ARC 307_Fall 2018_v.2 by Lawrence Davis

EX URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS: RE DESIGNING AN AGING SUBURB

Volume II: Design ARC_307-2018 SYRACUSE ARCHITECTURE

Assoc. Prof. Lawrence Davis

ARC_307 Fall 2018 School of Architecture Syracuse University Ex Urban Transformations: ReDesigning an Aging Suburb Volume II: Design Lawrence Davis Assoc. Professor

Students: Abad, Katrina S. Crean, Dylan De Gracia, Patrick Doherty, Erin Doshi, Dhvani Ketan Gomes, Akanksha Hu, Fei Kwak, Daniel Lei, Kun Marroun, Bader Mclaughlin, Luca F. Michell, Stephanie Neumann, Kyle A. Ocejo Vivanco, Julia Young, Eryn B.

Editor: Lawrence Davis Editorial Assistants: Mitesh Dixit Special Thanks: Micahel Speaks, Dean Julia Czerniak, Assoc. Dean Publisher: TBD Copyright Â©2019 Lawrence Davis & Syracuse Architecture Design: Lawrence Davis + DOMAIN Office Print: TBD Paper: TBD Type: Minion Pro ISSN 0000-000 ISBN 000-0-000000-00-0 soa.syr.edu

Contents Introduction

Lawrence Davis

Long House, Long Lot: To Complicate the Surface and Centralize Programs Chris (Kun) Lei

From the People, To the People: A Redesign Project of Block 15 in Mattydale, Syracuse Fei Hu

Suburbia Reconnected: To Connect and Grow Together Dhvani Doshi

SNAP: An Analysis and Application of the Effects of Breaking the Common Axis, as well as Reinventing How Suburbia Can be Interpreted and Displayed Dylan Crean

Plane Interesting Erin Young

sub_Urban: Applying Urban Language to a Suburban Scale Joshua de Garcia

Module Urbanism: House in Garden, Garden in Town Julia Ocejo

Interurban: A Nine Square Community Akansha Gomes

Mattydale l Elevated Board Game: Rebuilding Ways of Thinking Rounds 1 + 2 Stephanie Michell

Urban Islands: To Bridge the Space Between Our Homes Katrina Abad

Courts, Decks and Lawns Erin Doherty

New_Found_Land: The Re_Imagination of the Suburban Landscape Kyle Neumann

SURFACESTOOPSSTREETS: 2D+3D Figures and Grounds Luca McLaughlin

The Oasis Garden: The Quality of Quietness in the Space between Treehouses Bader Morroun

F o r w a r d

Since their beginning all cities and other built environments have gone through generational transformation. This is natural and ultimately healthy, but never easy. Like much of the United States and Canada, its exurban environment is at the beginning of such a change. Nearly indiscernible that it is filled with potential but also controversial in social, economic and environmental terms. In the fall of 2018 in the School of Architecture of Syracuse University a third year studio made attempts to speculate on the spatial and urban implications of subtle changes occurring in postwar exurbia. Mattydale, New York, a traditional inner ring aging working class suburb of Syracuse, was offered to students as laboratory to investigate the domestic and civic design possibilities to be found in the transformation of such a community. Built along the region’s principal north-south road and near, now closed, manufacturing plants, Mattydale is a similar less systematically produced version of Levittown, Long Island, Maryvale, Arizona or Parma, Ohio. In the fall of 2018, according to Zillow.com over 50% of the homes for sale are in foreclosure or pre-foreclosure. While stressful in many ways for current residents this soft financial environment is not unique in the long arc of a city’s history and provides opportunity to reconsider the town’s future. Mattydale, and other older postwar communities offer exiting utility infrastructure, proximity to urban centers, airports, mass transit and highway networks. Students initially worked in groups to investigate Mattydale’s history, territorial relationships, postwar housing typologies and current zoning and related spatial practices. These same student groups also examined a set of innovative exurban projects by MVRDV, xyz abc,. These became reference points and inspiration to think in original ways about the future of exurbia. Finally the groups developed five basic strategic themes that most used as starting points for their individual designs in the second half of the semester. In the group and later individual design phases students were challenged to rethink a typical 300 foot by 400 foot block of Mattydale. They were to consider a new mix of programs, physical, functional and social densities and the development of “public-ness” in a diffuse and typically private built environment. Over half of the students did not grow-up in an exurban environment. This lent fresh eyes to a world that is taken for granted by both champions and critics of “the ‘burbs.” This also may explain the formidable range of solutions that emerged from the set of young and diverse students. Perhaps the most common quality of the schemes was an investment in developing the center of their block into some

sort of shared space. Community centers, small retail, gathering and even religious programs were salted into the core of blocks to enhance collective purpose and identity. This congestion of function and newly inserted public life cuts across the conventional private and exclusively residential use of space in North American exurb. In many cases this flipped the front-back relationship of existing houses and encouraged the student designers to consider increasing density and complicating the programs of individual residential units, their lots and the functional and material treatment of the surfaces that interconnect them. Though no scheme attempted this, one imagines putting this public center on the edge of a block might engage it with multiple blocks in ways that would trigger rethinking of common functions, space and construction as they all thread their way through the entire neighborhood. Ultimately the student schemes suggest a way forward for designing a future for this common but pregnant existing built resource that is scattered across the periphery of the metropolitan areas of North America. More abstractly and pedagogically for the students and other who reflect on the definition of the city ad what is urban, (or not), the Mattydale Studio offers a chance to understand urbanity by developing it from what is not yet urban suggesting that strategically and in many modes, the future of the mono functional and programmatically segregated exurb is in the introduction of new shared functions, the reconsideration of space between buildings and the modification of nature as ingredient of public life. (discuss nature as an element that crossed culture and will continue to be a part of the identity of this type of less physical dense urban development.)

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To complicate the surface and centralize programs

In general, this site is currently only for residential use and occupied mostly by middle class workers of low income, senior citizens and some single families and other ordinary families. The goal here is to not only enhance the living conditions for current residents but also invite more groups of residents, such as extended families and multigenerational families, into the site. Therefore, we are going to establish a diverse set of residential options and public programs to create a heterotopian community. we intended to change the current lot structure where every single site building is separated from

one and another. We opened the central block to provide not only the access cross the site but also a clear division of the zone, and we introduced the long house strategies to reinforce the central axis, by which the long houses extended all over the central block from above the ground floor. Up to the final stage of the design, I hope to invent more space to accomodate more senior citizens, veterans who retired from military and extended families. Therefore, I reprogrammed the party houses by centralizing multiple programs needed for the residents like residential rooms, cafe, library

and gym to a long house that extends cross the central block, since other lots with traditional families will maintain certain privacy. By introducing the long house, more units of senior apartments are incorporated in the long space. The long house extends across the central block to the multigenerational houses, so the multigenerational families are able to share the library, cafe and the gym in the long house. Furthermore, the long house is elevated and creates the pathway underneath, so people will be easily led into the site.

-Chris (Kun) Lei

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F r o m T h e P e o p l e , To t h e P e o e p l e A Redesign Project of Block 15 in Mattydale, Syracuse

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After achieving the goal of rearrangement the existing blocks and many more programs are being brought into this site, it is time now to explore deeper into the site with the same idea of heterotopia. People now have the chance to choose where they want to live, but I think we had took more lands and spaces from themresidents than the useful programs and space we gave back to them. Therefore, this stage of design is more about “give back space to the people.” By achieving it, more public

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PRECEDENT: SMALL TO LARGE

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spaces are being designed in the chosen lots. The space where a party house once existed is now a building complex that includes a library and reading rooms for different generations of people. There is also a meditation room in that complex for people who wish to find themselves in zen. In order to increase the efficiency of the space and have a stronger connection with the larger community, the longhouse which was initially a studio apartment is now a small hotel with every needed facilities to provide maximum comfort

for the flight crews and the tourists from the airport. While we are adding in more housing units to solve the housing crisis, the living condition of the residents should not be ignored. In the best condition, the people do not just have the rights to choose where they want to live, but also how they want to live on this site. -Fei Hu

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SUBURBIA RECONNECTED To connect and grow together

The project aims to create a new reconnection between suburban housing using a trellis which acts as a connecting architectural device. It is an urban interface defining a spatial organization by creating a new house-tostreet relationship to densify the neighborhood. The articulation of private spaces along with collective public spaces towards the periphery

encourage better appropriation of the premises. The introduction of 3 new flexible housing typologies cater to and adapt different needs of singularity and simplicity both indoors and outdoors. Happiness of the exisiting residents as well as satisfaction of the new members fosters a healthy realtionship among the community.

The provision of public/ communal programs encourages the communitiy to step out of their private spaces and interact with the population that surrounds them. This promotes a way of living in a new kind of city with new spatial and social organizations all while respecting the desires of all those who choose to live here. - Dhvani Doshi

FIGUREGROUND_before Scale: 1” = 32’

FIGUREGROUND_after Scale: 1” = 32’

ROOF PLAN Scale: 1” = 32’

Identifying Existing Grid

Speculative Grid

Proposed Schematic Grid

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FRONTAL AXONOMETRIC Scale: 1” = 32’

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An analysis and application of the effects of breaking the common axis, as well as reinventing how suburbia can be interpreted and displayed

The studio worked to understand the suburban context, as a starting place to understand how to transform the suburban block. The original case study of ideas were based in San Ysidro with Teddy Cruz and his recent work. The projects he has undertaken there see the integration of cultural styles of residencies. The template being the common American suburbia, and the integration being the more intimate and tighter style of living modeled by The Mexican Immigrants that have crossed the border from Tijuana. The major revelation, was a rather simple

one. Essentially, Teddy Cruz advocated for more public space, with a resultant smaller amount of private space. Therefore breaking down the closed and individualized aspects of suburbia, and making the suburban context more communal and welcoming, or making it more urban. The goal of the project displayed here, was to abide by that simple principle and to allow for an urban setting to migrate into a suburban context, with more space for people to interact with aside from residents interacting with single lots of land. This manifested as a piazza space,

with four entry paths, located at the center of the block. This space is capped on two corners with cylindrical towers, and on the other two corners with the end of a bent bar apartment structure. The existing houses are not forgotten as they are turned into duplex style housing. The suburban block is reinvented in this way to promote interaction from all parties, not just residents, and to create a destination to be cherished for years to come, as suburbia is faced with a number of redevelopment options in the near, and far, future. - Dylan Crean

This perspective shows the most successful part of the project. The ability of the tower to be an icon for a surrounding area to admire and revere, the ability of the bent bar to separate spaces that are more public and more private simply with its form, and the intimate feeling of being in that separated private space. All of these factors working together to create a rich and interesting space that hopes to cultivate and captivate the people who interact with it.

A second perspective shows the exposure That the central piazza creates, as well as its feeling of relief. Where as the first perspective puts on display the intimacy of the more private spaces, this shows the grandeur of the central space, this shows the payoff.

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The diagrams above show the3 process that 4 was taken to get to the final plan. Starting from the selection of the block, deciding which areas should be public and private, creating access paths, shaping the central piazza, determining new constructions as well as path thicknesses, and then determining the “SNAP” as being a new axis formed from drawing a line from one corner to the other.

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The diagrams below analyze three things. The far left 2 discusses the before and after figure ground of the block, the middle diagram focuses on a public and private divide where public buildings are outlines 3 in black and private are filled with black, and the diagrams on the far right discuss a before and after of movement styles where the car is present inS’the before and therefore little movement happens inside the block, to the after image where movement is mostly present inside the block as a result of the removal of the car

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This installation is one of two new costructions that house residents permenantly. The bent bar form concelas 12 apartments and is wrapped in a wood panel skin. This skin serves to shade the windows with a rotation of 90 degrees when passing over “private” windows, and omit when passing over “Public” Windows. Within the structure there is also an open terrace that is entirely public. The terrace overlooks the piazza in the middle of the block and provides for a peaceful location to sit and read! The apartment building also connects directly to the elevated walkway that runs to the tower and therefore the program within. Therefore one bent bar could be more desireable for one person than the other simply based on being closer to the program located in the tower nearest to them.

Apartment Type I: Tiered and shifted Duplex V1 The floor plan of this housing option shows that in dimension it is very similar to a regular houses floor area, and thats because it is. This version is a conversion of the original home that stood there before, and since it has a long axis from the north to the south, the more private functions were placed on the side facing the center of the block, while the living room and dining room (display program) are allowed to project the homely aesthetic that the new development provides for the residents to the passerby’s on the street.

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Apartment Type II: Tiered and shifted Duplex V2 Similarly to the first plan shown for the conversion style, private programs are placed closer to the side facing the center of the block, while the display programs, like the living room and dining room, are placed on the side facing the street. However, the axis has changed and therefore the primary direction that these programs face and how they agglomerate has changed as well.

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Roof Terrace : Floor 6 : Tower 1 + 2 The terrace serves as the culmination of the vertical circulation, the vista to overlook the development soon to come to the suburban context

Hotel Units : Floors 3-5 : Tower 1 + 2 Being the majority of the floors in both towers, the hotel serves as the primary function. Appealing to the projected travel increase in the near future Mattydale will require forward thinking accommodations to become attractive not only to individuals but to developers and economic opportunities

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Free Work : Floor 2 : Tower 1 Located in the southern tower, a free work space is made available for residents, hotel visitors, or any other individuals who find the space appealing. The space offers two group work rooms, desk space, as well as a reservable office space for conferences or meetings.

Bar/Club : Floor 2 : Tower 2 Located on the second floor of the northern tower is a continuation of the bustling party found on the first floor. The second floor can be considered the quiet space, and a place to relax. Floor 2

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Restaurant : Floor 1 : Tower 1 The first floor of the southern tower serves as main destination program for the entire block. Regardless of distance, people always find the need to invest in finding some good food at whatever time of day! Attracting people who stay there, as well as people from the surrounding area all the same!

Bar/Club : Floor 1 : Tower 2 The first floor of the northern tower boasts a new, progressive, and of course exciting, club/bar that will be the other half of the destination program for the site. And similar to the restaurant, people will come from far and wide if the times are good enough!

Apartment Type I: Tiered and shifted Duplex V1 The result of converting houses with a wide orientation in reference to the street into a dual familiy residence, where the family on top is granted witha a small balcony space that runs the length of the unit to retain a connection, however slight, to the outdoors. Something that is of high value to suburban residents.

Apartment Type II: Tiered and shifted Duplex V2

Apartment Type III: Stacked Apartments

The result of converting houses with a thin orientation in reference to the street into a dual familiy residence, where the family on top is granted witha a small balcony space that runs the width of the unit in effor to connect to the outdoors

The one and only new construction that allows for permenent residents. located in the bent bar form the apartments shown below connect to two important areas, the main north-south axial path that carves the block and leads to the public center, as well as a concealed space that is more nantural, and less urban. Tiptoing the line between built and natural.

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The typical suburban block separates and houses single families into well-defined lots. This discourages social interaction throughout the block and leads to underused spaces defined by fences or other dividing lines. By introducing more public programs, as well as more than one housing typology, one can redefine the living space within a block to encourage interaction among community members, house more people, and encourage more people from the surrounding community to utilize the blockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public spaces through the central axis of the block. This encourages community involvement and makes an overall more engaged community. Through the utilization of differing materials and shaped planar surfaces, different programs are created based upon their ability to envelope space

I n t e r e s t i n g

and establish boundaries through the contrast of material choices. Continuous surface curves are introduced to create material and spacial connections across the site and to establish places of private living. Based upon the elevation of those private living spaces, two housing typologies are created, an open floor plan based upon the needs of a single family and smaller apartments based upon the needs of an individual or couple. These two typologies work together in a larger unit, which creates connections among the people. Within that unit, a more versatile space is created, that is utilized by either one of the housing types as it is easily accessible from their shared entrance spaces. This can also be accessed from people outside of the block as two public access drives are introduced, which lead to all the private programs along the side of the block.

The public access drives then establish the boundary line of the public spaces found inside of the block. The plane that envelopes the private living spaces cross the public programs to create covered spaces as well as establish a continuous connection across the block. From the daccess drives, the same material crosses and stretches into the public as well as the private programs to establish paths between the spaces and encourage unity while still separating the two principal types of program. The amount of private living space and public social spaces are increased while maintaining connections across the block by controlling the change of material choices and the continuous stretching and curving of planes. -Erin Young

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Applying Urban Language to a Suburban Scale

Suburbia is arguably a more dispersed variant of its urban counterpart but despite this, has unique characteristics that grants its appeal apart from other modes of living. What I believe that distinguishes the suburban landscape the most is how it provides an environment for spontaneous interactions to occur which in return, enables for intimate socialization between its people. In order to foster this valuable element of suburbia, I propose to reverse the existing relationship between

the front and backyard. By repurposing the center of blocks to accommodate for both public space and shared program, the current state of living can be revitalized. In correlation with the integration of this public node, the privacy and property of current residences must be maintained as its integral to preserve the suburban fabric. To perform this function, the ground planes of existing properties will be fluctuated, and walls will be selectively extruded between houses. In

addition, hedges will occupy the perimeter of lots to physically separate public and private space but for a visual connection between the two to ensue. Lastly to facilitate the expenses for maintaining this node, portions of existing lots will be reprogrammed to apartment, commercial or rental space. These programs will allow for the block to be more densely populated and to commission the integration of the sub _ Urban.

- Joshua de Garcia

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House in Garden, Garden in Town

The reconsideration of the house, the place where people live and enhabit, proposes new spaces of social relations in two scales: family and community. The previous design of a suburban home with a large backyard and a fence, has become outdated and lacks important ideas of urbanization. To change the housing typology and provide more opportunities for different program spaces, the original program is divided into separate units that come together in a pinwheel plan. The connection of these units develop a new space of interaction between family members and even

neighbors. In order to keep one important aspect of suburbia which is privacy, the house units will still provide fences that isolates the property lines from each family if desired but also create new spaces between houses that can be shared programs between neighbors. To implement a shared space within the community, the design is integrating the idea of urbanism into the original block. By changing the block structure and dividing it into two smaller blocks divided by a main road that intersects the two. Also the block has shared program buildings in the middle of the block where

neighbors can interact and develop new multi use spaces. The places people used to go in cars, such as office spaces, markets, restaurants and parks are now outside their homes. The design also reverse the current relationship of backyards and front yards, for social interactions that before happened on the perimeter of the block, that can now be the focus on the center of the block. These gathering spaces are now located in the middle of the block and bleed into the perimeter of the street in order to engage users into the shared program in the center of the block. -Julia Ocejo

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A NINE SQUARE COMMUNITY

Historically, the typical idea of a suburban house or living is of a mid-sized family that lives in a gated home with a large backyard and front yard. By nature, they are separated and isolated from the broader urban environment. The world is changing so are the spaces we live in. However, these patterns of a suburban living are gradually becoming more urban but still lack significant philosophies and ideas. The aim to redesign this block of Mattydale is to make a community within this block itself. Historically, the suburban area has its functions and programs divided making its community segregated to its functions. My objective and focus were on creating an interconnected and unified

community of homes combined with otherfunctions which makes it a well-integrated, close knit community. This is accomplished by developing new types of housing in a way that accommodate housing flexibility, variability and develop higher density. The collection of housing typologies with other public functions entails the user in various opportunities that help connect families that live in the block as well as people from the outside. Each plot has a different type of house creating a diverse and varied community. Public spaces play significant role and create a connecting framework for the combination of individual amenities. Thus, to integrate other func-

tions in a shared space and to cultivate the idea of the urban the central axis of the block acts like a comprehensive public multi-functional/purpose space. Divided into 2, 9 square grid plans each having its own function, is the space in which neighbors can interact with each other. The mix of these functions is a tool for managing flows and relationships between spaces. Privacy is still important. Therefore, houses still use fences and gardens to define personal and public space. This change of form is driven by a change of family type and reconsideration of how the typical exterior spaces are used.

-Akansha Gomes

M AT T Y D A L E

E L E VAT E D

BOARD GAME: REBUILDING WAYS OF THINKING ROUND 1

. When experiencing a city, the structures that truly stay with you are from locations that know how to no only properly connect man to program but also man to community. With these interactions in mind, it is important to consider what these programs may ignite and instill. Through the years, we have seen how man has yearned for lifestyles in dense, populous areas. To be embraced by different cultures and personalities with convenience nearby, this is what the future will interest. Rather than to be astray and strange to your neighbors, cities will help bring you closer to those around you.

As Teddy Cruz once stated, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In expanding our modes of practice, we can rebuild ways of thinking.â&#x20AC;? He believed in the efficiency of time and material. He saw himself as a visionary that noticed a problem but smiled as he saw potential. Through his reuse of the private home and elevating it, Teddy Cruz sought to bring communities from near and far under these dwellings in order to gather and interact. Mattydale | Elevated aims to bring others together while sustainably reusing material in a similar fashion. It enhances the neighborhood by not only maintaining the privacy our society demands, but

also by giving the people the publicness they desire. By reorganizing the existing houses and elevating them, we bring in space that is house-able to retailers that are interested in selling their products. What Mattydale | Elevated does is present its audience with traditional suburban living with the world right under your nose.

-Stephanie Michell

M AT T Y D A L E

E L E VAT E D

BOARD GAME: REBUILDING WAYS OF THINKING ROUND 2

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To bridge the space between our homes

The typical American suburb is defined by its sprawl. With plenty of space, people spread out, houses speckled on grass like islands on a green sea. With their defunct picture windows and grand front doors, people look out onto the street and their neighbors but are unable to overcome the width of their own front yards. This project seeks to make use

of the buffer zone between homes and the street and homes and other homes first by creating density via the occupation of what was once the front and back yards. With this increased density, the orientation of homes was rotated away from the street and inwards, encouraging movement towards a new datum at the center of the site. Leaving their cars at the edges of the

site, residents and visitors alike travel on foot towards the center of the site which now is occupied by public and commercial programs. In this site, the boundaries created by picket fences and grass expanses are hopped over in pursuit of true community and the shared experiences that can happen in the spaces in between.

-Katrina Abad

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-Erin Doherty

N EW _ FO U N D _ LA N D THE RE-IMAGINATION OF THE SUBURBAN LANDSCAPE

To develop an architecture that confronts the ever changing nature of our current ecological and social climate. There is a need for a new definition on the meaning for urbanity. Particularly what it means to be urban in what we historically have known to be suburbia. Being achieved through the reshaping of the physical as well as social aspects of the suburban landscape, to better connect families and neighbors in a more diverse community model for the suburbs. Urbanity within the suburban context, is achieved through thoughtful integration of multiple family types

within one pre existing lot, increasing diverse human interaction as well as vertical physical density. What would typically be seen as private space in the traditional suburban context will take on a new purpose as public space, corridors intersecting pre existing lots, will tie together public and private spaces, all while framing new paths of human integration and diverse uses. Community life can flourish in these new connections, made of cafes, farmers markets, post office, etc. Equipping future of landscape need for

families for the the suburban will entail the energy efficient

and cost effective design solution, ones which integrate passive heating and cooling, recycling of the previous structures and locally sourced labor and materials. Smarter more efficient communities, will educate families on the importance of clean energy practices and self sufficiency. This newfound landscape will flow community, self sufficiency, and diversity of life together with concepts of density and multipurpose usage to develop a new ideology of what it means to live in the suburb.

-Kyle Neumann

PUBLIC RESTAURANT

COUPLE

FAMILY OF FOUR

DOUBLE STUDIO

S U R FA C E S T O O P S S T R E E T S 2D+3D Figures and Grounds

30-60 AXON

To implement a shared space for a community into Mattydale, I am incorporating the idea of surfaces, stoops and streets into our assigned block. By reversing the current relationship of backyards and front yards, social interactions that once occurred on the perimeter of the street is now redirected through the center of the block. In addition, shared programs as such as a gym, cafĂŠ and multi-functional space will be added to promote

the use of this new condition. This concept combines the piazza in Italian culture and stoop which populates the main streets of American neighborhoods, both act to function as communal hubs that accommodate for spontaneous social interactions. These gathering spaces are located in the heart of their towns and allow for intimate socialization between members of the community. In correlation with implementing a shared

public infrastructure of the sub-Urban, land is manipulated, as like in Italy, to maintain and regulate privacy between shared space and private residences. The lots that each house resides on fluctuates above the ground to differentiate private property from areas with public access. In contrast, the shared program that occupies the central axis is folded above the ground to utilize both spaces on top and underneath.

-Luca McLaughlin

PUBLIC vs PRIVATE

SYSTEM MATERIAL

PRIVATE STREETS,

PUBLIC

SURFACES

STOOPS

STREETS

REUSED WOOD

CONCRETE

REUSED WOOD

COMMERCIAL SHOPS

INFASTRUCTURE

MIXED USE

SURFACES

GLASS

RESIDENTIAL

STREETS

CONCRETE

GRASS

PROGRAM

SURFACES, STOOPS

WALK PATH

COMMUNITY CENTER COMMERCIAL SHOPS

PARKING

RESTARUANT

LIGHT INFASTRUTURE

HEAVY INFASTRUTURE

MAIN STREET ELEVATION

Residential

Commercial

SURFACES

0-60 AXON

DIAGRAMS

COLLAGE GARDEN CITY

MATTYDALE

STREET

STOOPS

SURFACES

PIAZZA

COMMERCIAL

CONNECTIONS

YARDS

HOUSES

PUBLIC

SEMI-PUBLIC

SEMI-PRIVATE

PRIVATE

MATERIAL: CONCRETE GRASS

MATERIAL: REUSED WOOD GLASS

MATERIAL: CONCRETE

MATERIAL: WOOD GRASS

MATERIAL: REUSED WOOD GLASS

PRECEDENT: ITALIAN PIAZZA

PRECEDENT: MAIN STREET

PRECEDENT: SMALL TO LARGE

PRECEDENT: ITALIAN STACKED LAWNS

PRECEDENT:

PUBLIC

SEMI-PUBLIC

PRIVATE

PROCESS

SURFACES

STOOPS

SIDEWALKS

PROCESS SURFACES

LIFT THREE

TWO ONE

TWO

THREE

FIVE

SIX

RESIDETIAL

COMMERCIAL

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

COMMERCIAL

STOOPS

SIDEWALKS

STOOPS

SURFACES

STOOPS

SURFACES

SECTION (1/4”=1’)

BUILDING A

NE AXON

SECTION (1/4”=1’)

2ND FLOOR PLAN (1/4”=1’)

SE AXON

1ST FLOOR PLAN (1/4”=1’)

3RD FLOOR PLAN (1/4”=1’)

BUILDING B

NE AXON

SE AXON

SECTION (1/4”=1’)

SITE PLAN (1/4”=1’)

Th e

O a s is

G a rd e n

The Quality of Quietness in the Space between the Treehouses

The goal is to change the arrangement of the existing blocks that create an isolated environment and bring the idea where the public space start to bring the individuals of the community together â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a park like an oasis garden into the site. The main idea of bringing the oasis garden into my suburban design would enhance the quietness quality to the environment in the block and bring joy to the people who live there. I intend to establish more public and social space on the site, but I still need to think about the spatial quality of the space

where people are going to live and interact. Therefore, I am creating a different type of residence. I used a tress apartment building to shape the spaces around the block in the 2D and 3D of the block, which I used later in the design to separate between the public and private areas. I am introducing a denser community and a variety of programs. To be more specific, I am bringing some functional programme for the residents on the site and providing more public spaces for socialization. I am

adding the cafe and the retail shop for more appropriate lives of the residents. In order to bring more joy to the children, I am bringing in a skateboarding shop with a public skateboarding field. The privacy of the traditional residents has been looked at and kept in the design. For the new residents, apartments have been designed to serve their needs, and apartment studios with a high view for the individuals of the community.- Bader Marroun

RESIDENCE CIRCULATION PUBLIC CIRCULATION

PAVEMENT GRASS SURFACE WOOD WATER PLATFORM

VEHICLES PARKING PEDESTRIAN AREAS PRIVET YARD FOOT PRINT

PUBLIC SPATIAL PRIVATE SPATIAL

TYPOLOGY DIAGRAM

PROGRAM DIAGRAM

PUBLIC PLAZA TYPICAL HOUSE

CAFE TYPICAL APARTMENT

RETIAL

TYPICAL STUDIO

SKATE BOARD STORE

GROUND APARTMENT

SKATE BOARD FIELD

TWIN HOUSES

PUBLIC / PRIVATE DIAGRAM

PUBLIC SPATIAL PRIVATE SPATIAL

ACCESS DIAGRAM

VERTICAL CIRCULATION WITH BRIDGES

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

STUDIO UNIT PLAN

TYPICAL APARTMENT PLAN

Special Thanks:

Final Review Guest Critics Andrew Klamon Lina Malfone Tim Stenson Abingo Wu Theadore Brown Britt Eversole

Arc_307 Coordinators Lori A. Brown Daekwon Park

ARC_307 Fall 2018 Ex Urban Transformations: ReDesigning an Aging Suburb Volume II: Design Lawrence Davis Assoc. Professor School of Architecture Syracuse University