public realm
BREAKING THE
EDGE
Critics: Zaneta Hong + Jane Hutton Fall 2014, Harvard MLA Core Studio I Site: Boston Seaport, MA The Boston Seaport, a rapidly developing area, has a daily tidal change of about three meters. How can we better design with nature? With tidal shifts like this there is no definitive line or edge between land and water. Let’s break down the ‘edge’ and bring these elements together.
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DAILY TIDAL CHANGE
Sept. 3rd 11:00 AM Low Tide: 10:24 AM Tide Level: 0.5 m
Sept. 3rd 01:30 PM Low Tide: 10:24 AM Tide Level: 1.5 m
Sept. 3rd 01:30 PM High Tide: 03:10 PM Tide Level: 1.5 m
September 1, 11:00 AM “After breakfast crowd” September 1, 11:00 AM “After breakfast crowd” (High Tide at 10:24 am) (High Tide at 10:24 am)
September 1, 1:30 AM “Lunch break crowd” September 1, 1:30 AM “Lunch break crowd” (High Tide at 10:24 am, Low Tide at 5:10 pm) (High Tide at 10:24 am, Low Tide at 5:10 pm)
September 1, 11:00 AM “After school crowd” September 1, 11:00 AM “After school crowd” (High Tide at 10:24 am, Low Tide at 5:10 pm) (High Tide at 10:24 am, Low Tide at 5:10 pm)
Tide Level: 0.5 m
Tide Level: 1.5 m
Tide Level: 3 m
Tide Level: 0.5 m
September 1, 11:00 AM “After breakfast crowd” (High Tide at 10:24 am) Tide Level: 0.5 m
Tide Level: 1.5 m
September 1, 1:30 AM “Lunch break crowd” (High Tide at 10:24 am, Low Tide at 5:10 pm) Tide Level: 1.5 m
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Tide Level: 3 m
September 1, 11:00 AM “After school crowd” (High Tide at 10:24 am, Low Tide at 5:10 pm) Tide Level: 3 m
WATER LEVEL DIAGRAM
WATER LEVEL DIAGRAM
WATER LEVEL DIAGRAM
public realm
PERFORMATIVE LANDSCAPE
Harvard MLA Core Studio III, Fall 2015 Critics: Chris Reed Team: Yijia Chen CHOREOGRAPHY OF HUMAN AND NATURAL SYSTEMS: The flow of water, people, and program is choreographed into one harmonious performance. By first understanding environmental conditions and patterns of the site, my colleague and I then created a desired activities timeline, which guided the design of the public spaces. Activity timelines guide the design of the social spaces. Many of these spaces revolve around the idea of performance. This landscape is performative in terms of program (ex: ampitheater, runway), human-based performance/flows, and the performance of water. 12
DESIGN THROUGH PROGRAMMING
JAN. ice skating
JUNE theater
NOV. farmers market
SPECIAL EVENT CALL-OUT
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HYDROLOGICAL PERFORMANCE
ECOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE
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HUMAN ACTIVITY
PROGRAM
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community design
THE JUST CITY
Course: Design for the Just City, Spring 2017 Professor: Toni Griffin Site: Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
Team: Kate Rae Mulvey, Emily Blair, Chris Havercamp A combination of indepth research and community input guided us to propose a design strategy to achieve social and spatial justice in Harvard Square. We had to figure out WHO we were desiging for and WHAT was VALUABLE to them in their community. Value-based engagment and design leads to accepting differences and allowing voices to be heard, creating a more just city.
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01. WHO? WIith the end goal of creating a design for a more just city we had to understnad who we were designing for. Who brings Harvard Square to life?
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TRANSIENT POPULATION:RENTER OCCUPIED HOUSING
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EXPENSIVE:HOUSING =10-29% OF INCOME (RECOMMENDED AVG) HEAVY DAILY POPULATION FLUCTUATION Despite the fact that Harvard Sq. is expensive and it’s residential population is transient, a wide range of people feel a part of this community and want to expereince the place. The flows of tourists, visitors, and local businesses create an energy here. 37
Phase I
Technology Square and SCAD
Green Roof Fitness Park Dog Park and water collection
STITCH STREET AND ATLANTA MUSIC MUSEUM Embracing the culture of the nearby Fox Theater this area is full of life and activity
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TORCH PARK
This large park celebrates the beloved Torch with reflection/collection pool. It brings neighbors together with a commuiny garden, space for recreation and a connection to the re-opened tunnel
PATCH BREWERY
Georgia Tech Institute
New food,drink, and cultural destinations are added to the area, highlighting the Varsity as a hub for foodies
New assets Existing assets
The Midtown Quilt highlights the key assests that already exist in the area and creates new assets and destinations to compliment these. A sense of place and identity is quickly esablished on the streets and in the open spaces of the Midtown Stitch with large sculptures, representative of activities and assets near by.
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Phase III
Phase II
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3rd Street Downtown Grid Overlay
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intersection for people who live and he Midtown Quilt as well as for those me to visit all of its assets Peachtree
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Fox Theater
North Avenue
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USE PLAN AND TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS Residential
Bus Lines
Mixed Use
Marta Line
Commercial
Bike Lanes
Institutional
Future North Avenue Light Rail
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Open Space
All Saints Episcopal Church
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FEATURES AND DEVELOPMENTS
The Varsity 0
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structured parking, brewery, retail
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residential tower, retail
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office, ground floor retail
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maker space offices, residential, retail
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ground floor retail, residential
Emory Hospital
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residential, office
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office, ground floor retail
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office, grade school, community center
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residential tower
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office, retail, fitness center
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parking structure
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senior living
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marta station, office, hotel
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museum 100
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Torch Park provides grand open space and buffers the freeway and also provides connection to the re-opened tunnel
ing typologies in the development area, and creates a complex, vibrant urban fabric. A wide vable and exciting, while upper stories provide extensive new commercial and residential eighborhood more suited for the human scale without sacrificing development potential. the site, and are leveraged to make the area attractive to residents of all types.
000 sqft tower
Type 7_ 18,000 sqft per floor L1: Retail + Office L2 - L24: Office
Type 10_ B2 - L1: Marta Station L2 - L20: Office L21 - L40: Hotel
Type 8_ 8,000 sqft per floor L1: Retail + Office L2 - L9: Office
Type 11_ Museum
hotel residential Type 9_ 18,000 sqft per floor L1- L5: Community Center + School L6-L10: Flex Office
residential asset retail maker space
PHASE 01 - establish place Establish Street Grid to Frame Development Anchor with Public Amenities
PHASE 02 - connect amenities Connect Development to Technology Square Provide Parking Capacty and Highway Buffer
PHASE 03 - connect ame Fill Out Neighborhood Development Complete Network of Public Space
Main street view corridor
Total Developed Area Current Site Value Development Cost
5.5 million s.f. $40 million $1 billion
Captital Stack Equity
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Returns Unlevered IRR Levered IRR
17% 33%
reactivate
BUILDING BOK
Scout, Urban Design and Building Development, South Philadelphia Summer Internship 2015 + 2016 Team: Lindsey Scannapieco, Design: Adela Park,Emma Rutherford, Richard Hall The repurposing of a vacant vocational school into a mixed-use, creative hub called for design and design-thinking at many scales. Design engagements I have been involved with at BOK include: conceptual design, community engagement, logo design, detailed floorplan studies, survey of existing spaces, and visulaizing and proposing new uses. Projects shown are from the early stages of the BOK project. Bok is now home to a thriving and growing community of innovators, businesses, entrepreneurs and creatives. 66
CENTRALITY: Bok is equidistant to three of Philadelphia’s fastest growing areas
UNIVERSITY CITY
CENTER CITY
BOK 2 miles NAVY YARD
SURVEY EXISTING SPACES + VISUALIZE FUTURE USES
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