LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
URBAN RETROFIT PAMPHLET
CONTENTS RESPONSE TO READING CHAPTER 1 ___________________ REPLACING PROCESS CHAPTER 2 ___________________ URBAN CONNECTORS CHAPTER 3 ___________________ DEFINING URBAN SITES
RESPONSE TO WANDERING CHAPTER 4 ___________________ PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER 5 ___________________ NEW YORK
RESPONSE TO LISTENING CHAPTER 6 ___________________ BOB PERRY CHAPTER 7 ___________________ JAMES BURNETT+MARK RIOS
LEXICON CHAPTER 8 ___________________ LEXICON
MAG Marco A. Garcia
323 + 540 + 0153 mgarcdesign@gmail.com LA401 Andy Wilcox Fall 2015 Cal Poly Pomona Department of Landscape Architecture
ABSTRACT Cities, which are now inhabited by a majority of the world’s population, are not only an important source of global environmental and resource depletion problems, but can also act as important centers of technological innovation and social learning in the continuing quest for the process of connecting urban sites to the people through design of a landscape.
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rePLACING PROcess
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Landscape design process is aimed at progressing conceptual, scientific, and applied understandings of the particular landscape in order to promote sustainable solutions. Landscapes are visible and a unification of social-ecological systems with variable spatial and sequential dimensions. Large and complex sites have expressive aesthetic, natural, and cultural qualities that are perceived and valued by people in multiple ways and can sometimes invite actions resulting in landscape change. Landscapes are increasingly urban in nature and ecologically and culturally sensitive to changes at a local or global scale. Numerous restraints and perspectives are required to understand the process of a landscape design after an environmental change to align social and ecological values to ensure the sustainability of a particular site. Planning and design is a process that can provide mutually supportive outcomes for people and nature. Most importantly at scales of large public landscapes is to engage and synchronize a labyrinth of multiple interests, constituencies, regulations, and economic challenges, how to incorporate change and adaptive measures over time, how to settle the apparently contradictory objectives of the process of a restoration of ecologies and deeply programmed sites. Within the methodologies of process based practices, are the actual factors that make places distinguishable and memorable because of how unique the place turns out to be with the incorporation of good design strategies accentuate the site’s sustaining qualities. Environmental change if it is by geomorphology or just programmed events there is always the presence and traces left behind by previous uses of the land; either by its footprint or ecological values.
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Juxtapose
verb To place (different things) together in order to create an interesting effect or to show how they are the same or different. (Merriam-Webster)
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urban CONNECTors
Connectors The world’s population is already more urban than rural, but the social, economic and institutional capacity and infrastructure of urban areas and cities cannot keep up with the rapid rate of urbanization. The planning and management of urbanization and all its consequences is a key component of the new development. Urbanization is an increasing demand for affordable housing and basic services in cities, but that demand is largely left for people to meet by themselves, without the infrastructure or policies in place to ensure decent housing. This in turn fuels the growth of slums; housing while affordable is not safe, healthy or stable. Transforming slums into sustainable communities is a key component of a new urban program, and provision of secure occupancy is a key compound to achieve this. The new urban agenda requires community centered leadership and strategy, place-making through good urban design, innovation, people public and private partnerships, and multi-sector interventions and resilience building. It calls for new technologies, reliable urban data and integrated, participatory planning approaches and must reject disorganized developmental interventions. Urbanization provides a distinct opportunity for economic, social, political and environmental transformation on a massive scale. The author states that not only providing these new urban spaces can provide a positive outcome to society but also there has to be a connection. “Cross-sector interaction can be fostered through interventions in the urban fabric essentially by providing good public spaces within both formal and informal cities that will be used by residents of both. This has been achieved in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in Bogota and Medellin, Colombia”. The connection should be the engagement of different social classes to be able to interact with each other to refine the low social class found in old slum urban sites, thus creating a more equal community. This is perhaps reflective of differing perspectives among scholars, and in some cases affected persons, as to whether slums continue to exist because of purposeful design, benign neglect, or other forms of intentional inattention to the needs of poor people and slum dwellers. A full exploration of these perspectives is worthy of exposition. According to the article suggests that to be able to have this implemented successfully there has to be an implementation of a “legal framework that acknowledges the existence of both world” to be able to successfully fuse both the formal and the informal city.
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noun, A curve or geometric figure, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole. Fractals are useful in modeling structures (such as eroded coastlines or snowflakes) (Google)
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DEFINING urban sites
Defining Sites Urbanity is a fairly straight-forward term to the general public. It is the city, intricately gridded, mapped with the utmost accuracy, and completely closed off and away from the rural countryside. But what defines the boundaries of a city? Defining urban sites expresses how they should be considered within the perspective of a city. Andrea Khan, makes the case that in order to comprehend the impact of a project the boundaries of the site must be aware of as something far outside the property lines, referring to an urban scale project. Two examples she speaks of to clarify her point, are the Palmanuova plan and a sketch by da Vinci of Milan. In the Palmanuova plan, the city that is drawn as a static object in an open site. The boundaries are clearly defined and nothing is left to interpretation. In the drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, nothing is defined. The city is defined by its interrelations, not by the edge. This is how sites need to be read. Simply by attaching the word “urban” to an idea or design is not enough to meet the requirements as such. Kahn accentuates the importance of understanding all types of sites, and how each kind interlocks and relates to each other. Urbanity should not only be seen as an enclosed city district. According to what Khan articulates in the reading “Because urban sites participate in many differently scaled networks at once, talking about an urban scale, as a singular measure or the attribute of some entity, obscures the multi-scalar condition of urban sites.” It is agreeable because sites are not just a defined box on a map, rather they are unbounded due to the different ways they affect the world around them on both small scales, adjacent areas, and large scale environment, city in which it is placed. Urban sites are not to be distinguished defined by borders or lines of separation, but prosper on connections to other sites, whether they are urban or rural.
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Geomorphology noun,
The study of the physical features of the surface of the earth and their relation to its geological structures.
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wandering writing Philadelphia + New York
Philadelphia When we got to Philadelphia I was amazed when we stepped outside the airport because I sure was prepared for a cold weather trip but to my surprise it was warm and humid. Getting to the hotel was somewhat of the same experience as in Los Angeles, traffic everywhere, luckily our cab driver knew some short cuts to deviate from the everyday in city traffic and fortunately the cab driver plan worked we got to the Holiday Inn express hotel in no time. After settling in our room the whole class decided to go outside and explore ignoring jet-lag; maybe because we were excited to be in a different landscape and culture to explore. The next day was the first day of our adventure of exploring and discovering the difference in culture and ways they were adapting ideas to better their communities such as Mantua and Belmont in the case of Drexel University Dornsife Center. We learned how this center is engaged with the community which offers various programs that place Drexel students, faculty and staff alongside community members to solve problems. After walking throughout the community of Mantua we set off to get an exclusive mural history tour with a trained guide which gave us behind the scenes stories about the murals, the artistic process, the artist and the history of the diverse communities these are in. Then we went to James Corner’s Navy Yard Central Green amazed of the design but still thinking in my head what would I could do differently. The next day we met up with a community garden expert that took us on a tour and showed us the hidden community gardens throughout the city. Then after we were on our own to do our personal exploration, specifically for my team and I we had a special tour of CIRA Green a green roof on top of a parking structure that is one of a kind, new to Philadelphia that is site specific. The overall night life where we lodge it was awesome in my opinion, similar to Las Vegas night life nice restaurants, people walking on the streets just because of the nice full of life environment.
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New York Getting to New York was a first travel experience for me I had never traveled in an Amtrak train before. After an hour and thirty minute ride we were in New York. Getting out from Penn Station for the first time I felt overwhelmed from the height and how condensed the city buildings are. We then went to catch the train in the subway which amazed me how many levels of stations New York has. The train ride lead us to get to Central Park and saw the scale of the monstrosity of this park, also we got to experience the different levels Olmstead intend the user to experience, truly extraordinary. After spending some time in Central Park we had to get to the World Trade Center 911 Memorial after getting off the train I got to see a building being constructed of one of my favorite architects Santiago Calatrava the “Oculus” the future train station. Getting to the memorial and witnessing the immense size of one of the fountains I was amazed and overwhelmed of the feeling you get of the remembrance of what happened and how we have overcome those tough times. Looking at those names carved around the plaques of the fountain I never knew the immense scale of the outcome of 911. After having lunch close to the 911 memorial we went to Greenwich Village and had a walk throughout we saw the extensive gentrification as we walked through Greenwich we ended up to James Corner’s Highline and was an extraordinary experience to see what it has become from what it was in person from an abandoned train track system to a highly usable landscape for people.
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listening writing LECTURES
Bob Perry Bob Perry starts his lecture with a small history talk that he was once a landscape architecture student just like us making a joke that he is old. He state states that when he was a student there were not enough graphic resources such as images as to what is available know in the internet or in books. Perry states that is one of the things he does and is a well-known fact from his book Landscape Plants for California Gardens. He is big on three main subjects that were actually the subjects of the lecture plant ecology, plant function, and plant aesthetics. Plant ecology he goes on and explain the effects of environmental factors upon the abundance of plants, and the interactions between plants and other organisms. A living organism that obtains sunlight energy and converts it into chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. A sustainable landscape is achieved when there is a net positive balance of carbon, energy and oxygen benefits accrued over the lifetime of the landscape relative to the release of carbon and use of energy and oxygen to achieve the landscape. Plant function through traditional design purposes, as well as health and safety uses. Furthermore aesthetic emphasis in planting design brings the greatest attention to elements of art, and principles of art for selecting and arranging plants in landscapes. The elements and principles of art can be highly subjective in definition and interpretation.
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Planting Ecology
Planting Function
Planting Aesthetics
James Burnnett + Mark Rios Attending Drought & Beauty lecture on November 20th by James Burnett and Mark Rios made me realize that there are many ways to go around and essentially help the ongoing issue of the California drought. According to Professor Kelly Shannon of USC Landscape Department there is a necessity for landscape architecture to the dilemma of the California drought that has even change some policies in the state and local leaders in order to overcome this problem. James Burnett and Mark Rios showed us some examples of how they were dealing with the drought on their designs and how they implement their strategies towards this issue the state is encountering the past four years. Burnett and Rios presented many opportunities as well as challenges they have encounter throughout their past projects, as well as the vast array of inventive and state of the art products and materials that has help them make their designs a possibility to deflect the issues and have a successful design.
DR O UGHT AND BEAUTY
L A N DSCA PE AS N E C E SSIT Y DE B AT E SE R IE S O cto b er 9 , 2 015 Helms Design Center 6:00 pm Kate Cullity, Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Melbourne Mia Lehrer, Mia Lehrer & Associates, Los Angeles
CULLITY LEHRER
Modera ted by Kelly Shannon USC Landscape Architecture + Urbanism
BURNETT
N ove mber 2 0, 2 015 Helms Design Center 6:00 pm James Burnett, OJB, Solana Beach Mark Rios, Rios Clementi Hale Studios, Los Angeles
Modera ted by Stephanie Landregan UCLA Extension in Landscape Architecture
RIOS VERBAKEL
Fe b r ua r y 5, 2 016 Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) 6:00 pm Els Verbakel & Elie Derman, Derman Verbakel Architecture, Tel Aviv Allen Compton, SALT, Los Angeles
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Modera ted by Rennie Tang Cal Poly Pomona Landscape Architecture
COMPTON FRANCH
M ar ch 4, 2 016 Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) 6:00 pm MartĂ Franch, EMF Landscape Architecture, Girona Gerdo Aquino, SWA, LA
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Modera ted by Hadley Arnold Arid Lands Institue with panelist Joseph Byrne, Best Best and Krieger LLP
SPON SOR S USC, Graduate Landscape Architecture & Urbanism Cal Poly Pomona, Landscape Architecture UCLA, Extension Program in Landscape Architecture LALA, Landscape Architects Los Angeles ALI, Arid Lands Institute Mia Lehrer + Associates Neutra VDL House Helms Design Center Best Best & Krieger LLP Helms B ake r y De s i gn Ce nte r , 8745 Was hi ngton B lvd, Culve r Ci ty, CA 902 32 / F RE E Vale t par ki ng at Ve ni ce & He lms L ACI, 52 5 S outh Hewi tt, Los Ange le s , CA 90013
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LEXICON
Juxtapose
verb To place (different things) together in order to create an interesting effect or to show how they are the same or different. (Merriam-Webster)
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Fractal
noun, A curve or geometric figure, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole. Fractals are useful in modeling structures (such as eroded coastlines or snowflakes) (Google)
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Geomorphology noun,
The study of the physical features of the surface of the earth and their relation to its geological structures.
(Google)
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Litoral
noun, The region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean. (TheFreeDictionary)
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Posit verb
Put in position; place. (Google)
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Zeitgeist
noun, The general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era. (Merriam-Webster)
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Palimpsest
noun, Something that has changed over time and shows evidence of that change. (Merriam-Webster)
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Terrain Vague noun,
From the French term for wasteland, vacant land, empty lot. Often marginal spaces at the edges of cities. (Google)
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Deconstruct
verb, To break down into constituent parts; dissect; dismantle. (Dictionary)
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Confine
verb, To enclose within bounds; limit or restrict. (Dictionary)
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