Jobs, Justice and Climate- Redevelopment of North DeKalb Mall, Urban Design Studio-Spring 2021

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North Dekalb Redevelopment To promote Health and Wellbeing by creating a mixed- use, walkable, diverse neighborhood. Team: Sakshi Nanda, Vitor Leite Goncalves, Zhexin Yu


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What if the North DeKalb Mall was a mixed-use, healthy, and walkable neighborhood for all? The mall was an important gathering space for DeKalb County for fifty years. Like many malls, it is no longer living up to its full potential. What if the mall property revived as a vibrant town center with parking lots transformed into green gathering spaces? Seventy- five percent of residents in the three census tracts are one or two person households, yet almost all of the housing is single-family. This does not allow downsizing seniors to age in the community. Nor does it allow the high percentage of singleparent households to share parenting easily. We address this need by providing diverse housing and gathering spaces. At the same time, higher density housing supports a walkable, healthier, and affordable neighborhood. This contributes to health and affordability as sixtysix percent of people drive thirty to forty miles daily and spend a higher proportion of their income on travel. The project aims to promote affordability, health, and sustainability by redeveloping the mall with outdoor gathering spaces, a healthy food forest, and a parking district. The parking district’s garages are designed to be retrofittable in the future so the community can be car-free.

In the face of climate change, we want to be a demonstration project for Dekalb County of meeting the 2030 Challenge by committing to reduce the total energy consumption of buildings by thirty percent before 2030. By optimizing building massing, orientation, design, and construction quality (higher insulation, airtightness, and fewer number of thermal bridges) this redevelopment project increases the energy efficiency without any significant addition to the initial cost of its buildings. We are also addressing sustainability and resiliency through stormwater management. The plan revives the original topography, creates retention ponds and a comfortable microclimate.


MARKET OPPORTUNITY

75% 35.3%

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Children Living with single parent Total Population 1,396 for the three tracts

6.3% 2.6%

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2.6% Number of people per household

Total Population 7,936 for the three tracts

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Social Explorer Tables: ACS 2019 (5-Year Estimates) (SE), ACS 2019 (5-Year Estimates), Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau

39.3% 46.8%

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Children Living with single parent

Seventy-five percentage of residents in the There is a high proportion of single-parent households. Total Population 1,396 parent for the three tracts Children Living with single three census tracts are one or two person USA Total Population 1,396 for the three tracts households, yet almost all of the housing is single family. Social Explorer Tables: ACS 2019 (5-Year Estimates) (SE), ACS 2019 (5-Year Estimates), Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau

6.3% 2.6%

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Age Group of people

There is a need toTotal plan a neighborhood for all age groups. Population 18,674 for the three tracts Under 18

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Social Explorer Tables: ACS 2019 (5-Year Estimates) (SE), ACS 2019 (5-Year Estimates), Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau

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53.7% neral Health ondition(%)

46.3% Georgia: 48.0%

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HEALTH OPPORTUNITY

badly about themselves Panthersville: 18.9% Georgia: 20.8%

Average BMI Panthersville: 30.6 Georgia: 29.0

hersville, Georgia, city data

People not drinking alcohol at all North Dekalb: 11.8% Georgia: 11.0%

Health Diet Rate North Dekalb: 52.0% Georgia: 48.0%

Health and Nutrition

Number of convenienceNumber of conve stores(no gas): 6 stores(no gas): 60 North Dekalb: North Dekalb: 0.82 /10,000 pop. 0.82 /10,000 pop. Georgia: Georgia: 0.86 /10,000 pop. 0.86 /10,000 pop.

29.9% 29.9% 34.8% 34.8% People Walking Obesity Obesity People Walking or Bicycling(%) Rate(%) Rate(%) or Bicycling(%)

HEALTH HEALTH Diet Health(%) DATA

People feeling badly about themselves

57.6% General Health 57.6% Condition(%)General Health

52.0% 52.0% Diet Health(%)

North Dekalb: 19.8% Georgia: 20.8%

DATA

23.9%

Average BMI

People who have little interest23.9% in doing things (%)

North Dekalb: 28.2 Georgia: 29.0

Condition(%)

9.7% Diabetics(%)

People who have little interest in doing things (%)

9.7% Diabetics(%)

Social Explorer Tables: North Decatur, Georgia, city data

Social Explorer Tables: North Decatur, Georgia, city data

Number of Number of convenience stores(with gas): convenience FOODgas): stores(with 259 North Dekalb: 3.53 /10,000 pop. Georgia: 5.12 /10,000 pop.

Number of full-service restaurants: 520

FOOD ENVIRONMENT 259 ENVRIONMENT STATISTICS North Dekalb: North Dekalb: 3.53 /10,000 pop. Georgia: 5.12 /10,000 pop.

Number of grocery stores: 128

North Dekalb: 1.75/10,000 pop. Georgia: 1.91/10,000 pop.

7.09 /10,000 pop. STATISTICS Georgia: 7.41 /10,000 pop.

Number of grocery stores: 128

North Dekalb: 1.75/10,000 pop. Georgia: 1.91/10,000 pop.

Social Explorer Tables: North Dekalb, Georgia, city data

Health annd nutrition datas are not very good but also 52.0% not bad while compared with Georgia.

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The health data in North Dekalb shows different aspects, such as diet health and general health condition. 57.6%

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Only the number of convenience stores with gas Social Explorer T station is lower than Georgia.


BIG IDEA

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

MENTAL HEALTH

BIOPHILLIA COMMUNITY INTERACTION

PHYSICAL HEALTH WALKABILITY HEALTHY FOOD

PUBLIC HEALTH

HEALTH

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EFFICIENT DAYLIGHT OPEN SPACES AIR QUALITY


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Walkable, bikeable, healthy town center with an aim to reduce car dependency in the near future.

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WELLBEING COMMERCIAL

Providing diverse housing for all age groups with access to efficient day light, gathering space and active street fronting retail at the ground level.

HOUSING

TRANSIT H E A LT H

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Open space to encourage a space for performance, learning activities, farmer’s market to promote a holistic lifestyle.

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URBAN FRAMEWORK The network of streets are planned with a special focus on the central square and the tactical crossings around it. The grid is derived from the existing Birch Road, Oak Tree Road.

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BUS ROUTE

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Parking District is a multi-use structure with retail on the ground, housing/commercial on top with a central parking garage. The roof top has a potential for garden and solar panels. There are 3 parking structures that can accomodate 1800 cars and will host the shared cars and electric charging points.


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The form based Regulatory Plan highlights the significant natural and civic zones.

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REGULATORY PLAN

The community garden and the food forest on the southern side welcomes people from the vicinity to participate in the events.

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HIGH-DENSITY CHOICE

Overall perspective showing a dense neighborhood with high story mixed use apartment buildings, commercial and townhomes. 24 |Georgia Institute of Technology// North Dekalb Redevelopment // Spring 2021


LOW-DENSITY CHOICE

Imagining the neighborhood with a low density on a similar scheme. This would be an opportunity for later phasing the project vertically. 26 |Georgia Institute of Technology// North Dekalb Redevelopment // Spring 2021


SITE SECTIONS

Safety Living

Gathering

Rooftop Farms Lawrenceville Hwy

Central Square

Town Homes

Mixed-use

Parking Garage

Townhomes to Parking Garage EW Scale 1’’=150’

Sitting Talking

Educational Events

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Retail & Commerical (Health Care)

Central Square

Urban Street to Food Forest NS Scale 1’’=150’

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Amphitheatre

Civic

Food Forest


TYPICAL SECTION

Walk

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Major road typical section includes pedestrian, bike lane, and drive way. The green buffer helps in conveying and carrying the water to the retention ponds across the site.

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Walk

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Secondary road typical section includes a wider pedestrian, and drive way. Because on this type, traffice volume would be not too busy, so instead of creating another lane for bike it acts as a shared street.


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Existing Public Space

Green Space: 115080 sqft Gathering Space:664273 sqft Total 779353 sqft 32 |Georgia Institute of Technology// North Dekalb Redevelopment // Spring 2021

Proposed Public Space

60% Edible Landscape (food forest, community garden) 10% Water Landscape (retention pond) Total 1511050 sqft

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20% Gathering Spaces (event space, market space, recreation and health, work, eat) 10% Micro Gardens in between the buildings (courtyard spaces)

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FOOD COMPARISON

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Food Court

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Decatur’s Kitchen Garden

Columbia Theological Seminary Garden

Shamrock Forest

Columbia Presbyterian Church Garden

Druid Hills Middle School Shamrock Forest

Existing Fast Food

Surrounding Community Garden

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Kroger Dekalb Elementary School of the Arts

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Existing Parking

Ground Area: 1148494 sqft Parking Spots: 3235 Ratio: 355 sqft/spots 36 |Georgia Institute of Technology// North Dekalb Redevelopment // Spring 2021

Proposed Parking

Ground Area: 206884 sqft Parking Spots: 1800 Ratio: 115 sqft/spots

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RETROFITTABLE GARAGE (SMALL)

A place for cars to a space for community.

Multi-purpose space-farmer’s market, performances, exhibits with natural light source. Scale 1’’=50’

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OUTDOOR COMFORT PERFORMANCE

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• Some green spaces surrounded by buildings are generally more comfortable due to the shading that those buildings provide during the summer.

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Proposed Outdoor Comfort

We consider outdoor comfort and walkability one of the biggest selling points of our proposal. These UTCI simulations enable us to predict what would be the “feel-like temperature” of spaces located outdoors. By doing these simulations we identified problem areas and added mitigation strategies, such as trees. 42 |Georgia Institute of Technology// North Dekalb Redevelopment // Spring 2021

• Adding trees in open spaces that do not have immediate buildings around, such as the central square, can create more comfortable environments during the summer.


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Option 1 - Public Buildings Option 2 - Commercial + Residential

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6.6ft x 3.3ft 19.5% 0.75 31.5%

Average Price of Energy in Georgia Average Energy CO2 Emissions in Georgia

$0.10/kWh 0.762 kgCO2e/kWh

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Option One: Public Buildings

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594,131 kg CO2e

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Proposed Solar System

The estimate of energy generation, financial savings and avoided carbon emissions was calculated for two different scenarios. One where PV panels were installed only at Public Buildings (Civic Buildings &Parking Decks), and the other where PV panels were isntalled at Commercial and Residential Buildings


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Total Gross Area: 831,422 sf Site Average EUI: 68.45 kBTU/sf Total Energy Usage: 56,900,001 kBTU

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Cooling Energy - kBtu/ft²

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Total Gross Area: 2,573,877 sf Site Average EUI: 45.85 kBTU/sf Total Energy Usage: 118,012,260 kBTU

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DAYLIGHTING PERFORMANCE ls id Hil

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Useful Daylight Illuminance considers within range any part of the building receiving between 100lux and 2000lux

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The existing mall, due to the lack of apartures and the higher depth of the building, have a significant problem with the lack of natural daylight. Skylights located along the middle of the building are the only source of natural daylight but are still insufficient to make this a well daylit this building. 48 |Georgia Institute of Technology// North Dekalb Redevelopment // Spring 2021

Daylight Automony considers within range any part of the building receiving more than 300lux

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Useful Daylight Illuminance considers within range any part of the building receiving between 100lux and 2000lux

Our proposal considers natural daylight fundamental, not only because of the energy efficiency, but also for the well-being of the population living within the development. All residential and commercial buildings were simulated to make sure that people occupying the space will be able to enjoy this perk.


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Total Roof Area: 73,953sf Total Rainwater falling on the roofs: 1,840,812gallons/yr

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Total Roof Catchment Area: 64,352sf Proposed Space Gross Area: 24,005sf Harvested Rainwater: 1,601,843gallons/yr Water Usage per week: 0.623gallon/sf Total Water Usage: 780,665gallons/yr

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The site topography is graded to aid in a system of surface runoff and collection through a network of conveyance streets and retention ponds. The major streets act as conveyance streets, have green buffer which acts as a sponge system in soaking and sending the water to the ponds.

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PROJECT PHASING

The community corner is an experimental place to help people cross

safely between the mall site, Publix and eating spaces. - Primarily acts as a waiting space with activities like free library, chairs, temporary shading.

PHASE 1 TACTICAL APPROACH Before demolishing the mall it is important to attract people to our site, the community garden and make it an accessible place. Using two tactical measures would help in making the place active.

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The Healthy Matrix is an approach to transform the parking lots into a

community-owned space with a diverse set of activities. - Community participatory approach (sell your specialities) - Healthy Food trucks - Eating spaces and movie screening - Children play area incorporating food as a learning practice - Community garden on the south and Decatur Farmers’ market can set up mini markets on Sundays


PHASE 2 DEFINING THE CENTRAL SQUARE The mall would be demolished and the parcels facing the North Druid hills would be developed first. The street grid is derived from the two existing major streets with a focus on establishing the central square. One of the three parking garages would be developed to serve the north portion of the site.

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PHASE 3 DEVELOPING AROUND THE SQUARE The blocks around the Central Square would be developed along with the three parking districts (followed by other blocks) The community garden will be supported with the food forest and trail on the west and south edges. The parking garages will be completely retrofiitted in the next 60 years with an aim to achieve a complete walkable district.

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CENTRAL SQUARE 2

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1 A healthy environment for children to learn outdoors and at a walkable distance. Observe-Learn and Play!

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The Civic building’s plaza provides an opportunity to host local food and farmer’s market. A place for temporal, pop-up events in the neighborhood.


The Art Square would be a community led initiative and would act as a platform for local artists to share their knowledge.


CENTRAL SECTION

This street can be transformed to an only pedestrian and bike street and the events could spill on to the streets.

The section shows the activities through the Central Square and the civic building.

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SECTION 1 Scale 1’’=100’

SECTION 2 Scale 1’’=100’


OPPORTUNITY PROPOSAL Approach

Year 1

Year 10

Farming

1.Edible plants, Herb garden 2.Educational signages, events

1.Food forest 2.Rooftop farms 3.High tech growing systems

Kitchen and processing

1.Outdoor cooking areas (weekends)

1.Culinary facility (civic building) 2.One of the parking garage converts to a food processing and growing facility

Storage and supply

1.Temporary shelters 1.Prospective food hub 2.Central square facilities farmer’s market (on site) 3.Supply to the nearby food networks like Global Growers, Food well Alliance

Temporary partners (locals)

1.Food trucks 2.Food stalls

Outreach initiatives

1.Food organizations, schools, residents, county events 2.Marta can propose a weekend route from the vicinity to the food forest 3.Community garden tours, cooking programs 4.Volunteer and learning events

Design

1.Pergolas, tents, outdoor-movable and locally sourced furniture

1.Street fronting healthy food stores, restaurants, green grocers

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Community Garden Partnership Prospect


FOODSCAPING LANDSCAPE SECTION

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Water Patio



TRAIL NETWORK Shamrock Forest

Shamrock Forest

Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve Community Garden Medlock Park

Little Creek Farm

Trail View

Washington Memorial Gardens Tobie Grant Park

Trail Connection Map

Connecting our site to South Peachtree Creek Trail.

Decatur Cemetery

Glenn Creek Nature Preserve

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Patio View


APPENDIX


SITE POTENTIAL


TACTICAL URBANISM


THE COMMUNITY CORNER

Corsswalk art Parklets

Neon light

Existing sit-out space

The community corner is an experimental place to help people cross from the mall site to the near by Publix and eating spaces. The crosswalk art would be a temporary project led by Atlanta Street Art map and will change with different themes. Primarily acts as a waiting space with activities like free library, chairs, temporary shading. The parking area next to Checkers would act as a parklet in conjunction to the existing outdoor seating, and act as a waiting space with food outside.

Potential Partners

1.Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) 2. Public works Transportation division- Dekalb County 3. Checker’s and Global Corral 4. Project for Public Spaces 5. Little Free Library 6. Atlanta Street art map`

Parklets

CROSSWALK PAINTING IDEA


Stripe ​lights

Parklets

Outdoor sitting

Neon Lights

Crosswalk Art:Atlanta Street Art Map

Outdoor sitting

Free wifi available

Little free library

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Outdoor sitting

Red chairs

Food kiosks

Piano idea

Music swing


HEALTH MATRIX Screen to Project Movie Nights, Community Meetings

Health Food Trucks, Decatur Farmers’ Market Produce

Visualizing the community food iniatives along with temporal activities like movie screening, recreational events and play spaces

Eating Zone

The Healthy matrix is an approach to transform the parking lots into a community-owned space with a diverse set of activities. -Community participatory approach (sell your specialities) -Healthy Food trucks - Eating spaces and movie screening -Children play area incorporating food as a learning practice -Community garden on the south and Decatur Farmers' market can set up mini markets on Sundays

Art: Atlanta Street Art Map

Potential Partners

1.Neighborhood Planning Unit (NPU) 2. Project for Public Spaces 3. Atlanta Street art map 4. AGLANTA 5. AMC-outdoor iniatitve 6. Healthy Foodtrucks 7. Decatur Farmer’s Market


Lights Harvest and Local produce

Screen Playing Zone

Eating Zone PAINTING PARKING LOTS

Food Trucks and Seatings

Decatur Farmer’s Market

Fresh Produce from Community Garden


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