Evolving the Craftsman

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What is a machine?

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Input Output

In many cases, the heavy manufacturing industries that settled in over time were the machines that drove these cities to their fortunes and riches. These machines were the original stimulus behind urban growth (both residential and commercial) along such infrastructural corridors as the rail lines, highways and the Mississippi River.

Systematic

Efficiency / Work

These three sets of terms break down the technical meaning behind the word machine. However in relation to St. Louis and other industrial settings alike, this word can represent a large part of that city’s history and identity.

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of manufacturing jobs outsourced globally St. Louis Key Industrial Cities Key Outsourced Locations

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Ironically, the industries that once acted as the machines for manufacturing in the city and ultimately the movement of capital for a large portion of the city, began to decline due to a variety of factors. Arguably the most prominent being the lucrative nature of some of these industries looking to outsource their jobs locally(in the short term) and eventually moving to the global scale.

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Efficiency / Work

Q: How can we redesign these neglected spaces that the cities once thrived off of, to reintroduce a public overlay with some of these historically rich areas to maintain the culture and identity and recreate this lost sense of vibrancy? 11


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man + machine

In the past 50 years, there has been a growing disconnect between these industrial spaces and humanity. Dynamic spaces that were originally formed on human interaction and function have slowly turned into static architecture created to ser ve the sole purpose of housing machines. Many of these spaces within the city have star ted to decline because of the lack of necessity.

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Q: How can we reverse this condition and create architecture that starts to create a public overlay with these disconnected spaces? Q: How can we reintroduce the presence of craftsmen and create a place for learning and sharing?


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While industrial production in the city has increased steadily in the past 50 years, manufacturing jobs have actually declined. This was primarily due to the introduction of machines. While in many senses they are introduced to aid humanity, they at the same time allow industries to become more lucrative at the expense of humans. 14

Due to this shift of occupants, buildings started to be designed for the machines they housed rather than focusing on the needs of the humans. This started to create a riff in the relationship these sites had with their environment.


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Q: How can we redefine the roles and relationships of machines and craftsmen to empower a generation with skill sets and opportunities?

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Historically Industrial Setting Roles

Craftsmen + Create quality products to meet an external demand Machines + Aid craftsmen in productivity and create a safer environment for workers - Loss in interaction with craft. Role changed towards overlooking and managing versus creating and craftng

Machines as Industry + Through the input of raw materials and man power an output is created in the form of a product. The range of positive impact goes from the jobs that are created for the community as well as the final products that reach consumers.

- Negative impacts may include the

environmental footprint the industry leaves behind during its life cycle and the fact that its outputs’ life cycle is short term. The product simply ends with the consumer.

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Reinterpreted Industrial Setting Roles

Craftsmen + Create quality products + Teach younger disadvantaged generations

their skillsets + Machines Serve purely as tools to aid in teaching and production while keeping the craftsmen in charge.

Machines as People + Through the input of skills learned and then passed down by craftsmen an output is created not only in the form of quality products but also in the form of apprentices learning new trades and skill sets. The positive impacts range from jobs and overall opportunities for those in disadvantaged situations to also creating a place to help link the urban fabric together

+ Since this is not a case of mass production in a factory setting, the environmental issues that are presented in the historical industrial settings are eliminated from the start. Also another benefit is that the impact of the “product� has a larger range than the previous setting. Apprentices become skilled craftsmen who can then pass on their newly learned skills and knowledge creating a ripple effect.

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What defines rhythm?

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Movement

Direction

Vibrancy

Rhythm when successfully introduced can be expressed through movement and direction to create a certain vibrancy that resuscitates life and energy back into a declining environment. Arguably the factor that keeps such industries alive when they were in their original production period and the factor that can potentially reintroduce a certain vigor into these historically rich areas. 23


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Early city centers were usually clustered around industrial areas. With the introductions of infrastructure such as rail lines and highways, people started to be drawn out of the city to pursue these newly created jobs.

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What is a network?

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Communication

Circulation

The effective combination of different channels of communication and locomotion which are principally conceived of as circuits for directing flows. Developed through basic parameters of connectivity aimed at regulating in functional layers, different programs and flows start to fuse and interchange.

Complexity

These three terms, machine, rhythm and network come together and operate as a holistic system in which through inputs and outputs create a transformation, spatially and functionally to reinterpret these declining spaces that were once the drivers behind the city and introduce new mechanistic ideals to revitalize such places.

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Site Criteria

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Anchors located near activated spaces in the community that may act as drivers for potential development.

Abandoned underutilized or abandoned industrial land

Attractors drivers that will attract the public community to the area. Preferably located on the Mississippi Rivers edge.

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Food Recreation Commercial Education Residential Industrial

Carondelet Coke Plant

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Over time, the amount of contamination grew larger and larger as various companies moved in and out over time. Ultimately costing $13.2 million of tax payers money towards the remediating of the site.

Historically Rich Area underutilized or abandoned industrial land located near activated spaces such as residential or commercial areas located in an area near the river in hopes to reconnect city to river’s edge

1902-1950 Laclede Gas and Light Company $471,250

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1950-1982 Great Lakes Carbon Coke Plant Carbon $471,250

1982-1989 Carondelet Coke Plant

1989-Present Abandoned


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Industrial 400 ft.

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526 East Catalan Street

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Creating Opportunities

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1 High School over 42.2% DOR

Multiple High Schools over 30% DOR

St. Louis Metropolitan Average Though Missouri as a whole fairs better than the National Average, there are dramatic flunctuations in drop out rates within the various urban and metropolitan areas such as Kansas City and St. Louis. Drop out rates in St. Louis have steadily increased since 2003 Within the Proximity of St. Louis County and the Metropolitan area the dropout rate ranges from the extreme of 0.1 % all the way to 42.2 %

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teach

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share

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automation + training


Commercial + Residential mix

Business Park Commercial + Residential mix

Entertainment 47


Classrooms

Workshops

Galleries

Living component for craftsmen and students

Studio Spaces

Public space + Display component Off site workshops

Lab Spaces

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Storage Facilities Offices

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Business Park Commercial + Residential mix

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Through this three part system of teach, create, and share a transformation can be created in both the site conditions and the output of the introduced architecture.

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Potential lots for expansion

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Creating an Incubator

Create new Street Frontage

Link into Urban Fabric Provide Access to River Des Peres and the Mississippi River Riverfront

Expandable Land

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New [Business] Communities


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32,000 sq ft

2 x 10,000 sq ft

3 x 2,000 sq ft

6 x 1,000 sq ft

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Housing Typologies

Classroom + Lab Spaces Flexible Lab Space

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16 x 1,000 sq ft

64,000 sq ft

8x 4,000 sq ft

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8x 2,000 sq ft


Office Typologies

Studio + Workshop Typologies 59


64,000 sq ft

6 x 1,000 sq ft

4 x 10,000 sq ft

6 x 3,000 sq ft

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Gallery Typologies

Public Space + Display Component

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Classrooms [6 x 1,000 sq ft] Lecture Space Research Material Space Communal Demonstration Space

Lab Spaces [3x 2,000 sq ft] Lecture Space Demonstration Space Equipment Storage Active Workspace

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38% Hybrid Typology


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Living Quarters [2x 10,000 sq ft] Single and Multi unit modules Communal space Amenities

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Flexible typology


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Offices

[16x 1,000 sq ft]

Single and Multi unit modules Communal space Amenities

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open floor plan


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Studios [8x 2,000 sq ft] Single and Multi unit modules Compact / Efficient

Workshops

[8x 4,000 sq ft]

Flexible Workspace Demonstration Space Equipment Storage Lecture Space

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Gallery Space [6x 1,000 sq ft] Versatile Space Compact

Gallery Space [6x 3,000 sq ft] Flexible Display Space Open Floor plan Lecture Space

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flexible Display space


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Public Space + Display [4x 10,000 sq ft] Versatile Space Multipurpose Furniture + Space

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Exploring Potential Networks

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Radial Formations based on a series of anchors within the complex. This type of organization allows for flexibility amongst various programs. Ultimately creating dynamic and unique opportunities. 76


Clusters Formations based on unique island like groupings that share a central common space. Allows for a potential of blurring formal boundaries and creating opportunities for spontaneous informal activity. 77





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