DANIEL LAU
PORTFOLIO OF WORKS 2016
portfolio of works
PORTFOLIO OF WORKS 2016 ***** DANIEL LAU
b.arch des. the university of queensland the university of pennsylvania master of architecture
2016
2216 delancey street, 2R philadelphia, pa, usa 19103 danlau@design.upenn.edu
+1 267-231-5662
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daniel lau
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CONTENTS 004
URBAN WORKSHOPS entrepenuerial microhousing for philadelphia
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THE THIRD RESERVE optimising singapore’s green
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HUDSON RIVER NATATORIUM interlocking objects
044
ATL NORTH POINT reconsidering the nature of the airport city
052
rolyPOLY craft driven composites in architecture
056
AMPLIFIED ATMOSPHERES 30th street station transit hub
064
TRANSITING CITIES COMPETITION a green future for the latrobe valley
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GROUNDING CONSTANT
democratisting ideas for constant nieuwenhuys’ new babylon
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urban workshops
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URBAN WORKSHOPS ENTREPENEURIAL HOUSING FOR PHILADELPHIA the university of pennsylvania, SPRING 2014 CRITIC: BRIAN PHILIPS Urban workshops explores the notion of the millennial as a major economic force and influencer both now, and with an increasing role in the future. As living practices have radically shifted over the 20th and 21st century, the nature of work has curiously evolved at a much slower pace. With the advent of technology and the ‘millennial’ company (spawning a culture of startups), expectations and work and its relationship to the home have undergone a paradigm shift thanks to millennials. Cities are now cool again. Where the early technology company required a move to the silicon valley, the pace and growth in sophistication in technology has reduced footprint size requirements. Technology such as the cloud and an ever increasing and growing online population dictate that companies are closer to their end user and
LEFT: PERSPECTIVE VIEW FACING SOUTH FROM LOCUST STREET
overall the industry and other industries are far more interdisciplinary. Such changing business practices offer an opportunity for a move to bring businesses back to the city where work is now seen as a key component of everyday quality of life. The project therefore proposes an urban entrepreneurial centre to support this remigration to the city. Both locally connected and contextually integrated into the urban fabric, the urban workshop seeks to infrastructurally support the needs of the millennial at home and at work. Combining private microstudios, with intra , inter and extra building connective programs, the architecture seeks to support and enhance new millennial living, working and creating practices.
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THE (SUB)URBAN MIGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
02. SETTLEMENT 03. EXPANSION
SUBURBIA/CONTINUED EXP.
CREATION OF ISOLATED COMMUNITIES
SUBURBAN TECH CAMPUS LOCAL CONNECTED \\ CONTEXT ISOLATED
CITY CENTRE
EXPANSION OF SUBURBIA
TYPICAL URBAN OFFICE ISOLATED \\ UNCONNECTED
UNAFFORDABLE CITIES
URBAN TECH CAMPUS CONNECTED \\ CONTEXT INTEGRATED
THE SPATIALITY OF PRODUCTION METHODS
MILLENNIAL
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INTEGRATED + FORWARD FEEDING
urban workshops
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A NEW URBAN TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS
A NEW URBAN TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS
TYPICAL BLOCK
SUBDIVIDE.
PIXELATE PROGRAM.
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OWNERSHIP SCENARIOS STARTUP GROWTH
A.
B.
C.
D.
PROGRAM INTEGRATION
PRIVate + PUBLIC
SITE SUBDIVISION
MASSING STRATEGY
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E.
F.
A. SINGLE TENancy B. INCREASE IN STAFF c. EQUIPMENT INCREASe d. STARTUP GROWTH E. CONTINUED GROWTH F. ANCHOR TENANCY
urban workshops
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ABOVE: EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
BELOW: UNIT AXONOMETRIC SHOWING RELATIONSHIPS TO WORK SPACES |9|
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ABOVE: PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF ATRIUM | 10 |
BELOW: INTERIOR UNIT VIEW
urban workshops
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ABOVE: TYPICAL RESIDENTIAL / OFFICE FLOOR PLAN | 11 |
LEFT: BUILDING SECTION SHOWING UNIT AND PUBLIC REALM RELATIONSHIPS
RIGHT: PERSPECTIVE VIEW LOOKING DOWN LOCUST STREET
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Linear Park Vertical Park Exotic Park Water Park 0
500
1000
Greenhouse Village 2000m
Circular Park Orchard Garden Linear Park
Woodlands
Vertical Park
Reservoir Park
Exotic Park Water Park
ABOVE LEFT: THE THIRD RESERVE HABITAT PLAN
Coconut Grove
Greenhouse Village
Hertiage Park
Circular Park
Mangrove meadows
Orchard Garden
Fish Park
Woodlands
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Kampung Estate
Reservoir Park Kampung Estate
the third reserve
THE THIRD RESERVE
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Reserve 1 Western 34 KM²
2 2
Central Reserve
28 KM²
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Eastern Reserve 3 26 KM²
A VISION FOR OPTIMISING SINGAPORE’S URBAN GREEN the university of pennsylvania, summer 2015 design team: daniel lau, lindsay rule joseph rosenberg AECOM urban sos design competition - FIRST vertical cities asia design competition - FIRST
Singapore has long and successful history of land optimization and intensification. When land constraints occur, the city-state performs amazing feats of reclamation to ensure its industrial and commercial sector will flourish. Since Singapore’s first masterplan in 1958, land use has become more articulate and apportioned. This is true for all of Singapore with the exception of one area: the island’s interior reserves. Swaths of land within the Western and Central Reserves—passive open spaces, military facilities and storage—possess very little activity within them. They generally are also delineated from the urban fabric by major freeways, accessible only at discrete locations. These reserves have not been optimized to the same degree as the island’s developed land and remain underutilized and unproductive. But what if Singapore created a new reserve optimized to the same degree of the rest of island?
A Third Reserve could address the future challenges facing the island with population growth and food security. The Third Reserve embodies a new prototype for open space, infrastructure and development. It taps into Singapore’s potential for production, optimization and spatial precision. It is a latent opportunity to reimagine the island’s reserves as highly productive environmental and ecological assets that serve to enhance the quality of life for all Singaporeans, both current and future. The Third Reserve establishes
a new type of urban land-use for Singapore that optimizes unexpected adjacencies and hyper productive landscapes with high quality living spaces and generous recreational and environmental amenities.
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OPTIMISED URBAN INEFFICIENT GREEN
2030 Master Plan 1971 Concept Plan
1971 Concept Plan In fact, Singapore has been rigorously optimizing every parcel of land to ensure their In fact, Singapore has been rigorously optimizing every parcel of land limited to ensure theiris productive and efficient... space limited space is productive and efficient...
MORE LAND LESS RESERVE
In fact, Singapore has been rigorously optimizing every parcel of land to ensure their limited space is productive and efficient...
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the third reserve
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Marketer
SFP : Senoko FIshery Port SIN : Changi Int’l Airport JFP : Jurong Fishery Port TCP : Tous Check Point WCP : Woodland Check Point
SFP
WCP
Re-Export
Food Processor Wholesaler Distributor
Imported Food 2.7 million tons
TCP
vertical agriculture
SINGAPORE IMPORTS 90% OF ITS FOOD
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horizontal agriculture
438M
5,864 t 21,785 t Consumer
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ubterranean vertical agriculture griculture
Beef Chicken
Vegetable
al “Soft” Based on Use Sugar
aquaculture orizontal griculture
2.7million tons
Rice
(5%)
Specialty Stores
(1%)
Large Retail
(80%)
(10%)
vertical agriculture verticalCooking Oil agriculture Duck verticalFish agriculture Fruit
(15%)
Retailer
Total Reserve Area: 25.5 sqkm (3%)
Traditional Stores
Percentage Breakdown of Retail Stores, Based on Coverage
horizontal Pork agriculture horizontal agriculture horizontal agriculture
Currently Singapore imports roughly 30% of their freshwater supply and 90% of their food. Planning and years of effort has guaranteed Singapore’s water supply will be independent and protected within this century. However no such plan has been made to rectify its near complete food dependence.
Caterer
Convenient Stores (16%) & Stores within petrol kiosk
(70%)
FOOD RELIANCE
A public, programatic, Total Arable Land + Water: 22.1 productive Productive Land Area Ratio (PLR RESERVE
Estimated Market Share in Food Retail Market
Unlike the rest of the intensely planned island, Singapore’s wildlife area erranean Metric Data Source : AVA 13/14 Annual Report 2014. reserve spaces are almost 378,421m griculture entirely monofunctional subterranean University of Pennsylvania School of Design | Vertical Cities Asia - 2015 FOOD AND HAWKER CENTRES IN SINGAPORE 3 agriculture subterranean and inaccessible. Reserve agriculture Traditional + Advanced: spaces represent significant subterranean rec space Food Production Techniques uaculture agriculture underutilisation of land. The Third Reserve seeks to reverse aquaculture aquaculture this dynamic with the built er rec space vertical aquaculture environment to be as intensely dlife area agriculture productive, programmed and vertical Programming and land use in these is primarily passive recreational space, wildlifespaces area accessible as the rest of the griculture vertical wildlife or area natural habitat, military special use... island. agriculture r catchment horizontal Fig 2. Import goods and their flow
Soft
Open Space Special Use
Park
Sports & Rec Agriculture
Cemetery
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horizontal griculture
VS VSexisting condition VS
wildlife area
agriculture
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Traditional + Advanced: Optimized Use FoodReserve Production Techniques
ec space erranean griculture
water rec space water recreation water rec space
recreation space subterranean agriculture aquaculture horizontal agriculture
water rec space
atchment
uaculture
vertical agriculture
horizontal agriculture subterranean agriculture vertical agriculture
9.3 sqkm
water catchment water catchment aquaculture water catchment
aquacultureHorizonatal water catchment Farming wildlife area subterranean agriculture
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subterranean
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.15 sqkm Vertical
horizontal farming Farming
ptimized Reserve Use VS e Use Optimized e Use Optimized Reserve Reserve Use Use e Use Optimized Reserve Use VS
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The Third Reserve mixes traditional horticulture with emerging and innovative farming technologies such as vertical farming, subteranean LED 12.5 farming and aquaculture to create a productive, high yield food industry that also provides 3.1 sqkm Singaporeans with access to Subterranean iconic landscapes Farmingand public ammenities.
Horizonatal Farming
+ VS .15 sqkm Vertical Farming
rec space water rec space wildlife area
= 12.5 sqkm =
water rec space
3.1 sqkm
water catchment Subterranean rec space
Farming
water catchment
Existing Reserve Use
Optimized Reserve Use
water rec space
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feeds 2.5
million
Singaporeans
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daniel lau
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00. CUrrent 2030 masterplan
01. BREAK INDUSTRIAL RING to open to adjacent fabric
02. cultivate protect and adapt the land for productive means
03. INSCRIBE with a bundled infrastructure band
04. EMBED the district into the existing rail lines
05. Grow existing newtown edges + develop along distributive band
06. intensify the band as a platform for multiple configurations determined by market development.
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THE DISTRIBUTIVE BAND CONNECTING PEOPLE, PLACES AND PRODUCTS
01. THE PRODUCTIVE EDGE NEW EDGE OF EXISTING NEWTOWNS. VARIETY OF URBAN DENSITIES SUPPORT FUNCTIONS IN THE DISTRIBUTIVE BAND
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02. THE DISTRIBUTIVE BAND UNDERGROUND AGRICULTURE, PROGRAMATIC HUBS, BUNDLED TRANSPORTATION AND INDUSTRIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONS
daniel lau
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THE PRODUCTIVE CORE RECONNECTING SINGAPOREANS WITH THEIR FOOD
03. THE PRODUCTIVE CORE WATER COLLECTION, VERTICAL + HORIZONTAL AGRICULTURE, PUBLIC PARK SPACE, HABITAT RECLAMATION
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condo
office
residential
residential
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waterfront promenade
LRT
department store
Industrial Road
product storage +distribution
constructed wetland
department store processing warehouse
Industrial Rail
shrimp farm
COMMERCIAL PROMENADE
PROCESSING WAREHOUSES
residential
residential
office
WATERFRONT ACCESS
residential
residential
Productive Core
residential
residential
Productive Edge
STORAGE WAREHOUSE
public transportation
Typical Condition of Reserve Edges
LRT
MRT
EMBEDDED INFRASTRUCTURE Service Roads
LRT
THE DISTRIBUTION BAND architecturalised infrastructure
LRT
MRT
industrial distribution
Bundled Infrastructure Networks
LRT
Service Roads Heavy Rail
MRT Service Roads
MRT
Heavy Rail
The infrastructural component of the Service Roads Heavy Rail THIRD RESERVE is the Distribution Band. Typical Condition of Reserve Bundled Infrastructure Networks Heavy Rail This bundle of logistical, publicEdges transit, and private mobility systems creates an Typical Condition of Reserve Edges Bundled Infrastructure Networks active threshold between the thickened thickened plinth 02. bundled infrastructure 00. typical reserve edge edge of the new urban fabric and the vast Typical01. Condition of ReserveNetworks Edges Bundled Infrastructure Networks ondition of Reserve Edges Bundled Infrastructure The existing reserves are circumvented by By extruding and expanding the boundary Infrastructural networks are nested in expanse of the productive core. Whereas a network of roads which create barriers between urban fabric and the productive core, the band to provide accessibile public on of Reserve Edges created solely for private Infrastructure Networks between the urban Bundled fabric and the “natural� the reserve acquires a distinct border which transportation systems and logistical infrastructure fabric of the reserve. Development along these emphasizes the threshold between urban service for industry and agricultural automobiles creates large tracts of inert roads is generally low density or non existant. areas and the productive landscape. products Typical Condition Bundled Infrastructure Networks space, the distribution band gives rise to of Reserve Edges Typical Condition of Reserve Edges Bundled Infrastructure Networks Bundled INfrastructure Net Typical Condition of Reserve Edges Bundled Infrastructure Networks Bund a productive loop that is both functional and experiential. In Typical this way, theofactivities Condition Reserve Edges Bundled Infrastructure Networks Bundled INfrast 03. diversified development of the edge andTypical of the productive core Condition of Reserve Edges Bundled Infrastructure Networks Bundled INfrastructu The band is broken into developable overlap in the daily lives of those residents parcels which take advantage of their adjacency to the existing fabric as well living and working in and around the as the immediate proximity to transit systems. reserve. LRT
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business 2 The plinth allows for a continuous public greenway around the reserve that connects residents to different commercial centres while forming a storm water mangaement system that collects water from the surrounding new towns and drains it into reservoirs within the reserve
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student housing
student housing
student housing
daniel lau
university research facility
LRT
university institution reatil + commercial
Research Laboratory
MRT
Parking
Water Collection
Industrial Road
Subterranean Farming
SUBTERRANEAN FARMS
student housing
student housing
student housing
research university
RESEARCH FARMING
SUBTERRANEAN FARMS
DRONE HANGAR
research university
office and laboratories
pharmeceutical research
office and laboratories
Productive Core
residential
residential
residential
Productive Edge
Drone
OFFICE/ WAREHOUSE
AGRO PORT CONTAINER STORAGE
SERVICE ROAD DISTRIBUTION
Industrial Road
RAIL LINE/ PORT DISTRIBUTION
Industrial Rail
DISTRIBUTION LOGISTICS OFFICE Sea Water Collection Tanks
Productive Edge
LRT REFRIGERATED FOOD STROAGE
Productive Core
drone port drone hangar container storage
distribution warehouse refrigerated storage
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Exoti
Sesame
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Linear Park
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Vertical Park
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Linear Park
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Circular Park
orhcids + exotic plants
Exotic Park
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500
7
Sesame/herbs/mushrooms
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Water Park
Greenhouse Village
9
orhcids + exotic plants
Orchard Garden 1000 2000m Limes/Lemons/durian /jackfruit/mangos/bananas Woodlands Reservoir Park
Vertical Park
7
Orchard Garden
11
Coconut Grove
Exotic Park
8
Woodlands
12
Hertiage Park
4
Water Park
9
Reservoir Park
13
Mangrove meadows
5
Greenhouse Village
14
Fish Park
reservoir + treatment
Sesame/herbs/mushrooms stormwater management
0 500 orhcids + exotic plants
1000
10
leafy greens
Woodlands
9
Reservoir Park
10
water rec + mangrove nursery
Kampung Estate
2000m
Coconut Grove
12
Hertiage Park
13
Mangrove meadows
coconut
conservation site
conservation site
Kampung Estate
2000m
Rice paddies/shrimp farm/ freshwater fish coconut
water rec + mangrove nursery
11
Orchard Garden
Limes/Lemons/durian /jackfruit/mangos/bananas
Limes/Lemons/durian /jackfruit/mangos/bananas
Rice paddies/shrimp farm/ freshwater fish
Circular Park
8
1000
leafy greens
soybeans/leafy greens
7
Wood
9
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Greenhouse Village
10
Kamp
Orchard Garden
11
8
Woodlands
12
9
Reservoir Park
10
Limes/Lemons/durian /jackfruit/mangos/bananas
conservation site
conservation site
marine fish, algae, seaweed farm
water rec + mangrove nursery13
Kampung Estate Coconut Grove coconut
12
Hertiage Park
13
Mangrove meadows
14
Fish Park
conservation site
conservation site
marine fish, algae, seaweed farm
water re
Coco
coconu
Rice paddies/shrimp farm/ freshwater fish
11
Limes/ /jackfru
Rice pa freshwa
Circular Park
7
water rec + mangrove nursery
0 500 Circular Park
6
8
leafy greens
leafy greens
6
3
Water Park
Water Park
Linear Park 2
2
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Sesame/herbs/mushrooms
6
Vertical Park
6
Exotic Park
Greenhouse Village
stormwater management
1
1
3
Vertical Park
5
reservoir + treatment soybeans/leafy greens
13
reservoir + treatment
stormwater management
4 14
6
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Exotic Park
Sesame/herbs/mushrooms
orhcids + exotic plants
Linear Park
soybeans/leafy greens
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5
7
stormwater management
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reservoir + treatment soybeans/leafy greens
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leafy gre
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marine fi seaweed
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The first component of the Third Reserve is known as the productive core. The creation of a reserve in the east would provide 25 square kilometers of land to be used for a programs that bring together pressing matters of food production, public space and environmental rehabilitation. The result is a diverse range of landscapes not currently accessible by most Singaporeans. The value of which could pay for much of the required development.
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01. “WET/DRY” HABITATS combination of wild and manicured landscapes, greenhouses, vertical farming, water based activities
0
10
20
50m
02. WET HABITATS WATER COLLECTION, mangrove rehabilitation, mudflat rehabilitation, public aquaculture viewing, water parks
0
10
20
50m
03. “DRY” HABITATS Wildlife parks (rainforest), skywalks, urban agriculture, organised alleys and boulevards
service 0
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10
20
50m
sun crops
service
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shade crop
path
path
shade crop
bike path
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path
service
path
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PASIR RIS
INFRASTRUCTURAL TRANSFER
TAMPINES FAR: 14
933,677
RESIDENT POP. : 27,000
PASIR RISPASIR RIS
ECO TOURISMIBELT NFRASTRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSFER TRANSFER
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SEA/AIR/DRONE PORT INTERCHANGE
591,446
PASIR RIS
FAR: 12.3 INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSFER RESIDENT POP. : 18,000
BIO TECH HUB
PULAU UBIN W.
CHANGI
HOUGANG
TECHNOLOGY HUB
FAR: 7 RESIDENT POP. : 6000
PULAU UBIN C. HOUGANG HOUGANG
AQUACULTURE CENTRE
TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY HUB HUB
429,375
HOUGANG
TECHNOLOGY HUB
CHANGI
SEA/AIR/DRONE PORT
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FAR: 16 RESIDENT POP. : 33,000
THE DISTRIBUTION BAND architecturalised infrastructure
PULAU UBIN WEST
ECO TOURISM BELT 331,990
FAR: 15.9 RESIDENT POP. : 10,500
The urban component of the THIRD RESERVE is the productive edge. Whereas the otherreserves are buffered against development, the Productive Edge becomes a thickened threshold that weaves together what is urban and what is landscape. This integration establishes a new way for Singapore to expand and grow along the perimeter of reserve land. Due to the valuable proximity of being so close to an amenity like the reserve, this edge becomes highly intensified, interconnecting and extending existing new towns, while simultaneously introducing areas of new hyper-density to the perimeter of the Paya Lebar site.
PULAU UBIN W.
ECO TOURISM BELT
PULAU UBIN CENTRAL
TAMPINES
BIO TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE
TAMPINES1.05M
FAR:BIO 16TECH HUB RESIDENT POP. : 33,000
FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE CENTRE
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PASIR RIS
456,208
FAR: 6INFRASTRUCTURE TRANSFER RESIDENT POP. : 6000
By introducing new infrastructure nodes around the periphery of the reserve, The Third Reserve encourages New Town development to grow towards the reserve HOUG TECHNOL edge. This will lead to a densification of residential and commercial development per neighbourhood as population increases and Singaporeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban structure becomes more decentralised. As such, this new urban fabric provides high quality living quarters, recreation spaces, water infrastructure and public transportation in a continuous loop around the reserve. These qualities coupled with proximity to places of work and to new natural not currently available in Singapore generates enormous value and potential for long term revenue streams to offset high initial development and infstructural costs. Based on the FAR calculations, the Third
PULAU UBIN W. TAMPINES
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BIO TECH HUB
Reserve could, over time accomodate up RIS PULAUINFRASTRUCTURE UBIN C.PASIR CH TRANSFER to 1,000,000 new Singaporeans. SEA/AIR/DRONET AQUACULTURE CENTRE
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HUDSON RIVER NATATORIUM INTERLOCKING OBJECTS the university of pennsylvania, spring 2015 CRITIC: Kutan Ayata design team: daniel lau, Basak Huner
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daniel lau
The project was conceived as a reaction to the shed typology uniformly employed in natatorium architecture. The exact specificity of the programmatic requirements of several different pools demand several different autonomous objects with specific programmatic requirements to house them. Thus the question largely concerns itself with how this series of autonomous objects can come together as a cohesive whole seeking alternative avenues from traditional part to whole relationships. Instead of physical connections that bind them it is the alignments and misalignments of other objects define the boundaries and thresholds of objects. Relationships between programs can be defined. The introduction of surface articulation and patterning further aims to heighten the tension between states
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of separation by subverting the tectonic separations of objects through a unifying herringbone patterning system. Through relationships defined by interlocking, alignment and misalignment, each object normalises each other, much like the pier they sit on. Through aligning, misaligning, depressions, peeling and pushing, separations and spaces are formed. They carry circulation , services provide connection spaces, daylighting and moderate views - a method and tool to tightly calibrate and control experience both within, without and between objects.
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STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION
STEEL HERRINGBONE PANELLING PANEL ATTACHMENT CHANNELS
SHEATHING
The natatorium complex itself is constructed from a modified monocoque structure. A steel ribbing and sheathed monocoque enables the interior to be liberated of structure in order to create the collection of closed and autonomous worlds within and between objects. In addition, the thickened monocoque skin enables flexibility when it comes to accommodating the various service requirements of the different programs such as hot and cold pools, gymnasiums, massage rooms and outdoor pools. The exterior structure is clad in a zinc, quasi herringbone paneling system that serves to further disrupt/enhance the boundaries of the objects which also camouflaging aperture.
STRUCTURAL STIFFNERS
MONOCOQUE CONSTRUCTION STRUCTURAL RIBBING
AXONOMETRIC MONOCOQUE STRUCTURE
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SITE PLAN PIER 26 LOCATION ON THE HUDSON
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The relative autonomy enjoyed by objects enables the further abstraction and experimentation of pool typologies. These include lap pools, childrens pools, leisure pools, spa pools, educational pools and springboard diving pools as well as scuba diving pools. Pools retain their functional formal language while beginning to offer heightened experiential qualities around their edges through their interface with their enclosures. The pools and their functional requirements also present opportunities for alternative spatial configurations between objects.
DIVE POOL
OUTDOOR LEISURE POOL
OUTDOOR LAP
OUTDOOR KIDS POOL
DIVING TANK
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JACUZZI POOLS
INDOOR KIDS POOL
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BELOW: PERSPECIVE VIEW OF LAP AND LEISURE POOLS
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ABOVE RIGHT: PERSPECIVE VIEW OF PIER 26 w/ NATATORIUM
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PERSPECTIVe: VIEW of natatorium from pier 25 | 43 |
PennDesign AIRPORT R.F.P ARCH 701 2015 ATLANTA AIRPORT R.F.P
AIRPORT PRIVATISATION AIRPORT PRIVATISATION
CASE STUDIES FOR ATLANTA HARTSFIELD-JACKSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
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AIRPORT CASE STUDY GROUP AIRPORT CASE STUDY GROUP
AMS AMS
AMSTERDAM SCHIPHOL
DFW DFW
DALLAS FORT WORTH
ORD ORD
CHICAGO O’HARE INT’L
Haarlemmermeer, NL DFW Metroplex, TX Chicago, IL 52°18’29”N 004°45’51”E 32°53’49”N 097°02’17”W 41°58’43”N 87°54’17”W
FRA FRA
LAS LAS
FRANKFURT AIRPORT
HKG HKG
MCCARRAN INT’L
HONG KONG INT’L
MCCARRAN INT’L
HONG KONG INT’L
DEN DEN
DENVER INT’L
DBX DBX’
DUBAI INT L AIRPORT
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MEM MEM
SIN SIN
INCHEON INT’L
MEMPHIS INT’L
SINGAPORE-CHANGI
INCHEON INT’L
MEMPHIS INT’L
SINGAPORE-CHANGI
Denver, CO, USA Dubai UAE 39°51’42”N 104°40’23”W 25°15’10”N 055°21’52”E
Seoul-Incheon, ROK 37°27’48”N 126°26’24”E
Haarlemmermeer, NL DFW Metroplex, TX Chicago, IL Frankfurt am Main, GER Las Vegas, NV Chek Lap Kok, HK-PRC Denver, CO, USA Dubai UAE SCHIPHOL GROUP DFW AIRPORT BOARD CHICAGO DEP AVIATION FRAPORT CLARK COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY HK CITY OF DENVER DUBAI AIRPORTS CO. 52°18’29”N 004°45’51”E 32°53’49”N 097°02’17”W PUBLIC 41°58’43”N 87°54’17”W 50°02’N 115°09’08”W 22°18’32”N 113°54’52”E 39°51’42”N 104°40’23”W 25°15’10”N 055°21’52”E PUBLIC Corporatised PUBLIC Multi-Level Government PRIVATE008°34’14”E Management 36°04’48”N PUBLIC Aviation PUBLIC Corporatised PUBLIC Government PUBLIC Corporatised Government Entity Government Entity Department Government Minority Department Government Entity Department Government Entity
Seoul-Incheon, ROK INCHEON INT’L CORP. 37°27’48”N 126°26’24”E PUBLIC Corporatised Government Entity
Memphis, TN Singapore, SG CHANGI AIRPORT GROUP 35°02’33”N 89°58’36”W 32°53’49”N 097°02’17”W PUBLIC Airport PUBLIC Corporatised Authority Government Entity
PUBLIC Corporatised PUBLIC Multi-Level PUBLIC Government PRIVATE Management PUBLIC Aviation 54,978,023 60,470,507 70,075,204 PPL Government 60,470,507 42,869,517 PPL Government Entity PPL Government Entity PPL Department MinorityPPL Department
PUBLIC Corporatised 41,482,828 Government Entity PPL
PUBLIC Airport 3,570,000 PPL Authority
AMSTERDAM SCHIPHOL
SCHIPHOL GROUP
DALLAS FORT WORTH
DFW AIRPORT BOARD
438,296 FLTS 54,978,023 1,633,195 T PPL 438,296 FLTS 1,633,195 T
CHICAGO O’HARE INT’L
CHICAGO DEP AVIATION
678,059 FLTS 60,470,507 578,906 T PPL 678,059 FLTS 578,906 T
881,933 FLTS 70,075,204 1,578,330 T PPL 881,933 FLTS 1,578,330 T
LARGEST GLOBAL AIRPORT GROUPS, 2013 LARGEST GLOBAL AIRPORT GROUPS, 2013 AENA AEROPUERTOS - SPAIN AENA AEROPUERTOS INFRAERO - BRAZIL
Frankfurt am Main, GER Las Vegas, NV Chek Lap Kok, HK-PRC 50°02’N 008°34’14”E 36°04’48”N 115°09’08”W 22°18’32”N 113°54’52”E FRANKFURT AIRPORT
FRAPORT
CLARK COUNTY
678,059 FLTS 60,470,507 578,906 T PPL 678,059 FLTS 578,906 T
527,739 FLTS 42,869,517 93,029 T PPL 527,739 FLTS 93,029 T
DENVER INT’L
AIRPORT AUTHORITY HK CITY OF DENVER
PUBLIC Corporatised PUBLIC Government 63,367,000 53,472,514 PPL Government Entity PPL Department
390,955 FLTS 63,367,000 4,376,000 T PPL 390,955 FLTS 4,376,000 T
575,161 FLTS 53,472,514 PPL ~T 575,161 FLTS ~T
DUBAI INT’L AIRPORT
DUBAI AIRPORTS CO.
PUBLIC Corporatised 71,475,636 Government Entity PPL
357,339 FLTS 71,475,636 2,376,574 T PPL 357,339 FLTS 2,376,574 T
INCHEON INT’L CORP.
271,224 FLTS 41,482,828 2,464,385 TPPL 271,224 FLTS 2,464,385 T
Memphis, TN Singapore, SG 35°02’33”N 89°58’36”W 32°53’49”N 097°02’17”W
MEMPHIS COUNTY MEMPHIS COUNTY
225,592 FLTS 3,570,000 4,258,530 TPPL 225,592 FLTS 4,258,530 T
CHANGI AIRPORT GROUP
PUBLIC Corporatised 54,093,070 Government Entity PPL
341,386 FLTS 54,093,070 1,843,799 T PPL 341,386 FLTS 1,843,799 T
AIRPORT PRIVATISATIONS SINCE 1985 AIRPORT PRIVATISATIONS SINCE 1985
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INFRAERO - BRAZIL AIRPORTS AUTHORITY INDIA
- INDIA
AIRPORTS AUTHORITY INDIA - INDIA AEROPORTS DE PARIS - FRANCE AEROPORTS DE PARIS FRAPORT - GERMANY
- FRANCE
FRAPORT - GERMANY SCHIPHOL GROUP - NETHERLANDS SCHIPHOL GROUP - NETHERLANDS HEATHROW AIRPORT HOLDINGS - UK HEATHROW AIRPORT HOLDINGS TAV AIRPORTS - TURKEY
- UK
TAV AIRPORTS - TURKEY FLUGHAFEN ZÜRICH - SWITZERLAND FLUGHAFEN ZÜRICH - SWITZERLAND CORPORACION AMERICA - ARG CORPORACION AMERICA - ARG GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE - UK/US GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE - UK/US VINCI AIRPORTS - FRANCE VINCI AIRPORTS - FRANCE VANTAGE AIRPORT GROUP - CANADA VANTAGE AIRPORT GROUP - CANADA HNA AIRPORT GROUP - CHINA HNA AIRPORT GROUP - CHINA ADC & HAS - USA / CANADA ADC
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PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT PRIVATE-SECTOR INVOLVEMENT
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LIMITED BY GUARANTEE LIMITED BY GUARANTEE PASSENGERS
AIRLINES
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PASSENGERS
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ATL NORTH POINT RECONSIDERING THE ROLE OF THE AIRPORT CITY the university of pennsylvania, FALL 2015 CRITIC: LAURA BAIRD, RENIER DE GRAAF
The last 20 years have seen explosive growth in air travel and a parallel rise in the scale and significance of Airports. In an effort to keep up, it is now commonplace throughout Europe and Asia to privatise (either partially or fully) their airports to provide the capital to upgrade. However, all major US airport hubs remain as public property. Given this condition, the project aims to reconsider the nature of an Airport City where the Airport is viewed as a broader economic entity. Through a series of rezoning, and a restructuring of management, the Airport can generate a new airport centric urbanism with strategic relationships with the city, providing the infrastructure and programing to support itself and its operations. Given the scale of Atlantaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s airport operation and its ability to self manage, the implementation of such as plan would not be detrimental to either entity but rather defines a mutually beneficial relationship between Airport, and City.
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We propose to decentralise the common value additional functions of the Airport and the city along an infrastructural corridor that would create several hundred acres of new development for the Airport. This is centered around the provision of high quality public amenity such as housing, healthcare, additional airport infrastructures (low cost terminals, expanded cargo facilities) and non traditional programs that benefit from airport connectivity (duty free shopping, light manufacturing, food processing, pharmaceuticals. Such programming can be utilised in conjunction with and strategically deployed to complement facilities already present in the city of Atlanta. Typologies that present little urban and economic value in the city might find new life when closer associated with the airport.
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1940 - USAF FIELD
1950 - ATLANTA MUNICIPAL AIRPORT
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INCOME
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COBB
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CLAYTON
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HENRY
50.63%
COWETA
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FOOD DESERTS
EMPLOYMENT GEOGRAPHY
A DISSASSOCIATED AIRPORT-CITY The area in which Hartsfield Jackson International Airport operates in, is one of great paradox and disproportion. The airport as the largest employer in the state of Georgia lies some 17 miles to the south of the city, yet many of the job opportunities and infrastructural developments are concentrated towards the north of the city. The municipal boundaries of Atlanta itself hosts 450,000 permanent residents, while the aiport processes over half that per day - a
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massive transient of 260,000 daily and 96 million annually. While Atlanta enjoys better than average growth rates (2% population growth annually and 3.5%The airport generates 13% of Atlantaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GDP alone that allows it to operate and develop autonomously from the city. While the Airport is owned and operated by the City of Atlanta, the majority of its workforce live outside the boundaries of the city, to the south of the Airport in neighboring counties.
MAJOR CORPORATIONS
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07 mi
WEST END
MAXIMISING INFRASTRUCTURE EFFICIENCY
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This will provide opportunities for great efficiency gains, increased on-airport real estate capacity and a diversified source of cash flows. Greater density and of residents and convenient connections facilitated by strategic infrastructural development corridors will provide the framework for attracting greater business in the future by lowering startup costs - for business and residents alike. By taking control and developing its domain, based on strategic relationships and not just proximity, the Airport will secure for itself a long term vision and future resilient revenue stream through leases and private partnerships despite incurring significant upfront costs.
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OFFICE
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BAGGAGE
SUPPLEMENTARY B USINESS
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CAR RENTAL HOTELS
CARGO
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EMPLOYEE HOUSING
PARKING
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BELOW: HIGH quality public ammenities
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SITE LOCATION
LOCAL CONNECTIONS
AIRSIDE - LANDSIDE DIVISION
RUNWAY LOCATION
AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT
EMPLOYEE / LOCAL HOUSING
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rolyPOLY CRAFT DRIVEN COMPOSITES IN ARCHITECTURE the university of pennsylvania, FALL 2015 PennDesign Immersive Kinematics Research Group + Tyler School of Art LEAD AUTHORS: ANDREW JOHN WITT, SIMON KIM, MARIANA IBANEZ, DANIEL EISINGER design and production team: daniel lau, aidan kim, han kwon, junhyo lee, yue chen JOURNAL publication: 3D Printing + Additive Manufacturing, Vol. 03 DISPLAY: “Beyond the Horizons” exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Spring 2017)
The manipulation of weaving as a traditional industrial process as a craft, and as a numericallycontrolled robotic winding procedure, was examined and evaluated through the construction of a full-scale monocoque shelter. This wound carbon fiber prototypical structure represents a production method for quick deployment, flexibility in form, and lightness of material. The implications of this case study, and its future goals are to be explored in relationship to the rapid evolution of robotic fabrication and architectural design while being tested through the traditional craft of hand winding as a direct translation of computational information. The methodology and means in which the results are assessed are presented here. What is a related and beneficial by-product is the investigation of uniform and continuous winding that fulfills technical requirements of monocoque and span, as well as additive layers for artistry or optical effect. The oft-converging fields of craft and technology produce novel methods and tools for design, as technology adapts to unforeseen artistic impulse. Simultaneously, these new methods also require a reevaluation of both how art and architectural projects are evaluated. Fabricated as a singular, continuously wound structural
ABOVE LEFT: THE THIRD RESERVE
system while containing an interior volume of roughly 7’ x 4.5’ x 4.5’, rolyPOLY weighs a mere twenty pounds, has a wall thickness varying between 1/16” and 1/4”, and contains more than 100,000 linear feet of pre-tensioned, pre-impregnated carbon fiber tow. At the time of fabrication, the projects only scalar constraint was the size of the institution’s largest high temperature kiln. As a means of minimizing fabrication waste, rolyPOLY was wound around a reconfigurable steel frame consisting of eight unique modules with interchangeable, bolt-on, laser cut plywood “teeth” fashioned for FRP gripping. Subsequent to baking, the eight unique panels simply unbolt and fold in upon themselves freeing the frame from the FRP shell minimizing fabrication waste while also allowing for the rapid reconfiguration of the following module. The accompanying text describes the research leading into rolyPOLY along with the methodologies developed that allowed for its completion.
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AMPLIFIED ATMOSPHERES 30TH STREET STATION TRANSIT HUB The University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2013 Philadelphia, PA, USA Studio Instructor - Sandra Manninger
The contemporary is not about usefulness, it is fashion. It is there to wow, to challenge, to baffle. The Modern is bound by traditional preconceptions of space. The contemporary looks to the moment of now. Previous technology limited what was possible tectonically to a discreet set of rules. Floor meets wall, wall meets roof and resultant effects worked within these constraints. Contemporary technology allows for liberation from such restrictions and challenges what is possible through the specific use of techniques and effects to enact certian atmospheres in space. In the same way, amplified atmopsheres utilises Lavin’s work which serves as a starting point for these investigations into the use of effects in generating compelling and effective atmospheres in space. The context of the pedestrian tunnel provides the opportunity for the investigation of the layering of such, more often than not, singular effects with control and specific intent in operations. How effects and techniques can compound to generate specific, yet unpredictable atmospheres in order to release ourselves from traditional preconceptions of architectonics. Can ornamentation create structure? Can it subdivide and delineate space? Perhaps it can baffle surface and structure.
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Amplified Atmospheres utilises singular componants with ‘effects’ applied to them designed around blurring the line between surface and structure before having simple, repetitive operations applied. From this, a tool kit of techniques can be generated which can be controlled and thus combined to strengthen the atmosphere in architectural space. Homogeneity of excited spaces must be controlled though with the implementation of calmer spaces createds a specific rhythmn amplifying the effect of excited moments. Effects and atmospheres must of course be curated so that they have maximum impact. As users move and transition through the tunnels spaces, varied and constantly changing conditions are presented in turn generating and imbibing changing atmospheres.
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GENEOLOGY
------------------------------------------------Formal explorations into controlling certain techniques to create atmospheric objects and spaces
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Further explorations into the translation of atmospheric qualities into spatial componentry to be aglomerated together.
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MOVEMENT ACROSS
ALGAL LAKES DEVICE: HAZELWOOD MINE DECOMMISIONED AND FLOODED. ALGAE CROPS PROPAGATED ON WATER SURFACE AND ALONG TERRACED BANKS FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION
TOWN-SQUARE DEVICE: CIVIC-USE INSERTIONS INTO NEGATIVE SPACE. A UNIQUE DESTINATION TO EACH TOWNSHIP WITHIN THE LATROBE
THE CIVIC “STEEPLE” WITHIN A VILLAGE
MOVEMENT ALONG FOR PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS
BIO-FUEL EXTRACTION CO2 ABSORPTION WATER TREATMENT PROCESS “ALGAE-FIRED” BASE-LOAD POWER PROVIDED TO EXISTING GRID INFRASTRUCTURE
EXISTING NETWORK OF SERVICE LANE-WAYS TO SUPPORT A CENTRALISED GATHERING SPACE
WATER (LATROBE INDUSTRY PAID TO SUPPLY WASTE WATER NETWORK AS A STIMULUS MECHANISM)
REGENERATION: FROM MINE TO LAKESIDE
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YALLOURN COAL MINE PHASED DOWN
INDUSTRIAL PARKS DEVICE: COHABITATION OF RESIDENTIAL AND INDUSTRIAL TYPOLOGIES IN THE CITY THROUGH GRID BASED PLANNING AND EQUITABLE ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE
GREEN CROSSING DEVICE: LARGE SCALE, PLANTED CROSSING TO ACTIVATE AND REUNIFY THE CENTRE AND GENERATE ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE
INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS ARE CONCEALED BY VEGETATION IN LARGE PUBLIC PARKS.
AN EXTENSIVE NETWORK OF LARGE PARKS ARE ESTABLISHED FOR THE USE OF RESIDENTS AND INCREASE SUBURBAN AMENITY
TRANSITING CITIES A GREEN FUTURE FOR THE LATROBE VALLEY
SHORTLISTED COMPETITION ENTRY
Independant Competition Entry December 2012, Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia Design Team: Daniel Lau, Andrew Campbell, Genevieve Vella Displayed at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Dec. 2012
The competition asked us to produce strategies for an adaptive and resilient regional centre, using the case study of the Latrobe Valley. The strategies were to be able to respond to the variable scales and conditions of change that effect life in the Latrobe City, enhancing the existing and future qualities of this urban environment.
Our proposal was based on gentrification of the town through its rebirth from a dirty coal power producer to that of clean, algae harvesting power producer. This change and the benefits it would bring would initiate the various proposals in the form of devices inserted into the existing urban fabric, for the continued prosperity and sustainability of the Latrobe valley. | 65 |
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A NETWORK OF DESTINATIONS ARE ESTABLISHED ALONG A LINEAR SPINE
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A LINEAR PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT IS ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THE TOWN-CENTRES OF THE LATROBE VALLEY, IN FAVOUR OF A RADIAL GROWTH PATTERN.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN RESPONSE TO MORE ACCESSIBLE RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND A WINDING PARKLAND THAT LINKS THE TOWN-SHIPS CLOSER TOGETHER
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IN TANDEM PHILADELPHIA BIKE SHARE CENTER 2nd PLACE SHENK-WOODMAN COMPETITION
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, SPRING 2014 INTERNAL COMPETITION Design Team: Daniel Lau, LEONIE BADEGER, EMMA MOLLOY, HANNAH DAVIS
The implementation of Philadelphia’s Bike Share Program is a vehicle for enhancing the city’s cultural, recreational and community infrastructures. As a facility, the PHANATIC Bike & Rec Center in Grays Ferry will revitalize the local neighborhood while tapping into the existing link of community assets along the Schuylkill River. Furthermore, it will serve as a nexus for future development, as Philadelphia is poised to expand its infrastructural systems along both sides of the river. In order to have success in implementing a facility that enhances the surrounding neighborhood and the city’s growing network of public trail and bike lane systems, it’s crucial to facilitate partnerships that will preserve the cultural character of the neighborhood and avoid dramatic gentrification. Partnering with the Philadelphia Phillies - an organization intrinsic to Philadelphia’s identity as a city known for fierce allegiance to its sports teams will prepare a solid foundation for positive change in a stunted, but authentic neighborhood. Additionally, the city’s sharp focus on biking as means of exercise and a viable mode of transportation matches the Phillie’s Red Goes Green campaign, which encourages health and well-being through recreation, utilization of green space and the expanding trail system. ABOVE LEFT: A MORE ACTIVE RIVERFRONT
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, dedicated to this expansion and promoting bicycling as a healthy, low-cost, and environmentally-friendly form of transportation and recreation, will provide the expertise in the day-to-day support for the center - providing Bike Share services, bike repair, and information about city bike lanes and trail systems. Lastly, the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations will facilitate the project to ensure the development will not only meet the needs of the residents, but will also cultivate a vibrant, active hub in the neighborhood that will service the city as a whole. The PHANATIC Bike & Rec Center will be the newest addition to the existing network of neighborhood assets along the river as a public venue for enjoying sports and recreation, whether its viewing games (like the 2014 world series), or providing bikes to enjoy the outdoors. The involvement of all three organizations creates a dialogue between Philadelphia’s cultural identity as a sports-loving city and biking as key mode of transportation and recreation, specifically in the Grays Ferry neighborhood within the city’s comprehensive infrastructural system.
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Encouraging health and wellbeing through recreaton
Partner organization
Local Corporate Sponser
Fairmount
Bicycle and Trail Education
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Franklintown
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Philadelphia Identity
PHANATIC Bike + Rec Center
Facility Personel
3 WATERWORKS/ART MUSEUM Historic Landmark 4 PAINE’S PARK Skateboard Plaza
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Facilitation
Logan Square
5 SCHUYLKILL RIVER PARK Community garden Dog park Sports courts
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Neighborhood Revitalization Partner Organization
Rittenhouse square
PHANATIC Bike and Rec Center Bike Share facility Workshop Grays Ferry
Graduate Hospital
Point Breeze Grays Ferry
6 BARTRAM’S GARDEN Historical Botanic Garden
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BIKE SHARE ZONE TWO South Philadelphia
7 SPORTS COMPLEX Stadiums Sports bars
Possible PHL Bike Share Locations by Popularity
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River Views vs. City Views
Green Landscape
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GROUNDING CONSTANT nouveau philadelphia
DEMOCRATISING IDEAS FOR CONSTANT NIEUWENHUYS’ NEW BABYLON
The University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2014 Studio Instructor - Srdjan Weiss
Constant’s New Babylon creates a society for the homo ludens, a network of sectors elevated above the existing city which allows the creative man to ‘play’ perpetually, having been liberated from any work by automation of all utilitarian, goal-oriented activity. The future of the university lies in an analogous liberation. Technology frees the scholar to pursue his desires—to discover, inquire, progress, and create. It grants him free rein of his most human quality in an unrestricted landscape. Elevated off the ground, the structures of Nouveau Philadelphia remove themselves from the required rapid circulation and service entities, enabling a slow and perpetual flux that calls for malleability of intensified internal spaces, which respond to the objective of the user. Work and play become indistinguishable.
LEFT: CITY-WIDE DERIVE MAP
We do not believe anyone should ever have to ‘work’ Research is discovery Play is a basic instinct in our human condition. When young, we learn through play we play by exploring. Explorations and play therefore lead to innovative and stimulating research at the University. Yet the utopian ideals and Constant’s vision of the ultimate removal and disconnect from society. The masterplan is therefore an exploration of Constant Nieuwenhuys’ seminal work New Babylon. However where Constant seeks the ultimate removal of the creative plane from the old world, we seek to fuse the two. We look to ground and democratise Constant’s vision toward an actual goal. Our evolution on Constant’s framework provides ample opportunity to support multiple disciplines and objectives simultaneously while each discipline influences each other.
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NODES and SECTORS (TITLE IMAGE) ----------------------------Overlaying of networks of different city functionalities reveal node and sector qualities existing in the present Philadelphia. The spaces which connect this network of nodes and villages are not merely empty, transitory space but rather programed, inhabited spaces. This presents an opportunity to base the new masterplan with these qualities.
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Building on ideas advanced by the situationists such as Guy Debord, physcogeographic maps were generated of Philadelphia utilising certain impulses that we seek to incorporate into the masterplan including:
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INITIAL FRAMEWORK
ESTABLISHED
The images show the Penn Southbank Campus as an established set of frames (able to be grown) in various directions as needed prior to programs and urban infrastructures inserted. The frame and bridging offers the most potential for the urban conditions to naturally emerge and change as needeed.
THE NETWORK UNDERCONSTRUCTION ----------------------------A. INITIAL SITE DERIVE B. DERIVE CONFLUENCE POINTS C. DESIRE LINES D. INITIAL FRAME WORK ESTABLISHED E. PUBLIC TRANSPORT ANCHOR F I. NEIGHBORHOOD LINKS F II. NEIGHBORHOOD LINKS G. COURTYARD CREATION H. TOWN SQUARE I. ‘CITY PARKS’
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ELEVATION UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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