COMPOSITE OVERLAY

The map above displays a total weighted overlay of all sets of data that our studio felt would give us the best results to develop parks. The maps used in the overlay includes: Shelby County parks, Shelby County land-cover, Shelby County parcels, Shelby County canopy, floodplains, Census data / population pressure - based on population growth. Those maps were used to show available areas based on their proximity to key elements: schools, vacant lands, community centers, and other recreational play. All of the maps were classified and assigned specific values that told the final map if the area was desirable or not. The values ranged from 1-9; If the value was identified as a 1 - it was considered not desirable, but if it scored a 9 - it was classified as most desirable. The main areas highlighted were those who scored +8. The targeted areas, if a new park is to be built there, will now serve and become accessible to a large population.

Legend

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This target was chosen because it is on vacant land and has an open canopy. This area is projected to grow at a rate of 1.3 to 2.5 percent. Accessibility to the site would be easy. Singleton Parkway and Egypt Central Road are the two main street to the site. There is potential to make a primary connection from the adjacent neighborhood directly to the target area. The majority of the surrounding area is single family detached and is located at the edge of the agricultural district. The site is also on the edge of the flood plain that is the Loosahatchie River. This target area will better serve the surrounding community, with a park or green space, that is otherwise under serve.

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This target area was chosen because it is vacant land has a semi open canopy. This area is projected to grow at a rate of 1.3 to 2.5 percent. Accessibility to the site is very easy. The property is accessible from Bartlett Road and potentially Pleasant View Road. Surrounding our site is mostly single family detached housing with some multifamily attached housing. Although there is a school with park like amenities to the east of the target area, it is not open to the public. This target area will better serve the surrounding community, with a park or green space, that is otherwise under serve.

35.192688, -89.817793 projected to grow at a rate of 1.3 to 2.5 percent. The closest park is 2.2 miles away making this a prime spot to better serve the community with a functional green space.

This target area was selected because of its location in the dense residential setting along with its open canopy. Accessibility to the site from Reese Road and Appling Road is very easy. Geologically, being on a corner lot makes it a great location for exposer to the community. The area has been constantly growing a rate of 1.3 to 2.5 percent. Although there is a recreational park three quarters of a mile away, the location chosen has potential to become a passive park.

GIS analysis of Memphis metro area. This analysis was used to highlight prime plots of land to develop into a park for multiple uses and activities. This project was completed in teams of three students.

TARGET #3

Spokane, Washington, USA has a long history of industrial manufacturing. One of those manufacturing industries is the paper industry. The paper machine is the most essential machine in the paper mill. This is where paper is created. The pulp solution is sprayed onto a wiring system that is run through a series of felt covered rollers, some wet some dry, until the pulp is flattened into its typical paper form, we see in our copy machines. chose this machine to study because paper mills are such an essential industry in the northwest. I decided to explore what the location of a temporary artist residential building and art studio could be for the northwest region of the United States and not just Washington and Spokane alone. Spokane is the closest major urban area to a significant number of Washingtonians and Idahoans, so why not look at this structure as a beacon for artists, citizens, and tourists. Why not allow this structure to become a driving force in not just Spokane’s economy, but the northwest region’s economy? Designers must inspire people to reach their full creative socioeconomic potential.

I have heard Spokane referred to as “grungy” or “ghetto”. Subsequently, decided to embrace these words and the feeling received while traveling and spending time in Spokane. My color palette is full of cool tones, I saw Spokane on a sunny day only once. The cloudy and overcast atmosphere of Spokane along with its Gothic-Style architecture and retro building style lends a mystical aura tried to capture in my drawings. noticed quite a few graffiti murals and tags around Spokane also, which made me fall in love somewhat with this retro city. Graphically, combined my drawings in much the same way graffiti artists battle for wall space. The boldest and largest elements protrude outward allowing them to be more visible when viewing, but these protrusions were not my points of interest. I decided to go back into my final collage and find small dark spaces with character. I decided to link spots together creating a series of linework that could be understood as building circulation. created planes to inform me of the feelings one could have approaching because of scale rather than just form alone. This project “PAPERMAKER” is about the structure becoming a living machine existing even without human interaction like an ominous mythical creator from the year 4020, but somehow attracts humans into its world of fantasy with ease. This structure is a study on machine labor versus human intervention.

An Artist in Residence project located in Spokane, Washington, near Riverfront Park. The concept of this project was required by our instructor to be developed from our own research and knowledge about a machine, any machine that may have been instrumental in establishing Spokane. I chose a papermaker as my machine. Paper mills are abundant in Spokane.

Page representing facade materiality before graffiti or murals are applied. This elevation also shows the path that sunlight follows.

Page 78: This exterior elevation suggest what A.I.R may look like after artist have moved in and made their presence known.

A.I.R. is an acronym for Artists in Residence. The conceptual stage of this project was inspired by the rhythm, scale, processes, motion, speed, and more of the papermaker. This information was converted into abstract images and patterns, which informed my design ideas and helped me understand the essence of this machine. I decided that papermakers are machines operating in tension and constant motion. This is why A.I.R. is an art gallery and residence that never touches the ground, always suspended from an umbrella roof formed by tensive cables. Embodying and combining street art and graffiti culture with art museum culture. Art is for everyone. A.I.R. allows artists to express themselves inside as well as outside.

Amphibious architecture is a method and philosophy of building structures that embrace flood events, floating when significant rain has fallen. Once flooding has passed, the structures return to their foundation. The E.D.N.A. (Educate Development Nourish Alleviate) project provides written and graphic guidelines for building flood-fortified structures in Mississippi. To raise awareness and educate impoverished rural homeowners and their communities about environmental injustices, climate change, and alternative building techniques. Intended to lessen or eliminate flood damages and casualties, E.D.N.A. embodies the architectural history, resilience, and spirit of the impoverished populations of Mississippi.

The primary goal of E.D.N.A. is to educate impoverished rural homeowners throughout Mississippi about current building techniques within Mississippi, past building techniques within Mississippi, global building techniques, climate change, flood statistics, and amphibious building techniques. As stated by George Washington Carver, “Education is the key to unlock the golden door to freedom.”

The second goal of E.D.N.A. is to help accelerate the development of rural communities before and after flood events in Mississippi. Many rural towns of Mississippi need more population density to support their town’s economy. E.D.N.A. provides a unique building footprint that facilitates population density or the illusion of it while providing safer, more resilient housing for rural homeowners. E.D.N.A. homes are irregular pentagonal forms to amplify views outward into the landscape for homeowner security purposes. In addition, the irregular pentagonal form reduces drag on the home once the site is inundated by water compared to the traditional four-sided rectilinear home form. A modular design approach, E.D.N.A. studio homes accommodate a kitchen, living room, bathroom, bedroom, and utility spaces in an irregular pentagon with a maximum area of 315 square feet. This amount of square footage was carefully configured to minimize material waste and construction expenses while maximizing the buoyancy of the home. Additional pentagons can be constructed as families grow and require more square footage. E.D.N.A. homes with two or more modules will be connected by external wood decks framing an outdoor room, allowing for open-air circulation between spaces. As the footprint of E.D.N.A. grows, the modules fragment into specialized spaces for specific uses creating larger social and private spaces. E.D.N.A. homes can be and are encouraged to be arranged whichever way the homeowner envisions as long as it aligns with the well-being of the fauna and flora on-site. In addition, pentagonal forms will never resolve completely into a solid shape. This means that regardless of how E.D.N.A modules are configured, they will have voids or space between them.