Tampa Greenway

The Tampa Greenway

Advanced Design B | Halfants | Fall 2021

Nicholas Gascon | Bobby Jiang | Enrique Barnett

The Selmon Expressway has been removed and the space left in its wake provides opportunity to reinvigorate Tampa’s downtown area. A greenway of interconnecting public parks and plazas with a Gondola system overhead will connect Western Ybor to Hyde Park with mixed use highrises along its edges. This urban valley will create a stronger sense of place in Tampa’s downtown and knit together the city once separated by the Selmon Express highway.

Research and Site Analysis

The Selmon Express

Above and to the left shows maps of downtown Tampa with the orange indicating the current location of the Selmon Express Highway and the dotted oranges lines where we propose to break it. With the Selmon removed, other means of transport and passive income generation will have to be considered into the design,

Masterplan

Scale: 1” = 700’

A public greenway surrounded by mixed use midrise and highrises stretches from Western Ybor to Hyde Park with public transit stations located throughout, The main roads on either side of the park have also been shrunk to two lane roads with streetside parking to slow down traffic and provide a safer place for pedestrians. Air gondola stops are also located throughout the park within five minite walking distances of commercial buildings.

- Commercial

- Mixed use

- Institutional

- Transit centers

- Public green space

- Existing

- Hillsborough river

- Roads

Scale Models 1” = 100’

Large scale site showing downtown connection to Hyde Park

Birseye looking East from Hyde Park (C)

Birdseye looking East from river (B)

View looking East from park ampitheater (A)

Scale Models 1” = 40’

Medium scale site model showing central park with surrounding highrise mixed use buildings.

View from park playground looking East (A)

Birseye looking East from Hyde Park (C) Birdseye looking East from river (B)

Scale Models 1” = 40’

Small scale site model showing Hyde Park intervention with plazas enclosed by low rise mixed use buildings.

Birseye looking West (C)

Birdseye looking East (B)

Render from intersection looking West (A)

Final model

Scale: 1” = 40’

Looking South-East

Final model

Scale: 1” = 40’

Looking North-West

Commercial floorplans

Level 1 | Scale: 1”=50’

1 - Residential lobby

2 - Office lobby

3 - Office stairs

4 - Restaurant

5 - Cafe

6 - Plaza

7 - Retail spaces

8 - Garage entrance 9 - Adjacant retail

Perspective looking South-West from park

The mixed use tower stands 212’ tall with the first four floors allocated for retail and and office space, the fifth for ammenities, and the rest for residential. The main residential lobby faces the park with a corner restaurant and the office lobby is tucked behind the facade. Each unit comes with a few bags of seeds and planters so residents may partake in decorating the facade with green.

floorplans

Streetside parking and bike lanes protect the outdoor seating area and pedestrian pathways. The main stairs invite you into the building beneath the overhanging assembly hall with offices overlooking the outdoor ampitheater. The automated parking garage to the South is adjacaent to elevators that connect to each office floor and also provides access for residents to go to their unit.

Perspective looking East (A)

Three stories of office space overlook the plaza keeping it safe it night while retail stores and cafes activate it during the day. The ground floor is shaded by the overhanding towers while letting enough sunlight through to keep it well lit and allow large planting to strive.

Perspective looking West (A)

Commercial floorplans

Perspective of assembly hall looking North towards park.

The office space comes with an assembly hall where the public is invited to partake in the decision making process for the development of downtown Tampa and its surrounding communities.

Commercial floorplans

1 - Main elevator access

2 - Auxiliary elevator

3 - Gym

4 - Fire pit

5 - Pool

6 - Garage rooftop

Level 5 | Scale: 1”=50’

Residents have access to a gym and pool on the fifth floor with views overlooking the greenway . The South Western portion has a rooftop garden with solar panels to power the automated parking garage below.

Perspective looking North-West from parking garage rooftop (A)

Residential floorplans

Level 6 | Scale: 1”=20’

1 - Unit A (3 bed)

2 - Unit B (3 bed)

3 - Unit C (1 bed)

4 - Unit D (1 bed)

5 - Unit E (2 bed)

6 - Unit F (2 bed)

Interlocking residential units float above ammenity space with varying views of the city throughout each unit. Each unit is different with double height spaces in the living and dinning spaces.

Perspective looking East from rooftop pool

Residential floorplans

1 - Unit A (3 bed)

2 - Unit B (3 bed)

3 - Unit C (1 bed)

4 - Unit D (1 bed)

5 - Unit E (2 bed)

6 - Unit F (2 bed)

7 - Unit G (2 bed)

8 - Unit H (3 bed) 9

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Residential towers have circulation every two floors with 12 different unit types. The circulation for each tower ends with a community garden spaces that frame different views of Tampa’s downtown.

Perspective looking North-West from community garden space (A)

Residential floorplans

1 - Unit L (1 bed)

2 - Unit H (3 bed)

3 - Unit B (2 bed)

4 - Unit A (2 bed)

5 - Unit I (3 bed)

6 - Unit G (2 bed)

Level 8 | Scale: 1”=20’

The interlocking unit layout provides views on different sides of the towers. Pushing and pulling parts of the mass creates shaded outdoor balcony spaces for dining and different scales of space in the unit.

Perspective looking North from Unit B’s kitchen

Long Section

North - South | Scale: 1”= 28’

Three towers with communal garden spaces every two floors look out in every direction with bridges connecting it to the automated parking to the South.