Design:
An Interwoven System
Sharpe
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Design: An Interwoven System
Our Past: Systems That We Know Are Failing A Need For Urban Sustainability Chicago: A Lesson in Waste An Aging Infrastructure Energy Consumption Self-Destruction by Design
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The Present: What We Know New Urbanism Knowledge Actual Knowledge Sustainable Paradigm Shift Urban Transportation Systems
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Our Future: Redesigning Design Adaptive Reuse Interiors Objects
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Activation Through Interiors
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Old Colony
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References
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ur Past:
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ystems
Chapter 1 That We Know Are Failing
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A Need for Urban Sustainablility
Eco Conscience
Design in the 21st century has developed an eco-conscience. Cradle-to-cradle is not a philosophy; it is a reality in the practice of design. Products that we use all have a life cycle, and unfortunately, many find resting places within landfills. Some products are designed to lessen their environmental impact. Waste has been a part of design historically, but designers can control how a space is designed in order to decrease the amount of waste. In order to prevent overuse of raw materials and keep products from finding a grave in a landfill, designers must consider what they choose to put in and take out of a space.
The Past: Failing Systems
Chicago
A Lesson in Waste
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According to a 2009 capacity report released by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Chicago only has one active landfill and it has less than 3 years of remaining capacity. Located south of Chicago city limits, it is in Dolton, a village in Cook County (Lee 2010). [1]
Chicago also has waste driven to Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana (Pardes 2010). “Metropolitan dumps in Cook and eight other neighboring counties have about 10 years of disposal capacity remaining — the lowest number in the state — according to data released Feb. 18 by the Illinois EPA’s Landfill Capacity Report” (Pardes 2010). [2] The Past: Failing Systems
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The Past: Failing Systems
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Aging
Infrastructure
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Our Infrastructure is powered by oil and natural gas. We do not have alternate systems in place to meet our current consumption. Many experts believe we have hit peak oil. The Past: Failing Systems
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Self Destruction by Design?
E
verything we use in this life has been birthed in design. Designed systems intertwine with one another. Every object that we use from our silverware, clothes, chairs, cars, TVs, doors, houses, shoes, etc. has been designed. We don’t exist without Design.
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We have designed systems that depend on one another to exist. Cities are built with systems that power them, feed them, and sustain its inhabitants. Goods are brought into cities by planes, trucks, and trains. What if there were no oil to power these machines? How would goods be brought to urban settings? How will inhabitants get fed? If there is a break in the system, what impact will that have on the system as a whole? Can we exist off a grid in a urban setting? Our systems are designed to connect with one another. Systems have a trickle effect on one another when one breaks down. This past century of inhabitants has developed faster than any other, but at what costs? Are we designing ourselves out of existence?
The Past: Failing Systems
Out with the OLD in with the NEW?
The Present: What We Know
Chapter 2
New Urbanism Transit Oriented Developments
Community Connection
Locating basic needs within walking distance Traffic Calming
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Know·ledge
“It is often commented the modern society is smart, but not wise... that we know how to do lots of things right, but we don’t necessarily do the right things”[5]
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The Present: What We Know
ac路tu路al knowledge 1 : Direct and clear cognizance of a circumstance or fact, resulting from information that would lead a reasonable, prudent person to investigate further. [5]
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“We are still in the habit of regarding the city as a man-made object on a field of nature. What is needed is a radically different idea of the city - one that presents a synthesis of both the man-made and the natural. “ [7]
The Present: What We Know
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“If you LOOK at a map of the United States and view the areas that have been designated preserved parkland, a bizarre image starts to emerge. You realize these are precarious islands of intelligence in a sea of stupidity.� [8]
The Present: What We Know
Gulf Oil Spill, Exo Ice Caps, Global bage patch, GM Oil Spill, Exon Va Caps, Global Wa Valdez, Polar Ice In just over a century, we have succeded in living longer than any generation before us, but we have also suceeded in causing the most damage to the planet that sustains our lives.
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on Valdez, Polar l Warming, GarMO’s,Gulf Oil Gulf aldez, Polar Ice armiSpill, Exon e Caps, Global The Great Atlantic Garbage Patch [9]
Sustainable Paradigm Shift:
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“What is a paradigm? It is a dominant way of seeing the world, so embedded in our thinking that we don’t or can’t even consider alternatives.” ...“Green buildings represent a major paradigm shift in architecture, engineering construction, and development.” [10]
Respecting nature and designing with “nature in mind.�
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Urban Systems
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train TRA
Urban Transportation
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bike BIKE bike
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Taxi TAXI Taxi The Present: What We Know
Chapter 3:The Future REdesigning Design
“Major Change by Design or Change to Design?�
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Structures
Adaptive Reuse Repurposing Designs From The Past Preserving History Redefining Use The Future: REdesigning Design
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Interiors The Future: REdesigning Design
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Objects
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Activation
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Old Colony Building 1893-1894
17 Story Office Building Holabird & Roche
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Programs
LEVEL 1: MICROBREW BAR AND HOTEL LOBBY
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Weaving City Streets into an Interior
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“L” Level Lounge Public Transportation Access from Brown Line Platform
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The Polish Triangle was the center of Polish Downtown starting in the late 1800’s. Today it is being called the gateway to Wicker Park.
A Collaborative Project Michelle Sharpe Stephanie Geurkink Jessica Holub Lauren Stewart
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According to CTA statistics, over 5,000 people pass through the Polish Triangle daily. Proposals to date for 1601 W Division have not met transit oriented zoning, nor adhered to the needs of the neighborhood or this historic corner.
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Activating site through performance.
Activating site through communitcation with the masses.
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Activating site through performance.
References
Design: An Interwoven System
Quotes: [1] Lee
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[2] Pardes
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[5] Knowledge
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[6] Actual Knowledge
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[7] Man Made
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Lee, Joyce “Public and private approaches to Chicago waste.” English.xinhuanet.com. (July 16, 2010). (accessed August 11, 2010). http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2010-07/16/c_111963221.htm
Pardes, Zachary, “Packed landfills stink – for taxpayers, environment.” Medill News Service.com. (February, 25, 2010). http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=158446 (accessed August 11, 2010).
Yudelson, Jerry, Green Building A to Z. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2007. (Page 101)
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/actual-knowledge.html
Tilder, Lisa and Beth Blostein, Design Ecologies: Essays on the Nature of Design. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.(Page 24)
[8] Stupidity
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Tilder, Lisa and Beth Blostein, Design Ecologies: Essays on the Nature of Design. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.(Page 24)
[10] Paradigm Shift
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[11] Respecting Nature
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[12] Major Change by Design
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Yudelson, Jerry, Green Building A to Z. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2007. (Page 130)
Yudelson, Jerry, Green Building A to Z. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2007. (Page 125)
Tilder, Lisa and Beth Blostein, Design Ecologies: Essays on the Nature of Design. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.(Page 24)
Images [3] Oil Well
[4] Energy Charts
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http://www.myklgr.com
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/
[9] Garbage Patch
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[3] Oil Barrel Furniture - Francois Royer
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http://planetsave.com/2010/04/16/second-garbage-patch-confirmed-in-atlantic-ocean/
http://www.stanker.fr/en/stanker/85-FAT-BOB-4-LE-COXX.html
[14] Oil Barrels http://66.28.216.163/blog/index.php?entry=entry071101-064627
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[15] Old Refridgerators
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Mark Traverso http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcotraverso/2818950960/