DSGN design proposals for Asheville’s vacant sites
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is a project focused on reinventing the modern workplace. The modern workplace does not work for the free agent because they do not have bosses or employees. Free agents are a business of one. The project is located in central downtown Asheville in order to take advantage of the many amenities such as restaurants, shops and bars. One of the driving forces of this project is to solve the problem of vacancy in Asheville, specifically of surface parking lots. A semi-temporary style of design was decided upon early which involved little to no infrastructure. Next came the design aspect of this project started by taking the simple work organizational unit: the cubicle. Next it was simplified down farther to a cube, rotated, intersected and deleted sections until 3 different shapes emerged. After the design of the pods was established the site needed to be. The water and electricity will be laid down on top of the existing asphalt. A wooden decking will then be laid down as a way to cover the utilities and create a stepped topography. The pods are then set down in a high density organically grown layout. Inside the pods there will be no structured floor plan or furniture. The furniture will all be brought in by the individuals to allow for maximum customization of the space. The construction of the pods will be out of 6 inch thick solid wood panels that can be cut out on a CNC router. The polycubes are non site specific and can therefore be grown to a larger national scale in cities that have a large population of free agents such as Portland, OR or Chattanooga, TN. Though these pods are small they would have a big impact on downtown Asheville both economically and by bringing in a space for creative individuals to work.
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proposed sites Area of Sites Surface Parking Roof of Parking Garage
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original surface parking lot
water and electricity lines
decking laid overtop
site plan
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design
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44 spaces in our example site 7.7 pods to break even
1 parking space is rented for $35 per month 1 pod will be rented for $200 per month
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Cost for Owner $5,000 to buy/lease one pod length of loan:
36 mo.
72 mo.
rent/mo.:
$149.85
$80.52
total interest : at 5% APR
$394.76
$797.78
Total Cost:
$5,394.76
$5,797.78
QUILTasheville
Katie McCraw Julie Conard
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sdfsdfsdffsdfsdfsdfsdf involves stitching together the community of Asheville, NC through the rooftops in the Traditional Downtown, and stitching the built environment with Asheville’s green environment. The aim is to drape a second level onto the top of the city that embodies Asheville’s priorities of sustainable living providing green roofs, gathering spaces, vegetable gardens, and restaraunt space that benefit the environment.
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Environmental Benefits
Provide insulation, reducing energy costs up to 30%
Protect roofs from UV rays and can extend roof life span up to 40-60%
Improve air quality and reduce distribution of dust and production of smog
Water collection and reduce water run off
Provide noise reduction up to 40 decibels
Economic Benefits =
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30% tax credit for green
Vegetable gardens
Greenhouse
Greenery
Restaraunt seating
Vegetable production for
Children’s play area
Water storage and runoff Shading structure
Timeline
Momentum builds as community involvement increases.
11,801,654 gallons of water can be collected in 2018.
In 2021, $1,612,521 would be saved in energy costs.
In 2024, 1,016,562 square feet are now provided for the community to enjoy.
During the year 2027, 1,156,666 pounds of carbon emissions are offset.
By 2030, every rooftop in the Traditional Downtown area is now greened.
Customize Your Own Roof
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building type public semi-public semi-private private
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exterior stair 2000 sq. ft interior stair 3000 sq. ft 4000 sq ft. 5000 sq. ft. 6000 sq. ft 7000 sq. ft. 8000 sq. ft. 9000 sq. ft.
program food bank recreation area beer garden community gathering educational center restaurant seating restaurant food supplier children’s play areas shading structure vegetable garden water storage and runoff seating area greenhouse flower garden telescope viewing areas festivals
program specifics bar cocktail tables kitchen access night-access lighting edible gardens live music cooking lessons
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your results: 50% greenery (3000 ft ) 20% restaurant structure and seating (120 ft) 10% vegetable garden (600 ft ) 20% circulation (1200 ft )
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aluminum circulation plates plate connection water storage polycarbonate skin structural rib rib connection
water drainage
1,524,842 35,404,962 30% $3,225,043
There are 1,524,8 square feet of rooftops in the Traditional Downtown area in Asheville. Using these rooftops to collect water would collect over gallons of water a year. Having a green roof on a standard downtown building could save up to on a yearly energy costs. Looking at the average energy costs per square foot, greening every roof would save up to a year in energy costs.
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Greening the rooftops also will offset tons of carbon emissions each year. Although this initiative provides many benefits, most importantly it provides a high quality of life for the community members of Asheville providing new, inviting, green spaces.
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Urba n Ex t e n s i o n
s Nicole Dallaire Matt O’Nan
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Urban Extensions is a project designed to extend Asheville’s traditional downtown feel past the current boundaries of downtown, while at the same time making parking lots around the CBD safer and more efficient. Asheville’s downtown has a very noticeable border condition, where one can walk one street away from the heavily trafficked streets and find themselves suddenly no longer in downtown. We aim to fix the abruptness of the transition by creating roof and retail structures on strategic sites to help blur the line between downtown and the rest of the CBD. Part one of our project would be to choose parking lots that are not in use very much. Part two, we fill in the border parking spots with shipping containers that have been converted into affordable retail spaces, as well as many other uses. Part three, we design and build a cable tensioned roof over the parking lot, using the shipping containers and high tensioned poles to make a structure for Part 5, a thin film solar panel, covering most of the parking lot. The thin film solar panel serves to collect electricity from the sunlight(which can then be sold back to the grid, or used to power lights underneath the roof to light the parking lot and make it safe), provides a way to catch rainwater and keeps it from being polluted by the parking lot ground, and provides shade and safety to those in the parking lot. The refurbished shipping containers will serve as an affordable retail space, which should help revitalize Asheville’s economy. Along with retail, the containers could be used for many other things, such as atms, police substations, motorist assistance, and storage for all the rain water from the roof. With the new look from the combined roof and containers the parking lots have been transformed from an undesirable eyesore into a place where people can go to buy from small local artists, or have a quick bite to eat to or from their way to work.
Border Condition in the CBD Non-downtown
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INFORMATION
Kiosk usage would be broken up into five categories for simplicity. Each general usage encompasses several more specific usages; for example, included in the ESSENTIALS category are ATMs, public restrooms and bus stops. On the opposite page is an exploded axonometric view of the retrofitted shipping container. In this case a 40’ long container has been fitted with four front panels (and a 20‘; long container with two) that are held in by the metal frame attached where a wall used to be. Each panel is interchangable based upon the desires of the person renting the space within the container. A 40’ container can hold 1 to 4 separate compartments.
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The structure is broken up into PRIMARY, SECONDARY and TERTIARY structures. The PRIMARY structure consists of the metal frame fitted into the front face of retrofitted shipping container. The SECONDARY structures are the four different front panels that are fitted onto the metal framing. The TERTIARY structures are the parts of the panels that are interchangeable. These structures allow the basic four panels to be used in a multitude of ways; each panel is customizable using the TERTIARY structures.
Set up for each kiosk can easily be done by a few people; the panels are easily installed. PRIMARY structures are highlighted in yellow, SECONDARY in magenta, and TERTIARY in cyan. On the left a retail-oriented kiosk is being set up, while a small restaurant with bar stools for customers to eat at is being set up in the above diagram.
Detail of roof/kiosk connection. The hook (yellow) is anchored in the upper corner of the frame of the shipping container. Because shipping containers are bottom-heavy they can successfully anchor the cables.
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1.465 gallons/yr
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5,120 / month
221,670 gallons/yr
165 Homes/yr
1,280 / month
74,281 gallons/yr
55 Homes/yr
3,840 / month
7,928,460 gallons/yr
5,922 Homes/yr
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35.00 / month 1 Parking Space
Asheville Power Plant
Kiosks and roof in section
DAY 1 Timeline of Installation Single Site
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Timeline of Installation throughout CBD downtown non-downtown chosen sites
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PLAY[scape] A Cr Nathan Bailey Christian Piansay
PLAY[scape] A Creative Escape
Asheville is a city of culture and innovation. It is anything but boring. When it comes to work, people should find joy and take pride in what they do. When work is done in cubicles for long periods under artificial light in re-circulated air, it wears on people. Due to poor work environment, many suffer from health complications and social issues. This tension adds up to money spent on healthcare, medications, gym memberships, anger management, expensive vacations, useless gifts, bad office parties, and “toys” that don’t bring joy. Many of these prescriptions are superficial and do not remedy the true issue. We were made to move, build, craft, draw, create, interact, run, and thrive! For maximum productivity, work needs integration with play. The two are really opposite sides of the same coin. The people of Asheville should find it easy to simultaneously work and play.
Unpleasant Physical conditions Poor social environment Poor Intercommunication
Work Stress
Conflicting/ Uncertain Job Expectations
1,715hrs x 43years = 73,745 hrs/career
3,073 days/life
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7 hrs/day x 245 workdays 1,715 hrs/year
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“One does not have to be an especially perceptive critic to realize that AO II is definitely not a system which produces an environment gratifying for people in general. But it is admirable for planners looking for ways of cramming in a maximum number of bodies, for “employees” (as against individuals), for “personnel,” corporate zombies, the walking dead, the silent majority. A large market.” - George Nelson [Co-creator of the Action Office (the Cubicle)]
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Art/Cooking/Musical Play - allow children to explore, experience thier five senses, express feelings, expand vocabulary, and enjoy the freedom of creativity.
Using The Senses
Customizable Surfaces - Chalkable
Acoustic Structures
Play transcends Geography Gender
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Play is as important to our physical and mental health as getting enough sleep, eating well, and exercising. The United Nations has recognized play as a specific right in addition to, and distinct from a person’s right to recreation and leisure.
Type: Corner 0.11 acres 4,792 sq ft $510,000
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Type: Cut Through 0.37 acres 16,117 sq ft $2,375,000
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Type: Corner 0.37 acres 16,117 sq ft $717,000
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Rubber Polycarbonate Hard Surface Interactive Grass/Natural
Healthy Communities Initiatives “Grants up to $80,000 for council initiatives addressing key health issues” “Enhance the overall health and livability of your community” “Create partnership with community” “Reduce the incidence of chronic disease through policy, systems and environmental change”
Longitudinal Section Scale: 1’ = 1/32”
Short Section Scale: 1’ = 1/32”
“Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.” - Mark Twain “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” - Plato
Caroline Czajkowski Henry Wilkinson
Asheville’s premier food source.
In today’s food store, produce is available to us from all over the world. Fruits and vegetables can be enjoyed year-round and exotic specialties are only a click away. The question of what to eat is limited only by our budget and our appetite. From our research into contemporary food culture it has become abundantly clear that not only have we forgotten how to eat seasonally, using what is fresh and locally available, but that we have forgotten how to eat altogether. Our market provides a central location from which Asheville’s already existing community of locavores can establish a permanent presence in the heart of the urban fabric and grow to encompass a major portion of the city’s residence. It aims to become the embodiment of the “support local” movement and solidify into physical form the ethos of a community so deeply rooted in its sense of place.
The market’s location in the center of Asheville is one of its essential qualities. Situated directly on Patton Ave. between Pritchard Park and Pack Square, it is easily accessible to residents and visitors alike. Asheville’s existing farmer’s markets are only open during the most productive times of the year and then only on specific days of the week (with just one exception). Open throughout the year, the market offers farmers and other local producers an environment to sell their goods that responds to seasonal needs by expanding and contracting according to availability, while also providing individuals with the opportunity to actively engage in the farm to table cycle. The public is given a space to not only buy locally sourced produce, but also a place to learn about, cook or have prepared the freshest food available. The market is intended as a place of connection between farmers and consumers, and consumers and the food they eat: actively displaying where all the food comes from and how to prepare it. An addition to the heart of Asheville that teaches us how to eat (seasonally).
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Note the diagram is weighted on the lower left hand side. This is due to seasonalibility and will be modified by the market by providing an educational component during off season.
Markets Asheville City Market (April 16- Oct+/-) (Sat . 8am-1pm ) Asheville City Market South (May 4Oct+/-) (Wed. 2pm-6pm ) Big Ivy Tailgate (May 1- Oct+/-) (Sat . 9am-12pm ) Black Mountain Tailgate (May 14- Oct 29 ) (Sat . 9am-12pm ) Downtown Farmers Market (Y ear Round ) (Sat . 3pm-6pm ) French Broad Food Coop Tailgate (May 4- Oct+/-) (Wed. 10pm-6:30pm ) Greenlife Sunday Market (May 2- Oct+/-) (Sun. 9am-1pm ) Mission Hospital Tailgate (May 13- Oct+/-) (Thu. 10am-2pm ) North Asheville Tailgate (April 16- Oct+/-) (Sat . 8am-12pm ) Riceville Tailgate (May 20-Sept 20 ) (Sat . 4pm-7pm ) Veteran’s Victory Tailgate (May 19- Oct +/-) (Wed. 3pm-6pm ) Weaverville Tailgate (April 14- Oct +/-) (Wed. 2:30pm-6:30pm ) WNC Farmers Market (April 20- Oct +/-) (T ues 3:30pm-6:30pm ) West Asheville Tailgate (Y ear Round ) (Daily 8am-5pm )
Transport
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Supplier Farms Near Asheville
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Spinning Spider Creamery (30min.)
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Sunburst Trout Farm (50min.)
Cane Creek Valley Farm (25min.)
Hickory Nut Gap Farm (20min.)
MARKET Farm to Table Process & Evolution
Localized
Supplied by local farms no more than 2 hours travel distance from Asheville
Transport
Guaranteed fresher product by shorter delivery duration and option of frequent delivery.
Convenience
Year-round market in downtown area with easy access to public tranport.
The market will provide an altered program during winter months focused on educational components and culinary arts.
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Food donation and composting will be included in the market program, allowing some return to the farms while minimizing waste.
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A key function of the market provides the opportunity to take produce home or prepare your meal on site and dine at the market. For those short on time, you can grab a quick bite at the Epicenter restaurant, featuring local market foods.
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Imagine a Friday night out at the market. You can take your friends to the freshest epicenter of local foods and take a class on a healthy gourmet meal. Pick your produce and head to the kitchen. Prepare yourself or with the aid of a cuinary instructor. Then take the creation to the outdoor balcony overlooking Patton Ave. and watch the Drum Circle and Asheville street life.
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AVLink reconnecting the missing middle
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Ultimately, AVLink becomes a node within the city of Asheville, attracting teenagers to downtown. The facility will act as an economic catalyst, pushing teens into the city and getting them to spend their money on downtown businesses and services. With the number of facilities planned to increase with population growth, youth will become an important economic demographic in downtown.
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AVLink combines traditional recreation, lab, and creative facilities with large amounts of flexible user-defined space throughout three enclosed levels. In the center of AVLink, lies an open air public space that connects Wall Street to Patton Avenue. The open space acts as both an urban stair and social condenser for occupants and Asheville’s youth.
“There are mixed opinions on whether Downtown Asheville should be overtly child friendly, versus merely child-tolerant” - City of Asheville’s 2009 Master Planning Document
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As research has shown, youth between the ages of 12-17 are consistently ignored or overlooked in urban planning strategies. AVLink will provide teenagers with a social hub where they can disengage from the structure and over-policing of daily life; while providing underprivileged youth with a safe place to hang out.
Where is Asheville's Youth?
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AVLink seeks to empower and enable urban youth in Asheville, NC to become celebrated members within an integrated urban fabric.
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Although we may not have a big voice in the city of Asheville, we definitely have a great deal of power. Each year, Asheville teens generate millions of dollars in economic output. If the city wanted, they could capitalize on our spending power.
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AVLink is a 40,000 sq ft program spread throughout 3 urban infill sites. Each downtown location has a significant cross-sectional level change. To address the change in elevation, a series of steps and ramps are strategically implemented within a public space to provide physical connection and encourage moments of interaction and exchange. To me, it really does evoke the collective social spirit of Rome's Spanish Steps.
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All of my friends and I are either overscheduled, overpoliced, or simply left unnoticed. Yet, research has shown that downtime and unscheduled activity is not only healthy, but essential to our wellbeing and the social sustainability of a city. We believe that it is time to change this. We want a voice in the city of Asheville and we want a place downtown that we can call our own. A place where we can choose to create, build, relax, cook, perform, dance, or play. A place that is truly defined by us. A place for Asheville’s youth.
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After school, my favorite thing is to head to AVLink and project movies on the wall. My friends and I could ldo this forever!
The mezzanine levels are great. Here my friends and I put on photo shoots where we have lighting control and can blast our music as loud as we want.
The multiple levels of AVLink Wall Street provide a space for just about anything for anyone!!!
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Transparent surfaces provide interaction between interior & exterior, allowing interior spaces to be policed from the street
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Foam pit, foam pit, foam pit! Depressed services provide a space for snuggling up with some pillows or diving into some stuffing. Elevated floor areas are great for yoga and creative activities while the vast open planes between spaces are perfect for dancing and games.
I could lie here forever . . .
The other day I was leaving AVLink on my bike when someone stopped and asked me, “What’s the big deal with this place? Do you go here often?” This got me thinking, what is AVLink really about? And what does this place really do? At the end of the day ...
AVLINK IS ABOUT 4 PRINCIPLES 1) Creating a place for teens defined by teens 2) Encouraging youth & public interaction 3) Connecting a disconnected urban block 4) Generating downtown economic impact