of Modern Art in the world, showcasing works from artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jenny Holzer. MoCA also showcases different performances, and hosts the Solid Sound Music Festival every year.

LARGE-SCALE INSTALLATIONS http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/07/xu-bing-arrives-at-mass-mo-

SOURCES MoCA Website http://massmoca.org/ Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mass-moca-to-become-countrys-largest-contemporary-art-museum/2014/11/15/fba7c816-6c0d-11e4-a31c-77759fc1eacc_story.html

DANCE PERFORMANCES https://berkshireonstage.com/2010/12/13/dance-becomes-major-

LARGE-SCALE INSTALLATIONS http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/07/xu-bing-arrives-at-mass-mo-

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Museum_of_ Contemporary_Art

MUSIC PERFORMANCES http://massmoca.org/joes-three-day-mass-moca-tour/

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NEUHOFF RIVER ARTS CAMPUS East Germantown | Nashville, Tennessee STUDENTS

AARON WRIGHT

CONCEPT

Hendersonville, TN

The primary objective of this project is to create a series of exterior spaces coherently unite the various structures on the site. The site, a historic meatpacking plant—the Neuhoff complex—is home to a non-profit and a few artisans that inhabit just a small portion of the enormous area. The general scope of works was given as a charge to the students to reenvision the site in regards to how it communicates with the adjacent river condition, interacts with the growing East Germantown neighborhood, and impacts the Greater Nashville area. In addition, the buildings and surrounding landscape should function as a destination for pedestrians by reclaiming the vibrancy that the site offers as well as displaying sustainable design through avant garde heating and cooling systems, innovative water collection, rooftop gardens and high performance glazing.

ANNA KATHERINE BIGGS Maryville, TN

AUSTEN BARRETT Brentwood, TN

PRIMARY GOALS • • •

Explore the Neuhoff story and adapt the architecture into a modern reflection of its history.

Serve as a model of artisan and maker space developments for the growing East Germantown neighborhood to follow.

Integrate landscape elements in all aspects of the program and design, highlighting the spaces between the buildings as primary locations.

SCOPE AND PROGRAM SUMMARY Photo of Nashville’s skyline from the Neuhoff complex slaughterhouse rooftop. Taken during site visit by Austen Barrett.

Photo of existing slaughterhouse from the ‘animal holding pen’ rooftop, an adjacent condition. Taken during site visit by Austen Barrett.

Photo of existing conditions within the Neuhoff complex ‘animal holding pen’ interior. Taken during site visit by Austen Barrett.

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The arrangement of elements in the existing Neuhoff site is a product of industrial necessity. The largest building, the slaughterhouse, has been the most affected with its irregular structure and additive form. The site will be in constant fluctuation over time as the needs of the mixed-use tenants and residents evolve. This idea of change informed the design in the use of materials and elements that would change with use, time and human interaction. Brick, corrugated steel, concrete, operable windows, green roofs, sunshades, operable panels and other innovative technologies will give the site a unique identity and ensure the space activates the surrounding community. It will encourage growth to the already developing East Germantown and create a unique living situation for creative people. The slaughterhouse incorporates pathways to involve green space within the buildings and open up to pockets of void, allowing

light into the building. Every space was designed with consideration given to the experience that it would provide its inhabitants and passersby.

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NOTABLE FEATURES

Retail / Commercial | 34,200 gsf Housing | 68,280 gsf Micro-Unit Housing | 72 units Structured Parking - Residential | 75 spaces Parking - Retail | 240 spaces Parking - Total | 315 spaces Roof Gardens + Patio | 40,000 gsf Photo-voltaic Panels | 7,000 gsf Microbrewery | 8,500 gsf Restaurant | 20,000 gsf Performing Arts Spaces | 16,000 gsf Storage | 50,000 gsf Plaza | 70,000 gsf

Rooftop Gardens Beer Garden Water Taxi / Living and Learning Barge Cumberland Greenway Structured Parking Plaza with Sculpture Garden

The site is bordered to the north by an industry and on it’s southern edge by Monroe Street. Off it’s eastern boundary is the Cumberland River, and to the west a portion of the Cumberland Greenway and 1st Avenue.

The industrial influence on the site was a primary inspiration for our use of shipping containers on the northern expansion of the site, populated with micro-unit housing. East Germantown as a whole also served as the primary influence for the adaptive reuse of the animal holding building and contemporary microbrewery where local Nashville artisans are invited to share their talents with the community.

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NEIGHBORHOOD AND GREENWAY Like many neighborhoods of Nashville, the East Germantown community is quickly growing and achieving popularity amongst Nashvillians. It’s borders include the Cumberland Greenway to the west, the Metro Ready Mix Concrete to the south, an industry to the north and the Cumberland River to the east.

SITE PLAN This area is being transformed by an influx of infill development, home renovations and adaptive reuse of space for artisans, maker spaces, and craft beer distilleries.

Its close proximity to downtown, and the demand for new housing, has added to the popularity as well as the changing landscape and demographics of this booming neighborhood.

Transit stops are conveniently located in the developing Germantown area for quick and easy access to Nashville’s public transportation system. For this project, future water taxi stops are advocated at proposed locations from The Plan of Nashville (2004).

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SPATIAL ANALYSIS

SITE CONFIGURATION EXPLORATION

SITE CONNECTIONS

SITE SKETCHES

GREENWAY CONNECTION

The design of the site plan began with numerous sketches and ideas. Many of the thoughts were drawn into these sketches which eventually led to our final design. These ideas were generated through collaboration, research, and multiple iterations. These were drawn with an aim to unify the different pieces of the site.

Every design idea incorporated a connection to the existing greenway as an effort to reconnect and rejuvenate the area.

Nashville’s pursuit of a more walkable community, as well as more opportunities for connection, were a priority.

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PERFORMING ARTS BUILDING

BLACK BOX THEATER

PROGRAM DIAGRAM

The animal holding pen as a future performing arts building would have a black box theater conceptually acting as a unifying piece.

ROOFTOP FORM The roof of the animal holding pen would create an exterior amphitheater with excellent views of downtown.

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CONFIGURATION EXPLORATION Preliminary sketch diagrams lay out the program in the building and identify different areas.

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VISUAL ARTS BUILDING

SECTIONAL QUALITIES The primary goal was to bring light into the large floor plan of the slaughterhouse building, so this terrace atrium idea aspired to create an interesting sequence of space.

EXTERIOR SCHEME From the beginning, we looked at creating a living, dynamic facade on the north side of the slaughterhouse enhancing the appearance of the overall site.

PLAN DIAGRAM The idea behind the slaughterhouse was to create a large central atrium lit from natural light with surrounding spaces looking either into the center or to the exterior.

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MAJOR COMPONENTS The site and design were driven by river adjacency, semi-circular path completion, connection to different site components, and the natural lighting of the large interior of the slaughterhouse.

CONFIGURATION EXPLORATION In the slaughterhouse, we worked to create schemes that would enhance the new program as a Visual Arts Building.

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NORTH SITE EXPANSION

EXTERIOR SCHEME With the north expansion of the site, we looked at the spaces between the existing buildings and rethought the way to reintroduce a semicircular path.

MAJOR COMPONENTS With the previously stated connection to the waterfront, the north expansion addresses this by creating an amphitheater at the end of the newly created greenway.

PLAN SPATIAL DIAGRAM The site and design were driven by the river connection, green pathway completion, connection to different site elements, and the natural lighting of the large interior of the slaughterhouse.

CONFIGURATION EXPLORATION

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NEUHOFF RIVER ARTS CAMPUS CREATIVE LIVING FLOOR PLAN

SUBTERRANEAN FLOOR PLAN

DANCE

APPR OX. 9 ,0 0 0 SF

CONCOURSE APPR OX. 1 0 ,0 0 0 SF

STORAGE A P P ROX .

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GROUND FLOOR

The subterranean floor plan of the Visual Arts Building simply acts as storage for this large building. It houses a large number of people, artwork, and retail, resulting in a great need for storage. The ground floor of the Performing Arts

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Building, on the other hand, utilizes the partially underground level. The black box theater begins at this level establishing a footprint through the whole building, simply as storage for this level. The space surrounding it acts as circulation space.

The outer rooms provide studios for dance lessons, practice, and play. This floor is dedicated to dance as an art form, exercise, and recreational activity.

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

MIRCOHOUSING A P P ROX .

2, 880 S F

RESTAURANT A P P ROX .

11, 600 S F

MICRO BREWERY A P P ROX .

8. 500 S F

BEER GARDEN A P P ROX .

19, 000 S F

AMPHITHEATER A P P ROX .

12, 000 S F

SCULPTURE GARDEN A P P ROX .

12, 000 S F

TOWER APPR O X .

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RETAIL

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APPR OX .

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RETAIL

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BLACK BOX APPR OX. 4 ,0 0 0 SF

RETAIL A P P ROX .

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The main level of the plan begins to incorporate landscape into the scheme, as well as introduces the bottom floors of the buildings on the north site. The Visual Arts Building floor opens up to the exterior along the perimeter of the

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building and contains mainly retail spaces. The Performing Arts Building ground floor holds spaces dedicated to music.

Practice rooms, playing and performance spaces occupy the space as well as an outdoor patio. On the north site,

a restaurant, microbrewery, beer garden, and ground level of micro-unit housing appear. The ground floor also heavily incorporates the semi-circular path and works with the ground plane to create a number of exterior spaces.

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SECOND FLOOR PLAN

MIRCOHOUSING A P P ROX .

2, 880 S F

RESTAURANT A P P ROX .

11, 600 S F

MICRO BREWERY A P P ROX .

8. 500 S F

BEER GARDEN A P P ROX .

19, 000 S F

AMPHITHEATER A P P ROX .

12, 000 S F

SCULPTURE GARDEN A P P ROX .

12, 000 S F

TOWER APPR OX .

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EXHIBITION SPACE

ROOF PATIO

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PARTY RENTAL

EXHIBITION SPACE

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BRIDGE A P P ROX .

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EXHIBITION SPACE A P P ROX .

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The second floor plan of the site begins to show the roof plans of the microbrewery and restaurant on the north site, while continuing to show the push/pull of micro-unit housing floor plans. The Visual Arts Building building dedicates the

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second floor to exhibition spaces for local artisans and creators. This space also begins to connect by a bridge to the Performing Arts Building. Amidst the artisan work are gathering spaces as well as a cafe. Across the bridge the

rooftop of the Performing Arts Building becomes a gathering and party space. An amphitheater that shows films and concerts, rentable spaces, and rooftop gardens provide multiple gathering spaces for the community and residents.

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THIRD FLOOR PLAN

MIRCOHOUSING A P P ROX .

2, 880 S F

RESTAURANT A P P RO X .

11, 600 SF

MI CRO BREWERY A P P RO X .

8 . 500 SF

BEER G ARDEN A P P RO X .

1 9, 000 SF

AMPHITHEATER A P P RO X .

1 2, 000 SF

SCULPTURE G ARDEN A P P RO X .

1 2, 000 SF

TO WER APPRO X .

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COMMUNITY SPACE

ROO F PATIO

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APPRO X. 8 ,5 0 0 SF F

COMMUNITY SPACE

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HOSTEL A P P ROX .

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From the third floor up, throughout the site, the program becomes more private. The north site micro-unit housing continues to exist in the same staggered pattern. The Visual Arts Building now becomes a living space. This

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level is programmed as a hostel. This is more temporary living. Along with living quarters, spaces are designated for community spaces. These cater to activities such as playing games, relaxing, eating, cooking, working, or studying. The

open floor plan allows for more flexibility in design to cater to the needs of the tenants or groups using the space.

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FOURTH FLOOR PLAN

MIRCOHOUSING A P P ROX .

2, 880 S F

RESTAURANT A P P RO X .

11, 600 SF

MI CRO BREWERY A P P RO X .

8 . 500 SF

BEER G ARDEN A P P RO X .

1 9, 000 S F

AMPHITHEATER A P P RO X .

1 2, 000 S F

SCULPTURE G ARDEN A P P RO X .

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TO WER APPRO X .

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COMM UNITY SPACE A P P RO X .

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ROO F PATIO APPRO X. 8 ,5 0 0 SF

STUDIO APARTMENTS A P P ROX .

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PARTY RENTAL A APPR OX. 4 ,0 0 0 SF

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ROOF GARDEN A P P ROX .

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spaces on the level below. The primary program of this level is studio apartments. The floor plan remains open for a flexibility of space to suit the needs of the tenants. The amount of space rented can be changed over time if needed.

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A number of skylights bring in an abundance of natural light.

Existing structures used for various purposes such as light or ventilation now create these skylights. This level becomes much more private and even has a rooftop garden.

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FIFTH/ ROOF FLOOR PLAN

MIRCOHOUSING A P P ROX .

2, 880 S F

RESTAURANT A P P RO X .

11, 600 SF

MI CRO BREWERY A P P RO X .

8 . 500 SF

BEER G ARDEN A P P RO X .

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AMPHITHEATER A P P RO X .

1 2, 000 SF

SCULPTURE G ARDEN A P P RO X .

1 2, 000 SF

TO WER APPRO X .

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ROO F PATIO

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ATRIUM A P P ROX .

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AMPHITHEATER E APPRO X. 1 ,5 0 0 SF F

ROOFTOP PATIO

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ROOF GARDEN A P P ROX .

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The fifth floor becomes the roof plan to much of the site. The top level of the north site micro-unit housing is shown and the one room on the fifth floor of the Visual Arts Building. Again, this room is shown as a large open space, but it too has the

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flexibility to change as different programs need it to. Studio apartments would continue up to this level. These would be more expensive because they allow access to the rooftop spaces as well as excellent views to downtown, the river,

and to the rest of the site. Since the building has multiple levels of rooftops already, each would be used for a different purpose: two for an exterior patio, one as a large skylight, one to house solar panels, and one as a rooftop garden.

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THROUGH THE RIVER + ANIMAL HOLDING PEN SECTION

This section shows cuts through the animal holding pen, now a Performing Arts Building, as well as the elevation for the slaughterhouse, or proposed Visual Arts Building, along with the proposed pedestrian bridge to the south. The Performing Arts Building features a black box theatre with an

amphitheater at the roof level. This view also clearly shows the bridge connecting the slaughterhouse to the animal holding pen. This space has been activated with a green wall that carries over to the facade of the Visual Arts Building.

Within these two buildings there is a dynamic relationship of

art and production. The larger Visual Arts Building is home to artisans and maker spaces with a sculpture garden for display. In the Performing Arts Building there are different opportunities to carry the same idea into the realm of music.

This section shows cuts through the Cumberland River, the elevation of the slaughterhouse, and the holding pen, as well as the new development to the north site. On the left hand side, the pedestrian bridge, a dynamic sequence is produced as one enters the “New River Arts Campus�. The stacked

shipping containers, to the right, stand 64-feet tall, rivaling the height of the existing slaughterhouse building. This acts as a cap to the proposed development in the overall site. The nature of the shipping container as a modular wall here creates a dynamic facade and space. The micro-unit

housing was designed to give one a different sense of living: to challenge typical downtown living situations and provide an interesting lifestyle that a growing East Germantown will appreciate.

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Our design is trying to keep the historic aspect of the site and coordinate with the home of the already popular Nashville Jazz Workshop in an existing building to the south of the site. The Performing Arts Building also has a tower that echoes the height of the slaughterhouse building. The tower

is exclusively used as an entrance, incorporating vertical circulation to gain access to the rest of the building. Again, trying to articulate the importance of the space between, we sought to activate the spaces with an overflow of program from the architecture. This includes a plaza space as the

central hub, a portion of the semi-circular path inhabiting the first level of the Visual Arts Building, and the design sequence for the proposed pedestrian bridge.

Also in the north expansion there is an adapted reuse of two pre-existing buildings, activating one to be a restaurant and a corresponding microbrewery with a beer garden. To celebrate the resolution of sequence in this area, there is also an amphitheater that addresses the river itself with a

water taxi and a living/learning barge. A pergola extends from the roof plane on the first floor of the Visual Arts Building.

This is to recreate in plan the arc of a historic rail line, but also bring a semi-circular path throughout the entire site and allow walkability across the proposal. The riverfront section

gives a sense of the completeness of the design, how it all is planned to come together and hopefully achieving the goals of the new River Arts Campus.

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THROUGH THE HOLDING PEN + SLAUGHTER HOUSE SECTION

This section shows cuts through the Performing Arts Building as well as the ground for the rest of the site. The lowest level of the Performing Arts Building cuts into the ground, but has a partial exposure, allowing for natural light. The black box theater is clearly shown here as a form that carries through

the entire building. This view also clearly shows the height of the stacked shipping containers creating a large, tower-like boundary to the north of the site. Between that and the Visual Arts Building many activities take place. The facade of the restaurant and the entrance to the microbrewery and beer

garden are also shown here. Within the beer garden is the existing water tower, incorporating a historic element of the site, maintaining some of the original structure. One other element clear in this section is the pergola that runs between the slaughterhouse building and the north site, providing a

This section shows cuts through the micro-unit housing, microbrewery, and Visual Arts Building. On the left side of the page in the north site interesting spaces are created by the different types of program and building. The stacked shipping containers create a staggered pattern. This also

allows for various balconies and coverings. The nature of the shipping container as a modular element here creates a dynamic facade and space. Between the micro-unit housing and microbrewery the green path divides the space. The space to the left belongs more to the residents, while the

space on the right can be used for the microbrewery and the community garden. The beer garden extends from the microbrewery, bringing people from the community as well as residents of the site together to enjoy and appreciate the local, homegrown, and handmade that artisans value.

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visual connection. It runs above a green pathway, creating shade as well. The ground plane in front of the Visual Arts Building slopes slightly, creating a step up to the Visual Arts Building, providing both a distinction between programs and a safety measure for entrance and exit of the building. The

facade of the Visual Arts Building becomes much more open and transparent with glass infill, while keeping some of the brick to add another element of design as well as history. The original brick is very iconic for this site, and while it encloses the space too much, it does add to the appearance. On the

far right, the pedestrian bridge extends across the river. This completes the visual and literal extension of the pedestrian public space.

Also on the landscape between is a pier and a sculpture garden. In the section of the Visual Arts Building, it is evident how wide the original floor plan was. This would create very dark, enclosed spaces. In order to counter that, we cut a large atrium space in the center of the building, terracing up

to create multiple levels of open space lit with natural light.

The original building was separated into nine incrementally added structures, with separate column grids and roof heights. This allows for a unique section. The terracing mimics the different levels of roof existing and continues that

language. Another thing that is clear in this section is how the first floor of the Visual Arts Building opens up to the outside.

It allows the ground floor to feel smaller in scale and creates a greater level of connectivity.

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NEUHOFF RIVER ARTS CAMPUS CIVIC PROPOSAL

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Additionally, this was an opportunity to integrate a proposal from The Plan of Nashville - the pedestrian bridge. These different design elements create a sequence within the proposed site that allows one to capture the experiential qualities that Neuhoff has to offer.

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This taxi would have stops at all major points on the river, creating a new form of transportation and a new attraction to the city. This map indicates points located by The Plan of Nashville (2004) as key stops that could connect along the river. This is a much larger scale project, but it would be a highly beneficial way to utilize the river as a means of transportation, activity, and tourist attraction.

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NEUHOFF RIVER ARTS CAMPUS PERSPECTIVES

AXONOMETRIC DRAWING + GREENSPACE The axonometric drawing shows more clearly the spatial qualities of the site design. The space created between the buildings is carefully organized to enhance the ability to collaborate and experience different forms of artistic expression. The levels of the different rooftops bring complexity to the outdoor spaces and provide a multitude of public and private gathering spaces.

The ground level exterior spaces are the primary gathering space for the public. This diagram shows how the outside often extends into the floorplate of the buildings, specifically the Visual Arts Building, adding a new dynamic of spatial qualities.

ANIMAL HOLDING PEN CORRIDOR PERSPECTIVE On the north side of the Performing Arts Building is a tower that overlooks the roof. This perspective shows the view downtown as well as the rooftop activities below. You see a glimpse of the amphitheater, some roof gardens, and plaza spaces. This tower shows panoramic views of the surrounding areas.

MICRO-UNIT HOUSING PERSPECTIVE This view displays views of the Cumberland River and the urban Nashville skyline. It also shows the water taxi and how the integration of the riverfront is ideal in the urbanization of the area and Greater Nashville region.

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NEUHOFF RIVER ARTS CAMPUS PERSPECTIVES

OVERALL SITE DIAGRAMS The left diagram shows the different spatial conditions created in our design. The green represents exterior space primarily for gathering, both private and public.

The orange represents outside art display space and a sculpture garden. The purple represents interior volumes that receive a large amount of natural light, one being an atrium and the other being a tower with panoramic views.

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PERFORMING ARTS preformance and practice space combined + CONCERT VENUE with rooftop concert and event space

MICRO-UNIT HOUSING ELEVATION The rooftop garden on the micro-unit housing tower acts as a community space. This area has connections with the community garden below and offers expansive southern views to Nashville’s urban skyline. The plaza is lined by a restaurant, a beer garden and an amphitheater that addresses the Cumberland River. All of these engage both the economy and the culture of the area.

NORTH EXPANSION AXONOMETRIC The north expansion of the site offers an area for residents to experience a different situation of living. It includes a community garden, rooftop greenery, pedestrian-friendly paths, and close access to a proposed restaurant, microbrewery, and beer garden. All of these things are unique in order to put residents in a living situation that is much different than the typical Nashville experience.

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NEUHOFF RIVER ARTS CAMPUS PERSPECTIVES

PLAZA PERSPECTIVE The buildings on the north site and the Visual Arts Building create a large plaza space between. A central pathway intersects the continued curve ending in a terrace overlook. Pathways share views of sculpture and activities for both the residents of the Visual Arts Building and the micro-unit housing. A beer garden and patio provide more space for social gathering. As a visual connecting piece, a pergola covers the pathway.

INTERIOR PANORAMIC VIEW PERSPECTIVE Inside the Visual Arts Building a removal of the brick infill creates a completely different atmosphere. This once enclosed, dark building becomes an open, transparent structure filled with activity. This perspective shows an open air patio within the gallery level of the building. The glass walls allow for transparency to the skyline as well as a blurred barrier between inside and outside. This demonstrates a close connection with leisure, social activity, and the display and appreciation of the arts.

ROOFTOP VIEW DOWNTOWN PERSPECTIVE The complicated structure of the slaughterhouse building creates an interesting dynamic of roof spaces. As a way to utilize that unique forms, each surface holds a different program. The tallest roof, which is where this perspective is taken, has 360 degree views of the entire site. This shows the full skyline as well as the Cumberland River, which leads right by downtown Nashville. Two of the rooftops act as outdoor patios and one acts as a green roof. The center of the building has been opened up into a large sky-lit atrium, into which the rooftop patios have views. This configuration creates an openness as well as visual connectivity in this large building.

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NEUHOFF AXIS 1312 Adams St. | Nashville, Tennessee 37208 STUDENTS

AMY ST. JOHN

CONCEPT

Murfreesboro, TN

The objective of the Nashville Urban Design program was to revisit the Neuhoff slaughterhouse site in East Germantown just north of downtown Nashville. The neighborhood is teeming with new development, and in close proximity to the new ballpark, the Cumberland River, and it’s adjacent west bank greenway. The team sought to transform the Neuhoff complex and the site directly to it’s north into an open and welcoming locus for creative practices.

JOHANNA COETZEE Elizabethton, TN

MARYKATE LEITCH Baltimore, MD

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Maintain the unique historic aspects of the site while simultaneously adapting it for 21st century use Facilitate connections from the site to the river, downtown Nashville, and the Germantown neighborhood Integrate landscape elements in all aspects of the program and design

SCOPE AND PROGRAM SUMMARY The Neuhoff meatpacking plant witnessed the slaughter of 14,000 animals a week before its closure in 1977. The 700,000 square-foot complex dates back to 1906, and creates a very special architectural uniqueness in the East Germantown neighborhood.

As it was once a unique working community integral to the identity of Germantown, the reclamation, reconnection and re-activation of this post-industrial campus will be the key development strategy in the future. Nashville’s culture has been deeply rooted in art and music for decades. Forming a new art identity for the future Neuhoff will be an appropriate method to connect Neuhoff back to the Germantown neighborhood and downtown Nashville art milieu in the 21st century.

Aerial image of Nashville | Neuhoff site highlighted

Above: view of existing north site conditions + watertower + Cumberland river Below: view of downtown Nashville from the slaughterhouse roof

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Due to Neuhoff’s strategic location next to the Cumberland River, and with a panoramic view of downtown Nashville to the south, theNeuhoff site shows its great potential for contemporary landscape architectural practice. The potential not only for reclaiming the post-industrial site, Brewery/Restaurant Riverfront Terrace Recording Studios Large-Scale Experiential Exhibit Space Fashion Underground Sculpture Garden Rooftop Bar Rooftop Performance Venue Neuhoff Axis Outdoor Event Space Farmers Market Art Installations Fashion Runway Shows Music Performances Film Screenings Yoga/Fitness Classes

but also revitalizing an established community with a new artistic identity through creative design of better use of the space in both buildings and landscape.

For the purposes of our Nashville Urban Design Studio, the Neuhoff site was broken down into three components: -The existing slaughterhouse structure -The existing holding pen structure -The north section of the site, open for new construction Each team member focused on one of the three components, while still maintaining coordination and communication on all parts of the site as a whole.

Our project, titled The Neuhoff Axis, sought to transform the site into a space that was focused on community and the arts, while maintaining strong connections to the landscape which surrounds the complex, the river, and to the city beyond.

NOTABLE FEATURES Anticipated LEED Platinum Certification

by U.S. Green Building Council standards Rooftop Gardens Urban Orchard Views Cumberland river Downtown Nashville skyline Urban Orchard Community Gardens Accessibility to greenway and future water taxi

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The slaughterhouse is designed and adapted to accommodate large-scale experiential art exhibits, and to serve as a headquarters for the blossoming fashion industry in Nashville. THe holding pen structure is designed and adapted as a space for music culture, complete with recording studios and a rooftop performance space. The undeveloped north part of the site is designed to serve as a live/work community for artisans.

Holistically, all of the components of the site are connected by a central axis that terminates on a terrace looking out over the river.

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NEUHOFF AXIS AXON + DIAGRAMS

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NEUHOFF AXIS PLANS- NORTH SITE

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NEUHOFF AXIS PERSPECTIVES

The north part of the site is the only area of new construction in the Neuhoff Axis plan. This building was key in creating and framing a break in the axis. The form was chosen to converse with the slaughterhouse via the continuation of the existing curved brick path. The courtyard was derived from the desire to preserve the water tower and use it as a focal point.

The program is based on cultivating a community that shares resources and ideas. I envision the ground floor to be used for maker-spaces, while the upper floors primarily serve as live/work spaces. The inclusion of roof gardens, combined with existing views of the river and downtown Nashville, will allow the roof level to serve as a place of gathering and community.

Perspectives of north site courtyard

The neighboring parking lot doubles as a community orchard. One can move from the parking lot into the restaurant/brewery, which then spills into outdoor dining space, a pavilion area, and gardens.

One can then travel to the existing brick pathway, and onto the main axis, which terminates at the riverfront terrace. The inclusion of a variety of outdoor gathering spaces was key to the design of the Neuhoff Axis.

Sketch elevation of the brewery/restaurant as a community amenity

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NEUHOFF AXIS PERSPECTIVES

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX Adams Street | Nashville, Tennessee STUDENTS

CONCEPT

TORIE BUCHE

Our vision for the Neuhoff Complex is to create a dynamic space to be inhabited by an artisan community that is connected to downtown through views of the Nashville skyline, but separated in that the site would house a live/work condition that would bring change and variation over time. As an interconnected form, our proposal would provide and frame paths to allow movement through all parts of the site.

Nashville, TN

MARA CAOILE Cleveland, TN

PRIMARY GOALS

JOSH MURRAY

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To create a live/work condition that promotes a dynamic community atmosphere through the work of artisans To connect the massive site through both the development of the surrounding landscape and by adding more density to create an urban environment To provide access to the waterfront as well as creating a circulation throughout the site that allows for continuity and exploration

SCOPE AND PROGRAM SUMMARY The Neuhoff Complex contains roughly 600,000 square feet of buildings that sit along the Cumberland River.

Currently attracting attention from passersby is the massive framework of two concrete and brick buildings that have been vacant for 30 years. When approaching this site as a design project that would bring vibrancy Along the timeless constant of the Cumberland River, the and culture around the monumental structures, it evolving skyline of Nashville stands to greet those onlooking was important to look at the spaces in between the from the roof of the Neuhoff Complex. buildings to create a primary plaza with additional courtyard spaces throughout the site. Another primary objective was to bring density to the site, while keeping a continuous flow of circulation throughout the site.

The rhythmed bays of the former cattle holding pen allow for open floor plans to accomodate gallery exhibitions and event space. Further, the gallery program is aided by the vast floor and roof slabs which allow for only shallow natural lighting to penetrate within to any delicate art inside. Our proposal uses overhead sloped glazing to light the entrance atrium and other gathering and work spaces.

Mixed-use studios | 213,500 GSF Bazaar + other retail | 124,604 GSF Rooftop gathering space | 50,462 GSF Display space | 15,400 GSF

EXPERIENTIAL ART MUSEUM (former holding pen)

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The creation of a strong axis along Taylor Street was done by proposing a long narrow building that rests on top of the holding pen and stretches above the courtyard (connecting on either side to the slaughterhouse and the structure on the north site), and hovers out over the river above the ramp system and platform that leads to the water. This main axis was critical to our project because of the way it frames the courtyard, creates an entry for the north site, physically connects the three other structures on the site, and suggests directionality towards the river.

The current site, though fragmented, housed three elements that proved crucial to further the development of ideas: the underground tunnel leading from the holding pen to the imagined courtyard space, the framework of a ramp system that extends from the slaughterhouse into the imagined courtyard space, and the potential connection to the river between the slaughterhouse and the north site at the edge of the proposed courtyard space. All these elements informed ideas of interconnectivity and framework as well as highlighted the proposed courtyard as a focal point within the project.

As not to disturb this courtyard space, the connection piece is elevated from the ground plane by two rows of columns that stretch across the edge of the courtyard

THE ARTISANS’ HUB (former slaughterhouse)

The current slaughterhouse is an amalgamation of patchworked rooms and variably-sized spaces—some dark and deep, some bathed in sunlight from century-old glass— that accomodated very specific needs of the operation.

providing a strong axis that points out over the river.

Gallery | 16,068 GSF Black box theater | 4,225 GSF Rooftop terrace | 4,225 GSF Multipurpose space | 2,000 GSF

THE LINK (new construction) Residential lofts | 51,750 GSF Gallery | 9,360 GSF Cafe | 2,160 GSF Library | 9,360 GSF

THE DWELLINGS (new construction) Residential units | 281,298 GSF Rooftop gardens | 58,921 GSF Indoor fitness facility | 1,526 GSF Multipurpose space | 2,000 GSF

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX DIAGRAMS + SITE ANALYSIS

NEIGHBORHOOD + WALKABILITY The Neuhoff Complex stands stalwart along the Cumberland River in an area of North Nashville where generations of blue collar men and women historically made a living working in factories and processing plants like the Neuhoff slaughterhouse. Today, the location of the riverfront site is a trending hot bed of developmental excitement situated directly across from the increasingly popular residential neighborhood of Germantown. The Cumberland Greenway rests only a block away and provides a pedestrian and bike connection to downtown.

SITE PLAN The main entrance to the site, located on Adams Street, opens up to a central plaza space lined with shade-bearing honey locust trees along the ground level retail corridor. The two existing buildings onsite are transformed into lively gathering spaces in the purposed site plan. The now uninhabitable slaughterhouse becomes an artisan hub, providing ample maker space. It connects physically on the third floor to a proposed structure, The Link, which extends along the length of the site to sit atop the holding pen.

Though it’s currently just a concrete framework, the holding pen would be filled with exhibit space and transformed into an Art Museum. Adjacent to the art gallery’s entrance lays an open sculpture courtyard framed above by The Link and across the plaza by the massive Artisans’ Hub, ending in a grand promenade that leads to the river. The Link connecting piece frames a portal to the densely inhabited residential building to the northern edge of the site.

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX PROCESS SKETCH DIAGRAMS

NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT This sketch begins to inform the relationships occurring on site. The design allows for an appropriate proportion of density and exterior space implying a more urban condition. Each piece correlates to each other with respect to the main axis which also physically connects each structural element on site.

On either side of this axis, the buildings form an edge that inscribes a path leading to the river along the historic train rail. Further carving of the mass, the larger buildings on site have perforations that allow for light to reach deep into the floor plans at every level.

ARTISANS' HUB The initial reaction to the massive slaughterhouse was to break down the barriers inside in order to reassess the area and prescribe a new path that correlates with its new function. Circulation now extends either from the entry plaza or the main site axis and connects around the central atrium perforations. The circulation rests alongside the primary cores within the building, and views of the city or river can be viewed at every part of the path.

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX SITE AXONOMETRIC

DYNAMISM + DENSITY

Our proposal brings density to the site, while allowing for framed courtyards and communal spaces connected by paved and unpaved walking paths. The individual buildings at the core of the complex are linked physically with elevated bridging off of the main axis of circulation.

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX CAMPUS SITE PLAN

BASEMENT FLOOR PLAN

The lowest level of the Artisans’ Hub provides ample storage for the building and the artists working above, while the basement of the art gallery is intended to be a place of communal experience with its black box theater and exhibit space.

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX CAMPUS SITE PLAN

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

The ground floors of the campus’ buildings are connected through a plaza space and various courtyards. In the Artisans’ Hub, retail and dining front the length of the central plaza, while the art gallery houses more exhibit space with an adjacent overlook

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into the double-height black box theater. The main courtyard displays a sculpture garden and ramp connection leading perpendicularly to the river at the northeastern edge of the site.

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX CAMPUS SITE PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

The art gallery’s second floor includes further gallery spaces, and the second floor of the Hub is blanketed in spacious, studio work spaces which can be utilized as residential living units if the market so demands.

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX CAMPUS SITE PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

The third floor of the Hub acts as a radial set of axes for circulation among the campus’ various buildings.

It is at this level which the site’s elements connect physically. The Link sits atop the art museum and

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serves as an extension of the gallery, while providing further amenities to inhabitants and guests in the form of a cafe and quiet library space for reflection and learning.

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX CAMPUS SITE PLAN

FOURTH FLOOR PLAN

The fourth and fifth floors of the Neuhoff Complex house studio apartments along the length of the Link and more studio space for those living and/or working within the Artisans’ Hub.

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX CAMPUS SITE PLAN

FIFTH ROOF PLAN

The roofs of the Artisans’ Hub, the Link, and the art gathered atop may enjoy. The art gallery roof is home gallery are all at least partially vegetated with plants to a public sculpture garden, while the Link’s roof level native to the climate of Middle Tennessee and all provides a private running track to residents. provide stunning views of the city beyond which those

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX SITE SECTIONS

CONNECTING PEOPLE LONGITUDINAL SECTION

A DENSE + VARIED CAMPUS LONGITUDINAL SECTION

SPACES INFORMED BY TOPOGRAPHY TRANSVERSE SECTION

ENGAGING THE CUMBERLAND LONGITUDINAL SECTION

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX PERSPECTIVES

CENTRAL PLAZA PERSPECTIVE The entrance road is of permeable pavers and provides circulation through the central plaza and to the retail and dining spaces within the first floor of the slaughterhouse, as well as to the holding pen gallery and theater. It funnels into paths leading to the courtyard sculpture garden and to the northern site beyond the connector piece.

LIGHT AS A CONNECTIVE MATERIAL PERSPECTIVE The overhead glass sheets of the Hub’s atrium space allow sunlight into the center of the building’s deep floor slabs and the carving out of the central space provides visual and audible interaction with the floors above and below and creates opportunities for spontaneous social and artistic interaction amongst the various artists, musicians, and visitors.

A DIALECTIC OF THE PASSIVE + DYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE Walkable rooftops and large balconies provide visual engagement between visitors, inhabitants, and working artists. The simple activities of seeing, thinking, and discussing help to inform the artistic conscience of the individual and add to the energy of the campus as a whole.

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NEUHOFF ARTS COMPLEX PERSPECTIVES

FRAMING SPACES COURTYARD PERSPECTIVE The slaughterhouse and the connector piece both frame and overlook the sculpture garden courtyard below. With the exchange of the slaughterhouse’s brick facade for light-welcoming glass, it becomes transparent, while the connector piece has translucent screens on the public levels and operable metal panels along the balcony spaces.

EXPERIENCING ART + ARTISANRY GALLERY ATRIUM PERSPECTIVE The former animal holding pen is given new life as an experiential art gallery where artists and artisans living on the site and from around the local community can share their work.

ENTRY TO AXIS PERSPECTIVE The entry to the Link connects to the Museum roof sculpture garden, extending across the top of the building with a double bay column structure. The first floor of the connector piece starts at the edge of the Museum building, while the upper two floors containing studio apartments hover above. This open air overlook provides a space that serves as an intermediary space between interior and exterior. The extension of the gallery inside the Link can be seen from the entry plaza, as the two ends of the axis building are glass. This extends the long axis with a "shotgun" approach, and allows for an overlook to the river at the far end of the structure.

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT Germantown | Nashville, Tennessee STUDENTS

JOURNEY ROTH

CONCEPT

Knoxville, Tennessee

Holistically this project seeks to transform the Neuhoff complex into a open and welcoming district for the arts.

BRITTANY PETERS

The guiding concept for the slaughterhouse was to develop strong connections to the landscape which surrounds the complex, the river, and to the city beyond.

Clendenin, West Virgina

RUXIN TAO Suzhou, China

The goal was to keep the holding pen am open transparent, frame staying consistant with the existing building. The building includes three floors of contemporary furnishings and art sale rooms. A steel frame addition was added to the roof of the building that included spaces for fitness, both indoor, and on the outdoor terrace with views to the skyline.

PRIMARY GOALS • Transform the Neuhoff meat packing campus into a cultural destination • Connect interior spaces to the surrounding landscape, the riverfront, and the city skyline beyond • Capitalize on the paneramic views from the site

SCOPE AND PROGRAM SUMMARY The former Neuhoff Meatpacking Plant had operated for more than 70 years and processed approximately 14,000 animals a week before its closure in 1977. The 700,000 square feet building complex was built in nine different incremental time periods and created a very special architectural presence in the East Germantown neighborhood.

Context of downtown Nashville

As it was once a unique working community integral to the identity of Germantown, the reclamation, reconnection and re-activation of this industrial campus will be a key development strategy in the future. Nashville’s culture has been deeply rooted in art and music. Forming a new artisan identity for future Neuhoff will be an appropriate means to connect Neuhoff back to the Germantown neighborhood and Downtown Nashville’s culture in the 21st century.

Due to Neuhoff’s strategic location next to the Cumberland River with it’s panoramic views of downtown Nashville to the south, the Neuhoff site shows a great potential for

Proposed water taxi stops, Plan of Nashville, bike sharing stops, and greenway

contemporary landscape and architectura design. The potential exists not only for reclaiming the industrial site, but also for revitalizing an established community with a new artisan identity. This would accrue through the creative design of better use of landscape and built spaces.

Several challenges of the site have influenced the design approach of the master plan. Adjusting the new and the old, the existing and the additions became essential to not only reconnect the old industrial site into a vital community, but also to preserve its historical cultural presence. In addition to connecting the site by multiple pathways via existing pedestrian greenway routes, river access through a future water taxi route could link Neuhoff to the rest of Nashville.

Riverfront engagement for the public will be a key marketing strategy, and planning for better public gathering space with multiple function programs will make Neuhoff a destination for both residents and tourists.

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Riverfront Platform with Water Taxi Access Farmer’s Market Restaurant/Pub / Beer Garden Performance Stage Water Fountain Play Area Parking Garage with Green roof Amphitheater Artisan Community Building Design and Wellness Center Moon Garden Artisan Plaza and Water Fountain River View Terrace Council Ring Garden Green Seating Slope Bike Rental and Repair Facility

Anticipated USGBC ertification Rooftop Gardens Unique Artisan Community Grand views of the Cumerland River, Nashville skyline and New Garden Amenity Accessibility to the Greenway and Future Water Taxi Route

Distances to other Nashville destinations: many are within close walking or biking distance

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT SITE DRAWINGS

SITE ROOF PLAN

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT SITE DRAWINGS

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT SITE DRAWINGS

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT PLAN DRAWINGS

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT PLAN DRAWINGS

PLAN SECOND FLOOR

The holding pen building’s typical floor is a gallery type furniture store.

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The Slaughterhouse building’s typical floor plan consists of flexable rental space, artisan work and gallery space, and large open atriums.

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT PLAN DRAWINGS

PLAN GROUND FLOOR

The ground floor of the holding pen has a grand entry that would also serve as a loading zone as well as the furniture showrooms.

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The ground floor of the slaughterhouse opens to amphitheater type seating and a grand garden space with an open atrium.

The rest of the floor would be used as restruants, artisan work space and galliers, and small shops.

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT PLAN DRAWINGS

PLAN BASEMENT FLOOR

The basement floor of the holding pen has the final floor of showroom space.

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The basement floor of the slaughterhouse consists mainly of storage and mechanical spaces. The river side of the building is open to the river terrace and restaurants with a view of the Cumberland River.

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT SECTION AND ELEVATIONS

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT LANDSCAPE PERSPECTIVES

The main connection between all of the buildings on the site is a large plaza. The buildings are lined with trees and plantings that serve to shade pedestrians as well as the

buildings. The wire wrapping of the buildings (seen in light inside the buildings at select points. The plaza also includes silver) is a visual connection between the buildings on the a fountain and benches for people to gather. site. It weaves between each of the buildings appearing to go

The view coming into the site from Taylor Street has an axis with one of the terraces over the river. The axis cuts through a stage with an amphitheater that is over a below

ground parking garage. The amphitheater has a fountain parents sat close in the seating watching over them. This that can be activated at times that the performance venue is plaza also has a main connection into the slaughterhouse’s being unused. Children could play in the fountain while their open air park on the third floor via a system of ramps.

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT PERSPECTIVES

PERSPECTIVES INTERIOR SPACES

The existing basement, first and second floors will be The exterior walls of the holding pen have been infilled with transformed into a contemporary furniture and art gallery. glass, letting in ample natural light.

The grand space on the third floor has a double height workout room where a visitor to the new fitness center would be able to enjoy a workout while seeing the panoramic view of

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Germantown and Downtown Nashville's city skyline. The large room can also accommodate spin classes or other fitness classes. The roof top has a small circular garden

space that can be used for classes such as outdoor yoga.

Members of the community can come to the roof to find a relaxed environment away from the stress of their work.

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT ANIMAL HOLDING PEN PERSPECTIVES

ENTRY PERSPECTIVE The existing holding pen building has a square cutout that will be transformed into a two story grand entrance.

The open air entry creates a covered gathering space for people as they come into the building. It also serves as a place to hold furnshings covered from the elements, before loading it in the customer’s vehicle and their leaving.

WELLNESS CENTER PERSPECTIVE The existing holding pen was three stories, including a basement. This roof top building will feature a state-ofthe-art fitness facility with spaces for classes and views towards the Nashville skyline.

ROOFTOP SPACES PERSPECTIVE The glass facade of the Wellness Center.

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT PERSPECTIVE

PERSPECTIVE GALLERY

The eastern most section of the building becomes a long passageway past artisan studios and small galleries. The artisans can rent a space, or two adjacent spaces if they need more room, to be home to their creative process. Each

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studio has access to ample daylight and views out to the garden below. The surrounding north and south walls of the studio space are made from thin brick walls, creating privacy and keeping with the original feeling of the slaughterhouse.

Across the hall from the workspace is a personalized gallery.

These galleries serve as a space each artist can show and sell their work across from where they create it.

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NEUHOFF ARTS DISTRICT SLAUGHTERHOUSE PERSPECTIVES

SLAUGHTERHOUSE EXPERIENCE PERSPECTIVE The unrenovated slaughterhouse created a feeling of being lost and wandering. The new slaughterhouse aims to create a series of spaces that are open, inviting, and easy to navigate. The large atriums are visual cues in the building to show you where you are located within the massive building structure.

1. Entrance from plaza with amphitheater seating 2. Front doors with views inside 3. Feeling of compression upon arrival 4. Glass elevator and grand stairs 5. Feeling of openness in atrium space 6. Walking through a garden 7. Open business area with wi-fi 8. Restaurant seating with a view to the river

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NEUHOFF CONNECTIONS East Germantown | Nashville, Tennessee STUDENT

ANTHONY TRAYLOR Nashville, TN

CONCEPT Nashville is one of the most booming cities in the country. With an average of around 90 people moving in per day, the population is quickly beginning to outgrow the city itself. This quick amount of growth is generating large amounts of construction and raising the prices of everything in and around the city. A direct product of this growth is the Germantown neighborhood just north of downtown which has become one of the most popular areas in the city. This area has become home to numerous restaurants, markets, activities and many different residences.

A part of Germantown that has been around since 1906 is the Neuhoff complex. The Neuhoff complex sits on the Cumberland River to the east of Germantown. This complex was home to a major slaughterhouse that was in operation for over 60 years before closing down in 1977. Since this time, the slaughterhouse has been sitting vacant on a 17-acre site. A goal of this project is to reconnect this Neuhoff complex back to Germantown and back to Nashville.

PRIMARY GOALS

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Pedestrian connection to existing greenway River connection from Neuhoff complex to rest of city Vehicle connection with public transportation Visual connection with Nashville skyline Cultural connection with the city Historical connection

RECONNECTION The Neuhoff complex was once a major part of Nashville and the surrounding neighborhoods in the early to mid-20th century. The complex, consisting of a slaughterhouse and packing facility, employed over 1,000 workers. The industry was one of the largest in Nashville at the time and because of this, had a great connection and link to the city. In 1977, the Neuhoff facility was shut down and abandoned, which severed this once great connection. While the facility can still be used

now for specialty events, the buildings themselves have become more like ruins which makes any real activity at the complex difficult to achieve. The goal of this project is to reconnect the Neuhoff complex back to the city of Nashville. Relieving the buildings from their state of ruin while also providing multiple different ways to connect to the city and the neighborhoods can provide new and exciting opportunities.

Slaughterhouse interior

SCOPE AND PROGRAM SUMMARY This project seeks to include the repurposing of the slaughterhouse and the surrounding areas as well as introducing new landscape features. This will take place through research that will accompany a series of drawings and diagrams. This information will serve to get to the best logical solution for the slaughterhouse and its

immediate surroundings. All in all, the project will attempt to create a place that becomes a stronghold in the community by being a destination for artists, musicians, and general social activities, as well providing new apartment dwellings.

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NEUHOFF CONNECTIONS FIGURE-GROUND + SITE PLAN

PROPOSED + EXISTING FIGURE-GROUND

SITE PLAN These connecting points serve as the basis for the project and can begin to drive the redevelopment of the Neuhoff complex. A new building can prove to serve as a connection to multiple points across the Neuhoff complex, acting as a threshold between new development and the historic Neuhoff slaughterhouse and holding pens. The building itself will consist of retail stores, restaurants, rental public space, and provide access to the river on grade. The upper floors of the building will consist of new apartment units. These units will all be two stories, and provide unique views to the skyline. The top of the building will be a green roof intended only for residents.

This new building will work together with the rest of the site to form an overall redevelopment of the complex.

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NEUHOFF CONNECTIONS CONNECTION ANALYSIS

PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION Nashville’s greenway system has been working to change the city since it was developed. The current greenway system is 80 miles of off-street paved trails.

These types of trails become perfect for pedestrians on foot or bike and create a great link from one side of the city to the other. The current greenway system has a trail that runs parallel to the Neuhoff complex. There is great potential to capitalize on this greenway system being so close by simply proposing to move the greenway up into the new proposal of the complex. This would allow for greater pedestrian access while also providing a unique connection to the city. The image above can help to better understand this connection.

RIVER CONNECTION The Nashville riverfront is largely an underused feature of the great city. In the past a water taxi system ran from Opryland to the base of Broadway. The water taxi no longer runs, but could be reestablished to reconnect the city to the river. The Neuhoff complex has a great location directly off the Cumberland River. There is about a 60 foot drop from the complex to the river, but this provides a great opportunity to provide a design on the river that can work to celebrate the Neuhoff complex while also becoming a link to the city.

VEHICLE CONNECTION Public transportation in large cities is essential to a fully functional city. With a limited Metro Transit System, Nashville must rely on the use of the automobile for most transportation. While the bus system in Nashville works, it become very inconvenient when a very limited amount of buses run in certain areas. Adding more bus stops and providing more of a vehicle connection could help to create a stronger connection to the city. In addition to this, adding more vehicle access to personal cars would help to reconnect the complex back to the city.

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NEUHOFF CONNECTIONS CONNECTION ANALYSIS

VISUAL CONNECTION While certainly not the biggest in the country, Nashville has one of the most recognizable skylines. With famous buildings such as the AT&T Building (Batman Building) as a standout. Views of the skyline are essential and being able to maintain that view with a new development is vital to the connection to the city. Being able to see the city so clearly can bring unique connection to the city.

CULTURAL CONNECTION Nashville has one of the most unique and diverse cultures in the country. A normal afternoon stroll down Broadway makes it clear what the tone is: the music culture is strong. In addition to a strong music culture is a strong artisan culture. New local and craft stores are emerging all over Nashville. These stores typically take the form of renovating existing buildings. The Neuhoff complex can become a perfect center for artisanal culture.

Music Scene - Nashville is nicknamed “The Music City� for a reason. Famous concert venues and music stores are essential to a true Nashville experience. Applying these activities would be a great opportunity to connect to the city.

Craft Scene - The maker and craft scene has become a large part of the city. Restaurants like Monells have made it common to inhabit old unused spaces. Microbreweries are also becoming very common throughout the city.

Craft restaurants and breweries could also create a connection

HISTORIC CONNECTION The Neuhoff complex has been in Nashville for over 100 years. The building once had a huge connection to Nashville and the Germantown area. The building has been abandoned for the past 40 years. Connecting this building back to the city is vital to the restructuring of the area. Bridging the two existing buildings on the site can serve as a literal connection that can provide moments that will allow for a stronger connection to downtown.

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NEUHOFF CONNECTIONS SITE DIAGRAMS

CONNECTIONS Historical connection

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MASTER PLAN KEY REGULATING LINES

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1) Artisan/market space 2) Restaurant 3) Public space 4) Beer garden 5) Patio/possible performance space 6) New parking 7) Water access 8) New building with green roof 9) Rock garden 10) Gallery 11) Existing slaughterhouse with proposed green roof 12) New courtyard 13) Denari master plan 14) Greenway

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NEUHOFF CONNECTIONS ANALYSIS

GENERAL ANALYSIS Gentrification is quickly taking hold in Germantown and transforming it into something much different than its past. In the past, Germantown was a haven for industry and provided a great deal of business for the greater Nashville area. This is proven with the use of the Neuhoff complex as well as many other factories around the neighborhood. While this is still true to an extent the majority of the new business that are populating Germantown are smaller. These smaller businesses were locally owned and began to start a trend that has really taken over all of Nashville. These new businesses, along with its proximity to downtown, lead to an increased popularity in the Germantown area. A quick drive through Germantown today will see construction crews working on building trendy new apartments that will serve to complement all of the locally owned businesses in the area. While some may say these trends are taking away from what was truly important to the area, the fact is,

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locally owned business and new apartment complexes are becoming the new standard of life in Nashville and instead of ignoring the trend, it would seem best to celebrate it.

The Neuhoff complex provides a perfect place to celebrate this type of trend, while also remembering what was here in the past. The industrial style architecture provides a great working and living environment. As is, the complex consists of a 700,000 s.f. slaughterhouse, a smaller and very open holding pen directly across, and a site to the north that features two older buildings. An old railroad track runs along the site and is the basis for the expression of the curved faรงade on the slaughterhouse itself. The slaughterhouse would prove to be a great place for artisan market stalls along the historical faรงade.

This type of repurposing would be perfect for the fine craftsmen that populated Nashville. The interior of the

slaughterhouse is rather dark, and very segmented.

Opening this up to a larger courtyard or just larger spaces could prove to work well in this building. The holding pen provide a great open space, and would work great for some type of display gallery. Once these programs are set, there becomes a great opportunity to think about connecting the holding pens to the slaughterhouse via a new linear building. This building could house numerous different programs on the lower levels and provide residential units towards the top. The building would serve to frame a space between the slaughterhouse and the building. The new building would also work to create a link to the river while framing spaces on the ground to link in with the urban context. All in all, this Neuhoff complex would serve as a great urban destination for the city of Nashville.

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NEUHOFF RIVER ARTS CAMPUS FLOOR PLANS

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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NEUHOFF RIVER ARTS CAMPUS FLOOR PLANS

BRIDGE BUILDING FLOOR PLANS

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2ND FLOOR The new building can prove to serve as a connection to multiple points across the Neuhoff complex, acting as a threshold between new development and the historic Neuhoff slaughterhouse and holding pens. The building

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BASEMENT GALLERY PLAN itself will consist of retail stores, restaurants, and rental as provide a unique view to the skyline. The top of the space, providing access to the water on the ground building will be a green roof intended only for residents. level. The upper floors of the building will consist of new apartment units. These units will all be two stories as well

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NEUHOFF CONNECTIONS SECTION A + SECTION B

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NEUHOFF CONNECTIONS PERSPECTIVES

VIEW FROM BALCONY

VIEW TOWARDS WATER TOWER

VIEW FROM HOLDING PEN ROOF

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NEUHOFF CONNECTIONS PERSPECTIVES

VIEW AT STREET LEVEL

VIEW FROM RIVER

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