GA
GIATTINA AYCOCK ARCHITECTURE STUDIO
FRAMEWORKS a 21st century tool to optimize cities: adequate, elastic, and accessible
(work in progress)
conservation
economic
environmental
social
GA
GIATTINA AYCOCK ARCHITECTURE STUDIO
About Us
Hellll is H i the h knowledge k l d off opportunity i llost: the h place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been. been anonymous
Is this enough?
AIA SDAT (sustainable ( t i bl d design i assessmentt tteam)) New Orleans, LA
(informs how we see Birmingham)
Gentilly Neighborhood, NO
Lake Pontchartrain
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B Mississippi River
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A New Orleans, LA
K t i | The Katrina Th 100 100y St Storm
Necessitating...
The Situation: S
Pre-Katrina
Post
Housing Retail Institutions
Sept, Sept 2005
Present
Time
Green Dot Plan
DPZ Plan
UNOP Plan
Why didn’t anything happen?
implementation
Th P The Problem? bl ? • • • •
No political clarity. No capital and no framework to get it. population p densityy to support pp plans. p No p Neighborhoods remain in ruin.
How to begin? Without dictator, capital or politics
Gentilly Strategy:
Wh t is What i a catalytic t l ti project? j t? 1. Coffee House 2. Grocery Store 3. Communityy Center 4. Green space
NORA LOTS
NORA LOTS: community sites converted to green spaces
NORA LOTS converted to framework: Physical and Organizational
I thi Is this enough? h?
pathology
sustainability
economic
environmental
social
economic systems
1
education
2
household growth
3
employment growth
4
1
water deficit by county
2
proj.population growth
3
air pollution
4
1
poverty
2
Education attain
3
unemployment
4
educ., household & employment growth overlay
education households employment wealth mobility opportunity
resource systems t economic
environ
water deficit, population proj., & air data overlay
air water land energy materials food
social
social systems
Poverty, education, & unemployment overlay
education households employment community Health transit
DEFINE
ASSESS
SOLVE
ACT
economic systems
1
education
2
household growth
3
employment growth
4
1
water deficit by county
2
proj.population growth
3
air pollution
4
1
poverty
2
Education attain
3
unemployment
4
educ., household & employment growth overlay
education households employment wealth mobility opportunity
resource systems t economic
environ
water deficit, population proj., & air data overlay
air water land energy materials food
social
social systems
Poverty, education, & unemployment overlay
education households employment community Health transit
DEFINE
ASSESS
City Optimization Index (COI)
SOLVE
ACT
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City Optimization Index (COI)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Defines benchmarks Assesses trajectory Suggests Prioritization Models hypothesis Compares systems
City Optimization Index (COI)
economic systems
1
education
2
household growth
3
employment growth
4
1
water deficit by county
2
proj.population growth
3
air pollution
4
1
poverty
2
Education attain
3
unemployment
4
educ., household & employment growth overlay
education households employment wealth mobility opportunity
resource systems t economic
environ
water deficit, population proj., & air data overlay
air water land energy materials food
social
social systems
Poverty, education, & unemployment overlay
education households employment community Health transit
DEFINE
MEASURE
COI
ASSESS
ACT
HAMMER
framework: •physical py g •psychological •virtual •viral •decentralized