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Laura Butera Portfolio Master of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

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ABOUT I recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture. I like to think creatively about how a space can be used and about how design can impact communities on a larger scale.

I have a passion for a people-centered approach to design and am deeply interested in how the built environment shapes people’s lives, well being, and social interactions. I believe in work that is interdisciplinary and context-sensitive. My goal is to continue to work on projects that strengthen the quality of urban life through creative placemaking, cultural programming, and communityoriented design.

Professionally and academically I have been involved with a variety of design scales and services. I am an energetic worker, team player, and enthusiastic learner and I welcome the chance to further discuss these topics and opportunities to create places that people will love and that will shape our community.

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(610) 731-1014 420 Howard Road Gladwyne, PA, 19035 LFButera@gmail.com

Education

Laura Butera Harvard University Graduate School of Design Master of Landscape Architecture Career Discovery Program, Urban Design

2014-2017 Summer 2012

Toyo Ito’s Tokyo Ito-Juku - Tokyo, Japan

Developed a socially-conscious project for Omishima Island under the guidance of Toyo Ito and Jun Yanagisawa. Project: School-For-All

Fall 2016

Hobart and William Smith Colleges - Geneva, NY

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Work Experience

Bachelor of Arts - magna cum laude Major: Architectural Studies Minor: Studio Art Architectural Semester Abroad Program - Rome, Italy

2010

Scout Urban Design and Development

Summer 2015, 2016 Design Intern on ten-person team tasked to repurpose a vacant 340,000 square foot urban school into a mixed-use creative arts business center Designed public spaces to engage new building occupants and surrounding community Coordinated outreach programs for community input in design process Designed building logo and promotional materials for leasing

Laura Butera Design

2012-present Provide design services for commercial, residential and institutional building owners Clients include Haverford College, real estate appraisers, developers and individuals Services include building surveys, CAD plans, renderings, sketches, historical research, documentation for historic certifications, representation at township planning reviews

AmeriCorps Summer of Service

2011

Geneva Neighborhood Resource Center

2011

Point B Design/Build

2010

Assisted in urban restoration and design of community gardens

Designed street signage and wayfinding graphics for the city of Geneva, NY

Additional Experience

Assisted architects in design and construction of private art museum

Teaching Assistant - Alex Krieger GSD Studio ULI Hines Student Competition

Created a comprehensive urban design and development plan with a small team

Awards

January 2016

Jane Goodall Institute - Roots & Shoots Program

2010-2012

Habitat For Humanity - Gulf Coast Mississippi and Louisiana

2007, 2008

Taught environmental concepts to elementary school children

Assisted in reconstruction of areas affected by Hurricane Katrina

Skills

Spring 2017

Studio:The Park System as a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration : Baltimore/Boston

The Senior Architecture Prize - HWS Colleges

2012

The President’s Civic Leadership Award - HWS Colleges

2012

Team Leadership Award - HWS Campus Activities Board

2009

For leadership, service, and academic achievement in Architecture

For outstanding contributions to public and community service

Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD, Rhinocerous 3D, Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp 3D Design Skilled in studio art mediums: drawing, painting, printmaking

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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.

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DESIGN THROUGH PROGRAMMING

JAN. ice skating

JUNE theater

NOV. farmers market

SPECIAL EVENT CALL-OUT

HUMAN ACTIVITY 7

HYDROLOGICAL PERFORMANCE

ECOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE

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HUMAN ACTIVITY

PROGRAM

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URBAN FORMS

Harvard MLA Core Studio III, Fall 2015 Critics: Javier Arpa Fernandez Team: Sunny Xu Site: Paris France NEW PARIS: The streets of Paris are some of the most successful and beloved city streets in the world. This is a strategy for an urbanized Paris which maintains the lively blocks but increases public space and FAR by stacking existing coverage on top of the low-rise Parisian block.

Paris lacks open spaces within the city blocks. This concept reduces coverage significantly in order to add more public space on the streets.

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FAR + COVERAGE STUDY

STACKING STRATEGY FOR INCREASED PUBLIC SPACE

FAR: +3 COV: 30% VIEWSHEDS

PUBLIC/PRIVATE PUBLIC SPACE ON THE STREETS

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STRATEGY

LIFT

STACK

TIMELINE OF USERS

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ORIENT

OPEN SPACE BEFORE + AFTER

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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

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ULI HINES COMPETITION

ULI Hine Student Competition, January 2016 Advisor: David Gamble Team: Warren Hagist, Ji Byeon, Elliot Kilham, Alex Mercuri

Site: Atlanta, Georgia

The Midtown Quilt stitches together existing cultural assets while addressing the area’s urban design challenges through a bold public realm plan. Recalling Old Downtown Atlanta, the project creates a street network framing smaller blocks.

Rotating the grid creates unique block shapes, which in turn adds texture and color to the neighborhood. Parks, plazas, and shared streets build a pedestrian-oriented atmosphere, connect beloved institutions, and stage new civic amenities.

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SITE ANALYSIS

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celebrate the past

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connect to the present build for the future

NEIGHBORHOOD ASSETSMany of the development challenges facing the development STREETsiteGRID are found ANALYSIS in cities across the United States. Incorporating

PROBLEMS TYPICAL TO AMERICAN CITIES:

sollutions to these challenges into development plans is vital for future urban vitality, and such sollutions can help add connectivity between existing neighborhood assets.

PROBLEMS TYPICAL TO AMERICAN CITIES, PRESENT IN ATLANTA, GA DENSITY & SETBACKS

TYPICAL PROBLEMS

BLOCK GEOMETRY

STREET NETWORK

TRANSIT ACCESS

LAND USE STRATEGY

ONE WAY

Isolated Towers

PROPOSED SOLLUTION

Impenetrable Super Blocks

High-speed One Way Streets

Dividing Highway

Euclidean Zoning

Through Connections - relink neighborhoods - restitch urban fabric

Mixed-use District - diverse urban life - rich programming

TWO WAY

Break the Superblock - ďŹ ner grain - human scale

Active Street Fronts - reduce sense of height - add program variety

Two Way Streets - discourage speeding - pedestrian atmosphere

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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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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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parking structure

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senior living

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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%

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SCHOOL-FOR-ALL

Toyo Ito Tokyo Studio Abroad, Fall 2016 Site: Omishima, Japan Critics: Toyo Ito, Jun Yanagisawa, Julia Li Context: The Miyaura-sando was once the heart and soul of Omishima Island, busteling with the culture and activity of locals and visitors moving between the Miyaura Port and the Oyamazumi Shrine. A significant population decline, brought on by urbanization and aging, has caused the port to close, deminishing all vitality of the main street (Miyaura Sando).

School-For-All transforms a vacant public bathhouse into an educational and cultural hub.

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PUBLIC BATH HOUSE, SANDO

DEACTIVATED PORT

OYAMAZUMI SHRINE

IMABARI CITY BRANCH OFFICE ART MUSEUM PORT

PUBLIC LIBRARY

OYAMAZUMI SHRINE

SCHOOL-FOR-ALL HOME-FOR-ALL

SCHOOL

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visitor

SHARE KNOWLEDGE + TRADITIONS + SKILLS Interviews with community members proved that Omishima is rich in culture and activity.

This system highlights and enhances the great things already happening on Omishima.

Anyone can be a student or a teacher at School-For-All. By sharing what we know, we can strenghten community, identity, and pride.

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PAST

PRESENT

FUTURE

BATHHOUSE AS PUBLIC SPACE PAST:

The Japanese bathhouse used to be a prime location for community gathering.

PRESENT: Today the bathhouse sits vacant in the middle of the Miyaura Sando.

FUTURE: The bath is repurposed as a new kind of community gathering space,

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ROOMS RE-PURPOSED CHANGING ROOMS: utilizing the benches and open floor plan of the changing rooms, this area becomes adaptalbe for small and large gatherings.

ENTRANCE: remnants of the bathhouse’s past, such as the shoe lockers, gain a new purpose for selling Omishima Goods. The beloved shaved-ice shop is revived in the same location it was when the building functioned as a public bath.

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BATHING ROOM The bath once served as a place where people gathered together in one space. The same function remains with a communal table placed in the space of a bath used for classes, meetings, and gatherings.

GALLERY CURATOR: I-TURNS are people who move Omishima. They are very involved with things in order to become a part of the community ORGANIZERS: STUDENTS have ideas and want experiences - collect photos and stories - learn how to curate LANGUAGE TEACHER: U-TURNS return to Omishima and have a greater appreciation for its strong community 29

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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.

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02. WHERE? We developed a participatory community engagement tool to understand 2 things: where people defined Harvard Square to be and what values they found important there.

A JUST HARVARD SQUARE? WHERE IS HARVARD SQUARE FORYOU?

WHAT IS HARVARD SQUARE TOYOU?

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02. WHAT VALUES? By understanding the values of the people we are desinging for we can better create a project that promotes and enhances these values. This is desinging a just city.

A JUST HARVARD SQUARE? WHERE IS HARVARD SQUARE FORYOU?

WHAT IS HARVARD SQUARE TOYOU?

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*Note: There was little variation across ages, race, affiliation and gender.

DESIGN FOR A JUST CITY: HARVARD SQUARE KIOSK GALLERY Based on research and community engagment we found that community members valued Harvard Square’s knowledge, freedom, and diversity. To the city council we propsed to convert the historic Kiosk into a gallery where different voices could be heard and accepted, enhancing what is already valued here and creating a more just city.

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COMMUNITY PRIDE

Geneva Neighborhood Resource Center, Geneva, NY Boss: Sage Gerling Team: Claire Levengoode-Boxer PROBLEM: Lost neighborhood identity in Geneva, NY SOLUTION: Rebrand neighborhoods with logos to create a more defined sense of community and enhance pride of place.

The goal was to restore each neighborhood’s identity and give residents a more focused sense of place. The implemented signs and streetsign-toppers have begun to rekindle the unity and pride that had been lost in Geneva.

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SURVEY + ANALYSIS

Castle Heights

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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Large Steal Banner WAYFINDING The communication of our dynamic relationship to space Sign and Gateway the environment

Stand-Alone Sign

Gateway Sign

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Stand-Alone Sign: Used to distinguish different neighborhoods.

These signs can be place in key areas or on neighborhood boundary lines, further a neighborhood’s identity and sense of CONCEPT PROPOSALS place.

Stand-Alone Sign

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Large Steal Banner

Stand-Alone Sign

Street Sign Topper

Large Steel Banner

Gateway Sign Stand-Alone Sign 38 Street Sign Topper Large Steel Banner Recommendations for Geneva p.7

Options for Geneva

Actual Installed Signage - Geneva, NY

IMPLEMENTATION

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LAURA

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DESIGN

Provided design services for commercial, residential and institutional building owners.

Clients include:

Haverford College, real estate appraisers, developers and home owners

Services include: building surveys, CAD plans, renderings, sketches, historical research,

documentation for historic certifications, representation at township planning reviews

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SPACE PLANNING

This set up would work well with a recliner chair of a chair such as the Poang.

My thought is if we do a red chair, do the (mostly) black Walmart rug. If we do a black or gray chair, do a rug with more red in it.

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EXISTING

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VISUALIZATIONS

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urchased 102 acres on Mill Creek to construct a dam and build a stone grist operated into the nineteenth century but by the 1880’s, little remained (LM s Mill was John Righters home from 1762 to ____.

e century, the property belonged to a larger estate owned by William C. Scott, Estate (later known as “Clifton-Wingates” and then “Le Mesnil”, seen in maps acket). The 100 acre estate was subdivided in the 1930s after wealthy owner, ost much of his wealth in the stock market crash.

ad several additions erior has kept its old of the property’s is the play house in the ____s, this house

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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.

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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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SITE ANALYSIS A public realm project was one of the first priorities when BOK was re-opened. This prime corner location, adjacent to a bus stop and Southwark Elementary School, would soon become a space for public use. The site analysis and conceptual design stage for the ‘South Philly Stoop’ took place in the summer of 2015. Before designing it was important to understand how the space was already being used, who was using the space, and when.

BOK’S MAIN ENTRANCE

pedestrian age 0-18 pedestrian age 19 + cyclist

PROPOSED PUBLIC SPACE

SOUTHWARK’S MAIN ENTRANCE

SOUTHWARK ELEMENTARY

BOK

USER TIME STUDY

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Through a series of community-driven G ROOM design exercises, we engaged students

la School sala in bantob ttuolophnhiev from the adjacent Southwark exploring the concept of the living room and ways to translate this concept into an outdoor public space.

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NEW URBAN

HYBRID

Course: The Park System as a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration, Spring 2017 Professor: Alex Krieger Site: Baltimore, MD Team: Karen Mata After researching and visiting Baltimore one thing became clear: the patchwork of small open spaces is not serving the city well. This was most clear in Harlem Sq. Park, where we saw a concentrated area of abandonment. Harlem Sq. Park is in need of a unifying element. Our proposal is to create a large park to centralize West Baltimore, mimicing Patterson Park which is successful in the way it organizes the surrounding urban fabric.

Our proposed large-scale park will become a hub of opportunity for the community.

The Harlem Square Heights school building is the center of our site because it currently exists as an anchor point in the neighborhood. The activities within the park are organized around 10 buildings that currently exist on the site which have been repurposed to fit the needs of the community, The buildings are integrated into the park, tying the city and the open spaces into a new urban hybrid and shifting the perception of parks in Baltimore.

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West: New Park West: 140 Newacres Park 140 acres East: Patterson Park, East: 137 Patterson acres Park, 137 acres

EQUIVALENT PARKS

full credit to Karen Mata

EQUIVALENT PARKS

EQUIVALENT PARKS WHAT FOR WEST BALTIMORE WHAT FOR WEST BALTIMORE

SCHOOL RECREACTION CENTER

EDUCATION AS AN ANCHORPOINT

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classrooms BBQ area

RE-PROGRAMMING STRATEGYthe lawn

workshop + gallery

museum

hill top look-out music room, labs, greenhouse

farming

market

experimental agriculture

amphitheater

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1 hr to DC the lawn museum

hill top look-out

experimental agriculture amphitheater 2. theater

BBQ area

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ONE PARK PRODUCTION CONSUMPTION RELAXATION ADMINISTRATION BBQ area

2. theater

COMBO

experimental agriculture classes grow produce...

experimental agriculture classes grow produce...

...which is sold at the market...

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...which is sold at the market...

...then grilled and eaten in the park!

...then

RELOCATION STRATEGY

1. OCCUPIED HOUSES

2. HOUSES TO BE REMOVED

3. HOUSING RELOCATION STRATEGY: remove the majority of deteriorating properties (whose negative aesthetic weakens the community’s vitality) and connect the spaces to create the large park.

The community members who were living in this area will be relocated into new, prioritized housing along the perimeter of the park.

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