L V architecture + urban design
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Inverted Hinterlands
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Denver Film Center
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Art Gallery
Shanghai, China
30
Riverwalk Apartments
Denver, CO
36
KTXT Radio Station
San Antonio, TX
42
Optimal Adaptability
Lubbock, TX
50
Abstract Machine
Seoul, South Korea
56
Alley Intervention
Detroit, MI
64
Infrastructural Morphologies
72
The Interchange
78
Invert City
PROJECT
LOCATION
p. 02
Undergraduate Studio 2 Undergraduate Studio 3 Undergraduate Studio 4 Commercial Undergraduate Studio 5 Residential Undergraduate Studio 6 Connections Graduate Studio1 Landscape Graduate Studio 3 Prototypes Graduate Studio 4 Graduate Studio 5
PERIOD
TYPE
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Inverted Hinterlands
Shanghai’s distribution and expansion of land use has been directly linked to economic growth of the city. Efficiency has been consistently increasing at the turn of the 21st century and currently, China is faced with the challenge to feed 22% of the world’s population with approximately 7% of the world’s farmland. Meanwhile, according to Shuqing Zhao in the article Ecological Consequences of Rapid Urban Expansion: Shanghai, China: “the city is essentially trading off urban development within the Pudong District for the expansion of agricultural land on Chongming Island.” A major component in the urban growth involves a conversion of rural agricultural land into urban land use. Consequently, there are fewer farmlands in China than in almost any other country. Inevitably, Shanghai’s economy and population will continue to grow and land availability will no longer be capable of feeding a rapid increasing population. The insertion of agriculture processes back into Pudong aims to set forth projective ecologies in an attempt to cultivate innovative urban/rural productivity.
Shanghai, China Renderings: Jena Meeks
p. 04
agricultural land
urban economic lan
yangtze river
yangpu bridge
? nanpu bridge
agricultural land urban economic land agricultural land
lujiazui trade and finance zone
urban economic land
waigaoqiao free trade zone jinqiao export processing zone zhangjiang hi-tech park zone yangtze river
productive ecologies
p. 05
marshland land eco-agriculture land
CHANGE IN LAND USE
AGRICULTURAL MIGRATION
urbanization has accelerated at an unprecedented rate, leading to a considerable reduciton in the area of farmland and green land
2009
2012
2025?
urban development land vacation center natural protection land eco-agriculture land
pudong’s gdp shanghai’s gdp [3.8%] china’s gdp [12%]
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agriculture sector
37.2%
industry sector
62.2%
service sector
1980
building land
water body
forest land cultivated land
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grassland
150
0
-16
0.6%
250
50
-50
2010 p. 06
WETLAND: paddy rice
china’s main production source after aquaculture. approximately 2/5 of total grain output.
DRY FARMING LAND: wheat approximately 1/5 of china’s total grain output
corn approximately 1/4 of china’s total grain output
soy beans, fruit crops amount to a large pergentage of miscellaneous farming land types
CASH CROPS: rape seed grown for production of vegetable oil, biodiesel and animal feed
cotton crops sugarcane world’s largest crop by production quantity. Cane accounts for 80% of sugar produced.
tea crops traditional chinese crop due to historic factors
p. 07
Extraction of samples from a palette of productive sites across Chongming Island and similar patterns of growth flexible enough to enable agricultural growth in the city
p. 08
Advocate intensive development, green commuting and actively promote the application of ecological technologies taking full consideration of urban public
Industrial and sewage
activity centers.
water filtration facilities
Prevent contamination of crops by air and soil
Rehabilitation park
pollution.
water conservation forest
China’s arable land per capita is at approximately 40% of the world average; China is on a brink of land and food crisis.
Eco-farming demonstration base
Comprehensive utilization of crop straws
p. 09
city scape
urban production inserted
Land is distributed and used as a site for urban economic growth in the city whereas in the rural it is used as an instrument of production. As a result, agricultural production has been pushed into the hinterlands. As an example, this project samples Chongming Island’s wide range of productive environments and urbanization process forming around these. The methods for generation of these in a city where economy is the primary leading growth factor, and includes adaptation processes resulting in several speculative programmatic and public events.
Chongming patterns attach to the “host� site and begin a process of physical adaptations through the integration phase.
p. 10
AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION + DISTRIBUTION
fish farms, local fish markets and distribution center
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION +DISTRIBUTION
agricultural fields + local markets
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
research/laboratory + interpretive center
p. 11
AQUACULTURE nationa
l + intern
ational
shipping
processing packaging fish farm
sold city distribution
loading
species: common carp
silver salmon
roach fish
bay anchovy
rainbow trout
silver carp
grass carp
clean water impoundment
sand filter for final polishing
water quality stabilization and control
land remediation
nutrient removal
aeration and biological purification
pathogen removal and bio-purification
subsurface filtration
terraces for aeration and bio-purification
WATER ECOLOGIES
heavy metal removal and bio-purification
AGRICULTURE
water intake & screening water settling & precipitation clarifiers power generation plant aeration tanks trickling filters sedimentation tanks pump stations + grit removal
water intake
p. 12
b2 a2 a4 a1 c1
c5 c2
c4
a3 b3
b1
c3
local market fish farm
a1
sold
national + international shipping
processing
loading city
packaging auction
agricultural fields
harvest
restaurants + markets a3
a4
local market
sold
packaging
loading
b1
processing
dry land
wheat | corn | tuber
wet land
rice
city
national + international shipping
b2
city
b3
restaurants + markets
c5 c1
urban farms huangpu river
a2
natural water filtration
irrigation
sewage water treatment
irrigation
c2
eco-farming demonstration center
c3
research + interpretive centers
c4
p. 13
fruits
tea leaves
rape seed
paddy rice
p. 14
cotton
interpretive center
botanical gardens
natural water filtration
productive surfaces attachment zones
water rehabilitation park
poppies, bulrushes, rushes
water soldier, reed, water lilies, water
aquatic nutrient plants
PRODUCTIVE OUTCOMES
cotton
wheat
sugar cane
agricultural fields
p. 15
aquaculture
distribution center
local farmers market
research center
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cal
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p. 16
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p. 18
The insertion of agriculture processes back PROJECTIVE GROWTH
into Pudong aims to set forth projective ecologies in an attempt to cultivate innovative urban/rural productivity as a symbiotic relationship with the constant urban and population growth.
p. 19
Denver Film Center
The cinema center must accomodate the existing program consisting of a dog park, city gardens, and parking facility. The proposal started with a primary shifting agent in the mechanism that holds the outdoor theatre screen and regulates the events between the existing program and the cinema center. The transforming agents are now seen in the architectural events, reconfiguring the space with no additional agents. The existing and proposed programs find a harmonic connection through the architectural language. The transforming screens show a clear distintion in the programmatic events as they unfold from the primary structure, though if left hung from this, the events all of a sudden merge to form the mixed-use concert area covered by the LED light projectors.
1530 Josephine St, Denver, CO,80206
p. 20
p. 21
OUTDOOR CINEMA+CAFE The existing and proposed program must now find a harmonic connection through the architectural language. The transforming screens show a clear distinction in the programmatic events as they unfold from the primary structure, though if left hung from this, the events all of a sudden merge to form the proposed mixed-use|concert area covered by the LED light projectors. The transforming agents are now seen in the architectural events, not the mechanism, reconfiguring the space with no additional agents.
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STRUCTURAL SYSTEM lateral loads gravity loads tension loads
primary structure secondary structure tertiary structure
p. 24
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Art Gallery
Diverse organizations and elements are treated as multiplicities within an emergent organization in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The art gallery design performs as a connection back into the city by providing an extension of armatures used for outdoor and indoor exhibitions space. These indicate circulation as guidance through the gallery for visitors. The location remained unspecified, focusing on the development of programmatic spaces and and articulation of spatial conditions.
San Antonio TX
p. 26
p. 27
program blocks
path
components
enclosure
site
p. 28
p. 29
Riverwalk Apartments
The conceptual analysis focuses on the in-between contextual spaces, a place in itself. A project originated in this grade of confusion, tries to attract necessary elements to make its own space. A sucession of several orders becomes the new informal order, not random or arbitrary, it relies on series of shifting certainties. The generative outcome is a blurred boundary between program and context.
128 E. Commerce St, San Antonio TX, 78205
p. 30
p. 31
4 T H F L O O R [ E L 6 0’ ]
3 R D F L O O R [ E L 5 0’ ] p. 32
dry laun
1 S T - 2 N D F L O O R [ E L 1 2’ - 2 4’ ]
G R O U N D F L O O R [ E L 0’ ] p. 33
floor 5 study lounge
1 bedroom apt
5 T H F L O O R [ E L 6 0’ ]
gymnasium
1 bedroom apt
4 T H F L O O R [ E L 6 0’ ]
2 bedroom apt
1 bedroom apt
1, 2, 3 & 6 T H F L O O R
p. 34
E L 9 0’
E L 6 0’
E L 3 0’
E L 2 0’
E L 0’
E L -16’ p. 35
KTXT Radio Station
The dissection of the existing building through the program activates the placeless spaces, engaging it into the Lubbock art community as it allows for placement of the radio station as well as providing possible art space. The spatial transformation is seen in the differences of surface typology. Therefore, the insertion of program is seen in the architecture as the procession leads from the old shell and engages the public when the inserted program becomes visible through transparencies.
405 Ave J. Lubbock TX, 79401
p. 36
p. 37
p. 38
RADIO OPERATIONS
FUTURE DEVPT [A R T E X H I B I T I O N]
production [editing room] director
restroom
conference studio a
room
studio b
offices
EXISTING
reception studio c
NEW
OUTDOOR EVENT SPACE
lobby | art gallery
men
entry [tickets]
INDOOR EVENT SPACE
women
equipment
p. 39
EXISTING BUILDING
CARVED
FRA
p. 40
AME
mesh 01
srf a1
srf b1 [translucency]
srf a2
srf a3
srf b2 [transparency] srf b3 [translucency]
SOLID
S O L I D [S K I N]
p. 41
Optimal Adaptability
Field measures is an in depth analysis of social, physical, and conceptual qualities of specific neighborhoods around the city of Seoul that influence the design of the connecting factors. Taking place in the heart of Seoul, the plaza becomes a greater culmination of space in the city as it expands. The uninterrupted surface spills into neighboring places, optimizing its use by capacity and flexibility. The plaza is no longer just a center, but rather an extension.
Seoul, South Korea Collaboration: Nicolas Watkins
p. 42
p. 43
PUNCTURE REDUCTION
puncture reduction existing connection surface puncture connection a: connection b:
-164m2 -108m2 -212 m2
total:
-484m2
proposed connection surface puncture connection a’: connection b’: connection c:
-69m2 -69m2 -69m2
total :
-207m2
- 57% SURFACE EXPANSION
surface expansion existing plaza surface plaza surface [curb]: library: citizen’s hall:
+29,411m2 -1,936m2 -5,620m2
total:
+21,588m2
proposed plaza surface plaza surface [curb]: library: citizen’s hall: plaza extension: sejong-daero closure: eulji-ro compression:
+29,411m2 -1,936m2 -5,620m2 +13,342m2 +6,100m2 (-4,617m2) -535m2
street widening: total:
+40,762 m2 (+36,145m2)
+ 69%
+ 88%
eulji-ro open - daytime
eulji-ro closed - event
existing
merge
redirect
minimize
proposal
p. 44
FIELD ANALYSIS
private
private
private
p. 45
평면도 | C O N N E C T I N G
FACTORS
p. 46
p. 47
stone tiles structural glass steel angle structural steel tube
60cm concrete slab
lighting tubes
structural glass
structural glass lighting tubes rigid insulation waterproofing concrete seating tiles structural glass lighting tubes vapor barrier rigid insulation 30cm concrete slab waterproofing sand sub-base gravel sub-base compacted earth
p. 48
p. 49
Abstract Machine
Tha machine emerged as a physical diagram from the movie Memento, by the director Christopher Nolan. It functions as a timeline of the main character’s memory and the physical memory which consisted of photographs, notes, and tattoos. The two maps are generated physically in two different levels moving along the same circular track that loops aroung these maps. The loop resembles a possible method in which the movie was organized as an attempt to establish a timeline and organize the events cronologically. Finally, the outcome of the device is the formation of the morre effect as they overlap, affecting the space underneath which appears to be constantly transforming.
p. 50
p. 51
RESULTANT: SPATIAL RECONSTRUCTION
COMPONENT II: SPATIAL ADAPTATION
DATUM: SPATIAL SUBDIVISION COMPONENT I: GENERATOR
STRUCTURAL FRAME: PROPOSED STRUCTURE.
p. 52
A chain process, one event leads to the next. A duplicate component, a planometric overlap, a rotational movement; actions are merely methods for the greater purpose: reconstruction of space, with no additions nor subtractions, just an ongoing process of two stories fully intertwined whose connections are beyond physical and simply a resultant. p. 53
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p. 55
Alley Intervention
As a result of the uneventfullness of the alley way for city purposes, a reorganization of space was generated from an extraction of networks of connections from existing objects, amorphous matter, and any leftover anatomy leaving a pattern to be traced. These translate into drawn forces and super imposed situations. Consequently, taking a three dimensional form, they then activate a space now driven by densities as the existing field conditions previously drawn were intensified at a greater scale causing a place intervention.
1215 Ave J. Lubbock TX, 79401
p. 56
orthogonal grid
orthogonal grid
forces [gravitational]
forces [axial]
forces [extend/compress]
networks [edge conditions]
super imposed .1
super imposed .2
p. 57
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III II I
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N scale : 1/8” = 1’-0”
10’
15’
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0
10’
15’
scale : 1/8” = 1’-0”
p. 63
Infrastructural Morphologies
In search for economic revitalization, the city government destroyed the area displacing 4000 residents before the neighborhood emptied out after a legal battle about eminent domain in 1981 in order to construct the General Motors autoplant. Infrastructural morphologies aims to stage future fragmentations of development as outcome from trading its spatial attributes such as infrastructure and vacant building typologies for its own stability and protection. Detroit’s consistent street layout sets up a way of reading the city as a series of bands that hold certain field conditions to be understood; the consistent voids throughout the city is one of them. The participation of the city’s public infrastructural network throughout the banding process already hints into an underlying system that could emerge from the field conditions. The emerging question within these processes of land use transformations is if the plan of the city will ever re emerge?
Poletown East, Detroit, MI
p. 64
[STUFF B]
hancock st.
7
[STUFF A]
e. alexandrine st.
Two systems of stuff to be understood as the analysis of the existing physical matters on the site are the untreated surface lots [stuff a] that
st joseph st.
are covered in overgrown vegetation and garbage
7
accumulation and the abandoned properties [stuff B] of different scales that are to be generators of activities and processes of future power generation and public activities.
N
mack ave
500' McDougall St. status: residential band speculative program: urban interventions indoor gardens
1500’ 1:3,000
p. 65
10
II multi | local services zoning: family residential
LOCAL SERVICES
use: two family 3130 | 3134 St. Joseph St. occupancy: maybe zoning: multi family residential ownership: 3130 | 3134public St. Joseph St. use: two family owner: Detroit Land residential Bank Authority zoning: multi family occupancy: maybe year built: 1912 use: two family ownership: public occupancy: maybe owner: Detroit Land Bank Authority ownership: public year built: 1912 III | institutional
10
owner: Detroit Land Bank Authority
1,950 sq ft
year built: 1920 3347 Gratiot Ave.
3594 McDougall St.
year built: 1920
zoning: multi family residential occupancy: yes
9
private 1/16” = ownership: 1’
owner: Morning Star Church year built: 1960
owner: Fountain, Roscoe 1/16" = 1'
4 4
1,125 sq ft 1,125 sq ft 1/16" = 1'
year built: 1912 3131 Mack Ave.
3164 St. Joseph St.
zoning: general business use: commercial
zoning: multi family residential
occupancy: yes
25 ft 25 ft
11
65 ft3230 Gratiot 100 ft
zoning: local
year built: 19
1/24” = 65 ftoccupancy: 1,625 sq ftn
25 ft
use: two family ownership: private 3164 St. Joseph St. owner: Kahn, Gary occupancy: yes zoning: multi family residential ownership: private 3164 St. Joseph St. use: two family owner: Kim M. zoning: Brown, multi family residential 1/16" = 1' occupancy: yes year built: 1895 use: two family ownership: private There are some references that can be These properties range from 3,000 to 5,000 occupancy: yes nts owner: Brown, Kim M. derived from the analysis of1/16" the= smallest sq ft and were built in the mid 1900’s. Local 1' ownership: private year built: 1895
scale structure type which are single and owner: Brown, Kim M.
45 ft 3,70 1,125 sq ft 45 ft
4,600
brick
brick
1/16" = 1'
45 ft
ownership: public
3
use: single family 3138 St. Joseph St. occupancy: occupied zoning: multi family residential ownership: private 3138 St. Joseph St. use: single family owner: Roscoe zoning: Fountain, multi family residential occupancy: occupied year built: 1912 use: single family ownership: private occupancy: occupied owner: Fountain, Roscoe ownership: private year built: 1912
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use: commercial
9
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references:
1/16” = 1’
zoning: multi family residential
1/16" = 1'
ownership: public
zoning: general business
year built: 1912 3138 St. Joseph St.
1,950 sq ft
use: commercial
brick
1/16" = 1'
zoning: general business
25 ft
2 2
1/16" = 1'
1,950 65 sq ft ft 3347 Gratiot Ave.
brick
2
65 ft
wood + masonry
1/16" = 1'
built early 1900’s
25 ft 25 ft
1
HOUSES
65- 3,000 ft 1,000 sq ft built early 1900’s references: platonic form
I | references:
30 ft
3130 | 3134 St. Joseph St.
30 ft 30 ft
I | houses1
ownership: p
65 ft7,700 sq
owner: Solom
1/24” = 1’
1,625 sq ft
1,625 sq ft
services structures are mostly commercial,
1' multi-family residential homes.1/16" For =instance, year built: 1895
convenience stores, churches and local
these properties range from 1,000 to 3,000
markets such as liquor stores. Additionally,
sq ft and were built in the late 1800’s and
many of these still remain although a good
early 1900’s. The vast majority of vacant
portion of them have either been burnt, de-
properties in Poletown are of this type.
molished, or are in major state of decay. p. 66
BUILDING REMAINDER | MATRIX
Building Remainders | Matrix
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p. 67
Matrix | local services
atrix | single + multi family residential
SINGLE + MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL
Matrix | institutional
LOCAL SERVICES
Matrix | local services
INSTITUTIONAL
Operation 0| null Matrix | institutional live + work warehouse
Matrix | single + multi family residential
Operation 0| n social space
studio | live work
corridor
studio | live work
farmers markets
roof garden | terrace
shared event space
Operation 1 | split
Operation 1| split Matrix | local services
Operation 1| split
Matrix | institutional green house
Matrix | single + multi family residential garden
water quality purification plans
green house
stream | water playground
roof garden | terrace
corridor
indoor gardens | green house
aquatic botanical garden
studio | living
Operation 4| carve
Matrix | local services Operation 2 | stitch
atrix | single + multi family residential
Operation 2| stitch
green house
Matrix | institutional
audience
roof garden
forest field | social space
water quality purification plans
corridor
stage
educational facility | market
p. 68
Operation 3| carve
Operation 3 | carve
Operation 3| stitch
OPERATION 0: NULL House is left intact due to its unsalvageable condition. Once demolished through the Detroit Land Bank system the blight is taken to either wood chip boiler storage station or a landfilll.
band V | power generation
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OPERATION 1: SPLIT House is cut open depending on the state
productive surface
door gardens, light pathways, etc.
productive surface
green houses, outdoor cinema stages, in-
light installations
indoor garden | solar power generation
cinema screen track
public plaza
for cogeneration plants, wood chip boilers,
indoor garden | solar power generation
walls, floors are rearranged into framework
cogeneration plant
the salvageable parts from splitting the roof,
recycling warehouse
salvaged defines the first step. Second,
buried power lines
wood chips storage
cess between what can and cannot be
wood chips grinder
in which is found on. The separation pro-
0
10’
30’
scale : 1/16” = 1’-0”
band II | district heating
OPERATION 2: STITCH Stitch works once two houses at close proximity or larger structures that have had their maximum allowable extraction from first operations. The process involves removal of interior walls and floors in order to stitch
potable water
concert venue
light house | indoor farming
The last operation functions when the
sewage pipe lines
OPERATION 3: CARVE
filtered steam exit
could adapt into a cogeneration plant.
active surface
two houses in close proximity into one that
indoor garden
light + cinema house
power lines district heating
house is so far gone that only its frame is salvageable. In this stage the structure is repurposed into wood chips storge, recycling warehouses or water quality purification ponds. p. 69
60’
place urban forest
ice rink | water playground
lines of transfer steam clouds
urban farms residential matrix [type B]
aquaculture pedestrian path observation post | indoors aquaculture
cinema house residential matrix [type C]
power network wood chip boilers | recharge stations | etc.
concert stage
e. av t o ti
light + steam installations
a
gr district heating CSO abovegrade powerlines subgrade powerlines wireless mesh network occupied
mt. elliott st.
moran st.
mcdougall st.
1400’
j campau st.
1:4,000 450’
chene st.
N
st. aubin st.
vacant
p. 70
p. 71
The Interchange
Despite the current economic focused development model growing in Detroit and the Beltline’s goal to shift into a production model, the interchange stands as a symbol of constant change of development in the city. What happens when the productive city must embed and link itself with the existing development model such as that of Downtown, Midtown and the megaregion? Despite all the attention geared towards the riverfront for walkability, access, and as a prime piece of real estate, the interchange stands as grounds for playful yet performative landscapes in which transit happens to participate.
6964 East Jefferson Ave, Detroit, MI
p. 72
THE STATE OF THE GREAT LAKES REGIONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
MEGAREGION TRANSPORATION NETWORKS + CENTERS AMTRAK PASSENGER LINE HIGHWAY NETWORK
5,950 SF
COMMUTERS : 1,975 per day
COMMUTERS : 9,150 per day
COMMUTERS 170 per day
USES : OFFICE
USES : RETAIL / OFFICE
USES : TRANSIT OFFICE
COMMUTERS : 10,972 per day
COLUMBUS, OH
USES : RETAIL / OFFICE
NEW YORK CITY, NY
TORONTO, cANADA
2,300,000 SF COMMUTERS : 750,000 per day
GRAND CENTRAL
USES : RETAIL / OFFICE
BUFFALO, NY
TORONTO UNION STATION 6,000 SF COMMUTERS : 320 per day
EXCHANGE STREET
USES : RETAIL / OFFICE
AMTRAK STATION
USES : TRANSIT OFFICE
GRAND RAPIDS, MI
USES : RETAIL / OFFICE
THE RAPID
5,000 SF COMMUTERS : 36 per day
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
CLEVELAND, OH
CLEVELAND AMTRAK
217,500 SF COMMUTERS : 410 per day 264,000 SF COMMUTERS : 121 per day
GRANT STREET
DETROIT, MI
USES : RETAIL / OFFICE
AMTRAK STATION
TOLEDO,, OH
CHICAGO, IL
TOLEDO UNION STATION
USES : RETAIL / CAFE
UNION STATION
16,000 SF COMMUTERS : 163 per day
USES : RETAIL / CAFE
MILWAUKEE, WI
MILWAUKEE INTERMODAL CENTER
545,000 SF
30,240 SF COMMUTERS : 1,630 per day
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
USES : RETAIL / OFFICE
INDIANAPOLIS RAILROAD STATION
56,630 SF COMMUTERS : 100 per day
SMALL URBAN CENTER
1,390,000 SF
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
METRO TRANSIT
MAJOR URBAN CENTER
32,000 SF
Megaregion transit network and ridership capacity
Currently the city transit system includes primarily Rosa Parks Transit Station in Downtown, accounting for approximately 1,910 daily commuters. Second, the more regional connector in New Center is the Amtrak station, accounting for a low ridership of about 200 daily commuters. Furthermore, access to gross pointe and belle isle is limited, with access primarily by car. p. 73
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to coleman young airport
MANUFACTURING DISTRICT
to new center | amtrak station
BREWERY DISTRICT
PRODUCTION DISTRICT
to gross pointe
M2 | BRT D1.5 | ELECTRIC BUS
M3 | LIGHT RAIL
to downtown | greyhound station to belle isle
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Despite the current development model growing in Detroit and the Beltline’s goal to shift into a production model, the interchange stands as a symbol of constant change of development in the city. What happens when two principals must coexist at the same point in time? What happens
Canton St
when the productive city must embed and
model such as that of Downtown and the megaregion? Despite all the attention towards the river-
Jefferson Ave.
link itself with the existing development
front for walkability, access, and as a prime piece of real estate, the interchange stands as grounds for playful yet performative landscapes in which transit just so happens to participate.
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Bird eye from the Detroit River
Once it is seen from above, the hierarchy
part in the remediation of the polluted soil from
of places fade away as these become in-
the tire plants demolished over 30 years ago.
terconnected and a part of one another.
The conversion of highly impermeable pavements
The riverfront celebrates Detroit’s history
into softer grounds shaped and designed for the
transitioning into a production realm where
human experience facilitate the activation of the
both residents and newcomers manage to
riverfront that welcomes all residents, workers,
grow, maintain, and benefit from the city’s
newcomers, visitors, and tourists.
landscapes. The natural storm water management ponds clean the water within a one mile radius and along Jefferson avenue to nurture the green infrastructure that is provided for the active grounds of the riverfront. Also, these infrastructures take
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Invert City
American sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein once said “systems are born, live long lives according to some rules, at some point come into crisis, and then bifurcate, and transform into something else.” Urban and architectural space operates not so differently than these systems. They reach their maximum structural capacity, then they’re reinforced, remodeled, reconstructed or demolished. Additional to the structural capacity of architectural space is the critic of its shrinkage; a question of permanence, and a call for the discipline of design to address time. Circumstantially, in cities like Detroit the transformation into something else after the crisis has not quite happened. The fabric has become static and in functional distress. The project operates within the patterns and dynamics of the spatial and structural abundance crisis and functional distress of the 2000’s. The grounds of deployment have three things in common. Underused or unstable structures and amorphous grounds, which revolve around the third: Detroit’s interconnected rail lines. Invert city portrays the internalization of urbanism with a system of attraction points in the distressed fabric of a city like Detroit. This system projects a new density of use and reveals dormant systems that rely on the critical instability of architectural space to only then transform into something else.
Inner Greenway Circle, Detroit, MI
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2
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historic creek | water folly
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3 new center stamping | steam hijack + deployment site
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pallete supplier | play ground prototype C
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rail intersect | play ground prototype A/B
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Invert City Sites
Inner Circle Greenway [existing]
Inner Circle Greenway [existing]
Inner Circle Greenway [proposed] District Heating
Inner Circle Greenway [proposed]
Railway
District Heating
Primary greenway network
Railway
Industrial Intersect
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Primary greenway network
Sites of inquiry 3000’
Industrial Intersect
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2.5 miles
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14 5 miles
Sites of inquiry 3000’
2.5 miles
5 miles
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The proposal aims to reinterpret existing in-
live work, cafes, restaurants, and other consum-
frastructure as a network of grounds for play
er based programs. Instead, by hijacking existing
along the inner belt, reaching out to neigh-
district heating lines, historic water creeks, solar
boring post-industrial sites and amorphous
energy and wind patterns, invert city redistributes
grounds. It aims to reverse the common
population clusters and densities of use, where
understanding of Detroit as geographies
the devices become active agents in the transfor-
of production or the idea of revitalization
mation of the surrounding area.
through programs such as maker spaces, p. 80
A vertical playground and a steam field. Where the tracks hooked into the building allow for constant reassembly of playgrounds and their deployment to other sites through the rail.
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active rail line | resource transfer
skynet access platform
sky net [free jumping]
water tower [interior slide]
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storage containers
parts transfer line
waste collection grounds
interior slide exit
climbing platforms
assembly tracks
recycling warehouse
device tracks
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A horizontal playground and water field. Programmed for water gardens, and dissected at the faรงade for access point of the spatial reconstructs.
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invert city | WATER FIELD 2900 ORLEANS ST, DETROIT, MI
attachment [climbing wall]
water slides
water tower [storm water storag
water gardens
attachment a/skylight
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attachment c/ hanging threads
attachment b/scaffold
water gardens
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LUNA VITAL luna.vital24@gmail.com [832] 273 - 2883
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