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John Callewaert is the integrated assessment program director for the Graham Sustainability Institute. He remembers how impressed people were when Maigret and Arquero presented their findings and designs for
MAde Studio is applying its data-driven approach to Detroit, revealing ways that the region’s water systems can influence urban planning.
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Detroit, child forPlanning the post-industrial shrinking city, may suffer from a| paucity of residents and MAdeAmerica’s Studioposter is Liquid Detroit | Architect Magazine Architects, Urban resources, but it’s a boomtown of urban theory. There is no shortage of clever schemes aimed at repopulating vacant Brian Kelly houses and vacant land. Jen Maigret, AIA, and María Arquero de Alarcón, co-founders of Ann Arbor, Mich.–based MAde Studio, a slightly different María Arquero de Alarcón (left) and Jenhave Maigret near the site of their perspective: What if you look at Detroit not in isolation, but speculative project that proposes to connect Detroit’s Eastern Market asDequindre a regional defined by that’s its watershed? How to the Cut,system an abandoned railway being turned into a would that change planning? “We are interested in public greenway. different scales,” Arquero says. “And we are not interested in only focusing on the metropolitan area.”
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Maigret, 41, a trained andpost-industrial Arquero, 41, who’s licensed Spain, began analysis of the Detroit, America’s posterbiologist, child for the shrinking city, in may suffer fromaadetailed paucity of residents and
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region’sbut water in 2011 through a grant from Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of resources, it’ssystems a boomtown of urban theory. There is the no shortage of clever schemes aimed at repopulating Her articles and essays have appear http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/made-studio-is-liquid-planning-detroit_o 10-Aug-15
Michigan. award-winning Liquid Planning considered how watershedofdata vacant housesTheir and vacant land. Jenproject, Maigret, AIA, and MaríaDetroit, Arquero de Alarcón, co-founders Annmight Arbor,inform New York Times, Metropolis, Fast C Co.Design, and The Atlantic's CityLa the future planning of thehave city, alooking ground perspective: cover, stormwater, among other things. Mich.–based MAde Studio, slightlyatdifferent What ifand youimperviousness, look at Detroit not in isolation, but Forget existing grids and boundaries; the watershed should serve as a lens through which future planning
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decisions can be made. “This was an amazing opportunity to work on our analytic techniques,” Maigret says. “But the thing we’re always the most motivated by is how that data plays out in the built environment, in material, and in habitable, experiential space.”
http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/made-studio-is-liquid-planning-detroit_o By 2013, the firm’s research had culminated in plans for several sites around the city, including a design for an
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Renderings of the new walkway and water garden that would connect Detroit’s Eastern Market and the Dequindre Cut, an abandoned railroad that’s being turned into a public greenway.
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Maigret and Arquero are masters of marrying analysis with transformative urban architecture. The two met at
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RECOMMEND and Urban Planning. Their shared penchant for data mining compelled them to start their firm in 2010. Though VIDEO their research-heavy approach could keep their design work cloistered in the realm of academic theory, it is FOR YOU their ability to visualize and communicate complex ideas, and to work with both their students and Detroit 10-Aug-15
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residents and organizations, that has given their young firm so much traction. Four years in and MAde Studio
ecological and pedestrian infrastructure linking the popular Eastern Market to the Dequindre Cut, an
has developed a transdisciplinary practice working in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and
abandoned railway that’s slowly being turned into a public greenway. In June, when Liquid Planning Detroit
urban planning.
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MAde Studio
earned a 2014 AIA Michigan Design Award in the unbuilt category, the jury said that they were impressed by
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the “fine-grained analysis that underlies the urban designs.”
Callewaert says people are also impressed by the architects’ ability to collaborate with community. “They
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invest time into individual meetings and to showing their partners the different possibilities that exist, instead of coming in and saying: ‘Here it is! We’re done!’ ”
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Publications on MAde Studio
“Watershed Design”
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MAde Studio received a second Graham Sustainability Institute grant in 2012 to work with the Hope Village
10-Aug-15 Initiative, a project supporting an area of Detroit suffering from violence, poverty, and a deteriorating housing stock. As part of theSelected grant, MaigretPublications and Arquero designed a 145 playful open space on a vacant and fenced-off
parking lot near the community’s library. Last fall, the firm tore down the fence and hosted Dream Up!, turning http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/made-studio-is-liquid-planning-detroit_o the lot into a temporary pumpkin patch and inviting residents to discuss making it into a permanent open space for the community.
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Callewaert says people are also impressed by the architects’ ability to collaborate with community. “They invest time into individual meetings and to showing their partners the different possibilities that exist, instead
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of coming in and saying: ‘Here it is! We’re done!’ ”
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Initiative, a project supporting an area of Detroit suffering from violence, poverty, and a deteriorating housing stock. As part of the grant, Maigret and Arquero designed a playful open space on a vacant and fenced-off parking lot near the community’s library. Last fall, the firm tore down the fence and hosted Dream Up!, turning the lot into a temporary pumpkin patch and inviting residents to discuss making it into a permanent open space for the community.
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Hope Village project plan MAde Studio
Dream Up!, in which the studio hosted a one-day event last fall and turned an empty Detroit lot into a temporary pumpkin patch, inviting residents to discuss making it into a permanent open space for the community.
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Dream Up!
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Now under construction, the Hope Village open space considers both the ecology of the site and residents’
Dream Up!
desires. The space makes visible the flow of rainwater through clever interactive water surfaces. There are
Now under construction, the Hope Village open space considers both the ecology of the site and residents’
“rooms” defined by trees and sunken gardens, as well as a jungle gym resembling an abstract sculpture.
desires. The space makes visible the flow of rainwater through clever interactive water surfaces. There are
http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/made-studio-is-liquid-planning-detroit_o “rooms” defined by trees and sunken gardens, as well as a jungle gym resembling an abstract sculpture.
10-Aug-15 With Hope Village, MAde Studio employed yet another lens through which community rebuilding might happen: play. “Detroit had a history of linking playgrounds to the way that neighborhoods developed,” Maigret
With Hope Village, MAde Studio employed yet another lens through which community rebuilding might
says. “Today, in a city strapped for cash, Detroit is always looking to do more with less, and playgrounds are an
happen: play. “Detroit had a history of linking playgrounds to the way that neighborhoods developed,” Maigret
excellent opportunity to look at issues of water, but also to explore solutions for public space. Playgrounds
says. “Today, in a city strapped for cash, Detroit is always looking to do more with less, and playgrounds are an
allow us to think about a material process and an optimistic approach to open space.”
excellent opportunity to look at issues of water, but also to explore solutions for public space. Playgrounds allow us to think about a material process and an optimistic approach to open space.”
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Playful Horizons
Here, a maze of tall and short bright orange bars invites children to climb, to hang, to invent. The architects designed the variant sections of the jungle gym at different heights to accommodate toddlers as well as older
MAde Studio is Liquid Planning Detroit | Architect Magazine | Architects, Urban Design,... Page 8 of 14 children, and engineered the ground underneath to be soft enough for safe climbing. The whole structure is
meant to look of-a-piece. “We wanted the different sections to feel uniform, so that the younger kids don’t feel relegated to the kid’s table, so to speak, when they climb on the lower-height bars,” Maigret says. Hope Village project vacancy strategies
MAde Studio may champion new planning tools in thinking about Detroit’s future, but it certainly doesn’t
In the firm’s projects, you can see the influence of pioneers like Aldo van Eyck, the Dutch architect who used
ignore the city’s past. History and place play an important role in the firm’s design process. In the next five
playground design to help rebuild Amsterdam after World War II, and Isamu Noguchi, who designed sculptural
years, as the studio plans on moving into more projects outside of Michigan, the history and specificity of
playscapes. For MAde’s Playful Horizons project, which is now under construction for the First Congregational
place—coupled with the rigors of research—will continue to inform its work. “Our practice engages in places
Church of Battle Creek in Michigan, Maigret and Arquero designed a massive jungle gym for a daycare center
where we can dig in deep and understand the history, the people, and why the physical expression of the place is what it is,” Maigret says. “History is a tool for helping people to understand that a place has always
out of bright orange bars. Unlike a proscriptive environment with single-minded items (think of the ubiquity of
MAde Studio is Liquid Planning Detroit | Architect Magazine | Architects, Urban Desi... undergone change. It’s never static. It’s in yet another moment of transformation.”
flip-able, oversized Tic Tac Toe boards, for example), Playful Horizons hopes to engage the curiosity and
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creativity of children through more abstract structures. “We really wanted pared-down elements that allow for open-ended play,” Maigret says. “This is why we use the word ‘horizons.’ ”
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A rendering of Playful Horizons, a playground currently being constructed for the First Congregational Church of Battle Creek in Michigan.
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MAde Studio
Hydrophilic Hoophouse
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Playful Horizons
Here, a maze of tall and short bright orange bars invites children to climb, to hang, to invent. The architects
MAde Studio
designed the variant sections of the jungle gym at different heights to accommodate toddlers as well as older
Hope Village project design strategies
children, and engineered the ground underneath to be soft enough for safe climbing. The whole structure is
http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/made-studio-is-liquid-planning-detroit_o
meant to look of-a-piece. “We wanted the different sections to feel uniform, so that the younger kids don’t feel relegated to the kid’s table, so to speak, when they climb on the lower-height bars,” Maigret says. MAde Studio may champion new planning tools in thinking about Detroit’s future, but it certainly doesn’t
10-Aug-15 MAde Studio
Calculation of water collection depending on intensity of rain for Hoophouse.
Publications on MAde Studio Design” | Architect, the AIA Magazine ignore the city’s past. History and place play an important role“Watershed in the firm’s design process. In the next five years, as the studio plans on moving into more projects outside of Michigan, the history and specificity of place—coupled with the rigors of research—will continue to inform its work. “Our practice engages in places
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