PACKING HOUSE: THE NEW EDU-FACTORY A PROJECT FOR THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE MD IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND ZONING OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE MD AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SCIENCE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
PACKING HOUSE: THE NEW EDU-FACTORY
We would like to thank Vikki Chanse of the University of Maryland and her architectural landscape students along with Anne D. Roane of the City of Cambridge, Department of Public Works for the collaboration and for involving us in this project.
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PACKING HOUSE: THE NEW EDU-FACTORY
The following is a conceptual design for the adaptive reuse of the Phillips Packing House, a former industrial facility located in Cambridge, Maryland. The Phillips Packing House played an important role in the economy and social history of the town. This project attempts to reinvent the existing building and to revitalize its significance in the community.
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TERRITORIAL NETWORK
BALTIMORE
CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE - WYE MILLS CAMPUS WASHINGTON DC
CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE - EASTON CAMPUS
CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE - CAMBRIDGE CAMPUS
PHILLIPS PACKAGING COMPANY
SALISBURY SCHOOL
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By accommodating new studio spaces, classrooms and performing art venues, the intervention at the Packing House will reinforce the existing cultural network among schools in a vast territory. The new children’s museum, addressing all ages and a diversity of users, will establish the central role of the revitalized structure as a cultural point of reference for the communities living in the region.
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URBAN BALANCE
PERCEPTION SCHEME
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Cambridge, MD today. Scheme shows existing routes of perceived urban experience.
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NEW URBAN BALANCE
PERCEPTION SCHEME
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Scheme shows the Packing House in solid red and the projected extension of the urban core toward the intervention. The Packing House once played a crucial role in the economic and civic history of Cambridge. Its scale alone makes it one of the most significant structures in the city.
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NEW URBAN CONNECTIONS
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New urban connections are created through natural features, both existing (Water) and new (Urban Park). Scheme shows intervention in solid red, and with hatching, the new Urban Park by the University of Maryland Landscape Architecture Students under the supervision of Professor Vikki Chanse.
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LANDMARKS
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Landmarks (such as religious buildings, water reservoirs, visitor’s center, factory employees housing districts, Ocean Gateway Bridge, significant dismissed industrial buildings, the outstanding natural features of Cambridge ‌) have the potential to represent the infrastructure, both physical and cultural, through which the urban territory of Cambridge can be reinterpreted. This territory is blessed with beautiful nature, and is rooted in the distinctive industrial and civic history of the City of Cambridge. The adaptive re-use project for the Phillips Packing House and the conversion of the respective industrial campus into an urban park are to be part of the reinterpretation process suggested above.
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DISPLACEMENT
1h m 31
WASHINGTON DC 1h4
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Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
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Cambridge Dorchester Regional Airport
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Scheme shows travel time from project site respectively: - By car: straight lines - By walk: circles
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CHRONOLOGICAL MAPS
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CHRONOLOGICAL MAPS
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CATALOGUE
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CATALOGUE
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VIGNETTES
The Packing House presents different levels of decay, from abandoned structure to ruin. In some areas the distinction between natural surrounding and existing building is gone, as nature is “digesting” back the building.
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COLLAGE
In the project the integration of building/nature becomes an important feature of the new intervention as well. Coherently, the remains of the industrial era populating the park, recall the repertoire of follies found in a romantic landscape.
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CONCEPT
Ideas: - New Urban Park as a showcase of the industrial history of Cambridge - Packing House as an inhabited ruin - Packing House as a feature of the landscape
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PACKING HOUSE - EXISTING
ENVELOPE
BOUNDARIES
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STRUCTURAL GRID
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PACKING HOUSE - PROPOSED Courtyards and Green Features Existing wall covered in wild climbing plants. Could be maintained or improved
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B. C.
2ND FLOOR
1ST FLOOR
Three courtyards allow for natural light and natural ventilation at the core of the building. Water features, along with landscaping, can be incorporated in the courtyards to improve cooling through evaporation in the warm seasons. Green walls will also be considered for selected locations. Respectively: - Toward north for cooling in summer, and for generating cross-ventilation through building - On the other orientations, as natural brise-soleil. Selection of plants should consider coverage in summer, and relative transparency in winter Courtyards dimensions: Courtyard A: 45ft (l) 14ft (w) 25ft (h) Courtyard B: 70ft (l) 16ft (w) 25ft (h) Courtyard C: 26ft (l) 14ft (w) 25ft (h)
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PACKING HOUSE - PROPOSED Public Circulation and Accesses
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B.
2ND FLOOR C.
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1ST FLOOR
A – Main access to: - Children’s Museum - Public Library B– - - - etc.
Public passage from Dorchester Avenue to new Urban Park Main entrance to Chesapeake college facilities Public access to studio spaces when open for art exhibits, art performances, conferences
C – Public portico along Dorchester Avenue
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PACKING HOUSE - PROPOSED Children’s Museum
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2ND FLOOR
1ST FLOOR
First floor: - Children’s Museum: Second floor: - Children’s Museum: - Museum’s administrative offices:
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9,460 sf 3,534 sf 1,896 sf
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PACKING HOUSE - PROPOSED Cultural Spaces
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B.
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C.
2ND FLOOR
1ST FLOOR Potential future expansion along Dorchester Avenue
A – Public Library 3,217 sf 1st floor 3,780 sf 2nd floor B – School Administrative Offices
5,778 sf
2nd floor
C – Chesapeake College: studio space and classrooms 3,420 sf 1st floor 5,106 sf 2nd floor In solid Red: Open Air Theater for the Performing Arts
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PACKING HOUSE - PROPOSED Commercial Spaces
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Window Displays along Dorchester Ave.
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D.
2ND FLOOR B.
1ST FLOOR
A.
Views from restaurant to the park
A – Restaurant B – Museum Store C – Local Retail D – Café
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2,920 sf 1,572 sf 3,200 sf 684 sf
PACKING HOUSE: THE NEW EDU-FACTORY
PERSPECTIVES
EAST VIEW
NORTH VIEW
WEST VIEW
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BIOGRAPHY
Francesco Sgrazzutti received his degree in Architecture from the IUAV, Venice, and also studied at the TU Berlin and at UC Berkeley. He is passionate about positive change to the context we live in, for the benefit, not only of the immediate users, but of the community as a whole and future generations.
Ariel Vazquez is an architectural and urban designer who studied at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, and Drexel University, Philadelphia, and is currently working at Claiming-Places Lab. He believes that design is the tool to change the current social condition.
Ghazal Lajevardi is an architectural designer and an urban designer with degrees from both the US and Italy. She believes that good design can change communities and bring people together. Her passion lies in bringing people together to collaborate on improving communities.
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