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SELECTED WORK 2002-2018 DAVE HAMPTON

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SELECTED WORK 2002-2018 Community-driven design + implementation TABLE OF CONTENTS

A. Built projects J/P Haitian Relief Organization (J/P HRO)

Redevelopment Program Projects Schools

JP-1 Klinik Urgent Care Clinic Housing

Kay Solid / Kay Kat Fanmi Housing Pilot Project

Impasse Belo ravine stabilization

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Senior Activity Centers

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B. Workshops and public engagement Environmental Risk-Opportunity workshop Public engagement workshops “Applying a Risk-Opportunity Framework for a Resilient Dominica” MTPTC Communication Strategy

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C. Competitions and speculative projects ‘Fort Point Power’ ‘No Building Is An Island’ ‘The Big Mac: Miami Beach Coastal Resilience’

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D. Testimonials and recommendations

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Haiti Helping People Home (PREKAD), Phase I, 2011-2012 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Role: Team leader, J/P Haitian Relief Organization (J/P HRO)

I led a team of architects, engineers, planners, and contractors to deliver a $1.1M World Bank-funded disaster recovery program for earthquake- and hurricane-safe homes, multifamily buildings, schools, community centers, clinics, and negotiated communal spaces.

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Kay Solid/Kay Kat Fanmi Housing Pilot Project Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2011-2013 Role: Project manager, J/P Haitian Relief Organization

Getting people back to safe homes following the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti required rethinking traditional models for the design and delivery of housing by aid agencies.

I led the Redevelopment team in taking design cues from throughout the Caribbean - New Orleans, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and other cities in Haiti - adapting passive cooling strategies and water conservation to a dense, urban context to produce the Kay Solid housing pilot project. Taller openings allow flexibility for customization by residents and opportunities for ventilation. Economy of material and simplicity of construction was achieved through the elimination of lintels, often a challenge for masons to do correctly, by incorporating into reinforced roof and floor slabs.

The two Haitian Creole names of the project reflect its fluid identity, a path from original intent to its perception by the public. ‘Kay Kat Fanmi’, or ‘four-family house’, indicates its realization as two houses built by separate contractor teams under our subconsultant Haven Partnership - overseen by my team - to identify common challenges during construction.

‘Kay Solid’, or ‘solid house’, emerged from being overheard during public outreach sessions.

During construction, the pilot project was used as a model home by the Haitian Ministry of Public Works (MTPTC) to demonstrate earthquakeand hurricane-safe building practices. A full compliment of workshops, print material (see pp. 16-17), and training video were geared toward masons, homeowners, NGOs, and the general public.

A family relocated from Petionville Club camp moves to their new home, 2013. Photo: J/P HRO

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Community design input session, 2012. Several opportunities for were afforded for local residents to tell what they would like to see in a new home and helped shape the design team’s schemes.

During construction. Two teams of contractors each built one multifamily home.

Perspective view from construction document / bidding drawing set.

The construction site in use by Haitian Ministry of Public Works (MTPTC) officials to demonstrate earthquake- and hurricane-safe building practices (see pp. 16-17).

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Ravine before mitigation, 2012, left and above. J/P-1 Clinic is visible at above left.

Impasse Belo Ravine stabilization Port-au-Prince, 2011-2013 Role: Program Manager, J/P HRO

In late 2011, following unstable conditions in the Petionville IDP camp managed by J/P HRO, the NGO conducted an extensive search for suitable locations to establish a new clinic to serve both residents of the camp and the adjoining Delmas 40B neighborhood. A private residence was located, selected, and I led my team in an earthquake-resilient retrofit and adaptive reuse to transform it into a medical clinic.

Located alongside one of the ravines which bisect Port-auPrince, directing stormwater from mountains to sea, the facility continued to be threatened by an eroding ravine edge composed partly of soft soil, undermined by the scouring action of water during the wet season, compounded by acceleration around a sharp turn in the ravine.

Ravine curves sharply at Impasse Belo near the clinic (‘C’). LIDAR DEM digital terrain model of ravine bisecting the neighborhood. Source: World Bank Natural Hazards Assessment Team (NATHAT)

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My team worked with the World Bank Natural Hazards Assessment Team (NATHAT) to produce a two-phase mitigation: 1) A temporary wall of wire gabions filled with stone was erected until funds were secured for 2) a permanent wall faced with concrete finish, topped with a concrete curb and gutter to direct surfacewater away down the ravine face, and a concrete balustrade to discouage the dumping of trash and protect pedestrians from falls.

The protected clinic continues to provide community healthcare services to hundreds of residents weekly.

This project fueled my further interest in urban ravines, (see my article “The Ravines of Port-au-Prince�, UrbDeZine, 2013).

Ravine after mitigation (under construction), 2013.

New gutter directs water along and away from ravine. New concrete walls prevent falls.

Ravine after mitigation, 2013.

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Senior Activity Centers, 2002-2004

Client: City of Chicago Department on Aging Role: Project manager, STL Architects I led every aspect of the process - from design and permitting through client interaction, construction administration, and the management of subconsultants for this $5M fast-track project. A response to a deadly 1996 heat wave, the 5 centers built in Chicago’s most underserved communities address emergency and resiliency functions such as acting as ‘cooling centers’ in hot summer months while meeting the specific needs of seniors in easily-accessible, and modern (but low-key) settings.

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Interviews with future users led our design team to employ continuous glass clerestories and skylit elements, balancing natural daylighting with security and privacy, limiting intrusive views by onlookers at street level while affording natural light and views of sky and trees.

Englewood Center (this page) - an adaptive reuse of an existing muffler shop - features a skylit central atrium bordered by an interior planter, conceptually extending the landscape design to the interior. The building’s massing, articulated brick coursing, and landscaped setbacks provide buffering from a busy street, introducing a more human scale.

Other sustainable design strategies include low-maintenance native plantings, integral planters, and large, flexible rooms.

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Environmental Risk-Opportunity workshop

Engaging local stakeholders such as farmers, agroeconomists, and heads of households in a risk-opportunity workshop.

Fond des Blancs Haiti Town Centre Plan, 2017-2018 Client: Build Health International Role: Workshop organizer / leader

I analyzed environmental risks and opportunities for Fond des Blancs, a town in rural Haiti that will become the seat of a new regional government. The goal: to develop a climate-forward Town Centre Plan with resilient land use strategies for better agricultural production, landscape and cultural preservation that would inform later urban and regional planning.

Community charrettes were a key part of the planning process.

As part of the Town Centre Plan stakeholder engagement process, I gave a short framing presentation and led a 45-minute exercise to help workshop “risk-opportunities� (see p. 15 also): a glass-half-full approach to using risks such as flooding and drought as opportunities for water conservation and biodiversity in an urbanizing area of rural Haiti. Participants used photos of specific problems such as eroding hillsides or risky ravines and added written recommendations to identify the best places for preserving forests, planting new trees, and managing crops.

As a result, the planning team had an annotated map that could be refined and presented back to the community, saving valuable time and expense and empowering the people who actually live in these places in the design and planning process itself.

Testing scenarios on annotated maps. Image contains material from Build Health International.

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Public engagement workshops: ‘Community Resilience: The Role of Design’ + ‘Climate Ready Boston Rise Up!’

Above: Transect walk, a design research inquiry technique - cut a section across a landscape and lead participants in walking across it to better understand how risks and opportunities arise at different places in a landscape. Adapted from a report prepared for client Build Health International.

Boston Society of Architects Committee on Resilient Environments (CORE), 2017-2018 Role: Organizer / presenter

I co-led a workshop which guided design professionals, municipal representatives, and the general public to explore climate resilience around a social capital framework by identifying initial vulnerabilities and strengths, setting goals, and establishing action items. Drawing from my recent consulting work in Haiti for Build Health International, I demonstrated how simple design research inquiry techniques can be used to engage the public; these included transect walks (pictured at right), photo analysis, interviews and surveys.

Guest presenters included Dumas Lafontant with Lower Roxbury Coalition, architect-activist Rashmi Ramaswamy of Shed Studio, and leading social capital scholar Prof. Daniel Aldrich of Northeastern University.

As a Climate Ready Boston Leader, I also co-led ‘Climate Ready Boston Rise Up!’ with Blake Jackson of Boston Society of Architects Committe on the Environment (COTE). We oriented a mixed audience to Climate Ready Boston - the City of Boston’s flagship climate resilience strategy - and led them through a brief stakeholder workshop. The Climate Ready Boston Map Explorer tool was used as a resource for visualizing risks and vulnerabilities and reframing them as opportunities for making communities stronger and more robust.

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“Applying a Risk-Opportunity Framework for a Resilient Dominica”

Doctoral student workshop, International Conference on Building Resilience, 2018 Client: University of Lisbon, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design Role: Workshop co-organizer / leader I collaborated with the Affordable Housing Institute to engage doctoral students from varied backgrounds in active learning by presenting a case study on the Caribbean island of Dominica. Two specific sites on a threatened coastal and along a river were selected. I led students in brainstorming possible concerns and future scenarios for resilient development by considering risks and vulnerabilities that were uncovered by Hurricane Maria such as high winds, inland flooding, and landslides as a framework for “risk-opportunities” (see p. 13 above).

We explored themes including blue-green infrastructure, housing, and preservation of open space, and brainstormed possible catalytic pilot projects such as risk communication programs in public schools, host family agreements, relocation/buyout program, and climate-adapted development guidelines.

Above: slides from workshop presentation walked participations through a straight-forward risk-opportunity process.

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In Haiti, I consulted for UN-Habitat /Internews on technical traning films for masons and the general public. This brochure was prepared for the Haitian Ministry of Public Works 9MTPTC) to demonstrate safe building practices. Both initiatives are based on Kay Solid (pp. 7-8)

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‘Fort Point Power’,

Boston Living with Water competition, Phase I, 2014-2015 Client: Boston Planning & Development Agency, Boston Harbor Now Role: Team leader / member, Harvard Graduate School of Design While at Harvard GSD, I participated in an interdisciplinary student team with advisors from faculty and professional practice develop competition entry proposals for three urban scales in Boston: 1) The Prince Building in North End, 2) Fort Point Channel (neighborhood/block), 3) Morrissey Blvd. / UMass Boston (infrastructure) I also led a team to produce a Phase I competition entry at the Fort Point Channel 100 Acre Site. We balanced building-integrated and onsite energy production with the creation of new public spaces at multiple levels to accommodate periodic flooding and eventual sea level rise. Connections to the Boston Harborwalk were maintained and extended through the site.

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‘No Building is an Island’,

Boston Living with Water competition, Phase II, 2014-2015 Client: Boston Planning & Development Agency, Boston Harbor Now Role: Team leader / member, Harvard Graduate School of Design I participated in a team that developed proposals for three urban scales (see previous page) in Boston. I contributed resilience strategies, hand-drawn perspectives (pp. 20-21), and building retrofit expertise to my team’s final-round entry, a retrofit of the Prince Building in North End. Urban coastal climate adaptations that we proposed to address increasing extreme heat, flooding, and sea-level rise. Innovative, scalable, and replicable strategies included: • Resilience Report Card • Insurance and Resiliency Loan program • Boston Recovery Program • Commonwealth of Massachusetts Chapter 91 modifications to encourage flexible open spaces at grade.

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A floodable public space overlooks a multi-tiered MacArthur Causeway beyond.

Looking west at 10th Ave. along a raised Biscayne Bay Path - where a seawall once stood.

The Big Mac: Miami Beach Coastal Resilience

‘South Florida Rise and Sink: the Case of Miami Beach’ seminar, 2015 Harvard University Graduate School of Design Client: City of Miami Beach Role: Team member, graduate student proposal preparation I contributed to a class research proposal for the City of Miami Beach to expand access to the waterfront, provide coastal flooding and sea level rise solutions, improve evacuation routes, and increase overall interconnectivity. using climate-ready linkages between the mainland and island. I re-envisioned the MacArthur Causeway , for example, as a multi-tiered garden and publicly-accessible space.

High Life on the ‘Low Line’: Light rail travels safely above, out of reach of rising waters, as the Venetian Causeway ‘returns’ to nature, giving pedestrians new access to the interface of land and sea.

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Testimonials and recommendations: What clients and colleagues say about working with me Nupoor Monani, Urban Designer, Utile, Inc. Project: Boston Living with Water “I had the pleasure of working alongside Dave in classes at the GSD, and especially on the Living with Water competition organized by the Boston Planning and Redevelopment Agency. Dave brought a keen understanding of issues facing Boston changing climate and rising sea levels, and was adept communicating their complexity to our team. I appreciated the thoroughness with which he investigated the myriad considerations affecting Boston’s harbor and translate them into a nuanced design and policy proposal with the team!”

Ben Wilson, Social entrepreneur and advisor in Haiti, YANVALOU Designs Projects: Haiti Helping People Home (PREKAD), Phase I; Kay Kat Fanmi / Kay Solid Housing Pilot Project “Dave is a strong project manager who has a clear command of the critical path of complex projects with many stakeholders and constrained budgets. His technical and managerial acumen ensures optimal solutions to beneficiaries, owners, and donors.”

Killion Mokwete, Architect / Urban Designer, Build Health International Project: Fond des Blancs Town Centre Plan “Dave Hampton is a seasoned designer and expert on resiliency issues, especially in resource strained communities. I have had the pleasure to work with Dave on a community planning project in Haiti, Fond-des-Blancs where he undertook a detailed and comprehensive profiling and analysis of our scope area and also produced recommendations for a local community resiliency framework. He was hands on in his approach to gathering data and information by travelling to Haiti and spending time walking the streets and interacting with the local community. He also took part in our community engagement workshops to map out community priority issues on their future vision and also provided insightful review of our final report documentation. Dave is a great team player and easy going person who we very much enjoyed working with and are looking to continue future partnerships and benefit from expertise.”

Elise Zelechowski, Director of Social Impact, ThoughtWorks Project: Delta Institute’s Rebuilding Exchange “Dave is a dynamic and creative leader, whose vision helped catalyze the deconstruction movement in Chicago. In his work, he leverages his technical, process and convening skills to achieve results on the projects he undertakes. He is also a pleasure to work with, bringing positivity and humor to the process. I recommend him!”

Maggie Stephenson, Senior Technical Advisor, UN-HABITAT Project: Kay Kat Fanmi / Kay Solid Housing Pilot Project “Dave... brings a profound understanding of technical, financial and contractual criteria to design decisions. He is extremely rigorous in his attention to detail and quality assurance, and open and enquiring in his search for innovation and technical improvements. He is an excellent team member and team leader, managing to carry others along with his remarkable energy, enthusiasm and optimism and to achieve far more together in a spirit of collaboration and cooperation. He will be a valuable addition to any group dynamic, he is generous and unassuming, hard-working and positive.”

Noll Tufani, Country Director Nepal, Build Change Project: Haiti Helping People Home (PREKAD), Phase I “Dave has this innate faculty to see a situation’s many long term consequences and to factor them into the solutions he proposes. As a result, Dave will always strive for more. Dave is a true innovator who integrates long-run considerations into every day problem-solving by thinking out of the box and seeking inspiration from the most sustainable, eco-friendly, and socio-considerate solutions out there. Dave always sees the straight line between man, buildings, cities and the environment. Anyone serious about the future of our cities should work with Dave.”

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