Net-Works (NYIT D5 - Fall 2009)

VALPARAI S O , c h i l e Nickolas Batis Design V - Fall 09 Prof. Heid

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PORT & TERMINAL Creating a Cruise port terminal on the city’s shore to help build Valparaiso as a “Destination city” for tourists. The port would consist of a mixed use program such as various Cultural, Nightlife, and Hotel spaces along with the Main Port Program. Linking these programmatic elements, would be an organic and complex circulation system much like the kind that’s found in Valparaiso’s hills.

THE RAVINES In our project area, we would develop new “sky” communities which fed off of existing communities’ locations. They would nestle within the Ravines of Valparaiso. Towers would be placed which consisted of new housing and necessary programs for a community to function such as community centers, educational and recreational facilities, etc. The “sky” communities are linked through a system of bridges attached from the hills to the towers.

This way, the locals from existing communities are able to access and use the new interventions. New Funiculars raise the pedestrians from the street level to the new communities within the hills.

S H O R E LAN D S CAP E As of now, the waterfront has limited accessibility due to a large wall blocking it and a metro train running right along it above ground. In solving this issue we implemented a “strip landscape� along the shore which welcomes tourists directly off of the Port and activates the shoreline for the existing local community. It also contains a mixed various use program which caters to people of all ages. The landscape connects the existing city by raising over the the train at several access points and again making its way back to the ground.

VALPARAI S O , c h i l e We would begin the design problem in Valparaiso, Chile by splitting up between groups and exploring different issues of the city independently. From the conclusions we would draw in Chile, we’d then assemble back into our groups of three and prepare a formal urban proposal for the city of Valparaiso.