Stephen Klimek Design Portfolio by Stephen Klimek

STEPHEN KLIMEK DESIGN PORTFOLIO Community Development Urban Revitalization Public Interest Design Architecture

STEPHEN KLIMEK DESIGN PORTFOLIO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 01 Near Westside Neighborhood Plan....4 02 Otisco Street Green Infrastructure......8 03 West Street Corridor......................10 URBAN REVITALIZATION 04 Connective Corridor......................12 05 Syracuse Rail Trail.........................14 06 Syracuse Masterplans...................16 01

PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN

07 Storefront:Syracuse .....................16 08 Near Westside Flash Park...............24 09 Freedom by Design.......................26 ARCHITECTURE 10 11 12 13 14 15

Urban Arts Center.........................28 House as Site..............................32 Music Center...............................34 White House Redux......................36 County Legal Services...................40 Sustainability Superstore................44

Vice President

09 ABC News

Washington Post Associated Press

Agence France Presse The New York Times

CNN

Reuters Department of the Treasury

Transportation

Entertainment

Fox News Department of Commerce Department of Justice

Legislative Affairs Recreation

Department of Agriculture Department of Education

Department of Energy

Department of Health and Human Services Department of State

Communications Department of Transportation Department of HUD

Department of Defense

15 Transportation

Department of Defense

NEAR WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN URBAN DESIGN STRATEGIES . UPSTATE: CENTER FOR DESIGN, RESEARCH & REAL ESTATE Conceived as an alternative to the conventional master plan, The Near Westside Neighborhood Plan proposes contemporary solutions grounded in the local assets of the community. It recognizes that the possibility of active urban life requires developing new design strategies that foreground the cultural, human, and infrastructural assets of a place â&#x20AC;&#x201C; making the diversity and variety of the Near Westside the perfect site to implement these ideas. The planâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary objective is to create a new approach to neighborhood planning that is accomplished through a framework of

Neighborhood Study & Model

big and small projects organized within five categories: green infrastructure, circulation networks, lighting and security, land use and wayfinding. Through a series of proposals that combine design and planning moves at different physical and economic scales, the Neighborhood Plan can be implemented in succession, as resources and political initiative allow. Design Team: Julia Czerniak Joe Sisko Trevor Lee

“Master Plan” Strategies

NEAR WESTSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN

Green Infrastructure Strategies - Curb Extensions

Marcellus Street Infill Strategies

OTISCO STREET GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE . NEAR WESTSIDE INITIATIVE The Otisco Street Green Corridor is the first residential green project to be constructed as part of Onondaga County’s Save The Rain program, an initiative to reduce the affects of storm water run-off pollution to local water ways and improve water quality in Onondaga Lake. The existing curb lines along Otisco Street at the intersections of South Geddes, Ontario, and Seneca Streets were extended approximately 6 feet into the road. The new

Otisco Street Green Infrastructure Section

curb stormwater inlets allow stormwater to drain into new bioretention areas between the new curb and existing curb, reducing runoff while creating a new area for plants. As part of the construction work new sidewalks will be installed on both sides of Otisco Street. The sidewalks will become a great neighborhood asset and increase the value of homes. The curb extensions will not only provide substantial stormwater capture, but they also act

as “traffic calming devices” by slowing traffic at intersections, making it safer for pedestrians and children in the community. The curb extensions’ bioretention area will be planted with rain garden plants, beautifying the neighborhood while reducing water run off.

WEST STREET CORRIDOR URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE . NEAR WESTSIDE INITIATIVE The Near Westside Initiative Business Association invited dozens of businesses and residents located along West Street to a presentation of proposed changes along the West Street arterial and gathered their input. West Street is a high-volume North-South corridor for West Side and South Side residents and commerce; it must function safely for all motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians. Proposed changes include reducing the number of car lanes on West Street and creating a 2-way cycle track with area businesses and residents. The benefits of which include increased green space and porous surfaces, more trees and shade, improved access into the neighborhoods for pedestrians and bicyclists, and a trafficcalming effect that will slow traffic and make it easier to cross West Street. The NWSI Business Association members and guests were able to provide feedback to the City on the details of the lane reduction, Otisco Street crosswalk and other infrastructural elements of the design. Suggested additions to the streetscape included more trees, a plaza, more on-street or off-street parking and wider sidewalks.

Proposal for Public Presentation

CONNECTIVE CORRIDOR URBAN LANDSCAPE KIT OF PARTS The Connective Corridor is a multidisciplinary project reshaping the face of the City of Syracuse through new urban spaces and streetscapes, bike and pedestrian paths, public art, parks, green infrastructure, faรงade improvements, historic preservation,

neighborhood revitalization, signage and branding, and events programming. In this urban landscape transformation there are two essential strategies - a facade improvement program and a new urban and public transit wayfinding system.

Civic Infrastructure - Facade Improvement Program

A basic kit of parts which identify this corridor as is traverses five neighborhoods is applied to the specific requirements and constraints of key buildings along the route. Wayfinding maps, markers and symbols are used to identify the Corridor not only as a piece of

urban infrastructure but as a network of dynamic civic and cultural institutions which encourage residents and visitors to use the city.

Civic Infrastructure - Urban & Transit Wayfinding

Access Point Canal Way Trail Intersection Tipperary Hill

SYRACUSE RAIL TRAIL RECREATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE . NEAR WESTSIDE INITIATIVE & CONNECTIVE CORRIDOR The Syracuse Rail Trail will bring new economic vitality to Syracuse. It will attract tourists, encourage new trail-related business development, and help revitalize neighborhood business districts. It will enhance the quality of life, helping to attract and retain business. The Rail Trail will also inspire renewed civic pride and provide a fresh focus for community activities The Syracuse Rail Trail project proposal is a 2.75 mile elevated park and trail which will exist alongside the NYS&W

rail line. The project will spur economic development, encourage and enable healthy lifestyles, provide a means for alternative transportation, help protect the environment, and provide much needed quality of life improvements. By coupling this soft infrastructure with the New York Susquehanna & Western Railway tracks, the Rail Trail proposal connects five divided neighborhoods in the City of Syracuse. The Syracuse Rail Trail is the last link of the Connective Corridor and is a critical next step

in the economic revitalization efforts for the City of Syracuse and the Central New York region as a whole. Much like the railway, the Rail Trail will connect to a statewide network of trails which are already creating a positive economic impact and encouraging private investment. The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planning and development will be grounded in strong community leadership and public-private partnerships. It will be completed in three phases, stretching from Syracuse University through the Downtown to Tipp Hill.

Land Use apartment cemetery commercial community service industrial multiple residence parking religious school

Neighborhood Transportation Infrastructure

single family three family two family utilities

PHASE 3

Phase 2 Connective Corridor & Creekwalk Intersection Downtown

Phase 3 Tipperary Hill & Near Westside

Access Point Near Westside

PHASE 1

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Access point South Side & Downtown Phase 1 Existing Train Station Syracuse University & South Side 15

SYRACUSE MASTERPLANS ARCHIVAL RESEARCH How will we make our city? This question, while seemingly simple, has had profound and complicated effects on the shape and nature of our city. This unprecedented research and exhibition explores the history of masterplanning in the City of Syracuse from its founding to today through five main ‘projects for the city’ and their political, social, and economic consequences.

The masterplan is a particularly apt tool to track the shifts in the architectural discourse from top-down to bottom-up, and in the process gain a perspective of where the discourse lies now. The masterplan, in its various historical manifestations, provides nearly perfect encapsulations of ideology in a period of time – by definition, the masterplan explains a singular vision of how the city should look, feel, and perform, and thus is the clearest articulation of a project for the city.

A Set Of Cultural Networks Collaboration with Nilus Klingel

Statistics

Total Population 1970 Total Population 1980 Total Population 1990 Total Population 2000 Total Population 2010

197,208 persons 170,208 persons 163,860 persons 147,306 persons 145,170 persons

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Services ................ Banking ................ Health care ................ Retail ................ Insurance Manufacturing ................ Anheuser Busch Companies ................ Raymour & Flannigan ................ Magna Drivetrain ................ Lockheed Martin Education ................ Upstate Medical - 1834 ................ Syracuse University - 1870 ................ SUNY ESF - 1911 ................ Le Moyne - 1946 ................ Onondaga Community College - 1962 ................ Syracuse Research Corp - 1957

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Historical Urban Mapping

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Connective Corridor ................ Reconnecting the Urban Core ................ Asset Based Development with Existing Networks ................ Partnerships & Localized Reinvestment Destiny USA ................ Centralized Suburban Retail ................ Experience Economy Marginalized Communities Suburban v Urban Focus

Redevelopment

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2000s A Set of Cultural Networks v. Corporate Mega Development

1800s A Landscape for Exploiting Resources

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1960s A Decentralized Set of Communities

STOREFRONT:SYRACUSE SPONTANEOUS INTERVENTION . THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS Storefront:Syracuse is a center for design, a forum for public engagement, and a space to imagine and realize the city’s latent potentials. It is a third space in the city of Syracuse created in the void of vacant storefront real-estate becoming an uncommissioned intervention connecting designers and the populations they serve. Transforming a source of blight into a publicly accessible hub for creative reengagement is not only important for improving the beauty, marketability, and pride of the neighborhood but it also increases residents’ capacity and inspiration to engage in comparable grassroots revitalization projects. Defined by a series of projects that address architectural agency The Storefront’s programming includes a series of exhibitions, lectures, forums for outreach, roundtable workshops, design-build projects, a design library and social events. Our work has moved beyond the boundary of the storefront and has materialized itself through smaller collaborative urban interventions

including public art and temporary parks. By engaging new populations in the processes which make the city Storefront:Syracuse serves as a catalyst for democracy giving form to the ‘public’ which is invoked when new development programs, economic schemes, or legislation related to the growth and future of the city. The Storefront is an urban laboratory for the City of Syracuse to engage in conversation and debate with one another and with those in a position to make meaningful change regarding the issues that construct the physical and social spaces of the city. It is intended to and has already begun to serve as a model for other cities. Storefront:Syracuse was recently featured as one of 124 projects along with the other engagement and urban revitalization initiatives of the School of Architecture in the 2012 Venice Biennale US Pavilion Spontaneous Interventions. Collaboration with Nilus Klingel & AIAS Syracuse

Storefront:Syracuse - 2012 Venice Biennale US Pavilion

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Existing Conditions

Syracuse Works Exhibition

Syracuse Masterplans Exhibition

Fiscal Capital Exhibitions $1250

Amenities $1450

Furnishings $500

‘The Project’

Advertising $200 Reserved $1500

Renovations $3100

Workplan

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Agents Vacant Storefront Student Volunteer Force Student Startup Funding Community Foundation Funding

Issues DIY Renovation Pop-Up Infrastructures

Digital Archive

Proof-Of-Concept Prototype Served As Precedent Model For One Actualized Storefront Diverse Community Of Stakeholders

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Site: 217 E Genesee Street Syracuse, NY 13202 19 Months Leased 9 Major Events 400 Visitors 53 Major Stakeholders

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Statistics

Importance Through our work we transformed a 33 years vacant storefront into a hub of regular programming for architecture and urban design.

Project Overview

Art Happening Pop-Up

Connected Urbanisms: Projecting Syracuse Futures

Public Interest Design mixer & Freedom by Design Exhibition

Graduate Students Pecha Kucha

Community Plaza & 15th Ward Mixer

Industrial & Interaction Design Thesis Exhibition

NEAR WESTSIDE FLASH PARK POP-UP PARK . THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS One of the most important forms of public space in a city is the park. Working in collaboration with the Near Westside Initiative and students from architecture schools across the northeastern United States, The Front transformed an empty parking lot into a temporary â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Flash Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on Wyoming Street. Located across from PEACE Inc. Family Resource Center the Flash Park became a place of play and relaxation in a neighborhood in flux. The design was intended to create an asset for the neighborhood and become a symbol for a future park planned for the site. The Flash Park took two days to build, had an eight month lifespan and cost less than $500. In the spring of 2011 the park was dismantled and redistributed throughout the neighborhood, resodding vacant lots and create an art park on Tully Street. The Flash Park quickly became part of the neighborhood. After it was dismantled several community stakeholders have proposed a collaboration to install another temporary park on the site.

Spontaneous Intervention

FREEDOM BY DESIGN ACCESSIBILITY DESIGN BUILD PROGRAM

In designing safety, dignity, and comfort for the client, the ramp not only provides access to her home but also engages the client by creating two distinct spaces. First is a covered area outside the entrance of the home for receiving visitors and waiting under a light covering. The second is a more spacious outdoor space where the client can garden in the flower box or green wall or simply relax and socialize. These two areas expand the role of the ramp from simply circulation to include occupation and space making. The entire ramp is wrapped in cnc milled plywood panels. The apertures in the wrapper create lighting effects from both natal and artificial light; it also serves as a visual screen and secondary rail system. Design collaboration with Christopher DePalma

Overhead Lighting

Floor Lighting

Rail Lighting

New Covering

Wood Rail System

Wood Deck

Superstructure

Drainage System

Planting Bed Gutter Drain

Footings

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URBAN ART CENTER SPECULATIVE DESIGN PROJECT Situated in downtown Syracuse the Washington street and Franklin street intersection is and has historically been a unique palimpsest in Syracuseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban landscape. The structural and programmatic history has directly produced the topographic conditions of the site today.

This design intervention was development by exploring mapping and the landscape as the site and situation for form. By mapping the existing static and temporal conditions of the site a historical investigation began and became the foundation of a future projection of the sites geographic and architectural form.

Landscape Studies

URBAN ART CENTER SPECULATIVE DESIGN PROJECT

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Landscape Studies

Gallery Store

Studio Entry

Exhibition | Labs

Internet Cafe

Formal Projection

HOUSE AS SITE SPECULATIVE DESIGN PROJECT House as Site - Site as House is an exploration of form in dwelling and landscaping. The parti and organizational hierarchy were informed by a spatial analysis of Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez.

Physical Model

Site Plan - Manual

URBAN MUSIC CENTER SPECULATIVE DESIGN PROJECT An introductory design project exploring urban relationships and architecture as object. Major program elements including reception, exhibition, performance, and studio space are raised off the ground plane and opened visually through the slot site. A new public space is created and cultivated between the street and program, opening,the site to a new understanding of public space and the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in the urban environment.

Sections & Plans - Manual

Section - Digital & Manual

WHITE HOUSE REDUX STOREFRONT FOR ART & ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION FINALIST “What if the White House, the ultimate architectural symbol of political power, were to be designed today?” The White House exists as an organism. Living and breathing in time and space; it only exists in the District of Columbia because of the political environment established in the Capitol. The White House is a function of the president in today’s world of instant communication and real time information. Within such an environment

the contemporary White House as an institutional system would not need a grounded location; however as a nervous system for executive action it is essential for existence. The “Communication Network System” (CNS) is conceived of through a non hierarchical rhizometric organization of circulation, communication, information, and therefore collaboration.

Entertainment

Collaboration with Gabriella Morrone

Recreation

Urban Circulation Diagram & Section

ABC News

Washington Post Associated Press

Agence France Presse The New York Times

CNN

Reuters Department of the Treasury

Transportation

Fox News Department of Commerce Department of Justice

Legislative Affairs

Department of Agriculture Department of Education

Department of Energy

Department of Health and Human Services Department of State

Communications Department of Transportation Department of HUD

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ONONDAGA COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES

SUSTAINABILITY SUPERSTORE SPECULATIVE DESIGN PROJECT The sustainability superstore is a product of exploring the architecture of the experience economy and the scripting of spatial experience. Using the tools of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;experience designâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; this sustainability experience store prototype produces something more socially complex, politically engaging, and architecturally stimulating than the current experience economy.

STEPHEN KLIMEK tel 716.531.0282 email spklimek@syr.edu web designingactivism.com